What are Miasms in Homeopathy?

What are Miasms in Homeopathy?

Electronic Music Concert

I was inspired to write this article after speaking to one of my clients, a young man in his thirties. He was spouting his belief system about the state of the world. “Inflation is out of control. The Feds are going to keep on raising interest rates. There are more foreclosures now than there ever have been in history. We cannot afford to stay in our house. The property values in California are going down and down. This house is worth much less than it was when we bought it. If the interest rates go any higher we will not be able to stay in our home.”

This young man is a musician. “It is much harder for musicians to survive nowadays. Fewer people can afford to attend shows. Attendance has dropped significantly from past years. You can’t make money on selling music since Spotify came on the scene.”

The attitude I could see in all this is that it is hopeless. It is impossible to succeed. The cards are stacked against us. We are unfortunate. No matter what we do we can’t get ahead.

This is a good demonstration of the syphilitic miasm. The attitude in this miasm is that everything is hopeless. No matter what we do we will not succeed. There is worry and fear about the future, and a general negative attitude toward life.

Anais Nin said, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

In this example the person with a dominant syphilitic world view focuses his attention on all the flaws in the world, everything that is bad about it.

By constantly pointing out the flaws in the world, places where things have gone wrong, there may be a hope that they can somehow bring about change, cause people to wake up and do good, vote for the right politician, and change people’s beliefs and habits.

This brings to mind the remedy Causticum, a very sympathetic remedy. They have sympathy for the suffering in the world and they put energy behind causes, such as getting rid of 5G towers, protesting vaccine mandates and so forth. It is interesting that this is a highly syphilitic remedy. The person wants to do good, and their bodies are rewarded by arthritis that disfigures the joints.

This reminds me of verse from the Tao Te Ching:

HINDUISM AND HOMEOPATHY

Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva

In the Hindu religion there is a teaching that the Supreme Spirit or Brahman is represented in three forms, each of which characterizes a cosmic function, which is active in all of creation. The creative phase corresponds with the God Brahma; the maintenance or preserving phase with the God Vishnu; and the destructive or transforming phase, with the God Shiva. In the Shiva or destructive phase, people and systems undergo destructive processes as they move toward death. This is not dependent on age. It can happen at any age. There are people who are healthy throughout their lives and stay positive in their attitudes and health all life long.

Going back to the story of the musician, I said, “You are viewing the world in a very negative light. What effort can you put in to change your personal situation.” The young man lives in a rural area where jobs are scarce, so I gave him examples of work people can do from home, like in the service industry. I asked, “Is it possible for you to get a job working for a company like Amazon or GoDaddy, and be one of the people who helps troubleshoot problems when people call in?”

Then the young man told me that a company that manufactures the software that he uses to produce his electronic music is offering a course to get certified in this software. It is a one month course after which he will have a certificate that says he is a certified instructor for this software.

“Ah, but I cannot afford to take this course. It costs $750.00. Where am I going to get the money from?”

I recommended that he charges it to his credit card and buys the class. “This is a wonderful opportunity for you to have an additional income stream.” The young man agreed and paid for the class. A month later he completed the course, and was very excited to have the certificate. He advertised that he was now an instructor. and he started to receive calls for private classes from people who were interested in learning the software.

Now this young man is moving into a healthier attitude. He is moving in the direction of health, which is toward the psoric miasm or the creative phase in Hinduism. In this phase the world view is that life is a struggle, but if you put in the effort, you will succeed, you will survive.

The focus in the psoric miasm is not on what is the matter with the world, but on what can I do in a step by step fashion to improve my situation, or the situation of my family.

The individual is staying in the moment, and present with what is and what he needs to do. There is a feeling that the job is not impossible, that I can do it.

The psoric miasm by itself does not produce destructive processes in the body. It produces functional disturbances.

The next miasm I want to describe is the sycotic miasm. I associate this with the preserving phase in Hinduism: Vishnu (though whether that is accurate is totally debatable).

In the psoric phase the individual works—but not too hard—just the right amount. In the sycotic phase, they overwork. They work too many hours, too late, and loo long. There is a lack of a sense of good balance.

This manifest in the body as overgrowth of tissue. Here you have obesity, warty growths and proliferations, excessive discharges and swellings.

On the mental plain, you have a lack of balance, a tendency to overthink things. You can see an excess in moods and behaviors. Sadness carried too far, anger carried too far. Excessive purchasing, excessive eating, excessive desires, and excessive reactions to stimuli. All manner of mental illness falls into the sycotic miasm.

When the three phases are out of balance or present simultaneously within the individual we have what homeopaths call trimiasmatic disease. Cancer, allergies, and asthma are examples of trimiasmatic diseases.

Everyone has the primary miasms in different degrees.  These are the original three miasms that Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy named. Subsequently many other miasms were named, particularly by Rajan Sankaran. Most of these are combinations of the original three miasms. We can make an analogy with the color wheel used by artists, where you have three primary colors, then three secondary colors, then three tertiary colors and so forth.

The more one embodies the psoric phase the closer they are to good health. The more one moves toward the syphlitic phase, the more one is going toward illness.

Conclusion:

This is my brief introduction to the concept of miasms in homeopathy. An understanding of the miasms can help people build self awareness, as they start to identify where their thinking is negative and self destructive, and hopefully take steps to purify their thoughts and attitudes. Homeopathic remedies help to move people out of places where they are stuck mentally, emotionally and physically and move them toward healthier, freer and happier states of being.

Wishing you health and happiness,

Deborah Olenev