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Acute: Ailment not lasting long in its nature and will heal itself
eventually. Commonly, origin is external.
Aggravate: To make worse.
Ameliorate: To make better.
Chronic: Ailment long lasting or reoccurring in its nature. Commonly,
origin is internal.
Constitutional Remedy: A remedy encompassing the whole person
– physically, mentally and spiritually – enabling balance of all three.
Doctrine of Signatures: Similarity of the nature of the object
to the condition it is used to treat.
Herrings Law: The process of cure from above downward, inside
to the outside, the most important organ to the least important organ
in reverse order of occurrence.
Homeopathy: Homeo = similar, pathy = suffering The use of natural
substances to stimulate the mind and body by using the similar agent for
the similar suffering of the patient. Like coffee for nervous jittering
or Arsenic to treat poisoning.
Materia Medica: A listing or remedies, their uses and provings.
(Materia
Medica Pura)
Miasm: Stain, usually referring to genetic predisposition to weariness
of “dis-ease”.
Polycrest: Remedy of many uses.
Potentize: The process of repeated dilutions with successions.
According to homeopathic standards notated by 10 or 100 scales.
Remedy: Substance diluted through precise series of standards
successed and potentized. Used to motivate the body to take healing action.
Repertory: Organized listing of symptoms by body part and indicators
of remedies with that complaint.
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