Nails and Miasms (Long article)
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:06 pm
Here's an article concerning Nail Health and
Miasms, some might find interesting:
Getting 60% of Your Case in Two Minutes –
Author: Berno, William
This article is a
continuation and it describes a technique Dr. Banerjea
explained to us in his wonderful
storytelling manner, on how to get to the
miasmic root of a case in 2 minutes or less.
"When I had graduated after 5
and 1/2 years at the University and I had
been interning with my Uncle
for three or four years, I said, `I think I
have gained a lot of
experiences from you, can you suggest a friend,
someone else I might study
with for another year before I start my own
clinical practice? I was
showing some Lycopodium traits in my hesitation to
begin on my own. My Uncle
recommended a friend of his who was 40 miles from
the city of Calcutta. He used
to see 70 or 80 patients a day."
"By the time the patient came
up to the homeopathic physician, a remedy
would be found in a very
short time. I had to be there at 8 am. So I had to
get up very early and travel
for two hours to get there because in rural
India, travel is difficult. I
had a little stool to sit on for the whole
day and watch what was going
on. People were waiting in a crowd outside.
By the time the person was
coming in, the physician would grab his or her
hand and make some funny
noise with their fingernail, and maybe look at
their toes. Then, within two
minutes he would come up with the remedy.
I couldn't follow what he was
doing. But in India you just can't ask
questions of your teacher.
The relationship between the teacher and the
student is like a Guru and
disciple -- the more you become receptive,
wisdom will be flooded upon
you! So for the first week, I was there at 8 am
and staying till 6 or 7
o'clock in the evening, and I was getting nothing
out it."
"At night after my 2-hour
journey home, I would look in all my books. If he
had given Lycopodium, I would
look to see it there was anything about the
finger symptoms or nail
symptoms and I could find nothing. I looked through
all my books about nails and
toes and found no clues. So I felt I had
wasted an entire week. On the
weekend, we had a family got together and my
Uncle asked me how I was
enjoying. I had to be very cautious because they
were good Mends. I told him,
I wasn't getting much out of it. So my Uncle
told me to keep going and he
would tell his friend to explain more to me."
"On Monday morning, my new teacher asked,
`You don't understand what I am doing?' I said, `No, sir.'"
He explained, `I look at the nails and I know the miasm.'
"My dear friends, that opened
up a new dimension before me. I spent
1 1/2 years with him."
He used to say,
`Dry, harsh nails are Psoric. They look rough. They are not
the eaten up appearance. They
are not glossy. They are dry. Psora has
dryness.
"Wavy nails are Sycotic. The
key word for Sycotic is in-coordination. They
should have waves or ridges
or corrugated either vertical or horizontal.
These are not the concave
nails. These are the long ridges or ribs on the
nails. The ridges are a
proliferation - a hypertrophy, Hyper is Sycosis."
"Thickness of the nails is also Sycotic."
"Thin, paper-like nails that
bend and tear easily are Syphilitic. Why?
Because of destruction and degeneration."
"Spoon-shaped or concave nails are Syphilitic."
"Convex nails are Sycotic."
"Brittle nails which split easily are Syphilitic."
"Glossy nails are Tubercular."
"White spots on the nails are
Tubercular. Also stains or spots on the nails
are Tubercular."
"If the white spots
predominant and the glossiness is there with dryness,
this shows that Psora is in the background."
"Thick nails with mottled
eaten up texture are Syco-Syphilitic. Sycosis is
the thickness and the mottled nail is the Syphilitic."
"If you see that the toenails
and the fingernails are different this shows
a lot of suppression, If all
the nails show the same miasm, this means less
suppression."
"Squaring of the nail to a certain extent is Sycotic."
He took time during the
lecture to look at all the finger and toenails of
the course participants. We
saw examples of each and several times we could
see all three miasms
together: dryness=Psora, ridges=Sycotic, and
spoon shaped = Syphilitic.
Less the symptoms, more the suppression (physical,
emotional, iatrogenic).
"All fungal infections are Syphilitic.
