Sometimes desires for fats, greasy things, rich pastry and sweets meats, which when eaten will induce bilious attacks and all gastric disturbances.
Desires and cravings for the unnatural things to eat, with desires and cravings for narcotics such as tea, coffee, tobacco and any other stimulants, have often their origin in PSORA or PSEUDO-PSORA.
Loves sweets, sugar, candies and syrup.
Likes hot foods. (R) All toxic drugs become sooner or later prime disturbers of psora as or the chronic miasm in general but particularly PSORA.
Desires and aversion stand high in therapeutic value as they are basic miasmatic symptoms next in importance is perverted in disease.
HUNGER
Morbid of unnatural hunger.
Hunger at unnatural times- an hour or to before eating, or hunger in night after sleeping;hunger immediately after eating; hunger not satisfied when stomach is full; hunger with weak, gone sensation before eating; hunger with great prostration after eating; eating makes them sleepy; eating causes profuse perspiration; after eating much distention and dullness with flatulence and distention of gas; hunger that is not satisfied by eating.
Ravenous hunger (canine hunger) especially early in morning; he has to eat at once or else he grows faint, exhausted and shaky, or if in open air he has to lie down. (H)
Ravenous hunger with rumbling and grumbling in abdomen. (H)
Appetite without hunger; she has a desire to swallow down in haste various things without there being any craving for them.(H)
A sort of hunger, but when she then eats ever so little she feels at once satisfied & full in the chest and her throat feels as if full of mucus. (H)
When she wants to eat she feels full in the chest and her throat feels as if full of mucus. (H)
Want of appetite; only a sort of gnawing, turning and writhing in the stomach urges her to eat. (H)
STOMACH SYMPTOMS.
Weak, “all-gone” sensation.
Hunger at night.
Hunger soon after food. Hunger with “all-gone” sensation in pit of stomach 10 a.m. or between 10 and 11 a.m.
Fullness, bloating great distention due to accumulation of gases or to flatulent conditions and food fomentations; rumblings, gurglings, and all such commotion due to the formation of gases are found, not only in the stomach but throughout the entire gastro intestinal tract.
Sour and bitter eructations come up in the throat frequently; sometimes these risings from the stomach taste of food recently eaten, or they may be oily or greasy; not infrequently they are accompanied with heart-burn. with nausea faint feelings at the pit of the stomach, with a conflux of saliva to the mouth, acid eructations with burning in the oesophagus, with or without hunger, with hunger it is better eating ever so little. This is sometimes followed by fullness in the stomach, chest or throat.
They want everything fried if possible and highly seasoned but have a repugnance to boiled foods.
Constant gnawing at pit of stomach, cold or hot sensations, sensation of weight, of fullness, of tightness, of goneness; sensations of heavy weights as of a stone or lump in stomach beatings and pulsation, throbbings, sensation of constriction, oppression after eating, shortness of breath, vertigo, giddiness, anxiety, epigastric tenderness, sweat breaks out after eating; falls asleep. cannot keep awake after a meal; eating causes pain, colic, nausea, vomiting or is followed by diarrhoea and gastro-intestinal disturbances of many forms. Most aggravations are after eating. After meals, patient has headaches, flatulence, or flatulent dyspepsia, weariness, sleepiness, vomiting, beating of the heart, coughing pain in different parts of the body, especially in the region of the liver.
In hypochondria or epigastrium they have pains of a cutting or colicky nature; many of the stomach symptoms are temporarily better by eating; by hot drunks or hot applications; by belchings of gas and by gentle motion. This patient is afraid of being touched-even slightest pressure cannot be endured.
They can digest meat better than the sycotic.
Crave sweets.
In febrile states or in liver, psoric patients often take a great aversion to sweets and crave acids of all kinds; fruit acids, lemonade and buttermilk otherwise the love sweets.
Better hot drinks and prefer food warm.
“The cravings and longings of the patient are basic miasmatic phenomena of great therapeutic value”.
CHEST, HEART AND LUNGS
Psora itself gives us no physiological change of structure- another miasm must be present in order to procure a physiological change in the structure or shape of a part or organ.
