🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm
The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
▲GENERAL
Source: Derived from the dried seeds of Anamirta cocculus , a climbing shrub in the.
Menispermaceae family, native to Southeast Asia and India, prepared for homeopathic use through.
trituration, serial dilution, and succussion to enhance therapeutic action and eliminate toxicity.
Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, psychological, and.
gastrointestinal disorders , particularly those involving vertigo, motion sickness, and exhaustion.
from sleeplessness or caregiving.
It is noted for symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, and mental.
sluggishness, often aggravated by motion, loss of sleep, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by.
rest, lying down, or warmth.
Modern Context: Indicated for neurological conditions (e.g., vertigo, motion sickness),.
Loud cries of despair and irritation, alternating
with stupefaction of brain.
Feeling as after committing a wicked deed, with desire to escape
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Vertigo, nausea when riding or sitting up.
Seasickness and motion sickness (Tab.).
Vertigo and
dizziness, with nausea and vomiting.
Vertigo when riding in a car or train.
Vertigo on sit ting up.
Vertigo
worse watching moving surroundings.
Vertigo with palpitations, worse in morning, ra ising head, felt in
forehead.
Vertigo from loss of sleep.
Constant sensation as if about to faint.
Vertigo as if intoxicated.
Vision - Dim vision with black spots before eyes.
Dark spots before eyes, though objects appear clearly.
While
reading, can only see left half of line of writing.
Black spots seen after reading.
COMMENTS - Chiefly affects the right hypochondrium (especially liver), inner hypogastrium, inner forehead,
back, upper arm and the bones of the arm.
Irritable weakness.
Slowness and numbness over their body (Calc.,
Alum.).
Vertigo and dizziness, with nausea and vomiting.
Attacks of vertigo with confusion as if they are lost.
Nauseated with whirling sensation.
Sensation as if drunk because everything spins (Con., when turning in
bed).
Seasickness and motion sickness (Tab.).
Motion sickness brought on by trying to read while riding in a
car or train, or from looking out the window at things going by, from seeing a moving object.
Jet lag.
Nerve exhaustion, weakness.
Too tired to sleep.
Chronic fatigue since loss of sleep or stress.
Twilight sleepers,
chronic insomnia with no recollection of sleeping, although they sleep for small amounts.
Wake unre freshed.
excited nervous system (Coff.), worse coffee.
All symptoms worse from loss of sleep.
Condit ions caused by
loss of sleep and night-watching.
May be used prophylactically to prevent conditions arising from loss of sleep.
Stinging pains, stitches, constriction in the hands, a pithy feeling.
Sensitive to touch.
The least jar is unbearable.
Keynote empty, hollow feeling in the body, lungs, stomach, legs.
Hollow weakness.
Sensation of hollowness
or emptiness in the head or other parts.
Sense of lightness of the body.
Opening and shutting sensation,
especially
in the occiput.
Sinking feeling.
Paralytic pains or pains as of dislocation.
Paralytic weakness, lax muscles.
Weakness of neck muscles with
heaviness of head.
Migratory numbness.
Sensation as if single parts have gone to sleep.
Neurological
problems, locomotor ataxia, incoordination, stumbling, lack of control, and the knees tend to give out.
Immovability of parts affected.
Ataxia, staggering gait.
Paralytic rigidity.
Limbs become very painful to flex, but
they often continuously bend them to obtain relief.
Cramp,
spasm, etc., coupled with electric -like shooting pain.
Faintness from the pain.
Joint rheumatism, ulcers,
neuralgic disorders of bones.
Esophageal spasms.
In the elderly, spasms can cause food to get stuck, inability to swal low (Caust.).
Sensation of worms crawling in the stomach, pinches and scrapes in the stomach (Coloc.).
Inguinal hernias
(Nux-v., Lyc.).
Hemorrhoids during menses.
Metallic, bitter taste in the mouth.
Desires beer.
Drunkenness and
hangovers (Nux-v.).
Meniere's disease, ringing in the ears, oozy and loss of balance.
Poor vision with weak eye muscles.
Dimness
of eyesight.
Severe occipital headache, sense that head opens and closes.
Flu or mononucleosis with loss of
sleep.
Morning sickness, when they can’t stand the sight, thought and smell of food, especially when they are in the
car (Colch.).
Amenorrhea, may have vaginal discharge instead of period.
Symptoms may be worse with
menses.
