New experiments


- D. Little,
In the 1839-1840 Paris case journals, we find the appearance of new notations for potencies that are little understood to this day. After the publication of the 1837 edition of the Chronic Diseases, Samuel began a series of pharmacy experiments in which he was searching for a new potency system to complement the centesimals. Reverend Everest, who was a close confidante during Hahnemann's last experiments, witnessed many of these trials. Page 473 of Bradford's Life and Letters of Hahnemann records that on July 30, 1853, the "Times" published a letter from Reverend Everest to a Dr. Luthur in which these experiments are described in detail. I have included most of the letter, since it is both enlightening and of great historical significance. Everest writes:
 "Hahnemann endeavored to find means to administer remedies in such a way that the least possible disturbances compatible with cure should result. To this end he made a great variety of experiments. The first in order was olfaction, and this he adopted in certain cases to the end of his life, I am not aware that he altogether abandoned it. But certain objections caused him to seek for some other means of moderating medicinal action. His next experiment was to dissolve three, two, or one globules in a glass of water, and then, after carefully stirring, to put a dessert or teaspoonful of this into another glass."
 Thus, the Founder first tested olfaction of the remedy rather then the dry dose. Then he began to make medicinal solutions in a glass with 1, 2, or 3 pills, and then stirring a teaspoonful in another dilution glass. These methods date from the early 1830's. Everest continues:
 "He still found, however, that in very delicate constitutions too much excitement was produced even thus, when the medicine was accurately chosen; for if a medicine is not exactly harmonic to the case, its effects are, of course, much less, inasmuch as in that case it acts on a part of the organism not morbifically excited; and this remark will explain why so many practitioners of modern or 'improved Homoeopathy' experience so few cases of aggravation, that is because they give medicines at random, and so do not touch the disturbed nerves at all. The attenuation was sometimes carried through two, three, four, five, and six tumblers; but it was a very inconvenient proceeding, and it had none of the simplicity which Nature's laws generally have. He tried, in its order, the diminution of the number of shakes, but that seemed not to give the accurate result that he wanted."
 Here we can see that Hahnemann is trying to find a method to overcome the aggravations caused by his high potencies through diluting the remedy in two or more glasses by stirring. This method is included in the 6th edition of the Organon for adjusting the dose for hypersensitive constitutions. The Reverend continues:
 "He tried many plans and made many experiments with one or two of which I am acquainted and others I have forgotten, if ever I heard them. At last, however, and the one that gave the most satisfactory results (I believe I may say that he was perfectly satisfied with them) was the plan I now explain.
 Starting from the first spirituous tincture of any medicine which I believe was the third from the commencement (3c), and is, according to the ordinary notation, written "I", instead of adding one drop of this dynamization to one hundred drops of spirit of wine to make the next, and so continuing the dynamization by drops, he moistened a few globules of a fixed normal size with it, and taking in the first experiment, I believe, ten but in the latter and more satisfactory ones only one globule of those so moistened, he dissolved that in a minute drop of water, and then added one hundred drops of spirit of wine. Having shaken it (I forget how much) he moistened globules with this, and having dried them, put them into a tube in his medicine chest, well corked. These he labeled 0/1. The next dynamization was procured by dissolving one globule of 0/1 in a small drop of water, and adding one hundred drops of spirit of wine; with this he humected globules as before and called that dynamization 0/2. "
 This quote offers many clues to the transition potencies witnessed between 1839 and 1840. Hahnemann had two favorite new potencies, one of which was marked 0/1, and the other is marked 00/1. The 00/1 potency may have been made with two pellets at every degree instead of the one pellet used for the LM potency. Our eyewitness has forgotten one stage of the LM potency process, i.e.  that the 3c is mixed with 500 drops of dilute. Then one drop is mixed with 100 drops to make LM 0/1. Please refer to the 6th Organon, aphorism 270, for the complete details.
 After many trials and tribulations, Hahnemann discovered the 1/50,000 dilution in 1840, and created the new LM pharmacy. He had decided that raising the dilution ratio to the LM scale increased the therapeutic range of homoeopathy more then just continuing to raise the potencies of the centesimals. He wrote:
 "This method of dynamization, I have found after many laborious experiments and counter-experiments, to be the most powerful and at the same time (the) mildest in action, as the material part of the medicine is lessened with each dynamization 50,000 times and yet incredibly increased in power."
 The introduction of the LM potency was Hahnemann's last great gift to homoeopathy and was the fruit of his 50 years of research. With this higher dilution ratio he found the means to break the impasse in treating many of his incurable patients. The 1/50,000 dilution ratio complements the 1/100 ratio, as they both possess their own unique remedial qualities. At last, the old doctor was satisfied that he had found his "most perfected method" and had come closer to his goal of a rapid, gentle, and permanent cure.
 Reverend Everest said that Hahnemann "was so entirely satisfied with the gentle and kindly action of these preparations that they would, I think, almost have superseded with him all other preparations." He called the new preparations medicamens au globule (medicine of the globules, the one pill being noted by the "0"). In contrast, the centesimal potencies were marked with a small "x" and were called medicamens a la goultte (medicines of the drop).
 Today, the centesimal potencies are usually used according to Kent's theory of harmonics, in which the potency is raised from lower to the higher in seven radical jumps. For example, if one begins a case at 30C and then observes a relapse, one would give the 200C. If the patient relapses again, then one would give the 1M, followed by the 10M, 50M, CM, and MM, if necessary. In the LM system, the homoeopath uses a series of gradually ascending potencies that starts at LM1 and continues gradually upward through LM2, LM3, LM4, etc. up to LM 30, in a gently ascending arc. The difference in the dilution rates and potency scales of the LM and centesimal potencies makes their remedial actions complementary and quite distinct.
 In contrast to today's continued use of dry doses, the C and LM potencies were used exclusively in the medicinal solution in Hahnemann's final Gestalt. The average medicinal solution is made in a minimum of 7 tablespoons of water [3-1/2 oz]. This aqueous solution is then succussed 1 to 12 times just prior to the administration of the dose. After this, 1, 2, 3, or increasingly more teaspoons are stirred into a dilution glass of water. From this glass, 1, 2, or 3 teaspoons constitutes the average adult dose. This dose may be tuned by adjusting the number of succussions and the amount of the solution, according to the individual's constitutional sensitivity. This transforms the static dry dose into a dynamic solution of which the patient never receives the same dose or potency twice. This remedy can be given as a single or splitdose, depending on circumstances. This work is the Founder's last great gift to suffering humanity, and became the foundation for the 6th Organon of the Healing Art.

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