🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm
The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
▲GENERAL
Clarke stated “This globular fungus, which, according to repor t is eaten in Italy before it is
ripe, becomes filled, while ripening with a black dust that breaks the husk which contains it with a slight noise.”
Corresponding to this signature, “bloated, puffy condition of body surface,” and a sense of “enlargement,”
leading features of the Bov pathogenesis include flatulent disten tion and noisy passage of flatus.
Guernsey
added “We may always think of Bov when we see a very ‘tettery' person, one who has tetters here and there,
all over the body.
These tetters may be either moist or dry.”
The puffball exerts its influence on the circulation, causing relaxation of the capil lary system, thereby
ptoducinghemorrhagic diathesis.
There is a general puffiness, bloated condition of body surface, which
produces easy indentations with a blunt instrument (scissors etc.).
EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. -like eruption.
Herpes.
Marked
languor and lassitude.
Laxity, especially felt in joints, which seem loose.
Gre at weakness of the joints (has cured where Rhus -t seemed indicated and failed).
Nervous joints.
Enlarged or swollen
feeling in head, heart, etc.
Stage of numbness and tingling in multiple neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
Asphyxia due to charcoal fumes.
Effects of over -exertion
and application of tar locally
Camph. Bov. antidotes coal tar applications. Suffocation from
gas. After Rhus-t. in chronic urticaria.
▲MIND
Awkward in speech and action, drops things.
Everything falls from hands.
Absentminded.
Weak
memory.
Inattentive.
Slowness of understanding and comprehension.
Dullness, with restlessness.
Alternating moods.
Laughs and cries alternately.
Sensitive, takes offense at ev erything.
Ill-humor, aversion
to all things.
Quarrelsome.
Wants to fight.
Fear of insanity on waking from a dream.
Irritable, takes everything
amiss.
Confusion on waking.
Confusion while standing.
Confus ion when stooping.
Enlarged sensation (Arg-n.).
Stares vacantly into space.
Sad when alone.
Cheerful in company.
Mental symptoms from sexual excesses.
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
V ertigo with feeling of stupidity in head on rising.
VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. and confusion of head after sex.
Vertigo,
falls over, momentarily unconscious in morning.
Sudden attacks of vertigo while standing.
COMMENTS - Relaxation of entire capillary system.
The heart feels enormously large.
Hemorrhagic diathesis.
HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. from menstrual irregularities, from trauma.
Hemorrhage between the periods.
Menstrual flow
occurring only or chiefly at night.
Ovarian cysts.
Puffy condition of the body, surface instruments (e.g., scissors) indent the fingers in an unusual degree.
Sweat
of axilla, smells like onions.
Early morning sweat, worse on chest.
Many symptoms are worse in early morning,
including the diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
Sensitive to touch, cannot bear clothing.
Sensitive to drafts, chilliness predominates.
Warts and corns with shooting pains.
Ebullitions with great thirst.
“Itching at top of coccyx.” The corners of the
mouth are broken out.
N umb, pithy feeling in mouth.
There is stuttering and stammering speech.
Awkwardness, misapplies words in speaking and writing.
ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., causing the patient to bend double (Coloc.), better by eating, sometimes accompanied by voiding of red
urine.
M.
L.
Sircar recorded a striking cure of such a case with Bov.
3x, the pain being griping -twisting intermittent,
starting be-
low umbilicus and diffusing itself towards epigastrium, some constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass., urine scanty and reddish.
Nothing
gave relief except eating.
Teste observed psoric eruptions appear on the hands and feet of a patient to whom he gave Bov for a
headache.
He cured with it “red, crusty eruptions on thighs and bends of knees of eighteen years' duration.” It
disappeared for weeks, reappearing in hot weather and at the full moon.
W.
S.
Gee recorded a case concerning a widow, 55.
She had an eruption, which she thought to be erysipelasAcute bacterial skin infectionAn acute, sometimes recurrent, bacterial skin infection characterized by large, raised red patches, especially on the face.,
on her right foot.
.
Some years before, she had an eruption on her left foot, which discharged much water and
was “cured" by the use of a salve.
A few months later, the left knee became af fected and the limb was
amputated above the joint.
The current eruption was fiery red, covered with yellowish-brown scales, thick as an old-fashioned wafer.
There
were also rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains in the leg.
After Rhus -t had been given without benefit, she was cured with Bov.
4c.
Dr.
Gee elicited additional symptoms including “Occasional spells of short breathing, especially from working
with the hands.
Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately a fter urinating.
Sleep disturbed by burning and
itching and also by anxious, frightful dreams, headache when waking from sleep.”
Lilienthal noted “moist vesicular erup tions with formation of thick crusts”; Bov was given with steady
improvement and eventual cure.
A case of cyst in the broad ligament was cured.
It was accompanied by metrorrha gia, flow at night or early
morning, easily provoked from slight over -exertion during menses.
Could bear nothing tight around body.
Menses were preceded and followed by diarrhea.
Acrid, corrosive leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., flowing at night only, follows
menses
▲HEAD
Dull, bruised pain in brain.
Confu sion on waking.
Staggering, confusion and numbness in head after
sex.
Tension headaches, worse early morning, open air, lying.
Stupefying headache in forehead and vertex.
Sensation as if head were enlargin g, especially of occiput.
As if wedge is pressed in occiput.
Scalp itches,
worse warmth, sensitive, must scratch until sore.
Falling out of hair.
Scalp tender to touch.
▲EYES
Eyes look weak and dim.
Inflammation of eyelids, with nightly agglutination.
Pressure in orbits.
Vertical
half-sight.
Objects seem to be nearer than they really are.
Stares at one point.
