Psoric Miasm Materia Medica
Samuel Hahnemann says: “Psora is the mother of incredibly varied acute and chronic disease. The most Hydra-headed of miasms, most ancient, universal, destructive, most misapprehended chronic miasmatic disease”
Hahnemann says “Psora is the internal itch miasm which after the completion of the internal infection of the whole human body manifests outside on the skin with peculiar cutaneous eruptions with intolerable itching and peculiar odour. When these symptoms are suppressed by external medicines it forms internal dyscrasis and produces unnumerable forms of diseases which are secondary symptoms of Psora”
Psora is the oldest, most universal and pernicious miasmatic disease
Predominant in the years where one has to stand on one’s own feet and face the world the years of youth and adolescence, when struggles prevail.
- The patient has to struggle in order to succeed.
- The delusion in Psora has two components
- Stress from outside
- Anxiety from doubt about his own ability/capability to deal with stress, he
is hopeful, and failure does not mean the end of the world
Personality
- Hypersensitive and hyperactive. This is why Psora is called the Sensitising miasm
- Emotional disturbances are one of the worst things for the psoric patient, they upset him and make him ill
- Bad effects from grief, shock, emotions and fear
- Change of temperament without any apparent cause
- Hysterical and goes into fits of anger, young people particularly become
hysterical
- Fits of anger, however, they seldom desire to harm anyone
- Irritable. Weakness makes the patient irritable
- Sensitive
- Melancholy, anxious, mania, sad
- Weeping mood, this often palliates weak memory
- Timid, weak and seeks protection
- Unending desire for absolute protection - either a belief in God or confidence in something immense as a substitute for it (Y.R.A.)
- Active and expressive
- Extremely restless. Always in a state of hurry. Quick
- Time passes too fast or too slow
- Generally has highs and lows
- The struggle is like a tug-of-war with the outside world - when the balance is on his side, he feels high, but when the balance is on the other side, he feels low
- Lack of confidence in facing a stressful situation, and feels he can’t do it
- Constant anxiety, which becomes apparent when he is actually faced with
situation
- Anticipatory anxiety when not faced with a situation, then not so distressing but causes an internal restlessness, insecurity, dissatisfaction.
- Anxiety about the future, however there is always hope, no matter how bad the situation.
- Sudden anxiety with palpitations of heart
- Fearful, easily frightened
- Fear that their health will fail and death
- Fear of fire, of being alone, of apoplexy, of becoming insane, of darkness
- Thoughts come so thick and fast that they crowd each other out and he gets entangled with them and can’t complete his work. Cannot concentrate on work because his thoughts go ahead of him
- Concentration is difficult as thoughts keep changing from subject to subject.
- Thoughts vanish while reading or writing
- Weeping often palliates these patients for a time
- Unfulfilled desires of Psora derives satisfaction through imagination, fantasies and dreams.
- Day dreamers
- Sensitive to light, noise, odours etc.; they cause a functional disturbance
(e.g. headache nausea, discomfort etc.)
- Natural desire to take rest, easily fatigued both mentally and physically
- Full of emotions, imaginations and sensations.
- Full of ideas but no tendency to materialise any of them (sterile philosopher)
- Timid disposition, filled with anxious foreboding
- Mentally alert, quick in action and active
Desires and Aversions
The therapeutic value of desires and aversions is very high as they are the basic miasmatic symptoms next in importance to perverted mental phenomena in disease
Desires - sweets, acids, sour things, pickles, unnatural desire for chalk, clay, rags, mud, .
Likes sugar, candies
Desires hot foods and drinks
Aggravated by meat.
Modalities
Worse - Standing, heat of room, after eating, new moon, approach of menses, sunrise to sunset, suppression of skin disease and discharges. After eating, after sleep. Worse from midnight till mid-day except the headaches which rise and wane with the sun
Worse by cold
Better - Walking, lying down and being quiet, slow movement, heat, weeping and reappearance of skin disease and natural discharges. Better by heat
- It kills the psoric patient to stand still, he must walk instead of standing even for a short time. or he will lean against something to take the weight off his feet
Physical Features
Face - shaped like an inverted pyramid
- face and head do not perspire
- feverish face is red, hot and shiny
- lips are red, often red to bluish, parched and dry, swelling of upper lip
- skin is naturally dry and has an unwashed appearance
- dry itching pimples
Hair - hair and scalp are dry, hair is so dry it can’t be brushed without wetting, lustreless, hair falls out after an illness. Grey early or white in spots, splits and breaks easy, much dandruff
REFERENCES
(1) Booker J:Women in The History of Medicine p 26
(2) Booker J.:Women in the History of Medicine p 24
(3) Michelet J: Satanism and Witchcraft, Citadel Press, Secaucus, NY, 1939
Agrawal Y.R: A Comparative Study of Chronic Miasm
Allen. J.H: The Chronic Miasms
Choudhury H. Dr:Indications of Miasm
English D & Ehrenreich B: Witches, Midwifes and Nurses
Hahnemann S: The Chronic Diseases
Hahnemann S: The Organon of Medicine
Roberts H.A. Dr.The Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy
Sankran R.: The Soul of Remedies
Sierra James: Lecture notes - year four.
