Rosids::Sapindales

Themes from the Synonym database: Gels: Battles. Nux-v + Gels: Apprehensive. Nux-v, Ign, Ip. : Abusive vs. Affability. Chin: Amorous. Chin, Cur, Coffea: Busy, Visionary. Ole: Abstraction. Spig: Cheerful. Upas: Sensitive.

Family Apocynaceae. spp. Dogbane. Rx: [Apoc. Olnd. Rauw. Stroph. Vinc.] Repertory Work Searches for VISIONS, DREAMY, FANCIES shows that an exalted or visionary mind pervades the Dogbanes ... Mind; ECCENTRICITY, fancies, in, apoc[1], [+5] Mind; fancies; exaltation of; working, while:, olnd[1] [+2] Apocyanum (Hemp) A herbal remedy for dog-bite. Image: He has big ideas! Pride before a fall? Rubrics: Stupifaction. Talk indisposed. Ailments from mortification Restless. Eccentricity, fancies in. Exaltation of fancies. Farrington: Loss of power esp. sphincters; GI. cardic and renal. When indicated Apocynum demands that the following symptoms be present: bewilderment and heaviness of the head; drowsiness and debility or disturbed, restless sleep. The functions are sluggish. The pulse is slow. The bowels are constipated. The kidneys are torpid. Therapeutics : Chronic constipation/diarrhea. Retention of fluids: oedema. The Oedema can be caused by chronic kidney disease. Blood Pressure may be affected if the blood is not circulating properly, the heart is then put under strain. Sensations: Sharp pains (neuralgia). Oleander (Rose Laurel) Farrington: Its poison causes a decided prostration of the nervous system with symptoms of narcosis. A dreamy state, with beautiful visions, gets confused when he tries to concentrate (exertion agg). Soon contradicts then feels sorry. It produces weak memory and forgetfulness. The patient has great difficulty in catching the meaning of remarks. Therapeutics:Functional paralysis with vertigo (implicating sensory nerves). Sensitive Skin. Easy chafing. Itching on undressing. Diarrhoea, esp. infants - food undigested. Vinca minor (periwinkle) Farrington: It contain a bitter and astringent principle, making it of service as a" tonic," and also as a styptic to control haemorrhage. Therapeutics: Menorrahgia with debility. Skin: crusty (and smelly) eruptions on scalp and face. Compare: Viola, Arctium, Nux juglans and Staphy. Rauvolfia Rauw. (Indian Snakeroot). Rauwolfia caffra is the South African quinine tree. Rauvolfia serpentina, or Indian Snakeroot contains ajmaline, rescinnamine (ACE inhibitor), serpentinine, yohimbine and reserpine (Resr). Reserpine is an alkaloid which was once widely used in hypertension, but it blocks uptake of serotonin, noradrenaline, and dopamine, causing suicidal depression, with weakness, drowsiness, dizziness and nightmares. Proving: Weakness of memory, and the power of concentration. Alternate excitation and depression. Interior restlessness with irritability and apprehensions. Rubrics: Delusions, unreal, everything seems. Excitement, alternating with sadness. Apathy. Irritability. Rudeness. Anguish. Restlessness. Anxiety. Fear, evil, of. Suicidal. Death, thoughts of or dreams of. Kill, herself, sudden impulse to. Schizophrenia. Misams: Psora and Syphilis. Reserpine. Reser. Reduces blood pressure as above, also there is a reduction of anxiety and stress which can be followed by nervous depression, melancholia and tendency to suicide.  Inset: Nux Vomica

Family Gelsemiaceae. spp. Gelsemium, Mostuea Gelsemium sempervirens Farrington: It (paralysis) acts upon the cerebro-spinal system, particularly upon the anterior columns of the cord. We also see that, by producing this sluggishness of thought, this stupid state of the mind, it must have an action on the vascular system. It is through the vaso-motor nerves that it produces passive congestion, which may be either venous or arterial. Image: Great lack of inner confidence. They wish to appear couragous, whilst trying to stoically keep it hidden (Sycotic cover-up). Vivacious. Cheerful. They fear situations which could be shocking because these are the kind of situations where they could lose control of themselves. Even the ability to concentrate is lost. A glance at the causal factors tells us what these shock producing sensitivies might be ... AILMENTS, from [anticipation], [forboding], [embarrassment], [reproaches], [mortification], [bad news], [fright], [grief]. The Gels. type of personality is particularly sensitive to embarrassment, reproach or mortification - these cause great distress. The result is that he becomes apprehensive. Doing anything different can be an ordeal. He goes blank with fear, (vacant feeling when trying to concentrate). Really scared... the limbs feel heavy and there is a fear of losing control. In this state he gives up and wants to be far from anyone hurtful, but on the other hand he doesn't want to be alone, because he wants protetction, and can be very clingy. Company, aversion, avoids the sight of people. vs. Company, desire for, aversion to solitude. Fear, (apprehension, dread). > ...falling of > Clinging, held, wants to be, amel being. Anxiety: anticipation, when alone. Conversation amel. He doesnt want any disturbance at all. Quiet, wants to be. Anxiety children in > if a time is set > stage fright Answers, abruptly, shortly, curtly. > monosyllable. > slowly. The delusions of objects and distances being enlarged suggest that he feels very small. This is a very childlike state. The clingy child fears the thunder, dark, death and even motion. He yearns for light, salvation, shrieks for help, and the sadness can go as far as suicide. Fear, dark, of. vs. Light, desire for. Sensations: Constricting, pressing. Feels as heart will stop if he doesnt move, esp. on falling asleep. Therapeutics:Mucous membranes - excoriating catarrh. Paralysis. Sluggish thinking and emotion. Miasm: Sycotic.

