What is a miasm?

In 1998 VCCH commenced a project using the principles of Homeopathy and miasms. Since 1828 a miasm was known a type of disease blueprint, perhaps a genetic tendency, something to do with why we get the chronic illness we get. After thousands of hours of clinical research, Grant Bentley, the main driver of this project worked out a link between facial features and the clinical application of a miasm. Now known as HFA (Homeopathic Facial Analysis) this method has made VCCH and Grant Bentley renowned world-wide for the effective use of Homeopathy in difficult and entrenched cases of chronic illness.

All these findings, including an understanding of miasms and how to utilise them in clinical practice, have now been published in all of the HFA books and Soul & Survival.

From HFA in the Clinic – Success & Strategy (2023 – Louise Bentley)

The HFA idea that the miasm – let’s move to the term survival instinct – is both positive and negative is a big leap forward in homeopathic understanding. Rather than trying to “remove” this program – an old idea started by Hahnemann himself and extended upon and tested unsuccessfully through decades of practice – working with this program is a beneficial and clinically viable concept.

What this means in real terms is that a well-chosen remedy improves our program, making it work for us rather than against us. A simple analogy is our immune system. We know that our immune system exists to protect us. It signals to us when an invader (bacteria, virus etc) is detected in our system, through a series of signals such as pain, swelling, redness, heat, tenderness, heat, cold, fever, and fatigue. These are all unpleasant symptoms at the same time as being the immune system’s way of warning us we are not well. Each is a specific symptom of an illness. We want to get rid of these symptoms to restore our health, wellbeing, and energy. But we don’t want to eradicate the immune system itself as part of this process.