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Homeopathy I basics - Questions Flashcards

1
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Break down the word homoeopathy

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Homeo = similar
Pathy = disease

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Define homoeopathy

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A system of medicine that uses specifically prepared natural substances in order to facilitate the bodies own natural healing process

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identify two ways in which homoeopathy differs from allopathy

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Homoeopathy:
Treat the whole person
View symptoms as an expression of dis-ease, not THE dis-ease

Allopathy:
Views symptoms as the dis-ease to cure

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Break down the word allopathy

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Allos = against
Pathy = disease

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define the word allopathy

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A system of medicine that uses manipulated chemical/drugs to TREAT THE SYMPTOMS of disease

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who founded homoeopathy and when?

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Samuel Christian Hahnemann (1755 to 1843)

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how did Hahneman discover homoeopathy?

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He took a small dose of cinchona and discovered he got to malaria symptoms.
He gave cinchona to patients with malaria and discovered their malaria disappeared
Therefore if the healthy person took cinchona, it caused malaria symptoms and if a patient with malaria took cinchona they were cured

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what was the concept hahneman discovered and named?

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The laws of similars

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what else can you call the laws of similars

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Like cures like

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who else discovered a similar concept of ‘like cures like’?

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Hippocrates
He stated “illnesses arise by similar things and by similar things can the sick be made well”

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why was the term homoeopathy coined?

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Because homeo = similar, pathy = disease = like cure is like

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What will a substance due to a healthy person

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A substance is capable of producing symptoms in a healthy person will relieve similar symptoms occurring as an expression of disease

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give some examples of the laws of similar / like cures like remedies?

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Being venom for a bee sting = Apis
Coffee for insomnia = Coffea
Onion for runny nose/allergies = Allium
Snake venom for a snakebite = Lachesis

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According to the laws of similar how would you treat a fever?

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Tepid water and dab the person’s skin to mimic the bodies natural way of cooling = perspiration

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according to the laws of similar how would you treat frostbite?

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Rub affected part with snow (similar temperature) and warm it up slowly

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according to the laws of similar how would you treat burns/heatstroke?

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Apply something warm (similar temperature), cool slowly.

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How does the allopathic approach go again the concept of the law of similars?

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It uses measures that go against the natural mechanism and uses drugs to suppress e.g. calpol/paracetamol fever

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what is Potentisation?

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making a substance more potent through succession and dilution

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why did Hahnemann dilute the medicines?

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Crude doses were often poisonous to people and making them sick from the poison itself.
He found diluting the medicines caused less toxicity and they still worked

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what is succession?

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Succession is shaking or banging the already diluted remedy so it becomes more powerful/potent

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What happens to a remedy the more it is diluted and succussed?

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It becomes more potent

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What other three scales homoeopathic remedies are potentised to?

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Decimal scale, centesimal scale and millesimal scale

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what is the dilution ratio of a decimal scale, and what is it represented as and why?

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Dilution = 1:10
X or D
Latin = Decimus = the tenth

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What is the dilution ratio of a centesimal scale, and what is it presented as and why?

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Dilution = 1:100
C or CH or CK
Latin = Centesimal = hundred or
Centesimal Hahnemannian potency

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what is the dilution ratio of a millesimal scale, and what is it presented as?

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Dilution = 1:1000
M
Latin = millesimal = thousand

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what does the millesimal scale further branch into?

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Fifty Millesimal scale

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what is the dilution ratio of fifty millesimal scale, and what is it presented as?

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Dilution = 1:50,000
LM (L - 50, M = 1000 = 50,000)

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what is the carrier substance?

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Carrier substance is required when making A remedy.

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What is the preferred carrier substance?

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Alcohol due to its stability. (30% alcohol preserves for > 10 years)

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what are the carrier substances can be used?

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lactase/sucrose

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Explain the differences in decimal 1D, 2D, 3D potencies

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E.g. arnica
1D arnica: 1 part arnica o + 9 parts alcohol, and successions x 10
2D arnica: 1 part arnica 1D + 9 parts alcohol, and successions x 10
3D arnica: 1 part arnica 2D + 9 parts alcohol, and successions x 10

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Explain the differences in decimal 1C, 2C, 3C potencies

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E.g. arnica
1C arnica: 1 part arnica o + 99 parts alcohol, and successions x 10
2C arnica: 1 part arnica 1C + 99 parts alcohol, and successions x 10
3C arnica: 1 part arnica 2C + 99 parts alcohol, and successions x 10

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which potencies are usually used in England?

