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Presence of multiple miasms

A part of David Little's article on a number of miasms present with in a single patient.:

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Hahnemann states in The Chronic Diseases that in severe chronic cases the homoeopath may have to use a series of anti-miasmic remedies to complete the cure. This is because in complex disease the layers may represent several etiologies and the miasms can require different remedies as they become exposed.

Allen expressed the need to know the layers of a chronic case in the following terms.

'Those brilliant cures that are occasionally made with the single remedy, occur where a single miasm lies behind the phenomena, but where the mixed miasms are present, brilliant cures are not so made, and it is in those cases that it is so necessary to understand the order of their evolution.'

Some homoeopaths spend all their time searching for the single constitutional remedy for the patient. When the remedy picture fits Phosphorus they state that the patient is a 'Phosphorus constitution'. In this way they search for that one special remedy that will solve all the patient's problems.

Our elder homoeopaths of years past might have asked, 'When was this person a Phosphorus? When they were born? Now? Forever? When they had pneumonia? Because they have the inherited TB miasm?'

The search for the grand constitutional remedy may lead the homoeopath to construct permanent essences out of something that is in continual change.

Complex chronic diseases are often made up of many interdependent components rather than one single constitutional factor. Although many cases have been ameliorated by just one constitutional prescription such miraculous responses are the best of circumstances.

Homoeopaths who wish to treat chronic diseases must be prepared for the worst! In a more complex chronic illness it may not be so easy to pigeon-hole the entire case into one single remedy. It may take a series of related remedies to remove the miasmic layers as the person moves toward the state of health.

This is why it is necessary to know in what order the layers of the case have formed along the timeline so that they may be unraveled in the reverse order by which they developed.

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Punkaj Varma
 
  PANKAJ VARMA on 2010-09-15
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Wonderful article!
 
Homeopathy International 1 last decade
In complex cases it is important to identify the layers of disease and treat one by one each layer.

In today's world...with so much pollution, preservatives in foods, use of pesticides in farming, industrial waste, onslaught of allopathic drugs, vaccinations, viral infections etc. etc.....it is normal to expect a few layers of disease in a patient.

Further more the nervous system is bombarded with TV output, mobile phones, street noises, electronic waves of many frequencies in the atmosphere of cities, air travel..etc. etc.

On top of it the individual acquires disease due to heredity passed on from each parent (the miasms).

Each of these problems create a layer of disease.

All these have an adverse impact on the human body.

To expect that just one medicine will cure all layers...is a fallacy.

Patients who experience frequent relapses of illness...after initial relief from constitutional medicine dose...are sure cases of layers of disease present in them.

Punkaj Varma
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
Good to see such a wonderful homeopath here! If only everyone doing homeopathy understood such things!
 
Homeopathy International 1 last decade
thanks j.h.
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
Dear J H,
Many years back I used to keep telling members here at ABC that complex cases needed more than one medicine to complete the cure.

However, Gavinimurthy (also known as Bandarbabu), J.C. Scott ( who kept returning under many different names..even though Moderator used to ban him for using foul language against members with whom he did not agree) and Rajiv Prasad kept on insisting that the Classical Model was the only way of treating patients where it is assumed that one med will cure all ills.

I kept on informing them that after the initial concepts propounded by the greatest of greats Dr. H'mann , much progress had been made by the homeopaths who came in later and they had brought out the need for more than one medicine in curing complex patients. Further , I kept telling them that effective cures take place when the miasmic taint is treated as well. Only then...lasting wellness can be achieved for the patient.

Unjustifiably, I was at the receiving end of a lot of flak during those days from the three guys.

However, David Little's article on multiple miasms clarified a great deal and came in support of my line of thinking.

Gavinimurthy is a very bright man ...and he realized the importance of what I had been saying....though much after the Moderator disallowed him and me from reading each others posts.
Subsequently, Gavini made truce with me.

Blissfully all that is a matter of the past. I am glad that a lot of members here at ABC (who understand basics of homeopathy) have begun to realise the importance of this aspect of advanced homeopathy.

Dr. Eizayaga of Argentina placed in the hands of homeopaths the theory of 'Layers of Disease' in patients....and 'Cast in Stone' his thinking on the manner in which the layers are to be identified and treated in a sequential manner using a different medicine for each layer.

I wish all member here at ABC more and more progress in their endeavors as well as thank Simon Broadlay (the Moderator and Owner of ABC site) for giving us a platform to discuss all these matters and connect with each other.

