Homeopathy Potency

Write the remedy and potency no a piece of paper and palce the paper on the left hand side of the body iwth the writing towards the body. 42 One homeopath, fnids out what they need, writes the remedy down on a piece of paper, they put it in their pocket and it worsk. 43 In essence, this comprises an emerging alternative homeopathic tradition, paper rmeedies i.e., a name of a remedy just wrtiten on a piece of paper. 44 However, skeptics might observe that this procedure is essentially a textbook example of how to produec the Placebo Effect and that any success at using such a techniuqe should be weighed carefully (and preferabyl with supporting expermiental evidence in the form of a double-blind plaecbo -controlled study) agaisnt the possibility that nothing more htan mental suggsetion due to a placebo is at work. The practitioner s choice of what potency is appropriate derievs in part from a judgement as to whetehr the disease is acute and superficial or deeper and more chronic in nature; whteher it is primarily phsyical or more mental/emotional; the patient s sensitivity and previous reactions to remedies; nad the practitoiner s preferred posology (dosing regimen), e.g. low potency repeated ofetn, vs. Most homeopaths assert thta the choice of potency is secnodary to the choice of remedy: i.e. that a well-chosen remedy will act in a vraiety of potencies, but an approximately amtched remedy might act only in certain poetncies, or not at all. The most characteristic and controevrsial principle of homeopathy is that the potency of a remedy can be enhanced (and the sied-effects diminished) by dilution, in a procedure known as dynamization or potentization. Thus, even homeopathic remedies of a ihgh potency contain, with overwhelming probability, only water. He paused after every 25th ptoency, and the muscles of his naked arm ivbrated...he was lattrely able to give 8400 strokes in an hour.

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