Editorial June 2014

Syphilitic Miasm Explored

Dr Hahnemann considered syphilitic miasm only next to psora. Hahnemann

noted that Syphilis and Sycosis contributed perhaps 1/8 of the cases of chronic
disease he was seeing in the 1820's.

In 1789 - a year before Hahnemann's "eureka" experiment with Cinchona bark

which launched his explorations of homeopathy - Hahnemann wrote a booklet,
Instructions for Surgeons respecting venereal diseases, together with a new
mercurial preparation - in which he introduced a mercurial preparation for the
treatment of syphilis (which later became adapted to homeopathic use as the
Mercurius solubilis of our practice), and meticulously described the venereal
infections seen in his day.

He very clearly described 3 distinct venereal diseases, each in great detail -

"Trippen" (German for "drip") - characterized by a purulent urethral/cervical

discharge; which likely encompassed what we know today as gonorrhea,
Chlamydia and the nonspecific urethritis;

Syphilis - characterized by the well-known primary chancre;

Fig-wart disease - characterized by pedunculated fig-like or cocks-comb-like

genital lesions; which we recognize today as condyloma accuminata, or HPV
(human papilloma virus). He later described this disease as "Sycosis" ("fig-
like," from the Greek "sykon" for fig).

I'm emphasizing this here, for two purposes -

[1] to recognize Hahnemann's cleverness in discerning the distinctions between

Syphilis and Sycosis (fig-wart disease), which formed the basis of two of his
chronic miasmatic diseases;

1
[2] to emphasize that Sycosis (fig-wart disease) is not gonorrhea - but rather is a
distinct venereal disease (which, from Hahnemann's detailed description of it,
we can easily recognize to be condyloma accuminata, or HPV/human papilloma
virus infection).

There is no real mistaking of this - Hahnemann described both conditions quite

clearly, and his description of Sycosis is clearly distinct from his equally
detailed description of "Trippen" (which encompasses the disease we today call
gonorrhea). This becomes centrally important when we take up the study of the
Sycotic miasm. There is much confusion regarding this in our literature, which
frequently equates Sycosis erroneously with the disease we today call
Gonorrhea - and contributes to the confusion that Hahnemann predicted in his
prophetic letter to Stapf.

The syphilitic diathesis stems from a contagious and destructive organism.

Syphilis is the miasmatic cause of cellular degeneration, deformities, and
congenital defects in children. According to Hahnemann, the founder of
homeopathy, the syphilitic diathesis can be traced back to antecedent of
syphilis.

Going back to syphilitic miasm you will see this when you will read Bogers
introduction of the remedy syphilinum."Far-away feeling: says he is not himself
and he cannot feel like himself, with apathy and indifference to future…loss of
memory, does not remember faces, names, events, places etc., but remembers
everything previous to his disease…anti social, aversion to company".

Dr. Kent further adds

 A looser.

 Catatonic behaviour

 Committed an unpardonable crime.

 Homicide or suicide.

 Self destructive, like alcoholism, drug dependence.

2
  There is hopelessness.

 There is no will no hope not a single chance.

 Things are going beyond my capacity.

 Total despair

 Total indifference.

You can recognize the syphilis individual by the malformation and ulceration of
his bones. He has a big head, big lips, poor eyesight, crocked nose, and crocked
teeth. He is the descendant of past generations of alcohol, drugs, and sexual
abuse. He inherited a metabolic imbalance which predisposes him to destructive
and ulcerative disorders of the mucus, brain, bones and spinal cord. It is the
diathesis of difficult growth and congenital defects. His deforming body has a
tendency towards repeated infections. The intense burning pain in his bones gets
worse the moment he goes to bed. All sores tend to perforate deep down into the
tissue which ulcerates and bleed. The Syphylitic stigmata affects his mind. He is
immature, stubborn, and violent. He has a desire to destroy things, to kill
himself and others.

The most important symptom I see in my patient is dullness. Dullness with

difficult to comprehend, dullness with difficult concentration. Hence, syphilitic
children are extremely poor in math’s, physics, languages etc.It is not that they
are lazy but they really try their level best to study and understand and work
hard.

Another important aspect is forgetfulness. They can’t remember a word which

was told to them just few hours back. They appear totally blank and
expressionless when asked what they read few hours ago. It’s a sort of
emptiness, blankness within their memory.(early Alzheimer's degeneration)

Syphilitic patient are quiet- they don’t disclose much information. They do not
want to talk about themselves. They are closed, reserved, when you talk with
these individuals you will feel a sort of emotional silence, they are laconic and
will hardly speak few words.

