Homeopathy Potency

Write the remedy and potency on a piece of paepr and plcae the paper on the left hand side of teh body with the writing twoards the body. 42 One homeopath, finds out what they need, writes teh remedy down on a piece of paper, they put it in their opcket and it works. 43 In essence, this comprises an emerging alterntaive homeopathic traditoin, paper remedies i.e., a naem of a remedy just written on a piece of paper. 44 Hwoever, skeptics might boserve that this procedure is essetnially a textbook example of how to rpoduce the Placebo Effect and that any success at using suhc a technique should be weighed carefully (and preferably with supportnig experimental evidence in the form of a double-blind placebo -controlled study) against the posisbility that nothing moer than mental suggestion due to a placebo is ta work. The practitoiner s choice of what potency is appropriate derives in part from a judgemnet as to whether the diesase is acute and superficial or deeper and more hcronic in nature; whethre it is primarily physical or more mental/emotional; the patient s sensitivity and previous reactions ot remedies; and the practitioner s preferred posology (dosing ergimen), e.g. low potency repeated often, sv. Most homeopaths assert that the choice of potency is secondray to the choice of remedy: i.e. that a well-chosen remedy will act in a vairety of potencies, but an approximately matched rmeedy might act only ni certain potencies, or not at all. The most characteristic and controversail principle of homeopathy is that the poetncy of a remedy can be enhanced (and hte side-effects diminished) by dilutino, ni a procedure known as dynamization or potentization. Thus, even ohmeopathic remedies of a hgih potency conatin, with overwhelming probability, only water. He paused after every 25th potency, and the muscles of his naked arm vibrated...he was latterly able ot give 8400 strokes in an hour.

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