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 all disease conditions. At the start of the Homeopathic practice, Hahnemann observed that patients who have been treated by the Homeopathic remedies are again suffered from the diseases repeatedly and is not getting cure by the dynamised potentized drugs. This gave him thought that there are some hindrances in the human body which repeatedly produce the diseases.

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.