AIAPGET Homoeopathy cheat sheet

Homoeopathy

• Hahnemann's three fundamental principles: similia similibus curentur (like cures like), the single remedy, and the minimum dose; potentisation links the last two.

• Proving (homoeopathic pathogenetic trial) is a systematic experiment of a substance on healthy volunteers; symptoms recorded constitute the drug's materia medica picture.

• The Law of Similars requires the totality of symptoms of the patient to match the pathogenetic symptom totality of the remedy, not a single symptom.

• Potencies: decimal (X, 1:10), centesimal (C, 1:100), and quinquagintamillesimal (LM/Q, 1:50,000); each step is dilution followed by succussion.

• Hahnemann's chronic disease theory (Theory of Chronic Miasm) names three miasms: Psora, Sycosis, and Syphilis; Psora is held to underlie most chronic disease.

• The Organon of Medicine has 6 editions; the 6th (1842, published posthumously 1921) introduced the LM potency and the olfaction/dry dose method.

• Hering's Law of Cure: symptoms resolve from within outward, from above downward, from more important to less important organs, and in reverse order of appearance.

• Repertory logic: symptoms are graded 1-3 (or bold/italic/plain); the most characteristic, peculiar, and rare symptoms carry the highest repertorial value.

• Idiosyncrasy and susceptibility govern remedy reaction; the minimum dose principle holds that the smallest stimulus capable of producing a reaction is preferred to avoid aggravation.