This document discusses the classification of diseases according to homeopathic principles. It defines disease and describes the characteristics of acute, chronic, individual, sporadic, epidemic, miasmatic and one-sided diseases. It provides examples and discusses the etiology and treatment approach for different disease types. Key points include that acute diseases have a sudden onset and short course, while chronic diseases have a gradual onset and lifelong course. Miasmatic diseases arise from psora, sycosis and syphilis. One-sided diseases have few symptoms and can be internal, physical, mental or external complaints.

1. CLASSIFICATION OF
DISEASES
PRESENTED BY : DR DEEPTI DEWAN
DEPARTMENT OF CASE TAKING & REPERTORISATION
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF : DR. SHOBHA. M. PATIL

2. WHAT IS DISEASE ?
THE DISEASE IS THE
DYNAMIC DISTURBANCE OF
HARMONIOUS RELATION
BETWEEN THE MATERIAL
BODY AND VITAL FORCE
THAT STIMULATES THE
BODY IN HEALTH

3. APHORISM 11
WHEN A PERSON FALLS ILL, IT IS ONLY THIS SPIRITUAL, SELF
ACTING (AUTOMATIC) VITAL FORCE, EVERYWHERE PRESENT IN
HIS ORGANISM, THAT IS PRIMARILY DERANGED BY THE
DYNAMIC INFLUENCE UPON IT OF A MORBIFIC AGENT INIMICAL
TO LIFE; IT IS ONLY THE VITAL FORCE, DERANGED TO SUCH AN
ABNORMAL STATE, THAT CAN FURNISH THE ORGANISM WITH
ITS DISAGREEABLE SENSATIONS, AND INCLINE IT TO THE
IRREGULAR PROCESSES WHICH WE CALL DISEASE.

4. • IN APHORISM 3 OF ORGANON, DR
HAHNEMANN STATED REGARDING
THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A
PHYSICIAN. THE KNOWLEDGE OF
DISEASE IS THE ONE OF THE
IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THIS.
• KNOWLEDGE OF DISEASE :
• IN GENERAL – APH 72- 82
• IN EACH CASE IN PARTICULAR (CASE
TAKING) – APH 83-104

6. DISEASE
SURGICALDYNAMICINDISPOSITION
CHRONIC
EPIDEMICSPORADICINDIVIDUAL
ACUTE
DISEASES WITH FEW
SYMPTOMS
DISEASES WITH FULLY
DEVELOPED SYMPTOM
COMPLEXSINGLEARTIFICIALPSEUDO
MIASMATIC
NON-
MIASMATIC
PSORO-
SYCO-
SYPHITIC
SYCO-
SYPHITIC
PSORO-
SYPHILITIC
PSORO-
SYCOTIC
SYCOSISSYPHILISPSORA

7. DISEASE WITH FEW SYMPTOMS
ONE SIDED DISEAES
INTERNAL
COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL
COMPLAINT
MENTAL
COMPLAINT
EXTERNAL
COMPLAINT
LOCAL
DISEASES

8. ACUTE DISEASE –(APH – 72&73)
Acute diseases are the result of
rapid morbid process of the
deranged vital force.
Their onset is sudden, have
definite course and quick
expression of action .
They terminate within a short
time either with complete
recovery or with death of the
patient.

9. ACUTE DISAESES IS A DISEASE HAVING THE FOLLOWING
CHARACTERISTICS :
1)SUDDEN ONSET
2)RAPID PROCESS
3)FINISH THEIR COURSE MORE OR LESS QUICKLY
4)DURATION OF SUFFERING IS FIXED AND ALWAYS
MODERATE
5)TERMINATES IN RECOVERY OR IN DEATH

