Korsakov potency

[Piet Guijt]

>Hi Piet,
What is this Korsakov Potency? Is it a company's brand?<

Simeon Nicolai Von Korsakov (1788 -1853)
He was a russian count, who invented a new method of homeopathic
preparations.
The Korsakovian method or single phial system is based on the following
principle:
When one empty a phial there remains one drop of the solution adhered to
the walls of the phial thus one obtains a dilution of the ratio 1/100.
This method saves a lot of phials. Hahnemann approved this method.
He writes in a note about impregnation of globules with a medical substance
(invented by Korsakov) in 1829 :
"this method, recomended by my honoured correspondent, deserves the
gratitude of every homoeopath, because it is, like my experience has
convinced me, the most perfect that has been proposed"

After the 30th potency of Hahnemann, there appeared 200, M, 10M, 50M, CM.
Such potencies would be inpossible according to the Hahnemannian method of
seperate phials.
Nowadays the start is made with a C30 potency, to garantee there is no
'material' involved further in the proces, because of the absorbtion of
material in the pores of the glass in the early stages.

Kind Regards, Piet Guijt