An acute disease can turn into a chronic disease. A chronic disease might be dosed once a day, twice a week, or even once a month depending on the severity of the disease and the potency being used. One should always dose to effect. In other words, as the condition improves the length of time between doses should be increased. Thus one might start by dosing every ten minutes for three or four doses and then, with improvement, at two hourly intervals, then four hourly, finally twice a day, and so on.
Homoeopaths usually have their own pet dosage regimes for chronic illness.
Sometimes one may give a few doses of a low potency and thengo up through increasing potencies. This is usually caused by dosing a chronic illness at an acute rate. Stop dosing for 24 hours and symptoms due to overdosing will disappear. In this case, recommence dosing at less frequent intervals. This is a sign that the remedy is the correct one, and, as long as the symptoms do not worsen, continue with the same dosage rate.