Thursday, 25 February 2010

Asterids::Apiales


Themes from the Synonym database: Cic + Con: Affability (Issues around). Aethusa: Anguish.

Themes from the Rubric database: Cic and Con: Apprehensive.

Fam. Araliaceae Rx:[Hedera, Aralia]

Araila (Spikenard)

Its main action is on the respriatory organs.
  • Fear, apprehension, dread, phobia of impending disease.
  • Respiration difficult. Wheezing.
Therapeutics: Cararrh. Hay fever with sneezing, or allergic asthma. Spasmodic cough.
Sensations: Constriction of chest. Burning in lungs. Obstruction on inspiration.

Notes: In asthma bronchioles contract in response to irritants. Also Consider: Chronic bronchitis, (inflammation of the air sacs) and COPD, (where damage and obstruction are irreversable).


Aralia quinqfolia (Ginseng)

The root is a stimulant which relieves fatigue after hard work and produces calmness, it may also aid sleep: (Indolence from nervous exhaustion).

The root restores sexual function: (erections wanting) and stimulates sexual excitement: (dreams amorous)

Therapeutics: Burning urethra with yellowish urine. Lumbago. Stiffness. Hard painful stool.

Sensation:Vertigo. Coldness. Lancinating pains (back). Photophobia.

Hedera Helix (Common Ivy)

An extreemly anxious and worried state with palpitation and constriction of the throat. The patient is hot and restless.

Rubrics:
  • Fear, [extreem], dread [heart disease]
  • Anguish, [Cares, full of]
Therapeutics: Hyperthyroidism. Sight.

 
Family Apiaceae (Asterids?)
spp. carrots, celery, parsley, and ivy. Rx:[Oena. Aeth. Sumb. Asaf. Phel. Con. Cic. Hydre. Corian. ]


Family Sensation as if: Accident, or Sudden attack.
Theme: Numbness. Estrangement

Top (core) Apiales Rubrics ...
Laughing, spasmodic; Delerium, maniacal.
Abusive, insulting.
Ecstasy. Nymphomania.
Anxiety, hysterical
Fear, crowd in.
Fear, people of anthropophobia.




Eryngium Maritimum (Ery-m. Sea Holly)

The proover felt light and cheerful. Throughout its internal system this plant has the ability to hold onto sea water. It has an affinity with the fluid and salt balance of the body (Jo Evans).

Therapeutics: Kidneys. Loss of sexual desire.

Eryngium Aquaticum (Ery-a.)

  • Dullness, think long, unable to. < > Ecstasy
  • Sexual desire-increased.
Therapeutics: Mucous membranes. Lungs, urinary system.

Apium (Celery)

Fidgit! Busy mind - can't stop thinking, It disturbes sleep without causing much fatigue the next day. It also has itching when undressing for bed.

She feels that her friends tolerate her out of politeness.

Rubrics: Irritability and persistant thoughts.

Sensations: Itching. Sticking pain (ovaries, abdomen). Headache (throbbing).


Oenanthe (Oena)

Sensitive to all stimuli, with twitching. Highly strung and resltless, almost manic (floating feeling). Pugnacious or violent when crossed.
  • Anguish. Cursing, swearing. Destructiveness.
  • Shrieking, convulsions, during.
  • Mania. Laughing spasmodic.
As in bi-polar disorders there can be sentimental self-pity, with weeping.

Therapeutics:Epilepsy. Convulsions. Alcohol

Miasm: Acute

Conium (Poison Hemlock)

The Conium personality can be superstitious... It comes from their sexual energy. They try one path after another, then get into sex!
  • Abstraction. Affectation. Amativness.
When sexual desire is lost, through abstinence, often in old age, there is a sense of isolation, but with great attatchment. He suffers greatly from the loss of a partner and yearns for connection and intimacy.
  • Ailments, from grief. > from love, disappointed. > Sentimental. > Sadness, sexual excesses, from.
There is a kind of mental paralysis, fixed ideas and rather dogmatic opinions ...
  • Indifference, everything, to. > Ailments, from excitement, emotional. > Excitement, alternating with sadness. > Anger, trifles at
It becomes a closed and protected state, without much emotion (like Nat-m). Any form excitement is disturbing. They eventually shut down without complaint, as in cases of premature aging caused by grief.
  • Absent, minded, old age, in. > Brooding, corner or moping, brooding in a. > Light, shuns.
It is a gradual paralysis, weakness and hardening on all levels. Dulling of senses, emotional indifference, weakness of memory (Socrates).

Theme: Connection vs. dissociation.

Theraputics: Itching, agg suppressed desire for sex. Indurations.

Miasm: Cancer.



