My homeopath sometimes repeats the same remedy at the same potency for myself and my family. I must admit that we have been particularly sensitive to the remedies, but I often find that repeating the same dose seems to take us back a step, i.e. there are fewer benefits. Is this standard practice ?

If the remedy is still helping your symptoms, don't worry. One reason he is doing that is that you may take certain remedies for extended periods of time and he is trying to get all he can from any one potency. I have taken some remedies for 3-4 years, and if I didn't keep repeating the potency there wouldn't be any to take of an appropriate potency. If your symptoms return and the potency quits helping, you may need to change potencies. If you run out of potencies to take that are appropriate, you may need to put the one you just took into water and shake it to change the potency just a tiny bit. This will enable it to work for you again.

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Kescah

AS SHE SAID, IT WILL ONLY TAKE HER BACK, SLOW DOWN THE PROCESS OF HEALING UNNESSECEARY, WHEN REPEATED LIKE THIS, THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN TAKE OUT "ALL" FROM ONE POTENCY!
TO DO THAT, DILUTE, SUCUSS, DILUTE!
IF TO SENSITIVE, GO UP IF ITS X, K OR D POTENCE, IF C,LM OR M, OR CM, GO DOWN!
CM IS THE HIGHEST, X THE LOWEST. OR DILUTE,SUCUSS DILUTE WHEN YOU GO DOWN OR UP!

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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no

Thank you both, I agree with GM in that I feel it slows us down. Is there a homeopathic principle to repeating a potency or not repeating which I can quote/discuss with my homeopath ?

ITS THE PRINCIPLES, I HAVE WRITTEN ABOVE! YOU WILL FIND THEM IN ORGANON.

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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no

I repent in sackcloth and ashes. You will find extensive information on this topic at www.simillimum.com under the subject Hahnemann's Methods. I will change my ways.

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Kescah

A Homoeopathic remedy works because it is a substance which has the power to produce similar symptoms to the ones you've already got. By taking a similar remedy, you are giving your vitality a magnified image of the sickness from which you're already suffering. Your vitality then makes more effort and succeeds in overcoming (curing) both the remedy and your original symptoms. When the vitality has given its response, you no longer need that remedy at that potency. You may need next a different remedy, or the same remedy at a different potency, depending on where the core of your case lies after the vitality has finished its action.
Repeating a remedy at the same potency, or giving a different potency of the same remedy if it is not needed (when a person's case has moved away from the domain of that remedy) will push the person's vitality in a non-similar direction and the vitality will have to respond, possibly with new sensations and symptoms. This is not a curative process and is not part of the true classical principles of Homoeopathy discovered by its founder Samuel Hahnemann. While there is much debate in Homoeopathy about single v multiple dose prescribing, the original principles only countenance the single dose.
You may find it helpful to read The Organon of Medicine by Samuel Hahnemann (Unadulterated version translated by Dudgeon and pub. by B. Jain)
or the more modern explanation of the Organon is Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy by Dr. James Tyler Kent (Pub. Thorsons). Perhaps then you may wish to look for a classical homoeopath (single dose prescriber).
I wish you well.

Thanks everyone.

My homeopath is classically trained but I remember her saying that someone recommended to her to repeat a remedy at the same potency to ensure that all its action was used (or words to that effect).

I just want to give her some feedback that it hasn't always helped and to raise the question in her mind whether this course of action is indeed correct. I just needed some feedback for myself before I do this.

Rule of thumb that was suggested to us at college is that you only really repeat the smae remedy at the same potency once and then go up if you are sure the remedy is correct and there is a need to continue it.

Repeating a remedy is not the discretion of a homeopath. It is the patient's symptoms which suggest the next prescription. One doesnot get immune to the homeopathic remedy. Even if some one uses the remedy for 20 years , it will still work. This is the beauty of Homeopathy. In some chronic cases remedy is suggested even for months - that is also repetation of the remedy but it is the patient's requirement.

I have bad spellings please excuse me for that.

[This message has been edited by homeodranwer (edited 17 April 1999).]