Asterids::Solanales

Themes from the Synonym database: Hyos, Bell Stram: Apprehensive. Stram: Abandoned. Bell: Abusive. Mand: Visionary. Dulc: Busy.

Family Solanaceae (nightshade family) Rx:[Bell. Hyoscamus. Stram. Dulc. Tab. Capiscum. Fab. Nicot. Mand. Franc. Lycop. Sol-n] Notes: The Solanaceae contain a range of alkaloids. Tropane alkaloids are found in Atropa Belladonna, and in the Datura, Mandragora, and Brugmansia genera, as well as many others in the Solanaceae family. Pharmacologically, they are the most powerful known anticholinergics in existence, meaning they inhibit the neurological signals transmitted by acetylcholine. Symptoms of overdose may include mouth dryness, dilated pupils, ataxia, urinary retention, hallucinations, convulsions, coma, and death. In safe doses they can reverse cholinergic poisoning, caused by exposure to pesticides and chemical warfare agents (eg Sarin). [Wikipedia] Sensation as if : Explosive Violence Terror Pulsation Spasm. Themes: Visions and hallucinations; the subconscious Top (core) Solanaceae Rubrics ... Thoughts, wandering Gestures, grasping Hurry, movements in. Muttering; Talks to himself. Singing; Dancing Delusions, images, frightful Fear, night; Fear, alone Shrieking, brain cry. Loathing, life; Misanthropy. Timidity, bashful Abusive; Rage, shrieking with. Answers incorrectly. Repertory Work The theme of IDENTITY is important in the Solanaceae ... Mind; delusions, imaginations; identity, errors of personal:, stram[1], verat[2], [+20] Also sol-t-ae (Solanum tuberosusm - rotten potatoes) appears in similar rubrics. A search for VIOLENT reveals ... Delusions, violent: bell[1] hyos[1], stram[1], [+2] Delerium, violent: bell[3], hyos[3], stram[3], verat[1], verat-v[1], [+10] Dulc. can be found in 'Mind, Violent (Vehement)', so, violence appears as a strongly represented theme in this family. FEAR is at the heart of the family ... Ailments from anger, fright, with: Bell[2], STRAM[3] Fear, fire: stram[1]. Fear, night: bell[2], dulc[1], stram[1], tab[1]. Bell. appears in many FEAR rubrics, also note: Caps. (Cayenne Pepper) in 'fear of fresh air', and Tab. in 'fear of being alone'. Fear of DOGS in another familiy-wide theme. Fear animals: BELL[3], hyos[1], stram[2] [+6]. Fear DOGS:BELL[3], hyos[2], stram[2] Fear bitten, being, hyos[2]. (N.B. Caust. and Chin. also come through) One last rubric deserves special mention ... Mind; FEAR, noise, from, rushing water, of, hyos[1], lyss[3], stram[3] Summary: The Solancea individual may compensate by supressing his anger or his fears to keep them under control. As a result adults may be quite inhibited, and blocked off from any emotional spontanaity. There appears to be a split between the conscious mind and the darker side - which weakens the sense of Self. Smith, Verspoor and Decker interpret these as "Hot" Chthonic Realm Remedies (Helleborus is a "Cold" remedy) Belladonna (Queen of the Shades) The character behind the rubrics ... (following Dr. Sehgals R.O.H. technique) In the first instance they may present as a mild person with a quiet disposition. Mildness; > Quiet, disposition; > Confidence, want of self. They might hide their feelings behind a nervous laugh or smile ... Hides, things; > Hide, desire to, fear, on account of; > Laughing, involuntarily. ... even though they may be in a state of misery and despair Despair; > Indifference, joyless; > Death, desires, anguish, from. If you push them they quickly feel provoked, and their feelings may come to the surface ... Conversation, aversion to; > Answers, monosyllable. > Consolation, (kind words) agg; > Contradiction, is intolerant of. > Rudeness Break, things, desire to; There can be an acute state of imminant danger. Escape, attempts to, window, from. Once they warm to you, the conversation soon goes in the direction of their dreams or achievments ... Boaster, braggart; > Business, talks of; > Extravgance; > Delusions, wealth, of; > Battles, talks about. They may wish to discuss the reason for their visit at the earliest opportunity ... Serious (earnest); > Carried, desires to be, fast. The Psychology They are impressionable people, but they consign their shame and horror to the shadows to be forgotten. The suppressed energy comes out as intense delusions and hallucinations. When feelings are supressed we can beome quite materialstic in outlook. The deep waters of the shadow self are avoided - hydrophobia runs through the whole family. The Belladonna state is reminicscent of Rabies, and there are fears of mad dogs in the rubrics. In Rabies all the darker instincts of the Base Chakra are unleashed. The remedies produce unrestrained desire, with its close followers, jealousy, pride, rage and violence. Hydrophobic - fear of the deep waters of the mind Impressionable - horrors consigned to the shadows Violent and intense reactions, suppressed energies rising in hallucinations. Affinity: Endoderm: Epithelium of Blood vessels + Capillaries Mesoderm: Mucous membranes. Blood. Ectoderm: Skin. Nerves. Therapeutics: Throbbing headache. Red flushed face. D.T.. Cramps of P.M.S. when motion and jarring agg. Similar: Ars aur borx CALC carc Caust cupr fl-ac hydr-ac kali-bi Kali-c mag-p phos. sil sulph Stramonium (Jimson weed) Causation: Stram. is listed under ailments from reproach, and also anger (with fright or anxiety). This state could occur in a situation of childhood abuse, e.g. bullying. A small vunerable child who is angry but can't fight back. Teenage Stram's dont like being alone they more feel protected when they join a gang. These dubious alliances give them some support. Stram. is related to Calcera by these issues of dependency (and the plant thrives calcerous soil). Stram. needs emotional support... Cowardice; Confidence, want of self. Childish, behavior; Clinging; Begging, entreating supplicating. Their world is a frightening one, impoverished, without any form of comfort ... everything familiar has a threatening, injurious or even dangerous, aspect. Fear, Injured of being. Delusions, strange, familiar things seem; Strangers, friends appear as. A severe shock such as witnessing an accident can bring on a sense of incapacity and fear of loss of status. Fear misfortune of; Fear, falling, of; Fear, imbecile, to become. The sense of threat and injury becomes so strong that in the darkest moments this may manifest as religious mania - a desire for spiritual light, or despair of salvation. Clairvoyance. Prophesying. Preying. Religious, bible, want to read all day the. Monomania. Their own sense of identity is fragile. Confusion, identity, as to his. Confusion, identify, duality, sense of. Jelousy. The held in emotions come out under the influence of Alcohol ... Insanity, drunkards, in; Insanity, erotic. Because they have many strange delusions (or genuine clairvoyance) they may often find solace in some kind of cult, or read the likes of Stephen King. In "The Shining" the main character tries to "teach" his unfortunate wife how to bring up their son properly. Jealousy, accuses wife of being faithless. In a drunken delerium, he follows the advice of a ghostly barman and goes for her with an axe. Talks, dead people, with. Speech, violent. Converses in jargon. Rage, violent. Rage, kill people, tries to. Proving: Dreams, amorous and jealous. Dreams, held in a shop by assistants speel, wanted to leave. Shutters came down on her neck on the way out. Other Fears: Water, Dogs, the Dark Core Rubrics: Strong desire for light (physcial or metaphysical), and company. Therapeutics : D.T. Post Traumatic Stress. Miasm : Acute - Typhoid. Similars: Ars calc ferr merc phos plat Sil sulph zinc. Hyoscyamus Niger - Black Henbane Themes: Trust vs. Betrayal. Covering-up vs. Exhibitionism. An important remedy for abandonment or neglect. They are not very trusting by nature and there is a sensation of being an outsider. Delusions, deserted, forsaken is. A glance at the Rubrics of causation gives us an idea of the sort of background that this state arises from ... Ailments, from ... fright; grief; jealousy; love, unhappy; scorn. Hyos. may blame herself for the neglect she experiences ... Delusions, neglected his duty, he has; > Offended someone, he has; > Criticized she is. > Delusions, friend, affection of, has lost the. This may cause feelings of being a criminal which can sometimes appear in dreams. Delusions, criminal, he is a; > pursued, he was. They are suspicious of almost anyone, and he may be afraid of Drugs or Doctors as Dr. Sehgal points out. They think that everyone deceives or cheats, Fear of being sold.