Duration of Action

Boericke's Materia Medica Relationship of Remedies table

"Once, in conversation with the late Dr. Gibson-Miller of Glasgow, reference was made to his booklet Relationships of Remedies and he asked me if I had found the last column, "Duration of Action," useful. "I answered; "Well. you give the duration of action of Rhus tox. as from one to seven days. I have used it in a single dose as a constitutional and found its effect maintained for three or four months." "Oh, yes." he said, "I know; I think that column is not right." -  Christopher Gordon (Scotland) (reference from Julian Winston) 

A table that specifically says how many days a remedy is going to act is suspicious because all people are different and one remedy will act differently on any one person. But for the sake of simplification and clarity, many people will overlook inaccuracy.

Boenninghausen's A Systematic Alphabetic Repertory of Homeopathic Remedies

This includes another list of specific action by days. It probably was Gibson-Miller's original source which he changed.

My list

I couldn't track down where I took this from although I thought it was Hering. Please let me know if you know where it is from. I'll eventually find it as I work through my stuff. It is subjective in time but compares the remedies so that you can make an educated guess as to length of action.

Correlation between my list and Gibson-Miller's list

In general these are the time durations that you could expect from the rankings in my list showing some correlation. 1 - one week 2 - one to four weeks 3 - three to six weeks 4 - four to seven weeks 5 - four to seven weeks 6 - four to eight weeks 7 - seven to over ten weeks (only 2) 8 - seven to nine weeks 9 - seven to nine weeks (only 2)

Comparison table

H? = my list; low is short and high is long-acting. G

GM = R. Gibson-Miller, in Boericke's Materia Medica, duration in days. 

B = Boenninghausen, found in A Systematic Alphabetic Repertory…, duration in days