Family Gentianaceae. spp. Gentiana lutea. Sensation of: congestion or dullness Top (core) Gentianaceae Rubrics ... Confusion - writing, while, or eructation amel. Morose (cross...)

Family Loganiaceae. Rx: [Brucea, Curare, Gels, Hoang-Nan, Ignatia. Nux-v. Spigelia. Strychnos. Upas] Family sensations of: Shattering; Shock and Disappointment. Top (core) Loganaceae Rubrics ... Delerium tremens Despair; Suicidal. Ailments, anticipation, forboding. Company desire for. OR aversion to. Cheerful alt. sadness. Ennui, boredom, tedium Ignatia Image: A softer Nux Vom. The Nux-v woman. Traditionally the remedy for sudden emotional pain which remains in very sharp focus. This may due to an element of fright. Check out the similarity to Nux-v before prescribing. The patient is a sensitve romantic and idealist. Like Nux-v they have many fantasies. Reality doesnt often match up their ideals. When this happens the Ignatia state kicks in, the grief suffered is so profound it is beyond tears, even beyond measurement (weeping amel). The emotions hold sway! Affectionate. > Amorous > Ailments from Anger, with silent grief, or disappointed love. Ailments, from bad news. > ... from death of parents or friends. > Delusions, ruined is. They over-react to everything ... Anxiety > Suspicious > Ailments, from jealousy. > Aversion, women, to. Ailments from honour, wounded. > ... pecunary loss And often respond with anger ... Indignation > Violent, deeds of rage, leading to. > Anger, violent. > Abusive, insulting. They may want support, but probably only from someone close, they dont really want to talk about their worries. They would rather brood and meditate on it (weeping amel.) Company, aversion, loathing at company. > Fear, men, dread of. > Hatred, men of. Company, desire for, aversion to solitude. > Confidence, want of self. > Carried, desires to be. Suicidal thoughts There may be a spiritual side, which unfortunately, like work, can be a source of anxiety rather than joy because she tries too hard ... Anxiety, salvation, about, scruples excessive. > ... scruples as to religious. Like Nux-v. they have the delusion of being ruined and mocked. They can jump: Suicidal, throwing from a high place. Sankaran suggests the the delusion of ruin indicates that the sense of being out of control is a key aspect of Ignatia (like Gels.) They like to travel. Therapeutics:Nervous breakdown. Grief, Loss esp. with hysteria. Sensations: Stitching and Tearing. Miasm: Cancer. Nux vomica Busy folk who can't relax, they have to be doing something. Wants everything in such a hurry. Right Now! They have great fantasies. Nux will not stop untill he gets what he wants. Then he rests. Hurry > Impetuous > Activity, restless. Volatile stock markets attract nux-v's like flies, but problems at work kick off the pathology. ...then they can dread work. Anxiety, exaggerated. > Ailments, from discords chief and subordinates. > ambition deceived > scorn. It's "The Spirit of the Age" - Intellect in the service of gain and advancement. High Achievers who often find material success a disappointment. Inconsolable > Loss of ambition from disappointment > Delusions, fail, everything will. > ... crime, committed a, he had. They have an affectionate personal side but often believe everyone else has a totally self-serving ideology, so they dont trust anyone. They are often disdainful, jealous and cruel. Abrupt, rough yet affectionate > Affectionate. > Anger, interruption from. > Sudden impulse to kill for the slightest offence > Litigious > Liar. They can be either avericious or benevolent, when it suits them. They do like to show