UF Potency energy
BT Basic research in homeopathy

SN An illness with rapid onset (after EDH)
BT Disease concepts

SN Noxious and unintended responses produced by a drug in an organism,
different from the symptoms from which the organism is already suffering.
(Used with drugs, chemicals, or biological agents in
accepted dosage - or with physical agents or manufactured
products in normal usage - when intended for diagnostic,
therapeutic, prophylactic, or anaesthetic purposes.
It is used also for adverse effects or complications
of diagnostic, therapeutic, prophylactic, anaesthetic,
surgical or other procedures, but excludes contraindications
(MeSH).)
UF Drug pathogenesis
UF Side effects
BT Drug reactions

USE Aggravation modalities

SN Factors such as time of day, weather, movement or
position of the body which cause existing symptoms
to become worse.
UF Aggravation factors
RT Homeopathic aggravation
BT Modalities
NT Food aggravation

SN Simple extraction process in which a drug of organic
origin is steeped in an alcohol until the soluble matter
contained in the cells has been dissolved (after Gaier).
BT Maceration

USE Allopathy

SN Treatment whose action is directly opposed to or incompatible
with the effects of the disease (EDH).
UF Allopathic medicine
BT Medical philosophy

USE Intercurrent drugs prescribing

USE COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

USE Self healing

USE Amelioration modalities

SN Factors such as time of day, weather, movement or
position of the body which cause a reduction in the
severity of symptoms.
UF Amelioration factors
BT Modalities
NT Food amelioration

USE Case taking

BT Object of research

SN Preparations manufactured according to special homoeopathic
or anthroposophical preparation methods
BT Chemicals and drugs

SN System of medicine based upon the insights
and teachings of Rudolph Steiner (after EDH) (Anthroposophy is
used in MeSH and can be used for indexing philosophical aspects)
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

SN The action of any substance or procedure counteracting
the effect of a drug in an organism (EDH).
RT Antidotes
BT Drug relationships
BT Obstacles to cure
NT Life style effects

SN Substances or circumstances which counteract the effect
of a drug (after EDH)
RT Antidotal effects
BT Chemicals and drugs
NT Camphor
NT Coffee
NT Menthol

SN The stimulation and regulation of the body's self-healing
powers, through the administration of single or complex
homeopathic drugs (all types), as part of a holistic and
probiotic approach to medicine (after Reckeweg).
UF Homotoxicological therapy
RT Homotoxicology
BT Homeopathic therapies

USE Hormesis

SN Technique using relative muscle strength often used
to find the right homeopathic drug (Kinesiology, applied
is used in MeSH)
BT Diagnostic methods

SN Fear of what may happen
BT Mental symptoms

UF Purified water
BT Drug carriers

BT History
NT Museums

USE Hormesis

USE Sensations as if symptoms

SN Treatment with the patient's own blood (after EDH).
BT Autoisopathy

SN Treatment using preparations of the patient's own body substances (EDH).
UF Autopathy
RT Autonosodes
BT Isopathy
NT Autohemic therapy

SN Potentization by machine.
BT Potentization

SN Nosodes prepared from pathological material produced
by the patient's own disease process (EDH)
RT Autoisopathy
BT Nosodes

USE Autoisopathy

USE Self healing

SN Strong and specific dislikes. Relates to food, environmental
factors, situations and activities. Indicates a disturbance
of the patient's equilibrium (EDH).
BT General symptoms
NT Food aversions

SN English bacteriologist (1886-1936) who worked for a time
at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. Originator
of the Bach Flower Remedies (EDH).
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

USE Bach flower remedies

SN A set of 38 drugs developed by Dr Edward Bach in
the 1930s. They are prescribed on the basis of the
patient's psychological characteristics, particularly their
response to their illness (EDH).
UF Bach flower drugs
BT Chemicals and drugs

SN A therapy based on a theory developed by Dr Edward Bach in the 1930s.
The 38 drugs are prescribed on the basis of the patient's psychological
characteristics, particularly their response to their illness (after EDH)
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

SN Research concerned with fundamental aspects of homeopathy
including mathematical models.
BT Homeopathic research
NT Activity of potency
NT Biological models
NT Biophysical research
NT Experimental research
NT Hormesis
NT Inhibition of potency
NT Object of research
NT Physical models
NT State of the subjects

SN German physician (1861-1949) and promoter of homeopathy
and naturopathy.
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

SN Homeopathic preparations of certain inorganic salts
in low potencies (after EDH).
UF Biochemic remedies
UF Biochemic tissue salts
UF Schussler tissue salts
UF Tissue remedies
RT Biochemic therapy
BT Homeopathic drugs

USE Biochemic drugs

SN Therapeutic method directed at homeopathic drugging
deficiencies or imbalance of inorganic salts essential
to the health of the organism using homeopathic preparations
of these salts in low potencies as indicated by the
characteristic clinical picture (EDH)
UF Schussler salt therapy
RT Biochemic drugs
BT Homeopathic therapies

USE Biochemic drugs

BT LITERATURE

SN A borderline between self-regulatuion and self-healing on the one hand,
and the failure of self-regulation mechanisms on the other hand. Runs
between the deposition and the impregnation phases (after Schmid)
BT Six phases table

BT Basic research in homeopathy
NT Bystander reaction
NT Matrix regulation

BT Basic research in homeopathy
NT Electromagnetism

SN Therapy in which homeopathic or herbal drugs are
0injected in acupuncture -, trigger -, Weihe points,
muscles, joints, connective tissue and fibres.
RT Homeosiniatry
RT Neural therapy
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

SN The use of electromagentic frequencies in the body in order to be
able to perform a diagnosis or therapy
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
BT Diagnostic methods

USE Hormesis

SN Lawyer and physician (1785-1864). Outstanding pupil
and disciple of Hahnemann. Author of the first repertory (EDH).
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

SN Physician (1849-1929). Author of Boericke's Materia medica.
Co-founder of Pacific Homoeopathic Medical College (USA) 1881 (Yasgur).
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

NT Materia medica
NT Organon
NT Pharmacopoeias
NT Repertory

SN Group of 12 homeopathic drugs identified by Bach and
developed by John and Elizabeth Paterson. Prepared from
organisms obtained by stool culture (EDH)
BT Nosodes

USE Synergistic effects

SN The triggering, due to low to medium potentized proteins, of the development
of antiinflammatory lymphocytes (Th3 cells)
BT Biological models

SN Homeopathic drugs that have been prepared using
a dilution of one part in a hundred (after EDH).
UF Centesimal potencies
RT Centesimal potentization
BT Potencies

BT Antidotes

SN Acquired or inherited effects of cancer. The miasm
of adaptive failure (after Gaier, p.345).
UF Oncotic miasm
BT Miasms

BT Dosage forms

SN Nebel's association of relatively short, stocky,
often obese people with certain characteristics of
Calcarea carbonica (EDH).
BT Constitutional types

SN The process of finding the ideal prescription by
identifying and assigning values to the
characteristics of the clinical picture and
correlating these with Materia Medica information.
This may or may not involve the use of a Repertory (EDH).
BT Case analysis and treatment
NT Evaluation of symptoms
NT Repertorization

BT Homeopathic diagnostics and treatment
NT Case analysis
NT Prescribing strategies

