Lecture 2

Question 1

Who said the Law of Similars must guide medical practice?

Answer 1

Hahnemann

Question 2

Who discovered highly diluted, potentized remedies?

Answer 2

Hahnemann

Question 3

Who developed the theory of chronic miasms?

Answer 3

Hanhemann

Question 4

Hahnemann was translating a book from who?

Answer 4

Dr. Cullen’s

Question 5

What did Hahnemann want to experiment with?

Answer 5

Cinchona bark

Question 6

How did Hahnemann experiment with cinchona bark?

Answer 6

He would ingest it a few times a day and then found that he would get a fever, behaviour/personality was different, sleep issues, headaches, overall his state was shifted. When he stopped taking it, symptoms were gone. Realized symptoms were similar to malaria, which is when he realized cinchona was used for treatment of malaria.

Question 7

T/F: Hahnemann was not a target and everyone loved his discoveries

Answer 7

False, he became a “target”

Question 8

Who were followers of Hahnemann?

Answer 8

Constatine Hering & Clemens M. F von Bonninghausen

Question 9

What lead to the death of homeopathy in the 19th & 20th century?

Answer 9

developments of modern medicine

Question 10

How did homeopathy survive?

Answer 10

lay homeopaths & individuals using homeopathy for their children or “clients”

Question 11

What happened to homeopathy in 1970?

Answer 11

• it regained strength
• doctors were trained by George Vithoulkas

Question 12

What did Hahnemann realize about remedies & potency?

Answer 12

More potent remedies were better with more dilution

Question 13

T/F: Dilution is beyond Avogadro’s number.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What does miasm mean?

Answer 14

something “tainted”, “infectious, contaminated”

Question 15

How did Constantine Hering start practicing homeopathy?

Answer 15

He wanted to disapprove homeopathy so he began to learn it, where he quit medical school and then began to practice homeopathy

Question 16

Who’s tuberculosis was cured by homeopathy?

Answer 16

Clemens M. F von Bonninghausen

Question 17

T/F: Many medical school started as homeopathic college.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What are the 4 principles of classical homeopathy?

Answer 18

• law of similars
• single remedy
• minimum dose
• totality of symptoms

Question 19

Define Law of Similars.

Answer 19

individualize the case, unique set of symptoms, characteristics of symptoms, prescribe accordingly, find a matching remedy, most similar to the case

Question 20

Define single remedy.

Answer 20

Find the most similar remedy, simillimum or simile, no combinations

Question 21

Define Minimum dose

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Define totality of symptoms.

Answer 22

characteristics symptoms, relevant symptoms, can’t macth every symptom

Question 23

Homeopathy is the application of the Law of Similars in medical practice; using the Law of Similars to prescribe remedies.
What is homeotherapy, or homeotherapeutics, which uses complex remedies? (the new meaning, not the traditional meaning which is a synonym for homeopathy)

Answer 23

use of so-called “homeopathic” remedies, but not necessarily following the Law of Similars for their indication. They can be prescribed to address a diagnosed condition, a pathology, and not according to the individual’s set of symptoms.

The fact that they are combinations may increase the odds that one of the ingredients will match the symptom picture of the case and help, but the odds are not always very good (and the remedy fails). There is also a risk that the combo will affect the patient in unpredictable ways.

Question 24

If a patient suffers from malaria, and some of their symptoms are better in open air and with warmth, but they tend to feel worse at night and after eating, could they try China (Cinchona) officinalis to treat the malaria?

Answer 24

yes, since cichona is good for intermittent fevers (individualized), matching symptoms with those of china, may take more than one dose

Question 25

When making a homeopathic remedy, can we dilute a substance with a series of dilutions, for example, 1:99 (to make a centesimal scale remedy), and NOT do any succussion between the dilutions?

Answer 25

No, without the succussion process after each dilution, the remedies, do not retain the active properties of the substance

Question 26

What is succussion and what does it do?

Answer 26

Creates a chock wave in the liquid by hitting a bouncy surface allowing the signature of the substance to be impregnated onto the liquid and its properties are transferred to the dilution

Question 27

What occurs during succussion with reference to toxicity and activity.

Answer 27

Remedy will lose its toxicity but gain activity