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MAG CARB – MIND & MIASM 
Different expressions of same feeling

Dr. Raviraj P. Pore.
M.D.(Homoeo)

 In the series of miasmatic analysis of Mind rubrics of polychrest remedies in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, Mag. Carb is next remedy. We usually consider the Mag personalities as mild, adjustable, reserved, submissive, orphan feeling, sensitive, absorbed as a traditional picture of the remedy. Sometime we rule out Mag when there is a violent anger and a person is Quarrelsome and non diligent, but this remedy covers all these traits in it’s proving as analyzed below. 

  As we can see the mind rubrics of Mag carb may be capricious, gourmand, quarrelsome, or it may be hysterical, wearisome, indifferent or with violent anger.

I would like to share a very recent case which helps to explain this various expressions of a same feeling according to MIASM.

A 21 yrs lady came with the complaints of irregular menses. USG – abdomen & pelvic – PCOD,? Stain-Liventhal syndrome. In history she told that her mother died because of Cancer, and her father did not take care of her and soon married with another woman. There is marked lack of affection from father. This along with orphan feelings that this patient experienced made me think of Mag. But while the case taking going on her husband told that she is very dominating, possessive about him and any contradiction make her angry violently. She does not allow him to travel and be away from her even for a single day. Another thing he told me at the end of interview (he asked the pt to wait outside my cabin) and this was that she forces him daily for physical contact. In absence of physical contact she get angry, nervous and start complaining that he does not like her, his interest in her is decreasing or now he is interested in another women, and so on. Even when the husband is not willing or tired, he has to have sex with her and then she is very happy and tries to please him in various ways. Even though she may be very hungry, she will wait for him but never eat before him. Yet she is ready to quarrel for any slight cause. She is not having emotional attachment with her in-laws.

 After these details I was doubtful about Mag group in this pt and so ruled it out and prescribed another probable similimum, Natrum. I gave here Nat. sulph 200 .

Now after studying Mag remedies with Miasmatic approach, let us analyze the same case will move to right direction with out prejudice – in this pt lack of affection about parents, forsaken feelings or orphan are present but expressions are not mild, submissive, sensitive. This is because this is not a psoric, we are dealing with a syco-syphilitic personality so expression were selfishness, possessiveness, with demand of attention towards her from husband. When we see the above rubric list, all these mental expressions came under sycotic & syphilitic traits of Mag.

This is an example to show the various expressions of the same feeing are dependent upon the dominant miasm of a particular case. Kent, in his Lesser writings, said this classification of constitutions is useless in prescribing and it may reduce the results

.  ** Why should we attempt to classify constitutions as an aid in prescribing? Every individual is a constitution, and no two sick persons can be classified as of the same class to the satisfaction of any clear, observing, and thinking homoeopathist. It is a fatal error to classify constitution, as no two are sufficiently similar, when observed by a genuine homoeopathician to form even a common class. Human beings are a thousand times more complex than

the chess-board in the hands of most skillful players.

 Every change in combination in mental or physical signs and symptoms brings a new view of the entire patient as observed collectively. Normal mental methods come to all thinkers in such divers appearances as to justify the well-known statement that no two minds re alike. In similar manner, all abnormal minds appear to the alert physician as sick individuals. Mental abnormalties may be classified by their common manifestation by the alienist,

but the classification is never useful to the homoeopathist when searching for a remedy. The classification is made up from common symptoms of the mental-disease symptoms for the purpose of medical diagnosis, but the peculiar symptoms in each and every morbid mental case must guide to the prescription, and these prevent classification.

Nothing leads the physician to failure so certainly as classification. The physician who prescribes on a diagnosis is a failure, except for his chance shots. Individualization is the aim of every homoeopathic physician. The symptoms that represent the morbid constitution or disorder of the individual are the ones that the skillful prescriber always seeks. Symptoms that are uncommon in one constitution are common in another, because such uncommon symptoms are common to some diseases and uncommon to others.

Classification is necessary to the proper study of diseases, pathological conditions, and diagnosis, but every case of sickness in an individual is so dissimilar to another case that each and every patient must be examined and measured by the symptoms that represent his disordered economy, or prescribing will be followed by very ordinary results.