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Miasms -
Understanding the Roots of Disease
By
Gina Tyler DHOM.
The
symbol "<"
means "worse from"
The symbol ">"
means "better from"
In
Hahnemann's words ,"the true natural chronic diseases are those that
arise from a chronic miasm, when left to themselves, improper treatment,
go on to increase, growing worse and torment the patient to the end of
his life." - 78 Organon
Hahnemann spent 12
years of his life investigating miasms, collecting proof these findings
going unnoticed by others in the medical professions, "the chronic
diseases" was written. He describes how using antipsoric medicines used
on the
psora miasm would enable a practitioner to cure effectively.
The conditions that
would modify a miasm in a persons body would be things like, climate and
peculiar and physical character of the person it is in, mental delays,
excesses, or abuses in life, in diet passions, habits and various
customs.
The medical
profession (allopathic doctors) have put names on various diseases such
as, jaundice, dropsy, leucorrhoea, hemorrhoids, eczema, asthma, lysteria,
rheumatism, herpes, mania to name a few. Hahnemann considers all these
based from the same beginnings. The medical profession treats each one
on an individual basis with each a medical treatment. All these names
have no use and no influence on the practice of the true physician.
The miasms are: psora,
sychosis, syphillis, and tuburcular. Psora, the mother of all diseases
goes back the farthest in human history. Psora or "itch" is the
monstrous internal chronic miasm, the only real fundamental cause and
producer of all the other numerous forms of disease.
(more on psora)
Diseases with such
allopathic names as: Convulsions, mania, imbecility,
madness, epilepsy, scoliosis, cancer, gout, hemorrhage from nose,
lungs,
bladder, asthma, impotence, deafness, urinary calculus, defects of the
senses and pains of thousands of kinds. Psora has passed on through
hundreds of generations of people and has produced an innumerable
variety of defects, injuries, derangements, and sufferings
Physical
expressions of the miasms
The mind and
body work together as a unit and the disturbances are
expressed in both spheres.
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A.-
Psoric Miasm: reaction of body
on exposure to environmental stimuli to ones surroundings like
noise, light, and odors, producing functional disturbances like
headache, nausea, and discomfort.
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B.-
Sycotic Miasm: hypersensitive
response to something specific arising from a deficiency of the
normal response like tumors, allergies, keloids. Deficient feeling
gives rise to an increased attempt to repair the fault.
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C.-
Syphlitic Miasm: Not manageable,
finding destruction like gangreen, ulceration. Body and mind destroy
itself, give-up.
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D.-
Tuburcular Miasm: respiratory
imbalance, weak lungs, offensive, headsweat, worse with exposure to
cold, re-occurring epistaxis, bleeding gums, long eyelashes, craving
for salt, enuresis, bleeding stools, milk disagrees causing
diarrhea, anemic, weakness, ringworm, acne, white spots on nails,
nightmares.
Personality types
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A.-
Psoric Miasm: highs and lows,
struggling with outside world, becomes apparent at times of stress,
lack of confidence, constant anxiety feelings, fear, like he can't
do it, insecurity, anxiety about the future but always having hope,
mentally alert.
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B.-
Sycotic Miasms: secretiveness,
hide his weakness, tense, constantly covering up situations, fixed
habits, suspicious, jealous, forgetful.
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C.-
Syphlitic Miasm: strong
pessimistic view on life, cannot modify what is wrong, give-up,
destroy, no point in trying to adjust, sudden impulsive violence
directed at himself or others, dictational rigid ideas. Mental
paralysis, mentally dull, suicidal, stupid, stubborn, and homicidal.
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D.-Tuburcular
Miasm: dissatisfaction, lack of tolerance, changes
everything, does harmful thing to one's self.
General Nature of the
Miasm
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A.-Psoric
Miasm- itching, burning, inflammation leading to
congestion.- philosopher, selfish, restless, weak, fears.
