succussion
IPA: sʌkˈʌʃʌn
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "succussion" in Sentences
- Succussion has a special meaning in homeopathy.
- You have not addressed the issue of succussion.
- I think the word 'succussion' should appear in it somewhere.
- Succussion is necessary to reactive the potency at each step.
- The only difference is the dilution levels and lack of succussion.
- Nobody claims that potency increases with dilution without succussion.
- Except for succussion, a 2C dose is the same as a 4X dose or a D4 dose.
- I think that the article describes this process of succussion and dilution.
- I think the stock solution is then diluted again BUT there is no succussion.
- 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.