Potency
With regards to the topic of potency, there has been
extensive scientific research as to what kind of patients should receive which medications,
administered in what potency. In the diseases of the stomach, low potencies
work well. For neurological disorders, usually potency 200 or higher is useful.
In profound mental illnesses, higher potencies are required. In some kinds of
cancer, much higher potencies are needed. However, in some cases, if the
patient is too sick, a higher potency medication may prove dangerous. In such
cases, the physical strength should be restored first with supplements of food
and vitamins. When general health has
improved enough to tolerate the reaction, remedies should be given in gradually
increasing potencies such as from 30 to 200 and 1000, as already indicated. Two
entirely opposite remedies should never be given together. Would you drop ice
cream into a hot cup of tea? There is no sense in it.Dr. Kent has warned
against using some remedies in CM potency, especially Silicea, but in my
experience of many years Silicea in a potency of anything less than CM has not
worked in patients of AIDS and some cancers.In homoeopathy, if an administered
remedy does not show its desired effect, then there are two possible ways to
proceed. It may either be repeated a few times, or its potency may be increased
gradually. The other method is that the potency may be maintained and another
remedy may be used in between the treatment for the enhancement of the body defences.Tuberculosis
patient must never be treated with Sulphur in high potency. Rather, the
treatment should always be started in low potency.
Dosage of
Homoeopathic Remedies:
. There is no consensus of opinion on this. Every prescriber has
his own way, based on experience. In this book, I have suggested the practical
useful potencies based upon my own experience.
I have also referred to the dosage prescribed by some well-known homoeopaths.
The matter has been left to the discretion of the individual practitioners. The
potencies I have observed to be effective in my experience will, God-willing,
also benefit the user, with some exceptions where the potencies used are not
suitable for the patient. The quantity
of the homoeopathic remedy, per se, is not that important. The patient may take
a few pellets or a lot of them - it does not matter. It is the frequency that
makes the difference. Every time the remedy is taken, it ‘strikes’ the body to
respond. Taking a homoeopathic remedy once is called one strike. The effect of
the remedy starts as soon as it is put in the mouth. Every time it is taken, it
repeats the strike. Some homoeopaths
insist that the medicine should not be touched with the hand. Instead, to
preserve its effectiveness, it should be taken on paper. However, hands are
much cleaner than the mouth, contains so many impurities, layer upon layer, yet
it can and does react to the presence of the remedy. What difference would the
use of the hand make? Paper itself is not free from contamination. Natrum Mur
is the homoeopathic potency of the common table salt but the mouth is full of salt.
So taking a dose of Natrum Mur is like pouring a drop of salt water in the salt
mine. Yet, it works. The reason is that the homoeopathic effect of Natrum Mur
is not related to the material particles. In the preparation of the
homoeopathic remedy, the original substance disappears completely. It only
exists in the form of a memory which is capable of showing its effect through
the blood and body fluids. The command is perceived by the soul. This is a
unique indelible divine system of memory, mediated through the soul, which is,
in a way, related to physical matter also.