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C potencies;
The most common potencies in England are;
6C, 12C, 33C, 200C, 1000C (1M), 10,000 (XM), 50,000 (50M), 100,000C (CM),1,000,000 (MM)

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What are the most suitable potencies for first aid prescribing?

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30C and 200C are most suitable for first aid prescribing

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which potencies are predominantly used in Germany and France

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D and LM potencies

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36
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Define vital force

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The energy or spirit, which animates living creatures
It is the energy that enables all living things to self heal and maintain homoeostasis

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Break down the word vital force

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Vital = essential
Force = Energy
I.e. energy that is essential for life

38
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what is the vital force called in other cultures?

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Qi, Prana, Life force

39
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What does ill health represent in regards to the vital force

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Disruption to the vital force

40
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How do homoeopathic remedies to promote self-healing in regards to the vital force?

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Stimulate and strengthen

41
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what does proving mean?

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From the German word ‘Profung’ meaning to examine or test
Homoeopathic prepared substance is given to healthy volunteers
Through accordingly the effects (e.g. health disturbances that the substance induces), a pattern unique to that substance is established and used as the basis of treatment.
Treatment addresses states of ill-health - provings induced states of ill-health = the laws of similars
Recognising the state of ill health of an individual and matching it with the state of ill-health induced by a homoeopathic remedy is the art of homoeopathy

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what are the provers?

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Healthy people who volunteer to take part in proving

43
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What did Constantine Hering discover?

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The law of cure

44
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what other five laws of cure?

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  1. From inside out
  2. From more serious organs to less serious organs
  3. From above to below
  4. The mind gets better before the body
  5. Symptoms disappear in the reverse order to when they arrived
45
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what does it mean in Herring’s law of cure when symptoms progress in the reverse order to when they arrived?

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Healing is taking place

46
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what does it mean inheritance Law of cure when symptoms progress in the opposite direction (i.e. not in the reverse order to when they arrived)?

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Suppression

47
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What does herings law of cure inside out mean and give an example?

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clears toxins from the inside to exterior away from more vital organs
E.g. boiled formation

48
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Give an example of herings law of cure - from the more serious organs two less serious organs

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From lungs (asthma) to skin (eczema)

49
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Give an example of herings law of cure - from the above to below

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E.g. psoriasis which moves from the back of the ears, down the arms to the hands

50
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Give an example of herings law of cure - mind gets better before The body

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Anxiety starts improving quieter the improvement of IBS

51
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Give an example of herings law of cure - symptoms disappear in the reverse order to when they arrived

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Eczema that progress to asthma. Asthma resolves first

52
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What is the suppression of symptoms?

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Suppression occurs when symptomatic relief is provided without addressing the underlying imbalance

53
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what happens when symptoms are suppressed?

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It drives the issue deeper
It is the reverse order of herings law of cure

54
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how can suppression occur?

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Suppression of emotions
Suppression of natural body secretions
Local applications
Surgical removal
Suppression of recurring infections
Suppression through palliatives

55
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Given example of suppressor medications / procedures

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Suppression of emotions - antidepressant drugs
Removal of tonsils
The removal of warts
Drugs/cold wraps
Coal tar/zinc creams
Corticosteroid use
Antibiotic use

56
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What can antidepressant drugs lead to?

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Deep-seated anxiety and depression

57
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what can removal of tonsils cause?

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Can result in common colds or throat infections that spread rapidly and develop into chest infections

58
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what can the removal of warts lead to?

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The formation of benign tumours and growth deeper in the body e.g. fibroids, intestinal/nasal polyps.
Warts may return a few years later with increased size and quantity

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What do fever suppressants e.g. drugs/cold wraps do to the immune response?

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Impedes the immune response, allowing the imbalance to deepen

60
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what can cold tar/zinc creams for eczema or psoriasis cause?

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Skin eruptions to spread more superficially and push the disease state deeper resulting in imbalances such as asthma and anxiety

61
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what do corticosteroids used for e.g. asthma and eczema, do?

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Compromise the immune system and can also weaken adrenal function, reducing resilience to stress

62
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what does antibiotic use do?

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Disrupt the bowel flora and can lead to long-term gastric disruption as well as various sequela associated with dysbiosis including autoimmunity, neurological and mood issues

63
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how does suppression of symptoms affect the vital force?

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It blocks the flow of energy. When we suppress the bodies way in which to communicate dis-ease, the body will find an alternative means in communication (e.g. signs and symptoms)
The alternative is often more deep-seated, and more detrimental to the functioning and longevity of the individual e.g. cancer, autoimmunity

64
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what are homoeopathic remedies derived from?