3
Syphilitic patient have a very poor understanding of themselves, there is so to
say a wall between an individual and his true self. They are poor judge of their
feelings and sensations. I have seen many women with broken marriages who
made the biggest blunder of their life by marrying a person who appears very
calm, quiet and silent from outside-these qualities were mistaken as quality of a
wise man to know that quietness and calmness was rather reflection of absence
of feelings and emotions.

With the syphilis miasm the person is unable to be themselves because they
have begun to hate themselves. With this they are understandably very sensitive
to being disliked by others around them. We find this feeling of being hated also
in the following symptoms;Enemy, considers everyone (Merc-sol).

Suspicious talking about her, people are,Delusion laughed at mocked, being .

Most of the remedies belonging to syphilitic miasm come from row 6 of the
periodic table of elements.

 Caesium

 Barium

 Lanthanum

 Cerium

 Neodymium

 Hafnium

 Tantalum

 Tungsten

 Rhenium

 Osmium

 Iridium

 Platinum
4
  Gold

 Mercury

 Thallium

 Lead

 Bismuth

 Polonium

 Radon

The main feeling common to the remedies derived from this row

being hated with lot of hatredness, powerlessness.

With the syphilis miasm the hate of oneself is an expression of non-acceptance

of self.

Many syphilitic patients keeps quiet does not do much conversation and they
stare at distant objects. or may stare at the T.V without understanding a word of
it. Such type of dullness chiefly stems from cutting themselves off from their
innermost feelings . Syphilitic patient do not trust themselves and their abilities
completely, as a result they keep on washing their hands frequently thinking
that it has not been washed properly or they may check and recheck. If the
computer is switched off, whether the safety alarm is switched off or on,
whether the cylinder of the gas is on or off.

In an extent this behaviour could be a compulsive behaviour but this compulsive

behaviour chiefly arises from fear of danger and that is the reason why they
keep on washing their hands frequently as they feel there are some bacteria and
dirt collected on hands which may go inside their body and make them sick.
Now this could be a fastidious behaviour also, but remember fastidious
behaviour in syphilitic patient is always due to fear of danger/damage to one’s
own self as compared to fastidiousness of a psoric individual who wants to do

5
the best because in the eyes of other he would like to have a high opinion of
himself.

The basic fear of syphilitic person is of two types- either

1. They feel danger from others e.g. somebody is going to

-kill me,

-murder me,

-hurt me,

-attack me

-somebody is following me to harm me.

This is quite contrast to psoric person who has the fear of getting poor or
losing his possessions.

2. The second fear is that they feel extremely afraid of themselves doing
something wrong. Here they may get strong impulses, ideas, and thoughts
which are self destructive in nature.

I remember an old patient who used to always wear a solar hat

even in winter days and wank into my clinic. And when I asked him, he
answered that, these days there are lot of UFO’S which come down from
the sky and can hit my head as a result I will be killed.

(Delusion – will be murdered – Mercury)

Syphilitic patients though appear calm and cool, from outside, yet
they develop thoughts of being killed, or to kill somebody or to murder
somebody. These thoughts may not be expressed in the first few
consultations but gradually as you treat the patients they may suddenly
feel an urge to express their hidden fears. These fears are so annoying to
the patients that they feel guilty and bad to express. E.g. once a mother
who had strong syphilitic miasm told me that she is so tired of this routine
domestic life that she feels like killing all her children and then finally
kill herself. Some mothers during their period of lactation have expressed
that they get sudden fears that they will strangulate their child or a

6
 husband has confessed to me that even though he loves his wife very
dearly, in night he gets a thought of killing her.

Why do you feel these patients have these fears?

The reason is that somewhere down the family tree somebody had
a syphilis which was suppressed by anti biotic and local application.
These fears of killing and murder get precipitated when they see knife or
any sharp instrument.

Males with their endogenous depression and maniac depressive

sycosis can suffer from worst syphilitic depression. Unfortunately, most
of them are being treated by anti-depressive drugs like Lithium and MAO
inhibitors. This does not cure syphilitic depression. This makes the
depression stronger as a result, they may develop serious life threatening
fears of being killed, murdered or they would like to kill somebody. As a
resident in the city of Bombay for the last 50 yrs, I have read in
newspapers about serial killers who kill innocent people on the roadside
with a sharp instrument like a hammer, rod, knife etc.

