The document discusses mental diseases and their classification based on their origins and interrelations between mental and physical health. It outlines four types of mental diseases: somato-psychic, acute origin, doubtful origin, and psycho-somatic, along with their respective treatment approaches using anti-psoric remedies and other therapeutic methods. The importance of a comprehensive understanding of both corporeal and mental symptoms in treatment is emphasized to ensure effective healing.

1. Mental diseases
Dr Gayatri A Panse
Associate prof
Depertment of Organon of Medicine
and Hmoeopathic Philosophy

2. MENTAL DISEASES AND
THEIR TREATMENT
• The mind and the body are two important
fragments of the organism. They are functioning
in harmony to maintain the state of health.
• They are inseparableand interdependent. Any
amount of alteration in one fragment will
immediately reflect on the other.
• During the process of drug proving also, the
pathogenetic effect will be seen not only
physically but also mentally and intellectually.

3. • Mental Diseases
• Mental diseases are one-sided diseases of psoric
origin, though they are of whole psychosomatic
entity, the derangement of mental disposition
increaseswhile of the corporeal symptoms
decline (§ 215).

4. • Classification of Mental Diseases
• Hahnemann classified mental diseases into 4
types:
• 1. Mental diseases of somato-psychic
type (§ 216)
• 2. Mental diseases because of exciting
cause (§ 221)
• 3. Mental diseases of doubtful origin(§ 224)
• 4. Mental diseases of psycho-somatic
type (§ 225)

5. • 1. Mental diseases of somato-psychic type (§ 216)
• These are mental diseases arising from the corporeal
diseases.
• In some diseases like suppuration of lungs or some
deterioration of important organs or some fatal
acute diseases, it has been observed that they
rapidly change into insanity, a type of melancholia.
• Here, the corporeal symptoms will reduce and the
existing mental symptoms will be increased in
intensity.
• They rapidly develop into one-sided diseases of only
mental symptoms. Only the accurately observing
physician can observe the scarcely visible corporeal
symptoms. As a result, the mental symptoms look
like the presenting complaints.

6. • the fatal disease with mild psychic symptoms
and predominant corporealsymptoms has
been transformed into a one-sided mental
disease. These types of mental diseases can
be called the somato- psychic variety

7. Treatment of somato-psychic disease
(§ 217-220):
• The whole disease phenomenon i.e., both the
corporeal and mentalsymptoms have to be acquired.
• It includes the symptom collection of thecorporeal
disease with which the patient suffered before the so
called mentaldisease developed.
• In collecting this information, the patient’s
attendents,relatives and friends will be of greater help.
• Once the symptoms of the previous disease has been
collected, these can be mixed with the existing
corporeal and mental symptoms.

8. • Thus, the totality is formed. To this complete
picture of the disease, the medicine capable
of producing strikingly similar (especially to th
e mental symptoms) have to be selected. The
final remedy must be an anti-psoric one,
which will complete the cure.

9. • 2. Mental diseases because of exciting cause (§
221)
• These can also be called as the mental diseases
of acute origin.
• Some times the mental diseases like insanity
and mania, can break out suddenly like an acute
disease.
• Prior to this condition, the patient may have
been in perfectly healthy state. Usually, when an
exciting cause acts upon the latent psora such
diseases may arise. Fright, vexation, abuse of
spirituous liquors etc may act as exciting cause in
these cases.

10. • Treatment of the mental diseases of acute
origin (§ 221- 223):
• These diseases have to be treated with anti-
psoric remedies. But the initial use of the well
proven acute remedies like Aconite, Belladonna,
Stramonium,Hyoscyamus etc prove beneficial.
These medicines have to be administered
according to the acute totality of the patient.
They must be administered in minute highly
dynamised form. Such prescription will reduce
the severity of the problem by sending the psora
into its latent form.

11. • Once the acute attack has subsided, the case
again has to be treated with the anti-psoric
remedies.
• They should never be regarded as completely
cured because the latent psora is still present
in the patient.
• The anti-psoric treatment has to be followed
with the proper diet and regimen or else there is
a chance of development of mental disease again
after exposure to any type of exciting cause.

12. • 3. Mental diseases of doubtful origin (§ 224)
• In these types of mental diseases, it is difficult to find
out whether the mentaldisease is arising from a corporeal
disease or from any psychologicaldisturbance like faulty
education, bad practices, corrupt morals, neglect of
mind,superstition or ignorance. So it can be dealt in 2
headings:
• i. If mental diseases of doubtful origin are based on the
psychogeniccause:
• This disease can be controlled by sensible, friendly
exhortations, consolatoryarguments, serious
representations and sensible advice.
• Treatment:
• Such mental diseases can be controlled by
psychotherapy,counseling, appropriate diet and regimen,
but without fail followed by anti- psoric treatment as psora
will be the basic cause in such cases.

13. • ii. If mental diseases of doubtful origin are based
on any corporealdisease:
• Hahnemann recommends one guideline to
identify such diseases. In thesetypes of diseases
the patient gets irritated when the physician tries
to
give psychotherapy and consolatory arguments. S
o, by psychotherapy alone such patients become
more dejected, inconsolable and reserved.

14. • Treatment:
• Such mental diseases have to be considered as the one-
sidedmental disease of corporeal causes (first variety).
• Hence, the treatment must also be given like the
same. The whole disease phenomenon i.e., both the
corporeal and mental symptoms have to be acquired.
• It includes the symptom collection of the corporeal
disease with which the patient suffered before the so
called mental disease has developed.
• In collecting this information, the patient’s
attendents,relatives and friends will be of greater help.
• Once the symptoms of the previous disease have been
collected, these can be mixed with the existing corporeal
and mental symptoms.

15. • Thus, the totality is formed. To this complete
picture of the disease, the medicine capable
of producing strikingly similar (especially to th
e mental symptoms) has to be selected. The
final remedy must be an anti-psoric one,
which will complete the cure.

16. • 4. Mental diseases of psycho-somatic type (§ 225)
• These are the mental diseases that arise as a result of
prolonged emotionaldisturbances. Different
psychological depressions like continued anxiety,
worry,vexation, wrongs and frequent occurrence of
greater fear and fright. Suchdiseases may be of
recent origin and may not have developed fully
intocorporeal diseases. But, if left untreated they may
damage the body. In § 226,Hahnemann comments “
• While they are yet recent and they are capable
of making great inroads in the corporeal state
• ”. Thus the name psycho-somatic isgiven to this class
of diseases.

17. • Treatment (§ 226-267):
• Such mental diseases of psychic origin can be
treated by means of psychological
remedies like confidence building, friendly
exhortations, sensible advice and a well
disguised deception.
• This has to be always supported by good diet
and regimen.
• The fundamental cause in such diseases is
always psora.
• Hence, radical anti-psoric treatment has to be
given to avoid any type of recurrences

18. •Thank you