Homeopathic Pharmacy

1.During the time allotted for the study course, the medical resident: • gains a general understanding of the principles and methods of homoeopathic pharmacy; • learns the rules for the preparation of homoeopathic medicines, ensuring that the individual nature of the medicine is preserved; • understands dilution to avoid toxicity; • understands the essence of potency and dynamisation; • learns the scientific basis of potency; • learns to prepare the initial material – mother tinctures and mother triturations; • is familiar with potentiation methods, the use of technical tools of potentiation and the history and development of potentiation methods; • is familiar with potency scales and processes; • learns about homoeopathic forms of medicines.

1.As a result of completing the study course, the medical resident: Gains preparation skills: • of a mother tincture, • of a trituration; • of a homoeopathic medicine; - on a decimal scale; - on a hundredth scale; - for LM/Q potencies. Intellectual skills: - able to use potencies; - able to select the appropriate potency when prescribing medicine; - to know which homoeopathic medicines to use in which situations; - able to demonstrate critical and analytical skills.

1.After successful completion of the study course, the medical resident achieves the mandatory competence of a homoeopath: • understands the principles and methods of homoeopathic pharmacy; • is able to prepare homoeopathic medicines in different forms and with different potencies, using different scales; • understands the importance of standardisation, quality control of the potentisation process, contamination and the safe limit of dilution of homoeopathic medicinal products; • is able to explain with arguments and discuss complex aspects of homoeopathic pharmacy with both professionals and laypersons. • is able to keep up-to-date information about achievements in both conventional and homoeopathic pharmacy.