This has to do with an animal, but the question is more general with regard to homeopathic potency so I have posted in discussion rather than in pets part.

I'm trying to make sense of the concept that !M and 10M would be stronger than 200C.

My dog took Stramonium 30C. I prescribe that for him myself as a lay homeopathic dabbler, and it seemed to help but not cure. I got a lot of flak for prescribing on my own, so I found a homeovet to consult.

Now his homeovet says to go to 200C Stramonium, but to expect aggravation for a while. that after that we can either go up to 1 or 10 M or start him on something else depending...

Seems to me that 200C is way more dilute and way more succussed than even 10M...thus "stronger". so wouldn't I be better off going to the M potency and if necessary working up to the 200C ?

Given that we are working with rabies miasm, an aggravation is not something I look forward to.

Had I not consulted an "expert", my own inclination would be to go with one dose of Stram 1M, then wait and see for a good long while.

Thanks.

First you have your understanding wrong.
It is confusing to a person new to homeopathy.

The strength gets stronger and stronger the higher the number in homeopathy. They are more and more dilute as you go highter and higher in number but it is also stronger.

Here is how you should be understanding the numbers you mention
200 C(hundred) = 200C
then 1 M(thousand) = is about 1,000 C
and 10 M(thousand) = is about 10,000 C

Make sure the vet is a good homeopath. I do not go higher than 200C with animals. A remedy may keep working for 60 days or even longer.

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Yes, I know that "more dilute" is "stronger" --thought I wrote that, but guess not clearly enough.

My understanding of the dilution process is that:
1X (ten) = 1 drop substance to ten drops dilution material (1 times succussed)
1C(hundred) = 1 drop substance to 100 drops dilution material (1 times succussed)
200C = 1 drop substance to 10 to the 400th power dilution material (200 times succussed)
1M (thousand) = ???? 1 drop substance to 1000 drops dilution material (1 times successed)

OR is it simply a convention to write 1M rather than 1000C and it is in fact _exactly_ the same as a 1000C? (that would be 1 drop substance to 10 to the 2000th power dilution material, 1000 times succussed?) OR???

And then if the latter is the case, at LM does it go back to the regular system of
1LM = 1 drop substance to 50,000 drops dilution material? Because it is hard to believe that Hahnemann could have been carrying out dilutions by hand to the level that would be required if that were to mean the same as 50,000C rather than 50,000 drops dilution material.

Between every stage of dilution the diluted tincture is succussed (shaken vigorously)

Some info at http://www.hpathy.com/pharmacy/

The potencies CM (diluted one hundred thousand times) or MM (one million times) could not be prepared by hand even at the best of will.

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So, Is a 1M potency --millesimal scale--a 1 in 1000 dilution? The link you provided skipped from Centesimal to Fifty-millesimal.

If one is to assume that the in between Millesimal scale works in the same way, then a 1M is a dilution at 1 in 10 to the third power, way less then the dilution of 200C at 1 in 10 to 400th.

Is my question not clear? Seems like this just goes around in circles.

1M diluted one thousand times,
10M diluted ten thousand times

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