Homeo Medicine Potency & repitition guidelines - By Master EK

Homoeopathic medicines are

prepared in dilutions.

Selection of the remedy is the first

half of the doctor’s task. Selecting the required potency and understanding the method to repeat the dose makes the second half. Homoeopathic philosophy is definite and precise about the selection, potency and repetition of the dose in the case of each patient.

If we administer the medicine in a lower or a higher dilution than required, it disturbs the patient with equal discomfort. Always the harm is same. Even a well indicated, well selected remedy proves useless when used in a wrong potency. We have before us, the guidance in the form of the well-established principles of the pioneers like Samuel Hahnemann and J.T.Kent.  

It is wise to pick up these principles

with a tight grip and walk along

the footsteps of these pioneers.

Some of the principles are as follows:

1. When the disease is indicated

by symptoms that are only physical,

then we are expected to use the

medicines in low dilutions, the

highest being 30 C. If you find

patients with indigestion, loose

motions, eruptions and itchings that

are of purely acute nature and if the

patient has not shown any other

symptoms or signals of a chronic

disease, you can safely administer the medicine from mother tincture up to 30 C. Often in such cases, the  

decimal potencies like 3X, 6X and

12X give ideal cures. In all such cases the cure is complete.

2. When the disease manifests

prominently on the vital plane (the

plane of sensations), you can use medium dilutions. All such patients

complain of pains, burnings, heaviness, smartings, pin-pricks,  

headaches (occasional,)fever, bodily

pains, loose motions or constipation. You will find such patients manifesting modalities. It means that they show times and conditions of aggravation and amelioration.Some people have  

sufferings in the night, others during

the day. Some others in the morning, some others in the evening, still others during noon. If such people do not manifest any abnormalities in their behaviour (on the mentaland intellectual planes) and if their complaints are not of a recurring nature then the patient can be cured with dilutionsbetween 30 and

200 centesimal.

3. Epidemics like cholera and

summer diarrhoea as well as seasonal diseases like colic and blood motions should be understood as the results of the susceptibility to the seasonal and environmental changes. All such cases generally require dilutions between 30 and 200 C. In very dangerous situations in cholera, etc., we should follow a different method : 

Medicines like camphor, when used

in such situations should be in the

lowest dilutions like2, 3, 4, 5, 6 C. Report the medicine as  

frequently as required (sometimes 1

dose every 5 minutes.). When the relief begins to establish, we have

to stop repetition orincrease the

interval. At the same time, if the

medicine is still needed we have to

go to higher dilutions up to 30. If it

is cured, leave it there. If there is

recurrence, repeat thedose in 200 C.

4. In very dangerous diseases

that exist on thenervous and mental

planes like tetanus we have to use the indicated remedy in high dilutions, not less than 1,000 C.Often these patients require up to 10,000 or 50, 000 C.Lower dilutions of the same indicated remedy dare not save them. Sometimes, they need repetition in these high dilutions.There were cases  

where the patient required 5 or 6

doses to get a complete recovery.

5. Patients of chronic miasms

like Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis will

have disease manifestation on the

deeper planes of existence. They will

show abnormalities of behaviour in

their mind, intellect and emotions.

They suffer from complaints like insomnia, hemicrania, night-blindness, mistakes in  

reading, writing and speaking. In such patients, you can start the treatment with 200 C. and go up to 1,000 C. Dosage differs in such cases. You have to wait long before a dose completes its action and another dose is required.Many changes occur after each dose. 

Sometimes the patient is better mentally but he is worse in his

physical symptoms. Sometimes he

presents altogether new symptoms

temporarily. It is very important not

to select a new remedy for the new

symptoms. Wait for a few days, the

new symptoms disappear, giving place to another group of symptoms that are altogether temporary.If night- blindness is better by a dose, the patient may get boils or itchings. If the doctor is careful not to select 

another remedy for the boils or itchings, then skin symptoms disappear and health is restored Similarly if an old patient of malarial history is treated presently for weakness and palpitations, then the weakness is better but again he is laidup temporarily with an attack or two of malarial fever.Allow it to pass

on without using the medicine and

he is completely cured.

6. Those who have chronic

miasms advanced enough suffer from mental abnormalities like  

despondency,hopelessness, suspicion, jealousy, malice, fear of the future, fault-finding, bitter criticism, using harsh language and objectionable language. Some people show symptoms likefear, loneliness, fear of thieves, enemies, etc. Such patients require medicines between 1,000 and 10,000 C. dilutions.Then the mental condition is cleared and they show symptoms of the senses. Wait and see, the plane of senses will be cleared and the patient shows physical troubles.Wait and observe without changing the drug or repeating.Then the patient gets cured of everything but the cure takes months and sometimes years. When drugs  

are changed frequently, such

patients go into complications and

can never be cured.

7. If the disease has taken a deeper root down intothe emotional plane of existence, then we notice dilutions, illusions and hallucinations. The imaginative faculty works behind  

the required limits and there will be

a condition bordering on insanity.

Patients see thieves chasing them,

police searching for them, debtors enquiring about them,devils pestering them etc. Sometimes he  

sees animals instrange shapes.

Sometimes he gets thoughts of

murder,suicide, violence or crime.

