There are 3 (three) types of causes of chronic diseases: 1. Exciting or precipitating causes. 2. Fundamental or miasmatic causes. 3. Maintaining causes. Exciting causes: exciting causes bring about acute diseases or acute exacerbation of chronic diseases. The exciting causes are often referred to asRead more
There are 3 (three) types of causes of chronic diseases:
1. Exciting or precipitating causes.
2. Fundamental or miasmatic causes.
3. Maintaining causes.
Exciting causes: exciting causes bring about acute diseases or acute exacerbation of chronic diseases. The exciting causes are often referred to as ailments. There is no miasmatic origin. In Aphorism 73, Dr. C.F.S.Hahnemann described four types of exciting causes.
• Physical causes: excess of food; Exposure to heat & cold; Change in weather; getting wet, ETC.
• Mechanical causes: Trauma; Burn; Animal bite, ETC.
• Mental: Fear; Grief; Emotion; Jealousy, ETC.
• Acute miasm: Plague; Asiatic cholera, ETC.
Fundamental causes: fundamental causes are that are responsible for the occurrence of all true chronic diseases. This cause has a miasmatic origin.
Miasma: the dynamic disease-producing power which pollutes the human organism and becomes the producer of every possible disease condition. They are three types:
• Psora.
• Syphilis.
• Sycosis.
Maintaining causes: maintaining causes are responsible for the continuity of diseases. The diseases exist so long as their causes are present and have an influence. If the person is removed from the influences, the disease disappears automatically. Example: an occupational hazard.

ACUTE MIASMA: this is a dynamic disease-producing power, that causes acute, specific, infectious, or epidemic diseases, having almost fixed manifestations. “An acute miasm is one that comes upon the economy, passes through its regular prodromal period, longer or shorter, and has its period of progreRead more
ACUTE MIASMA: this is a dynamic disease-producing power, that causes acute, specific, infectious, or epidemic diseases, having almost fixed manifestations.
See less“An acute miasm is one that comes upon the economy, passes through its regular prodromal period, longer or shorter, and has its period of progress and period of decline and in which there is a tendency to recovery.”- Dr. J.T.Kent.
Types of acute miasm:
1. Specific diseases: Cholera; Pneumonia, ETC.
2. FIXED miasm: Smallpox.
3. Half-spiritual miasm: Measles; Chickenpox, ETC.
4. HALF- ACUTE: Take a long time for the miasm to completely develop in the system. Exam: Hydrophobia.