Best regards,
Punkaj Varma
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
I will not get involved in personal arguments on this forum. However, my own thinking is that many cases do involve more than one medicine.

Hahnemann said that suppressed psora is seldom cured by only one anti-psoric, and that is the advice that I work with.

“Here I may mention the curious circumstance that in general with the exception of the recent itch-disease still attended with its unrepressed cutaneous eruption, and which is so easily cured from within* - every other psoric diathesis, i.e., the psora that is still latent within, as well as the psora that has developed into one of the innumerable chronic diseases springing from it, is very seldom cured by any single anti-psoric remedy, but requires the use of several of these remedies - in the worst cases the use of quite a number of them - one after the other, for its perfect cure.”- Samuel Hahnemann
 
Homeopathy International 1 last decade
Great !

Sometimes disagreements do take place...however it is essential to keep them within the four walls of homeopathic discussion and not turn them into personal attacks and jeers. I think all members should follow that rule.

That way...Simon Broadlay can continue to have sound sleep !!

Punkaj Varma
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
For the benefit of all members I am quoting below from a book by a well known homeopath:

WHEN TO USE MIASMATIC PRESCRIBING:

1.Indicated remedy / remedies fail to produce beneficial result.

2.Patient relapses

3. Acute disease fails to resolve

4. Miasm obscures symptoms-picture.

(That is why
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
contd. ..

(That is why experienced homeopaths give a dose of Sulphur ...when symptoms give a hotch-potch picture or a well chosen med fails to show results).

Punkaj Varma
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
J.H.Clarke in his book 'The Prescriber'...writes...when the symptoms show a confused picture (specially in women) give the 'Daisy'..which is another name for Bellis Perennis. Then record the new symptom picture that emerges.

Punkaj Varma
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
I work from the assumption that every patient has every miasm in their family history, but I record the patient's full history to see what miasms they've had in their lifetime.
 
Homeopathy International 1 last decade
The word miasm has originated from the Greek word “Miasma” which means a stain, pollution, defilement of an abnoxious atmosphere or infective material. Hahnemann, during his life time discovered that a “noxious agent” was responsible for the persistence of the disease condition which he named as miasm. It was during the evolution of the discovery of chronic disease, he came to the conclusion that the disease condition cannot arise, persist or even grow worse if the miasm is not present. Hence, he named three basic miasms, i.e. Psora, Sycosis and Syphilitic miasm. Futhermore, Dr. Tomas Paschero definition of miasm was : “A miasm is not an infection or an intoxication, but a vibratory alteration of man’s vital energy, determining the biological behaviour and general constitution of the individual.”

If we look into the evolution of the history of miasm, Dr. Hahnemann perceived the miasm on the physical plane based on the clinical observations. It was further extended and given a philosophical touch by Dr. J. T. Kent who raised the miasmatic theory to the state of mind which required deep seated perceiving. Dr. Robert and Dr. Speight made an analytical study of symptomatology of diseases and corelated the miasms with symptoms. Dr. C. M. Boger generalised the symptoms and converted them to pathological generals eg keloid, gangrene, desquamations, etc. He also stressed form, function and structure of any disease condition. He was of the opinion that disease evolves dynamically from Psora to Sycotic to Tubercular to Syphilitic phase. He was the first person to corelate pathology to miasms.

Dr. J. H. Allen introduced the tubercular miasm.

In his book “The Chronic Miasms” he described psora, pseudopsora and sycosis. He stated that the miasms psora and syphilis gave rise to tubercular miasm and called it pseudopsora. He added that when sycosis is added to tuberculosis, it gives rise to a malignant hue.

Source: http://www.similima.com/org51.html
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade
I am quoting here from a book by a reputed homeopath in India who is an MBBS, MD (in allopathic medicine) and a MF in Homeopathy.

He switched to homeopathy after a certain years of allopathic practice since his father had been a successful practicing homeopath and he received the initial guidance in homeopathy from his Dad.

He writes as follows:

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The majority of people deemed to have more than one miasm, and the rule of thumbs is to treat the most active or uppermost first, as and when it is encountered. However Eizyaga suggests that it is also a good policy to treat mismatically after the patient is fully cured* , in order to consolidate the cure and reduce the likelihood of relapse.

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* Supposedly 'fully cured' by a single or two or more meds that address the immediate ailment.

Punkaj Varma
 
PANKAJ VARMA last decade

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