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B.-Sycotic
Miasm: over production of growth like warts, condylomata,
fibrous tissue, attack internal organs, pelvis, sexual organs.
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C.-Syphlitic
Miasm- destructive, disorder everywhere, ulceration,
fissures, deformities, ignorance, suicidal, depressed, memory
diminished.
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D.-Tuburcular
Miasm: changing symptomology, vague, weakness, shifting
in location, depletion, dissatisfaction, lack of tolerance, careless
"problem child", cravings that are not good for them.
Dermatological
Symptoms of the Miasms
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A.-Psoric
Miasm- dirty, dry, itching without pus or discharge,
burning, scaly eruptions, eczema, cracks in hands and feet, sweat
profuse < during sleep offensive.
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B.-Sycotic
Miasm- Warty, moles, unnatural thickening skin, herpes,
scars, nails are thick and irregular---corrugated, oily skin with
oozing, disturbed pigment in patches.
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C.-Syphlitic
Miasm- Ulcers, boils, discharge of fluids and pus
offensive, slow to heal, leprosy, copper colored eruptions < by heat
of bed, spoon shape thin nails that tear easily, gangreen putrid.
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D.-Tuburcular
Miasm- ringworm, eczema, urticaria, herpes, re-occuring
boils with pus and fever. Does not heal fast. Leprosy < by warmth of
bed > by cold nails white spots.
Pains Of Miasms
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A. -Psoric
Miasm: neurological type, sore, bruised, >rest <motion.
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B. -Sycotic
Miasm: Joint pains, rheumatic pains are < cold, damp >
motion, stitching, pulsating, wandering
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C.-
Syphlitic Miasm: Bone Pains, tearing, bursting, burning
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D.-
Tuburcular Miasm: Great
exhaustion, never enough rest, sun> give strength.
Miasmetic Clinicals
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A.-Psoric
Miasm: Acidity, burning, cancer, sarcomas, constipation,
epilepsy, flatulence, hoarseness, itching of skin, leprosy, burning
of spinal cord, watery discharge from nose and eyes with burning
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B.-Sycotic
Miasm: Abortion, acne without pus, angina pectoris,
anemia, appendicitis, cough (whooping), colic, pelvic disease +
sexual organs, piles, prostatitus, nephritis (kidney), gout,
arthritis, dry asthma, dysmenorrhoea, herpes, rheumatism, warts,
urinary ailments.
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C.-Syphlitic
Miasm: discharges putrefaction, blindness, boil in veins
and bones, carcinomas, fistula, fungal infection of extremities,
gangreene, hyperextension, bone marrow inflammation, insanity due to
depression, leucorrhoea, rheumatism of long bones, skin disease with
ooze + pus, sore throat, history of abortions, sterility, immature
death, cardiac attacks, suicidal deaths, insanity, cancer,
tuberculosis, ulcers of ear, nose, urinary organs, mouth
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D.-Tubercular
Miasm: Aching pain in knees, swelling without any cause,
asthma, bedwetting, cancer, carious teeth, destruction of bone
marrow, diabetes, dry cough (barking), eczema, emaciation, epilepsy,
extreme fatigue, weakness, glands enlarged, tonsils, influenza,
insanity, obstruction of intestines, malaria, insomnia, nocturnal
perspiration, palpitation, profuse hemorrhage of any orifice,
pneumonia, ring worm, short temper, nasal coryza, worms.
The inheritance of
the miasms is not genetic and actually takes place because the "vital
force" of parents is tainted by such states. As observed with mother and
father at time of conception. Miasms are seen to be transmitted to the
offspring. It is not the pathology which shows the miasm but the state.
The characteristics in that individual, keeping with the mental and
physical state. The three together reflect the miasm. The
mental = delusion and the physical = type of
reaction. A disease state is usually a combination of miasms
with it's main focus on one miasm,. It is important to percieve each
miasmatic state of the remedy, in order to understand the disease state,
because then we become aware of how a person perceives and react to his
surroundings, how he perceives himself and how he reacts when things
became unmanageable and stressful. We need to understand the remedy as
how it's related to the miasm. This understanding comes from study of
the symptoms both physical and mental. The understanding of the mental
delusions of a particular miasm in a remedy. The delusion of that remedy
must lie in that particular miasm.
