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I guess I just need to be directed to the potencies 101 course online to read how to select potencies, since no one here is going to answer my specific questions about baryta carb for growth and frequent illness.Back in the deepest recesses of my mind, I seem to remember reading long ago that lower potencies (x-12c) are for more acute problems and higher and mid range are for more chronic. Also that higher potencies (30c and higher) produce deeper effects and psychological actions, the higher the potency the mor marked this effect. Also, I think I read (more than 20 years ago) that lower potencies are given more often than c and higher. My understanding of treatment is that you give a 30c and wait to see what it brings out before dosing again. Is this correct? Do others have a different understanding and why? Please explain.
Cordial on 2008-01-12
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Hi Cordial
I can clear your doubts. :-)
However, since you are not comfortable with me, which I guess from the tone of a couple of your posts, I am hesitating to give you the required information.
if you are willing to receive inputs from me, I will be glad to be of help.
Murthy
I can clear your doubts. :-)
However, since you are not comfortable with me, which I guess from the tone of a couple of your posts, I am hesitating to give you the required information.
if you are willing to receive inputs from me, I will be glad to be of help.
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
I am interested in your opinion and those of others. I will adress the personal part of your response in another thread.
Cordial last decade
O.K.
Start here and come back if you need any clarifications.
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Murthy
Start here and come back if you need any clarifications.
blank">http://www.hpathy.com/philosophy/bhatia-potency-selection.as...
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
OK frequency? What about sequential dosing? I know there is some disagreement about potency, but I was surprised at so much. It was an interesting read. And then there is an article by D. Little over there that is 180 degrees from what most of the others agree in the previous article.
Cordial last decade
The subject of posology is as contreversial as homeopathy itself.
You seems to be too well read for us to be of any help. :-)
Murthy
You seems to be too well read for us to be of any help. :-)
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
'You seems to be too well read for us to be of any help.'
The problem is that I have not used it so and began reading 20+ years ago. Have read in the past 2 yrs, but only 1 title and have not used it so much except in the past 2 yrs. I need some help from you guys.
The problem is that I have not used it so and began reading 20+ years ago. Have read in the past 2 yrs, but only 1 title and have not used it so much except in the past 2 yrs. I need some help from you guys.
Cordial last decade
Hi Cordial
Perhaps this software may help you to some extant in deciding the potency.
I agree that the subject is too complicated for the uninitiated, and this software is designed as a tool of self help.
Try it out.
http://www.hpathy.com/software/posology/posology-pro.asp
You may not like Hpatyforums , but that shouldn't prevent you from using the excellant information the portal has.
Murthy
Perhaps this software may help you to some extant in deciding the potency.
I agree that the subject is too complicated for the uninitiated, and this software is designed as a tool of self help.
Try it out.
http://www.hpathy.com/software/posology/posology-pro.asp
You may not like Hpatyforums , but that shouldn't prevent you from using the excellant information the portal has.
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
Dear Cordial.
The choice of potency should take many things into account, the constitutional strength of the patient, the nature of the disease, the patients lifestyle etc etc, so there is not really any 'standard' way of making a choice.
As a general rule of thumb though:
1x-12c for acute or purely physical complaints, except where these may be urgent, when a 200c may be given.
12c-30c (dosed less frequently) for acutes of a more long standing nature.
30c-200c for complaints where there is some involvement of the mental processes.
And 200c and above where the condition has good psychological indications, or the patient has responded well to lower potencies.
Of course this is only general, and there are many situations which may call for exceptions, but as a general rule, a 30c-200c is often a good place to start in chronic complaints, and the potency then increased if the patient responds well, and the remedy is still indicated, rather than just steaming in with a 1M, 10M, or higher.
The choice of potency should take many things into account, the constitutional strength of the patient, the nature of the disease, the patients lifestyle etc etc, so there is not really any 'standard' way of making a choice.
As a general rule of thumb though:
1x-12c for acute or purely physical complaints, except where these may be urgent, when a 200c may be given.
12c-30c (dosed less frequently) for acutes of a more long standing nature.
30c-200c for complaints where there is some involvement of the mental processes.
And 200c and above where the condition has good psychological indications, or the patient has responded well to lower potencies.
Of course this is only general, and there are many situations which may call for exceptions, but as a general rule, a 30c-200c is often a good place to start in chronic complaints, and the potency then increased if the patient responds well, and the remedy is still indicated, rather than just steaming in with a 1M, 10M, or higher.
Dr Organon last decade
Organon, this was my understanding also. And that the x - 12 c potencies could be given more frequently, that a 30c and 200c and up , one dose is given and you wait to see what happens.
But in reading that article I see that there is a lot of disagreement and that some homeopaths have divergent views on this.
But in reading that article I see that there is a lot of disagreement and that some homeopaths have divergent views on this.
Cordial last decade
This would be the usual method, yes, but again the individual strength of the patient also needs to be taken into account.
There are many, many views on all manner of aspects relating to Homoeopathy, but this is mainly dependent on whether the writer in question follows the methods of the old masters such as (of course) Hahnemann, Kent, Tyler, Gibson Miller etc, or more contemporary Homoeopaths, which in my experience and opinion, and with few exceptions, are quite often seriously flawed.
There are many, many views on all manner of aspects relating to Homoeopathy, but this is mainly dependent on whether the writer in question follows the methods of the old masters such as (of course) Hahnemann, Kent, Tyler, Gibson Miller etc, or more contemporary Homoeopaths, which in my experience and opinion, and with few exceptions, are quite often seriously flawed.
Dr Organon last decade
Hello Cordial,
There are some meds which don't follow this rule.
Baryta Carb is one...it works more in lower potencies and requires to be repeated...for it to give its benefit.
Opposed to this is Rhus Tox...which gives minimal result if used below 200c potency.
Med like Lachesis...preferably do not give below 200c potency ...coz it is made from snake poision. A lower potency than that has the capacity to start 'proving'.... ofcourse..depending upon the costituiton of the patient.
There are many more.
In the archives you will find many of my comments in reply to patient's questions on this subject.
Ofcourse, it will be a task to find them all.
Pankaj Varma
There are some meds which don't follow this rule.
Baryta Carb is one...it works more in lower potencies and requires to be repeated...for it to give its benefit.
Opposed to this is Rhus Tox...which gives minimal result if used below 200c potency.
Med like Lachesis...preferably do not give below 200c potency ...coz it is made from snake poision. A lower potency than that has the capacity to start 'proving'.... ofcourse..depending upon the costituiton of the patient.
There are many more.
In the archives you will find many of my comments in reply to patient's questions on this subject.
Ofcourse, it will be a task to find them all.
Pankaj Varma
♡ PANKAJ VARMA last decade
Everybody is saying the same thing, that the potency choice depends on one's experience in his practice.
However the software I mentioned tries to minimise the variations, and is a good guide for the beginners.
Murthy
However the software I mentioned tries to minimise the variations, and is a good guide for the beginners.
Murthy
♡ gavinimurthy last decade
I have also almost always seen the beginning dose to be 30c and then 200c if that works, except for acute which is sometimes 6x or 12c, usually.
Cordial last decade
That would be perhaps the most standardised way of prescribing, yes. There are though no specific remedies which work any better or worse in specific potencies, this is a fallacy, the potency simply needs to be matched to the patient and the condition, not the remedy being prescribed, as each case is unique.
Dr Organon last decade
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