Chronic Miasms
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* Miasms can be produced by
* 1. Hereditary influences
* 2. Strong infectious disease
* 3. Suppressive treatments and vaccinations
* 4. Strong shocks - George Vithoulkas
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* Described multiple Miasms.
* Sees them as layers of disease predisposition caused by four major causes - George Vithoulkas
- Hahnemann's Disease theory
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* Psora: Suppressed itch
* Syphilis:
* Sycosis: Gonorrhea and Venereal Warts
§ Infectious cause of dz -
* Saw miasms as damage to the vital force through the immoral actions of the individual and their ancestors.
§ Moral cause of dz - James Kent
- * Psora as originating in nutritional deficiencies.
- Herbert Roberts
- * Miasms are the major field of disturbance in the individual resulting from deviation from natural and moral law.
- Sanchez Ortega
- * Saw Miasms derived from disease diathesis interacting with psychological conflicts in the individual often originating in the persons childhood experiences and development.
- Thomas Pachero
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* Describes chronic miasms as chronic diathesis.
* Disease predispositions, having general symptomatic characteristics.
* Describes a step wise progression in the genesis of disease. - Francisco Eizayaga
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* Hyperfunction (Allergy)
* Suppressed eruptions
* Functional not lesional - Psora
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* Hypofunction (Anergy)
* Walling off reaction
* Irreversible lesions - Syphilis
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* Dysfunction (Perversion)
* Autoimmunity
* Hypertrophy, Hyperplasia, edema
* Benign tumors; sociopathy - Sycosis
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* Combination of Psora and Syphilis
* Hyperfunction and Self destructive
* Respiratory problems
* Frequent infections
* Dramatic emotions - Tuberculinism (Psuedo Psora)
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* Syphilis and Sycosis
* Hypertrophy and Self destruction
* Long lasting
* Grief
* Helplessness
* Trauma - Cancerism
- Represents the genetic predisposition to disease
- constitution
- non-genetic inheritance predisposition to disease (toxicity, energetic, etc.)
- Miasms
- functional disease....no pathology but problems (worried well, irritable, insulin resistance, IBS, sleeplessness)
- Fundamental
- biochemical, pathological...disease can be seen, felt, measured
- lesional disease
- curable & reversible
- L1
- curable but irreversible (i.e., MS)
- L2
- neither curable nor irreversible---palliative care only (i.e., cancer, parkinson's)
- L3
- Sulphur
- Psora
- mercurius
- syphilis
- thuja
- sycosis
- phos or calc phos
- tuberculinism
- arsenicum
- cancerism
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* Hyperfunction (Allergy)
§ Anxiety
§ PTSD
§ OCD
§ Flatulence
§ Itching
§ Eczema
* Suppressed eruptions
* Functional not lesional
* Sulphur - psora
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* Hypofunction (Anergy)
§ Anergic immune system in HIV
§ Hans sele-coined stress
* Walling off reaction
* Irreversible lesions
§ More active in age
§ Mercurius - syphilis
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* Dysfunction (Perversion)
* Autoimmunity
* Hypertrophy, Hyperplasia, edema
* Benign tumors; sociopathy
* Thuja - sycosis
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* Combination of Psora and Syphilis
* Hyperfunction and Self destructive
* Respiratory problems
* Frequent infections
* Dramatic emotions
* Phos or calc phos - tuberculinism
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* Syphilis and Sycosis
* Hypertrophy and Self destruction
* Long lasting
* Grief
* Helplessness
* Trauma
* Arsenicum - cancerism