off. Envy > Avarice, squandering on oneself, but. > Avarice, generosity towards strangers. > Boaster, braggart. Behind the fear is the delusion that everything will fail and he will be persued or mocked. They often talk of suicide but dont follow through. Sometimes they do ... Delusions, religious. > Disgust, everything with. > Suicidal, throwing himself, windows, from. They dream of vermin! Sensations:Strychine is known for impressionability; to sounds etc - it causes irritability, in Nux but melancholy in Ig. Therapeutics: Gastric irritability. Enlarged liver, jaundice. Miasm: Typhoid. Loganaceae: When striving turns into misery. Spigelia Neuralgia and anxiety. Image: A broken down, anxious Nux-v. Serious and responsible people whos pains develop after prolonged grief. They become nervous and fidgety. The pains - neuralgia and migraine - are violent and radiating. The person becomes absorbed in worries about the future. Ideas abundant > Absorbed > Absent. Ailments, from anticipation, foreboding > Fear, dread. > hurt of being > suffering At other times the anxity takes control. It becomes an excitable state .... Cheerful, alternating with palpitation. Anxiety, alternating with exhilaration. Impatience. Excitable > Active > Anger, face with, red > Cursing, swearing. Kinesthetically this state is accompanied by a sensation of vertigo. Delsions: sidewalk is rising > He is reeling > Turns head; he would fall if. > Loathing, life. The long term result is indifference. There is an interesting fear of steel points like Sil. The anxiety must be "stabbing". Sensation: Stabbing (chest). Miasm: The state of anxt swings between absorption and excitement. Malarial. Curare Contains Strychnine and Curare. The poison paralyses. Farrington: Curare acts on the periphery of the motor nerves, producing paralysis of motion without any disturbance of sensation. The Curare state ... is anethetised, a living person in a dead body. Prooving: Sensitive: All feelings intensified, have to guard myself to prevent showing affection towards those I like, and irritability towards those I do not like. Rubrics: Unconsciousness, conduct, automatic. > Somnambulism. Company, aversion, avoids, shuts herself up. Moral, feeling, want of. > Cruelty, inhumanity. > Kill, desire to. Despair. > Delusions, dirty, everything is. Destructivness. > Striking himself > Tears, himself Indications: Children who can't tie their own shoe-laces (Grandgeorge). Miasm:A destructive Syphilitic state exacerbated by Leprous tendancies. Upas Tieute A climing shrub from Java. The juice (strychnine) is used to poison arrows. The mood is irritable, melancholy, and cold i.e. repulsive. Rubrics: Delusions: faint [wih qualmishness.] Restlessness, coition during. Sexual Aversion vs. Ailments from sexual excess; Dullness, Irritability. Morose [Sad] [Sensitive] Sensations: Numbness (scalp). Constriction (abdomen). Splinter (throat). Shaking (brain). Miasm Unknown... dreams of Itching. Strychnine There is a state of great sensitivity, which is typical of the family, and an acute fear of injury ... Laughing. Giggling. Nymphomania. Sensitive to external impressions. Ideas abundant. Fear of being injured. Panic attacks. There is a state of stupor ... Delusions: He is persecuted. He is trapped. Embittered. Sadness. Weeping. Dullness. Stupifaction There are spasms and paralysis in the physical symptoms .... Motions of the head. Jerking. Spasms. Face - paralysis. Risus sardonicus. Swelling. Speech, difficult. Throat, choking. Extremities, convulsions. Jerking. Paralysis. Chilliness. Coldness. Sensations: Spasm. Paralysis. Miasm: Acute.