> Fear, everything, constant of.> Fear, betrayed, of being. Hyos. obsessivly and jealously controlls everything. Delusion: partner is unfaithful; OR, wife is faithless. > Fear, betrayed, of being. > Hyos. become very disturbed by Jealous feelings. Despair, love, from disappointed. > Suspicious, (mistrustful). >: Delerium, Jealousy from; > Jealousy, rage, with; > ... vindictive > ... driving to kill > They can be quite defensive and shy, and can become paranoid about people looking at them or talking behind their back ... Homesickness. > Home, desires to go. > Hide, desire to. > Delusions, injury, is about to receive. When they are not in a paranoid state they can be quite provocative. Quiet, disposition, alternating with rage > Rage. Their feelings are often expressed in violent outbursts. She may sit in silence or become mocking and slanderous. Malicious, insulting; > Laughing, sardonic. The need to attract attention to themselves, which arises from feeling deserted, can be expressed as joking, foolishness or exhibitionsism. Nymphomania; > Lascivious, uncovers sexual parts; > Shameless, exposes the person. > Obscene, lewed > > Shameless > Reveals secrets They may feel sexually unattriactive, as there is pronounced (sycotic) solitary persuit of sexual gratification ... Masturbation, childhood since. UNIQUE > Masturbation, excessive, at every opportunity. UNIQUE . The mental state can be so disturbed by all these feelings that there is a danger of suicide ... Weary, of life. > Delusion, Doomed being; > Delusions, suicide, driving to. The abandoned Hyos. may turn his rage towards the perpetrator, or even society, Moral, feeling, want of; Kill, drunkenness, during; > Kill, everyone he sees. > Remorse Differentation : Hyos has rage but kills in cold blood. Stram expodes into violence. Hyos is complimentary to Staphy. Therapeutics: D.T. Miasm : Typhoid. Sudden danger - uses any means (deceit, escape, violence) to overcome a threat. OR Malarial if the distrubance is intermittant and life-long. Similars: ars calc caust merc mur-ac nat-m phos plat sil. Sulph. Dulcamara (Woody Nightshade) Erotic Insanity. Confusion of identity, a sense of duality. Delusion, someone is calling The behaviour is possessive and domineering, and can be quarrelsome and impatient (feels hurried), but not as violent as Stram, etc. There can be confusion of identitiy - a sense of duality. Things get worse at midnight. Delusion rubrics: Hallucinations, imaginations (morning) Apprehension, night; Night, bed sinking is Devils, sees, and, images, phantoms, sees. Sensations: Panic. Therapeutics: Cystitis with blood in urine. Its bitternes helps ailments from damp, e.g. colds. Herpes triggered by cold weather. Miasm: Sycosis or Ringworm. Similars: ars Calc caust Kali-c merc Nat-s nit-ac Sil. Capiscum Notes: The fruit of most species of Capsicum contains capsaicin, a phenol which produces a strong burning sensation in the mouth (or any tissue it comes into contact with!). It may have evolved as a deterrant to herbivores. Capsicum is a common ingredient of many cough mixtures. Coughs are often of an intermittant and attacking nature. It is also used in post-herpetic neuralgia caused by shingles. Hahnemann: MM Pura: He is silently wrapped up in his own thoughts. Anxiety and anguish almost to death. He makes reproaches, and is indignant at the faults of others ; he takes trifles ill and finds fault with them. Choudary: It is our principal remedy for homesickness. Sleeplessness, a desire to commit suicide, and a