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Miasm, and my topic about Why people get sick.

Dear forum member Dr. Organon,

I have read your reply and I thank you for sharing your point of view with all of us, I unfortunately used the word “argue” which was wrongly picked by me, please forgive me, as I should know better. Think before you leap – right?
I have my knowledge from learning and more importantly from life itself, in dealing daily with people who can’t be helped by modern medicine anymore and as a last attempt, come to me. I do not cure people, it is something they have to do themselves, all I can do is give them the tools and show them how to apply them.

Now lets shine some light on the topic of Miasm which I believe has not received enough attention and as I believe fits my way of helping people perfectly:

The Theory of Miasms - Personality Types
After the discovery and application of homeopathy for 30 years (1790-1820), Hahnemann realized that although he had very good results with intense diseases, he did not have drastic results with the treatment of chronic diseases. He noticed that those diseases, after their removal with the use of homeopathic medicines, they always relapsed in a variable form and with new symptoms or reappeared on a yearly basis with an increase of the ailments.
After careful observation and study, Hahnemann reached the conclusion that there is an obstacle in the organism that cannot be fought with medicines or the healthiest diet or disappear by itself. He named this obstacle a “miasm”. (I call it stress) The word miasm means infection, stain, dirtiness, and blotch. Hahnemann thought that the life power (Spiritual) is infected by certain factors and that this infection creates the disease. He observed three miasms,
The psoric, (Stress of Guilt)
The sycotic (Stress of Fear)
The syphilitic. (Stress of Anger)
Medicine considers stress from the physical point of view as illness or the invisible accumulation of energy culminating in physical disease. Both medical science and the patient himself usually interpret stress as the last emotional upset, the last link in the chain of stress accumulated over decades that finally results in illness. This, however, is a very limited concept of stress.

Stress is a condition of bodily tension, a defensive reaction against harmful or negative factors.
Stress is an invisible energetic connection with something negative.
Everything perceived as negative by the person is a stress to him.

