Prescribing rules for colloids

Chronic symptoms:

1. The prescription should contain not fewer than three and not more than six mineral salts.
2. The prescription should contain only one salt from each cation family group (Na., Ca., K.). This means that only one of the salts of sodium, one of the salts of potassium and one of the salts of calcium, should be used at the one time. Where more then one salt in a cation family is strongly indicated from the patient’s symptom picture of “profile questionnaire”, then a choice is made according to the sheer weight of evidence, or by seeking further information.
3. The prescription should contain only one salt from the sulphate anion group (PS, SS, or CS). Where more than one of the sulphates is strongly indicated from the patient’s symptom picture or “profile questionnaire”, then a choice is made according to the weight of evidence, or by seeking further information.
4. Mandatorily include a sodium slat (either SP or SS), and MP in every prescription for chronic symptoms. If the patient’s symptom picture does not clearly indicate a sodium slat, or if the indications for SP and SS are equally weighted; then always prescribe SP.
5. Dose are to be given three or four times a day (with each meal, or with each meal and at bedtime), according to the individual need.

Acute symptoms

1. The prescription should employ between one and four salts, and doses should be given every 15 minutes to every two hours according to the need.
2. Faster and better results can be gained by advising the patient to chew the tablets before swallowing with a few mouthfuls of hot water.
3. The doses should be maintained for a time beyond the point where the symptoms have ceased.

Children and babies

1. 1. Babies; quarter to half dose.
   2. Children, two years and over; full adult dose. (a growing child’s need for all the basic minerals is as great or greater than for that of an adult).

Acute reactions to treatment

1. An acute reaction to treatment is characterized by an induction for symptoms that the patient didn’t have previously, or an exacerbation of the actual condition under treatment.
2. Reactions affect only about 10% of patients and occur within the first few days of treatment. The symptoms generally last for about three days and once settled do not usually return.
3. Reactions seem to be confined to the treatment of chronic disease only and apart from perhaps a temporary exacerbation of the existing condition, usually take the form of; flatus or flatulence, indigestion, nausea, headache, tiredness, aches and pains, skin rashes or prutitis.
4. Abandon the whole treatment for three days, then reintroduce it at half dose for a further three days, then restore it to full dose if no further reaction occurs.