CONCEPTS of MIASMA THEORIES

Above all, the theory says that there is a

foreign force

affecting the organism and producingdisease. Thus a remedy has to be administered to eliminate this disturbance and to recuperatethe patient’s health.

Sanchez Ortega

said that a cell has only

three possibilities

to exist in a pathological manner:psora is connected with weakness, sycosis is connected with hypertrophy, and syphilis isconnected with perversion as well as destruction. These kinds of diseases are of courseexpressed physically as well as in character and psyche of particular individuals. And they arealways expressed symbolically which makes them easily detectable.Syphilis, sycosis and psora are of course not necessarily connected with the germs. It is the

character

of syphilis, sycosis and psora, it is their symptomatology and trait that points to aparticular miasma.

Elizalde Masi

teaches a more philosophical aspect of the miasmas; when man is born, hestarts with psora. He has great fears when he is born into this world and at the same timeloses contact to the universe, to the only entirety, the continuum (Bohm). As not onlyphilosophers but also quantum physicists describe the only one; man has lost the abilities andattributes of God, the almighty God, the omnipresent God. The paradise is lost, fear arises;this fear is unbearable and is thus projected onto objects; for example, a dog, darkness, fearof disease and so on. In a desperate attempt to escape the unbearable combination of fearand weakness, man is driven into hypertrophy. Such thinking brings about severeconsequences. If two persons are interested in the same subject, a collision may arise. As aresult one’s personal point of view, one’s limited “ego”, the very personal will and attitudehave to be destroyed – it is obvious that perversion and destruction set in if not corrected.In a way, disease is a message, sometimes even painful, which requires a higher socialconsciousness for the individual as well as for the collective.Masi says therefore that

each remedy

may exist in a psoric, in a sycotic and in a luetic stage,in fear and weakness, in hypertrophy and in destruction.Originally

Hahnemann

himself drafted the first coordinates through the vastness of thesymptomatology of diseases and tried to associate particular remedies, Mercury, Thuja andSulphur with the three miasmas.These miasmas constitute a system, coordinates, enabling us to sail in the vast ocean of diseases, in which remedies are closely bonded to each of these miasmas.

It is not the germ

of syphilis or gonorrhoea, it is

far more the character of these diseases

that isassociated with these miasmas

.Why three Miasmas? - It may be of interest that H.P. Dürr, a particle physicist from the MaxPlanck Institute in Germany, says that we do not know why we are living in a 3-dimensionalspace, why not in 4- or 5-dimensions. To describe a location, we need three dimensions,motion is associated to the 4

dimension: time. It is remarkable that time has a lot do to withthe tubercular element, quickness, desire to travel, etc. In order to understanding this attitudewe need a holistic view.There is another point of view!The point of view of

Rudolf Flury

, who lived from 1903 to 1977 in Bern, is another veryinteresting aspect of diseases and even of the miasmas. Flury greatly stressed the

aspect of the constitution

. The constitution consists of life-long signs and symptoms, features of thepatient’s character and body may be more important than local symptoms (we treat thepatient not just symptoms). Flury further states that on the basis of one's constitution anillness may break out or may not break out. To go back to the roots he took the four ClassicalAristotelian Temperaments to describe four basic characters of a person, to which he

associated corresponding remedies. The elements of fire, water, earth and air were associatedwith the following characters: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic and sanguine.The fourth element, pseudo-psora or tuberculosis was later integrated into homeopathy.Flury, a priori, integrated it into his

four types of persons,

depending on the character of aTuberculine person - here of course we are dealing with the

sanguine type

Hahnemann said that the tuberculine element, or pseudo-psora, comes about when syphilisand psora are combined for a long time, creating the tuberculine taint.Flury has made a big step. He associated miasmas (outside) with the constitution (inside).Symbolically spoken, an offender may invade a particular fortress, or may fail to do so. Inorder to save the patient, we may prefer the aspect of the constitution rather than to chasemiasmas. Stressing the constitution may be a more efficient way in treating a patient insteadof focusing on the power of the invader. By concentrating on the "constitution", we attain amuch more positive attitude.Flury considered the constitution of a patient as

lifelong signs and symptoms

, features thatcharacterizes a patient over a very long time.