DR. ARDAVAN SHARDAR'S MIASM THEORY.

Ardavan's Miasm theory is part of his general Theory of Chronic
Diseases.



  Ardavan's General Theory of Chronic Diseases.


When an organism encounter a stressor, there is an acute disturbance
in the body which Ardavan calls " Primary state" or "Ponos".The
stressor is some incident on the psychological or the physical level.
In acute illness, this acute disturbance may get resolved. WHERE IT
does the organism returns to the state before the disturbance.

Where this resolution does not happen, either death or chronic illness
occurs. Chronic illness is an adaptive state and is the result of the
hosts' defense mechanisms. Ardavan calls it "Secondary state" or
"Pathos. When no resulution occurs, the body tries to develop ways to
adapt to the compromise in health, in order to survive or , in less
serious cases, in order to achieve the optimum health still
possible. In other words: Chronic diseases are adaptations the body
makes to deal with an 'state" which is still active (the Life Force is
still disturbed) but hidden. Hidden means that there may not be any
symptoms or very few symptoms of the acute disturbance at the time a
homeopath takes the case. Because of the lack or the paucity of
symptoms the homeopath taking the case cannot find a remedy similar to
the root disturbance. This may often be the reason for the fact that
apparently well selected  remedies  do not cure -  where the symptoms
of the "Secondary state" are different from those of the "Primary
state". One has to prescribe on the symptoms of the primary state or
on symptoms that are indicative of the primary state.

Above theory is applicable in all "true" chronic diseases. It covers
not only chronic diseases caused by e. g. physical or psychological
trauma but also chronic miasmatic diseases.

Thus in Ardavan's General Theory of Chronic Diseases this "Primary
state" or "Ponos" has three possible outcomes:

1- Either it gets resolved ---> the patient is returned to his
previous state of health
or
2- The patient dies
or
3- The state turns chronic, which is the "Secondary state" or
"Pathos".

In those cases where the symptoms of the pathos  resemble those of the
ponos, a remedy chosen on the symptoms of the pathos may also
resolve the ponos, and the chronic disease gets cured.

But in those where the symptoms of the "Pathos" are somewhat to
totally different from those of the "Ponos", the remedy selected by
the symptoms of the pathos will not resolve the ponos state and
therefore may not cure the chronic disease.

So, in cases #where the well-selected remedies" fail, we should try
and find out the symptoms of the "Primary state" or "Ponos".

A SAMPLE CASE OF NON-MIASMATIC CHRONIC DISEASE TREATED ON THE SYMPTOMS
OF THE PONOS.

The following is a case of  chronic non-miasmatic disease, which
Ardavan demonstrated at a seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.,

A case of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder):

Girl 19 y/o
Anxiety
Hypochondriacal
FEAR OF AIDS (No history of sexual contact)
Compulsion to do AIDS test
Irritability
Wants assurance but soon gets worried again
No physical complaints
Here is a repping of only one sx , fear of aids,
Fear of AIDS
Ars, Bor-pur, Calc, Carc, Con, Iod, Kali-ar, Nit-ac, Phos,
Sulph, Syph.

Taking into account the other symptoms, Ars. Phos. Syph were left,
which did not cure.

When he symptoms were repped leaving out the rubric fear of AIDS,
there came up:

Arg-n, Nit-ac,
which also did not cure.

Ardavan is of the opinion that in most of OCD-cases there is an
underlying condition of anxiety and feeling of guilt, and he reasoned
that there
must have been an incident in the past that caused such a feeling. He
further reasoned that this had been the primary state, that at the
time of the case-taking the symptoms were those of the secondary
state, which no longer were similar to those of the primary state. In
order to cure, the primary state had to be cured, to do so the remedy
had to be similar to the symptoms of the primary state - so the
primary state had to be found.

It turned out to have been as follows:
5 years ago she had a secret love affair with a friend of her uncle
with the following effects to her behaviour:

Secretive
Hiding
Paranoidal behaviour
Delusion of being watched
Fear of being punished
Fear of offending and losing her uncle forever

Based on those symptoms Ardavan prescribed Hyoscyamus C 200, and soon
improvement started.

