Certified Veterinary Homeopathy by Dr. Glen Dupree

It is ironic that one of the things most associated with Homeopathy is not even a necessity for the practice of Homeopathy. Probably nothing except the Law of Similars is more often associated with the practice of Homeopathy than is the use of infinitesimally diluted medicines. However you can have a successful Homeopathy practice and still use standard doses of medicine. Your practice will not be as elegant with these more crude substances and gross doses as with the diluted medicines, but as long as you follow the four previously discussed laws of Homeopathy, you will still be practicing Homeopathy.

So why all the attention to diluted medicines? It depends on whether you are defending or attacking Homeopathy.

To back track just a bit, most Homeopathic remedies are prepared through the process of dilution and succussion. Standard "C" potency remedies are diluted 1:100 at each step (a 6c potency has been diluted 1:100 six times with succussion between each dilution step, a 12c has been diluted 1:100 twelve times, etc) and succussed or pounded between each step.

This process is felt to diminish the unwanted side effects of the original material of the remedy by diluting the chemical properties while at the same time making the medicine more powerful by releasing its innate energy/power through succussion.

It is at this point that the Homeopathy advocates and the antiHomeopathy folks really start to see things differently.

According to Hahnemann's clinical experience (and that of Homeopaths over the next 200 years), if the medicine is Homeopathic to the patient - meaning that it has met the criteria of the four previously discussed laws of Homeopathy - then the patient is in a susceptible or sensitized state for that medicine by virtue of his or her naturally occurring chronic dis-ease. Because of this sensitivity to the correct medicine, much smaller doses of the medicine are necessary to affect the patient than if the medicine was not Homeopathic to the patient.

Hahnemann's quest was to find the gentlest, most curative medicine possible for the patient. He found that if he used standard doses of medicine, chosen by the Law of Similars for his patient, that the patient often suffered aggravations or unwanted side effects from the medicine before improvement was seen. To prevent this, Hahnemann began to use smaller and smaller doses. Oddly enough, he never diluted a medicine so far that curative effects could not be seen in the patient if the medicine was correct for the patient.

In his quest for the gentlest medicine possible, Hahnemann also discovered that if the medicine was physically pounded - a process called succussion - that the medicine worked even more powerfully in the patient. No one is quite sure how he derived this knowledge, but centuries of clinical observation have verified his findings.

For the advocates of Homeopathy, clinical experience has shown that if the four laws of Homeopathy are followed, then the dilution and succussion of the medicine chosen for the patient will refine the medicine's action in the patient, will make it more powerfully curative and will decrease the unwanted side effects caused by the chemical properties of the original material.

For the antiHomeopathy crowd, this dilution and succussion process is fuel to discredit the entire system of medicine.

Firstly, we cannot measure the changes that happen when the medicine is succussed. On the physical plane, nothing measurable changes in the medicine. If we cannot measure it, then it does not exist.

Secondly, as we dilute the medicines past a12c potency, we exceed Avogadro's Number. Theoretically at this point none of the original material remains in the dilution. So if nothing remains, how can the higher potencies, the ones diluted thousands of times, be effective?

No where in conventional science is there an explanation for such phenomena. If we accept that either of these two practices is valid, we invalidate much of what we accept as solid science. If an action is contrary to an accepted truth, then it must be false. Right??

There is some interesting work being done around the world with the studies of these microdilutions in a field called ultramolecular physics. There are experiments that suggest that water has an innate memory so that the energy imprint of the original material maybe stored in the water diluent. There are other studies which have identified new crystalline structures in water in which a material has been diluted and succussed. And there are more studies in which physiological responses are measured in laboratory animals who have been given microdiluted substances.

Either Hahnemann was a man far ahead of his time in his understandings of the energetics of medicine, or Homeopathy is just a big scam which makes a mockery of the laws of science. Time will tell which view point is true. Until then I plan to keep using the microdiluted medicines of Homeopathy, chosen and administered in accordance with the laws of Homoepathy, and watching the wonderful effects they have on my patients.

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