Family Rubiaceae (Madder Family) spp. Coffee [+10,000] Rx: [Cina, Coff, Ip, Yohim, Gali, Rub-t.] Family Sensations of: Joy (i.e. overstimulation) vs. Harassment Theme: Sensitivity vs. Dullness. (Coffea, for example relieves fatigue). Top (core) Rubiaceae Rubrics ... Benevolence > Ailments from anger, indignation or fear. Forsaken feeling. > Indignation > Contemptuous. Delusions, unfortunate. > Grief, silent. > Despair. Cowardice Capricious; Anger, violent. Cursing. Meditation > Ideas, deficiency of. Memory, active > Theorizing Will, weakness Desai on the Rubiaceae: Irritation and excitement of the nervous system. Easily angered with desire to vex and hurt others. All the Rubiaceae have a vision of a beautiful inner world: "Delusions, beautiful, landscape, of. light, incorporeal, he is." Some important red dyes are obtained from this family. Ipecacuanha (Ipecac Root) Farrington: Ip. has an affinity with the mucous membranes of the bronchial tubes and alimentary canal. Ipecacuanha contains as its active principle a substance called Emetin, which gives to the drug its property of producing vomiting. It also contains Ipecacuanhic acid which may have an effect on the pneumogastric nerve, (implicated in asthma). Image: The Ip. state has an "unfortunate" feeling. Very hard to please. You get boredom and discontentment along with the Rubiacae desire for stimulation, which kicks off all sorts of longings ... Desires numerous. Ip. never stops thinking "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence!" This is a characteristic of the Typhoid Miasm. Ailments from vexation and reserved displeasure; > from indignation, > anger, vexation, being scorned The hurt can surface as anger, especially if things are not going well at work, Hurry; > Industrious > Anger, business, about. > Anger, noise, at or trifles at > Cursing, swearing. They feel better after expressing the anger Tranquillity, anger, after. > Serenity, calmness. A crisis at work can produce anxiety as well as anger ... Anxiety morning, waking, on. > Brooding > Fear of misfortune. They can resort to Alcohol as a temprary palliative Disgust, everything, with. > Dipsomania, alcoholism. The Ip. state is also jealous - they don't want others to enjoy life. Jealousy > Mocking > Malicious. Therapeutics: There is a connection between the mental symptoms and the stomach. Morning sickness, nausea, vomiting. Spasmodic Asthma with weight on the chest, cough. Sensations: Bruising or crushing (in sick headaches). Miasm : Typhoid - A small person vs. a big organisation. China (Cinchone - Peruvian Bark) Farrington: Cinchona contains a number of isomeric Quinine alkaloids (C20H2N2O2). The effects resemble cholera: Soon nausea and vomiting appear, and even diarrhoea may be added to the gastric disturbances. Then the head becomes affected. There is a peculiar sensitiveness to external impressions, to noises, to bright lights or to anything that is apt to render the patient irritable. There is experienced a peculiar form of headache, which is characterized by dull aching and at other times by throbbing in the head. There are well-marked ringing or roaring sounds in the ears, a very characteristic effect of Cinchona. Vertigo still further complicates the case. If the use of the drug is still persisted in, deafness follows. In extreme cases collapse and death from paralysis of the heart end the patient's life. Hahnemann has taught us that Cinchona is useful only when debility or anaemia comes from loss of fluids,(e.g. haemorrhage, diarrhoea or even sexual excess). Image: China seems to be like a deeper progression of Ip. (above). The China state is sensitive to beauty and these people are usually artistic, philosophical or spiritual. Their sensitivy is delicate, and soon becomes irritation. The least noise is painful e.g. Tinnitus. The room looks too bright. Reconstruction from rubrics: They are very deep, and superficial conversation is almost painful. Sentences can be broken in a rush of mixed up words and ideas. They would rather write you a poem: Thoughts: Disconnected. Vanishing. Rushing. Persistant. In verses. The world seems threatening in this delicate state. When harrassed they become 'gaurded against persecution', and quite likely to become agrophobic. Delusions, persecuted; pursued by enimies; tormented; Escapes, attempts to. Fear: Dogs, people, falling, evil, killing, being pitied. When short tempered, they go off at the sligtest offence. The rage is to be avoided! Cruelty: Kill, Malicious. dictatorial, domineering, dogmatical, despotic. Anger - inclined to vex others; caressing from [both unique] Answer, aversion to; refuses to. There is clarity, lots of ideas, ambition, and the ability to plan. Fancies, exaltation of; The person needing China may live in an "ivory castle" ... their plans don't often translate into actions (Feeling bloked - Rajan's case (Plants. I) brings out the aspect crippling dependancy). When the romantic vision fails to materialise a state of indifference and apathy sets in. Wants to drink and let the world go to hell. Anxiety, weary