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Theory of Homoeopathic Dosage

The document discusses theories of homeopathic dosage, including that homeopathy deals with drug energy rather than material, and that potentized substances may convey energetic characteristics to their medium. Small doses are necessary to avoid aggravating symptoms, and theories propose potentized substances may have increased surface area or trigger delicate energetic responses in the body.

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Theory of Homoeopathic Dosage

The document discusses theories of homeopathic dosage, including that homeopathy deals with drug energy rather than material, and that potentized substances may convey energetic characteristics to their medium. Small doses are necessary to avoid aggravating symptoms, and theories propose potentized substances may have increased surface area or trigger delicate energetic responses in the body.

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THEORY OF HOMOEOPATHIC DOSAGE

By this, we understand the "smallest dose necessary to accomplish the


desired effect." In practice, this is quite elastic and may call for a single
dose of the thirtieth potency or drop doses of the mother tincture,
depending on considerations which will be taken up under Applies
Homoeopathy.

This small dose of medicine which has been and remains inseparable from
the practice of Homoeopathy has certainly been the greatest stumbling
block encountered against the adoption of this method of Therapeutics. It
is easy to scoff and ridicule that which we cannot comprehend-indeed, this
is a universal human failing.

To one who thinks it becomes apparent that we must have an all-important


reason for such dosage, since it would progress a cause nothing to stress
that which antagonizes investigators.

The reason is vital. Unless we do use dilutions or their equivalent in our


practice, our results are mediocre and often entirely nil.

Appreciation of this fact should come in subsequent paragraphs.

In the first place, it should be clearly understood that Homoeopathic


posology was a pure matter of growth and experiment.

No one, not even Hahnemann, conceived the idea of using attenuated


drugs out of a clear sky.

It was no theoretical inspiration or abstract conception but followed as a


natural development from the principle of similars.

This must be so, for how could we give a large dose of, say Ipecac., to
stop vomiting? It would aggravate it a hundred-fold.

Great doses of that drug cause vomiting but only small doses relieve it.

Hahnemann first used medicines in the ordinary dosage but, when he


started to prescribe according to Similars, aggravations followed in most
cases.
Hence, the necessity for using minimum doses which practice has been
abundantly confirmed ever since.

We shall try to take up a number of explanations regarding the "why" and


"how" of potencies here-since it is the one problem that baffles the
materially-minded investigator.

One of the usual explanations of the power of Homoeopathic potencies


lies in surface development.

The most important is the particular sensitiveness of disease already


spoken about.

There are others which will be briefly mentioned-elective affinity, "trigger


response," activator effect.

Surface development has become well understood with the advance of


Colloidal Chemistry.

A changed physical state gives a substance energy to react, to affect


tissues, to adsorb and absorb.

This is accomplished by subdivision.

Thus a crude example is the difference in effect between metallic mercury


and grey powder.

If a quantity of quicksilver were swallowed, nothing of much importance


would follow, but if the same quantity were rubbed up with chalk (grey
powder) and swallowed, serious results would ensue.

This is because the difference in the physical state (sub divisions) greatly
energizes the physiologic reaction.

Whatever type reaction this might be, another illustration often used is this:
a long of wood has a certain surface but, if it were turned into sawdust, the
surface of each flake added together would greatly exceed the original
area.

On theoretical grounds the whole theory of dosage, as pointed out by Von


Grauvogl, is unsound.
Thus, the apothecary's weight is the measure and drugs are given in
grains, drachms, and ounces and so on.

This unit does not exit, however, in the organism.

It is composed of cells, molecules and atoms and possibly electrons as the


ultimate.

It follows that the apothecary's weight cannot be that unit with which the
organism is to be treated, since we have to consider the dose not as
regards the magnitude of weight but as regards the magnitude of measure.

If one would measure a body then the measure thereof must be of the
same nature as the body to be measured, length by length, plane by
plane, bodies by bodies.

Theoretically, then we can really use nothing but molecular substances,


atoms, etc., which have been previously tried on the body and their dose
determined.