gradually deepening melancholia follow in the wake of this home sickness. Homesickness can mean looking back ... reflecting on that which has gone, coupled with reluctance to move forward. In Capiscum the state produces anxiety and fear. Grief. HOMESICKNESS. Fear, (apprehension, dread). Reproach of. Censured of being. Suspicious. Jesting, joke, cannot take a. Forgetful. Rash. Hurry. Elegance, want of. Dirtiness. Disgust. Disobedience. Death desires. Dipsomania, alcoholism. There is another, lighter, aspect to Caps which we may not encounter so often ... Cheerful, alternating with anger. Busy. Witty. Laughing. Jesting. Whistling. Singing. Sensation: Stuck or frozen in fear. Miasm: Sycotic. Malarial Therapeutics: Piles, burning. Delerium Tremens. Similar: Arg-n ars CALC carb-v caust mag-c mang MERC nat-c ph-ac phos sil stann-i SULPH Duboisiia Myoporoides (Corkwood Tree) Contians hyoscyamine. Australian Aborogines produced pituri from the leaves. Clinical: Sedative and hypnotic. Absent-minded, incoherent, nonesnsical, memory impaired. Hallucinations not violent(?) Rubrics:Delusions, Imaginations. Illusions. Delium falling backward. Sensation: as if stepping into empty space (vertigo). Therapeutics: Parkinsons. Sensations: Coldness. Sudden paroxysms. Miasm: Cancer(?) Duboisinum (Alkaloid) When used as a substitute for actropine it causes fever and delirium. Mandragora The Mandragora state arises from exposure to extreem violence. They become hypersensitive, chilly, and have dizzy spells. There are mood swings and hysteria. Dreams of fire and murder, and there is a paranoid delusion of being possessed. Rubrics: Exhilaration, cheerful, jesting. Indifference, apathy Embraces (or Kisses) everyone. Miasm : Leprosy. Similar: arg-n fl-ac iod merc sil zinc. Tabacum A state with loss of confidence and sudden periodical anxiety, as if something terrible is going to happen. Rubrics: Fear: afternoon, Disaster. Delusions: the world rested upon him Similar: ars aur graph mag-c petr Lycium barbarum (Wolfberry/Tibetan goji ) Wolfberries have been linked in folklore to the time of Shen Nung, the First Emperor, 2800BC. They have antioxidant properties and are cultivated as a food crop. They are important in TCM as they enhance the function of the immune system and protect the liver. The leaves are used to make tea. Iochroma fuchsioides They are closely related to Datura. Hummingbirds feed on the nectar. Iochromas are used by shamans for their hallucinogenic effects. They have over 150 different tropane alkaloids in their white, milky sap. See also: [Brugmansia] Franciscaea uniflora : Syphilis. Solanaceae Case: Lady of 50yrs, rescued a very close friend from a house fire many years ago. It was caused by a burning cigarette or an untended candle. They crawled through the smoke to safety. She is couragous by nature - that is the only time she has ever been visibly shaken. Ever since she has had a fear of fire ... she must dowse every ash-tray in the house in water before going to bed. Also checking and re-cheking (Caust) that avery appliance is turned off. If anyone is staying up she needs to re-assured, many times over, that everything is "taken care of". She has horrific dreams (fire, the dead, narrow corridors.). There is sleep paralysis - half awake but unable to move. She reads the news every day, and is a state of constant distress about the state of the world, from Politicial minutiae to natural disasters She is sickened and incensed by injustice, and has violent and angry thoughts. (Caust. had a mellowing effect, she had a rash for 2days, which never returned - cured symptom). Note that like the Solanaceae other Rx can be reproachful, of others e.g. Carc(=sensorious), Caust=(slander) - There is such a close relationship that these seem to form a 'group'. When out walking all the anxiety is gone except that she loaths and is terrifed of, DOGS (but not of animals in general). She still suffers from an intense fear of losing control on a personal level, and of loss of control on a global