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Law of Minimum is another fascinating principle of homeopathy. To know more about Law of Minimum, read on.

Homeopathy Law of Minimum

Homeopathy pays a lot of stress on holistic healing. As a result, a patient is exhaustively examined and a detailed summary of its disease and its symptoms. This is done to ensure that the patient receives the accurate medicine, which heals him effectively, elevating his health. However, this is not the only thing Homeopathy prescribes. One of the other important aspects of the system involves the proper amount of the remedy. As per the basic principles of Homeopathy, patients are given medicine in minute doses.

The Law of Minimum Dose implies that the smallest quantities of dose produces the least possible excitation of the vital force and yet sufficient to effect the necessary change in it. The minimum dose action is thus, appropriate as a gentle remedial effect and has led to the discovery of a more practical process called potentization. However, this is not the only benefit of the law of minimum. Given below are some of the major advantages of minimum dosage.
  • The minimal dose ensures that no damage occurs to any vital organ of body, thereby preventing any risk of drug affects or drug addiction.
  • The law of minimum dose can be ascertained by the law of Arndt-Shultz, which lays down that small dose stimulate, medium dose paralyze and the large doses kills. It is thus considered that the action of one substance is not the same, when taken in small and large quantity on living matters.
  • To avoid unwanted aggravation of any kind.
  • When taken in minimum quantity, the dynamic action of a drug produces uncommon, peculiar, strange, rare and other distinguished symptoms.
  • The finest quality of action of a remedy used for cure purposes can be well determined in minimal doses.
  • To maintain the similarity of the sequence of the drug and the disease, minimal dose is necessary
  • According to Fincke, the law of quantity states, "The quality of the action of Homoeopathic remedy is determined by its quantity in inver ratio."
  • Law of least action formulated by the French mathematician Maupertius also fortifies the fact, stating, "The quantity of action necessary to affect any changes in nature is the least possible. The decisive amount is always a minimum, an infinitesimal".