range of potencies

[cmbyrd50]

could someone please take the time to explain how the potencies go
from very low to high - for instance LM, X, C, M's
Break it down for me please. I need to see it that way to fully
understand it. thanks again, Colleen

[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Colleen,
X potencies are diluted at a ratio of 1:9; the number before the X tells you
how many times the dilution was done.
C potencies are diluted at a ratio of 1:99.
M is a sub-group of C. A 1M was diluted at a ratio of 1:99 (it is a C
potency), 1000 times (which is where the M comes from); 10M was so diluted
10,000 times.
LM is a different sort of scale, and dilution ratio and dosage are more
complicated, but is roughly 1:50,000.

Hope that helps,
Shannon
on 7/6/03 12:55 PM, cmbyrd50 at cbyrd6@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

[Colleen Byrd]

Thank You Sahnnon, I'm really trying to understand more about Homeopathy. I've been connected with it for many years but just let my Homeopath do it and now I want to know more about myself and my animals. So I'm reading. Boy you guys the way you talk is like a foreign language to me but I'm getting there. doing allot of reading.
Hi Colleen,
X potencies are diluted at a ratio of 1:9; the number before the X tells you
how many times the dilution was done.
C potencies are diluted at a ratio of 1:99.
M is a sub-group of C. A 1M was diluted at a ratio of 1:99 (it is a C
potency), 1000 times (which is where the M comes from); 10M was so diluted
10,000 times.
LM is a different sort of scale, and dilution ratio and dosage are more
complicated, but is roughly 1:50,000.

Hope that helps,
Shannon
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[Colleen Byrd]

So to make this more clear - in range, first comes LM's, then X, C, and then M's. don't understand how M's are really C's but I guess I'll get it eventually.
Colleen

Hi Colleen,
X potencies are diluted at a ratio of 1:9; the number before the X tells you
how many times the dilution was done.
C potencies are diluted at a ratio of 1:99.
M is a sub-group of C. A 1M was diluted at a ratio of 1:99 (it is a C
potency), 1000 times (which is where the M comes from); 10M was so diluted
10,000 times.
LM is a different sort of scale, and dilution ratio and dosage are more
complicated, but is roughly 1:50,000.
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[Shannon Nelson]

Good for you -- have fun!
What have you been reading so far?

Shannon

on 7/7/03 4:21 PM, Colleen Byrd at cbyrd6@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

[Shannon Nelson]

Well.... What do you mean by "in range"?
LMs are more diluted than the others, and are in some ways like low
potencies, in other ways like high potencies... They are as powerful as
high potencies, but as gentle as low -- BUT if misused, can cause (or so I
am told) even worse problems than misuse of high potencies, so are not
really appropriate for beginners, despite their (usually) gentleness. So I
would not put them with "low" or with "high", but separate.

The reason M is really a C...
Well, another way to write 1M, would be 10,000c. But that's unweildy, so
it's instead written 1M. (See? the M = 10,000...)

The difference between X and C is the ratio of dilution -- 1:10 (or 9) vs.
1:100 (or 99). The potencies labelled with M are part of the 1:100 scale,
*not* part of a separate scale, as it first appears...

Does that make sense?

on 7/7/03 4:27 PM, Colleen Byrd at cbyrd6@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

[Colleen Byrd]

Been reading the Organon on line. http://www.simillimum.com/
http://www.homeoint.org/books/hahchrdi/hahchr00.htm
I have to get a Materia Medica somewhere. I've been looking.
You got any good ones in mind? I just got a book by Catherine Coulter and it's the personality types - got that from http://www.minimum.com/index.htm It's where she brings them to life rather than how it sounds in the MM. Good reading. Since I'm a Phosphorus It was nice reading about me in a different way.

Good for you -- have fun!
What have you been reading so far?

Shannon
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[jpgregorich@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/7/03 11:53:47 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
shannonnelson@tds.net writes:
Actually the 1M equals 1000 C
The M = 1000

Likewise CM = 100,000 C
and MM = 1,000,000 C
Jim Gregorich
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[Shannon Nelson]

oops, right you are - Thanks for bein' more awake than I...
on 7/8/03 4:35 AM, jpgregorich@aol.com at jpgregorich@aol.com wrote: