classification of disease according to hahnemann and its corelation with CNS diseases

1. classication of disease according to
hahnemann and its correlation with
systemic disease ( cns )
Dr. Rubina Subhani
Department of Practice of Medicine
PG Part I
SKHMCH, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu

2. what is the nervous system?
• The nervous system is a complex, sophisticated system that regulates and
coordinates body activities. It is made up of two major divisions, including
the following:
• Central nervous system- This consists of the brain and spinal cord.
• Peripheral nervous system- This consists of all other neural elements,
including the peripheral nerves and the autonomic nerves.

4. • In addition to the brain and spinal cord, principal organs of the nervous system
include the following:
• Eyes
• Ears
• Sensory organs of taste
• Sensory organs of smell
• Sensory receptors located in the skin, joints, muscles, and other parts of the
body

5. The nervous system is vulnerable to various disorders.
It can be damaged by the following:
• Trauma
• Infections
• Degeneration
• Structural defects
• Tumors
• Blood flow disruption
• Autoimmune disorders

6. Disorders of the nervous system
• Vascular disorders, such as stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA),
subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage and hematoma, and
extradural hemorrhage
• Infections, such as meningitis, encephalitis, polio, and epidural abscess

7. • Structural disorders, such as brain or spinal cord injury, Bell's palsy, cervical
spondylosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, brain or spinal cord tumors, peripheral
neuropathy, and Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Functional disorders, such as headache, epilepsy, dizziness, and neuralgia
• Degeneration, such as Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington chorea, and Alzheimer disease

8. Signs and symptoms of nervous system disorders
• Persistent or sudden onset of a headache
• A headache that changes or is different
• Loss of feeling or tingling
• Weakness or loss of muscle strength
• Loss of sight or double vision
• Memory loss
• Impaired mental ability

9. • Lack of coordination
• Muscle rigidity
• Tremors and seizures
• Back pain which radiates to the feet, toes, or other parts of the body
• Muscle wasting and slurred speech
• New language impairment (expression or comprehension)

10. CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASE

11. in homeopathy, the diseases are classified
into four major groups.
1. Indisposition
2. Diseases due to Mechanical or External sources (Surgical conditions)
3. Acute Diseases
4. Chronic Diseases

12. CLASSIFICATION OF
ACUTE DISEASE

13. ACUTE INDISPOSITION
§ 150
• Mild deviation from the state of health .
• Slight alteration in diet and regimen is enough .
• No need for medication .

14. headache because of strong odour, sound, light etc

16. ACUTE INDIVIDUAL
§73
• This is a type of disease which attacks the humans
individually due to some exciting cause of mental or physical
origin .
• This acute disease is nothing but transient explosion of the
latent psora.
• Example:
Excessive intake of food or deficient supply of it, severe
chill, over heating, strain, mental emotions etc act as exciting
cause to develop individual acute diseases.

18. ACUTE SPORADIC
§73
• These are the type of acute diseases that attack several
persons at the same time here and there.
• The exciting cause may be either climatic influences,
atmospheric or physical agents (meteoric), or influences
in the soil, water(telluric).

19. TETANUS

20. RABIES

21. ACUTE EPIDEMIC
§73
• Epidemic diseases are the type of acute diseases that
affects many persons, with very similar sufferings from
the same cause.Hahnemann uses the word infectious,
in this context, because the epidemic disease becomes
infectious when it spreads among the thickly populated
areas.

23. ACUTE DISEASE FROM OTHER SCHOOL OF
MEDICINE
§ 92
• CONJOINT MALADY

24. ACUTE EXACERBATION OF CHRONIC
DISEASE
§ 247
• In chronic disease resembling cases of acute disease, at still
shorter 12, 8, 4, in very acutest every hour, upto as often
as every 5 minutes.

