sustentivepower of life: Lebens-Erhaltungskraft.That aspect of the Living Power which sustains, ascontrasted with that aspect which engenders (its generative power). Indisease, the Living Power brings both its generative and sustentive powersto bear in engendering and sustaining the disease (§63, fn 205a).It makes and maintains symptoms in a diseased effort to preserve life (pp.28, 35). In health, the sustentive power of the Living Power is involvedin maintaining the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation (§9);its generative power is involved in conception and pregnancy, as well asother creative endeavors. [SRD]

generativepower: Erzeugungskraft.Capacityto engender. The Living Power, in conjunction with an external Potence(either disease or medicinal), has the power to engender disease. Hahnemannrefers both to the generative power of the Living Power and the generativepower of medicines. He refers to the Living Power as the engenderer ofdisease in the Introduction (p. 37) and as the engenderer of symptoms infn 22. He refers to the disease-engendering power of medicines in §21.[SRD]

conceptive:empfänglich[emp,in + fänglich, catch-ative]. 1. Receptive; capable of receiving ortaking in. 2. Pertaining to, or capable of, conception. Throughout theOrganon, Hahnemann uses reproductive language to describe the disease process.For example, in §64, he states that disease is engendered [procreated]when a disease Potence impinges on the Living Power, which initially actsreceptively or conceptively. EmpfSngni§ (fn 181) is the German wordfor reproductive conception. [SRD]