About Miasm

What is Miasm ?

: The word 'Miasm'  has originated from the Greek word Miasma which literally means upto Hahnemann's time many things , including polluting exhalations , malarial poison etc.

Definition:

 Miasm refers to the dynamic disease-producing power which stains and pollutes the human organism with unhealthy tendencies and thus becomes the producer of different types of diseases.

      

Stuart Close in his "Genius Of Homeopathy"  remarks : " A miasm is , according to Hahnemann , and to most of his followers , an infecting agent and a cause of disease."

Sir John Weir in his book " Science Of Homeopathy " remarks : "By miasm , Hahnemann means germ-disease."

Types of Miasm :

Broadly the miasms may be of two types :

1. Acute miasm .
2. Chronic miasm.