For this reason, a medicine, even though it may be homoeopathically suited to the case of disease, does harm in every dose that is too large, the more harm the larger the dose, and by the magnitude of the dose and in strong doses' it does more harm the greater its homoeopathicity and the higher the potency(1) selected, and it does much more injury than any equally large dose of a medicine that is unhomoeopathic, and in no respect adapted to the morbid state (allopathic).
Too large doses of an accurately chosen homoeopathic medicine, and especially when frequently repeated, bring about much trouble as a rule. They put the patient not seldom in danger of life or make this disease almost incurable. They do indeed extinguish the natural disease so far as the sensation of the life principle is concerned and the patient no longer suffers from the original disease from the moment the too strong dose of the homoeopathic medicine acted upon him but he is in consequence more ill with the similar but more violent medicinal disease which is most difficult to destroy.(2)
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(1) The praise bestowed of late years by some homoeopathists on the larger doses is owing to this, either that they chose low dynamizations of the medicine to be administered (as I myself used to do twenty years ago, from nor knowing any better), or that the medicines selected were not homoeopathic and imperfectly prepared by their manufacturers.
(2) Thus, the continuous use of aggressive allopathic large doses of mercurials against syphilis develops almost incurable maladies, when yet one or several doses of a mild but active mercurial preparation would certainly have radically cured in a few days the whole venereal disease, together with the chancre, provided it had not been destroyed by external measures (as is always done by allopathy). In the same way, the allopath gives Peruvian bark and quinine in intermittent fever daily in very large doses, where they are correctly indicated and where one very small dose of a highly potentized China would unfailingly help (in marsh intermittents and even in persons who were not affected by any evident psoric disease). A chronic China malady (coupled at the same time with the development of psora) is produced, which, if it dose not gradually kill the patient by damaging the internal important vital organs, especially spleen and liver, will put him, nevertheless suffering for years in a sad state of health. A homoeopathic antidote for such a misfortune produced by abuse of large doses of homoeopathic remedies is hardly conceivable.
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SUMMARY
Harm of Large Doses in Homoeopathy
1. Excessive Doses of Accurate Medicine:
- A homoeopathically suited medicine can cause harm if given in too large a dose, with the harm increasing with the dose size.
- The more homoeopathic and higher the potency of the medicine, the greater the damage from a large dose.
- Large doses of a homoeopathic remedy cause more harm than large doses of an unhomoeopathic (allopathic) remedy.
- Repeatedly administering large doses of an accurately chosen homoeopathic medicine can lead to:
- Danger to life.
- Making the original disease incurable.
- Extinguishing the natural disease but replacing it with a more violent medicinal disease.
- Praise for larger doses may result from:
- Using low-potency remedies.
- Administering imperfectly prepared medicines.
- Mercurial overdose in syphilis leads to incurable complications, whereas a small dose would cure.
- Quinine overdose in fever creates chronic conditions affecting vital organs like the spleen and liver, which are difficult to reverse with a homoeopathic antidote.
