The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness

The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness by Jerry M. Kantor explores how to change the subconscious patterns underlying chronic conditions. The book explains how to use prominent emotional and physical symptoms to determine the core existential stress underlying one’s chronic condition.

The author introduces five seminal existential questions that correlate with both the five miasms of homeopathy and the Five Phases of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The book presents homeopathic remedies connected to specific existential quandaries and explains their indications through detailed examples from the author’s practice.

In addition to working well for physical ailments, homeopathy offers remedies for engaging with the subconscious mind to ameliorate embedded, existential causes of chronic illness—called "miasms." Jerry M. Kantor provides diagnostic insight, specific homeopathic remedies, and successful case studies about the profound connections between emotions and their physical manifestations in illness. He further correlates the five classical miasms and their core existential quandaries with the Five Elements and Phase Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Kantor likens inborn foundational emotions to tools, each designed to solve a stress-related problem. Self-sabotaging imbalances occur when an emotional tool is excessively used. He explains how identifying a default emotional response—such as anxiety or anger—along with its accompanying physical symptoms can determine the core existential stress or hereditary pattern underlying a chronic condition.

For each of the five classical miasms and their associated physical and emotional conditions, the author presents homeopathic remedies that mollify the impact of specific existential quandaries and explains their indications through detailed examples from his practice. Revealing that the subconscious mind is amenable to change, Kantor shows how to accurately select remedies to defuse the energetic charge of unresolved existential stress and thus quell the root causes of chronic illness.