Hi Wexdoc, Not all of my LM cases were complete 'botch-ups'. I did have successes. But these were always fairly straightforward cases. And the patients had strong constitutions to begin with.

However there was a sufficient number of other cases where this didn't eventuate. And in all conscience I wouldn't take the risk of inflicting my ideas of 'what should happen' on to innocent people when it clearly wasn't working. And everything I was able to read on the subject suggested I wasn't doing anything wrong. So what gives?

Rima Handley perpetuates the idea that LM's can be repeated mechanically every day for months. Well my experience is that this is a recipe for disaster. I've since read that experienced Indian homoeopaths who use this scale of potency equate the action of an LM 1 with a 30C in its dynamic action. Would you repeat a 30C daily and not expect to see a disturbance in the patient's lifeforce?

I've noticed that some homoeopaths here don't administer the dose according to Hahnemann's instruction. They tip several poppy seed size pellets into a small 25ml amber bottle and fit it with a dropper lid. There is no recognition of patient sensitivity or individualization. I use a 4oz (100ml) bottle with one pellet. (There's a really easy way to get one poppy-size pellet into your medicine bottle, if you don't already know, just ask.)

But just because other practitioners, registered or not, are doing it their way doesn't mean I have to follow suit.

David Little refers homoeopaths to Aphorism 246 in the 6th edition. (The one that's made my hair go grey.)
"Every perceptibly progressive and STRIKINGLY INCREASING AMELIORATION during treatment is a condition which, as long as it lasts, COMPLETELY PRECLUDES EVERY REPETITION OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF ANY MEDICINE WHATSOEVER, because all the good the medicine taken continues to effect is now hastening towards its completion."

For chronic cases Hahnemann gives instructions to speed the cure using 4 techniques:
1. The selected remedy must be PERFECTLY homoeopathic.
2. Dissolve the medicine in water and give in A PROPER SMALL DOSE.
3. Repeat the remedy in DEFINITE INTERVALS for the quickest accomplishment of the cure. And this is determined by the reaction to the remedy -'wait and watch', the sensitivity of the patient's constitution, and the nature of the disease. This may mean daily doses for some, but not automatically all people.
4. And with the precaution, that the DEGREE OF EVERY DOSE DEVIATE SOMEWHAT FROM THE PRECEDING AND FOLLOWING in order that the vital principle be not aroused to untoward reactions and revolt as is always the case with unmodified and especially rapidly repeated doses.

Hope this is of interest to you.
Regards,
Chrisg