Paandurangan
Potency decides the time and speed of action of the medicine. When give second prescription, old medicine may act at the same time with new one, which leads to ambuguity if outcome of result is due to first medicine.
	dr. sudhir chauhan
as there is no change in symptomatology it indicates that we r at right path that means the progress of disease is stopped . therefore in follow up we should repscribe that medicine in same potency.
	dr. sudhir chauhan
as there is no change in symptomatologyit indicates that we r at right path that means the progress of disease is stopped . therefore in follow ug ew should repscribe that medicine in same potency.
	Julia Siddall
Depends on the remedy and its 'length' and 'depth' of action. Boericke has estimated durations which are good guidelines to the action of a remedy. A remedy is an artificial dynamis and will only act if it resonates with the dynamis it is given to. I have not been practicing very long so do not know if believe that a remedy can suppress.
	Dr. Vikram Singh
Any medicinal substance is charactrised to produce the sympyoms similar to disease,if applied in crude form and sme medicinal substance in potentised form can cure the same. If no change occured,it is either not well selected medicine or no medicine.
	Sangeetha
If you wait a reasonable time after a remedy and nothing happens and your case is still the same, you can represcribe and the correct remedy will act regardless of your first prescription.
	Ratina
My vote is "D" : it doesn't matter. If the first remedy has not worked for a resonable period, it confirms that the remedy selection was not correct. As the remedies have no side effects, the wrong remedy simply has worked its way out during the resonabale time, that we waited. It will have no effect when the new remedy starts working. The "reasonable time" may be different for different remedies, for different potencies, for mother tincure, for nosodes, for anti miasmatic remedies etc. which can only be defined and determined by clinical expereinces.
	Snoopy
If you start your chronic cases with LM/1 or a suitable lower C potency, there's the expectation that these potencies do not last long, which is why they have to be repeated so often. However, even in acute cases, it is not unusual, while trying to stop a diarrhea, for example, that you'll try a number of remedies before hitting on the right one, and the right one always seems to work, regardless of how many preceeded it! So, you have to wonder what it means that a remedy is "in there". It can be "there" in a positive way (as an immunization/prophylactic), a negative way (aggravation/proving) or a neutral way (wrong remedy does nothing). My conclusion would be: 1. Don't take unnecessarily high potencies when a lower one would easily have done (for instance, starting a chronic case off with a CM is just ridiculous!). 2. If you've taken a bunch of remedies but your case hasn't changed, then you might as well have taken no remedies. 3. If you've taken a remedy and it's causing a problem, you have to antidote it, and thanks to Diane Fuller, we now know how! (See her interview in the Nov. 04 ezine). 4. Should you put your case on hold because you've "taken lots of remedies"? That would be what we call "treating a ghost", which we don't do. We don't treat imaginary problems. If there's nothing wrong, there's nothing wrong. If the case hasn't changed, then it's still the same case. My best advice is to stay away from the high potencies unless you have a severe acute, which will eat the potency right up and you should have nothing to worry about. I can tell you an incident: My homeopath was convinced my husband needed plumbum. So when 200C didn't work, he gave 1M. And when 1M did nothing he gave 10M and so on. That was really not smart. Weeks or months later my husband's condition got worse. I said, "That's that remedy!" It took that long to act--as an aggravation! (no amel. followed.) You can see how reckless this kind of prescribing is. Stick with LM's. Get to know them. Read Luc De Schepper's books: Hahnemann Revisited and Achieving the Simillimum so you can learn safe and effective prescribing. Snoopy
	Dr Baba
Homoeopathic remedies are selected on the basis of disease picture which includes the disease manifestations and durgs outcome as well, therefore the well selected remedy is sufficient to counter the whole syndrome.
	Dr Frank Okeke
Option d is a bit close to what I have to say. In our organon this thorny issue was well explained by Hahnemann #158-173. From my experience when a wrong drug is given in acute case,it could be antidoted if its symptoms are manifest otherwise the right drug is given without delay. In chronic cases,if no curative effect is seen after some days the case is re-studied and a simillimum given.If there is an aggravation from the last prescription the drug is discontinued and antidoted if it's lifethreatening or else allowed to dissipate its energy.