10. ACUTE DISEASE
INDIVIDUAL SPORADIC EPIDEMIC

11. INDIVIDUAL DISEASE (APHORISM 73)
IT IS A TYPE OF ACUTE DISEASE WHICH ATTACKS HUMAN BEING
INDIVIDUALLY HERE AND THERE WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF SYMPTOMS
DUE TO EXPOSURE TO SOME EXCITING CAUSE EITHER MENTAL OR
PHYSICAL .THE EXCITING CAUSES MAY BE OF FOLLOWING TYPES :
I. EXCESS IN FOOD OR AN INSUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF FOOD
II. SEVERE CHILLS,OVER HEATING,STRAINS ETC
III. MENTAL EMOTIONS LIKE EXCITEMENTS ETC
CAUSE:
 EXCITING CAUSES INDUCES TRANSIENT EXPLOSION OF LATEST PSORA
PRODUCING INDIVIDUAL TYPE OFACUTE DISEASE
 ABNORMAL SUSCEPTIBILITY OF INDIVIDUAL PERSON

12. EXAMPLE:
DYSENTRY FROM OVER EATING
FEVER DUE TO COLD EXPOSURE
HEAD ACHE FROM OVER HEATING
TREATMENT:
WITHOUT MEDICINE, IT MAY LEAD TO EITHER RECOVERY OR
DEATH.
IF THE EXCITING FACTOR OF DISEASE IS NOT OF VERY
VIOLENT CHARACTER,THEN PSORA AGAIN RETURNS TO ITS
LATENT STATE.
SO RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT MEDICINE,IF THEY ARE
NOT OF VIOLENT CHARACTER.
THIS DISEASE CAN BE CURED HOMOEOPATHICALLY ON THE
BASIS OF TOTALITY OF SYMPTOMS OF INDIVIDUAL PATIENT.

13. SPORADIC DISEASES (APHORISM 73)
ACUTE DISEASE WHICH ATTACK SEVERAL PERSONS AT SAME TIME, HERE AND
THERE DUE TO SOME EXCITING CAUSE.
CAUSE: A)METEORIC (I.E, HEAVENLY,CLIMATIC OR ATMOSPHERIC OR
ELECTRO- THERMIC) AND TELLURIC (EARTHLY, SOIL AND WATER)
INFLUENCES AND INJURIOUS AGENTS.
B)AFFECT PEOPLE OF HAVING IDENTICAL MORBID SUSCEPTABILITIES.
EXAMPLE:
I. A GROUP OF PERSONS ARE ATTACKED IN CALCUTTA BY FEVER
II. ANOTHER GROUP OF PERSONS SUFFER FROM HEADACHE DUE TO CHANGE OF
WEATHER.
TREATMENT:
EACH CASE IS CONSIDERED NEW AND SELECT MEDICINE ACCORDING TO TOTALITY
OF EACH CASE

14. EPIDEMIC DISEASES-APHORISM
73
EPIDEMIC DISEASES ARE THOSE ACUTE DISEASES WHICH ATTACK
MANY PERSONS
WITH SIMILAR SUFFERINGS
FROM THE SAME CAUSE
THESE DISEASES GENERALLY BECOMES INFECTIOUS WHEN THEY
PREVAIL AMONG THICKLY POPULATED MASSES OF HUMAN BEINGS.
CAUSE:
a) CALAMITIES OF WAR,FLOODS ETC
b) SOMETIMES THEY ARE PECULIAR ACUTE MIASMS
I)EITHER THEY ATTACK ONCE IN LIFE TIME
II)RECUR FREQUENTLY IN SAME MANNER
(PLAGUE, YELLOW FEVER,CHOLERA )

15. They are sometimes due to PECULIAR ACUTE MIASM. These are again
divided into 02 types:
 Non-recurring or Fixed disease : these affect individuals in the
same manner but once in life time. Example – smallpox, measles,
whooping cough, scarlet fever, mumps etc.
 Recurrent acute disease : these recur frequently but pretty
much in the same manner. Example – Plague of Levant, yellow
fever, Asiatic cholera etc.

