Miasms Flashcards

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Acute-Depth, pace, & perception

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Sudden, great danger Intense threat
Threat is too big, violent, and sudden
Do or die, life and death
Fight or flight

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Acute-Attitude

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Child-like, instinctive, violent ● Helpless ● Run for your life ● Once the danger has passed you are safe again

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Acute-Pattern

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Comes suddenly ● Lasts a short time ● Ends suddenly, either in death or recovery

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Acute-Key words

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Acute, sudden, panic ● Violent, danger, escape, terror ● Reflexive, instinctive reaction ● Infant, helpless

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Acute Remedies

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Aconite, Belladonna, Veratrum ● Hydrogen, Beryllium, Lithium ● Lyssinum, Morbillinum, Diptherinum

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Typhoid-Depth, pace,& perception

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Sinking, losing position of comfort ● Dangerous, risky, urgency ● Critical, life threatening, short lived situation ● Acute,but hopeful if a concentrated effort is put in, however it’s critical and life
threatening

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Typhoid-Attitude

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If, somehow, you come out of the crisis, all is fine; if you do not, you are sunk ● Childlike

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Typhoid-Pattern

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Concentrated effort followed by rest ● Demanding

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Typhoid-Key words

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Crisis, intense, intense short effort ● Sinking, collapse, critical period
demanding
impatient
child like
urgency
ruthless and demanding
fear and threats of health
order and routine
getting things done so they can rest
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Typhoid remedies

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Nux-vomica, Chamomile, Baptisia

Ph-ac, Pic-ac, Mur-ac Pyrogenium

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Malarial-Depth, pace, & perception

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Stuck and intermittently attacked ● Limited and unfortunate ● Imprisoned and dependent

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Malarial-Attitude

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You have to bear it because you are limited and therefore, dependent
Unfortunate, stuck, hindered and obstructed, and from time to time subjected to acute
attack

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Malarial-Pattern

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Sudden, acute manifestations which come up from time to time, followed by periods of
quiescence

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Malarial-Key words

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Stuck, hindered, obstructed ● Harassed, persecuted, intermittent attack (colic, neuralgias, migraines) ● Unfortunate, contemptuous, disobedient ● Periodicity, paroxysmal, alternation between excitement and acceptance

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Malarial remedies

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Colocynthis, Cactus grandiflora, Colchicum ● Nat-m, Am-m, Mag-m ● Lac-def, Cyprae eglantina, Carbo-an

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Ringworm-Depth, pace, & perception

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A difficult situation beyond easy reach ● Doubts about success ● Hope alternative with giving up, yet it isn’t fatal and it can be lived with

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Ringworm-Attitude

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I shall try; if I succeed, it’s good; if I fail, I just remain ● Sometimes the task seems possible and there is hope so he struggles to overcome it.
Then, after a while he feels that he is inadequate and will not succeed, so he gives up

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Ringworm-Pattern

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Periods of effort alternating with periods of inactivity

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Ringworm-Key words

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Trying, giving-up, accepting alternating with trying ● Accepting alternating with effort ● Irritation, teenage ● Slowly progressing but not life threatening ● Frustration and Irritation are the most common words they use

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Ringworm remedies

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Dulcamara, Taraxicum, Lycopodium ● Calcarea carbonica, Calcarea sulphurica, Scandium ● Lac humanum

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Sycosis-Depth, pace, & perception

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There is a fixed weak spot within me which I must cover up or hide ● Weakness is irremediable ● It is not fatal, but it is fixed and he will have to accept it and live with it

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Sycosis-Attitude

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I cannot change it but I will not let others see my weakness ● I am okay as long as I am able to cover it up

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Sycosis-Pattern

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Fixed

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Sycosis-Key words

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Fixed, fixed weakness ● Covered-up, hide, secretive, avoidance ● Guilt, acceptance, tumors ● 3 A’s- Avoidance, Apprehension, Acceptance

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Sycosis remedies

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Thuja, Gelsemium, Cannabis indica ● Kali-bromatum, Nat-sulph, Palladium ● Lac-c, Venus mercinaria, Conchilinum ● Medorrhinum

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Cancer-Depth, pace, & perception

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The task is beyond my limits ● Things out of control will all get destroyed if I do not keep control ● Chaos, breaking away, rapid destruction ● Desperate with very little hope of succeeding, but it’s not hopeless ● Super human effort to maintain control

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Cancer-Attitude

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A small person with huge tasks to keep control over ● Total control over one’s self and surroundings ● Perfectionist, fastidious

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Cancer-Pattern

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Trying to gain control over a situation that is far beyond their capacity ● Demanding too much of themselves

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Cancer-Key words

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Should do more, super-human, stretching beyond capacity, great expectation, never
good enough ● Control, perfectionist, order, self-control, fastidious ● Loss of control, chaos, cancer

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Cancer remedies

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Conium, Ignatia, Staphysagria ● Ars, Arg-nit, Aur-ars ● Asterias, Lac-eq (malarial), Bird rx (Morrison/ Herrick) ● Carcinosum, Scirrhinum

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Tubercular-Depth, pace, & perception

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● Compressed and the gap is narrowing ● Time is short ● Oppression ● Desperate desire for change ● Desperate with very little hope of breaking free
Caught, suffocated

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Tubercular-Attitude

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Time is short ● Too much to do in such a short period of time

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Tubercular-Pattern

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If he is to come out of this intense oppression there must be a change which may be
radical and violent, and for this hectic activity is required

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Tubercular-Key words

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Hectic, intense activity, change, freedom ● Suffocation, trapped, closing in, oppressed ● Defiant

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Tubercular remedies

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Drosera, Balsamum, Guaiacum ● Antimonium tart, Calc-phos, Stannum
● Insect and Spider remedies, lac-puma ● Bacillinum, Tuberculinum

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Leprosy-Depth, pace, & perception

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Isolated, unfortunate, shunned ● Hunted down (dream), despised ● Dirty, disgusting, loathsome ● Almost no hope of succeeding

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Leprosy-Attitude

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I am an outcaste; there is no hope of being normal ● I should isolate myself ● Disgust for myself

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Leprosy-Pattern

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He is doomed, so he can do nothing about it so he gives up

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Leprosy-Key words

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Disgust, mutilation, dirty, loathing, repulsion, tears at himself, sadism ● Great contempt, hunted ● Castaway, secluded, outcaste, isolation ● Intense hopelessness, intense oppression

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Leprosy remedies

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• Aloe, Mandragora, Hura, Curare • Ammonium iod, Arsenicum iod, Nat-iod • Ambra gresia, Blatta, Sanguis sorciris • Leprominium

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Syphilitic-Depth, pace, & perception

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The situation is beyond salvage and there is NO hope • The task is far beyond my capacity • I have committed an unpardonable crime • I have the highest and sole responsibility • No hope, great desperation

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Syphilitic-Attitude

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• The task is completely hopeless, but let me do the best I can

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Syphilitic-Pattern

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The situation is completely out of his reach, but he must make a last ditch, desperate
attempt to come out of it even though there is no hope of succeeding

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Syphilitic-Key words

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Homicide, suicide
• Destruction, despair, devastation
• Impossible, total loss
• Extremes:  
anger, rage
destruction
malice/revenge
hopeless state
murder/suicide
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Syphilitic remedies

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Passiflora, Echinacea, Crataegus • Alumina, Aurum, Flouric acid • Snake remedies, lac-leoninum, heloderma • Syphilinum