size of dose /was: Remedy lifetime

[Dave Hartley]

Hi Dr. Sahni,

I do believe I clearly understood your comment.

Here is an excerpt from The American Homeopath, the Journal of the North
American Society of Homeopaths, 1998, page 128.
http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlelibr ... yNASH.html

The Size of the Dose

There is a commonly held belief in modern homeopathy that the size of the
dose makes no difference in the action of a homeopathic remedy. Therefore,
it follows that the administration of 1 or 1000 drops, globules or teaspoons
are all "the same". Some of these ideas originate in James Kent's in his
Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy where he combines the Swedenborgian view
of energy as a simple substance with the homeopathic potency. As the simple
substance represents the 4th state of matter it could have qualities but no
quantity. Therefore the size of dose makes no difference. This is one area
where our two great teachers disagree.

Hahnemann taught that potentization releases dynamic forces similar to
electromagnetism which carry in inner medicinal energies of a substance. He
discovered that each pellet contained a certain "quantum" of pure remedial
energy at specific potency levels. As both the amplitude and frequency
affect a wave form of a signal, the size of the dose, and the potency
affects the remedial powers. The Old Doctor's views of energy dynamics are
more similar to modern physics then the Swedenborgian paradigm. He taught
that the more perfect the simillimum, and the higher to potency, the more
the size dose must be controlled. Vide aphorism 275.

"For this reason, a medicine, even though it may be homeopathically suited
to the case of disease, *does harm in every dose that is too large, and in
strong doses it does more harm the greater its homeopathicity and the higher
the potency selected*, and it does much more injury than any equally large
dose of a medicine that is unhomeopathic and in no respect adapted to the
morbid state (allopathic)".

The Founder taught that the phenomenon of the aggravation was related to
the size of the dose as well as the the potency. These two factors become
far more critical in individuals with sensitive constitutions, weakened
vitality, chronic miasms and organic pathology. Hahnemann wrote of his own
experience in relationship to the size of the dose in The Chronic Diseases.

" I have myself experienced this accident, which is very obstructive to
cure and cannot be avoided too carefully. Still ignorant of the strength of
its medicinal power, I gave Sepia in too large a dose. This trouble was
still more manifest when I gave Lycopodium and Silica potentized to the
one-billionth degree, giving four to six pellets, though only as large as
poppy seeds. *Discite moniti!*

Hahnemannian posology is based on the size of the dose, the potency factor
and the nature of the delivery system. All of the breakthroughs of the 5th
and 6th Organon are founded on the medicinal solution, olfaction, and the
methods of adjusting the dose. In my own 12 years study I have put
Hahnemann's theory to the test in the field and found his postulate to be
true. Kent faithfully applied the methodology of the 4th Organon and never
put the posology of the 5th Organon into practice, He did not see the 6th
edition nor know about the LM potency. It seems he was not privy to
Hahenmann's final insights in homeopathic methodology. Even in our grand
teacher of Constitutional Homeopathy still had something to learn from The
Elder Homeopath.
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I have proven the truth of the foregoing to myself in practice.
I think it likely that if you will undertake carefully observational
scientific-method of accepting this hypothesis and attempting to prove or
disprove.. you may also find the same.

regards,

Dave Hartley
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284