Maybe hopefully I can settle this issue:

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The correctness of a medicine for a given case of disease depends not only on its accurate homeopathic selection but also on the correct size (or rather smallness) of the dose. A medicine given in too large a dose, though completely homeopathic to the case, and in itself of a beneficial nature, will still harm the patient by its quantity AND its unnecessarily strong action on the vital force, and through it, because the medicine is homeopathic, on precisely those parts of the organism which are most sensitive and have already been afflicted most by the natural disease.

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For this reason, a medicine, although homeopathic to the case, does harm when it is given in overdose. In strong doses, the more homeopathic the medicine AND THE HIGHER ITS POTENCY the more harm it does.

(my emphasis) So, clearly, Hahnemann is warning us not to prescribe in chronic disease in
"too strong a dose", and now we know what he means.

Snoopy

[ 24 June 2002, 18:18: Message edited by: Snoopy ]