Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on May 17, 2021 9:42:21 GMT
Disease is merely an inability to adapt.
Whether it be an inability of a wound to heal naturally without turning septic, or a limitation in preventing organic breakdown, or the failure to keep at bay the need for addictive substances or the powerlessness to prevent malignancy developing, if we do not adapt to prevailing conditions within our lives, we become ill and we have to endure the consequences of the illness.
Failing to adapt can trigger our susceptibilities towards disease.
In her book 'Illness As Metaphor', Susan Sontag writes about the notion of disease fitting an individual’s character. "Disease can be challenged by the will. 'The will exhibits itself as organized body,' wrote Schopenhauer, but he denied that the will itself could be sick. Recovery from a disease depends on the will assuming 'dictatorial power in order to subsume the rebellious forces' of the body. One generation earlier, a great physician, Bichat, had used a similar image, calling health 'the silence of organs,' disease 'their revolt'. Disease is what speaks through the body, a language for dramatizing the mental: a form of self-expression."
So, if we are to avoid having to endure disease we have to silence the organs with harmony and accord and when that fails (as it often does) there's always homeopathy.
But as Homeopaths we know all that already, don't we?
Maintaining causes also play a role in disease states.
Homeopaths often talk about maintaining causes and for good reason because they can be a block to cure if not removed.
Simply, a maintaining cause is one that often a remedy cannot deal with. For example, if someone is living in a toxic environment and becomes ill by it then no amount of remedies will help a body become tolerant and accepting of a poisonous substance - why would it? That would make no sense and has nothing to do with cure.
However if someone becomes ill by living a life that is making them ill then a remedy can help them make the move away from the situation, make them emotionally stronger and able to cope. This is definitely a curing situation.
So, if the maintaining cause of an illness can be removed then it should, has to, for cure to take place and sometimes that is all that is needed - remove the problem.
More examples - dermatitis caused by working with toxic chemicals; headaches from listening to loud music through headphones; digestive issues from eating bad food; illness from living in damp conditions, etc etc. Remove the cause and the disease is also removed.
Causation is always important in disease and it is vital to find the cause in examining a case. If it becomes clear that the cause is an integral part of the case and cannot be removed as a separate issue, then the simillimum will always address that and cure will be found.
It is the same with disease. Disease also can have maintaining causes but this is different to what I have written above.
By this I mean that sometimes the absolute cause of a diseased state has to be found.
For example, if someone presents with eruptions on the legs and they have quality specific symptoms that point to a remedy and the remedy is given but no cure evolves then it is possible that the causation has not been found or addressed even though the totality of the case appears to have been understood and all symptoms taken into account.
No amount of wrongly selected remedies will cure these eruptions on the legs if it isn’t understood that the person has diabetes. It is the diabetes, the maintaining cause, that needs to be cured and not the end result of that disease state, eruptions on the legs.
I hope this is simple enough. If not, please discuss, ask questions.
Whether it be an inability of a wound to heal naturally without turning septic, or a limitation in preventing organic breakdown, or the failure to keep at bay the need for addictive substances or the powerlessness to prevent malignancy developing, if we do not adapt to prevailing conditions within our lives, we become ill and we have to endure the consequences of the illness.
Failing to adapt can trigger our susceptibilities towards disease.
In her book 'Illness As Metaphor', Susan Sontag writes about the notion of disease fitting an individual’s character. "Disease can be challenged by the will. 'The will exhibits itself as organized body,' wrote Schopenhauer, but he denied that the will itself could be sick. Recovery from a disease depends on the will assuming 'dictatorial power in order to subsume the rebellious forces' of the body. One generation earlier, a great physician, Bichat, had used a similar image, calling health 'the silence of organs,' disease 'their revolt'. Disease is what speaks through the body, a language for dramatizing the mental: a form of self-expression."
So, if we are to avoid having to endure disease we have to silence the organs with harmony and accord and when that fails (as it often does) there's always homeopathy.
But as Homeopaths we know all that already, don't we?
Maintaining causes also play a role in disease states.
Homeopaths often talk about maintaining causes and for good reason because they can be a block to cure if not removed.
Simply, a maintaining cause is one that often a remedy cannot deal with. For example, if someone is living in a toxic environment and becomes ill by it then no amount of remedies will help a body become tolerant and accepting of a poisonous substance - why would it? That would make no sense and has nothing to do with cure.
However if someone becomes ill by living a life that is making them ill then a remedy can help them make the move away from the situation, make them emotionally stronger and able to cope. This is definitely a curing situation.
So, if the maintaining cause of an illness can be removed then it should, has to, for cure to take place and sometimes that is all that is needed - remove the problem.
More examples - dermatitis caused by working with toxic chemicals; headaches from listening to loud music through headphones; digestive issues from eating bad food; illness from living in damp conditions, etc etc. Remove the cause and the disease is also removed.
Causation is always important in disease and it is vital to find the cause in examining a case. If it becomes clear that the cause is an integral part of the case and cannot be removed as a separate issue, then the simillimum will always address that and cure will be found.
It is the same with disease. Disease also can have maintaining causes but this is different to what I have written above.
By this I mean that sometimes the absolute cause of a diseased state has to be found.
For example, if someone presents with eruptions on the legs and they have quality specific symptoms that point to a remedy and the remedy is given but no cure evolves then it is possible that the causation has not been found or addressed even though the totality of the case appears to have been understood and all symptoms taken into account.
No amount of wrongly selected remedies will cure these eruptions on the legs if it isn’t understood that the person has diabetes. It is the diabetes, the maintaining cause, that needs to be cured and not the end result of that disease state, eruptions on the legs.
I hope this is simple enough. If not, please discuss, ask questions.