What is a Homeopathic Constitutional State?
Everyone has a constitutional state.
A constitutional state is best thought of as ones default way of being.
When you are not actively sick, it can be comprised of the default, chronic issues you may have, as well as your overall personality and disposition.
For example:
Let’s say that you by nature a very reserved person, more closed off, inaccessible, not really a nonsense type of person. Perhaps you may have issues crying in front of others (or even at all), depression, are prone to dry skin, as well as constipation and headaches from the sun.
In that instance, the constitutional state could be Nat Mur.
Does that mean however that every single time that person is sick, their default remedy would be Nat Mur?
No, a person can have a very different acute sickness remedy needed than what their constitutional state is.
Using the same Nat Mur example, lets say that person comes down with the flu in a very gradual way, with a slow onset of symptoms that leaves them feeling extremely tired. Their acute remedy to get over that flu could instead be Gelsemium.
Many however only think of health when they in an acute sickness, without realizing the immense value of constitutional care.
In continuing the Nat Mur example, if an individual of that type addressed the constitutional layer, they could find as their body comes into balance they are less depressed, more open, and have less issues with dry skin, constipation, and headaches.
So does everyone just have one constitutional state?
Classical homeopathy believes yes.
The idea is that all sickness is basically on the level of our vital force (see post: What is Homeopathy? for more on the vital force) so in the same example as above, a person with a Nat Mur constitutional state would in a sense have a “Nat Mur disease” on the energetic level.
With having it on this level it would mean that the disease expression takes on various forms as being expressed as the dry skin, the reserved nature, the constipation, etc – it is the common factor that connects seemingly otherwise unrelated symptoms.
I am of the personal opinion that we have a few different core constitutional states, as humans in 2022 are exposed to many more environmental toxins than when homeopathy was originally developed, with a lesser quality of food (when considering organic, soil depletion, etc) among pollution and everything else.
By addressing our constitutional layers, homeopathy truly allows for a life with greater balance, and ultimately harmony.
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