Rajan's Schema method further categorizes remedies from many mineral, animal, and 33 plant families according to
miasm. This is not definitive but rather a work in process.
"Someone whose range of symptoms typically come into the tubercular
miasm, for instance, will be prone to chest infections.
Acute
miasm manifests as life-and-death feelings, shock, terror, panic, and violence.
Chris's frustration suggested the malarial
miasm. There were a number of references to chaos and feeling out of control, but that could also be related to the theme of the family rather than to the cancer
miasm.
Aspergillus constitutional types are of the tubercular
miasm, slender, with lung issues, and fungal problems from sinus to female pelvic and bladder disorders and cancer.
It is listed under the Typhoid
miasm, where intense, short bursts of effort and struggle alternate with resignation and collapse.
"My plantar warts have erupted more lately." This was particularly interesting to us since Caladium corresponds to the sycotic
miasm. We asked about other warts: "I have a wart on the edge of my eyelashes.
I'm just not enough." Most of the snake medicines in homeopathy belong to the syphilitic or leprosy
miasm, which indicates a level of despair and of feeling excluded from society.
Aspergillus is a remedy of the tubercular
miasm. Pleo Nig patients can present with a thin habitus, narrow chest, and tendency to chronic lung infections and cancer.
She thinks that Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, had it right when he introduced the term
miasm in 1828 to understand the cause of chronic disease.
The tendency to cover up and to hide her symptoms suggested the sycotic
miasm. The medicine: Thuja occidentalis or Arborvitae (cedar or tree of life).
Characteristics of this family are an intense feeling of injury, and patients needing these medicines use many different words involving pain; in Carol's case: "excruciating, rip, piercing, poking, driving a needle, throbs, aches, inflamed." Chamomilla belongs to the typhoid
miasm, with an intensity between acute (life or death) or psora (struggle), whose features are an intense, short, do-or-die effort alternating with collapse.
In Rajan Sankaran's Schema, Lyssin is classified under the acute
miasm, which explains the feeling of life or death and the extremely violent reaction of an individual when he perceives attack (in this case, in the form of torment).
