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succuss

VERB
  1. shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body)

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  • According to contemporary investigation, the processes of succussion or trituration disturb the atomic state of a drug substance by jolting electron (negative charge) out of its orbit.
  • Succuss the medicinal liquid evenly before drinking.
  • Each treatment bottle contains only a couple of drops of the Mother Tincture topped up with more water and succussed again.
  • The notation 30X means the 1: 10 dilution, followed by succussion, is repeated thirty times. Archive 2006-08-01
  • The mother tincture is precisely diluted again, and shaken (‘succussed’).
  • Yes, that's right - in two hundred years, homeopaths haven't gotten around to figuring out how many times a homeopathic remedy has to be "succussed" (i.e., shaken) in the course of dilution to activate its supposed curative powers. Planet Atheism
  • potentized" them between each stage of dilution by vigorous shaking (succussion). Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Yes, but consider the possibilities of convincing them to use other fluids: "Just dissolve the substance in some nitroglycerin and succuss ... Pharyngula
  • 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]
  • 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. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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