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 Psora
• Psora is the most fundamental of all of the
miasms. Hahnemanns description of psora
was as a hydra headed monster of chronic
disease. the Hydra was a mythical beast, who,
when his head was severed would grow 100 in
its place, perhaps this relates to suppression
of the itch leading to even more numerous
chronic ailments
 Underfunction
• The main Keynote of the Psoric miasm and
therefore of Psorinum itself is Underfunction.
• so we think of this when someone is not
making enough of something… thyroxin,
testosterone, energy, heat, (metabolism)… all
processes are slow, which has consequences for
the health.
• People with this level of underfunction often
see life as a struggle ‘wading through treacle’
 Undrerfunction- Peter Fraser
• “ However, although the processes are slow they
continue on in all other ways mainly unaffected.
Function is disturbed but it continues to run on
in a direction that is correct. Things may take
longer but the end result is more or less what it
should be. this means that physical pathology is
much less likely to occur and when it does, it,
itself is running at a much slower pace and so
takes a long time to turn in to anything serious”
 Tsorat
• this Hebrew word contains the origins of the
name Psora, it means, a fault, a stigma, a rut,
something polluted
 Expressions of Psoric Miasm HHM
• Weakness • Guilt
• Too little • Desires safety
• Not capable • Desires long lasting
• Hardworking things
• Care for others • Dependant
• Family oriented • Impressionable
• Preparing • Fearful
• Saves things • Slowness
 Psorinum
• Survival
• Miserly due to fear of Poverty
• Refugee history ?
• May Hoard
• Melancholy, despondant despairing
• Pessimists
• Sense of Failure
• Sense of Lack
• Forsaken/ Abandoned feeling
• Fearful
 Survival Themes
• This is a major issue for Psorinum. They have a sense
that they will not be povided for. the Universe does
not seem to be on their side.
• They worry about apocalyptic scenarios, wars,
famines.. They would not worry so much about Covid
19 in repect of the virus, but more about the posible
disruptions of the supply chains.
• They need to know that everything that they require
for survival is available to them.. such as food, water,
fuel, shelter
 Survival
• Richard Pitt- “Scabies a parasitic disease born of bad
Hygiene and bsad circumsatnces adds a familiar
definition to the term miasm, ‘an anxious exhalation
thought o infect the atmosphere’. The consequent
terrible itching of Scabies, especially found in poor
people wearing worn and dirty clothes as in the
dickensian era gives a sense of the psoric miasm, the
festering and relentless struggle for survival, to stave of
the cold and starvation, hoping to saty warm and
relatively clean against the odds of unfortunate
circumstance- that is psora and the Nosode Psorinum”
 Fear of poverty
• With their survival issues it stands to reason
that they will worry about not having enough
money to buy the essentials.. this might make
them miserly, not wanting to spend money on
non essentials and totally abhorring waste of
any sort.
• It matters not whether they are rich or poor..
even with thousands in the bank they will have
a fear of loosing it all and being destitute
 Refugees?
• I have noticed something that is very common
in this remedy, that the patient that requires it
will often have a family history of having been
refugees, this means that they perhaps did lose
all their wealth, and had to take to road with
nothing but what they stood up in or could
carry, from this we can understand the
epigenetic imprint of lack and loss. Perhaps
refugees from a war, or an intolerant regime,
perhaps from famine
 Hoarding
• It also helps us to understandhoarding. people
who fear poverty might undertandably keep
things for a rainy day, have cupboards full of
food, keep two of something incase one breaks.
• Common remedies for hoarding are Arsenicum,
Psorinum and Sulphur.. the Arsenicum will be
less obvious because things will be ordered,
Sulphur will keep things out of interest,
Psorinum out of fear of want
 Melancholy/Depression
• Psorinum patients tend towards pessimism,
they will always see the worst in a situation,
and generally have a glass half empty
approach to life. this melancholic streak gives
them what I like to call Eyeore energy. if it was
a lovely day and you said to them ‘isn’t this
sunshine just fantastic?” you might get the
reply, “yes, might rain later”.
 Melancholy/ Depression
• Sometimes they are more than just
melancholy, they can sometimes present with
quite serious Depression.
