🧬 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
Source: Derived from the whole plant of Spigelia anthelmia , commonly known as pink root or worm grass, a flowering plant in the Loganiaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, cardiovascular, and psychological disorders, particularly those involving neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pains, heart palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions., and anxiety.
It is noted for symptoms such as sharp, stabbing pains, left-sided complaints, and aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. from motion, often worsened by motion, touch, or cold, and ameliorated by rest,.
warmth, or lying on the right side.
Modern Context : Indicated for neurological conditions (e.g., trigeminal neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves., migraineSevere recurring headache, often on one sideA recurrent throbbing headache that typically affects one side of the head and is often accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision.),.
cardiovascular conditions (e.g., anginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. pectoris, palpitations), psychological conditions (e.g.,.
It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by neuralgic pains, heart palpitations, anxiety, left-sided symptoms, or motion sensitivity, typically exacerbated by motion, touch, cold, or stress, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, nervous constitutions.
The remedy is particularly relevant for those with neurological or cardiovascular conditions, often presenting with symptoms like stabbing facial pain or irregular heartbeats, commonly observed in patients with trigeminal neuralgia, angina pectoris, or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by motion, cold, or emotional stress
▲MODALITIES ETC
Worse from: Motion, touch, cold (weather, air, drinks), noise, light, morning, stress, lying on the left side, emotional stress, deep breathing, crowds, tobacco smoke, jarring
Can become
suicidal because the pain is too severe.
Gloomy, suicidal mood.
Desires death during chill.
Great dejection in
evening, he could have killed himself.
Timidity.
Timidity
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. on stooping with heat of head.
COMMENTS - Hahnemann said Spig has the peculiarity that the primary action of a single unrepeated dose
usually increases somewhat daily during the first seven to ten days.
Experiments should be conducted with
caution, seeing that 60, 80 to 100 drops of
the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. produce violent effects even in robust persons.
Keynote violence.
More left-sided than right, but by no means exclusively leftsided.
Primarily affects the head,
eyes, face, teeth and heart.
Sensitivity to cold, wet and stormy weather.
Produces intense pains in all parts.
Hypersensitive to all pain.
Burning, jerking, tearing, pressing and stitching
pains, radiate and extend to other parts.
Pains are largely out -pressing and proceed from within outward and
below upward.
Pains are worse by noise, jar, movement, change of weather, especially stormy weather.
The
pains were worse night and morning and in damp weather.
Sensitive to pain remedies (Cham., Nux -v., Ign.,
Hep.).
Darting and aching pains in head, nose and eyes and similar pains about the heart with slow, irregular action,
but no murmur.
Sudden pains at bottom of back.
The body is painfully sensitive to touch.
Pain feels like shiver
in the body, eye or face.
The part touched feels chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets..
Touch sends a shudder through t he whole frame.
Pain
radiates from a spot, not in a straight line.
Darting pain will transfix (Bry.).
Neuralgia, especially facial neuralgias.
Pains over the left eye or the left side of the face, trigeminal neuralgias with burning sensat ions or electric -like sensa tions.
Intercostal neuralgias (Ran -b.).
Often with
neuralgia, their whole left face consists of tearing pain as if someone is cutting their face or tearing the skin off
their face.
Neuralgias and inflammation of the eye, amaurotic conditions, and glaucoma.
Exophthalmic goiter.
Intolerable
pressive pains, worse on motion.
Stabbing pains through eye backwards into brain.
Uveitis.
Ciliary neuralgia
or affection to the optic nerve with cutting, stabbing pain, the eye becomes inflamed and watery.
Sensation as
if eye would burst.
Deep pain in eye socket.
Dilated pupils, can see sparks and rays of light.
Severe photophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments., especially with headache, they want to
be in the dark with a hand covering their left side and making no noise and staying from noise.
Migraine, from occiput, settling in or over left eye (Sang, starts at the occiput and settles in the right eye; Sil and Gels, are from occiput to forehead.).
Occiput feels numb and stiff.
Heart attack, aching pain.
Acute heart attacks with sharp, stabbing, burning pains down the left arm (Lat -m.),
or it feels as if a hot, red, burning knife is stuck into the heart and turned.
The heart feels as if squeezed or
compressed, sense of suffocation.
PalpitationRapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or illness. as if the whole chest will shake.
Violent palpitation, can hear or
see the heart beating.
Irregular heartbeat.
Left-sided angina.
Suffocative attacks, can become an guished, think they are going to die.
Chest pain, worse during deep
breathing (Bry.).
The movement of the rib cage aggravates.
Stitching pains synchronous with the pulse.
Heart
disorders from rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
Abdominal ailments with worms.
Masses of lumbrici have been expelled and also threadworms.
Itching of anus
and nose, colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. and borborygmus.
Fetid breath and fetid flatus.
In one prover, the accustomed evening smoke caused violent toothache.
Clarke cured a case of cardiac
neuralgia caused by tobacco.
He saw cardiac murmurs appearing in acute rheumatism disappear under Spig.
Hochecker related the case of Miss O., 27, who was blonde, tall, and robust, and had neuralgia for several
weeks without traceable cause.
