Chocolate has irritable as a rubric and that may be one reason Beneth suggested it.
From what you've described of yourself, your irritability appears miasmatic in nature.
Chocolate may help an acute flare up of irritability but will not address the underlying inherited cause if it is miasmatic since it is not an antipsoric nor a antimiasmatic remedy.
Irritability is listed under four miams, psoric, sycotic, syphilitic and tubercular by Banerjea
Each miasm has a different type of irritability.
Your irritability having begun earlier in life could be a sign of latent psora if it is less frequent and situation based.
Latent psora portends what could come later in life if psora is allowed to progress to its destructive state.
Many psoric diseases, conditions appear later in life.
If it has been chronic,then it may be more from sycotic or tubercular , which seem to begin earlier in life.
Identifying and treating this correctly is described by Hahnemann, starting in the Organon Aph 220
Don't worry about references to mania and insanity.
Diet, lifestyle are also an important part and can go a long way in alleviating these conditions as you have done to some point. (No wheat, refined sugar, doing exercise, etc.)
Susan
§ 220
By adding to this the state of the mind and disposition accurately observed by the patient’s friends and by the physician himself, we have thus constructed the complete picture of the disease, for which in order to effect the homœopathic cure of the disease, a medicine capable of producing strikingly similar symptoms, and especially an analogous disorder of the mind, must be sought for among the antipsoric remedies, if the physical disease have already lasted some time.
§ 221
If, however, insanity or mania (caused by fright, vexation, the abuse of spirituous liquors, etc.) have suddenly broken out as an acute disease in the patient’s ordinary calm state, although it almost always arises from internal psora, like a flame bursting forth from it, yet when it occurs in this acute manner it should not be immediately treated with antipsoric, but in the first place with remedies indicated for it out of the order class of proved medicaments (e.g., aconite, belladonna, stramonium, hyoscyamus, mercury, etc.) in highly potentized, minute, homœopathic doses, in order to subdue it so far that the psora shall for the time revert to its former latent state, wherein the patient appears as if quite well.
§ 222
But such a patient, who has recovered from an acute mental or emotional disease by the use of these non-antipsoric medicines, should never be regarded as cured; on the contrary, no time should be lost in attempting to free him completely,1 by means of a prolonged antipsoric treatment, from the chronic miasm of the psora, which, it is true, has now become once more latent but is quite ready to break out anew; if this be done, there is no fear of another similar attack, if he attend faithfully to the diet and regimen prescribed for him.
1 It very rarely happens that a mental or emotional disease of long standing ceases spontaneously (for the internal dyscrasia transfers itself again to the grosser corporeal organs); such are the few cases met with now and then, where a former inmate of a madhouse has been dismissed apparently recovered. Hitherto, moreover, all madhouses have continued to be chokefull, so that the multitude of other insane persons who seek for admission into such institutions could scarcely find room in them unless some of the insane in the house died. Not one is ever really and permanently cured in them! A convincing proof, among many others, of the complete nullity of the non-healing art hitherto practised, which has been ridiculously honored by allopathic ostentation with the title of rational medicine. How often, on the other hand, has not the true healing art, genuine pure homœopathy, been able to restore such unfortunate beings to the possession of their mental and corporeal health, and so give them back again to their delighted friends and to the world!
§ 223
But if the antipsoric treatment be omitted, then we may almost assuredly expect, from a much slighter cause than brought on the first attack of the insanity, the speedy occurrence of a new and more lasting the severe fit, during which the psora usually develops itself completely, and passes into either a periodic or continued mental derangement, which is then more difficult to be cured by antipsorics.
§ 224
If the mental disease be not quite developed, and if it be still somewhat doubtful whether it really arose from a corporeal affection, or did not rather result from faults of education, bad practices, corrupt morals, neglect of the mind, superstition or ignorance; the mode of deciding this point will be, that if it proceed from one or other of the latter causes it will diminish and be improved by sensible friendly exhortations, consolatory arguments, serious representations and sensible advice, whereas a real moral or mental malady, depending on bodily disease, would be speedily aggravated by such a course, the melancholic would become still more dejected, querulous, inconsolable and reserved, the spiteful maniac would thereby become still more exasperated, and the chattering fool would become manifestly more foolish.1
1 It would seem as though the mind, in these cases, felt with uneasiness and grief the truth of these rational representations and acted upon the body as it wished to restore the lost harmony, but that the body, by means of its disease, reacted upon the organs of the mind and disposition and put them in still greater disorder by a fresh transference of its sufferings on to them.
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Dear Susan and John Benneth,
Thank you for that and for reminding me that I am not a homeopathy. I hope John Benneth read it.
I don't see that my irritability has changed in the slightest since taking Chocolate 200C. I still feel deep down in side that the object (pencil, cup, shoe) that won't do what I intend for it to do is being willful, and I blast it with bad words, on occasion. The Chocolate 200C seems to have improved my sleep slightly, maybe. And the next night after taking it I seemed to have discovered an appreciation for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. In the past I would have barfed on it. But I was watching this show about the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia, and I was amazed at how much I appreciated some of those works that I wouldn't have had in my house 2 weeks ago.
