Summary of Miasms with List of Remedies Covering Various Miasms as per Dr. Sankaran’s Classification.
Reproduced from the book Sankaran’s Schema
| Miasm–> | ACUTE | TYPHOID | PSORA | RINGWORM (between psora & sycosis) | MALARIA (between acute & sycosis) |
| Depth, Pace and Perception | · Sudden, great danger; · Acute, intense threat; · Threat is too big, violent and sudden · Do or die! · Critical | · Bed is sinking; · Losing position of comfort; · Sudden loss or business failure; · Dangerous, risky, urgency; · Sudden, intense; · Critical, life threatening, short lived situation; · Acute, hopeful if concentrated effort is put in. But it is still critical and life threatening. | · Problem is solvable; · Optimism; · Effort is needed, but is within one’s capacity; | · A difficult situation beyond easy reach; · Doubts about success; · Hope alternating with giving up. Yet it is not fatal and he can live with it. | · Stuck and intermittently attacked; · Limited; · Unfortunate; · Imprisoned; · Dependent; · An underlying chronic fixed weakness; |
Success
R E A C T I O N S
Failure | · Escape · Instinctive reaction · Besides oneself · Violent · Strong · Urgent | · Intense, short effort; · Do or die; · Impatience, demanding, taking chances, recovering lost ground; · Reaching position of comfort; · Grab it all right now! · Concentrated effort and struggle; | · Making the effort; · Getting it done. | · Alternating between struggle and resignation; · Trying | · Accepting his limits, not fighting them; · Intermittent attacks of anger, paroxysms of rage; |
| · Panic · Shocked · Stupefied · Immobile | · Collapsed, inactive; · Has given up the struggle; · Sinking; · No effort; · No action of will. | · Given up easily; · Despair of recovery; · Lack of self-confidence. | · Gives up hope; · Sits inactive; · No more tries. · Unsuccessful efforts; | · Lamenting nothing is good; · Miserable; · Phobic, paroxysmal fears; · Sentimental; · Brooding. · Day dreaming; | |
Pattern and Picture | · Comes suddenly, last short time, ends suddenly, either in death or recovery. . Bomb explodes · Earthquake. | · Concentrated effort followed by rest; . House on fire; · Crash in stock market; | · Continuous struggle; . A teenager learning to drive; | . Periods of effort alternating with periods of inactivity. . Man with fear of water learning how to swim; · Woman in her thirties trying to lose weight. | . Sudden, acute manifestations which come up from time to time followed by periods of quiescence. Dependent; · Employee of an irate boss. |
Attitude | · Childlike, instinctive, violent; · Helpless; · Run for your life; · Once the danger has passed you are safe again. | · If somehow you come out of the crisis, all is fine; if you do not, you are sunk; · Childlike; | · If I make the effort I can do it; · Hopeful and must struggle to maintain position; | · I shall try; if I succeed,it is good; if I fail, I just remain. · Sometimes the task seems possible and he is hopeful and struggles to overcome it. Then after a while he feels that he is inadequate and will not succeed. So he gives up. | · You have to bear it because you are limited and therefore dependent. · Unfortunate, stuck, hindered obstructed and from time to time subject to acute attacks. |
Age | · Infancy. | · Childhood (1-12) | · Teenage. | · 25 – 35 years. | · Child to middle age. |
Game | · Peek-a-boo; · Thrown up in the air and caught. | · Hide and seek; | · Skateboard; · Football. | · Snakes and ladders. | · Blind man’s bluff |
Pathology | · Panic attacks; · Sudden manifestations; · Apoplexy; Mania; Fever | · Sub acute problems; · Crisis | · Functional pathologies | · Herpes | · Migraine; neuralgia; worms; colic; colitis; rheumatisms; meniere’s disease; asthma. |
Remedies | · Aconitum; Belladona; Stramonium; Veratrum album; Hydrogen; Lithium Carbonicum; Lyssin. | · Nux vomica; Rhus tox; Bryonia; Baptisia; Phos. acidum; Carbo veg. | · Sulphur; Psorinum; Calcarea carbonica; Lycopodium; Cuprum metallicum. | · Calcarea sulphurica; Ringworm; Calcarea silicata; Magnesium sulphuricum; Lac humanum. | China; Spigelia; Natrum muriaticum; Colocynthis; Cina; Capsicum; Lac defloratum. |
| Miasm–> | SYCOSIS | CANCER | TUBERCULAR | LEPROSY | SYPHILIS |
