succussion

In fact, homeopaths claim that a substance becomes more potent the more it becomes diluted by intense shaking, a process they call succussion.

Although not accurate in the conclusions reached at the time, the value of the method of diagnosis is shown by the retention in modern medicine of the name and the practice of “Hippocratic succussion.”

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.

This sign is still used by physicians and is known as Hippocratic succussion.

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.