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Differnce between Acute and Chronic miasm : Acute Miasm Chronic Miasm ·         Acute miasm refers to the dynamic disease-producing power which causes epidemic type of acute diseases. ·         Chronic miasms are those dynamic disease-producing powers which produces true chronic diseases and predispose human beings to acute diseases. ·         It has a distinct period of progress and decline , which it left to itself terminates in a moderate period of time in death or recovery . It cannot be prolonged in the patient ansd must subside . Chronic miasms are the originator of acute miasms. If there is no chronic miasm , there would have have no acute miasm. ·         In the work of Master Kent “ A chronic miasm , had a tendency to progress and to end only with the ...

What is Chronic Miasm ? :  Chronic miasms are the fundamental causes of chronic diseases. They produces chronic diseases and pre-dispose human beings to acute diseases. There are three types of chronic miasms viz . PSORA , SYPHILIS , & SYCOSIS . The chronic miasms go on increasing and growing worse inspite of best mental and corporeal regimen and torment to the  end of the human life. They are ineradicable by the Vital Force alone without proper medicinal treatment.

What is Acute Miasm ? : Acute miasm is a dynamic disease - producing power which causes acute , specific , infectious epidemic disease having almost fixed manifestation.    Master Kent defies it as follows : " An acute miasm is one that comes upon the economy ,passes through its regular prodromal period , longer kor shorter , has its period of progress and period of decline and in which there is tendency to recovery". The acute miasms are again two types : (a) Recurring type :   It refers to that type of acute miasm which recurs in the same manner more than once in the life-time of a person.  Example : Asiatic cholera , the plague of the Levant , yellow fever of the sea-coast (see sec 73 ). (b) Non-recurring type or fixed miasm : It refers to that type of acute miasm which attacks persons once in a life-time. (see sec 73)  Example : Smallpox ,measles , whooping-cough , the ancient smooth bright red scarlet fever of Sydenham , mumps.

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. D efinition:   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.