16. • HAHNEMANN ADVICES TO INVESTIGATE EACH CASE AS NEW AND UNKNOWN
• AFTER EXAMINING FEW CASES IT IS OBSERVED THAT A PARTICULAR MEDICINE
IS BEING INDICATED IN MAJORITY OF CASES.THIS MEDICINE IS INDICATED FOR
PARTICULARLY EPIDEMIC KNOWN AS GENUS EPIDEMICUS.
EXAMPLE :
BELLADONNA IN SCARLATINA
PURPURA MILIARIS BY ACONITE

17. S. NO POINTS INDIVIDUAL SPORADIC EPIDEMIC
1 NO. OF PERSONS
AFFECTED
INDIVIDUAL PERSON IS
AFFECTED
GROUP OF PERSONS
AFFECTED
MANY PERSONS
ARE
AFFECTED
2 TIME AT DIFFERENT TIME SAME TIME SAME TIME
3 SYMPTOMS WITH DIFFERENT
SYMPTOMS
SIMILAR SYMPTOMS SIMILAR
SUFFERINGS
4 PLACE HERE AND THERE HERE AND THERE ONE LOCALITY
5 CAUSE EXCITING CAUSE LIKE
OVER-
HEATING,CHILL,OVER
EATING ETC
METEORIC AND TELLURIC
CAUSES
CALAMITIES OF
WAR,FLOOD,ACUTE
MIASM –REC AND
NON RECURRING
6 TREATMENT TOTALITY OF SYMPTOMS
OF INDIVIDUAL PT
TOTALITY OF SYMPTOMS
OF EACH CASE
GENUS
EPIDEMICUS

18. CHRONIC DISEASES APHORISM 74 -82
CHRONIC DISEASES ARE DISEAES THAT ARISE FROM
CHRONIC MIASMS WITH FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS
GRADUAL, INSIDIOUS
UNLIMITED,LIFE LONG SUFFERING
NOT EXTINGUISHED BY VITAL FORCE ALONE
NO TENDENCY TO DECLINE OR RECOVERY,CONTINUE
THROUGH NEXT GENERATIONS,UNLESS TREATED
HOMOEOPATHICALLY
DESTROYS THE ORGANISM IN LONG RUN,IF LEFT
UNTREATED

19. CHRONIC DISEASES
DISEASE WITH FULLY
DEVELOPED SYMPTOMS
NON MIASMATIC
CHRONIC DISEASES
PSEUDO CHRONIC
DISEASE
ARTIFICIAL CHRONIC
DISEASE
MIASMATIC CHRONIC
DISEAES
DISEASE WITH FEW
SYMPTOMS

20. ARTIFICIAL CHRONIC DISEASES
(APHORISM 74-76)
THESE ARE DISEASES PRODUCED ARTIFICIALLY DUE TO
PROLONGED USE OF VIOLENT HEROIC MEDICINES IN LARGE
AND INCREASING DOSES.
 THESE ARE MOST DEPLORABLE, MOST INCURABLE.
IT IS APPARENTLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DISCOVER OR TO HIT
UPON ANY REMEDIES FOR THEIR CURE WHEN THEY HAVE
TOO MUCH PROGRESSED.
IF THE VITAL FORCE HAS NOT ALREADY BEEN TO MUCH
WEAKENED BY SUCH ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT,THEY CAN BE
CURED BY VITAL FORCE ITSELF

21. PSEUDO-CHRONIC DISEASE (APHORISM 77)
• INAPPROPRIATELY NAMED CHRONIC DISEASE
• ARE THOSE DISEASES WHICH PERSONS BRING UPON THEMSELVES
DUE TO CONTINOUS EXPOSURE TO SOME AVOIDABLE NOXIOUS
INFLUENCES WHICH ARE ALSO KNOWN AS MAINTAINING CAUSES.
• OCCUPATIONAL AND NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS COME UNDER THIS
EXAMPLE:
I. ADDICTIONS OF LIQUORS
II. HOUSING IN CELLARS
III. OVER EXERTION OF BODY AND MIND
IV. LIVING IN CONSTANT STATE OF WORRY ETC

22. • THESE STATES OF ILL-HEALTH DISAPPEARS SPONTANEOUSLY
PROVIDED NO CHRONIC MIASM LURKS IN BODY UNDER AN
IMPROVED MODE OF LIVING AND THEY CANNOT BE CALLED
CHRONIC DISEASES

23. TRUE CHRONIC DISEASES – APHORISM 78-81
• These diseases arise from chronic Miasms i.e., Psora, Sycosis &
Syphilis.
• When left to itself or unchecked they always goes on increasing.
• Continues till end of life.
• The most robust constitution, best regulated mode of living, mental
& corporeal regimen and vigorous vital force are insufficient for their
eradication.

