But the great work of Hahnemann was waiting to be published due to his death. The 6th edition was published by Richard Haehl in German in 1921, 78 years after Hahnemann’s death and translated from German to English by Dr. W. Boericke.
Historically the book in its 6th edition is of the greatest interest and importance, completing as it does the marvelous array of Hahnemann’s philosophic insight into the practice of medicine. (Translator’s preface 6th edition)
Hahnemann made many changes and same additions in his revision of the 5th edition of his Organon, the most important of which is what he terms his New and Improved Method for repetition of the dose given in §248 and §273. Other changes and additions for the most part merely amplify his former teachings. The mode preparation of medicine its dynamization and application are novel. Hahnemann called it the perfected method, the new dynamization method. Herein lays the qualitative superiority of the 6th over the 5th edition.
Name and Sign of New Method:
Potencies of this method go by different names and abbreviations, such as:
► Millesimal Scale
► 50 Millesimal Scale
► New Potency etc
In the western world it is designated as 1/0, 2/0 in Pakistan and India 0/1, 0/2 or LM1, LM2 etc. Hahnemann used to write it as 0/1, 0/2 format.
Hahnemann stated in Footnote to §246 in the 6th edition of Organon:
“What I said in the fifth edition of the Organon, in a long note to this paragraph in order to prevent these undesirable reactions of the vital energy, was all that the experience I then had justified. But during the last four or five years, however all these difficulties are wholly solved by my new altered but perfected method.”
Every Practitioner of Homeopathy must bear in mind that:
“The physician’s high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure as it is termed.” (§1)
“The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest most reliable and most harmless way on easily comprehensible principles” (§2)
The most important question is of administration of well selected remedy in accordance with the principles of Similia and also the selection of dose, potency and intervals at which it may need any repetition. Every time he advised us to follow the law of simplex.
Dr. Hahnemann Said about 50 Miollesimal Potency:
“But the method described by me on the contrary produces medicines of highest development of power and mildest action, which however if well chosen touches all suffering part curatively.” (Footnote §155 and §270)
Medicinal aggravations which are common feature of the centesimal scale no longer exist in the new method, such increase of the original symptoms of chronic disease can appear only at the end of the treatment when the cure is almost or quit finished. So the question of ….. Furious even dangerous, violence of centesimal scale does not arise in 50 Millesimal scales.” During the action of one dose could not be repeated in spite of the presence of disease symptoms in the organism but, “The same carefully selected medicine may now be given daily and for months, if necessary in this way, namely after the lower-degree of potency has been used for one or two weeks in the treatment of chronic disease, advance is made in the same way to higher degrees, (beginning according to the new dynamization method, taught, herewith the use of the lowest degrees. (§246)
Dr. Hahnemann further stated that “……every correctly chosen homeopathic medicine, even those whose action is of long duration may be repeated daily for month with ever increasing success.” (§248)
Administration and Preparation of Medicine:
“Made in 40, 30, 20, 15 or 8 tablespoonfuls of water with the addition of some alcohol or a piece of charcoal in order to preserve it, if charcoal is used, it is suspended by means of a thread in the vial and is taken out when the vial is succussed. The solution of the medicinal globule (and it is rarely necessary to use more than one globule) of a thoroughly potentized medicine in a large quantity of water can be obviated by making a solution in only. 7-8 tablespoonfuls of water and after thorough succession of the vial take from it one tablespoonful and put it in a glass of water (containing about 7 to 8 spoonfuls), this is stirred thoroughly and then give a dose to the patient. If he is unusually excited and sensitive, a teaspoonful of this solution may be put in a second glass of water, thoroughly stirred and teaspoonful doses or more is given. There are patients of so great sensitiveness that a third or fourth glass must be made fresh daily. The globule of the high potency is best crushed in a few grains of sugar of milk, which the patient can put in the vial and be dissolved in the requisite quantity of water.” (Footnote §134, §248)
In Acute Disease:
“The small doses of the lowest dynamization degrees of these thus perfected medicinal preparations, even of medicines of long continued action (for instance, belladonna) may be repeated in short intervals.”