Only a right homoeopathic medicine which is anti-syphilitic in

nature can cure a syphilitic depression of such kind.

Violence is very closely associated with syphilis. People who have strong
syphilitic miasm enjoy violence in every form. They glue themselves on
television programmes and cinema halls which project horror, violence, crime,
murder.

This makes them very happy as when they see such violence, they get
thrill at the same time they learn from such movies how to protect themselves if
they are in such a situation.

This in quite contrast to a psoric person who will cover their face with
hands when they see violence in the movies or they may just not see such
movies. The way violent movies attract Syphilitic patients, similarly story books
/ novels which have violence and horror are frequently read by syphilitic
patients.

Another good way to learn about the person’s miasm is to have a glance
at his profession. Let’s take an example of a mafia – what does he do? He
7
exhorts money from people at the gun point and when money is not given, he
does cold blooded murder.

Another e.g. could be breaking the house, robbing the valuables and
finally murdering young and innocent. Can psoric patients do this? Definitely
not!!

In India, we have a death sentence i.e. to be hanged till death, the person
who is responsible to tie a rope around the neck of the criminal and then slide
the gear so that the victim is hanged; this involves lot of courage to witness such
a gruesome act. Persons apply for such jobs are syphilitic. People who work in
slaughter houses and can kill innocent animals, like goat, sheep, and cow are
also syphilitic. (Butchers). Basically all butchers are syphilitic. They need to
sharpen their skills with knives and choppers.

People who work in police are known to torture the accused so that they
vomit all the information. The type of torture includes chipping of the nails,
beating with a iron rod on the soles of the feet etc. such type of heinous act can
only be done by a syphilitic patient. Hence all policemen are syphilitic patients.

Even the professional gangsters, robbers are all syphilitic as they are
constantly engaged in killing people at the gun point. They exhort money, plant
a bomb- most of the criminal activities takes place in the dark hours of night
and syphilitic people are always active at night.

Syphilitic people are known to keep secrets and hide their own self.
Hence, another profession for these people in working in secret services/spy/
detective agencies.

Syphilitic patients tend to be a victim of psychotropic drugs and alcohol.

This is true for tubercular and sycotic miasm also. Although the differentiation
lies in how they behave under the influence. E.g. of a man who is under a strong
influence of hashish. Under this influence if he desires to end his life / suicidal
or wants to kill / homicidal then he is syphilitic. If he develops a heightened
sexual desire then he is tubercular. If he becomes sad, gloomy, dull, and lazy
under the effect of hashish then he is sycotic.

Syphilitic patient cannot bear insults, humiliations, injustice in any

form. They slowly develop hatred for that person and they gradually plan
to take revenge.
8
 Sometimes these syphilitic tendencies are so strong that after insult
or humiliation the person becomes dull and quiet and over a period of
time he commits cold blood murder that is murdering without any
aggression or violence.

Syphilitic people cannot forgive others and they live with the
feeling of hatred and malice e.g. when you see the rubric Hatred you will
see syphilitic remedies- Aurum, Fluoric acid, Lachesis, Nitric acid. When
you study the sub rubrics there are rubrics like

-Hatred, and bitter feelings for slightest offence- Angustura.

During depression the syphilitic person are quiet and calm. It will
be most difficult to bring out from their mouth the real cause of the grief.
The grief eats away the person slowly and slowly driving the person to
the last stage of committing suicide.

Syphilitic people love brooding about their own grief and hiding
their true feelings. It is not difficult to see some people who are so quiet,
lonely and nice to others and one fine day you read in newspaper that
they took a gun and shot themselves.

When one studies the rubric Anarchist, protesting, fanatism, drugs

like Mercury, Lachesis, are represented which are purely syphilitic. How
does one become Anarchist or revolutionary?

It is over a period of time that these people visualize and

experience feeling of injustice, they hide and suppress his feeling but in
their mind they plan revenge/ revolution and one fine day start their own
political party in a revolutionary manner.

Syphilitic patients are isolated, lonely and depressed. They are

absolutely out of touch from their true feelings. They are also isolated
from their family, friend and society. Loneliness and darkness are their
strongest pillars of syphilitic patients. A syphilitic patient hardly
communicates and is mile away from care, luxury, affection, caresses,
kissing, hugging, etc.