• Their Depression is a dark, gloomy, hopeless
kind of place, they cannot see a way out of
their troubles, they cannot envision a better
day. They become tired, apathetic and stop
looking after themselves or their house- they
just cannot summon up any enthusiasm
 Depression
Kent -“The mental symptoms present some strong features.
Sadness, hopelessness; he sees no light breaking through the
clouds above his head; all is dark about him. He thinks that
he is going to the poor house; that he has sinned away his
day of grace. It is a fixed idea during the day and he dreams
about it at night. Overwhelming sadness; dejection; he takes
no joy in his family; feels that these things are not for him.
His business is prosperous, yet he feels as if he were going to
the poor house. No joy or realization of benefit. Extremely
irritable, wants to be alone. Does not want to be washed. Full
of anxiety, even of suicide. Despair of recovery if sick.”
 Failure
• This is a strong feeling of Psorinum, They feel that anything
they touch will turn to dross, The midas touch in reverse. They
feel that it is pointless to attempt anything, they will surely fail
and no good would come of it..
• I had a patient who was depressed, he had lost his job and
had some financial stresses and could not see a way ahead. he
specialised in a couple of old, rarely usedcomputer languages,
Fortran and Cobol. As sometimes happens, a few days later I
saw a patient who told me he was looking for someone with
just that skill set. I asked him to send me the job appliction
details so I could forward them on to my depressed patient.
 Failure
• when I next saw him, I asked if he had had any luck,
he told me he had not replied, he felt it would be
pointless, “I would have to pay £30 for a train up to
the interview, there would be loads of applicants,
probably better than me and I would not get even a
second interview, nevermind the job.. thenI would
not even get a letter thanking me for attending, it
just all seemed to be pointing towards failure so I
did not go for it.” I gave him psorinum 1m once a
week for three weeks
 Failure
• when I saw him again 2 months laterhe was
feeling better, he felt more alive, more sociable,
more optimistic and he got that job….
• The failure can just be a general feeling that there
is no point in trying, no point in getting excited or
looking forward to anything.. you will just end up
more dissapointed and down than you were
already… everything will fail.. not just them
 Sense of Lack
• This will have become obvious.. Psorinum have a
fear of and a sense of eveything lacking in their lives.
the lack security, they lack success, they lack money,
they lack energy, and most importantly they lack
love
• They often feel that they lack roots, I most
commonly see this in people who are immigrants…
they don’t have a sense of belonging.. they have
uprooted from their country and dont fell they have
put down roots here
 Abandoned and Forsaken
• It stands to reason that a remedy who feels a
strong lack of love will perhaps feel
abandoned. this forsaken feeling is a strong
feeling of Psorinum. They feel sure their
partner will leave them.. their relationship will
fail.. it does not make them clingy or jealous
just resigned and sad.
• I have see this remedy frequently come up for
patients who have been adopted
 Adopted
• Patients who have been adopted may have spent 9
months in the womb of a mother who dare not love
her baby as she knows she will be giving it up,
perhaps she had not the financial wherewithal or
support to provide for it… this lack of bonding can
leave a very pronounced forsaken feeling in the baby..
no matter how loving their adoptive parents are…
there is also something about feeling unrooted… no
family tree with your adoptive parents, and perhaps a
lot of searching to find your own roots.
 Fears
• he will die 
• his business will fail. 
• of fire 
• of being alone 
• of going mad 
• of future 
• of poverty 
• of health, esp of cancer. 
 Insect Kingdom
• It is thought that psorinum, the product of a scabies
eruption may contain Acarus, the scabies mite and that
therefore it may be considered to have similarities to
insect remedies, so lets have a look at some themes of
insects which might be appropriate to the picture of
Psorinum.
• The acarus (female sarcopte) burrows under the skin of
animals where they lay eggs and their toxin causes the
eruption of vesicles and pustules. Their activity increases
after evening and causes intense pruritis and intoxication.
