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sreischman · #3 (**permalink**) 24th June 2002, 12:24 PM

Simone, thanks for starting a new thread. In 279, H says 'the dose of homeopathically selected and highly potentized remedy for the beinning treatment (snip) can never be prepared so small that it shall not be stronger than the natural disease'. I think we can see from this that dose is referring to quantity, not potency.

I do use more higher potencies than Snoopy, but find that I can put them in water and have the person take just one sip if they have a history of sensitivities.

Sensitivity is an interesting issue. When discussing how to conduct a proving, H says you can't tell ahead of time how sensitive someone is going to be. However, I don't think in his day they had such things as multiple chemical sensitivities and fibromyalgia and all those types of diseases. These are the people in my experience who seem very sensitive to the remedies. On the other hand these are not the people who would take part in a proving.

Also 129 refers to instructions for conducting provings, which is different than prescribing homeopathically for someone who is ill.

On the page four of 270, in reference to the LM potencies, H says 'The preparations thus produced, I have found to be (snip) the most powerful and at the same time mildest in action, i.e., the most perfected'. I don't use them a lot, though, because I have too much trouble with client compliance, although there are a few people who have been willing. Most people do just as well with a water potency.

I'm working with a sensitive now and everything has to be in water and she can only take the tiniest sip. However, she does have a greater aggravation from the 30C than the 200C, a common experience, IMO, so I do like to start with the higher potencies. In this case, she was doing well on the 200C and her daughter threw away her water bottle. She was out of town, so I told her to go to the nearest health food store and get the remedy in the highest potency they had, so she took a 30C in water and had a much more severe aggravation that with the 200C. It's not the first time I've seen this happen. So unless I think their life style indicates that they will antidote the remedy regularly, I start with the high potencies.