| Sumario: | Pseudo chronic diseases are referred to be diseases caused by modifiable lifestyle conditions and behavioural changes which can be managed considerably by adopting healthy lifestyle changes and homoeopathic intervention. These are inappropriate relationship of people and environment. In homoeopathy, these unhealthy lifestyle conditions are termed as maintaining causes which are responsible for pseudo chronic or lifestyle diseases. It had been observed that pseudo-chronic diseases or so-called lifestyle diseases are prevalent in developed countries. Now cases of such diseases can be seen in India as well, especially in the urban areas because of modernization or westernisation. Pseudo chronic diseases are growing and require ongoing medical attention and about 62%1 of total population is affected by its fatal effect. Children, adult and elderly people all are susceptible to the risk factors related to lifestyle leading to noncommunicable disease. Increase in these diseases has great impact on DALYs and physical quality life index(PQLI)1. The occurrences of such diseases are increasing rapidly due to globalization, fast and unplanned urbanization and adoption of unhealthy lifestyle. To treat these pseudo chronic disease, homoeopathy is one of the best mode of treatment as it is based on nature's law of cure which makes homoeopathy a rapid, gentle and safer unlike other modes of treatment. Homoeopathy deals with holistic approach by taking all the symptomatology of the patient and restoring the patient as a whole irrespective of its disease diagnosis.
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