🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm
The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
▲GENERAL
Cistus is a very ancient remedy for scrofulous disorders, in scorbutic states, and for
gangrenous ulcerations.
The provings and homeopathic uses confirm its suitability in these respects and bring
out clearer indications.
Affects the glands, especially of naso pharynx, neck and breasts (left).
Malignant disease of the glands of
the neck.
Indurated glandular swelling of the neck and throat.
Suppuration of the glands of the neck.
Breast
cancer, hardness of the breasts.
Cancer of the lo wer lip.
Scorbutic, swol len gums separating from the teeth, gums bleed easily, putrid,
disgusting.
Cold tongue.
Decay of the lower jaw.
Desire for acid food and fruits.
Saliva in throat.
Belchings in
stomach.
Affinity for the naso-pharynx, aborts colds that center in posterior nose.
Sniffling.
Mucus discharges are thick,
yellow, foul, leave a painful rawness.
Worse sweating, discharges.
Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Herpetic eruptions, scorbutic states, chronic swellings and gangrenous ulcer ations.
Poisoned wounds, bites,
phagadenic ulcers.
Suppurations.
Lupus.
Internal and external itching.
Burnings.
Formication through the
whole body with anxious, difficult breathing.
Indurations.
Callosities with cracks.
Extreme sensitivity to cold.
Sensation of coldness in various parts.
Inhaled air feels cool.
Cold breath.
Grimmer said “This patient is extremely sensitive to cold and all complaints become worse after exposure to
cold.” All mental excitement aggravates
▲MODALITIES ETC
Better from eating.
Better swallowing.
Better expectoration.
Great sensitiveness to touch.
Worse
from touch.
Worse slightest exposure to cold air.
Worse drafts.
Worse cold water.
Worse evening, night,
morning.
Worse mental exertion.
Worse excitement.
Worse touch.
Worse motion.
Diarrhea worse from drinking
coffee
▲RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:
Antidoted by: Rhus-t., Camph. and Sep. Compare: (1) Con., Calc., Arg-n., Bell., (2) Carb-v. -
cold breath. (3) Sulph. - morning diarrhea. Compatible: Magnesium - the plant grows on a magnesium soil.
▲MIND
Fear.
Bad effects from vexation.
All mental excitement aggravates (stitches in throat, cough).
Fear.
Bad effects from vexation.
All mental excitement aggravates (stitches in throat, cough)
▲HEAD
Head drawn to one side by swelling in the neck.
Forehead cold, and sensation of coolness inside
forehead, in a very warm room.
Pressive pain at root of nose with headache.
Headache from missed meals,
better eating.
Head drawn to one side by swelling in the neck.
Forehead cold, and sensation of coolness inside
forehead, in a very warm room.
Pressive pain at root of nose with headache.
Headache from missed meals,
better eating
▲EYES
Feeling as if something passing around the eye.
Weight above eyes.
Scrofulous inflammation.
Canthi
cracked.
Stitches in eyes
▲EARS
Watery discharge, fetid pus, after eruptive diseases.
Discharge of water and bad -smelling pus.
Tetter
on and around ears, extending to external meatus.
Inner swelling of ears with discharge
▲FACE
Decay of the lower jaw with suppurat ing glands on neck.
Pressing
pain at the root of the nose with headache.
Chronic nasal catarrh, frequent violent sneezing
▲THROAT
Soft, spongy feeling, itching in the throat.
Heat and itching in throat.
Small, dry spot in throat, must
sip water frequently.
Throat, very dry and becomes sore on inhaling least cold air.
Breath, tongue, and
throat feel cold.
Uvula and tonsils swollen.
Glands swollen and sup purating.
Goiter with frequent diarrhea.
Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck.
Pains when coughing.
Hawking of mucus.
COMMENTS - “Sensitive to cold air” and feelings of coldness.
Cold feelings in larynx, in abdomen.
“Inhaling
the slightest cold air causes sore-throat, which he has not when inhaling in a warm room.”
Indurated glandular swelling of the neck and throat.
Trembling with the fever.
Sensation as if ants were running
through the whole body (in evening with anxious,
difficult breathing).
Prominent stitches.
Characteristic soft or spongy feeling.
Clarke cured with Cist, a case of sore throat that had lasted for years under allopathic treatment with local
swabbings.
There was an accumulation of thick yellow, leathery phlegm that had to be cleared away by a local
means.
The patient complained of a “spongy” feeling in the throat and the led him to the remedy
▲CHEST
Coldness in chest.
Chest feels raw after expectoration.
Trachea feels narrow.
Hemorrhage from lungs.
Constitutions - Suited to scrofulous subjects who are very sensitive to cold air.
Asthmatic after lying down.
Larynx and trachea feel cool on inhaling cold air.
Trachea feels narrow
and breathing becomes difficult, preceded by formica tion.
Expectoration of quantities of glairy, tenacious
mucus, on lying down.
Chest feels raw after expectoration
▲ABDOMEN
Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating.
Empty and cool belching.
Frequent nausea with
diarrhea.
Diarrhea after drinking coffee.
Temperature - Chilliness, followed by heat with trembling.
Heat with thirst, causing to drink frequently.
Sweats
easily.
Night sweats.
Stitches in left hypochondrium.
Cool feeling in abdomen.
Pain in groin coming from back.
Desire for acid food and fruits, cheese, pungent things
▲GENITALS ETC
Itching on scrotum.
Sensitive to cold air.
Bad smelling leucorrhea.
Cancer
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Sprained pain in wrist.
Cold feet.
Cracked finger tips, sensitive to cold.
Workmen develop hard place
on their hands with cracks.
Tetter on hands.
Syphilitic ulcers on lower limbs with hard swelling around.
White
swelling
▲BACK AND NECK
Hard, swollen glands in the neck.
Neck is studded with tumors.
Burning, bruised pain in the coccyx,
preventing sitting, touch.
Breasts - Induration of breasts, sensitive to cold air.
Mastitis.
Breast cancer.
Causations - Bad effects from anger, vexation
▲SKIN
General itching which prevents sleep.
Itching, crawling all over without eruptions.
Small, painful pimples.
Skin of hands hard, thick, dry, fissured, deep cracks.
Itching of swollen hands and arms.
Mercurio -syphilitic
ulcers.
Hemicrania.
Lupus.
Glands inflamed and indurated
▲SLEEP
Very restless at night.
Sleepless from coldness or dryness in throat.
Night sweats
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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