Homeopathic Drugs: Their Potencies and Duration of Action

The following table gives at a glance in the four succeeding columns: –

1. full name of each drug
2. its abbreviated name
3. the potencies or dilutions in general use
4. duration of action of the potentized drug

Regarding the last item, it is held by Miller that the duration of action depends both on the state of health of the patient and on the nature of the disease. And Jahr lays down that in the gross, in any acute disease the duration of the drug is from 5 minutes to 48 hours and in chronic disease, 5 to 8 days. The period laid down, therefore, in the fourth column are mere averages.

Note: – ‘d’ indicates day, ‘h’ indicates hour, and ‘wks’ indicates weeks.