Making a Prescription: Hahnemann’s Instructions on Treatment of Chronic Disease

In this lecture, we will reviewing the following three articles in your handout: Hahnemann’s Instructions on Treatment of Chronic Disease, Remedies for the Treatment of Chronic Disease Table, The Hyperplasia Syndrome (Sycosis), & The Degenerative Syndrome (Syphilis).

Hahnemann’s Instructions on Treatment of Chronic Disease: When psora explodes on the scene, knowing that it has erupted from a chronic disease rather than an acute condition, we examine the best course of action. This wisdom is taken from letters written by Hahnemann, as he describes the proper and most successful treatment of acute flares of chronic disease.

Remedies for the Treatment of Chronic Disease Table: What remedies are anti-miasmatic? Which are most frequently employed in veterinary medicine? We will discuss remedies which are worth further study, to help narrow down your initial materia medica studies.

The Hyperplasia Syndrome (Sycosis): How is Thuja similar to the sycosis miasm? What is the relationship between this remedy and the miasm? What other remedies are often useful in the treatment of this disease?

The Degenerative Syndrome (Syphilis): Mercurius is often helpful in the syphilitic miasm. What properties of this remedy fit this miasm? What other remedies are often useful in the treatment of this disease?