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Homeopathy Exam with completesolutions 2024/2025
Remedy - ANSWER-Homeopathic medicine
Potency - ANSWER-the number of serial dilutions and succussions in preparation
of the remedy
Potentization/ dynamization - ANSWER-The process by which the dynamic power
of the substance is released by serial dilutions and succussions
Succussion - ANSWER-vigorous taping of the container which used for
potentization of liquid potencies
Tituration - ANSWER-the process of diluting non-soluble substance by grinding it
to a fine powder and mixing it with lactose powder. This method is used for solid
substances up to 3rd centesimal potency and then will continue potentization in
liquid form.
who is the father of homeopathy - ANSWER-Samuel Hahnemann, M.D.
How did Hahnemann Discovery the law of similars? - ANSWER-Realized this
through experimentation with chinchona bark
After chewing on it he got some of the symptoms associated with malaria ie.
intermittent fevers, diarrhea, mental emotional changes
Stopped taking the bark, and these symptoms went away
Realized that the plant treating malaria, gives malaria symptoms in healthy people
Chinchona (china) officinalis: Rush of ideas in bed, preventing sleep- indifferent-
disobedient...pain worse with the slightest touch, worst at night, every other day,
after eating. Better from hard pressure, bending, with open air, warmth
, what does miasm mean - ANSWER-taint
Hahnamann's Discoveries - ANSWER-the law of similars must guide medical
practise
highly diluted potentized remedies
theory of chronic miasms
who was the first to present the idea of like cures like - ANSWER-Hippocrates
What are the four humours and their temperments - ANSWER-Blood- sanguine
(extroverted, social, impulsive)
Black Bile- melancholic (creative, kind, introverted)
Yellow Bile- Choleric (passionate, charismatic, bossy)
Phlegm- Phlegmatic (dependable, affectionate, slow/lazy)
In the ________ homeopathy regained its strength, doctors were trained by
_________________. - ANSWER-In the 1970's homeopathy regained its strength,
doctors were trained by Geory Vithoulkas
Rationalist school of thought - ANSWER-mechanistic, materialists view of the
body and its functions
reductionist and grouping of disease
heroical theories and heroic treatments
can do better than nature
suppress symptoms
most important symptoms are the common symptoms
Emprical school of thought - ANSWER-sees the body as dynamic, holistic and
individualistic, test and observe phenomena don't theorize, follow nature and the
symptoms (don't suppress), the most important symptoms are the peculiar
symptoms
Variolation - ANSWER-the use of variola virus to prevent small pox
Isopathy/Isotherapy - ANSWER-same cures same
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