Hahnemann's Theory of Chronic diseases 

......... In the words of  Stuart Close MD

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     In formulating his "Theory of the Chronic Miasms," Hahnemann did for pathology what he had already done for therapeutics: he reduced a great mass of unsystematized data to order by making a classification based upon general principles.
     This classification of the phenomena of disease led to the broadest generalization in pathology and etiology that has ever been made, and greatly simplified and elucidated the whole subject.
     Hahnemann's generalization was based upon his new and far-reaching discovery: the existence of living, specific, infectious micro-organisms as the cause of the greater part of all true diseases,
     The history of the progress of natural history shows how men first approached nature; how the facts have been collected, and how these facts have been converted into science by successively broader and broader generalizations leading to the discovery of basic laws of nature.
     The work of Hahnemann in pathology may be compared to that of Cuvier in zoology, who reduced the entire animal kingdom to four fundamental classes, based upon the general characteristics of their internal structure: Vertebrates, Mollusks, Articulates and Radiates. Until Cuvier's time there was no great principle of classification. Facts were accumulated and more or less systematized, but they were not arranged according to law.
     Hahnemann reduced all the phenomena of chronic disease according to their causes to four fundamental classes, Occupational or drug diseases, Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis.
     Taking the entire mass of morbid phenomena, he first eliminated all of the numerous symptoms and so-called diseases which are merely local, temporary and functional, in persons otherwise healthy, due to non-specific causes, such as indiscretions in diet or regimen, mechanical injuries, undue exertions or indulgences, emotional excesses, etc. Such conditions are not true diseases, but mere indispositions, which disappear of themselves under ordinary circumstances when the cause is removed, or yield easily to corrective hygienic, dietetic, moral or mechanical measures. They ordinarily require no medicine. In this class of cases are included many of the so-called occupational diseases, caused by exposure of healthy persons to noxious influences incidental to environment or vocation, such as unsanitary dwellings, exposure to fumes and emanations from chemicals, absorption of minerals, such as lead or copper, etc.

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             This, the most fundamental and indispensable aspect of homeopathy is the most neglected part too. Most of us are taking this part of the theory of homeopathy, the most genuine theory on classification of disease ever proposed, so lightly  and lamenting on poor results that are coming out of half backed prescriptions.  Our teachers need to evolve better techniques to make the theory of Chronic disease more comprehensible to the students. The differentiation of diseases into various classes must be demonstrated practically and the application of the theory into practice and the advantages of strictly following the theory in practice must be stressed at every clinical setting. Hope men of medicine better understand the theory and put it into practice so that CURE is made possible.

            Dr Samuel Hahnemann deserved to be decorated with Nobel Prize for Medicine  either for his discovery of the LAW of SIMILAR or for the discovery of the THEORY of CHRONIC DISEASES. 

What we need to do ........To cure even the incurable

Dr J T Kent  Lectures On Homeopathic Philosophy  : Unprejudiced Observer

The teaching of this paragraph is that the symptoms represent to the intelligent physician all there is to be known of the nature of a sickness, that these symptoms represent the state of disorder, that sickness is only a change of state and that all the physician has to do is correct the disordered state. ................................. So long as we set the mind to thinking about a man's organs and how these things are brought about we are in confusion, but not so when we meditate upon the symptoms of the sick man as fully representing the nature of the disease after these have been carefully written out.

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If we homeopaths are to succeed in curing incurable diseases, we have to shed the prejudice of incurability of diseases. We have to repose our faith in symptoms and signs as the language of the disease, the only language through which a disease can communicate with the physician. Instead of herding the disease to incurable and curable we have to see curable state and incurable state of disease. Our Masters, who are indeed the guiding stars in our path used to see it that way. The scope of "prejudice" mentioned by Hahnemann  has to be expanded to mean the new kinds of prejudices that the dominant system of medicine, the media and statistics of cure and incurability that are imposed on us each day. Curability and incurabilty as defined today are in fact only a declaration of the ability and inability of dominant system of medicine. Here the miraculous cures of alternative systems get marginalized and ignored.


We have to see disease in the true Hahnemannina perspective and practice homoepathy based on Hahnemanian dictates.  That is the only way forward in this chaotic world.

