Minutus

At 01:44 PM 11/27/2004, you wrote:
Dear Andy and others,

First of all, Hahnemann miasms are the negative affects of unresolved
infectious diseases. In the 1840s Samuel came to the conclusions that Psora
(and hence the other miasms) could be acquired by infection and heredity.
This work makes Hahnemann the Founder of the modern epidemiology as he was
the first to provide a coherent theory of susceptibility, infection and
heredity as well as primary, latent and secondary or tertiary states. This
is the main point. Hahnemann did not "ignore" the possibility of other
miasms. He stated that the three chronic miasms he spoke of were the most
common in Europe in his day. He left the door open to other miasms and left
a method in aphorism 103 of the Organon for making a group anamnesis of new
miasms.

Now, I tend to stay with the Founder's definition rather than call ALL
chronic and inherited diseases "miasms". Some people de-link the causation
and infection aspects of Hahnemann's theories and make every unresolved
complaint a miasm. This causes much confusion. Infections have a different
pathway of disease than non infectious disorders. This must be looked into
to understand the whole hypothesis.

Infections affect first and foremost activate the immune system and
stimulate antigen - antibody reactions that are global. Non infectious
disease act first and foremost on the neuro-endrocrine system as discussed
in the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) by Dr. Han's Selye, the father of
modern endrocinology. These diseases over activate the stress-strain axis
and depress the immune system. Most of the damage done here is by pro and
anti-inflammably hormones. These unresolved affects of these states can be
passed on to the next generation. These can cause hereditary complaints but
they are not miasms.

In my opinion Hahnemann's miasms are the affects of unresolved
infections that produce autoimmune and immunodeficiency disorders. If the
immune system can not resolve an alarm reaction that will lead to states
where the body damages itself with its own autoimmune products. Sooner or
later this lead to immune collapse. My use of these words, however, is much
more expanded in than in allopathy. Nevertheless, every day more and more
diseases are link to these categories. These are some of the hardest
disease to cure by any means. The affects of these autoimmune and
immunodeficiency states can definitely be passed on to the next generation
as inherited miasms. The original microorganisms may be gone but the
dynamic affects are passed and produce inherited states that mimic the
original infections and their sequels.

Hahnemann taught that their were acute, half acute and chronic miasms.
Acute miasms are self-limiting infections that reach crisis very rapidly.
They are of two kinds - those that one gets only one time like measles, and
those that can reoccur like cholera. Typhoid is also an acute miasm. Some
people never really recover from cholera and typhoid which then becomes a
NWS syndrome. If a parent's organism was damaged by cholera or typhoid the
affects can be passed on to the next generation.

Half-acute miasms are self limiting but it take much longer for them to
reach crisis than acute miasms. Hahnemann's example was hydrophobia
(rabies), which is quite deadly once the symptoms develop. Hydrophobia was
designated a miasm by Hahnemann long before Lou! The affects of an
unresolved half-acute miasm might be passed on to the next generation
because ANY unresolved disease state has that potential.

Chronic miasms are infections that tend to take a long time to reach
their full crisis and last life long. The negative affects are then passed
on to the next generation. Now all this material needs to be brought up to
date for our times. There are two types of chronic miasms. First there are
those that are universal such as psora, sycosis, pseudopsora TB and
syphilis. These are global because they are passed by person to person
transmission and hence have spread throughout all cultures. Secondly, there
are those that are endemic like malaria or Lyme disease. These are chronic
miasms are not universal because they take a zoological host for
transmission (misquotes, tic, etc), which only appear in certain environments.

AIDS is a new chronic venereal miasm. Hepatitis is being passed as a
venereal miasm. These are very wide spread and universal and must be taken
into consideration. There are also more which I am documenting slowly by
the group symptoms. So what is needed is to bring all this material up to
date based on the principles of the Homoeopathic epidemiology that
Hahnemann introduced. if we mixed up all the non infectious diseases with
the miasms we end up diluting the scientific aspects and making the term
"miasm" meaningless.

Will Taylor is wrong to think that Hahnemann taught that scabies was
the only precursor to psora. He is spiting hair over various microorganisms
rather than thinking in bands of susceptibility, similar pathways of
disease, and similar group symptoms. Just saying sycosis is not gonorrhea;
its HPV or psora is not scabies; its Candida is missing the point. In the
CD Hahnemann mentions pimples, boils, leprosy, (bacteria)), tetter (fungi),
scabies (mites) and herpes (viruses) a vectors that carry psora. Psora's
primary eruptions are soft tissue infections of the skin that can be caused
by several infective agents not one single entity.