| Depth, Pace and Perception | · There is a fixed, weak spot within me which I must cover up or hide. · Weakness is irremediable. · It is not fatal, but it is fixed and he will have to accept it and live with it. | · Task is beyond my limits; · Things out of control; all get destroyed if I do not keep control; · Chaos; · Breaking away. · Everything around him is chaotic and he is too small to gain control over the chaos as there is a fixed weakness within him. · Rapid; · Destructive; · Desperate with very little hope of succeeding, but it is not altogether hopeless. | · Caught, suffocated; · Compressed; · Gap is narrowing; · Time is short; · Intense oppression; · Very rapid and destructive; · Desperate desire for change; · Desperate with very little hope of breaking free; | · Hunted down: · Isolated; · Poisoned; · Destroyed; · Dirty, disgusting; · Unfortunate; · Displaced, pushed into a corner. · Rapid and destructive; · Desperately desires a very radical change to overcome the oppression but there is almost no hope of succeeding. | · The situation is beyond salvage and there is no hope; · Task is far beyond my capacity; · Have committed an unpardonable crime; · Highest and sole responsibility. · No hope; · Destructive; · Great desperation; |
Success
R E A C T I O N S Failure | . Acceptance; . Keep fixed, weak spot hidden from the view of others; · Cover up; · Hiding; · Fixed ideas; · Ritualistic behaviour; · Hypersensitive reaction to many things, so restricted life. | · In order to gain control over the chaos he must make a superhuman effort and stretch himself far beyond his limited capacity. · Total control on self and surroundings; · Perfectionist. · Fastidious. | · Hectic activity; · Put in all efforts to change/break free/to get out from the oppression. | · Avoids sight of people; · Shuts himself up; · Contemptuous. · Violence; | · Taking it on; · Doing the utmost; · Desperate, last ditch effort or despair. · High position leader, king. |
| · Guilt; · Remorse; · Self-reproach; · Being exposed. | · Everything is going out of control and I can do nothing. | · Burnt out, going towards total destruction. | · Suicidal; · Homicidal; · Tears himself; · Bites; · Despair. | · Complete despair; · Homicide, suicide; · Self destructive like alcoholism; · Catatonic, withdrawal, total indifference. | |
Pattern and Picture | · Fixed · Person practicing without proper qualification. | . Trying to gain control over a situation that is far beyond his capacity. Demanding too much of himself. . A child of alcoholic parents – her world is chaotic. | If he has to come out of this intense oppression there must be a change which may be radical and violent, and for this hectic activity is required. A man trapped in a very narrow tunnel. | He is doomed and so he can do nothing about it so he gives up. A paralyzed incontinent, old man. | The situation is completely out of his reach. But he must make a last ditch, desperate attempt to come out of it even though there is no hope of succeeding. The captain of a sinking ship. |
Attitude | · I cannot change but I will not let others see my weakness. · I cannot do anything about it, so I must accept it and live with it. · I am okay so long as I am able to cover it up. | · Small person with huge task to keep things in total control. | · Time is short; too much to be done in too little time. | · I am an outcaste; there is no hope to be normal; I should isolate myself; disgust for oneself. | · The task is hopeless, but let me do the best I can. |
Age | · 35 – 50 years. | · 60 – 70 years | · 60 – 70 years | · Old Age | · Beyond 80 years. |
Game | · Poker | · Juggling on a tight-rope; | · Beat-the-clock. | · Sadism and perversion; | · Playing chess with the computer |
Pathology | · Asthma; · Warts; · Neuroses; | · Cancer; | · Tuberculosis; · Asthma | · Gangrene; · Paralysis. | · Ulcers; · Heart attack; · Psychoses; · Paralysis |
Remedies | · Thuja; Lac caninum; Natrum sulphuricum; Sabadilla; Pulsatilla; Medorrhinum; Silicea. | · Carcinosinum; Staphysagria; Conium; Arsenicum; Ignatia; Nitricum acidum; Kalium arsenicum; Anacardium. | · Bacillinum; Drosera; Calcarea phosphorica; Phosphorus; Tarentula; Abrotanum. | · Secale cornutum; Aloe; Hura; Coca; Leprominimum; Curare; Solanum tuberosum aegrotans; Iodum; Falco-p. | · Syphillinum; Aurum; Plumbum; Platinum; Hepar sulphuricum calcarea; Dendroaspis polylepsis. |