Cocc.
cured a case of delirium at onset of menses during first and second days, the patient said, “I always see
something alive, on wall, floor, chairs or anywhere, always rolling and will roll on me.”
A case of “spasmodic, flatulent colic, about midnight, flatus passed without relief,” recurring several nights,
was cured by Cocc.
3x.
Lippe cured a case of enlargement of the liver after childbirth, the indication being “the
liver was more painful after anger.”
▲HEAD
Congestion of blood to head, with mental derangement.
Sick headachefrom carriage riding, cannot
lie on back part of head.
Pain in occiput and nape worse lying on it, better bending backwards, worse coffee.
Migrain headaches.
Headaches unable to bear least light, noise causes nausea and vomiting.
Headaches
from working in sun.
Headache as if skull would burst.
Headache returning at each menstrual period.
Sensation
of emptiness or hollow ness in head.
Opening and shutting sensa tion, especially in occiput.
Dullness and
confusion of head, worse reading.
Heavy head.
Convulsive trembling of head from weakness of muscles of
neck.
Cramps in left temporal muscles.
Trembling of the head.
Throbbing in forehead.
Tossing of head and
incessant trembling of hands.
Congestion of blood to head, with mental derangement.
Sick headachefrom carriage riding, cannot
lie on back part of head.
Pain in occiput and nape worse lying on it, better bending backwards, worse coffee.
Migrain headaches.
Headaches unable to bear least light, noise causes nausea and vomiting.
Headaches
from working in sun.
Headache as if skull would burst.
Headache returning at each menstrual period.
Sensation
of emptiness or hollow ness in head.
Opening and shutting sensa tion, especially in occiput.
Dullness and
confusion of head, worse reading.
Heavy head.
Convulsive trembling of head from weakness of muscles of
neck.
Cramps in left temporal muscles.
Trembling of the head.
Throbbing in forehead.
Tossing of head and
incessant trembling of hands
▲EYES
Pain as if eyes torn out of head, during headache.
Eyes open and immov able.
Eyes dull and glassy.
Eyes closed with the balls constantly rolling about in spasms.
Protruding eyes.
Jerking of eyelids.
Pressure as
from dust in eyes.
Eyelids inflame 4.
Dryness of lids.
Eyelids feel as if paralyzed.
Bruised pain in eyes, with
inability to open lids at night.
Sharp or shooting pains in eyes from within outward.
Pupils, contracted or dilated
▲EARS
Sensitive to hearing, dreads sudden noise.
Feel closed (right).
Noises as from rushing water.
Hardness
of hearing.
Pain
as if ears torn out of head with headache.
Meniere's disease, ringing in the ears, oozy and loss of balance.
Roaring or ringing in ears
▲FACE
Bloated, distorted and cold to touch.
Blue margins around eyes.
Flushed hot face and head during
vertigo or unconsciousness.
Countenance devoid of any signs of mental activity.
Heat in face, and redness of
cheeks, even in a cold room.
Earthy countenance, with painful expres sion.
Paralysis of facial nerve of one
sided.
Lines of face deepened, it seems drawn.
Cramp-like pain in masseter muscle, worse opening the
mouth.
Prosopalgia in afternoon with wide radiations of pain.
Tearing pains.
Swelling of parotid glands.
Swelling and induration of submaxillary glands
▲MOUTH
Dryness and burning of mouth and throat.
Dryness of mouth at night, without thirst.
Metallic taste
with loss of appetite.
Coppery, metallic, sour taste after coughing.
Taste, sour, offensive.
Taste like sulphur,
putrid, nauseous.
Food tastes as if salted too little, tobacco tastes bitter.
Tremor of lower jaw and chattering of
teeth, when attempting to speak.
Foamy phlegm from mouth.
Salivation during nausea and vertigo.
Thick
saliva.
Corner of mouth, wing of nose and tip of tongue distorted.
Lips parched and dry.
Corners of mouth sore.
Nose - Swelling of the nose.
Coryza, with ulcerated nostrils.
Very acute sense of smell.
Worse from strong
odors.
Sense of smell weak.
Ulcerated nostrils.
Discharge from nose bloody, pus-like.
Perspiration - Sweat from slight exertion, on affected part.
Cold sweat now of one, now of the other hand.
Cold sweat only on face.
Sweat stands out in drops on face, is now cold and then again hot.
Exhausting sweat
over whole body.
Sweat in morning, principally on chest.
Sweat from pain in bowels.
