Superphysics
How Coffee Has Increased the Number of Mental Diseases
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In ancient times, the Psora confined itself as leprosy. This is why the following diseases were never seen in ancient times:
- nervous troubles
- painful ailments, spasms, ulcers (cancers)
- adventitious formations, dyscrasias
- paralyses, consumptions and cripplings of soul, mind and body
Only during the last few centuries has mankind been flooded with these infirmities.
This is how that Psora became the most universal mother of chronic diseases.
The Psora is now so easily robbed of its ameliorating cutaneous symptom as the eruption of itch.
- For the past 300 years, it has produced internally more and more secondary symptoms
- At least 7/8 of all the chronic maladies spring from it as their only source
The remaining 1/8 springs from syphilis and sycosis, or from a complication of 2 of these 3 miasmatic chronic diseases, or (which is rare) from a complication of all three of them.
Syphilis is easily curable. It yields to the smallest dose of the best preparation of Mercury.
Sycosis can be cured with slight difficulty through a few doses of Thuja and Nitric acid in alternation. It only becomes a tedious malady difficult to cure when they are complicated with Psora.
Thus, Psora is among all diseases the one which is most misapprehended. Therefore, has been medically treated in the worst and most injurious manner.
The Evils of Coffee and Tea
Warm coffee and Chinese tea has spread so generally in the last 200 years. These have so largely increased the irritability of the muscular fibre and the excessive excitability of the nerves.
This has further augmented the tendency of this period to a multitude of chronic diseases, and has thus aided the Psora.
My little work on “The Effects of Coffee” {Die Wirkungen des Kaffee’s, Leipzig, 1803) explains the bodily and mental sufferings caused by coffee.
Modern physicians have sinned so much against the welfare of humanity by teaching:
Every eruption of itch is merely a local ailment of the skin, in which ailment the remaining organism takes no part at all, so that it may and must be driven away from the skin at any time and without any scruple, through local applications of sulphur ointment or of the yet more active ointment of Jasser, through sulphur fumigations, by solutions of lead and zinc, but most quickly by the precipitates of mercury.
If the eruption is once removed from the skin everything is well and the person is restored and the whole disease removed. Of course, if the eruption is neglected and allowed to spread upon the skin, then it may eventually turn out that the malignant matter may find opportunity to insinuate itself through the absorbent vessels into the mass of humors and thus to corrupt the blood, the humors and the health.
Then man may finally be afflicted with ailments from these malignant humors, though these might soon again be removed from the body by purgatives and abluents; but through prompt removal of the eruption from the skin all sequelae are prevented and the internal body remains entirely healthy.
These horrible untruths have not only been, and are still being taught, but they are also being carried out in practice.
The consequence is that at the present day the patients in all the most celebrated hospitals, even in those countries and cities that seem most enlightened, as well as the private itch-patients of the lower and higher classes, the patients in all the penitentiaries and orphan asylums, in other civil and military hospitals, wherever such eruptions are found- in short, the innumerable multitude of patients, without exception, are treated, not only by physicians unknown to fame, but by all, even those most celebrated, with the above mentioned external remedies,* using such a treatment; e. g., with swellings, obstinate pains in one part or another, with hypochondriac or hysterical troubles, gout, consumption, tubercular phthisis, continual or spasmodic asthma, blindness, deafness, paralysis, caries of the bones, ulcers (cancer), spasms, hemorrhages, diseases of the mind and soul, etc., the physicians imagine that they have before them something entirely new and treat it again and again according to the old routine of their therapeutics in a useless and hurtful manner, directing their medicines against phantom diseases; i. e., against causes invented by them for the ailments as they appear, until the patient, after many years’ suffering continually aggravated, is at last freed from their hands by death, the end of all earthly maladies.*
But how then, Oh conscientious men! if even the first little pustule of itch with its unbearable voluptuous itching, forcing a man irresistibly to scratch, and with the following burning pain, is in every case and every time the proof of a universal itch-disease which has been previously developed in the interior of the whole organism, as we shall see below? How then, if in accordance with this fact perhaps at the same time large doses of flowers of sulphur, and strong purgatives (to cleanse the body, as they say).
These physicians think that the more quickly these eruptions are driven from the skin the better. Then they dismiss the patients from their treatment as cured, with brazen assurance and the delaration that everything is now all right,* without regarding or being willing to notice the ailments which sooner or later are sure to follow; i. e., the Psora which shows itself from within in a thousand different diseases.
If the deceived wretches ’then soonor or later return with the malady following unavoidably on any external repression of the itch-eruption can not only do nothing toward alleviating the internal general disease, but rather as thousands of facts go to prove, compel it to develop and break forth quickly into innumerable, different, acute sufferings, or gradully into chronic sufferings, which make mankind so helpless and miserable? Can you then heal these? Experience says no; you cannot do it.
