Dr.S.K.M.SASTRY,M.D(Hom.)
We may come across patients like Papaiah suffering from Papillae, Mallaiah from Mollusca, Lakhan Singh from Lichens, Aloknath from Alopecia, and Koushalya from Koilonychias etc.
HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM IS THE TOPIC IN THIS SESSION.
Subject is very extensive and exhaustive. I will try to draw the outer sketch of it, through which I hope the skin of the topic is covered as much as possible.
Some may for argument sake say that considering the Skin, Nail, and Hair diseases as local and treating them do not exactly fall in the domain of Homoeopathy, since treating them individually amounts to suppressing the local diseases. It is in principle agreed that if these peripheral diseases are half handedly considered as local diseases and treated. If Master Hahnemann's principles are thoroughly understood answer to the question is very simple, as one understands the meaning of so called local maladies. An attempt is made by the author to explain the general concept of the knowledge of local disease. That is, to say, what is to be cured in a given so-called local disease?
Though the skin, hair and nail seem to be least important organs compared to other vital organs of the body, they too play a crucial role to give us clues about the real culprits of the diseases. Who else they could be other than MIASMS? A perfectly healthy man will have a perfectly healthy skin, healthy nails and healthy hair.
These outlining diseases are the mirrors or the reflectors of internal stress, the internal dynamist internal working of the human machine. The metamorphosis of misams will help us to appreciate the essential nature of diseases.
If we follow the route of these fag ends of the rope carefully and systematically we go to the roots of the disease, otherwise we would be routed. Whether an atheist believes it or not we homoeopaths should have a faith on Miasms. It is not that only homoeopaths believe Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis; in Ayurveda Vata, Pitta and Kapha theory; in Vedanta Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas Gunas; and in Greek's ancient medicine sanguine, Bilous and Phlegmatic constitutions do exist. They almost sound similar.
The material body as soon as got animated by the Vital Force and became a distinct living (Human) organism with full of wisdom (Sattwic). Gradually he got into the folds of an evil force, the desire, we call that as Miasm, the first gene of the diseases and that later on manifested craving, fear, anger, suspicion, jealousy and then invaded functions and thereafter organs in a particular order. Man first indulged himself into sinful acts to gratify his sensual organs. The more he tried the more he got entangled. The consequences, of course, are quite imminent when we look at the menace of the diseases of the human race. Let us come back to the three miasm namely Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis and their role in skin diseases.
Generally it is observed that this gross unversed is governed by three principles Generation, Operation and Destruction (some may attribute it to GOD). In the same manner this human organism is subjected to Proliferation (Sycosis), Pine (Psora) and Plunging (Syphilis).
Psora, Syphilis, and Sycosis either of them or all of them influence every event that belongs to mind, functions and the organs of the human organism. For instance any thought is either proliferated (sycosis) or perpetuated (Psora) or Pitted (Syphilis) and so as in functions and in organs including skin. As we find Planes, plateaus and mountains on earth we come across such changes on skin with Tumors (Sycosis), Surface disturbance (Psora) and Ulcers (Syphilis). With out the involvement of the miasms there exists no disease what so ever it may be. Just like Vital Force that makes the organism to live and these miasms make the organism to suffer. As Vital Force flows into every part of the body these miasms flow in the same way but with a difference.
If we can build a man with the symptoms of mind why can't we build a man with the symptoms of even peripheral organs like skin, nails and hair? In the former it is the Internal Man and where as in the latter it is the External Man - a shadow of the internal man. Let us examine how the findings of the External man are useful in tracing out the diseases and the means of their cures.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN SKIN DISEASES
*HEALTHY OR UN HEALTHY *DRY OR WET *ROUGH OR SMOOTH
*LUTROUS OR LUSTERLESS *DIRTY OR CLEAN *COLOUR
*SCALES AND CRUSTS *CRACKS AND FISSURES *
*MACULAR *PAPULAR *PUSTULAR *VESICULAR *
*ULCEROUS *NODULAR *LOCAL OR GENERAL
*TIME *SENSATION *CONCOMITANT
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SKIN OF PSORA
(ITCH MITE)
** Dry, Dirty, Unhealthy, Unwashed, Rough; just as in dry land which looks ugly with cracks and fissures.
** Itching, Pruritis, Skin coloured;
Ichthyosis (Fish Skin), Thin Scales, and Crusts; as the upper layer of earth when it is dry.
** Vesicles, Scanty suppuration, Sero purulent;
** Eczema with Papular eruption;
** Androsis, May develope Malignancy at forties as often gets joined by Syphillis and Sycosis;
** Injuries heal readily.
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SKIN OF SYPHILLIS
(IDIOT AND DULL)
** Copper Coloured, Raw, Ham, Brownish;
looks as erosion of earth. Floody ponds, lakes and ditches.