In Chronic Disease:
“In the treatment of chronic diseases, it is best to begin with the lowest degrees of dynamization and when necessary advance to higher, even more powerful but mildly acting degrees.” (Footnote §155, §270)
Dr. Hahnemann stated that potentisation of medicine in his perfected method. “It becomes uncommonly evident that the material part by means of such dynamization (Development of its true, inner medicinal essence) will ultimately dissolve into its individual spirit-like (conceptual) essence. In its crude state therefore, it may be considered to consist really only of this undeveloped conceptual essence.” (Footnote §156, §270)
This 50 millesimal scale of potency is the highest advancements in the science and art of Homoeopathy up to this day. So it is the most precious it may be it cannot give better result unless properly utilized. So we must be thoroughly conversant with the proper administration of this new scale of potency. Otherwise we would fail to achieve the expected result in our practice.
Doses and Repetition: (§-248)
Administration of medicine is also different in three categories.
1. In very urgent cases every hour or oftener. (i.e. in these cases we may apply medicine every 5, 10, 20 or 30 minutes as necessary)
2. In acute disease every 2 to 6 hours.
3. In long lasting disease daily or every second day.
There are the general laws of application of medicine of 50 millesimal scale.
Hahnemann Said:- “On the other hand should there appear during almost daily repetition of the well indicated homeopathic remedy towards the end of the treatment of a chronic disease, so-called (§-161) homeopathic aggravations by which the balance of the morbid symptoms seem to again increase somewhat (the medicinal disease, similar to the original, now alone persistently manifests itself). The doses in that case must then be reduced still further and repeated in longer intervals and possibly stopped several days, in order to see if the convalescence need no further medicinal aid. The apparent symptoms (Schein Syndrome) caused by the excess of the homeopathic medicine will soon disappear and leave undisturbed health in its wake.” (§-248)
In Place of One Dose Now Many Divided Doses:
“The same carefully selected medicine may not be given daily and for months in gradually increased potencies and changed doses…” (Footnote §132, §246)
“Thus in chronic diseases, every correctly chosen homeopathic medicine even those whose action is of long duration may be repeated daily for month with ever increasing success.” (§248)
How Long First Prescription Will Continue
“The dose of medicine (of the first prescription) that acts without producing new troublesome symptoms is to be continued while gradually ascending, so long as the patient with general improvement begins to feel in the mild degree the return to one or several old original complaints.” (§246-§248)
Only potency is to be changed- “Potency of medicine is to be changed from low to high i.e from LM/1 TO .LM/2 etc and so on. There is no leap or jump in this method.” (§246-§248-§280)
From What Potency to Start Treatment:
“Treatment of any patient both acute and chronic is to be started from the lowest degree of dynamization and advancement is made in the same say to higher degrees, as and when necessary in gradually every more powerful but mildly acting degree.” (Footnote §246-§270)
“The latest method is safer because, “…..in this method we can produce medicines of highest development of power and mildest action, which however if well chosen touches all sufferings parts curatively.” (§270)
Limitation of Potencies in the New Method:
The Organon has recommended potencies from LM/1 to LM/30 only.
Antidote During Aggravation:
“Every medicine prescribed for a case of disease which, in the course of its action, produces new and troublesome symptoms not pertaining to the disease to be cured, is not capable of effecting real improvement, and cannot be considered as homeopathically selected; it must therefore either if the aggravation be considerable be first partially neutralized as soon as possible by an antidote before giving the next remedy chosen more accurately according to similarity of action, or if the troublesome symptoms be not very violent, the next remedy must be given immediately, in order to take the place of the improperly selected one.” (§249)
Advantages of 50 millesimal potencies over Decimal and Centesimal Potencies:
1. Rapid and gentle cure of acute and chronic diseases, the greatest boon to the profession the causes of treatment may be minimized to one half, one quarter or even still mitigated.
2. Required no antidote, this is another great advantage.
3. Highest development of power, the most powerful in action.
4. Mildest reaction can be safely administered even in most fatal cases without fear of furious and dangerous medicinal aggravation.
5. Frequent repetition permissible: Even medicines of long continual action may be repeated as and when necessary.
6. Observation is very easy: Observation of patient after administration of medicine is very easy.
In centesimal scale medicines can’t be applied repeatedly in spite of the presence of disease symptoms. But in the new method, medicines are to be used again and again and the vitality is able to extinguish or assail the disease quickly be being assisted by the frequent doses of medicines this is why cure comes quicker than expected in one fourth or lesser period of time than it does in the former method.
