Miasms: Fundamental Cause of Diseases

In homeopathy, the theory of miasms originates in Hahnemann's book 'The Chronic Disease' which was published in 1828. The three miasms given in that work are held to be responsible for all disease of a chronic nature and to form the foundation or basis for all disease in general.

Miasms - Effects of Microorganisms On the Vital Force

According to Samuel Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, they are an "infectious principal" (Dictionary of Homeopathic Medical Terminology) which expresses itself in the specific diseases we see in people and animals. Another definition, according to Dr. Levy, is "chronic disease hat is inheritable." Miasms can also be created through the use of suppressive medicine or other environmental factors. homeopathy: feline miasm ) What are miasms? According to Samuel Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, they are an "infectious principal" (Dictionary of Homeopathic Medical Terminology) which expresses itself in the specific diseases we see in people and animals. Another definition, according to Dr. Levy, is "chronic disease hat is inheritable." Miasms can also be created through the use of suppressive medicine or other environmental factors. homeopathy: feline miasm

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. Only the totality of the signs of the individual state of each particular patient is used to cure the

disease. So no real cure of miasms can take place without a strict particular treatment (individualization) of each case of disease. A difference between acute and chronic disease. Acute meaning starting suddenly, lasting for only a short amount of time. Chronic, a slow progression of imbalances being treated by allopathic suppressive medicines turning into further and further complications as the disease lasts and goes deeper into the human mind and physical body, even years go by without let-up. Chronic miasms are very hidden, the symptoms are much more difficult to be ascertained. Lots of questions need to be asked to trace the picture of disease. Questions about the history of one's family, mental delusions, dreams, peculiar symptoms. 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. 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. 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. C.- Syphlitic Miasm: Not manageable, finding destruction like gangreen, ulceration. Body and mind destroy itself, give-up. 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
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. B.- Sycotic Miasms: secretiveness, hide his weakness, tense, constantly covering up situations, fixed habits, suspicious, jealous, forgetful.

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. D.-Tuburcular Miasm: dissatisfaction, lack of tolerance, changes everything, does harmful thing to one's self.

General Nature of the Miasm

A.-Psoric Miasm- itching, burning, inflammation leading to congestion.philosopher, selfish, restless, weak, fears. B.-Sycotic Miasm: over production of growth like warts, condylomata, fibrous tissue, attack internal organs, pelvis, sexual organs. C.-Syphlitic Miasm- destructive, disorder everywhere, ulceration, fissures, deformities, ignorance, suicidal, depressed, memory diminished. 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

A.-Psoric Miasm- dirty, dry, itching without pus or discharge, burning, scaly eruptions, eczema, cracks in hands and feet, sweat profuse < during sleep offensive. B.-Sycotic Miasm- Warty, moles, unnatural thickening skin, herpes, scars, nails are thick and irregular---corrugated, oily skin with oozing, disturbed pigment in patches. 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. 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
A. -Psoric Miasm: neurological type, sore, bruised, >rest <motion. B. -Sycotic Miasm: Joint pains, rheumatic pains are < cold, damp > motion, stitching, pulsating, wandering C.- Syphlitic Miasm: Bone Pains, tearing, bursting, burning D.- Tuburcular Miasm: Great exhaustion, never enough rest, sun> give strength.

Miasmetic Clinicals
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 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. 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 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 antimiasmatic 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. Bibliography: Organon 5th and 6th edition - HahnemannThe Substance Of Homeopathy -Sankeran Miasmatic Diagnosis-S. K. BanerjeaThe Chronic Miasms And Pseudo Psora ---J.H.Allen

List of Gina Tyler's articles on homeopathy Gina Tyler practices homeopathy in Woodland Hills, California and she also gives phone consultation for children who have been hurt by vaccines. More about miasms and psora

