ANACARDIACEAE

Stiff meaning: not easily bent or changed in shape; rigid

Synonyms: rigid, hard, firm, hardened, inelastic, non-flexible, inflexible, ungiving
The Anacardiaceae (the cashew or sumac family) are a family of flowering
plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol,
an irritant.
When we study the remedies of Anacardiaceae family, we find the following:

Calf; muscles; tension; muscles were too short, as if, night, in bed [Allens
repertory]

Sensation pressing [Knerr]

Constriction: internal, sensation of: band, sensation of a [Complete]

Generalities; sensation: plug, like a [Knerr]

Generalities; hoop or band around the part [Roberts]

Legs; stiffness; bandaged, as if [Knerr]

The dictionary tells us that a plug is something that fills a hole very tightly. A hoop or
band obstructs, fixes and does not allow you to move. There is constriction, both
internally and externally.
So we see sensations of constriction, tightness, band, and plug. Therefore a strong
symptom of Anacardium will be amelioration from motion. Indeed, amelioration from
motion, is a very prominent symptom of the Anacardiaceae and is found in Rhus-t,
Com, and other family members.
So the main sensation is caught or stiff, not allowed to move, restricted.
The feeling is, you are stuck and you want to move constantly. The active reaction is
motion ameliorates.
Sensation:

Caught, stiff

Tight

Tension

Stuck

Cramps

(Pressing)

Passive reaction:

Paralyzed

Immobile

Active reaction

Stuck and want to move constantly.

Motion ameliorates

Aggravation sitting

Sedentary aggravates

Aggravated in the house

Pain on beginning to move

Restlessness

Compensation:

Always on move

Remedies with their miasm:

Typhoid

Rhus tox (Poison oak)

Ringworm

Rhus venenata (Poison Sumac)

Malaria

Rhus radicans

Sycosis

Mangifera indica (Mango)

Cancer

Anacardium occidentalis (Cashew nut)

Leprosy

Comocladia (Guao) and Rhus glabra (Smooth Sumach)

Other remedies
Karaka (Kopi tree)
Rhus aromatica (Fragrant Sumach)
Rhus diversiloba (Californian poison oak)
Schinus molle (Chilli pepper)
Anacardium orientale (Marking nut) (Anac)
Key words
stiff
stuck
stuck up
taut
Tension
band
blocked
captured

catch
caught
tight
clasped
cramp
grabbed
grasped
plugged
restricted
rigid

ensnared
entrapped
held
inelastic
immobile
jammed
limited
Trapped
wedged

motion amel.
movement
not being able to
move
paralyzed
free
liberated
unchained

Glimpse of presentation of vital sensation from cases

My body is stiff on waking perhaps because I have been dreaming. Its as if I am in

a different world. I am trying to break from sleep but I cannot. I am scared I
wont be able to get up. I feel trapped, I cant move my body, cant open my
eyes. I feel suffocated, claustrophobic, as if someone is holding me, trapping
me and wont let me go. No matter what you do, your efforts wont help.

I have this stiffness in my neck and I am not able to move freely. Now its
sprained

It gets more and more straightened and I am not able to move the neck both
ways. I cant move. I cant move in my work because of this; my neck doesnt
move, and my work doesnt move.

Does meditation - it gives peace, less internal commotion - It was different before, I
was reacting to everything; it felt like being caught. I wouldnt move from this
being stiff.

It was as if I was in the middle of traffic, in the middle of a traffic jam. I only feel
like Im in traffic. On asking question How is that feeling? The feeling is lack of
movement.

Dreams - everything is nice - what feeling? - it doesn't catch me.

So everywhere we get this sensation of stiffness, tight, caught and can't move or its
opposite.
Excerpts from Comocladia proving

This gradually developed into tremendous sadness with the feeling that she was
stuck, at a standstill, not progressing, not reaching anywhere, not going
ahead. Stuck and unable to think about the future, could not see even a ray of
hope ahead, there seemed no way out. Things seemed at a dead end, everything
had come to a full stop.

People from lower castes are stuck. They have to struggle a lot but there is
no progress.

Differentiation with other families

The main sensation in Anacardiaceae family is caught, stiff, not able to move, stuck in
one
place.
The sensation is of being caught from outside which does not allow one to move. Other
sensations, or expressions of the same sensation of the family are stiffness, tightness,
tension, jammed with the emphasis being on the restriction of movement. The
opposite pole is the need to move, free movement and amelioration from moving
about. There is strength to move but the movement is restricted.
e.g the predominant pathology in Rhus-t is stiff and tight joints, there is desire for
movement and amelioration from change of position.
Expressions in patients are seen as stiff, tight, caught, stuck, tension, jam, restricted,
hindered, held, limited etc and the opposite would be movement, restlessness,
liberated, free etc. Expressions like aggravated sitting or in the house or being
sedentary aggravates also indicate the same sensation of the family Anacardiaceae.

Anacardiaceae and Cruciferae family:

In Cruciferae family, the main sensation is that the free flow is obstructed and
blocked. Images used by patients to explain the same are:

'Huge stones block the flow of river so it tries to find some diversion to flow.'

'Liquid is trapped in a bottle and the lid is closed or the pipe is narrowed down at
some point and the flow is not proper.'

In Anacardiaceae family, the sensation is being caught from outside and this is
not letting the person move. The images used by patients to explain the same are:
'Something is jammed, restricted and not able to move.'
Anacardiaceae and Primulaceae family :
In Anacardiaceae family, the feeling of unable to move is from outside, as if
somebody has caught the person. The person has the strength and ability to
move but feels caught from outside. In Primulaceae, there is inability to move
which comes from inside, within oneself. It is as if the muscles are lame and
paralyzed, and therefore unable to move.
Therefore at mental level, in the remedy Anacardium there is lot of anger and cruelty
towards the opposite person, while in Cyclamen there is self-imposed imprisonment.

Anacardiaceae and Euphorbiaceae family

The main feeling in the family Euphorbiaceae is, "Hide bound", "Bound and
unbound." When you look at the meaning of bound, it means, "To fasten or wrap by
encircling, as with a belt or a ribbon" "To bandage", "To hold or restrain with or as if
with bands". That means, the basic idea is, to encircle, to bandage, to hold and to
restrict; not allowed for any kind of expansion or space.
In Anacardiaceae family, the main feeling is of being caught, as if you are held tightly,
not able to move, stuck in one place. Also the catch and caught is generally
applied to the local part, for example somebody has caught your hand, caught your
leg, neck etc. and not allowed that part to move. So on one side there is sensation
like stiff, tight and restricted and on the other side the opposite of it, which is
movement. This is different from the 'binding' or being bound that is seen in the
Euphorbiaceae family. In Euphorbiaceae, the typical example is of a prisoner.
He is bound from all sides and so prison would be a typical example to understand
'hide bound'.
The polarity here is bound, as if strings tied around him, and the opposite
would be free, break free, escape, release from this binding.

CAC TACEAE
When you study Cactus, one sensation appears again and again, namely
constriction, tightness.

Phatak mentions: "Heart: FEELS CLUTCHED AND RELEASED ALTERNATELY BY

AN IRON BAND, or feels it expand and contract; seems to turn over . . . As if heart
would fly to pieces on holding the breath."
Things grow smaller, of being caught.
"Alternately clutched and released".

Anhalonium

has -

Generalities; pain; crushed as if [Complete]

Feeling of loss of personal boundaries, a kind of expansion of the self.

In the Vision chapter, the rubric appears: "things alternately get larger and
smaller" which is similar to the expanding and contracting of Cactus.

Cere-b has "delusion incubus weighed down on him."

Carnegia gigantean - a further member of the Cactaceae has been recently proved
by Dr. Todd Rowe. We find similar themes in this remedy. These are extracts from the
proving.
Colossal/Tiny; My son is up a huge tree.

So there is a feeling of tiny and huge.

The main issue of this family is that of being constricted, tightness & being
shrunken and therefore the active reaction is to expand, get bigger &
released.
Interestingly, Cacti have the capacity to pull in water and swell and expand
enormously, and then decrease again in size, so even the plant itself shrinks and
expands.
The vital sensation of Cactaceae is of being constricted, tightness along with
being shrunken, all these feelings are together or to be more precise, the entire
issue is very vital to explain the exact phenomenon in order to differentiate its
sensation from other families. For e.g.
Euphorbiaceae patient can also come up with the sensation of being wrapped all
around, but here the issue is the vital sensation of being tied (and not of wire wrapped
tighter and tighter and thus constriction & shrunken of cactaceae).
Anacardiaceae family-sensation of constriction is internal as well as external like a
plug (which is fixed) and hence the issue is of stiff, tight & unable to move (and not
like Cactaceae where constriction is from outside which is getting tighter and tighter
hence making him feel shrunken).
In Haemamiladeae family, the vital sensation is of being compressed from all the
sides, being pressed by a heavy load, weight, feels heavy, loaded, hence unable to
move and so desire to move with light feeling, hence fly (moving + light) (and not the
issue of smaller and bigger, i.e. contraction and expansion of Cactaceae
Other words speaking of the same vital sensation of cactaceae (derived from the
different drugs of cactaceae) are clutched, crushed, weighed down, pressed
down, smaller, shriveled, Mired (means to entrap or entangled), Oppression,
downtrodden, expansion, expand, release, boundless.

Sensation:

Constricted

Made smaller

Shrunken

Contracted

Bound trapped, pressed downtrodden

Oppressed, weighed down, clutched

Passive Reaction:

Shrunk

Active Reaction:

Expansion, becoming bigger, boundless and released.