When you see the symptoms
near the edges of the nail is Tubercular."
"If the ridges are on the
underside of the nail this is Syphilitic. The
nail is being eaten up."
"When you see the redness
behind the nail, when you pull up on the nail,
this is Tubercular. All
hemorrhage, flushing is Tubercular. She might have
profuse bleeding during
menses, irregular menses, or a longer menses period,"
Many times during his
lectures, Dr. Banerjea would tell us to look up a
remedy in Allen's Keynotes or
Boericke and then he would indicate what page
and what line we would find a
certain rubric. The books we use for
references, Dr. Banerjea has
memorized (Oh, well...next lifetime.)
Dr. Banerjea quoted Allen's
Keynotes, "Second page of Sulphur in the
middle."
"Bright redness of lips as if
the blood would burst through Club.)."
"Keep an eye on the nails,
they will change. My teacher used to tell me, if
you (in thick nails with pock
marks as if the nail looks as if it has been
punched by pins or eaten up,
this is Syco-Syphilitc. Sycosis is the
thickening and the pock marks
or pin holes is Syphilitic. This can also be
caused by fungal infections
and fungal infections are Syphilitic. In India
we got it with the barefoot
farmers. In the U.S.A. you get it from the
prolonged wearing of socks."
"You could perhaps think of
my new teacher with the nail diagnosis as a
superficial prescriber,
prescribing for 70 to 80 patients a day. But I want
to give you an example
because I don't want my mentor to be misunderstood."
"A patient came to him and
said, `I have pain in the stomach area' and he
points with his finger below
his stomach area. He also brings a paper from
an MD that says he has
duodenal ulcer. My mentor finds that the nail is
Syphilitic as it should be,
because there is an ulcer and ulcer is
destruction. Remember,
destruction is Syphilitic. If the nail reflects that
picture, within two minutes
he would come up with Kali Bichromicum,"
"On the second page of
Allen's, second line it says, `Pain, can be covered
by the tip of the fingers.'
(It actually says `point of finger.' Kali
Bichromicum covers the
peculiar symptom of pain' being covered by the `tip'
of the finger and also is a
deep acting, anti-Syphilitic remedy. So, both
are covered, the symptom and the miasm."
Then Dr. Banerjea said, "Let
this seminar be clinically oriented. I give
that much courage to you. The
wisdom I have inherited from over a
century-old tradition, if you
can diagnose the miasm, 60% of your job is
done."
"The patient will definitely
feel better at least to some extent, because
what is a miasm? Miasm is a
vacuum in the constitution. it is a stigma in
the constitution, It is a
pollution in the constitution, When you touch the
miasm, you are covering the
vacuum. So try and understand the soil, the
stigma of the person, the
lack or deficiency of the person's constitution."
"This mentor told me
something very important when I was to leave him after
1 and 1/2 years. He held my
ear, gave me his blessings and said, `In any
case if you can not
understand the totality, diagnose the miasm and give
the nosode. Start with a nosode or finish with a nosode."
"In this world, because of
suppression, and suppression, and suppression,
it is sometimes very
difficult to get a totality, There may be only one or
two symptoms obscuring other
symptoms. If you give a correct miasmatic
remedy or nosode it will go
deep into the individual and bring the
suppressed symptoms onto the surface."
Then Dr. Banerjea asked us to
look up X-Ray in Boericke. "The homeopathic
action of X-Ray is thus
centrifugal, from center to periphery. It brings
suppressed symptoms to the
surface, especially those of Sycotic origin
potency like 200c or 1 M.
This will partially cover the totality and bring
more symptoms to the surface
so that next time you can prescribe a deep
acting remedy based on the totality of symptoms."
In case you were wondering,
the answer is: Yes, the homeopaths at the
seminar were displaying the
total spectrum of miasms in their fingernails
and toenails.