level, which strongly suggests a remedy in the Cancer miasm (Tabac). The acute remedy Belladonna should not be ruled out too quickly ... the acute fear is persisting. Note: some of the fears are a close match for Arsenicum... which takes us away from the Plant Kingdom ;-) Tabacum (Cancer miasm) Here's a list of the core correspondances with Tabac Rubrics. Personality and Generals: Cheerful, (gay, mirthful). Courageous. Loquacity, cheerful, exuberant. Ideas, abundant, clearness of mind. .Discontented, displeased, dissatisfied. Restlessness, anxious, driving place to place. UNIQUE. Tobacco, sensitive to smell of. Air, desire for. Cold, air amel. Unfortunate, feels. Sensitive, (oversensitive). Rage, (fury) Sadness, (despondency, dejection, depression). Gestures, involuntary motions, of the. Fears: Delusions, assembled things swarms crowds etc. Fear, falling, of. Fear, disaster, of. Fear, narrow place, in, claustrophobia Getting to sleep has been a life-long issue and is familial. Delusions, visions, has horrible, night. Fear night. Shriek, unable to. Comatose. Disturbed, dreams by. Requires alcohol to sleep: Company, desires evening. Thoughts, rush night (cant stop thinking). Unconsciousness, (stupor after drink). Delirium, recognizes no one, (anyone who smokes is a threat - even family.) There is Tinnitis in the family, which she suffers in a mild form: Ear: Noises, (in). Noises, noise agg. Hearing: Acute, noises, to. Fear, noise, from. Nose: Obstruction(?) (She has nasal polyps - Caust has not helped so far.) Belladonna (Acute miasm) Comparison with Belladonna brings out some different aspects: Causal: Ailments, from fright. INSANITY, FRIGHT, FROM. Anger, violent. Misanthropy. Ailments, from mortification. Delirium, loquacious, indistinct. Delusions, dogs, swarm about him. Fear, dogs, of. Delusions, fire, house, on. Delusions, fire, visions of. Dipsomania, alcoholism. Fear night. Fear, paralysis, of. IMPULSE, TO SET ON FIRE. Restlessness, bed, tossing about, in. Hyoscamus Lets pull out and Hyos rubrics that are specific to the case: Ailments, from injuries, accidents (mental). Delirium, hysterical, almost. DELUSIONS, INJURY, INJURED, IS BEING, SURROUNDING. Fear, dogs, of. Fear, bitten, of being. Hurry Insanity, sleeplessness, with. Stramonium There are two specific rubrics, which are difficult to dismiss: Fear, fire, things will catch stram [+2] Fear, tunnels of STRAM[3] Unique.

Family Convolvulaceae Convolvulus purga (Jalapa) In clever children there can be a sparkling of the vital force! They can be curious and precocious and would rather read than play. They are restless and need to be kept occupied. Clarke: Jalap. is the well-known purgative of old-school practice. There is great restlessness and anxiety with Jalap. General coldness and blueness of the face. The abdominal pain is very severe: "as if the abdomen would be Cut to Pieces"; severe griping, cutting pains. Rubrics: Inconsolable [desires to be carried] Similars: Ars iod mag-c. Convolvulus stans (Calystegia:CONVO-S) Sensitive > Excitable. > Hysteria > Ailments, from excitement, emotional. Company, aversion to, presence of others agg. < > Company, aversion, alone amel when. Sadness > Weeping, (tearful mood). Anxiety Conv maj similars: aur kali-c Convolvulus Duartinus. (Morning Glory:CONVO-D) Moral weakness. Reveries in the daytime. Dreams; about quarrelling; about dead persons

Solanales - Summary The Solanaceae are well know for their terrifying visions and hallucinations. The physical symptoms are also violent and convulsive. The reaction is loss of control - often a state of delerium or hysteria.

Relationships of the Solanales and the Periodic Table The similars (Similar Remedies) running through the Solanales are spread across the periodic table (below). What do they have in common? Sycois! Deeply disturbed Sycotic states. Nightmares, fears, hurry, cover-up, delusions, which can occurr at any of the 17 mineral stages. Mag-c Sil Phos SULPH Fl-ac Caust CALC Zn Ars Iod Aur Merc    [Print Dhtml Window]