Loss of vision from paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of
optic nerve
▲EARS
Boil in right ear with pain, worse swallowing.
Discharge of fetid pus.
Indistinct hearing, misunderstands
much
Bovista lycoperdon that is spoken
▲FACE
Frequent violent alternations of color.
Acne, worse in summer, due to use of cosmetics.
Cheeks and
lips swollen.
Crusts about corners of mouth.
Twitching of muscles, before asthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity..
Pale swelling of cheek after
toothache
▲MOUTH
Putrid taste.
Stammering when reading with inability to pronounce several words rapidly.
Stammering
(Stram., Merc.).
Mouth dry, as if sand were in it.
Numbness.
Increased saliva.
Offensive odor from mouth.
Gums bleed easily on sucking them.
Bleeding after tooth extrac tion.
Lips chapped, cracked, crusty.
Pale
swelling of upper lip.
Scurf and crusts about nostrils and corners of mouth.
Corners of mouth sore.
Nose stopped up, cannot breathe, worse lying down.
Discharge from nose, stringy, tough.
Watery coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge.
with dizziness.
Bleeding of nose and gums.
Nosebleed with menstrual irregularity, or from trauma.
Bleeding
early in the morning (during sleep), a few drops escape on sneezing.
Perspiration - Sweat in axilla, onion smell.
Sweats in morning, most profuse on chest
▲THROAT
Burning pain in throat.
Sharp pain in throat before asthma.
Sore throat with scratching and burning in
esophagus.
Scratching sensation in larynx with viscid mucus.
Rawness in larynx, mornings, with catarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge.
speech.
Hoarseness in morning, with scraping in throat.
Tongue - Soreness or ulcers on edges of tongue.
Burning in tip of tongue early in morning on waking.
Cutting
pain in tongue, before asthma.
Numbness of pos terior portion of tongue early in morning on waking.
Tongue
feels almost like wood
▲CHEST
Oppression of chest, as from con striction, with desire to loosen clothes.
Sharp pains in various parts
of chest.
Sweat in axilla, onion smell.
Burning in outer chest.
Constitutions - Hemorrhagic diathesis.
Adapted to old maids with palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. and stammering children.
Heart feels enormously large.
Palpitations as if heart working in water.
Palpit ations with tremor of
hands, worse bathing, excitement.
Palpitations worse after eating.
Palpitations with restlessness, nausea and
headache.
Palpitations
Bovista lycoperdon during menses.
Visible palpitations of the heart.
Kidneys - Frequent desire to ur inate, even immediately after urination.
Dry cough, caused by tickling in throat and chest.
Cough after coming into room from cold air.
Loose cough in evening, dry in morning
▲ABDOMEN
Empty eructations.
Intolerant of tight clothing around waist.
Hiccough before and after dinner.
Sensation as if a lump of ice in stomach.
Pressure and fulness in pit.
Nausea better breakfast.
Nausea with
chilliness, whole forenbon.
Morning sickness, vomits only water.
Vomits watery fluid.
Temperature - Chills with pain.
Chills after going to bed at night.
Chill predominating, even near a warm stove.
Chills all
night: Shivering in evening, spreading from back.
Shuddering alternating with flying heat.
Fever with thirst,
anxiety and restlessness.
Fever heat during sleep.
Bloatedness of abdomen.
Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist.
FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. or rumbling with
constipation.
Pain around umbilicus.
Abdominal colic, with bright red urine.
Flatulent colic relieved by
eating and bending double.
Offensive flatus.
Sharp pain through perineum towards rectum and genitals.
Coldness sensation moving about in abdomen.
Ulceration in bowels.
Excessive hunger, even after meals.
No appetite for cooked food, desire for bread only.
LeucorrhoeaVaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina. acrid, thick, tough, greenish, leaving green spots on linen worse while walking after
menses.
Metrorrhagia.
Cannot bear tight cloth ing around waist (Lach.).
Ovarian cysts.
Voluptuous
sensation
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Great weakness of all joints, clumsiness with her hands, drops things from hands.
Weariness of hands
and feet.
Moist eczema on back of hand.
Weak hands.
Heavy, painful legs.
Itching of feet and legs.
Tip of
coccyx itches intolerably.
Edematous swelling of (right) foot even years after a sprain.
EdemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. of joints after
fracture
▲BACK AND NECK
Pain in the back with heaviness after stooping.
Tip of coccyx itches intolerably.
Pain and stiffness of
back after stooping.
Stiffness of neck in morning.
Shooting pains between the shoulders are better from
bending, straightening up.
Sharp pains in neck.
Causations - Antidotes effects of charcoal fumes
▲SKIN
Eczema, red, burns, itches, disturbs sleep.
Eczema, moist formation of thic k crusts.
JaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin. of
newborns.
Pellagra.
Itching on getting warm.
Itching eruptions, oozing, forming thick crusts or scabs with pus
beneath.
UrticariaHives or itchy raised skin weltsA skin outbreak of red, itchy, swollen bumps triggered by allergic reactions, friction, or stress. on excitement with rheumatic lameness, palpitations and diarrhea (Dulc.).
Urticaria
covering whole body with diarrhea or metrorrha ; gia.
Urticaria on waking in the morning, worse from bathing.
Pimples cover the entire body.
Scurvy.
Herpetic eruptions.
Shooting pain in corns and warts.
Blunt instruments
leave deep impression on the skin.
Tetter, moist or dry, red, scabby eruptions
▲SLEEP
Spasmodic yawning before asthma, morning sweat in bed.
Night Great drowsi ness in afternoon and
early evening and after eating, rest disturbed by burning and itching of nettle -rash.
Restless sleep with many
anxious, frightful dreams
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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