Yes, suppressed scabies can produce psora but so can suppressed
staphylococcus, herpes and tinea. There are too many documented cases where
suppressed scabies produced chronic symptoms that were removed when a
scabies-like eruption returned on the skin. I have seen this with scabies,
fungi, staphylococcus, and other infections of the skin. One can not ignore
all the clinical data that has been collected over the last 180 years. The
clinic case histories based on knowledge of the original infection and the
reversal of symptoms under homeopathic show the way. It is NOT the "bug"
that produces the symptoms. It is the suppressed, drug and mistuned vital
force that causes the symptoms!

All these organisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses and mites) cause skin
infections that share the same pathway of disease and produce a similar
psoric syndrome on suppression. Psora was a word use by the ancient Greeks
to describe a wide variety of skin diseases. Hahnemann integrated this word
with the same meaning in mind. This means that psora is NOT caused by one
agent. Ringworm falls into the general category of fungi related to psora
and has a relationship to pseudopsora.

Candida is a fungi and could well be included in psora when it appears
as a skin infection but if it comes through another pathway of disease it
might fall into another category. It is the human organisms constitutional
reaction to chronic skin infections and suppression that makes Psora not
one specific skin vector over another. What is important is the pathway of
the disease, which in the case of psora is the skin. VD has another
pathway. TB has another pathway.

Like psora, sycosis might include more than one agent like gonococcus,
chlamydia, trichomoniasis as well as HPV or other homogeneous infective
agents that share a similar pathway and produce similar constitutional
symptoms on suppression. All of this must be shorted out over time. I have
confirmed this in some cases of chlamydia. A patient became "sycotic" after
suppression of a discharge and then produced many of the symptoms in the
classical symptoms list. His memory started to fad, the fishy smells
appeared and he got stiff joints, squinty eyes, suspicious, etc. Under
treatment all the symptom started to leave one by one until he passed 4oz
of stinky, yellow green pus out of his penis! Then he was totally cured!

This is proof of the cause, the symptoms and the curative remedy in
that miasm. It was impossible to tell a difference in the chronic symptoms
of this chlamydia-sycosis from the gonorrheal-sycosis. Other sycotic cases
reversed to a gonorrheal discharge showing the origin of the symptoms. In
one case a discharge that was suppressed 20 years ago returned! That is why
I disagree with Will Taylor about his rejection of gonorrhea as a factor is
sycosis. These are clinic facts not theories about one microorganism versus
another.

Yes, we have to bring all this material up to date but in accordance
with the principles Hahnemann set out in his discourse on psora, as it set
the pattern for all other chronic miasms. Psora is not "scabies" or
"candida". Psora is constitutional reaction of the human organism to
suppressed skin infections caused by mites, bacteria, fungi and viruses
that produce a homogeneous set of symptoms. One must look at the bands of
susceptibility, the affected pathways of disease, and the nature of the
group symptoms by taking a collective case based on many sufferers. This is
how one really finds out what is what!

Then one must find a homogeneous group of remedies that reflect these
symptoms. This is how one finds the anti-miasmic remedies for the greater
miasm. Then one must select the remedy for the patient out of this
anti-miasmic group of remedies by the individual symptoms of the patient.
Then one must give the remedy and follow the reversal of symptoms under
treatment as it reverses toward the original cause. If the patient had
suppressed mites, bacteria, fungi, etc, that caused psora and an eruption
reappears you know what is what. If the miasm was caused by gonococcus the
gonorrheal-like discharge may reappear. again then one knows the cause in
that case.

This is how a miasm is really investigated. If we wish to know about
AIDS, chronic hepatitis, and several other global miasms we must follow the
path Hahnemann laid down. If we want to know about endemic miasms like
Lyme, this is the path we should follow. We can tell more about these
miasms from the group case and the reversal of symptoms during cure than
conjectures about one microorganism than another.

That is exactly what Hahnemann did with psora and he would have done
with sycosis and syphilis if he lived longer. The reversal of the symptoms
to the original cause proves the hypothesis as well as the curative power
of the remedies. If we want to walk in Hahnemann's footsteps we best get
moving. Just saying "this is this and that is not that" is no where near
enough. As Hippocrates said. Ars Longa - Vita Brevis. My advice to everyone
is less talk and more work!

