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Sam Needleman
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The administration of substances in their material form could produce adverse side-effects and bad aggravations so Hahnemann experimented with giving materials that had been diluted.
He found that the more he diluted a substance, the more potent it became. Hahnemann then developed the system of what he called potentisation, which is known as the "Law of the minimum dose."
Potentisation, the method of producing potencies in a recognisable standard strength, was done as follows. From the original mother tincture of liquid which he intended to potentise, one drop was taken and diluted with ten drops of alcohol or distilled water, and then succussed (shaken vigorously). This achieved what was called the Ix or decimal potency.
When a drop of the Ix solution is similarly diluted and succussed again, it becomes the 2x. Repeated, this becomes the 3x and so on.
There is another scale of dilution, known as the centisimal scale. In this the drug is diluted to one part in a hundred each time it is diluted and succussed.
After dilutions to the 6x potency, chemical substances can no longer be detected by ordinary chemical or physical means. Yet with increasing dilution and succussion greater therapeutic effects are observed.
The 30c potency is commonly used, a dilution of one over ten to the power of sixty. There is also the milesimal scale, known as
the M potency, which has dilutions of one in a thousand. It does not take much imagination to see how little of the original substance remains. Nevertheless, homoeopaths know that these high potencies work extremely well, believing that the dilutient substance - water, alcohol or a mixture of both - contains a memory of the original substance.Critics seize upon the method of potentisation to attack homoeopathy, claiming that the medicines (or remedies, as they are usually called) contain nothing but water or alcohol, and that cures are merely a placebo effect. We should not be sidetracked by what I consider a red herring by opponents of homoeopathy. Potentisation is not homoeopathy. It is a method of administering homoeopathic medicines. The homoeopathic medicines must be selected on the fundamental law and principle of homoeopathy that "Like cures like," irrespective of strength, dilution or potentisation.
It is not how much power or strength a substance contains, but how much it can liberate. A spark is gone in a flash. In itself it contains little energy. Yet in the right circumstances and conditions, such as within a petrol storage plant, it can cause an immense explosion. An atom is so infinitesimal, yet we know the devastation it can cause by the power and energy it liberates. When animals are injected or fed with antibiotics and/or hormones to alter or increase their growth patterns and yields, is there the possibility that these drugs are potentised within the creatures so that when we consume their products, such as milk, meat, cheese or eggs, we are also taking in potentised drugs?