Hi Shirl,
Sorry about this mess. If both your homeopath and I agree that Carc 30C might undo this, I think it's worth a try; theoretically, a lower potency of the same remedy is supposed cause an antidote, and I have seen it happen.

Shirl, you have no idea how I am hounded and maligned on this BB because I prescribe low potencies so that I won't cause the kind of experience in someone else that you are experiencing now. They say I prescribe dangerously, that I put people at risk, that I'm irresponsible and disreputable; but you won't see any of them here now because they won't admit that this, what you have described above, is the real problem in homeopathy. I've been trying to show for the last 2 years how often it is stated in The Organon, the dangers of high potency prescribing, it is in the Organon, and even you have found it yourself, to your credit.

When I prescribe and I find a potency that is working and let's say for the sake of argument it's a 30C, and the 30C wears off, the next dose I prescribe is a 30C in water. If the 30C in water wears off, I make a 31C; I try to stay as close to what was working as possible and move up by steps rather than by leaps. You would be surprised how the water potency kicks in after the dry dose wears off, and how going up just one degree can make a remedy kick back in.

I have a patient now who told me how she had taken Ars. 30C some time ago and it worked wonderfully! When it wore off, she went to a 200C and had the most horrible aggravation imaginable with no amelioration to follow. I really think we have to learn the value of staying close to the potency that worked for as long as we can and not abandoning it at the drop of a hat in favor of a potency often 10 times higher.

So here we are with another situation where 2 people are vowing never to return to homeopathy, and I just wonder what it will take to get people to understand that we can't go before the public and present ourselves as the people who make you worse because it's good for you, a sign you're going to get better, and think we actually have the right to treat the public that way, and especially when Hahnemann says right in the Organon, in numerous paragraphs, but 161 if I have to name one, Don't cause an aggravation in chronic disease. And, which paragraph was it that you found, Shirl? 275? where he says, the right remedy, in too strong a dose, will impact precisely those organs that can bare excessive force the least? What's so hard about that concept?

I would hope that your unfortunate condition, and that of your husband's, if nothing else, might sound an alarm bell here that won't go unheeded.

Best of luck, Shirl!

Snoopy

[ 06. March 2003, 04:35: Message edited by: Snoopy ]