God, my fingers are tired and my eyes hurt! Too much work but I could
not resist expressing my thoughts. Please excuse all the typographic
errors, etc. I don't have time to go over and over this. What I said comes
from both my heart and my head as well as the last 3 decades of work in the
clinic. Don't sell the methods Hahnemann introduced short. There is a
method to the madness.

Similia Minimus
Sincerely, David Little
"It is the life-force which cures diseases because a dead man needs no more
medicines."

Samuel Hahnemann

Visit our website on Hahnemannian Homoeopathy and Cyberspace Homoeopathic
Academy at
http://www.simillimum.com
David Little © 2000

Dear David,

What I understand from your mail is that (if I am wrong, pls correct)
chronic miasms are syndromes with a group of sign&symptoms and group of
vectors, for example you said "All these organisms (bacteria, fungi,
viruses and mites) cause skin
infections that share the same pathway of disease and produce a similar
psoric syndrome on suppression."
As I am a GP, too, then when you talk about vectors, it reminds me of its
meaning in orthodox medicine that implies an organism that carries pathogens
from one host to another. If I don't understand wrong, in psora (for
example) when skin symptoms of psora vectors suppressed the pathway of psora
with its group symptoms began. This is also true about sycosis with its
vectors such as HPV,Gonorrhea,Chlamydia,etc.
I was wonder for sometimes that why Hahnemann has mentioned one remedy for
sycosis and syphilis, Namely thuja for sycosis and Merc for syphilis (at
least in his CD) but for psora, he quoted 48 remedies, and it is said that
Hahnemann in his late has quoted that he has mixed another miasm with psora
which has been later called pseudopsora or tubercular miasm.
On the other hand let me have close look at sycosis from CD, It has been
quoted that "...These excrescences usually first manifest themselves on the
genitals, and appear usually, but not always, attended with a sort of
gonorrhea (1) from the urethra, several days or several weeks, even many
weeks after infection through coition;......(1)=* Usually in gonorrhoea of
this kind, the discharge is from the beginning thickish, like pus;
micturition is less difficult, but the body of the penis swollen somewhat
hard; the penis is also in some cases covered on the back with glandular
tubercles, and very painful to the touch. """

Hahnemann here says sycosis excrescences appear usually, but not *always*,
attended with a *sort* of *gonorrhea from urethra*...
why Hahnemann says Gonorrhea from *urethra*, as far I know gonorrhea is
Greek word and it means (gonos, semen+rhonia, flow), therefore doesn't
gonorrhea in Hahnemann date mean any discharge from urethra? on the hand
Hahnemann says **a sort of gonorrhea which is different from common
gonorrhea (he also describes characteristic discharge of common gonorrhea
and gonorrhea on sycosis).
Therefore Gonorrhea of Hahnemann time is different for gonorrhea of today, I
don't want to prove that sycosis of Hahnemann is HPV infection and not
gonorrhea (although I agree with Dr. Taylor that sycosis of Hahnemann is HPV
and gonorrhea on sycosis is due to Herpes simplex infection) but I want to
say that Hahnemann at first introduce psora, sycosis and syphilis and then
noticed that he has mixed psorapsora with psora.
then my question:
Don't you think that some of homeopaths have gone in opposite way of
Hahnemann? don't you think that some homeopaths have mixed sycosis of
Hahnemann with other miasms such as Chlamydia or gonorrheal miasms?

IMO ( which may be wrong) sycosis of Kent or other Homeopaths is mixture of
Hahnemann's sycosis with other venereal miasms and as Andy said it is better
we
scratch the surface of miasm and separate their mixtures.
Regarding classification of remedies based on miasms, if we pay attention to
some kind of classifications, IMO, after several years every remedy will
become mutlimiasmatic! and it doesn't matter what is the miasm of the
patient!

Kind Regards,

Nader

-------------------

David wrote:

Dear Andy and others,

First of all, Hahnemann miasms are the negative affects of unresolved
infectious diseases. In the 1840s Samuel came to the conclusions that Psora
(and hence the other miasms) could be acquired by infection and heredity.
This work makes Hahnemann the Founder of the modern epidemiology as he was
the first to provide a coherent theory of susceptibility, infection and
heredity as well as primary, latent and secondary or tertiary states. This
is the main point. Hahnemann did not "ignore" the possibility of other
miasms. He stated that the three chronic miasms he spoke of were the most
common in Europe in his day. He left the door open to other miasms and left
a method in aphorism 103 of the Organon for making a group anamnesis of new
miasms.