 Insect Kingdom
• survival- winner versus loser
• Work and rewards of work-
• ‘inspite of their efforts they do not achieve as much as
they feel they ought to, and this is depressing” (-sense
of failure)
• exhaustion, laziness, ennui and a despair that there is
not more progress (–Pessimism/Debility)
• Coming from the earthly realm means that material
possessions and wealth are important to insects.. they
have concerns about money, fears of Poverty(-lack)
 Insect Kingdom
• Insects remedies have feelings of dirtiness, shame
and disgust- (-the great inwashed)
• Insects are stepped on, low, crushed, exterminated,
dirty, outcast, treated as an infestation
• Insect remedies have a strong appetite and are
constantly looking for food, esp carbs and sugars
• Relationships, struggle with them. Superficial.
Needing to be in groups but no strong sense of
identity. ( feel alone abandoned)
 Insect KIngdom
• So we can see that although Psorinum is not
usually considered to be an insect remedy we
can certainly see that there might be a
connection with the insect that actually
causes Scabies.
 Modalities
Worse for Better for
• Heat of bed • Lying with head low
• Supressions • Lying Quietly
• From cold and Draughts • Warm clothing
• From storms • Better from Eating
• In winter • Washing
 Psorinum Generally

• Extremely Chilly
• Worse winter
• General underfunction
• Hungry, hungry at night
• offensiveness of discharge
• Unusually well before an attack
• Prostration
• Unable to throw things off
• Sleep issues
• Offensive
 Chilly
• Said to be one of the Chilliest remedies in the Materia
Medica. they cannot bear to be cold.
• Even in Spring or Summer they may attend your clinic in
coat, hat and scarf.. they say no layers come off until
the thermometer is in the 80’s.
• At night they will often want an electric blanket or a hot
water bottle.
• if they get a chill it will take a lot to get them warm
again
• Extremely sensitive to the least draft of cold air
 Worse Winter
• This of course could be because they feel the cold so
much, but there is more to it than just a low body
temperature
• They often feel their mood plummets as the days get
shorter and may present with Seasonal Affective
Disorder
• their energy is also less and many of my patients who
need Psorinum will say they would like to
Hibernate… go to bed in November and not waken
again until spring
 Hunger
• Psorinum are often hungry.. they also might hoard
food, they like to see a full larder with plenty of
food to survive a winter.. or any possible disater
scenario. The more food you have in your house..
the more you are likely to need Psorinum..
• They are often Hungry in the night and may get up
to make themselves a sandwitch which they need
to eat before they can sleep again
• Possibly a tendency to Hypoglycaemia
 Offensiveness
• Psorinum comes from the pus of an infected scabiies vesicle and so
offensiveness runs through Psorinum in such a characteristic way
that is worth while mentioning it here; foetid odors, foetid breath
discharges and oozing from the skin smelling like carrion;
• stool so offensive that the odor permeates the whole house, in
diarrhea, summer complaint, cholera infantum;
• perspiration foetid;
• leucorrhoea abominably offensive;
• eructations taste as if be had eaten bard boiled eggs and they had
spoiled, and they smell so to others; stool flatus, and eructations
smell like spoiled eggs;
• offensive to sight and smell is the subject who needs this medicine.
• Body has a filthy smell even after a bath.
 Weakness and Prostration
• Malaise : feels tired out.Constantly tired and sleepy ;
•  Very little labor exhausts him ;
• Feel weak and tired in body, mind and spirit
• Knows what he wants to do but too tired to do
anything
• Very weak and miserable after suppressed itch.
• A remedy for Chronic fatigue, when well indicated
remedies do not seem to be able to ‘get under’ the
weakness to start to lift it up
 Unusually well before attack
• This could refer to almost anything. maybe the day
before a bad asthma attack the patient felt so well
they went for a run.. then were not sure whether
to put the asthma attack down to the run… or the
feeling they could run down to feeling unusually
well before an attack. My mother in law used to be
able to predict when her husband was going to
have a migraine as he would be busy and full of
energy and enthusiasm the day before the
headache came and lasted 2 days
 Sleep HHM
• How does Psora sleep? He feels tired in the morning
because during the night he is thinking about his
problems, about everything he has to do, he worries,
“how is my bank account?, “ what will I say to my
mother”, “should I do one thing or the other”. The
thinking is boring and tiring but he cannot stop.. his
mind is going all noght , worrying how will he get
through the next day. he would like to have 10 hours of
sleep and even that is not enough. Henne Heudens Mast
• Also sleepless from intolerable itching
Clinical situations
 Lungs
• Asthma with dyspnoea > Lying down
•  > Stretching arms away from body 
• < Sitting up  < open air
• Cough every winter, chronic, of years
duration. 
