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Itch or Psora Spots in the Iris

(Fig. 9, p. 75, Color plate, a and b, page 116)

Outline of the section: In civilized countries, especially in those bordering on the Mediterranean Sea, where suppression of itch and other skin eruptions is commonly practiced, about ten per cent of all eyes show in the iris sharply defined dark brown spots ranging in size from that of a pinhead to that of a buckshot. Find more information here.

In civilized countries, especially in those bordering on the Mediterranean Sea, where suppression of itch and other skin eruptions is commonly practiced, about ten per cent of all eyes show in the iris sharply defined dark brown spots ranging in size from that of a pinhead to that of a buckshot. (Fig. 8, also Fig. 9, and Color plate, a) These spots Iridology designates as itch or psora spots, because they appear after the suppression of itchy eruptions or eczemata and of psoric parasites (pediculi capitis and pubis).

I have observed in many instances that suppression of psoric eruptions resulted in formation or enlargement of the scurf rim instead of in the appearance of itch spots. This is probably due to the weakening of the skin by suppressive agents, such as mercurial or other poisonous salves, etc.

The word "psora" was adopted by Hahnemann, the father of Homeopathy, from a Greek word signifying "itching", and he applied the name to certain skin diseases which are characterized by intolerable itching.

Probably no other question in medical science has given rise to so much controversy as Hahnemann's much disputed theory of psora. It is therefore very interesting to observe in how far the eye confirms this theory of hereditary and chronic disease and in how far it contradicts the same.

The Theory of Psora

For one hundred years "Similia similibus curautur", the fundamental law of homeopathy, has been the only fixed point in the chaos of constantly changing medical theories, and in a perverted form under the guise of vaccination, antitoxin, serum and organ therapy, this great law of cure has been adopted even by the allopathic school of medicine.

Fig. 9.

Comparatively few of his closest friends and followers accepted Hahnemann's theory of psora. This part of his teachings was unmercifully ridiculed by his opponents and silently ignored even by those who were believers in and exponents of the law of "Similia".

Briefly stated, the psoric theory claims that age long persistent suppression of itchy, parasitic skin eruptions and of gonorrheal and syphilitic diseases has encumbered "civilized" humanity with three well defined hereditary taints or miasms. These were named by Hahnemann psora or itch, sycosis or gonorrhea, and syphilis. He further claimed that the greater part of chronic diseases had their origin in these hereditary miasms and that many acute diseases are merely external palliative manifestations of these internal latent, chronic taints.

Scurf Rim and Hereditary Psora
(Fig. 8A, page 66, scurf rim)
(Fig. 8C, psora or itch spots)

Darkening of the iris color and the scurf rim stand for those conditions which Hahnemann called "hereditary psora" and which are usually spoken of as hereditary scrofula. The name psora covers also those disease conditions which result later in life from the suppression of itchy eczema, hives, shingles, scabies (itch) and of other psoric parasites. The itch or psora spots are never seen in the eyes of the new born, but only later in life when psoric eruptions and parasites have been suppressed by means of sulphur, zinc or mercurial ointments, by hot water, steam or hot air bathing, or by any other agent or combination of methods.

To recapitulate: Darkening of the iris color and scurf rim stand for the long list of hereditary ailments which Hahnemann calls hereditary psora, commonly known as "scrofulous diathesis". The dark brown itch or psora spots and the scurf rim stand for the effects of suppressed itch and psoric parasites. I have observed that blue eyed parents suffering from suppressed itch, as shown by the itch spots in their eyes, usually have brown eyed or "scurf rimmed" children. These revelations of the iris confirm Hahnemann's statement that suppression of acute itch or scabies creates hereditary psora and chronic constitutional psora in the offspring.

Before we proceed in our study of the itch spots in the eye it will be instructive and interesting to quote a few passages from Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases" and to learn just what he means by psora and suppression of psora. Our esteem and admiration for this wonderful man will be greatly increased when we reflect that he discovered, by keenness of intuition and by marvelous powers of concentration and observation, what we today see so easily and plainly revealed by iridiagnosis.

 

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