{"id":55965,"date":"2022-08-10T05:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeobook.com\/?p=55965"},"modified":"2022-08-10T05:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:43:21","slug":"kents-guidelines-to-the-selection-of-potency-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeobook.com\/kents-guidelines-to-the-selection-of-potency-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent\u2019s guidelines for the selection of potency: A review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sweta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Homoeopathy is a therapeutic science based on the law of similars as a law of selection. According to homoeopathy, a drug that might cause similar symptoms in the healthy should be used for treatment.<\/p>\n

Except for anything with qualities akin to the vital energy, vital disorder cannot be transformed into order. What must be sought for is similarity in quality, power, and plane. Medicines, as a result, cannot have an impact on the high and interior planes of the physical economy unless they are raised to the plane of quality similarity. Medicines must be potentized to match the severity of the patient’s illness in order to act curatively, or in a way to restore health and eliminate sickness.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Any doctor’s list of failed cases will be remarkably short if they carefully observe all of the patient’s symptoms, identify all of the obstructions, and then carefully compare all of the symptoms of the illness with the symptoms of the homoeopathic Materia medica, and knows how to select the potency, how to administer it, and when not to give it.<\/p>\n

What is the best potency for a given case and what is the potency that is best for habitual use?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no single potency that can suit the demands placed on it by the diseases of different individuals. There is a great deal of variation across tinctures and CMs, and selecting the ideal potency is a question of experience<\/em> and observation<\/em>, rather than a matter of law.<\/p>\n

Individualization in regard to potencies enable us to cure cases as it furnishes it with the element of accuracy and success. Some patients are extremely sensitive to the highest potencies and are cured permanently and mildly by using the 200th or 1000th. There are other individuals who are shattered to pieces by the usage of the highest potencies. There is no single potency that can meet the demands placed on it by the ailments of different people.<\/p>\n

The nature of the disease then makes a difference; patients with heart disease or phthisis are more likely to have their sufferings intensified and their death prolonged by the highest potencies; they fare better under the 30th or 200th.<\/p>\n

After thirty years of thorough observation and comparison with the various potencies, the following rules can be established:<\/p>\n