The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
http://www.drluc.com
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th Edition of
the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount of dry pellets of
the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch for the reaction. Most
homeopaths are also convinced that it does not matter how many pellets are
put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20, & it does not matter! This was an unfortunate
inheritance from Kent and blindly followed by most homeopaths. This dose
(how much of the remedy) as well as when to repeat the dose will be
discussed in the next two lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus
watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry and
then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied with this
dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned the exceptional
use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th edition of the Organon he
made it the rule! He explained his reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
"the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the quantity of
fluid in which it is dissolved (in other words, it does make a difference
if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.) For in this case, when the
medicine is taken, it comes into contact with a much larger surface of
sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less than 1
TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing especially in the
view of the many very sensitive patients we encounter. Each individual has
a different reactivity of his Vital Force (Qi, Immune response) and the
dose of the remedy must be tailored to the individual patient! More about
this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the
succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy is
dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time you
succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a little
stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by your
homeopath, as he knows the results of your first test dose: the response to
it determines the amount of succussions. It is like driving a car: once we
know how comfortable the patient is, we can determine the speed (amount of
succussions) which he is able to drive. This is very important in order to
achieve the fastest possible response to the remedy and to assure the
fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity
levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of the
disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle cure
difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses. Hahnemann
felt that the best way to adapt to these various circumstances was to
prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another issue
neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can give unpunished
a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a month for a year, and
worse, some repeat such dose daily and unchanged! What is the result?
Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will
add symptoms belonging to the remedy but not to his disease picture & in
other words, he will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger
is even that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original
disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease, entirely
consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had! You could
compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine which create in the
long run more symptoms and new diseases often worse than the original
disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot harm: if your homeopath continues
to give unchanged doses you will have all the "side effects" of our remedy
(we call it accessory symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong
remedy and your homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too
frequent. Patients who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases
are much more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that "It does
not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the homeopath gives to the
patient, as long as we have the correct remedy!" Such people must go back
to school and read carefully in the Organon what they are doing to their
patients. For anyone who has his eyes open in practice and for anyone who
cares about his patients, the determination of the right dose (how much of
the remedy should I give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the
suffering of our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th
edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a similar
aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate), in fact they
welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the right remedy. How
cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be obtained following the
watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon. Ask your homeopath
why he is doing so: I don't expect him to be able to give you a decent
answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not only
on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct size or
rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not sufficient to
choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here on the smallness of
the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a dose though completely
homeopathic to the case will still harm the patient by its quantity and
unnecessarily strong action on the vital force&
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher the
potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!), the more
harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally large doses of
unhomeopathic medicine & Excessively large doses of an accurately selected
homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently repeated, are, as a rule
very destructive! Not infrequently they endanger the patient's life or make
his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice for over
the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous to administer
too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic remedy than the
wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the dose," as
if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients coming under their
care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy into
water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of the
rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your existing
symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to minimize and even
avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much-neglected part in
homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large dose
rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a cautious small
dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then take the
opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery solutions should be
taken in acute and chronic diseases. The guidelines by Hahnemann are found
to be very exact and those who want to impose their own inventions on the
patient should try it first on themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
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The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th Edition of
the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount of dry pellets of
the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch for the reaction. Most
homeopaths are also convinced that it does not matter how many pellets are
put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20, & it does not matter! This was an unfortunate
inheritance from Kent and blindly followed by most homeopaths. This dose
(how much of the remedy) as well as when to repeat the dose will be
discussed in the next two lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus
watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry and
then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied with this
dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned the exceptional
use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th edition of the Organon he
made it the rule! He explained his reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
"the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the quantity of
fluid in which it is dissolved (in other words, it does make a difference
if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.) For in this case, when the
medicine is taken, it comes into contact with a much larger surface of
sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less than 1
TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing especially in the
view of the many very sensitive patients we encounter. Each individual has
a different reactivity of his Vital Force (Qi, Immune response) and the
dose of the remedy must be tailored to the individual patient! More about
this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the
succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy is
dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time you
succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a little
stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by your
homeopath, as he knows the results of your first test dose: the response to
it determines the amount of succussions. It is like driving a car: once we
know how comfortable the patient is, we can determine the speed (amount of
succussions) which he is able to drive. This is very important in order to
achieve the fastest possible response to the remedy and to assure the
fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity
levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of the
disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle cure
difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses. Hahnemann
felt that the best way to adapt to these various circumstances was to
prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another issue
neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can give unpunished
a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a month for a year, and
worse, some repeat such dose daily and unchanged! What is the result?
Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will
add symptoms belonging to the remedy but not to his disease picture & in
other words, he will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger
is even that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original
disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease, entirely
consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had! You could
compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine which create in the
long run more symptoms and new diseases often worse than the original
disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot harm: if your homeopath continues
to give unchanged doses you will have all the "side effects" of our remedy
(we call it accessory symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong
remedy and your homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too
frequent. Patients who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases
are much more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that "It does
not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the homeopath gives to the
patient, as long as we have the correct remedy!" Such people must go back
to school and read carefully in the Organon what they are doing to their
patients. For anyone who has his eyes open in practice and for anyone who
cares about his patients, the determination of the right dose (how much of
the remedy should I give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the
suffering of our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th
edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a similar
aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate), in fact they
welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the right remedy. How
cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be obtained following the
watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon. Ask your homeopath
why he is doing so: I don't expect him to be able to give you a decent
answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not only
on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct size or
rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not sufficient to
choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here on the smallness of
the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a dose though completely
homeopathic to the case will still harm the patient by its quantity and
unnecessarily strong action on the vital force&
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher the
potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!), the more
harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally large doses of
unhomeopathic medicine & Excessively large doses of an accurately selected
homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently repeated, are, as a rule
very destructive! Not infrequently they endanger the patient's life or make
his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice for over
the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous to administer
too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic remedy than the
wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the dose," as
if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients coming under their
care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy into
water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of the
rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your existing
symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to minimize and even
avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much-neglected part in
homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large dose
rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a cautious small
dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then take the
opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery solutions should be
taken in acute and chronic diseases. The guidelines by Hahnemann are found
to be very exact and those who want to impose their own inventions on the
patient should try it first on themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network (new website)
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm
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by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th Edition of
the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount of dry pellets of
the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch for the reaction. Most
homeopaths are also convinced that it does not matter how many pellets are
put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20, & it does not matter! This was an unfortunate
inheritance from Kent and blindly followed by most homeopaths. This dose
(how much of the remedy) as well as when to repeat the dose will be
discussed in the next two lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus
watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry and
then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied with this
dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned the exceptional
use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th edition of the Organon he
made it the rule! He explained his reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
"the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the quantity of
fluid in which it is dissolved (in other words, it does make a difference
if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.) For in this case, when the
medicine is taken, it comes into contact with a much larger surface of
sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less than 1
TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing especially in the
view of the many very sensitive patients we encounter. Each individual has
a different reactivity of his Vital Force (Qi, Immune response) and the
dose of the remedy must be tailored to the individual patient! More about
this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the
succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy is
dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time you
succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a little
stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by your
homeopath, as he knows the results of your first test dose: the response to
it determines the amount of succussions. It is like driving a car: once we
know how comfortable the patient is, we can determine the speed (amount of
succussions) which he is able to drive. This is very important in order to
achieve the fastest possible response to the remedy and to assure the
fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity
levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of the
disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle cure
difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses. Hahnemann
felt that the best way to adapt to these various circumstances was to
prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another issue
neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can give unpunished
a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a month for a year, and
worse, some repeat such dose daily and unchanged! What is the result?
Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will
add symptoms belonging to the remedy but not to his disease picture & in
other words, he will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger
is even that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original
disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease, entirely
consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had! You could
compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine which create in the
long run more symptoms and new diseases often worse than the original
disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot harm: if your homeopath continues
to give unchanged doses you will have all the "side effects" of our remedy
(we call it accessory symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong
remedy and your homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too
frequent. Patients who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases
are much more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that "It does
not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the homeopath gives to the
patient, as long as we have the correct remedy!" Such people must go back
to school and read carefully in the Organon what they are doing to their
patients. For anyone who has his eyes open in practice and for anyone who
cares about his patients, the determination of the right dose (how much of
the remedy should I give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the
suffering of our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th
edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a similar
aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate), in fact they
welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the right remedy. How
cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be obtained following the
watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon. Ask your homeopath
why he is doing so: I don't expect him to be able to give you a decent
answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not only
on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct size or
rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not sufficient to
choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here on the smallness of
the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a dose though completely
homeopathic to the case will still harm the patient by its quantity and
unnecessarily strong action on the vital force&
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher the
potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!), the more
harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally large doses of
unhomeopathic medicine & Excessively large doses of an accurately selected
homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently repeated, are, as a rule
very destructive! Not infrequently they endanger the patient's life or make
his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice for over
the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous to administer
too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic remedy than the
wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the dose," as
if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients coming under their
care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy into
water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of the
rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your existing
symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to minimize and even
avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much-neglected part in
homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large dose
rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a cautious small
dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then take the
opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery solutions should be
taken in acute and chronic diseases. The guidelines by Hahnemann are found
to be very exact and those who want to impose their own inventions on the
patient should try it first on themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network (new website)
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm
http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm
homeopathycures@tesco.net
ONLINE/Email classes in Introduction to Homeopathy Classes; Vaccine
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Re: The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
April 14, 2007
The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th
Edition of the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount
of dry pellets of the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch
for the reaction. Most homeopaths are also convinced that it does not
matter how many pellets are put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20, & it does
not matter! This was an unfortunate inheritance from Kent and blindly
followed by most homeopaths. This dose (how much of the remedy) as
well as when to repeat the dose will be discussed in the next two
lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry
and then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied
with this dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned
the exceptional use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th
edition of the Organon he made it the rule! He explained his
reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
"the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the
quantity of fluid in which it is dissolved (in other words, it does
make a difference if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.) For
in this case, when the medicine is taken, it comes into contact with
a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less
than 1 TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing
especially in the view of the many very sensitive patients we
encounter. Each individual has a different reactivity of his Vital
Force (Qi, Immune response) and the dose of the remedy must be
tailored to the individual patient! More about this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the
succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy
is dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time
you succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a
little stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by
your homeopath, as he knows the results of your first test dose: the
response to it determines the amount of succussions. It is like
driving a car: once we know how comfortable the patient is, we can
determine the speed (amount of succussions) which he is able to
drive. This is very important in order to achieve the fastest
possible response to the remedy and to assure the fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity
levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of
the disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle
cure difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses.
