succussion

IPA: sʌkˈʌʃʌn

The act of succussing or shaking; a shake.
(medicine) A shaking of the body to ascertain whether there is liquid in the thorax.
The preparation of a diluted substance in homeopathy by vigorously shaking it against an elastic body.

Examples of "succussion" in Sentences

The notation 30X means the 1: 10 dilution, followed by succussion, is repeated thirty times.
Somehow the magical process of shaking the remedy very hard between each dilution step (called "succussion") imbues it with the property of curing what it would normally cause.
In this process, liquids are diluted (with water or ethanol) and shaken by ten hard strikes against an elastic body ( "succussion"), to get the next, succeeding higher potency.
Homeopathic remedies begin with a given natural substance, progressively diluted (and shaken in a process known as "succussion") until no measurable amount of the material remains.
Homeopathy works by taking a small amount of the actual ingredient and using a process called succussion to dilute and shake (mechanically) it until what's left is a tiny bit of the ingredient and the full energy imprint.