Pseudo Psora



On beginning of eruption of the first teeth diarrhoea starts in tubercular babies; puls at this stage loss of power to assimilate bone-making material in food.

Croton Tig.: stool of tubercular children is strongly tainted with SYCOSIS. Sanguinaria. Phosphorous, Kali-carb., Tuberculinum and Stannum are quite typical of the tubercular discharges.

Sometimes in tubercular children stools are ashy or grey in colour showing lack of bile matter.

Bloody stools.

Child smells musty-mouldy.

In severe cases of bowel trouble child is fretful, peevish and whiney, does not want to be touched or looked at; prostration after stools marked.

They are worse milk potatoes, meat, and worse motion.

Before stool there is often vomiting and retching.

Stool with much slimy mucus or where much blood passes after stool.

Pin worms or intestinal worms but are found more plentiful in children with TUBERCULAR taint.

Rectal diseases alternating with heart, chest or lung troubles- especially of asthma and respiratory difficulties; e.g., haemorrhoids if operated on or suppressed are followed by lung difficulties or asthma and not infrequently by heart troubles.

Haemorrhage from rectum.

Prolapsus of rectum in young children. The bowel difficulties are so frequently accompanied with febrile states, delirium, gastric disturbances vomiting, purging with exhaustive purging stools.

Cancerous affection, malignant growths and such diseases have as a rule ALL the miasm present, especially the sycotic and TUBERCULAR combined PSORA can never be left out of malignancies, no matter what other element may combine with it; it fathers them all.

URINARY ORGANS

Anxiety and much loss of strength after urination.

In tubercular diathesis, especially in nervous or neurotic patients, urine is pale, colourless and copious with very little solids present.

Diabetic patients are usually strongly tubercular with diathesis strongly marked.

Bright’s Disease.

Urine offensive and easily decomposed, odour musty, like old hay or foul smelling- even carrion-like.

In tubercular children urine may be involuntary at night as soon as the fall asleep. Also copious This is why Calcareacarb cures so many as the pseudo-psora must be tackled.

Idiopathic hydrocele.

Prostatic troubles in cases where we have constant loss of the prostatic or seminal fluid, consumption sometimes develops.

These patients live in gloom with depressed spirits, gloomy forebodings, poor digestion, loss of energy, want of memory. Livid or ashy complexion, appetite often voracious as system calls for more food than it can properly take care of, when finally gastric derangements follow, until the organism fails to perform any function in a proper manner.

In rectum we find many conditions of tubercular origin, as strictures, fistulae, sinuses and pockets. (R)

THE SEXUAL SPHERE

Many psychopathic sexual perversion-these may be even worse in the TUBERCULAR PATIENT.

Menstruation. An exhaustive and often prolonged and copious flow. Haemorrhage bright red, sometimes accompanied with vertigo, faintness, and with pallor, worse by rising from recumbent position. Frequently they are too soon appearing even 2 to 3 weeks; they may or may not be painful, but are always exhausting. Feels badly a week before.

Suffering in many ways with headaches, backaches, gastric disturbances, neuralgias, etc. Occasionally menses appear with diarrhoea. with epistaxis, with febrile states, optical illusions, roaring in the ears, sensitiveness to noise, loss of appetite, abnormal pains, nausea and bitter vomiting. After the flow patient looks pale with dark rings or circles about eyes; or hollows eyed with a worn exhausted look. Hysterical symptoms often arise, of any form or degree in severity and often they are most difficult to treat.

Flow is often pale, watery and long lasting, as seen in Calcarea Carb. and Ferrum, etc.

Extremities are usually cold and often menstrual flow will induce general anaemia in young women from 17 to 21. They become chlorotic.

Often complexions become pale, assuming yellowish or ashen hue, accompanied by starchy or watery leucorrhoeas, palpitation of the heart, faintness and loss of vitality generally; later general weakness, flushing in the face, vertigo, ringing in the ears, hoarseness, dry tickling spasmodic cough and finally a true tubercular condition develops. Often they are very sad, gloomy anxious full of fanciful notions, forebodings with much fear; extreme sensitiveness, nervous irritability and inclination to weep.

