2 THE HAHNEMANNIAN THEORY OF MIASMS.pptx

This powerpoint explains dr PS Ortega's views on miasmswith reference toHahnemmanian Miasm.

1. THE HAHNEMANNIAN THEORY OF MIASMS

2. Its discovery in Hahnemann’s clinic Suppressions as causes which exacerbate pathology Considerations of the basis of theory of psora The Hahnemannian miasm as diathesis,dyscrasia or predisposition-as presented in his fundamental works,the ORGANON and the CHRONIC DISEASES

3. . After erecting the doctrinal monument of homoeopathy with its corresponding curative technique,observed in his own practice The results ,while relatively satisfactory and clearly preferable and superior to those of old school medicine still left a large question mark It was regarding the relapses or the emergence of the new diseased states in the apparently cured patients

4. That is the latter persisted in a condition of relatively good health but had a tendency to manifest periodic or successive syndromes or pathological states with in a certain similarity or relationship with one another The really sick patients were seen to pass through periodic or states of illness which appeared to the superficial observer but in which careful examination disclosed a nexus of identity , a characteristic connecting link

5. . Thus ,the apparently different illness presented by the sick person ,as judged by his biopathology ,were infact linked by a background which constituted a predispostion to a characteristic form in respect both to dysfunctions and to the lesions themselves. This predispostion wheather constitutional or merely a constant aspect of organic man which persists in the form of its expression,was called by Hahnemann MIASM OR CHRONIC DISEASE

6. Hahnemann writes The faithfully practised percepts of homoeopathic method of cure,as it is taught in my own writings and those of my disciples ,have hitherto manifested to all men and in a very striking and decisive manner , their natural advantage both in regard to acute diseases as well as in epidemics and sporadic fevers

7. But there remained the chronic disease which afflict humanity and the number of which continued to be immensely large Its even greater today The manner in which those diseases had been treated by old school physicians has only served to increase the sufferings of such patients

8. By employing a quantity of disgusting mixtures,compounded by the apothecary out of large doses of violent medicinal substances or by using all sorts of baths ,pretended anodynes and sedatives and especially those everlasting purgatives , leeches,blood lettings and methods of starvation And other nameless diseases being much worse and much more incurable than original natural disease,was substituted in place of previous disturbance

9. Nothing was done except additional sufferings consequent upon the use of improper and noxious medicines Homoeopathic practitioners by the percepts in the writings,advices given in lectures and conversations did more good by treatment than all previously known so called methods of cure had been able to accomplish

10. The patient will consider himself cured when he gets better for the difficulties previous to homoeopathic treatment with the improved state of health which he now enjoyed But then a few excesses at table, a cold, approach of unusually rough damp or stormy weather, fall of season,violent bodily or mental effort( concussion,melancholy,fright etc) were often sufficient in an enfeebled system to cause one or more of the former ailments to reappear after they have been conquered for a time

11. They were often accompanied by a series of new symptoms which may not have denoted any more danger than the former symptoms did that had yielded to the homoeopathic treatment,but more difficult to cure and therefore so much more inveterate The homoeopath acted as if this were a new illness (AS WAS DONE BEFORE THERE WAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE MIASMS BEFORE HAHNEMANN MADE THIS DOCTRINE KNOWN)

12. Against these new symptoms the homoeopathic physician employed again with tolerable success the remedy which acted more homoeopathically among the then known drugs And the condition of the patient was again improved for a time When symptoms reappear again the remedy which helped first ,second time less perfectly and still less so on being given third time

13. Under these circumstances , the remedy which had appeared most homoeopathic often produced new symptoms and despite a correct mode of life on part of patients,they yielded but scantily and imperfectly to the best adapted remedies and often even remained when the cure was checked by above mentioned external(or mental) influences

14. . Some joyous occurrence, or an external condition of circumstances improved by fortune, a pleasant journey, a favourable climate produce a remarkable pause of shorter or longer duration in the disease of the patient, during which the homoeopath might consider himself as fairly recovered; even the patient might consider himself to be lucky. But a favourable pause would never be of a longer duration and repeated returns of the complaints in the end left even the best selected homoeopathic remedies then known in most appropriate doses, were less effective. At last served as weak palliatives .

15. After repeated attempts to conquer the disease, which appeared in a form always somewhat changed, residual complaints appeared. Thus there followed varying complaints more troublesome, more threatening even when the medicine was correct, mode of living was correct with a punctual observations of directions. The chronic disease could despite all the efforts, be but little delayed in its progress by the homoeopathic physician and grew worse year to year.

16. Their beginning was promising, the continuation less favourable and the outcome hopeless. Despite these failures ,the doctrine itself has been and will ever be founded upon the unshakeable pillars of truth Why then were less favourable or even unfavourable results obtained by homoeopathy in the treatment of chronic disease?