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Minerals and chemicals
Animal
Plant
Nosodes
Sorcodes
Imponderables

65
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give an example of a mineral/chemical sourced remedy

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Calcium phosphate

66
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give an example of an animal sourced homoeopathic remedy?

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Sepia - ink of the squid

67
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give an example of a plant sourced homoeopathic remedy?

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Pulsatilla (pasque flower)

68
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what are nosodes? And give an example?

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Disease tissue
E.g. Syphilinum (product of syphilis)

69
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what are sarcodes? And get an example

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Healthy gland secretions of human, animal or plant origin - not of pathological nature
E.g. ambra (secretion of the sperm whale)

70
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what are imponderables?

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Remedies derived from energies e.g. electricity, x-rays, sun, moon

71
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what are the different preparation types for homoeopathic remedies?

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Liquids potencies
Lactase/sucrose tablets, pills, granules
Cream/appointments
Powders
Ampules (eyedrops are injectables)
Sprays

72
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how are homoeopathic remedies usually absorbed?

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Orally under the town (sublingual) But can also be administered in other ways e.g. topically

73
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what are the different types of homoeopathic practitioners?

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Classical
Clinical
Complex

74
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how does the clinical homoeopathic practitioner work?

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Single remedies, largely based on Kent: totality of symptoms (Sx) with mind as generally the top of the ‘hierarchy of symptoms’ (low to high potencies)

75
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how does a clinical homoeopathic practitioner work?

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Non individualised e.g. arnica for bruising; organ remedies to support e.g. heart, liver function (low potencies)

76
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how does a complex from a profit practitioner work?

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Polypharmacy are you giving many remedies at the same time

77
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what information should a homoeopath tape from my client when case taking

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A thorough case taking investigates the whole person– mental, emotional and physical symptoms with emphasis on how the individual client experiences those symptoms
Include e.g.:
Characteristic nature and onset of symptoms
How the person feels (sensation, emotional response, what makes symptoms better or worse)
Past medical history
Family medical history

78
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What are modalities in homoeopathy?

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Certain factors that affect or modify a symptom i.e. make the symptom better or worse

79
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How are modalities denoted?

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> better for (ameliorated by)
< worse for (advocated by)

80
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What modalities do you include in case taking?

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Time of day, posture (sitting, lying), movement, weather, temperature, light, noise, touch/pressure

81
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how are homoeopathic remedies individualised?

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Looks at the totality of the symptoms in the individual and:
1. Matches them to the correct picture (simillimum - like cures like)
2. Determines the correct potency and frequency of dose
3. Considers obscure cure

82
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how does a homoeopath determine the correct potency and frequency dose?

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Influenced by:
Whether the condition is acute or chronic
The state of the vital force (weak to robust) - the potency ideally needs to be slightly stronger than the vital force

83
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Give an example of an obstacle to cure?

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Poor diet ( disrupt the vital force and therefore the ability to respond to the remedy)
A client with eczema who continues to use corticosteroids cream (suppression)

84
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when is repetition between doses shorter?

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The more acute the situation is (an acute response requires more vital force energy, therefore, more frequent doses are required to maintain the healing response)

85
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How should remedy repetition look in chronic states and why?

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The Vital force is usually weaker, thus the remedy is repeated at less frequent intervals to match the level of vitality

86
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why might a remedy stop working?

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  1. The patient is cured
  2. The remedy has been suppressed (e.g. peppermint toothpaste)
  3. The patient needs a ‘stronger’ remedy (the remedy is a much but the potency is not adequate)
  4. Change of remedy needed (change of state has occurred and the original simillimum no longer applies)
87
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why would you argue the placebo effect (alone) cannot be attributed to improvements in the homoeopathy?

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Shown to be effective in babies and young children
Change be effective in patients to comatose
Change be effective in treating animals

88
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When can a naturopathic practitioner use homoeopathy?

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First aid (to provide rapid relief as a sole treatment or if required, until further medical attention can be sought)When should you refer to a homoeopathic practitioner

89
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When should you refer to a homoeopathic practitioner?

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For acute and chronic prescribing

90
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What is acute prescribing?

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Acute prescribing can overlap with first aid prescribing, however in general is more serious requiring more in-depth knowledge

91
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what is chronic prescribing?

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Chronic (lower potencies with less frequent repetition that taken for longer periods of time - Focus more on constitutional prescribing

92
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How should hhomeopathic remedies be taken?

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Clean mouth
Avoid using mint 30 minutes before and after (can inhibit absorption of the remedy)
Avoid handling the pills as it may reduce their effectiveness
Pills should be sucked or chewed, not swallowed with water
Avoid Food& Drink 15 minutes before and after
Store in a dry dark place away from strong odours

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