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Anti-miasmatic or constitutional treatment: According to Kent, Medorrhinum develops the suppressed miasm, so that its symptoms are harmonious and consistent. It does not cure the miasm, but instead acts as a developing remedy as do Psorinum and Syphillinum in the other miasms. As Psorinum has many times brought about a vital reaction after typhoid fever when all energies were suspended, and when psora was at the bottom of the trouble, so will Syphillinum cause the same vital reaction if it is syphillis that is the cause of the suspended energy when convalescence is prevented. And so also will Medorrhinum cause a reaction when the sycotic miasm is the cause of slow convalescence. Psorinum does not cure psora and Syphillinum does not cure syphillis, nor does Medorhinum cure sycosis.
Anti-miasmatic treatment depends on individual constitutional variability. However, the nosodes may be needed initially to initiate the healing process. Careful case taking and follow-up are necessary to ensure accurate, effective prescribing. Based on the imbalances or predominance of specific elements and pranas of a particular remedy, its affinity for a particular miasm can be discerned. Also, based on the Law of Similars, a remedy characterized by certain subtle defects can be used to cure or realign similar distortions of the pranic and mental fields. The following discussion will focus on three of the major polychrests—Sulphur, Calcarea carb and Lycopodium.
SULPHUR: Sulphur is considered to be the king of the anti-psorics. An analysis of its subtler characteristics supports this. Psora encompasses disturbance and interference with the movement of all the functions of prana, as it is primarily associated with functional disorders. Since Sulphur is one of the constituents of protoplasm, it possesses affinity with all the tissues of the body and therefore can evoke symptoms in all organs and tissues. Therefore, disturbances of all the chakras, the five functions of prana and imbalances in the basic elements can be detected in the symptom complex we call Sulphur. The fact that Sulphur is especially indicated when there is a history of suppression of any kind also makes it unquestionably an anti-psoric remedy, as any suppression will create a hindrance to the motion of prana. Sulphur, however, is not entirely limited to the realm of psora. It also is characterized by subtle aspects that are sycotic and syphilitic in nature. Thus, Sulphur is one of the most versatile remedies of the homeopathic repertoire.
Sulphur the element has the tendency to become materialized when oxidized by heat into vapor. Mentally, Sulphur exhibits an earthward tendency and a preoccupation with material things rather than art, a penchant for down to earth schemes rather than for poetic fancy; a predisposition for physical awareness rather than toward imaginings. Sulphur is called the homeopathic centrifuge as it is capable of driving to the surface to exteriorize deep seated toxins. It is the remedy of chronic toxicosis because it has the tendency to arouse whatever lies dormant in the system.
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Dr. Barbara Bova, HOD, Dept of Homeopathy