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Lecture 8 Flashcards

1
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What is disease?

A

absence of ease

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What is health (ease)?

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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.

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3
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In homeopathy what is disease?

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deviation from state of health (holistic)

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4
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What is the classification of disease based on?

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organon

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5
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Disease was classified based on two categories, what are they?

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  • physical/external trauma
  • dynamic
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6
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What is physical/external truama?

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  • break a bone etc.
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7
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What is dynamic disease?

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due to deviation of vital force from state of health

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8
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Dynamic disease can divided into 2 categories, what are they?

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acute
chronic

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9
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What is the definition of acute disease?

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

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What is the definition of chronic disease?

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

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11
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What does acute epidemic mean?

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

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What does acute sporadic mean?

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

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13
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What does acute individual mean?

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flare ups, exacerbation of chronic condition

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14
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What are causes of non-miasmatic chronic disease?

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  • lifestyle
  • drug induced
  • occupational
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15
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Who are miasms based on?

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Hahnemann’s chronic disease

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16
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Why in 1816 did Hahnemann start to become concerned after he had great success?

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

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17
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As he pondered the nature of this continual deterioration in his patients, what did Hahnemann do?

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

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18
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As he continued to administer his remedies what did he notice?

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

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19
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What led to the most controversial period of Homeopathic history?

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the release of Hahnemann’s theory of chronic miasms

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20
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In Hahnemannian Homeoapthy, what does “miasm” mean?

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

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21
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What are chronic maisms capable of?

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

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22
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Who was the first to use the word miasm?

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Hippocrates

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23
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What are the 3 phases Hahnemann noticed?

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  • primary
  • latent
  • secondary/tertiary
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24
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How were effects of these maims passed from one generation to the next?

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by inheritance and caused predispositions to certain disease syndromes

25
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What are two non-veneral miasms?

A

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

26
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What are two veneral miasms?

A
  • sycosis (genital warts)
  • syphilis (chancre miasm)
27
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What does psora tend to produce?

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irritation, inflammation, hypersensitivity

28
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What did sycosis tend to produce?

A

infiltrations, indurations, overgrowth

29
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What did pseudo-psora (tubercular) tend to produce?

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  • tubercles, fibrosis, and suppuration
30
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What did syphilis tend to produce?

A

granualtion, degeneration, ulcertaion

31
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What is the definition of psora?

A

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

32
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What is psora referring to?

A

scabies, leprosy, psoriasis

33
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In ancient times how did the eruption of psora appear?

A

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

34
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Once the cutaneous symptoms are suppressed, how does psora remain?

A

internally, causing secondary symptoms.

35
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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

A

True

36
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Which is the most ancient, most universal, most destructive and yet most misapprehended chronic miasmatic disease?

A

psora

37
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What is the oldest, and most hydra-headed of all the
chronic miasmatic diseases?

A

Psora

38
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T/F: The whole organism is ill before symptoms appear.

A

True

39
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What is the oldest of the chronic venereal miasms and increases the susceptibility to other sexually transmitted diseases?

A

sycosis

40
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What was a term that was used for sycosis

A

gonorrhoea

41
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Is sycosis a constitutional disorder or local disease of genitalia?

A

constitutional disorder

42
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What are remedies for sycosis?

A

thuja, nitric acid

43
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What produces more profound destruction than with
gonorrheal infection/miasm?

A

syphilis

44
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What are affinities for syphilis?

A
  • mucus membrane
  • bones
  • nervous system
45
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What are indications of syphilis?

A
  • Destructed tissues
  • Caries of bones
  • Pains increasing and decreasing gradually and wandering
  • Suicidal thoughts
46
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What are remedies for syphilis?

A

Merc, Aurum, Arsenicum.album

47
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What did Kent equate Psora with?

A

“Original Sin”

48
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What did Ortega introduce?

A

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

49
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How did george Vithoulkas define miasm?

A
  • 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
50
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Who pointed out there may be more than 3 miasms?

A

George Vithoulkas

51
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What did Rajan Sankaran do?

A
  • 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
52
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What is the pace and intensity of cancer miasm (sankaran)?

A

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

53
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What is the altitude of cancer miasm (based on sankaran)?

A

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

54
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What are cancer miasm remedies?

A

carcinosinum, ignatia, staphysagria, argentum- nitricum

55
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What is the pace and intensity of tubercular miasma (sankaran)?

A

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

56
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What are possible triggers of tubercular miasm (sankaran)?

A

Chronic allergies, TB, asthma, abuse

57
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What are remedy exampled for tubercular miasm (sankaran)?

A

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

58
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NMT100 Homeopathy (9 decks)

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