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During Hahnemann’s time, the term ‘Psora’ was used for almost all the skin troubles. Hahnemann defined Psora as “the oldest, most universal, most pernicious and yet that least known of the chronic miasmatic disease, which has been deforming and torturing the nations for thousands of years.”

Hahnemann’s greatest principle in the treatment of psora was that no skin eruption shall be removed by external remedies or applications. He realized that a skin eruption is not a local disease but a manifestation of an internal disorder. Over the period with the advancement in science and technology, we can state that psora represents much more than only skin eruption.

Psora miasm is carried from generation to generation increasing the susceptibility to disease. The fundamental of Psoric miasm is hypersensitivity or deficiency/lack.

Pseudo-chronic disease:
Synonyms: false chronic diseases; inappropriate chronic diseases.
Pseudo-chronic diseases are those diseases that are caused by some avoidable maintaining cause. They are not caused by any Hahnemannian fundamental miasma. Avoidable maintaining causes means any maintaining cause which can be avoided, which is avoidable if one tries on a daily basis to avoid it; then you can prevent these pseudo-chronic diseases. they have all the characteristics of chronic diseases except one that they are not caused by Hahnemanniun miasma. They progress slowly, and gradually like as true chronic diseases; if maintaining cause is not removed at a time, they suffer a patient for a long period of time like as true chronic diseases.

• Those who are continuously exposed to toxic influences that could be avoided. Often this includes occupational hazards like working in smoking areas/bars, in industrial polluted areas, in chemical factories producing toxic products, nuclear reactors, etc.
• Those who continue to take alcohol; tobacco and medicinal preparations that are already showing their damaging effect on health, or continue with their use of narcotic drugs however mild.
• Those who abstain from balanced diets and eat just a few selected foods. Or others get onto extreme diet protocols. Some people are too poor to afford balanced diets, and simply eat what they have in their back gardens. Malnourishment is a major problem in many areas of the world.
• Those that live in marshy area, small closed, and confined in large cities where land and housing is a premium. People live in shanty towns and slums where ventilation, sanitation, and space are severely limited.
• Those who do not get adequate exercise and exposure to open air and sunshine.
• Those who are living a life so stressed and overworking with 2-3 different part-time jobs, and too much of either physical or mental work and hence are moving towards the “burnout” syndrome.
• Those who continue to drive themselves with constant worry and anxiety.

1st version (5-10-22)

***The latent stage of psora:

*Tongue:

• White; very pale or frequently cracked tongue.

• Bad smell from the mouth especially early in the morning & during the menses.

• Sour taste in the mouth.

• Dryness in the mouth at night or in the morning.

*Throat:

• Much phlegm in throat.

• Frequent inflammation of the throat & frequent hoarseness.

*Food desire & aversion:

• Repugnance to cooked, warm food especially to meat.

• Repugnance to milk.

*Hunger:

• No insatiable hunger, then again want to appetite.

*Stomach:

• Nausea in the morning.

• Sensation of emptiness in the stomach.

*Abdomen:

• Cutting pain in the abdomen frequently or daily, more frequently in the morning.

• Abdomen often distended.

• Frequent discharge of ascarids & other worms, mostly with children.

*Bowel & rectum:

• Insufferable itching of the rectum caused by the worms.

• Hard stool, delaying usually more than a day.

• Clotted often covered with mucus.

• Venous knots of the anus, passage of blood with the stool.

• Passing of mucus from the anus with or without a stool.

• Itching on the anus.

***Digestive symptoms of secondary manifestation of psora:

*Oral cavity:

• Thrush & stomatitis.

• Swelling & burning about the lips rather than fissures.

*Taste:

• Bitter taste with the yellow-coated tongue.

• After eating sweet things, taste sour.

• Intolerable sweet taste in the mouth.

• Bread taste bitter, water has a weird taste, and rejected food because of its abnormal taste.

• Tasting of food recently eaten or eructation tasting of food or of grease, fats & oils.

*Food Desire & aversion:

• Desire sweets, acids & sour things. Love sweets sugars, candies, and syrup like hot foods.

• They want everything fried, if possible & highly seasoned. They long for things, the symptom is wanting. They long for certain things, But when the want is gratified they do not want them.

• They crave fried & highly seasoned food, meats & greasy foods, but they do not suit, meats stimulate the psoric patient & arouse the underlying condition into activity. Greasy food aggravates although craved.

• Aversion to boiled foods.

• In fever they have an aversion to sweet & crave acids or indigestible food.

• During pregnancy they long for peculiar things yet after gestation, they loathe the things they have craved.

*Hunger:

• Morbid or unnatural hunger, a hunger that is not satisfied by eating.

• Hunger at an unnatural time- an hour/ two hours after eating or hunger in the night after sleep.

• Hunger with all gone sensation.

• Ravenous hunger with rumbling & grumbling in the abdomen.

• Wants of appetite, but small eats make full.

*Stomach:

• All gone sensation.

• Fullness, bloating, great distension due to the accumulation of gases or to flatulent condition & food fermented. Rumbling, gurgling.

• Sour or bitter eructation comes up in the throat frequently. Sometimes these rising from the stomach are the taste of food, which has recently been eaten.

• Constant gnawing at the pit of the stomach; cold, hot, weight, fullness, tightness, stone, or lump sensation.

• Eating causes pain, colic, nausea, vomiting, etc. followed by diarrhea & GIT disturbance.

• They can digest meat better than the sycotic.

*Abdomen:

• Flatulence, distention, rumbling worse in the morning.

• Flabby muscles.

• Can’t tolerate pressure on the abdomen.

*Bowels & intestine:

• Diarrhea induced by overeating, from fright, bad news, or any ordeal. Also when preparing for an unusual event.

• No desire for stool, dry, scanty, hard & difficult to expel.

• Alternation between constipation & diarrhea.

• Pin or intestinal worm.

The disappearance of the existing disease manifestation at the cost of some new suffering involving the more vital organ of the body is called suppression. Werda Brewster defines the word ‘suppression’ as-
1. Forcible concealment.
2. Masking.
3. Forcing under.
According to H. A. Roberts- “Removal of the end product of disease without prior constitutional treatment based on the law of similar is also a form of suppressive therapy.”

ACUTE MIASMA: this is a dynamic disease-producing power, that causes acute, specific, infectious, or epidemic diseases, having almost fixed manifestations.
“An acute miasm is one that comes upon the economy, passes through its regular prodromal period, longer or shorter, and has its period of progress and period of decline and in which there is a tendency to recovery.”- Dr. J.T.Kent.
Types of acute miasm:
1. Specific diseases: Cholera; Pneumonia, ETC.
2. FIXED miasm: Smallpox.
3. Half-spiritual miasm: Measles; Chickenpox, ETC.
4. HALF- ACUTE: Take a long time for the miasm to completely develop in the system. Exam: Hydrophobia.