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.