Compensation:

Unknown

Remedies with their miasm:

Acute

Cactina

Typhoid

Carnegia gigantean

Ringworm

Opuntia

Malaria

Cactus

Tubercular

Cereus-bon

Cancer

Anhalonium

Leprosy

Cereus-s

Key words
boxed
boxed in
caged
caught
clasped
clenched
clutched
compacted

compressed
condensed
constrained
constricted
contracted
crammed
crushed
downtrodden
encaged
get smaller

grabbed
grasped
grow smaller
jailed
made smaller
oppressed
pack together
Packed
pressed
pressurised

shrunk
squashed
squeezed
tight
weighed
down
boundless
endless
enlarged

Glimpse of presentation of vital sensation of Cactaceae in cases-

expanded
growing
bigger
infinite
limitless
no boundaries
spreading out
unlimited
vast

The headache is in the occiput. The sensation is as if it is caught, and something is

pressing it. He also has lumbo-sacral backache, with the sensation as if something
has caught his nerves.

Her energy feels mired down.

My energy is boundless, positive, optimistic. Anything is possible.

It was an entry into a state of consciousness of profound unity, harmony, bliss that is
indistinguishable from unity and harmony.

I took many drugs and a lot of peyote. It was a mind expanding experience.

Differentiation with other plant families

The chief sensation in Cactaceae family is 'Clutched and released', 'Expanding
and contracting'. The sensation is of being "constricted, weighed down and
oppressed; and the opposite is must expand and become bigger." Also there is
sensation of being made smaller, shrunken, contracted, bound, trapped, pressed,
downtrodden, oppressed, weighed down and clutched. The active reaction to this
sensation is, 'Expansion, becoming bigger, boundless and released'.
Other words speaking of the same sensation of the Cactaceae family are crushed,
pressed down, smaller, shriveled, mired (means to entrap or entangled), release,
boundless.
Hence in Cactaceae the vital sensation is of being constricted, tightness along with
being shrunken; all are together or to be more precise, the entire issue is very vital to
explain the exact phenomenon in order to differentiate its sensation from other
families.
Cactaceae and Euphorbiaceae
Patients needing a remedy from the Euphorbiacea family can also come up with the
sensation of being wrapped all around and constriction, but here the main issue is
the sensation of being tied and opposite is free, loose.
Constriction can be a part of both familes but Euphorbiaceae does not have
shrunken and expansionof Cactaceae. In Euphorbiaceae the polarity is tied and
free, loose and in Cacataceae there is sensation of being constricted and shrunken
with its opposite expansion.
Some examples that will give a better understanding about the Euphorbiaceae
sensation are :

The feeling when one's clothes are very tight

When one is put inside a bandage

How little children are wrapped in the clothes and not allowed to move

A typical example would be that of a prisoner. He is in the prison and bound from
all sides.

It is like a straight jacket. Straightjacket is "A long-sleeved jacket like garment used to
bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent patient or
prisoner. "Something that restricts, hinders, or confines". So they put a very long
sleeve, much longer than arms and it is just tight so that one is not allowed to move.
So the feeling is being held, restricted and one just wants to break free, escape and
release oneself out of it. This is a typical example of Euphorbiaceae sensation.
Cactaceae and Anacardiaceae
In Anacardiaceae family the feeling of constriction is internal as well as external like a
plug (which is fixed) and hence the sensation is stiff, tight and unable to move where
as in Cactaceae the constriction is from outside which is getting tighter and tighter
hence making one feel shrunken.
The polarity in Anacardiaceae is stiff, unable to move and better by movement.
Constriction stops movement in Anacardiaceae and relief is from moving about. In
Cactaceae constriction gives shrunken feeling and opposite is expansion.
Cactaceae and Hamamelidae
In Hamamelidae family, the vital sensation is of being compressed from all the sides,
being pressed by a heavy load or weight, feeling heavy, loaded, hence unable to move
and the opposite is open, free, flying, and light. Hence In Hamamelidae it is flying
(moving + light) that differentiates it from Cactaceae where the main issue is of
smaller and bigger, i.e. contraction and expansion.

COMPOSITAE
Insult means: speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse.
Synonyms: off end, disparage, discredit, libel, slander, malign,
defame, denigrate, impugn, slur, revile, calumniate, hurt, mortify,
wound, snub, rebuff , spurn, shun, ignore, cut dead, bad-mouth,
asperse, derogate, miscall.
Detailed study of various symptoms of different drugs from this family showed
following common symptoms

Female; Injuries of pelvic organs (Abrot, Arn, Bell-p, Calen, Tarax)

Male; Injuries to penis (Arn, Calen, Mill)

Generalities; injuries, blows, falls and bruises; operation, disorders from (14th
symptom) (Arn, Bell-p, Calen, Echin, Mill)

Injuries; shock. (Knerr) (Cham)

Mind; sensitive, oversensitive; touch, to (Abrot, Arn, Cina)

Abusive; insulting (Complete) (Cham)

Ailments from: insults, offenses. (Complete) (Cham)

Thus the proposed sensation of family Compositae is injured, both at physical as well
as mental level, insulted, hurt (injury perceived at mental level), fear of being
approached, touched (as that aggravate the sensation of being injured), Shocked,
Burnt or scalded, and hence the reaction of being violent, cruel,
Insulting, harsh (active reaction-since their perception is being injured & insulted,
they also inflict that back on others).
There is a sensitivity seen to things which are hard & soft because hard things are
perceived as causing injury, and soft things being opposite to hard, gives soothing
feeling.
Sensation:
Injured
Hurt or insulted
Shocked
Burnt or scalded.
Fear to be touched, hurt, approached.
Passive Reaction:
Numb
Anesthetic.
Stupor
Catalepsy.
Active Reaction:
Touching
Hurting others
Cruel/Violent
Strikes.
Compensation:
A tough guy
Takes all the beatings.
Protective of others to see they do not get hurt.
Remedies and their miasm :

Acute

Arnica/Calendula

Typhoid

Chamomilla

Ringworm

Taraxacum

Malaria

Cina / Eupatorium
perfoliatum

Sycotic

Senecio

Tubercular

Abrotanum

Cancer

Bellis perennis

Leprosy

Lactuca/Inula/Lappa

Syphilitic

Echinacea

Other remedies
Absinthium (Common Wormwood)
Ambrosia (Ragweed, Roman Wormwood)
Anthemis nobilis (Roman Chamomile)
Artemisia vulgaris (Wormwood, Mugwort)
Brachyglottis repens (Puka Puka)
Carduus benedictus (Blessed Thistle)
Erigeron (Canada Flea-bane)
Gnaphalium (Ever lasting)
Grindelia (Grindelia Robusta and Squarrosa)
Millefolium (Yarrow)
Tanacetum (Tansy)

Glimpses of presentation of vital sensation from cases

The pain is throbbing and I feel like banging my head against the wall or
hitting it with a hammer.

I like to be alone, close the doors and windows, shut the room during the headache.
If anybody talks, it feels like its hitting my head.
I feel like slapping my son at that time.

They can bang on the head with something.

I dont like hard rock music. I dont like it. I feel something is banging my head.

A mini train is following me in the garden. I am running. Dont know if it runs over
me.

He was very upset seeing the driver approaching him. Hardly had he touched him
and he got violent and beat him up. How dare you touch me?

I usually keep on getting hurt easily like at home I get burns while cooking, get
hurt from things because I cant see properly.

I am also sensitive to being spoken to in a harsh manner.

They feel as if somebody had slapped me so hard or somebody had punched me

on the nose.

A dream of lying on something very soft - like a big balloon made of a soft, soft
material. It is a soft, smooth surface. It is very big. A very nice feeling and I am
lying on it. It is a comfortable, nice feeling.

It is like a numbness. Like a cold feeling in the pit of my stomach (passive

reaction)

Is easily angered & ready for a fight at such times feels the need to hit others
or to hit himself, on the chest or box the walls or break something like glass.
Likes to play video games where he has to kill a lot of people, there is
bloodshed, he is giving a chase & killing people. Describes a game he likes more
you kill, more points you get, you just have to take a car & kill all the
pedestrians, they will run & shout, you have to kill them, then go to the hospital &
rob it, kill all the patients.

Sensitive to movies and serials where women fight against pain. They are strong
and tough personalities and take all beatings and protect others to see they
do not get hurt.

Key words
banged
beat
blunt injuries
hammered
hit

injured
scalded
Shocked
striking
accidents
blows
boxed

bumped
concussion
crashed
knocked
pounded
punched
smacked

smashed
thrashed
wounded
burn
hurt
run over

anaesthesia
analgesia
blunted
numb
tough

Difference between families

Compositae and Solanaceae
The main sensation of Solanaceae family is sudden violence, rage, outburst,

splitting, bursting, explosive, spasmodic, jerking, shooting.

This family has important physical symptoms like strokes, apoplexy, sunstroke and
some other themes like violent terror, being pursued, murder, snakes, and ghosts. All
this speaks of sudden violence, sudden danger and also fear of sudden death and the
reaction to this is 'fright or flight response', escape, panic, spasms, convulsions or
anesthetic, stupefied etc
In addition to this there is fear of dark, ghost, wild animals, dogs, snakes, being
attacked, being pursued, of being killed, terrorized, shocked etc. But the emphasis is
on sudden danger and sudden death with fright and flight reaction. Superficially
some expressions of patients may be similar to both the families but in
Compositae family we do not see so much of sudden danger and violence as in
Solanaceae.
Compositae and Papavaraceae
The main theme of the Papaveraceae family is of intense suffering, pain, agony
and a hell-like state. This kind of suffering is often connected to the experience of
death and dying, the death agony and the half-alive-half-dead state, like being
buried alive. The fascination or dreams with corpses, and dissection of corpses
recurs in this family. It is interesting to see how in Sang (the sycotic remedy of the
family) the dream is of dissecting a dead body, and in Chel (the malarial miasm
remedy), the same is modified to "dream that the body being dissected seized his
throat". The opposite of intense suffering that is seen in this family is a kind of
numbness, hibernation, an anesthetic state, a meditative state.
There may also be an alternation of numbness and pain and in compensated cases you
may either see numbness or virtual dreams that are very painful (e.g. Morph).
Hence there are two poles - sleepiness, heaviness, stupefaction, painlessness on
one side, and great sensitivity to suffering, extreme pain, convulsions on the
other. There are many intense fears found in the Papaveraceae remedies and the
delusions of the remedies give the idea of war. War represents intense fear and pain,
violence, shock, suffering, killing and turmoil. In a war situation there is constant
threat, sorrow, anger and wildness. It is a hell-like situation, the opposite of which is
calmness, tranquility and peace. We could infer that in Papaveraceae family the
survival of the plant is through its ability to adapt to extreme conditions, and in the
human this translates as an ability to withstand any kind of pain.
What differentiates the family Compositae from Papaveraceae is that in Papaveraceae
family; there is no one specific sensation. Rather there is sensitivity to extreme
pain, intense suffering, killing, heat, cold or burning and opposite to that is
numbness or hibernation or an anesthetic state as understood earlier. This is not
the main issue in the family Compositae, which has the main sensation of being
injured at the physical and mental level.
Compositae and Umbelliferae
In Umbelliferae family, there is unexpected attack, sudden blow or big injury.
For example, Conium (belongs to Umbelliferae) is a great remedy for injury to the
breast. But the main word unexpected comes up in Umbelliferae family. The sensation
is sudden, huge, violent, big blow, which is unexpected.
Things come and attack, and the main word is violent; it is a violent attack.

