dear snoopy and helena

hahnemann does not state timing regarding how soon after the nursing mother takes the dose her milk will become and remain medicated. this only becomes relevant in this kind of situation in which the infant is not being nursed in the natural ongoing way - which is why i had to make a guess at 20 minutes after dosing being appropriate.

in par 284 footnote, hahnemann cites 'very moderate doses' for the nursing mother to medicate the infant. i interpret this as meaning LM potency repeated as needed as indicated by the infant's condition, given to the mother.

ref the question about the appropriateness of dosing the wet nurse/ mother when she is showing no symptoms, my understanding of this is that at this stage of nurturing when mother and infant so intimately share bodily fluids, the two people are close in energy states. hahnemann [footnote par 284] wrote that the psora usually comes through the mother, sometimes via nursing - so the miasmatic disease and the medicine for it can come at the same time.
if you think about it the other way around, when a woman is pregnant we often medicate for the 'unit' of the two people by taking only the symptoms we have of the mother - it's the same principle in reverse.