Homeopathic Potency and Dose Explained

Are you wondering what homeopathic potency is right for you and your situation? Are you looking for an overview of potency and dosing for a better understanding? 

This is a simple breakdown of potencies and their dosing that you may be prescribed during your consultation, or that you can utilize with your acute home prescribing. I’ve included a link to a printable version as well at the bottom. 

Mother Tincture

The base from which many homeopathic remedies are made. Focus is on the physical body. Useful in physical disease with pathological changes to organs and tissues. Useful in organ support, and organ drainage. Can have nutritional value.

X Potencies

Focus is on the physical body. Useful in physical disease with pathological changes to organs and tissues. Useful in organ support, and organ drainage. Can have nutritional value. Excellent “support” potency.

C Potencies

Focus is on the physical body, the mind, and emotions. Excellent in acute illness, first aid situations, and in chronic illness. More clarity of symptoms is needed in prescribing higher c potencies.

M Potencies

Needs professional supervision and prescribing. Still has an affect on the physical body. More focus on treating the mental emotional symptoms. Can be helpful in acute illness. Often prescribed in chronic illness.

LM Potencies

Really shines in chronic illness. Very gentle. Excellent for use in sensitive individuals. Used daily in water. Hahnemann’s final solution to the question of potency.

 

What Potency?

Still wondering what potency is right for you in your situation? Continue reading for more help deciding.

3X, 6X, 12X

Mostly used as support remedies. Support for organs and tissues, and nutritional support remedies. Lower symptom similarity is needed to prescribe these potencies. Often prescribed daily.

6C, 12C

Dealing mostly on the physical body. Lower symptom similarity is needed to prescribe these potencies. Can be used as organ and tissue support. In acute illness when there are unclear symptoms or symptoms are all physical, used every few hours.

30C

Excellent for use in acute home prescribing. In acute illness it can be used every 3 hours. Most kits for at home use in acute illness are 30c potency. Symptoms are mostly physical with a few mental emotional symptoms.

200C

Excellent in acute illness and first aid situations. In acute illness it can be used 3-4xs per day. In acute illness when there is a marked change in mental emotional state of the person who is ill. Sudden onset of symptoms.

1M

Use under direction and supervision of a homeopath. Serious acute illness with clear symptoms and strong vitality. Chronic issues. Things are moving more from the physical into the mental emotional.

10M

Use under direction and supervision of a homeopath. Serious acute illness with clear symptoms and strong vitality. Traumas, present and past. Chronic issues. The work of releasing and deep healing in chronic illness may be beginning in this potency.

 

Here is a printable version of the above. 

As always when working with a homeopath, refer to your treatment plan or instructions, instead of guessing.

 

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