Miasms and Their Remedies
| Acute | acon., aconin., aether, agath-a.,apom.,arbu., arn., ayah., bad., bell., berbin., beryl., bor., brucin., camph., cactin., calen., chlol., chlor., choc., coffin., conin., crot-t., digin., diosin., diph., elat., fic-i., glon., heli., hydr-ac., hydrog., hyosin.,hyper., lepi., lith., lyss., meli.,menthol., morph., morph-s., muscin., narcot., nicot., oena., pyrus., stram., stry., verat. | |
| Typhoid | abel., acet-ac., acon-ac., aeth., ail., amyg-am., anan., arge., arum-t., bapt., benz-ac., bor-ac., botul., bry., camph-ac., carb-ac., carb-an., carb-v., carn-g., cham., chr-ac., chrys-ac., cit-ac., euphr., form-ac., fumar-ac., gall-ac., gaul., glut-ac., hell., hip-ac., hydr-ac., hydrobr-ac., hyos., ip., lac-ac., lycps., mal-ac., manc., mur-ac., nux-m., nux-v., ox-ac., par., petr., ph-ac., pic-ac., podo., pyrog., rheum, rhus-t., rib-ac., sarcol-ac., sin-n., sul-ac., tann-ac., tart-ac., ter., thio-ac., ur-ac., verat-v., visc. | |
| Psora | calc., cob., cupr., ferr., graph., kali-c., lyc., nat-c., nicc., psor., sulph | |
| Ringworm | act-sp., aegle., amyg-p., asim., calc-s., calc-sil., chrysar., dulc., fagu., goss., kali-s., lac-h., mag-s., opun-v., pseuts-m., rhus-v., ringw., sanguin-n., sars.,sin-a., tarax., teucr., upa., vero-o., viol-t. | |
| Malaria | abies-n., abrom-aug., am-c., am-m., ang., arum-m., berb., bol-e., cact., cann-s., caps., casc., cedr., chel., chelo., chin., chin-b., chin-m., chin-s., chin-sal., cina, colch., coll., coloc., dios., eup-per., iber., kali-m., kalm., lac-d., lysim., mag-m., magn-gr., merl., myric., nat-m., polyp-p., prun., ran-b., ran-s., rose., rhus-r., rob., sarr., spig., sumb | |
| Sycotic | ant-c., asaf., bov., calc-br., calad., calc-br., calc-f., cann-i., caul., caust., cinnam., coch., cop., croc., dig., fab., gamb., gels., helon., hipp., kali-bi., kali-br., kali-n., lac-c., lac-cpr., lac-del., lac-f., lac-lup., lam., lil-t., luf-op., mang., mag-c., mangi., mati., med., nat-s., pall., pip-n., polyst., ptel., puls., rhod., sabad., sang., senec., sil., thuj., til., trib., yohim. | |
| Cancer | agar., agn., anac., anh., ant-ar., arg-ar., arg-n., ars., ars-br., ars-met., ars-n., ars-s-f., asar., aster-r., aur-ar., bar-ar., bar-n., bell-p., cadm., calc-ar., carc., chim., chin-ar., cit-l., cob-n., con., cund., cupr-ar., euph., ferr-ar., gali., gast., germ., ichth., ign., kali-ar., lev., lob., mag-ar., merc-ar., mez., nat-ar., nit-ac., op., orni., oxal., phys., pip-m., plb-ar., raja-s., ruta, sabin., scroph-n., staph., tab., thlaspi., ulm., valer., viol-o., zinc-ar | |
| Tubercular | abrot., acal., agra., ant-t., aphis., apis, apisin., aran., aran-ix., aran-s., arg-p., atro., aur-p., avic., bac., bals-p., bar-p., bcg., bomb-chr., bomb-pr., brom., calc-p., canth., canthin., cere-b., cimic., cimx., cist., cit-v., coc-c., cocci-s., coff., culx., dor., dros., ferr-p., form., gall-p., guai., helo., jug-c., kali-p., kreos., lac-eq., lat-h., lat-k., lat-m., lith-p., mag-p., mosch., mygal., myris., nat-p., ol-j., ped., phel., phos., pix., plb-p., prun-c., pulx., scol., spong., stann., succ-a., tarent., tarent-c., tela., teucr-s., ther., thiosin., triat., trom., tub., tub-a., tub-d., tub-k., tub-lar., tub-m., tub-r., tub-sp., ust., verb., vesp., zinc | |
| Leprosy | adam., aloe, am-i., ambr., ant-i., arg-i., arist-cl, ars-i., astac., aur-i., bar-i., blatta., blatta-a., cadm-i., caesal., calc-i., cast-v., cere-s., cic., coca, cocain., cod., com., cub., cur., cycl., falco-p., ferr-i., fum., grat, helod-c., hom., hura, hydr., hydrc., inul., iod., kali-i., kola., lact., lappa., laur., led., lepro., lith-i., mag-i., mand., nat-i., oci-s., raph., ratt-r., rhus-g., sec., sep., sol-t-ae., thea., xan. | |
| Syphilitic | agki-p., alum.,anag., androc., atra-r., aur., aur-m., aur-s., bar-c., berb-a., bism., biti-a., both-a., both-l., bufo, bung-c., bung-f., buth-aust., cench., clem., corian., cory., crat., crot-c., crot-h., dao-r., dendro-p., echi., echis-c., elaps., fl-ac., franc., hepar-s., ho., hydrc., jab., jug-r., lac-leo., lach., lant., lath., lept, maia-l., merc., merc-i-f., merc-i-r., merc-p., naja., naja-n., nep., note-s., orig., osm., oxyu-m., oxyu-s., passi., plat., plb., plut., pol., psil., rhen., scorp., sel., still., syph., tant., thal., tung., vip., vip-a., vip-d., vip-r |
