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.

Body [The Internal Internet]
Some 2,500 years ago Chaung Tzu wrote " All that have faces , form, voices , colours - all these are mere things . How could one thing and another be far removed from each other. And how could any of them be capable of leading you to what preceded them ?. They are forms and colours - nothing more. But that which creates things has no form and rests where there is no change. If a man can get hold of this and exhaust it fully , then how can things stand in his way. He may rest within the bounds that know no excess , hide within the borders that know no source , may wander where the ten thousand things have their beginning , nourish his breath , unite his virtue and thereby COMMUNICATE with that which creates all things" [23].
Two thousand five hundred years BI [Before Internet ] a philosopher understood the natural Internet that connects all things in the world wide web of Nature. Understood that it may be that the virus and bacteria [ which contain genetic material - as do all our cells ] - are as much a form of communication as an "illness" . That in trying to wipe out a virus we may be stabbing ourselves in the back - because the virus is part of Nature - as we are. Life is a dynamic , its only constant is change. Mutation is an ongoing process whose vector is time. To interfere in a process that we do not understand is to invite trouble. We have got that trouble in the form of viral mutations that nourish themselves on Vancomycin. A recent article in the Lancet drew attention to Enterococcus Faecium that mutated in 7 days into a form that relied on Vancomycin as its food. MRSA and forms of TB resist all the drugs we throw at them. TB has been detected in the bones of dinosaurs and it might have occurred to us that an organism that predates the human race has a high survival drive. Vaccines are frozen in time , they do not mutate. Yet out here in the real world the dynamic of relentless mutation is a constant and ongoing fact of life. The 'Flu virus is known to mutate in a matter of days , or at most, weeks yet it takes 7/9 months to make up a vaccine. Any dangerous pandemic will almost certainly not be covered by the vaccine that is then current.
Scarlet Fever was a danger in the 1930's but vanished without a trace - and without theuse of a vaccine , for none was ever developed. There is talk of its reappearance now , some 60 years later. Where has it been and what cycle of mutations has it passed through?. To pretend that the picture of Life is not chaotic is absurd. But chaos merely means that we do not understand what we see. To produce 'order' by putting on blinkers , restricting our view to that which we CAN understand will lead us into serious error . Only in the synthesis of material and non material views will a way ahead be found.