Pains came suddenly, twitching and tearing of left side of face, now in ear,
then in lower jaw, particularly worse by mastication.
Whenever the pains were about to commence a diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day.
set in A single powder of Spig.
6c cured.
Hochecker also cured with Spig.
3c, 6c, 10c and 20c a case of tic douloureux of the right side that had lasted
fifteen months.
In this case, each lower potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration., after first relieving, caused an aggravation.
So the potencies
were successively raised.
Spig.
20c completed the cure.
This patient had dark hair and dark complexion.
She
attributed her trouble to taking cold in a draft when heated by dancing.
A patient Clarke successfully tr eated for a serious heart affection with Spig.
3c said that under the treatment
he had lost a pain in the right knee that he had for eighteen months and which he had not mentioned at first.
The pain was as if dislocated, unable to rise from kneeling, could not find an easy position often for hours at
night.
Clarke found it especially useful in heart cases where constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. has been a trouble some complication.
Hering gave this case, “Helminthiasis: dilated pupils, strabismusCrossed eyesA condition in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object., putrid smell from mouth, itchi ng of nose,
griping pain in belly, throat inflamed, swallows often, pale redness in throat and swelling of mucus membrane,
palpitation.”
Meninger had a severe case of nausea during pregnancy that he cured with Spig.
The only leading symptom
in the case was that she was afraid of pointed things and asked her husband to take away a fork, crochet -
needle, etc.
Sil has a somewhat similar symptom, but the Sil patient hunts for pins although afraid of them
▲HEAD
Feels too large.
Migraines.
Awn from beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes
(Onos.).
Semi-lateral involving left eye, pain violent , throbbing, worse making afalse step.
Pain as if a band
around head (Carb-ac., Cact., Gels.).
Pain from left occiput to over left eye, worse stooping, making a false
step, opening mouth.
Supra-orbital neuralgia.
▲EYES
Pupils dilated.
RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues.ophthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis..
Feel too large, pressive pain on turning the eyes.
Severe pain
in and around the eyes, extending deep into socket, worse thinking of them.
Ciliary neuralgia, neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
As
if needles were thrust in Profuse lachrymation, from affected side, tears acrid.
Worse from touch, stooping, from morning
until sunset, drinking tea, suddenly going and coming
▲MOUTH
Foul odor from mou th.
Offensive taste.
Tongue, coated yellow or white, cracked, with burning or
stitching pain.
Tongue fissured, painful.
Opening mouth aggravates headache.
Nose - Tickling and itching of nose.
Forepart of nose always dry.
Chronic catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. with post-nasal drip of bland
mucus.
Sore throat with lancinations and swelling in palate.
Discharge of mucus from fauces all day, most
from posterior sinuses.
Swollen cervical glands
▲CHEST
Palpitations or irregular heartbeats, with a sensation of fluttering or oppression,.
resembling palpitations, worse with motion, cold, stress, or lying on the left side,.
often with anxiety or dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions..
Chest pain or angina-like symptoms, with a tendency to sharp or constrictive pain,.
resembling angina pectoris, aggravated by motion, cold, or emotional stress, often left-sided or radiating to the arm.
Sensation of heart heaviness or fullness, with a tendency to discomfort or pressure,.
resembling pericarditisInflammation of the sac around the heartInflammation of the pericardium, the thin, double-layered sac that surrounds and protects the heart., worse with motion, deep breathing, or cold, often with fatigue or faintness.
Tendency to cardiovascular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or stressed states.
Psychological:.
Anxiety or fearfulness, with a sensation of dread or impending doom, resembling generalized anxiety disorder, worse with motion, noise, stress, or night, often with palpitations or trembling.
Panic attacks or sudden nervousness, with a tendency to rapid onset or intensity,.
resembling panic disorder, aggravated by motion, crowds, or emotional stress, often with chest tightness or sweating.
Mental restlessness or irritability, with a sensation of agitation or sensitivity,.
resembling adjustment disorder, worse with motion, cold, or criticism, often with insomniaPersistent inability to fall or stay asleepA sleep disorder marked by difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early, or unrefreshing sleep. or difficulty concentrating.
Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or stressed states.
Ocular:.
Eye pain or pressure, with a sensation of stabbing or fullness, resembling glaucoma,.
worse with motion, light, cold, or reading, often left-sided, with redness or photophobia.
Spigelia (Spigelia Anthelmia) 1811.
Eye strain or burning, with a tendency to aching or soreness, resembling asthenopia,.
aggravated by motion, prolonged visual work, or cold, often with lachrymation or blurred vision.
Neuralgic pain around the eyes, with a sensation of piercing or twitching, resembling orbital neuralgia, worse with motion, touch, or cold, often with eyelid spasms or sensitivity.
Tendency to ocular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or light-exposed states
▲ABDOMEN
Pressure in stomach.
Accumulation of mucus in the stomach.
Sour risings.
Nausea with sensation
of a worm rising in throat.
Nausea when fasting.
Teeth - Tearing pains, worse after eating, cold, and when thinking of it.
Toothache with facial pain, better by
warmth or the warmth of the bed.
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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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