Menses flow bright red, or light coloured and watery. We sometimes see nausea and vomiting, extreme purging of the bowels with diarrhoea or dysentery, fainting, cold sweat on forehead, but flow is seldom if ever clotted; being usually fluid-like, profuse, light red, watery and seldom offensive, and not infrequently it has the odour of fresh blood.

Leucorrhoea usually purulent but may be watery mucus.

Patient often debilitated and worse before flow or immediately after it begins.

Deep, thick yellow, or yellowish green. Sometimes lumpy, thick, albuminous or purulent.

Smelling musty.

Retroversions and retroflexions and malpositions of uterus.

In marked cases of this diathesis uterus is retroverted or retroflexed and many sufferings date from puberty.

Relaxed muscular system throughout, easily exhausted easily tired, menses copious, too early and long lasting, accompanied with backache, reflexes of all kinds, etc.

Labours at childbrith are often difficult, severe and prolonged and exhausting and many are unable to feed their children.

UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES

Neuralgia pains either PSORIC or PSEUDO-PSORIC usually better by quiet rest and warmth. often worse motion and better rest and warmth.

Tubercular joint troubles have increased in osseous tissue, nodular growth similar to syphilis. Bones are soft, rickety and curved. SYPHILITIC element – feet become deformed because legs cannot take weight of body.

The periosteal difficulties are due to periosteal inflammations or tertiary or tubercular changes in the bones themselves.

The TUBERCULAR and SYPHILITIC bone pains are very similar both as to their character and times of aggravation.

In nails we have many inflammatory changes due to SYPHILIS & TUBERCULOSIS. We have in both, true onychia though not of such specific character in the TUBERCULAR process as in the tertiary SYPHILIS. Paronychia is tubercular as met with in pale-skinned, anaemic tubercular subjects. Pustules form often on lower extremities or about fingers or hands.

The nails of these patients are brittle, break or split easily, often hang-nails. Nails thin as paper, bend easily and are convexity is reversed.

Spotted nails, show white specks sometimes anterior edges are serrated or slightly scalloped. Often pustular inflammation about the nail. Often nails drop off and grow again.

Perosteal inflammation commonly known as felon or periphalangeal cellulitis.

Fingers are long and do not taper gradually are blunt or club- shaped at “extremities.” This long-fingered individual with the lengths so irregularly arranged is characteristic. Often hand is thin, soft and flabby and easily compressed, usually very moist or often cold, damp perspiring profusely.

The same re feet : Coldness of hands and feet is very marked but the patient is not always conscious of it.

Hang-nails.

We see types in remedies such as Calc, Carb., Baryta. Carb., Baryta. Iodium, Iodine and silica.

Warm air very annoying, cannot endure much cold neither can they endure much heat.

Chilblains are based on all the miasms- we have the PSEUDO- PSORIC taint, with SYCOTIC element as a basis- that is why they prove such a dreadful disease producing agent when suppressed by local measure.

Corns.

Boils-they may depend on both PSORIC and PSEUDO-PSORIC influences.

Boils with much suppuration.

Paralytic disease, edematous swellings anasarca & such as SYCOTIC, SYPHILITIC and PSEUDO-PSORIC.

General muscular weakness and loss of power in ankles.

Clumsy-awkward, lack co-ordination- they are always falling. They drop things. They tire easily when walking and especially when climbing a height.

This patient is short-winded, climbing stairs tires out the patient.

White swelling of joints or idiopathic synovitis even rheumatic forms have this tubercular element very marked.

Drop wrist-weakness or loss of power in tendons about joints. In children and young people ligaments about joints easily sprained. ankles turn easily from the slightest mis-step, wrists show the same weakness; playing the piano or operating a typewriter causes swelling, soreness or pain in wrist joints. Lack energy as well as strength.

Weakness of the ankle joints is a sure indication of the presence of a SYPHILITIC taint in combination with the PSORIC stigma. (R)

THE SKIN

Skin affections with glandular envolvement will necessarily have the SYPHILITIC or TUBERCULAR element to conform with the glandular envolvement.

In varicose veins the TUBERCULAR taint predominates, and it is in these patients that we see the varicose ulcers, the last skin lesion to make its appearance in a case of ancient or hereditary syphilis that has already become, and now is, largely PSEUDO- PSORA.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.