DIFFERENT AUTHORS VIEWS ON CAUSATION:

DR. S. HAHNEMANN’S VIEW:

“He is likewise a preserver of health if he knows the things that derange health

and cause disease, and how to remove them from persons in health”as mentioned in

§4.

In §5, he mentioned that, those which assist the physician to cure are the

particulars of the most probable exciting cause of the disease, as also the most

significant points in the whole history of the chronic disease, to enable him to discover

its fundamental cause, which is generally due to a chronic miasm.

In §73, he emphasizes that as regards acute disease, they are either of such a

kind as attack human beings individually, the exciting cause being injuries influences to

which they were particularly exposed. Excess in food or any insufficient supply of it,

severe physical impression, chills, overheating, dissipation, strains,etc., or physical

irritations, mental emotions, and the like are the exciting causes of such febrile

affections.

Hahnemann divide diseases in general into two classes; diseases having a

visible, simply material cause, and disease having an immaterial dynamic cause.

DR. J. T. KENT’S VIEW:

The removal of the totality of the symptoms is actually the removal of the cause.

Unless causes are removed from beginning to end the disease can reproduce itself.

This includes the first proposition of Hahnemann as to the cure of disease, which means

permanent removal of the totality of the symptoms, thus removing the cause and turning
disorder into order, and as a consequence the results of disease are removed. The

totality cannot be removed without removing the cause.

DR.STUART CLOSE’S VIEW:

The science of logic has a very important relation to medicine in the matter of

assigning the causes of disease, upon which as far as the treatment is based.

Stuart’s “Law of Causation” is “Every effect has a number of causes”. He said that,

along with bacilli as one of the causative factor, we still have to reckon with sanitary,

atmospheric and telluric condition, with economic and social condition, habits of life,

individuals physical, mental and emotional states etc.,all of these are essential factors

and successful mode of treatment must be able to meet all the conditions arising from

any existing combination of the causes.

DR. BOGER’S VIEW:

Boger has given adequate place and importance to causation. In his repertory,

each chapter is followed by aggravation which contains many causative factors. In the

chapter “choosing the remedy”, he gives the importance of miasmatic cause, as well as

exciting cause. In his method of repertorisation, he gives more importance to Causation

and Genera modalities which are then followed by general sensations, which hold the
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key in the remedy as well as in the person.
SYNO
Boger says in his Synoptic key, that the physician should first try to elicit the

evident cause and course of the sickness, to which he will add all the things which now

seems to interfere with the sufferer’s comfort. The natural modifiers like time,

temperature, open air, posture, being alone, motion, sleep, eating and drinking, touch,

pressure, discharges etc, should be very definitely ascertained. SYNO

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Sickness arises from extrinsic as well as autogenetic causes. They embrace

the susceptibility to certain external influence which pervert the vital force, injuries, the

state of weather, heat, cold, dampness, physical exertion etc. whether the causes come

from without or arises from within , the homoeopathic similimum can’t be chosen without

taking them fully into account.B.P 79

DR.M.L.DHAWALE’S VIEW:
DHA
The causative factors in the case form the core of the image of the patient

in his illness. Their identification and incorporation in the image is, therefore, imperative

if the prescription is to prove Homoeopathic and hence curative. DH 118

DR.A.C. FRENCH’S VIEW:

As long as the causes exist , they aggravate conditions, burden

mankind, and cost effort for the laboring vital forces. Diagnosis or detection of the

cause, and then removal of them, are among the first essentials of treatment. (conquest

of disease book )

DR. J. BENEDICT D’ CASTRO’S VIEW :

The cause of every disease has to be searched for because if the cause

is removed, the effect obviously goes off. There are 2 types of causes,

i. Immediate cause.

ii. Remote cause.

DR. JUGAL KISHORE’S VIEW:

Causation is one of the vital inquiries that has to be elicited during

interrogation and examination, is the exciting cause or the circumstances leading to the
origin of the main symptoms or sickness of the patient. Sometimes, ‘causation’ alone

lead us to the anamnesis of the patient’s remedy.

DR.RANJIT K. ROY’S VIEW:

For every disease to be initiated there shall be some causative event,

agent or phenomenon.

2 types of causative agents

1. Biological includes bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic agents.

2. Non biological includes anything of non-pathogenetic factor (e.g

physical injury, mental trauma, emotional upset, diet disorder)

If the causative phenomenon is clearly recognizable and correlatable to a

disease, the remedy can be selected based on the causative factor.

DR. ROBIN MURPHY’S VIEW:

Knowing the causative factor is the door to understand the case which is

nelegected by prescribers most of the items. We must search why this person is having

that. Because, why? Since when? What brought that on? What do you mean by that?

etc are the questions which direct the patient to relieve the beginning or cause of

disease.

DR.R.P.PATEL’S VIEW

He say’s that “In certain cases aetiological factors if they are real are

important when these have left their effects on the body and mind and have created a

block in chronic disease or condition. To remove this block you can take aetiological

factor, its effects and present symptoms of the patient and give the remedy which
comes through symptoms. It may help in very many cases by stopping continuing

effects of the cause.

DR.R.E.DUDGEON’S VIEW:

Hahnemann says that proper selection of the homoeopathic remedial

agent exclusively depends on the knowledge of the exciting cause in acute diseases.

DR.T.CHATTERJEE’S VIEW:

Causation is an important factor in the delineation of symptoms and,

more often than not, is a deciding factor in selecting the remedy.

DR. S.M.GUNAVANTE’S VIEW:

Good health follows only if we correct or remove the causes

which have deranged the vital force leading to a state of disease, and restore normal

function of the organism.

DR. J.N. KANJILAL VIEW:

REPERTORISATION
A symptom is not complete even after its exact nature

and location are ascertained. It requires further qualification by its relation ( causative,

exciting, etc) or reaction (modalities) to environmental conditions- psychical as well as

physical –e.g., grief, excessive joy, insult, anger, fright , heat, cold, wetting, etc.

A symptom without these qualifications is absolutely sterile and of no

use for therapeutic purposes. The more a symptom is qualified by these factors the

more it becomes virile and of leading characteristic value.

We have plenty of dependable homoeopathic remedies related with

aetiological factors.

DR.ANJU JETHANI’S VIEW:

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He says that “perception of causes of disease is important

in health- not only for prevention, but also for diagnosis and the application of

appropriate therapeutic regimen”.

‘The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was

already in the cause; it is just the matter what was perceptible and what was not.’

DR.CLARKE’S VIEW:
JUGAL KISHORE
According to Clarke ‘causation’ becomes very important and

rules out any other symptom for application of the remedy. So, he allotted a separate

chapter on causation in his repertory. This is a fairly useful chapter and could be utilized

for addition to other works of standard repertories.

DR.BOENNINGHAUSEN’S VIEW:
LESSER WRITINGS
The causes of the disease (Cur?) play a prominent part in its

development. The causes are most generally and very properly divided into its external

and internal causes. The internal causes properly refer only to the general natural

disposition. The external causes or occasional causes embrace everything, where there

is such an internal disposition to disease, may produce disease.

DR.P.SANKARAN’S VIEW:

Where definitely available, the causation (emotional, physical, chemical, mechanical,

dynamic, etc.) or origin of the disorder is considered to be of great importance. The

patient was quite well upto a certain time and then he fell ill. Something has happened

to make him ill, for without cause there is no effect. Every circumstance that contributed

to the onset of the disease must be taken into account for prescription.
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