USE Case report

SN Presentation of information on an individual clinical case after MeSH)
UF Case histories
UF Case studies
UF Casuistics
UF Clinical cases
BT Clinical research

SN The collection of cases presenting information in the form of
analysis of individual cases (after MeSH)
BT Clinical research

USE Case report

SN The process of eliciting and recording the case
history (EDH)
UF Anamnesis
UF Medical history taking
BT Homeopathic diagnostics and treatment
NT Defective case taking
NT Partial case taking
NT Total case taking

USE Case report

SN Homeopathically prepared drugs from the citric acid cycle,
quinones and other compunds (e.g. co-enzymes, vitamins)
or a combination of these
UF Intermediary catalysts
BT Homeopathic drugs

USE Etiology

USE Etiology

SN In the cellular phase of a disease, enzyme systems are
damaged, and the defense systems of the body may not
be able to eliminate the toxins.
BT Six phases table
NT Dedifferentiation phase
NT Degeneration phase

USE C Potencies

SN Potentization where each stage of dilution is at a scale
of 1:100.
RT C Potencies
BT Potentization

SN Any well-marked, typical feature, attribute or trait which
will serve as a distinguishing peculiarity or quality (Gaier).
RT Drug picture
BT Symptomatology
NT Concomitant symptoms
NT General symptoms
NT Guiding symptoms
NT Local symptoms
NT Mental symptoms
NT Objective symptoms
NT Proving symptoms
NT Sensations as if symptoms
NT Subjective symptoms

SN Tree head only
BT Homeopathy
NT Anthroposophic drugs
NT Antidotes
NT Bach flower remedies
NT Homeopathic drugs

SN An illness whose onset is usually gradual and whose
course is of long duration with no certain prospect of
recovery (EDH, p.35).
BT Disease concepts

SN British homeopathic physician (1853-1931). Wrote Dictionary
of Practical Materia Medica (Yasgur)
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

SN Method of homeopathic therapeutics using a single
drug, prescribed on the similia principle in a single
prescription (after EDH).
UF Unicist homeopathy
RT Classical homeopathy doctrine
RT Clinical homeopathy
BT Homeopathic therapies

SN Theory of homeopathic therapeutics using a single drug, prescribed
on the similia principle in a single prescription (after EDH)
UF Unicism
RT Classical homeopathy
BT Homeopathic doctrines

BT Theoretical models
NT Water clusters

USE Case report

SN Method of homeopathic therapeutics being based mainly
on guiding symptoms and on the predominant correspondence
to somatic symptoms, organ affinities, tissue affinities, disease
affinity, etiological prescribing and specifics. Used by J. Mezger,
A. Stiegele, K. Stauffer and O. Leeser, EA Farrington and M. Dorcsi (EDH)
RT Classical homeopathy
RT Clinical homeopathy doctrine
BT Homeopathic therapies

SN Theory of homeopathic therapeutics based mainly on guiding
symptoms and on the predominant correspondence to somatic
symptoms, organ affinities, tissue affinities, disease affinity,
etiological prescribing and specifics. Used by J. Mezger,
A. Stiegele, K. Stauffer and O. Leeser, EA Farrington and
M. Dorcsi and others (after EDH).
RT Clinical homeopathy
BT Homeopathic doctrines

USE Clinical trials

SN Clinical investigations of humans and animals in order to
establish the safety and efficacy of diagnostic, therapeutic, or
prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques as well as
to collect epidemiological data.
BT Homeopathic research
NT Case report
NT Case series
NT Clinical trials
NT Clinical verification
NT Homeopathic drug provings
NT Meta analysis
NT Study design

USE Clinical trials

SN Pre-planned clinical trial of the safety, efficacy or optimum
dosage schedule of one or more diagnostic, therapeutic or
prophylactic drugs, devices or techniques in humans selected
according to predetermined criteria of eligibility and observed
for predefined evidence of favorable and unfavorable effects (MeSH)
UF Clinical investigation
UF Clinical studies
BT Clinical research
NT Clinical trials phase I
NT Clinical trials phase II
NT Clinical trials phase III
NT Clinical trials phase IV
NT Postmarketing surveillance studies

SN A pre-planned, usually controlled, clinical trial of the safety
and effects of diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs,
devices or techniques based on a small number of healthy
persons or patients according to GCP (after MeSH)
BT Clinical trials

SN A pre-planned, usually controlled, clinical trial of the safety and
efficacy of diagnostic, therapeutic, prophylactic drugs, devices
or techniques based on several hundred volunteers, including a
limited number of patients according to GCP (after MeSH)
BT Clinical trials

SN A pre-planned, usually controlled, clinical trial of the safety
and efficacy of diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs,
devices or techniques after phase II trials. A large enough
group of patients is studied and closely monitored by physicians
for adverse response to long-term exposure according to GCP
(after MeSH)
BT Clinical trials

SN Planned post-marketing studies of diagnostic, therapeutic
or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques that have been
approved for general sale after clinical trials, phase I, II and III
according to GCP (after MeSH)
BT Clinical trials

SN Clinical verification of a symptom picture established in a
homeopathic drug proving is designed to demonstrate the
clinical applicability (homeopathic symptom picture, specific
symptoms or keynotes or specific therapeutic indications)
of a homeopathic drug. Measurements an occur as case
studies, outcome studies or randomized controlled clinical
trials according to GCP) (after Riley)
BT Clinical research

BT Antidotes

USE Complex drugs

USE Complex drugs

SN Comparisons of the drug pictures of different homeopathic drugs.
RT Drug relationships
BT Materia medica

SN Comparison between different active treatments in a
clinical trial
UF Comparative trials
BT Controlled clinical trials

USE Comparative studies

USE Diagnostic methods

SN The effects of certain homeopathic drugs that remove
all the remaining symptoms after the action of the
similimum in an organism (Gaier, p.102).
UF Complements
UF Remedies that follow well
BT Drug relationships

SN All forms of diagnostics and treatment not taught within
conventional medical institutions. Do not confuse with
complementary effects (Alternative medicine is used inMesH)
UF Alternative medicine
UF Complementary therapies
NT Anthroposophical medicine
NT Bach flower therapy
NT Biopuncture
NT Bioresonance therapy
NT Drainage therapy
NT EAV
NT Homeopathy
NT Mesotherapy
NT MORA therapy
NT Neural therapy
NT Vegatest

USE COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

USE Complementary effects

SN Combinations of two or more homeopathic drugs in one
dosage form (EDH). Do not confuse with the Indian biochemical
remedies
UF Combination drugs
UF Combination products
UF Complex remedies
BT Drug selection
BT Homeopathic drugs

SN Method of homeopathic therapeutics using more than
one constituent in a single drug.
RT Complex homeopathy doctrine
BT Homeopathic therapies

SN Theory of homeopathic therapeutics using more than one
constituent in a single drug
RT Complex homeopathy
BT Homeopathic doctrines

USE Complex drugs

SN The use of computer programs for repertorization purposes
BT Repertorization

SN Symptoms associated with other symptoms, appearing
at the same time or during the course of the same disease
process (EDH).
BT Characteristic symptoms