Ardavan's Theory of Miasms

Ardavan's Theory of Miasms is part of the General Theory of Chronic
Disease as presented in the very digested (and therefore
very imperfect) paragraph above. Please do read Suriya's article in
....... and Ardavan's full explanation on http://minutus.org. for
better understanding.

ardavan's theory has some parts in common with hahnemann's.

in line with Hahnemann  is:

He dedines Miasm as an infectious, contagious disease.

Just as the founder of homeopathy he also considers its pathogenic
action to be a dynamic  influence causing disturbance of the dynamic
life force.

by Ardavan's theory as by Hahnemann's miasms can be inherited.

Different is:

Hahnemann thought that the dynamic action worked directly; e.g. there
would emanate from the patient ill with smallpox a dynamic force
directly affecting the life-force of a different person over a
distance, without any material carrier; just the way the gravity of
the moon influences the waters of the oceans or a magnet influences
the needle of a compass.

In Ardavan's theory the pathogenic dynamic force is encorporated in or
carried by a microbe.

Hahnemann thought that there were just 3 such pathogenic energies that
could cause chronic miasms: the pathogens causing psora, sycosis and
syphilis.

By Ardavan's model all pathogenic strains of virus can do so. (as far
as the rest  of pathogenic microbes is concerned the theory has not
yet been fully developed.)

According to Ardavan's theory, a miasm is always an infection .  In
modern medical terminology infection is defined as  „invasion of the
tissues of the body by disease-producing microorganisms and the
reaction of these tissues to the microorganisms and/or their toxins".

Thus: Miasms are always caused by infection with pathogenic microbes
to which the body reacts in a way specific for the microbe and also
specific to the person so infected (individual response).

At first there occurs the acute miasm.

This acute state may be long or short. Its manifestations may range
from very severe to trivial, they often include fever, skin eruptions
or discolorations, bowel symptoms etc. Sometimes, however, the
manifestations are so slight that they pass unnoticed. These
differences show the individual response of the individual person and
also the response typical for the invading pathogen.

In Ardavan's Miasm Theory, this "Primary state" has in common the same
3 things as the non-miasmatic primary state:

1- Full recovery which is usually seen in Acute miasms

2- Death

3-Becomes chronic, shich is called #Chronic Miasm".


For cases where there is a history of Viral Miasm, Ardavan has
developed his Materia virosa (MV). This can be studied on
Ardavan's site, minutus.org.

There Ardavan has used his knowledge of viral diseases and their
manifestations and listed the typical signs and symptoms of each
specific viral infection. On the basis of these, he then selected by
similarity to this ponos-state a group of remedies similar to those
typical manifestations. Those groups so far range roughly from 5 to
20 remedies.

Homeopaths can use it online to try out the theory (and please let
Ardavan know the results!)

If, after studying online you think that you would like to study this
approach more thoroughly but do not want to be online for the
studying, you can also buy the MV at moderate price (which I do not
recall but you can easily find out) as a .pdf file. And if, like
myself, you find the format cumbersome - e. g. hard to run a search
through - you can combine it into one big .html file and even from
there convert it to your favorite text processing system.

Additionally to the MV and accompanying it, Ardavan also has
developed a Repertorium virosum (RV). One format of this is also .pdf
and available online and can also be bought as a .pdf file. He has
also developed a repertorizing software. While this is more expensive
it may suit many homeopaths better.

This repertory may be helpful in those cases, where the patient
remembers some symptoms of his ponos miasmatic state but does not
know which virus caused it. With the multitude that may have caused
infection, it might be quite complicated to find antibodies by blood
tests. The symptoms remembered by the patient may not be numerous
enough to select a remedy from the multitude of rubrics in our
repertories with their even greater number of remedies. Since in the
RV there are only the symptoms of the ponos states of viral infections
and only the remedies of their respective genus epidemicus, it may be
easier to select the a good simile from those much reduced numbers of
rubrics and remedies.

Some hints to when it may be found useful.