Hahnemann felt that the best way to adapt to these various
circumstances was to prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another
issue neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can
give unpunished a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a
month for a year, and worse, some repeat such dose daily and
unchanged! What is the result? Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic
Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will add symptoms belonging
to the remedy but not to his disease picture & in other words, he
will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger is even
that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original
disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease,
entirely consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had!
You could compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine
which create in the long run more symptoms and new diseases often
worse than the original disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot
harm: if your homeopath continues to give unchanged doses you will
have all the "side effects" of our remedy (we call it accessory
symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong remedy and your
homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too frequent. Patients
who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases are much
more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that
"It does not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the
homeopath gives to the patient, as long as we have the correct
remedy!" Such people must go back to school and read carefully in the
Organon what they are doing to their patients. For anyone who has his
eyes open in practice and for anyone who cares about his patients,
the determination of the right dose (how much of the remedy should I
give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the suffering of
our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th
edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a
similar aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate),
in fact they welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the
right remedy. How cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be
obtained following the watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the
Organon. Ask your homeopath why he is doing so: I don't expect him to
be able to give you a decent answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not
only on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct
size or rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not
sufficient to choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here
on the smallness of the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a
dose though completely homeopathic to the case will still harm the
patient by its quantity and unnecessarily strong action on the vital force&
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher
the potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!),
the more harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally
large doses of unhomeopathic medicine & Excessively large doses of an
accurately selected homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently
repeated, are, as a rule very destructive! Not infrequently they
endanger the patient's life or make his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice
for over the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous
to administer too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic
remedy than the wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the
dose," as if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients
coming under their care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy
into water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of
the rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your
existing symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to
minimize and even avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much-neglected part in
homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large
dose rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a
cautious small dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then
take the opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery
solutions should be taken in acute and chronic diseases. The
guidelines by Hahnemann are found to be very exact and those who want
to impose their own inventions on the patient should try it first on
themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th
Edition of the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount
of dry pellets of the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch
for the reaction. Most homeopaths are also convinced that it does not
matter how many pellets are put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20, & it does
not matter! This was an unfortunate inheritance from Kent and blindly
followed by most homeopaths. This dose (how much of the remedy) as
well as when to repeat the dose will be discussed in the next two
lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry
and then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied
with this dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned
the exceptional use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th
edition of the Organon he made it the rule! He explained his
reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
"the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the
quantity of fluid in which it is dissolved (in other words, it does
make a difference if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.) For
in this case, when the medicine is taken, it comes into contact with
a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less
than 1 TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing
especially in the view of the many very sensitive patients we
encounter. Each individual has a different reactivity of his Vital
Force (Qi, Immune response) and the dose of the remedy must be
tailored to the individual patient! More about this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the
succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy
is dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time
you succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a
little stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by
your homeopath, as he knows the results of your first test dose: the
response to it determines the amount of succussions. It is like
driving a car: once we know how comfortable the patient is, we can
determine the speed (amount of succussions) which he is able to
drive. This is very important in order to achieve the fastest
possible response to the remedy and to assure the fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity
levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of
the disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle
cure difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses.
Hahnemann felt that the best way to adapt to these various
circumstances was to prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another
issue neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can
give unpunished a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a
month for a year, and worse, some repeat such dose daily and
unchanged! What is the result? Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic
Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will add symptoms belonging
to the remedy but not to his disease picture & in other words, he
will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger is even
that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original
disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease,
entirely consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had!
