AIAPGET Homoeopathy flashcards
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- Similia similibus curentur
- Latin for 'like cures like'; the core homoeopathic law that a substance able to produce symptoms in a healthy person can cure similar symptoms in a sick person.
- Homoeopathic proving
- A controlled experiment in which healthy volunteers take a substance and record all symptoms produced, forming the pathogenetic picture used to prescribe that remedy.
- Potentisation
- Serial dilution of a substance with vigorous shaking (succussion) at each step, believed to increase dynamic medicinal power while reducing material toxicity.
- Decimal potency
- A potency scale denoted X or D in which each step dilutes the previous preparation 1:10 followed by succussion, so 6X means six such steps.
- Centesimal potency
- A potency scale denoted C or CH in which each step dilutes 1:100 followed by succussion; 30C is a common low-to-moderate potency.
- LM potency
- Quinquagintamillesimal potency (1:50,000) introduced by Hahnemann in the sixth edition of the Organon; administered in divided doses by olfaction or dilution.
- Totality of symptoms
- The complete individualised set of a patient's symptoms, including peculiar and mental features, which must correspond to the remedy's proving picture.
- Characteristic symptom
- A symptom that is peculiar, rare, or individual to the patient and therefore highly useful for selecting the similimum; graded highest in repertories.
- Miasms
- Hahnemann's classification of chronic disease tendencies into Psora, Sycosis, and Syphilis, each linked to a characteristic pattern of chronic pathology.
- Psora
- The oldest and most fundamental miasm in Hahnemann's chronic disease theory, held to underlie most chronic non-venereal disease and many skin and functional complaints.
- Sycosis
- The miasm associated with gonorrhoeal and condylomatous disease, expressed as overgrowth, warts, and mucous membrane or glandular pathology.
- Syphilitic miasm
- The miasm linked to syphilitic disease, associated with destructive, ulcerative, and bone or nervous system pathology.
- Hering's law of cure
- The observation that healing proceeds from within outward, from above downward, from vital to less vital organs, and in reverse order of symptom appearance.
- Organon of Medicine
- Hahnemann's foundational text on homoeopathic theory and practice, comprising 291 aphorisms; the sixth edition introduced LM potencies.
- Single remedy principle
- The practice of prescribing one remedy at a time whose proving picture best matches the totality, so that the effect of each prescription can be evaluated.
- Minimum dose
- The principle that the smallest dose sufficient to stimulate a curative reaction should be used, reducing the risk of medicinal aggravation.
- Aggravation
- A temporary worsening of symptoms after a remedy, either homoeopathic (favourable, brief) or medicinal (due to excessive dose or repetition).
- Repertory
- An index of symptoms with the remedies associated with each, graded by intensity or frequency, used to systematically select the similimum.
- Materia medica
- The collected body of drug pictures derived from provings and clinical experience, describing each remedy's symptom profile and modalities.
- Modalities
- Factors that modify a symptom, such as time of day, temperature, position, or food, and which help distinguish between otherwise similar remedies.
- Constitutional remedy
- A remedy selected on the patient's overall physical build, temperament, and general reactions rather than on a single acute complaint.
- Nosode
- A remedy prepared from diseased tissue or a pathological product, used on the basis of the disease picture rather than a classical proving.
- Sarcode
- A remedy prepared from healthy animal tissue or organ, used in homoeopathy on the basis of organ affinity and tissue similarity.
- Succussion
- Vigorous shaking of a dilution at each potentisation step, regarded in homoeopathy as essential to developing the remedy's dynamic properties.
- Placebo-controlled proving
- A proving design in which some volunteers receive placebo, allowing symptoms reported to be distinguished from background or coincidental complaints.
- Hahnemannian case taking
- A structured interview recording the chief complaint, history, mental state, generals, particulars, and modalities to build the totality of symptoms.
- Keynote symptom
- A striking, highly characteristic symptom that is strongly associated with a particular remedy and can guide prescription even when other symptoms differ.
- Suppression
- The disappearance of an external symptom after treatment while deeper pathology develops, regarded in homoeopathy as a poor direction of cure.
- Centesimal scale notation
- Potencies written as a number followed by C or CH, where each unit represents one 1:100 dilution step with succussion.
- Remedy reaction assessment
- Evaluation after prescribing of whether symptoms improve, aggravate briefly, or shift, guiding whether to wait, repeat, or change the remedy.
- Acute prescribing
- Selection of a remedy for a short-lived, self-limiting condition based on the current characteristic symptoms rather than the full constitutional picture.
- Antimiasmatic treatment
- Prescribing aimed at the underlying chronic miasm using remedies chosen for the miasmatic pattern in addition to the presenting symptoms.
- Drug dynamisation
- Hahnemann's term for the potentisation process by which dilution and succussion are held to release the latent dynamic power of a substance.