Classification of disease Flashcards
What are the non-veneral miasm?
- Psora = the itch disease
- Pseudo-psora = tubercular disease
What are the veneral miasma?
- Sycosis = genital warts
- Syphilis = chance
Signs and symptoms of each miasma?
- Psora = irritation, inflammation, hypersensitivity
- Pseudo-psora = tubercules, fibrosis, suppuration
- Sycosis = infiltrations, indurations, overgrowth
- Syphilis = granulation, degeneration, ulceration
Which is the most ancient, universal & destructive miasm?
Psora
How is psora characterized?
presence of scabs, scales, & itching
How did psora present in ancient times?
leprosy
Secondary symptoms of psora(6)?
nervous troubles, painful ailments, ulcers, paralysis, consumptions, crippling souls
Which is the oldest of veneral miasms?
sycosis
What characterizes sycosis?
-infiltration, induration & unhealthy overgrowth
-increases susceptibility to other STDs
Remedies for sycosis(2)?
- Thuja
- Nitric
Syphilis affinities?
mucous membranes, bones, nervous system
Syphilis indications(4)?
- Destructed tissues
- Caries of bones
- Pains inc. / dec. gradually & wandering
- Suicidal thoughts
What are these remedies for?
Merc, Aurum, Arsenicum.album
Remedies of syphilis
What did Kent do in 1900?
Equated psora with original sin
What did P.S. Ortega do?
Had a metaphysical approach and incorporated intensity of symptoms:
Psora: Deficieny, inhibition, lack
Sycosis: excess, escape, exudation
Syphilis: destruction, degeneration, perversion
Deficiency, inhibition, lack?
Psora
Excess, escape, exudation
sycosis
Destruction, degeneration, perversion
Syphilis
What did George Vithoulkas do?
Miami are the predisposition towards chronic disease underlying the acute manifestation of illness which:
1. are transmissible from gen to gen
2. may repsond beneficially to nosode
3. may be more than 3
4. identified tuberculosis as a separate miasma
What did Rajan Sankaran do?
Remedies of same family share a common sensation
total of 10 miasma
Cancer masma (Sankaran) - pace & intensity, attitude
Pace & intensity: out of control, trying to gain control, fastidious, perfectionist, stretching beyond capacity, desperate with little hope of succeeding, rapid, destructive
Attitude: small person with huge tasks to keep everything in control
What are these remedies for?carcinosinum
ignatia
staphysagria
argentum-nitricum
Cancer miasma (Sankaran)
Tubercular Miasma (Sankaran) - Pace & intensity, possible triggers?
Pace & intensity: feelings of oppression & suffocation, as if trapped and time is short to escape desire to change, freedom
Possible triggers: chronic allergies, TB, asthma, abuse
What are these remedies for?Tuberculinum
calc-phos
drosea
phosphorus
tarantula
bird remedies
Tubercular Miasma (Sankaran)
