Miasms Flashcards
Acute-Depth, pace, & perception
Sudden, great danger Intense threat
Threat is too big, violent, and sudden
Do or die, life and death
Fight or flight
Acute-Attitude
Child-like, instinctive, violent ● Helpless ● Run for your life ● Once the danger has passed you are safe again
Acute-Pattern
Comes suddenly ● Lasts a short time ● Ends suddenly, either in death or recovery
Acute-Key words
Acute, sudden, panic ● Violent, danger, escape, terror ● Reflexive, instinctive reaction ● Infant, helpless
Acute Remedies
Aconite, Belladonna, Veratrum ● Hydrogen, Beryllium, Lithium ● Lyssinum, Morbillinum, Diptherinum
Typhoid-Depth, pace,& perception
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
Typhoid-Attitude
If, somehow, you come out of the crisis, all is fine; if you do not, you are sunk ● Childlike
Typhoid-Pattern
Concentrated effort followed by rest ● Demanding
Typhoid-Key words
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
Typhoid remedies
Nux-vomica, Chamomile, Baptisia
Ph-ac, Pic-ac, Mur-ac Pyrogenium
Malarial-Depth, pace, & perception
Stuck and intermittently attacked ● Limited and unfortunate ● Imprisoned and dependent
Malarial-Attitude
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
Malarial-Pattern
Sudden, acute manifestations which come up from time to time, followed by periods of
quiescence
Malarial-Key words
Stuck, hindered, obstructed ● Harassed, persecuted, intermittent attack (colic, neuralgias, migraines) ● Unfortunate, contemptuous, disobedient ● Periodicity, paroxysmal, alternation between excitement and acceptance
Malarial remedies
Colocynthis, Cactus grandiflora, Colchicum ● Nat-m, Am-m, Mag-m ● Lac-def, Cyprae eglantina, Carbo-an
Ringworm-Depth, pace, & perception
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
Ringworm-Attitude
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
Ringworm-Pattern
Periods of effort alternating with periods of inactivity