Miasms at a Dinner Party - A Mentoring Insight

As a Homeopath, your role is to select the best-fitting remedy — the one that truly matches your patient’s unique state.

What many new (and even experienced) homeopaths don’t always appreciat is that you can often get clues about a patient’s most likely active miasm within the first few minutes of a consultation. Their handshake, outfit, body language, and the way they start a conversation can all quietly reveal layers of their case — even before you ask your first question.

This is one of the playful exercises I give to my mentoring students:
“Imagine each miasm walking into a dinner party — how would they dress, speak, move, interact?”It’s a fun, practical way to train your eye for the subtle signs, and to start narrowing down your remedy choices with more confidence and intuition.

Because great case-taking isn’t just about what’s said — it’s also about what’s felt, seen, and sensed.

Psoric

Dress: Casual, a bit wrinkled, maybe thrown together. Bed hair vibes - probably uncombed.
Handshake: Warm but clammy

Sycotic

Dress: Classic jeans and a blazer, fab accessories, maybe a designer handbag.
Conversation: Talks a million miles an hour, laughs easily, deflects emotion and prefers small talk.

Syphilitic

Dress: Ripped jeans, black nail polish, leather jacket vibes. Intentional edge.
Conversation: The first thing they’d ask is where they can go to wash their hands.

Tuberculinum

Dress: Scarf, lots of layers, flowy boho vibes.
Conversation: Dreamy, distracted and scattered — jumps topics, talks about travel and the next holiday destination or the next thing in their life.

Carcinosinum

Dress: Perfectly coordinated. Probably 100% wool/linen outfit. Definitely ironed.
Conversation: Kind, warm, checks everyone is okay.

This is such a simple but fun example of the ways we can learn our miasmatic and constitutional remedies.

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