Aph 80 - Organon 6

[Soroush Ebrahimi]

§ 80
Incalculably greater and more important than the two chronic miasms just named, however, is the
chronic miasm of psora, which, while those two reveal their specific internal dyscrasia, the one by
the venereal chancre, the other by the cauliflower-like growths, does also, after the completion of
the internal infection of the whole organism, announce by a peculiar cutaneous eruption, sometimes
consisting only of a few vesicles accompanied by intolerable voluptuous tickling itching (and a
peculiar odor), the monstrous internal chronic miasm - the psora, the only real fundamental cause
and producer of all the other numerous, I may say innumerable, forms of disease1, which, under the
names of nervous debility, hysteria, hypochondriasis, mania, melancholia, imbecility, madness,
epilepsy and convulsions of all sorts, softening of the bones (rachitis), scoliosis and cyphosis,
caries, cancer, fungus nematodes, neoplasms, gout, haemorrhoids, jaundice, cyanosis, dropsy,
amenorrhoea, haemorrhage from the stomach, nose, lungs, bladder and womb, of asthma and ulceration
of the lungs, of impotence and barrenness, of megrim, deafness, cataract, amaurosis, urinary
calculus, paralysis, defects of the senses and pains of thousands of kinds, etc., figure in
systematic works on pathology as peculiar, independent diseases.
1 I spent twelve years in investigating the source of this incredibly large number of chronic
affections, in ascertaining and collecting certain proofs of this great truth, which had remained
unknown to all former or contemporary observers, and in discovering at the same time the principal
(antipsoric) remedies, which collectively are nearly a match for this thousand-headed monster of
disease in all its different developments and forms. I have published my observations on this
subject in the book entitled The Chronic Diseases (4 vols., Dresden, Arnold. [2nd edit., Dusseldorf,
Schaub.]) before I had obtained this knowledge I could only treat the whole number of chronic
diseases as isolated, individual maladies, with those medicinal substances whose pure effects had
been tested on healthy persons up to that period, so that every case of chronic disease was treated
by my disciples according to the group of symptoms it presented, just like an idiopathic disease,
and it was often so for cured that sick mankind rejoiced at the extensive remedial treasures already
amassed by the new healing art. How much greater cause is there now for rejoicing that the desired
goal has been so much more nearly attained, inasmuch as the recently discovered and far more
specific homœopathic remedies for chronic affections arising from psora (properly termed antipsoric
remedies) and the special instructions for their preparation and employment have been published; and
from among them the true physician can now select for his curative agents those whose medicinal
symptoms correspond in the most similar (homœopathic) manner to the chronic disease he has to cure;
and thus, by the employment of (antipsoric) medicines more suitable for this miasm, he is enabled to
render more essential service and almost invariably to effect a perfect cure.