Mutilations, riots, accidents, cruelty all come up suddenly, without notice. So

the response to this sensation is convulsion, rage and violence; as the attack is violent,
the response too is violence. Umbelliferae family comes close to Compositae with
respect to injury as we see in the remedy Conium but what differentiates it is the word
'unexpected' and 'violent' which is the most important aspect of Umbelliferae. When
one thinks of issues like boxing and wrestling, these are typically related to the
family Compositae where injury is the main theme, but one thinks of rape,
abuse, violent blow it is the Umbelliferae family. Also when we see the rubric,
"Horrible things, sad stories affect her profoundly", the remedy comes is
Cicuta (belonging to Umbelliferae) and not Arnica (belonging to the
Compositae family)
Compositae and Theales
The vital sensation in the family 'Theales' is smashed, punctured, penetrated
followed by a shooting violent pain, and that produces spasms and
convulsions. The injury is especially to nerves or in the form of crushed lacerations.
The pain is as if something is smashed into a part that is rich in nerves like
head, spinal cord, fingers, nail bed etc. or as if something has punctured inside like a
bullet or a knife.
The wounds are stab, penetrating, smashed and punctured in the family
Theales whereas in Compositae the wounds are blunt and there is soreness.
E.g. In Arnica there is blunt wound as compared to the punctured, smashed wound in
Theales.
Anything that has pierced and punctured and gone till the nerves calls for the
family Theales and not Compositae.

CONIFE RS
Under Conifers we have families like Taxaceae, Cupressaceae, Pinaceae and
Toxodiaceae.
When we study remedies of conifers (Abies c, Abies n, Sequoia-g, Sabina, Pseudo mn
etc), we get following main symptoms

Delusions, imaginations: body, body parts: brittle, is. [Complete]

Delusions, imaginations: body, body parts: continuity of, will be dissolved.(1)

[Complete]

Delusions, imaginations: body, body parts: delicate. [Complete]

Delusion, body, body parts, pieces, danger of going to. [Complete]

There is a profound loneliness or emptiness in Thuja [Dr. Sunil Anand in his lecture
of Thuja in Links 1995]

Empty hollow sensation: vertex [Complete]

Stomach: Sensation empty feeling [Boericke]

Studies of other drugs of Conifers spoke of three sensations which are felt mentally
and physically: to be empty, to be brittle and thus to easily break the connection,
feels dissociated, disconnected.

Three sensations- emptiness, brittleness and the lack of connection are linked to
each other. The feeling of brittleness and fragility is due to the inner sensation of
emptiness.
When something is empty inside surrounded by a hard shell on the outside it will
naturally be more fragile and easily broken. When the inner core is full the container
is stronger, less brittle.
The feeling of dissociation in the Conifers is not a separation from some thing. The
feeling is; I am brittle, I will break or crumble and be dissociated from myself. It
means a break in the continuity, a break in the whole. When the Conifer patient says
isolation they perceive that the world is continuous and then there is a break. Two
pieces are formed separate from each other
When glass is broken, it will dissociate from itself. It is not connected and then
disconnected. It is one, it is whole, it is continuous and when there is a break
the continuity is gone.

Dissociation, feeling of being cut-off and separation are expressions. In the Conifers
family these refer to a sensation of brittleness, glasslike fragility and of an inner
emptiness.
The picture that again comes to mind is of an eggshell. When the egg is empty the
shell is so fragile and brittle. Once it is broken the continuity is lost and it crumbles to
pieces.
Thus the proposed vital sensation of family conifer is feeling of being brittle,
Fragile, Empty, Cut-off, and Fragmented and thus there is a need to be hard &
rigid (active reaction)
Sensation:

Fragile

Broken

Brittle

Connected/Disconnected

Empty/Fullness

Cut-off

Fragmented

Passive Reaction:

Indolence

Fearful

Weak

Active Reaction:

Rigid

Hard

Compensation:

Strength

You become strong and protective of others who are brittle and fragile.

Remedies and their miasm:

Acute

Agathis Australis

Typhoid

Terebinthina

Ring worm

Pseudotsuga

Malaria

Abies Nigra

Sycosis

Thuja

Cancer

Sabina

Tubercular

Pix-liquida

Other remedies

Abies canadensis (Hemlock Spruce)

Cupressus australis (Australian Cypress)
Juniperus virginians (Red Cedar)
Juniperus communius (Common Juniper)
Sequoia gigantea (Giant Sequoia, Sierra Redwood)
Sequoia sempervirens (Redwood)
Taxus baccata (Yew)
Taxus brevifolia (Pacific Yew)
Glimpse of presentation of vital sensation from cases

The pain increases & hand feels weak, the fingers feel brittle. Brittle means like
chalk-sticks. If you try to bend a chalk stick, it breaks.

I feel a sense of isolation from others and from the universe. I have this image that
my soul is an anchor, yet I dont feel connected, I need to trust.

Key words
brittle
delicate
fragile
frail
broken
breakable

defenseles
s
vulnerable
unprotecte
d
tough
susceptible
weak

soft
strength
connected
together
breaking
cracked
disconnect

ed
unconnect
ed
break up
break
away
cut off
fragmente

d
shattered
fall apart
fall to
pieces
sever
connection
attached

separated
detached
empty
hard
rigid
armor
shield

Difference between Conifers and Leguminosae

In Conifers, the feeling is of dissociation and not of separation from some thing.
The feeling is "I am brittle, I will break into pieces, I will crumble and I will be
dissociated from my self." When glass is broken, it will dissociate from itself. It is not
that there is a connection and that connection will break. It is not like two
compartments of a train that are connected and these will now detach and become
discreet. It is simply that, " I am 'one' but because of a break in the continuity, I will
become two.
" Not that two things are together and they will disunite, but rather one thing
will become two, which is what a 'split' means. For e.g. when we say a political
party splits, it means one party becomes two parties. So, in Thuja you have delusion
cut into two, the continuity is cut into two parts and then the delusion is double. He
was one, now he is two.
Now in comparison, in Leguminosae the sensation is that the self is made up of
various parts that are bound together and there is the feeling that these parts
could separate and fall to pieces. Many discrete things have come together, they
are together now, bound by one skin, like the peas in a pod. The self is not one
continuity, but it is made up of pieces in a pod.
It is a string of separate pieces and this thing could simply fall apart and
scatter all over the place. They are different, discrete things and when the skin
opens, all the little parts get scattered in different directions. It is like a coalition
government, which breaks. Many parties come together for the elections and when
the elections are over they all split up.

Hence the split of Leguminosae is, 'Different and Discrete things are held
together and then scattered' where as in the split of Conifer 'One becomes
two, the continuity is broken'.
Differentiation between Conifers and Scrophulariaceae
In Scrophulariaceae, two separate things are associated and then they come
apart, the bond is broken. But these two things are capable of existing
separately. They are independent identities, not dependent, but the bond
between them is very important which makes a perfection connection.
For e.g. a plug and socket, or two compartments of train.
They are individual identities having a connection or bond between them, which is
snapped.
Hence the sensation in Scrophulariaceae is 'Bonds are not strong, they are
loose.' This loose thing is not found in Conifer because in Conifers its 'One
thing which is split into two.
Differentiation between Conifers and Malvales
The main sensation in 'Malvales' is together and then separated, joined and then
separated, attached and then detached. Where as in Conifers it is not
connected and then disconnected. It is one, it is whole, it is continuous and there is
a break in the continuity.
So we summarize the sensations of all the four families as follows:
Conifers - 'One becomes two, the continuity is broken.'
Scrophulariaceae - 'Bonds are not strong, they are loose.'
Malvales- 'Attached and then detached'
Leguminosae- 'Different and Discrete things are held together and then scattered'

CRUCIFERAE
Obstruction means: the action of obstructing or the state of being obstructed.
A thing that impedes or prevents passage or progress; an obstacle or
blockage
Synonyms: obstacle, barrier, stumbling block, hurdle, bar, block, impediment,
hindrance, snag, drawback, hitch, handicapped, deterrent, curb, check, stop,
restriction, blockage, stoppage, bottleneck, hold-up, occlusion
Word 'crucifer' comes from word 'cruciform which means cross-shaped. Plants
belonging to this family have four-petaled flowers, arranged in the shape, which
resembles a cross! Various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; Brussels sprouts (Brassica
oler.), Mustard (Sinnapis) and Radish (Raphanus) belongs to this family.

The main sensation in the family Cruciferae is obstruction. The flow is obstructed,
blocked, things cannot flow freely. An apt example to describe the sensation is of a
river that is flowing freely but its free flow and movement is blocked or stopped by
some kind of barrier. So the sensation here is obstructed, stopped, blocked or

hindered and the opposite is free flow, unhindered, moving free, smooth flow
etc. One has to find diversions from the block to move further.
When we study Cheiranthus, we find the following,

Nose : Obstruction, dentition during [Boericke]

Obstruction : general, night, irritation of cutting wisdom teeth from.

