With homeopathy, you choose a dosage is based on the severity of the symptoms. It is interesting to note that you would give the same remedy and dosage regardless of your age or weight. Homeopathy should not be confused with herbal medicine, or naturopathy as it is often called, although the two are often used together. Herbal medicines, by definition, are medicines derived from plant extracts. They are generally concentrated in form and contain measurable amounts of physiologically active substances.
Homeopathic remedies are prepared using a very special process.
The first step is to collect the material from which the remedy is to be made. In naming a remedy, one uses the scientific or latin name of the original substance. It further tells us the remedy was made using a 1 in 100 dilution scale. This mixture would be shaken vigorously, a process called succussion, and created a 1C or 1CH dilution. The H refers to Samuel Hahnemann, considered the father of modern homeopathy.