Vol.XIV #4 - Is The Lm A High Or Low Potency?

Simillimum - Winter 2001

By John Feissel MA

To know whether the LM is a high or low potency, we must first understand what potency is, and what determines whether it is high or low.

Hahnemann's pursuit for the perfect medicine was driven by his search to make medicines safer while still effecting curative action. “Now if arsenic (like every other very powerful medicinal substance) can, by merely diminishing its dose, be rendered so mild as to be no longer dangerous to life, then all we have to do is merely to find by experiment how far the size of the dose must be diminished so that it shall be small enough to do no harm, and yet large enough to fully effect its office as a remedy of the diseases for which it is suitable.”(1)