Thursday, 25 February 2010

Magnolids::Magnoliales


Themes from the Synonym database: Nux-m: Abstraction. Stupor

Erratum: The Boraginaceae are now listed under Lamiales.
family Annonaceae:
Rx: [Asimina, Annona Squamosa, Guat.]
Annonaceae Rubrics ...
Thoughts tormenting OR persistant.



Asimia (Pawpaw)

The seeds contain asimitrin which has an affinity for prostrate cancer.
The dreams suggest a deep sense of insecurity.

  • Thoughts persistant, occurences of the day, at night
  • Dullness. Indifference. Irritability.
  • Conversation, averse to.
  • Dreams: of being shot; of foundering in a boat.
Beryllium Muriaticum's dreams of waves and drowning resemble Asimia's subconscious fear of foundering in a boat, lost at sea.
Therapeutics: Racing pulse. Angina. Scarlet fever.

Miasm: Sycotic.
Similar: BeMur



Guatteria

There is loss of memory and irresolution, along with obscessive ideas.

Rubrics:
  • Thoughts tormenting
  • Memory, weakness. Irresolution
  • Sadness [Irritability]
  • Vertigo. Motion agg.
  • Generals: Psora; Sycosis.
Therapeutics: Palpitation. Liver. Kidney stones.


family Magnoliaceae

Rx: [Anet-g, Art-tri, Balsa, Cent-u, & Magn-gr]
Magnoliaceae Rubrics ...
Sadness, climaxis, during
Fainting or Weakness.

Magnolia Grandiflora (Magn-gr)

The chest feels stiff and constricted. Difficulty expanding the lungs (c.f. Cactaceae). Vertigo is very common in the Monocot Orders. This can be expressed to sea-sickness.
  • Delusions, vertigo, seasickness from.
  • Sadness. Morose. Delusions, about to die.
  • Delusions, distances, inaccurate judgement of.
  • Generals - motion amel.
Therapeutics: Rheumatism. Angina pectoris. Endocarditis and pericarditis.

family Myristicaceae:

    spp. Nutmeg and Mace. Rx: Myristica sebifera [Myris][Ol-myr] and Nux Moschata [Nux-m]

Top (core) Myristicacae Rubrics are ...

Concentration, difficult

Starting, sleep during

Stupifaction.


Myristica sebifera. (Virola seb.)

The remedy is obtained from the red gum obtained from the bark. It contains DMT. The smoke from the bark is used by shamans in Venezuela for driving out evil ghosts. The seeds smell like Nutmeg (a close relation).
  • Concentration, difficult. Heedless - business.
  • Dreams - disconnected. Neglected business.
  • Dreams - Buildings. Houses being built.
  • Thoughts persistant - a song.
  • Stupifaction.
  • Vertigo, swaying.
The dreams of solid buildings may arise from the sensation of swaying. He feels as if he has no solid ground. He worries about his business collapsing through his own neglect.
Therapeutics: Abscesses (hastens suppuration). Lymphangitis.

Lymphangitis is a streptococcal infection in the lymphatic system. When bacterial growth in is too rapid for the immune system the bacteria can follow along a lymphatic vessel - the inflammation causes red streaks. It can result in tissue destruction (abscesses), and Cellulitis. If the bacteria invade the bloodstream there is danger of septicemia.

Sx: red streaks from the site of infection towards the lymph nodes. Fever, chills and aching.
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Nux Moschata (Nutmeg)

Nutmeg causes dowsiness and stupor. The state is absent-minded, dreamy, and spaced out, possibly with clairvoyance. Things seem distorted or unreal, like a dream.
These patients are drowsy or half asleep, and go for a nap when they are worried, and they are anxious by nature.

It seems like a childish state but this state could easily occurr in old age, and Kent notes its use in the weakness of typhoid. Compare the drowsiness with Op.



For a superbly documented Case: Myalgic Encephalitis

  • Ailments from: shock; fright, emotional excitement; death of loved ones (children in).
  • Anxiety, fear with. Held - desire to be. Being held amel.
  • Jealousy.
  • Spaced out feeling. Abstraction. Clairvoyance. Ecstacy. Laughing, silly. Insolence.
  • Orientation - decreased. Vertigo - swaying.
  • Delusions - enlarged (parts of body or distances)
  • Delusions - execute him, people want to.
  • Delusions - he has done wrong.
  • Yeilding. Irresolution - acts in. Ideas bundant.
  • Lascivious - impotence with.
  • Insanity - vertigo with.
  • Answers slowly. Absent, minded, periodical attacks short lasting
  • Physicals
  • Pain, liver, menses, before. > Leucorrhoea, acrid.
  • Menses: irregular. > painful. > protracted. >
  • Dryness; Menses, absent (amenorrhoea). > Menopause.
  • Kidney: Pain, cutting, ureters.
Sensation as if floating.

Therapeutics: Alcoholism. Leucorrhoea. Wheezing.

Miasm: Typhoid.

See also: Onos. (above).
Similars: Phos-ac, Graph.

family Zygophyllaceae

Guaiacum officinale

Gummi Guajaci is a resin prepared from the sap of the Guajacum tree. The gum was once used to treat syphilis. Proved by Hahnemann.
    Guac. presents quite an anti-social and syphilitic image...
  • Irritability: Reserved. Morose mood - he speaks but little.
  • Misanthropy: Haughty. Dispostion to slander.
  • Great peevishness and contemptuous humor.
  • Dreams of fighting and being stabbed by knives. Murder. Quarrels. Riots.
  • There is also stupor ...
  • Weakness of memory. Fogets what he just read.
  • Deficiency of ideas: In the morning, during breakfast absence of thought; he remains standing at one spot, and stares right in front of him without thinking.
  • Contraction of muscles and tendons. Cramps. Gout. Rheumatism.
Sensations: Pinching. Shooting. Tearing. Sharp stiches. Knife thrusts. Pricks like flea bites.
Ord Nymphaeales
family Nymphaeaceae
This order contains the Nymphaeaceae (Water Lilies) and is closely related to the Magnoliales.

Nymphaea odorata (Fragrant water lily)

An ornamental plant found in the shallows which can become invasive.
  • Restlesss at night.
  • Sexual desire increased at night
Therapeutics: Lumbar pain. Coryza. Sore throat.

Nuphar lutea (Yellow water lily).

Image: Sensitivity and delicacy.
  • Sensitive: Moral impressions.
  • Sympathetic: Love of animals.
  • Contradiction - impatience. intolerant of.
  • Fancies - lascivious
  • Erections incomplete.
  • Restless. Weak.
Myalgia Case: Margriet Plouvier Suijs MD (Interhomeopathy)

family DegeneriaceaeSpp. Degeneria.
family EupomatiaceaeSpp. Eupomatia.
family HimantandraceaeSpp. Galbulimima.


Differentiation

Rajan's sensation for the Magnolianae family is Foggy, implying Confusion or Bewilderment. Stupor is a theme that applies to all the magnolids. Stupor following on from weakness is a theme that reccurs throughout the Mononcots.
The magnolids also seem to be very weak and insecure. They are aggravated by motion, which is a large rubric but it is very characterisitc of the Carbon Series.
Boron has the rubric ...

  • Dread of downward motion
Disorientation is another magnolid theme. Dr. Sankaran describes the Magnoliales family as "bewildered and lost". Beryllium has the rubric ...

  • ORIENTATION; sense of - decreased





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