What is the role of MIASMS in your Practice?“Miasms play a very important role in my practice. If a case is acute, I select a superficially acting, anti miasmatic drug but if the case is chronic, then, I select a deep acting anti miasmatic drug. The selection of the anti miasmatic drug would depend upon the miasm that is dominating at that moment.” -
Dr.
Neeraj
O. Goel,
Professor
and
Head
of
Materia
Medica
Dept.,
CMP
Homoeopathic
Medical
College,
Bombay,
India -
Dr.
S.
K. Goel,
Principal
of
CMP
Homoeopathic
Medical
College,
Bombay;
formerly
A.M.O.
Govt.
Homoeopathic
Hospital,
Bombay
and
Deputy
Director-
Homoeopathy,
Govt.
of
Maharashtra “As important as Hahnemann’s all other principles.” -
Dr.
Farokh
J.
Master,
M.D.
(Hom.)
Hon.
Homoeopath-
Mumbadevi
Homoeopathic
Hospital,
Bombay
Hospital;
Member
Central
Council
of
Homoeopathy,
Govt.
of
India;
Internationally
renowned
teacher “Miasm
is
an
old
word
used
even
before
Hahnemann’s
time.
Hahnemann
retained
this
word
in
homeopathic
literature.
It
means
‘Disordered
state
of
the
internal
economy’.
It
is
essential
that
the
homeopathic
physician
grasp
the
basic
understanding
of
this
internal
deranged
state.
Hahnemann
classified
this
into Psora,
Sycosis
and
Syphilis.
Pseudo
Psora
or
Tubercular
state
is
a
post
Hahnemannian
thinking,
although
Hahnemann
had
included
many
of
its
features
under
Syphilis.
The
conditions
that
are
considered
under
each
of
these
classes
range
from
Functional
or
Allergic (Psora),
Proliferative
or
new
growths (Sycosis),
Degenerative
and
slow
healing
processes
and
healing
by
fibrosis/
intense
allergic
or
idiosyncratic
state
(Tubercular),
and
Necrosis
or
destructive
leading
to
irreversible
changes
and
finally
death
(Syphilis).
Even
with
changing
times
and
addition
of
new
information
to
our
knowledge,
these
basic
concepts
have
remained
the
same.
This
shows
the
sagacity
of Hahnemann.
Today,
we
understand
the
concepts
by
the
name
‘Hahnemannian
Pathology’.
This
has
a
great
prognostic
value.
Reversibility
or
irreversibility
of
conditions
can
be
determined
from
this
and
the
treatment
can
be
instituted
as
curative
or
palliative.
(Chronic Miasms-
Allen;
Notes
on Miasms-
Ortega)” -
Dr.
K.
P.
Muzumdar,
Chairman
of
the
Homoeopathic
Pharmacopoeia
Committee,
Govt.
of
India;
Member
of
the
Scientific
Advisory
Committee,
Central
Council
for
Research
in
Homoeopathy;
the
Central
Council
of
Homoeopathy
and
the
Governing
Body
of
the
National
Institute
of
Homoeopathy,
Govt.
of
India Professor
Emeritus
at
Dr.
Babasaheb
Ambedkar
Marathwada
University;
Visiting
Professor
at
the
Manitoba
Institute
of
Homoeopathy,
Canada Former
Director
of
the
National
Institute
of
Homoeopathy,
and
the
Central
Research
Institute,
Govt.
of
India;
former
Head
of
Dept.
of
Pharmacy
at
CMP
Homoeopathic
Medical
College,
Bombay “Miasms
play
a
very
important
role
in
prescribing.
a)
Cases
that
do
not
respond
to
constitutional
medicines;
b)
It
helps
in
prognosis
of
the
patient;
c)
It
helps
in
deciding
the
curability
of
the
case;
d)
Reversibility
of
the
pathology;
e)
Evolution
of
the
disease.
” -
Dr.
Jawahar
J.
Shah,
Developer
of
the
homoeopathic
software
‘Hompath’;
Member-
Central
Council
of
Homoeopathy,
Govt.
of
India;
Internationally
renowned
teacher “There is no obvious role as long as the patient is responding. It is only after the well selected remedy fails to act that I try to look up the miasmatic basis to aid in the selection of the remedy.” -
Dr.
Ramgopal
D. Tapadia,
Principal
of
T.S.
Homoeopathic
Medical
College,
Amravati
for
the
past
25
years;
Member-
Central
Council
of
Homoeopathy,
Govt.
of
India.
He
has
presented
a
paper
on
Hepatitis
B
at
the
LMHI
Conference
at
Seattle,
USA
in
1997.
“The
idea of miasms, which I had discarded earlier as unimportant for practice,
suddenly struck me as a most useful tool to classify disease states. I
interpreted the miasms using my understanding of disease as delusion, and the
result, I find, is a classification of the most practical utility.
Miasms now represent to me the different possible types of reaction,
which naturally mean the different types of perception of reality. One type
perceives reality as an acute threat and reacts instinctively and suddenly in an
impulsive manner. This is the acute miasm, as I have formed it. E.g. in Aconite
there is a feeling that something sudden will happen leading to his death.
Mentally this is seen as a "fear of death", anxiety and
restlessness etc. In the physical sphere, we find the racing pulse, palpitation
and flushing of face alternating with paleness etc. In
Psora, reality is seen as a problem that can be resolved by a struggle. In
Sycosis, the problem seems insoluble and the reaction is an attempt to cover up
this inability to cope. The
syphilitic perceives the situation as a hopeless, desperate one and becomes
destructive as a result. In the
syphilitic state the perception of the body is that things have gone too far and
that he must sacrifice (suicide) or destroy (kill) what cannot be changed.
In Mercurius, this feeling is reflected in the physical sphere too in the
form of ulcers, with their foul smelling and decay representing this destructive
process. I
found that disease states could be beautifully worked out on this framework and
the patient understood better; it became easier to arrive at the remedy. To
make the process more accurate, more patients were required on this map. I
worked on other miasms in between the main miasms, and discovered the sub-acute,
Ringworm, Malarial, Leprous and Cancer Miasms. These together with the
Tubercular miasm, provide a valuable Map to study disease. To verify the truth of my
hypothesis, I undertook to prepare and prove the Ringworm nosode and also did a
proving of Bacillinum. The provings
further substantiated what I had found in practice - that the idea of miasms was
valid and most useful. The concept
of miasms not only helped deepen my understanding of disease processes but also
gave me an insight into other phenomena in the world around, as for e.g. the
reason for increase in 'new diseases'.
Dr.
Rajan Sankaran is an
Internationally renowned teacher and author of many books on homeopathy.
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