24. MIASMATIC DISEASES
SINGLE
PSORA SYPHILIS SYCOSIS
COMPLEX
PSORA
SYPHILITIC
PSORA
SYCOTIC
SYCO
SYPHILITIC
PSORO SYCO
SYPHILITIC

25. SYCOSIS OR VENEREAL FIG-WART IS A VENEREAL CHRONIC MIASM
PRIMARILY MANIFESTED EXTERNALLY BY THE CONDYLOMATOUS AND
CAULIFLOWER LIKE GROWTH ON GENITALS (PRIMARY
MANIFESTATIONS OF SYCOSIS) FOLLOWING IMPURE COITION.
WHEN THESE EXCRESCENCES ARE REMOVED BY THE ALLOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN THROUGH SOME EXT MEANS LIKE CAUTERISING,BURNING
AND CUTTING BY LIGATURES,THE FIG WART DISEASE AFTER BEING
DEPRIVED OF LOCAL SYMPTOM WOULD DEVELOP SOME OTHER
SECONDARY AILMENTS(SECONDARY MANIFESTATIONS OF SYCOSIS)
MUCH WORSE THAN BEFORE.
MEDICINE REQUIRED – THUJA IN ALTERNATION WITH NITRIC ACID
SYCOSIS APHORISM 79

26. SYPHILIS APHORISM 79
• SYPHILIS IS A VENEREAL CHRONIC MIASM
PRIMARILY MANIFESTED OUTWARDLY BY THE
VENEREAL CHANCRE DEVELOPED FOLLOWING AN
IMPURE COITION.
• MEDICINE REQUIRED IS MERCURIUS IN EVER
HIGHER & HIGHER DEGREE OF DYNAMIZATION
DAILY.

27. THIS CHANCRE APPEARS BETWEEN 7TH AND 14TH DAY AND
FORMS PUSTULE AND THEN CHANGES TO ULCER WITH
RAISED BORDER AND STINGING PAINS
IF NOT CURED REMAINS STANDING ON THE SAME PLACE
DURING LIFE TIME AND INCREASES WITH YEARS
IF IT IS DESTROYED BY ALLOPATHIC PHYSICIAN ,CHANCRE
IS SUBSTITUTED BY PAINFUL BUBO AND DESTROYS
ORGANS AND BONES PRODUCING ULCERATIONS BONE
CARIES ETC

28. PSORA APHORISM 80
TERM PSORA MEANS ITCH OR ITCH MITE
PSORA IS THE MOST IMP CHRONIC MIASM WHICH IS ONLY
REAL FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE AND PRODUCER OF
INNUMERABLE FORMS OF DISEASE.
IT IS A ITCH DYSCRASIA LEADING TO FUNCTIONAL
DISORDER.
CHARACTERISE BY FEW VESICLES, VOLUPTUOUS
TICKLING ITCHING FOLLOWED BY BURNING.

29. ONE SIDED
DISEASE
INTERNAL
COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL
COMPLAINT
MENTAL
COMPLAINT OR
MENTAL DISEASE
EXTERNAL
COMPLAINT
LOCAL DISEASE
OR LOCAL
MALADIES

30. THE COMPLEX MIASMATIC DISEASES ARE DUE TO PREDOMINANCE OF
TWO OR MORE. THE DISEASE OF THIS TYPE INVOLVES CHARACTERISTICS
OF TWO, THREE OR OF ALL OF THE FOUR MIASMS.
• PSORO-SYCOTIC
• PSORO-SYPHILITIC
• SYCO-SYPHILITIC
• PSORO-SYCO-SYPHILITIC

