ONLY THE SECOND DOSE IS THE PERFECT SIMILIMUM

ONLY THE SECOND DOSE IS THE PERFECT SIMILIMUM

By Dr. M. A. Usmani

(Author: HOMEOPATHY Of TOMORROW & STORY of HOMEOPATHY)

This article, written some two months ago, is being published, after giving it a sufficient time for its logico-critical evaluation, and finding it sound and promisingly practicable.  

ONLY THE SECOND DOSE IS THE PERFECT SIMILIMUM

Dr. M. A. Usmani

(Author: HOMEOPATHY Of TOMORROW & STORY of HOMEOPATHY)

One of the perennial problems of homeopathy is ‘how homeopathic remedies work and how they bring about cure?’ I discussed this issue in my book: HOMEOPATHY of TOMORROW. Cf. Chapters 18 and 19.

               Ch. 18: The concept of medicine and what is homeopathic Medicine?

               Ch. 19: How Homeopathy cures Diseases?

In this article I’m tentatively putting forward a hypothesis, viz.: ‘Only the second dose of the same remedy gives you the perfect ‘similimum’. To understand this one must know as to how homeopathic medicine works. This I explained in Ch. 19 of the referred book. For understanding this we should conceive a very sensitive patient who does not tolerate homeopathic medicine higher than certain potency without falling victim to experiencing more or less the proving symptoms of the materia medica of that drug. Professor Kent has discussed such patients in his Lectures and how to handle them. He perhaps advised to limit yourself to 200 potency, at the most, in such cases. This phenomenon occurs, otherwise, routinely in every case when a homeopathic potency is administrated; only the sensitive patients suffer thereby if the potency is higher than their tolerance threshold. Hahnemann even warned (Aphorism 50) against using nosodes, because, according to him, this ‘nosologic’ medicine will create more serious affections than the disease one is attempting to cure. Such high potencies get clamped, so to say, over the sick constitution of the patient. The patient starts evincing the remaining symptoms of the drug that were not originally the part of his anamnesis.

Let us suppose you have a patient whose case you’ve taken and recorded some 50 symptoms, and on repertorising you found that Sulphur gained the maximum score, say, 40 symptoms, which means 80{2199fd5a08fd4327006de97eb55639ae209b35f77d7fcf7e4d124ba1edc48180}. On this basis you prescribed Sulphur 200. Thus sulphur is slapped on a case that is 80{2199fd5a08fd4327006de97eb55639ae209b35f77d7fcf7e4d124ba1edc48180} sulphur. This vigorous dose of the drug engulfs the whole case by, so to say, filling in the blanks. Thus, making the case 100{2199fd5a08fd4327006de97eb55639ae209b35f77d7fcf7e4d124ba1edc48180} sulphur. Hahnemann says that no disease is stronger than the homeopathic dose. So whenever you give a partially, but maximally, similar dose it supplants itself on the case, and makes it its own facsimile by filling in the blanks. For the time being it makes the case fully similar to itself by inundating the whole case by dint of its forceful action.

Now this case becomes 100{2199fd5a08fd4327006de97eb55639ae209b35f77d7fcf7e4d124ba1edc48180} Sulphur raised to the power 200 in potency. Evidently this case now calls for sulphur raised to the next power, i.e. 1M, as a natural homeopathic remedy.   

Let’s explain it points-wise:

• The first dose acts as a ‘filler in the blanks’; thereby making the case ‘more sulphur-like’ than it originally was.
• It sets the case ‘cure-ward’ in those symptoms or areas to which it was similar (80{2199fd5a08fd4327006de97eb55639ae209b35f77d7fcf7e4d124ba1edc48180}), and sets to act as a ‘filler in the blanks’ in those areas which were existentially lacking in the patient (20{2199fd5a08fd4327006de97eb55639ae209b35f77d7fcf7e4d124ba1edc48180}), by starting, so to say, to germinate those symptoms in the patient anew —meaning, by satisfying and enriching the idiosyncrasy of the patient and his disease.
• In this way the first dose makes the case, at hand, a perfect case of that remedy, and giving the second dose, in the next higher step, satisfies the idiosyncrasy thus created, making it the perfect similimum that sweeps the whole being of the patient.
• So the second higher dose should be made mandatory, and should be supplied routinely within next few hours.
• My way of doing it is to start with the potency one step lower than the intended or targeted. That is, if I have decided to give 1M, I’ll give first 200th then, within few hours, 1M; if the targeted potency is 10M, I’ll start with 1M.  
• When the occasion comes for reconsidering the case, after many weeks or months, I first assess whether the same remedy is still indicated, if so, I give, or repeat the last potency given, and then, after one hour or so, give the next higher in order.
• One has seen many times that a sufficiently high potency have to be repeated within few hours as one finds that the first dose was loosening its hold on the case. But one feels that this should have been done, routinely, and always.
• The first dose has taken possession of the sick principle (thus stimulating and invigorating the already struggling immune system) and has supplanted or superimposed itself raising the similarity to perfection with the drug disease. So, it means that the patient’s symptoms are fortified, making the case a perfect replica of the sick personality, as is laid down in the Materia Medica. Now the next and higher dose of the same remedy will act as the perfect similimum, and by dint of being more forceful and vigorous, will sweep away (or antidote) the whole morbid phenomena.
• After giving the first similar dose, in the example above quoted, the patient is made more sulphur than he originally was, for the time being. We can say that, for the time being his fortified disease now stands at a level (200 potency), and the next higher potency will be his naturally following medicine, and will be more comprehensive and all embracing for annihilating the whole sick phenomenon—thus restoring health, without, perhaps, giving unnecessary aggravation.