Obstructions; of liver and spleen, hardness of spleen. [culpepper]

To obstruct is to block, to produce hindrance, to become a barrier, to stop

(functioning of), get stuck.
All the members of this family (Sinn.alb, Sinn.n Thios. ) confirms presence of these
kinds of sensations all throughout. At the physical level either the function of any
particular organ is blocked or there is a stoppage of flow of free fluid in any cavity. At
mind level also, this sensation of being obstructed, hindered, are evident in many
drugs of Cruciferae (Cochlearia Raphanus, Thiosinaminum).

In Links 1996, in one case, Jan Scholten mentioned, "Cochlearia often has "dream of
being bound, of being stuck and not being able to get out."

So from all this it is clear that 'obstruction' and 'stuck' mentally as well as physically
is common sensation of Cruciferae and thats why the active reaction is to break the
barrier so that one can move ahead and again there is a smooth flow, clear flow.

Sensation:

Obstruction, stuck mentally as well as physically

Passive Reaction:

Getting stuck

Interrupted flow

No way out

Active Reaction:

Breaking the barrier

Moving ahead

Smooth flow

Clearing the flow

Compensation:

Blocks do not bother him

Remedies and their miasm:

Acute

Lepidium bonariense
(Brazilian Cress)

Typhoid

Sinapis nigra (Black

Mustard)

Malaria

Iberis amara (Bitter

Candytuft)

Ring worm Sinapis alba (White Mustard)

Sycosis

Cochlearia armoracia (Horse

Radish)

Tubercular

Thiosinaminum (Mustard
Seed Oil)

Leprous

Raphanus sativus (Radish)

Other Remedies
Bunias orientalis
Brassica napus (Cole Seed) (Rape seed)
Brassica oleracea (Cabbage)
Cardamine pratensis (Lady's-smock) (Meadow-cuckoo)
Cheiranthus cheiri (Common Wallflower)
Cochlearia officinalis (Scurvy-grass)
Matthiola graeca (Giliflower)
Nasturtium aquaticum (Common Water-cress)
Nasturtium officinale (Water cress)
Sinapis arvensis (Acker-Senf / Mustard) (Bach Flower Remedy)
Sisymbrium officinale (Erysimum officinale)

Thlaspi bursa-pastoris (Shepherd's Purse)

Vesicaria communis (German bladder pod)
Some expressions seen in patients who were given remedies from the
Cruciferae family:

"It is like the flow of river is blocked by huge stones so it tries to find some
diversion to flow."

"Liquid is trapped in a bottle and the lid is closed"

"The pipe is narrowed down at some point and the flow is not proper"

"The trunk is something that cannot be passed, that stands in the way and
blocks everything. It's like a rock in the sea, scaring, big, strong and cold, that
cannot be moved. It handicaps me and my movement".

She is blocked, it wouldn't slip further on (gesture), it would barricade the

way. It would be as if a tree would stand in front of the exit in a little room,
she couldn't come through and would get mad. She couldn't stand not to
continue.

"I feel that the cough is stuck in my throat, and cannot get out. It blocks my
breathing. It is there, like some sort of a block, and it does not go away, it is
stuck there, and it is getting in the way of the air, and the air can not flow
freely. So I cough and cough, and the coughing never stops, because this block
does not go away."

"I see a huge log that blocks the corridor, and I cannot go through it, because it
blocks the way"

Key words
barrier
blockade
blocked
deadlock
get stuck
impasse
interrupte
d
no free
flow

obstacles
obstructed
stopped up
stuck
unobstruct
ed
barricade
blockage
bottleneck
choked
clogged
entangled

gag
get in the
way
gridlock
halted
hampered
hindered
impeded
jammed
no opening
no
passage

no vent
no release
no place to
go
anywhere
no way out
plugged
stopped
trapped
captive
find its
way

freeze
go through
pent up
seized
breaking
the barrier
clearing
the flow
free flow
flow
moving
ahead

smooth
flow
free
let go
unhindere
d
way
around

Differentiation with other plant families

Cruciferae and Anacardiaceae family:
In Cruciferae family, the main sensation is that the free flow is obstructed and
blocked. The reaction in this family is to break the barrier and continue the flow.

Images used by Cruciferae patients to explain the same are:

'Huge stones block the flow of river so it tries to find some diversion to flow.'
'Liquid is trapped in a bottle and the lid is closed or the pipe is narrowed down at
some point and the flow is not proper.'
In Anacardiaceae family, the sensation is being caught from outside and this is
not letting the person move. The reaction in this family is to move and motion
generally ameliorates them.
The images used by Anacardiaceae patients to explain the same are:
'Something is jammed, restricted and not able to move.'
Sinapis Alba:

Pressure & burning, with obstruction in esophagus: sensation of lump in esophagus

Dreams, country foreign
Dreams, journey: anxious
Dreams journey difficulties with

Sinapis Nigra:

Unreasonably cross
Aphasia: nose: stopped, all day
Delirium: fever: typhoid, in
Eruption: Petechiae or typhus , in
Trachea: foreign bodies; sensation of obstruction, low down

Iberis Amara:

Nose, stopped
Respiration : impeded, obstructed
Dreams: frightful: sleep, restless with
Anxiety: Indefinable: Trembling, with
Morose, sulky, cross, fretful, ill-humor, peevish
Impeded, obstructed, constriction, contraction; larynx, in

Cochleria A.:

Obstruction of sight for some minutes

Eye: inflammation chronic
Sinuses: complaints of: chronic
Urethra, discharge, gonorrheal, chronic
Bladder, retention of urine
Larynx and Trachea, voice, lost
EUPHORBIACEAE

Hidebound meaning: unwilling or unable to change because of

tradition or convention
Synonyms: tied, fastened, bound, unmoved, wrapped, enticed,
encircled, strung

In repertory if you study the rubric Skin; hidebound, as if (Cann-i, Crot-t, Hura) of
which 2 drugs were from this family
According to the dictionary, the meaning of hidebound is described as
inflexible, adherent and unyielding.
When we study different drugs of this family, we get different rubrics speaking of the
same common sensation as follow

Abdomen; constriction as of a band, hoop (Boenninghausen)

Constriction of the thigh and legs, as if a string were tied around them (1) (Allen
rep)

Head; constriction; band or hoop; forehead. (Complete)

A feeling as if the brain is bound up

This gives the idea of adhesion, constriction (band, hoop), drawn in, held in
(string, band, hoop), tight, bound.
Thus the main sensation is being tied, bound, trapped, gripped tight, held & it so
much tight that it becomes difficult to move, its like a string being tied all around the
body; the opposite would be released, untied, unbound and escape.
Best example to describe this sensation would be the condition of being in a straight
jacket, where all the movement are held, restricted & one just wants to break free,
escape & release oneself out of it.

Sensation:

Tied and untied, bound and unbound

Passive Reaction:

Tied and cannot do anything

Active Reaction:

Desire to break free

Compensation:

A person who is feeling free, unbound and not tied up

Remedies with their miasm :

Acute

Croton tiglium

Typhoid

Mancinella

Malaria

Cascarilla

Tubercular

Acalypha
indica

Cancer

Euphorbium

Leprosy

Hura

Syphilis

Stillingia

Other remedies
Cassada
Euphorbia amygdaloides (Wood spurge)
Euphorbia corollata (Large flowering spurge)
Euphorbia hypericifolia (Large spotted spurge)
Euphorbia heterodoxa (Alveloz)
Euphorbia ipecacuanha (Ipecacuan spurge)
Euphorbia lathyris (Caper spurge)
Euphorbia peplus (Petty spurge)
Euphorbia pilulifera (Pill-bearing spurge)
Euphorbia prostata
Jatropha curcus (Purging nut)
Jatropha urens (Spurge nettle)
Kamala (Croton coccineus)
Mercurialis perennis (Dog-mercury)
Ricinus communis (Castor oil bean)
Glimpse of presentation of vital sensation in cases

When he becomes blank he is like a statue as if somebody has tied him up. Your
whole body or systems including your brain cant react or move.

Fond of dancing, that is the time when I feel I am free and relaxed. I dislike
binding.

I was scared that if I ever became his slave, I would be bound to do whatever he
asked me to do forever.

I feel I am in some way being watched by him with disapproval about my gay
activities. This brings about a lot of resentment and anger. Just imagine not being
free even in your bedroom.

I was not too happy because of my mothers behavior. I didnt feel I could be a free
person. Even though an adult she would expect me to be tied to her apron
strings.

I feel locked up in my own home, I have to have the curtains and windows open,
and I cant stand having the doors locked.

I dream about small places, about being put in prison.

There is pressure in my head, like a band being pulled tight, and tightness in
my neck.

There was very little space in the home, and she was almost always confined to
her crib.

