Classification of disease

Question 1

What are the non-veneral miasm?

Answer 1

1. Psora = the itch disease
2. Pseudo-psora = tubercular disease

Question 2

What are the veneral miasma?

Answer 2

1. Sycosis = genital warts
2. Syphilis = chance

Question 3

Signs and symptoms of each miasma?

Answer 3

1. Psora = irritation, inflammation, hypersensitivity
2. Pseudo-psora = tubercules, fibrosis, suppuration
3. Sycosis = infiltrations, indurations, overgrowth
4. Syphilis = granulation, degeneration, ulceration

Question 4

Which is the most ancient, universal & destructive miasm?

Answer 4

Psora

Question 5

How is psora characterized?

Answer 5

presence of scabs, scales, & itching

Question 6

How did psora present in ancient times?

Answer 6

leprosy

Question 7

Secondary symptoms of psora(6)?

Answer 7

nervous troubles, painful ailments, ulcers, paralysis, consumptions, crippling souls

Question 8

Which is the oldest of veneral miasms?

Answer 8

sycosis

Question 9

What characterizes sycosis?

Answer 9

-infiltration, induration & unhealthy overgrowth
-increases susceptibility to other STDs

Question 10

Remedies for sycosis(2)?

Answer 10

1. Thuja
2. Nitric

Question 11

Syphilis affinities?

Answer 11

mucous membranes, bones, nervous system

Question 12

Syphilis indications(4)?

Answer 12

1. Destructed tissues
2. Caries of bones
3. Pains inc. / dec. gradually & wandering
4. Suicidal thoughts

Question 13

What are these remedies for?
Merc, Aurum, Arsenicum.album

Answer 13

Remedies of syphilis

Question 14

What did Kent do in 1900?

Answer 14

Equated psora with original sin

Question 15

What did P.S. Ortega do?

Answer 15

Had a metaphysical approach and incorporated intensity of symptoms:
Psora: Deficieny, inhibition, lack
Sycosis: excess, escape, exudation
Syphilis: destruction, degeneration, perversion

Question 16

Deficiency, inhibition, lack?

Answer 16

Psora

Question 17

Excess, escape, exudation

Answer 17

sycosis

Question 18

Destruction, degeneration, perversion

Answer 18

Syphilis

Question 19

What did George Vithoulkas do?

Answer 19

Miami are the predisposition towards chronic disease underlying the acute manifestation of illness which:
1. are transmissible from gen to gen
2. may repsond beneficially to nosode
3. may be more than 3
4. identified tuberculosis as a separate miasma

Question 20

What did Rajan Sankaran do?

Answer 20

Remedies of same family share a common sensation
total of 10 miasma

Question 21

Cancer masma (Sankaran) - pace & intensity, attitude

Answer 21

Pace & intensity: out of control, trying to gain control, fastidious, perfectionist, stretching beyond capacity, desperate with little hope of succeeding, rapid, destructive

Attitude: small person with huge tasks to keep everything in control

Question 22

What are these remedies for?carcinosinum
ignatia
staphysagria
argentum-nitricum

Answer 22

Cancer miasma (Sankaran)

Question 23

Tubercular Miasma (Sankaran) - Pace & intensity, possible triggers?

Answer 23

Pace & intensity: feelings of oppression & suffocation, as if trapped and time is short to escape desire to change, freedom

Possible triggers: chronic allergies, TB, asthma, abuse

Question 24

What are these remedies for?Tuberculinum
calc-phos
drosea
phosphorus
tarantula
bird remedies

Answer 24

Tubercular Miasma (Sankaran)