You could compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine
which create in the long run more symptoms and new diseases often
worse than the original disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot
harm: if your homeopath continues to give unchanged doses you will
have all the "side effects" of our remedy (we call it accessory
symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong remedy and your
homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too frequent. Patients
who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases are much
more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that
"It does not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the
homeopath gives to the patient, as long as we have the correct
remedy!" Such people must go back to school and read carefully in the
Organon what they are doing to their patients. For anyone who has his
eyes open in practice and for anyone who cares about his patients,
the determination of the right dose (how much of the remedy should I
give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the suffering of
our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th
edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a
similar aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate),
in fact they welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the
right remedy. How cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be
obtained following the watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the
Organon. Ask your homeopath why he is doing so: I don't expect him to
be able to give you a decent answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not
only on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct
size or rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not
sufficient to choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here
on the smallness of the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a
dose though completely homeopathic to the case will still harm the
patient by its quantity and unnecessarily strong action on the vital force&
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher
the potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!),
the more harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally
large doses of unhomeopathic medicine & Excessively large doses of an
accurately selected homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently
repeated, are, as a rule very destructive! Not infrequently they
endanger the patient's life or make his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice
for over the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous
to administer too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic
remedy than the wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the
dose," as if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients
coming under their care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy
into water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of
the rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your
existing symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to
minimize and even avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much-neglected part in
homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large
dose rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a
cautious small dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then
take the opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery
solutions should be taken in acute and chronic diseases. The
guidelines by Hahnemann are found to be very exact and those who want
to impose their own inventions on the patient should try it first on
themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
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Re: The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
Lecture Two for the Public: The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th Edition of the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount of dry pellets of the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch for the reaction. Most homeopaths are also convinced that it does not matter how many pellets are put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20,.it does not matter! This was an unfortunate inheritage from Kent and blindly followed by most homeopaths. This dose (how much of the remedy) as well as when to repeat the dose will be discussed in the next two lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry and then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied with this dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned the exceptional use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th edition of the Organon he made it the rule! He explained his reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
".the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the quantity of fluid in which it is dissolved.(in other words, it does make a difference if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.).For in this case, when the medicine is taken, it comes into contact with a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less than 1 TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing especially in the view of the many very sensitive patients we encounter. Each individual has a different reactivity of his Vital Force (Qi, Immune response) and the dose of the remedy must be tailored to the individual patient! More about this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy is dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time you succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a little stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by your homeopath as he knows the results of your first test dose: the response to it determines the amount of succussions. It is like driving a car: once we know how comfortable the patient is, we can determine the speed (amount of succussions) which he is able to drive. This is very important in order to achieve the fastest possible response to the remedy and to assure the fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of the disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle cure difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses. Hahnemann felt that the best way to adapt to these various circumstances was to prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another issue neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can give unpunished a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a month for a year, and worse, some repeat such dose daily and unchanged! What is the result? Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will add symptoms belonging to the remedy but not to his disease picture.in other words, he will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger is even that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease, entirely consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had! You could compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine which create in the long run more symptoms and new diseases often worse than the original disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot harm: if your homeopath continues to give unchanged doses you will have all the "side effects" of our remedy (we call it accessory symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong remedy and your homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too frequent. Patients who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases are much more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that "It does not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the homeopath gives to the patient, as long as we have the correct remedy!" Such people must go back to school and read carefully in the Organon what they are doing to their patients. For anyone who has his eyes open in practice and for anyone who cares about his patients, the determination of the right dose (how much of the remedy should I give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the suffering of our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a similar aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate), in fact they welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the right remedy. How cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be obtained following the watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon. Ask your homeopath why he is doing so: I don't expect him to be able to give you a decent answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not only on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct size or rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not sufficient to choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here on the smallness of the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a dose though completely homeopathic to the case will still harm the patient by its quantity and unnecessarily strong action on the vital force.