Dr J T Kent  Lesser Writings

Distinction between the similar and the similimum

There is one point worthy of consideration; we are trying to make a distinction between the similar and the similimum, with which I do not agree.

I have not any doubt, from experience, that two medicines may be similar enough to the totality of symptoms, and either may be the similimum, each would be similar enough to cure it; and how can you say both of these are, or either of them, is the similimum.

If you go into degrees you may consider it in this way : The medicine may be so dissimilar, that in dynamic power it would have little or no effect upon the disease; it then approaches it in a degree of similarity by becoming more and more similar.

As it approaches in similarity it sustains an inability to change the symptoms that exist.

It may be sufficiently similar to spoil it, to change and not effect a cure, until you have not improved the patient, but only changed the symptoms.

I have observed in the management of intermittent fevers more than in any other class of complaints, giving medicine that has a few characteristics in intermittents, but which does not correspond to the genus of the disease or patient, and immediately follow it with its complementary, and you may change it from time to time f or five or six weeks; I have seen it in so many cases.

Medicines may be similar enough to effect curative results in a patient, and improve the health of that patient, improve the general condition whether an acute or chronic disease.

When that medicine has done all the curing it is capable of then, its complementary will take up the work and go on with it.

This is a matter of experience fully established by the Organon and every man's experience, and it seems to me the paper does not call out anything new, for it is in keeping with every man's experience.

Where there is psora or acute miasm, you can have a medicine similar enough to spoil the case, or similar enough to have a curative action; or the similimum, which is the medicine that cures the symptoms present, eradicates them completely.

Varicose Ulcer 

Varicose ulcer is a very troubling and painful condition.  This patient too suffered very much before being advised to take homeopathy medicines. The relief was perceptible from day 1 and healthy granulation tissue formed the wound healed in a very short duration of time. May years have passed and the patient never had a recurrence of the ulcer.

It is the effect of homeopathic medicines and not the inability of the present day patho- physiological awareness that matter to us.  Case after case homeopathy proves how effective, safe and  reliable it is.

Carbunle

Hering  says:

 "To call a carbuncle a surgical disease is the  greatest absurdity. An incision is always injurious and often fatal. A case has never  been  lost  under the right kind of treatment,  and  it  should always be treated by internal medicine only.''

BURN

Homeopathy can effectively manage burns. In this particular case a spotless healing was achieved in a span of just few days.

Homeopathy could give effective relief from burning pain in many patients who suffered burns, that too in unimaginably short time.

If proper homeopathy management is given, say along with other accessory management like sterile conditions etc mortality and morbidity resulting from burns will come down drastically.

Our burn therapy hospitals and institutions need to be thinking out of the box and accommodate good  homeopaths in their hospitals so that the ideal of cure is provided quickly and effectively.

Hope reason dawns on those who have almost monopolized acute disease management..............and people get a chance to experience real taste of homeopathy.


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Vitiligo 

A case of vitiligo showing slow but steady progress with the use of homeopathic medicine. We have observed that vitiligo of face and upper limbs yield faster compared to those affecting lower limbs.

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One of the advantages of taking homeopathic medicines for any disease is that the disease symptom will persist and trouble till such time that the true similimum capable of dealing with the entire disease and not just the symptoms take on it and put the patient on track to recovery. Of course  I am talking of scientific homeopathy which is practiced as per the laws of Hahnemann's Organon Of Medicine. 

This in turn means that the patient will not be fooled into believing that "All is Well", while symptoms are just getting masked  by the medicine and the disease is going on conquering new frontiers, and ultimately the patient becomes incurable by all means, as is very often seen in some medical specialties.

We homoepaths are indeed a blessed class for we have clear guidelines to see if the process of cure is on its track. Our guides in disease and in cure are the patients. We know from experience that even before any measurable biochemical change occur we have a sick "person"  and even before any reversal of parameters happen we have a recovering "person". In both the journey to sickness and cure it is the "person" who must surrender or fight back, as the case may be. 

In our day to day practice we are guided by Hering's laws of cure and Kent's Twelve observations. How invaluable and infallible these two are as indicators  of a patients journey to health and predictors of accuracy of the similimum selected by us is beyond the comprehension of the materialist who depend solely on laboratory data and get fooled. 

From common cold to cancer and beyond our focus is the patient and our science effective to the core.