Classification of Disease

Question 1

absence of ease

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disease

Question 2

is a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

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health

Question 3

As Homeopathy matured, it began to construct its own

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causal theories that included the classifications of individual and collective diseases

Question 4

Classification of Disease based on Organon

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disease can be physical/external trauma or dynamic

Question 5

epidemic, sporadic, individual is classified as

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acute

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miasmatic and non-miamatic is classified as

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chronic

Question 7

syphillis, sycosis and psora is classified as

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miasmatic

Question 8

occupational, drug-induced, lifestyles are classified as

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non-miasmatic

Question 9

derivation from the vital force of health

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dynamic disease

Question 10

dynamic is divided into two diseases called

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chronic and acute

Question 11

chronic is divided into two called

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non-miasmatic and miasmatic

Question 12

means the effects of microorganisms on the vital force including the symptoms that are
transmitted to the following generations.

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miasm

Question 13

These chronic __________ are capable of producing degenerative illnesses, and autoimmune diseases and lead the organism toward immuno-deficiency disorders

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miasms

Question 14

who was the first physician to use the term “miasm” which has its origin in the Greek word for contaminated source?

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Hippocrates

Question 15

Hahnemann noticed that each of the chronic
diseases has three phases:

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a primary stage, a latent stage, and a secondary or tertiary state

Question 16

Two non-veneral miasms

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• Psora (the itch disease)
• Pseudo-psora (the tubercular disease)

Question 17

Two veneral miasms (STD)

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• Sycosis ( genital warts)
• Syphilis (the chancre miasm).

Question 18

tends to produce irritation, inflammation,
and hypersensitivity. Any of various skin diseases characterized by the presence of scabs or scales, usually with itching

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Psora

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tends to produce infiltrations,
indurations, and overgrowth (worts, cancer)

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Sycosis

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tends toward tubercles, fibrosis and suppuration

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Pseudo-psora (tubercular)

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tends toward granulation, degeneration
and ulceration.

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Syphilis

Question 22

In ancient times the eruption of psora appeared as _________ –a persistent external eruption on the skin which served as a substitute for INTERNAL Psora

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leprosy

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is the oldest of the chronic venereal miasms
and increases the susceptibility to other sexually transmitted diseases

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Sycosis

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Produces more profound destruction than with gonorrheal infection/miasm.

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Syphilis: Chancre miasm

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Syphilis Affinities:

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• Mucus membrane
• Bones
• Nervous system

Question 26

Syphilis Indications:

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• Destructed tissues
• Caries of bones
• Pains increasing and decreasing gradually and wandering
• Suicidal thoughts

Question 27

Remedy for Syphilis

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Merc & Aurum

Question 28

Kent (1900) equated Psora with

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“Original Sin”

Question 29

Ortega (1940s) deficiency, inhibition, lack =

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*Psora

Question 30

Ortega (1940s) excess, escape, exudation =

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*Sycosis

Question 31

Ortega (1940s) destruction, degeneration, perversion =

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*Syphilis

Question 32

“It was a continually repeated fact that the nonvenereal chronic diseases, after being time and again removed homeopathically, always returned in a more or less varied form and with new symptoms or re-appeared annually with an increase of complaints.

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most ancient, most universal,
most destructive and yet most misapprehended chronic miasmatic disease

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PSORA

Question 34

who defined a miasm as a predisposition towards chronic disease underlying the acute manifestation of illness”

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GEORGE VITHOULKAS

Question 35

GEORGE VITHOULKAS believed that a miasm is:

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• transmissible from generation to generation
• may respond beneficially to the corresponding nosode
  *Pointed out that there may be more than 3
  miasms
  *Identified Tuberculosis as a separate miasm

Question 36

RAJAN SANKARAN said Remedies of the same family share a common ______

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sensation

Question 37

RAJAN SANKARAN said the expression of this sensation differs between remedies in the __________

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same family

Question 38

RAJAN SANKARAN said the expression differs according to the __________ with which that
sensation is perceived & responded to.

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pace & intensity

Question 39

RAJAN SANKARAN said what defined the miasm and defined a total of _____ miasms

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• pace & intensity defines the Miasm
• defined a total of 10 miasms