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher the potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!) the more harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally large doses of unhomeopathic medicine.Excessively large doses of an accurately selected homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently repeated, are, as a rule very destructive! Not infrequently they endanger the patient's life or make his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice for over the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous to administer too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic remedy than the wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the dose," as if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients coming under their care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy into water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of the rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your existing symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to minimize and even avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much neglected part in homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large dose rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a cautious small dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then take the opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery solutions should be taken in acute and chronic diseases. The guidelines by Hahnemann are found to be very exact and those who want to impose their own inventions on the patient should try it first on themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathyscn.org/blog.htm
* * * * PLEASE SUPPORT HSNC BY BUYING YOUR HOMEOPATHY BOOKS AT: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/homeopathy_books.htm
More resources at: http://www.homeopathysnc.org
------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm & http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm
ONLINE/Email classes in Homeopathy; Vaccine Dangers; Childhood Diseases Reality
next classes start December 3 & 4
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th Edition of the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount of dry pellets of the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch for the reaction. Most homeopaths are also convinced that it does not matter how many pellets are put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20,.it does not matter! This was an unfortunate inheritage from Kent and blindly followed by most homeopaths. This dose (how much of the remedy) as well as when to repeat the dose will be discussed in the next two lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry and then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied with this dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned the exceptional use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th edition of the Organon he made it the rule! He explained his reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
".the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the quantity of fluid in which it is dissolved.(in other words, it does make a difference if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.).For in this case, when the medicine is taken, it comes into contact with a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less than 1 TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing especially in the view of the many very sensitive patients we encounter. Each individual has a different reactivity of his Vital Force (Qi, Immune response) and the dose of the remedy must be tailored to the individual patient! More about this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy is dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time you succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a little stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by your homeopath as he knows the results of your first test dose: the response to it determines the amount of succussions. It is like driving a car: once we know how comfortable the patient is, we can determine the speed (amount of succussions) which he is able to drive. This is very important in order to achieve the fastest possible response to the remedy and to assure the fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of the disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle cure difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses. Hahnemann felt that the best way to adapt to these various circumstances was to prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another issue neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can give unpunished a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a month for a year, and worse, some repeat such dose daily and unchanged! What is the result? Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will add symptoms belonging to the remedy but not to his disease picture.in other words, he will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger is even that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease, entirely consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had! You could compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine which create in the long run more symptoms and new diseases often worse than the original disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot harm: if your homeopath continues to give unchanged doses you will have all the "side effects" of our remedy (we call it accessory symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong remedy and your homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too frequent. Patients who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases are much more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that "It does not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the homeopath gives to the patient, as long as we have the correct remedy!" Such people must go back to school and read carefully in the Organon what they are doing to their patients. For anyone who has his eyes open in practice and for anyone who cares about his patients, the determination of the right dose (how much of the remedy should I give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the suffering of our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a similar aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate), in fact they welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the right remedy. How cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be obtained following the watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon. Ask your homeopath why he is doing so: I don't expect him to be able to give you a decent answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not only on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct size or rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not sufficient to choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here on the smallness of the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a dose though completely homeopathic to the case will still harm the patient by its quantity and unnecessarily strong action on the vital force.
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher the potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!) the more harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally large doses of unhomeopathic medicine.Excessively large doses of an accurately selected homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently repeated, are, as a rule very destructive! Not infrequently they endanger the patient's life or make his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice for over the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous to administer too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic remedy than the wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the dose," as if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients coming under their care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy into water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of the rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your existing symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to minimize and even avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much neglected part in homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large dose rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a cautious small dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then take the opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery solutions should be taken in acute and chronic diseases. The guidelines by Hahnemann are found to be very exact and those who want to impose their own inventions on the patient should try it first on themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathyscn.org/blog.htm
* * * * PLEASE SUPPORT HSNC BY BUYING YOUR HOMEOPATHY BOOKS AT: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/homeopathy_books.htm
More resources at: http://www.homeopathysnc.org
------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm & http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm
ONLINE/Email classes in Homeopathy; Vaccine Dangers; Childhood Diseases Reality
next classes start December 3 & 4
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Re: The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
Lecture Two for the Public: The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th Edition of the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount of dry pellets of the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch for the reaction. Most homeopaths are also convinced that it does not matter how many pellets are put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20,.it does not matter! This was an unfortunate inheritage from Kent and blindly followed by most homeopaths. This dose (how much of the remedy) as well as when to repeat the dose will be discussed in the next two lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry and then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied with this dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned the exceptional use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th edition of the Organon he made it the rule! He explained his reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
".the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the quantity of fluid in which it is dissolved.(in other words, it does make a difference if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.).For in this case, when the medicine is taken, it comes into contact with a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less than 1 TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing especially in the view of the many very sensitive patients we encounter. Each individual has a different reactivity of his Vital Force (Qi, Immune response) and the dose of the remedy must be tailored to the individual patient! More about this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy is dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time you succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a little stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by your homeopath as he knows the results of your first test dose: the response to it determines the amount of succussions. It is like driving a car: once we know how comfortable the patient is, we can determine the speed (amount of succussions) which he is able to drive. This is very important in order to achieve the fastest possible response to the remedy and to assure the fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of the disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle cure difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses. Hahnemann felt that the best way to adapt to these various circumstances was to prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another issue neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can give unpunished a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a month for a year, and worse, some repeat such dose daily and unchanged! What is the result? Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will add symptoms belonging to the remedy but not to his disease picture.in other words, he will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger is even that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease, entirely consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had! You could compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine which create in the long run more symptoms and new diseases often worse than the original disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot harm: if your homeopath continues to give unchanged doses you will have all the "side effects" of our remedy (we call it accessory symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong remedy and your homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too frequent. Patients who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases are much more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that "It does not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the homeopath gives to the patient, as long as we have the correct remedy!" Such people must go back to school and read carefully in the Organon what they are doing to their patients. For anyone who has his eyes open in practice and for anyone who cares about his patients, the determination of the right dose (how much of the remedy should I give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the suffering of our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a similar aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate), in fact they welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the right remedy. How cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be obtained following the watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon. Ask your homeopath why he is doing so: I don't expect him to be able to give you a decent answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not only on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct size or rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not sufficient to choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here on the smallness of the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a dose though completely homeopathic to the case will still harm the patient by its quantity and unnecessarily strong action on the vital force.
