LM management/.Arlene

[David Little]

At 10:00 PM 4/18/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Hello but no groans,

I must say that I don't think there is one systematic way to give LMs
to all patients at all times and in all conditions. Individualization is
important. I always advise caution on mechanically giving the daily dose
because I receive so many emails about aggravations. Most of them are cause
by over medication. The daily dose is quite different than the alternate or
every three day dose. the Paris casebooks show that Hahnemann used to give
a series of doses followed by a series of placebo. It is fairly rare to see
him give a remedy for a longer period without placebos. You should be able
to make a judgement by the patient's sensitivity. You can not get away from
the fact that sensitivity can be measured on a scale from 1 to 1000
(aphorism 281). What would not affect a number 1 will put a 1000 into great
trouble. This is fact one has to live with. All people can not be treated
the same with the LM or C potency dry or in liquid.

It is very important to have the patient stop as soon as they feel any
aggravation! That is a protection devise. Some of the worse aggravation I
have had to help clear where caused because the homoeopathy told patient it
was a cleansing they must go through. You must also remember to have the
patient stop if they have a *strikingly progressive improvement (aphorism
247)* and call you. Don't forget that aggravation and a strikingly
amelioration are both signs to stop the remedy.

Another point - it is always easier to speed up a repetition that is
too slow than deal with aggravations and relapses from over medication from
doses that are too fast. To go slow in the beginning means to end fast in
the end. I always start a bit conservative at the start and speed up if
necessary. The better the simillimum the more trouble it can make if we
give it too much. Kent spoke about that. Until he became skillful with his
remedies he hardly saw aggravations. Reverend Everest (Hahnemann's good
friend and patient) spoke about this also. The more harmonic the remedy the
more powerful it has too aggravate and the less it needs to be used.
Normally one raises the potency by the sensitivity of patient and
action of the remedy. How fast a medicinal solution is used up depends on
the size of the medicinal solution and the size of the dose you are using.
For example, a 4 oz solution used in tablespoon dose lasts one week. If it
the same solution is use in a teaspoons dose it last 24 days. A
hyposensitive may need medicinal solution in tablespoons doses whereas a
sensitive only needs a teaspoon. In this way, the time period of the
medicinal solution is automatically adjusted for the individual. That means
the hyposensitive might need the potency raised every 7 days and the
sensitive every 24 days, etc.

Hahnemann spoke about raising the potency every 1 to 2 weeks but this
has proved too quick for many patients. I think many of today's patients
are much more sensitive than Samuel's patient's were. I have had to bring
the method in line with today's sensitivity. I also tried to give remedy
more quickly in the beginning and I cause too many aggravations. Now they
are few and far between and easy to manage when they do appear. And...at
the same time..my cures have sped up!

Drugs can slow medicinal action but a good simillimum is quite powerful
and may not need daily repetition. It is a condition where remedies can
sometimes be repeat more frequently but one must be careful because of the
suppressive actions of drugs and the opposite curative action of the
remedies. Over medication can lead to crisis because the antipathic and
homeopathic directions of force are opposites. I treat a lot of patients on
life supporting drugs and one must be watchful. Nevertheless, the LM in
medicinal solution do very good work here!

Sincerely, David Little
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