USE Drug relationships

BT Physical research methods

SN The whole pattern of psychological and physical
characteristics that identify an individual, including
psychological and physical reactions to stimuli and
circumstances that occur in everyday life (EDH).
RT Constitutional analysis
RT Constitutional types
BT Homeopathic philosophy

SN Case analysis based on the study of the patient's constitution
rather than the clinical picture (EDH)
UF Constitutional case taking
RT Constitution
RT Constitutional types
BT Evaluation of symptoms

USE Constitutional analysis

SN Classification according to which particular
medicine suits a specific kind of patient (Gaier, p.103).
(Combine constitutional types with remedy name).
RT Constitution
RT Constitutional analysis
BT Typology
NT Carbonic constitution
NT Fluoric constitution
NT Phosphoric constitution
NT Sulphuric constitution

BT Empirical models

SN A clinical trial involving one or more test treatment, at
leat one control treatment, specified outcome measures
for evaluating the studied intervention, and a bias-free
method for assigning patients to the test treatment.
The treatment may be drugs, devices, or procedures studied
for diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic effectiveness (MeSH)
BT Study design
NT Comparative studies
NT Cross over studies
NT Double blind method
NT Nonrandomized
NT Nonstratified
NT Open trials
NT Placebo controlled trials
NT Randomized controlled trials
NT Single blind method
NT Stratified

BT Medical philosophy

BT Dosage forms

SN Each patient is randomized to a sequence of two or more
treatment groups, and hence acts as his/her own control
for treatment comparisons (after EG-GCP)
UF Cross over trials
BT Controlled clinical trials

USE Cross over studies

USE Healing

SN Homeopathic drugs that have been prepared using
a dilution of one part in ten (after EDH).
UF Decimal potencies
UF X-Potencies
RT Decimal potentization
BT Potencies

USE D Potencies

SN Potentization where each stage of dilution is at a scale of 1:10.
RT D Potencies
BT Potentization

SN This phase refers to a certain cell type's actual abandonment
of its characteristic form and function in the direction of
undifferentiated, non-specialized cell forms (after Schmid)
UF Neoplasm phase
BT Cellular phases

SN Case taking of a case which lacks sufficient symptoms
on which to base a prescription (EDH)
BT Case taking

SN This phase of a tissue is generally the result of permanent
damage which has led to functional restrictions and structural
changes (after Schmid)
BT Cellular phases

SN Lowness of spirit
BT Mental symptoms

SN This phase is the result of the failure of the excretion
and inflammation mechanisms. The exogenous or invading
toxin can no longer be eliminated by the body; the toxin is
deposited in the tissue (after Schmid)
BT Matrix phases

SN Thing or state for which the patient longs, any factor
which affects the physical or emotional comfort of the
individual. Desire exceeds mere liking (EDH).
BT General symptoms
NT Food desires

USE Inhibition of potency

SN Special diagnostic methods used in homeopathy.
UF Complementary diagnosis
BT Homeopathic medicinal procedures and techniques
NT Applied kinesiology
NT Bioresonance therapy
NT EAV
NT MORA therapy
NT Radiesthesia
NT Radionics
NT Vegatest

SN A constitutional or hereditary predisposition to disease.
BT Disease concepts

BT Physical research methods

USE Homeopathic dilution

USE Herings law

SN Association of a certain homeopathic drug with specific
pathological processes or diseases that occur prominently
in their materia medica (EDH).
UF Pathotropism
BT Drug affinity

SN Description of attributes of a disease (Cassells).
BT Homeopathic philosophy
NT Acute disease
NT Chronic disease
NT Diathesis
NT Disease susceptibility
NT Etiology
NT Healing
NT Miasms
NT Pathogenesis

SN The palliative treatment of a symptom or condition so
that it becomes inactive but not necessarily resolved (after EDH, p.141)
BT Healing

SN Vulnerability to illness (EDH).
UF Susceptibility
BT Disease concepts

SN A postulate first proposed in the Middle Ages which says that
external characteristics of a substance serve to indicate
possible therapeutic effects (Yasgur)
BT Medical philosophy

BT Homeopathic schools

USE Dosage regime

SN The form in which the homeopathic drug is administered (EDH).
UF Pharmaceutical forms
BT Homeopathic pharmacy
NT Capsules
NT Creams
NT Drinkable ampules
NT Drops
NT Ear drops
NT Emulsions
NT Eye drops
NT Eye ointments
NT Gels
NT Globules
NT Granules
NT Injectable ampules
NT Lotions
NT Nose drops
NT Nose sprays
NT Oils
NT Ointments
NT Ovules
NT Pills
NT Powders
NT Sprays
NT Suppositories
NT Syrups
NT Tablets
NT Vials

SN The complete specification of the amount,
frequency, potency and form of the dose (EDH).
UF Dosage
UF Posology
BT Prescribing strategies
NT Frequency of dose
NT Plussing
NT Potency selection

SN Neither the subject nor the person administering treatment
knows which treatment any particular subject is receiving (Dorl.)
BT Controlled clinical trials

SN Elimination of toxins and organ stimulation of a patient
by drugs, e.g. homeopathic drugs using the similia principle
(after Maury).
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

SN Dreams of the person
BT Sleep symptoms

BT Dosage forms

BT Dosage forms

SN Attraction between a drug and part of an organism.
BT Pharmacodynamics
NT Disease affinity
NT Organ affinity
NT Tissue affinity

SN The medium which carries the effective medicinal agent (Dorl, p.571).
UF Excipients
UF Vehicle substances
UF Vehicles
BT Homeopathic pharmacy
NT Aqua purificata
NT Ethyl alcohol
NT Glucose
NT Glycerol
NT Saccharose
NT Saccharum lactis
NT Saline

SN Using more than one drug in a single prescription and
not in one dosage form.
BT Drug selection

USE Keynotes

USE Drug relationships

USE Postmarketing surveillance studies

USE Adverse effects

SN The whole of the elements of disease a medicine is
capable of producing (Gaier, p.138), comprising all the
recorded characteristic symptoms and signs
UF Remedy picture
RT Characteristic symptoms
BT Materia medica
NT Keynotes

USE Homeopathic drug provings

SN Reaction of an organism to a drug.
BT Pharmacodynamics
NT Adverse effects
NT Drug sensitivity
NT Homeopathic aggravation
NT Primary reactions
NT Reappearance of old symptoms
NT Secondary reactions

USE Drug sensitivity

SN The interactive relationship of different homeopathic
drugs which may have beneficial or detrimental effects on the
organism (after EDH).
UF Concordances
UF Drug interactions
UF Relationship of drugs
RT Comparative materia medica
RT Pharmacopoeias homeopathic
BT Pharmacodynamics
NT Antidotal effects
NT Complementary effects
NT Incompatible effects
NT Synergistic effects

SN The selection of the type of drug.
BT Prescribing strategies
NT Complex drugs
NT Drug combinations
NT Single drugs

SN The degree of responsiveness of an organism to a homeopathic drug (after EDH).
UF Drug receptivity
BT Drug reactions

USE Vital force

USE Potentization

BT Dosage forms

SN A bioenergetic diagnostic and treatment method developed
by Dr Reinhold Voll (1909-1989) (Yasgur)
UF Electroacupuncture according to Voll
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
BT Diagnostic methods

