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3. Miasms Flowchart

ACUTE

TYPHOID

MALARIA
PSORA

RINGWORM

SYCOSIS

TUBERCULAR CANCER

LEPROSY

SYPHILIS
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4. Miasms - Keywords

Acute Typhoid Malaria Ringworm Sycotic Cancer Tubercular Leprosy Syphilis

Acute Crisis Stuck Trying Fixed Control Hectic Disgust Destruction

Sudden Intense Intermittent Giving-up Covered-up Perfection Intense Great Homicide
Violent Sinking attack Accepting Guilt Fastidious activity contempt Suicide
Panic Recover Persecution alternating Hide Beyond one's Suffocation Isolation Ulcers
Unfortunate with trying capacity Trapped Mutilation
Danger Child Secretive Total
Colic Accepting Superhuman Closing in Intense
Reflex Intense alternating Warts Impossible
action short effort Neuralgia Cancer Change hopelessness
with effort Tumors Despair
Escape Typhoid Paroxysmal Great Activity Intense
Irritation Gonorrhea oppression Psychosis
Helpless Sub-acute Contemptuous Expectation Freedom
Ringworm / Neurosis Dirty Devastation
Terror Emergency Disobedient tinea Chaos Defiant
Fixed Hunted
Insanity Homesick Malaria Acne weakness Order Tuberculosis
Stretching Tears himself
Infant Intense Worms Discomfort Avoidance Oppression
struggle beyond Bites
Fright Migraine Teenage Accepting capacity Desire to
Critical change Despair
Terror Periodicity Herpetic Middle age Loss of
period. Outcaste
Alarm Harassed control
Collapse Sadism
Storm Hindered Self-control
Reaching Repulsion
Instinctive position of Obstructed
reaction Loathing
comfort. Alternation
between Confine
Impatience
excitement and Castaway
Demanding acceptance Seclude
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5. Summary of Miasms

RINGWORM MALARIA
ACUTE TYPHOID PSORA
(between psora & sycosis) (between acute & sycosis)
Depth, Pace Sudden, great danger; Bed is sinking; Problem is solvable; A difficult situation beyond Stuck and intermittently
and Perception Acute, intense threat; Losing position of comfort; Optimism; easy reach; attacked;
Threat is too big, violent Sudden loss or business Effort is needed, but is Doubts about success; Limited;
and sudden failure; within one's capacity; Hope alternating with Unfortunate;
Do or die! Dangerous, risky, urgency; giving up. Yet it is not fatal Imprisoned;
Critical and he can live with it.
Sudden, intense; Dependent;
Critical, life threatening, An underlying chronic
short lived situation; fixed weakness;
Acute, hopeful if
concentrated effort is put
in. But it is still critical and
life threatening.

Escape Intense, short effort; Making the effort; Alternating between Accepting his limits, not
Instinctive reaction Do or die; Getting it done. struggle and resignation; fighting them;
Besides oneself Impatience, demanding, Trying Intermittent attacks of
taking chances, recovering anger, paroxysms of rage;
Violent
R Strong lost ground;
Success
E Urgent Reaching position of
A comfort;
C Grab it all right now!
T Concentrated effort and
I struggle;
O
N
Panic Collapsed, inactive; Given up easily; Gives up hope; Lamenting nothing is good;
S
Shocked Has given up the struggle; Despair of recovery; Sits inactive; Miserable;
Stupefied Sinking; Lack of self-confidence. No more tries. Phobic, paroxysmal fears;
Failure
Immobile No effort; Unsuccessful efforts; Sentimental;
No action of will. Brooding.
Day dreaming;
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5. Summary of Miasms

RINGWORM MALARIA
ACUTE TYPHOID PSORA
(between psora & sycosis) (between acute & sycosis)
Pattern Comes suddenly, last short Concentrated effort Continuous struggle; Periods of effort alternating Sudden, acute manifestations
time, ends suddenly, either followed by rest; with periods of inactivity. which come up from time to
in death or recovery. time followed by periods of
and quiescence.
Dependent;

Picture Bomb explodes House on fire; A teenager learning to drive; Man with fear of water Employee of an irate boss.
Earthquake. Crash in stock market; learning how to swim;
Woman in her thirties
trying to lose weight.

Attitude Childlike, instinctive, If somehow you come out If I make the effort I can do I shall try; if I succeed, it is You have to bear it because
violent; of the crisis, all is fine; if it; good; if I fail, I just remain. you are limited and
Helpless; you do not, you are sunk; Hopeful and must struggle Sometimes the task seems therefore dependent.
Run for your life; Childlike; to maintain position; possible and he is hopeful Unfortunate, stuck,
and struggles to overcome hindered obstructed and
Once the danger has passed
it. Then after a while he from time to time subject to
you are safe again.
feels that he is inadequate acute attacks.
and will not succeed. So he
gives up.

Age Infancy. Childhood (1-12) Teenage. 25 35 years. Child to middle age.

