Dear Rochelle & all,
I'm making them up from homeopathic Mother Tinctures gotten from a homeo pharmacy. From the MT we make up bottles of 2x or even up to 3x. The 2 reasons for this is (a) extending our supply - 100ml of MT can make a litre of 2x. (b) homeopathically speaking less quantity is needed per dose (eg 2-5 drops rather than 5-15 drops) and it is more effective
Wouldn't it be cheaper to put the 2x for instance onto pillules?
could be. since I think, till now, in terms of drop doses, I don't see the point of pillules. Too small a dose.
I got in touch with Helios once and was told that to make a liquid potency it is 2 drops of Medicating Potency to 10mls water and add 2 drops of alcohol to preserve it.
yes. but "liquid potency" and "medicating potency" can be any potency in water. on this point, I can say that we've found here (tropics, maybe?) that rx's are better preserved in at least 30% alcohol (eg 7 ml water, 3 ml alcohol).
Up till now, regarding MT's I think of them as "near-crude" (ha! sounds like that misnomer "near-miss"!!) "herbals", and use them mainly in mixtures for palliative/curative treatments (eg our own "diabetes tonic", "bp tonic" " ' viagra' tonic", "womens tonic" ), drainage & organ therapy (eg our "spleen" and "piles") and as singles - eg china (malaria/ liver), carduus m (liver), cheledonium (liver), berberis (kidney, liver), ceanothus (spleen), iodine (glands) and so on.
Not to mention regular use of our own home-made and home-grown production of tinctures: neem (azad ind), ashvagandha (withania som), marigold (false calendula), cinnamon, sage, plantago, cornsilk (stig m), parsley (petersel) and African Potato (hypoxis, as yet unproven homeopathically).
With apologies to our single-Rx classists - below are some formulas we've found useful in Kenya:
SPLEEN: china, iodium, ceonothus: enlarged or dysfunctional spleen or liver esp. after malaria
KIDNEY: berberis, equisetum, hydrangea (& i'll soon add corn-silk & parsley)
DIABETES: syzygium, abroma augusta, rauwolfia
HEART: rauwolfia, cactus, cratagus, strophanthus, ashok
MALE "viagra": yohimbrim, agnus, sabal serr, damiana
PILES: hamamelis, peoania, aesculus
WORMS: terebinth, chelone, pepito, cina 3x, chenopodium, teucreum
ALCOHOLISM: strophanthus, lobelia, quercus, nux v 3x
Sincerely,
Didi Ananda Ruchira
Director, Abha Light
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