Minutus

Hi

Of course the Champion LM prescriber!

Hom works on the minimum dose - less is more!!

Double (or even treble) dilution is used if you feel your patient is
sensitive.

Usually - but not always - the action of LMs can be short. Usually matter of
days.

Typically the patient feels well and then reaches a plateau and then dips.
If they are observant, they can tell how many days to the plateau and to the
dip.
The ideal management of the case is to count the days to reaching plateau -
say 5 days, and then you can prescribe every 5 days thus going from peak to
peak. However always being mindful of if there is tremendous improvement to
stop and if there are symptom (new or old) developing also to stop and
report in.

LMs are absolutely fantastic if the patient is taking allopathic medication.
In which case with the correct permissions you can reduce the allopathic
medication gradually (never by half a tablet as the medics would recommend)
by scraping them or dissolving them in a fixed amount of water every time
and then syringing off a lesser quantity with each dose.

I hope this has been of help.

Rgds
Soroush

Message: 15
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:13:57 -0500
From: Bob&Shannon
Subject: LM question

I don't have much experience using LMs, and have some "patients" (aka
"friends and family") who really push my understanding! So I'm hoping for
input on this... The good news -- my epileptic friend had done well for a
while on Nat-m LM1, but then had another seizure and stopped taking the
remedy. At the time I asked myself uneasy questions about whether the
seizure might have been brought on by her too-frequent and erratic dosing
schedule -- it was a *really* difficult situation to work with, as at the
start of her Nat-m she could barely string two thoughts together to have a
conversation (or give instructions), so I basically had to just hope for the
best... But she was ***MUCH*** better after the (?)couple of weeks with
Nat-m, so I decided to leave well enough alone for the time. This was about
a year ago, and she's been doing rather well since then (in context...).
Last week she had another seizure, quite bad, which sent her into
despair and grieving, so I suggested (take a wild guess) another dose of her
Nat-m. She said it worked "immediately", felt *much* better, and was
recovering from the seizure (which can take her as much as a few weeks to
really get over).
Last night she called saying she was feeling worse again, described
feeling groggy, and "as if" she were going to have another seizure, and "as
if" withdrawing from drugs (some years back she went thru a pretty
unpleasant process of withdrawing from prescribed opiates). I asked how
much of the Nat-m she had taken since we talked the week before, and she
said she'd been taking it more or less daily. (I had not told her to do
that, was waiting for her to call back!)
I thought *perhaps* this is overdose/proving, suggested she take a
single(!!) dose of LM-1 diluted thru an additional two glasses. This
morning she tells me that it worked *very* well (In my mind I'm jumpin'
around, yelling yes, yes!!! with relief! ); she felt sleepy right
after the dose and had the first *good* sleep she has had in "quite a
while", and feels nearly back to normal this morning.

Now my questions:
- Since the first week or so of doses apparently worked well and without
problems, shall I assume that the only problem was too-frequent dosing and
that the original single-glass dose is okay *so long as* she repeats only as
often as *necessary* (I said, see how long this improvement lasts, and
repeat only when you start to relapse, and use that to time future
repetition), or will it be better if she sticks with the extra dilution
glasses?

- Can someone describe the difference in effect between (a) dose from first
dilution glass repeated, say, every week (let's assume that's what "as
needed" works out to in this case) versus (b) extra dilution glasses? If
the doses are extra-dilute does it become appropriate to re-dose more
frequently, or are the two factors not really connected?

Altho she does not fit the "typical" picture of nat-m -- at least not the
one that *I* had formed -- I do think this remedy could be a deep fit for
her, and last year on reading more about it was really struck by
correspondences that I hadn't been aware of. I'd like her to stay with the
remedy and see how far it can take her, but I really, really, really am
nervous about getting her on the right dosage, so all input will be
appreciated!!!

Thanks,
Shannon
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