Minutus

Some of you have written about prescribing descending potencies
(starting with a high potency and then issuing lower potencies) as a
way of avoiding aggravations, whereas I had always understood that
the standard method (if there is one!) should start with a lower
potency and then issue ascending potencies when that potency no
longer affects. What are your experiences?

When I try to explain homeopathic potencies to people, I describe the
human being ("economy" in the earlier texts) as a bundle of
fibers, some of which get out of whack (provide sound effects here:
"sproinggggg"). Homeopathic remedies "twang" the system,
somewhat like a tuning fork, to bring the fibers back into line,
letting the vital force/immune system restore itself. Lower
potencies effect the outer fibers (more surface in space and time) while the
more attenuated higher potencies can slip in deeper and "twang"
interior fibers (deeper and more mental/emotional fibers, as well as
more chronic.) Do you think this explanatory model is accurate?

The most important thing about your model of how homoeopathy works is
whether it works for you and your patients and gets the message across. The
"correct" model (if there is such an elusive beast) lies in the sphere of
philosophy and spectrophotometry and it will probably leave most patients
either totally baffled or totally disinterested. I suggest you stick with
your KISS principle!

As for descending/ascending potencies there are such differences of opinion
from the totally dogmatic "don't use descending potencies because they 'fix'
a patient into a state and he will never recover" (I am not sure where I
read this one but it was by an author with enough gravitas to make me wonder
for a while), to the totally wooly "do what feels right for every case". I
know homoeopaths who blithely use either with success and I am sure some of
the members of this list will have experiences to back up their individual
theories. Personally I am happier with ascending potencies, but I know this
is the case because this is the way my own mind works!

FWIW!!!

Regards
Eleana

hi,
i think the descending method is not a proper method or i want to say it is totally incorrect method. For example it is like to hunt a small bird which can hunted only by a single bullet or by the sound of fire with a heavy bomb.
Waheed, Pakistan