Many times in the morning when I go for my morning walks, I see

couples who walk with me on the sea face but they do not communicate
9
while walking nor do they look at each other faces, as if two strangers are
walking.

This I will call a sort of indifferent towards others as well as

towards their own self. They are extremely careful not to give air to their
hidden, suppressed emotions; hence most of the syphilitic remedies hate
sympathy and consolation.

Mind –consolation agg-Aurum, Merc, Nitric Acid, Syphilinum

When you observe a syphilitic person in your clinic, you will see
that many times they behave like a statue- words come out without
emotions, they are not well dressed; meeting such patients you may not
get good vibrations. The homoeopathic history from such patient has got
scanty data. Also syphilitic patients are known to keep with them
dangerous items like guns, knives etc in their pocket. They love to wear
metallic chain around their waist, sometimes resembling a macho man.

Syphilitic patients are not at all bothered about their life, and hence
they take excessive risk-street fighting, hooliganism, perverted sex,
prostitution, gambling, drinking and driving, inflicting pain on himself
and the partner during sexual intercourse, all this type of sadistic
activities.

It is the syphilitic patients who love to pierce their body at various

places with different types of metals, rings, etc

In today’s world every weekend one can see parties in beach

resorts, five , hotels, pubs and private places, typically organized in a
syphilitic way, the reason is that in such parties one finds boozing till you
are dead drunk, aggression, naked shows, perverted sex, excessive
gambling, shouting and fighting. This is in contrast to a psoric party
where there is playing games’, singing, dancing, etc.

Self mutilation i.e. trying to bite, cut, scratch or inflict pain on

oneself is a hall mark symptom of syphilitic miasm. They have no
respect/ love for their body. The current trend of piercing various part of
the body with metallic rings has many facets. A psoric person may do this
occasionally only to be accepted by the group whereas a sycotic/
tubercular does this purely to attract attention and be part of the trend
10
whereas a syphilitic patient has no love for his body a sort of self neglect.
This is in a way a low grade depression.

I have many times seen syphilitic person wearing extremely gaudy

torn, repulsive clothes wear some of them even wear chains, locks around
their waist, most of them are attracted towards black colour, they are
psychologically extremely depressed and they live a life of misery.

Syphilitic patients will not usually share their pain and hurt others;
instead they suffer silently and may turn suicidal. Their life is usually a
big secret. Syphilitics usually have a very disturbed sleep either due to
pain or because of dark depression. They are restless if they are infant,
they cry throughout night, roll from side to side, even psoric people are
restless and anxious and finally become restless but they are usually
worried about their future, finances and these thoughts are quite
disturbing for a peaceful sleep.

Even the dreams of syphilitic are quiet destructive like murder,

violence, fighting, diseases, suffering or being persuaded by a person who
wants to attack.

Sexual perversions like incest, rape and sexual abuse is very

syphilitic. In the last one decade of my practice, I have witnessed many
hidden sexual destructive behaviour in my patients during their case
analysis. There are patients who have expressed their desire to have sex
with animal or have violent sex or some have even kidnapped children to
have sex with them. Some people have almost strangulated their partners
at height of orgasm as it gives them lot of stimulation.

Alcoholism, drug addiction that runs in families and generation are

purely syphilitic in nature. Also, having addiction or passion for gambling
like horse racing, Russian Rouleux, cards, etc, addiction to pain killers,
sleeping tablets, tobacco, can also be syphilitic.

Some Physical Generals:-

Syphilitic patients are at their worst from 6 pm to 6 am –sunset to

sunrise. They usually sleep all day and are quite awake, restless and in
11
agony throughout the night if they are sick. This trait can aggravate to
such an extent that the person may dread of night.

Psoric patients also have night aggravation but this is only limited
to skin complaint like itching of skin, biting, burning or flushing of skin.

Syphilitic patients during night may have different kind of

neuralgia from simple migraine to pains of cancer. Bone, joints, heart,
brain are the important areas of agony.e.g syphilitic bone pains which is
usually described as sensation as if knife is scrapped on bone or sensation
of excessive coldness and chill in the bones or severe cramps and spasms
in the muscles which wakes the patient from the sleep or epileptic attacks
that come during sleep at night are syphilitic.

