Every medical discipline uses jargon. Homeopathy is a traditional medicine which has evolved over the last 200 years. As a consequence some of the words we use are pretty old and you may never of heard of them before. Also some words have changed meaning over time and the author is using the old definition. To counter this we are making a Glossary. Hopefully, the word you are looking for is here. If it isn’t , please send an email to us at glossary@elitehomeopathy.com.au and we will do our best to help you out.

Delusions: are state or remedy specific ‘false perception’ and predisposition. For example, someone may have the false perception that they will never meet the ideal woman. So it doesn’t matter how wonderful or fantastic the person they are dating is. The girlfriend will not be good enough because he will be looking for faults. Because his false perception is he has to be with the ideal woman. This has left him predisposed to ‘never meeting the perfect girl’ and being single most of his life. In this case the rubric would be ‘DESIRE: Woman, ideal’ (Allen’s Rep) and it’s possible our imaginary males remedy could be Antimonium Crudum.

General symptoms: are symptoms that encompass the whole person. They characterise the patient and are not part of the disease. They can be grouped into five categories: mentals, general modalities, desires and aversions, pathological predispositions and anatomical or physical structures.

Local symptom: is one related to the site of the pathology. Such as a sore ankle or a pain in one side. A local symptom in several different areas can be considered a general symptom.

Modalities: are things for which improve or aggravate the patients’ issues. Such as, my arthritis is in cold weather.

Rubrics: are abbreviated symptoms. For example, the patient might give the symptom, “I have these really scary dreams where I fall off a cliff.” A rubric for this “[Complete] [Mind] DREAMS: Falling: Fear of:”