Roger Bird
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 15:43:07 -0500
Subject: [Minutus] Treating Psychological Conditions & Psychiatric Diseases Aph 220+
Chocolate has irritable as a rubric and that may be one reason Beneth suggested it.
From what you've described of yourself, your irritability appears miasmatic in nature.
Chocolate may help an acute flare up of irritability but will not address the underlying inherited cause if it is miasmatic since it is not an antipsoric nor a antimiasmatic remedy.
Irritability is listed under four miams, psoric, sycotic, syphilitic and tubercular by Banerjea
Each miasm has a different type of irritability.
Your irritability having begun earlier in life could be a sign of latent psora if it is less frequent and situation based.
Latent psora portends what could come later in life if psora is allowed to progress to its destructive state.
Many psoric diseases, conditions appear later in life.
If it has been chronic,then it may be more from sycotic or tubercular , which seem to begin earlier in life.
Identifying and treating this correctly is described by Hahnemann, starting in the Organon Aph 220
Don't worry about references to mania and insanity.
Diet, lifestyle are also an important part and can go a long way in alleviating these conditions as you have done to some point. (No wheat, refined sugar, doing exercise, etc.)
Susan
§ 220
By adding to this the state of the mind and disposition accurately observed by the patient’s friends and by the physician himself, we have thus constructed the complete picture of the disease, for which in order to effect the homœopathic cure of the disease, a medicine capable of producing strikingly similar symptoms, and especially an analogous disorder of the mind, must be sought for among the antipsoric remedies, if the physical disease have already lasted some time.
§ 221
If, however, insanity or mania (caused by fright, vexation, the abuse of spirituous liquors, etc.) have suddenly broken out as an acute disease in the patient’s ordinary calm state, although it almost always arises from internal psora, like a flame bursting forth from it, yet when it occurs in this acute manner it should not be immediately treated with antipsoric, but in the first place with remedies indicated for it out of the order class of proved medicaments (e.g., aconite, belladonna, stramonium, hyoscyamus, mercury, etc.) in highly potentized, minute, homœopathic doses, in order to subdue it so far that the psora shall for the time revert to its former latent state, wherein the patient appears as if quite well.
§ 222
But such a patient, who has recovered from an acute mental or emotional disease by the use of these non-antipsoric medicines, should never be regarded as cured; on the contrary, no time should be lost in attempting to free him completely,1 by means of a prolonged antipsoric treatment, from the chronic miasm of the psora, which, it is true, has now become once more latent but is quite ready to break out anew; if this be done, there is no fear of another similar attack, if he attend faithfully to the diet and regimen prescribed for him.
1 It very rarely happens that a mental or emotional disease of long standing ceases spontaneously (for the internal dyscrasia transfers itself again to the grosser corporeal organs); such are the few cases met with now and then, where a former inmate of a madhouse has been dismissed apparently recovered. Hitherto, moreover, all madhouses have continued to be chokefull, so that the multitude of other insane persons who seek for admission into such institutions could scarcely find room in them unless some of the insane in the house died. Not one is ever really and permanently cured in them! A convincing proof, among many others, of the complete nullity of the non-healing art hitherto practised, which has been ridiculously honored by allopathic ostentation with the title of rational medicine. How often, on the other hand, has not the true healing art, genuine pure homœopathy, been able to restore such unfortunate beings to the possession of their mental and corporeal health, and so give them back again to their delighted friends and to the world!
§ 223
But if the antipsoric treatment be omitted, then we may almost assuredly expect, from a much slighter cause than brought on the first attack of the insanity, the speedy occurrence of a new and more lasting the severe fit, during which the psora usually develops itself completely, and passes into either a periodic or continued mental derangement, which is then more difficult to be cured by antipsorics.
§ 224
If the mental disease be not quite developed, and if it be still somewhat doubtful whether it really arose from a corporeal affection, or did not rather result from faults of education, bad practices, corrupt morals, neglect of the mind, superstition or ignorance; the mode of deciding this point will be, that if it proceed from one or other of the latter causes it will diminish and be improved by sensible friendly exhortations, consolatory arguments, serious representations and sensible advice, whereas a real moral or mental malady, depending on bodily disease, would be speedily aggravated by such a course, the melancholic would become still more dejected, querulous, inconsolable and reserved, the spiteful maniac would thereby become still more exasperated, and the chattering fool would become manifestly more foolish.1
1 It would seem as though the mind, in these cases, felt with uneasiness and grief the truth of these rational representations and acted upon the body as it wished to restore the lost harmony, but that the body, by means of its disease, reacted upon the organs of the mind and disposition and put them in still greater disorder by a fresh transference of its sufferings on to them.
Thank you for that and for reminding me that I am not a homeopathy. I hope John Benneth read it.
