ABOUT  MATERIA VIROSA & REPERTORIUM VIROSUM  

Materia Virosa is the collection and homeopathic analysis of data related to Genus Epidemicus of viral, prions, and mycobacterial  infections. The information is based on recent findings about viral states and their clinical manifestations. The data is presented in the format of commonly used Materia Medicas for better understanding of signs and symptoms of the infectious states.

Materia Virosa is the tool for understanding the infectious states in a phenomenological way. As infectious diseases are one of the important fundamental causes for chronic diseases, an updated knowledge of Genus Epidemicus is necessary for a sound analysis of chronic patients. Understanding newly defined miasmatic patterns was one of the interests of Samuel Hahnemann, too. For example, what was called Sycosis by Hahnemann had been called 'Syphilitic warts' and in some cases 'Syphilitic gonorrhea' by French doctors. Following careful observations, Hahnemann traced an independent dynamic state beginning with a distinct primary infection and a classical pattern of latency, progression and secondary manifestations. We now know that by Sycosis, Hahnemann was describing Condyloma accuminatum, the dynamic state of Human Papilloma Virus (or HPV) co-infected in some cases with Herpes Simplex Virus type 2.

I am sure that with the current epidemiological data, Hahnemann would continue his effort to specify distinct chronic miasms. I believe that what Hahnemann called Psora is mainly the overall image of viral states capable of inducing latency and secondary manifestations. The phenomenological study of the mentioned viral states, their antimiasmatic remedies and their relative similarities with Hahnemann's antipsorics are some of the confirmatory evidence.

The miasmatic pictures of 70 viral, prions, mycobacterial states and their related remedies are introduced in this software. Repertorium Virosum helps us to trace the presence of latent and secondary miasmatic states in patients suffering from chronic diseases. It is worth noting that these new tools are not going to be used as substitutes for all the current effective tools and techniques in case analysis. They just help us to complete the picture of the disease in cases with paucity of valuable symptoms and also help us to understand the dynamic nature of chronic miasms; especially in patients infected with multiple miasms.

The main approach to understand the dynamic nature of chronic patterns is finding the valuable fragments of the primary altered state in the secondary picture of the disease by thematic analysis, finding persisting features which are analogous in quality with the original state and also the knowledge of the primary unresolved state by studying the patient's personal history, and building the image, like puzzle pieces with his or her acute-like flare-ups, family history and at last understanding the miasmatic structure of the patient with finding the related Genus Epidemicus. Materia Virosa helps us to understand Genus Epidemicus in an updated style and also paves the way for promotion of empiricism in the study of miasms rather than mere rational speculations.

For a better understanding of the basic concepts related to the study of Genus Epidemicus and its role in case analysis you can find out my articles in the library of my website http://www.minutus.org  . Among the existing ones, recommended articles are:

1   - Basic Principles in Treatment of Chronic Diseases  - Parts 1
2   - Basic Principles in Treatment of Chronic Diseases  - Parts 2
3   - Basic Principles in Treatment of Chronic Diseases  - Parts 3
4   - Chronic Diseases – The Effective Causal Complex
5   - 40 Points in Analysis of Chronic Patients
6   - Sycosis & Gonorrhea
7   - Syphilis – A Fresh Look
8   - Common Gonorrhea
9   - Miasmatic Analysis & Individualization
10 - Homeopathy - The Concept
11 - Chronic Diseases - The Hidden Dynamic State


The signs and symptoms are categorized in four degrees according to their relative prevalence in each miasm. The fourth degree (bold and underlined) shows the characteristic symptoms present in above 85% of the patients in the related infectious state, the third degree (bold) shows the prevalence of 25-85% and the second degree (italic) is used for the prevalence under 25%. 1st degree (normal) symptoms are probable unapproved symptoms which may be upgraded to higher degrees later. Some of the first degree symptoms are chosen indirectly by an analytical function.


Dr Ardavan Shahrdar
Aug, 2008