Psora

This article is about Homeopathic theory of disease. For the medical condition, see Psoriasis.

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According to Hahnemann, Psora is the mother of many disease conditions. At the start of homeopathy, Hahnemann observed that patients who were treated by homeopathic remedies suffered from the same diseases repeatedly and were not permanently cured by the dynamised potentized drugs. From this, Hahnemann reasoned that there is something inside the human body which was repeatedly producing the disease.

Hahnemann on Psora:

psora, the only real fundamental cause and producer of all the other numerous, I may say innumerable, forms of disease1, which, under the names of nervous debility, hysteria, hypochondriasis, mania, melancholia, imbecility, madness, epilepsy and convulsions of all sorts, softening of the bones (rachitis), scoliosis and cyphosis, caries, cancer, fungus nematodes, neoplasms, gout, haemorrhoids, jaundice, cyanosis, dropsy, amenorrhoea, haemorrhage from the stomach, nose, lungs, bladder and womb, of asthma and ulceration of the lungs, of impotence and barrenness, of megrim, deafness, cataract, amaurosis, urinary calculus, paralysis, defects of the senses and pains of thousands of kinds, etc., figure in systematic works on pathology as peculiar, independent diseases.