What is the significance of the duration of remedies? Like are the shortest acting remedies not contenders for curing chronic diseases and so on and so forth?

I wondered too...
Maybe it's important only for proper dosing (frequency) not for kind of disease (acute/chronic and in-between). Because: WHY should it be?

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Astra<br /><br />"Difficult cases take some time to be cured,<br />impossible - a little longer."

Actually for some long acting remedies they use the term deep-acting like e.g. causticum, it's too slow for acutes.
For acutes the remedies have to act fast (so maybe this also means briefly?)- but why for chronic diseases they would have to act long and slow? Can't they act fast though briefly-and just the dose be repeated?

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Astra<br /><br />"Difficult cases take some time to be cured,<br />impossible - a little longer."

Carol & Astra,
on page 185 of Boger Boenninghausen's Characteristic Repertory there is a list of remedies and their duration of action. You will see that the shortest action remedies are the non-miasmatic ones, that is, they are not listed in the book of Chronic Diseases as being anti-psoric, but whose provings are listed in MM Pura. The longer acting remedies on the other hand, are anti-miasmatic.

Okay..thanks, louise...now what is the difference between a allied remedy and a complimentary remedy? And I see that a short acting remedy can be an allied or complementary remedy to an anti-miasmic remedy. What does this tell us?

Thanks Louise.
I would ask another question but for now I decided not to decrease the level of discussion so I'll just lurk and read and try to learn something.

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Astra<br /><br />"Difficult cases take some time to be cured,<br />impossible - a little longer."

Hmm. Acute and Chronic remedies can be one and the same....
eg. Belladonna is a great remedy for scarlet fevers, intense influenza, teething, etc...

all acute situations where a fast acting remedy is absolutely necessary...

but its also a terrific remedy for long standing, chronic diseases. I've used this remedy as a "constitutional" rememdy in a number of people, all with good resolutions of deep seated, long standing conditions such as endometriosis and ovarian cysts, fibromyalgia, and hypoglycemia.

Gelsemium, as another example, is a remedy whose "energy" is quite slow and plodding...but it is invaluable for influenza. Its a great remedy to use constitutionally, too...patients with latent t.b., arthritic pains, and issues around fear and the ability to act.

I'm grateful for the clinical data that's been collected and put into these "remedy relationship" charts, but I also wonder just how much of a "rule" these charts illustrate when I consider the realities about the actual remedies and how they affect individual people so differently.

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