Sweat during diarrheic
stool
▲THROAT
Constriction in t hroat, with difficult breathing and inclination to cough.
Paraly sis of the muscles
preventing swallowirig.
Tickling in throat with lachrymation.
Tightness in larynx.
Voice whimpering and
tremulous.
Speech difficult, during vertigo.
Sensation of constricti on.
Pressive pain in tonsils, worse when
swallowirig saliva than when swallowing food.
Tongue - Bitter taste at root of tongue.
Complains of dryness of tongue, which is moist and clean.
Dry, rough
tongue.
Dry tongue, with whitish -yellow coat, without thirst.
Tongue coated white and dry upon edges.
Pains
at base of tongue when stretching tongue out.
Tongue, as if paralyzed, speech difficult or hasty, pains at the
base when protruded.
Root of tongue as if swollen
▲CHEST
Sensation of emptiness or of cramps in chest.
Audible rumbling in chest (left side), as from emptiness,
worse walking.
Hysterical cramps in chest with sighing and moaning.
Cramping, in chest during menstrual
period.
Pressure under ribs, better belching.
Fine stitches in various parts of chest.
Contractive tension of right
side of chest, taking away the breath.
Oppression in chest, better after vomiting of green mucus.
Constitutions - Suited t o light haired, timid, nervous, persons, bookworms, unmarried, childless women.
Sensitive, romantic girls.
Light -haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing much nausea and
backache.
Cough - Cough from choking in throat.
Fatiguing, from oppression of chest.
Cough worse indulging disposition
to cough.
Spasmodic cough, in anemic and hysterical women.
Cough from choking in throat.
Palpitations, worse quick motion, mental excitement, with vertigo and faintness.
Endocarditis.
Nervous
palpitations.
Palpitations after rheumatism.
During an attack of palpitation has vertigo and sensation as if about
to faint.
Pulse small, hard and frequent.
Pulse often imperceptible, weak.
Pulse seldom hard and somewhat
accelerated.
Feels pulse beat through whole body during heat, at times palpitation.
Kidneys - Frequent desire to urinate with small discharge in pregnant women.
Wa tery urine.
Tensive, aching
pain in orifice of
urethra, between acts of urination.
Itching and stinging near fossa navicularis.
Invol untary urination during
epileptic attack.
Diuresis, during prosopalgia.
Dyspnea as from constriction of trachea, as if irritated by smoke.
Choking constriction in upper part
of esophagus, oppressing breathing and inducing cough.
Hysterical asthma.
Dyspnea, oppressing breathing
and inducing cough.
Short ness of breath, on account of tension in abdomen.
Quick, anxious and oppressed
breathing.
Slow, heavy and laborious breathing.
Panting.
Dy spnea from pain in bowels during diarrheic stool,
in amenorrhea
▲ABDOMEN
Esophagus is dry, burning.
Putrid eructations.
Gastralgia from suppression of menses.
Violent
cramp in stomach, griping, squeezing, lacerating sensation.
Cramps in stomach with fl atulence and much
saliva.
Motion sickness.
Seasickness.
Sensation of hunger or emptiness, even to fainting.
Nausea and
vomiting from riding in cars, boats or looking at boat in motion.
Nausea with faintness and vomiting,
worse on becoming cold or taking c old.
Nausea, rising to head or felt in head.
Retching.
Vomiting of sour
bitter.
Bad odor, of vomit, with profuse flow of saliva.
Vomiting with headache, pain in bowels.
Vomiting on
taking cold, with syncope.
Vomiting from cerebral tumors.
Vomiting from lou d talk.
Cramp in stomach during
and after meal.
Hiccough and spasmodic yawning.
Chronic dyspepsia from prolong study.
Morning sickness.
Bloated with intestinal gas.
Great rumbling in bowels.
Colic, flatus, twisting pain with faintness and salivation.
Flatulent colic in pregnancy.
Cramps in epigastrium with difficulty in breathing.
Cramps deep in abdomen, instead of menses.
Abdominal
muscles weak, as if a hernia would take place.
Inguinal hernia is apt to protrude and become incarcer ated.
Umbilical hernia, with obstinate
constipation.
Pain in abdominal ring, as if something were forced through.
Pains in region of spleen.
As if
full of sharp stones, on every movement.
Emptiness and sensation of hollowness in abdomen.
Sensation as
if bowels would fall out.
Hypochondria as if beaten.
Ulcerative colitis.
All symptoms and affections, worse eating or drinking.
