Susceptibility organon in constitution and diathesis.pptx

Organon of medicine

1. SUSCEPTIBILITY IN CONSTITUTION AND DIATHESIS PRESENTED BY, Dr.P.MEENAKSHI NANDHINI PG PART-I DEPARTMENT OF ORGANON OF MEDICINE

2. “NO KNOWLEDGE IS PERFECT UNLESS IT INCLUDES AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ORIGIN – THAT IS, THE BEGINNING; AND AS ALL MAN’S DISEASRS ORIGINATE IN HIS CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE KNOWN IF WE WISH TO KNOW HIS DISEASES”. - PARACELSUS.

3. CONSTITUTION: Constitution is defined as the physical and mental makeup of the person. The basic structure comprising inherited qualities and modified by the early environment. VON GRAUVOGL’S CLASSIFICATION OF CONSTITUTION : Hydrogenoid constitution Oxygenoid constitution Carbonitrogenoid constitution.

4. DIATHESIS: Diathesis is defined as a hereditary disposition or a tendency of the person towards a disease or a group of diseases. CLASSIFICATION OF DIATHESIS: Tubercular diathesis Scrofulous diathesis Haemorrhagic diathesis Lymphatic diathesis Uric acid diathesis Dyscratic diathesis.

5. SUSCEPTIBILITY AND CONSTITUTION: Individuals in health vary within wide limits on account of the differing pattern of genes. A little reflection will readily convince us that the manifestations of differing hereditary plan of organization will be determined by susceptibility. Thus the constitutional type is a good measure of susceptibility within.

6. SUSCEPTIBILITY AND DIATHESIS: The predisposition of certain somato -types to the development of certain diseases attracted the attention even of the ancients. It is extremely important from the standpoint of preventive medicine . The immense variety of medicines related to individual constitution with their predisposition to diseases insisted on ‘grouping’. This enables a Homoeopathic physician to carry the practice of preventive medicine to the individual .

7. It will be obvious that diathesis represents certain deviations in susceptibility which are not sufficiently marked to merit the label disease and in which the responses to environmental stimuli tends to be exaggerated or erratic.