Midterm Miasms Flashcards
Acute - Depth, pace and perception
Sudden, terror, panic, immediate danger, reflex action, not truly suicidal
Sudden, great danger Intense threat Hypervigilance Threat is too big, violent, and sudden Do or die, life and death Fight or flight
Acute - Attitude
Child-like, instinctive, violent Helpless Clinging 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 - Confirmatory Rubrics
Mind Carried- desires to be Childish Company ameliorates Escape- desires to Fright and ailments after fright Fear- Alone, Death, Dogs, Violence, Evil, Injury Panic attacks Praying Superstitious/ magical thinking SUDDEN COMPLAINTS/ HIGH FEVERS
Typhoid
Crisis, sinking, critical, collapse, impatient and demanding, not a victim, will get through it, they have influence over the outcome of their problems, overflowing with purposeless energy
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
Selfishness
Typhoid - Confirmatory rubrics
Abrupt- Impatient Bed- longs to remain in Business- talks of Fear- poverty Ailments- dentition- during High fever (not sudden) Weakness- diarrhea- after Greedy appetite Tongue- discolored- Brown (especially) Diarrhea with fever
Typhoid - Key Words
Crisis, intense, intense short effort
Sinking, collapse, critical period
Impatient, demanding, childlike
Recover, reaching a position of comfort
Urgency and crisis: Hurry, Crisis, life threatening, as if the building was on fire
Fear and sense of threat. Threats to house and home. Threats to health, business crisis, threats to security figures. Get things done so they can rest
Security and materialism: Finance and home, greed, competition for food/territorial, withholding and stingy. Demands a toy, but then doesn’t want it: It doesn’t relieve
Selfishness and Demanding: Temper tantrums are a typical strategy. I want what I want when I want it. Shrieking until you give in. (Cham)
They will get their way, no matter what it takes. Intense negotiators where no rules apply. They are not humiliated by making a scene (the experience of crisis trumps all other emotions)
Ruthless and ambition Do not get in my way. The situation is so urgent that the ends justify the means, no matter what. Cutting corners. Competition and ambition are high. The motivation is for relief (get out of crisis so I can rest). They can do anything to justify the ends. The love of humanity is lacking in this remedy (childish self-centeredness).
The typhoid people are often very oppressive. They are the archetypical bad guys. They’ll do whatever they want to get their way. They are high up in many situations. Cheating is not a problem for them.
Order and routine. Nux-v is fastidious. Most of the typhoid miasm remedies like things predictable, routine. They feel most secure when they are in familiar and comfortable situations. Efficiency of having everything in place. Can enjoy change but not in their situation of security.
Not the fastidiousness of Cancer, which has the aesthetics of things looking perfect. For typhoid, it’s about knowing where things are, so you don’t have to hunt around for things. Life is a crisis, and you have to find things right away
Malarial
Stuck, hindered, intermittent, harassment, unfortunate, distinct exacerbation
Malarial - Depth, pace, perception
Stuck and intermittently/Periodically attacked
Limited and unfortunate
Imprisoned and dependent
Trapped/ Stuck
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
Whining/ Misery
Persecuted
Touchiness
Wronged/ Unfair
Malarial - Pattern
Sudden, acute manifestations which come up from time to time, followed by periods of quiescence
Malarial - Confirmatory rubrics
Homesick Touch- aversion to Periodicity or intermittent complaints Migraine headaches and neuralgias Recurring fevers or chills Cholecystitis Colic/ cramps Pinworms
Malarial - Key Words
Stuck, hindered, obstructed
Harassed, persecuted, intermittent attack (colic, neuralgias, migraines)
Unfortunate, contemptuous, disobedient
Periodicity, paroxysmal, alternation between excitement and acceptance
Psoric
Need for success in the world, confident, self-sufficient, failure is not life-threatening Confirmatory rubrics Ambition Confident/ Abundant Fear- failure Ailments from suppressed eruptions Desire and aversion to EGGS Eruptions on the head Itching of the rectum Premature ejaculation/ erections incomplete Complaints of the nails
Ringworm
Accepting alternating with trying, trying and giving up, not guilty, less complaining, lacks urgency and demanding, more patient, softer
Ringworm - Depth, pace, and perception
Bland/ coping 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 Slowly progresses- slowly recedes Irritation
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 - Confirmatory Rubrics
Dreams- unsuccessful efforts Indecisive Irritable after coition Sinusitis/ chronic catarrh Eruptions of scalp- tinea Eruptions behind ears and of eyelids Constipation with soft stools Prostatitis and BPH Nails- crippled, thickened, fungal infections Boils, impetigo, psoriasis, ringworm, eczema
Sycotic
Covered up, hide, avoidance, accepting, fixed weakness
Sycotic - 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
Sycotic - 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
Sycotic - Pattern
Fixed
Sycotic - Key words
Fixed, fixed weakness
Covered-up, hide, secretive, avoidance
Guilt, acceptance, tumors
Cancer
Perfection, superhuman control, stretching beyond capacity
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
Tubercular
Oppression, suffocated, hectic, change, defiant, freedom, more refined but not self-centered
Tubercular - Depth, pace, perception
Caught, suffocated Compressed and the gap is narrowing Time is short Oppression Desperate desire for change Desperate with very little hope of breaking free
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
Leprosy
Disgust, condemned to isolation, mutilation, dirty, outcaste, sadism, self-loathing
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
Syphilitic
Homicide, total destruction, total hopelessness, ulcers, feeling of failure, highest spiritual calling and deepest pathology (nuns and priests)
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
Syphillitic - Attitude
The task is completely hopeless, but let me do the best I can
Syphillitic - 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
Syphillitic - Key words
Homicide, suicide
Destruction, despair, devastation
Impossible, total loss
Extremes: extreme reaction and imaginations. For example road rage. They are black and white. Things are either all good or all bad. The skin lesions turn black. Their depression is black. Extremes of pathology
Anger and rage: rare to find cases where anger does not figure into the constellation. When someone describes their anger in terms of color, think Syphilitic miasm. Anger is described as an entity or a possession, in the face of which they feel helpless. The rage of Syphilitic miasm is deadly serious, it’s not just hot reaction.
Destructive: Of property, of relationships of their body (drugs, over eating, alcohol)
Malice/revenge- revenge is a dish best served cold = a cold hearted malice. This theme is nearly confined to the syphilitic miasm. Great malice requires syphilitic remedies
Hopeless state: The end cannot be avoided. They perceive death but can’t stop it. Death or destruction is unavoidable
Murder and suicide: Unpremeditated murder can be acute miasm and syphilitic miasm. Syphilitic miasm has premeditated murder as well.
Know the 5 levels of experience
1. Chief complaint/Diagnosis: What exactly is happening? What is the problem? What is it like? 2. Facts (complete symptoms are found at this level) How do you feel? How does it affect you? How does this impact you? Concomitant symptoms and modalities Sensations and location 3. Emotions How does it feel? What comes to mind in this instant? Say more about it. What is the experience in that moment? Emotions are human specific. They are useful in homeopathy when they excite concomitant symptoms- H/A from anger, diarrhea from anticipation, asthma from anxiety, etc. 4. Delusions/ Dreams What sensations do you experience in that situation? What are you showing with that hand gesture? What is it like in that moment? 5. Sensation (source) Sensitivity/structure/victim-aggressor themes come out. Precise nature of the experience. Precise degree, depth, and quality.
Know the definitions for:
Modalities: aggravations and ameliorations
Concomitants: Sxs that accompany
For every Sx: Sensation, location, modalities, concomitants, general
