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In the above mentioned case the miasm has forced the tissues especially
the bone to grow in the form of tumor and that too in a concealed
manner, slowly and insidiously. The same miasm is reflected in the
behavior of the boy where he is so secretive, so closed, so untalkative
though so deeply injured. He did not complain or reveal the injury
or even his hospitalization (a major incident) to his brother. His
miasm now amply clear - a strongly sycotic one is the one which
has had sway over his life process since last many years keeping
him stunted and not allowing him to grow. This sycosis was now threatening
to move or to degrade to the more dangerous and destructive of its
miasmatic brethren - the syphilitic miasm.
The threat of invasion of the syphilitic miasm was in dynamic form
not yet settled as syphilis as was demonstrated by the pains coming
on after sunset only, forcing him to take painkiller injections.
A tolerant non-complaining child being tormented to such an extreme
of making him resort to painkiller injections at night when gleefully
playing in the day time was a definite warning by the constitution
that it is threatening to go syphilitic i.e., towards destruction
- the dreaded combination of 'sycosis and syphilis' building upon
an injury or irritation (psoric). Discontinuity of a normal tissue
is what develops into malignancy or cancerous growth.
If his constitution was syphilitic, the predominant syphilis miasm
in the above case would have given rise to a very destructive lesion
both in terms of skin and bone. In short, a strongly syphilitic
constitution would have presented to us with destruction of epidermis,
dermis and muscles as a very ragged or jagged or not clear-cut demarcated,
lacerated, wound bleeding on touch and with an underlying multiple
fracture of the bone.
A psoric would have shown abrasions of superficial type with intense
nervousness in attitude, telling everybody of his complaint and
being anxious of prognosis.
This boy allowed not only me but all the other students and doctors
to examine him without much fuss.
Our one job was over, We needed a simillimum which was 'sycotic
in miasm' ......(1)
Now we proceeded to find out what are the innate or inherent characteristics
or non-diseased natural traits exhibited by the genetic code. These
were going to be the basis of our genetic
constitutional simillimum [the remedy exactly similar to the
case].
These innate natural characteristics should be pronounced and obvious.
They should be agreed to by all physicians and relatives present.
They should not be fictious or figments of a physician's
imagination. The innate characteristic should be preferably a large
rubric bearing more than 250-300 remedies. Thus even a lesser known
remedy is not excluded from being considered as the simillimum e.g.
Timidity, Mildness, Violence, Vivaciousness, Talk indisposed to
etc. Right observation also plays an important part in considering
the innate characteristic.
The main characteristic i.e. the pivotal rubric should be observed,
analysed and understood in proper perspective. It need not necessarily
be announced by the patient.
Are you shy, timid, bashful? Or are you haughty? Are you a coward?
Are you reserved or vivacious etc. Such leading questions can never
benefit a history. A really haughty person shall never admit that
he or she is haughty because it hurts his/her image. She sees nothing
wrong in her approach and behavior with others and whatever wrong
behavior she exhibits, is strongly attributed as her reaction to
bad behavior of others which she thinks is quite natural.
Keen observation with a broad spectrum view of what has happened
to the person in the past and present, and the reaction to the circumstances
helps us to analyze his reaction in proper perspective and choose
a befitting natural, innate, mostly non-diseased characteristic
rubric.
A reaction of an individual constitution is like how a substance
(wood, tin, iron, glass, cotton etc.) will behave when exposed to
the same action or stimulus. If we hit a fist on wood, tin, iron,
glass, cotton pillars etc., even on being blindfolded a man with
normal intellect or intelligence will be able to differentiate and
diagnose the substance hit upon. Similarly a homoeopath has to develop
natural instinct or trait of understanding to know and differentiate
how different remedies, by virtue of their natural characteristic,
will behave or react in the same situation or under similar stimulus.
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