unit 12 Flashcards

Question

how can immunization be viewed from a homeopathic perspective?

Answer 1

It can be seen as a homeopathic treatment by application of the law of similar. Or, as is often the case with modern homeopaths, prevention by vaccine can be rejected because the vaccine has not been potentized

Answer 2

the stronger the effects

Answer 3

1) tincture preparation—the plant or part of the plant is cultivated at the appropriate time and cleaned by washing. Juice of the plant or its part is added to alcohol and is referred to as a mother tincture. 2) trituration—when the substance is insoluble, it is ground for three hours with powdered milk sugar (lactose). This process is said to reduce the substance to the millionth dilution at which point the substance is soluble in water.

Answer 4

tinctures, granules, and powders. The remedies are administered orally by placement under the tongue, sipped in water, or made into tablets with a lactose carrier. The amount or type of remedy that an individual may receive as a treatment varies depending on the individual’s response.

Answer 5

The potency of the solution is defined by adding the letter “C” or “X” after the identified solution Known as the centesimal 1C = 1/100; 3C = 1/1,000,000 or 1X = 1/10; 3X = 1/1,000; 6X = 1,000,000 Thus, a 30X potency means that the original substance has been diluted 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times

Answer 6

Homeopathic medicines are classed as natural health products and come under the authority of the Natural Health Products Directorate, a branch of Health Canada. In that respect they are regulated in the same way as herbal preparations and dietary supplements.

Answer 7

A careful reading of the textbook chapter strongly suggests that the therapy is tailor made for generating the placebo effect. The section headed “Case Taking” (page 348) describes how practitioners of homeopathy assess their patients. They typically spend much longer with each patient than is the case with conventional physicians. Such long and detailed consultations seem likely to help bring about the placebo effect after a medicine has been given

Answer 8

The first problem, and by far the larger, is that treatments are given where the medicine does not contain a single molecule of the drug. The second problem is there are more than 2000 homeopathic treatments and a great many possible conditions where they might be used.

Answer 9

The majority of studies lack methodological rigour. It is clear that the question of whether homeopathy is more effective than placebo treatment has not been settled.

Answer 10

Classical homeopathic practitioners prescribe a single remedy for the totality of an individual’s symptoms. That is, patients are evaluated taking into consideration their mental, emotional, and physical symptoms. The symptoms are graphed against the associated homeopathic remedies, a process called repertorization. A remedy is selected that addresses all of the patient’s symptoms; this remedy is called a constitutional. Other considerations in assessment include responses of the patient to temperature, biorhythms, environment, food cravings and aversions, and family history.

Answer 11

complex homeopathic practitioners use multiple remedies to treat a specific condition. Combinations of homeopathic remedies have become popular over-the-counter remedies and are often self-prescribed.

Answer 12

some prescribing on the basis of the totality of symptoms, some on acute presentations, others consider constitutional types or essential features, while others use the disease agent itself in a dilute form to treat the disease. Sometimes practitioners will use electroacupuncture instruments to diagnose physiologic disturbance.

Answer 13

The system is very popular in both France and Germany. It has a long record of use in Britain where homeopathic hospitals and clinics have been a part of the National Health System. However, some health authorities in Britain have decided to stop paying for homeopathic treatment due to the lack of evidence of clinical benefit.

Answer 14

There is no formal licensing requirement for homeopaths in Canada. However, the Canadian Society of Homeopaths, which was set up in 2006, acts as a professional organization that homeopaths may join. The organization requires that all members follow a code of conduct and practice.

Answer 15

In Canada treatment by a homeopath is not covered by government funded health care but is reimbursed by several health insurance organizations, such as Blue Cross.

Answer 16

Homeopathic medicines pose virtually no risk of causing toxic side effects.Herbal preparations, by contrast, have often been linked to toxic side effects.

Answer 17

When a substance is dissolved in a solvent, the chemical structure of the solvent is changed so that information of energized potencies is stored. This concept is at complete variance with accepted concepts of chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmacology.

Answer 18

Homeopathy has very few advantages. The considerable amount of time that practitioners spend with their patients, followed by giving a medicine, often helps make patients feel better. However, this is likely to be largely or totally due to the placebo effect. A serious disadvantage of homeopathy is that if the patient has a condition that can be helped by conventional medicine, then homeopathy might be harmful.

Answer 19

There are no differences in the way that homeopathic medicines, herbal preparations, and dietary supplements are regulated in Canada. They are all regulated by the Natural Health Products Directorate, a branch of Health Canada.