5 - Homeopathy

Question 1

What is the vital force?

Answer 1

The vital force is the intelligent, coordinated energy of the body and cannot be tested directly but can be observed in the way it organizes the system, in the quality of life, and in the signals of distress that it creates when the whole is unwell.

Question 2

How is disease related to the vital force according to Samuel Hahnemann?

Answer 2

Every disease (not entirely surgical), consists only in a special, morbid, dynamic alteration of our vital energy

Question 3

When does a chronic disease occur?

Answer 3

When the body’s innate function becomes stressed and adopts a dysfunctional status quo

Question 4

What what cases does homeostasis work to maintain a dysfunctional norm?

Answer 4

autoimmune and chronic disease (ex. hypertension)

Question 5

Briefly describe the allostatic stress-response network?

Answer 5

Mild stress is good (can trigger adaptive, positive compensatory responses in the network).

Prolonged stress triggers maladaptive responses in the nervous, endocrine, immune and metabolic pathways and can lead to dysfunction & disease.

Question 6

____ affects gene expression and every cellular process in our bodies

Answer 6

Stress

Question 7

______ is the tendency of the body to seek and maintain a condition of balance or equilibrium within its internal environment, even when faced with external changes

Answer 7

Homeostasis

Question 8

________ is a system of medicine based on the principle of homeostasis, the body’s constant effort to keep itself in balance

Answer 8

Homeopathy

Question 9

What is the Law of Similars?

Answer 9

Homeopathy uses natural medicines that offer a signal to the body that is similar to the pattern of dysfunction we are aiming to repair.

A potentized substance can cure what a concentrated dose of it is capable of causing.

Question 10

Who developed the law of similar into a systemic medical science?

Answer 10

Samuel Hahnemann

Question 11

What is allopathic medicine?

Answer 11

The use of drugs that are oppositional the body’s innate tendencies when those tendencies are dysfunctional

allo = opposite

Question 12

Allopathic medicines are extremely useful to ________ relieve a dysfunctional state

Answer 12

temporarily

Question 13

What is potentization?

Answer 13

Serial dilutions with succession between each dilution step is a chemical progress known as potentization.

Question 14

In Potentization, what is succession ?

Answer 14

after each successive dilution, the vial with the mixture is shaken vigorously

Question 15

What is the point of succession?

Answer 15

Succession between serial dilutions imparts a specific energetic reaction between the solute and the substrate which is not perceptible in simple dilutions

Question 16

The higher the dilution, the __________ the homeopathic potency.

Answer 16

stronger

Question 17

1X

Answer 17

1/10

1 part drug, 9 parts diluent

Question 18

1C

Answer 18

1/100

1 part drug, 99 parts diluent

Question 19

1M

Answer 19

1/1000

1 part drug, 999 parts diluent

Question 20

What solutions contain bulk-form molecules?

Answer 20

Solutions between 1x-23X or 1C-11C

Question 21

What solutions contain NO bulk-form molecules?

Answer 21

Solutions above 24X or 12C

Question 22

What is the “memory of water” ?

Answer 22

High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original molecules.

Question 23

Research indicates that homeopathic dilutions contain ______ dispersed in colloidal solution.

Answer 23

nanoparticles

Question 24

What is hormesis?

Answer 24

The phenomenon in science where a low dose produces beneficial effects and a high dose produces toxic effects

Question 25

What is The Homeopathic Similimum?

Answer 25

The symptomatology of disease is not just the sum of different symptoms, but a pattern where symptoms reflect a dynamic disease state.

Question 26

______ represent the body’s best effort to heal itself.

Answer 26

Symptoms

Question 27

What are the 6 Tenets of Classical Homeopathy?

Answer 27

1) The totality of symptoms are considered to indicate the correct medicine.
2) The medicine acts according to the law of similar
3) The minimum dose is given to provoke a response
4) One medicine is given at a time
5) The medicine engages the body’s self-healing mechanism
6) The medicines are electrodynamic in their biochemical effects.

Question 28

List some points about Homeopathy

Answer 28

• CAM therapy
• Over 200 yr old system of medicine
• Has a well-articulated practice theory
• Has extensive case-report based clinical literature
• Has high levels of patient satisfaction
• Has a growing modern research base

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Question 29

What is the focus of natural medicine?

Answer 29

is to promote the body’s self-healing mechanism

Question 30

Types of CAM therapies?

Answer 30

• homeopathy
• botanical medicine
• acupuncture
• IV therapy
• nutraceutical supplementation
• dietary changes
• counselling