• Asthma with hay fever
• Expectoration of green mucus < morning
difficult to expel
 Hay Fever
• Clarke “noted that Psorinum cured more cases of Hay fever than any other
single remedy in my practise, Many cases have a psoric basis, and when the
basic taint is corrected the irritating agents have no effect.”
• Kent-”In the early stages of the coryza he blows it all the time, but there is no
discharge or relief. This state is so marked that some think of it as a
continuous hay fever, which runs all the year and rippens up in the Fall.It is
closely related to hay fever; stuffing up of the nose in the Fall; catarrhal state
of the eyes and nose.
• Hay fever is one of the most difficult conditions to fit a remedy to. It belongs
to a low constitution which must be built up before the hay fever will cease.
• It is an expression of psora which comes once a year, and the psoric miasm
must be changed. In a few years most subjects can be changed, but not in
one season, so do not be disappointed. In catarrhal states, hay fever often
dates back to low fever improperly treated.”
 Hay Fever
• Richard Pitt- “The Hay fever symptoms of Psorinum are
very important. Intense seasonal hay fever often needs
Psorinum. especially if other remedies do not work or
fully cure. Often with hay fever not only are the local
symptoms intense but it seems to take over the whole
body, with feelings of despair and a feeling that it is
unbearable. The local symptoms are simply like Hay fever,
intense itching of the eyes, throat, nose and mouth and a
stuffed , plugged feeling in the nose with much discharge,
most important though is the despair and helplessness
brought about by the condition”
 NBWS
• Never Been well since…this could be unable to
recover after acute illness, pehaps many
people right now, stuggling to recover from
Corona virus could be helped by this.
• It is useful for anyone slow to recover their
health and strength and who feel desponsant
during convalescence
• it is also useful for debility after loss of fluids
 Ears
• Ear infections that wont go away. Putrid
ottorhoea and rupture of drum that refuses to
heal
• the skin around the ear can be rough, dry and
cracked and may even weep or ooze
• the Meatus of the ear may have eczema,
perhaps Seborrhoeic eczema which itches
intolerably and makes them want to poke things
onto their ears
 Headaches
• Awakens at night with pain as from blow on
head.
• Chronic headaches;
• Hungry during attacks; with vertigo.
• Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse,
change of weather.
• Dull, pressive pain in occiput.
 Psorinum -Eczema
• The skin always looks dirty, even after cleansing.. Scaly
eruptions are typically due to eczema, producing large areas
of weeping skin or itchy, scaly patches of skin that may
blister.
• Despair from itching which can become intolerable
Intolerable
• the Eczema may be prone to infection and suppuration,
producing a foul-smelling yellow discharge.Skin generally
unhealty
• eczema in and behind the ears
• Itching worse wool,heat of bed, washing and cold
 Acne
• Pus-filled pimples, Pimples often come to a
yellow head,appearing on the face, neck,
scalp, and hairline. Prevalence is especially
common in teenagers (acne vulgaris) and
middle-aged women (acne rosacea) when the
face and nose have a high colour with
vascularity , often worse for coffee and spicy
food.
 Women
• Amenorrhoea
• Fetid leucorrhoea with Debility
• Leucorrhoea with Backache
• period to late and scanty
• Obstinate vomiting of pregnancy that will not
yield to any other remedy
 Post Misscarriage
• When a woman has passed through an abortion
(Misscarriage) and the placenta has come away,
but every few days a little gush of fresh, bright
red blood and clots,
• or going days and weeks with a little oozing of
bright red blood;
• every time she gets on her feet there is a new
start of the flow; no tendency to permanent
recovery.
 Men- Kent
• Men: There is prostration in some Psorinum cases;
prostration of the genitals.
• It is not such an unusual thing in the female to have
aversion to sexual intercourse, but man is not often
subject to the complaints that cause aversion to coition.
