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Homepathic Dosage-Potency

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.