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- verb Present participle of
succuss .
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Examples
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He further discovered that by diluting the amount of the mother tincture, or active ingredient, which is a remedy in pure form or strength, and shaking the remedy, known as succussing or potentization, that the remedy would be effective in treating an illness for someone who presented a symptom picture of a particular disease, as in the case of the above cinchona bark.
The Oath of Hippocrates or Hypocrisy? America, Choose your Medicine 2009
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Potentiation (or potentization, as I've sometimes seen it called) is the process of vigorously shaking or "succussing" the homeopathic remedy at each dilution step.
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No molecules are added to the diluent, nor is succussing (sp?) necessary, as I assume some of the brew's water molecules contacted something at some point in the past that will cure what ails ya.
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