Suppression Article - Remote Vibrational Healing

Homeopathy is not the treatment modality of Miasm Therapy. It is medical in nature, whereas Miasm Therapy definitely is not. They do share several theoretical 'constructs, including that of suppression. Following is a distillation of a chapter in a classic book on homeopathy, referenced above, about how suppression—physical, emotional, and mental—operates. The intent is for you to get an idea about how suppression works, so that you may pay attention to your own process in a more informed way.

According to homeopathy's understanding of disease and healing, symptoms are relatively exterior manifestations of an underlying disorder; in fact they are the expressions of the Vital Force reacting against a disease and not the disease itself. When a person is treated so that some (not all) of the symptoms disappear while the underlying disorder is not addressed, the result is suppression, i.e., the illusion of cure while actually intensifying the internal disease by blocking some of its natural outlets. Over 200 years ago, Dr. Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, warned against his colleagues' methods of driving symptoms deeper.

He writes: "When the human life force is burdened with a chronic disease that it cannot overwhelm with its own powers, it obviously decides (in an instinctual way) to form a local malady on a given external part ... not indispensable to life ... to allay the internal malady that threatens to annihilate vital organs and rob the patient of live ... The local malady always remains nothing more than a part of the total disease ... shifted onto a more harmless (outer) location of the body in order to allay the internal suffering."

The same observation was made more than 5,000 years ago in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which makes "symptoms going from the interior to the exterior" part of its diagnosis. Naturally, the body in its wisdom tries to alleviate the internal stress on the Vital Force caused by the disease or imbalance by pushing it to the exterior. Hahnemann says that although exteriorizing the symptoms does not cure the disease, at least it subdues it or makes it latent so that the individual can function.
He further states: "In this way, the presence of the internal malady reduces the internal disease to silence for the present, however without being able to cure it or to essentially curtail it."
But, at least it can do less harm because it is on the exterior part of the body.

" If the local symptom is topically annihilated (by a physician ... who is of the opinion that he has thereby cured the whole disease) nature makes up for this by awakening the internal suffering and the rest of the symptoms that already existed and ... heightened the disease."

The stronger the suppressive treatments, the more the internal symptoms will be aroused. This should be a lesson to the practitioner and patient alike not to mix allopathic (Western) and homeopathic prescriptions, mistakenly believing that this will provide "the best of both worlds," Unfortunately suppression in our era is far worse than in Hahnemann's time, when lack of hygiene and sanitation were the major factors causing disease. Today suppression is the major cause because it is so widespread and allopathic methods have become so ""effective." Much stronger methods are now used, such as radiation, chemotherapy and powerful broad-spectrum antibiotics. Most people have a history of lifelong suppression, beginning with antibiotics in infancy. The symptom picture is muddied by the lack of symptoms due to suppression.

Natural Suppression: Suppression of the body's normal functions sometimes happens, not from medications but from the influence of an external factor. This can be a mental or emotional trauma such as fright, anger, frustration, sudden emotional shock, disappointment, grief, mental overwork, anticipation anxiety, hearing bad news, embarrassment, or humiliation, or a climate factor such as wet or excessive cold or heat.

We must not underestimate the power of suppression after an emotional shock in particular. Kent, a brilliant homeopath, used to say, "an emotional shock is equal in its suppressive powers to a thousand cups of coffee."

Another form of natural suppression can happen when one disease suppresses another dissimilar one. An acute disease may suppress another acute one until the first one is cured, or it may suspend a chronic one until the acute course is run. For example, a chronic knee pain may be temporarily overshadowed by an acute, intense toothache.

These forms of natural suppression are fairly common. They are not well treated by allopathic medicine because they do not fit its paradigm. Emotional triggers may be treated with psychotherapy. But too often they are treated with neurotransmitter modulators such as Prozac and Zoloft, which only lead to further emotional suppression (people often complain of feeling emotionally "dead" or "flat" on these medications).

Artificial Suppression: Unfortunately, most doctors and patients alike look to removal of the symptoms as the goal of treatment. Recently I say a TV ad for a herpes medication that actually boasted, "It is all about suppression!" But the most visible symptoms, the ones for which patients first request treatment, are also the Vital Force's attempts to keep the disease force on the least important external parts of the body, usually the skin. Look at the relatively innocuous initial manifestations of herpes zoster, shingles, syphilis and gonorrhea (before suppression leads to their more destructive secondary and tertiary stages).

Fifth years ago children's runny noses were treated with a quick wipe. Now we push nasal sprays on children, and suppress an innocuous outlet, resulting in many children suffering from asthma because their nose and cough symptoms were suppressed. Aggressive allopathic treatment tends to move the disease inward to the more vital organs (such as the lungs in this case), or the brain, heart, liver, or pelvic organs. If the real cause is not addressed, the disease keeps on getting worse, in spite of relief of a few superficial symptoms. This is a type of suppression, since the centripetal evolution of the disease is not halted.

