Key Terms - wk2

Question 1

Organon of Medicine

Answer 1

Hahnemann’s seminal work. First published 1810. 6 Ed. 1842. Lays out the tenants of the practice of homeopathic medicine.

Question 2

Vital force

Answer 2

Energy given off by the Spirit that resides within all living things. QI, Ki, Peña, vital energy different names

Question 3

Similimum

Answer 3

The most exact homeopathic remedy for a sick patient. The most similar.

Question 4

Homeopathy

Answer 4

The system of medicine that is guided by the principle that a substance that causes a specific symptom pattern in a healthy individual, will cure the disease that is exhibiting the same pattern of symptoms. Like cures like.

Question 5

Allopathy

Answer 5

The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. Allo=other,
Pathos=suffering

Question 6

isopathy

Answer 6

The treatment of disease by means of the casual agent or a product of the some disease

Question 7

Repertory

Answer 7

A compilation of symptoms cataloged in alphabetical order and usually grouped by organ. Each symptom has a list of medicines that have clinically been observed and verified to cure that symptom

Question 8

Rubric

Answer 8

A symptom in the repertory that have one, or a list of medicines that cures that symptom.