26. ACUTE ONE SIDED DISEASE INTERNAL IN ORIGIN
§174
• Their princial symtoms can be either an internal
complaints,
• E.g ; Headache or diarrhoea of many years

28. ACUTE ONE SIDED DISEASE EXTERNAL IN
ORIGIN
§186
• The case only if the injury were so trivial as
• Suffering parts only by mechanically removing external
impediments to cure
• E.g : Dislocation, Sutures, Bandages, Fractures

29. SUTURING OF WOUND ON HEAD

30. ACUTE MENTAL DISEASE SUDDEN IN
ORIGIN
§221
• Theses are called mental ds of acute origin .
• Sometimes the mental disease like insanity, mania can
break out suddenly like an acute ds.prior to this the
patient may be perfectly healthy.
• Usually an exciting cause acts upon the latent psora
such ds may appear.

33. ACUTE MENTAL DISEASE DOUBTFUL IN
ORIGIN
§224
• In these type ,it is difficult to find out whether the mental
disease is arising from a corporeal disease or from any
psychological disturbance like faulty education, bad
practices, corrupt morals superstition

35. ACUTE INTERMITTENT FEVER
§235- 240
• Sporadic or epidemic intermittent fevers
• In this group we often find every paroxysm composed of
two alternating states (cold-heat, heat -cold) or
sometimes three (cold-heat-sweat).

37. • ACUTE INDISPOSITION
• ACUTE INDIVIDUAL
• ACUTE SPORADIC
• ACUTE EPIDEMIC
• ACUTE DISEASE FROM OTHER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• ACUTE EXACERBATION OF CHRONIC DISEASE
• ACUTE ONE SIDED DISEASE INTERNAL IN ORIGIN
• ACUTE ONE SIDED DISEASE EXTERNAL IN ORIGIN
• ACUTE MENTAL DISEASE SUDDEN IN ORIGIN
• ACUTE MENTAL DISEASE DOUBTFUL IN ORIGIN
• ACUTE INTERMITTENT FEVER

38. CHRONIC DISEASE §72
● Small often imperceptible beginnings, dynamically derange the living
organism,
● Each in its own peculiar manner, and cause it gradually to deviate from the
healthy condition, in such a way that the automatic life energy, called vital
force,
● Whose office is to preserve the health, only opposes to them at the
commencement and during their progress imperfeect, unsuitable,useless
resistance,
● But is unable of itself to extinguish them, but must helplessly suffer [them
to spread and] itself to be every more and more abnormally deranged,
untill at length the organism is detroyed.

39. CHRONIC DISEASES
NON-
MIASMATIC ONE SIDED DISEASE
TRUE
MIASMATIC-78
ARTIFICIAL DISEASE
-74-76
INAPPRO-
PRIATELY NAMED
77
SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
PSORA, SYCOSIS
AND SYPHILIS
PSORA AND
SYPHILIS
PSORA AND
SYCOSIS
PHYSICAL IN
ORIGIN
MENTAL IN
ORIGIN
MENTAL
–CORPOREAL
225-227
CORPOREAL–
MENTAL 215-
220
INTERNAL IN
NATURE
EXTERNAL IN
NATURE
ALTERNATING DISEASES-232
INTERMITTENT DISEASES-
231
INTERMITTENT FEVER
ENDEMIC IN MARSHY
DISTRICT
INTERMITTENT
FEVER
PERNICIOUS
INTERMITTENT
FEVER PSORIC
FULLY
DEVELOPED

40. ARTIFICIAL CHRONIC DISEASE
§74
• Artificially produced in allopathic treatment by the prolonged use of
violent heroic medicines.
• In large and increasing doses, by the abuse of calomel, corrosive
sublimate, mercurial ointment, nitrate of silver, iodine and its ointments,
opium, valerian, cinchona bark and quinine, foxglove, prussic acid,
sulphur and sulphuric acid, perennial purgatives, venesections, shedding
streams of blood, leeches, issues, setons, etc.,

42. INAPPROPRIATELY NAMED CHRONIC DISEASE
§ 77
● Who expose themselves continually to avoidable noxious influences.
● The habit of indulging in injurious liquors or aliments.
● Addicted to dissipation of many kinds which undermine the health.
● Especially marshy districts, who are housed in cellars or other
confined dwellings, who are deprived of exercise or of open air, who
ruin their health by overexertion of body or mind, who live in a
constant state of worry, etc.

