Law of Minimum

The Minimal Dose

Hahnemann laid a principle in aphorism 275, the suitableness of a medicine for any given case does not depend on its accurate Homoeopathic selection alone, but likewise on the proper size or rather smallness of dose. Under this direction the patient is given medicine in a very minute dose. That means although the dose is smallest in quantity, but it produces least possible excitation of the Vital force to effect the necessary changes. The concept of minimal dose is conjoined with the drug dynamisation process or say potentization. The Law of Minimum has many advatages.

1. The minimal dose does not damage any vital organ of body, so there is no risk of drug affects or drug addiction.
2. The concept of the minimum dose can be ascertained by the law of Arndt-Shultz with the established facts that small dose stimulate, medium dose paralyze and the large doses kills. It can be said that action of one substance will not be same if they are administered in small and large quantity on living matters.
3. To avoid undesired aggravation of any kind.
4. The dynamic action of a drug produces uncommon, peculiar, strange, rare and other distinguished symptoms when used in the minimum quantity, when proving
5. the remedies fine and finest quality of action for cure purposes, is possible in the minimal doses.
6. To maintain the similarity of the sequence of the drug and the disease, minimal dose is necessary
7. According to Fincke the law of quantity is thus “The quality of the action of Homoeopathic remedy is determined by its quantity in inver ratio.”
8. Law of least action is formulated by the French mathematician Maupertius: “the quantity of action necessary to affect any changes in nature is the least possible. The decisive amount is always a minimum, an infinitesimal”.

It was long believed that Hahanemann always used single medicine at a time as a rule, which is followed by the subsequent followers of the Homoeopathy — but recently documents have come to light that suggested he did otherwise. However, in Classical Homoeopathy, largely due to the influence of Kent, it is not common practice to mix remedies at the same time.

Efficacy of homeopathical medicines having regard to the minimal dose administered in low potencies have not gained much ground with the scientific world. Neither the homeopaths nor their adversaries had any idea how these medicines worked on the human body. But they do work it was commonly believed by homeopaths and their patients. With the advent of Quantum Mechanics, effets of particles at the subatomic levels have been brought within the scope of examination. Modern psychiatary in the hands of alopaths is directing its drug-research on the basis of boilogical evidence of elecricity present in the human body in mini-micro volts. If the whole matter could be examined on the altar of science by consenting alopaths, physicists and homeopaths, mankind could take full advantage of the great science struggling to get a permanent foothold in the arena of medical sciences.