The Classical View on Miasms by David Little

HAHNEMANN'S MIASM THEORY AND MIASM REMEDIES by Peter SPECIFICS IN HAHNEMANNIAN HOMOEOPATHY by David Little

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Pseudo Psora The Tubercular Miasm by David Little A Case Study of the Syphilitic Miasm by David Little Notes from a Seminar: Importance of Hahnemanns Chronic Disease Theory By Rudi Verspoor, London, England Miasms - A Modern Understanding by Russell Swift, DVM Miasm By Roger Morrison What is the role of MIASMS in your Practice? . DR.BANERJEA'S NEW COMPLETE BOOK ON MIASM Written over a period of fifteen years and supported by clinical experience. This is the most complete book on Miasms on the market, with new sections and ideas as follows: Part I - Philosophy and Utility of Miasm: The philosophical context of Miasm, and consequences of suppression, which gives a great need for miasmatic prescriptions in the modern world. Key words are presented to reflect the miasmatic tendencies. Part II - Miasmatic Diagnostic Classifications: Starting with the mental symptoms, a logical scheme for a head to foot classification of the four miasms, including my tips for rapid miasmatic diagnosis. Part III - Miasmatic Diagnosis of Clinical Classifications: Quick reference for miasmatic diagnosis linking possible clinical nosological names with their respective miasmatic headings. Part IV - Miasmatic Ancestral Tips: The benefit of experience of four generations of Miasmatic Prescribers. Part V - Miasmatic Repertory: A new approach for making clear and fast miasmatic diagnosis through corresponding rubrics. Part VI - Miasmatic Weightage of Medicines : A comprehensive guide to the weight, value or gradation of the medicines and listings of the leading anti-miasmatics (all the medicines from Boericke's Materia Medica, approximately 446 medicines are included in this Miasmatic gradation

of each medicines). Publication details: -------------------The hardbound book (approx 260 pages and 6 chapters) is published in England. To purchase a copy, please send a cheque for US $ 35 OR GBP 25 OR equivalent in your currency in favour of " DR. S. K. BANERJEA " to the address given below; and the book will be mailed directly to your address. Allen College of Homoeopathy Sapiens 382, Baddow Road Great Baddow Chelmsford Essex CM2 9RA Tel.: 01245 505858 Fax : 01245 505859 E. Mail No. allencollege@btinternet.com Web Site Address :- http://www.homoeopathy-course.com THE ITCH THAT CANNOT BE SCRATCHED: Understanding Eczema and Psoriasis for a practitioner. Brian Knight 2005 "... Miasms are constitutional weaknesses created by either a personal or ancestral suppression of a disease. Everyones genetic structure contains miasmic imprints and Hahnemann considered psora to be the primary miasm an itch that could not be scratched - that is to say, an itch that was originally suppressed by a grandparent will be transferred down the genetic lineage for someone else to attempt to scratch. Often the most obvious miasms are those that distress the skin, as the first thing we notice about someone is their appearance, yet what is often not acknowledged is that a skin problem is the external reflection of an internal problem. What is also not often recognized, particularly in Western medicine, is that all skin problems have an emotional stress at their core. There are three basic miasms affecting the integumentary system; psora, syphilinum and sycosis a combination is tuberculinum being the most predominate in my experience. Miasms lie dormant in a persons genetic makeup until a pre-encoded trigger is activated by the occurrence of something contraindicated to that individuals maintenance of well-being. These triggers are most commonly a trauma or intervention of some kind that affects the persons physical, mental and/or emotional status. Prime triggers are invasive assaults on the immune system like immunizations and ingested substances that stress the body. Drugs, like antibiotics or corticoids, are also one of the biggest triggers for miasms. If using the metaphor of a jack-in-the-box, the miasm lies contained and

dormant inside its box of genetic encoding, primed and ready on its highly tensioned spring, until something triggers the catch; like an unnecessary and unwelcomed jab from a hypodermic needle assaulting a new born babys immune system with a Hep B inoculation, for instance. This invasive assault triggers the catch, freeing the miasm to leap out of its containment and make an often dramatic appearance in the persons life, by way of a physical ailment, or in the case of the new born, possibly even death. A persons miasms cannot be taken away or added to. They form part of each individuals genetic makeup and can be either negative or positive components of the human blueprint. A miasm can lie dormant indefinitely or be in varying stages of activation, from partly opened to fully active. In the sequence of the resolution of disease, the skin is the last to heal, therefore skin ailments can often take longer to permanently heal than the other systems of the body that are involved at the core of the problem, such as the liver or large intestine. If a miasm has been triggered but is not completely activated, then it needs to be fully opened by homeopathic stimulation before the problem can be adequately addressed and the journey of successful healing begun. Once the miasm has been fully opened and Jack is bouncing around on his spring, then the deactivation process can commence. To deactivate, a miasm often requires a combination of support mechanisms, such as dietary adjustments, intestinal cleansing, homeopathic and herbal treatments and balancing the emotional and mental issues at the core of the miasms original response. The three main organs involved in skin problems, other than the integumentary system itself, are the liver, lungs and large intestine. Here can be seen that the basic emotions of anger and resentment, grief and guilt and the inability to let go are major keys to the resolution of skin problems."