Hi again,

Good questions. Let me "read" you my course notes on Pulsatilla as regards women's health:

"The 2 main remedies for women's health problems are Puls. and Sepia. Puls. has an affinity for the female reproductive system and hormones. Dysmenorrhea with PMS with the classical Puls. mentals and emotionals: feelings of abandonment, lonely, feeling unloved and weepy, self-pity, better consolation. Calls all their friends on the phone and complains about their cramps and their PMS. Chills with every cramp, better walking in fresh air. # 2 remedy for the ill effects of the Birth Control Pill."

So...since this is supposed to be such a great hormonal remedy, maybe it will handle the menopausal symptoms.

The reason for the 6C three times a day; here's the standard dosing schedule for chronic complaints:

6C, 6X--2 to 4 times a day
9C--2 to 3 times a day
12C--1 to 3 times a day
30C--one dose and wait, or one dose a week, or one dose every three days (I've heard all three, and I guess it all depends on your response)
200C and above--one dose and wait

Why a 6C? If there's an aggravation, all you have to do is stop the remedy and it should go away quickly. The low potencies generally have a short term of action, hence the need for repetitions, but you never know; you may be the rare person who has a striking improvement on one dose of a 6C, and if that were to happen, no need to repeat it until the improvement wears off.

The other great thing about low daily doses is case management: if an acute illness or injury comes along, you can stop your remedy, take a 30C or a 200C of the acute remedy, and when the acute resolves you can go right back to your chronic prescribing without worry that you've antidoted your constitutional remedy--because you're going to go right back to it, right? People write in here all the time, "Did I antidote my remedy? I just ate coffee ice cream without thinking! What should I do?" You never think this will happen to you, but we get these letters all the time.

Also, the high potencies have a certain violence of action, which makes them very suitable for acute disorders with their usual violent symptoms--food poisoning, painful cramps, head injuries; but chronic disease usually plods along incrementally, more the way a 6C plods along--a better match, for my way of thinking.

You can take a 200C if you want to, but I have noticed that often people are over-shooting their "frequency" and prescribing too high and getting nothing in return. We've seen people get good results on low potencies, go up to 200 with the idea that if a 12C works, a 200 will work even better, and nothing happens! You can always go up if you need to; but I have never heard of anyone going down: "Well, no luck after waiting a month on that 200C, maybe we should go down to a lower potency and see what happens...." If anything, they go up to a 1M and then call it quits. The patient may have responded to a 12C once a day.

Snoopy