Coughs dry, teasy, spasmodic and annoying; bronchial.
Expectoration mucus scanty, tasteless.
Anaemia.
THE HEART
Sensation of weakness, goneness, fullness, heaviness, and soreness about the head.
Violent palpitation with beating of the whole body.
Violent hammering and beating about the heart due to reflexes, such as gastric disturbances, flatulence and uterine irritation.
Sensation of a band round the body in the region of the heart. The mental and heart symptoms often alternate and vie with each other.
Anxiety, fear in heart diseases.
Many psoric heart troubles are functional, accompanied with much anxiety, mental distress, with pain and neuralgia, often of a sharp piercing, cutting nature. Oppression and anxiety are worse mornings and pains worse motion, laughing and coughing. The stitching pains almost kill the patient when he moves.
Heart affections, from fear, disappointment, loss of friends, or overjoy.
These patients think they have heart trouble and are going to die.
Heart troubles from eating and drinking, generally worse evening and soon after eating.
Heart difficulties, night palpitations on lying down, after eating or during digestion, better eructations of gas but worse on going to sleep and lying on back; heart pulsations shake the body and are accompanied with great anxiety and sadness.
Full, bounding pulse in psoric fevers.
The dyspnoea is often painful in PSORA or PSEUDO-PSORA. The dropsies or the anasarcas of the PSORIC or PSEUDO-PSORIC are always greater than SYCOTIC- they smother or drown the patient before death takes places.
The SYPHILITIC and SYCOTIC heart conditions are much more dangerous than the PSORIC, but the PSORIC patient worries about his condition, takes his pulse frequently, fears death and remains quiet. In the combination of SYCOSIS and PSORA we get the right soil for valvular and cardiac disturbances with changes in organ structure; these are the conditions that cause the fatalities. With these sycotic heart conditions there is none of the fear & apprehension that we find in PSORIC patients. (R)0
ABDOMEN
Abdomen feels full after eating, often accompanied by a feeling of fullness or distention. The pains are often found in children and are apt to be worse in the morning. Empty, gone sensations, often soon after eating. Stuffy full feeling preventing patient from eating normal amount of food. Sense of constriction of bands or cords around abdomen, pressure in lower region of liver, stitches in lower region of liver, stitches on stooping or bending the body, audible rumblings in bowels, sensation as if abdomen greatly distended or as if hanging down, heavy dragging down sensation, crawling, creeping before a chill, sensation as if diarrhoea would set in, especially in morning, rumbling and gurgling in abdomen as soon as they eat or drink anything; cramps from certain foods or drink, such as the drinking of milk or cold water etc.; or the eating of potatoes, beans and many other foods that do not agree with these patients.
Many have a tubercular diathesis but psora is the basic principle of their disturbance.
All pains better heat and often by gentle pressure.
Patients easily chilled about the abdomen causing colic or diarrhoea, dysentery and many severe bowel troubles to follow.
We often find the worst forms of constipation or inactivity of the bowels in PSORIC and PSEUDO-PSORIC patients.
Often beating or throbbing as of a pulse in abdomen.
BOWELS AND INTESTINAL TRACT
Diarrhoeas often induced by over-eating; patient being always hungry eats beyond capacity of digestion; movements usually watery, or consist of imperfectly digested of food. Quite often they have an offensive odour with colicky pains or cutting colic.
Occur usually in the morning (think of diarrhoeas of Podophyllum, Sulphur and Aloes.)
In bowel difficulties, gone empty feelings in the abdominal region; sometimes it is a great weakness after stool, felt only in the region of the abdomen.
Spasmodic offensive diarrhoea which usually ameliorates the patient but they have no exhaustion.
Diarrhoea coming on from fright, bad news, or any ordeal, etc., also when preparing for an unusual event. Also from taking cold or from slightest exposure.
The true psoric stool may be any colour- generally offensive and not very painful. It is worse cold, motion, eating and drinking cold things; better warm drinks and hot things to eat, quite warm applications to abdomen. Constipation marked; stubborn, persistent and there is no action of bowels whatever; no desire to stool; stool is dry, scanty, hard, difficult to expel; sometimes we have alternations of constipation and diarrhoea.