I don't see that my irritability has changed in the slightest since taking Chocolate 200C. I still feel deep down in side that the object (pencil, cup, shoe) that won't do what I intend for it to do is being willful, and I blast it with bad words, on occasion. The Chocolate 200C seems to have improved my sleep slightly, maybe. And the next night after taking it I seemed to have discovered an appreciation for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. In the past I would have barfed on it. But I was watching this show about the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia, and I was amazed at how much I appreciated some of those works that I wouldn't have had in my house 2 weeks ago.
Roger Bird
________________________________
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 15:43:07 -0500
Subject: [Minutus] Treating Psychological Conditions & Psychiatric Diseases Aph 220+
Chocolate has irritable as a rubric and that may be one reason Beneth suggested it.
From what you've described of yourself, your irritability appears miasmatic in nature.
Chocolate may help an acute flare up of irritability but will not address the underlying inherited cause if it is miasmatic since it is not an antipsoric nor a antimiasmatic remedy.
Irritability is listed under four miams, psoric, sycotic, syphilitic and tubercular by Banerjea
Each miasm has a different type of irritability.
Your irritability having begun earlier in life could be a sign of latent psora if it is less frequent and situation based.
Latent psora portends what could come later in life if psora is allowed to progress to its destructive state.
Many psoric diseases, conditions appear later in life.
If it has been chronic,then it may be more from sycotic or tubercular , which seem to begin earlier in life.
Identifying and treating this correctly is described by Hahnemann, starting in the Organon Aph 220
Don't worry about references to mania and insanity.
Diet, lifestyle are also an important part and can go a long way in alleviating these conditions as you have done to some point. (No wheat, refined sugar, doing exercise, etc.)
Susan
§ 220
By adding to this the state of the mind and disposition accurately observed by the patient’s friends and by the physician himself, we have thus constructed the complete picture of the disease, for which in order to effect the homœopathic cure of the disease, a medicine capable of producing strikingly similar symptoms, and especially an analogous disorder of the mind, must be sought for among the antipsoric remedies, if the physical disease have already lasted some time.
§ 221
If, however, insanity or mania (caused by fright, vexation, the abuse of spirituous liquors, etc.) have suddenly broken out as an acute disease in the patient’s ordinary calm state, although it almost always arises from internal psora, like a flame bursting forth from it, yet when it occurs in this acute manner it should not be immediately treated with antipsoric, but in the first place with remedies indicated for it out of the order class of proved medicaments (e.g., aconite, belladonna, stramonium, hyoscyamus, mercury, etc.) in highly potentized, minute, homœopathic doses, in order to subdue it so far that the psora shall for the time revert to its former latent state, wherein the patient appears as if quite well.
§ 222
But such a patient, who has recovered from an acute mental or emotional disease by the use of these non-antipsoric medicines, should never be regarded as cured; on the contrary, no time should be lost in attempting to free him completely,1 by means of a prolonged antipsoric treatment, from the chronic miasm of the psora, which, it is true, has now become once more latent but is quite ready to break out anew; if this be done, there is no fear of another similar attack, if he attend faithfully to the diet and regimen prescribed for him.
1 It very rarely happens that a mental or emotional disease of long standing ceases spontaneously (for the internal dyscrasia transfers itself again to the grosser corporeal organs); such are the few cases met with now and then, where a former inmate of a madhouse has been dismissed apparently recovered. Hitherto, moreover, all madhouses have continued to be chokefull, so that the multitude of other insane persons who seek for admission into such institutions could scarcely find room in them unless some of the insane in the house died. Not one is ever really and permanently cured in them! A convincing proof, among many others, of the complete nullity of the non-healing art hitherto practised, which has been ridiculously honored by allopathic ostentation with the title of rational medicine. How often, on the other hand, has not the true healing art, genuine pure homœopathy, been able to restore such unfortunate beings to the possession of their mental and corporeal health, and so give them back again to their delighted friends and to the world!
§ 223
But if the antipsoric treatment be omitted, then we may almost assuredly expect, from a much slighter cause than brought on the first attack of the insanity, the speedy occurrence of a new and more lasting the severe fit, during which the psora usually develops itself completely, and passes into either a periodic or continued mental derangement, which is then more difficult to be cured by antipsorics.
§ 224
If the mental disease be not quite developed, and if it be still somewhat doubtful whether it really arose from a corporeal affection, or did not rather result from faults of education, bad practices, corrupt morals, neglect of the mind, superstition or ignorance; the mode of deciding this point will be, that if it proceed from one or other of the latter causes it will diminish and be improved by sensible friendly exhortations, consolatory arguments, serious representations and sensible advice, whereas a real moral or mental malady, depending on bodily disease, would be speedily aggravated by such a course, the melancholic would become still more dejected, querulous, inconsolable and reserved, the spiteful maniac would thereby become still more exasperated, and the chattering fool would become manifestly more foolish.1
1 It would seem as though the mind, in these cases, felt with uneasiness and grief the truth of these rational representations and acted upon the body as it wished to restore the lost harmony, but that the body, by means of its disease, reacted upon the organs of the mind and disposition and put them in still greater disorder by a fresh transference of its sufferings on to them.