Miasms: Reaction Patterns in Chronic Disease

Miasms
Reaction Patterns in Chronic Disease
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The Psoric State - Struggle
• Struggle
• Life is a constant struggle
• Hopeful struggle, or the hopeless struggle
• Struggle to survive, to recover, to maintain his
position
• There is anxiety, and doubt about ability, but
failure does not mean death or the end of the
world
Psora
• Anxiety: can be episodic or constant/severe
• Fears: many and various, even phobic states
• Timidity and lack of self confidence
• Restless and Irresolute
• Tired out, worn out, ground down by it all
• Weakness and slow convalescence
• “Life is shit and then you die”
Psoric Generals
• Tired, lack of energy, exhausted
• Burning pains
• <: movement, morning, cold + dry weather
• Desire warm food and drinks, averse fish
• Skin: Itch < heat, dry skin
• Periodicity and recurrent complaints
• Slow convalescence
• Psor, Sulph, Calc carb, Lyc, Cupr
Sycosis - Duality
• The feeling is of a fixed irremediable
weakness deep inside the self.
• It is something inside the self which has to
be hidden and concealed from others
• Duality - discrepancy between what is
hidden inside and what is presented to the
world
Sycosis
• Secretive, suspicious, opportunistic, deceit
• Guilt, self reproach
• Overcompensation
• Fixed, rigidity, ritualistic, superstitious,
clairvoyance
• Extremes of emotion
Sycosis - Generals
• Surge of energy evening and night
• << damp weather, cold applications/weather
• Excessive reactions: warts, keloid scars,
benign tumours, profuse jelly discharges
• Onions: desire, aversion or <<
• Desire rich food
• Med, Thuja, Nat-s, Sil, Puls, Lac-c
Syphilitic Miasm - Hopeless
• Hopeless despair
• “Futile day in a futile year in a futile life”
• Beyond salvage
• Unable to manage, unable to cover up
• Desire death
• Suicidal depression
Syphilitic Miasm - The Defense
• Haughty and Dictatorial
• Asocial or Psycopath
• Desperation with violent, sudden, dramatic
attempts to change
• Leads to destruction, degeneration,
collapse, catatonia, paralysis, suicide
Syphilitic Generals
• Deeply destructive and relentlessly
progressive physical pathology
• <<: night, sunset to sunrise, change of
weather, sweat (sweat does not relieve)
• Bone pains, linear pains
• Desire cold food and averse meat
• Syph, Aur, Merc, Plumb, Hep
Tubercular Miasm - Oppression
• The feeling is of intense oppression

• Desire for change/escape
• The reaction is intense, hectic activity to
break free of the oppression
Tubercular Miasm
• Romantic (the tubercular heroine of
romantic fiction and opera)
• Never satisfied
• Desire to escape
• Desire to travel
• Can be irritable, selfish, easily offended, sly
and malicious
Tubercular Generals
• Oppression of breathing
• Restlessness till exhausted
• Periodicity
• Emaciation despite good appetite
• Desire cold milk, averse meat
• <<: night, sea, cold and damp
• Tub, Dros, Phos, Calc-p, Spiders.
The Cancer Miasm
• Feeling is of weakness, incapacity within
• The need to perform exceedingly well and
live up to very high expectations
• Reaction is an extreme effort stretching
themselves beyond the limits of endurance
• A long continuous struggle with no end
• Survival depends on it. Failure means death
The Cancer Miasm
• Sensitive, sympathetic and compassionate
• Romantic idealism
• Restless, adventurous, desire to travel
• Fastidious, perfectionist, desire for control
• Responsibility, duty, guilt
• Suffer in silence, resentment, martyr
• Sexual desire high or suppressed
Cancer Generals
• Surge of energy evening and night
• Surge of energy during thunderstorms
• Sea: < or >. < extremes of temperature
• Desires chocolate, averse fat
• Acne and warts. Thick discharges
• Carc, Staph, Con, Ars, Ign, Nit-ac
The Leprosy Miasm
• Intense oppression and intense desire for
change, with little or no hope of recovery
• Intense feeling of isolation
• Forsaken and abandoned forever
• The outcast: despised and shunned - by
society, friends and even family
• Despair. Suicidal disposition by drowning
• Leprominium, Hura, Secale, Aloe, Curare.
The Acute Miasm
• Sudden intense threat, great danger to life
• Instinctive reaction to escape
• Panic, shock, stunned, immobile, helpless
• Once the danger has passed one is safe
• Panic attacks. Mania. Extreme fevers.
• Outcome is death or complete recovery.
• Acon, Bell, Stram, Verat, Hydrog, Lith-c
The Malaria Miasm
Between Acute+Sycosis
• Feeling of being obstructed and hindered

• Stuck and powerless in a dependant position
• Unfortunate, lamenting, brooding
• Fantasies of future plans but does little
• Feeling of being attacked from time to time
• Paroxysms of acute fears
• China, Nat-m, Spig, Coloc, Caps
The Typhoid Miasm
Between Acute and Psora
• The feeling is that the situation is critical and

threatens life, yet if handled properly will end in
complete recovery
• Tremendous effort concentrated over a time (period
of weeks)
• To reach a position of safety and comfort
• Severe threat + panic, intense struggle + optimism
• Nux-v, Gels, Ph-ac, Rhus-t, Bry, Bapt, Pyrog, Carb-v
The Ringworm Miasm
Between Psora and Sycosis
• Situation is difficult and beyond easy reach

• Alternate between struggle and resignation
• Success is possible
• Failure means staying as I am
• Repeated efforts tend not to be sustained
• Position gained is lost as they slip back
• Ringworm nosode, Calc-s, Calc-sil, Mag-s

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What are some characteristics of the Psoric state?

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Miasms

Reaction Patterns in Chronic Disease

• The feeling is of intense oppression

• Feeling of being obstructed and hindered

• The feeling is that the situation is critical and

• Situation is difficult and beyond easy reach

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