Intro

Question 1

Who discovered the Laws of similars ?

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

Who is the founder of homeopathy?

Answer 2

Samuel Hahnemann

Question 3

Who decided to apply the Law of Similars to medical tx’s?

Answer 3

Samuel Hahnemann

Question 4

What are 3 of Hahnemann’s discoveries?

Answer 4

1. The law of similars must guide medical practice
2. The highly situated, potentized remedies
   -the more dilute, the more potent
3. The theory of chronic miasms

Question 5

How diluted are remedies?

Answer 5

Beyond avogradros number
= 6022 x 10^23 mol

Question 6

Chinchona bark can be used for malaria treatment. What are the symptoms associated with it?

Answer 6

-rush of ideas in bed, preventing sleep
-indifferent, disobient,
-worse with touch, at night, after eating, every other day
-better with hard pressure, bending double, with open air & warmth

Question 7

Classical homeopathy 4 laws?

Answer 7

1. Law of similars
2. Single remedy
3. Minimum dose
4. Totality of symptoms

Question 8

Law of similars?

Answer 8

Individualize the case: Unique set of symptoms, characteristic symptoms

Prescribe accordingly: Find a matching remedy most similar to the case

Question 9

Single Remedy?

Answer 9

Find the most similar remedy (similimmum/ Simile), No combos

Question 10

Minimum dose

Answer 10

First do no harm, use potentized remedies, match the intensity

Question 11

Totality of symptoms?

Answer 11

Characteristic symptoms = relevant symptoms.
(can’t match every symptom)

Question 12

What is small pox vaccine as example of?

Answer 12

Homeopathic prophylaxis