Homeopathy Flashcards
What is the high and only mission of any practitioner according to Hahnemann?
To cure
The removal of all signs and symptoms, nothing more and nothing less is Hahnemann’s definition of what?
Cure
According to homeopathy derangement of what causes symptomatic illness?
Vital force
The total symptom picture of a pt used as clues to prescribing a remedy refers to what?
Totality of symptoms
What law is defined as a substance that provokes symptoms in a healthy person will remove those same symptoms in an unhealthy person?
Law of Similars
Administration of a remedy to a healthy person to determine what symptoms is provokes refers to what?
Proving
What is a remedy that corresponds to the totality of symptoms in a patient?
Simillimum
What process in homeopathy reduces an agent to a powder?
Trituration
An infectious disease that occurs once in a person’s lifetime refers to what in homeopathy?
Acute miasm
What is akin to a genetic predisposition to develop a chronic disease in homeopathy?
Chronic miasm
List the 3 main miasms in homeopathy?
Psora
Syphillitic
Sycotic
Which miasm is considered to be the origin of all disease (according to Hahnemann)?
Psora
What determines the extent to which the secondary symptoms of psora will manifest?
Environmental factors
How are miasms passed on?
Infectious, from generation to generation
Knowledge of disease, Knowledge of medicinal powers, Selection of remedy, and Correct dose are 4 things a physician must know in order to do what?
Cure