Now, I tend to stay with the Founder's definition rather than call ALL
chronic and inherited diseases "miasms". Some people de-link the causation
and infection aspects of Hahnemann's theories and make every unresolved
complaint a miasm. This causes much confusion. Infections have a different
pathway of disease than non infectious disorders. This must be looked into
to understand the whole hypothesis.

Infections affect first and foremost activate the immune system and
stimulate antigen - antibody reactions that are global. Non infectious
disease act first and foremost on the neuro-endrocrine system as discussed
in the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) by Dr. Han's Selye, the father of
modern endrocinology. These diseases over activate the stress-strain axis
and depress the immune system. Most of the damage done here is by pro and
anti-inflammably hormones. These unresolved affects of these states can be
passed on to the next generation. These can cause hereditary complaints but
they are not miasms.

In my opinion Hahnemann's miasms are the affects of unresolved
infections that produce autoimmune and immunodeficiency disorders. If the
immune system can not resolve an alarm reaction that will lead to states
where the body damages itself with its own autoimmune products. Sooner or
later this lead to immune collapse. My use of these words, however, is much
more expanded in than in allopathy. Nevertheless, every day more and more
diseases are link to these categories. These are some of the hardest
disease to cure by any means. The affects of these autoimmune and
immunodeficiency states can definitely be passed on to the next generation
as inherited miasms. The original microorganisms may be gone but the
dynamic affects are passed and produce inherited states that mimic the
original infections and their sequels.

Hahnemann taught that their were acute, half acute and chronic miasms.
Acute miasms are self-limiting infections that reach crisis very rapidly.
They are of two kinds - those that one gets only one time like measles, and
those that can reoccur like cholera. Typhoid is also an acute miasm. Some
people never really recover from cholera and typhoid which then becomes a
NWS syndrome. If a parent's organism was damaged by cholera or typhoid the
affects can be passed on to the next generation.

Half-acute miasms are self limiting but it take much longer for them to
reach crisis than acute miasms. Hahnemann's example was hydrophobia
(rabies), which is quite deadly once the symptoms develop. Hydrophobia was
designated a miasm by Hahnemann long before Lou! The affects of an
unresolved half-acute miasm might be passed on to the next generation
because ANY unresolved disease state has that potential.

Chronic miasms are infections that tend to take a long time to reach
their full crisis and last life long. The negative affects are then passed
on to the next generation. Now all this material needs to be brought up to
date for our times. There are two types of chronic miasms. First there are
those that are universal such as psora, sycosis, pseudopsora TB and
syphilis. These are global because they are passed by person to person
transmission and hence have spread throughout all cultures. Secondly, there
are those that are endemic like malaria or Lyme disease. These are chronic
miasms are not universal because they take a zoological host for
transmission (misquotes, tic, etc), which only appear in certain
environments.

AIDS is a new chronic venereal miasm. Hepatitis is being passed as a
venereal miasm. These are very wide spread and universal and must be taken
into consideration. There are also more which I am documenting slowly by
the group symptoms. So what is needed is to bring all this material up to
date based on the principles of the Homoeopathic epidemiology that
Hahnemann introduced. if we mixed up all the non infectious diseases with
the miasms we end up diluting the scientific aspects and making the term
"miasm" meaningless.

Will Taylor is wrong to think that Hahnemann taught that scabies was
the only precursor to psora. He is spiting hair over various microorganisms
rather than thinking in bands of susceptibility, similar pathways of
disease, and similar group symptoms. Just saying sycosis is not gonorrhea;
its HPV or psora is not scabies; its Candida is missing the point. In the
CD Hahnemann mentions pimples, boils, leprosy, (bacteria)), tetter (fungi),
scabies (mites) and herpes (viruses) a vectors that carry psora. Psora's
primary eruptions are soft tissue infections of the skin that can be caused
by several infective agents not one single entity.

Yes, suppressed scabies can produce psora but so can suppressed
staphylococcus, herpes and tinea. There are too many documented cases where
suppressed scabies produced chronic symptoms that were removed when a
scabies-like eruption returned on the skin. I have seen this with scabies,
fungi, staphylococcus, and other infections of the skin. One can not ignore
all the clinical data that has been collected over the last 180 years. The
clinic case histories based on knowledge of the original infection and the
reversal of symptoms under homeopathic show the way. It is NOT the "bug"
that produces the symptoms. It is the suppressed, drug and mistuned vital
force that causes the symptoms!