E. G. you may have a NWS (never well since) case and the patient still remembers his
symptoms. Looking up the virus that caused the infection, you find say
10 remedies that ,according to Ardavan's knowlege, are genus
epidemicus for this infection. So, in order to find the closest
simillimum, you only have to compare the patient's symptoms of the
ponos with those 10 remedies - instead of worrying about our entire
mm. often such a nws state exists after vaccination.

This is even more important if a person knows of an infection by a specific viral pathogen but does not remember individual symptoms or
even symptoms at all. Viral infections quite often pass unnoticed. So
the homeopath is confronted with a chronic illness where well selected
remedies do not cure. In the past there was this infection. We then
have another chance. We can look up the virus in Ardavan's MM virosa
and see whether any of the handful of remedies listed there may, for
one reason or other, seem a good choice.

When the patient does not remember any previous infections or when the
infection has occurred in the parent, we can sometimes find it by
looking up   symptoms of the present chronic state with the help of
the repertorium virosa. this we can do in cases where the symptoms of
the present state are similar to those of the primary state.  We can
then look up the present symptoms in the repertory virosa. This leads
us to the most probable viral infection responsible for the chronic
state. then we can proceed as described in the previous paragraph. For
example the patient has Multiple Sclerosis and he/she does not
remember any previous infection but beside MS he/she has Urticaria,
recurrent fiver blister and Bell's palsy. By help of RV we can find
that Herpes virus has a important role in formation of the patient
multiple sclerosis.

Sometimes there exist in the present chronic state symptoms that are
„indicative" of a probable ponos. An example that most homeopaths are
familiar with is that herpes zoster is indicative of the varicella zoster virus
that causes chicken pox, so that very probably there was an infection
with this disease in the past or in a direct ancestor. in these
cases also we can look up the virus causing chicken pox in the RV and
check the remedies listed for the virus in the MV.

In most cases, however, it takes more knowledge and exprience than the
average homeopath, including the wirter of this article, may possess
to come to valid conclusions which of the present symptoms are
indicative for which primary state.

His, however, is true for every method. For demonstration how the method can work for a doctor who masters it, here is one of the case Dr. Moradi has posted on

http://minutus.org/library/article_showall.asp?cat_id=68& ;parent_id=6&parent_name=Cases&sub_name=Nader+Moradi

(copied with the permission of the author)

also there probably are some to many cases where there exist neither
similarity of the pathos to the ponos nor any indicative symptoms.

Here also one of Nader's cases illustrates how we can find the remedy by using the MV.

Following is a case of 41 years old man with history of infertility of about 11 years.

His chief complains was Oligoasthenospermia.

Total Sperm count was <10 million per ml, Normal morphology 20%, Abnormal Morphology 80%, Rapid progression 10%, Slow progression 30 and none motile 60%.

He had experience of failed IUI and GIFT.

Beside infertility he had sadness, restlessness, absentmindedness and became angry from time to time.

During the case-taking the following symptoms were also given:

Protruding hemorrhoid from childhood, which is better now but with attack of burning pain 1-2 times in a month.

Perspiration during sleep.

Pain in left upper limbs occasionally.

Cracking in knees.

Sexual desire decreased.

Hearing is slightly impaired in both ears.

Rumbling in abdomen with diarrhea from time to time.

Constipation.

Case Analysis:

As there was no clear picture in the case and on the other hand one of the viral diseases which has strong relationship with infertility is Mumps therefore I looked at Materia virosa of MMP:

Mumps Virus (MMP)

 Main Regions

Parotid gland, Testis, Ovaries, Abdomen.

 Mind

Aphasia. Altered consciousness.

 Vertigo

Vertigo.

 Head

Encephalitis. Meningitis. Headache. Pressing pain.

 Face

Palsy. Parotitis. Swelling and tenderness of parotids. Trismus. Difficult mastication.

 Eye

Inflammation. Lachrymation.

Vision

Dim.

 Ear

Deafness. Pain.

 Nose

Coryza. Catarrh. Epistaxis.