According to Hahnemann, those three miasms are the base of every disease. Any disease whatever its external symptoms are, can be “found” in a miasm or in a combination of the above miasms. Although the above miasms are the basis for any disease producing process, the combination of psora and syphilis has been described as the tubercular miasm. Therefore in the homeopathic bibliography there is differentiation. Other authors prefer only the description of the three main miasms and others prefer to describe the tubercular miasm as one of the main miasms.
The Psoric miasm(Stress of Guilt)
By using the word “psora” Hahnemann meant an original unhealthy condition, whereby after the internal infection of the whole organism is completed, there appears a peculiar skin exanthema. He argued that, “Psora is the oldest, the most universal, the most devastating and most little known miasmatic disease, which has disfigured and tormented nations for thousands of years”. For Hahnemann, psora is a disease or the susceptibility to a disease which has been passed from generation to generation for thousands of years and it is the breeding ground for every sickly condition. At the same time it is the most contagious and infectious disease of all.
If one wants to describe the common characteristics of hundreds of symptoms of psora, two properties should be mentioned: hypersensitivity and lack. Lack is stressed in some books and hypersensitivity in others.
We can understand the concept of hypersensitivity with a simple example: If we stimulate externally two different individuals they will react differently. The psoric individual reacts more strongly than the supposedly “normal individual”. That is to say there is a fall of limen and there is an excessive reaction. This reaction is towards the right direction but it is strong. This hypersensitivity is present in all aspects of the psoric’s life. He is very observant and aware of his immediate environment. He is sensitive. He also gets angry easily. After he has expressed his anger and has had a good sleep he is not hateful. He also cries easily. After crying he feels better. He is temperamental due to the hypersensitivity. His hypersensitivity comes with genuine expressiveness. He is very rich in the expressions of his feelings. He conveys sentiments. The psoric can be a scientist or an artist. He is hypersensitive to light, sound and smell. He gets scared very easily from unimportant causes. The most typical expression of the hypersensitivity in the body is itching. An external or internal itching, like tickling for example, is a sign of psora. The suppression of the external bodily manifestations of psora, because of the wrong medical treatment, results in the appearance of an internal or psychic itching, which is even more troublesome to the individual. Such suppressions led Hahnemann to the discovery of the psoric miasma and its description.
The other main characteristic of psoric miasma is lack. This lack is expressed as a feeling of inadequacy. There is a deep feeling of inferiority. It can be seen in the successful businessman who is intelligent and hard-working but who always wants to rely on somebody else. He is always looking for a partner. His partner, if he is a crook, can easily take advantage of him. He always needs support; he always seeks protection. This feeling of inferiority can also be seen in the scientist, who continuously asks for the support of his teacher or his colleagues despite the fact that he knows his subject well. He seeks for care and sympathy in his relationships. This is due to his reticence which is caused by the feeling of inferiority. He has a lot of inhibitions. Each of his actions is stopped by an internal voice. He is anxious and gets scared easily.
This sense of inadequacy forces him to live in a world of fantasy which however is not the autistic world of a schizophrenic. It is simply the feeling of inadequacy that stops him from fulfilling his dreams. Thus his rich inner world has to be expressed through fantasy. This can be seen in the individual who goes to a lecture and instead of paying attention he spends most of his time day-dreaming. There is a loss of contact because of certain deep emotions due to his hypersensitivity and on the other hand in the non expression of these emotions due to his feeling of inadequacy.
Thus, psorics are people with a rich inner world, which is not expressed and is not completely realized, because they lack boldness. Because of their feeling of inferiority they become stagnant, immobile and reserved. If this feeling of inferiority was absent they would be much happier people and would offer more to society. The awareness of their “helplessness” causes them sadness. When they feel sad they look far into the future and see happier days ahead. The words of a popular Greek song express very well the psoric sadness: “Be patient and the sky will become bluer...” There is hope in them; it has not been lost.
The psoric is particularly concerned with what others think of him, he respects society’s customs and traditions and feels guilty if he does not abide by the rules. This is easily explained by the feeling of inadequacy. It is this feeling of inadequacy that makes him always seek support from someone else. He creates relationships of support, bonds of support and he does not want them to break because he will be left alone without them. Behind the socializing of people lies the need for support from the group. He fears rejection.
