I've read about miasms before. I'm beginning to formally study them only recently. Now, I feel my task at hand is to understand the basics - go back and make sure I grasp the basics about disease, and how miasms relate to one's health or ill-health. So, this is where I am at the moment.

Thank you, Johno for sending me the herscu-take on miasms. It is very similar to something sent to me by someone else a couple of years ago. Interesting, but some of it was possibly speculative in that, it seems conclusions are drawn as to WHY people (be they afflicted with one, two or all three miasms) do some of the things they do. Instead of just stating what they do (what symptoms come up) all sorts of reasons as to why they do this or that is talked on and on about. How can one say that someone behaves this way means is the result of x-urge, is my question. We don't know really --- we can just observe what people do, right. But it was a great read so thank you for sending it to me.

Maybe it is accurate; I don't know yet, but that is the sort of thing I'm searching for in CD and any old material I can get my hands on. Then I'll look to the more contemporary homeopaths once I feel fairly well grounded. So it is something I'm sure I will learn while reflecting at some point.

Thank you for answering my questions, Chrisg. I don't know about you, but I learn in phases and steps and some of this is beyond my understanding as yet, since I'm really only now beginning to study miasms in depth.
(Anna and Divina's discussion is very interesting but I am not 'there' enough, yet, to really participate in their discussion...but please carry on girls )
I look forward to being able to actually participate in frutiful discussions (rather than just ask questions) --- my thoughts of the subject, in the (hopefully) near future, once I feel confident I have a wider understanding.

Regarding Belgian Chocci, Divina, you made my day, baby! It was shocking news to hear that Herscu's chocci was contaminated too ! To think of life without chocolat, baby, it's a downer. So, I've decided, I'm not listening to anymore rubbish about chocolate. Maybe someone is having a laugh and just trying to torture the chocolat loverrrsss, purrrrrrrrr. I'm just going to LIVE baby - and that entails chocci at regular intervals (Belgian of course). AuStIn

[ 12. October 2002, 21:16: Message edited by: Austin Powers ]