Susceptability in homeopathy

What is susceptability?

Susceptability is our inherited and aquired predispositions to illness, whether it be physical, mental/emotional or both. The type or nature of our susceptabilities will depend firstly on those miasms we inherited before birth and secondly on those miasms and dyscrasias we aquired since birth. We all know that it's down to susceptability that some poeple are allergic to peanuts yet others can eat them with impunity; that some people get hay fever and others don't. So we know whch illness's that we do or don't get depends on our susceptabilities and that we all have some degree of susceptability - even the strongest and healthiest among us have our achillies heal.

Modern science has taught us that it's largely down to genetics so we can understand how influences like red hair skip a generation or will come up in one child but not another; just as do our traits of weakness and strength.

The reason this is important in homeopathy is because it relates to individualisation and to miasmatic understanding, and therefore to remedy choice and also because it enables us to understand changes that may occur in our susceptability, as that doesn't neccesarily remain static - it can change as a consequence of trauma or other influences (e.g. vaccination)

We can influence our susceptabilites by addressing the miasms and dyscrasia through constitutional homeopathic treatment, undoing damage from aquired influences and lessening the impact of inherited miasms. There are some formidable examples ('Impossible cure') of this where patients suffering from intractible diseases have made remarkable recovery under homeopathic treatment. Understanding susceptability is one of the keys to this.

One of the reasons why the wrong prescription doesn't have any effect is because the system's susceptability obviously lies in the same arena as the disease, where it is more susceptible not only to the particular symptoms but therefore also to the 'similar' remedy. 'Dis-similar' remedies would be outside the arena of the disease symptomology and therefore evoke no response from a system that had no susceptability in that arena.