These needs of his continuously inhibit his desires. “I must” is stronger than “I want”. For example before the psoric acts he asks himself if it is socially acceptable and if it is not, he usually does not act. He is very generous with his relatives. He is easily hurt by the remarks of others. It takes him time to express his anger but once it is expressed the incident is forgotten.
The psoric individual has a tendency towards platonic love. Let’s say that a psoric man likes a woman. He thinks: “What a beautiful woman ... What an amiable person ... I wonder if she likes me. Well, so many men are after her, I doubt that she wants me ... What if she rejects me?” Here also there is an inhibition. An inhibition caused by his sense of inadequacy on one hand and on the other his fear that his behavior could be rejected by society. This makes him experience love through fantasy. He is a person who has fallen in love many times but who has very rarely fulfilled his fantasies. He is also emotional, he gets worried easily and he gets hurt easily. His love fantasies are heterosexual. He is pure in his feelings. He falls in love with the whole person not with a breast or a thigh. He sees the personality and does not see his partner as a sex object.
The psoric is also religiously inclined. He is religious in a broad sense. His faith is of a philosophizing nature, is the need for search, and is the agony of existence. In other words it is the sense of inadequacy towards the vastness of universe.
Generally the psoric human has a tendency to comply with the customs and traditions and social laws and has a developed social sense. Thus he believes in concepts like the family, work etc. He wishes to create a family, he likes work, and he patiently fulfills his social obligations as for example the military service. He considers the community service as an honor and does not prioritize his personal interest above all.
The lack, characteristic in the body, appears in various ways as for example by inadequate nourishment. He eats constantly but the organism cannot absorb the food. Thus lack appears.
Those who mention that the lack of vitamins and trace elements are responsible for the various diseases agree with the homeopathy thinking because they focus in the point that is related to the psoric miasm. For example the lack of vitamin A causes dryness. Dryness is one of the basic symptoms of the psoric miasm. Hahnemann did not know the existence of vitamin A when he wrote about the psoric miasm.
Deficiency of minerals causes a disorder to the normal function of the organism. Calcium deficiency causes osteomalacia, cardiac disorders, and neuromuscular excitability. Potassium deficiency causes cardiac dysfunction and disorders of the acid-base equilibrium. Sodium deficiency causes withholding or loss of water of the organism. Iodine deficiency causes goiter. Magnesium deficiency causes neuromuscular disorders, cardiac dysfunction and osteomalacia. Ferrum deficiency causes anemia. Zinc deficiency causes dermatological disorders, dysfunction of retina, diabetes, azoospermia, abortion, senility. Copper deficiency causes hepatolenticular degeneration, osteoporosis, and anemia. Cobalt deficiency causes anemia and general weakness. Selenium deficiency causes muscular dystrophy and cardiac dysfunction. According to the above Hanhemann’s theory is confirmed, by which he considered psoric miasm to be the basis of the entire human disease.
The Sycotic miasm (The Fear Stress)
The word sycosis derives from the word “syco” (Greek word for fig). Hahnemann used this word because the sycotic person tends to make warts that may reach to the point of looking like a fig. In other words sycosis means verrucose.
Let’s begin with the sycotic person’s mental sphere: The sycotic person has an inclination to show off. A sycotic woman walks in the street and cuts a dash. Heads turn around when she walks by and that is what she seeks, consciously or even unconsciously. A sycotic man walks with a swagger and puffs himself up to show his muscles. Expensive clothes bought at “trendy” shops also have to do with sycosis. Buying an expensive car (though it is not necessary for professional use) is also related to sycosis.
Medicine and “trendy” professions, such as journalist, lawyer, politician, have much appeal for sycotic persons. The shinny shingle on the door, the glamorous surface, the worldwide recognition appeal to the young student. A sycotic scientist thinks of himself to be an exceptional case in his field, even though he is mediocre. He calls himself an expert or an adept in his field. He likes to put many titles on his shingle. As a patient he prefers distinguished and highly qualified doctors, who sound omniscient to him. He has a mistrust of doctors who are simple and straight.
This inclination to show off marks every sycotic behavior and most times it is unconscious. When he is sad, for instance, the way he cries, the way he sighs draws everybody’s attention and sympathy towards him. The way a sycotic person gets angry is also flamboyant. The person screams, shouts, and makes a great fuss. It is some kind of “puffing up” that draws other people’s attention. When the sycotic person is happy, he roars with laughter and also makes a great fuss.
Another major feature of the sycotic person’s mental sphere is a tendency to keep things to oneself. In general the notion of keeping overweighs that of giving. Therefore the sycotic person is not keen on giving. The sycotic teacher is rather unwilling to give his knowledge; he is not the kind of person to communicate knowledge. He will try and keep it to himself. He may even try to mislead other people so long and he does not give it. Most times there is ambivalence about giving-keeping.
