Diseases Acute And Chronic

In Homoeopathy diseases are acute and chronic. Acute diseases or conditions are short and sharp, and the whole body is not necessarily affected. In Chronic conditions the body’s vital force gets disturbed to their depths and the disease keeps recurring. Their treatment should be left entirely to the doctor.

Every chronic disease often begins as an acute one. Acute diseases are of short duration, i.e., they begin and end within days or weeks, such as cholera, malaria,fever,cold,catarrh,measles, etc. Chronic diseases are those whose durations extends to months and years, such as asthma,cancer,T.B, piles,etc.

In acute diseases symptoms appear, increase and either end in cure or in death. In such diseases medicines are given frequently even at intervals of 5-10-15 minutes, according to severity of symptoms. In chronic diseases Homoeopathic medicines are often repeated weekly or monthly even at longer intervals.