Dear 007,

Hahnemann makes a big point of saying in the organon not to repeat the exact same dose:

"It is inadmissible to repeat, even once, exactly the same dose of medicine without modifying it... The vital principle does not accept such identical doses without opposition....But if one slightly modifies the potency of each new dose by dynamizing it to a somewhat higher degree...the sick vital principle allows itself to be altered further by the same medicine without ill effect...." (247)

He's not talking here about 5th ed. organon prescribing--one dose high and wait. The people who prescribe this way pretty much know not to repeat the remedy unless the patient relapses.

The 6th ed. of the Organon is based on a new concept: In chronic disease, giving a patient one dose of a high potency and waiting a month or more is unsatisfactory both in terms of time spent waiting and in the aggravations it causes. He did not like aggravations; the right remedy, he said in #275, 276, prescribed too high will affect precisely the very organ that can least tolerate the excessive force.

He developed the LM's because they had the power of the high potencies with the gentleness of the low potencies. They could be given daily like a low potency, if necessary, without causing the serious harm that the high potencies have the potential for. However, he said that they must be redynamized (succussed) each time to prevent untoward reactions. I now use this advice in all my prescribing. Every remedy for every purpose gets put into a water bottle, whether it's a 6C, a 30C or whatever. Before each dose the bottle is succussed. I have experienced for myself what happens if you are taking a remedy and you repeat it too soon in the exact same dose--it cancels itself out!
(After all, like cures like!) You can prevent this by putting the remedy in water and succussing before each dose.

Snoopy