As for emotions he keeps them inside him as well. Although he himself wants to be the focus of everyone’s attention, he does not open his heart to his partner when he is in trouble. It is the case of a mother who gives her child the cold shoulder. There is no emotion in her caress, which is rather straight-laced.
The sycotic lover is reluctant to convey emotion. Passion is not among his characteristics. Sycosis is secret. The sycotic person tends to keep everything secret, out of sight. This may happen either consciously or unconsciously. For instance, he may keep his aims secret, he acts deviously, he does not reveal much about himself and he hides his real intentions. He also hides his real feelings. When he is sad, he does not look as sad as the circumstances require. That’s why he seems to be strong in other people’s eyes. He may dislike someone and still smile at him and be very friendly with him.
When the sycotic person gives, he certainly means to receive something in exchange later on. Avarice is an expression of the need to keep things to oneself. An avaricious person is “stingy”, he does not give. Collecting objects is a sycotic manifestation too.
In general, when a sycotic person responds to stimulation, his reaction is in the right direction but has a reduced intensity. This is due to the fact that he ‘keeps things to himself”, he absorbs only a part of intensity of the given stimulation. This shows that the person is strong in appearance only. For instance, when he is subjected to a sad stimulation, he does not seem to be sad.
In fact, however, this sort of strength is weakness and this is due to the fact that this kind of person has a limited width of response. He shows inflexibility in the way of functioning, that is to say. This stiffness coexists with a tendency to have control. The sycotic person wants to have control over other people and over himself as well. He keeps every expression, every emotion of his under control. He cannot stand the spontaneity of emotions and acts.
Pedantry is another feature of sycotic miasm. The housewife who gets annoyed at finding a speck of dust on the furniture, who sweeps and mops the floor three times a day, who forbids her husband to enter the house with his shoes on, is an example of sycotic pedantry.
In general the sycotic person is straight-laced prim and proper, orderly, he concerns himself too much with schedule, so much that he lays more weight on the schedule that on the essence of things. He wants all the objects on his desk to be in alignment, he wants his car to be perfectly clean, he sees that its color does not fade; he protects it against the rain and the wind. He worries about small details.
Religiosity is another example of sycotic pedantry. A religionist focuses his attention not on philosophy and the deeper meaning of religion but on the ritual. It is very important to him that the sign of the cross is made three times, not two, that the fasting is observed for exactly forty days, he is very strict on the observance of the schedule. Religiosity, along with the other features of sycotic miasm, were typical of the Scribes and Pharisees, who always abided by the letter of the law but could not understand what purpose the existence of the law served in the first place.
The sycotic scientist tends to classify the phenomena. Classifications are sycotic expressions. Excessive adherence to classifying systems, such as DSM or ICDX is sycosis. The notion of specialty and overspecialization is a sycotic characteristic too. The sycotic person focuses his attention on details but misses the general picture. Therefore we can see the evolution of medicine and science in general and how important it is to have a complete and in depth cure of scientists so that science may evolve.
In general the sycotic person is dogmatic. To him it is all black or white. He is inflexible. He is not receptive to new ideas. He rejects a new idea without even examining it. Reclassifications in the system of knowledge and values fill him with anxiety. He wants knowledge and ideas to be well classified inside his head. He wants everything to be arranged and fixed. That causes him a need for control.
He wants to keep control of everything. The complexity and multiformity of nature scare him. The perpetual motion of universe also scares him. Consequently of all this multiformity he picks out what he can classify, what he can put in order. That is usually only the surface of phenomena. Once he has classified it, he will try to keep it steady and fixed. He allows only small changes, which he can control.
In general, there is a tendency in sycosis for exaggeration of the psoric features. For instance, the psoric person has a vague and unconscious feeling of inferiority. When, however the person thinks that he is not capable of anything, that he is not good-looking, that he is not intelligent, that he is lacking in everything, then we notice an excessive expression of the feeling of inferiority and it is the case of sycotic miasm.
As far as the love life of a sycotic person is concerned, he has many fantasies related to the love partner. For example, as soon as a sycotic man sees a woman, he has fantasies about erotic positions. But although he has strong fantasies, he usually does not express himself during love making, does use love talk, is cold and always in control.
In the physical sphere hyperplasies and hypertrophies prevail. As previously said, sycosis owes its name to this feature. Sycosis is also characterized by an increase in secretions. For instance, gonorrhea is a sycotic manifestation. Sycotic eczema shows profuse effusion of fluids. At other times we notice retention of fluids in the organism. Inflammation is a major feature of sycosis as well as formation of cysts.