44. THE TRUE NATURAL CHRONIC DISEASE
§78
The true natural chronic diseases are those that arises from a chronic
miasm , which when left to themselves, and unchecked by the employment of
those remedies that are specific for them, always go on increasing and growing
worse, notwithstanding the best mental and corporeal regimen, and torment
the patient to the end of his life with ever aggravated sufferings. These are the
most numerous and greatest scourges of the human race; for the most robust
constitution , the best regulated mode of living and the most vigorous energy
of the vital force are insufficient for their eradiaction.

46. ONE SIDED DISEASES
§ 173
● The only diseases that seem to have but few symptoms.
● And on that account to be less amenable to cure.
1. Mental in origin
i. Mental - corporeal [225-227]
ii. Corporeal - mental [215-220]
2. Physical origin
i. External in nature
ii. Internal in nature

47. ONE SIDED DISEASES
§ 173
● The only diseases that seem to have but few symptoms.
● And on that account to be less amenable to cure.
1. Mental in origin
i. Mental - corporeal [225-227]
ii. Corporeal - mental [215-220]
2. Physical origin
i. External in nature
ii. Internal in nature

48. ONE SIDED DISEASES
i. Mental - corporeal [§225 ]
● There are, however, as has just been stated, certainly a few
emotional diseases which have not merely been developed into
that form out of corporeal diseases, but which, in an inverse
manner, the body being but slightly indisposed, originate and are
kept up by emotional causes, such as continued anxiety, worry,
vexation, wrongs and the frequent occurrence of great fear and
fright.

49. ONE SIDED DISEASES
ii. Corporeal - mental [§216 ]
A suppuration of the lungs, or the deterioration of some other
important viscus, or some other disease of acute character, e.g., in
childbed, &c.
Becomes transformed into insanity, into a kind of melancholia or
into mania by a rapid increase of the psychical symptoms that were
previously present.

50. ONE SIDED DISEASES
i. External in nature §186
● Which have been produced a short time previously, solely by an
external lesion,still appear at first sight the name of local diseases.
ii. Internal in nature §187
● Those affections, alterations and ailments appearing on the external
parts that do not arise from external injury or that have only some
slight external wound for their immediate exciting cause.

51. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
1. Intermittent diseases § 231 - 245
The intermittent diseases deserve a special consideration,
as well those that recur at certain periods-like the great
number of intermittent fevers,
and the apparently non-febrile affections that recur at
intervals like intermittent fevers.
i. Non-Febrile Intermittent Diseases
ii.Febrile Intermittent Diseases

52. Intermittent Diseases § 233 - 234
i. Non-Febrile Intermittent Diseases
• Where a morbid state of unvarying character returns at a tolerably
fixed period, whilst the patient is apparently in good health, and
takes its departure at an equally fixed period;
• This is observed in those apparently non-febrile morbid state that
come and go in a priodical manner [at certain times ]
• periodically recurring morbid states just alluded to and observed in
one single patient at a time [ they do not usually appear sporadically
or epidemically ].

53. Intermittent Diseases
ii.Febrile Intermittent Diseases §235 - 244
a. Sporadic or epidemic intermittent fevers
b. Epidemic intermittent fevers of no-marshy
districts
c. Pernicious, individual intermittent fevers of non-
districts
d. Endemics in marshy districts

54. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
2.Alternating disases § 232
● They are generally a manifestation of developed psora
alone, sometimes, but seldom, complicated with a syphilitic
miasm,
● And therefore in the former case may be cured by antipsoric
medicines.
● Two or three states may alternate with one another.