17. Acute diseases provided they were not fatal from their beginning were not only considerably alleviated by correctly chosen homoeopathic remedies ,but even promptly and thoroughly cured by means of the VIS MEDICATRIX OF THE ORGANISM Why should this VIS MEDICATRIXof the organism whose object is to restore the integrity of the organism ,and to be indefatiguably active in completing the recovery from virulent acute diseases,have been insufficient to effect a durable cure of those chronic maladies even when aided by most accurately selected homoeopathic medicines

18. What obstacle stood in the way? This led to the discovery of nature of chronic diseases In the years 1816 and 1817 , day and night; and behold the giver of all things permitted me within this space of time to gradually solve this sublime problem through unremitting thought, faithful observation and most accurate observations done for the welfare of the community.

19. I kept my great effort both from public and from my own disciples not on account of the ingratitude which I have frequently experienced Its improper to speak about things half accomplished Not until the year 1827 did I communicate the most important part of my discoveries relative to the treatment of chronic disease to two of my most deserving disciples

20. I did so in order to avoid the danger of seeing my discoveries lost to mankind I observed that non veneral chronic diseases even after having been repeatedly and successfully removed by the then known homoeopathic remedies continually reappeared in a more or less modified form ,and with a yearly increase of disagreeable symptoms

21. This proved that the phenomena which appeared to constitute the ostensible disease was a MERE FRAGMENT OF MUCH MORE DEEP-SEATED PRIMITIVE EVIL ,THE GREAT EXTENDT OF WHICH MIGHT BE INFERRED FROM THE NEW SYMPTOMS WHICH CONTINUED TO APPEAR FROM TIME TO TIME THIS SHOWED ME THAT THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTITIONER OUGHT NOT TO TREAT DISEASES OF THIS KIND AS SEPEREATE AND COMPLETELY DEVELOPED MALADIES

22. I became convinced that the first condition of finding out one or more homoeopathic medicines which should cover all the symptoms characterizing the whole disturbance was to discover all the ailments and symptoms inherant in the unknown primitive malady The medicine being found out ,the physician would be able to conquer and to completely extinguish the whole disease, together with its successively appearing groups of symptoms

23. This primitive disease evidently owed its existance to some CHRONIC MIASM As soon as it had reached a certain height it never yielded to the simple action of a robust constitution ,or to the best regulated diet or mode of life On the contrary it grew worse from year to year to the end of life ,gradually assuming different and more dangerous symptoms This is the case with every chronic miasmatic disease

24. For instance ,the veneral bubo when it has become a syhilitic diseases on account of its not having been cured from within by mercury,its specific Syphilis never becomes extinct of itself It increases from year to year and assumes new and more dangerous symptoms to the end of life

25. . These circumstances ,coupled with the fact that psoric eruptions which had been removed by evil practices or by some other causes were evidently followed in otherwise healthy person by chronic ailments having the like or similar symptoms This has been observed by myself and others in infinite number of cases This left me no doubt about the internal enemy I had to combat in my medical treatment This internal enemy I shall designate by the general term PSORA

26. In most of the patients Hahnemann verified a past history of psora Psora is the common wellspring of many chronic diseases which seem to differ in essence but ultimately are one and the same In Europe as well as in other continents we have been able to discover BUT THREE CHRONIC MIASM which cause diseases manifesting themselves by local symptoms and in which more chronic ailments originate

27. . These miasms are syphilis( veneral chancre) sycosis and then psora which forms the basis of itch Though psora is the oldest,most universal and most pernicious chronic miasmatic disease yet it has been misapprehended more than any other For 1000’s of years it has tortured and disfigured mankind and during last centuries it has become cause of those thousands of incredibly different ,a/c as well as c/c non veneral diseases with which more and more persons becomes infected

28. . Psora is just as tedious as syphilis and sycosis Unless it is cured ,it last until the last breath of the longest life not even the robust constitution will be able to anilhilate and extinguish psora The secondary symptoms of psora are innumerable When the chief symptom which is the external eruption has been suppressed it produces secondary c/c ailments Physicians are not able to discover the host and the secondary diseases remains incurable as had been the original maladywith its eruption existing upon skin

29. This is made worse by a quantity of wrong remedies When psoric poison was yet reduced to its formidable external substitute leprosy there were much less nervous affections,painful ailments,spasms ,cancerous ulcers adventitious formations consumptions than there are now

30. . Modern physicians – every psoric eruption is a mere local affection of skin,with which organism has nothing to do Health restored when eruption is removed Such horrible untruths were not only taught formerly but even taught and practiced even now Itch removed with external applications-and assert that disease is cured –patient dismissed without least regard for secondary ailments which will manifest later as result of psoric reaction The deceived patient will come again with unavoidable consequence of former treatment like consumption,hysteria , gout,asthma,blindness,paralysis etc etc Hahnemann gives countless quotes for this

