Tonic spasm is a prologn uniform muscular spasm opposite to a clonic spasm. Greek, Tonos, pitch or tension, Latin, Tonus Tonicity, having tone, mood or reation to stimulus, a healthy state when at rest. The link between the words tone, tune, tuning, mood, temperament are very important in the Organon. The German work Stimmung has all of these potential meanings. Tone is also used as a medical term to discribe the state of homoeostasis of the organism.
Tone is a state of rhythm, harmony, and natural balance.
It is very important for homoeopaths to understand the meanings of these essential words in the homoeopathic paradigm.