Key words
bound
tied
chain
around
rope
around

tight
around
tied
around
held tight
tightness
taut
held

get
entangled
straight
jacket
caught
clutched
clasped
grasped

seized
prisoner
chain
Gripped
wrapped
choked

boundless
free
liberated
released
untied
unbound
freedom
break

away
break free
unwind
can't move
paralyzed

Croton Tig.:
Head; constriction; band or hoop
Tight feeling in occiput
Sensation of string pulling eyeball back into head
Sensations and Complaints in general, phenomena, backward, drawing as by a
cord
Abdomen, aggravation, pressure, on navicular rgion
Sensations, constriction
Sensations, frozen limbs
Generalities, water, dashing against inner parts, sensation of
Mancinella:

Upper limbs, tight: about wrist, string were

Constricted sensation: internal band of a
Head constriction band or hoop, forehead
Constriction of head or chest
Head: pressing: bound up, as if, brain
Tension, tightness
Fear of insanity after typhoid
Homesickness

Euphorbium:
Generalities: adhesion: internal
Constricted sensation: internal

Hura

Stomach: contraction: general: cardiac orifice

Clothes were too heavy
Gangrene
Pains of cancer
Cancer of nose and prostate
Epithelioma
Stomach: gangrene: sensation of
B.:
Constriction; sensation of; in nose, root of nose, throat, rectum, chest
Constriction, chest, emotions from
Dreams; prisoners, release of
Mind, sadness, mental depression
Sensations and Complaints in general, phenomena, floating, as if
Head internal, phenomena, contractive pain, in general, occiput

LIBIATAE FAMILY

Excitement means: a feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness. Something that arouses th
feeling of excitement.
Synonyms: exhilaration, elation, animation, enthusiasm, eagerness, anticipation, fire, zea
zest, vim, zing, spark.
DERIVATION:
Female; sexual; desire; violent; widows, in (Orig, Orig-v)
Mind; dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending; morning; rising, on
(Menth, Scut)
Mind; activity; desire for; exercise, physical (Orig, Teucr)
Female; masturbation disposition; children, in (Orig, Orig-v)
Mind; mood; agreeable (Orig, Scut)
Sleep; sleeplessness; nervousness, from (Scut, Teucr)
Mind; thoughts; sexual (Orig, Orig-v)
Sleep; sleeplessness; vivacity, from (Lam, Lycps, Teucr)
Generalities; trembling; nervous (Scut, Teucr)
Mind; work; desire for mental (Lycps, Menth)
There is desire for mental and physical activity, and sleeplessness (from nervousness and
vivacity); also trembling. Conversely, dullness is present. A number of sexual symptoms of
increased desire in females were found.
Further getting into the searching of the rubrics the following were found:
Mind; activity; desire for; exercise, physical (Orig, Teucr)
Mind; activity; desire for; (Orig, Teucr)
Mind; ailments from; masturbation (Arg, Orig)
Female; masturbation disposition (Arg, Orig)
In addition this list includes:
Generalities; sexual; desire, suppression of; agg (Arg, Orig)

Male; coition; aversion to, sexual aversion (Arg, Orig)

Hence there is increased activity on one hand, and dullness on the other. Also increased sexua
desire and suppressed sexual desire in the same family. The common elements seem to be
EXCITEMENT, whether nervous, mental or sexual.
With this clue in mind, the Libiatae remedies were studied to see weather this idea of
excitement is found prominently in each.
In Agnus castus:
Excitability of genitals is lost (Boeninhausen)
In this rubric Agnus castus is the only remedy and appears in italics. The failure side of Agnus
is loss of excitability. So the sensation must be a kind of excitement.
In Collinsonia the following was noted:
Slightest mental emotion and excitement aggravates the symptoms (Allens Keynotes)
With this we see in the family Libiatae a feeling of excitement, which is immediately
transmitting thru nerves into an end organ.
We also get a hint that the excitement of this family is a pleasurable excitement and also one
that stirs one to activity.
In Lamium:
Uterus excitement (Allens Rep)
In Lycopus:
The literature states that the remedy is indicated where there is vascular excitement.
Also noted:
Heart palpitation, worse for excitement (Allen Rep)
Sexual excitement absent, in heart disease (Knerr)
In Lycopus Kent reports a cured case of exopthalmic goiter in a 48 year woman, in which the
main symptoms were: excitement aggravates and intense enjoyment of things.
In Mentha-pip:
Activity, desire for (Complete)
Passionate (Mangialavori)
The use of the word passionate is very interesting, as one see that this to be one of the main
feature of this family, which combines excitement, pleasure, sexuality and activity.
In Menthol, the main essential oil of Mentha-piperita:
Nausea: nervousness, emotional excitement, from (Boericke)
In the proving of Ocimum sanctum:
Sleeplessness from excitement (Sankaran)
Origanum is a remedy known for its sexual excitement.
All kinds of sexual excitement. (Murphy)
Sexual excitement: nyphomania: young girl, in a (Knerr)
So here, again there is sexual excitement, transmitted through the nerves.
Also:
Dreams, exciting (Allens Rep) (this rubric contains just 6 remedies, including Origanum)

In Scutellaria:
Cardiac irritability (Murphy)
Also for Scutellaria, there is the rubric:
Excitement, excitable: sleeplessness: from (Complete)

In Teucrium marum verum:

Restlessness at night on account of great excitement (Douglas)
Sleep; restless, sleep excited (Cowper)
extraordinary excitability and sensitivity (Boenninghausen)
Trembling involuntary, excitement aggravates (Phatak)
Dreams, vivid, anxious, in part with starting until, after midnight, with restlessness on accoun
of great excitement (Knerr)
In Thymus serpyllum:
He became over-excitable now and then: (Anshutz)
Respiration; asthamatic; excitement, with (Complete)
Loquacity: heat, during (Mangialavori)
In Thymol:
Dreams: amorous: pollusions, with (Boericke)
Loquacity (Complete)
Satyriasis (Complete)

SUMMARY:
It is evident that the main sensation is excitement, which runs right thru the Libiatae family.
The excitement can be vivid, pleasant, tremulous excitement. Along with these can be warmth
perspiration, trembling, feeling overwhelmed, passionate, etc.
In the mind, this excitement can be seen as exhilaration, rush of ideas, loquacity, vivacity,
singing, etc.
At the physical level it is seen as physical irritability (excitability) and pain in shocks, thrusts.
Imagine watching a cricket match or a soccer match; the player hits a six or scores a goal!
There is a kind of excitement, which is immediatetly transmitted through the nerves. This is
excitement reminds us of the kind found in the Libiatae family.
The type of excitement of the Libiatae is one that stirs one to activity: lets do this lets do
that! Lets enjoy lets have fun, lets party, lets take pleasure rides etc. its the spirit of
ENJOYMENT. The opposite is dullness, lack of interest, and decreased activity.
For ex. When the patient of the Libiatae says, I looove (love is drawn out) this or that, what
they mean is, I am excited by, I get great pleasure from, I enjoy immensely The opposite of
this is not hate, but disintrest, boredom.
SENSATIONS AND REACTION:
Sensation:
Excitement: vivid, pleasant, tremulous excitement.
In the mind-exhilaration, rush of ideas, loquacity, vivacity, enjoyment
Physically-excitability, irritability

Fright/Anxiety
Unpleasant surprises
Passive reaction:
Lack of excitability
Lack of reaction to external things
Numbness
Active reaction:
Industrious
Motion ameliorates
Mirth
Compensation:
Calmness
MENTHOLIUM
Labiatae + acute miasm
Menthol is prepared from the essential oil of Mentha pip. The miasm is likely to be acute.
When you combine the sensation of Labiatae with the acute miasm, the feeling may be:
Sudden intense excitement
LYCOPUS
Labiatae + typhoid maism

The symptoms associated with the Labiatae family can be seen in the restless activity to obtai
excitement found in the mind symptoms of the remedy (Complete)
Activity, general; restlessness, evening
Excitement, excitable, general; evening
Thoughts, rush, flow of; sleeplessness, with
Going back to the case that Kent gives about the Exopthalmic Goitre:
The symptoms of the case:
Cheerful
Excitement
Enjoys intensely
Wants to do things very fast
Anxiety or fear when away from home; this had been true ever since had sunstroke when a
child fourteen years old.
Excitement aggravates and enjoys intensely speak of the Labiatae family.

The anxiety and fear when away from home suggest the typhoid miasm. The desire to go hom
and aggravation when away from home are found on other typhoid miasm remedies such as
Bryonia.
Sunstroke hit a person, foolring them then they completely recover; it has an acute aspect to
it. This provides us with a hint as to the pace of the miasm. Typhoid miasm lies between the
acute and the psoric miasm.
Also Lycopus is a remedy for Malarial typhoid. The miams could therefore be typhoid.

When the sensation of the Labiatae family is combined with the typhoid miasm the feeling
could be:
Demands excitement right now
TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM:
Labiatae +ringworm miasm
Symptoms:
Eruptions herpetic (Knerr)
Discontented (Complete)
So the miasm could be ringworm. Combining the miasm with the sensation of the Labiatae
family:
There is an effort to try and get the excitement alternating with a resignation- a fixed feeling
that they must put up with having no excitement.
COLLINSONIA
Labiatae + malarial miasm
This has the following which indicates the malarial miasm
what sepia is to chronic diseases, collinsonia is for acute disease (Hale)
Diarrhea acute (Boericke)
The following symptoms suggest malarial miasm:
Neuralgic pains (various references)
Chilliness; periodicity; afternoon especially, in (Knerr)
Oppression chest; periodic (Knerr)
Periodic attack of faintness (Clarke)
Obstructive pathology (various references)
Harassing dry cough (Boericke)

The miams could therefore be malarial. When the sensation of the Labiatae family is combined
with the malarial maism, the feeling is:
Stuck in a position where there is no pleasure and passion; and persecuted/attacked at the
same time.
LAMIUM ALBUM:
Labiatae + sycotic miasm
Lamium has the following symptoms:
Delusions, imaginations; accused, she is (Complete)
Delusions, imaginations; criticized, that she is (Complete)
Fixed ideas (Bucks Materia Medica)
The delusion of being accused and criticized arise from the feeling of having done something
wrong; this guilt is characteristic of the sycotic miasm and the need therefore to cover it up.
So the miasm therefore appears to be sycotic miasm, we may get:
Must hide or cover up his excitement.

AGNUS CASTUS
Labiatae + cancer miasm

Agnus is known as the remedy for jaded rakes (Boger). Jaded means worn out, suggesting
over use, or over-indulgence. A rake is libertine some one who is morraly unrestrained.
The chaste tree (Agnus) was used in ancient times by both men and women to suppress their
sexual desire.
Both these speak of the cancer miasm: stretching oneself beyond ones limit, or exercising
extreme self-control (over ones sexuality)
When the main feeling of Labiatae is combined with the cancer miasm, the feeling of Agnus
will be:
Must keep his (sexual) excitement totally controlled.
TEUCRIUM SCORODONA
Labiatae + tubercular miasm
There are a no. of other references to the use of the remedy in tubercular affections.
Clarke states that Teucr-s was used with much success in consumptive affections with
tuberculous elements and muco-purulent expectoration. He quotes a case of Criquelion, a
patient who had for ten years an enlarged testicles which was diagnosed to be tuberculosis.
Teuc-s was given, with good result.
Hence, Teucr-s belongs to the tubercular miasm. When the sensation of Labiatae is combined
with the tubercular miasm of Teucr-s, the feeling could be:
Oppressed by too much excitement.