If we knew the molecular or atomic content of the grains of drugs that we


use, all would be well, but we do not.

Such practice, of course, is not practical from our present physiological


knowledge but we simply mention it to emphasize the fallacy of a method
which is used to determine the dosage of living organisms.

A fundamental conception that is necessary for most of us to appreciate in


order to given credence to our Homoeopathic potencies is this:

The Homoeopath deals with drug energy, not with drug material.

So far only the living body, man or animal, is capable of reacting to this
energy.

It is not measurable by any instrument of precision as yet invented, though


work is being done in this line.

Mathematically, the thirtieth potency is quite beyond our comprehension


as far as we can conceive actual mass of drug present.

There is most certainly no medicine of a material nature in this preparation,


but this does not mean that there is no medicinal energy in the
preparation.

We know that there is no energy in a piece of soft iron but contact with a
permanent magnet immediately imparts this piece of iron with such
potential energy as to be readily demonstrable.

Something analogous to this must happen in the process of potentising or


trituration.

The actual medicinal mass grows less and less certainly but presumably
the energy from the original substance by virtue of this subdivision and
agitation conveys its characteristics to the mentruum (alcohol-sugar).

The energy of the specific drug is super-imposed on the adjacent


menstruum and, as energy per se is indestructible, it follows that this
process may be carried through very many permutations.

It is pertinent here also, in order to further justify our Homoeopathic


position, to ask this question: How do drugs bring about an effect? Just
where is the contact and how taken up? Why are Isomers so different in
their action? They are the same chemically and, as far as we know, one is
a deadly poison and the other may be quite innocuous.

The first question is not answered by saying that, for instance, Digitalis
acts through the Vagus or that Srtychnia calls forth increased adrenalin
secretion.

This is but dodging the question and does not go down to fundamentals,
for we ask simply why and how does it do this?

Recently we have come more and more to think of living cells in terms of
electrons, those being the ultimate matrix from which all substances, living
and dead, are made up.

If this be true, certainly we can readily conceive that to effect changes in


equilibrium one would do well to use delicate and attenuated energy-such
energy as would be present in our Homoeopathic potencies, for instance.

Even if the original impulse were of the smallest, this might set other
influences at work and the process would gain momentum and, perhaps,
the whole metabolism of the body eventually (being an orderly set of
changes according to Physiologic and natural laws) would be modified.

This is known as "trigger response."

Another point which is often raised by students is this: Since Homoeopathy


employs minute doses of chemicals as medicine and these same
chemicals are found in the food every day, how is it that there is any
medicinal value in such preparations? In the first place, these salts can
only be recognized and isolated after drastic reagents, chemical and
physical, are used.

Often the substance to be analyzed is first reduced to ash.

It is extremely doubtful whether the body reduces any radical into its
elements-that is, because a food may contain phosphorus does not mean
that that phosphorus is active alone.

The Homoeopathic drug, Phosphorus, does act alone.

Also, a Homoeopathic remedy is absorbed in the mucous membrane of


the oral cavity almost entirely and food goes into the stomach.

In the process of digestion, elements of organic combinations are used


only according to laws of digestion and are assimilated according to laws
of nutrition.

Another influence which may have a bearing on the activity of minute


dosage is the so-called activation effect.

A small dose may release a body secretion-adrenalin, bile, ferments, etc.

And then later become responsible for very obvious changes which are
not, strictly speaking, effects of the original small dose of the drug-only
indirectly.

However interesting these lead us into a maze of effects and counter


effects which cannot be further followed here.

Lastly, there is the tissue proclivity or elective affinity of a drug already


spoken about.

This phenomenon very likely acts as a sort of accumulative process.


Thus, Mercury has an attraction for syphilitic tissue.

Small doses of mercury given to the body become large doses when they
are all collected (attracted) in the same spot.

In one case of syphilitic aortitis, metallic Mercury was found in a puddle in


the cavity of the thorax on autopsy.

This was evidently an accumulative effect which had been collecting there
in the many years of mercurial treatment.

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