Thermoregulatory wise syphilitic patients are sensitive to weather

changes but you cannot call them extremely chilly like most of the psoric
remedies. They usually cannot tolerate excess of heat/cold.

Syphilitic perspiration is very offensive, it may smell like cows

dung or horse’s urine or it may smell like an animal. Any normal
discharge like urine, perspiration, stool, menses that ameliorate psora will
surely aggravate all syphilitic persons.

While Psora desires sweets, rich and fatty foods, syphilitic people
desire meat like Ham, bacon, lamb, tandoori chicken or meat or smoked
meat.(A dead meat)

Natural discharges such as perspiration may ameliorate psoric

person but surely aggravate a syphilitic person. Syphilitic individuals are
not very bright smart/ active like psoric / tubercular. They are rather dull
and disconnected. In fact they love in a different world. Where they are
not in position to understand their inner needs. Most of the destructive
processes are silent and hidden in syphilis and this comes as a surprise
many times to the patient.

E.g. A man who sleeps in the night wakes up suddenly with a severe
chest pain and perspiration only to be later diagnosed as an extensive M.I
ultimately leading to death, till previous night the man was hale and
hearty but next morning he is declared dead. He never had cardiac pain
before, this is how the syphilitic patient presents where the destructive
12
processes are hidden and quiet and one fine day they come up on surface
without any prior warning.

Another example would be a women who never had any problem

with her menses suddenly complaints of minor blood stained discharge on
her panties, when the gynaec puts her on examination it was discovered
she had a grade 3 Ca cervix with extensive pelvic metasis. All this
scientifically is few months old stories but unfortunately the women
never had any symptoms.

In paedetric age group I have often seen a child who suddenly

complains of a dental neuralgia which ends up into falling of teeth and
examination by dentists revealed extensive caries of root and multiple
teeth which was quiet hidden and unknown.

Another example would be a man who sleeps in night hale and

hearty only to wake up next day with stroke. I have seen in my life that
the emotions that are suppressed they usually expressed in the form of
degeneration like Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, or it comes out
in form of severe destruction, e.g. infarction, thrombosis, embolism.
Many patients who are using sleeping tablets for years they usually land
up with memory disorders in old age and some may even develop
Alzheimer’s.

In respiratory organs, syphilitic asthma or syphilitic cold presents

with night aggravation or breathlessness, difficult expectoration offensive
dark grayish expectoration, usually it has got some gross lung tissue when
you X-ray the lung you will see excessive destruction, when you scan
excessive destruction of alveoli is seen.

In syphilitic otitis media you will find offensive blood discharges

with sever necrosis of mastoid bone leading to premature deafness.(
psoric discharge-not so offensive, tubercular discharge- more bloody
from the beginning).

In syphilitic tonsillitis you will again see offensive discharge, high

fever, aggravation at night, offensive salivation, halitosis; the crypts of
the tonsils are quiet deep and sometimes can be gangrenous.

13
 The oral cavity in syphilitic patient is highly characteristic; one can
see deep chancre sores on the lips, gums. There can be ulcers inside of
cheek, tongue, gums-deep offensive and extremely painful at night with a
tendency to become gangrenous. Going near the mouth of the person
gives a rotten odour like a dead mouse. There will be excessive caries of
teeth –black malaligned with serrated edges.

In the G.I.T you will see lot of ulceration in stomach, duodenum,

intestines, the characteristic to that these ulcers are silent and only come
on surface suddenly and take the person into emergency department due
to perforation.

I have seen ulcers developing in G.I.T after suppressing ulcers in

mouth by local allopathic treatmnent.Cirrhosis of liver exhibits syphilitic
trait as the whole architecture if liver is replaced by fibrous tissue,
similarly part of the pathophysiology of D.M can also be syphilitic as the
cells of Islets of Langerhans are destroyed due to various reasons.

Syphilitic skin diseases are plenty the most important thing to

remember is they destroy the skin and eat away the tissues or there is
degeneration of the pigments or the absence of pigments-they all are a
syphilitic. Cracks, fissures, are all syphilitic hence, even a common warts
or corns that grow beneath the skin and keep destroying the surrounding
tissue is syphilitic. To some extent vitiligo is also syphilitic, (loss of
pigment)

Or all the eczemas where there is a formation of thick bloody crust

with ulceration, offensive discharge and severe painful cracks – also
cracks at the angle of the mouth or any muco-cutaneous junctions are also
syphilitic. A split in the nail is also syphilitic.

