🧬 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.
Aural vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with transient vanishing of sight.
COMMENTS - Complete aphasia in a patient who took 1 1/2 oz of worm-seed oil and 30 drops of turpentine.
Five days from taking the dose he died in profound coma with high temperature.
“Whatever he did he would keep repeating.
When the doctor entered he arose and shook him heartily by the
hand, and then sat down.
In about a minute he arose, solemnly ca me forward and again shook hands.
This
he repeated twenty times in as many minutes.
He then went through the performance of
washing his hands in an empty basin and repeated this many times.”
In poisoning cases, there was hemiplegiaParalysis of one side of the bodyParalysis affecting only one vertical half of the body, usually caused by a brain injury or stroke. with contractions of limbs and certain epileptic seizures.
When given
as a vermifuge it frequently produces progressive and long- lasting deafness.
The peculiar deafness corresponds nearly to the “cerebral deafness” described by Cooper in which the watch-
hearing is good while the voice-hearing is bad or absent.
Linnell cured with it two cases in which there was deafness to voice-hearing but sensitiveness to other sounds.
In one case there was implication of left labyrinth with slight chronic otitisEar infection or inflammationInflammation or infection of the ear, typically categorized as otitis externa (outer ear) or otitis media (middle ear). media of both ears, deafness in the
left ear several years, no tinnitusRinging or buzzing in the earsThe perception of noise or ringing in the ears when no external sound is present., consciousness of the ear, sensitive to musical sounds, deaf for watch and
voice, hearing diminished.
Linnell also cured a roaring tinnitus synchronous with heart.
Sensitiveness to cold.
Hearing better for high -
pitched than low-pitched sounds.
Allen reported three cases of poisoning in which there was insensibility, convulsions, and foaming at the mouth.
All remembrance of taking the poison was lost upon recovery.
Deep, heavy, stertorous breathing ac companied by a very peculiar rattle, as if there were a ball rolling loose
in the trachea.
Any attempt to swallow threatened instant suffocation.
Pulse small, weak, frequent and feeble.
Eyes insensible to light or external objects.
Convulsive movements of right half of bo dy.
Limbs cold.
In one case, a patient took 1.5 oz of worm -seed oil and 30 drops of turpentine.
It produced disagreeable
belchings and nausea.
Staggering like a drunken man.
Deafness to the sound of the voice, but exquisite sensi-
tiveness to the sound of passing vehicles, they sounded like cannons in his ears, also annoying buzzing.
In smoking, he would scarcely light his cigar before he would lay it down again and take a fresh one, arguing
perversion of taste.
By afternoon the mantelpiece was strewn with cigars only partly used.
No disposition to engage in conversation.
Aphasia, he clearly wanted his attendant to get or do something but
could not make him understand.
The attendant wrote, “Don’t understand,” showed it to him and gave him,
paper and pencil.
After great efforts he wrote distinctly words with no meaning.
The voice and hearing became progres sively worse but he heard the tea -bell three stories below, promptly
and to the astonishment of the family, got up and walked deliberately into the dining-room.
He did not seem to
know his accustomed seat and sat in the wrong place.
During the afternoon became completely aphasic.
Finding himself unable to express his ideas, this seemed to
amuse him much and he laughed heartily.
He then went through the performance of washing his hands in an empty basin and repeated this many times.
Sitting at tea, he ate with apparent relish, taking singly tea and bread.
While grasping a piece of bread, there
was a distinct spasm of right forearm and hand, fingers firmly clenched, hand forcibly flexed on forearm.
Assisted to his room, his walk was entirely natural, when put to bed showed some re sistance, striking at the
doctor.
He at once commenced to groan, tossed from side to side of the bed, suggesting abdominal dis tress.
Soon became unconscious, right arm paralyzed, dragging helplessly.
The next day, continued impairment of motion and sensation right side, right eyeball insensitive to touch.
During the third day, there was frequent twitching and stiffness of the righ t limbs, culminating in a one -side
convulsion during the early morning of the fourth day.
At noon on the third day, copious involuntary urination
in bed.
This continued to the end, except when drawn off.
In the afternoon, heavy breath ing and the flapping cheeks
of a stroke
appeared.
Constant regurgitationBackward flow of blood or fluidsThe casting up of undigested food from the stomach, or the backward flow of blood through a defective heart valve. of yellow frothy material from mouth, smelling of worm-seed, as also did the
perspiration.
This material was at times so profuse as to embarrass respiration.
During one of the attacks of dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions. and while in drenching sweat, which suggested dissolution, he was gently
turned in bed, immediately a general convulsion set in, markedly opisthotonic, lasting ten minutes, despite the
use of chloroform.
By this time 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. appeared, having been only noticed the day before
▲HEAD
Pain in whole right side of head, with roaring in ears, dim sight or complete loss of vision.
Dull, pressive
pain in vertex extending through head.
Kidneys - Slight pain in region of kidneys.
Involuntary urination.
Copious, yellow, foaming urine with acrid
sensation in urethra.
Yellowish sediment (Chel.).
▲EYES
Impaired movement of right eyeball, loss of sensitiveness.
Vanishing of sight
▲EARS
Torpor of auditory nerve.
Hearing is better for the high-pitched sounds.
Comparative deafness to sound
of voice, but great sensitiveness to sound as of
passing vehicles and also a shrinking from low tones.
Buzzing in ears.
Roaring in ears as of cannons, deafness.
Tinnitus synchronous with heartbeats
▲FACE
Flapping cheeks with stertorous breathing
▲THROAT
Enlargement of the tonsils.
Chronically enlarged tonsils, caseous deposits.
Furry feeling in throat
▲CHEST
Pains through heart, under right scapula and in right shoulder.
Pain throughout right chest, beginning
at attachment of 6th rib to its cartilage and extending to front of right scapula.
Stertorous breathing with flapping cheeks.
Dyspnea, peculiar rattle as of a ball rolling loose in trachea.
Respiration embarrassed by a quantity of yellow frothy material which was constantly regurgitated
▲ABDOMEN
Perversion of taste.
Disagree able belchings, nausea.
Constant, profuse regurgitation of yellow,
frothy material smelling of worm-seed
▲GENITALS ETC
Menses is suppressed, has leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. instead, with rough, furry feeling in throat
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Hemiplegia with contraction of limbs.
Frequent twitching and stiffness of right limbs.
ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. and
spasm of right forearm and hand in flexion
▲BACK AND NECK
Intense pain between angle of right shoulder blade near spine and through the chest.
Pain beneath
point of right scapula, with giddiness in forehead, ringing in ears and pale face
▲SKIN
Jaundice
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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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