So each manufacturing pharmacy has its own standard
This is one of those areas where Hahnemann himself held different opinions at different times (feel free to correct me, or maybe someone can supply specifics), and there has *always* been variation in the ways that different people have performed the succussions. I assume you agree with me on this bit of history? The dilution ratios have been straightforward, tho (1:9 or 1:99), except the wrinkles of fluxion and Korsakoff, and I have no idea what anyone's basis was for working *those* out...
meaning that distributing pharmacies or clients could buy one potency from one, the next from another and the next from yet another, ending up for example with a 30C at 10 succussions, a 200C at 100 succussions and a 1M at 200 succussions........not the same than a regular progression.
I've never heard of anyone using more than 100 succussions, but other than that, yes, as you know... As I would guess you *also* know, while a 200c made with 100 succussions is found by some to have a stronger action than the same potency made with 10 or 20 succussions, there is not a *huge* difference (not in my observation, anyway), and each does indeed behave more like a 200c made with different number of succussions, rather than like a vastly different potency made with same number of succussions.
I tend to buy my remedies according to various convenience factors (who has what; which is closer to whomever I'm sending it; and sometimes other uninteresting factors), and over the years have made random purchases from (so far as I remember): Hahnemann, Helios, Ainsworth's, Remedia, Boiron, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something. I have never had a 200 behave like a 30 or like a 6; neither have I ever had a low potency behave like a high one.
Has your experience with using remedies of various pharmacies been similar or different--or have you been fortunate enough to generally have what you need available from (by which I mean "made by") a single pharmacy?
Then, when do they switch from manual to mechanical? Or, in the case of Hahnemann Pharmacy that you describe, are they doing ALL the potencies, from 3C, the same way?
I have gathered that most switch from manual to e.g. fluxion (or perhaps mechanical) at 30c. But my understanding has been that Hahnemann (and probably some others too) does indeed use mechanical succussion for all of their potencies. I wouldn't take that to court, but that was my understanding.
What about the fluxion potencies? They work, yes, but they certainly are not equivalent or if someone claim they are, how can they prove it?
I think a pharmacy that made a habit of selling potencies that did not behave as they were expected to, would not stay in business very long. Do you disagree?
Shannon
So each manufacturing pharmacy has its own standard, meaning that distributing pharmacies or clients could buy one potency from one, the next from another and the next from yet another, ending up for example with a 30C at 10 succussions, a 200C at 100 succussions and a 1M at 200 succussions........not the same than a regular progression.
Then, when do they switch from manual to mechanical? Or, in the case of Hahnemann Pharmacy that you describe, are they doing ALL the potencies, from 3C, the same way?
What about the fluxion potencies? They work, yes, but they certainly are not equivalent or if someone claim they are, how can they prove it?
And there are many other questions that are not yet to be asked.....working on that, though.....
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I *think* this is how all of their potencies are made--and if one wants to double-check, they have always been very prompt and forthcoming with information, in my experience.