Hair loss especially premature balding that arises chiefly from the
fibrosis of the scalp after any infective skin disease or under the influence
of anti-cancerous drugs, sometimes partial patchy hair losses can also be
syphilitic.

The syphilitic face is highly characteristic:

- Scanty hair

14
- Nose may be too small ( Syphilis destroys bone and nose)

- Pointed sharp chin

- Lips are very thin

- Face is discoloured , dark brown

- Facial asymmetry with multiple congenital deformities

Many syphilitic patients believe that drinking alcohol helps them in their
physical problems but it actually destroys them. Alcohol in any form is
harmful to them.

Bone problem in syphilis includes Arthritis Deformans, Bone carries, Ca,

metastasis or congenital absence of vertebra, ribs, fingers. Even
pathological fractures are syphilitic. All the bone complaints are
aggravated at night with a sensation as if knife scrapped on the bone. The
reason for excessive destruction and necrosis in syphilis is purely due to –

-suppressed emotions

-secretive nature

-unexpressed feelings.

In most of the occasions where the bone is broken in syphilitic patients

that the trauma is too trivial. A simple mis-step, a simple turning or
twisting of hips causes fracture neck of femur. It’s not due to [poor
calcium intake at supplementing calcium to the patient, doesn’t help at all
.Only a pure anti-syphilitic remedy may help to cure the ailment.

Syphilitic people have got missing teeth, they have high arched palate,
gums are necrosed and swollen, the teeth are extremely loose, and they
frequently require consultation with ortho dentist because of the
malalignment.

Syphilitic newborn has a small head, look of an old person and is born
with multiple congenital anomalies. The maximum deformities are seen
in the ears, nose, and fingers. They cry excessively. Normally every child
cries but a Syphilitic child cries excessively and cannot be consoled in
anyway, they cry day and night. Even psoric children cry but they feel
15
better by carrying. Even sycotic child cry but the child is better by
rocking, bouncing but syphilitic children just cannot stop crying.

The perspiration is offensive, stinking, they have a Chinese nose with

Nose Bridge, and the nose constantly licks offensive, grayish brown
discharge. They develop recurrent pustular kerato conjunctivitis.
Syphilitic children cannot accept suppression from antibiotics and
vaccinations easily.e.g if you treat otitis media in a syphilitic child with
antibiotic the discharge will dry up but the child will develop nephritic
syndrome after few months or if you treat any infection on skin with an
antibacterial cream then the infection will go away but child will suffer
from severe syphilitic rheumatism.

A Syphilitic child is usually not extroverted like a psoric child they

make poor eye contact, sit alone, play alone and are usually depressed.

The anger, resentment and frustration in syphilis are very violent.

The violence is so strong that the physical injury may result from head;
thigh etc.They can also be extremely restless and may need use of
tranquilizers to calm them down. Sometimes they may indulge in
criminal activities.

Syphilitic miasm in children and infants –Usually birth of child

take place after a lot of abortions or still births or lot of congenitally
deformed children, they are born with tiny head, old looking face and
have one or more congenital deformities, the ear are usually ill formed
and distorted .The syphilitic newborn cry excessively without any reason
and cannot be quiten easily. (A psoric child need to be held, caressed and
carried, sycotic child needs to be bounce and patted.)

But Syphilitic child cannot be consoled under situation. The

mother becomes crazy and loses her sanity as she doesn’t know how she
can keep the child quiet. A Syphilitic newborn usually cries whole night
and day. But night is more characteristic. Same is for sleep they do not
have a sleeping pattern and are awake most of the time. One may not be
able to see a Syphilitic newborn laugh till he is 8-9 months old. For a very
long time one may not see any emotions in expressions what we
frequently see is apathy, a sort of a distance where you feel that you don’t
need any love any affections from others.
16
 They usually perspire more on scalp or near genitals which is
extremely offensive. The nails are deformed and during first few months
of life the child falls sick very easily due to different types of bacterial
and viral infections. The infection is usually focused in ears, nose and
eyes. The infection is characterized by offensive, dirty, yellow, grayish
discharge. With every immunization child reacts very vigorously. The
same is true with antibiotics. Many times I have seen in Syphilitic
children otitis media may be better with antibiotics but child becomes
restless or sleepless or tonsillitis is >with antibiotics but child becomes
dull in studies or sometimes after treatment with antibiotics so small
ailments a syphilitic child can develop a child can develop severe life
threatening diseases like kidney disorders, osteomyelitis, ulcers, and even
malignancy. Syphilitic child is basically a depressed child and not
extroverted like Tuberculinum and psoric child. The sadness is expressed
in quite expression of facial muscles and as well as eyes. They have
inability to play with other children and when he decides to play he may
quarrel very easily on trivial causes.