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher the potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!) the more harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally large doses of unhomeopathic medicine.Excessively large doses of an accurately selected homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently repeated, are, as a rule very destructive! Not infrequently they endanger the patient's life or make his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice for over the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous to administer too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic remedy than the wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the dose," as if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients coming under their care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy into water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of the rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your existing symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to minimize and even avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much neglected part in homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large dose rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a cautious small dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then take the opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery solutions should be taken in acute and chronic diseases. The guidelines by Hahnemann are found to be very exact and those who want to impose their own inventions on the patient should try it first on themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm & http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm
ONLINE/Email classes in Homeopathy; Vaccine Dangers; Childhood Diseases Reality
Next classes start April 22 & 23
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th Edition of the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount of dry pellets of the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch for the reaction. Most homeopaths are also convinced that it does not matter how many pellets are put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20,.it does not matter! This was an unfortunate inheritage from Kent and blindly followed by most homeopaths. This dose (how much of the remedy) as well as when to repeat the dose will be discussed in the next two lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry and then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied with this dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned the exceptional use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th edition of the Organon he made it the rule! He explained his reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
".the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the quantity of fluid in which it is dissolved.(in other words, it does make a difference if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.).For in this case, when the medicine is taken, it comes into contact with a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less than 1 TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing especially in the view of the many very sensitive patients we encounter. Each individual has a different reactivity of his Vital Force (Qi, Immune response) and the dose of the remedy must be tailored to the individual patient! More about this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy is dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time you succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a little stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by your homeopath as he knows the results of your first test dose: the response to it determines the amount of succussions. It is like driving a car: once we know how comfortable the patient is, we can determine the speed (amount of succussions) which he is able to drive. This is very important in order to achieve the fastest possible response to the remedy and to assure the fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of the disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle cure difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses. Hahnemann felt that the best way to adapt to these various circumstances was to prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another issue neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can give unpunished a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a month for a year, and worse, some repeat such dose daily and unchanged! What is the result? Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will add symptoms belonging to the remedy but not to his disease picture.in other words, he will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger is even that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease, entirely consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had! You could compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine which create in the long run more symptoms and new diseases often worse than the original disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot harm: if your homeopath continues to give unchanged doses you will have all the "side effects" of our remedy (we call it accessory symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong remedy and your homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too frequent. Patients who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases are much more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that "It does not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the homeopath gives to the patient, as long as we have the correct remedy!" Such people must go back to school and read carefully in the Organon what they are doing to their patients. For anyone who has his eyes open in practice and for anyone who cares about his patients, the determination of the right dose (how much of the remedy should I give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the suffering of our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a similar aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate), in fact they welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the right remedy. How cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be obtained following the watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the Organon. Ask your homeopath why he is doing so: I don't expect him to be able to give you a decent answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not only on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct size or rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not sufficient to choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here on the smallness of the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a dose though completely homeopathic to the case will still harm the patient by its quantity and unnecessarily strong action on the vital force.
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher the potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!) the more harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally large doses of unhomeopathic medicine.Excessively large doses of an accurately selected homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently repeated, are, as a rule very destructive! Not infrequently they endanger the patient's life or make his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice for over the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous to administer too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic remedy than the wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the dose," as if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients coming under their care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy into water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of the rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your existing symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to minimize and even avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much neglected part in homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large dose rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a cautious small dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then take the opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery solutions should be taken in acute and chronic diseases. The guidelines by Hahnemann are found to be very exact and those who want to impose their own inventions on the patient should try it first on themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
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Re: The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
The Watery Doses In Homeopathy and the Dosing (How Much to give?)