The Syphilitic miasm (The anger Stress)
Syphilitic miasm owes its name to the fact that it shows an innate inclination to destruction, which is a predominant feature in syphilis. It has been tormenting the human race before the outbreak of syphilis. We should consider syphilis as one of the most probable manifestations of the syphilitic miasm. Certainly if Hahnemann was alive today, he would pick another name for this miasm.
But let us begin to describe the syphilitic person’s mental sphere. One of the predominant features in syphilitic miasm is the tendency to conquer. He constantly wants to conquer something. After the conquest the object conquered loses its importance, it may even disgust him. He has set himself a new target; he is a hard person to satisfy, that is to say. The syphilitic is the kind of person to be easily envious. Whatever catches his eye, he wants to have it.
Another major feature of syphilitic miasm is the person’s tendency to destruction. Hooligans, for example, destroy everything, whatever they run across. They destroy even when their team wins. They go to sports field not in order to enjoy the game but to destroy. Destruction is a delight to them.
Thus, whereas the psoric fan will be modest and will respect the rules and the opponent and whereas the sycotic fan will tend to show off by wearing multi-colored scarves of his team, the syphilitic person seeks destruction at every single moment.
The syphilitic religious person also destroys in the name of God in whom he believes. He wants to kill, to eliminate the supporter of a different religion; in contrast to the psoric person who penetrates the deeper meaning of religion and who is a religious philosopher as well as the sycotic person who sticks to ritualism.
Another syphilitic expression of religious sentiment is the rites of “Black Magic”. The believer invokes the God of conquest and destruction in order to achieve his aims, either of conquest or destruction. Another frequent syphilitic picture is atheism.
The “iconoclast” who respects nothing, who believes in nothing, is also another syphilitic expression. Religion is an expression of the law, the syphilitic struggles against the law. Syphilitic persons do not have a developed social consciousness; they cannot offer other people anything of themselves.
This is due to the fact that the personality is not adequately formed, so it collapses under the impact of a stress producing stimulation and the person adopts more primitive ways of functioning, in other words he behaves like an infant. This tendency to dependence is the main predisposing factor to dependence on toxic substances and alcohol, which in their heavy forms are syphilitic situations.
Another feature described above is how easily the syphilitic person becomes disorganized under the impact of a stress producing stimulation. Even in the case of a stimulation of medium intensity there is a tendency to disorganisation, complete disorganisation, till the person is brought to the verge of the organism’s destruction. So it happens, for example, during a psychotic incident. The syphilitic reaction to a stimulation, which an ordinary man considers to be of medium intensity, is a complete disorganisation, a complete loss of contact with reality. We will say more on that subject in the following paragraphs.
The syphilitic’s person anger is a violent, explosive anger that scares the people present. It is characterized by destructiveness. The psoric person is hot-tempered, as a result of his intense oversensitivity. It is, however, a superficial and temporary annoyance. After having expressed himself, the annoyance is gone. The sycotic person usually controls his anger but when expressed, is excessive; so excessive that he becomes the focus of attention. In no case, however, will he scare the others, as the syphilitic person will.
The syphilitic person’s sadness is marked by destructiveness too. The person thinks there is no sense in living any longer. He is gloomy, sad and dismal. He denies life completely. He is not interested in anything; in contrast to the sycotic person, who shows his sadness through face expression, body posture and tears, and contrary to the psoric person, who retires into himself, possessed with feelings of inadequacy.
At moments of joy he is characterized by destructiveness as well. He wants to destroy out of joy. This destructiveness may manifest itself either outwards or inwards by driving the person mad. Someone losing his senses on a happy occasion is syphilitic miasm; contrary to the sycotic person, who wants everyone to share in his joy, and contrary to the psoric person, who behaves like a child when he becomes emotional.
Intense desire to put an end to one’s life is syphilitic miasm as well. Suicide or Murder. It is an expression of the destructiveness typical of the syphilitic person. Generally speaking, the syphilitic person does not experience joy. He cannot feel the simple joys of life. For example, at a child’s birth the syphilitic person will be thinking to himself: “Why have you come to this world? …You’d better not have been born…Troubles and worries await you”.
On the other hand the sycotic person will be boasting about his child, trying to point out the new-born’s natural gifts, and he wants everyone to admire his child, whereas the enthusiastic psoric person behaves like a child out of joy.
Destructiveness is the predominant feature in the physical sphere (anger destructs). A typical physical manifestation of syphilitic miasm is ulcer. Ulcer is a destructive process. There is destruction of shape, destruction of structure at some point of the tissue.
Quick metastasis often goes together with the destructiveness of the cancer process as we see in some forms of cancer. (Anger stress results in forms of cancer)
Dear Dr. Organon,
Mankind is standing at the cross-roads: the goats and lambs must go their separate ways. If we want to proceed in wisdom, we need to open up our reasonable thinking processes. On this road we have a helper with an enormous potential – our intellect – which, up to now, has also been our greatest tempter towards all kind of negativity. I repeat:
Thought comes first and is then confirmed by the spoken word. The role of the human mind is to keep watch over feelings and words. A word spoken in haste and without consideration may remain in the other person’s (child) heart and hurt him for years (sometimes forever). Such indiscretion may prove to be very hard to forgive. It is easy to hurt someone’s feelings but rid oneself of the hurt is much more difficult.
Every thought, event brings into action certain physical tissue, parts of the brain, nerve or muscle. Every situation good or bad will leave certain imprints in our Mind. This produces an actual physical change in the construction of the tissue. Therefore it is only necessary to have a certain number of thoughts on a given subject or event in order to bring about a complete change in physical organization of the body, if we don’t learn to recognize it then surely it will have severe consequences.

I believe if Hahnemann would had the above information we surely would have made more progress in helping the sick and ill people today.

Finally I quote something that I started with:
“Hahnemann realized that although he had very good results with intense diseases, he did not have drastic results with the treatment of chronic diseases. He noticed that those diseases, after their removal with the use of homeopathic medicines, they always relapsed in a variable form and with new symptoms or reappeared on a yearly basis with an increase of the ailments”.
Unquote
Hahnemann had success with the removal of the RESULT of sickness, what he did not know at that time that he had also to remove the cause. That this is the reason why an ailment reappears. I send my respect to all of those who practice the art of homeopathy a wonder from nature, as well is our brain, lets use it.
Kind regards
Dr.Beek
 
  Alexthink on 2008-01-30
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Dear Dr. Beek do you have Skype? I would like to ask you some questions.

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R.Machia last decade
To Mr. Machia,

yes I have skype, my Skype name is 'curefx'

you can reach me anytime when I am online.

regards
Dr.Beek
 
Alexthink last decade
Dear Dr Beek.

I am not exactly sure of the point of this post, other than perhaps to provide you with an oppurtunity to share your own perceptions on the nature of miasmatic disease, as there is no real relation to the points which were raised elsewhere, except the subject matter, but as this was addressed specifically to me, I will respond.

I think it's safe to say all of us who are practitioners base our knowledge on such experiences, it is afterall our main route of learning.

Most of the above relating to the nature of miasmatic disease itself is of course contained within the pages of the Organon and chronic diseases, and covered during the more advanced parts of Homoeopathic training, so there is not really any 'shedding of light' on this from my perspective.

The attached labels of 'Stress of guilt, stress of fear, stress of anger' though are of course only your own personal perceptions of these miasms, and personally I do not agree with these interpretations. You also cannot sum up something as complex as a miasmatic disease by applying a one sentence label.

With reference to the nature of the individual miasms specifically, I would have to point out that based upon my own experience in this area, my observations and actual clinical practice, spanning some 20 years, and which is actually my area of 'speciality', I have to state that most of the above is completely factually incorrect. This though is perhaps a discussion for another time, and elsewhere, as I do not have the time to pick apart your ideas on this line by line, which would be a very laborious task indeed.
 
Mr Organon last decade
Thank you though, for sharing what are your opinions on this subject.
 
Mr Organon last decade

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