Diseases Acute and Chronic

In Homeopathy diseses are acute or chronic. Acute diseases or conditions are short and
shrp, and the whole body is not necessarily affected. In chronic conditions the body's
vital force gets disturbed to their depths and the disease keeps recurring. Their
treatment should be left entirely to the doctor.

Every chronic disease often begins as acute one.Acute diseases are of short duration, i,e
they begin and end within days or weeks, such as cholera, malaria, fever, cold, catarrh,
measles, etc. Chronic diseases are those whose duration extends to months and years, such
as asthma, cancer, T.B. Piles, etc.

In acute diseases symptoms appear, increase and either end in cure or in death. In
such diseases medicines are given frequently even at intervals of 5-10-15 minutes,
according to the severity of symptoms. in chronic diseases Homeopathic medicines are often
repeated weekly or monthly or even at longer intervals.