Okay, here are some of my examples. I want to say I am not doing this in an effort to be argumentative, but rather because *to me* certain treatment situations would be very much more difficult without the options of high potency in water, and dry dosing. To me it is part of the wonder and beauty of this system, that in most situations we do have such a great deal of flexibility, and ability to work with what we have, in order to get to where we want to be.
Okay, some examples of using high potency in water, and the wide range of dosage size that's OK:
1) When my first child was little, we were under the care of a very good 4th ed prescriber, so all of our remedies were between 30c and 10M, with most being 200c. Initially I used (as directed) dry doses, under the theory (which I have since abandoned) that "size of dose doesn't matter". Usually I gave her 10-15 little pellets (as directed). The only two aggravations happened after I let her convince me to give her the entire little "single dose vial", containing... who knows, maybe 100 pellets? That did give her a doozy of an aggravation, and at that point I decided to "agree to disagree" with our homeopath, and stick to smaller doses. I was also at that time beginning to hear about water dosing, but without any detail except what I have said, that they can act both more deeply and more gently.
I then switched to giving her each (infrequent--these were single doses) dose in a bottle, one pallet to the bottle, dissolve, shake a bit, and let her take however much or little she wanted--it always worked great, never had any further aggravations. I used the same method years later when my son was an infant. (Same reason, to circumvent the "More! More!" wars.
2) When my PTSD cat (a tom who'd been apparently "born crazy"--the poor sweet guy lived in an emotional battlefield) disappeared, I was afraid he'd been killed in a fight (didn't know enough in those days to get him neutered, and don't know how I'd have managed if I had known!). Short version--days later he turned up, skeletal, mangled, with huge abscesses, and now terrified even of *me*. I left out a dish of water, out of the sun, with a single dissolved pellet of Stramonium 1M. A day or two later he turned up in his usual place, waiting for me, and already healing. A few days later he started hanging out on the porch with the other cats--which he had *never* done in his three-year-old life. He was a different and *much* happier cat after that! (He needed only that one dose, at least up until he *did* get himself killed a year or two later.)
3) When I've needed to dose one of the cows, I've done it by dissolving a pellet--actually I think I used a few, but maybe not necessary--in a half-cup of water, sprinkle on some grain or hay. In one cases the cow didn't even *eat* the hay, just sniffed it--and it worked wonderfully, with effect lasting for many months.
So--I see no reason not to give high potencies in water, tho I have also seen no reason to repeat the doses any more frequently than i would have with dry doses; I'm keeping an open mind on that.
Dry doses:
Sheilagh Creasy in a seminar was asked whether there's any problem switching between high potency and LMs. She said no, and talked about a case that had done very well on LMs, but felt it would be too difficult to continue while on a trip she was about to take. So Sheilagh sent her off with a single high-potency dose so she wouldn't need to worry about it. (And I've certainly gone the other way, picked up with LMs when a high potency dose had worn off.)
Sheri wrote that she has never had anyone not able to follow the instructions for LMs, but I have! My multiply brain damaged buddy, who is also my one hypersensitive "patient," literally cried when I was trying to explain it to her, so I had her go ahead with dry doses of 6c. (I still had to check in daily, because at that time she could not *remember* from one day to the next whether she was improving! She did improve
and that's currently not an issue.
A final example, my son went through a period where, due to... what, well, changes in his activity, his sleep, and who knows what, his mood could be so variable from day-to-day that it just was too difficult trying to keep track of progress on LMs (which I've used with him off-and-on), so i went back to single / high doses, and that's actually been much easier to deal with, except that when the issue has been *sleep*, I switched back to 6c (either water or dry) so that if it didn't work in a few days, I could change remedies--that is the only disadvantage I see to high potencies, that you really do have to give it at least 4 weeks to either work or not-work, and sometimes I do like the "tighter turning radius" of either LMs or 6c. (I would experiment more with LMs, but expense is an issue, as is storage space. Two more factors that are not an issue for someone *in practice*, who simply has the patient buy and store the remedy, but are definite issues for me! I have hundreds of remedies, with each bottle holding many doses, stored in a relatively tidy space, which would not be possible with LMs.)
So Sheri, you talk about my "latching onto this and that" (or to that effect) and for that I make no apology at all. It's true that my situation is quite different from yours in a number of ways: I'm treating people who would otherwise not be in treatment at all (my husband, and my brain-injured friend), and some of my "patients" aren't even human and don't live in cages. Also no one is *paying* me to do this, I have to slip it in around the edges of my available time (don't ask why I'm here so much
) I'm working on that...) and theirs. So, it's "horses for courses," different tools for different jobs. Why should we ever want to know *less*, or to have fewer choices???????
And, I still would rather be treated by a *good* prescriber of *any* methodology (high/low, wet/dry), who knows the Organon, knows how to interpret changes in the context of increasing health, and knows the remedies--rather than anyone of lesser skills using the "more favored method" of LMs. It's a *tool*, that can be used with greater or lesser skill.
Okay, more than enough from me...
Cheers,
Shannon
