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| Hpathy Ezine - April, 2004 | ||||
Homeopathic Potency Selection-- Dr. Manish Bhatia |
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Kent was not only an exponent of medium and high potencies but was also the preceptor of a generation of high potencists. It was because of his students that high potencies came into vogue in England. Kent is still considered the person who has influenced the use of high potencies the most among the homeopathic community. Kent has written: "After 30 years of careful observation and comparison with the use of various potencies, it is possible to lay down the following rules: Every physician should have at command the 30th, 200th, 1M, 10M, 50M, CM, DM, and MM potencies...From the 30th to the 10M will be found those curative powers most useful in very sensitive woman and children. From the 10M to the MM all are useful for ordinary chronic diseases in persons not so sensitive. In acute diseases, the 1M and 10M are most useful. In the sensitive woman and children, it is well to give the 30th and 200th at first, permitting the patient to improve in a general way, after which the 1M (and 10M) may be used in a similar manner. In persons suffering from chronic sickness and not so sensitive, the 10M may first be used, and continued without change so long as improvement lasts; then the 50M will act precisely in the same manner." He further writes: "When the similimum is found, the remedy will act curatively in a series of potencies. If the remedy is only partially similar, it will act in one or two potencies and then the symptoms will change and a new remedy will be required." Nash was also strongly in favor of medium and high potencies. Pulford writes: "Lower potencies simply allay the predisposition (palliation or suppression) …The low curative remedies range from 30X to CC (200th) potencies, especially for acute cases which do not rely on, nor are part of a deep chronic malady. The medium curative remedies range from CC to 10M potencies in subacute cases all of which rest upon some deeper dyscrasia. The higher potencies range from the 10M up for the chronic curable cases." Roberts advises that if the symptoms are very similar, we can go as high as we wish. The less sure we are of our similarity, the lower our potencies. As a rule when there is pathology, medium or high potencies may be dangerous. Sir John Weir, quoting from his 35 years of experience says that low potencies should be used for physical illness, external conditions, skin conditions etc. When mental symptoms are found, high potencies are needed. Constantine Hering says: "If the symptoms of the case generally have more resemblance to the primary symptoms of the drug then lower potencies, on the contrary more resemblance with the later effects (secondary action) thence advocate higher potencies." Fergie Woods states that with sensitive patients, high potencies may aggravate. In cases with organic changes, lower potency is preferred. Particularly in cases of Phos. and Lach., he generally started with 12th only. He also mentions his opinion that the high potencies seem to act for a longer period merely because we give high potencies when we are more sure of the similimum. Yingling, that remarkable homoeopathic obstetrician, writes, "There is no question but that the crude or very low potency will cure when homoeopathic to the diseases condition. Experience teaches and proves this beyond a doubt. But the experience as fully and completely proves and establishes the fact that the high and higher potencies act more promptly and efficiently and will cure cases, especially of chronic diseases, that the crude cannot touch. It is erroneous to suppose that the high potencies excel in the treatment of chronic cases and are not efficient in the acute stages of disease. My experience goes to prove that the high potencies are more reliable and efficient in the acute cases and will abort sickness or restrict it to a few days, whereas the crude would require many days or weeks to accomplish the same." |
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