SYMPTOMS OF LATENT PSORA AND HORRORS OF SUPPRESSION
by : DR. SAMUEL HAHNEMANN Symptoms of LATENT PSORA
I have never either in my practice, nor in any insane asylum, seen a patient suffering from melancholy, insanity, or frenzy whose disease did not have PSORA as its foundation. complicated at times, however, though rarely, with syphilis. -
Hahnemman P28 Asthma with Suffocation A student-was seized with the itch just as he was going to a dance. on which account he had it driven out by a practitioner ,with sulphur ointment. But soon after, he was attacked .by such a severe asthma that he could only draw breath by throwng his head back, and was almost suffocated during the attacks. After thus wrestling with death for an hour he would cough up little cartilaginous pieces which would ease' him for ,very short time. Having returned home to Osterode he suffered continually for two years of this disease, being attacked about, ten times a day, which could not even be mitigated through the help of his physician,
Beireis. (Beireis-Stammen. Diss. de causes cur imprim plebs scabie laboret. Helmat, 1792 [p 26]
Idiotic melancholy. He found an idiotic melancholy arise in consequence of suppressed itch; when the itch broke out again the melancholy disappeared. , (Rell Memoreb. Fasc., Ill., p. 177> .95. Hemiplegia and Death A student, 20 years old, had the humid itch, which so covered his hands that he became incapable of attending to his work. It was driven off by sulphur ointment. But shortly after it appeared how much his heath had suffered from it. He became insane, sang or laughed where it was unbecoming, and ran until he sank to the ground from exhaustion. Frorn day to day he became more sick in soul and body, until at hemiplegia came on and he died. The intestines were found grown together into to a firm mass, studded with little ulcers full of protuberances, some of the size of walnuts, which were filled with a substance resembling gypsum.
(J. H. Schulze, Brune, Diss. Casus aliquot mente allenatorum, Halle, 1707. Case. 1, p. 5.) Tike same as above The same story.
(F. H. Waitz medic.-chirurg Aufsaixe, Th. 1, P. 130.Y 97. Dropsy, Madness Blindness etc. A man of 50 years with whom, after driving away the itch by ointments, general dropsy had set in ; when the itch re-appeared and drove away the swelling, he drove it away again, when he fell into raving madness, while head and neck swelled up to suffocation; at last blindness and complete suppression of urine were added. Artificial irritants applied to the skin' and a strong emetic brought back the itch again ; when the eruption extended over the whole body all the former accidents disappeared.
(Grossmann In Baldinger's neuem Magz., XI., 1. Who, after mediating on even these few examples [ which might be much increased from the writing of the physicians of that time ], would remain so thoughtless as to ignore the great evil hidden within Psora. Of which evil the eruption of itch and its other forms, the tinea capitis, milk crust, tetter, etc., are only indications announcing the internal, monstrous disease of the whole, organism .? Who, after reading even the few cases
An opponent, of the old school, has reproached me that I have not adduced my own experience to prove that the chronic maladies, when they are not of syphilitic or sycotic origin, spring from the miasma of itch, as such proofs from experience would have been convincing'. Who if the examples here adduced by me from both the older and from modern non-homeopathic writings have not yet enough convincing proof, I should like to know what other examples (even my own not excepted) could be conceived of as more striking proofs? How often (and I might say almost always) have opponents from the old school refused all credence to the observations of honorable Homeopathic physicians. Because they were not made before their own eyes, and because the names of the patients were only indicated with a letter; as if private patients would allow their names to be used. Why should I endure the like? And do I not prove my point in a manner most indubitable and most free from partisanship through the experience of so many other honest practitioners?
Who on reading the cases described, would hesitate to acknowledge that Psora, as already stated, is the most destructive of all chronic miasms? Who would be so stolid as to declare, with the allopathic physicians, that the itch-eruption, are only situated superficially upon the skin and may, therefore, without fear, be driven out through external means since the internal of the body has no part in it and retains its health?
Surely, among all the crimes, which the modern physicians of the old school are guilty of this is the most hurtful, shameful and unpardonable!
The man who from the examples given and from innumerable others of a like nature, is not willing to see the exact opposite of that assertion blinds itself on purpose and works intentionally for the destruction of mankind? Or are they so little instructed as to the nature of all the miasmatic maladies connected with diseases of the skin that they do not know that they all take a similar course in their origin? And that all such miasms become first internal maladies of the whole system before their external assuaging symptoms appear on the skin?
Having put all the above [ partly by Hahnemann, partly by his predecessors] before you , I now wish to return to that path from which homeopathy has so sadly strayed . Historically, medicine rebelled against the Church and established Anatomy, Chemistry, Haematology and innumerable other departments. Leaving to one side the non material spirit or vitality which all other therapies base their operational philosophy upon.
See my paper Practical uses of the Concept of Vitality published in 1986. I have now reached the juncture at which I can discuss the point I wished to raise . That is the exchange which takes place between the material and non material within the framework of the body.