Classification of diseases

Question 1

what is disease?

Answer 1

“absence of ease”

Question 2

what is health? (ease)

Answer 2

health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 3

what are the 2 types of disease?

Answer 3

physical/external trauma and dynamic

Question 4

miasm

Answer 4

the effects of microorganisms on the vital force including the symptoms that are transmitted to the following generations

Question 5

3 phases of chronic diseases

Answer 5

primary stage, latent stage, and a secondary or tertiary stage

Question 6

2 non-venereal miasms

Answer 6

Psora and pseudo-psora

Question 7

2 venereal miasms

Answer 7

sycosis and syphilis

Question 8

characteristics of psora

Answer 8

tends to produce irritation, inflammation, and hypersensitivity

Question 9

characteristics of sycosis

Answer 9

tends to produce infiltrations, indurations, and overgrowth

Question 10

characteristics of pseudo-psora

Answer 10

tends toward tubercles, fibrosis, and suppuration

Question 11

characteristics of syphilis

Answer 11

tends toward granulation, degeneration, and ulceration

Question 12

scabs or scales, itching =

Answer 12

psora

Question 13

leprosy =

Answer 13

psora

Question 14

sykon which means fig =

Answer 14

sycosis

Question 15

oldest of the chronic venereal miasms

Answer 15

sycosis

Question 16

gonorrhoea =

Answer 16

sycosis

Question 17

chancre miasm?

Answer 17

syphilis

Question 18

syphilis affinities:

Answer 18

• mucus membrane
• bones
• nervous system

Question 19

syphilis indications:

Answer 19

• destructed tissues
• caries of bones
• pains increasing and decreasing gradually and wandering
• suicidal thought

Question 20

intensity of symptoms of psora

Answer 20

deficiency, inhibition, lack

Question 21

intensity of symptoms of sycosis

Answer 21

excess, escape, exudation

Question 22

intensity of symptoms of syphilis

Answer 22

destruction, degeneration, perversion

Question 23

who defined miasm as a predisposition towards chronic disease underlying the acute manifestation of illness

Answer 23

george vithoulkas

Question 24

who said that remedies of the same family share a common sensation

Answer 24

rajan sankaran

Question 25

cancer miasm

Answer 25

pace and intensity: out of control, trying to gain control of a situation beyond her capacity
Attitude: small person with huge tasks to keep everything in control possible disease

Question 26

tubercular miasm (based on sakaran)

Answer 26

Pace and intensity: feeling of oppression and suffocation; as if trapped and time is short to escape, desire to change, freedom

Possible triggers: chronic allergies, TB, asthma, abuse