All these organisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses and mites) cause skin
infections that share the same pathway of disease and produce a similar
psoric syndrome on suppression. Psora was a word use by the ancient Greeks
to describe a wide variety of skin diseases. Hahnemann integrated this word
with the same meaning in mind. This means that psora is NOT caused by one
agent. Ringworm falls into the general category of fungi related to psora
and has a relationship to pseudopsora.

Candida is a fungi and could well be included in psora when it appears
as a skin infection but if it comes through another pathway of disease it
might fall into another category. It is the human organisms constitutional
reaction to chronic skin infections and suppression that makes Psora not
one specific skin vector over another. What is important is the pathway of
the disease, which in the case of psora is the skin. VD has another
pathway. TB has another pathway.

Like psora, sycosis might include more than one agent like gonococcus,
chlamydia, trichomoniasis as well as HPV or other homogeneous infective
agents that share a similar pathway and produce similar constitutional
symptoms on suppression. All of this must be shorted out over time. I have
confirmed this in some cases of chlamydia. A patient became "sycotic" after
suppression of a discharge and then produced many of the symptoms in the
classical symptoms list. His memory started to fad, the fishy smells
appeared and he got stiff joints, squinty eyes, suspicious, etc. Under
treatment all the symptom started to leave one by one until he passed 4oz
of stinky, yellow green pus out of his penis! Then he was totally cured!

This is proof of the cause, the symptoms and the curative remedy in
that miasm. It was impossible to tell a difference in the chronic symptoms
of this chlamydia-sycosis from the gonorrheal-sycosis. Other sycotic cases
reversed to a gonorrheal discharge showing the origin of the symptoms. In
one case a discharge that was suppressed 20 years ago returned! That is why
I disagree with Will Taylor about his rejection of gonorrhea as a factor is
sycosis. These are clinic facts not theories about one microorganism versus
another.

Yes, we have to bring all this material up to date but in accordance
with the principles Hahnemann set out in his discourse on psora, as it set
the pattern for all other chronic miasms. Psora is not "scabies" or
"candida". Psora is constitutional reaction of the human organism to
suppressed skin infections caused by mites, bacteria, fungi and viruses
that produce a homogeneous set of symptoms. One must look at the bands of
susceptibility, the affected pathways of disease, and the nature of the
group symptoms by taking a collective case based on many sufferers. This is
how one really finds out what is what!

Then one must find a homogeneous group of remedies that reflect these
symptoms. This is how one finds the anti-miasmic remedies for the greater
miasm. Then one must select the remedy for the patient out of this
anti-miasmic group of remedies by the individual symptoms of the patient.
Then one must give the remedy and follow the reversal of symptoms under
treatment as it reverses toward the original cause. If the patient had
suppressed mites, bacteria, fungi, etc, that caused psora and an eruption
reappears you know what is what. If the miasm was caused by gonococcus the
gonorrheal-like discharge may reappear. again then one knows the cause in
that case.

This is how a miasm is really investigated. If we wish to know about
AIDS, chronic hepatitis, and several other global miasms we must follow the
path Hahnemann laid down. If we want to know about endemic miasms like
Lyme, this is the path we should follow. We can tell more about these
miasms from the group case and the reversal of symptoms during cure than
conjectures about one microorganism than another.

That is exactly what Hahnemann did with psora and he would have done
with sycosis and syphilis if he lived longer. The reversal of the symptoms
to the original cause proves the hypothesis as well as the curative power
of the remedies. If we want to walk in Hahnemann's footsteps we best get
moving. Just saying "this is this and that is not that" is no where near
enough. As Hippocrates said. Ars Longa - Vita Brevis. My advice to everyone
is less talk and more work!

God, my fingers are tired and my eyes hurt! Too much work but I could
not resist expressing my thoughts. Please excuse all the typographic
errors, etc. I don't have time to go over and over this. What I said comes
from both my heart and my head as well as the last 3 decades of work in the
clinic. Don't sell the methods Hahnemann introduced short. There is a
method to the madness.

Similia Minimus
Sincerely, David Little
"It is the life-force which cures diseases because a dead man needs no more
medicines."

Samuel Hahnemann

Visit our website on Hahnemannian Homoeopathy and Cyberspace Homoeopathic
Academy at
http://www.simillimum.com
David Little © 2000
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