There are people who dash the head

to the wall or ground when they are angry. Some people run to jump into a lake while others feel like throwing stones upon others. There are patients who dislike their people at home, their friends and their colleagues.There are husbands  

and parents who resort to violence

against the wife and children.

Sometimes they beat and injure

when they are irritated. When disease exists in this plane then it is  

necessary to use the required remedy in 10M, 50 M and C M dilutions. Often it requires a very long interval between two doses. In some cases the patient requires only one dose for a total recovery. You will notice the disease being cured from centre to circumference invarious stages. For example, the patient is better on the mental plane but feels discomfort like headache or pains,fever, chills, etc. They disappear in course of time,  

giving rise to symptoms like hairfall,

bad nails, eruptions and boils.They

too pass away in course of time,

leaving the patient completely

healthy, when no other medicine is

required.

8. If the doctor is hasty in using

frequent doses ofmedicine, then the

patient may show the symptoms of the medicine along with the symptoms he was having. Then the 

constitution gets complicated and the situation misleads the doctor and the patient. For example, we find patients who require Tuberculinum or Opium in 50 M or CM dilutions.As children they pilfer money, they bluff and misrepresent things. They start at home in time for the school, but they wander on the streets. Sometimes they take a sudden journey without informing the parents. They disappear for sometime causing disturbance  

among the grown-ups. We find a lady and a male run away to a different  

place, enjoy physical pleasures for a

few days or months and then separate. Also there are people who

change profession,studies,

residences and towns as often as they can. When a dose of Opium or  

Tuberculinum is given to them in high 

dilution, we have to wait for quite a

long time 6 monthsor 1 year before

we find results.

9. In cases of fall and injury

we find bruised conditions that

demand drugs like Arnica. When the

physical suffering is too acute, it is

proper to use frequent doses in low

potencies like 6 C. The patient gets quick relief.According to the intensity of suffering you can administer even 4 or 5 doses in the day. Some people, instead, use Arnica 200 and find no result. Then they use Arnica I M only to get disappointed. This may lead to a gradual disbelief of Homoeopathic system itself. This is all due to the use of the wrong potency, even of the right drug. 

10. In cases like snake-bite, scorpion-stings and food poisoning the situation needs very quick action.  

When we use medicines like Echnecia, we are expected to start 

the treatment with mother tincture.

Take a half teaspoonful of the mother tincture, mix it with about three ounces of distilled water. Let the patient drink at the rate of a 

teaspoonful every five minutes. At the same time, you have to apply the mother tincture to the place of the  

sting or bite. Repeat the process

until the patient is quite normal.When he reaches a safe condition use the same medicine in 30 C dilution, one dose, and leave him.

11. Then you have cases like

dog bite, rat bite andcat bite.

Sometimes we come across cases of human bite.As soon as possible  

administer Belladonna 6 C, 2 doses

in 2 hours. Wait for 24 hours and

give Belladonna 30 C,2 doses in 2

days. Wait for a week and give

Belladonna200 C, 1 dose. Wait for

2 or 3 weeks and then give him

Thuja 6 C one dose, one week

interval and Thuja 30 C,one dose.

As soon as possible after the bite, it

is better to rub Echnecia, mother

tincture, on the spot where the bite

took place. You can rub it with cotton. Also remember that Arnica is not only unnecessary but also dangerous when use in bites and stings. 

12. Fall, injury, bite, sting and

food poisoning are not diseases.

They are emergency situations

caused byexternal causes and hence the course of treatment is a bit 

different from normal Homoeopathy.

The treatment of real diseases should be different from the treatment of indipositions due to external causes. Among real diseases also the treatment of acute diseases is different from the treatment of chronic diseases. In acute diseases, where there is aspeedy precipitation of crisis, you have to start with lower dilutions frequently repeated. Even in acute diseases if you find collapsing conditions like anguish, restlessness, coldsweats and palpitations, you have to use the indicated remedy directly in 200 C, 1 M or 10 M potency. A single dose often saves the patient. In chronic diseases, the treatment is long-standing and requires a limited number of doses at longer intervals. Often such cases require dilutions from 200 C and above. A single dose goes on clearing the disease for a long  

time when the patient shows

progressive relief. Wait until the

relief stops and the sufferings recur.

Then only you can repeat the dose.

If you use a dilution less than the

required one, even of the indicated

remedy,you cannot cure. You will notice quick relief and speedy

recurrence of all the symptoms in

such a case. In somecases, a dose

administered in a dilution lower

than therequired induces aggravation and the patient suffers. In all such  

cases, you have to administer the

same medicine in a higher dilution

than the pervious one. Then the

patient gets good relief and quick

improvement.

In all such cases it is better to

follow the procedure given by J.T.

Kent. It is as follows : In all chronic

diseases,it is better to start the

treatment with low potencies and go

higher according to the need. To

start with 30 C, is good for all

chronic diseases. If the potency is less than the required one, then you

will find partial relief. Sometimes there is total relief for a short time and a more violent recurrence. Then  

administer the same medicine in 200C.Like this you can exhaust each potency until the patient shows  

complete relief. When you find

complete relief you have no business to use another dose. The case is  

cured and hence you can stop

treatment.