Vithoulkas George: The Science of Homoeopathy
Hahnemann says “Psora is the internal itch miasm which after the completion of the internal infection of the whole human body manifests outside on the skin with peculiar cutaneous eruptions with intolerable itching and peculiar odour. When these symptoms are suppressed by external medicines it forms internal dyscrasis and produces unnumerable forms of diseases which are secondary symptoms of Psora”
Psora is the oldest, most universal and pernicious miasmatic disease
Predominant in the years where one has to stand on one’s own feet and face the world the years of youth and adolescence, when struggles prevail.
- The patient has to struggle in order to succeed.
- The delusion in Psora has two components
- Stress from outside
- Anxiety from doubt about his own ability/capability to deal with stress, he
is hopeful, and failure does not mean the end of the world
Personality
- Hypersensitive and hyperactive. This is why Psora is called the Sensitising miasm
- Emotional disturbances are one of the worst things for the psoric patient, they upset him and make him ill
- Bad effects from grief, shock, emotions and fear
- Change of temperament without any apparent cause
- Hysterical and goes into fits of anger, young people particularly become
hysterical
- Fits of anger, however, they seldom desire to harm anyone
- Irritable. Weakness makes the patient irritable
- Sensitive
- Melancholy, anxious, mania, sad
- Weeping mood, this often palliates weak memory
- Timid, weak and seeks protection
- Unending desire for absolute protection - either a belief in God or confidence in something immense as a substitute for it (Y.R.A.)
- Active and expressive
- Extremely restless. Always in a state of hurry. Quick
- Time passes too fast or too slow
- Generally has highs and lows
- The struggle is like a tug-of-war with the outside world - when the balance is on his side, he feels high, but when the balance is on the other side, he feels low
- Lack of confidence in facing a stressful situation, and feels he can’t do it
- Constant anxiety, which becomes apparent when he is actually faced with
situation
- Anticipatory anxiety when not faced with a situation, then not so distressing but causes an internal restlessness, insecurity, dissatisfaction.
- Anxiety about the future, however there is always hope, no matter how bad the situation.
- Sudden anxiety with palpitations of heart
- Fearful, easily frightened
- Fear that their health will fail and death
- Fear of fire, of being alone, of apoplexy, of becoming insane, of darkness
- Thoughts come so thick and fast that they crowd each other out and he gets entangled with them and can’t complete his work. Cannot concentrate on work because his thoughts go ahead of him
- Concentration is difficult as thoughts keep changing from subject to subject.
- Thoughts vanish while reading or writing
- Weeping often palliates these patients for a time
- Unfulfilled desires of Psora derives satisfaction through imagination, fantasies and dreams.
- Day dreamers
- Sensitive to light, noise, odours etc.; they cause a functional disturbance
(e.g. headache nausea, discomfort etc.)
- Natural desire to take rest, easily fatigued both mentally and physically
- Full of emotions, imaginations and sensations.
- Full of ideas but no tendency to materialise any of them (sterile philosopher)
- Timid disposition, filled with anxious foreboding
- Mentally alert, quick in action and active
Desires and Aversions
The therapeutic value of desires and aversions is very high as they are the basic miasmatic symptoms next in importance to perverted mental phenomena in disease
Desires - sweets, acids, sour things, pickles, unnatural desire for chalk, clay, rags, mud, .
Likes sugar, candies
Desires hot foods and drinks
Aggravated by meat.
Modalities
Worse - Standing, heat of room, after eating, new moon, approach of menses, sunrise to sunset, suppression of skin disease and discharges. After eating, after sleep. Worse from midnight till mid-day except the headaches which rise and wane with the sun
Worse by cold
Better - Walking, lying down and being quiet, slow movement, heat, weeping and reappearance of skin disease and natural discharges. Better by heat
- It kills the psoric patient to stand still, he must walk instead of standing even for a short time. or he will lean against something to take the weight off his feet
Physical Features
Face - shaped like an inverted pyramid
- face and head do not perspire
- feverish face is red, hot and shiny
- lips are red, often red to bluish, parched and dry, swelling of upper lip
- skin is naturally dry and has an unwashed appearance
- dry itching pimples
Hair - hair and scalp are dry, hair is so dry it can’t be brushed without wetting, lustreless, hair falls out after an illness. Grey early or white in spots, splits and breaks easy, much dandruff
REFERENCES
(1) Booker J:Women in The History of Medicine p 26
(2) Booker J.:Women in the History of Medicine p 24
(3) Michelet J: Satanism and Witchcraft, Citadel Press, Secaucus, NY, 1939
Agrawal Y.R: A Comparative Study of Chronic Miasm
Allen. J.H: The Chronic Miasms
Choudhury H. Dr:Indications of Miasm
English D & Ehrenreich B: Witches, Midwifes and Nurses
Hahnemann S: The Chronic Diseases
Hahnemann S: The Organon of Medicine
Roberts H.A. Dr.The Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy
Sankran R.: The Soul of Remedies
Sierra James: Lecture notes - year four.
Vithoulkas George: The Science of Homoeopathy