The homoeopathic systems of recording potencies is often confusing to the lay person. There are a number of reasons for this. Hahnemann, in his “Organon” which is the treatise wherein he expounded the system of homoeopathy, used only one system which is the decimal system. This was a procedure where a substance was diluted or attenuated, according to Hahnemann’s system, in units of ten. One part of the original substance diluted with nine parts of an inert diluent, alcohol, water or lactose, was recorded as being a Ix or DI potency…