 Mouth

Difficult pronunciation. Sialadenitis sublingual, submandibular. Sialectasia.

Swelling of tongue.

 Throat

Thyroiditis. Dryness.

External throat

Cervical lymphadenopathy.

Stomach

Vomiting. Eructations.

Abdomen

Upper abdominal discomfort. Hepatitis. Pain lower abdominal. Pancreatitis. epigastrial tenderness.

Chest

Endocardial fibroelastosis. Myocarditis.

Cough

Night.

Extremities

Arthritis monoarticular. Migratory polyarthritis. Involuntary movements. Paresis. Coldness of foot.

Kidney

Nephritis.

Female organs

Impaired fertility. Death of fetus. Mastitis. Premature menopause. Oophoritis.

Male organs

Epididymitis. Erythema of scrotum. Orchitis. Testicular malignancy. Pain in testis. Tenderness of testis. Swelling of testis. Prostatitis.

Fever

Fever.

Chill

Chill.

Sleep

Sleeplessness.

 General

Anorexia. Arthralgia. Cerebellar ataxia. Juvenile diabetes mellitus. Guillain-Barre syndrome. Lethargy. Low birth weight. Malaise. Ascending polyradiculitis. Psychomotor retardation. Seizure. Transverse myelitis. Thrombocytopenia. Burning pain. Stitching pain. Evening agg.

 Main antimiasmatic remedies

 BELL, PULS, MERC, Con, Phyt, Aur, Sil, Bar-m.

Related remedies

Sulph, Lyc, Calc, Phos, Sep, Rhus-t.

On reviewing materia virosa of MMP I noticed that one of my patient’s symptoms is impaired hearing which could be due to MMP too, therefore I decided to focus on main antimiasmatic remedies of MMP in remedy selection.

Of course there are other symptoms in the case that are not in the picture of MMP but if you study Materia virosa of viral states you will notice that they belong to HSV2. 

Therefore it seemed that the case had two dynamisms: 1- MMP and 2- HSV2 and as the main complaint of the patient was Infertility therefore MMP could be more active than HSV2.

In the next step I decided to find which one of the main antimiasmatic remedies of MMP suit the case.

I selected following rubrics:

MALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - diminished

HEARING - IMPAIRED

MIND - SADNESS

MIND - RESTLESSNESS

PERSPIRATION - SLEEP - during

EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Toes

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs - left

VERTIGO – VERTIGO

I did not select rubrics which are also present in HSV2. By restricting the result to only main antimaismatic remedies of MMP, Conium was selected.

The above rubric give us the choice of the following remedies:

Sulph, Lyc, Ferr, Con, chinin-s agar.

Crossing this with the remedies related to MMR, only leaves CONIUM.

Conium CM (2 ml from 120 ml of solution), one dose was prescribed. The result of semen analysis in the next month was:

Sperm Count: 40 mil/ml, Normal form >65% which was in normal range, Rapid progressive 55%  (>50% is good)

Next prescription: Wait

20 days after second visit his wife got pregnant.

For those of us who cannot yet work as expertly as Nader with the MV and RV
there may sometimes exist some workarounds, as it is called in
computer-lingo.

One such workaround is the consideration that at the bottom of the
pathos there may be vaccination, even in those cases where there was
no NWS-syndrome. looking up the pathogens vaccinated against in the
MV, we may, at least in the cases of vaccination against virus, read
the respective parts of the MV and find some possible similar symptoms
in the present state - symptoms we might otherwise have overlooked.
aAother possibility is that the mother or the patient her/himself may
remeber: oh yes, i had symptoms like that right after vaccination.

The latter would of course not necessarily mean that the symptoms after
vaccination, while they most likely were some ponos, are at the root
of the present pathos. it might, however, be worth an attempt to treat on this
assumption, especially if the case has been dragging on
without cure or has been stuck for a while.

The same applies to laboratory findings indicating that there had been
an infection by a certain virus in the past, showing up mostly in
either antibodies or antigen in the blood.

