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DavidJK · #6 (**permalink**) 7th January 2002, 02:56 AM

There is a reason the low potencies work so well when the higher ones don't - they work on more generalised symptoms. You don't have to be so specific with the diagnosis, since large numbers of people will respond to Sulph 3c or Nat-mur 6x or whatever. This means that someone with less skill or experience, including the naturopaths, can appear to have some success with a small group of remedies.

That is not to say the low potencies do not cure or don't have their place. As Snoopy has rightly pointed out, people with long term serious pathology often benefit from daily repetition of low potencies or LM's.

But the low potencies, if they are acting upon the general picture instead of the specific one, will not cure, they will however palliate. Palliation is fine, but the patient is not being cured, and they will get sick again, and that remedy will eventually lose its ability to help.

Nat-mur 6x will often palliate cold sores. But if the cold sores are not specifically Nat-mur sores, in otherwords in a person that shows the peculiar characteristics of Nat-mur, then they will not be cured. But it will palliate even a Graphites or Sulphur or even Thuja person.

This makes low potencies suitable for the first- aid chest, but for many people they will never cure the deepest part of the case. A practitioner who falls into the habit of using only low potencies runs the risk of only ever palliating their patients, and quite likely suppressing the case - this is something I have seen in Naturopathic patients given low potency homoeopathy to take for many days on end, always repeating the remedy as the symptoms come back up, always suppressing it deeper into the organism.

Giving a low potency of the correct remedy may still cure a case. Giving a low potency of a remedy that is not correct, but is close will either palliate or suppress. That is the danger. Many remedies will help a case superficially when used at low potencies - but that is not what we are in the game for.