of life, with; trifles; future about; conscience of. > Indifference, periodical. Inconsolable; > Suicidal, fear of death, with. Cheerful, shouting; desires to be; alt sadness. > Lascivious. Obscene, lewd. Confusion, dream, as if in. Dullness a.m.; dreams after. Miasm: Malaria. A small person vs. the world? Therapeutics: Cholera, chills, fever. Sensation: Hinderance. Rubiaceae: When Sensitivity and Joy turn into misery. Galium Aparine Mishas Proving: The key sensation of the remedy would seem to be one of being overwhelmed. This would be in keeping with the signature of the substance as a fast growing weed that soon overwhelms the area in which it grows and with the clinical evidence of its efficacy in treating cancers, which would place it in a cancerous miasm. The sensation of being overwhelmed was found clearly in the mental and emotional pictures, in dreams, particularly of overwhelming responsibility. This was often externalised as a feeling of being harassed or plagued both internally and externally. There was a sense of anxiety, particularly an anxiety that something was about to happen. Part of this anxiety was found in visions of death and violence. Coffea Cruda (Arabica) Farrington: Its alkaloid, Caffeine, is identical chemically with several others, such as Theine, the active principle of tea, and is related chemically to the purin bodies, xanthin, uric acid, etc. Caffeine lessens the amount of urea excreted in the urine. The senses are all too acute under Coffea, not only the sense of touch but that of sight and of hearing also. An increased "excite-motor" action explains many of its symptoms. Violent emotions, whether of pleasure or of pain produce symptoms. Patients experience sudden joy, and they are at once sick from the excitement, ( e.g. apoplectic congestion). This state can be reversed, the pulse increases at first then there is cardiac depression with palpitation and an irregular pulse. The heart is weakened. Traits: Sensitive and mentally overactive. Theorizing. Quick, rushing Ideas. Acting before thinking. This excited state may be brought on by Father Christmas - aliments from joy, (Anja Heij). Activity, creative. > mental, midnight until Also has a sense of beauty, and (over)sensitivity. Despair from pain. They can labour for a good cause untill breakdown. The anger or the Rubiacea can be dangerous in the Coffea case: Anger, violent. > Anger, throws things away. > Death, thoughts of, fear, without. > Delusions, paradise he, saw. UNIQUE . There can be remorse (the morning after?) Miasm: Leprosy. Mitchella Proovers started off with a feeling of dullness, heaviness and depresssion, which passed and developed into a feeling of buoyancy. Cheerful, (gay, mirthful). Dullness, (sluggishness, difficulty of thinking). Sadness, (despondency, dejection, depression). Sighing. Therapeutics: Persistent haemorrhage with frequent desire for urination. American Indians used it to ensure easy labour. Pausinystalia yohimbe Yohimbine HCL is the principal Alkaloid (an Indole) found in the bark of the tree. In Africa, yohimbine has traditionally been used as an aphrodisiac. One side-effect is anxiety. In higher doses there can be rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, and overstimulation. It causes insomnia and sleeplessness. It has been used in the treatment of PTSD by inducing flashbacks in a controlled environment to reduce the numbing of responsivness and emotional constriction. Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom) It has psychoactive effects and contains some of the alkaloids found in Cinchona. It also contains 7-hydroxymitragynineis which is strucurally related to Yohimbine. Kratom is considered an inexpensive alterntive to Opium by Thai users. They report that it can produce stimulation or relexation depending on the dose. At high doses it seems to be a sedative and an analgesic. Its relative, Mitragyana stipulosa is listed under: Skin - eruptions - leprosy. Psychotria viridis Yet another ethenogen, containing DMT; used with Ayahusca to provide "light" (Wikipeida!).

Gentianales - Summary Following on from the theme of excitement, clarity and exhilaration we found on the positive side of the Eriacles we also find clarity and beautiful visions in the Apocyanaceiae and the Rubiaceae. The Gelsemiaceae are very sensitive to emotional stress. Under stress they are completely helpless. In the Loganaceae there is serenity and sensitivity. The reaction to overstimulation is shock and a feeling of being shattered (Sankaran, Plants, P 1309). As in the Ericales, the overall result is a feeling of helplessness or paralysis (plants in this family contiain strychnine). In the Rubiaceae we see this state of mental activity clearly in Coffea and China, where there are many visions, ideas and aspirations. It is a sensitive and delicate state of mind. The polarity, arising from over-stimulation (Sankaran, Plants, p.472) is exhaustion and dullness. The theme running through the entire Order is delicacy and sensitivity.

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