A young girl says about her severe multiple sclerosis that, 'emotionally', she feels nothing. Her case leads to the sensation of the poppy family and to the miasma of sycosis.
The young patient with MS experiences numbness at the physical level and expresses a complete lack of emotion at the psychological level. The totality of her symptoms clearly indicates the remedy Opium; however, the miasmatic classification according to Sankaran leads to the prescription of a different remedy from the same botanical family.
KEYWORDS: cancer miasm, miasma, multiple sclerosis, Opium, Papaveraceae, Sanguinaria, sycosis, vital sensation
