A miasm is a merely the pattern your diseases take over the period of your life. They are not reliant on pathogens, the pathogens are reliant on the miasm.The miasm always comes first, before any "infection" takes hold - we are born with the miasm in many cases, or a miasm may start with a trauma, accident, or even orthodox medical treatment.
The reason a new miasm is introduced is not because of a new pathogen. It is introduced to explain a new pattern of disease - a pattern that is not covered by the current miasms. Sankaran has already added many miasms to explain what he sees as patterns different to the traditional three.
The question then, is AIDS a completely new pattern of disease? Can any of the current miasms cover its picture?
Many authors have examined this idea - Vithoulkas wrote a whole book about AIDS and the miasms that most likely covered it.
I think too, that all AIDS is, is the potent manifestation of a person's miasm, whatever miasm or combination of miasms that might be. In my own experience, I have found the Malarial remedies to be very useful, but have got a lot of use from all the major miasmatic remedies.
This is like Cancer - it is not a sure sign of the Cancer miasm, but can be a sign of Sycosis or Syphilis or even the Tubercular miasm.
Add to this, of course, the complicated relationship between orthodox drug treatments and hiv+ patients in western countries - in many cases I have found hiv illness is actually an iatrogenic disease - created by the doctor's mismanagment of the case and over-prescribing of dangerous drugs (eg. antibiotics, antiparasitics, antifungals). The patients may test positive for a particular retrovirus (which, by the way,it has never been satisfactorily explained how a retrovirus causes the death of a host cell), but the illness began with a visit to the doctor or the hospital.
And to top it off, many of the symptoms of AIDS in western countries are in fact poisoning symptoms of chemotherapy - the symptoms I see are exactly the same as the known side effects of the drugs. One has to sort out these poisoning symptoms from the miasmatic ones.
If I can keep them off the drugs, and solve the miasmatic puzzle, people with hiv stay just as healthy as everyone else (everyone else who is using homoeopathy sucessfully). They go on to the drugs, then I usually lose them.
[ 19. December 2002, 12:16: Message edited by: DavidJK ]
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David Kempson.<br />Dip.Homoeopathic Medicine.<br />Lecturer Australian College of Natural Therapies (Brisbane Campus)<br />Member AHA, AROH, HMA<br />Member Australian Homoeopathic Association. Member#0442.
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