The C means Centisimal dilution, the standard for most preparations. This means that one part of the substance they’re fixin’ to dilute out of existence is mixed with 100 parts of the solvent. In the case of our preparation, 10 grams of bull excrement (don’t laugh; one of the homeopathic supply companies does a remedy starting with dog manure, and they’re very specific about the dog it was produced by) is mixed with a liter of water.
There’s also a D scale (1 part substance to 10 parts solvent) and a Q scale (1 part substance to 50,000 parts solvent).
The number is the number of times they dilute it. If you had a 10C remedy, this means they mixed the herb or deadly toxin or whatever they are using with water, beat it on the table a prescribed number of times - this is Succussion, and one of the homeopathic firms built a machine that duplicates the founder’s arm so everything will be succussed the way he did it - measure out one-hundredth of that mixture, add it to one hundred parts water, and keep going until you did it ten times.
The K stands for Korsakovian dilution. Measuring out an exact quantity of something over and over gets tedious, so a Russian sociopath named Korsakov decided that surface tension makes one percent of the liquid in the container stick to the sides. Hence, the process for Korsakovian dilution - what most modern psychopaths use these days - is to succuss a batch of remedy, dump out the container and fill it back up with water.
Which leads to the next question: if water has memory, which is how homeopathy is claimed to work, why does it only remember when it contained arnica and not the times it was part of urine, cooling water in a tugboat, Coca-Cola, beer, whiskey, machine tool cooling fluid, dish washing water or any of the thousands of other things water can be?
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