BT Latin American schools

USE Spagirik

USE EAV

SN Therapy using certain homeopathic drugs developed
by Cesare Mattei, including some which he called
Electricities due to the drugs' speed of action when
applied to the affected part. Do not confuse with spagyrik.
RT Spagirik
BT Homeopathic therapies

BT Biophysical research

BT Theoretical models

SN A characteristic of the patient chosen as the defining
criterion by which to eliminate medicines whose Materia
Medica does not include it from the range of possible treatment (EDH).
BT Guiding symptoms

SN Specific type of radionics developed by W. Boyd in the 1930s.
BT Radionics

BT Physical models
NT Continuum model
NT Interstitial model
NT Mixture model
NT Uniformist model

BT Dosage forms

USE Vital force

BT Drug carriers

SN Study of the causative agents of diseases (EDH).
UF Causality
UF Causation
UF Precipitating factor
UF Provoking factor
RT Pathogenesis
BT Disease concepts

BT Object of research

SN The evaluation by the clinician of symptoms and
their significance as indications for the choice of
prescription (EDH).
UF Grading of symptoms
UF Hierarchisation of symptoms
BT Case analysis
NT Constitutional analysis
NT Keynote analysis
NT Pathological analysis

USE Pathogenesis

USE Drug carriers

SN This phase can be characterized as the body's attempt
to rid itself of a toxin by increasing its physiological
excretion mechanisms (after Schmid)
BT Humoral phases

USE Homeopathic drug provings

BT Basic research in homeopathy

USE Pilot studies

BT Dosage forms

BT Dosage forms

NT Bach E
NT Bier A
NT Boenninghausen CMF von
NT Boericke W
NT Clarke JH
NT Hahnemann SC
NT Hering C
NT Hughes R
NT Kent JT
NT Kunzli J
NT Reckeweg HH
NT Schmidt P
NT Schuessler WH

SN Potentization where the total dilution is 1:50,000.
RT LM Potencies
BT Potentization

SN Process of purifying a liquid of solid insoluble matter
by pressing it through some porous medium that arrests
suspended solid particles (Gaier, p.197).
BT Mother tincture preparation

SN Method of performing a process of serial dilution in
which there are no clearly defined dilution stages and
the potentization is done through the continuous supply
of and the turbulence of water.
UF Fluxion
BT Potentization

SN Nebel's association of angular or asymmetrical
people with hyperextensible joints, usually thin,
possibly with some dystrophy, with the
characteristics of Calcarea fluorica (EDH).
BT Constitutional types

USE Fincke continuous flux

SN The prescription that follows the choice of the
original drug (EDH).
UF Second prescription
BT Prescribing strategies
NT Repetition of dose

BT Aggravation modalities

BT Amelioration modalities

SN A strong dislike for a specific type of food (after EDH).
BT Aversions

SN A strong desire for a specific type of food (after EDH).
BT Desires

SN Time interval between doses
BT Dosage regime

USE Subjective symptoms

BT Mother tincture preparation

BT Dosage forms

SN Therapy using a low homeopathic potency (D1) of glycerine
macerates prepared from embryonic plant tissue (buds),
harvested at a time when this is in the process of incipient
growth. It is aimed at promoting drainage and is always
prescribed pathologically (after Gaier, p.201).
BT Homeopathic therapies

SN General characteristics and reactions of the patient
not descriptive of the local pathology or pathological
mental state (after EDH).
UF Generals
BT Characteristic symptoms
NT Aversions
NT Desires
NT Laterality
NT Seasonal symptoms
NT Sleep symptoms
NT Temperature symptoms
NT Time symptoms
NT Transpiration symptoms
NT Weather symptoms

USE General symptoms

BT Dosage forms

BT Drug carriers

SN Simple extraction process in which a drug of organic
origin is steeped in a glycerin until the soluble matter
contained in the cells has been dissolved (after Gaier, p363)
BT Maceration

BT Drug carriers

USE Evaluation of symptoms

BT Dosage forms

BT Homotoxicology

SN Symptoms that provide a strong indication for the choice
of a particular drug. Symptoms highly characteristic of a
particular drug (EDH).
UF Indications
UF Keynote symptoms
RT Keynotes
BT Characteristic symptoms
NT Eliminating symptoms
NT Strange rare or peculiar symptoms

SN German physician (1755-1843). Founder of homeopathic medicine (EDH).
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

USE Hahnemannian potentization

SN Method of serial dilution in which one part taken from
the preparation at the previous stage in the process is
added to the requisite number of parts of diluent in a
new container at each stage and submitted to succussion (EDH).
UF Hahnemannian dilution
UF Multi glass method
BT Potentization

USE Homeopathic drug provings

SN Restoration of health or wholeness (EDH).
UF Cure
UF Recovery
BT Disease concepts
NT Disease suppression
NT Obstacles to cure
NT Self healing

BT OCCUPATION GROUPS
NT Homeopathic therapists
NT Physicians

SN German physician (1800-1880). Emigrated to the USA.
Founder of homoeopathic medical colleges and
pioneer of materia medica.
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

SN Progressive improvement in the patient's state is indicated
by directional changes in the disease process, namely
from above downwards, from within outwards, from more
important to less important organs and from the mental
level to the physical level, and symptoms resolve in reverse
order of their onset (EDH).
UF Direction of cure
UF Herings rule
UF Law of cure
RT Reappearance of old symptoms
BT Homeopathic philosophy

USE Herings law

BT Homeopathic schools

USE Evaluation of symptoms

SN Potencies above C12 or D24 (after Gaier, p434).
UF Ultra high dilutions
BT Potencies

USE Tissue affinity

NT Archives
NT History of medicine 18th C
NT History of medicine 19th C
NT History of medicine 20th C
NT History of medicine ancient
NT History of medicine medieval
NT History of medicine modern
History of medicine 18th C
BT HISTORY

BT HISTORY

BT HISTORY

BT HISTORY

BT HISTORY

BT HISTORY

SN The contention that wholes are more then the sum of their
parts, first expounded by Jan Smuts, South Africa 1926 (Phil).

BT Medical philosophy

SN Worsening of existing symptoms in response to a
homeopathic drug (after EDH).
UF Therapeutic aggravations
RT Aggravation modalities
RT Primary reactions
BT Drug reactions

USE Homeopathic drugs synthetic origin

SN The study of the signs and symptoms of the patient
and application of homeopathic drugs in homeoapthic
clinical practice (Medical history taking is used in MeSH)
BT Homeopathic medicinal procedures and techniques
NT Case analysis and treatment
NT Case taking
NT Typology

SN A stage in the preparation of a homeopathic drug by
adding one part to a prescribed number of parts of diluent (EDH).
UF Diluent
BT Potentization

SN Philosophy and therapeutic principles upon which the
teaching of homeopathy is based, which may be associated
with a particular school of homeopathy (after EDH).
BT Homeopathic philosophy
NT Classical homeopathy doctrine
NT Clinical homeopathy doctrine
NT Complex homeopathy doctrine
NT Homeopathic schools
NT Pluralist homeopathy doctrine

SN Clinical studies in which homeopathic drugs are admininstered
to healthy volunteers in order to produce the symptoms specific
to that substance and thereby reveal its inherent curative
powers. (If it is done according to GCP or HGCP please combine
with Clinical trial, phase 1).
UF Drug provings
UF Experimental pathogenesis
UF HDP
RT Proving principle
BT Clinical research
NT Provers
NT Proving symptoms

