Dear Ricky,

I've found that homeopaths who are Kentian (One-dose-and-wait) prescribers generally get apoplectic when their patients innocently mention that they've treated an acute--Nux Vomica 30C, for instance, for a debilitating headache: "Oh, so now YOU want to be the doctor! Well, fine! I won't treat you anymore!" And, yes, surely you've heard these accounts from people who post here--that they've been yelled at for treating an acute.

The other thing about taking remedies when you're on a constitutional, if it hasn't kicked in yet, was it the wrong remedy or did you antidote it with your acute prescribing? You see lots of letters coming in here, people wondering if they've antidoted their remedy with one thing or another.

So, to me, anyway, this is just one of many advantages of daily low potency prescribing in chronic disease, the other being the avoidance of aggravations. Another advantage--I'm starting to see a number of incidences of remedies working in low potency--like Contenta's husband--and not working in high potency, and we've seen a number of miraculous cures with low potency on the BB lately, and I became so impressed with this, that, my daughter, for instance, who had a cold and missed 2 days of school last week...when she said her upper lip burned (from the nasal discharge, I assumed) I would usually give an Ars. 30 for this, instead I gave Ars. 6C with occassional repetitions, and darned if it didn't work! So, I really seriously wonder to what extent these high potencies are a bad habit we've gotten into--including myself.

Snoopy