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Disadvantages of LM potency
 

Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Final B.H.M.S
Kharagpur Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital,
Kharagpur, Midnapure.
West Bengal
 

Hahnemann completed the 6th edition of Organon in 1842 while in active practice in Paris, but the same did not see the light of the day till 1921 long after his death in 1843 for various unavoidable reasons. He made many changes in the 6th edition, until but the most important of them are regarding the preparation of homoeopathic medicines in their mother form and subsequent potencies and also their administration in patients.

These valuable changes passed unnoticed for some time and were lying as the hidden treasure of the 6th edition serious studies and diligence of some stalwarts of homoeopathic profession brought it out. But these changes didn’t come all on a sudden; they evolved slowly in course of several years of experiment and observation out of dire necessity.

Even then many advantages are experienced over usefulness of LM potency we should remember some disadvantages too.


Disadvantages

  • Medicines must be administered in liquid form so to prevent the decomposition of water and rectified spirit.
  • Standard quality of phial and cork are essential to preserve the medicinal solution for long time.
  • Repeated administration of a partially indicated medicine may give relief on the chief complaints of the patients but the patient as a whole does not improve as the medicine dose does not cover the fundamental cause and the totality of symptoms.
  • In simple and uncomplicated chronic disease of dynamic pathology it is easier to observe the effect of the medicine by administering a single dose of centesimal potency. But this is not possible with the medicine of 50- millesimal scale of potency.
  • The intricacy of the mode of use of the medicine and regulation of the so-called aggravation, though very mild lead to lack of enthusiasm amongst many of us.
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