Minimum Dose /was: help with case please

[Dave Hartley]

Hi Sue,

It is not so strange, once one gets over the 4th Organon / Kentian notion
that the number of pills or SIZE of the dose (gabe in German) has no
importance.

Hahnemann's practice and his Organon, 5th & 6th editions, both PROMINENTLY
feature the concept and utility of the "split dose" which he refers to as
"medicinal solution."

About 1832, Hahnemann began experimenting with giving the dose in solution,
rather than as a dry pellet on the tongue. In the Organon, 5th edition,
?s286-287 he describes an increase in the medicinal action of a dose when it
is fully dispersed in medicinal solution.

In 1835 (year 39) Hahnemann wrote to Hering, describing the further
diminution of dose by giving portions ("split doses") of a medicinal
solution produced by dissolving a medicated centisimal pellet in a volume of
water. This reduced dose allowed for more frequent repetition during the
gradual amelioration of chronic disease, with gradual ascent of potency by
stirring or succussion of the solution prior to each repeated dose. He wrote
more detailed instructions on this approach in 1837 (year 41), which can be
read in the preface to part 3 (2nd ed.) of Chronic Diseases.

When using remedies in the centisimal scale in split doses in medicinal
solution, Hahnemann found it beneficial to increase the number of
succussions at each dilutional step back to 10 (from the 2 succussions
recommended in the 5th edition of the Organon). He apparently experimented
with even greater numbers of succussions over the following year; see the
preface to volume 5 of Chronic Diseases, published in 1838, where he makes
reference to using "10, 20, 50 and more" succussions in the preparation of
centisimals.

The LM (Q, fifty-millesimal) potency scale, which Hahnemann referred to only
as his "medicaments au globule" as distinct from the centisimal "medicaments
a la goutte", was developed in 1838 (year 42, 5 years before his death),
with the intention of preparing remedies even better adapted for use in
split dose in medicinal solution. These were prepared with even greater
dilution at each step (~1/50,000, but using medicated pellets for the
dilutions), and with far greater succussion at each dilutional step (100
succussions). Hahnemann shared this method during its experimental period
only with Boenninghausen. He first described it in the 6th edition of the
Organon (?270), which was prepared for the publisher in the year prior to
his death (1842, year 46), but first saw light only in 1921 when William
Boericke purchased the manuscript from the Boenninghausen family.
http://www.simillibus.com/hahnemanns_dose.html
http://www.simillibus.com/repetition_of_dose.html

These last developments of Hahnemann's long career remained hidden from view
most of a century, while Kent and others practiced according to the methods
Hahnemann has abandoned for more refined and fruitful methods- the legacy of
Hahnemann's Advanced Methods
http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlelibr ... s/HAM.html
regards,

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