Hi everyone,
In the Materia Medica by the author Boericke, it said not to give Phosphorus in very low or too continuous doses, does anyone know why? Thx

One reason would be the potential bleeding tendencies associated with phosphorus.

I can understand why not in too continuous doses but I don't know why not in very low doses, isn't that safer than high doses? and very low would be like 6?

Phosphorous is a poison in material doses. It is a general caution not to give any poisonous material in low potencies.other examples are Ars,Lachesis,Naja etc..

Anything less than 30 is considered a low potency.

Murthy

The lower potencies tend to act more like physiological doses. You may aggravate the patient, rather than curing.

The higher you go, the power of the medicine is enhanced and the ability of the medicine to heal becomes better. However, the vitality of the patient is to be kept in view, while giving higher potencies.

If you are sure the patient needs Phosphorous, better not to go lower than 200, give it in split doses, don't repeat unnecessarily, and wait for the reaction.

Murthy

The Pathology needs to be considered. As Michael says, there is a bleeding tendency in Phos which is also an importnat characteristic indication.
A person who has a pathology that will cause bleeding, the low potency will have a proving effect and result in bleeding.

In one of my patients' who was on Phos Lm3 - which is constitutional - she missed a periods after continuing wiht Phos on regular LM doses. She always was regular before though her chief complaint was completely better.
ON stopping the regular dosing - her periods appeared after a week, a 3 week delay. This is not explained physiologically (hormonally) in the normal menstrual cycle, and the only reason was that she had a proving of HIGH potency Phos - which resulted in suppression of bleeding rather than increasing bleeding.

This are clinical observations of high and low potency effects. IF you read HEpar SUlph too - HEpar SUlph in 30C and lower potencies promotes suppuration, where as HEpar SUlph in HIgh potencies 200C and above abort suppuration. So depending on the clinical effect required, the potency needs to be chosen.

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Hi Sufferer,
No hard and fast rule about what is low and high - it depends on the "susceptiblity" as in 'reactivity' of the patient.

OF course as Murthy stated - poisons cannot be used in Mother tincture.
But 3C, 3X and above have adequate potentization and adequate dilution not to be poisonous. See Beoricke's use of low potencies.

YEs single dose 30C should not have any proving unless someone was extremely sensitive.

"Bleeding" tendency means that there is a tendency of any body dischage to contain blood.
dr. leela

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Would anyone know what phosphorus treats regarding the eye? as I'm confused and unclear with my homeopath's suggestion of a separate remedy for that and I doubt he's talking about the eye sight.

Dear Suff. Your homeopath should know the answers to all these questions we are not your homeopath we dont know the full case/details.(full case takes aprox 1-2 hours) Has the case been done via the miasmatic constitutional makeup? or just taken as an acute case (aprox 15-30min) And taking the correct potency should of been prescribed via your homeopath,you cannot self prescribe. Not only is the correct remedy needed but the correct potency for the healing to begin. With this in mnd there are thousands of possible choices ..................gina tyler

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