Personality Types
Psora refers to senstivity of the body to outside allergens and agents and expresses itself in form of allergies, eruptions, cough, etc. and is mostly prevalent in ever individual. Without psora one will have no feeling, no sensitivity.
sycosis refers to over growth of tissues and accumulation of toxins in the body leading to diseases oriented towards growth of tumors, glands, hormonal imbalances etc.
Syphilis is a miasm of destruction leading to damage to internal tissues and organs resulting in debilitating diseases. A person moves form one miasm to another or directly ends up in one miasm based on his circumstancs and reactions to the outside stresses both physical and mental.
The true natural chronic diseases are those that arise from a chronic miasm, when left to themselves, improper treatment, go on to increase, growing worse and torment the patient to the end of his life.” §78 Organon of MedicineLater a fourth miasm was added (by J. H. Allen), called Pseudo Psora or Tubercular Miasm.
A – Psoric Miasm: The reaction of body on exposure to environmental stimuli, to ones
surroundings, like noise, light, and odors, producing functional disturbances like headache,
nausea, and discomfort.
B – Sycotic Miasm: Hypersensitive (hypertrophic) response to something specific, arising
from a deficiency of the normal response like tumors, allergies, keloids. Deficient feeling
gives rise to an increased attempt to repair the fault.
C – Syphilitic Miasm: Not manageable, tissue destruction like gangrene, ulceration. Body
and mind destroy itself, give-up.
D – Tubercular Miasm: Respiratory imbalance, weak lungs, offensive discharges, head
sweating, worse from exposure to cold, reccourring epistaxis, bleeding gums, long eyelashes,
craving for salt, enuresis, bloody stools, milk disagrees causing diarrhea, anemic, weakness,
ringworm, acne, white spots on nails, nightmares.
Personality types
A – Psoric Miasm: Highs and lows, struggling with outside world, becomes apparent at times
of stress, lack of confidence, constant anxiety feeling, fear, like he can’t do it, insecurity,
anxiety about the future but always having hope, mentally alert.
B – Sycotic Miasm: Secretiveness, hides his weakness, tense, constantly covering up
situations, fixed habits, suspicious, jealous, forgetful.
C – Syphilitic Miasm: Strong, pessimistic view on life, cannot modify what is wrong, gives-
up, destroy, no point in trying to adjust, sudden impulsive violence directed at himself or
others, distorted rigid ideas. Mental paralysis, mentally dull, suicidal, stupid, stubborn, and
homicidal.
D – Tubercular Miasm: Dissatisfaction, lack of tolerance, changes everything, does harmful
thing to one’s self.
General Nature of the Miasm
A – Psoric Miasm: Itching, burning, inflammation leading to congestion – philosopher,
selfish, restless, weak, fears.
B – Sycotic Miasm: Over production, growth like warts, condylomata, fibrous tissue, attacks
internal organs, pelvis, and sexual organs.
C – Syphilitic Miasm: Destructive, disorder everywhere, ulceration, fissures, deformities,
ignorance, suicidal, depressed, memory diminished.
D – Tubercular Miasm: Changing symptomology, vague, weakness, shifting in location,
depletion, dissatisfaction, lack of tolerance, careless, “problem child”, cravings that are not
good for them.
Dermatological Symptoms of the Miasms
A – Psoric Miasm: Dirty, dry, itching without pus or discharge, burning, scaly eruptions,
eczema, cracks in hands and feet, sweat profuse < during sleep, offensive.
B – Sycotic Miasm: Warts, moles, unnatural thickening of skin, herpes, scars, nails are thick,
irregular & corrugated, oily skin with oozing, disturbed pigment in patches.
C – Syphilitic Miasm: Ulcers, boils, discharge of fluids and pus, offensive, slow to heal,
leprosy, copper colored eruptions < by heat of bed, spoon shaped thin nails that tear easily,
gangrene putrid.
D – Tubercular Miasm: Ringworm, eczema, urticaria, herpes, recurring boils with pus and fever. Does not heal fast. Leprosy < by warmth of bed > by cold; nails, white spots.
Pains of Miasms
A – Psoric Miasm: Neurological type, sore, bruised, >rest <motion.
B – Sycotic Miasm: Joint pains, rheumatic pains are < cold, damp > motion, stitching, pulsating, wandering.
C – Syphilitic Miasm: Bone Pains, tearing, bursting, burning.
D – Tubercular Miasm: Great exhaustion, never enough rest, sun ameliorates, gives strength.
Miasmatic Clinical Diseases
A – Psoric Miasm: Acidity, burning, cancer, sarcomas, constipation, epilepsy, flatulence, hoarseness, itching of skin, leprosy, burning of spinal cord, watery discharge from nose and eyes with burning.
B – Sycotic Miasm: Abortion, acne without pus, angina pectoris, anemia, appendicitis, cough (whooping), colic, pelvic disease + sexual organs, piles, prostatitus, nephritis (kidney), gout, arthritis, asthma, dysmenorrhoea, herpes, rheumatism, warts, urinary ailments, swellings without any cause, overgrowth of tissue anywhere in the body, benign enlargements.
C – Syphilitic Miasm: Discharges putrified, blindness, ulcerations in veins and bones, carcinomas, fistulas, gangrene, hyperextension, bone marrow inflammation, insanity due to depression, leucorrhoea, rheumatism of long bones, skin disease with ooze + pus, ulcerated sore throat, history of abortions, sterility, immature death, ischemic heart disease, suicidal deaths, insanity, destructive/last stage of cancer, disseminated tuberculosis, ulcers of ear, nose, urinary organs, mouth.
D – Tubercular Miasm: Aching pain in knees, swelling, bedwetting, cancer, carious teeth, destruction of bone marrow, diabetes, dry cough (barking), eczema, emaciation, epilepsy, extreme fatigue, weakness, glands enlarged, tonsils, influenza, insanity, obstruction of intestines, malaria, insomnia, nocturnal perspiration, palpitation, profuse hemorrhage of any orifice, pneumonia, ring worm, short temper, nasal coryza, worms.
Conclusion
Why is it necessary for a homeopath to know the chronic miasms? Some might say as long as one prescribes according to the law of simillimum, he cures his cases. The important factor here is “so long as he selects the most similar remedy as possible.” The fact is, we cannot select the most similar remedy possible unless we understand the phenomena of the acting miasm.
The true similimum is always based on the existing miasm. It makes the difference between fighting the disease in the dark and in bright light when one knows the underlying principle that fathers the phenomena. If one has no knowledge of the laws of action and reaction, how can we watch the progress of a case without a definite knowledge of the disease forces (miasms) with their mysterious and persistent progressions. So, if we know nothing about the traits and characteristics of our enemy, it’s impossible to wage a war against the disease.
