A central principle of the treatment is that a substance that causes certain symptoms can also help to remove those symptoms and the more a substance is diluted the greater its power to heal. In fact it is most effective when it has been diluted so many times that there is none or almost none of the original substance left. But actually, by the time you have diluted the substance to the required amount you have more chance of winning the lottery five weeks in a row than you have of finding a single molecule of the ‘healing’ compound.