Excerpted from Mary Aspinwall’s newbie course, MaryAspinwall.com/resources.
Homeopathy is safe for anyone to use, including pregnant women and tiny babies, because it uses microdoses. Not even a molecule of the original substance can be detected in the remedies in the kits I designed (homeopathykits.com). This is the most controversial aspect of homeopathy and scientists are still working to fully understand how homeopathic remedies carry the energetic imprint of the original substance. What we do know, from direct experience, is that well matched remedies act as catalysts. They awaken our bodies’ own innate healing energy to flow harmoniously, restoring health and wellbeing. They honor the most important principle in medicine: “First do no harm.”
One of the things I most love about homeopathy is if you select the wrong remedy, nothing happens. THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR because the remedies are given in microdoses. There is only one way to mess up with Homeopathy and that is to repeatedly give a remedy that the body is not asking for. If you do this, you may temporarily produce some symptoms from the remedy. This is known as a proving. So don’t do that! (Even if you do get symptoms by taking too much of a remedy, once you discontinue the remedy, they go away.)
Give one dry dose of the remedy you chose – a pellet under the tongue. Observe the response to this dose carefully. Sometimes symptoms may worsen a little at the start. After that there will usually be clear benefit. Once the clear benefit stalls or symptoms that were better worsen again, that is the time to repeat the remedy. Tune in to what your body is asking for (via its symptoms), then continue to listen to the information your body gives in response to the remedy. As a general rule, for intense situations and illnesses, once you find the correct match, the response will be fast. For less intense situations and illnesses with a slower onset, remedies will take longer to act. Match the pace of your repetitions to the pace of the situation.
Try one dry dose and later one wet dose (one pellet in any quantity of water and take any amount – a sip or a gulp) and if you have no response, think again about your selection, you may need a different remedy.
So, to summarize: One dry dose. One wet dose. No change? Move on to a different remedy.