Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 38 - BOARD OF HOMEOPATHIC AND INTEGRATED MEDICINE EXAMINERS › Article 1 - GENERAL › Section R4-38-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions at A.R.S. §
									32-2901,
				  in this Chapter:
1. "Beneficial clinical usage" means that usage results of a
				  therapy modality or treatment are documented by:
a. Clinical reports from national or international
				  organizations;
b. Professionally recognized publications of clinical
				  indications and contraindications;
c. National or international instructional courses providing
				  training in the use of the therapy modality, or treatment; or
d. Professional peer review presentations of physicians'
				  usage results with the therapy modality or treatment at local, county, state,
				  national or international meetings.
2. "Classical homeopathy" means a system of medical practice
				  expounded by Samuel Hahnemann in the Organon of Medicine that treats a disease
				  by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in healthy persons
				  produce symptoms of the disease treated.
3. "Complex homeopathy" means a system of medical practice
				  that combines one or more homeopathic remedies that are not described in the
				  Organon of Medicine.
4. "EAV" means electric acupuncture according to Reinhard
				  Voll.
5. "Fifth Pathway program" means an academic program created
				  by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association
				  specifically for American medical students studying abroad.
6. "Generally accepted experimental criteria in homeopathy"
				  means:
a. A protocol in which a therapy modality or treatment is
				  administered in the smallest amount necessary to stimulate a healing response
				  with a minimum of clinical aggravation of symptoms or side effects;
b. A process of recording the clinical efficacy of a therapy
				  modality or treatment reflected by measurements of symptom aggravation or
				  improvement, laboratory testing, and changes in physiologic functioning;
				  or
c. A process by which innovative diagnostic procedures and
				  devices are analyzed and evaluated according to their ability to assist a
				  physician in assessing the degree of electrical resistance or conduction
				  disturbance in the totality of a patient's presenting signs, symptoms, and
				  physiologic responses and predict or monitor the totality of the patient's
				  responses to a therapy modality or treatment.
7. "Homeopathic indication" means a recognized standard of
				  practice of homeopathic practitioners that describes a sign, symptom, and
				  physical finding that leads to the recommendation of a particular substance or
				  therapeutic procedure.
8. "Metal poisoning" means a level of toxic metals present in
				  a patient that in the professional judgment of a licensee is inconsistent with
				  the patient's ability to achieve optimal health.
9. "Proving method of administration" means testing a
				  homeopathic drug on healthy volunteers by recording, compiling, and organizing
				  symptoms that are developed into a repertory.
10. "Repertory" means a compilation, usually in book form, of
				  information categorized by the different systems of the body and providing an
				  index of symptoms and a listing of corresponding homeopathic remedies.
11. "Rubric" means a guiding symptom leading to a homeopathic
				  remedy.