Susceptibility
BY DR. J.T KENT
DEFINITION :
Susceptibility is an inborn ability of an
individual to react or to respond towards
the external stimuli .
EXPLANATION:
Dr. kent discussed dynamic powers in terms of
influx,
He explaniened susceptibility under aphorism
30, 31 ,32, 33, 34.
Aphorism 30
Thehuman body appears to admit of being
much more powerfully affected in its health
by medicines (partly because we have the
regulation of the dose in our own power)
than by natural morbid stimuli for natural
diseases are cured and overcome by suitable
medicines.
Aphorism 31
The inimical forces , partly psychical ,partly
physical ,to which our terrestrial existence is
exposed, which are termed morbific noxious agent ,
do not posses the power of morbidly deranging the
health of man unconditionally: but we are made ill by
hem only when our organism is sufficiently disposed
and susceptible to the attack of the morbific cause
that may be be present and to be ultered in its
health , deranged and made to undergo abnormal
sensations and functions , hence they do not
produce disease in everyone , nor at all the time.
Dr kent explained about power which influence from outside is
either contagion i.e natural disease force and artificial disease
force
The power which is present inside the organism is another influx .
The dose of curative remedies should be sufficient to cause the
suspension of influx
When cause ceases to flow in a particular direction it is because
resistance is offered, for causes flow only in the direction of least
resistance and so when resistance appears influx ceases,the
cause no longer flows in.
In the beginning of disease that is in the stage of contagion,
there is limit to this influx which is applied by inner influx,
If there were no limit to this influx ,the person would die but
when succeptibility is satisfied, there is cessation of cause and
when cause ceases to flow in ultimate not only do the ultimate
ceases but cause itself has already ceased.
According to Hahnemann we have more power over
human beings with drugs than disease cause .
For man is only susceptible to natural disease upon
a certain plane.
Disese causes existing as they do as immaterial
substances, flow into man in spite of him; he can
neither control nor resist them, and they make him
sick.
But certain changes occur and man ceases into his
economy; a suspension has taken place, because
susceptibility has ceased. Susceptibilty ceases
when
changes occur in the economy that bar out any
more influx.
In cure and contagion similar principle is applied but
difference is that in cure we have advantages of
change of potency.
This enables us to suit the varying susceptibility of sick
man.
The degree of disease cause fits his susceptibility at the
movement he is made sick but its is not so with
medicines , man has all the degree of potentisation and
by this he can make changes and there by fit the
medicine to the varying susceptibility of man in varying
qualities or degree.
So Hahnemann writes medicines are having greater
power than natural morbific agents
The cause of disese and of cure exists within the
primitive substance and not in ultimate material form ,
though the immaterial cause of disease continues in
disese ultimates.
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