In The Name of God

Remedies Duration of Action

Dr.Sadeghi
2010/01/14
 Class Five( v ) Remedies
the most long-continued action of all ;
Ant crud.
, Bar.
, Cal-carb.
, Caust.
, Grapg.
, Hepar sulph.
, Kali carb.
, Phos.,
Sepia.,
Silic.,
and Sulph
 Class Five( v ) Remedies

*Where these remedies, the real heroes of

our medical treasury for the chronic
diseases, are accurately suitable and are
used, they will actually perform wonders,
if they are only granted the necessary
time to unfold their full powers.
 Class Five( v ) Remedies

**Fortunately, they all also belong to the

anti-psoric polychrests and, therefore,
they find the most frequent average use.
***But far more then even with the
preceding we shall have to guard against
causing premature disturbances, since the
injury caused by them is not easily made
good again.
 Class Five( v ) Remedies
****What has been said above of Class IV
applies here in double measure, and my
journal contains many cases where a
single dose continued to act beneficially
for many months most manifestly, and
eventually the many years chronic disease
had disappeared with all its traces so
completely that nothing more remained to
be done.
 Class Four( IV ) Remedies

Alum., Amm carb., Arsen.

, Aur., Bism., Carb an.
, Carb veg., ferr., Flour ac.
, Lycop., Magn. carb., Mang.
, Natr. acrb., Nitrum (kali nitric), Petr.
, Plat., Selen., Stann., Stront
 Class Four( IV ) Remedies

*the medicines of long duration.

**These remedies belong to the so-called
anti-psoric remedies, a designation which
many are unwilling at this day to accept,
but for which no more suitable term is
known to me.
 Class Four( IV ) Remedies

***With proper diet, and once brought into

activity, their action will extend over
several weeks and I have always observed
disadvantageous results arising when
during this period premature disturbance
was caused by repetition of the same
remedy or by giving another.
 Class Four( IV ) Remedies

****Most of all we should guard against

their action as extinct( off, finished ),
when a second (or more rarely a third)
primary action should develop itself.
 Class Four( IV ) Remedies
*****So long as the old ailments show a renewed
aggravation, without the appearance of
essentially new symptoms, which lie outside of
the sphere of action of the remedy and mirrors
itself in the total-image of the last medicine, so
long we must carefully guard against giving
another medicine or repeating the same
medicine again, unless we would soon rule out
our precipitancy (hurriedness).
 Class Four( IV ) Remedies

******Such a course I have found most

injurious among those remedies, which,
like the anti-psorics, have many reciprocal
actions, which in addition seem to be
multiplied by being raised to higher
potencies.
 Class Three( III ) Remedies
Agar., Ambr., Am. mur., Anac., Ang., Ant.
tart., Arg., Asaf., Bell., Bor., Bov., Brom.,
Cic., Clem., Colch., Con., Cupr., Dig.,
Dulcam., Euphorb., Guaic., Hell., Iod.,
Lach., Led., Magn. mur., Mercur., Mezer.,
Mur ac., Natr. mur., Nitr ac., Oleand., Phos.
ac., Plum., Ran scel., Rhodo., Rhus.,
Sabin., Sarsap., Seneg., Spigel., Spong.,
Staph., Sulph. ac., Thuja., Zinc .
 Class Three( III ) Remedies
*the medicines of medium duration of action.
**The remedies here adducted may nearly all of
them be used in acute as well as in chronic
diseases with decided usefullness, if only with
the former their course is not too rapid, or with
the latter the ailment is not too inveterate and,
therefore, too firmly rooted.
***
 Class Three( III ) Remedies
***In my many years practice it has been
as striking to me as curious, that
substances combined with an acid such
as, e.g, Am. mur., Ant. tart., Magn. mur.,
Natr. mur., Nitr. ac., Phos. ac., and Sulph
ac. had as it seemed to me, a much
briefer duration of action than the simple
basis ( Ammon carb., Ant crud., Magn
carb., Natr. carb., Phos., and Sulph. ).
 Class Three( III ) Remedies

I cannot, indeed, after so many careful

observations, consider this a delusion; still
it would be desirable if other careful
observers would also express themselves
about it.
 Class Two( II ) Remedies

Arn., Asar., Bryon., Calad., Cann., Canth.,

Caps., Chamom., Chelid., Chin., Cina,
Cocc., Creos., Croc., Cycl., Dros., Euphras.,
Hyos., Ignatia, Mgs., M. arct., M. aust.,
Mar., Men., Nux mosch., Nux vom., Pulsat.,
Ran bulb., Ruta, Sabad., Scill., Secale cor.,
Valer., Verat., Verb., Viola od., Viola tric.
 Class Two( II ) Remedies
*whose action is of brief duration .
**Also from these remedies in properly chronic(psoric)
diseases little result would be obtained.
***Only as intermediate remedies, or where the tedious
invalidism has its ground in the abuse of medicines, we
may, in lack of more suitable remedies, expect a partial
amelioration from these remedies; e.g., from Bryonia in
pulmonary patients, from cantharis. in Bright's Disease,
from Drosera in the affections of larynx, from Nux vom.
and Pulsat. in various ailments, which are not
infrequently found in common life and are frequently
protracted for a lengthy period.
 Class Two( II ) Remedies

e.g., from Bryonia in pulmonary patients,

from cantharis. in Bright's Disease, from
Drosera in the affections of larynx, from
Nux vom. and Pulsat. in various ailments,
which are not infrequently found in
common life and are frequently protracted
for a lengthy period.
 Class One( I ) Remedies
Acon., Camphor, Coffea, Ipecac., Laur., Mosch., Opium, Par.,
Rheum, Samb., Stram., and Tar
*These have the briefest action.
**Most corresponding to the acutest diseaes and a
necessarily rapid aid in chronic diseases, no use can be
made except only as rare intermediate remedies.

References;
http://www.hpathy.com/papersold/boenninghausen-
duration-action1.asp,2010/01/14