OCIMUM SANCTUM
Labiatae =leprosy miasm
From the excerpts from the proving done by Sankaran, it is clear that the miasm is leprosy.
This rubric suggests the same thing:
Proving:
Feel angry towards a friend who neglected and betrayed me. Was short tempered and to the
point when talking with him. I hadnt expected this from him; he was the only person on
whom I could rely.
Have lost faith in everybody, in humanity. I feel such relationships are to satisfy your ego, your
need to talk, but if that person neglects you, what is the use?

I felt he had betrayed me, let me down. I felt a bit insulted, that he was not treating me like a
human being. I stopped talking to him for two or three days, with the feeling that I did not
want to be the one to submit always. But finally I went and spoke to him, and constantly
pestered him as to why he was avoiding and neglecting me. Wanted to commit suicide by
taking potassium cyanide and I jokingly said to him that I would murder him before doing it
This feeling is nearly syphilitic.

Either very emotional, or no emotions at all. When a relative passed away I was the only one
who didnt weep. On the other hand, on two or three occasions, I wept for trivial matters ..

Dreams, amazement that widow had given birth

In India it is not acceptable for a widow to give birth to a child; such women are thrown out of
society. Giving birth is related to sexualility, but if a widow wants this excitement, she would
be condemned.
When the sensation of Labiatae is combined with the leprosy miasm of Ocimum sanctum, the
feeling could be:
Condemned because of excitement
ORIGANUM
Labiatae + syphilitic miasm

Herring writes:
Erotomania and inclination to suicide in a young girl; great sexual irritation; deep
moroseness, believes herself lost and despised; when awaking from her stupor cries out that
the devil comes near her, believes herself in hell, in chains, considered herself crazy, and thos
about her feared that she would become so; has thoughts of destroying herself
Hence the rubrics for Origanum (complete)
Delusions: lost: salvation, for: despised, and in Erotomania (Complete)
Suicidal disposition: erotomania, in (Complete)
Delusions: hell: chains, in, erotomania (Complete)
Delusions: devils: erotic mania, in (Kerr)
Delusions: hell: believes herself in chains (Knerr)
Delusions: imagines himself lost: and despised (Knerr)

The suicidal disposition and degree of desperation suggests that the remedy may belong to th
syphilitic miasm, which when combined with the sensation of the Labiatae family may give:
Destroyed by excitement.
LOGANIACEAE
Shattered meaning: break or cause to break suddenly and violently
into pieces
Synonyms: break, burst, explode, implode, splinter, crack, fracture,
fragment, disintegrate, devastate, demolish, torpedo

Some rubrics that represent the sensation of the Loganiaceae family

Ailments from; anger, vexation: fright, shock with (complete)

Ailments from; bad news (complete)

Ailments from; death; child, of a (complete)

Ailments from; love; disappointed, deception (complete)

Ailments from; mortification (complete)

Generalities; torn to pieces, shattered pain as if (Boenninghausen)

Thus the main sensation of loganiaceae is that of being shocked, shattered, torn to
pieces. The shock is so sudden as to paralyze the person, or produce convulsions.

In the mind it is expressed as shock, disappointment, ailments from grief, bad

news and so forth.
The main feeling of Gels is related to shock and bad news. This is also true for Ignatia,
one of our most well known remedies for sudden bereavement.
Shocked, let down, torn to pieces, shattered, ruined all apply to Ignatia as well as
Gels and Nux-v.

The physical sensations of shattered and torn to pieces is the same as the feelings of
ruin, shock, let down and disappointment at the level of mind, which is so sudden as to
paralyze the person (passive reaction) and hence we see the rubric of Ignatia-MindSilent grief, cannot cry-a form of emotional paralysis.
Sensation:
Shocked, let down, disappointed, torn to pieces, shattered, ruined.

Passive reaction:
Paralyzed, I cannot move
Cannot weep
Faint

Active reaction:
Beside oneself, excitable and convulsions.

Compensation

Composed, calm.
(e.g. composed, calm in the most shocking circumstances)

Remedies and their miasm:

Acute

Strychninum

Typhoid

Nux vomica

Ringworm

Upas tieute

Malaria

Spigelia

Sycotic

Gelsemium

Cancer

Ignatia

Leprosy

Curare

Syphilis

Hoang-nan

Other remedies
Brucea antidysentrica (Bark of Nux-vomica)
Spigelia marilandica (Worm grass)
Glimpses of presentation of vital sensation from cases

If she sits down, she feels anxiety inside, like an electric shock; she just
cannot relax. Alternates between an electric shock like sensation and feeling
drained of energy.

I came down very drastically, and I lost a lot of money and now I am
revamping everything.

I felt disappointed, a deep feeling of hurt, as if some one has hit me hard with
a blow on my back, and I am broken into small small pieces-completely
broken.

She dreams she is going to a wedding party and she finds herself in the party
and she does not know anyone there. She feels 'How have I come here?'

Key words
shocked
shattered

ruined
Torn to pieces
disappointed

astonished
devastated
surprised

blow
astonished
astounded

paralyzed
immobile

GELSEMIUM:
Fear
They are extremely nervous, in the face of any situation or an exciting news. In any
case where they have to face a result either in the form of an interview or in case of
examination.
They are tremendously scared as they lack self-confidence. This fear terminates in the
form of losing self-control.
Losing control
If one looks at these people from this perspective their utter lack of courage comes
from anticipation of any un-pleasant situation they lose control of their nerves.
This loss of control presented in these people are in the form of diarrhoea, or
micturition at the physical level & vanishing of thoughts, unable to fix attention at the
mental level.
NUX VOMICA:
Fastidious
They are a kind of strict boss, like that of Arsenic people. Both appear to be very
focused on being efficient; FASTIDIOUS, but are miserly people, Fear poverty.
They both need to show an impressionable attitude in front of people, but Arsenic is
more particular about this public image than Nux who is fastidious in personal level.
The Conqueror
The most universal and fundamental aspect of Nux' character is a love of power, and
an ability to acquire power and exercise it with confidence.
The Emperor

The Nux ruler who has clawed his way up from the bottom is the most formidable
despot 'dictatorial. He must have his own way in all things, and he translates the term
'compromise' to 'weakness'.
IGNATIA:
Emotions
They often appear to be very changeable in their behaviour. Mood; alternating,
changeable. Emotions are more intense than the intellect. They are very expressive
however there is some tendency to suppress unpleasant emotions that grows over a
period of time. Like the Natrum Mur would stay with these unhealthy emotions for a
long period of time. Over a period of time Ignatia peoples suppressed emotions burst
out more than the Natrum people unable to control her emotions or excitement.

Love
As their moods keep swinging unarguably they tend to have a lot of disputes with the
loved ones around. They look for the surety about this love from their partners and
tend to avoid relationship until they are sure. On the glimpse of this surety once they
fall in love and then get rejected they get into this state of being whimsical. Ailments
from disappointed love.
Grief
With this symptom remedies like Natrum Mur, Ignatia stand out into our memory for
deep prolonged grief. As the central axis of both these people sharing a common
platform is a deep sense of being unloved.
Bitterness and masculinization
When Ignatia has been rejected by a loved one, or merely perceives that she has been
rejected, it is common for her to become bitter, or even vindictive. 'Mortification',
'Quarrelsome', 'Anger-with silent grief'.
MAGNOLIANAE
Bewilderment meaning: a state of being confused and puzzled. Not
understanding, but it goes beyond that- it implies a state of
complete mystifi cation. People experience bewilderment when they
are utterly baffl ed by the situation at hand.
Synonyms: uncertainty, indecision, hesitation, hesitancy,
skepticism, doubt, ignorance, dubiety, incertitude.
Magnolianae has the following families.

Aristolochiaceae to which Asarum belongs.

Magnoliaceae to which Magnolia grandiflora belongs.
Anonaceae to which Gaultheria belongs.

Myristicaceae to which Myristica, Nux-m belongs.

Lauraceae to which camphor and cinnamomum belongs.
Iliaceae to which ilicaceaecum belongs.

After studying the various drugs of this family, the sensation that came up which is
common to the mind was strange feeling

Delusions, imaginations: strange: everything is. (Complete)

Generalities: Strange feeling through body. (Complete)

Strange means, something not previously known, and something that is out of the
ordinary; unusual or striking. Words with similar meaning are: odd, bizarre,
bewildered, surprised confused. (Bewilder means to confuse or befuddle, to
disorient, losing ones way. Befuddle means to perplex, to stupefy with or as if with
alcoholic drinks. Perplex means to confuse.)
The common sensation of Magnolianae, is confused, bewildered, beclouded and
strange.
And because the outside is so bewildering, puzzling and confusing she feels isolated
or not part of life around her, and she reacts to this by withdrawal as can be seen in
the mind symptom, Curls into a ball in Camphor and on the physical level in the
symptoms fainting and collapse (passive reaction).

Sensation:
Confusion
Bewilderment
Beclouded
Strange
Because the outside is so bewildering and confusing she feels isolated and not part of
things around her, and reaction to this is withdrawal.
Passive reaction:
Collapse
Stupefied
Fainting
Sleepy
Floating, withdrawn, unconscious.
Active reaction:

Withdrawal
Shut it out
Creating his own world which is familiar and shutting out the world, which is strange.
Let me leave in my own little world.
Compensation:
Adjusting or adapting easily to strange/ new/ confusing/ bewildering situations.

