What's the difference between 'c' and 'x' in homopathy?

Answer 1

I am not a doctor. A search of the Internet provided the following from one of the sites. Please have the accuracy of the explanation checked by a knowledgeable person.
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"The X, C, M and LM refer to the number of parts of the diluent (water and or alcohol) that one part of the mother tincture is diluted in. The letters are the roman numerals so X, C, M and LM refer to 10, 100, 1000, and 50,000 respectively. The numbers refer to the number of times the tincture is diluted by that amount.

So for example, 6x = 1 part in 10, 6 times. So the final concentration is 1 in 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10, or 1 in 1,000,000.

The letter M breaks with the tradition, and refers to a 1000C dilution, not one part in one thousand.


Perhaps counter-intuitively, homeopathic remedies get more effective as they get more diluted. It makes more sense if you consider that the remedy you are taking is the one that would cause your symptoms if you took it 'neat'.

One further thing to note is that, on mainland Europe, the D scale breaks with the convention of using Roman numerals, and D denotes Decimal (1/10) potency, rather than the 500 scale. i.e. 6X in English potency would be D6. "