Lecture 8

Question 1

What is disease?

Answer 1

absence of ease

Question 2

What is health (ease)?

Answer 2

state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease
- In the healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force (autocracy), the dynamis that animates the material body (organism), rules with unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purpose of our existence.

Question 3

In homeopathy what is disease?

Answer 3

deviation from state of health (holistic)

Question 4

What is the classification of disease based on?

Answer 4

organon

Question 5

Disease was classified based on two categories, what are they?

Answer 5

• physical/external trauma
• dynamic

Question 6

What is physical/external truama?

Answer 6

• break a bone etc.

Question 7

What is dynamic disease?

Answer 7

due to deviation of vital force from state of health

Question 8

Dynamic disease can divided into 2 categories, what are they?

Answer 8

acute
chronic

Question 9

What is the definition of acute disease?

Answer 9

tendency to heal on its own or if very serious (pt dies), regardless of treatment

Question 10

What is the definition of chronic disease?

Answer 10

self-healing is not possible, gradual development, progress in phases

Question 11

What does acute epidemic mean?

Answer 11

agent is so strong it is capable of infecting so many people

Question 12

What does acute sporadic mean?

Answer 12

scattered here and there (probably will affect based on susceptibility of pt)

Question 13

What does acute individual mean?

Answer 13

flare ups, exacerbation of chronic condition

Question 14

What are causes of non-miasmatic chronic disease?

Answer 14

• lifestyle
• drug induced
• occupational

Question 15

Who are miasms based on?

Answer 15

Hahnemann’s chronic disease

Question 16

Why in 1816 did Hahnemann start to become concerned after he had great success?

Answer 16

the constitutional health of his pt’s seemed to be slowly declinling

Question 17

As he pondered the nature of this continual deterioration in his patients, what did Hahnemann do?

Answer 17

began to search for a deeper understanding of the processes that lie behind chronic disease

Question 18

As he continued to administer his remedies what did he notice?

Answer 18

he noticed that certain chronic patients, who responded well at first, either relapsed or slowly became more ill

Question 19

What led to the most controversial period of Homeopathic history?

Answer 19

the release of Hahnemann’s theory of chronic miasms

Question 20

In Hahnemannian Homeoapthy, what does “miasm” mean?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What are chronic maisms capable of?

Answer 21

producing degenerative illnesses, auto-immune diseases and lead the organism toward immuno-deficiency disorders

Question 22

Who was the first to use the word miasm?

Answer 22

Hippocrates

Question 23

What are the 3 phases Hahnemann noticed?

Answer 23

• primary
• latent
• secondary/tertiary

Question 24

How were effects of these maims passed from one generation to the next?

Answer 24

by inheritance and caused predispositions to certain disease syndromes

Question 25

What are two non-veneral miasms?

Answer 25

psora (itch disease) pseudo-psora (tubercular disease)

Question 26

What are two veneral miasms?

Answer 26

- sycosis (genital warts) - syphilis (chancre miasm)

Question 27

What does psora tend to produce?

Answer 27

irritation, inflammation, hypersensitivity

Question 28

What did sycosis tend to produce?

Answer 28

infiltrations, indurations, overgrowth

Question 29

What did pseudo-psora (tubercular) tend to produce?

Answer 29

- tubercles, fibrosis, and suppuration

Question 30

What did syphilis tend to produce?

Answer 30

granualtion, degeneration, ulcertaion

Question 31

What is the definition of psora?

Answer 31

any of various skin diseases characterized by the presence of scabs or scales, usually with itching

Question 32

What is psora referring to?

Answer 32

scabies, leprosy, psoriasis

Question 33

In ancient times how did the eruption of psora appear?

Answer 33

as leprosy –a persistent external eruption on the skin which served as a substitute for INTERNAL Psora

Question 34

Once the cutaneous symptoms are suppressed, how does psora remain?

Answer 34

internally, causing secondary symptoms.

Question 35

T/F: Non-venereal chronic diseases, after being time and again removed homeopathically, always returned in a more or less varied form and with new symptoms or re-appeared annually with an increase of complaints

Answer 35

True

Question 36

Which is the most ancient, most universal, most destructive and yet most misapprehended chronic miasmatic disease?

Answer 36

psora

Question 37

What is the oldest, and most hydra-headed of all the chronic miasmatic diseases?

Answer 37

Psora

Question 38

T/F: The whole organism is ill before symptoms appear.

Answer 38

True

Question 39

What is the oldest of the chronic venereal miasms and increases the susceptibility to other sexually transmitted diseases?

Answer 39

sycosis

Question 40

What was a term that was used for sycosis

Answer 40

gonorrhoea

Question 41

Is sycosis a constitutional disorder or local disease of genitalia?

Answer 41

constitutional disorder

Question 42

What are remedies for sycosis?

Answer 42

thuja, nitric acid

Question 43

What produces more profound destruction than with gonorrheal infection/miasm?

Answer 43

syphilis

Question 44

What are affinities for syphilis?

Answer 44

- mucus membrane - bones - nervous system

Question 45

What are indications of syphilis?

Answer 45

- Destructed tissues - Caries of bones - Pains increasing and decreasing gradually and wandering - Suicidal thoughts

Question 46

What are remedies for syphilis?

Answer 46

Merc, Aurum, Arsenicum.album

Question 47

What did Kent equate Psora with?

Answer 47

"Original Sin"

Question 48

What did Ortega introduce?

Answer 48

metaphysical approach to miasms, based on archetypes & unrelated to specific infections. He incorporated intensity of symptoms into his differentiation

Question 49

How did george Vithoulkas define miasm?

Answer 49

- a predisposition towards chronic disease underlying the acute manifestation of illness - transmissible from generation to generation and, - may respond beneficially to the corresponding nosode.” - Pointed out that there may be more than 3 miasms - Identified Tuberculosis as a separate miasm

Question 50

Who pointed out there may be more than 3 miasms?

Answer 50

George Vithoulkas

Question 51

What did Rajan Sankaran do?

Answer 51

- Remedies of the same family share a common sensation - The expression of this sensation differs between remedies in the same family. - The expression differs according to the pace & intensity with which that sensation is perceived & responded to. - The pace & intensity defines the Miasm. - Defined a total of 10 miasms

Question 52

What is the pace and intensity of cancer miasm (sankaran)?

Answer 52

Out of control, trying to gain control of a situation beyond her capacity; fastidious, perfectionist, stretching beyond capacity, desperate, with little hope of succeeding, rapid, destructive

Question 53

What is the altitude of cancer miasm (based on sankaran)?

Answer 53

small person with huge tasks to keep everything in control Possible disease

Question 54

What are cancer miasm remedies?

Answer 54

carcinosinum, ignatia, staphysagria, argentum- nitricum

Question 55

What is the pace and intensity of tubercular miasma (sankaran)?

Answer 55

Feeling of oppression & suffocation; as if trapped and time is short to escape, desire to change, freedom

Question 56

What are possible triggers of tubercular miasm (sankaran)?

Answer 56

Chronic allergies, TB, asthma, abuse

Question 57

What are remedy exampled for tubercular miasm (sankaran)?

Answer 57

tuberculinum, calc-phos, drosera, phosphorus, tarentula, the bird remedies