Re: [H] Abrupt onset of sadness in early afternoon/MIASMS

Cee,

I'm learning too, so had the same questions. From my own reading and personal experience, an inherited condition requires one's constitutional remedy at some point. You may rep to another remedy that may help the current depressed state but underlying it will still be the miasm. In Chronic Diseases, Hahnemann discusses all the antipsoric remedies and the 3 miasms he identified. Psora most prevalent then syphilitic and sycotic.

More miasms have been postulated in the links below, many from Sankaran. It's been more theoretical but determiing the patient's primary miasm and choosing from appropriate anti-miasmatic and anti-psoric remedies are supposed to lead to more permanent cure. So when you rep as usual, you can see which remedies come up that may fall into these categories to make a better choice. From a physical level, you may be able to look at someone and see if they fall into a syphilltic or sycotic miasm. A link below has a video showing some physical and other traits that belong to each miasm family, like fingernails.

"Hahnemann had a special understanding of the word miasm. Miasm is understood to be a derangement of the vital force that predates and is more fundamental than the current illness the patient suffers from. The job of the physician is to try to understand the whole of the true disease inside the patient – not just its current manifestation. To do so he must "find out as far as possible the whole extent of all the accidents and symptoms belonging to the unknown primitive malady."

Here's are some articles I found recently on miasmatic prescribing and definitions.

http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/classical-miasmatic-prescribing/

http://www.homeopathyplanet.com/audesapere/study%20room/library/miasms/librarymiasmsmorrison.htm

Video on miasms, click Play arrow on left in first video on left, then in play bar of video, click the dot in box on right to get full screen video.

http://www.homoeopathy-course.com/video.html

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: Celia M. Malm <cmmalm@mindspring.com>
To: homeopathy <homeopathy@homeolist.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 12:09 am
Subject: Re: [H] Abrupt onset of sadness in early afternoon

Susan wrote:
Does this teenager have any family history of depression, bipolar, etc?
Many times this is
the age where psychiatric inherited miasms may surface.
Yes, he does. What kind of influence should that have on the remedy choice?
iasms are still a very foggy area for me.

ee
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