I've recently started a remedy not available in the US, by Boiron, Pollantinum 30C. My father took it during spring and for the first time suffered no ill effects from the pollen. He has tried both allopathic as well as natural remedies in the past.
My question is...If pollen season lasts 2 months can you take the remedy for two months? Is it better to take it 2 weeks then go off for a week, etc. or something of that sort? I remember a response on this site about taking Nux Vomica at a low dose for an extended amount of time and risking "proving" the remedy. This isn't Nux Vomica, but what's the consensus? My father took it for two months during pollen season with no ill effects.
Thank You.
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Peace

When you say, you felt no side effects in two months, then I think you can continue the medicine till you start feeling the better effect of the medicine.

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Hafeez
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Homeopathic remedies are always taken as needed. that could be as often as every 15 minutes or only once. Take the remedy and wait for amelioration. When the amelioration stops, retake it. As long as you do that, there will be no proving, which occurs when you repeat a remedy when you don't need it.

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Shirley Reischman

Thank you for your insights.
I have treated our cats when they have had absesses from fights with either silicia or hepar sulph with great results.
I treated them for 3-5 days with a 30C remedy 3Xday. These instructions were given to me Holistic vet who specializes in Homeopathy.
I know this is different advice again, but that's okay.
Any other ideas on this would be appreciated.

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Peace

Okay: with the cats, you are treating acute ailments. I'd dose in this way if I'd taken a full case and knew that the potencies and remedies fit the case.

But your father seems to be taking a combination remedy, and using it repeatedly.

That is NOT homeopathy.

You can treat hayfever allergies for good with constitutional prescribing--still using minimum medicine, minimum dosing. There really is no reason to repeatedly take a dose of medicine everytime symptoms come up; if the remedy were actually curative, your father wouldn't need to keep taking it over and over again, anyway.

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Thanks again for the info.
I would agree, constitutional prescribing/treatment can help allergies...vs treating symptoms which is more allopathic or as some call it today, "modern" homeopathy.
I know of a very good Homeopath who uses classical homeopathy in southern Ontario, (name?), in combination with remedies for extraneous symptoms. In other words he uses both approaches with the belief that we are living in more complex times.
Just a thought.
=) Thanks.

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If he uses single remedies to treat the totality and then prescribes remedies allopathically "because we're living in more complex times" (which, by the way, is utter nonsense...all you have to do is read a history book, for pete's sake), then he's no classical homeopath. He sounds like a naturopath with a smattering of training in homeopathy--and more likely, a practitioner of naturopathy plagued by an aggressive polypharmacy salesman who visits now and again to push the more expensively packaged "combos" on his practice. That's all well and good, but it is not homeopathy, and should not be labelled homeopathy.

Classical homeopathic methods are cut and dry, spelled out in black and white in the Organon. Hahnemann worked on that medical textbook for 50 years, revising it at least 6 times during the course of a lifetime of applying and refining the methodology of homeopathy. One thing is clear:

You do not prescribe allopathically.

Another thing Hahnemann made very clear: NEVER, ever, ever, is it necessary to use a combination remedy. In any case. No matter what.Combination remedies are never put through provings, we don't know what they do in the body, therefore we have no idea how they could be employed "homeopathically" as we don't know what they would cause...hence we'd never know what they could cure. Simple and easy.

If its not spelled out in the Organon or in Hahnemann's well described method, its not homeopathy.

[ 31. March 2004, 15:08: Message edited by: Divina ]

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repetations of medicine be prolonged with improvemnt and if cure is felt i will recommend stopping it y cannot take homeopathic medicines on the pattern of allopathic anti allergic

hi can y provide some more detais about PoLANTINUM 30 C