Final Material Flashcards
Acute Miasm
sudden, terror, panic, immediate danger, reflex action
Typhoid miasm
Crisis, sinking, critical, collapse, impatient and demanding
Malarial miasm
stuck, hindered, intermittent harassment, unfortunate
Ringworm miasm
Accepting alternating with trying, trying and giving up
Sycotic miasm
Covered up, hide, avoidance, accepting, fixed weakness
Cancer miasm
perfection, superhuman control, stretching beyond capacity
Tubercular miasm
oppression, suffocated, hectic, change, defiant, freedom
Leprosy miasm
disgust, condemned to isolation, mutilation, dirty, outcast, sadism, self loathing
Syphilis miasm
Homicide, total destruction, total hopelessness, ulcers, given up
What is a miasm?
Measure of how much, how intensely, how acutely or chronically or how deeply or desperately the situation is perceived to be.
Aconite Napellus
Suddenness, usually a fear of death! Acute fear/anxiety of death. Restlessness. Fever is quick, high, and dry. Affinity for the eye.
Worse with cold, dry air
Arnica Montana
Bruised, beaten. Injuries from blunt trauma. Says he is well when he isn’t. Fear of being touched, least he be harmed. Does not want to be touched or approached.
Calendula
Healing of wounds of the dermis, tongue, fingernail tears. Wound is lacerated and ragged. Prevents suppuration. Affinity to skin, soft parts and spine. Traumatic fever (patient gets injured so severely they develop a fever). Injuries, compound fractures.
Bellis Perennis
Affinity for deep in the abdomen, pelvis.
If they are gravid (pregnant) they can feel every movement of the fetus with pain. Deep tissue pain after surgery.
Induration/cancer of breast after contusion (rubric)
Injury to coccyx.
If they injure their arm for example, the entire extremity gets cold.
Papaveracae
Half alive/half dead after wounding
Belladonna
Pupils dilated and eyes glistening with wild look. Face flushing. Head and face hot, hands and feet cold. Fits of rage, biting, spitting, pulling hair.
Delirium and loss of voice after head injury
Fever worse at 3pm with delirium. When head congested, parotid pulsating with temple. Hands and feet cold. THROBBING pain in head.
Conium Maculatum
Socrates drank poison and got slow gradual paralysis until it hit the diaphragm and death. Slow paralysis of mental faculties. Induration of glands. Gradual weakness, paralysis, induration.
Cicuta verusa
Convulsions during delivery or from being touched. Convergent strabismus usually after head injury. Leprosy miasm. Development arrested after injury to the head. Childish/foolish behavior. Convulsions with hiccoughs.
Helleborus niger
Thoughtlessness - inability to think clearly, they rub their head. They have a hard time thinking, they don’t understand your questions. Staring blankly, dull, stupefy. Awkwardness of hands when talking. Answers slowly. For confusion of mind, dull, sadness, all after head injury.
Bryonia Alba
Aversion to being disturbed. Worse from the least motion. Talk of business (in typhoid miasm) need to accumulate money to get out of crises. Fear of poverty, holds head with hands during cough or chest. Vomiting after injury.