UF Homeopathic medicines
BT Chemicals and drugs
NT Biochemic drugs
NT Catalyst drugs
NT Complex drugs
NT Homeopathic drugs animal origin
NT Homeopathic drugs mineral origin
NT Homeopathic drugs plant origin
NT Homeopathic drugs synthetic origin
NT Homeopathic stocks
NT Mixed potency drugs
NT Nosodes
NT Polychrests
NT Potencies
NT Sarcodes
NT Single drugs
NT Sources of homeopathic drugs
NT Spagiric drugs
NT Spagyric drugs

BT Homeopathic drugs

BT Homeopathic drugs

BT Homeopathic drugs

SN Homeopathic drugs prepared from commonly used allopathic
drugs
UF Homeopathic allopathic drugs
UF Tautopathic drugs
RT Tautopathy
BT Homeopathic drugs

SN Practical branch of homeopathy concerned with
the diagnosis and treatment of patients (Tree head only)
BT Homeopathy
NT Diagnostic methods
NT Homeopathic diagnostics and treatment
NT Homeopathic therapies

USE Homeopathy

USE Homeopathic drugs

BT ORGANIZATIONS
NT Patient organizations
NT Practitioner organizations
NT Support groups

SN The science that deals with the origin, nature, chemistry,
effects, and uses of homeopathic drugs (Dorl, p.1272).
BT Homeopathy
NT Materia medica
NT Pharmacodynamics
NT Pharmacognosy
NT Sources of homeopathic drugs

SN The whole process of manufacture of homeopathic drugs
BT Homeopathy
NT Dosage forms
NT Drug carriers
NT Standard preparation methods

SN The whole theoretical approach to the principles and
practice of homoeopathy (after EDH).
BT Medical philosophy
NT Constitution
NT Disease concepts
NT Herings law
NT Homeopathic doctrines
NT Homotoxicology
NT Individualization
NT Potentization principle
NT Proving principle
NT Similia principle
NT Vital force

SN Homeopathic practitioners who are also qualified as
physicians.
BT Physicians

SN The regular use of homeopathy in the practice of a
homeopathic therapist or physician
BT Homeopathy

BT Homeopathy
NT Basic research in homeopathy
NT Clinical research

SN Tradition of homeopathic philosophy or therapeutics
teaching a distinctive doctrine (EDH).
BT Homeopathic doctrines
NT Dorcsi school
NT Herscu school
NT Kentian school
NT Kunzli school
NT Latin American schools
NT Murphy school
NT Sankaran school
NT Scholten school
NT Sherr school
NT Vithoulkas school

SN Non-succussed drug solutions prepared in accordance with
homeopathic pharmacopoeial standards (after Gaier, p.354).
BT Homeopathic drugs
NT Homeopathic stocks animal origin
NT Homeopathic stocks mineral origin
NT Homeopathic stocks plant origin
NT Homeopathic stocks synthetic origin
NT Mother tinctures

BT Homeopathic stocks

BT Homeopathic stocks

BT Homeopathic stocks

SN For example: Formicicum acidum or Acetylsalicylicum acidum
BT Homeopathic stocks

SN Therapies using homeopathically prepared drugs.
UF Homeotherapy
BT Homeopathic medicinal procedures and techniques
NT Antihomotoxic therapy
NT Biochemic therapy
NT Classical homeopathy
NT Clinical homeopathy
NT Complex homeopathy
NT Electrohomeopathy
NT Gemmotherapy
NT Homeosiniatry
NT Isopathy
NT Lithotherapy
NT Nosode therapy
NT Oligoelement therapy
NT Organotherapy
NT Pluralist homeopathy
NT Spagirik
NT Spagyrik

SN Nonmedical homeopaths. Homeopathic practitioners
who do not hold a statutory medical qualification (after EDH, p.103).
BT Health personnel
NT Lay homeopaths
NT Professional homeopaths

SN The potentization process for the preparation of a homeopathic
drug from an insoluble source material by grinding it together
with lactose (milk sugar) as a diluent for a defined period
of time to thoroughly amalgamate the two (after EDH).
UF Trituration
BT Potentization

SN A therapeutic method of treating patients using
preparations of substances whose effect on healthy
subjects is similar to the manifestation of the disorder in
these patients (after EDH).
UF Homeopathic medicine
UF Homoeopathy
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
NT Chemicals and drugs
NT Homeopathic medicinal procedures and techniques
NT Homeopathic pharmacology
NT Homeopathic pharmacy
NT Homeopathic practice
NT Homeopathic research
NT Quality control
NT Symptomatology

SN Therapy in which potentized homeopathic drugs are
injected in particular Chinese acupuncture points.
RT Biopuncture
BT Homeopathic therapies

USE Homeopathic therapies

USE Homeopathy

USE Six phases table

USE Antihomotoxic therapy

SN A probiotic and holistic approach to medicine, based
on two principles: the basic chemical association of all
diseases, and the possibility of the detoxification of the
pathological factors represented by "homotoxins" into
"homotoxones" (Claus, p.67).
RT Antihomotoxic therapy
BT Homeopathic philosophy
NT Greater defense system
NT Homotoxicosis
NT Homotoxin
NT Homotoxone
NT Six phases table
NT Vicariation phenomenon

SN The disease deriving from the reaction of the immune
system against toxins and homotoxins (after Claus, p.31).
BT Homotoxicology

SN A substance which is poisonous to an organism, including
metabolic products which are not broken down and eliminated
quickly enough. Within the body it is responsible for those
processes to which we give the name of "illness" (Reckeweg, pXIII).
BT Homotoxicology
NT Sutoxins

SN A third non-toxic body, formed by synthesis from
two homotoxins in the organism (Claus, p.27).
BT Homotoxicology

SN The stimulating effect of subinhibitory concentrations of any
toxic substance on any organism (Dorl. p22)
UF Antitoxic drug action
UF Arndt Schulz law
UF Biphasic activity
RT Primary reactions
RT Secondary reactions
BT Basic research in homeopathy

SN British homeopathic physician (1836-1902). Wrote Encyclopaedia
of Drug Pathogenesy. Used pathological symptoms and low potencies
(Yasgur)
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

BT Object of research

SN In the humoral phases intracellular systems are for the
most part not disturbed. The defense systems of the
body are intact and capable of responding to homotoxins
by eliminating them through the various body orifices.
BT Six phases table
NT Excretion phase
NT Inflammation phase

SN The process or act of saturation of granules with liquid
homeopathic drugs (Dorl, p.825).
BT Standard preparation methods

SN This phase represents the fixation of a foreign substance in the
tissue. The local foreign substance penetrates the tissue structure
and becomes a part of that structure (after Schmid)
BT Matrix phases

BT Object of research

SN The unfavourable interaction of two homeopathic drugs
when used one after another in an organism (after EDH).
UF Inimical effects
UF Inimicals
BT Drug relationships

USE Guiding symptoms

SN Prescribing on the basis of the complex of symptoms in
the individual patient rather than on the common
characteristics of the disorder from which the patient
is suffering (after EDH).
BT Homeopathic philosophy

