Bellis Perennis is a common homeopathic
remedy for pain after surgery

Common table salt is used to make
the remedy called Natrum Muriaticum

Potencies

The strength or potency of a homeopathic remedy is designated by a number representing the number of times the tincture is diluted and succussed (shaken vigorously), followed by a Roman numeral that indicates the dilution ratio. For instance, a 30C potency is diluted 1:100 (C is for Centesimal) and succussed 30 times. Although any potency can be ordered, the homeopathic community typically uses readily available potencies such as 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M and 50M.

Remedies are dispensed in
small vials filled with tiny medicated pellets

The LM Potency

Towards the end of his life, Samuel Hahnemann, Homeopathy’s founder, searched for a way to administer remedies for sensitive patients. He developed a new scale of dilution and experimented with administering remedies of this potency in water, taken on a daily basis. Typically we prescribe an LM potency under these circumstances:

• Hypersensitivity
• Deep pathology
• Daily use of conventional drugs
• History of using suppressive drugs
• Experience significant stress which
  could interrupt the action of the remedy

As the solution is diluted, fewer and fewer of the original molecules of the substance remain.

Foxglove or digitalis is a common remedy for heart ailments

Remedies are Energetic

Just as we don’t know the mechanism of action of many pharmaceutical drugs, we still can only hypothesize about the way homeopathic medicines work. It is thought that the energetic frequency of the substance used to make the medicine is stored in the water, even when no physical molecules of the substance exist and that this energy of the remedy affects the electrodynamic field of the body. One theory is that when there is resonance between the remedy and the diseased state, the remedy’s energy balances an energetic disturbance that has disrupted the body’s healing system.

Dry Dose – taken directly under the tongue
Plussed Dose – dissolved in water
LM Dose – a gentler dose taken in water

Comfrey is used for healing broken bones and stomach ulcers

Dry Dose

Pour the pellets directly into your mouth without
touching them and let them dissolve under your tongue. For young children and very sensitive individuals, as well as unconscious or very ill people, the dry dose can be dissolved in water and given with a spoon or medicine dropper: Rinse a clean glass in very hot water and let it cool. In the glass, put 1/4 cup filtered or distilled water, add the pellets, and let them dissolve for 15 minutes. Then give one teaspoon of the mixture.

Plussed Dose

Rinse a clean glass jar and lid in very hot water and let them cool. Measure 1/4 cup of filtered or distilled water and pour it into the jar. Without touching the pellets, place 2 or 3 pellets into the water.
Allow 15 minutes for the pellets to dissolve.
With the lid securely on, pound the bottom of the jar against the palm of your hand the number of times specified in our instructions. Alternately, one can cascade the mixture with a spoon, lifting it up with the spoon and pouring it back into the jar the specified number of times.
Take one teaspoon of the mixture, and either save the remainder for subsequent doses or throw it away if only one dose is prescribed.

For acute illnesses, the plussed dose can be very useful. A disposable water bottle can be used instead of the jar. Follow the above directions, take a dose of the remedy whenever the symptoms return, which can be every several minutes to several times a day. Use your body as your guide, taking the remedy only as needed. When one potency does not give any relief, move to the next higher potency and follow the same directions. Consult us if you are questioning when to move up, or how often to take a dose.

Acute Case of Dental Surgery

18 year old male had his wisdom teeth extracted. He began treatment with the Arnica 1M dissolved in water immediately after the surgery. There was no pain at this time due to the anesthesia used in the surgery. After several hours some pain started, and he took a tsp. of the mixture he had saved. He slept fine that night, and woke in the morning feeling fine, but by 11am, he felt some pain and tenderness. He took another dose of the 1M after pounding the jar on his palm 20 times. This relieved the pain, and he was pain free until the evening. Then again, he took the remedy, but the pain persisted after 1 hour. He moved to the Arnica 10M and took one dose in water. This was the last dose he needed to recover completely from the surgery.

The LM dose is designed for sensitive individuals

LM Dose

Use the following instructions if you are preparing your own bottle.

Preparing your own bottle
• Boil the glass bottle and dropper in filtered water for 15 min. and let it cool completely.
• Fill it just to the neck with filtered or distilled water.
• Without touching the pellet (you can use a wet toothpick), drop 1 pellet into the bottle and let it dissolve. Then follow the directions below.

Taking the remedy
• Before each dose, pound the bottom of the bottle vigorously against the palm of your hand 10 times. This is why you need some space at the top of the bottle. This is called succussion of the remedy.
• Take one dose as directed which may be 10 drops or half a dropper full.

• Camphor, Menthol, and Eucalyptus – Don’t use such things as deep heating rubs, liniments, Tiger Balm, Vicks, BenGay, Campho-phenique, Karmex, Blistex, Halls throat lozenges, Noxzema products, and some Calamine lotions. Carefully read the labels of lip balms, mouthwashes and throat lozenges. Avoid teas that contain menthol. Avoid prolonged breathing of moth ball vapors.
• Coffee – For many, drinking, smelling and preparing coffee is not a problem while on Homeopathy. However, if you are a person who is very sensitive to coffee and have noticed it having dramatic effects on your nervous system, then it could be an antidote, including decaf. It’s best to discuss this with us.

Be sure to let your Homeopath know if you are undergoing dental work

• Dental work
• Emotional or physical trauma
• Pharmaceutical drugs such as antibiotics and steroids. Be sure to let us know in our initial interview what medications you are taking.
• Recreational drugs – marijuana is proven to antidote remedies.
• Tea Tree Oil – read the labels of soaps, shampoos and hand lotions.

Avoid major changes in lifestyle, routine and medications including vitamins and supplements while we are evaluating the action of the remedy. This makes it much easier to determine if changes in your health can be attributed to the remedy rather than the deletion of some food from your diet or a new supplement you’ve added.

When properly prescribed and used, they are nontoxic and safe, even for pregnant women, infants and young children. Unlike allopathic drugs, there are no adverse side effects with homeopathic medicines.

Homeopathic Pharmacies

ABC Homeopathy – abchomeopathy.com
Hahnemann Labs – hahnemannlabs.com
Helios – helios.co.uk
Natural Health Supply – a2zhomeopathy.com
Pharmaca – pharmaca.com
Washington Homeopathic Products – homeopathyworks.com
Homeopathy Overnight – homeopathyovernight.com