Psor

By Nisha
malviva 4 th
proff
 Introduction
• The third great miasm of
Hahnemann.
• “Itch dyscrasia”
• Parent of all chronic diseases.
➢ MOST ANCIENT
➢ MOST UNIVERSAL
➢ MOST
DESTRUCTIVE
➢ MOST
MISAPPREHENDED
• Most hydra headed chronic
miasm.
 Dictionary meaning
• Pathol
• The itch or some such similar skin
disease
• The itch mite
 Derivation of word
“Psora”
• The derivation is Latin and
Greek.
• Hebraic in origin
• Original word being “tsorat”
 “Tsorat”
• A groove
• A fault
• A pollution
• A stigma
• Often applied to leprous
manifestations and to the great
plagues
 What is Psora ?
• So – called deficiency diseases.
• Lack of certain elements in the
system
• the lack of certain from foods
• a lack of balance in the
equilibrium of health
• hypersensitivity of impressions-
functional disturbances
• varies from consciousness to
neuroses
• “The mother of all diseases”
• Recurring symptoms owed their
existence to this chronic miasm
which he called Psora.
• Many chronic ailments which are
enumerated in pathological works
under distinct names, originate, with
few exceptions, in this widely
ramified Psora.
• Psoric conditions always itch.
• The source of almost all subjective
symptoms, especially those
described by the patient "sensation
as if."
Symptomatol
ogy of
Psora
 Verti
go

• < by emotional
• disturbances
<
walki
ng
Motio
n
Looking up
• bilious vertigo
• floating
• from digestive
disturbances
• with spots before the
eyes
• Desire to keep quiet by lying down,
which
>.
• In this desire to lie down and >
by lying down
Headac
 Headache
• sharp, severe, paroxysmal
headaches which come on in the
morning, increase as the sun rises
and > when the sun goes down.
• These are usually
frontal, temporal
of parietal.
•The headaches
with red face,
throbbing
• > by rest, quiet and
sleep
• > by hot
applications
• The characteristic desire to lie down
and be quiet is manifest in feverish
children, who desire only to be let
alone.
Headand
Scalp
 Headand
Scalp
• Normal in size and
contour.
• The hair and scalp are dry,
rarely perspiring.
• The hair is lusterless and so dry
that it cannot be combed without
wetting the comb.
• The hair falls out after an
illness.
• It becomes gray too early, or
white in spots; it breaks and the
ends split.
• The skin and scalp appear unclean,
and there is much itching dandruff
and dry eruptions on the scalp,
either papular or eczematous,
which itch.
• These eruptions are < in the open
air, < evenings
• > by scratching
• Burning and smarting follow
the scratching.
• These eruptions do not suppurate
but dry down and become dead
scales.
Ey
 Ey
e

