On several occassions, I have taken a low dose of a remedy and have developed symptoms that seem to prove the remedy. Most recently this happened with phos 30c after two weeks of once daily doses of the remedy. The symptoms, including spots in the visual field, are troubling. Is it possible that a higher dose (like 1 M) could help resolve these symptoms? Rarely have higher doses provoked "provings."

Many of the original provings were conducted with one or two doses of the low potencies. Please respect remedies as medicines as they are powerful and must be applied with care. Using higher potencies may only worsen the situation. Are you playing with remedies?

Personally I wouldn't dream of giving a 30C potency for as long as 2 weeks!! As a constitutional I may give a split dose which is 3 doses in 24 hours. Occasionally if a patient is on a lot of allopathic medicines that can't be stopped I might give a daily dose for 5 days. As an acute if the remedy hasn't worked by 5 doses forget it!! If it is working then the maximum I would keep someone on the remedy is 4 days at 3 x a day.

Basically I am not at all surprised that you are proving the remedy. When it comes to higher doses than the 30C one dose is allthat is required in a chronic condition as a constitutional remedy. Maybe a few more in a serious acute state when the remedy is being used up quickly.

I have taken remedies as prescribed by a trained homeopathic physician, but it seems from my experience as a patient over the past five years that there is at least as much art as science to homeopathy and that the approaches can vary significantly. Is that so? The physician who advised me several years ago prescribed Calc Carb 10 M once a month for nearly four years, for example. We talked about that regularly, and he felt it continued to be right. Would there be schools of homeopathy that see constitutional remedies that way?

Now, for the current problem, how would you advise I deal with spots in the visual field that may be the result of taking phos 30 c daily for several weeks? Should my body settle back on its own if the remedy provoked this problem?

Hi to everyone....I'm extremeeeeeeemely busy...but had a quick look and saw this post....hmmmmmmm...


that comment on the "art" part....well....yes, there is an art to practising Homeopathy...but that does NOT mean that one can bend, twist and change the principles (read the Organon!) to suit their own inadequacies in prescribing!

Harsh words? well, I don't 'negotiate' with 'playing' around with the remedies....just like Homeopathy does not negotiate with nature!!!!

There are set principles...and a good Homeopath is not afraid to follow them...requiring patients to learn to wait...rather than giving repeated doses (and in high potencies!)...or chopping and changing potencies and/or remedies...in hopes that the homeopath hits 'paydirt'.....proving 'their' new method works.HA! NOT...


in the wise words of Anna, before.....uuuuuuuuulllgh....


If you do not fully understand homeopathy...then educate yourself...cuz it's your health that will bear the outcome of what you choose..

sincerely,
Lisa

The closer the remedy to the simillimum, the less repetition is required. To be blunt the massive doses would lead me to question both the remedy and the practitioner.

Of course it is quite possible these folks are being given placebo pills..or lac whatever it is.

Good point Carolorr...but it doesn't sound like it does it?

According to Organon,a single dose is given, then the reaction is been watched, As long as the healing process continues, no further medicatin. sounds probably familiar to every one. Now the situation should be antidoted with you. But because GM is not in reach now, we need to know more about what kind of spots are in your vision, what for did you get phos. in the first place, your reaction to it at first. the same about the calc.

Shoshy , you got it correct..except that GM may lurk in the shadows...