Game Peek-a-boo; Hide and seek; Skateboard; Snakes and ladders. Blind mans bluff
Thrown up in the air and Football.
caught.
Pathology Panic attacks; Sub acute problems; Functional pathologies Herpes Migraine; neuralgia; worms;
Sudden manifestations; Crisis colic; colitis; rheumatisms;
Apoplexy; Mania; Fever menieres disease; asthma.

Remedies as Aconitum; Belladona; Nux vomica; Rhus tox; Sulphur; Psorinum; Calcarea sulphurica; China; Spigelia; Natrum
Examples Stramonium; Veratrum Bryonia; Baptisia; Phos. Calcarea carbonica; Ringworm; Calcarea muriaticum; Colocynthis;
album; Hydrogen; Lithium acidum; Carbo veg. Lycopodium; Cuprum silicata; Magnesium Cina; Capsicum; Lac
Carbonicum; Lyssin. metallicum. sulphuricum; Lac humanum. defloratum.
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5. Summary of Miasms
SYCOSIS
Depth, Pace There is a fixed, weak spot
and Perception 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.
Acceptance;
Keep fixed, weak spot hidden
from the view of others;
Cover up;
Hiding;
R High position leader, king.
Success
E Fixed ideas;
A surroundings;
Ritualistic behaviour;
C Perfectionist.
Hypersensitive reaction to
T many things, so restricted
I life.
O
N Guilt;
S Remorse;
Self-reproach;
Failure Being exposed.
CANCER
Task is beyond my limits;
Things out of control; all
get destroyed if I do not
keep control;
Chaos;
Breaking away.
Everything around him is
chaotic and he is too small
to gain control over the
chaos as there is a fixed
weakness within him.
Rapid;
Destructive;
Desperate with very little
hope of succeeding, but it is
not altogether hopeless.
In order to gain control
over the chaos he must
make a superhuman effort
and stretch himself far
beyond his limited capacity.
Total control on self and
Fastidious.
Everything is going out of
control and I can do
nothing.
TUBERCULAR LEPROSY
Caught, suffocated; Hunted down:
Compressed; Isolated;
Gap is narrowing; Poisoned;
Time is short; Destroyed;
Intense oppression; Dirty, disgusting;
Very rapid and destructive; Unfortunate;
Desperate desire for Displaced, pushed into a
change; corner.
Desperate with very little Rapid and destructive;
hope of breaking free; Desperately desires a very
radical change to overcome
the oppression but there is
almost no hope of
succeeding.
Hectic activity; Avoids sight of people;
Put in all efforts to Shuts himself up;
change/break free/to get Contemptuous.
out from the oppression.
Violence;
Burnt out, going towards Suicidal;
total destruction. Homicidal;
Tears himself;
Bites;
Despair.
SYPHILIS
The situation is beyond
salvage and there is no
hope;
Task is far beyond my
capacity;
Have committed an
unpardonable crime;
Highest and sole
responsibility.
No hope;
Destructive;
Great desperation;
Taking it on;
Doing the utmost;
Desperate, last ditch effort
or despair.
Complete despair;
Homicide, suicide;
Self destructive like
alcoholism;
Catatonic, withdrawal, total
indifference.
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SYCOSIS CANCER TUBERCULAR LEPROSY SYPHILIS

Pattern Fixed Trying to gain control over a If he has to come out of this He is doomed and so he can The situation is completely out
situation that is far beyond intense oppression there must do nothing about it so he of his reach. But he must make
his capacity. be a change which may be gives up. a last ditch, desperate attempt
Demanding too much of radical and violent, and for to come out of it even though
and himself. this hectic activity is required. there is no hope of succeeding.

Picture Person practicing without A child of alcoholic parents A man trapped in a very A paralyzed incontinent, old The captain of a sinking ship.
proper qualification. her world is chaotic. narrow tunnel. man.

Attitude I cannot change but I will Small person with huge Time is short; too much to I am an outcaste; there is no The task is hopeless, but let
not let others see my task to keep things in total be done in too little time. hope to be normal; I should me do the best I can.
weakness. control. isolate myself; disgust for
I cannot do anything about oneself.
it, so I must accept it and
live with it.
I am okay so long as I am
able to cover it up.

Age 35 50 years. 60 70 years 60 70 years Old Age Beyond 80 years.

Game Poker Juggling on a tight-rope; Beat-the-clock. Sadism and perversion; Playing chess with the
computer

Pathology Asthma; Cancer; Tuberculosis; Gangrene; Ulcers;

Warts; Asthma Paralysis. Heart attack;
Neuroses; Psychoses;
Paralysis
Remedies as Thuja; Lac caninum; Carcinosinum; Bacillinum; Drosera; Secale cornutum; Aloe; Syphillinum; Aurum;
Examples Natrum sulphuricum; Staphysagria; Conium; Calcarea phosphorica; Hura; Coca; Plumbum; Platinum; Hepar
Sabadilla; Pulsatilla; Arsenicum; Ignatia; Phosphorus; Tarentula; Leprominimum; Curare; sulphuricum calcarea;
Medorrhinum; Silicea. Nitricum acidum; Kalium Abrotanum. Solanum tuberosum Dendroaspis polylepsis.
arsenicum; Anacardium. aegrotans; Iodum; Falco-p.