What Is A Homeopathic Aggravation?
On some occasions your symptoms may get a bit worse within one or two days of taking a homeopathic medicine for the first time – this is called a homeopathic aggravation. It is almost always of brief duration, lasting from a few hours to a few days and is then rapidly followed by a marked and progressive improvement in your symptoms and general health. A homeopathic aggravation is therefore a good sign – it almost always heralds an improvement! If it occurs you will not need to take any more of the medicine until the subsequent improvement stops – which could be many weeks. If your symptoms are made temporarily worse without the subsequent overall improvement – this indicates that the medicine is not quite the correct one for you – but the fact that it has affected you in this way is usually very helpful information in selecting the right medicine. Be sure to note carefully the details of the changes.
