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Concept of Disease in Homoeopathy Dr. Hari Singh Director, HHC Healthcare

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Homoeopathy… A medical system <ul><li>… the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses , which would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease </li></ul>Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) Homoeopathy Homoeo = similar Pathos = suffering <ul><li>06/08/09 </li></ul>Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Background 1500 Paracelsus &quot;The dose makes the poison.&quot; For example, small doses of aspirin can be beneficial to a person, but at very high doses, this common medicine can be deadly. In some individuals, even at very low doses, aspirin may be deadly. <ul><li>400BC </li></ul><ul><li>Hippocrates “ Concept of man as a whole” </li></ul><ul><li>Physician’s task is to study the diseased individual, rather than the disease </li></ul><ul><li>The whole, and not the part </li></ul>1796 Hahnemann Holistic Rx using small doses 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Example of Homoeopathic action <ul><li>Arsenic album, the poison, in crude doses causes the following toxic symptoms: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Vomiting </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Diarrhoea </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Collapse </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Arsenic album, the poison, in ultra-diluted (homoeopathic potency) doses, cures the same symptoms: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Vomiting </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Diarrhoea </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Collapse </li></ul></ul>The law of similia <ul><li>06/08/09 </li></ul>Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Law of Similia <ul><li>Similia similibus Curentur </li></ul><ul><li>(Let Likes be treated by Likes) </li></ul>A drug cures in the sick, what it causes in the healthy (Drug Proving) 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Concept of health & disease <ul><li>Health </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Physical </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Mental </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Social </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Emotional & </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Spiritual well being. </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Disease </li></ul><ul><ul><li>A predisposed (susceptible) state of body and mind to fall sick </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Pathology is the result of this indisposed state! </li></ul></ul><ul><li>06/08/09 </li></ul>Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Health & Disease defined 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy Health Disease “ A condition in which the organism is in complete accord with its surroundings, with that exquisite coordination of different functions which characterizes the living animal or plant” - William Boyd “ is a change in that condition (health) as a result of which the organism suffers from discomfort (dis-ease).” -William Boyd

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“ Sickness” <ul><li>But we must not confuse disease with illness. </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Disease suggests an entity such as typhoid fever, with a recognized cause, structural changes, and clinical manifestations. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>“ When we say a person is ill we merely mean that he suffers from a physiological disturbance characterized by symptoms (headache, pain in chest, shortness of breath) or physical signs ( pallor, rapid pulse, swollen feet)” </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>- William Boyd </li></ul></ul>06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Disease, Illness & Syndrome SYNDROME = RUNNING TOGETHER (combination of symptoms caused by altered physiological processes) 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy Disease an entity with a cause (study in laboratory) Illness the reaction of the individual to disease (symptoms + signs)

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Reactivity ABNORMAL REACTIVITY SUSCEPTIBILITY 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy Signifying LIFE Normal Abnormal survival/vital force Hyper (+, ++, +++) hypo (-, - -, - - -)

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Miasm(s) <ul><li>Susceptibility Profile </li></ul>06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Predisposition to Sickness 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Classification of Miasms 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Source of Miasms 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Ortega’s Concept 06/08/09 Concept of Disease in Homeopathy

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Summary <ul><li>In Homoeopathy, ultra-high-dilutions of medicinal substances are used to cure a disease on the basis of the &quot;Law of Similia&quot;. </li></ul><ul><li>The disease in Homoeopathy is predisposition to fall sick (a miasm), which is always present in a living organism, in different ways. </li></ul><ul><li>These miasms are essentially of three types, that bring about </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Functional changes (Psora), </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Structural changes (Sycosis), and </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Destructive changes (Syphilis). </li></ul></ul><ul><li>These miasmatic tendencies are seen not only in the sick, but also in the healthy person and all the drug substances used as medicines. </li></ul>

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Available Soon… Concept of Disease in Homoeopathy – II: Knowing the Disease

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