**3. Conclusions**

A lot of experimental scientific results related with the use of homoeopathic medicines in plants, besides new results and insights discussed along this chapter, eliminate the principal argument of homoeopathy detractors. Actually, they cannot sustain their arguments in the sense that the suggestion and the placebo effect are the only mechanisms of action of this old, and at the same time new, alternative for organic agriculture.

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provided the original work is properly cited.

*Agricultural Homoeopathy: A New Insight into Organics DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.84482*

will be essential for the future development of humanity.

authors thank Diana Fischer for editorial services.

**Acknowledgements**

**Author details**

García-Bernal Milagro2

Batista-Sánchez Daulemys1

Murillo-Amador Bernardo1

Ferrer-Sánchez Yarelys4

Díaz-Díaz Miriam<sup>2</sup>

Mexico

Mazón-Suástegui José Manuel1

As shown throughout the text, there is sufficient scientific evidence that homoeopathy strengthens the energy and vitality of plants even under conditions of abiotic stress and promotes a dynamic balance of the plant with soil, water and the environment. Homoeopathic dilutions from different origins can be applied by soaking seeds and spraying leaves or directly to the soil or substrate. These ultra-diluted and innocuous treatments have the ability to initiate cascade responses, promoting favourable physiological reactions in the plant, with a systemic approach against the symptoms associated with an infection or a stressor. This is possible because, as in any living organism, plants have a genetic memory, which is continuously enriched. The response of plants treated with homoeopathy is natural, lasting and without the negative side effects that some agrochemicals have, which can even accumulate in their tissues and affect the safety of the harvested product, which makes it unfit for human consumption. Undoubtedly, homoeopathy has great potential, not only in human public health and aquaculture and veterinary production but also in organic, ecological and sustainable agriculture, which

This study was financed by the Sectorial Fund for Education of Mexico: Project CB SEP-CONACYT-258282 'Experimental evaluation of homoeopathy and new probiotics in the culture of molluscs, crustaceans and fish of commercial interest' and Project PROINNOVA-CONACYT-241777 'Innovation and continuous improvement of products and processes to optimise hatchery seed production of the American oyster *C. virginica*', under academic responsibility of the first author (JMMS); the

, Ojeda-Silvera Carlos Michel1

, Avilés-Quevedo María Araceli3

, Morelos-Castro Rosa María1

, Nieto-Garibay Alejandra1

1 Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste S.C. (CIBNOR), La Paz, B.C.S.,

, Tovar-Ramírez Dariel1

and Bonilla-Montalvan Boris4

2 Universidad Central de Las Villas (CBQ ), Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

4 Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo (FCA), Quevedo, Ecuador

\*Address all correspondence to: cojedas1979@gmail.com

3 Freelance Services for R&D in Marine Aquaculture, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico

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, Arcos-Ortega Fabiola1

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, Abasolo-Pacheco Fernando4

, Alvarado-Mendoza Alex4

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