He is unable then to appropriate it from the food to build up the body, being cloyed with it. The symptoms of the Sulphur patient indicate that she needs it, but she is not able to appropriate it from the food. Each resembles the other. The higher potency of Sulphur restores order and she appropriates it from the food, not being fed enough to poison her. If a given remedy will make an individual react and appropriate that which is needed and help to appropriate from the blood that which is taken, the reaction may be to 5m, and though not eaten it is in the blood.
Degrees are in sevens, as in octaves of music.
If you strike too high she is not sensitive, it is not sufficient. Keep to the mild potency so long as it works. It is not well to jump too many degrees. From the crude to 10m there is a range of degrees in the ordinary person. You do not go from the first to the last, in music, it does not preserve the chord, you take the thirds and fifths.