Chronic miasm - By Master EK

The presence of anger, hatred,

malice, insomnia, disinclination to work, worry, despondency and  

unaccountable fear indicates the

presence of such a chronic disease

that would kill the patient when

neglected for decades. A chronic

disease always exists in the formof

a psychological distortion producing an abnormal behaviour without any  

disease at all in its beginning stage.

At this stage we can gather the mental symptoms and the modalities of the patient and select a

medicine to be used for a prolonged period of time. Then it is

quite easy to make a permanent cure of the miasm and save the patient  

from allthe consequences. Instead, if the doctor cannot understand the  

psychological abnormalities as the

basic form of disease.Then time

passes and the tissues and the

functions are affected when it is

incurable.

We should repeatedly remember that the chronic diseases of Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis exist only as the background diseases and cause  

destruction to the constitution. The

many affects that are produced should not be confused as diseases. 

By the distortions in the vital

and mental planes ofa patient we

should understand the presence of a

chronic disease. It will be one among the three chronic miasms and nothing else. To know which of

the three is working in the patient we

have certain indications.

1. Psora : In the beginning it starts by the suppression of the skin symptoms. Immediately the fellow  

develops irritability, indifference,

aristocracy and pride. He also

experiences itchings and very small

water boils, sweating,weakness and

inability to bear mental exertion.

He is disturbed of continuity of

purpose and effort. He is much

disturbed in sleep. You find him

kicking, rolling, groaning,moaning

and grinding of teeth during sleep.

He feels like eating and drinking sleep. He feels like eating and drinking irrespective of hunger and thirst, feels sex thoughts when it is not time and is often angry. When these symptoms are neglected the disease goes deeper. Then the patient loses his resistance. He cannot withstand Sun, chill, rain and any atmospheric change. Frequent fevers are cured by medicines but only to recur. The constitution succumbs to the effects of climatic changes and every infection in the atmosphere.When further neglected, the functions like digestion, respiration or circulation will be affected. When further neglected,  

it leads to tissue changes.

2. Sycosis : When the acute

infection of gonorrhea is suppressed, then the patient invites this chronic  

miasm,It lives with him. Such a

patient develops suspicion,jealousy,

fault finding, vindictiveness, fear and

anxiety. When neglected we see the

patient losing relish for food and

drink, dislike of persons, insomnia, constipation and painfulenlargement

of glands. Growth like polypi, cysts,

enlargedtonsils, adenoids, nose block, colds, sneezing, throat pain and various diseases of the respiratory organs. Also he develops piles, fistula, urinary diseases, diabetes, prostate gland enlargement, stoppage of urine or stool. Women develop uterine outgrowths and various types of menstrual diseases and sometimes repeated abortions. A strange feature about sycosis is that when the throat troubles are cured, they develop troubles with rectum or urinary organs which when  

cured once again produce throat

troubles.Warts, corns fig-warts and various types of layers on the cornea

are also present. The chronic miasms prove hereditary when children develop various strange complaints. Children grow secretive and misanthropic. They insult other children,scratch them, bite them, harm them. When the parents are hospitable to other children, they cannot tolerate. They grow angry, they rebel, they steal and  develop spendthrifttendencies. They  

pilfer, spend money, abscond from

school.They wander about the

streets, develop abnormalities of sex, even when it is not age. 

3. Syphillis : Suppression of an

acute infections disease called

Syphillis leads to the chronic

miasm of Syphillis. Then it lives with the patient. In such people, you will

notice progressive decrease of

intelligence, loss of memory,

dullness, carelessness, dropping and

losing things,keys, umbrellas and

shoes are often lost, forgotten. After

some time, they cannot understand

lessons, books and topics of

discussion. They try to reproduce

lessons in an examination without

understanding but the memory is also awful. Little children suffer from optic troubles and headachesand are obliged to use spects. Unbearable  

foul smell ofstool, urine, nasal

discharges and pus from the ears.

Thebreath is foul, the mouth emits foul smell, the saliva is stickyand thready, gums, swelling and bleeding, sore mouth,aphtae, redness of throat, tongue and eyes. Tooth decay,

toothache and loose teeth are also

present. The glands in the groins, axil and round the neck are swollen,  

painful and sometimes get inflamed

and develop boils. There will be

cracks in the palms and soles.

They may develop big boilswith pus

or foul watery discharge, bone boils

that takeduration of months or years. Ladies experience false pregnancy, 

abortion, still born children and infant mortality.

4. Tuberculosis : Some scientists

admit the existenceof a fourth chronic miasm called Tuberculosis. It may be a complication of one or two  previous miasms for a prolonged  

period of time. Or it may be a long

history of malaria, repeatedly suppressed with drugs like quinine.

Weakness, mental worry and

shivering commence and develop slowly. Repeated attacks of fever with chills and daily  attacks of feverishness and low temperature will be present. There may be either frequent cough and cold or indigestion with loose motions or both. You find marked emaciation and lack of resistance to cold motions or both.You find  

marked emaciation and lack of

resistance to cold climate. Many of

these patients develop an incurable

skin disease like eczema. Every

attempt to palliate it results in

weakness, cough, fever and heat with occasional chills. The mind is unstable and the patient continuously craves for a  

change. Frequent changing of

professions,residences and

employers is seen. He changes

friends,cooks, servants and

doctors again and again for no

satisfaction. It appears to him inevitable. New acquaintances are appreciated much as gentlemen but within a fewmonths, they are understood again as unworthy people.They criticise and speak very bad of people behind theirback. In all probability they face premature  

death due to emaciation, fever or

tuberculosis. Sometimes they develop acute disease like typhoid and go into complications and die. There are people amongthem who attempt suicide due to sorrow, despondency, poverty, insolvency or timidity. There are people who leavethe family, town or country because they cannot withstandtheir bad impressions about others around them. “It is uncultural and brutish to live in this country. My relativesand friends are all brutes and uncultured fellows. I dislike to live among them. I will go  

away to the States and settle there.”

Such ideas are found among them.

Anger and intolerance along with

inconsistency is found among them.

Often they develop self-pity.

Tuberculosis also gives itsheredity.

When treated properly during

childhood, these four miasms can be cured When treated during youth or  

middleage, you can cure them with

great difficulty to the doctor and

suffering to the patient. After about

forty-five years of age, you may not

hope to cure him permanently. The

onlything you can do is to palliate.

Such patients do not often show good response to short acting drugs like Aconite or Belladonna. Antimiasmatic drugs should be understood separately and selected for such people. Drugs like Sulphur, Mercury,Thuja, Psorinum,  

Medorrhinum, Syphilinum and

Tuberculinum should be used in a

quite scientific way for prolonged

periods.