31. ONE SIDED PARTIAL DISEASES
APHORISM 172-230
• DISEASES HAVING TOO FEW SYMPTOMS ARE KNOWN AS
ONE SIDED DISEASES.
• THEY DISPLAY ONLY ONE OR TO PRICIPLE SYMPTOMS
WHICH OBSCURE ALMOST ALL OTHERS.
• DUE TO LACK OF SYMPTOMS THESE ARE LESS AMENABLE
TO CURE.
• CHRONIC IN NATURE & PSORIC IN ORIGIN

32. ONE SIDED DISEASE WITH ONLY PHYSICAL
SYMPTOM – APHORISM 174
IN THIS TYPE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS ARE REFLECTED BY
FEW OR LESS SYMPTOMS ONLY
EVEN AFTER CLOSE ENQUIRY REVEAL ONLY ONE OR
TWO SYMPTOMS- 176
MEDICINE SHOULD BE SELECTED ON THESE FEW
SYMPTOMS WHICH IS MOST SUITED TO THE CASE -177
EG; HEADACHE OF MANY YEARS DURATION
A DIARRHOEA OF LONG STANDING
AN ANCIENT CARDIALGIA

33. LOCAL EXTERNAL DISEASE APHORISM 185-203
• These are the 2nd type of one-sided disease.
• The old school has considered that it is disease of
skin only and rest of the body has no role to play, it
has laid to the most disastrous medical practice.
• Only those disease can be called local disease which
have been : produced short time before, solely by an
external lesion & rest of the body does not
participate.
• The treatment of such diseases is relegated to
surgery; but in these cases also dynamic medicines
are required where whole body participates and are
dynamically deranged.

34. • No external disease can exist, maintain or grow without the
participation of whole body. Aphorism – 189
• If these external symptoms are removed by topical application,
knife or cauterization even before the homoeopathic remedy for
the malady has been discovered, then the main symptom upon
which selection of medicine would have rested is destroyed and so
there treatment becomes more difficult. Aphorism - 199

35. MENTAL DISEASES APHORISM – 210-230
One sided disease.
More difficult to cure owing to its one sidedness
These are of 04 types :
Mental diseases of physical origin
Mental diseases from acute excitation
Mental diseases of doubtful origin
Mental diseases of emotional origin
Homoeopathic mode of the treatment is the only and most
effective for the treatment of mental disease – Aphorism - 230

36. INDISPOSITION APHORISM 150
• IT IS A CATEGORY OF ILLNESS DUE TO SOME EXCITING CAUSE.
• THE COMMON EXCITING CAUSES MAY BE CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE TO
STRONG ODOURS, PRESENCE OF FOREIGN BODIES, IMPROPER HYGIENE,
POOR SANITATION, LIVING IN A DAMP OR ILL VENTILATED HOUSE,
IRREGULAR OR IMPROPER DIET OR LACK OF EXERCISE.
• SUCH CAUSATIVE FACTORS MAY BRING A FEELING OF UNWELLNESS AND
DISCOMFORT.
• INDISPOSITION USUALLY NORMALISE IF CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS ARE
ADOPTED IN THE DIET, TAKE MORE REST OR CHANGE THE PLACE.
• SOMETIMES, SUCH DISCOMFORT IS ELIMINATED WHEN THE CAUSATIVE
FACTORS ARE REMOVED, SURGICALLY OR BY MODIFICATION OF THE LIFE
STYLE. USUALLY THEY DO NOT REQUIRE MEDICINAL AID EXCEPT IN
SITUATION WHERE THERE IS SERIOUS DERANGEMENT OF HEALTH DUE TO
PROLONG STIMULI.

37. • INTERMITTENT DISEASES – APHORISM 231-244: THESE
DISEASES RECUR AT CERTAIN INTERVALS WHERE A MORBID
STATE OF UNVARYING CHARACTER RETURNS AT A FIXED
PERIOD, WHILST THE PATIENT IS APPARENTLY IN GOOD
HEALTH DURING INTERVALS, AND TAKES ITS DEPARTURE AT
AN EQUALLY FIXED PERIOD.
• ALTERNATING DISEASES APHORISM 232: IN THESE DISEASES
MORBID STATES ALTERNATE AT UNCERTAIN INTERVALS WITH
MORBID STATES OF A DIFFERENT KIND.