The notation 30X means the 1: 10 dilution, followed by succussion, is repeated thirty times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homeopathy = Lactose PIlls] Reference

Homeopathy works by taking a small amount of the actual ingredient and using a process called succussion to dilute and shake (mechanically) it until what's left is a tiny bit of the ingredient and the full energy imprint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

In ancient times, Hippocrates would hold a patient by the shoulders and shake him to produce a splashing 'succussion' sound to prove that excess fluid had accumulated around the lungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [3quarksdaily] Reference

When the hump is lower down, it is more likely in this case that succussion with the head downward should do good.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

For neither would I despair, but that if succussion were properly gone about, the spine, in certain cases, might be thereby rectified.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

But it is disagreeable even to enlarge upon these matters; and yet, by the contrivances now described, the proper succussion may be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

And no doubt can be entertained that many of his patients were the better for the violent succussion of the system which his developed practice put them through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

It is peculiarly suited to dyspeptics, from its direct action upon the abdominal viscera, the contents of which are stimulated by the continued agitation and succussion, consequent on the motion in riding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

Accelerated inspiration of pure air and a gentle succussion of all the internal organs are blended with that consciousness of power and that self-dependence which the good horseman always feels in the saddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference

But if the hump be situated very high up, and if succussion be by all means to be used, it will be better to do it with the feet downward, as has been said, for the force downward will be the greater in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

Dislocation outward is to be remedied by succussion, when high up, toward the feet; and when situated low down, in the contrary direction; the part is to be pressed back into its place, either with the foot or a board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Instruments Of Reduction] Reference

I could tell of other modes of succussion than those formerly described, which one might fancy would be more applicable in such an affection; but I have no great confidence in them, and therefore I do not describe them.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

I know no mechanical contrivance by which such a displacement could be reduced, unless that one might be benefited by succussion on a bladder, or any other similar plan of treatment, such as extension, as formerly described.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

These matters should be thus arranged, if recourse is to be had at all to succussion on a ladder; for it is disgraceful in every art, and more especially in medicine, after much trouble, much display, and much talk, to do no good after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Articulations] Reference

The third pillar of homeopathy is the law of succussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

With succussion, it's supposed to work, without, not so much or not at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

What I hadn't realized was that you have to use succussion for this to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

The discipline is based on three "laws"; the law of similars, the law of infinitesimals and the law of succussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

Usage of the terms "potentiation" and "succussion" are common in homeopathy when referring to the preparation of antidotes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Homeopathy thus became inextricably linked with this process of ultradilution-repeated dilution of substances by succussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Homeopathy thus became inextricably linked with this process of ultradilution - repeated dilution of substances by succussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

If a malposition existed, this same succussion was used with the feet high, so as to shake the child into the roomy portions of the womb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference

Hahnemann's explanation for how higher potencies could be more efficacious was that the friction involved in succussion might release some hidden curative power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Those who maintain faith in today's science may continue to see their physician and receive conventional medication proven in clinical trials, rather than in succussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Hahnemann's explanation for how higher potencies could be more efficacious was that the friction involved in succussion might release some hidden curative power of substances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

I would recommend the section in which Dr Peter Fisher, director of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, was asked how homeopathic dilutions are achieved through a process of "vigorous shaking" known as succussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

To conclude, the whole belly is shaken by a rapid vibratory motion of the hands (to which is sometimes added succussion by slapping with the flat or cupped hand), and the whole process ends with quick, circular rubbing of the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria] Reference

"potentized" them between each stage of dilution by vigorous shaking (succussion).    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

( 'succussion').    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference