Boenninghausen's unique experience

Boenninghausen's unique experience.
Boenninghausen has given the following expand in connection with a chapter on High potencies, which he was trying. The whole chapter in his Lesser writing is worth its weight in gold.
Potenising increases the Range of action of a drug.Inert substances become polychrests. High potencies increase the range curative action. When two remedies are fairly similar to a disease picture, both will act as similinum even if each dose not cover everything.
This is the fundamental truth that should be fully made use of by us when treating epidemics or in prophylactic application. This experience also gives us courage and confidence in their prescription, where the doubts of Similinum and Similar go on nagging even after prescribing. The given remedy will cure even if not 100% correct, provided it is not a very low Potency.
The higher Potencies seem to offer a means of Makin the medicine more assimillable, and therefore, Homoeopathically more effective.
On the numerous facts bearing on this subject the following from our existing may serve as an example.
A years ago there appeared in the neighborhood a disease among cattel, which distinguished itself by a sudden but complete paralysis of all the limbs. Of nine or ten cows seized with this distemper, so far as is known, only two were kept alive, but, also these are this day stiff in all their limbs and hardly walk. Two weeks ago a cow on another farm was also seized by it, and all attempts to get her on her legs again were in vain. A messanger was at once dispatched to us for aid. He could give no additional Symptoms and took with him Two powders namely, powder one , Pulsatilla 200 and Two, Nux vom 200 with the direction to give the second only after twelve hours ( as always dissolved in water) in case that number one should up to that time not shown any effect. The messanger who returned the same night arrived in the morning at 4.30 am and about 5 o'clock. The cow which still lay in same condition, received Powder no one, according to our prescription. About ten o'clock in the forenoon, thus five hours later, the maid servant found the cow, much to her astonishment, standing up in her stable eating her fodder with good appetite. When the cow was led out there was not the slightest sign of lameness or stiffness, and the cure was completed, and still remains so. So Pulsatilla had been the right remedy. A few days later the same disease seized a cow of a neighboring farmer. Since the rapid cure of our cow had caused a great deal of a stir in the neighborhood, the man asking for the other Powder number two, Nux vom, and the cow received the same, and this cow was also cured, though not so quickly as ours, but also within twelve hours. and it has since then remained in good health. Since the disease was altogether the same in both cases, there had not been a single case of spontaneous healing, and since both of these remedies, though so different from Rachel other, nevertheless bad the same strikingly favourable result, the conclusion is very clear that only on account of the high dynamazition the curative power of each of them had reached such an extension that both of them were Homoeopathically suitable, and could equally though not in the same short time. But still in a short period, produce a completely and lasting cure, . Another really fitting solution of this question, which is by no means, however, isolated, might be difficult to find.
By Dr. Boenninghausen.