Homeopathy for self help: Explaining the Law of the Minimum Dose

Explaining the Law of the Minimum Dose

17. September 2009, 14:41 | by There's a remedy for that

PEOPLE OFTEN SAY ... homeopathy? It’s nothing but water! Sadly, this is a widely held view. Homeopathy may be the most misunderstood of all systems of medicine.

One of the most confusing and controversial aspects of homeopathy is the Law of the Minimum Dose. According to this law, the more diluted the homeopathic preparation, the more powerfully it works.

Early in the development of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann experimented with reducing the dose of the substances he was using in order to minimise toxic drug effects. He began to progressively reduce the doses (to infinitesimal dilutions), and he observed that the more dilute the remedy, the more rapid and effective was the patient's healing and return to health.

This is the second principle of homeopathy: the law of minimum dose. Hahnemann discovered that when a substance is diluted in steps with forceful shaking between each dilution, the substance not only retains its therapeutic effect, but it is enhanced, able to cure at a deeper level. Today, homeopathic remedies generally contain few or no pharmacologically active ingredients and are therefore known as energetic substances that produce a certain reaction in the body, or stimulate a certain healing mechanism.

The big controversy about homeopathic medicine is that the more a substance is diluted, the stronger its effect on the body. In fact, in most homeopathic remedies, dilution often continues until no molecules of the original substance remain. Now that we have reached the Third Millennium, we are able to measure an energetic frequency and we now understand that every homeopathic solution of alcohol and water (or its potentised equivalent) resonates at the same frequency as the original substance used to make the remedy.

It is further understood that the human body is AT LEAST 100 times more sensitive to energetic stimulation than it is to chemical stimulation. Homeopathic medicine recognises symptoms as being THE BODY'S healing mechanisms. They are not the illness or disorder, but the very corrective action that the genius body is taking to re-order and heal itself. Therefore, homeopathy seeeks to identify the individual's healing mechanism and select a homeopathic remedy that can stimulate the same healing mechanisms, BUT without harm.