SN This phase is characterized by acute, exudative inflammation.
This represents the organism's attempt to hasten and intensify
metabolic processes by means of activating the vascular connective
tissue and capillary system (after Schmid)
UF Reaction phase
BT Humoral phases

UF Destruction of potency
BT Basic research in homeopathy

USE Incompatible effects

USE Incompatible effects

BT Dosage forms

SN Intercurrent use of a supportive medicine. The use
of homeopathic drugs in alternation to increase the
tolerance to repeated doses of the same drug (EDH).
UF Alternating drugs prescribing
BT Prescribing strategies

USE Catalyst drugs

BT Empirical models

SN Treatment of a disease using drugs derived from the
causative agent of the disease itself, including organisms
and allergens (EDH).
RT Nosode therapy
RT Nosodes
BT Homeopathic therapies
NT Autoisopathy
NT Tautopathy

USE Korsakov potentization

SN Complex process of serial dilution with very strong,
manual potentization, used only by Jenichen himself. Obsolete.
BT Potentization

USE Spagirik

SN Homeopathic drugs that have been prepared using the Korsakov method
RT Korsakov potentization
RT LM Potencies
BT Potencies

SN American homeopathic physician, 1849-1916 (EDH).
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

SN School based on practising homeopathy using the law of
similars, the minimum dose, the single dose, repertorizing,
emphasis on mental symptoms and high potencies (afterYasgur)
BT Homeopathic schools

SN Case analysis in which a few representative leading symptoms
are taken as a guide to prescribing
BT Evaluation of symptoms

USE Guiding symptoms

SN Representative leading characteristics of a drug
(after Gaier, p.318).
UF Drug essence
RT Guiding symptoms
BT Drug picture

SN Method of performing each stage in the process of
serial dilution in which only one container is used
throughout the process (EDH). Each stage of the
dilution is at a scale 1:100 and has an additional
succussion.
UF Jarricot potentization
UF Single glass method
RT K Potencies
RT LM Potencies
BT Potentization

BT FAMOUS PERSONS

BT Homeopathic schools

USE Saccharum lactis

SN The side of the body affected by the symptom. The
concept includes the involvement of diagonally opposite
parts in the upper and lower halves of the body, and
the alternation of symptoms from side to side (EDH).
UF Sidedness
BT General symptoms

SN Schools predominantly present in South and Middle America,
based on classical homeopathy, but with more emphasis on
psychological and spiritual aspects during diagnosis and
treatment.
BT Homeopathic schools
NT Eizayaga school
NT Masi school
NT Ortega school
NT Paschero school

USE Herings law

USE Similia principle

SN Homeopathic practitioners who have neither undergone
a medical nor a homeopathic education.
BT Homeopathic therapists

USE Vital force

SN Self damaging activities
BT Antidotal effects

USE Syrups

NT Biography

SN Therapeutic method relying on the dechelating effect
of low homeopathic potencies (usually D8) of 33 different
rocks and minerals, popularized by Max Tetau (Gaier, p.291).
BT Homeopathic therapies

SN Homeopathic drugs that have been prepared using the Korsakov
method where the total dilution is 1:50,000
RT Fifty millesimal potentization
RT K Potencies
RT Korsakov potentization
RT Q Potencies
BT Potencies

USE Partial case taking

SN Clinical features (symptoms or signs) expressing the local
manifestation of the illness in relation to a particular
organ or organ system or to regional anatomy (EDH) (combine
with body parts)
UF Locals
UF Particular symptoms
UF Particulars
UF Pathological changes
UF Physical symptoms
UF Somatic symptoms
BT Characteristic symptoms

USE Local symptoms

SN Method using a stirrer in a small glass cylinder. Dilution
stage described by addition of liquid and rotations of stirrer.
Used in South America.
BT Potentization

USE Phosphoric constitution

BT Dosage forms

SN Potencies ranging from mother tinctures to D6 or C3
(after Gaier, p434).
BT Potencies

USE Syphilitic miasm

SN 1M=1000C. Each stage is potentized at a 1:100 scale.
BT Potencies

SN Simple extraction process in which a drug of organic
origin is steeped in a liquid until the soluble matter
contained in the cells has been dissolved (after Gaier, p.363).
BT Mother tincture preparation
NT Alcohol maceration
NT Glycerin maceration

SN Potentization by hand.
BT Potentization

SN School based on classical homeopathy and spiritual
influences of Thomas of Aquinus.
BT Latin American schools

SN Branch of medical study which deals with homeopathic
drugs, their sources, preparations, and uses (Dorl, p.986).
BT BOOKS
BT Homeopathic pharmacology
NT Comparative materia medica
NT Drug picture

SN In the matrix phases the homotoxins are deposited in the lattice
of the extracellular matrix. Hereby the structure of the matrix and
in the course the function as well could be changed.
BT Six phases table
NT Deposition phase
NT Impregnation phase

SN The fibroblast at the centre of a matrix reacts to all incoming information
with an appropriate synthesis of matrix components (after Schmid)
BT Biological models

USE Case taking

SN The whole theoretical approach to the principles and practice
of medicine (after EDH, p111) (Philosophy, medical is used in
MeSH)
BT PHILOSOPHY
NT Allopathy
NT Conventional medical philosophy
NT Doctrine of signatures
NT Holism
NT Homeopathic philosophy

SN Potencies ranging between C3 or D6 to C12 or D24
(after Gaier, p434).
BT Potencies

SN Characteristic of the mental state of the patient, irrespective
of whether the presenting features of the illness involve the
mind or emotions (EDH).
UF Mentals
UF Mind symptoms
BT Characteristic symptoms
NT Apprehension
NT Dejection
NT Sexuality
NT Shyness

USE Mental symptoms

BT Antidotes

SN Therapy in which certain drugs are injected sub- or
intra-dermally near the lesion or in the site of pain (after Van Dijk)
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

SN A statistical process for pooling data from many clinical trials (ACT)
BT Clinical research

SN Conditions which may be acquired or inherited,
underlying chronic or recurrent disease states (Gaier, p.342).
BT Disease concepts
BT Typology
NT Cancerinic miasm
NT Psoric miasm
NT Sycotic miasm
NT Syphilitic miasm
NT Tuberculinic miasm

USE Saccharum lactis

USE Mental symptoms

SN Combinations of two or more different potencies from
one homeopathic single drug incorporated into one
dosage form.
BT Homeopathic drugs

BT Empirical models

SN Factors which modify the behavior, level, degree of
intensity or severity of a clinical state (symptom, sign,
pathology or disorder) (EDH).
BT Symptomatology
NT Aggravation modalities
NT Amelioration modalities
NT Physical modalities
NT Seasonal modalities
NT Sensory stimulation modalities
NT Temperature modalities
NT Time modalities
NT Weather modalities

SN Therapy using the patient's electromagnetic frequencies. The
instrument cancels the disharmonic frequencies in the body
and intensifies the healthy ones (after Yasgur)
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
BT Diagnostic methods

USE Mother tincture preparation

USE Mother tinctures

SN Preparation of unpotentized drug solutions in accordance with homeopathic
pharmacopoeial standards (after Gaier, p.354).
UF Mother solution preparation
BT Standard preparation methods
NT Filtration
NT Galenics
NT Maceration