** Very Red at base, Hyperidrosis;
** No itching; Night Aggravation;
** Ulcers with Red Base; Indurations;
** Thick Scales and Crusts, Gangrene, Scars
** Eruptions about Joints, Flexures.
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SKIN OF SYCOSIS
(CROOK, CUNNING, JEALOUS AND CRIMINAL)
** Circular Patchy Scales, Herpes, Lichens, Impetigo;
** Verucca, Warts, Large Acne looks like Papulae,(As Mountains)
** Ring Worms of all kinds, Lupus, Erythematosis;
** Bad effects of Suppressions of Ring - Worms;
** Malignancies at all ages;
** Stitch Abscess after operations;
** Psoriasis of Gouty character;
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SKIN OF PSEUDO - PSORA
(TUBERCULAR; UN - SOCIAL)
** Glandular, Echymosis (Purpura), Eczema with Pustules);
** Herpes with Pustules, Urticaria, Leprosy;
** Hyperidrosis, Anidrosis, Bromidrosis;
** Varicose Veins, Abscess and Ulcers;
** Smooth shiny Skin, Ring Worm Supressions;
** Injuries infects and ulcerates;
** Goose Flesh, Freckles, Gleety discharges.
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SKIN DISEASES THEIR ORIGIN AND THERAPEUTICS
EXANTHEMATA,PAPULAE,VESICULAE & SQUAMMAE
ERYTHEMA (SYP+SYC;SYC+SYP) : Bell; Meze; Chin; Rhus.T; Apis.M.
URTICARIA(PSEUDO-PSO;PSO):Amm.m; Anti.Cr; Anti.ta; Ars; Chin; Cop; Dulc;
LICHENS (PSE.PSO;SYC): Sulph, Ars.alb, Apis, Graph:
ECZEMA(PSE.PSO,SYC):Crot.T,Merc,Mez,Graph,Hep.s Calc.carb, Petr, Acid.Carb.
PAPILLAE AND GLANDULAR
VERUCCA (PSE.PSO; SYC.SYPH) :Acid.Acetic, Thuj, Calc.c, Nat.c Anti.Cr.
SEBHORRHOEA(SYPH):Graph, Sep, Hep, sul, Thu, Staph, Nat.M, Iod;
MOLLUSCA(SYC.SYP):Sil, Lyc,Iod, Kali.Iod, Kali.Br. Ars.Br, Sul, Ars.A.,Hydr . HYPERIDROSIS(PSE.PSO):Iod,Stan,Acid.Ph,Jab.,Sil.Calc.C.,Merc. Opium.
BROMIDROSIS (PSE.PSO): Petr.,Thuj.,Acid.N.,Sep.,Pso.
HERPES(SYCO):Nat.m.,Merc.,Rhus.t.,Ars.a.Mez.,Sul.,Canth.,Ran.,Apis.,Dol.,Staph.,Ant.T
PEMPHIGUS (ALL MIASMS): Grap.,Hep.s., Mez., Thu., Bar.c.Calc.c.Clem.Con., Cro., Ars.a. Rhus.T., Merc., Canth., Phos. Amm.c., Bell., Kali.c., Lach.
ICTHYOSIS (ALL MIASMS) : Ars.a., Hydr., Thyr., Graph., Sul.
IMPETIGO (PSE.PSO) : Ant.T., Ars.a., Viol.,
ECTHMA (SYC) : Tartar., Ars.a.,Lach., Sec.c.
PSORIASIS (PSE.PSO): Ars.A., Sep., Merc., Acic.c., Mang., Thyr.
ALOPECIA (SYPH): Acid.ph., Acid.fl., Ars.a., Vinca, Thallium
ERYTHAMATOUS VULGARIS (SYCO.SYPH) : Kali.br., Hydr., Phos., Thu.
LUPUS VULGARIS (SYC.SYPH) : Ars.a., Kali.br., Hydr., Aur. Hydrastis
LEPROSY (PSE.PSO): Lepra., Gynocar., Anac., Gunjun oil, Hydrocot., Ars.a., Hydrastis.
FURUNCLE (SYPH.SYC): Bell., Iod., Arn., Sulp.
CARBUNCLE (ALL MIASMS) : Arn., Iod., Camp., Chin., Sil., Lach., Taren., Sulph., Ars.a.
I have only tried to depict some of the skin problems from Miasmatic point of view. There are so many varieties of skin diseases which need thorough study to touch the depth of the causative factors. Miasmatic domination in Man and Miasmatic domination in Medcines are to be matched to get the desired results.
SCIETIFIC PAPER PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION IIHP SEMINAR HELD AT
KHAMMAM.(AP) ON 26/5/98.
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