* Author : Berno, William
* Article Title : Getting
60% of Your Case in Two Minutes
* Publication Name :
Prover, The: The Journal of the Chiropractic
Academy of Homeopathy
* Volume & Number : V. 6; N. 2
* Publication Date : 07-31-95
* Page : p. 68-70
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Miasms, some might find interesting:
Getting 60% of Your Case in Two Minutes –
Author: Berno, William
This article is a
continuation and it describes a technique Dr. Banerjea
explained to us in his wonderful
storytelling manner, on how to get to the
miasmic root of a case in 2 minutes or less.
"When I had graduated after 5
and 1/2 years at the University and I had
been interning with my Uncle
for three or four years, I said, `I think I
have gained a lot of
experiences from you, can you suggest a friend,
someone else I might study
with for another year before I start my own
clinical practice? I was
showing some Lycopodium traits in my hesitation to
begin on my own. My Uncle
recommended a friend of his who was 40 miles from
the city of Calcutta. He used
to see 70 or 80 patients a day."
"By the time the patient came
up to the homeopathic physician, a remedy
would be found in a very
short time. I had to be there at 8 am. So I had to
get up very early and travel
for two hours to get there because in rural
India, travel is difficult. I
had a little stool to sit on for the whole
day and watch what was going
on. People were waiting in a crowd outside.
By the time the person was
coming in, the physician would grab his or her
hand and make some funny
noise with their fingernail, and maybe look at
their toes. Then, within two
minutes he would come up with the remedy.
I couldn't follow what he was
doing. But in India you just can't ask
questions of your teacher.
The relationship between the teacher and the
student is like a Guru and
disciple -- the more you become receptive,
wisdom will be flooded upon
you! So for the first week, I was there at 8 am
and staying till 6 or 7
o'clock in the evening, and I was getting nothing
out it."
"At night after my 2-hour
journey home, I would look in all my books. If he
had given Lycopodium, I would
look to see it there was anything about the
finger symptoms or nail
symptoms and I could find nothing. I looked through
all my books about nails and
toes and found no clues. So I felt I had
wasted an entire week. On the
weekend, we had a family got together and my
Uncle asked me how I was
enjoying. I had to be very cautious because they
were good Mends. I told him,
I wasn't getting much out of it. So my Uncle
told me to keep going and he
would tell his friend to explain more to me."
"On Monday morning, my new teacher asked,
`You don't understand what I am doing?' I said, `No, sir.'"
He explained, `I look at the nails and I know the miasm.'
"My dear friends, that opened
up a new dimension before me. I spent
1 1/2 years with him."
He used to say,
`Dry, harsh nails are Psoric. They look rough. They are not
the eaten up appearance. They
are not glossy. They are dry. Psora has
dryness.
"Wavy nails are Sycotic. The
key word for Sycotic is in-coordination. They
should have waves or ridges
or corrugated either vertical or horizontal.
These are not the concave
nails. These are the long ridges or ribs on the
nails. The ridges are a
proliferation - a hypertrophy, Hyper is Sycosis."
"Thickness of the nails is also Sycotic."
"Thin, paper-like nails that
bend and tear easily are Syphilitic. Why?
Because of destruction and degeneration."
"Spoon-shaped or concave nails are Syphilitic."
"Convex nails are Sycotic."
"Brittle nails which split easily are Syphilitic."
"Glossy nails are Tubercular."
"White spots on the nails are
Tubercular. Also stains or spots on the nails
are Tubercular."
"If the white spots
predominant and the glossiness is there with dryness,
this shows that Psora is in the background."
"Thick nails with mottled
eaten up texture are Syco-Syphilitic. Sycosis is
the thickness and the mottled nail is the Syphilitic."
"If you see that the toenails
and the fingernails are different this shows
a lot of suppression, If all
the nails show the same miasm, this means less
suppression."
"Squaring of the nail to a certain extent is Sycotic."
He took time during the
lecture to look at all the finger and toenails of
the course participants. We
saw examples of each and several times we could
see all three miasms
together: dryness=Psora, ridges=Sycotic, and
spoon shaped = Syphilitic.
Less the symptoms, more the suppression (physical,
emotional, iatrogenic).
"All fungal infections are Syphilitic.
When you see the symptoms
near the edges of the nail is Tubercular."
