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 ofRead more
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.”
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 thRead more
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.
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