Pharming

I gave a talk about an engineer's perspective on herbal healing in which I pointed to the huge number called Avogadro's which is the number of molecules of a particular compound in what is called a gram-molecular weight. That is the molecular weight of an element or compound as a number of grams, (those pesky little one-thousandth of a kilogram: 2.2 pounds). So a GMW of carbon would be 12 grams, and would contain roughly 6 times 10 to the 23rd power or 6 with 23 zeros to the right. Lots of molecules in twelve grams and even such effective and psychoactive substances like cocaine only take 303 grams (or roughly 12 ounces) to get that count. So a kilo of cocaine would contain 18 with 23 zeros to the right, enough for everyone on the planet to receive 10 with 13 zeros, 10 trillion molecules. And I wonder how many molecules are involved in one thought? 10, 1000, even a billion would be saturated in 10,000 molecules. And so it is with homeopathic herbal biodynamic healing: a few molecules will heal you, more will kill you. This seems so "alternative" until we realize that it is exactly what we do with well researched "chemotherapy". Dosage must be adjusted to kill the parasite without doing in the host. Pretty much the same thing.