The Pillars of good homeopathic prescribing
- Selecting a Remedy

The final graph will often contain at least 10 or even 20 remedies. Once you are familiar with the colour group that each polychrest belongs to, you will quickly scan your eye across the results and see only one, two or three possibilities. You don't need to look at the other remedies as the patient's face tells you they won't be the best choice. You may want to check the materia medica to further confirm your remedy choice. We often don't do this now as we have chosen remedies that didn't look particularly close in the materia medica but repertorised well and once given proved to be a great remedy for the patient.

A substitute for checking the materia medica is to use the software to do a rubric search for the remedy you are interested in. Having a look at all the rubrics containing that remedy - this can give you some other indications of that remedy that will match your case. It is also a great way to study your remedy.

If a remedy shows in your graph and it hasn't been classified miasmatically but looks a good choice, try it and see. Results with these smaller remedies will allow new remedies to be classified.

Potency Choice (Chronic situations only)

There is much debate about potency choice in homeopathy. We use centessimals in the main simply because they are well represented in our dispensary. Lower potency (6C, 30C) where the patient has pathology that might aggravate or they are very sensitive. These low doses are usually given daily until a solid response is seen (usually within 2-4 weeks). They may be continued where there are no contraindications to their continued use - perhaps for a month or more in some cases. Higher potencies (200C, 1M, 10M) are only ever given in single doses and repeated where they have worked and the patient subsequently slips back.

POTENCY
	Sensitive Allergic	Structural Pathology	Functional Pathology
CHILD	6C	6C or 30C	200C
TEEN	6C or 30C	30C	200C or 1M
ADULT	6C or 30C	30C	200C or 1M
ELDERLY	6C	6C or 30C	200C

DOSE
6C	Daily dose till s&s better	5 or 10 drops daily in ½ glass of water - stir and drink
30C	Daily dose till s&s better	5 or 10 drops daily in ½ glass of water - stir and drink
200C	Single dose	In ½ glass of water - stir and drink
1M	Single dose	In ½ glass of water - stir and drink

ACUTE PRESCRIBING

We run clinics where almost all of our patients suffer with chronic complaints - occasionally we see acute cases but these are not our speciality. We originally debated whether an acute will do better on a miasmatically indicated remedy but have now decided that in a true acute any indicated remedy can be chosen - the same applies for a first aid situation. This reflects our understanding of external and internal cause/contribution. Where an acute cannot resolve itself within a reasonable time it often takes a patient's constitutional remedy (miasmatically determined) to resolve it.

	First Aid	Acute	Chronic
Causative factor	External trauma	External (virus/bacteria/contagion) combined with susceptibility of patient	Internal - even where an external stress has contributed our own body and mind has responded in its own unique way
Case taking	Specific to event	Specific to acute symptoms	Comprehensive including past and present events and symptoms
Causative factor	Specific to event	Specific to acute symptoms	Must be miasmatic to person - measured by analysis of facial features

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