by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th
Edition of the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount
of dry pellets of the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch
for the reaction. Most homeopaths are also convinced that it does not
matter how many pellets are put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20, & it does
not matter! This was an unfortunate inheritance from Kent and blindly
followed by most homeopaths. This dose (how much of the remedy) as
well as when to repeat the dose will be discussed in the next two
lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry
and then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied
with this dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned
the exceptional use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th
edition of the Organon he made it the rule! He explained his
reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
"the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the
quantity of fluid in which it is dissolved (in other words, it does
make a difference if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.) For
in this case, when the medicine is taken, it comes into contact with
a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less
than 1 TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing
especially in the view of the many very sensitive patients we
encounter. Each individual has a different reactivity of his Vital
Force (Qi, Immune response) and the dose of the remedy must be
tailored to the individual patient! More about this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the
succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy
is dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time
you succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a
little stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by
your homeopath, as he knows the results of your first test dose: the
response to it determines the amount of succussions. It is like
driving a car: once we know how comfortable the patient is, we can
determine the speed (amount of succussions) which he is able to
drive. This is very important in order to achieve the fastest
possible response to the remedy and to assure the fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity
levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of
the disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle
cure difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses.
Hahnemann felt that the best way to adapt to these various
circumstances was to prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another
issue neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can
give unpunished a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a
month for a year, and worse, some repeat such dose daily and
unchanged! What is the result? Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic
Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will add symptoms belonging
to the remedy but not to his disease picture & in other words, he
will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger is even
that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original
disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease,
entirely consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had!
You could compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine
which create in the long run more symptoms and new diseases often
worse than the original disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot
harm: if your homeopath continues to give unchanged doses you will
have all the "side effects" of our remedy (we call it accessory
symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong remedy and your
homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too frequent. Patients
who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases are much
more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that
"It does not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the
homeopath gives to the patient, as long as we have the correct
remedy!" Such people must go back to school and read carefully in the
Organon what they are doing to their patients. For anyone who has his
eyes open in practice and for anyone who cares about his patients,
the determination of the right dose (how much of the remedy should I
give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the suffering of
our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th
edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a
similar aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate),
in fact they welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the
right remedy. How cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be
obtained following the watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the
Organon. Ask your homeopath why he is doing so: I don't expect him to
be able to give you a decent answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not
only on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct
size or rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not
sufficient to choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here
on the smallness of the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a
dose though completely homeopathic to the case will still harm the
patient by its quantity and unnecessarily strong action on the vital force&
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher
the potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!),
the more harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally
large doses of unhomeopathic medicine & Excessively large doses of an
accurately selected homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently
repeated, are, as a rule very destructive! Not infrequently they
endanger the patient's life or make his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice
for over the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous
to administer too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic
remedy than the wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the
dose," as if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients
coming under their care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy
into water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of
the rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your
existing symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to
minimize and even avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much-neglected part in
homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large
dose rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a
cautious small dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then
take the opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery
solutions should be taken in acute and chronic diseases. The
guidelines by Hahnemann are found to be very exact and those who want
to impose their own inventions on the patient should try it first on
themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm & http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm
ONLINE/Email classes in Homeopathy; Vaccine Dangers; Childhood Diseases Reality
Next classes start May 20 & 21
by Dr. Luc de Schepper, , MD, PhD, DI Hom., CHom., Lic.Ac.
What most homeopaths in the world do
Most homeopaths follow Hahnemann's directions set out in the 4th
Edition of the Organon, published in 1828. They put a certain amount
of dry pellets of the chosen remedy on the tongue and wait and watch
for the reaction. Most homeopaths are also convinced that it does not
matter how many pellets are put on the tongue: 3, 5, 20, & it does
not matter! This was an unfortunate inheritance from Kent and blindly
followed by most homeopaths. This dose (how much of the remedy) as
well as when to repeat the dose will be discussed in the next two
lessons. The question is here, dry doses versus watery doses or solutions.
The Watery Doses
Up till 1828 Hahnemann administered one or two poppy-seed pellets dry
and then "waited and watched." However he was not entirely satisfied
with this dosing technique. Even in 1828 Hahnemann already mentioned
the exceptional use of watery solutions and in 1833, in his 5th
edition of the Organon he made it the rule! He explained his
reasoning in A286 of the 5th edition:
"the effect of the homeopathic dose increases, the greater the
quantity of fluid in which it is dissolved (in other words, it does
make a difference if we give 1 tsp, 1 TBS, 1 cup, 3 drops, etc.) For
in this case, when the medicine is taken, it comes into contact with
a much larger surface of sensitive nerves responsive to the remedy action."
So 1 drop will stimulate less nerve endings than 1 tsp; 1 tsp less
than 1 TBS, etc. We can see here the importance of such dosing
especially in the view of the many very sensitive patients we
encounter. Each individual has a different reactivity of his Vital
Force (Qi, Immune response) and the dose of the remedy must be
tailored to the individual patient! More about this further.