31. He says These few cases are sufficient to convince the intelligent observer that the itch together with its varieties are the external vicarious symptoms of an internal disease affecting whole organism and psora is the most pernicious of the c/c miasms No reasonable and inquiring physician will dare to assert that the itch , tinea are mere cutaneous diseases which may unhesitatingly be removed from the skin by external applications ,because the organism is not affected by them This kind of treatment is most pernicious ,most infamous and most unpardonable practice –should be guilty of themselves

32. . In acute miamatic disease the virus penetrates and invades the whole organism through portal of entry and which are characterized by 3 stages The moment of infection The period required for the organism to be penetrated by the sickness The manifestation of its development in the whole organism Scabious exanthema reduces psora to silence as external chancre does for internalsyphilis When this is suppressed by unnatural tehniques ,changes generated-internal affection

33. When suppressed miasm leaves its latent form and its manifestaton surge to the fore with intensity when stimulated by environmental and emotional conditions Miasm will become manifest when there is similarity between external morbific noxa and patients diseased condition or predisposition The concept of miasm as contagious virus seems very appropriate to the minds which accept the materialistic criterion of traditional medicine Such concept is easy to understand and accept being in agreement with microbial theory and urge to find materia pecans which once destroyed or eliminated causes patients health to be restored

34. . This simple mode of reasoning is initially adopted in medicine by every beginner ,confronted with suffering , man seeks a cause yet almost never recognizes it inside himself and blames various circumstances like chill ,food etc and when microbes appear ..ah ha According to this medicines fundamental objective is merely to recognize the microbes corresponding to each sickness and then to destroy them But what appears to be an unimpeachable solution turned into new chimera

35. Microbial theory with its firm foundations and demonstrations left a gigantic stamp on medicine and great majority of homoeopaths couldnot escape this hallucination Many prof easily concluded microbes constitute what he called a/c diseases and viruses the c/c miasms (ML Tyler)

36. But pathological reality must be understood differently Latent psora is absolutely propitious to contagion with scabies just as sycosis is for gonorrhoea and syphilis to chancrous disease The miasm as diathesis,constitutional pathology or morbific condition is defined by Hahnemann One can lead bearable life for many years without any mishap and suffer from symptoms of latent psora like cold clammy hands dry hair and will not pay attention believing he is healthy

37. Only attentive person can understand it and when he grows older he will start developing symptoms from exiting causes from allopathic medicine improperly given or sedentary life in warm roomdeath of beloved relatives arouses psora from its lethargic state generating serious and inverterate symptoms which gets aggravated without any remissions to most terrible degree

38. . With respect to sycosis Hahnemann states This is the MIASM WHICH ENGENDERS THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF CHRONIC SICKNESSES,ITS MANIFESTATIONS BEING SEEN ONLY FROM TIME TO TIME Sickness appears somedays or weeks after impure coitus and is usually followed by gonorrhoeal dripping-treated by external applications- supresses it temporarily He adds that when sycosis is deprived of local symptom which IS THE SIGN OF INTERNAL DISEASE it must take another and more serious form as a secondary disease

39. Regarding syphilis This is the case with every c/c miasmatic disease-for instance ,the veneral bubo ,when it has become the syphilitic disease on account of not having been cured from within by mercury,its specific Syphilis never becomes extinct of itself , inspite of best mode of life and the robustest constitution,and increases from year to year and assumes new and more dangerous symptoms to end of life

40. Last edition of organon Reference to miasm as diatheses or constitutional diseases(78,82,203,208) In aph 5 Useful to the physician in assisting him to cure are particulars of The most probable exiting cause of acute disease Most significant points in the story of c/c disease for discovering fundamental cause

41. Most illustrative and precise paragraph relating to miasm aph 204 Aph 206-misams are called dyscrasia and hahnemann calls them diathesis Thus the concept of diathesis dyscrasia or constitutional pathology persist in hahnemanns brilliant conception of chronic diseases

42. First hahnemannian concept needed to understand and derive all possible benefit from the miasmatic doctrine is that health,sickness and cure are dynamic processes For many years the incomparable doctrine was forgotten,underestimated and contested because no technique had been devised to reveal its clinical usefulness and adapt it to progress attained and attainable in biology especially as it relates to medicine

43. The mexican homoeopathic association founded in 1960 has been working uninterruptedly expounding diffusing and occationally debating the investigations and the studies of hahnemanns miasm which I started in 1940 and whose first appearance was in my doctoral thesis THE NATURAL HEALING FORCE AND HOMOEOPATHY

44. Before publishing the fruits of these efforts we must indicate what is needed to fully understand the doctrine of c/c disesases in all its valuable and far reaching aspects