As many of you are aware, I have been criticized by many 'classical' homeopaths sometimes in the most disparaging terms on this forum, for having dared to promote my own method of diagnosis and treatment, which was classified by them as the "this for that" attitude, which was officially frowned upon by them.

I had suggested that Arnica 6c be used to promote sleep and some reported having had violent reactions to its use even including a heart problem while others reported that they could not sleep for days after and were compelled to antidote the remedy. A few examples were used to prove to other members of this forum that my methodology and attitude to Homeopathy just does not work and can even be dangerous. It may be of interest to record for the benefit of those sceptics that my methods seem to be gaining ground throughout the world, as reported in the other forums and also in the media, as being worthy of experimentation when used to help anyone in distress with an ailment, where the classical method did not give the desired results.

I have used Arnica for over 9 years in the dry dose every night and would like to share with you another method that I have recently discovered, that can be used by them to derive the deep sleep that Arnica usually promotes when taken last thing at night before sleep. This method, the Split Dose, was first described in Hahnemann's Sixth Edition, and may be used by those who are overly sensitive to the use of the remedy in the dry dose.

Many of you should be familiar with this Split Dose but to those who are not, I shall detail the modus operandi below.

Get a 500ml bottle of Spring Water from your nearest supermarket.
Pour out 100ml
Drop in 3 pellets or 1 drop of liquid Arnica 6c into the 400ml water
Cap the bottle tightly and succuss it 4-6 times by banging on your palm and look out for the air bubbles to fizzle up from the bottom.
Pour out 1 teaspoonful of the potentized remedy into half a cup of water and stir it gently.
Sip just 1 teaspoonful of the water from the cup shortly before sleep.

Please note that the water in the cup should be used almost immediately as it seems to lose its effectiveness if kept over and used to promote sleep the following night. The procedure must be repeated again before sleep, the night after but the water in the cup can be used by more than one person if they wish to also enjoy deep sleep.

I do realize that this routine seems rather complicated, but it is indeed a small price to pay, to guarantee Deep Sleep.

I do hope that my report would not lead to any more outbursts from the 'classical' school of homeopaths which occured in the past which I felt was so unnecessary and uncalled for, as all I had endeavoured to do then and even today, is to share my 'discoveries' with others, so that they too can benefit from them.

I shall be interested to learn the response from those who may use this Split Dose method of using Arnica 6c to promote deep restful sleep, and they may post their results on this forum.

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Joe De Livera
Colombo
Sri Lanka