SN Non-succussed drug solutions from plant material prepared
in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopoeial standards
(after Gaier, p354)
UF Mother solutions
BT Homeopathic stocks

SN The influence of a certain action such as walking, lifting
on the behavior of a symptom.
BT Physical modalities

USE Hahnemannian potentization

SN Clinical trials conducted according to one single protocol
in which the trials are identified as taking place at different
investigational sites, therefore carried out by more than one
investigator, but following the same practical details (after EG-GCP)
BT Study design

SN Centesimal dilutions which are potentized by means
of a "shaking machine" that can shake 60 bottles at
the same time. Obsolete.
BT Potentization

BT Homeopathic schools

BT Archives

USE Progressive vicariation

USE Dedifferentiation phase

SN The systematic treatment of the autonomous and peripheral
nervous system by means of injections, mostly with a local
anaesthetic (sometimes mixed with homeopathic drugs).
Injections are given in scar or other disturbed tissue in order
to regulate disturbed regions
RT Biopuncture
BT COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

SN The phenomenon in which the use of non-characteristic
factors of a therapy elicits a harmful effect in a patient.
RT Placebo effect
BT Pharmacodynamics

USE Open trials

BT Controlled clinical trials

BT Controlled clinical trials

USE Sulphuric constitution

BT Dosage forms

BT Dosage forms

SN Therapy using homeopathic drugs which are prepared
from disease products and which have their own full
drug picture, usually using them according to the similia
principle (Gaier, p.291).
RT Isopathy
RT Nosodes
BT Homeopathic therapies

SN Homeopathically prepared with their own distinct drug
pictures (Gaier).
RT Isopathy
RT Nosode therapy
BT Homeopathic drugs
NT Autonosodes
NT Bowel nosodes

BT Physical research methods

BT Basic research in homeopathy
NT Animals
NT Eucaryotic
NT Humans
NT Inanimate
NT Plants
NT Procaryotic
NT Viral

SN Symptoms noted by factual observation external to the mind (after EDH).
BT Characteristic symptoms

USE Postmarketing surveillance studies

SN Factors preventing favorable response to treatment (EDH).
BT Healing
NT Antidotal effects

NT Health personnel

BT Dosage forms

BT Dosage forms

SN Therapeutic method which uses metals and metallic
substances present in the human body, sometimes in
very small doses, but indispensable for the good functioning
of the organism, to cure "functional" diseases (after Binet).
BT Homeopathic therapies

USE Cancerinic miasm

SN Trials where patients and investigators know which treatment
is given
UF Nonblind trials
UF Unblinded trials
BT Controlled clinical trials

SN Association of certain homeopathic drugs with specific
organs whose disorders feature prominently in their
materia medica (EDH).
UF Organotropism
BT Drug affinity

NT Homeopathic organizations

SN Original statement of the principles of homeopathy, developed
by Samuel Hahnemann through a series of six editions from 1810 to
1842 (EDH, p.105).
BT BOOKS

SN Treatment of a disorder of a particular organ with a
potentized extract of the same, healthy organ from
another source (EDH).
RT Sarcodes
BT Homeopathic therapies

USE Organ affinity

SN School based on classical homeopathy and influences
from Jungian analytical psychology, philosophers like
Aristotle, Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin.
BT Latin American schools

USE Postmarketing surveillance studies

BT Dosage forms

SN Case taking based on the pathology and local symptoms
found in the patient
UF Local case taking
UF Pathological case taking
BT Case taking

USE Local symptoms

USE Local symptoms

SN School based on classical homeopathy and Freudian
psychoanalysis.
BT Latin American schools

SN Study of the progress of an illness through its various
stages as it becomes established (EDH).
UF Evolution of disease
RT Etiology
BT Disease concepts
NT Syndrome shift

SN Case analysis based on the pathology and local symptoms
found in the patient
BT Evaluation of symptoms

USE Partial case taking

USE Local symptoms

USE Disease affinity

BT Homeopathic organizations

BT Physical research methods

SN The time pattern of the intermittent or recurrent appearances
of disorders or symptoms (EDH).
BT Time modalities

USE Dosage forms

SN The study of the biochemical and physiological effects
of drugs and the mechanisms of their actions, including
the correlation of actions and effects on the actions
of drugs with their chemical structure; also, such effects
on the actions of a particular drug or drugs (Dorl, p.1271).
BT Homeopathic pharmacology
NT Drug affinity
NT Drug reactions
NT Drug relationships
NT Nocebo effect
NT Placebo effect
NT Toxicity

SN That branch of pharmacology which deals with the
biological, biochemical, and economic features of
natural drugs and their constituents (Dorl., p.1272).
BT Homeopathic pharmacology

SN Formal documents describing the composition, properties,
manufacture and quality control of drugs (EDH, p.110).
BT BOOKS
NT Pharmacopoeias homeopathic

SN A formal document describing the composition, properties, manufacture
and quality control of homeopathic drugs (after EDH).
RT Drug relationships
BT Pharmacopoeias

NT Medical philosophy

SN Nebel's association of tall, lean, supple people
with the characteristics of Calcarea phosphorica (EDH).
UF Longlinear constitution
BT Constitutional types

SN The influence of physical factors on the behavior of
a symptom.
BT Modalities
NT Movement modalities
NT Position modalities

BT Basic research in homeopathy
NT Empirical models
NT Physical research methods
NT Theoretical models

BT Physical models
NT Conductivity measurements
NT Dielectric measurements
NT Nuclear magnetic resonance
NT Pattern recognition
NT Scattering radiation
NT Spectrometry Xray emission
NT Spectrophotometry atomic absorption
NT Spectrophotometry infrared
NT Spectrophotometry ultraviolet
NT Spectrum analysis mass
NT Spectrum analysis Raman
NT Surface tension measurements

USE Local symptoms

SN Persons statutorily qualified in the science and art of
medicine and surgery (EDH, p.112).
BT Health personnel
NT Homeopathic physicians

USE Saline

UF Pillules
BT Dosage forms

USE Pills

SN Clinical trials often performed to estimate treatment effects
or recruitment rates, to test out the practicability of new methods
and the feasibilty or suitabilty esp. of a protocol to a larger clinical
project, in order to select the most suitable design and to ensure
adequate recruitment; sometimes studies with a poor design are
also called pilot studies to avoid criticism (after Nahl)
UF Exploratory trials
UF Preliminary trials
BT Study design

SN Dummy treatment administered to the control group in a
controlled clinical trial (after Dorl.)
BT Controlled clinical trials

SN A beneficial therapeutic effect obtained by the use
of non-characteristic factors of a therapy for a disease
in a patient.
RT Nocebo effect
RT Self healing
BT Pharmacodynamics

BT Object of research

USE Pluralist homeopathy doctrine

SN Method of homeopathic therapeutics using prescriptions
of more than one drug at a time (EDH).
UF Polypharmacy
RT Pluralist homeopathy doctrine
BT Homeopathic therapies

SN Theory of homeopathic therapeutics using prescriptions
of more than one drug at a time (after EDH)
UF Pluralism
RT Pluralist homeopathy
BT Homeopathic doctrines

SN The practice of further diluting homeopathic medicines
and resuccussing before each dose or at regular intervals. (EDH)
BT Dosage regime

