Hi Dillweed,

I see what you mean....but the choice of potency for animals, as I already mentioned earlier, is often based on emperical proof, i.e. we choose first of all the remedy + potency of which we know it has proved to be most useful in a large number of animal cases with that particular symtomatology, but other potencies (higher or lower) may often work equally well of course. I`m mainly talking now about clinical and not about constitutional prescribing.

Frankly speaking, the selection of a particular potency is a bit controversional, because there are several views and styles of prescribing and all of them can produce very good results and usually the choice of remedy is far more important/crucial than the choice of potency. Moreover, over the course of treatment more or a full range of potencies may be necessary as one potency ceases to work and a new level needs to targeted.
Prescribers in some countries often prefer to use mainly high(er) potencies, whereas other prescribers in other countries prefer low to medium and occasionally high(er) potencies.

For example the well known German prescriber Willibald Gawlik often used low potencies for all kind of disorders in people and he was quite successful in doing so.

For people the guidelines are perhaps a bit clearer.

I wrote several posts on potency guidelines on the other large forum (on Student`s Corner forum) but unfortunately it`s too much typing for this slow typist to do it again. Perhaps in the (near) future ? I`ll tell a little about the medium potency in my next post though.

to be continued

Wim

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