What is the effect of psora miasma on the digestive system?
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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.