The potentized dose: dynamic origin of diseases

Hahnemann will learn by experience that the patient is hypersensitive to the drug prescribed and that drug response can be violent. The goal of homeopathy is to prescribe the minimum necessary, while the goal of classical medicine is to prescribe the maximum tolerated (Dr. P. Schmidt).

So, Hahnemann will juggle with quantities so as to avoid such reactions as much as possible. He will first dilute to one-tenth, than to one-hundredth, than to one-fifty thousandth. This remarkable chemist (he worked with Lavoisier) will write that “experience shows that, despite very high dilutions of the active substance, initial aggravation of the disease remains followed by the curative effect”.

He will call dynamisation the process consisting in shaking vigorously and diluting progressively the substances, so as to give them new properties. Paradoxally, the drug acts more rapidly, deeper, and longer on the organism with a significant dynamisation.

Observations made for more than two centuries now by practitioners from all over the world lead us to the conclusion, just like the vitalist Hahnemann, that “the origin of the unpleasant phenomena we have called diseases is only based on vital force “derangements””. In other words, raw matter undergoes a transformation during the homeopathic preparation that gives it properties probably linked to the vibratory domain. A dynamic remedy only will be able to affect the vital force, which is responsible for diseases when affected. Homeopathy proves that the effect of chemical drugs can be – at best - only palliative.