13/11/2025
Article *la répétition du remède, tout un art*
Voilà une des choses les plus difficiles pour un homéopathe : donner un remède bien choisi puis... ne rien faire ;) Laisser agir, attendre que le remède offre son plein potentiel :D
H.C. Allen MD (pictured here) - sharing his experiences with Adolph LIppe MD...
“Here is one of the most important topics for all of us; the repetition of the remedy. I think that, as a rule, we make more mistakes in this than in any other part of the practical art of curing. We frequently fail by a too frequent repetition of the dose. To know when to repeat and how to repeat requires a master in the art.
Dr. Lippe once made a statement in my hearing that I thought the most audacious I had ever heard. He said that if he could visit a case of diphtheria the first time, before anybody had had a chance to spoil it, and make the first prescription, he would generally cure the case with one remedy and often with one dose. I went to Philadelphia and stayed there a month to see Dr. Lippe do it. At that time, I was giving two, three or four remedies at a time or in alternation. I saw Dr. Lippe clear up serious cases of illness over and over again in pneumonia, bronchitis, and so on, with a single prescription. Not always, but often.
The secret is first to find the remedy and then to know when to repeat and when to refrain from repeating. It is in this that skill is manifested; this is the work that marks the difference between the artist and the bungler.”
Source: H. C. Allen. Discussion. Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association 1901: 43-44.
Important observation by Dr. Andre Saine:
"It is very important to note that for Lippe as well as for Hahnemann, one dose often was considered to be that a pellet was dissolved in half a glass of water and a teaspoonful was taken at certain intervals until the manifestation of a clear improvement. It was called the “broken dose.”