THE
SINGLE DOSE - it's importance in Classical Homeopathy
Why
the single dose?
It may be difficult
to believe a single dose of a homeopathic medicine can cure
deep seated conditions, especially if we are used to following
allopathic regimes where a pill was to be taken several
times a day for a week or longer. Remember though that in
homeopathy we are only looking for one remedy that is homeopathic
to the whole of the disease in all its manifestations.
So if we have correctly understood the case and have collated
all the pertinant symptoms, then we have the patient's disease
in its totality;
there cannot be two totalities, a totality is either a totality
or it isn't. Therefore
a remedy is either homeopathic to that totality
or it isn't; there cannot be two different remedies that
are equally homeopathic to one totality, so this is the
reason for the single remedy.
Recognising
the pace and intensity of the disease in the individual
patient and wheighing that against their sensitivity
and temperament will ideally give us a potency that is sufficiently
dynamic (strong) to overcome the disease in a single
dose, yet without being so strong as to cause an aggravation.
Giving more than one dose (of a correctly chosen potency)
equates to trying to treat the same totality twice. This
is the reason for the single dose.
Thus a remedy
is truly homeopathic when it overcomes the disease not only
in a single remedy but also in a single dose
Rushed or guesswork prescribing
and mixing remedies in the hope that one of them will help,
proportionally increases the likelihood that the remedy
won't be homeopathic, and is more likely to result in new
symptoms unrelated to the original complaint, than to effect
real cure. This can remove the patient one step further
from cure, where they become disillusioned in in the therapy,
and the homeopath's treatment becomes fragmented. When seeking
the cure for any ailment we must look for symptoms of the
suffering in their entirety, not in part, and prescribe
a homeopathic remedy that covers the totality of
symptoms. Not to do so is to prescribe a remedy that is
not actually homeopathic, and a remedy that is not homeopathic
will not cure.
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