Classification of diseases by hahnemann

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1. HAHNEMANNIAN CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES

2. According to hahnemann, disease is primarily a process of altered life manifesting itself through perceptible symptoms, altered sensations and functions.

3. Indisposition 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 un wellness in individuals and thereby one may not be comfortable to attend daily work. (Apho:150)

4. Bad hygiene Poor sanitation

5. 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. Acute diseases can again be classified into three groups. (Apho: 72) (Apho: 73)

6. INDIVIDUAL DISEASES The acute diseases atracking human beings individually, in reality, are generally only a transient explosion of latent psora. The exciting causes of this type are excess of food, insufficient supply of food, chills, overheating, dissipations.

7. Eating excess food Food insufficiency

8. SPORADIC DISEASES These diseases attack persons at the same time, here and there, with same cause.

9. Here many persons are attacked with very similar sufferings from the same cause. These diseases usually become infectious when they prevail among thickly populated regions. Poor sanitation at large gathering like fairs, wars and natural calamities like earthquakes and famines, calamities of war, floods excite them. Some examples are typhoid, cholera, Mumps, Measles. EPIDEMIC DISEASES

10. Yellow fever Epidemic

11. Chronic diseases have a gradual onset; slow progress, derange the living organism in their own peculiar manner resulting in gradual deviation of health. There may be unlimited life long suffering with further derangement till the living organism is fully destroyed. The chronic diseases are caused by the chronic miasms Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis. Chronic Diseases are further classified in to diseases with fully developed symptoms and diseases with few developed symptoms CHRONIC DISEASES

12. Diseases with fully developed symptoms Occupational diseases are usually defined as diseases arising out of or in the course of employment.   Occupational cancers: Cancer of skin, lungs, bladder Ex: Non miasmatic diseases:

13. Drug diseases : Diseases produced due to prolonged use of active drugs in large doses(allopathic treatment) Here vital force is weakened or abnormally dearranged. (Apho: 74-76) These are most incurable These are curable only when vital force is sufficiently powerful enough to be repaired.

14. Diseases inappropriately named chronic These diseases occur in patients who expose themselves continually to avoidable noxious influences; in habit of indulging injurious liquors; reside in unhealthy localties; etc… .. (Apho:77)

15. Miasmatic diseases : Divided into single miasmatic diseases and compound miasmatic diseases. Single: Psora Sycosis Syphilis Compound : Psoro-sycotic Psoro-syphilitic Syco-syphilitic Psoro-syco-syphilitic

16. DISEASES WITH FEW DEVELOPED SYMPTOMS Onesided diseases Local diseases

17. Onesided diseases : (Apho-172-184) Diseases with only physical symptoms like headache, diarrhea. Diseases with only mental symptoms like insanity, mania.

18. Treatment of one-sided diseases with only physical symptoms include finding the striking, peculair, uncommon symptoms which lead to totality. This helps in making the selection of most similar antipsoric remedy possible. If the selected remedy is partially suitable, it produces accessory symptoms, thus forming totality again which include old symptoms and accesory symptoms and more suitable remedy is selected.

19. Mental diseases : (Apho:210-230)

20. Hahnemann considers mental diseases as one sided diseases of chronic type effecting the whole psycho somatic entity. They are of psoric origin. They are of four types… Somato-psychic type of ment diseases. Acute type of mental diseases Mental diseases of doubtful origin Emotional diseases(Psycho-somatic type)

21. Treatment involve Psychotherapy and necessary antipsoric treatment according to type of mental disease.

22. LOCAL DISEASES : (Apho:185-203) These are a type of one sided diseases in which changes and ailments appear locally on the external parts of the body. Two types: Local diseases due to internal cause. Local diseases due to external causes.

23. Treatment of Local diseases due to external causes include surgical aid along with internal homoeopathic treatment. Treatment of local diseases due to internal cause include noting of exact character of local effection, selection of medicine peculair to it. In case of acute local effections, internal medicine like those of aconite, belladona, rhustox should be given along with good diet and regimen. Subsequent,antipsoric treatment is also given.