Example: Arsenic
(syphlitic) despair of recovery, suicidal disposition, weakness, feels
unloved, insecure
Arsenic (psoric)"delusion sees theives"
Arsenic (sycotic) cannot trust people, obsessive,
compulsive
There are only a
few remedies that belong to one miasm : psora - psorinum, sycosis-
medorrhinum, syphilis- syphilinum. To study one remedy "syphlinum" is to
study a syphlitic miasm. Or a syphillis characteristic.
Rubics-
antisocial, abusive, indifferent to the future, hopeless despair of
recovery, desperation, his efforts are lost of no use. The situation is
beyond his capacity to salvage it, manic tendencies, manic
religiousness,Manic washing hands, yet hopeless so compensates into
antisocial behavior. "I don't care" attitude, mind goes slow/ paralyzed,
desire to kill, all fascists, all anarchists and exploiters in history
are the product of the syphlitic miasm, Napoleon, Chritopher Columbus,
Aedie Amin, Hitler. Will reguard appropriate both the death of an
individual, or an atom bomb explosion over an entire town. The
pathologies are concerned with destruction, ulceration, poor reaction,
it's as if the body and mind decided to destroy itself because it sees
no hope. Syphilis itself is a taint which slowly destroys, with a
difficult death. Syphilis in a mother's body shows itself in forms of
habitual abortions. The fetus is already in a process of
self-destruction. "I wish I had never been born". Once we can understand
the miasmatic element in a person we can see the out come of the case
with certainty.
Why is it
necessary for a homeopath to know the chronic miasms? Some might say as
long as one prescribes according to the law of similia he cures his
cases. The important factor here is "so long as he selects the most
similar remedy as possible." The fact is, we cannot select the most
similar remedy possible unless we understand the phenomena of the acting
miasm.
The true similia is always based on the existing miasm. It makes the
difference between fighting the disease in the dark and in bright light
when one knows the underlying principle that fathers the phenomena. If
one has no knowledge of the laws of action and reaction, how can we
watch the progress of a case without a definite knowledge of the disease
forces (miasms) with their mysterious and persistant progressions. So,
if we can know nothing aboutthe traits and characteristics of our enemy,
it's impossible to wage war against the disease.
Theses things
Hahnemann wrote about in his theory of disease. The physician skilled in
anti-miasmatic prescribing dips deeper into the case and applies an
agent that has a deeper and closer relationship with the prevented life
force. The results are always better. "The suffering of the immediate
vital principle which animates the interior of our bodies, when it is
morbidly disturbed, produces symptoms in the organism that are
manifest"----Organon
A knowledge of
all miasmatic phenomena would be a complete knowledge of all that is
known as disease. Hahnemann discovered the miasms due to the fact these
ailments kept coming back, year after year. Even with the correct remedy
given, still no permanent cure. Hahnemann's proof of the existence was
the persistency of these chronic diseases considering, diet, hygiene,
health still a come-back in the disease constantly repeating itself.
They seem to come from within the organism itself, from some peculiar
dynamis within,from something that was deranged. Within the life-force
itself, inherent, internal, pre-existing within the dynamis. Hahnemann
wrote in a footnote in "chronic diseases" about the third book of Moses
(Leviticus) where the word psora is mentioned, given to eruptive
diseases. The miasms run through our history from the beginnings.
(Greek = psora = itch).
When complicated
suppressive drugs came about, the psora also became complicated. Drugs
such as arsenic, quinine, mercury used to suppress ailments became used
more frequently. Soon a more malignant manifestation presented itself in
forms of epidemics. When a suppression took place in an organism with
two or more miasms present, all conditions magnified and intensified.
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