Keywords and Terms

Question 1

Similia Similibus Curantur

Answer 1

Like cures like. Mentioned by Hippocrates, Paracelsus, and Hahnemann

Question 2

Herin’s Law of Cure

Answer 2

All cure starts from

• within, out
• from head down
• in reverse order symptoms have appeared

Question 3

Organon of Medicine

Answer 3

Hahnemann’s work (1810) laying out tenants of the practice of homeopathic medicine

Question 4

Vital Force

Answer 4

Energy given off by Spirit that resides in all living things

Question 5

Similimum

Answer 5

The most exact homeopathic remedy for a sick patient.

Question 6

Homeopathy

Answer 6

System of medicine guided by principle that a substance that causes a symptom pattern in a healthy individual can cure the disease that exhibits the same pattern in a sick individual

Question 7

Allopathy

Answer 7

System of medicine which treats disease by remedies that produce different effects from those produced by the disease under treatment

Question 8

Isopathy

Answer 8

Treatment of disease by using the causal agent of the same disease. I.e. vaccines, homeopathic sarcodes for dysfunctional glands or organs

Question 9

Repertory

Answer 9

Compilation of symptoms catalogued alphabetically and by organ.
Each Sx has medicine that has been clinically observed and verified to cure that sx

Question 10

Rubric

Answer 10

A list of medicines that cure a certain symptom

Question 11

Materia medica

Answer 11

Medicinal quialities of all the substances used in homeopathy

Question 12

Exciting cause

Answer 12

A force that causes a person to get into a remedy state- to become symptomatic. Something cause excites or causes disease
Ie: death of loved one, abuse, certain foods, accidents

Exciting cause+ susceptibility= disease state

Question 13

Characteristic Symptom

Answer 13

A symptom that has a unique aspect about it

I.e. H/A starts at 3pm

Question 14

Combination remedies

Answer 14

Low does remedies that are combined (X or low C)

Question 15

Keynote

Answer 15

Symptom unique to a medicine

I.e. delusions of being brittle (thuja)

Question 16

Proving

Answer 16

Method used to understand medicinal indiciations of a substance.
A group of healthy volunteers take repeated doses of a homeopathic substance and record changes and symptoms- from dreams to physical sx

Question 17

Aggravation

Answer 17

Temporary worsening of symptoms cause by a medicine. A true aggravation is a good sign that the proper remedy was given

Question 18

Succuss

Answer 18

To strike a contained medicine in order to potentize the substance

Question 19

Potentization

Answer 19

Dilute and succuss. A substance’s medicinal properties increase while it’s toxic properties are minimized

Question 20

Miasm

Answer 20

Pace and depth of dz, and the level of desperation the patient percieves

Question 21

Modality

Answer 21

Factors that make a sx better or worse

-time of day, moon cycles, lying down, coughing, thinking of a complain

Question 22

Concomitants

Answer 22

Sx that happen in tandem

-diarrhea during vomiting, perspiration during H/A

Question 23

Physical Generals

Answer 23

Any physical sx or modality which relates to the person as a whole
I.e. head-pain-increased suddenly compared to generals-pain-appearing suddenly
-includes thermal, time, aggravation

Question 24

Antidote

Answer 24

Something that stops or blocks the action of a remedy

Medicine and patient antidotes differ.

Question 25

X Potency

Answer 25

1:9

Question 26

C Potency

Answer 26

1:99
CK- Korsakovian
CH- Hahnemannian

Question 27

M Potency

Answer 27

C potentized 1000 times

Question 28

Sarcodes

Answer 28

Remedies made from healthy human tissue

Question 29

Nosodes

Answer 29

Made from disease tissue

• Psorinum- scabies
• Scirrhinum- Hepatocellular carcinoma

Question 30

Imponderables

Answer 30

Things or matters beyond measure or comprehension

-xray: for cancer patients (offsets radiation)

Question 31

Schuessler’s 12 Tissue Salts

Answer 31

Remaining organic salts after tissue has been burnt

Question 32

SRP

Answer 32

Strange, rare, peculiar

Question 33

Sal lac

Answer 33

Unmedicated lactose pellets for patients who need the ritual of “taking something” every day. Placebo.

Question 34

Coping state

Answer 34

Early stages of remedy state. The organism can fnction, but symptoms are beginning to be experienced

Question 35

Failed State

Answer 35

Remedy state has taken over the organism- this is when tissues begin to fail… the mind is in disarray. Collapse/exhaustion