Remedies with their miasm:

Acute

Camphora

Typhoid

Nux moschata

Sycotic

Cinnamomum

Tubercular

Myristica

Cancer

Asarum

Leprous

Aristolochia
clematitis

Other remedies
Aristolochia milhomens (Brazilian Snake-Root)
Asarum canadense (Wild Ginger)
Illicium anisatum (Stellatum)
Magnolia glauca (Sweet Magnolia)
Magnolia grandiflora (Magnolia)

Oreodaphne californica (California Laurel)

Serpentaria aristolochia (Snake Root)
Glimpses of presentation of sensation through cases

Why had they sent me here? (Tears). I came from a different planet. When I
arrived, ice covered most of the planet.
Why hadnt they sent a team? Why was I left behind on my own?

I have always been a loner, I am used to surviving by myself. I have always felt
that the loneliest thing would be to be the last one of ones race.
(withdrawal)

Its very unrealistic; Im aware of that. I want someone I can trust. I want my
life to be taken over. Im lost when it comes to me

I feel like Im two people, me who the world sees and me whos lost,
whos just craving for very simple things

The indecision would reflect on daily life in every way. They would be
confused about whether to go through a red light or green light, to make
coffee or toast.

Key Words
absurd
baffled
beclouded
befuddled
bewildered
bizarre
clarity
familiar

lost
mystify
perplexed
strange
unfamiliar
Alien
astray
change
completely
different

disoriented
familiarize
find a way
mysterious
puzzled
uncertainty
unfamilier
astonished
astounded
bemused

clearness
cloudy
confused
misty
muddy
murky
research
unclear
unsure

Common themes:
Vertigo; suspension of the senses, with (Nux-m, Camp).
Mind; thoughts; vanishing, loss of; writing (Asar, Camph, Nux-m).
Mind; prophesying (Camph, Nux-m).
Mind; thoughts; vanishing, loss of; talking, while (Camph, Nux-m).
Vertigo; suspension of the senses, with (Nux-m, Camp).
Mind; thoughts; vanishing, loss of; writing (Asar, Camph, Nux-m).
Mind; prophesying (Camph, Nux-m).
Mind; thoughts; vanishing, loss of; talking, while (Camph, Nux-m).
Nux Moschata:
Delusion; imagination; changed everything; has (Complete)
Delusion; imagination, ludicrous (Complete).
Delusion; strange, familiar things are (Complete)
Delusion, seems; familiar things seem; ludicrous (Complete).

isolate
shut it
withdrawal
Alienation
Buoyancy
comatose
dazed
dizziness
floating
flying

 Delusion surrounding exists; do not (Complete).

Ludicrous; things seems (Complete).
Faintness; at sight of blood (Complete).
Camphora:
Bewildered (Boenn).
Dreams: confused: head, in (Complete).
Chaos and confusion, everything in street appears, when looking through window
(Roberts).
Delusions, imaginations: world: she has her own little, in which things are clear,
outside is uncertain (Complete).

Cinnamon:
Del., Diminished (Complete)
Del., Smaller (Complete)
Del., Body, body parts, smaller (Complete)
Mind, Discontented, displeased, dissatisfied, himself with (Complete)
Asarum:
Emptiness of the mind, sensation of (Complete).
Euphoria: lightness, feeling of, as after an anesthesia by chlorethylene, with
(Complete).
Sensitive, oversensitive: general: noise, to: penetrating (Complete).
Vertigo; suspension of the senses, with (Nux-m, Camp).
Mind; thoughts; vanishing, loss of; writing (Asar, Camph, Nux-m).
Mind; prophesying (Camph, Nux-m).
Mind; thoughts; vanishing, loss of; talking, while (Camph, Nux-m).
MALVALE S
Attachment meaning: an extra part or extension that is or may be
attached to something to perfor m a particular function.
Aff ection, fondness or sympathy for someone or something.
Synonyms: accessory, fi tting, fi tment, extension, extra, adjunct,
addition, add-on, appurtenance, appendage, accoutrement,
auxiliary

The remedies with their families under Order Malvales are

Malvaceae (Hibiscus)

Sterculaceae

Gossypium
Althaea officinalis
Abelmoschus
malvine
Malva sylvestris

Chocolate
Cacao
Kola or Sterculia
acuminata
Adansonia digitata

Study of chocolate revealed following symptoms :

Abroma augusta
Tiliaceae (Lindens)
Tilia europaea (Common
Lime)
Tilia-a
Til-c.

Delusions, imaginations: separated: world, from the, that he is (Complete)

Escape, attempts to: family and children, from her. (Complete)

Estranged: family, from her. (Complete)

Estranged: society, from. (Complete)

Dreams: family, own: losing his (Complete)

Detached (Complete)

Feeling of being separated, detached is strongly seen over here. Similar sensations
were noticed in other members of malvales too (Kola nut, Tilia, Abroma, etc). Opposite
pole of feelings separated/detached i.e. being together, attached, were also found in
members of Malvales.
Thus the vital issue of Malvales is sensitivity to the issue of being Together and then
separated, Joined and then separated, Attached and then detached, Connected
and disconnected, hence feels lonely and alone. And getting estranged from
surrounding is their passive reaction to the inner vital sensation.

One of the prover of drug chocolate spoke of vital sensation of Malvales very
prominently Very sensitive on that part. Feeling: One way I was indifferent to my family
members, like I used to read a lot, so not much contact with my family members
and yet thinking about him. Like one way I am detached from family, and in a way
attached with that person. I was very much affected by his absence. I missed him a
lot. A kind of weepy feeling as if I am alone and he has left me. He is just a friend
but I felt as if I was missing my boy friend. I am lonely over here.
Sensation:
Attached and then detached
Joined and then separated
Together and then separated.
Passive Reaction:
Estranged
Indifferent
Indifferent everything to
Aversion husband to.

Active reaction:
Communicative
Affectionate
Dream of falling in love
Company desire for.
Compensation:
Independent
Self-confident.

Remedies with their miasm:

Acute

Chocolate

Typhoid

Abel. moschus

Ring worm

Gossypium

Malaria

Abroma

Sycosis

Tilia

Leprous

Kola nut

Glimpse of presentation of vital sensation from cases

I find the connection with all of the creatures of nature, the music, the
magic, the animal sacrifices very satisfying.

I always remember being lonely and not wanting to be left alone. Actually, I
was completely alone from the very beginning. I never felt attached to anyone.

Being lonely and disconnected is something thats always been with me. Like Ive
never had a real connection with people. Its always been hard for me to bond
with my son, easier to see him as a separate person.

When he was born, all of my friends were struggling to separate from their babies.
I was separated from the very beginning.

I have no close friends. A friend would be just another thing to cope with. After
work is over, I talk to no one. (Passive reaction)

For instance, I've never felt a part of the church Im in, despite being a member
for over ten years.

I practice religion intellectually, not from the heart. While others are fervently
immersing themselves in it, I feel detached. Thats how I feel about everything!

If I'll love others, people will love me.

Key Words
attached
detached
estranged
joined

separated
apart
binding
bond
bound

connected
disconnected
linked
severed
take apart

tied
unconnected
united
break up
coming apart

link up with
merge with
not together
splitting
splitting apart
untied

Difference between families

Malvales and Conifers
In Conifers, the feeling is of dissociation and not of separation from some thing. The
feeling is I am brittle, I will break into pieces, I will crumble and I will be dissociated
from my self.
When glass is broken, it will
dissociate from itself. It is not that there is a connection and that connection will
break. It is not like two compartments of a train that are connected and these will now
detach and become discreet. It is simply that, I am one but because of a break in
the continuity, I will become two. Not that two things are together and they will
disunite, but rather one thing will become two, which is what a split means.
Now in comparison, the main sensation in Malvales is together and then separated,
joined and then separated, attached and then detached, hence feel lonely and alone.
Malvales and Leguminosae
The main sensation in Malvales is together and then separated, joined and then

separated, attached and then detached, hence feel lonely and alone. Where as the
main sensation of Leguminosae is, 'The feeling of either split apart or tied together,
either bound together or split apart.'
Malvales and Scrophulariaceae
The vital sensation of Scrophulariaceae is bonds and connections are not strong, they
are loose, so he wants to hold on very tightly. In this family, at an emotional level
'connection' means one can exist without the other that there are two separate,
independent entities, but the bond between them is very important. When such a
connection breaks, he experiences the separateness, disconnectedness and the
incompleteness.
While the main sensation of Leguminosae is, 'The feeling of either split apart or tied
together, either bound together or split apart.'
So we summarize the sensations of all the four families as follows:
Malvales-Attached and then detached
Leguminosae-Different and discrete things are held together and then scattered.
Conifers-One becomes two, the continuity is broken.
Scrophulariaceae- Bonds are not strong, they are loose.

PAPAVERACEAE
Hell meaning: a place regarded in various religions as a spiritual
realm of evil and suff ering, often traditionally depicted as a place
of perpetual fi re beneath the earth where the wicked are punished
after death.
Synonyms: abuse, torment, maltreatment, retribution, damnation,
penalize.
When we study remedies of Papaveraceae, we get following symptoms:
Painlessness of complaints usually painful (Complete)
Ailments from shock (Knerr)
Ailments from; fright, fear; accident, from sight of an (1) (Complete)
Delusion; hurt him, people want to, execute him (1) (Knerr)
We can see that the fright (and the pain) is intense resulting in convulsion,
numbness, sleepiness and anesthesia, and also that the person cannot allow their
pain (and emotion) to touch him hence painlessness is one of the main symptoms of
Opium and other members of the Papaveraceae family too.
Thus on one side we get intense pain at physical as well as mental level (shock,
fear, fright, accident, injury, murder, violence, stabbing) along with
sleepiness, coma, catalepsy, anesthesia, numbness as passive reaction to pain.
This is the vital sensitivity of papavaraceae, intense hell like pain, turmoil like
state.

