Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1

According Hahnemann, what is the action of a medicine on the body?

Answer 1

“The only curative action of the drug is to elicit the response from the body”

Question 2

What are the 4 tenets of classical homeopathy?

Answer 2

1. Law of similars
2. Minimum dose
3. Single remedy
4. Whole person

Question 3

What is the definition of an acute disease?

Answer 3

• Relatively sudden onset
• Relatively short-lived
• Will either resolve, or the person will die?

Question 4

What is the ultimate cause of disease?

Answer 4

Disturbance of the vital force

Question 5

What are the three types of homeopathic treatment?

Answer 5

First aid
Acute illness
Chronic illness

Question 6

Why do we only use one remedy?

Answer 6

There is only one vital force, and we’re matching what a remedy can do to the symptoms of the patient

Question 7

What potency is beyond avogadro’s number?

Answer 7

12C or 24X

Question 8

Recite Herring’s laws of cure

Answer 8

1. More important parts before less important parts
2. Inside before outside
3. Superior before inferior
4. More recent before more remote

Question 9

What’s our first question?

Answer 9

What needs to be cured?

Question 10

What is Vithoulkas’ definition of health?

Answer 10

Mental: freedom to be able to think clearly in an altruistic way
Emotional: Freedom to feel emotions appropriate emotions without getting stuck in them
Physical: Freedom from limitation of physical body

Question 11

How do you identify a true acute?

Answer 11

• Change in mental/emotional sx
• Change in physical generals
• Significant physical sx (e.g. really high fever)

Question 12

What components are needed for a complete symptom?

Answer 12

• Etiology
• Sensation
• Location/extension
• Modalities
• Concomitants
• Alternations