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polychrest

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Pol´y`chrest
n.1.(Med.) A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.
Polychrest salt
(Old Med. Chem.) potassium sulphate, specifically obtained by fusing niter with sulphur.
polychrest
a drug that serves as a remedy for several diseases. — polychrestic, adj.
See also: Remedies
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The 45-or-so most commonly known remedies, known as the polychrest, used to constitute the majority of prescriptions in our practice when we began to study homeopathy in the late 1970s.
Healing with homeopathy: the fascinating world of insect remedies by Reichenberg-Ullman, Judyth; Ullman, Robert / Townsend Letter
You may need your constitutional medicine, rather than one of these relatively few and common polychrest (45 most common) homeopathic medicines.
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