Dear Opium,

I appreciate your post very much. While your English translation isn't always easy to follow, I find if I read your posts carefully, I can understand them. So, please don't worry about that. And don't let it stop you from contributing!

If I understand you correctly, you are saying that all remedies are antipsoric, antisycotic and antisyphilitic. I suppose there is truth in this -- because we have to individualise each case and choose the remedy based on the presenting totality of symptoms. And, theoretically, it could be any number of remedies....but.....
And you're also saying, if I understood you correctly, that psora is the main disease that will come up for treatment - and not to worry with the other miasms(?).

A couple of thoughts, as I still mull all this over in my mind. Yes, Hahnemann did use Merc for Syphilis - Thuja and Nit Acid for Sycosis -but Boenninghausen expanded on the two venereal miasms later on (Lesser Writings by Boenninghausen) when Hahnemann couldn't carry out his promise to do so. There were more remedies than just those few for the venereal miasms as I understand it thus far.

What I'm learning at the moment about the venereal miasms is there are hardly ever any cases of pure syphilis or gonnorrhea anymore. I mean straightforward infections that Hahnemann said were fairly easy to treat.

So, that leaves us with suppressed syphilis for example - still being passed on through sexual contact. The person would exhibit symptoms in whichever stage it was passed on. In other words, the person A would not have sx's of the primary stage if his partner had sx's of the secondary stage of syphilis - because that's what Person A was exposed too. The same seems to go for inherited miasms too --- if the mother exhibits secondary sx's of syphilis - then she passes this on to the foetus during pregancy and after delivery. This is my understanding so far. But, I'm not nearly finished with delving into all this. A lot of what I'm reading is mindblowing. And, I'm still wary that some of it may or may not be accurate. So, I keep referring back to Chronic Diseases. I'm getting there though.
Anyhow, there seems to be a huge division in thought on psora ---- and --- the venereal miasms. Some say that there are rarely any syphilitic or sycotic cases -- and that the tuburcular doesn't exist. Some say that almost everyone has a combination of two or three and rarely see pure psora.

My thoughts are all over the place because I read some lengthy articles on this subject today and I'm still digesting it all.

But, I'll end this post by saying that I think understanding the miasms is very important in understanding what needs to be cured - what is active - what is latent - and using the experience of Hahnemann, Boenninghausen and others to aid in case management. So, I intend to carry on studying this aspect in depth. And, I do appreciate hearing other peoples' understanding of this subject. Thanks again for posting.

Best wishes,
Lisa

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