Susceptibility

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Susceptibility

A variety of excerpts on Susceptibility

http://www.minimum.com/reviews/siwesunv.htm

" The most important element in the practice of homeopathy is individual

susceptibility. Single symptoms or the symptoms of a single organ system

are not the disease, but rather only partial expression of the total state

of the organism. Traditional medical doctors tend to specialize, treating

different organ systems separately. The homeopath treats the person as a

whole, perceiving all of the symptoms as different aspect of one total

condition.

" Disease is not an entity, therefore medicines have no power to destroy

this supposed entity. The allopathic concept is that an invading organism

is responsible for a great many forms of disease. Modern medicine is built

around this way of thinking about disease. The homeopath relates all forms

of disease back to the individual state of susceptibility.

" Homeopaths understand disease to be a state of inherited or acquired

susceptibility of the vital force within each living being. Without this

state of susceptibility, contagion will not " take " in any individual. Even

the most virulent strains of contagion are not universally contagious; an

individual must be susceptible. "

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http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article.asp?PageType=Article & ID=229

An Epidemic of ADD or a Matter of Overdiagnosis? Does ADD Really Exist?

© Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman N.D., M.S.W., DHANP

(Excerpted from Ritalin-Free Kids: Safe and Effective Homeopathic Medicine

for ADD and Other Behavioral and Learning Problems)

A Matter of Predisposition

Even if they have two parents with ADD and eat sugar all day, some children

will develop ADD and others will not. What can account for this disparity?

Homeopaths believe that the reason some children and adults suffer from ADD

and others do not lies in susceptibility. If you ask the parent of a child

with ADD when he first noticed problem behaviors or tendencies in his

child, he will likely say from infancy or toddlerhood. Such a child may

have been hyperalert and have tendencies to wake frequently during the

night, to be fussy and hard to satisfy, to run as soon as he could walk,

and to climb all over the furniture as soon as he was mobile. This

predisposition

to ADD-like behavior often occurs at a very tender age. Homeopaths

frequently observe that this predisposition or susceptibility depends on

the constitution of the individual from birth and may even be affected by

the state of the parents prior to conception and during pregnancy.

How is this susceptibility passed on? Genetically? Homeopaths recognize

these common traits among parents and children and hypothesize that there

is some mechanism which we do not yet understand for these impressions or

threads to be passed on generationally.Researchers at the University of

California, Irvine recently reported finding the first abnormal gene

associated with ADD. The gene controls dopamine receptors in the brain.

Children with a more severe form of ADD have an abnormality of this gene,

causing less sensitivity to dopamine, a neurotransmitter. Ritalin is known

to stimulate dopamine release, perhaps accounting for the drug's efficacy.9

Most important to the homeopath are the unique tendencies or

predispositions of the individual child or adult, regardless of what

specifically may trigger the susceptibility. The phenomenon of

susceptibility varies from individual to individual and cannot be

stereotyped. But the individual can be carefully listened to and deeply

understood. And from this understanding, a homeopathic medicine can be

matched to the individual which will shift that susceptibility and bring

the person into balance.

No Single Cause of ADD

Our conclusion, which is not particularly surprising given that we are

homeopaths, is that each child or adult with ADD is individual. The cause

of his ADD is no more stereotypical than his symptoms. Other than saying

that anyone with ADD must have a predisposition to it, be it hereditary or

environmental, we believe it is fruitless to ascribe all of the individual

ADDs to one causative factor. Even if researchers conclude that every

person with ADD has a deficiency or excess of one specific

neurotransmitter, it is still an observation and not the underlying cause

of the problem.

(AND I WOULD ADD THAT ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT CHILDREN MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE

TO ARE VACCINES LEADING TO VACCINE DAMAGE AND NOTABLY MERCURY IN VACCINES-

BUT AGAIN THIS IS JUST ONE 'EXCITING' CAUSE - HAS TO BE SUSCEPTIBILITY--Sheri)

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http://www.homeopathy.ca/articles/what_is.html

excerpted from

What is Homeopathy?

by Dr. André Saine

The fundamental cause of disease or the basic reason why a person becomes

sick is their intrinsic susceptibility to be sick. In general, one can

assert that disease is a state of imbalance resulting from the combination

of several factors. To simplify, we can use three main groups to summarize

these factors or causes: first, the general susceptibility of the

individual to be sick, determined by heredity; second, the environment and

all factors of stress; and third, the way one conducts his life which

includes hygiene (diet, exercise and mental hygiene).

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http://www.teleos-homeopathy.cityslide.com/pages/page.cfm/31840

(URL no longer works)

.. Conventional medicine views the virus, allergen, or bacteria as the

culprit and, therefore, attempts to attack it, whereas homeopathy views the

person’s susceptibility as the true cause, and, therefore aims to

strengthen the individual who will then be less susceptible to these

environmental stresses. Simply put, conventional medicine attempts to treat

the disease, homeopathy treats the person who is sick, as an individual.

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

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