Medications of Contrary Action: We know that all allopathic drugs, in whatever form, assault the Vital Force, disharmonize it, and add a drug picture to the disease picture. Different results are possible from giving an allopathic drug. If the symptoms caused by the drug (side effects) are stronger than the natural symptoms of the disease, the symptoms of the patient will disappear (which illustrates the principle of one dissimilar disease suppressing the other). The suppression is the considered "successful" and the physician will claim to have controlled the disease (they will never claim to cure a chronic disease). However, is the patient's Vital Force is strong and intact, the symptoms of the patient will reappear with the same or greater intensity than before. The physician will call the patient resistant to the drug. The patient does not realize how lucky he is! Unfortunately, the physician will then resort to stronger suppressive measures.

The unfortunate soul whose Vital Force is weakened will respond to the drug with a worsened disease state which the physician will call complications or side effects. This case is different from the first scenario, which also has side effects, because in this case the original disease symptoms coexist with the new drug symptoms.

Dermatology and gynecology are responsible for more suppression than other specialties, because of their local treatments with creams, lotions, cauterizing and lasering. Rashes, itches, eczema and psoriasis, discharges, vaginitis, candidiasis, foot sweats and warts can all cause problems if suppressed. Western medicine recognizes genital warts in women as a risk factor for PID and infertility or cervical cancer, but it fails to recognize that removal of the warts leads to the other conditions.

The newest development in dermatology is a zinc spray for psoriasis, the most common skin ailment. I have seen many times in my own practice how skin conditions suppressed with zinc can lead to mental and emotional symptoms such as anxiety and depression.

Nuclear Medicine: There are many examples of people who were in reasonably good health when diagnosed with cancer, whose Vital Force was irretrievably weakened by radiation and chemotherapy and whose quality of life was ruined by all the well-known side effects (hair loss, mouth sores, nausea and vomiting, etc.).

Surgery: Surgery removes only the end-products of disease, not the imbalance in the body which created them. The human body is a work of art which should not be invaded with surgery except as a last resort. Surgery may be needed for the removal of a mechanical obstruction, but the process that caused it must be cured, or disease may follow in deeper, more vital regions where it cannot be cut out. A patient who refuses a necessary operation is a danger to himself.

Palliation: Never forget that palliation of a curable case is suppression. It will mask the true picture of he disease and complicate it to the point where a true cure will be hard to find.

Physical Level: There are three layers within the physical level. Going from the periphery to the center, we find skin and joint symptoms, organ symptoms, and then the deepest affections on the physical place, affections of the nervous system.

Any rashes, vesicles (as in herpes), and hives are common to the most superficial level, expressing a strong Vital Force as it tries to throw the internal disorder to a safe place, the skin. Belonging to this layer are also ulcers, excoriations, and all the discharges, from any orifice or pore. Cortisonecreams, oral or IV-suppresses symptoms to the next layer, that of the precious organs such as the lungs, with asthma readily accepted by allopathy as a "normal" evolution from eczema. Suppression with cortisone can also lead to ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. If the suppressive allopathic treatment continues (especially when the patient is sensitive), neurological deficits may come up next in the form of tic dolouroux, seizures, vertigo, TIA's (transient ischemic attacks, often the forerunners of strokes), brain infarcts, or multiple sclerosis.

Emotional Level: In practice we see many emotional symptoms following suppression, the most common being depression. Other examples include recurrent nightmares, tearfulness, obsessive-compulsive behavior and phobias. On the deepest emotional level we find suicidal impulses.
We are only one step away from the deepest level of suppression-the mental level.

Mental Level: Mental symptoms often go from an occasional forgetfulness (brain fog) to loss of short-term memory. Concentration seems to be affected, as the patient loses her train of thought or even forgets simple words. People make mistakes in reading, writing, calculating, spelling, and balancing the checkbook. Upon further suppression, loss of long-term memory can occur.

Following is an excerpt from a chapter on suppression from Homeopathy as Art and Science by Elizabeth Wright Hubbard, M.D.

1) Those which are accidental or natural and not due to medication of any kind, such as suppression of strong emotion due to the unnatural exigencies of our collective living. These are more or less conscious suppressions, although the seriousness of their results is not usually known and the individual takes great pride in thrusting down these emotions. A second type of accidental suppression comes from great mental shocks, such a mortification or grief. Then there is also the suppression of one disease by another. This may take the form of one acute disease held in abeyance by another until the 'cure' of the second; or it may be an acute disease suspending a chronic until the acute course is run. The reverse of this, where a chronic disease gives a partial or full measure of protection against acute disease, could really be classed as suppression, although it is more usually thought of as immunity.

2) Suppression by local applications, such as antihistamines, corticosteroids, antibiotic ointments, irradiation, etc. drives the condition in deeper.

3) Conditions suppressed by internal medication. For example, in rheumatic fever the patient may be overpowered with salicylates, leading to suppression of joint symptoms and the inroads of the disease on the heart.

4) Suppression by surgery. The trouble here is that modern medicine seeks to remove pathology rather than to cure the underlying causes, not realizing that the ultimates of disease are benign attempts at exteriorization, at protective localization.

5) Most insidious of all are the suppressions by vaccine injections, which are now so prevalent.

6) There is the whole question of the suppression of syphilis by antibiotic treatment, which many doctors, even orthodox ones, feel tends to develop later grave nervous tertiaries as well as saddling the patient with drug results.

7) Another aspect of suppression is the suppression of individual symptoms. Palliation of a curable case is suppression. It will mask the true fundamental picture of the disease and complicate it to the point where it will be incurable.