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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.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Over time, he found that his therapeutic results were significantly better the more he potentized the medicine, that is, the more he diluted it, in a 1: 10 or 1: 100 dilution, with vigorous succussion (shaking) in-between each dilution.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Some scientists have shown that this process of dilution and vigorous succussion (shaking in a particular way) makes the medicinal substance imprint the water or alcohol used for diluting.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Over time, he found that his therapeutic results were better the more he potentized the medicine, that is, the more he diluted it, in a 1: 10 or 1: 100 dilution, with vigorous succussion (shaking) in-between each dilution.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Some scientists have suggested that dilution and vigorous succussion (shaking in a particular way) makes the substance "imprint" the water or ethanol used for diluting— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

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