Actually, from what I was able to gather from a few websites, credible or not, is that while 'white powder' can be made from pure gold, David Hudson actually extracts the 'powder' from volcanic soil via a process of dissolving all non-metallic molecules from the mix. This naturally occurring powder is actually a mixture of seven or eight metals in proportions that are apparently constant - regardless where you find the powder, it will have the same proportions of these metals in it.
My knowledge of alchemy is cursory and largely superficial, however historically this powder has been derived from similar volcanic soil in varying quantities by a handful of ancient civilizations and is normally referred to as 'gold' only because those civilizations did not have as complex an understanding of the periodic table as we do now.
A professor Popp (I forget his initials) did research into cell communication, which research was later carried on by another research team (who I forget the names of all together), and between them they discovered that healthy cells emit photons of a particular frequency, and that the higher the frequency, the more efficient communcation seemed to be - they termed this Coherence. He discovered that many substances claimed or thought to be carcinogenic, apparently absorb light at one 'healthy' frequency, and emit light of an altered frequency, leading him to hypothesize that cancer causing agents affect the body as they do by impairing cell communication in the body. Later, researchers in, I want to say germany, discovered that biological tissue will respond to the reproduced frequency of a molecule - I recall a reference to testing initially with histamine - even though the molecule itself is not present, which was said to offer an explanation on how communcation of substances in the body and between various systems native to the body, can be at time instantaneous despite several biological factors that should otherwise inhibit communication at such a speed.
This research led to an accidental discovery that dilutions of molecules in purified water (pure H2O), could be so diluted so as not to contain more than a dozen molecules of a given substance - their experiment had to do with the reactions of white blood cells of a particular variety, these that respond to allergens - which is not enough to affect the kind of cellular change they were observing, however even at this dilution (the result of a miscalculation on the part of the assistant at the time) the regular (chemically speaking) water would none the less elicit a verifiable and observable reaction in the these white blood cells.
Between the two discoveries it was determined that a substance itself doesn't need to be present in the system, only the molecular signal itself, which served as a hypothetical explanation for the often discredited but none the less often miraculous effects of homeopathic medicine, one of the dictums of which is that the greater the dilution (the fewer molecules of the 'cure' substance present) the stronger the cure.
Given all of this, it seems that taken as suggested by David Hudson's website, as a homeopathic elixir of a few drops in water, it is quite possible there is some kind of effect on the body caused by the white powder. The more research is done into this area, the greater the resistance seems to be from the pharmaceutically supported journals and news corporations, and the more funding is mysteriously withdrawn just as greater breakthroughs seem to be near. I'm no conspiracy theorist in general, but it is suspicious, and it is easy to see that the pharmaceutical companies unable to effectively cure a variety of major illnesses with medication, also have no reliable way to make nearly the profit off of homeopathic medicine than they can off of pills.
Food for thought. I intend to test David Hudson's material when or if I get chance, out of sheer curiosity, especially given the compelling evidence towards the possibility that it will indeed do something, though what, I think, may remain a mystery until then. There are some tall claims made on his site, but hey, I'm a mage, who am I to say it's all bogus? I talk to spirits, cast spells, and wander around in subtle dimensions of existence. Stranger things have happened.
peace
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The world is complicated - that which makes it up is elegantly simplistic, but infinitely versatile.
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