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tabular compilation of strengths of remedies in symptoms leading to a selection of a remedy
symptoms taking place at the same time
Hahnemannian schema
listing the symptoms in anatomical order beginning with head, then nose, eyes, face, etc.
Isopathy
giving a product of a disease (nosode) for the disease itself, thus administering the same thing in an attenuated form. Homeopathy is the administering of similar wholly foreign agents to diseased conditions. Introduced by Dr. Lux in 1823 who along with Hering taught that the toxins were capable of a cure.
Keynote
or characteristic symptoms
those which identify a remedy apart from another remedy by being very specific
and uncommon.
Nosode remedy prepared from the morbid product of disease. Psorinum, Syphilinum and Tuberculinum are principle nosodes. Ambra grisea although not classed by pharmacists as a nosode is a diseased animal product.
Pharmacodynamics
a division of pharmacology which considers the effects and uses of medicines.
Pharmacology a division of Materia Medica which treats the action of drugs upon the living body.
Polychrest (Greek for many uses) a remedy very frequently used, whose range is extensive.
PQRS
symptoms
peculiar, queer, rare, strange
Sarcode remedy prepared from healthy animal tissues and secretions
Therapeutics the application of drugs to diseases for their relief or cure. This includes all that relates to the art of healing by other remedial measures such as nutrition, climate, clothing, bathing, nursing, applications of heat, cold, electricity, etc.
