Sycosis Miasm



CHEST, HEART AND LUNGS.

Cough of sycosis has very little expectoration, usually of clear mucus; occasionally this is ropy and may also be of cottony nature. A great deal of coughing is required to raise it, hence the prolonged teasing cough. Coughs of sycotics are usually bronchial. Always having bronchitis, hard dry racking coughs, often in early Autumn and or Winter. Often the troubles begin with coryza-much sneezing with profuse watery flow from nose-in a few days it will go down to the bronchii and they have a week, ten days or longer of coughing spells. Expectoration scanty. In Summer time usually free but always taking cold in the head on least exposure to cold air or dampness. They cannot as a rule breathe through the nose.

Imperfect oxydation of food products and their deposits in tissues in the form of gouty concretions and lithic formations.

THE HEART

Sycosis produces the same from reflex rheumatic troubles, especially if local applications are used to relieve the pain.

Very little disturbances in heart troubles, even at critical periods of the disease. They may have heart trouble for years without causing them any more than occasional dyspnoea or some pain. They die suddenly without warning.

This heart patient is better motion as walking, riding or gentle exercise.

These patients usually deny they have any cardiac troubles, or they are usually unaware of them.

Fluttering and oppression and difficult breathing at intervals. Seldom much pain or suffering unless in rheumatic difficulties, when we may find severe pains, but not so constant or persistent as psoric. Much soreness and tenderness often worse motion of arms. Pains from shoulder to heart, of from heart to scapula in rheumatic cardiac troubles.

Often pulse is soft, slow and easily compressible.

Valves become roughened due to acid condition of system the walls enlarged, the muscles flabby, soft and lacking power. Patients as a rule are fleshy and puffy, their obesity often lies at the bottom of their dyspnoea and they are constantly gaining in flesh.

Frequently face blue, synotic and apt to be venous congestion or rather stagnation. These conditions are very much worse for high living, rich spicy food or spirit liquor. (R)

SYCOSIS and PSORA produce marked anasarca and dropsical conditions. (R)

but seldom in SYCOTIC patients.

The SYPHILITIC and SYCOTIC heart conditions are much dangerous than the PSORIC, but the PSORIC patient worries about his conditions, 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 and apprehension that we find in PSORIC patients. (R)

Gout of the heart.

ABDOMEN

They sycotic colic is better doubling up, by motion or hard pressure. True colic-colicky pains in bowel troubles of children. Often the simplest form of food produces colic and pain in abdomen or throughout the intestinal tract.

We have the same thing in a SYCOTIC child with the TUBERCULAR element present, but the pus is yellowish green, watery thin, excoriating and offensive, often of a fishy or fish brine odour.

BOWELS AND INTESTINAL TRACT

Colic rather diarrhoea but if the latter it is spasmodic and of a colicky nature, accompanied with a slimy, mucous stool and gripping colic and rectal tenesmus. Stools of Rheum.,Chamomilla and Mag. Carb. are typical.

These diarrhoeas have the most pain and stools are forcibly ejected from the rectum. Croton-tig., Chamomilla, Laurocerasus and Colocynthis, etc., are indicative.

Intestinal pain colicky and makes patient angry. Bowel troubles all produce irritability-they are cross and irritable with their pains; stools are changeable usually greenish yellow mucus, seldom bloody; greenish watery, sour-smelling with cutting colic- even the child smells sour in marked cases of inherited sycosis.

In sycosis, these children want to be rocked constantly, or carried or moved about. The colics are better firm pressure or lying on abdomen; they are worse eating fruit.

Dulcamara has a typical sycotic stool.

Diarrhoea from getting wet.

The grass green stools of Ipecac., Mag. carb., Croton-tig., Gratiola., Arg-Nit., etc., are apt to be sycotic.

Bleeding haemorrhoids.

Pruritus and usually has scanty, thin watery discharge oozing from rectum, that has fishy or fish-brine smell.

Strictures in the rectum, sinuses fistulous and fistulous pockets are all of a TUBERCULAR origin or of PSEUDO_PSORA nature but are greatly magnified by SYCOSIS.

