Similia Vol 30 No 2 – December 2018

Author: Beth Goodwin

Abstract

What is suppression?

• The act of driving a disease deeper inward, against Hering’s Law.
• An elimination of symptoms that forces the organism to express its inner conflict in another, deeper and more serious set of symptoms. A common result of treatments that remove one set of symptoms without reference to the whole person. Suppression is evident when an ailment disappears and is replaced by a lower level of health.
• Suppressing can be defined as getting rid of the symptoms without helping the body rid itself of the illness or disease.