Antidote

In homeopathy, an antidote is a substance that is believed to counteract the effect of a homeopathic remedy.  Homeopaths believe that disturbance of the vital force by these substances interfere with healing.  Examples include coffee, alcohol, tobacco, flavorings, perfumes, aromatherapy oils, and household cleaners.

The process of increasing the vital energy, and thus the potency, of a substance through specific forms of serial dilutions, termed "succussion" or "trituration".  Dynamization is the goal of remedy production.  It is the most characteristic aspect of homeopathy.  The process of dynamization is sometimes referred to as "potentization."

During dynamization, between 10 and several hundred serial 1:10 or 1:100 magnitude dilutions occur with water or alcohol.  Homeopaths believe that succussion releases and concentrates the spirit-like, healing essence of the substance derived from its animal, botanical or mineral source.  The dilution minimizes the substance's physical presence, which is thought to be inversely related to the remedy's potency. 

Dilutions are performed as ten or one hundred fold steps.  Dilutions of 1:10 are designated in the U.S. by the Roman Numeral X (1X = 1/10, 2X = 1/100, 3X = 1/1000, etc).  Dilutions of 1:100 are designated by the Roman Numeral C (1C = 1/100, 2C=1/10,000, 3C = 1/1,000,000, etc).  Dilutions are always performed serially (i.e. one part of a 1X solution or powder is added to 9 parts of solvent or lactose to make a 2X preparation; then the process is repeated using the 2X solution to make a 3X solution and so on) with succussion or trituration following each step.  

In Hahnemann's words:

The thirtieth (dilution) thus progressively prepared would give   a fraction almost impossible to be expressed in numbers. It becomes uncommonly evident that the material part by means of such dynamization (development of its true, inner medicinal essence) will ultimately dissolve into its individual spirit-like, (conceptual) essence. In its crude state therefore, it may be considered to consist really only of this underdeveloped conceptual essence.

                                                        (Organon § 270, 6th ed.)

Treatment of disease by means of the causal agent or a product of the same disease.  For example, isopathic treatment of hay fever would be effected by homeopathic dilution of pollen.  An alternate form of isopathy is the use of healthy tissue to treat similar but diseased tissue (e.g., goose liver extract to treat liver disease)

In homeopathy a miasm is a disease entity that can enter the body similar to an infectious process or they can be present at birth and lie dormant until something triggers its activity. The trigger is usually attributed to unhealthy lifestyle, trauma, emotion, etc. The miasm will become apparent first as a symptom and then as a disease.

In-depth explanation of miasms from Homeopathy Online

In conventional medicine, a miasm is a term that refers to noxious effluvia or emanations that were once thought to carry malaria and other epidemic diseases. This notion fell into disuse with the discovery of the microbial causes of these diseases. 

A small piece of infected tissue that is sometimes used for the preparation of homeopathic remedies. The tissue is finely ground and prepared as a tincture, followed by serial dilution with succussion

The Organon of Rational Therapeutics (a.ka. The Organon of the Healing Art) is a book written by Samuel Hahnemann, originally published in German as Organon der rationellen Heilkunde in 1810.  It outlines the tenets of Homeopathy. It was produced in six editions, the last of which was published post-humorously in 1921. It is considered the basic text of Homeopathy.

At a dilution of 30C (30 successive dilutions of 1:100) despite being very unlikely that any molecules of the original substance remain, the remedy's potency is perceived to be high because of extensive "dynamization."  

Conventional pharmacology views potency as the concentration of a drug needed to elicit a specific effect.  The potency of a drug is not thought to be changeable, except via chemical alterations of the drug (thereby creating a new drug).   Conventional pharmacology therefore denies that one drug can have varying potencies or that physical acts such as agitation can affect potency.  Generally different drugs are compared, with one being said to be more or less potent than the other.

See dynamization.

In a proving, healthy people are given pharmacologically active doses of a substance and the symptoms they develop are observed.  Lists of symptoms have been recorded by Hahnemann and other Homeopaths in the Homeopathic Materia Medica. Homeopaths consult the materia medica to look for substances that produce symptoms that are similar to those found in the patient.  Such a substance, when greatly diluted and "dynamized," is believed to be useful for the treatment of the patient's affliction. The homeopath can look up symptoms and be told which substance a proving identified in a homeopathic repertory.

A homeopathic preparation that has been dynamized by succussion or trituration.

An ordered list of symptoms showing the remedies that are thought to be useful for those symptoms.

A section of healthy tissue used in homeopathic remedies that is prepared similar to a nosode.

The process of agitating a freshly diluted solution by rapping its container hard against a hard but elastic object such as a leather-bound book.  Hahnemann believed that succussion released dynamic forces from the diluents which were preserved and intensified with subsequent dilutions. 

The grinding of powders in a mortar with a pestle. It the primary mode of mixing used for the preparation of powdered dilutions in homeopathy.  Substances are generally mixed with lactose (milk sugar).  Homeopaths believe that trituration produces a dynamization of the remedy.

A spirit-like essence that animates a living organism. In homeopathy, disease is considered to originate as a disruption of the vital force. Symptoms produced are thought to reflect the nature of the disruption.

Hahnemann states:

The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation, it derives all sensation and performs all the functions of life solely by means of the immaterial being (the vital principle) which animates the material organism in health and in disease.

                                                                        (Organon § 10, 6th ed.)