SUSCEPTIBILITY

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SUSCEPTIBILITY
It is the capacity of living organism to receive
and react to stimuli both internal and external
Susceptibility is one of the fundamental
attributes which differentiates living from non
living.
Alleviation of disease depend upon the same power
of the organism to react to the impression of
curative remedy
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LIFE
SUSCEPTIBILITY
FUNCTIONING VITAL

• PHYSIOLOGICAL
• Ingestion
• Digestion
• Assimilation
• Nutrition
• Repair
• Secretion
• Excretion
• Metabolism
• Catabolism

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CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY
CHARACTERISTICS
Appetite / Weight Sleep / Height Stool /
skin Urine / Hair Menses Perspiration
Individualizing characteristic reflection of
susceptibility
Epochs Birth / Puberty / Pregnancy / old age
Sensation as if
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MENTAL HEALTH

• Milestones ---- Psychological
• Emotions
• Intellectual
• Subconscious
• Vulnerabilities
• Sensation as if

Mental state
Modalities
Causation
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THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLE
Physiology (asymptomatic) Healthy person
Proving (Medicine) Symptoms
Pathology Diseased individual Symptoms
Remedy Restoration of health (asymptomatic)
Law of similar
Susceptible Organism
Action
Reaction
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• Restoration of the patients to health represents.
  The reaction of the susceptible organism to
  impression of curative remedy
• Reaction to medicines depends upon the degree of
  susceptibility of the patient.
• Since cure consists simply in satisfying the
  morbid susceptibility of the patients
• Implies susceptibility as attribute exists in
  every individual carries its peculiar stamp in
  health. In disease it may become morbid
  perverted hence to satisfy the susceptibility
  supply need modify it. By using suitable
  modifying agents.

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QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SUSCEPTIBILITY IN AN
SICK INDIVIDUAL
MORBID
Increased
Decreased
Destroyed
Implication
Size and Quantity of dose depends upon degree of
susceptibility
Potency selection Repetition
Posology
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How do we assess susceptibility

• Characteristic symptomatology in case
• Assessment of pathology
• Pace of disease
• Assessment of sensitivity of mind nerves
• Assessment of suppression in case Emotional /
  Physiological / Pathological / Iatrogenic
• Study of race / family.

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Stuart close
Susceptibility in organism, mental or bodily is
equivalent to state.
State involves the attitude of organization to
internal causes and to external circum
stances. It is all the resource of defence or
the way to yielding In health we live act and
resist without known it. In disease we live but
suffer and know our self in consciousness or
unconscious exaggeration
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Components of susceptibility

• Immunity
• Reactivity
• Sensitivity
• Receptivity
• vitality

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Immunity and susceptibility

• Neonate / Infant / ? sensitization ? vaccination
• Pediatric --- Nutrition ? susceptibility
• Pregnancy ? Immune transmission
• Geriatric ?
• Immune ? Modulators ? Modifiers
  Immunoglobulin / Steroids / Immunosuppressive
• Immunocompromised State / Host
• Addictions Alcohol / Tobacco

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No agent or procedure should because as a
therapeutic measure which has the power diminish
breakdown or destroy the normal. Susceptibility
or reactibility of the organism because it is the
most valuable medical assets we possess
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Inflammation and fever are in reality the
manifestation of that vital reaction or
resistance on the part of the organizations which
is the means by which the real natural, curative
antibodies and antitoxins are produced Inflammat
ion fever are not evils per se.
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Heightened sensitivity

• Pregnancy
• Neonate
• Hypersensitive disorders
• Disabled / Individual with special abilities
• Idiosyncracies

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IDIOSYNCRASIES
Peculiar corporeal constitutions which although
otherwise healthy, posses a disposition to be
brought into a more or less morbid state by
certain things which seems to produce no
impression and no change in many other individual
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Vitality

• Tissue vitality
• General vitality Physiological

• Geriatric age group
• Congenital Illness
• Immuno compromised
• Compromised Vital Organs

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SUSPENDED ANIMATION
In most urgent cases where danger to life and
imminent death allow no time for action of
homoeopathic remedy in those cases. Stimulation
of irritability and sensibility with a palliative
is required. When this stimulation is effected
the vital force goes back into its formers
healthy manner as her there is no disease, but
merely an obstruction suppression of healthy
vital force. (e.g.) - Asphyxia - Suspended
animation form lightning