Potency, Potentiation in Homeopathy medicines

Dear friends, In my previous posts we have seen about some illness and remedies, precautions etc., Now we will move to homeopathy medicines. This time we are going to deal with some of the basic homeopathy medicines one by one by its name.

We have already seen the system of homeopathy medicines was introduced by Dr. SAMUEL HAHNEMANN and BIOCHEMIC SYSTEM was gifted to humanity by DR. SCHUESSLER. Before reading about basic homeopathy medicines one by one by name, you must understand the potentiation of medicines in other words it can be called power of medicine.

What is potentiation? Let us see in brief

Homeopathic potentiation is a mathematic & mechanical process for reduction. The primary object of potentiation is to reduce all substances designed for therapeutic use to a state of approximately perfect solution or complete ionization. The greater the dilution, the higher is the degree of ionization.

Homeopathy medicines are prepared by serial dilutions. Mother tinctures are diluted and the medicines are prepared by vigorous shaking and forceful striking on an elastic body which is called potentiation process. (refer Wikipedia on the Potentiation process here). It is stated that this dilution and potentiation increases the power of the medicine’s medical effectiveness.

The potencies are noted as 1x,  2x,    3x,  6x,   12x,  30x, 100x,  200x, 1000x  and so on .But normally  3x,  6x,  30x, 100x, 200X are used for normal patients. But for chronic cases even 1000x, 2000x and above can be used according to the condition of the illness. So, one must select the medicine with correct potency to get better results. 

How the potencies of medicine are calculated?

1x = 1/10^th dilution

Please remember all the names of the medicines with its functions can be found in the reference book is called “homeopathic materia medica”

In the next post let us see some more details of potencies and how they are calculated….