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LAW SIMILARS [2 records]

Record 1 2014-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Homeopathy
DEF

The basic concept of using a natural substance in the treatment of illness which in its raw state can produce similar effects to those of the illness.

CONT

Homoeopathic medicine is a natural pharmaceutical science in which a practitioner seeks to find a substance that would cause in overdose similar symptoms to those a sick person is experiencing ... Homeopaths define the underlying principle for this matching process as the "law of similars."

CONT

Conventional physicians refer to the "paradoxical action" of drugs as the reason that Ritalin works. But "paradoxical action" is just another name for the homeopathic "law of similars."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Homéopathie
DEF

Loi sur laquelle est fondée la médecine homéopathique. Une substance quelconque, administrée à une posologie déterminée à un sujet approximativement sain, provoque des symptômes qui, retrouvés chez un malade, conduisent à lui donner cette substance comme remède.

CONT

De ces expériences, en 1796 Hahnemann pouvait formuler le principe de base de l'homéopathie : «Une substance qui produit des symptômes chez une personne bien portante, guérira ces mêmes symptômes chez une personne malade.» Ce que nous connaissons aujourd'hui comme la loi de similitude.

CONT

Comme nous l'avons vu précédemment, la loi de similitude, encore appelée loi des semblables, [...] peut être considérée comme l'axiome fondamental de la doctrine homéopathique [...]

OBS

Cette notion est parfois confondue avec celle de la «doctrine des signatures».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Homeopatía
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Record 2 2012-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Homeopathy
CONT

The homeopathic doctrine is based on the Law of Similars which states that a substance that would produce certain disease symptoms in a healthy person would cure a sick person with the same symptoms, if given in microdoses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Homéopathie
DEF

Toute substance susceptible de faire apparaître chez un individu sain certains symptômes est également susceptible de faire disparaître ces mêmes symptômes chez un individu malade.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Homeopatía
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