Homeopathic Remedy dosage, Determining the proper dose

 

Selection of potency

 Homeopathic medicines are available in a full range of strengths or potencies from 1X  to CM.

For practical purposes, the range of potencies used by consumers is from a 3X to 30C. For ease of use, we can call 3X and 6X "low potencies" and 30C, 200C, 1M, CM etc. "high potencies". The selection of potencies can be done according to an easy rule of thumb. The more certain that one is that the correct remedy has been selected, the higher the potency that should be used.

Select the remedy that most closely matches the symptoms. In conditions where self-treatment is appropriate, unless otherwise directed by a physician, a lower potency 6X to12X or not a very high potency 30C should be used. Usually 5 to 10 drops in very little water is enough as a dose. If you are taking remedies in pallets form then same amount of pallets (5 to 10) are enough as a dose. 

Repetition of the dose

The higher the potency, the less frequently one should repeat the dose. Conversely, lower potencies can be repeated more frequently. If one chooses a 30c, normal repetition should be about four times per day. With a 6X, repetition can be as much as every 2-4 hours. This simple formula is influenced by the vigor of the symptoms before intervention. If the case is acute, a high fever, trauma, intense pain and' the like, a high probability of remedy choice is likely and thus a higher potency. In this case, however, one will repeat frequently in the beginning of the treatment, as much as every 10 - 15 minutes for the first l - 2 hours in the case of acute symptoms or trauma.

Change or termination of treatment

Since homeopathy works by catalyzing the body's ability to heal itself, stimulating the body's own auto regulatory or immune response mechanism if you will, the rapidity of action of the medicine will be proportionate to the intensity of symptoms prior to the dose. If the symptoms get markedly more intense, they simply are more vigorous or intense, cease the treatment as the body has responded and is actively healing itself. Likewise if the symptoms get markedly better, or abate, treatment can be ceased. 

There are times when you have to change a remedy because it did not produce desired effects.. A simple rule to follow in this case is the more vigorous the body is producing symptoms prior to the intervention or administration of the remedy, the more quickly the body should react to the correct remedy.  Similarly, if the body is not producing vigorous symptoms, or the symptoms are chronic, having been present for quite a long time, one can expect that the remedy will take much longer to act.  In any case, the principles of symptoms getting better or worse will be the key that the remedy has acted.

In some cases, the remedy will act successfully but instead of the symptoms completely abating, they change. If this is the case, the body is still attempting to heal itself and a new remedy should be chosen based on the new symptoms that have appeared.