(Conventional) The treatment of disease using medicines whose effects are different from those of the disease being treated. Based on the principle of Law of Opposites.
Catalyst
A substance that precipitates a process or event.
Energetic Road Sign
See Potency
EFT
Emotional Freedom Technique. An emotional form of acupuncture that uses
tapping with fingertips to relieve emotional problems, traumas or fears.
Homeopathy
A natural therapeutic medical science which holistically treats illness and
inherent constitutional problems by apply the "like cures like" principle and
using minute quantities of specially prepared substances.
Law of Cure
(Hering's Law) The concept that during homeopathic treatment of a disease,
symptoms disappear in an orderly manner, from above downwards, from vital to
less vital organs, from the most recent to the earliest symptoms and in reverse
order to their appearance.
Law of Similars
The doctrine that any drug which is capable of producing a morbid symptom in
the healthy will remove similar symptoms occurring as an expression of
disease.
Like Cures Like
See Law of Similars
LCPH
Licentiate of College of Practical Homeopathy (4 year course).
MET
Meridian Energy Therapist - someone qualified to use a form of alternative
medicine based on the pressure of acupressure points.
MHMA (UK)
Registered Member of Homeopathic Medical Association.
Potency
The power, vitality or strength, which a homeopathic remedy possesses, often
represented as a number attached to the remedy name. The potency of a remedy
comes as a result of the succussion step in the remedy preparation step.
Potentisation
The process of preparing a homeopathic remedy by repeated dilution with
succussion. It may be said that potentisation involves the transfer of
information from one substance to another.
Proving
The process of determining the medicinal & curative properties of a substance.
Remedy Machine
A small machine developed over the last 30 years to impose a remedy potency
onto a blank pill.
SCIO
A computerised biofeedback device used to detect stressors in a patient's body.
Once detected the energetic wave pattern of the stressor can be inverted and
aid recovery. It tests 8000 items in three minutes and gives the therapist
a thorough indication of the root of many illnesses and allergies.
Similia similbus Currentur
Latin for "likes are cured by likes" A homeopathic formula expressing the Law
of Similars.
Succussion
To vigorously shake. Traditionally by banging the remedy heavily on a heavy
surface.