• Yet we have in man as well as in the woman actual
aversion or a state of no enjoyment. He can perform
the act and he has no difficulty in obtaining an erection,
so it is not impotence, but there is no enjoyment.
Impotence comes later.
 Cancer
• A major study was done on the treatment of Cancer using
Psorinum 6x for two years
• The study was conducted by the Critical Cancer Management
Research Centre and Clinic (CCMRCC) situated in Kolkata of
West Bengal, India. The study started from June 2001 and
completed in July 2009. The study protocol was approved by
the Institutional Review Board (IRB approval Number: 2001–05)
of the CCMRCC in conformity with the World Medical
Association (WMA) declaration of Helsinki and it is subsequent
amendments and the ethical guidelines of the Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR) for the biomedical research on human
participants
 Cancer
• Regarding pancreatic cancer:
• 44 patients participated in the study with Psorinum
D6, 0,02 ml per kg body weight in the morning on
empty stomach. Survival after first year 34,
• after 2 years 28, after 3 years 27, after 4 years 21,
and after 5 years 17 of the patients were still alive,
equal to a 5-year survival of 39% - Probably the
highest ever recorded 5 yearr survival on
Pancreatic  Cancer published so far in medicine
history!!
 Psorinum For Cancer
• KOLKATA: Diagnosed with stage-IV pancreatic cancer in 2001, Minu
Dutta was in such an advanced stage of the disease that neither
surgery nor chemotherapy was possible, and her expected survival
was only about three months. As a last resort, she enrolled herself
into a clinical trial of psorinum therapy. Complete tumour
remission was observed within one year of treatment. After 10
years of diagnosis, she is still disease-free. “This is a new life for
me,” she gushed with relief.
• Psorinum therapy is an active-immunotherapeutic anti-cancer
treatment against six types of cancer – liver, gall bladder, stomach,
pancreatic, lung and oesophagus. The key medicine is Psorinum 6x
– a diluted alcoholic extract of pus found in scabies vesicles. The
medicine is liquid in form and administered orally.
 Psorinum for Cancer
• “According to the pre-clinical data, Psorinum 6x activates different
immune-effector cells, for instance T-cells, and accessory cells like
macrophages, dendritic cells and natural killer cells that can trigger
a complex anti-tumor immune response,” explains Dr Aradeep
Chatterjee, who is also the research director of the Critical Cancer
Management Research Centre, Kolkata.
• Kashinath Saha’s case was very similar to Dutta’s. In 2003, he
learnt that he had stage-IV lung cancer and was told that his
expected survival was only about five months. “I had given up on
life. I couldn’t afford the expensive chemo and everything. So I
thought this is the end.” He was one of the 95 lung cancer patients
who participated in another of three clinical trials on Psorinum
Therapy. “I am now cancer-free and leading a normal life,” he
added.
 Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Psorinum in the treatment of Non Small Cell Lung
Cancer(NSCLC)
• In another phase 11 open level, single arm and single stage
study performed by Chaterjee et al, 95 participants were
included
• According to the AJCC TNM staging system, 58 (61.05%) of
them diagnosed at stage IV. (73.68%) survived at least 2 yrs,
58 (61.05%) survived at least 3 yrs, 49 (51.58%) survived at
least 4 yrs, and 42 (44.21%) of them survived at least 5 yrs.
• These participants did not receive chemotherapy, radiation
therapy, or any other investigational cancer treatments.
Participants reported no side effects from the drug psorinum.
 Thyroid
Underactive Thyroid Psorinum
• Chilly. vital lack of heat • Chilly Vital lack of heat
• Tired, loss of energy • Tired, loss of energy
• Not firing on all • Not firing on all
cylinders cylinders
• Constipation • Constipation
• Dry Skin • Dry Skin
• General Undefunction • General Underfunction
 The Elderly
• It is a remedy we can consider for the elderly. when
someone lives into their 80’s or 90’s it is obvious that
they come from Psoric stock
• when elderly people start to become, slow and tired this
can help. if they are slow to recover from colds or flu.
• we start to underfunction with age- our Hearts function
at bout 70%, our Kidneys filter less effectively, we
metabolise and excrete less well- perhaps a dose of good
old Psorinum will bring back a little bit more energy and
function