Potentised Preparations: Explanations

• Potentised Preparations: Explanations
  • Sources That Are Drawn On
  • Latin Names of Preparations
  • Some Central Terms

Potentised Preparations: Explanations

Sources That Are Drawn On

Sources used and referred to:

(B)

in the text refers to Boericke. It stands for William Boericke's part of William and Oscar Boericke: Homeopathic Materia Medica. 9th ed. Philadelphia: Boericke and Runyon, 1927.
      Boericke is a main reference to mental and physical complaints. Thus, where descriptions leave out references, Boericke is most likely the source. Check the bottom of a page to get sure of it.

(C)

refers to John Henry Clarke, MD: A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. 3 vols. London: The Homeopathic Publishing Company. London, 1900 (vol 1) and 1902 (vols 2 and 3). -- Clarkes Dictionary serves as an extra supply of information.

(K) and /

refers to findings of Tormod Kinnes, radionic investigator, collaborator with Malcolm Rae of London in the late 1970s.
      Descriptions not found in Boericke or Clarke are by Tormod Kinnes, most often. There is a note about it near the bottom of a page, when it happens.

Latin Names of Preparations

Latin Names Most Often

Most of the preparations or concoctions referred to, have Latin names (in italics), as is the custom - and are listed according to their Latin names. Common names are added, and not put in italics.
      Added to the names are several markers. First, a "rising sun" in the headline serves to mark Bach flower essences and similar "delicacies". Moreover, such products have violet names and an added boldface B in the headline, and Dr Bach's remedies among the socalled essences are put in italics. Gem preparations - there are 34 of them listed - are marked by a separate colour and the letter G.

Some Central Terms

Potentised, Potency

In homeopathy the word 'potency' is a measure of how diluted and shaken a substance is: The basic process is: Some substance is diluted with alcohol or water and then vigorously shaken by eg. ten hard strikes against an elastic body. Next, to one part of this shaken fluid is added ten parts distilled water, and the mixture is shaken once again. The shake-and-dilute process is called "succussion". Six rounds of succusion gives a D6 potency. 'D' shows the proportion 1:10 is used throughout the thinning series.
      It is generally thought that D6-potencies are not physically effective, as they contain so little substance (1/1 000 000) of what went into the process to begin with). Nor is there evidence that "potentised" substances are energy-charged by being emptied out physically. Suffice to say that the key terms 'potency' and 'potentised' refer to how homeopathic preparations are made in a traditional ways. Some shake their remedies by hand, but most often machines do that tiresome work.

Homeopathy

-also written homoeopathy, holds that irregularies, functional disturbances, and even diseases and sickness to be caused by disturbances in the vital energy system somehow. Since homeopathic preparations and concoctions of potencies above D6 and c6 have no physiological and energy effect in an organism, the possible paths of influence must be "psychosomatic channels" in the organism. And, as a matter of fact, psychosomatics is highly effective: placebo effects are of this sort, and may work just as well as anti-depressants in most cases, according to well-known studies.
      Homeopaths further claim that disturbances in the deep mind level find some set ways of expressing themselves in mental and physical irregularities in time, and that matters, is not to curb syptoms by manipulating them chemically, but to help the organism to restore its deeper health. If that goes as intended, many irregularites disappear by and by, is the teaching.
      One or more homeopathic preparations (often in the form of pills) that studies (called provings etc.) hold match the symptoms of specific diseases and the like, should be able to lift and balance the body-mind and its psychosomatic balances. As a result irregularities and imbalances of the organism are reduced and made to disappear for a short while, or a long while, or even permanently. That is part of the general idea.
      If the homeopath finds no preparation descriptions that match the troubles, irregularities and "knots" of the client, he can do nothing by homeopathy. And even when he comes up with seemingly well adapted preparations - as evidenced by preparation descriptions found in big books called Materia Medicas, he may not succeed if the potency is out of tune (especially too low) to meet main requirements that the problems of the client pose.

Bach's essences

The British doctor Edward Bach came up with a series of 38 socalled essences. Most of them are from flowers that are put in a bowl of water on on a sunny day and left in the sun for some hours. That is one of Dr Bach's methods of potentision. The other is to boil plant parts in water.

Rae concoctions

The British inventor Malcolm Rae (1913-79) designed a series of innovative instruments and software for them. Magneto-Geometric Applications in London still fabricate his radionic instruments (hardware) and special cards to go with them (software).
      Rae's claim is that his instruments produce exact replicas of homeopathic preparations, and Bach flower remedies too, among other interesting things.

Layout Keys

On the pages devoted to potentised preparations a simple scheme organises the presentation: First, the aim of the preparation (concoction) is stated briefly. Second, something to go for is indicated. This might correspond to Dr Bach's positive side to the essences, to their uplifting influence. Third, mental and physical imbalances are listed on their own background, and so-called modalities (peculiarities) come next.
      Numbers that are put after irregularities, indicate the degree of potentation assistance expected by this author. For example, under Anemone hepatica is "Psychologically cold 6". The number 6 indicates the author's good faith. A lower number, shows less faith, basically, but there is more to this: One has to view the whole picture, the whole range of irregularities presented, and see how many seem to match overall. To get such a general idea (overall picture) is more important than ranked, isolated symptoms, says homeopathic theory at large. So there is no guarantee.