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
Ringworm-Key words
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
Ringworm remedies
Dulcamara, Taraxicum, Lycopodium ● Calcarea carbonica, Calcarea sulphurica, Scandium ● Lac humanum
Sycosis-Depth, pace, & perception
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
Sycosis-Attitude
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
Sycosis-Pattern
Fixed
Sycosis-Key words
Fixed, fixed weakness ● Covered-up, hide, secretive, avoidance ● Guilt, acceptance, tumors ● 3 A’s- Avoidance, Apprehension, Acceptance
Sycosis remedies
Thuja, Gelsemium, Cannabis indica ● Kali-bromatum, Nat-sulph, Palladium ● Lac-c, Venus mercinaria, Conchilinum ● Medorrhinum
Cancer-Depth, pace, & perception
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
Cancer-Attitude
A small person with huge tasks to keep control over ● Total control over one’s self and surroundings ● Perfectionist, fastidious
Cancer-Pattern
Trying to gain control over a situation that is far beyond their capacity ● Demanding too much of themselves
Cancer-Key words
Should do more, super-human, stretching beyond capacity, great expectation, never
good enough ● Control, perfectionist, order, self-control, fastidious ● Loss of control, chaos, cancer
Cancer remedies
Conium, Ignatia, Staphysagria ● Ars, Arg-nit, Aur-ars ● Asterias, Lac-eq (malarial), Bird rx (Morrison/ Herrick) ● Carcinosum, Scirrhinum
Tubercular-Depth, pace, & perception
● Compressed and the gap is narrowing ● Time is short ● Oppression ● Desperate desire for change ● Desperate with very little hope of breaking free
Caught, suffocated
Tubercular-Attitude
Time is short ● Too much to do in such a short period of time
Tubercular-Pattern
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
Tubercular-Key words
Hectic, intense activity, change, freedom ● Suffocation, trapped, closing in, oppressed ● Defiant
Tubercular remedies
Drosera, Balsamum, Guaiacum ● Antimonium tart, Calc-phos, Stannum
● Insect and Spider remedies, lac-puma ● Bacillinum, Tuberculinum
Leprosy-Depth, pace, & perception
Isolated, unfortunate, shunned ● Hunted down (dream), despised ● Dirty, disgusting, loathsome ● Almost no hope of succeeding
Leprosy-Attitude
I am an outcaste; there is no hope of being normal ● I should isolate myself ● Disgust for myself
Leprosy-Pattern
He is doomed, so he can do nothing about it so he gives up
Leprosy-Key words
Disgust, mutilation, dirty, loathing, repulsion, tears at himself, sadism ● Great contempt, hunted ● Castaway, secluded, outcaste, isolation ● Intense hopelessness, intense oppression
Leprosy remedies
• Aloe, Mandragora, Hura, Curare • Ammonium iod, Arsenicum iod, Nat-iod • Ambra gresia, Blatta, Sanguis sorciris • Leprominium
Syphilitic-Depth, pace, & perception
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
Syphilitic-Attitude
• The task is completely hopeless, but let me do the best I can
Syphilitic-Pattern
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
Syphilitic-Key words
Homicide, suicide • Destruction, despair, devastation • Impossible, total loss • Extremes: anger, rage destruction malice/revenge hopeless state murder/suicide
Syphilitic remedies
Passiflora, Echinacea, Crataegus • Alumina, Aurum, Flouric acid • Snake remedies, lac-leoninum, heloderma • Syphilinum
