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The Sycotic diathesis is just the opposite of the psoric diathesis. It often occurs without the person even knowing it. Since the person has stopped eliminating, there are no initial symptoms when they take in something toxic. Instead the toxin is stored in the body, in the liver or in the tissue of a particular organ system. Symptoms often develop later, as the entire system becomes overloaded and the toxins begin to spill out from where they are being stored (Diathesis, 2009).
The Luetic individual is one whose eliminations tend to be destructive. These people are so continually full of toxins that they tend to suffer from chronic inflammation and chronic infections. These people's rhythms are off, they tend towards substance abuse and they often respond poorly to most therapies. Hahnemann described the Syphillitic miasm as a lesional miasm, since there is often an actual physical change or lesion involved with it (Diathesis, 2009).
Each of the chronic miasms has its own distinguishing signs that are an essential part of the totality of the symptoms. Psora tends to produce irritation, inflammation, and hypersensitivity and...
Sycosis tends to cause heavy bones, water retention, over growth of tissue and slow metabolism in a person. Syphilis tends to cause congenital defects; asymmetrical bony structure, deformed teeth and the classic bull dog face (Little, 2007).
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