Cancerous affections, malignant growths and diseases have as a rule All the miasms present, especially the SYCOTIC and the TUBERCULAR combined PSORA can never be lift out malignancies no matter what other element may combine with it; it fathers them all.

URINARY ORGANS

A sycotic element in children when they scream when urinating (Lycopodium Sarsaparilla)

Painful spasms affecting urethra and bladder.

Gout of the bladder.

Gouty concretions in urethra of young babies when born of sycotic parents.

If sycosis is present in these diabetic patients it is more malignant and more fatal.

Bright’s Disease.

Fibrous changes in kidneys.

Prostatic troubles where sycosis is the exciting medium.

Rectum-when there is and addition of the sycotic stigma the conditions are greatly aggravated, and there is much more tendency towards malignancy, for combinations of the tubercular diathesis with sycosis produce cancerous affections. (R)

THE SEXUAL SPHERE

Very often pains and diseases of uterus and reproductive organs if they are spasmodic, colicky, and often paroxysmal- the acrid discharges. the pruritis, painful and often frequent urination, the fish-brine or stale fish odour of the catarrhal discharges.

Menstrual flow acrid, excoriating biting and burning the pudendum.

The menstrual pains of sycosis can well be understood when we study remedies such as Colocynthis; Mag. CArb., Crocus Sativa, Sepia, Lac, Can., and Caulophyllum.

Another class that represents the rheumatic element are Rhus.tox., Ac-rac., Bryonia, Cham Colchicum, Cyc., Dulcamara, Gelsemium, Phytolacca, Pulsatilla, etc.

These menstrual pains are spasmodic, extremely sharp, colicky, coming in paroxysms- the flow often only with the pain offensive, clotted, stringy, large, dark, even black, Usually excoriating and acrid.

Leucorrhoea thin, looks like dirty green water, sometimes greenish yellow; scanty, acid, producing biting or itching and burning of parts. Odour of stale fish or fish brine. May be pungent or like that of decayed fish. Patient forever taking douches on account of odour, and acridity of discharge. Often this produces little vesicles of excoriations on the pudendum which are a source of great annoyance to patient.

Many of the ovarian or tubercular symptoms that develop during menses are dependent more on sycosis than any other miasm.

The most frequent location of the sycotic manifestation in women is in the pelvic organs. Pelvic inflammations such as an inflammation of the ovaries, inflammation processes of the fallopian tubes, in fact all of the inflammatory diseases of the female pelvis may be traced to this taint. In the more chronic types we get cystic degeneration of the ovaries, the uterus and the fallopian tubes.

Again the infection may pass on into the peritoneal cavity and we find general peritonitis and general cellulitis.

Appendicitis is directly traceable to sycotic influences.

The fish-brine odour is characteristic of the sycotic taint, and it may appear in all sycotic taint, and it may appear in all discharges, but especially in the discharges of the genital tract. (R)

UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES.

Pains in joints or periosteum are due to gouty concretions or chalky deposits in the tissues conveyed from circulation.

Shooting or tearing pains in the muscles or joints. Pains in fingers or small joints Worse rest; patient is better moving, by rubbing stretching and better in dry, fair weather; worse at approach of storm or a damp, humid atmosphere, and a falling barometer, or becoming cold; heat does not always ameliorate.

Stiffness and soreness, especially lameness, is very characteristic of sycosis. Worse stooping, bending or beginning to move.

In arthritis or rheumatism we have an infiltration of inflammatory deposits but it readily absorbs and is never formative as we find in SYPHILITIC and TUBERCULAR changes which are permanent unless dissipated by treatment.

Rheumatic pains worse during cold damp, better moving or stretching. (R)

Arthritic-deformans-sycotic. (R)

Nails ridged or ribbed.

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

anasarca and such as SYCOTIC, SYPHILITIC and PSEUDO-PSORIC.

Gouty; gouty diathesis rheumatic gout.

THE SKIN

Scales patchy and in circumscribed spots.

Eczema-exfoliata.

Circinnatus herpes and herpes zoster.

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.