USE Postmarketing surveillance studies

SN Amed/CATS term
RT Toxicity

BT Theoretical models

SN Drugs that are widely applicable because it is capable
of producing a wide range of reactive symptoms in provers
during pathogenetic experiments; constitutional drugs (Gaier).
BT Homeopathic drugs

BT Theoretical models

USE Pluralist homeopathy

SN The influence of being in a certain position such as
sitting on the behavior of a symptom.
BT Physical modalities

USE Regressive vicariation

USE Dosage regime

USE Postmarketing surveillance studies

SN Usually open studies investigating the efficacy and safety
of a drug under routine conditions in daily practice. The drugs
are prescribed by the practitioner (Product surveillance, postmarketing
is used in MeSH)
UF Drug monitoring
UF Observational studies
UF Outcome studies
UF PMS studies
UF Postmarketing observational studies
UF Product surveillance, postmarketing
BT Clinical trials

SN Drug solutions prepared in accordance with homeopathic
pharmacopoeial standards (after Gaier, p354).
BT Homeopathic drugs
NT C Potencies
NT D Potencies
NT High potencies
NT K Potencies
NT LM Potencies
NT Low potencies
NT M Potencies
NT Medium potencies
NT Q Potencies

USE Activity of potency

SN The choice of which potency of a particular drug is to be prescribed
BT Dosage regime

USE Potentization

SN Method of preparing a homeopathic drug by means
of succussion or trituration between serial dilution.
UF Dynamization
UF Potentisation
UF Potentizing methods
UF Serial dilution
BT Standard preparation methods
NT Automated potentization
NT Centesimal potentization
NT Decimal potentization
NT Fifty millesimal potentization
NT Fincke continuous flux
NT Hahnemannian potentization
NT Homeopathic dilution
NT Homeopathic trituration
NT Jenichen potentization
NT Korsakov potentization
NT Lock potentization
NT Manual potentization
NT Mure potentization
NT Skinner discontinuous flux
NT Succussion
NT Swan continuous flux

SN The principle that states the activity of a homeopathic
drug can be developed by serial dilution with succussion,
including trituration or fluxion, employed in its production
from its stock (after EDH).
BT Homeopathic philosophy

USE Potentization

BT Dosage forms

BT Homeopathic organizations

USE Etiology

USE Pilot studies

SN Plans of treatment involving a number of separate
stages and options (EDH).
BT Case analysis and treatment
NT Dosage regime
NT Drug selection
NT Follow up prescription
NT Intercurrent drugs prescribing
NT Sequential drugs prescribing

USE Primary reactions

SN First phase of biological response to a drug. Produces
the expected effect of a material dose of the drug (EDH).
UF Primary drug actions
RT Homeopathic aggravation
RT Hormesis
BT Drug reactions

USE Similia principle

BT Object of research

USE Postmarketing surveillance studies

SN Homeopathic practitioners who have undergone a prescribed
course of instruction (currently not formally defined or
regulated), but who are not physicians. Nonmedical qualified
practitioners, NMQP (after EDH, p.119).
BT Homeopathic therapists

SN Intensification and degeneration of disease, hence a
biologically unfavorable and dangerous shift (Claus, p.47 & 67.)
UF Negative vicariation
BT Vicariation phenomenon

SN Study design and protocol is defined before treatment
of the patients starts
BT Study design

SN A document that states the rationale, objectives, statistical
design, and methodology of the trial and the conditions under
which it is to be performed and managed (ACT)
BT Study design

SN Healthy volunteers who record changes in his or her condition
during and after the administration of the substance to be
proved (EDH)
BT Homeopathic drug provings

SN The principle that states the administration of repeated
doses of substances in natural form, mother tincture
or potency to healthy volunteers can elicit effects from
which the homeopathic materia medica of the substance
may be derived (EDH).
RT Homeopathic drug provings
BT Homeopathic philosophy

SN Effects of the proving substance which appear in a volunteer
during a homeopathic drug proving. If a homeopathic drug is
given to a patient, effects that are the characteristics of the
drug and not of the patient or the illness itself (after EDH)
UF Symptoms of homeopathic proving
BT Characteristic symptoms
BT Homeopathic drug provings

USE Etiology

USE Tuberculinic miasm

USE Radiesthesia

USE Psoric miasm

SN Susceptibility to or manifestation of a particular
pattern of morbidity originally associated with "itch";
more recently associated with a pattern of disorder
characterized by instability of the organism and its
self-regulating mechanisms (EDH).
UF Psora
BT Miasms

USE Aqua purificata

SN Quinquagenimillesimal or 50-millesimal dynamizations
RT LM Potencies
BT Potencies

SN All operational techniques used in order to check if a product meets
its specification.
BT Homeopathy

SN Technique to find the correct homeopathic drug
by using a pendulum.
UF Psionic medicine
BT Diagnostic methods

SN Techniques which records the body's (or part of the
body, like drop of blood) vibrational spectrum. The
correct homeopathic drug annihilates the deviant
spectrum in case of a disease. One of the founders is
A. Abrams.
BT Diagnostic methods
NT Emanometer method

SN Experimental subjects are assigned to treatment groups
according to some known probability distribution (Dorl.)
BT Controlled clinical trials

USE Inflammation phase

SN Symptoms which appear to have resolved in the past
recur temporarily in response to homeopathic treatment (EDH).
RT Herings law
BT Drug reactions

SN German physician (1905-1985). Founder of antihomotoxic
medicine
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

USE Healing

SN A biologically positive evolution of the disease towards
less dangerous stages of development, in order to enable
a cure from these stages, usually characterized by the
resumption of detoxifying processes (after Claus).
UF Positive vicariation
BT Vicariation phenomenon

USE Drug relationships

USE Complementary effects

USE Drug picture

SN Technique of using a repertory to identify the
homeopathic drugs whose Materia Medica
corresponds most closely to the clinical picture of
the patient and from amongst which the simillimum
may be chosen (EDH).
BT Case analysis
NT Computer repertorization

SN Systematic cross reference of symptoms and disorders
to the homeopathic drugs in whose therapeutic repertoire
they occur (EDH, p.125).
BT BOOKS
NT Repertory changes

SN Errors found in the repertory, which are often printing
errors between one edition and another.
UF Repertory errors
BT Repertory

USE Repertory changes

SN A repeat prescription of the same drug, not
necessarily the same potency.
BT Follow up prescription

SN Data for the studies are taken from files; treatment was
done before study design and protocol was defined.
BT Study design

UF Sucrose
BT Drug carriers

UF Lactose
UF Milk sugar
BT Drug carriers

UF Physiological saline
BT Drug carriers

BT Homeopathic schools

SN Homeopathic drugs derived from healthy animal tissues
or secretions which have their own drug pictures (EDH).
RT Organotherapy
BT Homeopathic drugs
NT Suis organ drugs

BT Physical research methods

SN Swiss homeopathic physician (1894-1987). Responsible

for reintroducing clinical homeopathy into Europe (Yasgur)
BT FAMOUS PERSONS

BT Homeopathic schools

BT FAMOUS PERSONS

USE Biochemic therapy
USE Biochemic drugs

SN The influence of certain factors on the behavior of a
symptom.
BT Modalities