Loss of appetite.
Loath ing of food and drink.
Disgust for smell of food (Colch.).
Nausea when merely looking at the food, at the thought or smell of
food.
Aversion to beer, acids, sour things.
Aversion tofood.
A version to drink, tobacco.
Desire for cold drinks,
but eating or drinking anything cold causes tearing in limbs.
Desires beer.
Worse from coffee.
Thirst, without
desire to drink.
Confusion and vertigo after drinking, eating.
Will eat nothing but bread and water, at other
times eats ravenously.
Bulimia.
Food tastes as if salted too little, tobacco tastes bitter.
Thirstless
▲GENITALS ETC
Drawing, sore pain in testes when touched.
Genitals sensitive with desire for sex.
Sexual desire
increased alternating with decreased.
Seminal emissions at night.
Itching of scrotum.
Amenorrhea causes mental alienation.
Sudden cessation of menses.
Menses, too early, profuse.
Menses too often.
Menses gushes out in stream when rising on feet on tiptoe.
Menses clotted, with spasmodic
colic.
Cutting, cramp ing pain in region of uterus and ovaries, on appearance of menses.
Weak during
menstruation, scarcely able to stand.
Dysmenorrhea with profuse dark menses.
As if uterus were distended,
during dysmenorrhea.
Dysmenorrhea followed by hemorrhoids.
Clutching in uterus.
Purulent, gushing
leucorrhea between menses or in place of menses.
Leucorrhea very weakening, can scarcely speak.
Leucorrhea gushing, when squatting and stooping during pregnancy with frequent urging to urinate.
Discharge
of bloody mucus from uterus during pregnancy.
Hour-glass contraction of uterus with ter
rible pain in lumbar region.
Labor pains spasmodic and irregular
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Weakness or heaviness, particularly in the limbs, resembling functional neurological.
symptom disorder or myasthenia, worse with exertion, cold, or sleep loss.
Tremors or cramps, with spasmodic or jerking movements, resembling dystonia,.
aggravated by fatigue, emotional stress, or cold exposure.
Stiffness or aching in the muscles, resembling fibromyalgia, worse with rest or cold.
weather.
Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation from prolonged.
activity or sensory stimuli.
Systemic:.
Chronic fatigue or prostration, with a sensation of sinking vitality, resembling.
chronic fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after exertion, sleep loss, or.
emotional stress.
Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a desire for warmth.
or rest.
Chills or cold sweats, particularly during neurological or psychological episodes,.
worse at night or with motion.
Tendency to hypersensitivity to environmental stimuli (e.g., motion, noise), with.
aggravation in exhausted or stressed states
▲BACK AND NECK
Drawing, lacerating or boring pains.
Pressure in scapula and nape.
Pain in shoulder and arms as if
bruised.
Stiffness on moving shoulders.
Stiffness in cervical muscles, with great weakness.
Paralytic pain in
small of the back.
Paralysis from lumbar region downward.
Spinal weakness in lumbar region, worse walking.
Weak neck, cannot hold up head.
Trembling in back.
Cracking or stiffness of vertebrae.
Breasts - Shivering over breasts.
Causations - Ill effects of anger, fright, grief, anxiety, disappointment.
Sleep loss.
Nursing loved ones.
Ill
effects of nightwatching.
Overstrain mental and physical, traveling.
Motion sickness.
Noise.
Hot or cold air.
Sun.
Tea-drinking
▲SKIN
Chronic fatigue or prostration, with a sensation of sinking vitality, resembling.
chronic fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after exertion, sleep loss, or.
emotional stress.
Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a desire for warmth.
or rest.
Chills or cold sweats, particularly during neurological or psychological episodes,.
worse at night or with motion.
Tendency to hypersensitivity to environmental stimuli (e.g., motion, noise), with.
aggravation in exhausted or stressed states
▲SLEEP
Loss of sleep, complaints from night-watching, nursing.
Slightest loss of sleep aggravates.
Coma
vigil.
Insomnia.
Sleepless from mental orphysical exhaustion.
Constant drowsiness, after loss of sleep, night-
watching, nursing.
Sleep deprivation.
Spasmodic yawning with hiccough.
Sleepless from nursing ofothers.
Sleeplessness from business thoughts, from anxiety and restlessness.
Anxious frightful dreams.
Sleep
frequently inter rupted by waking and starting.
Sleep un refreshing.
Maniacal sleeplessness.
Dreams are
anxious, frightful
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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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