Hahnemann at this point (1833) added another facet to his dosing: the
succussions! A succussion is hitting the bottle in which the remedy
is dissolved hard against a book or the palm of your hand. Each time
you succuss, the remedy changes slightly in potency, and gets a
little stronger. The amount of the succussions will be determined by
your homeopath, as he knows the results of your first test dose: the
response to it determines the amount of succussions. It is like
driving a car: once we know how comfortable the patient is, we can
determine the speed (amount of succussions) which he is able to
drive. This is very important in order to achieve the fastest
possible response to the remedy and to assure the fastest and gentlest cure!
As one can see, due to the wide range of patient sensitivity
levels-something that is greatly magnified today-and the variation of
the disease states (some are long time suppressed, making a gentle
cure difficult), the homeopath needs more ways to administer doses.
Hahnemann felt that the best way to adapt to these various
circumstances was to prepare remedies in watery solutions.
The succussions, altering each dose to become more potent is another
issue neglected worldwide by homeopaths! They claim that they can
give unpunished a dry dose of a certain potency unchanged once a
month for a year, and worse, some repeat such dose daily and
unchanged! What is the result? Hahnemann tells us (in Chronic
Diseases) that by doing so, the patient will add symptoms belonging
to the remedy but not to his disease picture & in other words, he
will add symptoms to his disease he never had! The danger is even
that great that through such mechanical repetition, the original
disease of the patient will be totally replaced by a new disease,
entirely consisting of the remedy symptoms, symptoms you never had!
You could compare this to the side effects of allopathic medicine
which create in the long run more symptoms and new diseases often
worse than the original disease! So don't think homeopathy cannot
harm: if your homeopath continues to give unchanged doses you will
have all the "side effects" of our remedy (we call it accessory
symptoms). It is even worse if you receive the wrong remedy and your
homeopath repeats such dry doses unchanged and too frequent. Patients
who are suffering from such medicinal or remedy diseases are much
more difficult to treat further!
The Importance of the Dose (How Much?)
I am horrified by the statements of many homeopaths who claim that
"It does not matter how much (and some add what potency!) the
homeopath gives to the patient, as long as we have the correct
remedy!" Such people must go back to school and read carefully in the
Organon what they are doing to their patients. For anyone who has his
eyes open in practice and for anyone who cares about his patients,
the determination of the right dose (how much of the remedy should I
give?) is extremely important if we want to limit the suffering of
our patients! Of course those homeopaths who adhere to the 4th
edition of the Organon do not care that their patients go through a
similar aggravation of their symptoms (existing symptoms aggravate),
in fact they welcome it as it tells them that they have chosen the
right remedy. How cruel to deny their patients the gentler cure to be
obtained following the watery doses of the 5th and 6th edition of the
Organon. Ask your homeopath why he is doing so: I don't expect him to
be able to give you a decent answer!
This is what Hahnemann had to say about the dose (A275 and 276):
"The correctness of a remedy for a given case of disease depends not
only on the accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct
size or rather smallness of the dose! (In other words it is not
sufficient to choose the correct remedy, but the accent is put here
on the smallness of the dose!). A remedy given in too large of a
dose though completely homeopathic to the case will still harm the
patient by its quantity and unnecessarily strong action on the vital force&
"In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine and the higher
the potency (note that dose and potency are two different things!),
the more harm is done. Indeed it is far more harmful than equally
large doses of unhomeopathic medicine & Excessively large doses of an
accurately selected homeopathic medicine, especially if frequently
repeated, are, as a rule very destructive! Not infrequently they
endanger the patient's life or make his disease almost incurable!
So what Hahnemann says here and what has been seen in the practice
for over the last two hundred years is that it is far more dangerous
to administer too frequently too large doses of the right homeopathic
remedy than the wrongly chosen remedy!
What a condemnation of those homeopaths who "don't care about the
dose," as if it can do no harm and what a pity of those patients
coming under their care.
What can we conclude from Lesson 2?
1. ALWAYS (for acute as well as Chronic diseases) put the remedy
into water!
2. The dose (how much needs to be given) is just as much part of
the rightfully selected remedy as the name of the remedy
3. Do not accept similar aggravations (an aggravation of your
existing symptoms). The watery solutions allow the homeopath to
minimize and even avoid such similar aggravation.
4. The smallness of the dose is a very much-neglected part in
homeopathic circles. Many aggravations are due to giving a too large
dose rather than a too high potency. Always rather start with a
cautious small dose!
5. We will discuss potencies in the next lesson and will then
take the opportunity to accurately describe HOW these watery
solutions should be taken in acute and chronic diseases. The
guidelines by Hahnemann are found to be very exact and those who want
to impose their own inventions on the patient should try it first on
themselves and their loved ones!
Warm regards from Dr Luc!
DR. LUC'S BLOG: http://www.homeopathysnc.org/blog.htm
------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm & http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm
ONLINE/Email classes in Homeopathy; Vaccine Dangers; Childhood Diseases Reality
Next classes start May 20 & 21