In order to be convinced of this, the patient is left without any medicine for eight, ten of fifteen days, meanwhile giving him only some powders of sugar of milk. If the few last complaints are due to the medicine simulating the former original disease symptoms, then these complaints will disappear in a few days or hours. If during these days without medicine, while continuing good hygienic regulations nothing more of the original disease is seen, he is probably cured. But if in the later days traces of the former morbid symptoms should show themselves, they are remnants of the original disease not wholly extinguished, which must be treated with renewed higher potencies of the remedy as directed before. If a cure is to follow, the first small doses must likewise be again gradually raised higher, but less and more slowly in patients where considerable irritability is evident than in those of less susceptibility, where the advance to higher dosage may be more rapid. There are patients whose impressionability compared to that of the insusceptible ones is like the ratio as 1000 to 1.
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SUMMARY
Verifying a Cure and Adjusting Treatment
1. Observation Period:
- After completing treatment, the patient is left without medicine for 8, 10, or 15 days, receiving only powders of sugar of milk.
- If the remaining complaints disappear during this period, they were likely due to the medicine's lingering effects, not the original disease.
- If no symptoms reappear after this period, the patient is likely cured.
- If symptoms return, these are remnants of the original disease, indicating it is not fully cured.
- The same remedy should be administered again in higher potencies.
- In patients with high irritability, the dosage should be increased more slowly compared to less sensitive patients.
- Some patients are extremely sensitive to treatment, with a sensitivity ratio of 1000:1 compared to less sensitive individuals.
