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Descriptor English: Rebound Effect
Descriptor Spanish: Efecto Rebote
Descriptor efecto rebote
Entry term(s) acción secundaria
efecto secundario
Scope note: Reacción del organismo al efecto primario de un remedio homeopático, produciendo un retorno a los síntomas opuestos más graves cuando la medicación se interrumpe o se administra de forma discontinua.
Descriptor Portuguese: Efeito Rebote
Descriptor French: Effet Rebond
Entry term(s): Secondary Action
Secondary Effect
Tree number(s): HP1.007.281.893
Scope note: Paradoxical reaction of the body to the primary (direct) effect of the medication, producing an opposite and increased effect after discontinuation or suspension of treatment. In homeopathy, it corresponds to the secondary (indirect) effect of the organism, used as a curative response when applying homeopathic medicine according to the principle of therapeutic similarity.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2013
Related: Mechanisms of Action of Homeopathic Remedies DeCS
Medicamentous Disease DeCS
DeCS ID: 55168
Unique ID: DDCS055168
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Rebound Effect - Preferred
Concept UI FD00062032
Scope note Paradoxical reaction of the body to the primary (direct) effect of the medication, producing an opposite and increased effect after discontinuation or suspension of treatment. In homeopathy, it corresponds to the secondary (indirect) effect of the organism, used as a curative response when applying homeopathic medicine according to the principle of therapeutic similarity.
Preferred term Rebound Effect
Entry term(s) Secondary Action
Secondary Effect



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