Techniques Flashcards
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What is the LM (or Q) potency scale based on?
Answer: A 1:50,000 dilution ratio
LM (also written Q) potencies use a 1 to 50,000 dilution at each step.
Why are patients often advised to avoid touching remedy pellets with their hands?
Answer: To prevent contamination and preserve potency
Handling can contaminate the medicated pellets, so a clean spoon or the cap is preferred.
What technique is sometimes used to prepare a fresh dose by dissolving a pellet in water and succussing before each dose?
Answer: The plussing (water dose) method
In plussing, the dissolved remedy is succussed before each dose to slightly alter the potency.
A higher potency number (e.g., 200C vs 6C) generally corresponds to what?
Answer: More dilution and succussion steps
Higher numbers mean the remedy underwent more dilution-succussion cycles.
Which technique is used to transfer a remedy's properties onto blank pellets?
Answer: Medication (imbibing pellets with the liquid potency)
Blank sugar pellets are medicated by imbibing them with the liquid potency and drying.
In the Hahnemannian method of dilution, what is done with the vial at each step?
Answer: A fresh clean vial is used for each dilution
The classical Hahnemannian method uses a new, clean vial at every dilution step.
What is the Korsakovian (K) method of potentization?
Answer: Using a single vial, emptied and refilled for each dilution
The Korsakovian method reuses one vial, assuming residue on the walls carries the remedy forward.