Since a Syphilitic child cannot express his emotions verbally, they

usually express in emotions like breaking, striking, punching, fighting,
etc. Many cases of ADHD can be can be Syphilitic who does not respond
to drug like Retalin, and they are most obstinate to any kind of treatment.
However, the disease is suppressed by strong drugs then following
illnesses have been observed in my practice.

 Moderate to severe Mental Retardation.

 Reading writing and learning Disorder.

 Motor skill Disorder: - Developmental co-ordination that is

subsequently below that expected given the person’s
chronological age. & measured intelligence.

 Communication disorder – expressive language disorder,

phonological disorder ( stuttering )

 Pervasive developmental disorder – Autistic disorder, Rett’s

disorder, Asperger’s disorder.

17
  Attention deficit and destructive behavior disorders-
oppositional defiant disorders.

 Tick’s Disorders, Tourelte’s disorders.

The bony pains are very severe at night what we typically

call growing pains. Tibia is most common bone which gets
affected. The child shrieks with pain in night but jumps and
plays during day time.

An abnormality in a Syphilitic child starts right from the day

of conception.

 Once sperm fertilizing multiple eggs or multiple

sperm fertilizing one egg there by producing multiple
pregnancies out of which only few can survive.

 Hydatid form mole is another example of Syphilitic

miasm.

 Abnormal presentation like breech presentation.

Transverse presentation.

 Cord around neck, foetal distress, maternal distress is

all part of Syphilitic miasm.

 Cleft palate, supernummary toes and fingers, Spina

bifida, Situs invertus, dextro cardia, Biliary Artesia,
Crigglar Najjar’s syndrome, Dubin Johnson
syndrome, Tetralogy of Fallots are few abnormalities
in Syphilitic child.

If there is a strong family history of following disease it indicates familial

syphilitic miasms. They are as follows,

 Hypertension, IHD, Aneurism of aorta, Crohn’s disease, UC, CVA,

Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease, Gastric ulcers, cancers.

The children born out of such family are highly prone to develop
syphilitic disease as compared to others. I quote many examples on this
account. E.g. A child with a strong family history of congenital heart
18
 disease who suffers from dental carries & suppuration of the gums takes
antibiotics & then in 6 months he is diagnosed as known case of acute
lymphoblastic leukemia.

During pregnancy as mentioned earlier one can recognize many syphilitic

traits like tendency to abort, tendency to Hydatid form mole. I have seen
many pregnant mothers that emotionally and physically they behave quite
differently than there were before pregnancy. This is because of different
miasmatic state of child & mother. A lot depends on how strong the
miasm are representing in father & mother. As stronger miasm always
predominates over weaker miasm.

E.g. if mother is psoric which is not so very strongly represented and if

father is syphilitic which is strongly representing the unborn child will have a
strong syphilitic miasm which may be quite different from the miasm of the
mother. This is main reason why mother develops syphilitic symptoms during
pregnancy when she is basically psoric.

E.g. in case of a syphilitic woman marring a syphilitic man then the child
developed one of the strongest syphilitic miasm. The best solution is to treat the
child with best anti- syphilitic remedies.

The most important anti-syphilitic remedies that I have been using in my

practice are – Ars. Iod, Aurum met, Aurum Mur, Aurum mur Nat, Kali iod,
Laurocerasus, Merc, Merc Ir, Merc if, Merc Cor, Nitric acid, Phytollacca ,
Silicea, Stilingia, Syphilinum.

Many homoeopaths have used Syphilinum to treat syphilitic miasm

which is absolutely wrong as Syphilinum is not the only remedy to treat
syphilitic miasm, it is always symptoms similarity. The other small remedies for
syphilitic miasm are- Aethiopis Mineralis, Anathenum muruiaticum,
Asafoetida, Carbo animalis, Cinnabaris, Fluoric Acid, Hekla Lava, Lachesis,
Kreosote, Merc Cynatus, Mezerum, phosphoric Acid.

19
20