Intolerant of
daylight or
sunlight
• < in the morning, from the rising
of the sun to the zenith, and > by
heat.
• There are spots before the eyes.
EA
R
 Ear
• The ear is small or medium in size,
and never transparent in
appearance.
• There is no moisture in or about
the ear
• The auditory canal is dry and
scaly.
Oversensitiveness to
sounds
FAC
E
 Face
• Inverted
pyramid
• the face and head do not
perspire
• The usual feverish face in the
psoric patient is red and hot and
shining.
• dry itching pimples
and simple
acne.
• The skin is naturally dry,
with an unwashed
appearance.
• Rushes of blood to the
face
• hot flushes at the
climacteric.
 Lip
• red, often red to
bluish
parched and
dry
NOSE
 Nose
• The oversensitiveness to
odors.
• unusual odors awaken him from
sleep
• he cannot sleep where there are
strong odors
• perfumes make him feel ill and
faint.
• There are painful boils or pimples on
the septum, but no malignant
manifestations.
MOUT
H
 Mout
h
• Sordes about the
mouth
• There is swelling and burning
about the lips rather than fissures.
• There is thrush and stomatitis in
the mouth.
 Tast
e
• many taste
perversions
•there is a bad
taste in the mouth;
or it may be sweet,
bitter or sour
• there is a regurgitation of the
taste of foods
• very sensitive to taste.
• symptom of burnt taste.
• Psora is always hungry.
• They are hungry even with the
stomach full.
• They are never satisfied even
while eating.
CRAVINGS
 Cravings
• They crave sweets, acids, sour
things
• In fevers they crave indigestible
things.
• They crave fried and
highly seasoned foods,
meats and greasy foods,
but thesedo not suit.
• Meats stimulate the psoric patient
and arouse the underlying
condition to activity.
• In fevers they have an aversion to
sweets and crave acids
• During pregnancy
they long for
peculiar things yet after
gestation they
loath the things they
have craved.
• Psora desires hot
foods
• Before bilious attacks they crave
consume; rather the craving is a
forerunner of the attack, a
prodromal symptom.
• They long for travel,
yet they are weak and
debilitated.
• They long for
things the system
• is wanting
They long for certain
things, but when
the want is
gratified they do not
want them.
• a weak, gone feeling in the
stomach in the middle of the
forenoon
Hung
er at
night
• These patients lack the power of
assimilation, which is undoubtedly
the cause of the continual craving,
and is closely related to the
characteristic gnawing in the
stomach with sensations of heat and
cold.
• There is a repugnance to
boiled foods
• The sense of fullness, gas,
bloating, etc., are markedly
psoric traits, and they are
accompanied by heartburn
and waterbrash.
• Most of the aggravations of psora
occur after eating.
• With the bloating of the psoric
patient, he cannot endure the
slightest touch on the abdomen
• He fears even the slightest contact.
COUGH
 Cough
• Dry, teasing, spasmodic and
annoying.
• The expectoration is usually
mucous, scanty, tasteless.
HERA
T
 Heart
• Functional disturbances with
violent rushes of blood to the
chest, and a sensation of
weakness, goneness or fullness
about the heart.
• The sensation as of a
band
 •With the heart
symptoms there is
always anxiety and
fear on the part
of the patient.
• The psoric patient always fears
that he will die from heart trouble
• But the psoric patient is the chronic
who lives long and produces income
for the physician, for he is the victim
of so many unpleasant sensations
that he requires much attention, and
his habit of fixing his attention upon
one or more organs as being the
cause of his discomfort demands
constant attendance from the
physician.
• The psoric heart conditions are very
much influenced by strong emotions,
joy, grief, fear, and so on.
• < eating and drinking
• The psoric patient is always
conscious of his heart condition,
and it is he
who is constantly
taking his own
pulse.
GI
T
 Diarrhoea
• The diarrhoeas of psora are often
induced by overeating.
• The patient is always hungry and
eats beyond his capacity and
upsets his digestive powers.
• This overeating often produces
colic and watery diarrhoea, usually
in the morning.
• These diarrhoeas fit the
symptomatology of such remedies
as Aloe, Podophyllum, and Sulphur,
among others.
• a spasmodic offensive and
painless diarrhoea which usually >
the suffering
• after taking cold < by cold; > hot
drinks or heat in general.
 Constipation
• a stubborn, marked, persistent
constipation, with small, hard,
difficult stools and no desire for
stool
• There may be alternation of
the constipation and
diarrhoea.
URINARY
COMPLAINTS
 Urinary compliants
• In child retention of the urine
whenever the body gets chilled,
and this condition arises in old
people also.
• The
involuntary
urination
when sneezing,
coughing or
laughing.
• There is smarting
and burning on
urination, but not
from
 FEMALE
COMPLAIN
TS
 Female
complaints
Grief or sorrow, such as that
caused by n unhappy marriage,
will produce more serious and
distressing symptoms in the
soric patient than the most
unfavorable
surroundings or real
hardships.
 Skin
• The psoric skin is dry, rough,
dirty or unhealthy appearing.
• The "great unwashed”.
• Bathing is
unwelcome and <
the roughness
of the skin and the
irritability.
• Itching
• There is very little suppuration; there
may be a few vesicles or a papular
manifestation.
• With the dry skin, there is a
decided tendency for fine, thin
scales; the eruptions dry down
and scale off.