Sumbulus (Musk root)

Sudden mood swings. Image of someone who lives for the excitement of the moment. Usually aimiable, but soon feels harrassed. Very quick tempered and irritable, with flushes. The least provocation would enrage. Fidgits. No desire for work. Restless when trying to read. Mistakes writing.
  • Unfeeling, hardhearted. Anger, alternating with sadness.
  • Cheerful, alternating with lachrymose mood.
  • Hurry. F Excitement, trifles, over. Exhilaration. Exuberance.
  • Food, stimulants desire. Delirium, tremens
  • Sexual passion-increased. Nymphomania.
  • Starting. Shock, electric like. Convulsions, hysterical.
  • Pain, aching, testes, walking, while.
  • Palpitation, heart.
Sensations:Sudden shocks. Numb. Stitching, Gnawing, Cutting.

Miasm: Sycosis or Malaria.


Asafoetida

Extreem nervousness and hyper-sensitivity. The symptoms are magnified. Contradiction agg. whilst sympathy and consolation are appreciated.
  • Restlessness, hysterical. > Laughing, joy, with excessive. > Nymphomania.
Sensations: Constriction (head). Stitching or tension.

Therapeutics:Alcoholism. Hysterical Asthma. Incarcerated flatulence.

Miasm: Sycotis and Syphilitic.

Cicuta virosa (Water Hemlock)

Image: Vegan Retreat; Self-sufficiency as a result of some violence. There is a deep theme of estrangement in this remedy state. There is a serious loss of confidence and trust in others.
  • Hatred. Contemptuous. Censorious. Malicious.
Cicuta is not just for children, but often a child can become clinging and afraid of company, especially after a fright, or perhaps some abuse ...
  • Ailments, from injuries, accidents (mental). > Ailments, from quarrels. > Shrieking, brain cry.
They are suspicious of men in particular and react by becoming 'contemptous of human follies',
  • Suspicious (mistrustful) > Aversion, men, to, loss of confidence in.
  • Company, aversion, avoids the sight of people. Misanthropy. Loathing.
They are afraid of being approached. Since they dont want to be involved anymore things seem distant ...
  • Familiar places seem strange
They can also become excited, and go over the edge ....
  • Jesting. Laughing spasmodic. Hysteria. Mania. Excitement.
  • Shrieking, brain cry. Shrieking, convulsions, during.
Isolated by fear Cicuta becomes childish and indifferent to the world. She confuses the present with the past, and there may be erosion of identity. The remedy may help her realise that she is not alone, and that the world is full of kindness.

Therapeutics:Alcohol. Spasms, convulsions.

Miasm: Sycotic or Leprous.


Aegopodium podagraria

Aversion to company. Easily offended. The state is absent-minded, floating and indifferent.
  • Doesnt know if he has actually experienced things or just imagined them
They may dress in black, wich reflects the sad and resigned feelings. It's like an inner void.


Heraculum (Cow parsnip)

A state of sadness amel. by diversion. Very tired. Helps quit smoking!
Rubrics:
  • Capricious. Morose, [Indisposed to talk], Despondant. Indolent.
Miasm: Sycosis

Aethusa (Fools parsley)

A very anxious state ...
  • Ailments, from anticipation, foreboding.
  • Anguish, vomiting, with.
It also has the manic states of the Apiales ...
  • Witty. Jesting. Loquacity. Shrieking. Rage. Mania.
  • Convulsions, froth foam from mouth.
It can be quite an obscessive and withdrawen remedy...
  • Reserved. Talk, indisposed to, desire to be silent, taciturn.
  • Thoughts, persistent. Suicidal, throwing himself, windows, from.
An outstanding symptom of the Aethusa state is love of animals. According to Vithoulkas the state is reserved and self-contained, which continues the families theme of estrangement.

As Wendy Howard suggests this estrangement is specifically directed to other humans; they feel apart from the human race. It is as if their hold on their higher mental faculties is fragile, and subsequently find it easier to identify with animals.

Remarkably, the remedies' "sensations as if" picture (e.g. back pain amel. stretching) makes sense if we compare the sensations to those of the evolutionary transition to bipedal locomotion (ontology recapitulates phylogeny).

Read her article at: Wendy

Miasm: Typhoid?

Coriandrum (Coriander)

Proving:

Sensations: Low energy: Feelings of heaviness, fatigue, paralysis vs. heightened energy with a sense of separation and quiet.

The state can swing both ways - the quiet can swing into heaviness.

Dreams: Enlarged - body, lost, separated, nostalgic, amorous, danger, evil.

States: Indifferent. Irritability - Morose. Fear - failure. Relaxed - letting go or tranquil. Love - exalted ,


Summary and Differentiation

There are sensations of spasmodic stabbing pains or shocks which excite violent mental symptoms. These often result in loss of control, which can maifest as nymphomania, hysteria, delerium, shrieking and suicidal impulses. An apprehensive fear of losing control may be behind the common symptom of fear of being in a crowd.

Numbness is a theme common to the Asterales. In Conium (Apiales) there is physical and mental paralysis - the latter manifests as attachment and dogmatism.

The theme of sudden attack can also be seen in some members (esp. acute miasm) of the Asterales.


 

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