Inernal and External Causes of Disease and Law of Cure

Question 1

Six External Causes of Disease

Answer 1

Wind, Cold, Damp, Dryness, Summer Heat, and Fire

Question 2

When can emotions cause disease?

Answer 2

When they are prolonged, intense, repressed or not acknowledged that they can become a cause of imbalance.

Question 3

Seven Internal Causes of Disease

Answer 3

Anger, Joy, Sadness, Over-Thinking, Grief, Fear, Shock

Question 4

Anger

Answer 4

Qi Rises Up, Frustration, Exasperation, Feelings of Defeat, Resentment and Bitterness, Repressing

Question 5

Joy

Answer 5

Makes Loose Qi, Manic and excessive Joy, lack of joy

Question 6

Sadness

Answer 6

Qi disappears, Crushed Spirits, living in past, unfulfilled ambitions, loss of hope.

Question 7

Grief

Answer 7

Often repressed, disappearing qi, when their experience of life does not match how that would like it to be, hard time letting go

Question 8

Overthinking

Answer 8

Knots qi, pensiveness or ponderousness, obsessed, worry. A man’s thoughts should restrict themselves to the immediate situation.

Question 9

Fear

Answer 9

Qi descends, State of Agitation about the future. What If…,

Question 10

Shock

Answer 10

Qi becomes disordered, Fright- affects heart and Kidney, emotional or physical trauma,

Question 11

The Law of Cure

Answer 11

When treating an individual, the Homoeopath observes that the symptoms will always move from:

(a) the vital organs to the less vital organs
(b) from within, outwards
(c) from above, downwards
(d) in reverse order of appearance