Low and high dosing

[Maria Bohle]

Hi friends,

A student wrote me and said her homeopath give one dose of a
high potency remedy, and then gives the same remedy in low potency, dry
dose, daily. Then she re-evaluates the case in 3 to 4 weeks.

Can someone give me information on this kind of dosing. Such as:
do you use it? Under what conditions?
What kind of results do you see. Etc.

I have heard of practicing this way, I just don't know anyone who
does. Is there a school that promotes this kind of dosing?

Thanks for all information.

Just curious.

Warmly, Maria

[Eleana Needham]

I have encountered some colleagues who use this kind of prescribing if they
feel the case justifies it. The idea behind this is that the vibration of
the high potency will reach the emotional/mental state of the patient while
the low potency will "support" the patient as he/she is going through the
homoeopathic process.

Regards
Eleana

[Julian Winston]

At 9:57 AM -0400 7/5/04, Maria Bohle wrote:

MY old doc, Ray Seidel, often did this. He said the single high gets
stuff moving, and the daily low just pushes it along.
One of the first "miracle" cures I had was of a student with Mono.
Nux vom 200 single dose, plus Nux vom 6X daily. Symptoms were gone in
a week.

All I can tell you.

JW

[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Maria,

I recall that Roger Morrison (and others at their clinic?) used this
approach if they had concern about antidoting factors, e.g. if the patient
was taking prescribed meds or severely stressed (if I'm remembering this
right). It seems to work just fine, tho I've been curious whether it works
any better than just giving the daily/low dose would.

Once I had someone aggravate on a 200c (psor, caused a pretty bad
aggravation to his asthma) and he used 12c's more or less daily to moderate
that (worked tolerably well, only needed for a couple of weeks and then the
asthma and etc. resolved nicely).

Personally, if I thought daily doses were needed, I'd just give those, then
follow up with high later on if appropriate.

Cheers,
Shannon
on 7/5/04 8:57 AM, Maria Bohle at MBohle@juno.com wrote:

[Shannon Nelson]

Yet IME low potencies "reach the emotional/mental state of the patient" very
nicely! Can anyone share a case where the needed "depth" (into the M/E)
wasn't reached until the potency was given high enough? I've been curious
whether this is sometimes the case, but haven't seen it yet.
Thanks!
Shannon
on 7/5/04 2:32 PM, Eleana Needham at eleanan@hotmail.com wrote:

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

Dear Colleague

This reminds of me of a very sad Lyc case many years ago when I was a
student observer.

The patient was a true Lyc (Walking MM!)

He was given Lyc 30 - Did well
Next month He was given Lyc 200 with a daily Lyc 6 for a month.

I protested to the prescriber (who was not Hahnemannian trained) that this
was not a good idea, however despite my reasoning he persisted and the case
was ruined.

Firstly we have LM remedies which cover the spectrum of M/E/P very well.
They are also extremely useful if there is fear of antidoting or constant
allopathic medications are being used.
Even then they should be repeated as needed and not any basis of a pre-set
time repetition.
(Please see David Little's articles on how one should prescribe LMs)

In the absence of LMs then my recommendation would be to use a single dose
of Cent potency and wait.
One needs to justify a dose of a homoeopathic remedy EVERY TIME.
Please do not forget that we operate on the principle of MINIMUM dose. That
includes repetition too.

If you think that your patient's physical needs require a low potency, then
I believe you should start with a low potency and if necessary increase the
potency. You can always go up by coming down is not so clever.

If we take the Vibrational Theory of homoeopathic remedies, then it is like
using a high frequency tuning fork and then applying a low frequency tuning
fork at the same time. This produces lots of interference.

Please read the Organon!

Rgds
Soroush

Message: 5
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 09:57:10 -0400
From: Maria Bohle
Subject: Low and high dosing

Hi friends,

A student wrote me and said her homeopath give one dose of a
high potency remedy, and then gives the same remedy in low potency, dry
dose, daily. Then she re-evaluates the case in 3 to 4 weeks.

Can someone give me information on this kind of dosing. Such as:
do you use it? Under what conditions?
What kind of results do you see. Etc.

I have heard of practicing this way, I just don't know anyone who
does. Is there a school that promotes this kind of dosing?

Thanks for all information.

Just curious.

Warmly, Maria
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[Chua Ching Yee]

I remember reading somewhere that the low potency may antidote the action of
the high.

C
on 6/7/04 4:34 pm, Finrod at finrod@webstar.co.uk wrote:

[Shannon Nelson]

I've heard that, but have not found it to be true! I have used low potency
to revive a failing high potency action (just to "give it a tweak" when you
don't want to re-dose with high potency yet), and that has worked nicely.
I've used low potency to moderate over-action (aggravation) from a high
potency, and that worked okay too -- *not* by stopping the action of the
high potency; once the agg was past, the action of the remedy continued deep
and strong for many months.

What I also heard, and *might* be true, is that you can antidote by giving a
potency that is one step off from the troublesome dose (e.g. if agg. from a
200c, give 199 or 201). Has anyone tried that?

Shannon
on 7/6/04 5:03 AM, Chua Ching Yee at chingy@homoeopathyheals.com wrote: