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 Dedicated
To
My Mother

Mrs. Mohini Vijayakar

Who left for heavenly abode
On 17th April, 1999
&
PATERNAL MATERNAL
GRANDFATHER GRAND FATHER

Dr. Vamanrao Vijayakar Dr. Mukund Kothare

M.B.ch.B. (Edin); L.M. and S., F.C.P.S., (Bom)
L.M. (Dublin);
LRCP & S. LRFP & S (GLASGOW)

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 Index
Page No.
About the Cover-page 9-10
About the Author 11-12
Acknowledgement 13-14
Preface 15-20
Part-I
Material Body, The Cell and Miasms

Chapter 1: Experience is the Best Teacher 21-40

Hahnemann's Experience 23
Learning from Hahnemann's Experience 25
Hahnemann's Dilemma 1816-1828 30
The pre-Psora days 32
Conclusion of pre-psora days 37

Chapter 2: Significance of Study of 41-45

Body and Pathology

Chapter 3: The Materialistic Body to the 47-55

Immaterialistic Mind
Cell and it's functions 48
First basic function of the cell 49
Second basic function of the cell 50
Third basic function of the cell 51
Disease starts in the cell. 54

Chapter 4: Diseases are Defense Mechanism 57-59

Chapter 5: In the Material Body-The Cell Defends 61-65

What can injure a cell 64

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Chapter 6: Cell defenses at work 67-74
Chapter 7: Defense vis-a-vis miasm 75-78
Chapter 8: Cell has only three defenses 79-84
Chapter 9: Acute Psora 85-89
Chapter 10: Physical diseases of Psora 91-93
Chapter 11: Physical diseases of Sycosis 95-100
Sycosis excess disease 96
Sycosis less disease 99
Physical structure of Sycosis 100
Chapter 12: Physical diseases of Syphilis 101-103
Necrosis 102
Apolysis 102
Chapter 13: Miasm (defense) and Genetics 105-110
Physical structure is defense oriented
and depends on genetic code 107
Mental structure is defense oriented
and depends on genetic code 107
The very existence of Man is defense
oriented 109
Chapter 14: Miasmatic constitutions 111-115
Psoric constitution 111
Sycotic constitution 113
Syphilitic constitution 113

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 Part-II
The Mind, Cell and Miasm
Chapter 15: Entering the mind of the cell 117-120
Mind of the cell is in the genes 119
Chapter 16: Psoric - Mentals 121 -126
Chapter 17: Sycotic - Mentals 127-153
Sycosis excess 128
Sycosis precipitated in youn children
by parents 135
Sycosis less 150

Chapter 18 : Syphilitic – Mentals 155-162

Chapter 19 : Miasms good or bad 163-165

Chapter 20 : Birth miasm 167-172
Mix Miasms 172
Chapter 21 : Additional miasms 173-176
Chapter22: Behaviour patterns of all three miasms
177-180
Chapter 23 : Tri-miasmatic material medica 181-192
Tri-Miasmatic Sulphur 181
Tri-Miasmatic Apis 190
Tri-Miasmatic Opium 191
Chapter 24 : Remedies and their miasm 193-196
Chapter 25 : Miasm in dreams 197-203
Chapter 26 : Ageing 205-208
Chapter 27 : Miasm and Hering’s law of cure 209-212
Chapter 28 : Picking-up rubrics with the
Help of miasms 213-230
Psoric Rubrics 216
Sycosis Rubrics 217

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 Syphilis 220
Using Miasm in analysis and
Prescribing –Case 222
Chapter 29 : Miasm reflections in diseases 231-236
Chapter 30 : Brain Dominance 237-240

Chapter 31: Genetic of Sycosis 241-244

Chapter-32: Genetic of cancer 245-247

Chapter-33: Some practical hints 249-258

Conclusion 259-263

Miasmatic chart of suppression 266-271

Colour Atlas

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 This is the true joy in life, the being used for a
purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one;
the being of a force of nature instead of a feverish,
selfish little clod of ailments and grievances
complaining that the world will not devote itself
to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community, and as long as I live
it is my privilege to do for them whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,

for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice
in life for it's own sake. Life is no "brief candle"
to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which
I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to
make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.

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- George Bernard Shaw

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About the cover page:
The cover page comprises of title Predictive Homoeopathy part
III. It elaborates the thoughts of the author. It has been designed
by the author and executed by artist Bhushan Vijayakar.

1. The name of the book is "The End of Myasmtion of

Miasms".
2. A cell in the background.
3. A clock of human age, the miasmatic stages of Man.
4. The chromosome.
5. The subtitle 'Mathematics of Human Defense against
Diseases'.
6. The colours.

1. The name of the book "The End of Myasmtion of Miasms" is

about miasms, which have been the most misunderstood and
misconceived part of homoeopathic study. The name has
been coined out of combination of two words miasm and
assumptions. The author wishes that the science in this book
will put an end to all the assumptions and presumptions
about miasms and hence the name "Myasmtion".
2. The explanations are based on the study of the unit of life,
the cell and hence it forms the background.
3. Man's life has been depicted in three important stages on the
clock, which represents life span of man. The three important
stages are based on defense mechanism of the man at the
cellular level.

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4. There is a genetic control over all these defenses and hence
the depiction of chromosome in the background.
5. All this is genetically governed and mathematical if
understood properly and hence the sub-title 'Mathematics of
Human Defense against Diseases'.
6. Colour scheme- The colours used are Red-Yellow-Green, the
colours of a signal. Green stands for going on, Yellow
slowing down and Red stop which somehow is similar to
Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis.

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 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
"The secret of success", says Dr. Vijayakar "is that I have
tried to bridge human related sciences, with their recent
advances and the homoeopathic science"
Dr. Vijayakar happens to be the first homoeopathic
physician in the world to have gone into the depth of embryology
and tapped the significance of Herings Law. This is a very big
contribution that he has made to the field of Homoeopathy. A
solid, scientific base has been given to this magnificent science.
This interpretation is put in the form of his chart of suppression.
He is the first Homoeopath to show his failures in seminars and
point out how Homoeopathy can also cause very bad
suppressions when practiced in the wrong way. The chart beauti-
fully illustrates, how disease progresses gradually from one
system to another and how the reversal takes place in cure. It
serves as a clear cut guide in practice.
It is said that the modern medicine has progressed.
Homoeopathy is based on principles which are rock solid but it is
not understood by the people.
In addition to being the first homoeopath to show his
failures in his seminar series, he is also one of the few
homoeopaths to invite questions. The fastest constitutional
prescriber, a quick good look at the patient, his body structure,
body language and his diagnosis of the patient's remedy is ready
as soon as the patient enters and starts talking. He is also the
largest crowd puller to seminars in India today. He stands a
record of 1150 people attending his 3 days seminar in Punjab.

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 Firm and sound knowledge of homoeopathy and human
related sciences, an enquiring and a questioning mind, keen
observation, ability to synthesize the information gathered faster
than any computer, a brave heart, die hard confidence in himself
and in homoeopathic system of medicine and above all the
passion to see beyond the ordinary and then to perceive and find
an explanation, an answer... this is what has led Dr. Vijayakar to
an extraordinary success.
Homoeopaths around the world and Homoeopathy itself
has a lot to gain from this charismatic man! It is not without any
reason that he has been nicknamed the "Lion of Homoeopathy" or
the "Einstein of Homoeopathy". He always says, "Let's grow
together and let us march towards Unity in homoeopathy".

Dr. Vijay Shah

L.CE.H. (Mum.)

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
An endeavour of this magnitude is the result of contributions from
several quarters. My special thanks to Dr. Prafull Borkar, Dr.
Pravin Jain, Dr. Bhakti Dadia, Dr. Gunjan Garg, Dr. Amit Panchal,
Dr. Deepali, Dr. Kavita, Dr. Vaishali, Dr. Rashida, Dr. Priyanshi,
Dr. Shefali, Dr. Vyoma, Dr. Suhasini, Dr. Pravin Sharma but for
whose hard work and proof-reading efforts, this book could not
have been released today.
A word of praise is due to my friends Dr. Narendra Mehta, Dr.
Sucheta Desai, Dr. Satya Shetty and Dr. Rashida Reshamwala
for being my pillars of strength and constantly encouraging me
during the writing of the book.
I thank the faculty members of Predictive Homoeopathy Dr.
Narendra Mehta, Dr. Sucheta Desai, Dr. Anita Salunkhe, Dr. Vijay
Shah, Dr. Pravin Jain, Dr. Prafull Borkar, Dr. Bandish Ambani and
Dr. Mahesh Bhadra for their invaluable contribution, thought-
sharing which was invaluable in the compilation of the book. Dr.
Sumeet Singh Mavi played the significant roles of brother, friend,
follower and propagator of my thoughts in Northern India. He
stood by me in my difficult days and has been a constant source
of inspiration, being largely responsible for the 'Predictive' wave
now sweeping across Northern India. A word of praise and thanks
is also due to Dr. S. S. Vithal, Dr. Ramakant Jagpal, Dr. Jaidev
Sharma and Dr. Mukhtinder Singh for the key roles played by
each of these doctors in spreading the right method of
homoeopathic practice.

I am truly thankful to God for giving me a family-Tarang, Tanya

and Ambrish who have been extremely nice, thoughtful, loving,

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understanding and patient with me from the time I prepared to
write this book, till its completion and publication.
Thanks and gratitude to my dear father Dr. Gajanan Vijayakar for
his bountiful blessings, love, guidance given to me from time to
time.
Thanks to my wife Preeti, my constant companion who has
sacrificed her rest, sleep, enjoyment, and showered her unbridled
love and affection on me which has allowed me to work
ceaselessly day and night for this book.
A special word of thanks to Mr. K. V. Sundaresan who worked
overtime to complete the printer's deadlines.

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 PREFACE

The name of this book has been coined as The end of myasmtion
of miasms. There is no such word as myasmtion but it is a word
derived from a combination of 'miasm' and 'assumption'. The first
two letters 'my' literally mean 'mine'. In short, the theory which I
herewith propose in this book, has been based on firm scientific
facts. The study of modern advances made in pathology and
embryology has helped to decode the actual meaning of what
Hahnemann could have meant by miasm. The application of this
knowledge has helped me to unravel the mysteries of miasm and
thereby helped me to get fantastic results in incurable cases or
cases with grave pathologies. This knowledge has undoubtedly
helped me to do away with all the assumptions, which I had about
this subject. They say when you assume things; you make an ass
out of you and me. This has been happening in homoeopathic
world for a long time and is perhaps the reason why homoeopaths
do not have credibility amongst other therapeutic sciences. This is
also the reason why homoeopaths do not get consistent results.
Whoever had a good knowledge and command over the subject
of miasm, never tried to relate it to the modern science and if they
ever did it, they never tried to propagate it or share it with others.
Because of this, many people have tried to distort the meaning of
this sacred word miasm converting it into a fantasy and with
ulterior motives.

Dr Hahnemann in the Preface of 1 st Edition of Chronic Diseases

has said....
" ............. If I did not know for what purpose I was put

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 here on earth - to become better myself as far as
possible and to make better everything around me that
is within my power to improve- I should have to consider
myself as lacking very much in worldly prudence, to
make known for good of the people, an art which I alone
possess and which is within my power to make as
profitable as possible by simply keeping it a secret.

To keep an art (which he only possessed) as a

secret to rake the profits and become successful alone
he thought was not 'worldly
prudence .............. "

" ........... The Human mind feels within it the irresistible,

harmless and praiseworthy impulse to give some
account to itself as to the
mode in which man accomplishes good.... By
his actions" ……………

Dr. Hahnemann has written these lines of explanations not to

satisfy any critics but in order to present to Homoeopaths another
and more probable attempt towards an explanation. By the above
statements of Dr Hahnemann we learn:

 Every attempt is to be made to give account of the mode in

which human being functions.
 If one does get the knowledge of the application of any
branch of science to homoeopathy it is not prudent to keep it
secret and it should be shared with fellow homoeopaths.
 Both these above virtues contribute "to make everything
better around us that is within our power to improve".

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With these three objects in mind, I proceed to put forth an
explanation to the ever debatable, ever confusing 'Doctrine of
Miasm'. Though thoroughly scientific, a touch of philosophy, which
induces logical thinking may give it a line of deductive hypothesis.
It is timely to recall that 50 years ago, Fredrick Gowland Hopkins,
a famous human biochemist stated:

"...The task of the human biochemist or scientist

wishing to get to the heart of the problem is
exceptional. He must study the systems in which
organization of chemical events counts for more and
is carried far beyond that of nonliving systems due to
high organization.... Such high organization cannot
depend upon mere presence of concentrations and
structural distribution among specialized colloidal
catalyst." But he says - "... I think, in feeling sure such
factors contribute to that organization makes a
significant sense."

Thus the human biochemist in describing the living system comes

in contact with philosophical thought. He further adds

"...Current philosophy is busy in emphasizing the truism that the

properties of the whole do not merely summarize but emerge from
the properties of its parts - that chemical data can throw some real
light on the nature of the organism which, in its very essence, is a
unit. The biologist has long studied living organism as a
whole....with ever increasing interest. But these studies can tell us

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nothing of the nature of the 'physical basis of life', which no form
of "philosophy can ignore", He further states "...It is necessary for
a biologist and biochemist (or whoever is interested in the working
and existence of human being even if it be a homoeopath) that
the 'data' collected by them (by means of science) be related with
the activities of the organism as a whole."

Dr Hahnemann expressed the limitations of the science prevailing

during his time. At the same time, he warned us by his foresight
that whatever changes we observe in the living organic subjects
(human beings being only one of the many) and whatever
changes we see in them in terms of symptoms, expressed by
disordered organs and systems, cannot by any means lead us to
explanations of what is wrong within them. This he categorically
stated because he was sure that whatever was happening at
cellular and molecular level that is deep within the depths of man
is certainly a different process, and this he could not explain
because during his time, science had not advanced enough nor
were electronic microscopes discovered to unravel the mysteries.
This was why he rightly criticized the allopathic approach of
treating the disordered systems or organs neglecting the tissues
and cells, which formed them. And what a pity that this science is
still at the same 'superficial level' of treating systems or organs
even when science has advanced in leaps and bounds.

Homoeopaths have been treating cases of colds, coughs, skin

diseases and arthritis with ease. But their limitations have
incidentally remained the same as their allopathic counterparts.
The cases of diabetes, hypertensions, cancers and aids do not
respond to their treatment. Then what was the great idea of

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proposing a new science which Hahnemann did if the limitations
were to remain the same. This means Homoeopaths have missed
on to something important and not understood something which
Hahnemann wanted to convey.

Now the science has advanced by leaps and bounds. We can

now understand the human being very deeply even at cellular and
molecular level, which of course forms a part of the whole. An
holistic homoeopath cannot afford to neglect such an important
aspect of human being. This has been perhaps an obstruction to
the progress of such a mathematical and universal science of
homoeopathy.

Thus with the above dictates I'm humbly trying to co-relate certain
well known principles of physics, chemistry, biology, genetics,
immunology, human biochemistry and embryology to try and
simplify the doctrine of Miasm so that it may be of help to the
youngsters as it has undoubtedly helped me in curing the higher
level, grave diseases with pathological changes and bring
homoeopathy out of its maligned "symptom or mental relieving"
camouflaged outfit.

This knowledge has certainly helped me to end my assumptions

of miasms and I sincerely hope it does the same for you too!

Mumbai, India Dr. Prafull Vijayakar

15th Jan. 2004

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 Chapter 1
EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER

About 20 years back, I was called upon to treat a case of a 65

year old lady, lying in a hospital in a semi-comatose condition. It
was not an easy job for a young, recently graduated homoeopath.
Despite the nervousness, I accepted the invitation and visited the
lady in the hospital. I saw this lady lying in semi comatose
condition, not responding to any of my queries and compounding
to my difficulties. I was told that she had gone into this condition
after an attack of high fever and plenty of loose motions. She was
lying down still with eyes closed. Suddenly she started shouting
and shrieking, "Hold me, hold me, my head is sinking, my legs are
going up, I am sliding down".

After a thorough enquiry with the relatives, I found that this was a
regular feature, at least for the last 3 days. This type of shrieking
was occurring at least 6 to 7 times in a day. I took a complete
history and went home with an instruction to the relatives of the

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patient that they have to come and collect medicine from my clinic
in the evening. I worked hard on the case with my repertory and
referring the books on materia medica and I prepared myself to
give a good remedy to her in the evening. In the evening, nobody
turned up to take the medicine. Next day too, none of the patient's
relatives came. 3 days later I learnt that the same patient was
seen by a senior Homoeopathic physician who prescribed on the
spot and the patient recovered even as I was deciding upon the
remedy. I contacted the physician later and asked him what
medicine had cured the lady. This was to enrich my knowledge. I
was told she had been cured with Helleborus.

The physician told me that whenever there is a case who is

unconscious or comatose and the patient starts shouting or
shrieking, one should observe the extremities. If the extremities
show jerky movements or convulsive movements, it
indicates cerebral irritation and remedies which may be
indicated are Helleborus, Belladonna. I was happy I had learnt
something.

Quite a few years later, I was called upon to deal with a case,
which was in similar condition, only the cause was different. The
case was that of advanced astrocytoma with hydrocephalus. The
symptoms were almost the same. The patient, a male aged 37
years, was shrieking for a while and receding into a stupor. I gave
Belladonna, single dose. There was no change. I changed to
Helleborus. Again there was no change. I tried repeated doses of
Belladonna. Yet there was no change. The patient succumbed to
the illness and died.

Later as luck would have it, one of my assistant doctors again

presented me a case of a male who had identical symptoms -
stupor interrupted with screaming. This time the stupor was

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because of cirrhosis of liver and the patient was in a hepatic
coma. Belladonna was prescribed by her (the doctor). The patient
came out of coma. This was all the improvement she got from
Belladonna. Even repetition did not help. The patient did come out
of coma, but could not talk, could not move his limbs. He led a
vegetable life until after 3 months of trial and error, he breathed
his last.

The question which arises in our mind is that if homoeopathy is

based on only symptom prescribing - why should it work in one
case wonderfully? (as in the first case), and why should it fail in
the second one? and at the same time, why act partially in the
third? The prescribing factor in all the three cases was the same.
The results in all the three cases were different. Why the
anomaly?
Hahnemann's Experience
Hahnemann states in Aphorism 176:

There are however still a few diseases, which, after the most
careful initial examination (Aphorism 84-98) present but one or
two severe, violent symptoms while all the others are but
indistinctly perceptible.

In Aphorism 177, Hahnemann says : In order to meet most

successfully such a case as this, which is a very rare occurrence
we are in the first place to select, guided by these few symptoms,
the medicine which in our judgment is the most homoeopathically
indicated.
In the Aphorism 179:

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More frequently, however, the medicine first chosen in such a
case will be only partially, that is to say not exactly suitable, as
there was no considerable number of symptoms to guide to an
accurate selection.

Thus Dr. Hahnemann himself has advocated that in cases like

coma where not many symptoms are available, the presenting
'one or two severe violent symptoms' can be made use of to
prescribe. In the above three cases, the 'stupor alternating or
interrupted by shrieking' was the prescribing symptom. So far so
good! But yet it does not give the desired result.

In Aphorism 177, Dr. Hahnemann says :

We should select guided by this symptoms, the medicine which, in

our judgment, is most homoeopathically indicated.

Here he has made it amply clear that it is just not symptoms -

severe, violent symptoms which are going to be the base of our
prescription. This symptom or group of symptoms can only guide
us to find the similimum. These symptoms only help us to show us
a group of remedies, which can come into play. Now we have to
use our judgment as to which is 'homoeopathically' indicated. This
judgment will come from primary knowledge of what is 'homoeo-
pathicity'.

'Homoeopathicity' includes not only similia simili-bus which literally

means symptom similarity but also something more. What is that
something more?
Learning from Hahnemann's experience

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In the last case where the patient of hepatic coma came out with
Belladonna only to lead a vegetable life for 3 months, the very fact
that the patient came out of comatose condition means the
remedy was 'similimum' to that state of coma. The fact that it
removed the comatose condition means probably it corrected the
metabolic encephalopathy or reduced the cerebral oedema, which
happens even with a intravenous drip of mannitol or steroids. The
cause of the metabolic encephalopathy, which in this case was
the cirrhosis, was not controlled and the liver went on getting
damaged, disease went on increasing and the patient died.

Homoeopaths so often face a similar problem in other cases too.

Cases of acute renal failure are treated by good homoeopaths
with the most well selected 'similimum'. The patient reports
sensation of well being. After the 'best selected similimum' patient
improves very well and develops tremendous faith in
homoeopathy and the homoeopath as well. Even the serum
creatinine and blood urea nitrogen levels reduce in the first few
weeks of the treatment. Patients confess that they sleep better,
eat better and even resume their office work or business. But
these happy circumstances do not last and the patient gradually
slides down in health. He starts losing weight, his blood pressure
goes on gradually increasing. He starts becoming oedematous.
Serum creatinine and blood urea increases gradually. He starts
feeling breathless. All this deterioration despite the 'right remedy'
is unbelievable for the homoeopath. He insists that his remedy
gave the patient the general sensation of well-being, good
appetite, good sleep etc. and hence it was the right 'similimum'.
Then why? Why should the patient and his kidney deteriorate?

Fibroids of uterus, tumours benign or malignant in skull or

abdomen, atherosclerosis of coronary arteries or cerebral arteries

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are peculiar diseases one finds that patient says "I am much
better ever since I started your treatment" and yet he deteriorates
gradually but surely to make a mockery of the principle of 'Similia
Similibus Curanter'.

In all the above cases, the million dollar question is, has the
homoeopathic principle of Similia Similibus its own limitations?
Should it only be of use in physiologically reversible diseases and
fail in more dangerous and terminal diseases? But then we have
heard of so many incurable cases reversed! We have heard and
read of miracles in homoeopathy! Why then are the miracle cures
so rare? Or are they accidental? In short, what are the reasons for
failures of homoeopaths? Why do homoeopaths who boast of
being good interpreters of human mind and having fantastic
analytical brain to discover and invent (newer and newer
remedies) do not know how to cure a case of cancer with
Sulphur?

The answer for all the above questions is in one aphorism by Dr.
Hahnemann - Aphorism 205. It states - homoeopathic physician
never treats one of these primary symptoms of chronic miasms,
nor yet one of their secondary affections that result from their
further development, by local remedies but he cures, in cases
where the one or the other appears, only the great miasm on
which they depend, whereupon its primary as also its secondary
symptoms disappear spontaneously He further writes ....that the
primary symptoms are destroyed by the allopathic physician. The
hypertension which was the cause of the renal failure was
suppressed by allopathic suppressants, thereby removing the
primary reaction of the organism and worsening the secondary
reaction, that of destruction of the kidneys.

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Let's see what happens at physio-pathological level. The
narrowing of the renal artery causes reduced blood supply to the
kidneys. The kidneys which are now starving from less nutrients
because of less blood supply in turn ask for more. In response,
the organism as a whole reacts by feedback mechanism and
orders the heart to pump blood with greater pressure into the
narrowed arteries so that optimum blood supply to the end organs
is maintained. But the allopathic physician as also the ill-informed
homoeopath tries to reduce the hypertension with local remedies,
which are called anti-hypertensives. The very idea of the
organism to defend its end organ by increasing the pressure now
stands defeated. The kidneys now receive less than optimum
blood supply and hence less nutrition. Thus it starts getting
degraded. The kidney parenchyma gets destroyed not because of
hypertension but because of lowering of blood pressure and the
patient is now ready for dialysis. Thus, the primary course of
atherosclerosis of blood vessels caused by 'Sycosis' miasm goes
untreated, the disease progresses and the patient dies.
In Aphorism 205 he further adds:
.......... the homoeopathic physician finds that primary symptoms
have already been destroyed and he has to now deal with
secondary ones that is affections resulting from the breaking forth
and development of these inherent miasms, but especially with
the chronic diseases evolved from the internal Psora.

Here he refers the reader to the Theory of Chronic Diseases.

Thus he makes it amply clear that any chronic or terminal or grave

disease cannot be treated without the underlying 'miasm' being
taken into consideration.

When he uses the word 'homoeopathicity' he means it is not only

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symptom similarity or a 'core' similarity or a disease similarity, he
means that the 'similimum' should include even the 'miasm
concerned'

In the first case of coma, where the lady was cured by Helleborus,
the primary 'Psora' which was responsible for high fever and
acute diarrhoea that is the inflammatory stage of intestine was
transferred to the meninges giving rise to meningism and later on
cloudy sensorium as the disease progressed to what we call as
'sensorium commune'. This is a purely 'Psoric' derangement of
cerebral functions and of the whole nervous system. There was
no destruction whatsoever in any of the parenchyma of the
organs.

Helleborus was thus not only covering the symptoms but also the
underlying miasms. Therefore she responded well.

The second case of coma was having the same symptoms but the
underlying cause was a malignant astrocytoma. This required a
remedy, which had a power to produce 'growths'. This means I
required a Psoro-Sycotic remedy. Belladonna does not have the
power to produce astrocytoma and hence cannot cure
astrocytoma. Nor does Helleborus have this capacity. Other
remedies in rubric e.g. Cuprum, Aurum, Zinc could have been
indicated. But here I did not use my 'judgment' (as Hahnemann
mentions in Aphorism 177) well. I did not use the symptoms well
to prescribe and stuck to 'homoeopathicity'. The 'miasm' or cause
of the disease was not covered and hence it was not
'homoeopathic' similimum.

It so happens that mothers with their precious children visit our

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clinic again and again for the same old bronchitis, wheezing and
fever relapsing at the slightest indiscretion in food or change of
climate. We take the mentals, physicals, and the generals into
consideration and relieve the child to give a result, much faster
and quicker than the contemporary medicines. The mother
happily comes to us because of one advantage. "My child does
not become cranky or loose appetite when on your treatment, as it
happens with the antibiotics" is her contention. This is what
makes her stick to us. But she says, "can't you eliminate my
child's problem permanently and comprehensively?" Instead we
go on prescribing the patient, the patient goes on getting relief -
he goes on relapsing and we go on changing remedies and go on
giving excuses or rather blame the patient for not maintaining
dietetic restrictions or other precautions! But the result is the
patient is 'stuck' to you for years! This is not only in cases of
bronchitis, same vicious cycle or chain-of-events are seen in
patients with arthritis or with migraines, with cases of mental
depressions or any other chronic ailments.

This leads us naturally to think Is homoeopathy an insufficient or

incomplete science? Are the limitations of homoeopathy the same
as its counterpart e.g. allopathy? Is it only meant to cure simple
illnesses? Do the diseases like arthritis, migraines, hypertensions,
diabetes, behavioral problems, depressions, cancers, psoriasis
etc. still belong to the list of incurables as in the allopathic
treatment? Two hundred years back, Hahnemann faced an
identical problem. He had discovered homoeopathy.
Homoeopathy was his baby. The credibility of his discovery was
at stake!

Hahnemann's Dilemma : 1816 - 1828

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During the years 1816 to 18271 have been employed day and
night, with very serious problem of finding out why all the
medicines known to homoeopathy bring about no real cure in the
diseases under discussion and of securing if possible, a clearer
insight into the true state of those thousands of stricken ones, who
remain uncured in the face of unimpeachable truth of
homoeopathic system of healing. Lo! In this time, the Giver of all
good things offered me to solve this sublime riddle for mankind's
good as a result of incessant thought, tireless investigations,
accurate observation and the most careful experiments.

These are Hahnemann's words in the first part of his last medical
work 'Chronic Diseases their nature and homoeopathic treatment'
(Edition, Arnold, Dresden and Leipsic 1828).

In the above paragraph, one sees the concern of Hahnemann and

the worries which he faced around 1816-1817. He mentions about
the homoeopathic medicines not bringing about 'real cure' as a
'serious problem' that he faced. And this despite the fact that he
believed in the indisputable fact or the unimpeachable truth of
homoeopathic system of healing.

He observed that the treatment of many chronic diseases "even

when carried out strictly in accordance with theory of
homoeopathic science, as hitherto practiced, was encouraging in
the beginning, less favourable in the continuation and hopeless in
the end."

Are most of us even today not facing the same serious problem
that Hahnemann, the founder faced, 200 years ago? Then what is
the difference between him and us?

The glaring difference is that we despite having a 'solution to the

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problem' offered by Hahnemann, still go on practicing to relieve
temporarily or suppress or let go the patient blaming the 'failure
on homoeopathic science' that the number of drugs proved are
insufficient; that the theory of 'miasms' in not the truth for our own
good; that though there are millions of plants species and millions
of insect species, we have only proved a few hundred and many
more lame excuses are put forth.

Reaction of the great Hahnemann to this situation was

completely different. He took it as a challenge from God - the
'Giver' as he quotes. He knew he had to go to the depth of the
serious problem because perhaps God, the Giver, wanted him to
suffer and solve this 'sublime riddle' for mankind's good "by
incessant thoughts, tireless investigations, accurate observations
and the most careful experiments."

In short, he worked conscientiously and diligently for 'Good of

Mankind'.

The Pre-Psora Days

From 1816 onwards Hahnemann was deeply involved in the quest

for the truth, which ended in 1828 with publishing of his book
'Chronic Diseases'.

The starting point for the main idea of the book was the
observation that certain chronic diseases of venereal origin and
otherwise could be alleviated or relieved by homoeopathic
remedies but not cured. Special conditions, like indiscretion in

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eating, drinking or change in weather or emotional outbursts
caused the 'apparently' cured symptoms to appear again
frequently with new and stubborn symptoms. New remedies
chosen were also of no avail.
First Hahnemann and his students thought (as we also think
today) that the reason for failure might be found in insufficient
number of remedies proved and the prospects would improve as
more and more remedies would be added to physician's armory.
This could console the students (as of course most of us who are
frantically trying to prove newer remedies to suit our convenience)
but not so with Hahnemann. The Master could not rest satisfied
with it. Day and night, he was occupied with the question why?
Oh, h the carefully selected remedies did not produce 'cure'?

He worked for 12 long years with incessant thoughts, tireless

investigations, accurate observations, careful experiments and
also uninterrupted meditation.

In a letter to Dr Friederich Golthelf Baumgastner (Allg.hom.ztg.vol.

32 page 42) Hahnemann writes in the year 1820:

There will always remain some ailments uncured by

homoeopathy, the remains of some deep-seated chronic disease.
All that has been published by me on homoeopathic healing art is
not sufficient for complete cure of a great family of chronic
diseases.
In the same letter, he further adds....
" .............. In the homoeopathic writings as yet

published, there is still lacking the great 'keystone', which binds

together all that has been thus far published, so that we may be

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able to improve the treatment of chronic diseases and effect a
complete cure of a great family of chronic diseases.

In the same letter, he further adds ….

“ …….. In the homoeopathic writings as yet published, there is still

lacking the great ‘keystone’, which binds together all that has
been thus far published, so that we may be able to improve the
treatment of chronic diseases and effect a complete cure. He
further says …… I have striven night and day for the last four
years (from 1816) to discover the missing keystone to stamp out
old chronic diseases. By thousands of experiments and
uninterrupted meditation, I have at last attained my object. None
of my pupils as yet know anything of this invaluable discovery the
worth of which to mankind exceeds all else that I have ever
discovered and without which existing homoeopathy remains
defective or imperfect".

Hahnemann himself acknowledged that the discovery

homoeopathy and its principle was not so great a discovery since
all that he had discovered about it was useless and incomplete.
So his greatest discovery he concedes, is the discovery of the
missing keystone that is the discovery of miasms as the base of
chronic maladies. Without the miasm theory, Homoeopathy
remains defective or imperfect.
Relating Chronic Disease to 'Itch'

For 12 long years he was searching for the 'keystone', which he

thought would complete the science of homoeopathy. He
ultimately did achieve the goal of discovering the 'keystone'. From

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frequent observations, Hahnemann had discovered that almost all
(if not all) the chronic diseases, which would not yield to the usual
homoeopathic remedies, had some connection with a 'previous
outbreak of itch'. Itch, a skin disease, which was rampant
centuries back was caused by an insect called 'mite'. When this
was treated locally to make it disappear, a train of evils or
diseases more and more grave followed like pneumonia,
bronchitis, dropsy, epilepsy, hysteria, pthisis etc. Not very
surprisingly, Hahnemann was not the only one to establish the
connections between these chronic maladies and 'expelled itch'.
20 years before Hahnemann published his book on 'Chronic
Diseases' another scientist had referred to this phenomenon.
Authentrieth, a University Professor of Tubingen was
experimenting on this in his clinic in 1808. He had also noticed in
his practical therapy that many chronic diseases resulted from
dislodging the superficial 'itch'. Only difference between him and
Hahnemann was that he attributed it quite wrongly to 'salves'. But
he being an allopath, advocated removal of the itch by silver
sulphur and soft soap which was equally not good.

As time passed by, Hahnemann was more and more convinced

by his observation and experience that the most diverse diseased
conditions of the human body originate from itch - warts to
tumours to curvatures of bones or spine or in short, thousands of
various pathological manifestations observed in a human being
and with different names afforded by modern science - were in
fact having their roots in few starting diseases like 'itch'. But all
could not be related to it.

He classified the patients into groups depending upon their

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starting point of illness. He traced back the journey of diseases to
the first symptom ever suffered or noticed by the patient. It was
obvious that by now Hahnemann was aware that diseases began
on skin and proceeded inwards. The beginning point or the 'start'
symptoms were traced back right up to the skin, the least
important organ. (Here I refer the reader to my book Predictive
Homoeopathy Theory of Suppression').

After being convinced that all chronic ailments expressed by the

patient had their roots in a deeper lying original evil, he concluded
that original evil sought must be of a 'miasmatic' chronic nature -
as was perfectly evident that once it had developed it could not be
eradicated even by vigorous or robust constitution. Neither could it
be overcome by healthiest diet nor healthy order of life. In fact, it
grew worse by addition of more serious symptoms right upto the
end of life.

The word 'miasm' now cropped up. Miasm means 'taint or

pollution'. Thus Hahnemann saw that there were various taints on
a constitution. Certain constitutions were tainted or polluted in
such a manner that they gave rise to only certain trains of
diseases. And this was despite healthy life and robust
constitution.

How many types of taints could there be? This was a question
looming large in front of Hahnemann.

At this juncture, Hahnemann rued the fact that science was not
advanced enough (in 1828) to allow him to give proper
explanation for his findings.
He wrote in the preface to the fourth volume ............................

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We have no means of reaching with our senses or of gaining
essential knowledge as to the processes of life in the interior
of man and it is only at times granted as to draw speculative
conclusions.
In the first half of the 19th century, of course there was no electron
microscope, no advances in the field of pathology, immunology,
human biochemistry, leave aside molecular biology and genetics.
He had to work to find the root of chronic diseases only
empirically, experimentally and logically. Experimentally and
analytically, he was able to state that the incurable chronic
maladies owed its origin to only 3 basic 'start' points somewhere
on the skin either itch or venereal warts or chancre. Hahnemann
says in 'Chronic Diseases' "Analytically and logically, I have
concluded that all the chronic ailments owing their origin to a
certain skin disease or expression, had their fundamental origin
firmly established as chronic miasms".
This means their parasitical existence in human organism goes on
continually strengthening and increasing irrespective of healthy
life style, diet or robust constitution. They will never pass away by
themselves, but will grow and vitiate themselves until death
supervenes (that is they will always end in destruction of the
organism). All these benign looking skin ailments of itch, warts or
chancre have a deep- seated origin which are finally the cause of
destruction of man.

Finally probing the patients and their illnesses and their prior
illnesses, he concluded that there are three local visible
diseases, which can be the mothers of 3 groups (classes) of
chronic diseases occurring later in life.
His experiments showed 3 groups as follows:

Group of diseases which followed initial symptom on skin that is

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itch.

Group of diseases, which followed the treatment of symptom on,

skin that is venereal warts.

Group of diseases, which followed initial symptoms on, skin that is

chancre.

After having determined the root cause of chronic diseases and

after naming them as taints, pollution or 'miasms', the next
question was the name of the 'miasms'.
Conclusion of Pre-Psora Days Works of Hahnemann:

‘Itch’ (as well as venereal warts and chancre) were not the cause -
but result of the disease which after firmly establishing itself in the
whole organism expressed itself on skin as itch, warts or chancre.
That the chronic disease or miasm had a parasite-like existence
inside the organism which went on strengthening even in a
healthy life style, diet and robust constitution.

And its rule was to destroy life.

Publishing of the book 'chronic diseases'.

In 1828 Dr Hahnemann published this book of 'Chronic Diseases'

with all the above conclusions. The reaction to this book was
'alike' in almost all the circles. He was ridiculed, criticized and
denounced by friends and foes alike. Those who criticized him
laughed at the very suggestion that a mite or insect of scabies -
"acarus scabei" which could be caught hold of with a needle
would cause as remote a thing as epilepsy or pthisis.
Few of his friends tried to correct him by saying it is the impure
blood, which may be the cause of the dyscrasia, which in turn

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gave rise to chronic diseases. Only two of his trusted lieutenants
Dr. Staph and Dr. Gross were informed about his works, by Dr.
Hahnemann before the publishing of his book, in order to maintain
complete 'secrecy'. This was exactly because he had anticipated
such 'adverse' reactions, which he thought would be hindering his
research.

Despite all the brickbats and criticisms, Dr. Hahnemann stood

firm. He described this discovery of 'miasms' as the 'greatest
discovery' and a great boon to mankind. He was so firm about it
that he felt bad that he would be 'misunderstood' and his
followers would not understand this discovery properly and they
would, therefore, not be able to reap rich harvest from this
discovery for the benefit of the human race. He mentions this in
preface to Chronic Diseases.

This 'great philosophical mind' had one more foresight. He

predicted that his teachings will not be followed sincerely by his
so-called followers. He predicted that principles, which he had
laid down for practice of homoeopathy would not be understood
by many because of lack of scientific proofs. Hence he wrote in
the preface to first edition of 'The Chronic Diseases' in 1828 -
"...But in communicating to the world this great discovery I am
sorry that I must doubt whether my contemporaries will
comprehend the logical sequence of these teaching of mine and
will follow them carefully and gain thereby the infinite benefits for
the suffering humanity which must inevitably spring from
faithful and accurate observance of the same or whether
frightened away by the unheard of nature of many of these
disclosures, they will not rather leave them untried and
uninitiated and therefore, useless."... "May they do better with the
great discovery (the theory of chronic diseases that is the

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doctrine of miasm) presented to them!"
Both these thoughts in the mind of Dr. Hahnemann that of 'doubt'
and 'sense of insecurity', were accompanied by hopefulness-
hoping against hope that they (his contemporaries and followers)
will do better.

We cannot let him down! We as homoeopaths have to strive and

complete the work he has left incomplete for the sheer reason
that he was 'physically' a mortal and the term of life endowed
upon him by the supreme being, though longer than many others
was just not enough. Not enough to discover and improve this
great art of healing. Not enough to discover the theory of chronic
diseases and to add to it or to provide scientific explanations for
the same. It is we who have to vindicate him in terms of modern
advances in science and a day shall come when we
homoeopaths shall be acknowledged as 'more scientific' than our
counterparts.

Chapter 2

THE BODY AND PATHOLOGY TO EXPLAIN THE

ABSTRACT MIND AND ABSTRACTNESS OF MIASM

Miasm: The theory of chronic diseases - is not an abstract

theory floated by Dr. Hahnemann. He proposed this theory of

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Chronic Diseases after 12 years of toil and experience. He
declared it as his 'Greatest discovery' without which even
discovery of 'Science of Homoeopathy' was incomplete. He was
fully aware of the consequences of not understanding the theory
of miasms. He also ruled the fact that science was not advanced
enough to provide an explanation to his theory of chronic
diseases. Nevertheless he has put in bold the explanation based
on logic and experience which explains the theory of miasm.
Taking it as pure hypothesis homoeopaths have tried to cash-in
on absence of certain scientific explanations, some have implied
it as a hoax, some tried to dilate, inflate and even distort the
theory of miasm to the extent of adding newer and newer
miasms based on the disease suffered, his is a dangerous Syco-
Syphilitic trend of putting forth imaginary hypothetical
propositions. In the age of sufficient advances of human-related
sciences instead of attempting to explain the fantastic
Hahnemannian thoughts which are of almost Nostradamic
perfection, such modification of miasms shall only end up
confusing the already confused homoeopathic lot and lead to
certain doom of homoeopathy for those who blindly follow it.

The science of homoeopathy with its 'miasm' theory is now no

more 'unexplainable'. Homoeopaths have been living in a
'cocoon' of their own. They have been happy enough to call

themselves followers and or masters of a 'mystic science'. The

science was apparently mystic two hundred years back. The
mystic, magical words like the Vital Force, the Psora, the Sycosis
or the Syphilis have helped them to weave a web of mysticism,
confusion and pseudoism around themselves and the science,
but with a never ending ray of hope that 'our science' is different

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and can be that my solution to the incurable miseries of mankind
in the distant future, one is waiting for. Waiting for the 'distant
future' the Sycotic minds amongst us float theories beyond the
realms of human realities. Theories and hypotheses were
proposed by Hahnemann 200 years ago because science was
not advanced enough. Theories or hypothesis being proposed by
homoeopaths today either stink of sly intention of 'one-
upmanship' on the great master or to lure' the 'mesmerizable'
homoeopaths like the pied piper to make homoeopathy a 'mid
summer night's dream'.

It is essential for all homeopaths to break this 'cocoon' or a spell

of supernatural feelings and delusions and to come out in the
'light' of scientific advances. Human is much more clearly visible
now right up to ^"so-called abstract energies, cells, genes and
ruses which disturb it. Using the ‘light of knowledge’ endowed to
us with the advent of electron microscope, the world has moved
ahead albeit in the wrong direction and unfortunately the
followers of one of the great masters with post-modern thoughts,
are still thinking in the jungle of Africa or India with their primitive
knowledge. These are the conditions which prevail in our
homoeopathic fraternity. Our primitive status and blind follow-up
invite lots of 'witch-doctors' to propose theories after theories
only to abandon them later so that this reason-gifted mind can
put forward rational explanations to appear as 'saviors' on the
road to progress.

In Aphorism 144 Hahnemann says:

From such a materia medica everything that is conjectural, all

that is mere assertion or imaginary should be strictly
excluded; everything should be the pure language of nature

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carefully and honestly interrogated.

When one deals with only the mind in arriving at the similimum,
one tends to go into abstract or spiritual dimensions.
Imaginations and conjenctures take the place of facts and
solidity. Whether it is in materia medica or in the understanding
of the miasms, this imagination or conjenctures are exactly what
Hahnemann has told us to avoid. Such conjenctures are good
enough to catch the imaginations of the gullibles and those who
like to theorize and fantasize. Building castles in the air is always
going to have shaky foundations especially when not
substantiated with enough proofs of concrete and consistent
results. Such a distortion of facts of homoeopathy will invariably
lead to it's doom.

Hahnemann himself thus advocated solidity and factualism in

treatment of patients with homoeopathy. With this in view, we
would also like to go to study the physical or material visible
aspect of a human being to understand the meaning of miasm.
We will try to understand what the body wants to express in the
form of physical discomfort when it suffers from various
diseases. It will be beneficial for us to understand a
pathological manifestation in a disease which as we know is
because of some deep-seated unseen dyscrasia within the body
itself.
Journey from the body to the mind:

We as human beings are perfect embodiments of an abstract

mind, spirit, soul and energy in a concrete matter called body. If
God has created this material universe, there must be sense to it.
If he has embodied our 'soul, spirit and mind' in solid appearing
body, there must be a sense to it. If he has embodied our ‘soul,

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spirit and mind’ in solid appearing body, there must be a sense to
it and relation between each other. He has not created anything
useless in this world. Was Almighty a 'fool' to create a cage in
the form of body to retain the abstract part of us? Why, then, did
he create different features and structures in different people with
different natures? and molecular biology has amply proved it.
(Note - Scientists in USA have been able to reconstruct an image
of a murderer or a rapist from a clue offered by genes in tissue-
cells of the criminal, retrieved from nails of the victim. And this
can include height, weight, age, looks, complexion, nature etc.)

On the other hand, the material body is a concrete ladder leading

to the 'man' or soul or spirit residing within. The best way the
Almighty has provided is to take the help of this ladder to
systematically reach the destination where the spirit resides with
the address provided. It is foolish to just stand underneath the
building and try to imagine or make 'sterile' theories of who could
be residing on which floor. This comprises of 'hit and miss'
homoeopathy.

This is a forte of the right brain dominants. To 'refuse to accept'

the seen indications and run after 'proposed hypothetical
concepts' is not homoeopathy.

Enough is enough. We have to break the hamshakles of

ignorance. We have to come out of the limited world of
homoeopathic books. We have to come out of the jungles of
South Africa. We have to stop believing, supporting and even
blindly following the so-called masters who have taken
advantage of our ignorance like the 'witch-doctors of yore'. The
world outside our jungle of homoeopathy is much more

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Chapter 3
THE MATERIALISTIC BODY TO THE
IMMATERIALISTIC MIND

Howsoever materialistic it may sound, a homoeopath who

considers himself a holistic healer, has no right to neglect the
unit of life' which is the cell. The cell', which makes up a
tissue, to form an organ and ultimately the system, is the
building block of man and is very much a part of the holistic
approach.
Man, as we know, is made up of multiple systems. The

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systems are made up of organs and organs are made up of
tissues, which in turn are made up of number of cells. The cell
is a unit of life which is having almost all the properties of the
man himself, as its functioning is governed by the genes and
the genetic code which is inside the nucleus. This comprises
of what is known as 'the geno-type'.

What we see outside is a representation of the genetic code

expressed outwards and this is called 'the pheno-type'. The
genetically ruled programmes of metabolism, of differentiation
and specialization concerning physical looks, functioning and
attitudes of the person find its root in every cell that is in the
genetic apparatus of the cell. Thus, the idea of
individualization has its root in every cell. Can a homoeopath
afford to neglect it?

Therefore, if we want to understand 'man', his disease-mental

or physical, one has to understand him at the cellular level and
genetic level.
Cell and its functions:
Living cells probably arose on earth about 3.5 billion years ago
by spontaneous reactions between molecules in an environment
that was far from chemical equilibrium. Present day living cells
are classified as prokaryotic (bacteria and their close relatives) or
eukaryotic (amoeba and higher animals and plants). From our
knowledge of present-day organism, it seems likely that the
development of the directly 'auto-catalytic' mechanism,
fundamental to living system, began with the evolution of families
of RNA and DNA molecules which stores genetic information
required by such cells.

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Although they had relatively simple structure, there was
presence of intelligence and hence they could adapt to suit
their needs. The basic functions of the cell, arose from the
needs.

The first 'need' was to survive. Survival required energy. Thus

first to evolve were three principle, energy-yielding (or energy
building) processes of glycolysis, respiration and
photosynthesis.

The food available to the cell in the form of proteins, lipids and
carbohydrates was broken down step by step in a sequence into
smaller biological molecules. By oxidation of these biological
molecules, cells obtained energy. Energy was stored in the form
of A.T.P. in the mitochondria.

Food + Oxygen = A.T.P. (Energy) + excretory products.

This A.T.P. (adenosine tri phosphate), which acts as energy

'currency', is used for normal activities of cells. Most of the
chemical reactions in the cells, catabolic or anabolic, are
concerned with energy production.

The first function of a cell or organism is to acquire nutrition

and oxygen for survival of self.

The first function of a man shall therefore encompass all the

systems which enable oxygenation, nutrition and excretion to
contribute to energy production and its neurogenic control to
establish biological order - e.g.:-
(a) The Respiratory system: which helps in obtaining O2 for

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 oxidation and eliminate the waste CO2.
lb) The Digestive system: which helps in digestion and
assimilation of the food molecules.
(c) The Excretory system: which helps us to eliminate the
waste products through stool urine and skin
(perspiration).
(d) The Metabolic activity in humans, which helps in
production of energy A.T.P.

(e) The Neuro-endocrinal control in order to maintain

the biological order.

The second basic function of a living organism

The world of 'living beings' is, was and will always be hostile. The
living beings, which in this material world represent a fraction of
cosmic energy which rules the universe, have to follow the laws
of energy. The second law of bio-energetics states, "that every
system (living being is also a system) has to degrade". Thus
every life has to end. Every living being has to die. But the first
function of oxygenation, nutrition and energy production is
meant for 'survival'. Life becomes a tug-of-war between two
forces - one for survival and another for destruction. Darwin's
theory of 'survival of the fittest' holds good only because the
DNA, RNA oriented genetic structure of the living organism
constantly shows adaptations in the organism to help it to
prolong life. But the period of life is limited and that is the
'eternal truth'. Nothing in this world can be immortal. An
organism tries its level best to improve it's own quality of life by
adaptations but a time comes when it has to perish. The 'life
which we lead could be a waste', so the 'living being' decided

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not to let go what it has achieved in its lifetime by producing one
of its own kind. "If not me, my progeny will continue my work in
future" seems to be the slogan. "Destiny cannot win, I can still
score over the destiny of mortality by cloning myself. I am too
selfish to give up all that I have learned all that I have achieved.
I'll deceive fate, I'll not let my gains. I have to reproduce,
reproduce, reproduce!". This may have been the philosophy
behind the development of the second function - that of
propagation or production or generation.

The second function of generation helps in 'survival of species'.

At the genetic level, a gene was assigned the task of
reproduction of 'ditto'. The process by which it generally
multiplies is called mitosis. All the basic functions in a living
organism, seem to have evolved as primary necessities and all
are concerned with establishing a biological order. For any
order to be established, there is a need for 'law' in absence of
which there can be 'chaos'. The law that governs the
reproduction inhibits excess production and limits the
multiplication to 1:2. Mitosis, the process that enables a cell to
reproduce has series of steps that ensure that one cell divides
only into two of its 'ditto' kind.
The second basic function of a living organism is
generation.
The third function
The first function helps the living organism in survival of self. The
second helps the organism in survival of its species. But the
functions of survival of self and reproduction do not ensure any
safety from hospital forces in the world, which are constantly
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developed a system or mechanism called the immune system.

A simple single celled animal like amoeba developed a very

simple immune mechanism which could get rid of harmful agents
and protect itself. As life evolved into a complex multi-cellular
animal the immune system became more and more complex. In
a human being, the immune system is very complex and offers
protection in different organs and systems differently. It has
mental, physical and physiological aspects and is entirely
governed by the mind and the genes.

The immune system: This is simple in early and lower animals

and complex in multi-cellular animals and man.

This is a system comprising of complex actions mental, physical

and physiological, which are brought about as a reaction to a
seemingly destructive stimuli. The main aim is to protect life and
prevent destruction.

This system is governed by the genetic apparatus. The response

of every individual organism may be grossly the same but differ
in intensity according to the nature of every organism.
Thus the third basic function evolved to protect.
Thus the three basic functions that a cell performs are:-
1. The first function of a cell or an organism is to acquire
nutrition and oxygen (for survival of self).

2. The second basic function of a living organism is

generation or reproduction (for survival or species).

3. The third basic function evolved was the immunity to

protect both the individual and species.

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The material body, which is made up of cells, suffers from
various diseases.

We as physicians encounter many diseases. Whether we are

allopaths, homoeopaths, ayurvedic practitioners, our bounden
duty is to relieve the suffering of humanity. Day in and day out,
we come face to face with a large spectrum of diseases ranging
from: ordinary skin lesions to psychic ailments to irreversible
pathologies like cancers. Most of us daily deal with the following:

Dermatitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, gastritis, appendicitis, colitis,

arthritis.

Psoriasis, ischemic heart diseases, arteriosclerosis,

hypertension, diabetes, hypothyroidism; fibroids, tumors of all
kinds, cancers, neoplasms.

Hysteria, mania, imbecility, madness, epilepsy and convulsions

of all sorts, scoliosis and kyphosis, caries, cancer, neoplasms,
gout, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic or valvular heart diseases,
hemorrhoids, amenorrhoea, tuberculosis of the lungs, deafness,
cataract, urinary calculus, paralysis.

Many times causes were not known or at least were not known
until the recent advances in molecular biology and genetics.

Robins Pathology (Edition 2001) states -

 Most of the diseases in organs are caused by

derangement at cellular level.
 Derangements or disorders like inflammation growth,
destruction etc. are due to defense mechanism of cells.
In the material body: Disease starts in a cell

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All physical diseases can be traced to 'organ injury' Virtually all
forms of 'organ injury' starts with physiological, molecular or
structural alterations in cells' - This concept was first put forward
by Rudolf Virchow, known as 'father of modern pathology', many
years ago.

This meant whatever disease a person comes with, at physical

level, one needs to understand the changes that have occurred
in the cell of the affected organ. The modern medicine goes only
as far as to determine the changes at systemic level or organ
level or 'functional' level.

In case of gastritis with burning in the stomach, we are told to

neutralize the acid with a base and anaesthetize the tissues
which give burning sensation, to benumb it and be pain free. One
does not go into the details of the cells of the gastrointestinal
tract to know why they are so sensitive even if it is due to an
increased production of hydrochloric acid. Nor do we try to find
out what induces the secretory gland to increase the gastric juice
secretion. Modern medicine thus teaches us to neutralize the
effects when cause remains constant. The cause at the cellular
level or glandular, secretory level is definitely 'genetically'
governed as it is obvious that in 'similar conditions' and with
'similar food' all the individuals on the earth will not show the
same symptoms of acid-peptic disorder.

Secondarily, the symptoms of pain or burning are not necessarily

only due to acute inflammatory response of the acid-peptic
disorder, it may be chronic indurative or even destructive
process going on in the gastric lining. Thus without determining
the pathological process underlying a disease, it is foolish treat a
patient with any healing science be it -allopathy, homoeopathy,
ayurvedic, unani etc. More so with homoeopathy, if a

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homoeopath considers himself a holistic healer, he has no right
to neglect the 'unit of life', which is the cell. The 'cell', which
makes up a tissue, to form an organ and ultimately the system, is
the building block of 'man' and is very much a part of holistic
approach.

The genetically ruled programmes of metabolism, of

differentiation, defense and specialization (concerning
physical looks, functioning and attitudes of the person) finds its
root in every cell that is in the genetic apparatus of the cell. Thus,
the idea of individualization has its root in every cell. Can a
homoeopath afford to neglect it?

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 Chapter 4

DISEASE MANIFESTATIONS ARE BASICALLY DEFENSE'

MECHANISM AT WORK

This definition of disease manifestations or symptoms should be

understood in its proper context.

Presence of one or too many policemen in your neighbourhood is

a sufficient indication for you to raise an eyebrow and enquire as
to what is wrong in the neighbourhood. There has to be
something wrong, a theft committed, a threat to somebody's life,
a dacoity, a murder, a fire, a calamity etc. Depending upon the
calamity, will be the reaction. A mere crowd of people looking-on
may indicate a none-too-serious internal conflict or quarrel, which
may not attain malignant proportions. The crowd here is merely
inquisitive! Presence of one policeman may indicate some small
warrant issued by a traffic police or court to bring to book, the
erring driver. The presence of many policemen with a wireless
van can give us a hint that there is something seriously wrong as
a murder or a dacoity. All said and done, the presence of legal
fighting machinery in the form of police is an indication that
peace has been disturbed in the vicinity. The 'tranquility' or
'normalcy' in the area has been disturbed warranting a defensive
mechanism, which is now attracting our attention to the area and
situation. Somewhat on the same lines the symptoms produced
by the body are as a response to external invasive or irritating
forces or agents. These comprise of disease manifestation. The
symptoms of pain, inflammation, swelling, redness (that is calor,
dolor, tumor, rubor, etc.) or stiffness, indiscretion, growth and

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destruction of tissues are nothing but result of the body's
defensive mechanism at work.

To survive, 'the genetically governed defense system' of a cell as

also of the organism as a whole, tries to manipulate the internal
and external environment of the cell so that an invasive agent is
kept at bay. The changes, which occur in the cells and tissues in
order to defend or repair the damage may essentially form the so
called 'pathology' of that disease.

On a superficial level, it might appear to be a purely materialistic

approach, to understand the 'pathologic basis' of a disease in
every different disease. To study the changes occurring at a
cellular or tissue level 'seems' to have no 'depth' as compared to
the depth of understanding the 'man' as a 'whole'. Hence study of
the pathologic basis of a disease is a far cry from holistic
approach of a classical homoeopath. The 'sceptics' may argue
that this is 'particularisation and not generalisation.

What has happened at a cellular or tissue level is a

'particular' and why should we give importance to it? The answer
is, what changes which have occurred particular level of tissue
or cell is a response not only of that individual cell or tissue only,
but a response governed by the 'genes' of that 'man' as a whole
It is his ‘genome' which prompts every individual cell whether in
response to an invasion by bacteria or fungus or virus the cell
should inflame, indurate, or destroy itself, for the well-being of
the person or individual concerned as a whole. The response
may or may not change at different times in life, depending again
on the 'genetic' make up of that individual.

We thereby conclude that whatever changes we see at the

pathological level during assessment of a disease are :

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(a) changes brought about to counter an injurious stimulus that
is defense;
(b) all changes are governed by genetic make-up of the
individual;
(c) 'changes' differ according to the 'state' of the organism, vis-
a-vis the defense of the organism against the perseverance of
the stimulus and that too is governed by genetic apparatus.

This means a bacterial infection or attack on a cell or tissue will

generate a nominal inflammatory reaction initially to get rid of it
but failing which will change mode of defense to indurative or
ulcerative, if primary defense fails. Thus the 'intelligence' of a
cell in its defense cannot be undermined as it changes gears or
modes of defenses as and when need arises - thanks to the
genetic apparatus. All the above ‘are clubbed under the name’
pathogenesis.

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 Chapter 5

IN THE MATERIAL BODY:

THE CELL DEFENDS

To defend comes from the basic French word 'defendre'. de +

fendre.

'de' means - away from;

'fendre' means to strike.

In short it verbally means to strike away from. The dictionary

meaning of 'to defend' means guard from, protect from harm or
danger. 'Defense' is an act or power of defending or guarding.

A living being or an organism right from single cell amoeba to

multicellular animals and humans have been constantly
engrossed for years defending itself against hostile environment.
'Life' on this earth wants to go on. Every living organism has a
basic love for life. It tries to overcome the difficulties that come its
way and tries to extend its period of existence in this material
world. It uses all the powers, that it has been endowed with, to
prolong its existence. The living organism may use its
pseudopodia or limbs or tail or hands and feet or the cilia or even
the chemical and biochemical activities in the body depending
upon what is available for defense.

As a rule anything in this world never has a single phase or

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single dimensional existence; if there is -day there has to be a
night ; if there is a color which is black there has to be white; if
there is good there has to be evil. Two opposites have to co-exist
if this world has to go on. Thus if there are factors to prolong life
there are also factors which try to end life.

The factors that are hostile to other's life, try to attack a living
being in order that they themselves survive. The attacked
organism uses all the means at his disposal to combat the hostile
forces. There is thus a constant combat going on between the
offensive and defensive forces and result is "survival or death".
The cell is attacked not only by animate but also inanimate
things. Symptoms produced due to this combat are what are
identified as 'diseases'.

If defense of a cell is at the base of disease pathology, we

need to understand what can injure a cell, what means a cell
uses to defend and therefore what can cause disease.
When normal cell is under stress, it adapts:
The normal cell is confined to a narrow range of functional and
structural changes due to its genetic programming. The 'genes'
regulate the cell metabolism, differentiation and specialization
and decides its reaction to stimulus or stress. The cell is
nevertheless able to handle the normal physiological demand,
so-called 'normal homoeostasis'. Somewhat 'more' physiological
stress or some pathological stimuli may bring about number of
physiological or morphological adaptations during which new
altered state of homoeostasis is achieved. This change is meant
to increase the viability of the cell, under increased demands. A

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'coolie' or a 'loader' who is used to lifting heavy weight has his
arms and forearm muscles gradually bulging in order to meet the
increased demands on them. Increase in muscle mass is due to
increase in size of individual muscle fibers. The work load is thus
shared by a greater mass of cellular components and each
muscle fiber is spared of excess work and so escapes injury.
This adaptive response is called 'hypertrophy'.

Conversely 'atrophy' is also an adaptive response where there is

a decrease in size and function of cells. If the adaptation
crosses a limit, the cell undergoes 'cell injury'.

When limits of adaptive response to stimulus are exceeded,

cell injury occurs.

Adaptation made by cells and tissues can be healthy or

unhealthy. When cells or tissues adapt and homoeostasis or
equilibrium is reached with a changed state, it is still a healthy
state. The overgrown muscles of athletes and bodybuilders are
cellular adaptation but not disease. A child born with a septal
defect in the heart may develop a load on the left ventricle and
may undergo left ventricular hypertrophy which may allow him to
survive and reach normal homoeostasis as age goes by. The
child grows up with normal strength, stamina, functions and lives
a normal life even when he grows older. This is a perfectly
compensated adaptation which is not necessarily termed disease and
therefore needs no correction. In fact any correction in the pathology
may precipitate disequilibrium and decompensation which could
prove fatal.

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If in case of constant stimulus the adaptations are not sufficient
to re-establish ‘homoeostasis’, cell injury occurs. The cell injury
can be reversible or irreversible.

What can injure a cell ?

(I) Physical agents
Mechanical trauma, extremes of temperature e.g. burns
and deep cold, sudden atmospheric changes, electric
shocks, radiations, magnetisms, cosmic radiations etc.
(II) Oxygen deprivation
Hypoxia that is decreased oxygen to cell.
(III) Ischaemia

Decreased blood supply to a cell causing decrease of

nutrition to that cell.
(IV) Chemical agents and drugs
a. glucose or salt in hypertonic concentration
b. oxygen in high concentration
c. poisons e.g. cyanide, arsenics, mercury salts
d. air pollutants, insecticides, herbicides,
carbon-monoxide, asbestos
e. social stimuli e.g. alcohols, narcotics
f. ever increasing therapeutic drugs.
(V) Infectious agents
Bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses.
(VI) Immunologic reactions, self-antigens
(VII) Genetic derangements

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(VIII) Nutritional imbalance
(IX) Benumbing agents
(X) Any foreign proteins
Organon Aphorism 73 extract: As regards acute diseases
they are either of such a kind as attack human beings
individually, the exciting cause being injurious influences to which
they were particularly exposed.... excesses in food or an
insufficient supply of it, (nutritional imbalances) severe physical
impressions, chills, overheatings, dissipation, strains etc. or
physical irritations, (physical agents) mental emotions, and the
like, are exciting causes of such acute febrile affections; in reality
however, they are generally only a transient explosion of latent
Psora, which spontaneously returns to its dormant state if the
acute diseases were not of too violent a character and were soon
quelled.

Very interestingly, Hahnemann has put down the cause of

disease as injurious influences on an organism about 200 years
back in the above paragraph and the factors quoted are almost
identical except that he also gave importance to the mental
emotions.

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CELL DEFENSES AT WORK

When any of the above factors threaten to injure or injure a cell,

the cell starts defending with whatever resources of defense it
possesses.

The primary mode of defense, as we already saw is 'adaptability'.

In adaptability, the cell or tissue tries to strengthen or increase
the normal tissue or cell mass to give rise to hypertrophy as a
response to increased stress. Vice versa, it sheds off the mass to
give rise to 'atrophy' if the part is less used. Such normal
'adaptation' response is observed only in natural 'stress' oriented
or exercise oriented factors in which the muscle or tissues try
and re-establish a homoeostatic equilibrium in changed
circumstances by bringing about changes in themselves. No
aggressive option is available here to remove the stress stimuli.

When the stimulus is more irritating, more destructive, more

injurious like bacterial, fungal or viral infections, or constant
trauma-physical or chemical the ‘cell’ takes a difference stand.
The defenses which follow, are as follows:
(See colour charts at the end of the book)

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Call defense mechanism
Every cell or living organism faces damage or cell injury from
pathogens, toxins, chemicals, radiations, thermal factors etc.
It has different types of mechanisms to defend itself.

A-Physiological defense
B-Morphological defense.

Morphological means structural. This type of defense involves

change in structure or morphology. This morphological
defense expresses itself in two different manners. One is by
construction and other by destruction. So for all practical
purposes there are 3 means available for a cell to defend.

The three (3) defenses

(a) Physiological defense
(b) Morphological - constructive defense
(c) Morphological - destructive defense
The first defense-physiological defense
(Physis = nature) 'Physiological' means of physiology or
promoting normal or healthy functioning. It means a defense by
a cell or an organism brought about by promoting the natural or
normal healthy functioning in the cell or tissue.

Say, a cell is attacked by a bacteria or a fungus. The first step

the 'cell' may take is to promote production of certain already
present antibacterial agents secreted by it on the cell wall like
lysozyme in mucous membranes or some unsaturated fatty

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acids on the skin epithelium. It may induce a ‘cell' to produce
free fluid in large quantity so that the bacteria or fungus can be
washed off. This is commonly observed in cases of upper
respiratory tract invasion by any organism where first defense is
the production of fluent coryza.

If this fails, the primary immune response of inflammation is

used, to get rid of the invasive stimuli. It is preceded by
increased sensitivity and irritation.
When the bacteria or the harmful agent does invade the cell,
there are changes which are brought about in the interior and
exterior of the cell which are 'purely chemical' like increasing or
decreasing the pH of the cytoplasm or as mentioned earlier,
excess production of antibacterials. The sole aim is to make the
bacteria die its own death by changing temporarily the
biochemistry within the cell or the neighbouring tissue. This is
the first defense - the physiological defense.

Inflammation is the physiological defense response

Tonsillitis, bronchitis, gastritis, gastro-enteritis, appendicitis,
arthritis, pneumonitis, hepatitis, meningitis or encephalitis are
names of diseases every physician is acquainted with. A
knowledgeable physician is aware of the fact that all these with
suffix 'itis' indicates inflammation of the said parts.

Books of pathology categorically state that inflammation' is a

protective response. The ultimate goal is to rid the organism of
both the initial cause of cell injury like microbes, toxins
etc. and consequences of such injury e.g. necrotic cells and

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tissues.

Inflammatory response is closely intermingled with the process of

repair. Inflammation serves to destroy dilute or wall off injurious
agents and in turn set un series of events which heal and
reconstitute the damaged tissue.

Without inflammation, infections would go unchecked. Wound

would never heal and injured organs and tissues might remain
permanently ulcerated and damaged.

If a 'tissue' shows defensive response, it means every 'cell'

should show such a defensive response. Every cell wants to
survive and is therefore bound to have a somewhat similar
response.
Ultimately it is the tendency to inflammations or recurrent
infections, which are harmful and should be taken care of rather
than the inflammation itself. We observe that in a family with
many children, one child may be suffering from recurrent
bronchitis, or recurrent tonsillitis more often than the other
children living in the same environment and consuming the same
food and drinks. The virus or bacteria, which cause this infection
and inflammation, spare the other children and frequently attack
the tissues of this child. The whole world is full of parasites,
which thrive on toxins produced in tissues which serve as
nutrition for them. Thus a 'mite' which causes scabies will never
attack and manifest itself as skin lesions until and unless the skin
cells of a person have disturbed equilibrium and harbour
sufficient toxins to feed them (org. Aphorism 80)

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It is needless to say that the microbes like bacteria, viruses, fungi
or toxins are not necessarily the cause for pathological
inflammations but some change prior to it, in the tissues, which
acts as an invitation to pathogens and results in easy
inflammations, The first defense of inflammation is often
associated with irritation, sensitivity, redness, swelling and
sometimes anesthesia.

Calor-heat of affected part. Rubor-red angry look: in a

case of eczematous dermatitis or infective boils, the
disappearance or reduction of anger at the site that is red angry
look of the site is a sufficient indication that the right similimum is
at work and one dose has set about the right 'curative process',
hence no more repetition is required and resolution is now only a
matter of time. Dolor-pain: pain in a part whether in a boil or in
an inflamed joint is a symptom, which is friend of an individual.
The pain in an inflamed part protects the inflamed part from
further destruction by sending 'impulses' of pain to the brain of
the individual to draw his attention to the affected part. The
existence of pain causes the individual to restrict the movement
of the part and guard the injured part. Removal or suppression of
pain without the inflammatory process subsiding will no doubt
lead to further damage to the part, as the guard itself is made
impotent. It is something like keeping a dog to guard your house
from robbers but when he starts barking and disturbing your
sleep on seeing the robbers, you tie up his mouth, so that he
does not bark. The progressive degeneration or destruction of
the joints, cartilages and bones in various arthritis is essentially
an effect of mal-use or indiscriminate use of painkillers whether
they are allopathic, ayurvedic or homoeopathic. Tumor- oedema
or swelling: absorption of oedema or swelling somewhat of a

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simultaneous affair along with reduction in vascularization and
pain stiffness guarding, again, a protective mechanism should go
away only after inflammation and pain have subsided. The use of
muscle relaxants is dangerous as the 'guarding' by muscles is
relaxed even before inflammation has subsided. Functio-laesa
that is loss of function.
The dreaded inflammatory diseases, mentioned above, are all
due to the first defense mechanism at work. If most of the
dreaded inflammatory diseases mentioned are due to the first
defense mechanism at work, then there is a possibility that most
of the other diseases, which do not fall into this category, are
also due to cell defense mechanism at work.

The second defense - constructive defense

(morphological)

Let us imagine for the time being a situation where two people
are sitting next to each other. One of them Mr X the aggressive
one tries to 'poke' the second Mr Y with a pointed instrument in
the arm. Mr Y basically a peaceful, non-aggressive person,
cannot fight and does not want to fight and therefore tries to
avoid the 'poke' which is irritating by bringing about mere change
in body position, the structure remaining the same. This defense
from the 'poke' or 'irritation' is brought about with the existing
physiology and anatomy. This is equivalent to 'physiological
defense'.

When this type of adjustment with the existing structure is not

enough and the ‘irritation’ still continues, Mr Y starts thinking of
other alternatives. He has to get rid of this constant irritation.
However minor the irritations, when it continues for prolonged

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period, it can be destructive and dangerous to life. It can, in the
long run make Mr Y feel brittle. He wants to survive so he invents
a novel method to defend himself from this. He places a fat
pillow or constructs a wall or a barricade, which he thinks will
protect him from harmful effects of the ‘poking’ irritation.

Somewhat on the same lines the ‘cell’, which also has a ‘mind’
governed by the genetic apparatus, tries to defend itself.

After the first defense (which results in swelling or inflammation

in tissues) has failed to get rid of the toxins or pathogens it
decides to go in for a second line of defense. There is shift in
gears of defense. After the limits of reversible physiological
changes is crossed, certain changes take place in the genes,
which induce irreversible changes in the morphology or structure
of the cells.

At the level of the 'cell' and its parts 'accumulations' start taking
place. The accumulations can occur in cell wall or cytoplasm.
Cell wall starts thickening by excess accumulation of lipids,
proteins or glycogen etc. Thus a 'Wall of China' is developed to
protect the cells from irritation. This thickening occurs due to
excess production of everything within the cell or system.
The Pathology, which can arise out of such a defense includes
growth or thickening pathologies like polyps, warts, cysts, tumors,
atherosclerotic plaques, deposition of pigments and minerals.

The third defense - the destructive defense

(morphological)

Continuing the story of Mr X and Mr Y, when Mr Y finds it difficult

to counter the hostile effect of the stimuli by either physiological

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changes the constructive changes, he might decide to cut off the
arm or the part, which is being poked or under attack.

He decides this defense to save the whole body from the effects
of the attack on the local parts. When the first defense of
inflammation is not sufficient to take care of the invading hostile
stimulus, the cell may undergo changes at the genetic level. It
shifts it's gear of defense to defend or to save the whole
organism by destroying a part of it.

This defense can also be resorted to when the second

morphological constructive defense fails.

The pathological conditions that arise out of such defense

include all destructive pathologies like gangrenes, necrosis,
ulcers etc.

Chapter 7
THE MATERIAL BODY-
DEFENSE VIS-A-VIS MIASM

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According to modern science:-

• The inflammatory and irritative pathologies seem to

emanate from the physiological defense.
• The growth pathologies seem to emanate from the
constructive defense.
• The destructive pathologies seem to emanate from the
destructive defense.
Hahnemann in Organon Aphorism 79, 80, mentions:-

 In Aphorism 80, he talks about chronic miasm of Psora

which announces itself by a peculiar cutaneous eruption
with intolerable itching and which is the 'fundamental
cause' and producer of numerous or innumerable forms
of diseases. Transient explosion of latent Psora gives
rise to acute diseases as reaction to injurious
influences (Aphorism 73) which end in recovery or
death e.g. acute inflammatory diseases like pneumonitis,
bronchitis, appendicitis.

 Sycosis the condylomatous disease (disease of growths).

 Syphilis the venereal disease with chancre (disease of

destruction).

From the above similarities one can safely presume and

conclude that Hahnemann’s miasms of Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis
have its roots in the “defensive response of a cell” to injurious

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influences.

Psora = Physiological defense response.

Sycosis = Constructive defense response.

Syphilis = Destructive defense response.

Hahnemann and modern medicine:

 Hahnemann:  Modern Science:
‘Psora’ is the first reaction Physiologic defense
to stimulus. (inflammation) is the first
reaction to stimulus.
 Hahnemann:  Modern Science:
1. Psora is the only real 1. Physiologic defense is the
fundamental cause. first response to cell injury.
2. All the diseases of Sycosis 2. All the other defenses,
and Syphilis are based on constructive or
Psora. destructive, are secondary
3. Psora is the mother of all to primary physiologic
miasms. defense.
3. Irritation or inflammation is
the beginning of all
diseases.
 Hahnemann:  Modern Science:
Psora is not to be equated The primary response to
to itch or any skin lesion. cell injury is determined by
‘Psora’ is that condition hypoxia and Ischaemia –

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 which prevails in cells and e.g. lack of oxygen and
tissues of the whole lack of nutrition to the cell
organism before it and tissue. The first point of
expresses itself in the form attach of hypoxia is the
of itch, vesicles, intolerable cell’s aerobic respiration
itching etc. that is oxidative
Aphorism 80 Psora phosphorylation by
announces as peculiar mitochondria resulting in
cutaneous eruptions after decreased generation of
the completion of internal A.T.P.
infection of the whole
organism. This reduced A.T.P. has
widespread effects on
Psora is specific internal many system within the
dyscrasia due to inhibition cell. Sodium potassium
of nutrition and pump is affected (leading to
oxygenation. lethargy in the individual)
and failure of active
transport system due to
reduced A.T.P.
concentration resulting in
iso-osmotic gain of water to
give rise to cell swelling
Cellular energy metabolism
is altered – disruption in
protein synthesis etc. This
leads to reduced cell tissue
resistance and ‘infections’
can easily take place.
 Hahnemann:  Modern Science:

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 In acute diseases ‘burst of Acute primary response
latent Psora’ can end in can be reversible – this is
recovery (if not death). reversible cell injury. If
violent it may end in
death.

Summary:

Psora is equivalent to physiological defense response Sycosis is

equivalent to constructive defense response.
Syphilis is equivalent to destructive defense response We are
still in the material side of Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis.

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 Chapter 8

THE CELL HAS ONLY 3 DEFENSIVE RESPONSES AND

THERE CAN BE ONLY 3 MIASMS

Let's take an example of a 'man' who is under attack from

elements of hostile world. He is an educated man living in a
shanty little house. He is being threatened by antisocial
elements that are trying to evict him. He has three possessions
a 'pen', 'some money' and a 'bread knife'. When he finds
himself in a problem he would like to defend himself, using
whatever things he possesses. In order to defend himself he'll
make use of his 'pen' to pen-down his complaints to the police or
the higher law-making authorities. If he does not get help from
them he shall decide to sacrifice his hard earned 'money' to buy
also fai
his safety by appointing personal 'guards'. If , ls to deter
the invaders he may get operate and try to use the 'knife' to
defend himself or even kill himself to escape the ignominy of
defeat.

On similar grounds the defensive response of the ‘cell’ is based on

conserving, using or sacrificing it’s possessions. A unicellular animal
like an amoeba has no possessions. This ‘base’ living animal has
only its functions to sacrifice, if required. Every living cell or a
living organism, which is at least deductively its descendant, also
possesses the following ‘three’ basic functions which can be
used to defend itself.
I. Using or sacrificing the primary or 1 st function of nutrition
and respiration the cell brings about the ‘physiologic
defense’ or Psora.

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 This response starts with hypoxia and ischemia leading to
depletion of energy generation. This in turn affects the cell
functioning and health.

II. Using or sacrificing 2nd basic function of generation or the

cell's capacity to generate, the cell brings about the
morphological 'constructive defense' by sacrificing
functions of 'mitosis' etc which corresponds to Sycosis.

III. Using or sacrificing the 3rd basic function of immunity, the

morphological 'destructive defense' is brought about. This
corresponds to Syphilis.
There are 3 basic functions of a cell. Therefore only 3 basic
defensive responses exist. Therefore only 3 types of chronic
diseases exist; hence there can be only three miasms. All
others are pseudo-miasms. This comparison of 'Psora' to
primary physiologic defense; 'Sycosis' to morphological
constructs defense and 'Syphilis' to morphological destructive
defense and all the diseases having their origin Psora, Sycosis,
Syphilis was also foreseen Dr. Hahnemann 200 years back.
Organon aphorism 74 is the most important aphorism in the
whole book of Organon.

It states:
Among chronic diseases we must still, alas! Reckon those so
commonly met with, artificially produced in allopathic treatment
by the prolonged use of violent heroic medicines in large and
increasing doses, by the abuse of calomel, corrosive, sublimate,
mercurial ointment, nitrate of silver, iodine and its ointments,
opium, valerian, cinchona bark and quinine, foxglove, prussic
acid, sulphur and sulphuric acid, perennial purgatives,

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venesections, shedding streams of blood, leeches, issues,
setons, etc., whereby the vital energy is sometimes weakened
to an unmerciful extent, sometimes, if it do not succumb,
gradually abnormally deranged (by each substance in a peculiar
manner) in such a way that, in order to maintain life against
these inimical and destructive attacks, it must produce a
revolution in the organism, and either deprive some part of its
irritability and sensibility, or exalt these to an excessive
degree, cause dilatation or contraction, relaxation or
induration or even total destruction of certain parts, and
develop faulty organic alterations here and there in the
interior or the exterior (cripple the body internally or
externally), in order to preserve the organism from complete
destruction of life by the ever-renewed, hostile assaults of
such destructive forces.
In the above aphorism Dr. Hahnemann talks about chronic
diseases being most often the result of prolonged use of ‘violent’
‘heroic’ medicines in large doses and here he mentions many of
them which were in use at the time. These medicines, he says
weakens the vital energy to unmerciful extent and more often
than not, the organism succumbs to it. If not then the organism
and its vital energy fights against the injurious agents. This fight
he calls as 'revolution' in order to maintain life. It is as if the
organism must produce a revolution or defense mechanism
against the injurious agent, if it is to survive.
He clearly mentions 3 types of revolutions :-
(I) Either deprive some part of its sensibility and
irritability or exalt them to excessive degree as it occurs
in complex syndrome which follows physiologic defense
(rubor, dolor, calor, tumor functio laesa). – Psora
(II) Cause dilatation, relaxation, contraction or
induration.

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 Dilatation is caused by less fibrin (Sycosis less)
Relaxation of tissues is caused by less elastin (Sycosis
less)

Induration of tissues is caused by excess fibrin production

(Sycosis excess)
Contraction of tissues is caused by excess elastin
production (Sycosis excess)=Sycosis

(III) (a) Total destruction of certain parts (necrosis

to save whole)
(b) Develop faulty organic alterations (distortions)
crippling the body internally externally = Syphilis.

These above 3 groups of symptoms mentioned are very much

similar to what modern science states as 3 basic defensive
responses of cell to injurious agents. He clearly mentions that
the body adopts these three groups of symptoms as a revolt in
order to preserve the organism from complete destruction of life
by destructive forces.
This practically settles any argument regarding the meaning of
miasms. “Miasm’ means defensive response of cell. “Miasms”
are the origin of all diseases.
There are and can be only 3 miasms if one understands the
whole process scientifically. Note : This Aphorism 74 is the most
important, most neglected and most misunderstood aphorism in
the book of Organon. Hahnemann has confessed in the
'Introduction to Chronic Diseases' that his most important
discovery was not discovery of homoeopathy but the discovery of
miasm.

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In a letter to Dr. Friederich Golthelf Baugmaster (Allg. Hom.ztg.
Vo. 32 page 42) Hahnemann wrote in 1820 "In the homoeo-
pathic writings as yet published, there is still lacking, the great
keystone which binds together all that has been so far
published so that we may be able to improve the treatment of
chronic diseases". He further writes: by thousands of
experiments, I have at last attained my object. None of my
pupils as yet know anything of this ‘invaluable discovery’, the
work of which to mankind exceeds all else that I have ever
discovered and without which all existing homoeopathy remains
defective or imperfect. And this Aph. 74 holds the great
keystone. The keystone which solved the mystery of incurable
diseases. The keystone which revealed that the organism
revolts in only 3 different ways to give rise to 3 different type of
diseases at the base of which are miasms - Psora, Sycosis,
Syphilis.

On page 34- 'The chronic diseases'-Hahnemann says:

In Europe and also in other continents so far as is known,

according to all investigations, only three chronic miasms are
found, the diseases caused by which manifest themselves
through local symptoms and from which most, if not all, the
chronic diseases originate; namely, first Syphilis, which I have
also called the venereal disease; then Sycosis or the fig-wart
disease and finally the chronic disease which lies at the
foundation of the eruption of itch; that is the Psora; which I shall
treat at first as the most important.

Modern researchers say that inflammation is the first response of

an organism to cell injury. The two morphological defense

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responses are only secondary to the first. The primary response
of inflammation is from childhood and no individual can survive
without it. Therefore Psora (inflammation) is the mother of all
diseases . Sycosis and Syphilis are only secondary to Psora
because the destructive and con structive pathologies cannot
exist without the primary inflammation. Since nobody can survive
without the first physiological response nobody can free of Psora.

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 Chapter 9

ACUTE PSORA

The physiological response of a cell or tissue of an individual can

be suddenly so intense that it might result even in death. This
acute inflammatory response, is what Hahnemann calls as burst
of 'Latent Psora' which equates to acute diseases (Aphorism
73).

Organon Aphorism 73 extract: As regards acute diseases, they

are either of such a kind as attack human beings individually, the
exciting cause being injurious influences to which they are
particularly exposed. Excesses in food or an insufficient supply
of it, (nutritional imbalances) severe physical impressions, chills,
overheatings, dissipation, strains etc. or physical irritations
(physical agents), mental emotions, and the like, are exciting
causes of such acute febrile affections; in reality however, they
are generally only a transient explosion of latent Psora, which
spontaneously returns to its dormant state if the acute diseases
were not of too violent a character and were soon quelled.

It is worthwhile comparing the thoughts and ideas about

causative factors propagated by Dr. Hahnemann about 200
years ago with the causes of cell injury mentioned in Robin's
pathological basis of disease.

Causes of cell injury: Every disease starts with injury. Causes

of' reversible' cell injury and cell death range from:-

Agents which can impede oxygenation or cause ischaemia

like:-

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(i) Nutritional imbalances

(ii) Physical agents: (a) Mechanical trauma (b) Thermal trauma

- extremes of temperature burns and deep cold (c) Sudden
change in atmospheric pressure (d) Radiation (e) Electric
shock.

(iii) Chemical agents and drugs: (a) Anything which deranges

electrolytic homoeostasis of cells (b) Air pollutants,
insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, (c) Carbon monoxide,
asbestos, alcohol, narcotic drugs, (d) Ever increasing variety
of therapeutic drugs.

(iv) Infectious agents: Viruses, fungi, bacteria, parasites, etc.

(v) Immunologic reactions: Anaphylactic reactions, foreign

proteins and endogenous self-antigens are supposed to
cause auto-immune diseases

(vi) Genetic derangements: Hereditary or acquire< causes of cell

injury.

All the above factors cause cell injury and bring out the cellular
defensive response which may start as reversible and end in
irreversible or death. Interestingly, Hahnemann has mentioned
almost all the above causes as exciting causes and injurious
influences which cause, as he states, transient explosion of latent
Psora.

They are of such kind as attack several persons at the same time
(i) infectious agents (ii); meteoric, telluric influences physical
agents e.g. atmospheric changes and radiation (iii) and injurious
agents (chemical agents and drugs) the susceptibility for being
morbidly affected by which are possessed by only a few persons

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at the time (here Hahnemann implies genetic predispositions and
immunologic relations).

He later on mentions about epidemics, contagious and infectious

diseases, (which are due to infectious agents) (iv). He further
mentions about war, inundations and famine as injurious causes.

Hahnemann 200 years back has mentioned all the probable

elements, which can injure a cell and set about a physiological
defense response. Over and above he goes one step ahead and
has mentioned emotional disturbances too as a cause of injury to
explode the latent Psora (physiological defense) that the modern
scientist is still not aware of, or if aware at least does not take
into consideration when assessing the causative factor or for
treatment.

Acute diseases as mentioned in Aphorism 72 and 73 are due to

the burst of ‘latent Psora’. These could be very well equated to
‘acute inflammations’ or a complex symptom syndrome, which is
associated with cell injuries. Such inflammations if not resolved,
end in either certain death or morphologic structural damage.

In certain conditions as of pneumonia, gastroenteritis, viral

meningitis, the physiological response to stimulus (a bacteria,
virus or toxin) is violent in proportion to the attacking agent.
Here the natural immunity of the patient is virtually helpless and
is thrown out of gear. The physiological response of cell or tissue
of an individual can be suddenly so intense that it might result
even in death. This acute inflammatory response is what

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Hahnemann calls as burst of ‘latent Psora’, which equates to
acute diseases
(Aphorism 73).

In Aphorism 72 he mentions that these diseases, which have a

tendency to finish their course more or less quickly, are the ones
which dynamically derange the living organism (each in its
peculiar way e.g. genetically governed) cause it to gradually
deviate from healthy condition. The vital force (immunity) only
opposes at the commencement and puts up useless resistance
in the progress and helplessly suffers until the organism is
destroyed and these are called chronic diseases.
Thus a disease starts with acute inflammation (Psora) and
progresses to chronic inflammation (Sycosis) and further to
indurations (Sycosis) or to ulceration and destruction
(Syphilis).
In Aphorism 63 of Organon, he again mentions:
Every agent that acts upon the vitality, every medicine, deranges
more or less the vital force, and causes a certain alteration in the
health of the individual for a longer or a shorter period. This is
termed primary action .Although a product of the medicinal and
vital power conjointly, it is principally due to the former power. To
its action our vital force endeavours to oppose its own energy.
This resistant action is a property, is indeed an automatic
action of our life-preserving power, which goes by the name
of secondary action or counteraction.

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Hahnemann mentions that ‘every agent’ and ‘every medicine’
deranges the vital force and causes alteration in health for longer
or shorter period. Vital force endeavours to oppose it. This
resistant action is a property or automatic action of our life
preserving power. It means that our vital force or the force, which
pervades our cells and tissues and the whole being. In its own
intelligent way is trying to save our life.

Chapter 10
PHYSICAL DISEASES OF PSORA

Pathogenesis of Psora:
Psoric diseases are characterized by altered sensibility,
irritability, and acute inflammation.
Skin: All acute inflammations, hypersensitivity, and irritability.
Itch, dermatitis, boils, rash, miliary rash, oozing eczemas,
cellulitis.

Respiratory tract: Rhinitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis,

tracheitis, pneumonitis, pneumonia, etc. hypersensitivity of
trachea causing asthmatic bronchitis, spasms, allergic
manifestations.

Gastro-intestinal tract: Oesophagitis, gastritis, hyperacidity,

colitis, hyper peristalsis, hyper-motility, diarrhoea, acute hepatitis,
acute cholangitis, acute pancreatitis, acute proctitis, appendicitis,

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irritation due to worms, irritable bowel syndrome etc.

Locomotor system: Acute arthritis, inflammations of cartilages

of joint between vertebrae (spondylitis) laryngitis leading to
hoarseness, myositis, tendonitis.
Deeper diseases e.g. primary complex, pleuritis, endo-carditis,
pericarditis, vasculitis, stress diabetes, viral thyroiditis, meningitis,
encephalitis.

Symptoms arising out of infections, inflammations, irritability e.g.

acute spasmodic pains of abdomen, sciatica, paroxysmal,
neuralgic pains, neuralgias, convulsions caused by inflammations
or irritations (and not by space occupying lesion which are
sycotic convulsions nor due to destructive pathology of nervous
system which are Syphilitic in origin).

Note: This is not an exhaustive list of Psoric pathology. Any

disease or symptoms at the origin of which lies hypoxia or
Ischaemia that is deprivation of respiration, nutrition, evacuation
or neural control of cells and tissues can be clubbed into this list
of diseases.
Behavioral changes or emotional changes acute irritation at the
neuro-endocrinal level, especially at the juncture of neuro-
transmitter production, may cause sudden bursts of anger, fright,
grief, anxieties which could be transient but repetitive, are purely
Psoric in origin.

All transient phenomena are Psoric. When a disease shifts from

one system to another e.g. after suppression of diarrhoea or any

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discharge from respiratory tract, the patient may show signs of
transient inflammatory process in cartilages and joints. This
incorporates dynamism e.g. the pains can come and go, before it
becomes permanent in the new place. This exhibition of
dynamism is purely Psoric before it translates itself into chronic
inflammation or chronic rheumatoid arthritis, which is auto-
immune Syphilitic in origin.

Most pains or complaints, which are transient, relapsing,

associated with high fevers or eruption could be Psoric in origin.
(Note: Malarial fever though it is transient, relapsing with high
fever is Sycosis and not Psora).

Physical Structure:

The typical Psoric face is a normal, proportionate face. More or

less long face with tapering chin. They have sensitive eyes,
medium sized nose, not too big or too small for the face. The
face does not show excess fat or roundedness. The nose is
neither to sharp nor rounded. Wounds are clear-cut, superficial,
neither deep, nor destructive. Would heal without a scar.

Chapter 11
PHYSICAL DISEASES OF SYCOSIS

Pathogenesis of Sycosis:

Psora incorporates primary response to cell injury by sacrificing

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nutrition and oxygenation that is the first basic function of living
cell or organism.

Sycosis is secondary response to cell injury brought about by

using or sacrificing second function of generation or
reproduction.

We know that generation or reproduction in a cell occurs due to

many processes. For cell division there is a process called
'mitosis'. This process of division is so perfect and so meticulous
that a cell can give birth to two of its own kind that exactly
resembles the parent cell. That means the cell divides in ratio of
1 : 2 (except in cases of meiosis).

Now the secondary defensive response sacrifices this second

function of cell. This means some thing has to go wrong with
generation, production or reproduction by 1 : 2. If the
reproduction ratio of 1 : 2 is changed, it could be towards either
more or less.

The cell can thus start multiplying in ratio of 1: more than 2 or;

The cell can start multiplying in ratio of 1:1 less than2. The first
can be ‘Sycosis excess’ and the second condition can be
‘Sycosis less’.

Hence Sycosis can be expressed in all ways and in all systems

and tissues in tow forms excess and less. The diseases or
pathological states both on physical as well as mental level will

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be expressed as ‘excess’ or ‘less’.

Sycosis can be expressed in all systems and tissues in two forms

excess and less.

‘Sycosis excess’ at cellular level and humoral level:

 Cell Size itself can be

bigger than normal – hypertrophy

Construction may be due to increase in the

number of cells-hyperplasia
 Cell Can be divided
Nucleus Into more than
Two nuclei cells,
Resulting into warts,
Excrescences, skin
Tags, polyps, etc.
Size of part or organ
Bigger than normal.

 Cell Wall In Blood Excess

Lipids Hypercholestremia
Hyperlipidemia,
Hypertriglyceridemia
Proteins Hyperproteinemia
Ketosis
Hyperalbuminemia
Hyperglobulinemia
Carbohydrates Diabetes
 Cell Water Swellings, Oedema,
Cytoplasm Retention of water,
Ascitis, Anascarca,
Cysts, Turgidity,

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 Blisters, Vesicles

Sodium Hypernatremia
Potassium Hyperkalemia
Calcium Hypercalcemia
Uric Acid Gout
Ketone Bodies Ketosis
Fibrin Hardness, Fibrosis,
Indurations,
Arteriosclerosis
Elastin Constriction
Strictures, Stenosis

Depositions or accumulations may be due to excess

generation

Calcium Hyper-calcification
Calcium oxalate
Stones, Renal
Calculus, Renal
Stones, Salivary
Gland calculus
Tartar on teeth,
Phleboliths
Melanocytes Hypermelanosis,
Hyper
Pigmentation on
Skin, Black
Discoloration,
Melanocytosis, etc.

Brown Pigment Brown spots

Lipofuscin Liver spots

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 Iron Haemosiderois
Bones Growth increased,
Osteophytes,
Calcanean Spur,
Osteomas

Blood vessels Haemangiomas,

Varicosis
Angiomas,
Aneurysms
Haemorrhoids

Uterus Cysts, Fibroids,

Polyps,
Endometriosis
Skin Corns, Callosities,
Excrescences,
Warts, Fungal
Nematodes,
Ringworm,
Thickened
Ulcerative margins.

Any tumour or growth anywhere in the body e.g. brain, stomach,

lungs, liver, kidney, even extra flaps at lower end of ureters called
post-urethral valves.

Physical constitution:
Overall large built, long bones, sturdy bones, well developed
cheek and face bones, well developed bony prominences are all
due to Sycosis excess.

Sycosis less :
Cell Size : Smaller

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Lipids Hypolipidemia
Proteins Hypoproteinemia,
Decreased globu-
Lin, albumin
Glucose Hypoglycaemia
Fibrin Less of fibrin to
Muscles, tissues
Will give rise to less
Hardness and more
Softness. This
Could result in
Dilatation of heart
And other organs.
Elastin Less of elastin can
Cause lack of elas-
ticity resulting in:
Relaxation of tis-
Sues, ‘Laxity’ of
Tendons, muscles,
Etc. causing pro-
Lapse, ptosis of
Eyelids, visceropto-
sis, prolapsed of
Heart valves, pro-
Lapse of uterus,
Hernias, prolapsed
Rectum, varicose
Veins,
haemorrhoids etc.
Calcium Hypocalcaemia,
Osteoporosis
Melanin Reduced melanin
May give rise to
Hypo pigmentation
e.g. tinea versicolor

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Iron Anaemia

Physical structure :

Overall small built of people, short fingers, short bones, under-

developed organs and parts are a part of Sycosis less.

In general face of Sycosis constitution had rounded contours, fat,

flabby, excess of flesh or prominent bones, squarish or rounded
shape, a large nose in Sycosis (excess), small nose in Sycosis
(less).

Chapter 12
PHYSICAL DESEASES OF SYPHILIS

Pathogenesis of Syphilis or destructive diseases: -

When a cell cannot cope up with the invading organism,

pathogen or toxin by using physiologic de-fence or constructive
defense, it decides in despair to adopt a do-or-die attitude, Of the
100 trillion cells every cell, as the text books of pathology teach
us, lives and works to maintain biological equilibrium inside the
human being. If the equilibrium is maintained that is the
homoeostasis is maintained the whole being remains healthy.
This means every cell has concern for the whole being. It is
generally a selfless service of a part to the whole. When the
‘whole’ being is under attack. It may decided to sacrifice itself to
save the ‘whole’. Thus a cell or tissue or a part of the human
being may be distorted, disfigured or even degenerated if
required to save the whole human being

The ‘degeneration’ or destruction is by two means:-

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(a) Necrosis

(b) Apoptosis / Apolysis

Necrosis: This is a process by which the body discards the

diseased part that can be dangerous to the body in future. This is
brought about by either karyolysis, coagulative necrosis,
liquefactive necrosis or fat necrosis etc.

Disease symptoms encountered in Syphilis necrosis:-

Disfigurement, gangrene, distortion of parts of body, ulcerations,
lacerations, bleeding, sensitivity out of all proportions, deep
bleeding cracks, bleeding distorted ulcers, distorted healing
wounds etc.

Apolysis (Apoptosis) : This is a process by which the different

parts of the body undergo programmed destruction of self. The
death of a cell is due to activation of internally controlled suicide
program. Doomed cells are removed with minimum disruption to
the surrounding tissue.

Disease encountered in this type are all auto-immune diseases

like rheumatoid arthritis, motor neuron diseases etc.

Here the gun of destruction is pointed towards self.

Homoeopathic considerations: It is obvious that constitutions that

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have a tendency to destroy self will suffer in the long run from
auto-immune diseases and those that are violent not on self but
on the outside will suffer from other destructive diseases.
Remedies that are self destructive are the ones that think about
suicide seriously like Aurum Met. Others like Flouric Acid who
never self destroy, but lead to external destruction, will be useful
in cases of other destructive pathologies.

Nose:- ozaena, caries of nasal cartilage.

Ulcers:- mouth, stomach, duodenum, colon, rectum. Chronic or

acute renal failures, infarction in heart, atelectasis of lungs,
interstitial fibrosis, emphysema, cancers, cancerous ulcers, auto
immune diseases e.g: rheumatoid arthritis, auto immune
thyroiditis (Hashimoto's disease), gangrene, motor-neurone
diseases, parkinson's disease, cerebral paralysis etc.

Physical Structure
The Syphilitic face has something that which repels you,
something that is just not normal.
It may be ugly, distorted, and repulsive. The nose and eyes can
be extra-sharp like a dagger.

Chapter 13

MIASM (DEFENSE) AND GENETICS

‘Defense and miasm’: we proceed to see what influence does

defense and miasm have on man. If the genetic code of the

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individual is 'tainted' with or 'polluted' with or have traces of
'certain behaviour' it is bound to lay an impact on every part of
the cell and individual.

The Physical Structure:

The survival is only of the fittest. The fittest survives because it

evolves a strategy to defend itself. This strategy is encoded in
the genetic code. Every species has its own species-specific
genome. Every genome has its common mode of defense,
encoded in its genetic code plus the individual mode of defense.
It is very obvious therefore that every species of animal is so
different from the other. Rabbits do not frighten anybody. Dogs
may or may not. Tiger and lion frighten everybody without
exception. All these species have their genes so encoded that
they are either timid like a rabbit or a cow or a cat or they are too
aggressive like a tiger or lion etc. The genome of dogs could
have either qualities. Some dogs may be very timid on the other
hand there may be other who are ferocious as tigers. This again
highlights that though dogs belong to the same species there is
individuality which counts. These innate qualities have been so
designed depending upon the needs of that organism to fight for
survival.

This is true for all human beings as well. As we know the genes
make a man or any living being, these genes are responsible for
their physical structure, mental make up and other tolerances,
intolerances or susceptibility. If 'genes' have timidity and lack of
will as one of the qualities then compensatorily there are other
qualities the genes 'have to' or 'must' develop to create a balance

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so that individual survives. For example, if an individual
possesses the gene of timidity, weak will then it is obvious that
this timidity can never make him fight a battle for survival. This
quality cannot give him toughness needed to frighten or fight the
opponent, therefore it has to be endowed with the innate
characteristic 'to escape' or the quality 'to resign' or be 'mild', with
'no confidence' in oneself or to be 'bashful' or 'to hide' etc. All
these negative innate characteristics basically develop as a
reaction of the 'negative will'.

All these qualities that the individual possesses are to 'defend'

itself from hostilities to guard itself and thereby prolong life.

On the other hand if the individual has a 'positive will' he will

develop lots of 'confidence', 'pertinacity', 'obstinacy' to help him in
perseverance and may also develop aggression, anger and rage
as its main weapon.

What is true in mental plane is also true on the physical plane.

The features of the individual also develop in response to the
basic nature. Almost as a rule mild or easily tamed animals like a
rabbit, sheep, cow, dog have their face, jaws and incisors
projected ahead to form a narrow tapering face as if to frighten
the opponent. On the other hand lion's and tiger's ferocious look
does not necessarily have too much projections to advertise their
canines.

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Similar things have been observed in humans too. Not as a rule,
but many times timid Calcarea patients have their upper teeth
projected outwards. All this of course comes under the purview of
'physiognomy', which is not our topic here for now. This is only to
heighten one fact that man, his structure and nature develops
purely as a reaction or rather defensive reaction to hostile
stimulus, which it faces from outside or from inside and in terms
of nature he possesses.

The physical structure therefore is defense oriented.

Physical reactions, the tolerance, intolerance to various stimuli

like sun, wind, rains, damp, cold, heat, noises, colors, touch,
emotions, further decides how the concerned individual should
react in different circumstances. These 'reactions' to situations
that is the 'general make-up' of an individual, are basically
defense mechanisms at work and hence defense oriented.
These are influenced by the genetic code.

Mental reactions solely depend on the intelligence of the

individual. The intellect, will, morals etc. will allow the person to
react according to needs and circumstances to form a defense.
These innate characteristics of the reactive mechanism, the
attitudes defenses together with susceptibility make up the
mental aspect of the individual, which in turn, is governed by the
'genetic code' of the individual.

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The genetic code decides the reactions of an individual to an
action. Example: If a person throws a stone on a group of people
standing on the road the reaction of every person is going to be
different governed by his individual genetic code. One person
could be fast enough to see the stone coming at him and take
evasive action, another could be taken aback or surprised by the
stone being hurled at him and become frightened or panicky, a
third might not be keen or sharp enough to notice the stone at
such short interval of time and got struck badly or take a wrong
evasive action. A fourth might get angry at the situation and can
catch the stone and hurl it back at the thrower in protest. A fifth
might not realize what happened even after he is struck down.

Analysis:- The first (may be Lachesis, Cannabis I., Opium,

etc), a quick, intelligent mind which takes fast decisions. The
second (may be Aco, Stramonium, Arg Nit, etc), a finicky,
nervous, timid, impulsive, panicky personality whose every
reaction is panic. The third (may be Calcarea, Gels,
Helleborus, Bar Carb, etc.), too slow to take decisions and
does not have discretion of taking right decisions. The
fourth may be a revolting type (Mercury, Causticum, Nux.V.),
hates being intimidated. The fifth (probably a Bufo, Baryta,
Aethusa), has no capacity to understand the gravity of the
situation.

Disease pathologies, as we already saw, are due to the three

defense mechanisms at work. Like all the properties of a cell,
even the three defense responses to a stimulus are genetically

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governed. Whether the cell should inflame, indurate or ulcerate
depends upon the genetic code character of the cell.

The very existence of man is defense oriented .

The physical structure is defense oriented. The mental

attitude and behaviour he possesses is defense oriented. Even
diseases, which he suffers, are defense oriented. This means
the physical makeup, the mental make-up, the general make-
up and the disease susceptibility of an individual depends
upon defense. We know that all these make-ups are arising from
genetic code and are genetically governed.

If all these are defense oriented then even the 'cures' the real
cure should be 'defense oriented'. Aim of 'real cures' have to be
by boosting the defense mechanism of the individual rather than
attacking the hostile stimulus. Rightly so Dr. Hahnemann
denounced the concept of treating the disease in man and
proposed the concept of treating man in disease. He proposed
that the treatment should be done only by taking into
consideration the mental make-up, physical make-up, general
make-up, all of which are the products of the genetic code and
hence reflect the defense trait or miasm.

Thus all the reactions, essentially defensive (to help individual to

evade injury and survive) are built up on innate characteristics
inherited or acquired by the individual. These innate
characteristics also decide the physical stature, structure,
contours which again is designed to defend and survive. The

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whole genetic set up of an individual is designed to ensure that
the mind, physique, tolerances, likes, dislikes as well as
susceptibility to diseases are designed for prolonged survival of
individual.

Miasm is defense and defense is influenced by the genetic code.

So we can safely deduce that miasm is influenced by genetic
code.

Every individual inherits from parents or acquires qualities to

defend itself mentally and physically. These qualities are already
imprinted or get imprinted on his genetic code as traits.

Thus a Psoric constitution is the constitution or makeup of an

individual which is designed physically, mentally, generally to
defend physiologically.

Similarly:

a Sycotic constitution .............................. morphologically

constructively;

a Syphilitic constitution ……………………morphologically

destructively.

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 Chapter 14

MIASMATIC CONSTITUTIONS

Having established connections between 'genetic' trait and

miasm, we proceed to understand individual miasmatic
constitutions.

Psoric Constitutions:

Individuals born with predominantly Psoric constitutions have an

innate and predominant tendency to fight all the invasions
whether they are pathogens, toxins or on mental plane the
'emotions' by physiologic defensive responses of the cells and
tissues. These people are bound to get easy inflammations, easy
irritations, easy infections, easy pains or hypersensitiveness as
far as physical diseases are concerned.

Patients who get dermatitis, rhinitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis at the

slightest provocation e.g. change of food, weather, emotions etc.
are 'Psoric' constitutions. These diseases, as we know,
predominate in young-age groups. Thus, Psora is evident more
in infants, children and less in middle age or old age.

Those who have inherited ‘physiological defense’ or Psora in

their genes, do not shift gears easily to morphological defense
Mycosis or Syphilis). In such constitutions, suppressions do not
take place easily from one miasm to another. The disease may
travel from one system to another, (see chart of suppression in
my book - Theory off Suppression) but retain its expression as
irritation or inflammations. Psoric individuals show dermatitis or
boils in skin (first layer) being converted into pharyngitis (second

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layer). A bronchitis disappearing or an asthma getting relieved
by partial similimum may show up as 'arthritis' or spondylitis (third
layer). A sciatica, spondylitis, or joint pain disappearing with
partial similimum could result in volatile hypertension or stress
hypertension or ischaemic heart disease which is characterized
by what the cardiologists call as unstable angina. The unstable
angina as the name suggests, has instability, which is associated
with biochemical changes in the intima of arteries. The psoric
'ischaemia' or lack of blood supply to heart is due to spasmodic
constriction of the blood vessel rather than any 'concrete'
'structural obstruction' associated with arteriosclerosis which has
origin in 'Sycosis.

The physiologic nature of defense caused due to sheer

biochemical changes in cells and tissue offers a sense of
'fluidity', 'changeability' and/or 'instability' to Psoric symptoms
which can best be termed as 'high dynamism'. The symptoms of
Psora, therefore, will essentially be of sudden onset of
paroxysmality or intensity of pains or redness with changeability
and do respond to treatment and is associated with very fast
recovery.

Sycotic Constitutions:

Individuals born with predominantly Sycotic constitutions have an

innate and predominant tendency to fight all the invasions
whether they are pathogens, toxins or on mental plane the
'emotions' by constructive defensive responses of the cells and
tissues. These people are bound to get easy contrictions, easy
growths, thickenings, tumors, chronic non-resolving

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inflammations. Insidious diseases like diabetes, high blood
pressures, anaemias, hyperlipidemias, ischaemias, are common
at an early age. Warts, moles, keloids thrown up externally gives
us an indication that the patient has entered the sycotic defense
stage.

Patients get primary inflammation and go into constructive

pathology easily. Wounds and injuries are deceptive, never
clean-cut nor do they heal neatly and cleanly like Psoric
constitutions. They are deep inside and concealed with yellow or
green colored discharges. Deposition of pigments, hence
blackening of skin or wounds is a rule in this miasm. These
diseases, as we know, predominate middle age groups.

Syphilitic Constitutions:

Individuals born with predominantly Syphilitic constitutions have

an innate and predominant tendency to fight all the invasions
whether they are pathogens, toxins or on mental plane the
'emotions' by destructive defensive responses of the cells and
tissues. These people are bound to get easy destructions, easy
haemorrhages, easy overwhelming infections, septicemias,
excruciating pains, hysterical hypersensitiveness, fractures that
are complex, cracks and ulcers that bleed easily, as far as physi-
cal diseases are concerned.

Patients get primary inflammation and go into destructive

pathology easily. Wounds are never clean-cut nor do they heal
neatly and cleanly like Psoric constitutions. Distortion and
disfigurement is a rule in this miasm. These diseases, as we
know, predominate older age groups. Thus, Psora is evident

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more in infants, children; Sycosis in middle age; and Syphilis in
old age.

Case:

A child of five months came with the chief complaint of

blindness. The child not smiling was diagnosed as blind since
birth. The mother insisted that the child used to smile and
respond very well to her beckoning until the age of three months.
She refused to believe the diagnosis of birth defect. On inquiry it
was found that the child was vaccinated at the age of 3 months.
The child had a mild rash on the body, after which some cough
and cold persisted for a few days which was better after
treatment. There was no other major problem after that.

Generally, with due respect to the pediatricians diagnosis of

congenital health problems like diabetes, blindness, autism,
mutism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy etc. should not be relied upon
and should be taken with a pinch of salt. The mother's
observation about the child being normal or abnormal is more
reliable. The modern day physician does not have thorough
knowledge of what harm can the modern therapeutic drugs do to
the young child. They are blissfully unaware of the destructive
effects of multitudes of vaccinations that cause havoc in the
child's immunity. Nor are they aware of mild seemingly benign
eruptions on skin metastasizing into epilepsy or tumors. In this
child, the vaccination had set up a series of chain reactions in the
body, which ended up as degeneration of the retina. This child
was a strong Syphilitic constitution and hence after the initial
Psoric or physiological defense reaction on the skin the genes

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were forced to change the gear of defense to destructive defense
at the level of neuro-ectoderm that is the retina and that too in a
short period of one month. We can here conclude, that the child's
disease had gone from ectoderm to endoderm to straight neuro-
ectoderm, (instead of mesoderm) indicating a remedy, which
does not follow the rules, or with a hysterical trait. The remedy
had to be fast in speed, looking at the speed with which the
disease had progressed. Therefore a destructive, Syphilitic, fast,
revolting, chilly and thirsty remedy which is badly influenced by
bad effects of vaccination was selected and that was Mercurius
Sol.

PART-II

Our journey through material body is over.

Now we enter The Mind, The Cell and Miasm.

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ENTERING THE MIND OF THE CELL

In Aphorism 63 of Organon, Hahnemann mentions that 'every

agent' and 'every medicine' deranges the vital force and causes
alteration in health for longer or shorter period. Vital force
endeavours to oppose it. This resistant action is a property or
automatic action of our life preserving power. It means that our
vital force or the force, which pervades our cells and tissues and
the whole being, in its own intelligent way, is trying to save our
life.

We saw in Aphorism 74 how the force which runs the organism

makes it revolt in different ways - one better and stronger than
the other, in order to maintain life.

Again in Aphorism 201 Hahnemann writes: 'It is evident that

man's vital force when encumbered with chronic disease...
adopts a plan... The plan is of developing a local malady on
external part (that is the least important part) solely for this
object... to thereby silence the internal disease, which otherwise
threatens to destroy the vital organs.

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pervades the cells, has its own intelligence. (Surprisingly many
Homoeopaths call vital force unintelligent). It looses the
intelligence in the Syphilitic miasm when it looses control and
starts sacrificing important organs.

It is only because of its 'intelligence' that the cells and tissues

recognize what is harmful to it, what belongs to the internal
environment and what does not, what primary steps to be taken
like physiologic defense response; when to change the
physiologic defense to morphological defense; what to accumu-
late, what to produce in excess or what to produce less or which
organ or tissue to destroy. It is because of intelligence it knows
which is the least important organ (e.g. skin) and above all it is
this very intelligence which induces the body to produce pain,
sensitivity or a growth or ulcer so that it can draw attention of
outsiders and to make it known that 'all is not well within'.

Doctors and physicians who try to treat these external S.O.S.

signals of the body like pains, ulcers or eczemas infact expose
their sub-standard intellect. These are the people who with their
unintelligent faculties do not understand the 'intelligence in the
organism'.

As if this is not sufficient, 'the cell' which is a 'representative' unit

of the whole man has been seen to behave and react to different
situations taking into consideration the genetic inheritance. The
genetic apparatus which is at the root of intelligence of the
organism does not only have inherited knowledge and tendency
but is also in an 'ever learning process which imparts 'acquired
traits' to array of inherited traits.

Thus the cell or the organism fights physically only with guidance

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Mind of the Cell:

Mind of the cell is in its genes. The genes decide nether this
individual is going to be coward courageous, audacious or timid,
angry or anxious, haughty or servile etc. These and other
genetic traits further express themselves through emotions of
fears, anxieties, loves, attachments, hates etc. As we know and
have already seen that the world of life depends on defense
(Darwin's law of survival of fittest). Defense can be physical or
mental. We saw the cell defending in face of physical attack.
Now we'll see how the cell defends the attack mentally.

'Life' has always been busily 'improving' upon the previous

generations in qualities and attributes. This is perhaps what
Hahnemann has mentioned as striving for higher purpose of
existence. In Aphorism 9 of Organon, Hahnemann says:- 'In the
healthy condition of man, the spiritual vital force, the dynamis
that animates the material body (organism), rules with
unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in
admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both
sensations and functions; so that our indwelling, reason-gifted
mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the
higher Purpose of our existence'.

Hahnemann talks about the whole organization of an organism

controlled by the 'vital force' or 'dynamis’ and aim of which is to
keep the mind and body axis in perfect control. The control of the
various systems responsible for the continuity of life is to be kept
in control, in working condition and in equilibrium, then and only
then the reason gifted mind can use this material body or evolve

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And the higher purpose of life is to change for the better and
evolve for better and peaceful existence.

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PSORIC MENTALS

A 'cell' is born with a purpose. The purpose may be two-fold.

Jointly with other cell it may form a continuous sheath called
tissue. This can afford protection to an organ or delicate parts.
On the other hand, the cell has its own individuality. It has its own
functions to perform. It may synthesize enzymes,
neurotransmitters, amino-acids of proteins. Besides these two
fold obvious functions it has a primary function to convert
nutritive elements to 'energy'. Among these three functions, the
primary function is the most important. Both the previous two
functions depend entirety on the 'cell' performing its first function
well. A cell thereby has a great healthy. For this, every cell is
rewarded back because the whole organism is a social order of
75-100 trillion cells.

As ‘life’ goes on what is important for every being is to

‘conscientiously’ work for the purpose for which he or she is born
for or exists. A man has to work for his ‘daily bread’ they say. If
he earns his daily bread (‘food’-the source of energy’) he will be
able to live and let live. This means there will be ‘harmony’ with
in and without. 'Energy' so gained is not wasted in fighting or
quarelling. This energy will tune the whole system in such a
manner that the system within and without becomes more
efficacious. As the 'efficiency' increases, less amount of energy
is consumed for normal processes. Energy now can be devoted
to evolve for higher purpose. Mind will be happy, materialistically
contented, and can think of things beyond material existence or

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beyond normal senses but rationally.

If a man is to remain healthy, every organ and therefore every

cell has to function properly and 'conscientiously'. If every cell
works conscientiously to produce energy, there will be sufficient
energy to carry on normal assigned functions as well as become
prosperous and evolve…..This rational thinking leads to progress
of mankind.

From the above facts we conclude that working for gaining of

knowledge; which will help in gaining of 'daily bread' and working
for a cause selflessly can be called as 'diligent' or broadly
'conscientious'. It has a predominantly Psoric hue.

[Diligently working for 'materialistic gains and greed' and not for
needs is Sycotic and not Psoric. Overworking, uncontrolled
desire to work without caring for life, can be Syphilitic. Thus
workaholics can be Sycotic, Syphilitic]

'Needs' of a cell or a man are 'sensed' by his faculties. We have

been provided with 5 senses to sense the needs and sense the
dangers. All for the purpose of better life. [The Sycotic 'needs'
and Syphilitic 'needs' are different].

For a Psoric person the needs we saw were bare minimum

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things required to sustain life. The man's needs are (a) earning
daily bread to provide energy and (b) knowledge which
ultimately helps him to earn bread and which also helps him to
protect himself.

Similarly for a 'cell' the need is oxygen and nutrition which will
provide him energy.

When the needs are at a premium that is when there is 'hypoxia'

or 'ischaemia', the cell starves for it. It wants it but does not get
it. The senses are increased. The least amount of oxygen is now
welcome. t is something like a girl whose needs are
'appreciation'. Appreciation is bread and butter. If her needs are
not met with that is she does not get 'appreciation' to her
satisfaction, automatically she increases in sensitivity as if to
search for the most minimum sympathy available. This rise of
senses and sensitivity is not selective but collective. So she
becomes sensitive to hurt, reprimands, neglect as well as 'pains'.
This is a state of hypersensitivity. [Psoric hypersensitivity is
controlled, and differs from Syphilitic hypersensitivity that is
uncontrolled.]

'Body always speaks the 'mind's language'. Body and mind are
not two different things but two poles of the same 'axis'. Thus
the 'sensitivity' is increased also at body level to give rise to
'pain-factor'. The pain-factor' essentially is 'Psoric'.
'Hypersensitivity’ of body level can give rise to allergies and
hypersensitivity. Thus rhinitis, bronchitis, asthmas etc. caused
by sensitivity to fur, dust, pollens, cold air or change of

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temperatures or any food articles which commonly go under the
term 'allergies' are increased sensitivities, a purely Psoric
defense. When a skin is scraped or scalded, the upper
protective layer is no more present and the exposed skin is now
sensitive not only to sharp, pointed or metallic things but
becomes sensitive to even a silk cloth or a cotton piece.
Similarly a sensitive mind starts getting hurt and offended very
easily by matters like jokes, reprimands and rudeness etc which
otherwise would have gone unfelt and unnoticed.

A typical Psoric mind therefore is very conscientious, sensitive,

offended easily, weeps easily and to defend itself from all this
'shirks away from hurt', withdraws from hurt (withdrawal/timidity).
What are the possible things which will happen: anticipation /
apprehension. It's better that I don't go to the extent where I
might get hurt (inhibition). And what are the possible things,
which will hurt? anxiety. This state gives a mental picture of
timidity, anxiousness, carefulness, going into a shell, finding a
cover (like Calc. Carb), inhibition, apprehension, anticipatory
anxiety etc.

The crux of Psoric mental + physical defense of Psora:

Psoric Mentals Psoric Physicals

revolve around: revolve around:

Sensitivity, Anxiety Pain Inflammation

timidity, irritability, fever, diarrhoea
anger etc.

All this time the cell was fighting a lone battle with a hostile
stimulus purely using 'physiologic defense'. The physiological
defense is the most primary defense and every being has to go

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It is worthwhile remembering that cell adopts the secondary

defense only when the primary physiologic defense has failed.
The secondary defense is by bringing about structural changes
and is called morphological defense.

After the first defense the 'organism' is not bound to go to the two
secondary defenses in order of Psora > Sycosis > Syphilis or
Psora > Syphilis > Sycosis. The secondary defensive
mechanism, as the books of pathology tell us, totally depends
upon the genetic code of the individual organism.

If an individual has genetically acquired from his parents (or

acquired through Syphilitic infection), the destructive element
(Syphilis), then after the primary 'physiological defense' (Psora)
the individual organism and its cells resort to Syphilitic or 'de-
structive pathology' as a response to the continued hostile
stimulus. Thus in these cases Psora, which has to be present as
a base, is followed by Syphilis as secondary defense.

On the other hand, the 'individual' who has inherited the

constructive element' from the parents (or even acquired it
during life time in the form of venereal disease, gonorrhoea) will
resort to 'constructive pathology' as response to the continued
hostile stimulus.

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A constitution, which uses constructive pathology more often and
more easily due to the inherited or acquired trait in the genes is
'Sycotic constitution'. The constitution, which uses destructive
pathology easily and predominantly is 'Syphilitic constitution'. In
cases where both Sycosis and Syphilis have been inherited, say
for example 'Sycosis' from father and 'Syphilis' from mother, then
the one, which is dominant and the genes which are activated,
will determine the pathology or the uppermost miasm at that
particular time. If 'Syphilis' is the dominant trait, then the child can
suffer from destructive pathologies first e.g. in nose-ozaena,
caries of nasal cartilage; or retinal degeneration etc. at a young
age. This could later on switch to 'Sycosis' or constructive de-
fense pathologies and the child can start showing signs of warts,
excrescences, polyps, or even a brain tumor. In another child, it
could be exactly opposite.

But all said and done every cell has to use primary response or
physiological defense before either going to any of the
'secondary responses'. 'Psora' has to be the fundamental miasm
before Syphilis or Sycosis can come in and that is the ultimate
truth.

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SYCOTIC MENTALS

To assess the mental picture of Sycosis, it is worthwhile

recollecting the physical aspects of Sycosis. We deduced earlier
that some organisms that fail to stop the irritating hostile factors
by physiologic defense adopt a more solid approach, that of
fortification or construction. Let us, for the time being, assume
the state of the cell or a thought process in a cell as if it were a
human being.

The primary response or physiological defensive response of the

cell is expressed as sensitivity > irritability > pain > inflammation
> at the physical plane and sensitivity > irritability > anxiety >
anger > insecurity etc. on mental plane. As the hostile stimulus
continues, the cell could start feeling insecure and a sense of
frailness could set in. Now there is an impending fear of being
finished or destroyed. An impending fear of death accompanies
this 'fragile' cell weakened by sustained hostility, unable to
overcome the enemy in man-to-man combat tries to adopt
guerilla tactics. Those whose genes have cowardice traits try to
adopt the 'constructive defense'. The cell Would like to
'deceive' the invader. It tries to cover up its weakness by
fortification. It builds a wall behind which it can 'hide'. The wall
needs 'accumulations' of certain things or multiplication of certain
things. Once this wall is ready outside the cell, a false facade has
been created. The enemy needs to penetrate this false facade
wall if it has to attack the interior of the cell. In order to 'put off the

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invader, the cell's mind uses all the 'guiles and tricks'. It may put
up a 'show' to make itself 'foppish' to hide and 'project' what it is
not. This false projection of exterior not reflecting the interior, is a
part of the shrewd, sly, maneuvering tactics for self defense.
Painlessness of complaints which are otherwise painful is
classical example of such tactics. The whole mentality is based
on selfish motives and gratification of urges. All this it does
shamelessly.

Thus cowardice, fragility, fears, hiding, cover-up, projections,

facade, thick skinned, hoarding, accumulations of money,
property, treasures, showmanship, cunningness, slyness,
shrewdness, maneuvering, political shamelessness, selfishness,
self-centeredness etc. are some of the rubrics which can
describe the Sycosis mentality.

First face of Sycosis - Sycosis excess:

This face of Sycosis gives rise to overgrowing, over functioning.

It causes over expression and over projection. These when
applied to expression, will, intellect, emotions, morals etc.
will give us the Sycotic excess traits.

Over expressive: This quality makes a person loquacious,

expansive, communicative. These people, who are extroverted,
go on talking and talking. They answer any question never in one
word nor in one sentence. They are good patients for
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what is your chief complaint they will start their narration right
from their childhood. A man who just wanted to give a news that
his wife aborted, has started his narration right from the time he
came home from work in the evening, after which he took his
wife for a long walk, where they botl1 ate some delicious ice
creams and how they took a detour from the market to the park
and around the park, to his place of residence and then see how
his wife complained about spasmodic pain in the abdomen and
then how she was taken to the hospital and she aborted. In
contrast, a Sycosis under expressive would have just finished the
whole thing as….. 'Doctor - bad news - my wife aborted'. Some
loquacious people whilst narrating one topic may loose their
thread and go to another topic. Some of the patients who try to
impress upon the importance of their complaint end up
exaggerating. People who talk vivaciously, with flowery
language, who are very eloquent (Lach, Op), who are flatterers
or who talk about money, making money or about luxuries and
amusements rather than daily needs and necessities, tend to
have 'Sycosis' trait.

Will: Though 'Sycosis' itself is based on cowardice and fear of

death, the ideal sycotic excess personality shall project himself
as a 'dictator'. The dominance is more pronounced where there
is least resistance or opposition. 'Hard on inferiors and soft with
superiors' is an ideal quality of Sycosis 'excess'. These
individuals can rule in a home or dominate in the office only on
subordinates. They are meek in front of the boss. Children who
are defiant and obstinate and throw tantrums in front of mothers
or grand parents but become very timid when father returns
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to this group. For them, mother and grand parents or a maid is
someone who is taken for granted. The child knows these people
with whom he spends most of the time, as very harmless. These
are the people who give him 'love' and never mean him harm.
He has nothing to fear from them and therefore can dictate terms
with them. The father, who is not present throughout the day is
taken as an outsider. He may be harmful to the child as would be
a 'boss' in an office or 'teacher' in the school. Such people could
be potentially harmful. In front of them the child who is devil at
home could become a meek timid entity. Such may be the
sycotic variations of Lachesis, Lyco, Veratrum or Platina.

Sycosis - excess personality is an 'achiever'. His 'desires' are

more than his 'needs'. (Desire more than he needs :- ARS, ARS-
S-F, Bar-S, Bry, Zin-P). He desires money, success, name,
fame. There may be avarice, greed, gluttony (food). He pursues
these desires with obstinacy and positivity.

[For 'achievement' he may use any means, morals] Behind this

'achieving tendency' is a greed or a selfish-interest. At the very
base of it is cowardice and fear of death. The 'second function'
of 'reproduction' in a 'cell' was perhaps necessarily developed
due to 'insecure feeling' in the cell. What will happen to my
achievements, my acquisition (both physical and mental) when I
die. I have to store it (in genes), accumulate and pass on to
some one. That some one should be very close to me, very
similar to me. I do not want my things to go out of 'my' 'clone' or
'ditto' so that even when I am not there 'mine' will remain mine.

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So the 'progeny' production was supposed to be a 'maneuver' to
deceive destiny (death). That even death should not make me
part with 'my' invaluable. The selfish motives, self-interests, self-
centeredness, fear of loss and deception perhaps drove the cell
to evolve mitosis to create a 'ditto'. But there were other forces
acting in the world, which prevented a 100% 'ditto' or a 'clone'.
Even a humanly architectured , scientifically perfect method
cannot produce a 'clone' which can be cent percent 'identical'.
The obvious reason for this is that identity does not only depend
upon 'genes'.

These 'genes' themselves are constantly under the influence of

other energies, which surround the entity. These energies,
which influence the new entity, ranges from cosmic forces and
magnetic force of the huge planets and sun in our solar system.
These may differ according to their positions in sky; latitude and
longitude at which the two were born at different times may
have different kinetic forces influencing it; the people around,
have their own vibrations; all of which may influence the
biological mechanism within differently and hence cause the
variations. These may cause the new product to achieve a
different defense mechanism not identical with the original.
'Dolly' the first cloned animal developed arthritis, which the
original did not have. She perhaps developed Sycotic defense
disease while the original perhaps was in Psora. Defense at
genetic level makes all the difference. The 'clone' with the
Sycotic defense will now show variation from the original, both
in terms of looks and behavior. It may now develop a larger
bony structure and behave entirely differently than the original in
face of some difficulty or hostile stimulus.

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In short any being, which lives, has to defend to live. And
anything, which ‘defends’, cannot be 'identical'. Even identical
twins react differently in the same situation. The defense
miasms, which are modes of defense, prevent identical
existence and hence is the base of what Hahnemann calls
individualization.

Intellect: Profuseness of thought processes leads one to

become an intelligent entity. The 'avarice' for knowledge stems
from desire to achieve more and become greatest or unique or
unparalleled. All these and the fertility of brain in Sycosis excess
may make an individual an intellectual. The brain is full of fan-
tastic ideas, immense possibilities and probabilities mostly
constructive or at times also very destructive. To maneuver,
escape, and rationalize or to devise an excuse becomes a
child's play. This fertile brain can think of new designs, new
theories, and can create new things leading to discoveries and
inventions. Either side of the brain the left brain standing for
logic and analysis and the right brain which helps in the purpose
of creativity and imagination, both are functionally well enhanced
and well balanced in making of a scientist or a discoverer or
even a poet. The creative and imaginative brain can give birth to
poems, verses or even stories to make a good poet or a famous
author. 'Quickness' of perception, analysis and application' of
one theory to another and practical observation leads to
theorizing in such brains. Most of the scientists and great
discoverers owe their discoveries perhaps to such a Sycotic
intellect.

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is added to this 'intellect' it makes a perfect pirate. Pirated books,
stories, songs, films and even theories are offered to the world
'camouflaged' as originals. Copying 'clandestinely' taking three to
four theories and combining and dishing out a brand new one is
a surreptitious act of a Sycosis excess intellect.

Such 'intellect' gives rise to modern day politicians or even the

much maligned 'gurus' in saffron or white garbs, misleading the
masses by their manipulative intellect and eloquence. Here too
they do not practice what they preach (which is also true in
homoeopathic world).

Morals: The petty thieves, robbers and gangsters respectively

are steps in ladder like progression of Sycosis immorals. This
most primary step of achieving primary needs in illegal
surreptitious way starts from insufficient nutritions (Psora). For
the individual, whose daily needs of bread and butter for himself
and his family are not met with, hunger looms large in front of
him. Insufficient daily necessities of life despite working hard for
it, propels him to acquire it in a clandestine way. It is a mad, mad
world. There is a race for survival especially in over populated
countries like India where demands are more and supply is less.
One starts 'stealing' to survive. A 'fear' constantly lurks behind his
mind that he is doing something wrong, he may be caught and
punished. Once he succeeds in 'acquiring' money in this manner
the Psoric conscientiousness starts giving way to Sycotic slyness
and non-conscientiousness. At this stage a mixture of emotions
prevail. The Psoric anxiety and the Sycotic 'fear' of being caught

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and beat-en-up are both trying to overpower each other. Once
success after success is achieved then the psoric anxiety
disappears 'Now to hell with the conscience'. The person
becomes 'thick-skinned', (a slang but apt phrase used to describe
Sycosis by layman inadvertently). Verbatim he becomes 'thick'
due to accumulation Sycosis. Though fear lurks from within, a
thick wall of rationalization is built. He goes on acquiring the
needs, which within short time turns to greed. The easy money
later is used to carry on this same business of flicking pockets by
using smaller thieves hired by him. He becomes the 'boss' of a
gang protected by guards sitting in the safety of home (coward),
not risking his dear life and getting his work done from others.
This organization may acquire larger dimensions, sometimes
even to international levels. The petty thief who once started as a
pauper becomes a person with high ambitions, acquires high
standards of living and becomes most exclusive and too elusive.
He operates internationally with a big nexus of people and
gangsters ready to work for him, die for him and kill for him all at
a price, which he is more than willing to pay. He is the 'brain'
behind. Very often he manipulates and maneuvers his way to
become a respectable, charitable magnanimous philanthropist,
V.I.P., industrialist or even a minister. All credit goes to his
Sycotic brain.

The defense or miasm of Sycosis which is based on the

aberration (departure from what is true, right or correct) of
function of reproduction tend to have a 'sexual' hue. Sex is one
of the methods of reproduction and which is dominant trait in
man. Thus the Sycosis whether excess or less are likely to
revolve around this. The 'excess' of sexual desire and the urge

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for gratification of sexual urge makes the 'fertile' Sycotic mind
manipulate circumstances to achieve what they want. The 'boss'
enjoying a 'clandestine' affair with his secretary or multitudes of
them and then when threatened with obvious consequences,
getting cold feet due to the coward nature is an ideal example of
Sycosis morals. Fear of being caught or exposed, loosing his
social position is upper most in his mind. 'Flirting' with ladies,
ideas, jobs and even dangers may make him appear capricious
or even frivolous. The mind is full of 'lust' leading to
lasciviousness in acts and speech. Such constitutions very often
suffer from bad effects of 'masturbation' or 'debauchery'.

Sycosis precipitated in young children by parents:

In the modern competitive world, the parents in the first place

are averse to having children. If at all they have one they do not
have time for them. Such an unwanted child never gets love
from either of the parents. The Sycotic parents, both father and
mother are busy accumulating wealth. They think 'money' and
comforts is all that the child needs. The maid looks after the
'needs' of the child's nutrition and body care. The physical needs
may be satisfied mechanically but what the human child also
needs is love, care and attention, which should be motherly.

This 5-6 years' child may be exposed to best tuitions, best

school, best education but it is also exposed to some turmoil at
home. The father and mother who also do not have time for each
other or who do not vibe with each other have daily quarrels and
fights, sometimes even physical. The poor child watching this

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silently is petrified. There is a sense of 'insecurity' what if my
parents divorce. The child is sensitive to all this and weeps and
gets frightened because of his predominant psora. The timid
constitution is sensitized everyday and weeps until the tears dry.
He tries to pacify the parents in his own way. But for him, he is
trying to change his parents, which he can never succeed. They
are blinded by their egos. The poor child's primary reaction of
weeping and pleading to the hostile stimulus of parent's fights
has failed. He mentally shifts his gear of defense. He is as if
orphaned. He decides to grow, to grow on his own. His second
defense of Sycosis switches on. He becomes precocious. He
becomes too much matured for his age. At the raw age of 7 yrs.
or 8 yrs., he starts having all the qualities of an adult. He starts
advising his mother about how to behave and how not to and
very often right. His decisions are mature. He stands first in his
class, immense intellectual capacity. This may go to the extent of
the child being recognized as a child prodigy. All his faculties are
well developed. Even the sexual maturity or the interest in sex
develops too early in childhood. He may start hugging and
kissing, touching breasts of mother, maids or even other ladies
which may go unnoticed for his age. The oedipus reflex of
children prematurely matures into sexual affliction.

On the other hand physically too, he starts growing. He suddenly

starts putting on weight. The face and the body acquires rounded
contours.

The child has shifted from Psora to Sycosis too early in age.

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Such a child looses its childhood too early. He prematurely
matures into an adult. The pity is that the child has skipped one
'phase' in his life. Diseases, which he starts suffering, are also
Sycotic. He may be soon diagnosed as suffering from diabetes.
Doctors diagnose this as juvenile diabetes - the childhood
diabetes and declare it as congenital or genetic. This is not true.
This is neither diabetes insipidus nor due to genetic aberration.
This is early onset diabetes. The child who used to suffer from
Psoric or inflammatory and infective diseases like viral rhinitis,
bronchitis or recurrent diarrhoea does not suffer from it any more.
Suddenly his tendency to take infections seems to have
vanished. The diseases caused due to immune impairment in the
endoderm is now suppressed to higher level or more important
organ that is pancreas. The type of defense that is miasm has
also changed from Psora to Sycosis (either it starts chronic
inflammation of pancreas or due to arteriosclerosis setting in too
early to block the blood supply to islets of langerhans in
pancreas).

This is a story of unfortunate children who sacrifice their

childhood and prematurely mature due to the ^maturity of the
parents who are solely responsible for their child going into
Sycosis excess.

There are other groups of children who suffer from different fate.
The fate of Sycosis less. We have seen some children come to
us for bad performance in schools. The story is very identical.
Until the child was in the 5th grade, the child used to score well in

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all the subjects. He was considered to be one of the brilliant
students. Only, his health would not permit him to pursue his
studies well. He used to suffer from recurrent asthmatic
bronchitis. He did not respond to antibiotics and so was put
under homoeopathic treatment, which acted like a miracle. His
attacks have become much less as almost nonrecurring. Body
may or may not grow but his performance at school has gone
down. He has started getting 'easy fatigue'. He sleeps or at least
needs sleep of 10 hours or more. It is difficult to awaken him.
These children cannot score good marks in mathematics or
languages but do very well in science especially scientific
experiments. They do become expert in handling electrical
gadgets. They can even repair them. The mind works good in
machines, computers etc. but cannot comply with studies. Very
often they are even stamped as 'dyslexic'. Physically the child
does not grow in height. He becomes broad but 'stunted'. Bony
structure becomes prominent. In such cases the right brain may
grow but left does not make progress. Sensitivity, creativity,
imaginations show tendency to growth but are brutally covered
up by Sycosis. There are some cases where opposite happens.
Creativity, imagination takes a back seat. The left brain
dominates and growth can make him a good leader and ideal
businessman at a young age, but school studies suffer. (These
different aspects of selective growth retardation need to be
considered while arriving at a similimum to cure).

The above predicaments of a child are seen to be precipitated

very often in children wherein either of the parents is very strict.
A strict father beating a child often to induce discipline is
countered by the sensitive child first by weeping. When weeping

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is of no avail the child decides to stand-up to the torture. He
acquires the second defense and becomes 'thick-skinned'.
"Come on beat me as much as you can, I shall never show you
that I am hurt" is the silent revolt. These sensitive children get
hurt but cover it up, do not show, hide their feelings and then go
and weep in privacy. We can literally see the eyes flooded with
tears not allowed to be let down. Their skin gradually becomes
dry. Their palms almost show corny thickness. Their hair
becomes dry, rough and curly. Their hair are difficult to comb
and are short and compressed like a cap to the scalp. All these
are ample evidence of lost childhood; lost love, fear filled life.
(Magnesium, Natrum Muriaticum very often have such hair).

As all these 'lost childhood' children grow up they start various

acquisitions. Some children buy perfumes; some of them sheer
luxuries and luxurious products and some develop 'sex' as the
prerogative.

Emotions : as reflected by Psoric constitution; Sycotic

constitution and Syphilitic constitution.

Fear: 'Sycosis' or the morphological constructive defense has its

base in insecurity. Basically cowardice' and love for life
precipitates the response °of the individual at physical level and
mental level. Love for life' is projected as fears.

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Fears' of Sycosis weighs against the 'anxieties' of Psora and
'anguish' of Syphilis.

The Psoric anxieties make the thought process so volatile that

the individual spends maximum time available in imagining the
consequences of a particular step. Anxiety in dark differs from
fear of darkness. Anxiety about health differs from fear of
diseases (in particular) e.g. fear of infectious disease, fear of
catalepsy, of cholera, of consumption, of heart disease, of
epilepsy, of paralysis, of cancers, of incurable diseases etc.

Anxiety means 'ready to fear'. An anxious individual will think of

immense possibilities that may occur when he goes into
darkroom. This thought process could be something like …..
"O God help me… may be there is a snake which I might
trample upon in the dark and what if it bites; or what if there is a
dog which could bite me? What will happen if it bites me? Then
I'll have to take anti-rabies injection in my stomach - Oh God it
could be really painful; what if there is some obstruction due to
which I might tumble down? I might get a fracture of some bone
then I might have to undergo operation". The anxious Psoric
mind compulsorily thinks about so many different possibilities
and probabilities and these thoughts occupy the mind and make
rational thinking impossible. As against this the 'Sycotic' mind,
whether 'under expressive' or 'over expressive' has definite
fears. There can be only one fear or multiple in numbers.

One individual does not go into dark because he is convinced

there is a dog inside. Another is convinced that there are

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dacoits who might kill him. Another might be afraid to go in the
dark because he is convinced that any enemy he meets, he will
not be able to fight because he is wanting in strength. He
cannot face a force which is unknown to him.

Medorrhinum, the 'Sycotic nosode' shows innumerable fears:-

fear of being alone at night.

fear of animals - of cats, of dogs.

fear of animals behind him, that someone is behind him.

fear of cancer.

fear of something creeping out of every corner in the dark.

fear of diseases impending.

fear of diseases being incurable.

fear of evil.

fear before examination.

fear of falling.

fear of having a fit.

fear of ghosts.

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fear of happen, something will happen, terrible and horrible.

fear of imaginary things.

fear of insanity, losing his reason.

fear of misfortune.

fear of narrow places, claustrophobia.

fear of noise.

fear of suffocation, night.

fear of water.

fear of suicide.

fear of unknown.

As against this long list we have the anxieties which

form a short list:-

anxiety anticipating an engagement.

anxiety chest in region of heart.

anxiety conscience.

anxiety about health.

anxiety about salvation.

anxiety on walking.

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 or Psorinum will have more anxieties and less number of
fears or vice versa. A remedy, which is 'broad spectrum',
meaning tri-miasmatic (or in homoeopathic language
called polychrest) will have Psoric rubrics, Sycotic rubrics
and Syphilitic rubrics to represent the miasm, which they
cover. This is the base of my Tri-miasmatic materia
medica.)

Happiness: Again the 'over expression' quality of Sycosis will

make the Sycotic individual project his 'happiness' in such a
manner that it will indirectly promote his selfish interest and
motives. He will use his money, position, and power, to celebrate
a small occasion to such an extent that the occasion is side
tracked and it is his richness or importance, which is highlighted.
Exhilarating exuberance is heightened joy.

Mirth: The meaning of mirthful according to Webster's dictionary

is 'full of, or 'expressing' merriment, joyfulness when
characterized laughter. Laughing loudly, laughing at trifles,
causeless laughing, laughing immoderately, sarcastically,
scornfully, laughing to hide grief is 'Sycotic'. (Sycosis under
expressiveness will have subtle, concealed, sardonic laughs or
never laughs -quality.)

Grief: How can one over express her grief? Crying, wailing or
to attract pity or sympathy of others is characteristic of 'Sycosis'
over expressiveness. Moaning, grumbling, involuntary sighing
indicates hidden grief of Sycosis less.

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Anger: Sycosis excess means accumulation, collection. When
such an accumulation takes place in arterial walls, the arteries
get thickened to give rise to arteriosclerosis. This is a gradual
process. This pathology gives rise to resistance to flow of
blood. The resistance occurs also due to thickening and accu-
mulation of fats in the surrounding tissue as well as inside the
blood (Hyperlipidemia). When there is an obstruction or
resistance to any smooth flow, everything is slowed down.
Naturally the reaction is bound to be anger. Even the heart
muscles, which could pump the blood to different parts easily,
feels that unnecessarily it has to put on extra effort. To put on
the extra effort the muscle mass has to be increased
(hypertrophy). This is an 'anger arousing' situation. Hence most
of the hypertensive patients tend to loose their cool and
become angry at the slightest drop of a hat. Anger on
contradiction, anger easily, anger involuntary, anger about pain
(something which acts as an impediment), anger when
disturbed, interrupted, temper tantrums, anger with obstinacy,
(anger:- temper tantrums, opposed, when in the least Thuja).

Contradiction: Intolerant of - throws themselves angrily on the

floor and cannot get their breath when in the least opposed
Thuja

Thuja, the king of Sycosis is single remedy for the above

mentioned rubrics which amply demonstrates the anger of
Sycosis due to impediment or resistance. It differs from

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'inhibitory Sycosis in the fact that the anger there is suppressed,
not expressed, with reserved displeasure.

It differs from Psoric anger in the fact that Psoric anger is due
to paroxysm, spasm, irritation hence is sudden, violent,
temporary, followed by quick repentance.

The face color in Sycotic anger may be pale, livid, a mixture of

bluish, (greyish) white and somewhat reddish. It is more due to
'stasis' (we have remedies like Staph, Natrum Mur, Con, Plat,
Ars, Carboveg, Petrol). The face color in Psoric anger is pure
red (as in Belladona, Chamomilla, Nux vomica, Bry, Stram,
Spig, Puis, Calc, Staph etc.) The temperament is mostly
sanguine (full of blood) in Psoric. It is mostly phlegmatic or
leucophlegmatic (slow, sluggish, lethargic) in 'Sycosis'.

Love: The first love of 'Sycosis' individual is life'. He can do

anything for his dear life. He can sell, sacrifice his money,
relations or anything for selfish motives. It arises out of
cowardice. He can threaten but can never 'fight'. If at all he fights
it will be undercover or indirect. He fears death, he loves life. The
Sycosis exhibition of love is extravagant. The love which is
invariably expressed in the form of multitude of gifts, one costlier
than the other. The love and benevolence expressed by 'Sycosis'
is, more often than not with selfish interest, 'charitable' with
expectation of recompense (Calc, Lyco, Natrum Sulph) is a rubric
wherein 'Sycosis' nature is really exposed. A boss gifting his

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secretary with expensive gifts, a minister's P. A. receiving costly
gifts from public, stinks of 'Sycosis' exhibition of love with ulterior
motives. Even the size, shape, color of the gifts purchased by
Sycotic people will inadvertently reflect the Sycotic mind. Their
gifts will be big or large in size so as to impress their love in
proportion. The colors will be bright, decorative and attractive.
The articles will be unique and uncommon reflecting the
importance of the giver (not the recipient of the gift!). On the
other hand, gift given by the Psoric constitutions will be in
proportion to the importance of the person receiving the gift. The
gift will be small more daily-use-oriented, less decorative and not
very expensive. The teenage love is also quite exalted, ex-
pressive with uninhibited hugging and kissing. It may border on
lasciviousness and lewdness with no importance to morals or
conscience. Excess desire for sex may lead a man of immoral
character to adultery or debauchery. Love for animals even may
be an offshoot of overflowing love.

Overflowing love for society and overflowing love for God will

give us the good side of 'Sycosis'. Overflowing love for society

may induce social responsibility and make up a social worker.
The over industrious, loquacious, positive attitude of a Sycotic
are good innate characteristics for making a successful social
worker. The Psoric element may induce initial selfless service
and sacrifice for the people at large. Once Sycosis sets in,
'money', 'name' and 'fame' spoil these individuals whose
manipulativeness and shameless-ness coupled with 'avarice'
make them good politicians and leaders.

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Overflowing love for humanity may make good philanthropist,
with their names 'etched in gold' or associated with every project
making them immortal.

Overflowing love for God and may be the fertile mind of Sycosis
make a religious philosopher. The 'philosopher', social or
religious with his profuse flowing thoughts, fertile imaginations
and command on speech and eloquence has the ability to
mesmerize the ordinary man with this quality. He can lead peo-
ple in right direction, on the other hand even mislead the
masses. (Even the homoeopathic world is not free from such
philosophers. Masses of homoeopaths are led away from reality
by fascinating rosy imaginations. Such theorizing has been
condemned by Hahnemann himself in Aphorism No. 144).

Theorizing, planning, inventing, innovativeness and discoveries

are pointers towards a Sycotic Mind.

'Projection' in Sycosis is a part of rationalization.

'Rationalization' is defined as substituting attitude or behavior

which is more self serving. Substituting an unacceptable motive,
by an acceptable or even admirable explanation. Again it
amounts to hiding. The expressed or projected behavior is false,
pseudo, or a facade. It is a showy outward projection. It could be
glamorous exterior to hide the unglamorous interior. Foppish,

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vanity, ostentation, pretentiousness, affectation are all arising
out of 'Sycosis'.

Acting in Dramas and Films: amounts to Sycosis. Actors have

to project as real what they are not! In constant acts of
projection they gradually change. They come in industry as
lean, thin, long faced, tapering chinned individuals. Those who
really succeed in the films gradually undergo metamorphosis.
Face acquires rounded contours, bony cheeks, chin gains
prominence as they become more and more confident and
positive. They start bloating. Their nature changes from
nervous, apprehensive artist to rough and tough seasoned
campaigners. One could claim that experience makes them
bold. Yes learning and experience are the Psoric traits, which
explode into confidence, positivity and finally blossoming of
artist which says the 'Sycosis' has arrived.

Religious affection is Sycosis in origin. Those who are

ritualistically religious are as if fixed in ideas. They almost come
near to superstitiousness. All this arises out of fear. They are
fear of salvation, fear of being punished by god, fear of
unknown. These fears automatically induce fear of God. Some
people say that they are very religious and that they follow all
the rituals very strictly because if they miss any one of the rituals
or they do anything wrong God will punish them. All the praying,
praising the lord and asking for protection from him is out of fear
of God! If they have fear of God due to which their mind
compels them to be religious, it is Sycosis. Most 'religious'

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people are Sycotic. Those who preach to be noble, mild, never
angry, never jealous, never cursing and do not practice the
same for themselves are 'Sycotic'. Religion, when used to
fragment the peace of society, acquires 'Sycotic' hue.
Religiousness should arise purely from love for God and not fear
of God. Prayer to God often includes one's demands and
desires. "Oh, Lord let me pass my exams with flying colors or let
me get a good job or even let my income increase so that I can
purchase a car and house". These are purely selfish, self
centered prayers. A lady priest' coming for treatment requested
to be taken in early, she wanted her to be given preference over
others because she said, she had a vast followers for whom she
was a 'Messiah'. Cure 'me' and you'll be doing good to so many
sufferers who come to me. I am equal to many and therefore I
advise you to give me preference. God will definitely bless you!
This is a Sycotic request. A person who thinks himself or
herself as a God's messenger or messiah or one who feels his
or her 'pompous importance', is not real religious person but
Sycotic religious person. This lady's congestive cardiac failure
problem got solved with Nux Vomica. Nux vomica is not in the
rubric importance feels, his pompous. In this case, which was
chilly and thirsty she was not only projecting her importance but
was looking down upon ordinary men and women. People who
try to advertise and volunteer information about their religious
attitudes are not really religious at heart. Those who really are,
never even try to make a mention of it.

Case: A man who came for help for his allergic rhinitis and easy
spraining of ankles and backache made it clear that he had
sneezing attacks when he was exposed to flowers at near

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quarters. He got backaches when he had to sit for 40 hours at a
stretch. After a two and a half hours history he never mentioned
why he could not avoid flowers, which aggravated him, or what
was that which brought him close to flowers. When the
accompanying person was questioned for details he disclosed
that the patient was a very well known spiritual and philosophical
adviser who had improved lives of thousands of people in the city
of Mumbai and in the rural areas. The history, which gradually
unveiled, was that he was once upon a time an alcoholic who
used to beat his wife and children and steal money for his
alcohol. As destiny would have it, he changed from a bad man to
a good man. He not only realized his mistake but also went on
sharing his bad and good experiences with others and persuaded
many drunkards to leave alcohol and accept the path of religious-
ness. He started a temple-like meeting place where in front of
God they would give up drinking as he went on giving discourses.
He became famous as messenger of God. On a particular day in
a month thousands of people gathered to give him offerings of
flowers which he had to accept as a token of love. This was the
reason why he could not stay away from flowers and wanted to
get rid of the allergy. The respect for such a man automatically
turns into veneration. So much work he had done for the down
trodden and not a word of it in the history. The religiousness, the
ardency, the sympathetic helping nature had to be dug out. The
secretive attitude had literally covered up his history. He had
created a revolution and changed the fate of millions. With his
chilly, thirstlessness and ardent, religious, sympathetic, secretive
and religious natural traits he improved and got cured with a
similimum.

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What was required in this man was a remedy which had its
defense Sycosis that is Sycotic remedy. The Sycosis had to be
inhibitory, a Sycosis (less). All attitudes were hidden though
good in character. There was no exhibitionism. The remedy was
one which had to have Sycosis less, had to be good at heart,
chilly thirstless and could bring about a revolution. Fittingly the
chronic complaint of easy sprains and strains is also Sycosis
less. Less amount of 'elastin' produced in ligaments and muscles
causing easy sprains and strains. And the remedy which covered
mental make up, physical make up, general make up (along with
the thermals and thirst) and the miasm (defense) was Causticum
(the revolutionary).

Causticum is a remedy we know which has looseness, relaxation

of muscles and tendons causing sprains and strains and
prolapse. This is due to probably less of 'elastin' production,
which is inhibitory Sycosis or Sycosis (less). The body and mind
speak the same language and are defined in a similar way. The
mental defense was also in inhibitory Sycosis and hence he was
not an exhibitionist.

Second face of Sycosis - Sycosis Less:

Under use of intellect, underwilled, under expressed,

undergrowth of intellect.

This face of Sycosis gives rise to undergrowing and under

functioning. When applied to intellect - we have a typical 'mental

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retardation' of a Baryta, as an example. The Sycosis less stunts
the growth of Barytas, both physically and mentally. Any stimulus
which enters the body through the receptors of our nervous
system has to proceed up to the cortex, assessed properly and a
response from the brain in the form of proper or just action. In
Barytas, we can say, the stimulus does not go as high as the
cortex and as if takes a 'short cut'. A pre-determined reaction to
any situation is the result. The reaction decision is not as per the
situation. This is something called fixed ideas. In such persons
adaptability is conspicuously lacking.

Under expression of oneself, talk indisposed to, secretive,

reserved, under expression of will

Wants: In new circumstances, the brain is found incapable. A

sense of helplessness or delusion as if legs are cut off have their
origin in this inadaptability'. A grown up person moving in a car
enjoying all the luxuries, finds it difficult to play a cassette
recorder umpteen number of times, even after being taught. A
person refuses to drive a car saying -1 shall never be able to
maneuver it through the traffic - may be I will never be able to
apply the brakes or may be I'll be too slow and block the traffic
etc. But I know one thing for certain that driving a car is not
meant for me. This is not necessarily only a Baryta carb
constitution but certainly indicates a group of drugs which are
timid with lack of confidence in themselves. These people are
therefore shy, bashful and even 'hide their faces' or 'hide behind
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into someone's eyes. The lack of courage expresses as
cowardiceness. The 'Sycosis less' people 'compromise easily'.
They 'recognize' but do not move. In grief when they lose near or
dear one they suppress their emotions and 'never cry' or express
their grief.

'Underexpression' of emotions as well as physical qualities all

belong to Sycosis less. Quiet, reserved, introverted, secretive,
people desiring obscurity, solitude, who hate coming into
limelight, (because they have something to hide like guilt, grief,
disappointment etc.) fall under this category.

Indignation more often occurs in people who do not express.

Expressive Sycosis or even Psoric or Syphilitic constitutions
don't take anything lying down. They give back.

Underexpression of grief: leads to silent grief, weeping when

alone, sitting by themselves during sadness, they do not show
their tears, keep on brooding. In short, the discontentment and
sadness is underexpressed.

Love: The love of a husband towards his wife, sometimes, is not

expressed directly. In fact very stiff and pretentious constitutions
who appear to be hard, angry, dictatorial, may be having a soft
heart within (like Sycotic Lycopodiums). Invariably the wife may
say: I know he loves me, he is very affectionate from within, he

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cares for me, but he never gives me what I want. He never hugs
me or never caresses me. I long for his touch. I don't know but
he can never do that. It's perhaps his 'ego' which comes in his
way. You can never say what is in his mind. It fits with perfect
hidden Sycosis constitution.

Happiness: even the happiness is under-expressed here. These

people never laugh freely. Leave aside laughing, even smile is
at a premium. 'Never smiles' as well as 'smiles at everything'
both come under Sycosis, (strictness and looseness or
slackness both have Sycotic trait).

In Aphorism 74 we see Hahnemann mentioning about

revolutionary changes in the body, which include 'relaxation' of
organs and tissues. These belong to Sycosis less, the reason
being underproduction of elastin. Elastin gives elasticity,
recoverability and control. When elastin is less, it can produce
'relaxation of limits' 'looseness' and 'slackness of control'.

Morals: There cannot be anything like Underexpression of

morals. Morals mean control. If we apply the above criteria of
looseness and lack of control to morals, then we have an array
of modern day attitudes which will come under the trait of
Sycosis. 'Morals want of (which can be Syphilitic too)
lasciviousness, corrupt, venal, debauchery, shameless,
coquettish, flirting, buoyancy, libertinism, etc.

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 SYPHILITIC MENTALS

Recap: Every living organism wants to survive. The first two

functions of a cell are involved in (a) energy production for self
survival (b) multiplication for species survival (c) The third
function is for protection of self and species.

When the first function is affected or sacrificed to defend against

a hostile stimulus we get physiologic defense or Psoric disease
or Psora.

When the first defense is not sufficient the cell may undergo
changes at the genetic level to defend itself morphologically by
construction, accumulation or fortification which we equated to
Sycotic defense or Sycosis.

When the first defense of physiological response is not sufficient

the cell may undergo changes at the genetic level to defend or
save the whole organism by destroying a part of it. This is at the
cost of third function of immunity. This can be equated to
Syphilitic defense or Syphilis.

This can also be precipitated after constructive defense has been

found insufficient to stop the hostile attack. Hence after Sycosis
we can get Syphilis. In some constitutions it could be the reverse.
A destructive pathology after having got rid of a part to save the
whole may switch on the genetic apparatus to produce

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construction or Sycosis.

Thus diseases can progress in different constitutions in different

manner :-

Psora to Sycosis

Psora to Syphilis

Psora to Sycosis then Syphilis

Psora to Syphilis then Sycosis

The Syphilis

When a hostile stimulus trying to bring about impairment in

homoeostasis of the organism cannot be controlled and
overpowered by physiological defense (or even constructive
defense) the injured organism adopts a different strategy. It has
to save the whole organism and prolong life by hook or by crook.
By crook or the crooked way, is the option now left for it. In this
crooked way it tries to sacrifice the part under attack. The part
under attack (if diseased), may itself pose a problem for the
equilibrium or homoeostasis or health of the whole organism. The
organism, hence sacrifices that part in order that the organism as
a whole survives. The organism at the base level has a function
(the 3rd function) especially assigned for maintaining the integrity
of the organism. This integrity is maintained with a specially de-
signed system called 'immune system', (which has been
mentioned earlier). In the crooked option the 'immune system'
or 'immune mechanism' is sacrificed and helps in destroying an

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unwanted part. The 'falling off of a gangrenous toe in diabetes is
an ideal example of how a body defends by destruction.

This defense by destruction can be equated to our third miasm of

Hahnemann - The Syphilis.

When a part of a whole is shed off or broken the whole organism

will look crooked. The appearance will be distorted. The whole
body of an organism or individual has a symmetry to maintain.
There is a balance' in physical and mental faculties. This 'bal-
ance' or 'equilibrium' is in control of the immunity. There is a
social order of 100 million cells working harmoniously to maintain
an equilibrium. Every cell shares to maintain the equilibrium and
at the same time benefits from the equilibrium. As long as equi-
librium or homoeostasis is maintained health prevails. When the
homoeostasis is disturbed it results in disease or even death.
Somewhat on these same grounds Hahnemann has expressed
the definition of health and disease. Harmoniously balanced
operation of Vital force results in health and disturbed balance of
Vital force results in disease.

If the 'harmony' is responsible for health, the disturbed harmony

looses control over health.

In short harmonious functioning keeps all the parts in control and

these parts maintain harmony and immunity.

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When a part is destroyed, the balance is lost and control is lost.
This 'out of control' organism goes in for further destruction and
distortion. The Syphilitic miasm expresses itself as out of control
=> distortion => and hence ugly looks.

Mentals of Syphilis: When we apply the above expression of

Syphilis to the mind, we get

a) out of control emotions.

b) destruction of security giving rise to manias, insanity.

c) distortion of volatile mind giving rise to 'perversions'.

All these lead to ugly behaviour.

We apply the physical qualities of Syphilis to the mind and we get

the following nature of a Syphilitic person.

Expression of a person is not balanced and again out of control.

This may lead to hasty speech. The actions and gestures are not
smooth, balanced and controlled. This leads to jerkiness of
speech and actions and overall awkwardness. Awkward behav-
iour, walk, talk is a sign of no smooth control over faculties of
expression.

Will can be out of control in 'Syphilitics'. The strength of 'will'

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leads us to decide whether a person is positive, courageous
person or weak and timid person. The reaction of a person in a
situation helps us to decide upon whether he is courageous or a
coward. But what if a person's reaction to situation is not
constant. This is exactly the case in Syphilitics. The reaction to
situation can be too much or out of proportion to the stimulus or
too less. The behaviour is unpredictably too much or too little or
no reaction at all. There is no balance or control over the
system giving rise to haphazard, awkward, uncontrolled and
unpredictable activities. This leads to ugliness, wierdness both
in mind and body.

Intellect: Either destruction or perversion of intellect or out of

control intellect are Syphilitic in origin. Under active mind or
dulled intellect can lead to stupidity. On the other hand, the mind
can be intelligent but cannot be used at right time in right place
giving rise to 'indiscretion'. There are children who are stamped
as mentally retarded. These same children are unable to learn
the school subjects well but are intelligent enough to know a film
song thoroughly. They will know the names of film stars, pop
stars. They will identify them very briskly and quickly but will not
know the name of the President of a nation nor will he be able to
identify a geographical location of Niagara falls or Taj-Mahal. The
intellect is not directed properly. These children may grow up
increasing their vocabulary with 'obscene' words. The 'left brain'
and 'right brain' do not co-operate. Any amount of correction
falls on deaf ears.

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Cases

 A boy of 8 years had a bad habit. In school he would go and

pick up the skirts of young girls repeatedly. He was bashed
up by girls, punished by teachers, reprimanded by parents
but to no avail. He would admit his mistake but could not
mend his ways. He would do it all over again. This was not
defiance nor disobedience. He just could not control himself
and his brain refused to learn the 'right' things. His mother
complained that' it seems he never needs food.' If I am late
from office he will just go to sleep without even complaining.
If I don't feed him at night he will not get nourishment. I try
to wake him up, but he won't. I feed him with my own hands
and he will not refuse it. He will go on eating and eating and
eating. There is nothing like satiety. This has been his
nature since birth. He will eat and eat but never say
enough. If the food is salt less or having excess salt he will
never complain. He will devour both with equal relish. Yet
this child was good at studies and scored well.

 In another case a girl of 6 years would go and touch a hot

'iron' despite being scolded badly. She fell from a swing, got
hurt, received 9 stitches in the forehead. Next, she went on
to the same swing and played the same aerobics to show
how she fell down, much to the horror of the parents. She,
staying on the 3rd floor of a building tried to walk on the
parapet outside the window, which was hardly six inches
broad. When questioned why she was doing it, she coolly
replied: "I want to go to the next room and the door is too far.

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 This is a good short cut". This is indiscretion, foolishness but
above all improper use of intellect.

In all the above cases we find that 'the sense of right and wrong
is abolished'. The 'intellect' does not know what is right for him or
safe for him or what is wrong or harmful. Such patients, if they
are chilly are Syphilitic Anacardium.

Even grown up children who do not know where to spit, where

not to, where to speak, where not to, what to do and what not to
may be in Syphilitic miasm. The body too does not realize
whether I am hungry; whether I am satisfied and full; whether
there is excess salt or spice or whether there is less of it.

Morals: This abolished sense of right and wrong makes the

Anacardium go on eating and eating and not hunger. This
abolished sense makes him cruel and do immoral acts and many
times make him go in for drugs or become criminal without
remorse. This very innate characteristic makes him openly
lascivious, lewd and behaves obscenely in public. He can
become 'shameless' to such an extent that he removes his
clothes and exhibits nudity like Syphilitic Hyoscyamus.

As long as 'Sycosis' prevails there is a fear of criticism,

punishment, loss of prestige, which forces the sex exploiters to
have control on lasciviousness or lewdness, which can be
indirect and clandestine. But in Syphilis there is no control. No
holds barred sex campaign is purely syphilitic.

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Emotions: Uncontrolled emotions are Syphilitic traits. Emotions
are essentially defense mechanism for an individual. People, who
are weak, have timid trait so that they don't involve themselves in
fights or harmful situations. Anxiety is the emotion highly devel-
oped in them to protect them (generally Psora). Coward and
intelligent but interactive mind of Sycotic individual develops 'fear'
and escapist attitude as their defensive trait. In Syphilis, the very
defensive function (3rd function) is defective, Add to it 'out of con-
trol' means the defense of 'emotions' are' out of control'.

In Syphilis, the man is not in control of his emotions but emotions

control him. It is like a driving a car whose wheels and steering
have no connection. The steering wheel is supposed to give a
control on the direction in which the car travels. If one at the
steering wheel cannot control the wheels of the car, the person
obviously is helpless and has to go where the car takes him and
that too unintelligently. This will invariably lead to destruction and
death.

Crime: Most of the criminals who kill, murder, and massacre with
or without remorse are made up of Syphilitic constitution.

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MIASMS - GOOD OR BAD?

There are lot of arguments about this miasm being good and that
miasm being bad. Is Psora better than Sycosis or Sycosis better
than Syphilis? All these three miasms have their good and the
bad side. All the three are essential for survival of the being and
the species. Without any one of them the human being will not
function and will not survive. Without either of them humans will
not suffer or die!

Psora: relates to the first function of survival. It is also concerned

with the first defense response of an organism to any calamity-
physical or mental. When this defense is affected genetically (as
in individuals born with Psoric constitutions) or by therapeutic
agents or emotions it becomes pathological and starts troubling
the individual.

Syphilis: We talk about Syphilis as a miasm of destruction.

Everything bad is attributed to it. It stands for destruction,
distortion, perversion, ugliness, out of control, hysterical etc. But
it has a good side too.

The Goodness of Syphilis:

The Almighty has made this world keeping in mind the balance or

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equilibrium of opposite forces which makes this world go on. We
already discussed about the world being made of opposites. If
there is black there is white; if there is a male, there has to be a
female; if there is bad there has to be good. If 'Syphilis' has bad
qualities, it has good qualities too. The goodness of Syphilis lies
in the advantage of destructive tendency in body. The
'destruction' in the destructive response of a cell is basically
meant to save the whole by sacrificing a part. The destruction
is supposed to be, to remove the diseased portion, cell or tissue.
It is a form of cell death designed to eliminate unwanted host
cells through 'activation' of internally programmed series of
events. It occurs normally in following general settings (i) during
development (ii) as a homoeostatic mechanism to maintain
optimum cell population in tissues. The cells in the body go on
multiplying incessantly. Growth is stimulus after every cut. If
cells were to multiply without control, there would be many tags,
warts and tumours all over. Extra cells need to be destroyed, (iii)
as defense mechanism such as in immune reactions (iv) when
cells are damaged by disease or noxious agents and (v) in
ageing.

It is the Syphilitic constitution' which makes daredevil firefighters

or soldiers. They are there to risk their lives to save their
countrymen. When the orders are given, the soldier whether he is
on foot, or in air, does not fear the consequences. He attacks
without fear, he kills without sentiments (remorse) all for the good
of the country. What can a coward and a fearful soldier do at the
front? They have to be people with a do-or-die attitude. This is
not disease, it is just sheer defense or Syphilis of highest level.

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The Goodness of Sycosis: What is the advantage of growth
tendency in the body? Why has the body been given a tendency
to grow? The body both mentally and physically is bound to be
wounded many times. The tissues if they were to be destroyed
and not re-grow, at the end of life, a human being would have
been in tatters. Thus the growth tendency in the genes helps to
repair what is cut.

At the broader level, people who are born with predominance of

growth tendency or 'Sycosis' predominance are the ones who
have the mental aptitude for progress. Mankind would never
have progressed from ape to modern man if there was no 'growth
tendency' or 'Sycosis'. To the Sycotic brains, goes the credit of
all the discoveries and inventions. Man encounters many
difficulties in progress. He gets over it because of this fertility of
brain. The 'generals' in army and heads of police or nations have
to have 'Sycosis' if the nation has to register progress.

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BIRTH MIASM

When an individual is born, he inherits his natural traits and

characteristics from his parents. These are inherent in the genes.
Not all genes are being deployed to give this individual a
character. Some genetic traits are dormant and some are
prominent. It all depends upon which of the genes are not acti-
vated and which are activated. The activated genes produce or
synthesize proteins, which gives the individual a character. For
example, a father may be tall, fat, round faced, very hot-
tempered Sycotic individual. The mother may be (Psoric)
normally built mild, timid, apprehensive individual. The child
might take up the Psoric traits of the mother and have the same
nature and stature of mother with a few properties from father.
This is a dominant miasm (Psora) in this child. This child will
have a physical make up, mental makeup and susceptibilities of
Psora and hence it will be Psoric constitution. In future when this
Psoric defense is found insufficient to counter adverse
circumstances, it is liable to a change in constitution from Psora
to Sycosis (the dormant or recessive traits of father). In case of a
lady who was predominantly Psoric with timidity and anxiety
dominating her nature and if after marriage or after being
deceived by a partner she gradually becomes strong, positive,
angry manipulative so that she has to survive the adverse
auditions and not let others take advantage of her, she may

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change the miasm or defense from Psora (timid and anxious) to
Sycosis (positive and manipulate) which can be in the same
remedy, e.g. Lachesis in Psoric phase of defense when suffering
from inflammatory diseases of respiratory tract etc. will timid,
anxious, suspicious but once it changes defense (miasm) to
constructive pathologies, it switches its genetic traits to ma-
nipulative, sly, positive, creative, more or less bolder than before
to get its work done by hook or crook. With the obvious
activation of 'Sycosis' genes at mental level, the physique also
starts reflecting the change to obesity, rounded features etc. If
the other dormant trait is 'Syphilitic 'the person might change
from 'Psora' to 'Syphilis' type of personality e.g. Lachesis with
extreme suspiciousness, extreme jealousy, hatred, malice,
oversensitive to touch with suffocative tendency, bleeding,
destructive bluish pathologies at physical level.

Many of our remedies Have all the three miasmatic

representation in them. The mental and physical symptoms of the
respective miasms will be uppermost in the remedy when the
individual has that defense.

Sulphur's Psoric nature will be prominent during its Psoric or

physiologic disease stage. Sulphur's Sycotic nature will be
prominent during Sycotic disease stage and so also about
Syphilis. Thus we have Psoric Sulphur, Sycotic Sulphur and
Syphilitic Sulphur materia medica. Same is true with Aurum Met,
Lycopodium, Pulsatilla and all other remedies. This is the base
of tri-miasmatic materia medica. This solves the question of how

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and why the same remedy can be timid as well as courageous,
mild as well as angry, dull and intelligent, active and inactive.
These qualities are not just polarities but defense or miasmatic
representation.

It is not always that a constitution in Psoric phase has to change

to the 'Sycotic' phase of the same remedy. A Psoric Sulphur can
change to Sycotic complementary like a Pulsatilla or a Bryonia. If
the genetic expression changes that is the constitution changes,
it has to go to one of complementaries or relation of the previous
remedy.

Sycotic and Syphilitic constitutions suffer from Psoric

diseases that will reflect the birth miasm.

Question frequently asked is, coryza or a dermatitis is a Psoric

manifestation that is the body is fighting with physiologic defense.
A 'Thuja' predominantly Sycotic or a Nitric acid predominantly
Syphilitic miasm never suffers from a Psoric disease like coryza?
If yes, then should he be given a Psoric remedy or Sycotic
remedy?

Every constitution whether it is Sycotic Thuja or Syphilitic Nitric

Acid has to undergo first physiologic defense that is
inflammation; when it is attacked by a virus. The birth constitution
may be predominantly 'Sycotic' but he has to show inflammatory

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response. The birth constitution may be 'Syphilis' but he 'has' to
suffer from inflammatory response, when first attacked by a
bacteria or virus etc. But the reaction to situation will differ in
Sycosis and Syphilis.

If Thuja or Nat. Sulph suffers from coryza and cold, the

symptoms will be reminding us of Sycosis. The patient will not
have free flowing transparent coryza of Psora or 'irritability' and
'sneezing' of Psora. The nose will be either blocked (snuffles) or
there will be excessive discharge from the nose. The discharge
will be more of yellow or greenish yellow colour rather than
transparent. If the patient is predominantly 'Syphilitic' like Nitric
Acid or Merc. Sol, they will still suffer from coryza and cold but
the discharges will be excoriating bloody (ozaena). If it is
diarrhoea or dysentery that too will be bloody.

Even the aggravation time of coryza in Syphilitics will be as usual

night or sunset to sunrise whereas the 'Sycosis' remedies will be
aggravated at their aggravation time. The consequences for
'Sycotics' and 'Syphilitics' will be of course different. The Thuja,
Natrum Sulph, Pulsatilla, Medorrhinum etc. will (if coryza is
suppressed) develop thickened nasal septum or hypertrophy of
turbinates in keeping with their Sycotic or constructive traits. The
mercuries or fluorides or bromines or acids, which have predomi-
nance of Syphilitic destructive traits, will further develop either
distortion of nose (even shape of nose), or go into destruction of
nasal cartilage.

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A 'Phosphorus' or a 'Sulphur' can be of any miasm. There can be
a Psoric Phosphorus, Sycotic or even Posphorus-Syphiiitic.
Similarly there can be a Sulphur-Psoric, Sulphur- Sycotic and
Sulphur-Syphilitic. It all depends on what were the inherited traits
that predominate in the individual. If the inherited traits of Sulphur
have been predominantly Psoric, then this man will remain in
Psora even up to a ripe old age. He will go on suffering from skin
rash, boils, and eczema throughout his life. These are generally
lucky people. They will suffer from minor Psoric troubles like
hypertension, diabetes, thyroid problems etc. If, at an elderly age
patients come to the physician with eczema, rash or coryza or
mild backaches recurrently, it is always advisable to make them
aware that they are lucky to have such 'minor problems' and any
attempt, if not proper with a proper similimum may be too
dangerous. There was this case of a man in his fifties who came
with the complaint of longstanding burning in stomach diagnosed
as hyperacidity with skin rash on the dorsum of hands since long
time. He was, after a long comprehensive history, prescribed
Lycopodium. The hyperacidity miraculously disappeared within 8-
10 days making the patient very much appreciative about
homoeopathy. The skin too started drying off and the red dis-
colouration disappeared and was replaced by black
pigmentation. This actually is a dangerous sign. The Psoric
manifestation was changing over to precipitation of excess
pigments of Sycosis. This warning of the body was not heeded.
The patient became a fan of homoeopathy. Within one month,
he was free of two distressing symptoms, which the
contemporary specialist had not cured for fifteen long years or
more. In the fifth week, the patient suffered from severe gastric
upset and vomiting. His appetite had already slowly reduced.
He was admitted for investigations and was found to be suffering

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from jaundice, but the case was biliary duct carcinoma, which
turned out to be fatal. He was cured in one month and died in two
months. Moral of the story is that: (a) let Psora be expressed in
least important organs like skin and respiratory tract (Psoric
functional organs) at an elderly age and don't treat it. (b)
understand the language of disease expression and change of
defense mechanism from Psora to Sycosis or Psora to Syphilis
(c) last but not the least, never be happy with fast or rapid cures
in longstanding diseases. They are more often than not gross
suppressions.

Mixed Miasm:

Very often an individual might have predominantly physical and

mental traits of Sycosis and a few traits of Syphilis. This amounts
to Syco-Syphilitic constitutions. If the traits are more of Syphilis
that is destructive pathologies, destructive mentality and a few
traits of Sycosis e.g. slyness, deceitfulness, showmanship etc.
we can call this Syphilo-Sycotic constitution. Same is true with
the miasm of Psora. Similarly, therefore, we can have Psoro-
Sycotic, Psoro-Syphilitic, Syphilo-Sycotic constitutions.

Significance: Determining the predominance of miasm helps us

to determine the remedy or the similimum as will be discussed
later.

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ADDITIONAL - MIASMS

There is a lot of hue and cry about 'tubercular miasm' and 'cancer
miasm' etc. There can be two possibilities:

(1) Hahnemann was right when he propagated that there can

be only three miasms. Our theory of miasms as defense
confirms Hahnemann's observations.

(2) Hahnemann was wrong and there are more miasms which
Hahnemann did not think of. In the first place, could
Hahnemann's fantastic foresightedness ever have missed to
recognise common diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy,
typhoid etc. having original tendencies to cause diseases and
stamping them as miasms?

For any theory to be given credence it requires:

a) To stand the test of time.

b) To have its base soundly placed on firm ground of science.

c) Even if it is a hypothesis the theory should reflect the

holisticity of science especially when it is a holistic science
like homoeopathy. This means it cannot be that the
hypothesis is true only in 'mentals' or only in 'physicals'.

d) The theory concerned should make a given science easy,

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 rather than creating confusion in the already complex
science which has been misunderstood.

e) It should be able to explain all unexplained features of

homoeopathy.

There are only 3 miasms:

A) Hahnemann states that 'miasm is at the root of all diseases'.

This is reiterated and confirmed by modern science if
miasm is understood as defense of organism. The modern
pathology confirms that all the disease pathology has its
base on defensive response to stimulus by the cell. The
defensive responses are three only, which confirms with
Hahnemann's own idea of having only three origins of
diseases. Besides, the pathology of diseases mentioned
by Hahnemann viz. itch, fig-warts and chancre again
matches with the three basic defenses of cells which give
rise to physiological defense, constructive defense and
destructive defense. All the mental attitudes mentioned by
Hahnemann and his followers match with the mentals
deduced from the above defense on mental plane. The
theory of three miasm has thus stood the test of time for
two hundred years.

B) Thus the number of miasms being three is matched and

explained with the help of modern researches and hence
has a firm ground of science.

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C) The theory of three types is reflected at the physical sphere,
mental sphere and disease pathology sphere. Thus this
theory of origin of disease confirms to the holistic approach
of homoeopathic science.

D) After this explanation of miasm being defense mechanism,

the relationship between the disease pathology and
behaviour of person becomes very obvious as already
described in the previous chapters.

How the mental attributes of Psora, that of irritability and

sensitivity compares favourably with inflammatory pathology in
the physical aspect of Psora.

Hiding and multiplying, attributes of Sycosis mind compares

favourably with hidden disease and growth pathologies at the
physical level.

The destructive and perverted mentality of Syphilis compares

favourably with destructive and distorted pathology of Syphilis.

Tuberculosis of the lung is a disease which at pathological level

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(1) Inflammation of the pleura (pleuritis) or the lungs at the

onset of infection with tubercular bacilli;

(2) Tubercle formation in the lungs

(3) cavitation in the lungs.

This shows that the defense mechanism is physiological and,

therefore, Psoric in the stage (1). In stage (2), the defense
mechanism changes to constructive defense giving rise to
tubercles, therefore, is Sycosis and in stage (3), the destructive
pathology prevails to give cavitation showing that the defense
mechanism is destructive or Syphilitic. Thus tuberculosis involves
all three defense mechanisms and hence is a product mixture of
all three miasms. Hence so-called tubercular miasm is Psoro-
Syco-Syphilis. This condition can be more or less termed as
tubercular diathesis rather than tubercular miasm which is a
misnomer.

The same is a case with cancer. Cancer itself invariably starts

with irritation, at the tissue levels, proceeds into indurative phase
or growth phase and terminates into ulceration. Though cancer is
due to genetic mutation, the pathology when expressed upon the
body , follows these three defense mechanisms making it again a
mixture of 3 miasms namely Psoro-Syco-Syphilis.

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BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS OF ALL THREE MIASMS

Psora: The behaviour both on physical as well as mental plane,

will have a certain pattern. The behaviour will be influenced by
following properties: Sensitivity, irritability, hypersensitivity,
anxiety, apprehension. The behaviour is concerned with daily
needs, work, and normal activities.

Sycosis: The behaviour will have a stamp of two types:

Sycosis excess:

Exaggeration or excess expression, deceitfulness, slyness and

show off or false show, pseudoism and collective tendency, (all
expressive).

Sycosis less: Hiding, quietness, secrecy, slyness, deceit,

deception, soberness, less of intellect or morals,
undercoverness. (non-expressive).

Syphilis: The behaviour will have stamp of destruction,

distortion, perversion, (out of control).

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All these behaviour patterns, as deduced earlier, are defense
mechanism at work. These can be basic natural traits inherited
from birth or developed and acquired during the life time.

Every individual defends according to his underlying miasm. All

the emotions and intellect are defensively oriented and evolved.
Thus various traits of an individual will reflect the miasm ruling
him at that stage. The reaction to situation will be completely
different in different miasms because the defensive method is
different.

Many rubrics will be seen or expressed in different lights

according to the miasm of the remedy.

Mischief: Children are used to play mischief. Mischief is defined

as that activity which might harm, damage or injure, causing
annoyance. Harm is more Psoric, damage is Sycotic and injury is
Syphilitic.

A child who tries to make a docile, benign mischief like hiding a

pen or kerchief of his friend may be of a Psoric trait. Those
children or even adults who play mischief, which in the long run
may cause damage to one's prestige and may be painful, may be
a Sycotic. Mischief done with scheming and planning, hurting and
causing damage but not really creating destruction is Sycotic.
There was a child who placed a pin pierced through a cardboard

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pointing upwards on the seat of a school teacher, knowing very
well that the teacher always sat in the chair with force. When the
teacher did so, it hurt him so badly so as to give him pain and
bleeding. This is Syphilitic mischief.

Concealing or hiding important papers or files of a person about

to go for an interview may mean tension or distress for the
concerned person and especially when he does not know who
has done it. This may mean Sycotic mischief. But in response to
the situation how the concerned person will behave also depends
on his miasm. The Psoric will become anxious, start searching
for the file and if not found, will start weeping. The Sycotic, while
looking out for the file in anger, will go on thinking what
alternative step he should take. He will find a way out of this
problem by manipulating or bribing his way instead of presenting
the file in the interview. The Syphilitic may just loose hope and
will let go the interview in utter despair. The hysterical Syphilitics
may lose their temper to the extent of breaking and throwing
things around in frenzy.

Positivity: The positiveness of individuals who go ahead in life

also shows miasmatic differentiation.

The Ferrum Met and Arsenic Album's conscientiousness

outweighs their other characters to make them positive. They
are the ones who will do their work meticulously according to
rules and regulations with all the paper work nearly done so that
there is no flaw and thus march positively towards their goal and
acquire success.

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The shrewed planning, cunning mind of a Lachesis (Sycotic) or
Mercurius (Sycotic) or the Causticum (Sycotic) will find ways and
means to get over these obstacles.

The same Lachesis, Mercury or Causticum if having a

predominance of Syphilitic hue will blast their way through
troubles to achieve their goals.

These are examples of how every rubric itself will have different
shades. Thus everything an individual does, thinks or expresses,
can be seen in three different miasmatic expressions.

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TRI MIASMATIC MATERIA

If not all, most of the remedies can be seen in 3 shades- the

Psoric, Sycotic and Syphilitic. The symptoms both physical and
mental will be according to underlying miasm.

Sulphur

Sulphur is popularly known as 'king of the polycrests'. Some call

it as king of Psora. Dr. Kent has mentioned it as a remedy which
is prescribed too frequently both by homoeopaths who have not
under stood homoeopathy and by those who have under stood
homoeopathy thoroughly. Why this paradox? Yes, even the
materia medica of Sulphur is a paradox. It contains contradicting
rubrics, Sulphur is seen in the rubric 'dirtiness' at the same time it
is there where you least expect it that is in the rubric - 'un-
cleanliness aggravates' (in Mind of Synthetic). The other
contradictory rubrics of Sulphur like :

Despair Hopefulness

Social position Indifference about personal

concerned about appearance or tastelessness in
dressing

Mildness Anger

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Intellectual, Ideas Idiocy, Imbecility
Abundant

Carefulness Heedless, Careless

Honest Charlatan

Business neglects Business talks of

Courageous Cowardice

Audacity Confidence want of self; feels

himself a failure

Importance feels his Self depreciation

Pompous/Egotism,
want of self

Benevolence Selfish

Dirtiness, Untidy Fastidious, rest cannot till things

are. Un-cleanliness aggravates

Indifference to personal Vanity/finery and luxurious

appearance, elegance clothing wants
Want of self

Dullness Vivaciousness

High places aggravates Fear of losing lucrative position

Persists in nothing Pertinacity

Philosophy ability for Philosophy, inability for

Power love of Naïve

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Loquacity, Reserved, Misanthropist Talk
vivaciousness indisposed to

Slowness Hurry, Haste, Impertinence

Frivolous, Liar Seriousness, Earnestness

Haughty Servile

Obstinate Yielding

These are few of the contradictory rubrics of Sulphur. The list is

so long that it has become a joke that on any repertorial analysis,
Sulphur always comes on the top. Sulphur is found almost in all
rubrics. This makes a homoeopath (who doesn't understand the
basis of homoeopathy) prescribe Sulphur in most of the cases
because he knows Sulphur covers most of the rubrics. This is
perhaps what Kent meant when he said Sulphur is the most well
prescribed and most ill prescribed remedy.

The contradictory symptoms observed in the poly-crest remedies,

was generally accepted upto now as polarities, is as ambiguous
as the thoughts of the homoeopaths. Polarity means destination
esp. around the 'poles'. How many poles? So how many
'polarities'? And why the contradictory modalities and why the
polarity? Every why has to be answered if homoeopathy is to find
credibility!

As mentioned earlier 'miasm' pervades the organism wholly and

completely. Miasm is in the 'genes' influencing it to produce and
synthesize the pearls of the organism whether mental or

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physical. If a 'miasm' say Syphilis is seen to influence an individ-
ual on the physical plane, then it goes without saying that the
same miasm 'Syphilis' has to be seen in the qualities of that
individual at the mental sphere. Thus a man coming to us with a
'Syphilitic disease' or a disease which is destroying an organ or
two of the individual, then this individual will exhibit some strong
'Syphilitic trait' at the mental level. We know that the most
important thing in man is his 'mind'. The mind rules the body,
controls the body and influences the body. As is the state of the
mind-so will be the state of the body and vice versa. As is the
‘mind' of a remedy so will be the physique of the remedy. This is
mathematics. This also forms the base of our 'prediction'.

If a patient is having a Sycotic disease say arteriosclerosis of

arteries with hypertension then the same individual is bound to
have mental traits of Sycosis. It is quite predictable that this
person should be having love for dressing up well, making or
creating a facade by using lots of makeup, liking for gold rings,
chains or in case of women, the love for ornaments, excessive
perfumes. She might be too foppish or she might have a craze
for perfumes. Sycosis also has 'accumulations' at both physical
and mental levels. 'Sycosis' patient can show love for collecting
money, love for collecting cars, love for collection of antique
pieces, tendency to have one to many girlfriends and this could
mean something like flirting. He could be a liar, corrupt,
rationaliser, deceitful or debaucherer. If a patient's 'defense' has
expressed itself at mental level in 'Sycosis' form, the physical
level defense also has to take a Sycosis form. Both these
naturally come from the same genetic code which rules him.

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From the above explanation, we conclude that patients with
tendency to Psoric or functional diseases e.g. Psoric dermatitis,
Psoric rhinitis, Psoric bronchitis or asthma, Psoric oesophagitis,
gastritis (without ulcerations), colitis (without ulceration) or cystitis
will have different nature, attitude, behaviour, etc. vis a vis those
having a tendency to suffer from 'Sycosis' related diseases like
hypertension, warts, tumours, fibroids, cancers.

Very interestingly a 'Sulphur' constitution with Psoric diseases is

different from 'Sulphur constitution' with Sycosis'. So also the
'Sulphur-Syphilitic' is found to show different traits and
constitutional qualities than its younger brethren, the 'Psoric-
Sulphur' and the 'Sycotic-Sulphur'.

The discrepancy and the contradictory rubrics which we observe

in the repertorial study of the same remedy (say Sulphur) is
because of the miasm governing it. If one looks at it in this way,
the confusion of polarity is solved. Besides, the adhocism and
tentativeness in Homoeopathy reduces or disappears. The failure
in application of similia-similibus principle in higher and more
complicated or grave diseases is because we are not trying to
apply the miasm picture as a whole.

In patients of renal failure, it is useless to search for a typical

Psoric-Sulphur image of the patient. You will not see that typical
dirty Sulphur who has aversion to bath and who is least bothered
about his clothes or cleanliness or for whom 'rags are riches'. He

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will not have that grand philosophical mind (of course some trait
will be present). One should not search for a typical ragged
philosopher with skin disease.

If he has reached the level of destruction of kidneys, he has

definitely gone through the arteriosclerosis of blood vessels i.e.
Sycosis which has ultimately caused destruction of kidneys. Thus
this gentleman will exhibit Sycotic traits as well as Syphilitic traits
at the mental behaviour level. He will be a Syco-Syphilitic
Sulphur. Far from dirtiness or raggedness, he will be a showy
man or a 'show-man'. He would be dressing in best of his clothes
- preferably white starched (more like an Indian politician or a self
styled social worker). But there will be at least one trait, which
has gone beyond normalcy e.g. 'love'. 'Love' is basically Sycosis.
Love for praise, love for someone (of course out of selfish
motive), love of one self, loving to be important, to be noticed etc.
It can be any other love. If this love becomes distorted, perverted,
extreme out of proportion then it gets a Syphilitic touch. A man
who was cured of gangrene had to or loved to look and be
different. For 60 years ever since his teenage until his recent age
of 80 years, he never was seen without a cap. The 'cap' was of
same shape, same make and above all same colour -'maroon'
throughout his whole life. When asked why, he simply said that it
is my 'trade-mark'. I am recognized by this 'trade mark'. I stand
out in a crowd due to this trademark. His wife's brother used to
tease his wife about the 'dirtiness' of using the same cap for so
many years without washing until one day the cupboard was
opened in front of him and to his shocking surprise he saw 21
caps all of the same make falling down, one after another on the
ground (Again a typical Sulphur trait of not keeping anything in

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order and just dumping). This strange, queer attitude, behaviour
or say hobby is worth taking note of whilst prescribing for this
individual. But this 'strange' behaviour which is not normal
belongs to the 'abnormal' or 'distorted' miasm 'Syphilis'.

Such Syphilitic Sulphurs besides having something strange in

their attitudes will have either distorted features or extra sharp
features. They have a nose, which is sharp, large, and one,
which stands out. It is not round at all but having thin bridge that
is joined to the face between the deep-seated eyes by a sharp
decline. The eyes and nose are sharply embossed. Even the
face has no rounded contours. Shape of the face is long with
deceptively Psoric thin tapering chin. Again what differentiates a
Syphilitic Sulphur face from a Psoric one is the extra sharpness
with slight distortion if any. There was this lady who came to me
with cancer of cervix and got completely cured much to the
surprise of her gynecologist. She was dark, long faced, sharp
featured with slightly distorted bridge of the nose. She was
friendly and loquacious. She was an assistant editor of a leading
Hindi language magazine. She said, because her worth was not
realized or recognized, she had to resign from the editorship of
this magazine because she was never made the chief editor
despite working hard for 8 years. At home too her husband was
too strict, too dictatorial and too abrupt and aloof. She had to live
her life independently because she had virtually no moral or
financial support from husband. Neither did her son care for her.

Due to these circumstances she was angry on all 'males'. She

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claimed that she was a good poet whose poems were very much
appreciated. She said she specialized on two themes. Her
poems were either for small children or for ladies and girls.

When asked to give examples she recited a poem meant for

young girls, which was her advice to them. In the poem she
addressed to the young girls not be confined to the kitchen, come
out of their cage and see the open world. So far so good. Then
she went on to advise the girls to mercilessly kill the people who
have caged you. Cut them in pieces and feed them to the
insects and rats and mice, which are hungry. All this to advocate
libertinism'.

When asked to recite a sample of a poetry for children, her eyes

sparkled. She said she was unique in her poems for children.
She went on to recite a poem titled 'Headless'. Her poem carried
the description of a young 5 year old boy who had no head or
rather whose head was cut. The poem ended on a weird note,
that all the boys who were teasing the headless boy went over a
bridge to see for themselves how beautiful they looked in the
reflection of the water underneath. All four of them were shell
shocked to see that all their heads were cut off and placed on the
trunk of that first headless boy.

Just imagine the height of 'perverted' distorted and disgusting

imagination. A poem for a child is meant to be about flowers, so
pleasant, so encouraging to make the child very happy and rosy.

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But here her poem frightened them to death. It prompted some
weird thoughts. Distortion or perversion was the theme. Now we
know why her 'unique' poems had never gained popularity. Why
she was never appreciated. Why she was never made the chief
editor and why her husband too had no attraction towards her.
Some homoeopaths would have begun the analysis of the case
with the rubric - delusion of fancy (Sulph - 3 marks).

Delusion Images, phantoms sees

Delusion Ludicrous

Delusion Specters, ghosts, spirits sees

Delusion Familiar things are strange etc.

Elegance want of or Cutting, seeing a person cut up.

may be Dreams

Dreams Hideous

These and many other rubrics of Sulphur only indicate to us the

miasm - 'Syphilis'. Thus we are not justified in taking them as a
pivotal rubric. What is important is the 'defense' which the miasm
has made the patient acquire. We know that Syphilis is the
disruption in the function of defense of the organism. That there
is a disturbance of 'defense' which is projected in mind and
behaviour. The reaction to any stimulus is not normal in Syphilis,
it is always perverted or distorted and above all destructive. This
lady has been disappointed in her life. She thought she is a
'failure' in her life. Her 'egotism' makes her believe she is a very
'unique person'. Now she has to fight out her battle against male

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chauvinism. She now fights the world which has harmed her.
She'll obviously fight with the weapon she has been provided by
her 'genes'. Obviously the extra-sharp, not so normal features
given to her by her genes is an indication that she has 'Syphilis'
as the weapon to defend herself. She thus defends herself in a
typically 'Syphilitic' way. Her mind imagines 'destruction' as
defense. Thus she gets these weird thoughts and imaginations
translated into poems. We take the rubric "strange crank opinion
and acts in". We have Sulphur, Verat. Her thirst and other
symptoms of heat of palms and soles etc. made me opt for
'Sulphur' which cured her dysplastic cellular proliferation in uterus
and cervix completely.

Tri-Miasmatic Apis

The Apis Psoric:

Psoric APIS will be more or less suffering from Physically:

a) Recurrent urinary tract infections (Psoric inflammation)

b) Acute urticarias
c) Acute inflammations with intense redness
d) Frequent micturition
e) Acute arthritis - heat and redness of joints

Mentally:

a) She will be very sensitive person

b) Sensitive to jokes and jesting on herself
c) She will be irritable, angry, independent
d) She will be industrious, always busy.

The Apis Sycotic will be suffering from accumulative disorders

which will give rise to:

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 a) Oedema
b) Anasarca
c) Puffy eyelids, puffiness of parts
d) Oedematous swelling of nephrotic syndrome
e) Chronic arthritis with swelling
f) Ovarian tumours, cysts
g) Tumours and cancers

Mentally: she will be

a) Discontented
b) Dictatorial
c) Jealous
d) Obstinate, headstrong

The Apis Syphilitic - will be suffering from Physically :

a) Perforating corneal ulcers

b) Abortions
c) Renal failures
d) Ulcers, destructive pathologies

Mentally : she will be

a) Indifferent apathetic
b) Rage, fury
c) Jealousy, satyriasis
d) Violence

Tri-Miasmatic Opium

The Opium Psoric will be suffering from

Physically:

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 a) Epilepsy
b) Hyperacidity
c) Itching of the skin

Mentally:

a) He will be quick and witty

b) Will have easy comprehension
c) He will be frightened easily
d) Will have good intellect and active memory

The Opium Sycotic - will be suffering from

Physically:

a) Constipation
b) Ptosis of eyelids
c) Dropsical condition of body Mentally:
a) He will be slow, torporous
b) He will be a liar, deceitful and sly
c) He will be full of ideas with gigantic plans
d) His senses will be blunted with weakness of memory

The Opium Syphilitic - will be suffering from Physically :

a) Painlessness of complaints
b) Trembling and twitching of muscles
c) Paralytic conditions of bowels, bladder etc.
d) Comatose and unconsciousness

Mentally:

a) He will be contented and apathetic

b) He will be imbecile
c) He will be ecstatic, eccentric with exalted fancies

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e) He will be shrieking, screaming and shouting.

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REMEDIES AND THEIR MIASMS

Psora sycosis syphilis

(Inflammation) (Growth) (Destruction)

Aconite Inflammation Destruction

Ars-Alb Inflammation, Ulcers,

Anxiety Gangrene,

Anguish

Ars-Iod Inflammation, Acridity,

Diligent Excoriation

Ars-S-Flavum Destruction

Arg-Nit Anxiety, Miser Impulsive,

Restlessness, Censorious Ulceration of

Cornea

Agaricus Show off,

Neglected

Feeling,

Braggart,

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 Boaster

Aurum Smiling always Anxiety

conscience of

Ulceration

Paralysis,

Corroding,

Suicidal

Tendency

Acid Flour Loves luxuries, Destruction

Cars,

Keloids

Alumina Mildnes, Anxiety

Irritability Conscience of,

Paralysis

Apis Jealousy, Dictatorial, Destruction

Industrious, Discontented, Indifference,

UTI. Anasarca Cancer

Baryta Indiscretion

Belladona Suddenness, Violence,

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 Congestion, Mania,

Restlessness Biting,

Striking

Calcarea Anxsiety, Slowness,

Apprehension, Timid, Weak

Confusion memory,

Tumours.

Cannabis Timid, Fancies

Slowness, exhalted,

Cowards, Confounding

Tumours

Causticum Full of Revolting,

Ideas, Anarchist,

Intellectual Paralysis

Carcinosin Leucoderma Cancer,

Perfectionist

China Sensitivity Violence,

Esp to touch Anger

excessive

Ferrum Sensitive Fighter,

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 Physically Stong,

Haemorrhages

Gelsemium Anticipation, Incordination

Nervousness, of muscles

Apprehension

Hepar Sulph Sensitivity Violent,

Impulsive to

kill

Hyoscyamus Naïve Jesting, Shameless

Inciting ness,

Mania

Iodum Sensitive, Indurated Destruction

Restless glands

Ignatia Sensitive, Intellectual, Hysterical

Emotional, Grief

Diligent

Kali-Carb Anxiety Aversion to

Family

Lachesis Sensitivity Full of Blackish

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 Ideas, discolouration

Jesting, Witty

Lycopodium Anticipatory Dictatoria,

anxiety Timid,

Constipated

Magnesium Suppressed

emotions

Medorrhinum Anticipatory Forgetfulness

anxiety

Mercury Revolting,

Defiant,

Gangrene

Natrum-Mur Inflammation, Warts, Cracks

Anxiety Introverted, corners

Reserved of mouth,

Suicidal

Tendency

Nitric Acid Malicious,

Unforgiving,

Foul smelling

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Nux Vomica Sensitivity Zealous

to noise

Opium Quick, fast, Witty, Contented,

Cheerful, Gigantic plans Ecstasy

Acuteness of and Torpor Fancies

Senses

Phosphorus Caring

Loving and

Sensitive

Platina Egotism Haughty,

Casts away

Pulsatilla Mild, Dominating,

Yielding, Selfish,

Weeping Tumours

Sulphur Ragged Boaster Cranky

Philosopher,

Therozing

Staphysagria Suppressed

Silicea Coward, Timid

Thuja Cautious,

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Stramonium Sensitive Fearful Panicky

Sepia Sarcastic Indifference

Tarentula Destructive

Tuberculinum Fear of dogs Destructive,

Violent

Veratrum Alb Squanderer, Slande

Extrpvert

Chapter 25

MIASM IN DREAMS

Significance of miasm in dreams:

As mentioned earlier, the miasm which is the defensive trait of

the body has to reflect on mind, body, disease tendencies, likes,
dislikes etc. All these are conscious aspects of the human being.
If it goes through and through the same defense tendency, or
miasm it has to reflect in the dreams which are a part of our
subconscious self.

More often than not, the 'dreams' or the subconscious mind is a

forerunner of things to come. On the other hand, the 'dreams' can

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be the result of the state of mind too.

An individual dreaming of snakes biting him or terrorizing him is a

bad sign. This invariably indicates that the individual is going to
develop or has already developed autoimmune or an incurable
disease.

A dangerous dream of fire, accidents, and mutilation can indicate

a Syphilitic disease existing in the body or else about to invade
the body. A dream of accumulation or construction can indicate
that some Sycotic disease is in the offing. Psoric dreams are
dreams of work, anxiety, irritation etc.

This often helps us in assessment of the follow-up of a case and

which tells us whether it is following Hering's Law or not.

Illustrative Case:

In a case of a homoeopathic doctor who had 99% block of left

carotid and 80% blockage in cardiac blood supply (in L.A.D), this
type of evaluation through dreams proved very useful. This
person had right hand paralysis due to the left carotid block. He
was depressed and in total despair. A very strong and dictatorial
man was weeping continuously and hugging everyone as if this
was the beginning of his end. He had had an attack of Ischaemia
one year prior to this. Doctors had given him very less chance of
survival and even operation to remove two blocks at a time, was
a great risk.

To assess the block in a few days was very difficult. How does
one realize that the remedy is right and we are on the right track?
The block is completely 'Sycotic' and hidden. In this case the
patient had a dream of jugglery on the first day of starting the

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treatment. This was perhaps his biochemistry, which was
disturbed due to excess allopathic drugs, was trying to return
back to equilibrium. He was quite depressed and confused as to
whether he had taken a right decision or not. He wanted to be
assured that the medicine was working inside him and that he
was not wasting time. On the third day he became mentally
relaxed. He started smiling and taking interest in watching
television. On the fourth day he started moving his right hand that
was paralyzed and first thing he did was to sign on his cheque
book to withdraw all his money from the account which had
become frozen without his signature. On the fifth day he reported
of having a dream in which he saw that he was visiting a site
where a house was being constructed and this house belonged
to a prominent mafia boss who was accompanying him there. He
was surprised because he was never ever associated with this
man and why should he come in his dream. Above all he had
nothing to do with any construction or designing. For me this
dream had some different meaning. He was in total despair
because of his condition of paralysis of right hand when the
single dose of the similimum was given. This was a Syphilitic
stage of the disease which was characterized by paralysis and
despair and overwhelmed with emotions. Now he was seeing
dreams which showed construction, a mafia boss and designing
and creativity, all of which characterize the Sycotic miasm. This
indicated that the disease of arteriosclerosis comprising of
accumulation and construction (Sycosis) which had earlier
progressed to Syphilitic stage of destruction was now on the
point of returning back to the Sycosis state. For me this was an
indication sufficient enough to assure him that the disease was
under control and that my similimum has started working. This
indicated to me, the sixth corollary of return of disease from more

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destructive miasm to less destructive miasm was being seen and
cure was in progress. On this very indication I could dissuade
him from going in for any operation. After the 8 th day he got a
dream in which he saw himself and his son driving a huge truck
through a very narrow lane. He got down from the truck and the
son went to park the truck in a parking area and did not return.
This gave him a lot of anxiety in the dream. Here the huge truck
was like the Sycotic block in a narrow artery indicating
Sycosis predominance. The latter part of the dream showed
anxiety which was Psoric. This meant that he was now returning
to Syco-Psoric sphere. A few weeks later he got a dream where
he saw his clinic burgled. He saw the lock in a broken state on
the outside of the closed door and there was tremendous
apprehension and anxiety about what he must have lost. This
was a clear dream of Psoric anxiety. After this his hypertension,
blood sugar, lipid levels and serum uric acid levels all of which
were never normal before even with the help of allopathic
medicines, became normal without any maintaining drugs and
still remain normal today after 5 years.

The remedy that saved him and the basis of prescription:

He was a man of principles and discipline and consistency. A

friend of mine for 35 years, this man had never forgotten to post
any greeting cards to any of our friends in 30 years though
nobody sent him in return. He was very strict for time. He would
get up in the midst of any party to maintain time. His timing of his
clinic inspite of having a huge practice was very fixed. He was
neither 1 minute early nor late. Everybody in the family had to
listen to him and obey his rules. Because of his disciplinary
tendency he was the first choice of any organization to become
secretary or president. It was more of perfection in time and

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activities concerned, rather than the activity of keeping things in
place. He was not fond of wearing aristocratic dresses at all. He
could not bear any contradiction of his orders which would send
him into anger. Now-a-days his anger and vexation had started
causing him breathlessness. He was chilly and thirsty.

Considering following rubrics:

1. A/F emotions leading to difficulty in breathing

2. Mental makeup: discipline, behaving like a general.
Rubric taken is 'rigidity'.
3. Physical make-up was of a Sycotic round face, stocky
built.
4. Miasm is Syphilis.

Remedy was Cuprum Metallicum, which did the wonderful trick.

In another case of cancer of bile duct, the dreams initially seen

were hideous, horrible faces and she would get up frightened.
That was a Syphilitic state. When she started improving she
started getting dreams of sadhus, which signifies Sycosis. Later
she dreamt of small children, which indicate Psoric dreams. She
was given a period of three months of life expectancy by the
oncologist as against which she survived for nine long years.

Along with the improvement in dreams it is necessary that the

patient improves mentally, physically and generally, according to
Hering's law of direction of cure then and only then he is moving
towards cure.

Psoric dreams:
Dreams of daily activities
For example:

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Cooking, fishing, flowers, home, household affairs, music, etc.
Dreams of efforts being done, whether or not success is
achieved
For example:
Ascending a height, aspiring, climbing a step, failures, looking for
someone and failing to find him, train-trying to catch etc.
Dreams associated with emotions
For example:
Affectionate, emotional, grief, vexations etc.
Any Dreams of Anxiety Pleasant Dreams
For example:
Country beautiful, driving car, flying in plane, new scenes,
pleasant, rainbow, spanning the sky, swinging., wonderful etc.
Sycotic dreams:
Dreams of collection, gatherings, construction
For example:
Assemblies, being large, balls being at, buildings, child birth, of
computers, of fruits gathering, gardens, body parts swollen etc.
Dreams related to business and money
For example:
Business of, busy being, calculating, companies, interviews,
large of growing, money, etc.

Frightful dreams emotion related

For example:

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Danger, death of, embarrassment, emotion suppressed, jealous,
job related, deceitful, political etc.
Dreams related to concealing
For example: Hiding, masks etc.
Syphilitic dreams: Dreams of accidents
For example:
Crash of Plane, explosion, fatal etc.
Destruction dreams
For example:
Bitten, bloodshed, body parts burning, bruising himself, cruelty,
churchyard, funerals, offensive pus, spitting, violence, ghosts etc.
Perverted dreams
For example:
Woman married to many
Dreams of wild animals
For example:
Birds, large black, bugs, enormous, dragons, snakes, vampires,
wasps, wild etc.
Clairvoyant dreams etc.

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AGEING

In the life of a man encompassing his years beginning with his

birth till his death, he runs through a 'spectrum of diseases',
which are essentially typed into 3 different phases. In short, a
human life is divided into 3 major periods during the life span he
moves towards death.

The 'first major phase' is from birth to say about 20 years. The
'second phase' is from 20 years to 50 years. The 'third phase' is
from 50 years onwards until death. The number of years in each
'phase' is strictly variable. These major 'phases' are 'periods'
when there is predominance of certain diseases.

The first phase: (birth to about 20 yrs.)

It is a known fact that a newborn or an infant or even a teenager

is brought to the physician not with the complaint of rheumatoid
arthritis or hypertension or diabetes but for different set of
complaints. The mother takes the child to the doctor for either a
stubborn skin rash or recurrent boils or an upper respiratory
problem like cold, coryza, cough, at the most diarrhoea,
dysentery or urinary tract infections. They are always or almost
always inflammatory or infective diseases. This shows that in this
first phase of life when the child is in the learning stage, the
diseases encountered are due to the first defense that is
physiological defense. This is a stage predominated by Psora.

Psora stands for learning, growing, working to gain knowledge

that will be essential for a person to make him and his family

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survive, or to satisfy the basic needs of life. In this stage the
defense that a cell or a body uses is essentially and purely
physiological. In this stage of a man's career the face and the
features show normal, sensitive, Psoric features. We observe
that unless and until there is a strong inherited Sycosis trait the
younger generations do not accumulate much fat. They are lean,
thin, active and sensitive, all of which indicate a predominant
Psoric phase of life.

The second phase: (around 20 yrs. to 50 yrs.)

It is observed that a middle-aged person usually goes to the

physician with the complaint of backache, rheumatoid arthritis,
hypertension or diabetes. The unlucky ones go with more severe
diseases like psoriasis, tumors, fibroids, complications following
hypertension and diabetes. These diseases are either
accumulative, constructive or destructive. Those who go into
accumulative or constructive type of diseases have entered the
Sycotic phase of their life.

This is a phase of life wherein a man or a woman has completed

his basic studies and is ready to go into the proliferation phase of
life. There is the need to proliferate in all aspects of life. This is
termed as progress. He or she multiplies in terms of posterity by
getting married and giving birth to his heirs. He initially works for
needs to be fulfilled. The needs gradually turn into greed. The
more he works the more he earns. The more he earns the more
he works. The greed for accumulation of money and power turns
him into a perfect Sycotic achiever. Name, fame, money,
property, luxuries, become his basic amenities. The diseases,
which he acquires, are also due to his constitution changing the
defense at the cellular level. The shifting of gears from Psoric to

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Sycotic defense makes the man gain fat with rounding of
contours to change the features and the face. The typical
rounded Sycosis face with putting on of weight on the abdomen,
which is known as sign of prosperity, is consistent with this phase
of life. A photograph of a face of a man or a woman in their
thirties do not show any resemblance to photograph of childhood.
The journey from Psora to Sycosis changes the facial features
considerably. This is a stage predominated by Sycosis.

The third phase: (around 50 yrs. to death)

This is the stage characterized by catabolism. After every

construction there has to be destruction. This is the rule of life.
Man is also not an exception to it. The catabolic stage in life may
start in the middle age or in the late sixties or sometimes even
seventies. The ageing process, which depends upon genes and
telomeres, varies with individual subjects. The subjects who have
inherited long-life genes go towards their ultimate end, slowly but
surely very late in the life with not many serious diseases. On the
other hand those not so lucky start the decline very early in the
age.

The destructive diseases that the ageing person has to comply

with are essentially due to the third or the destructive defense
response of the cell to any hostile stimulus. This change in
defense at the genetic level can occur as a consequence to
accumulative or constructive that is Sycotic diseases or even
directly after Psoric diseases if the genes show a Syphilitic trait,
inherited or acquired.

Similarly the Sycotic defense can occur very early in the life. A
child with inflammatory diseases like tonsillitis or appendicitis if

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not treated properly or if operated might go to Sycosis too early in
life. A young boy or a girl, suddenly putting on weight at the age
of 8, 9 or 10 years and suddenly becoming free of the relapsing
fever, relapsing bronchitis, tonsillitis or recurrent gastric or urinary
tract infections whether after treatment with homeopathy or
allopathy is not a welcome sign. This child has been pushed from
Psoric or physiological defense to constructive that is Sycotic
defense. This child might suffer now from concealed diseases
like hypothyroidism, hypertension, or even diabetes at a very
early age. The second stage of life has been hastened by the
doctor himself. This amounts to shortening of the life span of the
child. This child would go into the third stage of life that is
Syphilitic defense and start suffering from destructive or terminal
diseases very early in life and die a premature death.

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 Chapter 27

MIASM AND HERING'S LAW OF CURE

Hering's law states that disease should disappear in a particular

order. Then and only then it can be called as 'cure'. The order to
be followed is:

A. From above downwards

B. From centre to periphery
C. From inside out
D. From more important organs to less important organs
E. In reverse order of appearance
I would like to add corollaries to it.
F. From more destructive miasm or destructive process to
less destructive that is either from Syphilis to Psora or
Syphilis to Sycosis or Sycosis to Psora.

For example:

1. A man suffering from leukaemia was treated. During the

process of treatment, his WBC count came down which
was a welcome sign as leukaemia has Sycotic taint and
Sycosis was coming down. But along with WBC count
reduction, even haemoglobin came down which shows
Sycosis has gone to Syphilitic as destruction sets in the
stem cells of the bone marrow thereby reducing the
haemoglobin. The constitution which was defending itself
by multiplication had suddenly shifted the gears to
destruction. Hence it was a wrong direction of cure. The
whole case was reviewed and another similimum was
given. After giving the second remedy, haemoglobin

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 increased. At the same time leucocytes also increased.
This was bad sign from allopaths side because the
disease was increasing. It was good from my point of
view. This was an indication for me that the destructive or
Syphilitic defense, which the constitution had adopted
was reverted back to constructive or Sycosis defense.
Later there was WBC count reduction and haemoglobin
increased. Also, there was a reduction in the
lymphocytes count and increase n neutrophils count.
Neutrophil count, which had never risen in the last 3 years
now increased after the right remedy was
given.(Neutrophils are a sign of acute inflammation and
lymphocytes are a sign of chronic inflammation.)

This was absolutely the correct direction of cure as

reduction in lymphocytes shows reduction in Sycosis and
increase in neutrophils signified increase in Psoric taint
that is Sycosis => Psora.

Hence the direction of cure was right.

2. During the treatment of a patient having neuro-fibromas,

the neuro-fibromas disappeared but the patient developed
renal calculi, which was thrown up by the body itself. This
was definitely in the right direction of cure as Sycosis,
which was previously stable, constructive, non dynamic
and constricted became dynamic, mobile and
accumulative and was finally expelled out of the body by
itself.

3. While treating a case of hypertension if the diastolic

pressure goes down and the systolic pressure rises up, it

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 is the right direction of cure as Sycosis - Psora.

This is a case of threatened malignancy with patient complaining

of tiredness, breathlessness on walking suggestive of anaemia.
Patient was also suffering from menorrhagia.

Sonography showed in homogenous echotexture due to multiple

fibroids, thickened endometrium due to endometrial hyperplasia
(?) endomerial Ca (?).

This suggested a Syco-Syphilitic state. This is stable or

permanent Sycosis. On 11 March 2003, patient was given a
single dose of Ferrum Sulph lm. After 2 months, that is on 6 May
2003, patient reported with an increase in haemoglobin, fibroids
gone and B.P increased with swelling of legs. Here the disease
has gone into dynamic Sycosis.

That means Sycotic static or Sycotic multiply had gone and

Sycosis dynamic which can change had come up.

When a tumour goes, Sycotic dynamic comes on At this stage

she was advised anti-hypertensives by her physician. But when
she saw her fibroid gone and haemoglobin increased she herself
refused to believe in her physician and decided to continue with
homoeopathy.

On 12 July 2003, her faith in homoeopathy paid back when her

BP came to normal, her menses normalized. See how stable
Sycosis came to dynamic Sycosis and finally came to Psoric
dysentery.

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PICKING UP RUBRICS FOR SIMILIMUM WITH THE HELP OF

MIASMS

We know that the whole organism exists on defense'. Without

defense, no organism will survive. Survival of self is done by
nutrition and oxygenation; survival of species is done by function
of reproduction; survival against any foreign hostile forces is by
function of immunity.

There are certain 'constitutions' who defend by first function. The

inhibition of nutrition that causes inflammation is what we
attribute to Psora. The constitutions, which have genetic
tendency to defend in such a way are Psoric constitutions. Same
thing holds good for Sycotic constitutions and Syphilitic
constitutions, which show tendency to defend by constructive
defense and destructive defense respectively.

This means that the first type or Psoric constitutions are expert in
using "physiological defense." The Sycotics are expert in using
"constructive defense". And Syphilitics are expert in using
"destructive defense".

Let us consider a man on the street who is attacked by a group of

4 to 5 bad elements. This man, you know, is expert in using a
‘gun' like a westerner and today he is not possessing it. If we
want to help this man, what should we give him - a stick or a
knife? No, not at all. What he requires to be given is a weapon
which he is expert with and which he can use better. ‘Give him a
gun’ and he will defend himself. Similarly' if another man in the
same place, is expert in using 'sword', there is no sense in giving

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him a gun and he can't use - provide him with a 'sword' and he
will defend himself.

In homoeopathy, we do not cure a disease. Our remedies do not

cure disease either. We only stimulate the Patient to cure
himself.

It is his immune system which has to cure itself. Our medicine

provides only the stimulus, only the right stimulus will help to
stimulate. What is the 'right stimulus'? How to find it?

We should first understand and know how this constitution is

defending itself. Now for the time being, we have to imagine the
‘lone fighter' we were just talking about. We have to know what
defensive tactics he excels in. If it is the physiological defense,
he should be given an only physiological defense oriented
remedy that is Psoric remedies.

If he is known to excel in destructive defense, we have to provide

him destructive defense remedies that are Syphilitic remedies.

Similarly, in Sycosis, Sycotic remedies can stimulate him to cure.

If it is Syco-Syphilitic defense we have to give Syco-Syphilitic
remedies. This is Similia-Similibus Curantur.

In the first case of coma mentioned in the first chapter, the

patient was tending to fight with accumulative and destructive
defense that is Syco-Syphilitic. The cerebral encephalopathy was
leading to coma {Sycosis) and destruction of senses and
consciousness {Syphilitic). I made a mistake of giving him a cake
instead of a gun. A Psoric remedy was given to Syco-
Syphilitically defending constitution!

Hence the sad result.

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How, then, to select the right similimum according to the
defense:

It is very simple. The patient defends on mental plane, physical

plane, general plane etc. that is the mental make up, the physical
make up, the general make up, the disease make up, all arising
from the genetic code which should speak the same language of
defense or miasm. If the disease is Syphilitic, we cannot take a
Psoric mental for deciding the similimum.

Psora Sycosis Syphilis

Mental
make up
General
make up
Physical
make up
Disease
make up

Here are a few rubrics which would be useful :

Psoric rubrics:

• Anxiety
• Affectionate
• Ardent

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• Activity desires
• Apprehension
• Bashful
• Benevolence
• Capriciousness
• Carefulness
• Cares, worries full of
• Cheerfulness
• Cautious
• Carried desires to be
• Complaining
• Confusion
• Deeds, desires to perform, good/ useful
• Discomfort
• Excitement
• Expressive
• Extroverted
• Honest
• Hurry
• Industrious
• Inquisitive
• Irritable
• Intellectual
• Mildness
• Pertinacity
• Religious
• Sadness
• Sensitive
• Sentimental
• Sober
• Sociability

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• Sympathetic
• Thoughts
• Timidity

Sycotic rubrics :
• Absorbed
• Abusive
• Admiration, desires
• Affectation
• Amativeness
• Amorous
• Audacity
• Anger
• Absentminded
• Antics plays
• Avarice
• Awkward
• Boaster
• Borrowing from everyone
• Buoyancy
• Business aptitude for
• Childish
• Cowardice
• Conceals himself
• Contented
• Coquettish
• Corrupt, venal
• Counting
• Charitable with expectation of recompense
• Deeds feels as if he could do great
• Delicacy, brittle

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• Discontented
• Dullness, sluggishness
• Desires, longing for
• Desire more than she needs
• Dress, best at his
• Duplicity
• Eloquent
• Embarrassment
• Escape desire to
• Exclusive too
• Extravagance
• Egotism
• Facade
• Fear
• Feigning
• Flattery desires
• Foppish, elegant, dandy
• Flatterer
• Finance, aptitude for
• Finery, luxurious clothing wants
• Fastidious
• Initiative lack of
• Inconsolable
• Gamble
• Gluttony
• Grandeur desires
• Groaning, moaning
• Hide desire to
• Hatred
• Hypocrisy
• Haughty

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• Home sickness
• Ideas fixed
• Imitation
• Importance, feel, his, pompous
• Indiscretion
• Jesting
• Liar
• Libertinism
• Loquacity
• Magnetized desires to be
• Meddlesome
• Medicine desire to swallow large doses of
• Miser
• Moaning
• Mirth
• Mischievous
• Muttering
• Plans making many
• Revelry, feasting
• Secretive
• Suspicious, mistrustful
• Ungrateful
• Slowness
• Squanders
• Selfishness
• Sadness
• Talk vivacious
• Timidity
• Usurer
• Vanity
• Theorizing

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• Verses makes

Syphilitic rubrics:
• Abstraction of mind
• Anguish
• Anorexia nervosa
• Answers, imaginary question to
• Answers, incoherently
• Answers, irrelevantly
• Asks, nothing for
• Aversion, everything to
• herself to family members to
• Business, averse to
• Catalepsy
• Casting, off of people against her will
• Cruelty, brutality, inhumanity
• Cursing, blasphemy, profanity
• Death desires
• Death thoughts of
• Despair
• Destructiveness
• Detached
• Development, mental arrested
• Eccentricity
• Ennui, tedium
• Estranged
• Euphoria
• Exhilaration
• Fanaticism
• Fancies, exaltation
• Far away, as if, with apathy and indifference to the future

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• Apathy and indifference to the future
• Fire, wants to set things or house on
• Forsakes, children his own
• Forsakes, relations
• Godless, want of religious feeling
• Homosexuality, love for own sex
• Hysteria
• Imbecility
• Indifference, apathy
• Insanity, madness
• Kill, desire to
• Killed desires to be
• Lamenting, bemoaning, wailing
• Laughing, hysterical
• Laughing, involuntarily
• Laughing, immoderately
• Lewdness, obscene
• Malicious, spiteful, vindictive
• Mania, madness
• Marriage, aversion to
• Masochism
• Misanthropy
• Moral affections - anti social
- criminal disposition
- perversions
- want of moral feeling

• Naked wants to be
• Nymphomania
• Rage, fury
• Repulsive, mood

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• Retarded children
• Schizophrenia
• Sensitiveness, want of sensitiveness
• Shameless
• Slander disposition to
• Strange, crank
• Suicidal disposition
• Unfeeling, hard hearted
• Violence, vehemence
• Washing, always hands her

Using miasm in analysis and prescribing: Illustrative Case:

A S M/5 yrs
Comes with the complaints of

1) Weakness in legs, and calf muscles while walking. Pain in the

legs since 6-8 months Weakness in legs since 3-4 months

Started 1 year back. Wants the mother to lift him up while

walking. Diagnosed as threatened Duchenne's muscular
dystrophy.

C.P.K. (creatine phosphokinase ) was raised to 2016 units while

normal level should be between 24 to 95 units.

2) Constipation - has to strain a lot and remove mechanically.

Stools once in 2-3 days

Other complaints:

• Recurrent cold and cough since 3 years running nose,

irritation and cough < change of weather, < strong odor.

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• Vomiting while coughing since 2 yrs Taken allopathic
treatment

App: poor, likes hot food

Thirst: normal

Perspiration: profuse around head, dripping even in AC.

Thermals: hot

Craving for chocolates and ice-cream

Aversion to sour

Mentals:

Sensitive child gets hurt fast. Sensitive to reprimands -Psora

If there is only one piece of bread, and the mother gives it to him,
and not to elder sister, he feels bad, and gives his own piece to
the sister. Sympathetic-Psora

His sensitivity is marked especially regarding food. If mother

gives a piece of bread to him and his sister, and the sister throws
it away, he feels very bad and he scolds her or even beats her.
Sensitive (what will the mother feel?). Angry -Psora

If he has 2 pieces of bread, and nothing is given to his pet dog,

he will give his share to the dog. Love for animals-Psora +
Sycosis

Sensitive to noise and crackers, but loves music. Sensitive to

noise, music ameliorates Psora.

Fear of giant wheels, not because of the motion, but gets

frightened when it reaches the top. Very much frightened when it

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is climbing. Fear of heights-Sycosis.

Very short- tempered. When angry he beats and bites his sister -
biting, cruelty, Syphilis

Shouts back at his father, grandfather and grandmother. Doesn't

like his father. Says he is like a splinter. - rudeness in children-
Syphilis.

Right from birth, he is obstinate child. Obstinate-Sycosis

Outside the house very shy and timid, - timid-Psora + Sycosis

Very careful while crossing the roads.- cautious Psora +Sycosis.

Very intelligent child, interested in studies and knowledge -

intellectual Sycosis Very much particular about his studies.

In school known as good, obedient and conscientious child.

Conscientious about trifles-Psora + Sycosis Though religious,
doesn't like to pray to God, or do any rituals - religious Sycosis

Dressing habits - always well dressed, full shirt, full pant. He tries
to behave like a matured man –Sycosis. His clothes are always
kept in place.

His books are also kept in place and are very tidy. Doesn't like
anybody touching it. Does not misplace things. Very much
possessive about his things, and nobody should touch his things.
Fastidious - Sycosis Destructive of toys, destructive-Syphilis

Can't see cruelties and blood. Very much sensitive about

animals. Can't see animals in pain, or even human beings in
pain. Sympathetic to cruelty to animals- Sycosis

Hobbies: Is very artistic, and has won many prizes in drawing

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Playing on computer.
Crazy about cars - Sycosis
Speed - Fast.
Very much restless
More attached to mother.
Mother's History:
H/o Asthma during pregnancy. Taken allopathic treatment.
Analysis Journey of disease

Recurrent cold and Endoderm Psora

Psora
cough since 3 years
Running nose, Endoderm Psora
Psora
irritation and cough
Vomiting while coughing Endoderm Psora
Pain in the legs Mesoderm Psora
Swelling of calf muscles Mesoderm Psora
Weakness of legs Mesoderm Psora-Sycotic

DMD or Duchenne's muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder. It

is characterized by cramps in the calf muscles, increase in the
size of the muscle, progressive weakness in first the calf muscle,
then ascending to upper muscles until his gait changes to
waddling gait, chest and abdomen gets protruded, it becomes
impossible to rise from squatting position. Life finally ends with
paralysis of respiratory muscles. This disease pathology starts
with deactivation of a gene which produces dystrophin.
Dystrophin is a protein which protects the muscles from injury.

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Interestingly this insufficiency of production starts in calf muscles
and gradually proceeds up, opposite of Hering's law direction. It
begins between the age of 4 to 7 years. Universally there is no
treatment for it once it has set in. Three stages are seen. First the
muscles get inflamed (Psora) due to any infection that may injure
the muscle in absence of dystrophin. Here it was because of
respiratory tract infection being transferred from endoderm to
mesoderm (muscles-connective tissue level). Secondly there is a
false increase in cell mass (Sycosis). Thirdly the muscle cells get
gradually destroyed (Syphilis). If at all a child of DMD has any
hope it is in homoeopathy and that too if anything can be done at
a stage one of inflammation or Psora. First of all if these are
genetically pre-diagnosed DMDs when it runs through the family,
homoeopathy can prevent the disease (immune-impairment)
from reaching the third or mesoderm-connective tissue layer,
(see chart of suppression in the book-Theory of suppression).
The deactivation of gene of dystrophin can only occur if the
immune impairment reaches the muscles that is if a child is
suppressed with allopathy or homoeopathy. If right genetic
constitutional similimum (GCS) is prescribed, that means a
remedy which will take into consideration the genetic traits of the
individual, is prescribed, there is a remote possibility of saving
this child. The GCS includes the mental make-up; physical make-
up; the general make-up; disease makeup; all of which are his
defense make-up or miasmatic make-up.

Mental makeup is made up of Innate genetic characters and

should be represented in the form of -

• Will
• Intellect
• Morals

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• Diligence
• Defense
• Sensitivity
• Expressiveness
Disease makeup

Physical makeup is made up of

• Structure
• Height / weight
• Shape of face
Texture of hair and skin

General makeup is made up of

• Tolerances to sun, wind, moon, rain
• Tolerance to heat and cold
• Thirst
• Sensitivity to noise, light, touch, smell

In the above child first the disease stage was taken into
consideration. This was the beginning of DMD which is
predominately Syco-Syphilitic as the name pseudo hypertrophic
muscular dystrophy suggests. By our understanding of the
miasms, now we understand that this constitution is defending
itself or genetically been programmed to defend itself by bringing
about at first inflammation (Psora), construction (hypertrophy)
(Sycosis) and destruction (Syphilis) at the pathological level.
Mind and body talk the same language, because both are
governed by the same genetic code. This means the mind must
also have develop ed some characteristics which will defend
itself Psoro- Syco-Syphiliticaly. But at this stage the disease was
not fully established and yet defending Psorically as there was

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this child which have the Psoric taint and Sycotic hue
predominantly. These mental rubrics can be used as eliminatory
rubrics because the similimum will have to cover them, Then and
only then it becomes a genetic constitutional similimum. This of
course will and should include the thermals, the thirst, desires
and aversions etc.

In the above child the following Psoric and Sycotic symptoms

were considered:

Mental make-up:
Will: Timidity - Psora.
Intellect: Creative and artistic - Sycosis
Morals: Conscientious - Psora
Sympathetic - Psora
Defense: Fastidious - Sycosis
Sensitivity: Sensitive to rudeness - Psora

General make-up:
Hot
Craving: Chocolates, Ice-cream.
Perspiration: Profuse

Physical make-up:
Lean Thin
Rubrics taken:
1. Timidity
2. Artistic aptitude
3. Conscientious about trifles
4. Sympathetic
5. Fastidious

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The only remedy which comes up on repertorising is Carcinosin.

Confirmatory:
Craving for ice-creams and chocolates.
Sensitive to noise, music ameliorates.
Fear of high places.
Love for animals
Cruelty and inhumanity, - Syphilis
Destructiveness, -Syphilis
(If this case was to progress to Sycosis and further into Syphilis
then the mind would also change towards Sycosis and Syphilis
mentals).

Prescription:
08/12/01 Carcinosin 200
19/02/02 Appetite improved, Pain legs SL
decreased Weakness decreased
06/04/02 Suffered chickenpox SL
Throat pain -(back to Psora!)
11/06/02 Vomiting SL
28/06/02 Cough and Fever SL
14/09/02 CPK- 110 the child is normal up SL
to date and goes for mountain
climbing.

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MIASMATIC REFLECTION IN DISEASES

Psoric skin conditions: (See colour charts at the end of the

Book)

1. Acute eczema
2. Boil
3. Acne
4. Rash
5. Scabies

Sycotic skin conditions:

1. Chronic eczema with blackish discolouration

2. Lichenification
3. Viral infection e.g. warts
4. Fungal infections
5. Accumulative disorders e.g. lipoma, fibroma, xanthoma

Syphilitic skin conditions:

1. Deep cracks
2. Fissures with bleeding
3. Carbuncles
4. Varicose ulcers
5. Malignant carcinomas

Rheumatic arthritis:
Psoric when there is joint inflammation only.
Sycotic when there is swelling, proliferation of synovial
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Syphilitic destruction of cartilage and bone start due to
continuous friction and age.
Rheumatoid arthritis:
Syphilitic As it is an auto-immune disease, self destruction
takes place.
Osteoarthritis:
Sycotic When chondrocytes proliferate.
Syphilitic When progressive erosion of articular cartilage
takes place.
Gout:
Sycotic As there is deposition of monosodium biurate
monohydrate crystals.
Ankylosing spondylitis:
Syphilitic Due to the presence of auto anti bodies.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus:
Syphilitic As it is an auto-immune disease, self destruction
and distortion takes place.
Anaemia:
Psoric When it is diet related that is nutritional anaemia.
Sycotic (Less) when haemoglobin goes down due to any
causes like hypoplasia, which causes bone
marrow depression.
Syphilitic When destruction is associated like in Addisonian
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Thrombocytopenia
Leukopenia Syphilitic as there is destruction
Neutropenia
Thalassaemia:
Syphilitic as there is inherited impairment of haemoglobin
production.
Thromobocytopenia:
Syphilitic As there is reduced platelet count due to failure of
megakaryocyte maturation.
Leukaemia:
Sycotic As there is increased number of primitive white
cells in bone marrow.
Syphilitic When destruction takes place
Haemophilia:
Syphilitic As it is congenital bleeding disorder due to
reduction of factor VIII.
Polycythemia:
Psoric When it is physiological that is in persons living at
high altitudes.
Sycotic When red cell count increases due to timorous
condition of the organs.
Leucocytosis:
Psoric When it is physiological.
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Neutrophilia:
Psoric Neutrophils increase during acute inflammation.
Lymphocytosis:
Sycotic As Lymphocytes increase during chronic
inflammation.
Down’s Syndrome: 21X Trisomy
Sycotic, Syphilitic …………….. Destruction
Neurological Disorders:
 Acute confusional states due to drugs are psoric.
 Endocrinal disturbances are Sycotic and Syphilitic
 Nutritional disorders are psoric; due to organ system
failure are Syphilitic like hepatic failure, uraemia; due to
infection like bacterial meningitis are psoro-Syphilitic; due
to tubercular meningitis is psoro-syco-Syphilitic; due to
vascular disorders like hypertensive encephalopathy are
Sycosis; due to subarachnoid haemorrage is Syco-
Syphilitic
 Epilepsy due to febrile convulsions is Psoric; epilepsy
after trauma is psoro-Syphilitic; after stroke is Syphilitic;
with tumour is Sycotic; due to meningitis is psoric and
status epilepticus is Syco-Syphilitic.
 Dementia and Amnesic Syndromes due to idiopathic
degeneration are Syphilitic; due to vascular disorder are
Syphilitic; due to neoplastic disorders, benign tumours are
Sycosis; malignant tumours are Syco-Syphilitic. Due to
infections are psoric; due to metabolic disorders are

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 Sycosis and Syphilis.
 Disorders of vision – Mononuclear disorders like cataract
are Syphilitic; glaucoma are Sycotic; Vitreous
haemorrhage are Syphilitic; retinal
detachment is Syphilitic. Disorders or ocular motility like
weakness of movement is Sycosis and loss of movement
is Syphilitic.
Thus all diseases due to inflammation, infection or
nutritional disorders are Psoric.
All diseases due to space occupying lesions or
atherosclerosis or under expression of neurotransmitters
are Sycotic.
All diseases due to destructive disorders are Syphilitic.
 Miasms and psychiatric disorders:
Psoric ailments: are disorders, which are due to
deficiency and have purely physiologic tones. Neurotic
disorders – such as anxiety neurosis, restlessness,
simple depression, melancholia, hypochondriasis, that
have no pathological or structural changes involved are
psoric ailments.
Sycotic ailments: are those which are produced due to
space occupying lesions or due to metabolic disorders
like uraemia, bilirubin imbalance, hepatic encephalopathy,
hypochondriasis, phobias, imbecility.
Here the salient features are some kind of statis,
slowness, pseudoism, coverup ….
Syphilitic ailments: these are disorders due to some kind
of distortions and perversions like manias, obsessive
compulsive disorders, schizophrenia, psychosis, hysteria,
paranoias, mental retardation – down’s syndrome ….
Idiocy, perverted sexuality etc.

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There is total loss of control over thoughts and emotions
in these ailments making them belong to Syphilis miasm.
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BRAIN DOMINANCE

Brain has two sides right side and left side.

Right brain controls left side of the body.

Left brain controls right side of the body.

(See colour charts at the end of the book)

Left brain dominant people are known to have following

characteristics:

 Logical
 Analytical
 Work oriented
 Result oriented
 Positive
 Mathematical
 Money minded
 Calculative
 Language interested
 Achievers

Left brain dominant people can be good

 Business men
 MBA Management
 Executives
 Supervisors
 Traders

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  Engineers (civil-auto-electrical)
 Electrical engineers
 Computer engineers
 Mathematicians
 Leaders
 Radiologist
 Pathologist
 Physiotherapist
 Tourist and Travellers

The Right brain dominant people are known to have following

attributes:

 Emotional
 Imaginative
 Sensitive
 Sentimental
 Creative
 Artistic/poetic
 Spiritualistic
 Hysterical

They are artistic, painters, poets, musicians, dancers, planners,

architects, scientists, computer graphics, commercial artists,
doctors and lawyers. Doctors and lawyers have to be both brain
dominant because of predominance of logic and imagination.

Very interestingly it has been observed that people who have

particular type of nature have an affinity to have affections on
same side. For example:

a) The strong and positive, logically oriented people or

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constitutions tend to suffer from right sided affections showing
immune impairment more on the right side.

b) The meek and the sensitive and the creative tend to suffer
from left sided affections.

It has been seen in our repertories and materias that right sided
remedies have more metals and positive remedies. The sensitive
and the hysterical remedies are given more on the left sided
affection.

Right sided remedies include:

Most metals:

Alum, Arg Met, Aur-Met, Mang, Merc, Molybdenum, Palladium,

Plat, Stannum

Most positive remedies:

Ars, Camph, Caust , Hepar, Merc, Nux Vom , Sepia

Most money minded drugs:

Ars, Bryonia, Calc, Lyco, Puis, Sulph

Left sided remedies:

Most left sided remedies are sensitive and hysterical e.g. Arg-Nit,
Asaf, Asar, Caps, Cina, Clem, Crocus, Graph, Kreos, Lach, Mez,
Phos, Sepia, Sulph

Oversensitive metals like Cuprum Met, Stann, Plat, Zinc, Ferr are
left sided.

Hysterical remedies like Ignatia, Valeriana, Viola-O, Cimic,

Crocus, Cyclamen are left sided.

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The mental characteristics of Psora which stand for sensitivity,
matches the right brain dominant; Hysterical, sensitivity,
imaginations, illusion, delusions, fantasies and out of control
symptoms which are more of Syphilitic could be right brain
dominant and hence left sided.

The logic, the planning, the manipulative brain, of Sycosis may

give more right sided affections. But as the creativity increases in
the Sycosis the left side becomes more prone. Similarly when the
Syphilitic attitude, or Psoric trait is more on the working or
industrious side, the constitution is more right side prone.

In short, constitutions, which are full of work and thrust, can be

more right-sided.

In short constitutions, which are more sensitive and spiritual, can

be more left-sided.

Warning:

These are only some hints which help as pointers to a group of

remedies and to understand the relationship between miasm and
remedies. One should not take these hints as hard and fast
rules.

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 Chapter 31

GENETICS OF SYCOSIS

Mycosis is proliferation of cells as well as other products. This

shows problem with cell division control and protein growth
factors. To understand probable cause of Sycosis we need to
understand cell division cycle. Cell division is regulated by the
cell cycle control system.

The cell cycle. (See fig. BW-3-page 274) Cell cycle comprises of
two phases:

a. Mitotic phase where-in the cell actually divides and

b. Resting phase where-in the cell prepares for the mitotic

division.

The mitotic phase consists of prophase, metaphase, anaphase

and telophase. The resting phase is also known as interphase
where DNA replication takes place. The interphase is divided into
3 parts:-Gl, SandG2.

Every cell which has to duplicate has to undergo these above

phases. During Gl phase, the cell monitors its environment and
its own size. If everything is normal and the cell is found fit
enough, it is allowed to proceed to the S-phase.

In S phase, DNA replication takes place. That means the cell

gets ready for 1:2 multiplication genetically.
In G2 phase, cell ensures DNA replication is complete and
proper, and only then the cell is allowed to proceed to M-phase,

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that is mitosis phase.
Every cell which divides by mitosis into two of its own kind has to
undergo this cell cycle which is controlled by certain proteins
cyclin dependent kinases ( cdk1, cdk2,cdk3 etc.) In this resting
phase we have 2 checkpoints, Gl & G2

G1 check point regulates and controls the entry into S-phase.

G2 checkpoint regulates and controls the entry just before cell

enters mitosis.

The G 1 checkpoint ensures that every cell has optimum growth

and optimum cell environment. If the cell passes through G 1
checkpoint it replicates the DNA from 1:2 that is the cell controls
0r proliferation lies in G 1checkpoint. If the cells are going in for
more replication, G 1 checkpoint checks them and does not
allow them to proceed. There are certain cyclin dependent
kinases, namely cdk2 which combines with cyclin E to help the
cells to overcome the G 1 checkpoint or pass the check point
even if cell does not have proper growth. (See Fig BW-2 page
273).
This is probably the start of Sycosis. Here the cell tries to bribe its
way or manipulate its way through the checkpoints and hence,
tries to synthesize more DNA so that more than 2 cells are
produced. This is the start of proliferation, excessive cell
production, excessive production or synthesis of protein and
enzymes. Thus probably Sycosis sets in. The Sycotic constitution
probably has more of this cdk2 and cyclin E combination, which
makes them undergo multiplication or defense by construction
since birth.

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suppressed by drugs or other factors and the Gl checkpoint
could be overcome. Thus leading to Sycosis. This is a probable
explanation for children going from Psoric recurrent
inflammatory disease to Sycotic disease after operation of
tonsillitis and appendicitis. Many patients start becoming fat after
delivery, or after major operation or after acute inflammatory
diseases like typhoid, pneumonia, hepatitis. This is when the
Sycosis gene is activated in the person. We homoeopaths also
suppress.
In cancers too it is the G 1 checkpoint which has been seen to
be defective. But one gene giving rise to multiplication tendency
that is overcoming of G 1 checkpoint is the same as what is
probably called proto-oncogene.

One oncogene does not necessarily cause cancers. It requires

minimum two oncogenes to cause cancer in a person. Presence
of one oncogene stands for cancerous diathesis, which in other
words may be equalled to Sycosis. The gene of proliferation is
responsible to police the normal cell. There is another gene
called gene-p53 which acts as a break on excess cell
proliferation.

Gene of proliferation can be either inherited from the parents or

acquired during lifetime by process of reverse transcription.
Those who inherit are Sycotic constitutions.

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GENETICS OF CANCER

Cancer is a result of genetic mutation:

When genetic mutation takes place, there is gene called gene-

p53 which acts as a brake on excess cell proliferation not
allowing mutated cells to go further in cell-cycle. This prevents
malignancy. When p53 gene is defective that is when the cell-
brake fails, the mutated cell proliferates that is the proto-
oncogene turns into oncogene.

We understand that our constitution is based on genetic code,

which has representation of our physical and mental characters.
If a part of proto-oncogene is replaced by DNA which has been
reversely transcribed, a new oncogene is formed. Cancer can be
formed only if there are two such oncogenes.

This is something like from a thick book of Robins pathology, a

few pages have been removed and replaced by pages of Kent
materia medica. The book does not makes sense in this state. It
is no more Robins book of pathology. Same is the case with
cancer patient with genetic mutation.

Thus in cancer patient too, the basic characters of original

constitution are not helpful to prescribe upon. Each genetic

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alteration may cause phenotypic changes typified by the
progression in epithelial tissues from hyperplasia to adenoma to
dysplasia to carcinoma in situ to invasive carcinoma.

Cells have evolved mechanisms to resist neoplastic

transformation. When this mechanism is distorted the cells grow
out of control. This means the defense mechanism has failed,
brakes have gone. This amounts to Syphilis. Thus cancer is at
genetic level, a Syphilitic disease.

In previously mentioned genetic mutation cancers it is advisable

to prescribe on phenotypic similimum and not genotypic
similimum. The changed phenotypic similimum is based on
changes in generals, physicals and mentals occurring after the
onset of cancer with due respect to strong Sycotic symptom
which is not changed before and after.

According to Harrisons there are 5 series of pheno-types

occurring in cancerous growths and a possibility of changing of
similimum at every structure of change will lead homoeopathy to
fantastic possibilities of cure in cancers. This is in keeping with
treatment suggested by Hahnemann in his aphorisms where he
mentions the treatment of one sided disease and disease with
paucity of symptoms. But there is another type of cancer, which
is epigenetic, and where genetic mutation does not takes place
and only expression of genes is changed. Epigenetic cancers
are easy to cure. Here a genetic constitutional similimum based
on original characters of constitution still works. Such cases are
found in old age. And the prognosis with homoeopathic treatment
in such cases is better than genetic mutation cancers.

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SOME PRACTICAL HINTS

During the course of treatment the patient may develop early

signs of suppression from one miasm to another. It is imperative
for every physician to know these because we will realise it only
if we have knowledge of it.

(1) During the treatment of recurrent tendency to cough and

cold, many children develop minute pin head like white spots.

(i) This is wrong direction even if the cold is better.

(ii) This indicates suppression from Psora to Syphilis

(iii) This indicates that the constitution is predominantly

Syphilitic.

(2) If cough and cold tendency disappears and child starts

putting on excessive weight with lethargy indicates.
(i) Wrong direction not proceeding towards cure
(ii) Suppression from Psora to Sycosis.

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(3) A patient may start putting on excess weight and become
obese after
(i) Tonsil operation, appendix operation, hysterectomy
(ii) After treatment of acute infectious diseases
e.g. typhoid, malaria, hepatitis, pneumonia.
All this indicates suppression from Psora to Sycosis.

(4) Children start becoming dull and losing interest in studies

(i) indicates - onset of Sycosis (less).

(5) When tumours or fibroids are on the way to cure,

exteriorization in skin occurs in the form of

(i) ringworm

(ii) taenia versicolor

(iii) viral rash

(See colour charts at the end of the book)

(6) Sudden onset excruciating headaches mimicking
meningitis or sudden behavioural change in young
hysterical children, which are diagnosed as space
occupying lesions, may be due to local application on
cracks or eruptions on lips a week before. These patients
are admitted to hospital and generally diagnosed as
tubercular meningitis etc. There is a suppression of
Sycosis, Syphilis on the skin to neuro-ectoderm. These
emergencies can be cured by homoeopaths within 24-48
hours with right similimum which brings back the eruptions
on the lips.

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(7) Sudden suppression of any discharges leading to
excruciating pain anywhere in the body is 'metastasis' of
'toxins'. These pains can be easily cured with Abrotanum
200 one or at the most two doses if not much time has
lapsed.

If any patient comes with acute onset of toothache or

abdominal pain or ear pain (without pus), one should
enquire what were the ‘discharges’, which occurred before
it. Was it cold, coryza, loose motions or just inflammation
of throat? Even if such a history is not available properly,
one can safely presume the history of suppressed
inflammation or discharges and Abrotanum will create a
miracle.

Abrotanum is one of the most neglected miraculous

remedy which can give credit to homoeopaths in treating
emergencies.
Even old people going into drowsiness or confusional state
after suppression of knee pain or knee joint pain - to
backache - to neck pains to stupourous condition will be
cured of such a cerebral condition with Abrotanum
sometimes repeatedly. The repetition is advocated
because of two reasons: Firstly, the vitality of such drowsy
patient is low and secondly Abrotanum here, is a partial
similimum to state of metastasis from Psora to Sycosis
(that is inflammation to stasis). It is used to bring the
'toxins' that have travelled higher to more important
tissues, back to less important organs.
(8) Inflammatory tendencies before they turn into induration
are volatile. We observe in many patients that they suffer
from headaches for many years almost say twenty years.

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 Then at the age of 40 years, these headaches which were
paroxysmal, become more permanent. Gradually
headaches are accompanied by visual disturbances or
memory lapses or blackouts. Now the patient is
investigated and scanned and is found to be suffering from
tumour. It could be astrocytoma, meningioma, glioma etc.
What is interesting is that if the headaches were present
for many years, then was this 'tumour' also present for so
many years? Except for slow growing tumours this is not
possible. This means the growth or tumour is a recent
development and it can be traced back to the point when
the headaches which were paroxysmal became
continuous. This was the transition from Psora to Sycosis.
Before this point, the headaches were due to
inflammations or congestion of tissues. After this, the
inflammations got converted into chronic state and
induration and growth started.

This is true of all the tumours. There is a time when the

disease is in a labile state, deciding to invade a new
territory. At this time symptoms are paroxysmal coming
and going. Once it decides to settle down in the new
tissue, the symptoms become permanent.

Significance of this understanding for a homoeopath is that

as long as the disease is threatening to invade or is in a
labile state, the causative factor is important. Once the
disease has settled down that is inflammatory stage is
gone, and thickening or growth is set in, the rubric ailments
from does not bear importance.

(9) Very often girls suffering from vitiligo or leucoderma, are

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 seen to be developing boyish or mannish habits. This is
because the M.S.H. (melanocyte stimulating hormone) is
synthesized inside the pituitary from the neurons, which
are quite in close proximity to the ones, which synthesize
the prolactin and leutinizing hormone. These female
hormones control the ovarian hormones and thus control
the feminism. Menses becoming irregular during the
course of vitiligo treatment amounts to suppression or
wrong direction of cure.

The destructive tendency (Syphilitic) which is disturbing

the M.S.H. production, if suppressed, disturbs the feminine
hormone production and the patient starts feeling and
behaving like a boy. Likes boy's clothes, hates girl's
clothes, ornaments, lipsticks, the feminine hormone
production decreases and the patient starts feeling and
behaving like a boy and in young girl 'menarche' is
delayed. Homosexuality is its worst stage which follows.

In such cases, cure should not start from disappearance

of leucodermal spots but from the change of mental
attitude. The girl should start liking girls' clothes, girlish
toys, feminine ornaments, start feeling like a female (the
role for which she is born) then and only then should
physical improvement in white spots start and that too
from above downwards.
(10) Dangers of MRI scanning

There was a fast growing astrocytoma, which was

operated and grew again. When the case was seen by
me, she was in intensive care of Jaslok Hospital, lying
unconscious, she was 'chilly'. Since young age, very

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reserved, introverted, much responsible, religious,
conscientious, and diligent to the extent of working in the
kitchen even with severe headaches and giddiness, before
she was hospitalized. She used to suffer from
sunheadaches off and on, since childhood, with increased
thirst and desire for bread. On the above basis, she was
prescribed Nat Carb 30 single dose. She became
conscious, was brought home and started walking, talking
and finally dancing too. She went on to get her re-
investigated (on her own insistence) and against my
advice. And to everybody's surprise the M.R.I, showed
complete regression of the tumour. They were happy but I
was apprehensive. My worst fears came true as she
developed giddiness 3 days after. The M.R.I done, within 3
weeks showed re-growth of tumour. She became
unconscious and died in about 6 week's time. Repetition of
Nat Carb, changing of potency, nor changing of remedy
helped her. The question is what happened and why this
happened

The answer is simple. M.R.I, had caused the re-growth.

But can a non-invasive technique of M.R.I, cause
tumours?

M.R.I, is a mode of investigation in which the human being

is placed in the strong artificial magnetic field. The cells
and tissues are influenced by this strong field in such a
manner that the magnetizable elements inside the cells
are aligned in a certain manner. When the magnetism is
stopped, the elements start realigning themselves in their
natural place. This process is picturised to find the
existence of tumours and destructions.

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This aligning and re-aligning of internal elements of cells
and tissues amounts to injury. Even Hahnemann mentions
it in Aphorism 73. He mentions about meteoric or telluric
influences, which are essentially strong magnetic
influences, being injurious to cells and hence exciting
cause. He has mentioned them only in acute diseases
meaning those, which are bursts of latent Psora. For us
Psora amounts to inflammatory tendency and that is
physiological and we understand by now that strong
'Sycosis' constitution goes to the second defense that is
constructive defense immediately and quickly.

In this case too, the cells of nerves (astrocytes) which

were limping back to normalcy, were coming back from
Sycosis to 'Psora'. At this stage, the cells (astrocytes) are
very sensitive to slightest irritation. M.R.I, irritation was
enough to injure and produce the constructive defense,
which was genetically inherent in this constitution. This led
to growth of the tumour again.

This cannot happen in all cases exposed to M.R.I. Only

those constitutions who are over sensitive like Nat Carb
run the risk. It is best not to do a repeat investigation if the
patient shows such a drastic unimaginable improvement.
Investigation at this stage, does not serve any constructive
purpose.

Even biopsy or fine needle aspiration cytology is invasive

procedure, which is bound to injure a tissue whose genes
are already defending hyper constructively. We find in
daily practice that malignant tumours get aggravated after
biopsy.

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(11) Sycotic constitution people are liable to be more affected
by prolonged grief. It is something like an iron bar, which
undergoes stress for longer time and gradually changes in
shape. The Sycotic constitution people therefore, mostly
suffer from gradual progressed Sycotic diseases under
stress.

Vice versa, if a person comes with gradual progressive

Sycotic diseases like diabetes or tumours, it is more likely
that this constitution has been affected by some prolonged
grief, mortification, vexation or indignation and not from
anger, fright or sudden joy.

(12) Syphilitic constitution people are liable to be more affected

by anger or fright and thus suffer from Syphilitic sudden
diseases like motor neuron diseases, infarcts, paralysis
etc.

(13) Most of the time, it has been seen that patients suffering
from cancers, when get cured of cancers are left with
diabetes which is as good as compensatory cure as
disease comes down from third defense to second
defense.

(14) Tumours which are due to constructive miasm and are

more stable, when disappear, are liable to produce
diseases of Sycosis accumulation like diabetes,
Hypercholestremia or renal stones which is a welcome
sign.

(15) When a patient suffers from grave diseases like cancers

and tumours etc., he cannot get common diseases like
cold, cough or viral fever. Thus, presentation of these

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 common diseases is a sure shot signal that the patient is
getting cured.

(16) Tumor Viruses, Human Papilloma Virus, Ep-stein-Barr

Virus, Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus, Human T-Cell
Leukemia virus 1-(HTLV-1) all of which are tumour
viruses, initiate Sycosis or constructive defense followed
by Syphilis or destructive defense pathology. When a
patient is being cured of malignancies caused due to
these they might develop growth pathology like warts or
polyp which is welcome.

Chicken pox virus which also causes herpes zoster;

rubella virus, cytomegalo virus, herpes simplex virus are
similarly Syco-Syphilitic and get exteriorized in the form of
ulcers in the mouth, cracks on the lips or measly rash dur-
ing homoeopathic treatment.

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 CONCLUSION

'Miasm' - the taint, as suggested by Hahnemann is not only

confined to disease production in human being. It has much far
reaching consequences and a much broader meaning than
anybody can ever imagine. The significance of the three stages
of miasms can be seen in the very existence of man, animals,
plants. The 'three miasms' as we already discussed are
defensive techniques adopted for survival by anything, which
exists from man to universe. It is reflected in time, in speed, in
culture and even in disease.

Time-culture-disease chronology

Couple of centuries before, right upto about 60 years back,

before the advent of antibiotics and vaccinations, large number of
deaths occurred due to infective and inflammatory diseases.
People suffered more from eczemas, pellagras, nutritional
deficiencies.

People died of scarlatina, plagues, pneumonias, measles, small

pox, etc. The tendency of constitutions was more towards
inflammatory or Psoric diseases. Hahnemann therefore clubbed
almost all diseases in Psora.

The human race was then in purely nutritive phase. Man was
trying to survive, to make two ends meet. He was working and
learning so that he will help the human race to progress. There
were not many inventions not many discoveries. This was the
Psoric phase of man.

20th Century saw the sudden spurt of discoveries and inventions.

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Most of them changed Psora to Sycosis. Inventions brought in
luxuries, machine inventions brought in ease, facilities. All of
which led to prosperity of human race. Nearly all the inventions
electricity, telephone, television, aeroplanes, rockets, satellites,
computers etc. occurred during this period. Things were
discovered to make life easy and enjoyable and allow man to
dream to achieve the impossible. Showmanship increased,
culture and morals went underground. Man prospered but
became greedy for more. More money, more achievement, more
knowledge, more enjoyment, more deceptions, more looseness
of characters causing adultery, debauchery etc.

The invention of the vaccinations and antibiotics changed the

face of diseases too. The infections were suppressed, the viral
diseases were suppressed. The antibiotics and vaccinations
suppressed the primary physiological defense of man. He was
not allowed to react on skin (due to usage of ointments), nor
allowed to suffer from any inflammatory diseases. He had to
survive, genes started to adopt the second defense, the
morphological constructive defense. To some extent even the
'destructive-defense' tainted genes were on the up.

In Aphorism 81 Hahnemann has indirectly mentioned about the

genetic factor (though Mendelian theory of genetics was not
discovered). He mentions about an ancient infecting agent
passing through hundreds of generations and millions of human
organisms and attaining an incredible development and
rendering it morbid to give great variety of chronic diseases
(secondary symptoms of Psora). He further mentions that this
passage of infectious agent, which has brought about the change
in disease, has also brought about corporeal changes. This
change secondary to Psora coupled with the original Psoric

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miasm makes the injured cell respond differently to produce
variety of defects, which are more dangerous.

The foresighted Hahnemann, has actually written about genes,

genetic inheritance as also 'genetic mutations' two hundred years
ago.

This was the era of 'Sycosis'. In this era especially between

1950-1980, people suffered more from 'Sycosis' diseases like
hypertensions, Hyperlipidemia, diabetes, ischaemic heart
diseases, obesity, gout etc. Statistics showed that more number
of people died due to heart attacks than cancers or any other
infectious disease.

In short, vaccinations brought down the number of deaths due to

infective and viral diseases (Psora) but this gave way to more
hidden, more obscure, more insidious and more chronic form of
diseases, like the ones mentioned above. Gains in material and
shallowness in principles became the order of the day. This was
the era of Sycosis.

After the eighties man started conquering the unseen. He went to

the extent of controlling the electromagnetic waves which his
senses were never gifted to see, nor to control, nor was he made
capable by Almighty to use it for any means. But he made
technology to make use of electro-magnetic waves, radio waves,
telephone waves etc. to break the bounds of his limited
existence. Thus he had now at his commands the remote control,
the cellular phones, the e-world, the internet world. When man's
reach goes beyond his bounds, he is entering the 'Syphilis world'.
The wars of destructions with mass destructive weapons and
chemical weapons started getting discovered. Terrorism

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increased in every nook and corner of the world. Hijacking,
bombarding, mass killing, have become the order of the day.
Even the youngsters love movies having war, slaughter, hideous
faces, wierdity, horror etc. Movies depict distorted versions or
perverted versions of classics.

The imaginations go beyond realms of reality to depict martians

with one eye; human dematerializing and materializing, laser
cutting through space to enter another unseen dimension etc.

Teenagers hate classical music and opt for breakdowns,

frequenting discotheques and dancing in frenzy or freaking out till
early hours of dawn. They tend to become night creatures,
sleeping during day and freaking during night with distortion of
conscience and destruction of morality and perversion of
sexuality. No work, no study - all play and all joy, happens to be
their theme. They grow up without directions. They can never get
solace and peace in their life. They hunt for it, become paranoid,
depressed, cling to drugs, some opt for wrong fanatic
religiousness, all of which invariably take him to his doom. This is
the miasm of destruction' or 'Syphilis' which rules today.

Maximum number of patients now suffer from destructive

diseases. Diseases like cancers, motor neuron diseases,
obsessive disorders, psychosis, insanity, autism, mutism,
Parkinson’s disease, chronic renal failures, leukemia’s and
suicides are number one killers today.

Thus the world moves on in circles. The circle of Psora, Sycosis,

Syphilis.

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

 Organon of Medicine by Dr.Samuel Hahnemann

 Theory of Chronic Diseases (6th Edition) by Dr.Samuel
Hahnemann
 Complete repertory by Roger Von Zandvoort
 Robin's Pathologic basis of disease (6th Edition)
 Human Biochemistry by Wilheim R. Frisell
 Molecular Biology of the Cell (3rd Edition) by Bruce Alberts,
Dennis Bray, Julian Lewis
 Genetics-analyses of Genes and Genomes (5 th Edition) by
Daniel Hartl, Elizabeth W. Jones
 Behavioral Science (2nd Edition) by Jerry M. Wiener
 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (15 th Edition)
 Textbook of Physiology by Guyton, Hall.
 Gray's Anatomy

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Dr. Prafull Vijayakar’s
Miasmatic Chart of Suppression

Ist Layer
Ectoderm

Site Psora Sycosis Syphilis

Eyes Conjunctivitis Cataract Corneal

Initial cataract Styes ulcers
Blepharitis Chalazion

Ear Otitis Media and Suppurative Tympanic

externa otitis media membrane
Granular perforation
Myringitis

Nose Rhinitis Nasal Polyp Destruction

Sneezing Acute chronic of nasal
sinusitis sinusitis septum
Ozena

Lips and Inflammation Benign Ulcers

Palate Aphthae growths orals
thrush

Skin Dermatitis Bullous Ecthyma

Epidermis Eczema Boils impetigo Ulcers and
Impetigo Rash Warts cracks esp.

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 Acne Bacterial Excrescences with jagged
skin infection Corns edges
(Streptococcal Ringworm Destruction
and Black
Staphylococcal) discoloration
Tinea

Disease Progress – Upwards

Cure Progress – Downwards & Left wards

Miasmatic Chart of Suppression

IInd Layer
Endoderm

Site Psora Sycosis Syphilis

Genito – Cystitis Chronic Chancre

Urinary tract Urethritis Cystitis Ulcers
Vaginitis Chronic
Leucorrhoea urethritis
cystic fibrosis
Stones
(Calculus)
Purulent
urethritis

Liver and Hepatitis Gallstones Cirrhosis and

Bile duct Cholecystitis degeneration
of liver

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Gastro – Stomatitis Chronic Ulcers
Intestinal Gastritis gastritis Ulcerative
tract hyper acidity Polyps colitis Crohn’s
Enteritis Tumors Gall disease
Gastro stones Intussusceptio
enteritis ns
Diarrhoea
Appendicitis
Lower Pneumonia Sycotic Sanguineous
Respiratory Asthma asthma catarrh
Tract Bronchitis chronic
Bronchiolitis catarrh
Upper Tracheitis Polyps Ulcerative
Respiratory Laryngitis Dry Laryngeal tonsillitis
tract cough Nodules
(Throat- Pharyngitis hypertrophy
Tonsils) Tonsillitis Adenoids
Follicular
tonsillitis
Indurations

Disease Progress – Upwards

Cure Progress – Downwards & Left wards

Miasmatic Chart of suppression

IIIrd Layer
Connective Tissue

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Blood Anaemia Acute Myeloid Anaemia-bone
Leukaemia marrow
Leucocytosis depression
Joints and Rheumatic Gouty Osteitis
Cartilage Arthritis Rheumatoid Osteoarthritis
Spondylitis and
Gonorrheal
arthritis
Spondylitis
Bones Osteitis Hyperostosis Tubercular
Calcaneal Osteomyelitis
Spurs Bony Osteomalacia
tumors and Osteoporosis
excrescences
Muscles Myositis Fibromyoma Myopathy
Fibromyalgia
Tenosynovitis
Bursitis
Dermis Alopecia Psoriasis Psoriasis
Lichen Planus Lichen Planus
(Deep cracks
and bleeding)
Alopecia
Universalis

Disease Progress – Upwards

Cure Progress – Downwards & Left wards

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Miasmatic Chart of Suppression

IVth Layer
Mesodermal Organs

Site Psora Sycosis Syphilis

Cardiovasc Anxiety/Labile Atherosclerosis

ular Hypertension Chronic
System Angina pectoris hypertension
Thrombophlebi Ischaemic
-tis hypertension
Heart Myocarditis Cardiomegaly Infarct Third
Pericarditis Stenosis of degree
valves second prolapsed of
degree valves
prolapsed of
valves

Kidneys Nephritis Nephrosis Chronic renal

failure
nephritic
syndrome
Lungs Pleurisy Benign tumor Interstitial
Primary tuberculosis fibrosis Lung
complex of Thickening of abscess/cavit
tuberculosis pleura y
Alveolitis Emphysema
Lymph Lymphangitis Filariasis
Elephantiasis
Hodgkin’s
disease
Uterus Dysmenorrhoe Endometriosis Cervical
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 Prolapse uterus
cervical polyp
Dysmenorrhoea

Disease Progress – Upwards

Cure Progress – Downwards & Left wards

Miasmatic Chart of Suppression

VIth Layer
Neural Plate

Site Psora Sycosis Syphilis

C.N.S. Diabetic Neurofibromatosis Parkinson’s
S.N.S. neuritis Tumors Epilepsy Disease Motor
peripheral Neuron
neuritis Disease
Epilepsy Disseminated
sclerosis
Epilepsy
Paralysis
Disease Progress – Upwards
Cure Progress – Downwards & Left wards

Miasmatic Chart of Suppression

Vth Layer
Neuro Endocrine or A.P.U.D. System

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A.P.U.D. Stress – Hyper- Leucoderma
System Diabetes Hypothyroid Diabetes
Pancreas Thyroiditis Diabetes Mellitus
Thyroid mellitus Infertility
Pituitary infertility Impotency
Adrenals Impotency
Testes Pituitary
Ovary adenoma
P.C.O.D

Disease Progress – Upwards

Cure Progress – Downwards & Left wards

Miasmatic Chart of Suppression

VIIth Layer
The Cell

Site Psora Sycosis Syphilis

Genetic Schizophrenia Cancers Auto Ulcerative
Code Neurosis immune Cancers
Obsessive Diseases e.g Chronic
compulsive Rheumatiod myeloid
disorder arthritis S.L.E. leukaemia
Gangrene
S.L.E.
Alzheimer’s
disease AIDs

Disease Progress – Rightwards

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Other books by the same author:

 Predictive homoeopathy Part-I

 Theory of Suppression

 Predictive homoeopathy Part-II

 Theory of Acutes

 Predictive homoeopathy Part-III

 The End of ‘MYASMTION’ of Miasms

 Homoeopathy and Modern Science

 Verbation-I (Mahableshwar Workshop 2002)

 Verbation-II (Mahableshwar Workshop 2006 on

syphilis)

 Treasures of Dr. Vijayakar – Author Gunter Lutz

Next Expected Soon

Series of – “Predictive Materia Medica”

Dr. Prafull Vijayakar

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