CONCLUSION:

I could not have written this summary, the way it is written above, without the generous help of Suriya Osman MD and Nader Moradi MD, who both know a lot more about Ardavan's method than I will ever learn. This final version of my text „passed their inspection“ except for the last paragraph. Nader insists this would not be a good way to work. While I agree that it may not be optimal, I do consider it an acceptable workaround – which are never optimal – for people without his background to employ at the beginning. In order to find out whether it can be considered part of Ardavan's theory, you, the reader, will have to study that – which I hope you will do. I myself think it is at least in accordance with it.

So far Ardavan has not published anything on infections by non-viral
pathogens, except as mentioned in his Theory of Chronic Diseases,
where he very lucidly talks about infection with the gonorrhea and
syphilis pathogens, resp. their connection with Hahnemann's ideas on the chrnoic syphilis and Sycosis miasms.

Ardavan and the members of his team are of the the opinion that most miasmatic
diseases are due to viral miasms. On proceding on this assumption they have found the MV and RV
are very useful in practice.

This many of us cannot really verify until we know more more than just
the above about how to find a ponos by the symptoms of the pathos.
Ardavan has said that he is working on it, and that in the near future
relevant symptoms of pathos will also be included in the MV and the
RV.

To me, who I call myself somewhat tongue in cheek a „theoretical homeopath“ Ardavans Miasm Theory appears to be the logical next step to what Hahnemann wrote in his Chronic Diseases, taking into account the additional knowledge we have no in biology, physiology, virology, genetics etc.

Most of the polychrests being trimiasmatic, the well chosen medicine based on symptoms is very likely to cover the dominant miasm.

There are very very few medicines which denote a 'single' miasm. Perhaps when the smaller medicines too are proved as extensively as the polychrests they may too unravel some symptoms that belong to other miasms.

Murthy

Dear Luise

Thanks for the comment! Well put!

you posted:"geneticists have been finding out that viruses can influence the genetic material - which would explain that chronic miasms can be inherited from ancestors having been infected.................................................... ......."

Correct,as far back as 7 generations!

 There are verry -specifics- in the "dominance" of a particular Miasmic trait in remedies,

NOt ---------"Most of the polychrests being trimiasmatic remedies have all 3 miasms in them"-------------------------! Murthy please see : MIASMATIC DIAGNOSIS PRACTICAL TIPS WITH COMPARISONS- by S.K.BAnerjea

MIASMATIC PRESCRIBING
BY DR. SUBRATA KUMAR BANERJEA
www.homoeopathy-course.com

GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (HONOURS IN NINE SUBJECTS OF CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY)
FELLOW : AKADEMIE HOMOOPATHISCHER DEUTSCHER ZENTRALVEREIN (GERMANY)
DIRECTOR : BENGAL ALLEN MEDICAL INSTITUTE
PRINCIPAL : ALLEN COLLEGE OF HOMOEOPATHY, ESSEX, ENGLAND

L : denotes leading remedies within each miasm.

Murthy

From where this data is collected? How is this table compiled?

It is on the basis of symptoms found in the materia medica. Based on the concepts that a symptom that denotes an over growth/under growth is sycosis, that denotes degeneration is syphilis etc etc.

When we depend on those very symptoms and repertise properly, ninety out of hundred times we will arrive at a medicine which tallies with the weightages given here.

An average patient will show such diversity of symptoms that one symptom belongs to psora, the other to sycosis, and the third to syphilis. Of course there can be a tilt towards a particular miasm. If you repertise properly, the result too will show a medicine which has all these three miasms in the right proportions.

Murthy

If YOUR point is that

The well selected remedy based on the symptom complex is most likely to cover the dominant miasm as given in this table and that one need not break their head to identify the dominating miasm.

you are right.

Murthy 

Dear members

first of all it should be noted, that the term MIASMA describes every disease which can be transmitted from Human to human, or animal to human, or human to animals.

The transmission can be by means of any means, to know the coincidental increase of a certain bacteria or virus is irrelevant.

Dear Hans,

Can you tell us which Maism can be transmitted from Human to Human or from Human to Animal without the role of microorganims?

Kind Regards,

Nader