3 Types of Acute Diseases according to Homoeopathy

According to Homoeopathy, acute diseases are those diseases which are caused due to some exciting cause which is dynamic in nature. This dynamic exciting cause excites the latent psora lying hidden, dormant inside human body now transiently explodes into acute diseases.

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Coming back to topic, “Into how many types, acute diseases are classified according to Homoeopathic system of classification?” According to Homoeopathic system of classification of diseases, acute diseases are classified into following three subtypes, which are as follow-

1)      Individual acute diseases.
2)      Sporadic acute diseases.
3)      Epidemic acute diseases.

1)      Individual acute diseases- 
Individual acute diseases are those acute diseases which are caused by some exciting cause which is dynamic in nature but what is main differentiating point of this type of acute diseases is from other two types? And that main differentiating point which differentiates it from other two subtypes is that, it affects different individual human beings but with different types of signs and symptoms. Every suffering individual being has separate signs and symptoms from each other, not even a single patient who is suffering from individual acute disease has his not a single sign and symptom resembling to other human being who is also suffering from individual acute disease.

2)      Sporadic acute diseases- 
Sporadic acute diseases are those acute diseases which attack many human beings at different places but here main differentiating point of sporadic acute diseases from other types of acute diseases is its exciting cause. Here the exciting causes can be meteoric under which comes climacteric calamities, like storms, earthquakes or some other telluric influences. And it only affects those people who are morbidly susceptible.

3)      Epidemic acute diseases- 
Epidemic acute diseases are those acute diseases which affects several persons but at same place. And it is not only single differentiating point, another differentiating point which differentiates it from others is that the persons who are affected are not only many in number but they are affected by very much similar sufferings and that too from same cause which is common to every person affected of epidemic acute diseases.

Another thing which is also point to be noted here is that these diseases are very infectious when they prevail among thickly populated masses or area of human beings. Most of the time exciting cause here for epidemic diseases is calamities of war, inundations, famine and acute miasms.

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