Repeating doses, and plussing

[Charlotte Gilruth]

Message: 22
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 21:45:03 +0000
From: "Holly Earley"
Subject: Re: LM and Case management questions

CHARLOTTE -
just a question - are you going to get him to succuss each weekly dose to
make sure you are not giving the same potency to him so that he may not
begin to prove the remedy???? i wonder why every week and for how long?
successing each additional dose is called plussing and makes sure we
increase the dose even a tiny amount with the patients vital force. or are
you going to assess his vital force each week with him to assess his
reaction to the remedy and if another dose is needed again? sorry, i am
just trying to understand why the repetition is necessary. all i've read
from Hahnemann is not to repeat the same dose frequently or the patient will
begin to prove the remedy.
thanks holly
Hi Holly,
Thanks for your question. He does have a water potency of 30c, with
instructions to succuss before each dose. I am talking with him weekly to
be sure he doesn't go too far off track. When I talked with him a couple of
days ago, he had taken one dose of the 200c water potency (with succussion),
and was doing VERY well, he sounded a lot stronger and clearer. I do feel
he needs the repetition, as the regular pot-smoking does affect him. He was
doing much better on the remedy before he started the pot again, so I feel
it is at least a partial antidote. One could argue that if the action of
the remedy is affected at all by other substances, it must not be the
simillimum, but seeing the deep effects of the remedy on his core issues as
well as chief complaints, when he gets enough of it, I see a confirmation of
my experience that antidoting is individual, and depends on the person's
state and their susceptibility to the particular influence or substance.

I know there is a danger of proving, as he has had proving symptoms emerge a
couple of times from taking the remedy too frequently, even with plussing.
What a razor's edge we have to walk sometimes, between not enough and too
much of the remedy!

Best wishes,
Charlotte
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