Dear Myankle,

I wish I could take credit for the theory - it is the daily experience of every competent homeopath in our times. We see this sort of thing in just about every case we take. Thank goodness we have finally found a voice thanks to forums such as these, and that people are truly listening.

I am not sure if I have encountered a situation such as you describe. One would not expect to see a deteriorating constitution after three generations free from any kind of suppressive treatment.

The suppressed 'miasms' of Syphilis and Tuberculosis are both known to cause birth defects and abnormalities. It might only require one ancestor to have suppressed one of these diseases, at any point in your family history, to give rise to an inherited condition such as you describe. But to my mind this would not explain a deteriorating constitution through subsequent generations in the absence of further suppressive treatment. Perhaps it is possible, but I don't think so.

My first instinct would be to question whether such a family truly had an unblemished medical history. For example, perhaps a grandparent contracted gonorrhoea (Sycotic miasm) during an extra-marital affair, or even prior to meeting their spouse. It is reasonable to assume that it would have been quickly treated with antibiotics and never spoken of to anyone within the family.

If it were an absolute certainty that there had been no suppressive treatment whatsoever throughout three generations, I would have to put it down to such things as the chemicals that permeate the food that we eat, the water that we drink, the air that we breathe, or perhaps the vastly increasing levels of radiation that we are exposed to in our daily lives.

There have been ideas put forward in homeopathy as to the existence of petrochemical and radiation miasms, and I believe also a heavy metal miasm (nothing to do with rock music!). These 'synthetic miasms' are clearly not a part of classical homeopathy, and it is unclear to me at present whether it is helpful to give these things consideration. Thank you for bringing them to consciousness again.

Kind Regards,
Sim

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