"If the ridges are on the
underside of the nail this is Syphilitic. The
nail is being eaten up."
"When you see the redness
behind the nail, when you pull up on the nail,
this is Tubercular. All
hemorrhage, flushing is Tubercular. She might have
profuse bleeding during
menses, irregular menses, or a longer menses period,"
Many times during his
lectures, Dr. Banerjea would tell us to look up a
remedy in Allen's Keynotes or
Boericke and then he would indicate what page
and what line we would find a
certain rubric. The books we use for
references, Dr. Banerjea has
memorized (Oh, well...next lifetime.)
Dr. Banerjea quoted Allen's
Keynotes, "Second page of Sulphur in the
middle."
"Bright redness of lips as if
the blood would burst through Club.)."
"Keep an eye on the nails,
they will change. My teacher used to tell me, if
you (in thick nails with pock
marks as if the nail looks as if it has been
punched by pins or eaten up,
this is Syco-Syphilitc. Sycosis is the
thickening and the pock marks
or pin holes is Syphilitic. This can also be
caused by fungal infections
and fungal infections are Syphilitic. In India
we got it with the barefoot
farmers. In the U.S.A. you get it from the
prolonged wearing of socks."
"You could perhaps think of
my new teacher with the nail diagnosis as a
superficial prescriber,
prescribing for 70 to 80 patients a day. But I want
to give you an example
because I don't want my mentor to be misunderstood."
"A patient came to him and
said, `I have pain in the stomach area' and he
points with his finger below
his stomach area. He also brings a paper from
an MD that says he has
duodenal ulcer. My mentor finds that the nail is
Syphilitic as it should be,
because there is an ulcer and ulcer is
destruction. Remember,
destruction is Syphilitic. If the nail reflects that
picture, within two minutes
he would come up with Kali Bichromicum,"
"On the second page of
Allen's, second line it says, `Pain, can be covered
by the tip of the fingers.'
(It actually says `point of finger.' Kali
Bichromicum covers the
peculiar symptom of pain' being covered by the `tip'
of the finger and also is a
deep acting, anti-Syphilitic remedy. So, both
are covered, the symptom and the miasm."
Then Dr. Banerjea said, "Let
this seminar be clinically oriented. I give
that much courage to you. The
wisdom I have inherited from over a
century-old tradition, if you
can diagnose the miasm, 60% of your job is
done."
"The patient will definitely
feel better at least to some extent, because
what is a miasm? Miasm is a
vacuum in the constitution. it is a stigma in
the constitution, It is a
pollution in the constitution, When you touch the
miasm, you are covering the
vacuum. So try and understand the soil, the
stigma of the person, the
lack or deficiency of the person's constitution."
"This mentor told me
something very important when I was to leave him after
1 and 1/2 years. He held my
ear, gave me his blessings and said, `In any
case if you can not
understand the totality, diagnose the miasm and give
the nosode. Start with a nosode or finish with a nosode."
"In this world, because of
suppression, and suppression, and suppression,
it is sometimes very
difficult to get a totality, There may be only one or
two symptoms obscuring other
symptoms. If you give a correct miasmatic
remedy or nosode it will go
deep into the individual and bring the
suppressed symptoms onto the surface."
Then Dr. Banerjea asked us to
look up X-Ray in Boericke. "The homeopathic
action of X-Ray is thus
centrifugal, from center to periphery. It brings
suppressed symptoms to the
surface, especially those of Sycotic origin
potency like 200c or 1 M.
This will partially cover the totality and bring
more symptoms to the surface
so that next time you can prescribe a deep
acting remedy based on the totality of symptoms."
In case you were wondering,
the answer is: Yes, the homeopaths at the
seminar were displaying the
total spectrum of miasms in their fingernails
and toenails.
* Author : Berno, William
* Article Title : Getting
60% of Your Case in Two Minutes
* Publication Name :
Prover, The: The Journal of the Chiropractic
Academy of Homeopathy
* Volume & Number : V. 6; N. 2
* Publication Date : 07-31-95
* Page : p. 68-70
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