The main theme of the Papaveraceae is intense suffering, pain, agony and a helllike state. This kind of suffering is often connected to the experience of death and
dying, the death agony and the half-alive-half-dead state, like being buried alive. The
fascination or dreams with corpses, and dissection of corpses recurs in this family.
Another side of intense pain is a state of no-pain, calmness, tranquility; a state
that one experiences in meditation.
Active reaction to this sensitivity is rage, violence, spasms, convulsions, and colic.
T.F.Allen quotes from the proving of Opium:
It dissipates all inclination to sleep, increases the imagination and memory in the most
wonderful manner, so that he passes the whole night in profound meditation; at
daybreak he slumbers a few hours; he is unable to recollect all that he had thought
about during the night.
Meditation is a big theme in Opium and others of the family; 'Tranquility' is a
symptom of Chel, Codeinum, Fumaria, Morph and Opium.
Sensation:
Pain, intense pain, pain of any sort but with great intensity.
Torture, intense suffering
Punished
War
Murdered, executed
Violence
Fright and shock : The fright and shock of intense pain and torture. It is hell; the
torture chamber of hell.
Passive reaction:
Analgesia, coma, anaesthesia
Fainting
Catalepsy
Narcolepsy
Painless and numb
Alive yet dead
Hibernation
Meditation

Active reaction:
Pain causing rage
Violence
Spasms, convulsions, colic.
Numbness alternating with pain.
Compensation:
Peaceful, serene, tranquil
Untouched by pleasure or pain

Remedies with their miasm:

Acute

Morphinum,
Morphinum-sulph

Typhoid

Argemone

Ringworm

Sanguinarinum
nitricum

Malaria

Chelidonium

Sycosis

Sanguinaria

Cancer

Opium

Tubercular

Succinum acidum

Leprosy

Codeinum, Fumaria

Syphilis

Corydalis formosa

Other remedies

Adlumia fungosa
Apomorphinum (Alkaloid of Morphine)
Corydalis cava (Hollowroot-birthwort)
Morphinum aceticum
Morphinum muriaticum
Narcotinum
Narcotinum aceticum
Narcotinum muriaticum
Papaverinum (Papaverin)
Sanguinarinum nitricum (Nitrate of Sanguinarin)
Sanguinarinum tartaricum (Tartrate of Sanguinarin)
Related remedies
Succinum acidum
Glimpse of presentation of Papavaraceae sensitivity from cases

I was frightened of any kind of pain from an injection or intravenous

needle. I get nervous of any small pain.

Pain; even if the doctor just examines me - Oh my God! I just cant bear it.
Its the psychological effect, that it will pain. When he examines me, he asks
me why did you scream and shout? But this is there in my mind since childhood.

'I will be disgraced if I cant stand the pain, horror, and shock.'

She slept though the entire interview and could not get up. This was her
chief complaint and it had been like this for two months.

I tried to set everything on fire, all the documents we had at home. I tried to set
it on fire. I was very angry, in rage.

To get the ultimate happiness. In the material world, with happiness, sorrow
comes as well. When we get the ultimate happiness, there is no sorrow.

Every happiness in the material world always comes with pain and sorrow.
If we reject both, then we will find ultimate happiness

The nervousness shows itself with violent body movement, irritability

Key words
agony
hell
intense pain
intense
suffering
misery

pain and
sorrow
hostility
nightmare
severe pain
terrorized
tormented
tortured

bearing
capacity
brutality
cruelty
distressed
executed
frightened
murdered

PIPERACEAE

Punishment
slaughtered
tolerance of
pain
anesthesia
benumbed
blunted

insensitive
no feeling
deaden
deep sleep
fast asleep
hibernate
put to sleep

Fear of pain and Fear of suffering is the main symptom. So opposite word must be
"pleasure".
So where there is no life or it is uninteresting and boring, we get low energy,
weakness, then suddenly something interesting comes and whole energy comes
back. In Piperaceae, delusion is that life is routine, boring, monotonous, without
excitement and in such situation what one need is amusement, entertainment.
The sensitivity of Piperaceae lies in any thing which is just sufficient to entertain, to
amuse, to divert so as there is no boredom, or pain or suffering. The sensation
experienced here is either boredom [tasteless, bland, insipid] or amusement, which is
evident in the form of a little tickle /butterfly in abdomen or their giggling which again
amuses them.
So the situations they describe [their sensitivity lies here] are either full of
routine/monotony, which bores them or situation with a little bit of amusement in the
form of TV /music / party or any form of diversions which is what they desire as that
gives them pleasure, brings them out of boredom.
Sensation:

Pain, no excitement and boredom. (Boredom also means monotonous, unexciting,

bland, tasteless, insipid etc.)

Passive reaction:

Weakness giving into boredom.

Active reaction:

Desire amusement
Amusement ameliorates
Desire for change
Cheerfulness
Entertainment ameliorates
Parties

Compensation:

Pleasure
Unaffected by boredom, pain and suffering

Remedies with their miasm

Sycosis
Cancer
Leprous

Piper nigricum, Matico (Piper angustifolium)

Piper Methyasticum (? Leprous)
Cubeba

Other Remedies
Piper betal [Betel leaf]
Piper sarmentosum [wild betel leaf]
Piper umbellatum [Periparoba]
Peperomia pellucida
Key Words
amusement
boredom
boring
ennui
entertainment
diversion
monotonous
not
interesting
recreation

routine
thrill
unexciting
uninteresting
distracts
enjoyment
fun
past time
pleasure
stimulates

Bland
colorless
colorless
dry
dull
enjoying
insipid
partying
tasteless

intense pain
intense
suffering
agony
torment
anguish
tormenting
torture
horror
distress

misery
hell
suffering
efficiency
exhaustion
fatigue
prostration
strength
tired
weakness

Differentiation from other families

Piperaceae and Labiatae
Sensation of Labiatae is a feeling of excitement, whether nervous, mental or
sexual, which is immediately transmitting through nerves into an end organ. We also
get a hint that the excitement of this family is a pleasurable excitement and also
one that stirs one to activity. The excitement can be vivid, pleasant, tremulous
excitement.

Along with these symptoms there can be warmth, perspiration, trembling, feeling
overwhelmed, passionate, etc.

In the mind, this excitement can be seen as exhilaration, rush of ideas, loquacity,
vivacity, singing, etc.
The type of excitement of the Labiatae is one that stirs one to activity: 'Let's do this,
let's do that! Let's enjoy, let's have fun, let's party, let's take pleasure rides etc.' It is
the spirit of enjoyment. The opposite is dullness, lack of interest, and decreased
activity.
In Piperaceae family, there must be pain and suffering on one side and the
pleasure on the other. So the situations they describe [their sensitivity lies here] are
either full of routine/monotony, which bores them or situation with a little bit of
amusement in the form of TV /music / party or any form of diversions which is what
they desire as that gives them pleasure, brings them out of boredom.
So the polarity in Labiatae is Excitement and dullness. But the polarity in
Piperaceae is amusement and boredom.

Piperaceae and Rubiaceae

In Rubiaceae, the main sensation is stimulation. Stimulation basically means, the
generation of ideas. Everything is stimulating. Anything he sees, or watches will
give him more ideas, more fantasies, how I will do, what I will do. For example one
of the China patient said to me, when I go to the movies, I asked myself, there is a
sound track and there is a movie track, why there can't be a smell track. And now
actually some one has discovered the smell track in computer and television means by
watching that particular scene, it will release a particular smell. This is the way their
mind is stimulated to more and more ideas.
Piperaceae family has to do with pain and suffering on one side and the
pleasure on the other. So the situations they describe [their sensitivity lies here] are
either full of routine/monotony, which bores them or situation with a little bit of
amusement in the form of TV /music / party or any form of diversions which is what
they desire as that gives them pleasure, brings them out of boredom. The polarity in
Piperaceae is amusement and boredom

Piperaceae and Papaveraceae

The main theme of the Papaveraceae is intense suffering, pain, agony and a helllike state. This kind of suffering is often connected to the experience of death and
dying, the death agony and the half-alive-half-dead state, like being buried alive. The
fascination or dreams with corpses, and dissection of corpses recurs in this family.
Another side of intense pain is a state of no-pain, calmness, tranquility, and state
one experience in the meditation.

The polarity of Papaveraceae is intense pain and suffering on one side and
painlessness and analgesia on the other side, in Piperaceae family, the
polarity is amusement and boredom.
Labiatae - desires excitement e.g. mint
Rubiaceae - desires stimulation e.g. coffee all condiments
Piperaceae - desires amusement e.g. pepper
Papaveraceae - desires no pain. There should be no pain and suffering e.g. opium
(poppy seeds)

RANUNCULACEAE
Vexed meaning: difficult and much debated; problematic.
Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, angry, irate, furious, incensed, enraged, illhumored, resentful, unresolved, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied,
frustrated, agitated, miffed, aggravated, edgy.

Study of the rubrics common to many members from family Ranunculaceae shows
following theme in common

Ailments from; indignation (21st symptom)

Ailments from; mortification, humiliation, chagrin; emotional or mental ailments

from (23rd symptom)

Ailments from; anger, vexation; grief, with silent (43rd symptom)

Anger, irascibility; tendency; trembling, with (39th symptom)

Respiration; difficult; mortification, after (5)

Female; menses; suppressed; chagrin, from (6)

This gives the vital sensitivity of Ranunculaceae as extremely sensitive to

mortification, vexation, chagrin, indignation and insults, giving rise to anger,
and its effect on the nervous system.
In Generalities, stitching pain is prominent - pains which are sharp, stabbing,
stitching, stinging; could correspond to vexation on a mental level. It represents the
feeling of when someone is 'needling' you, prodding you, vexing you.
In the above list a number of Ranunculaceae rubrics contain more than one emotion,
e.g. anger with grief, or with fright. The three basic human emotions are fear, anger
and sadness (grief); in a situation that affects us, any emotion felt will be one of these
three and usually one will predominate.

In the Ranunculaceae rubrics we find all three are equally prominent; they often
come up together, intertwined. This will therefore create great inner conflict, to such
an extent that it becomes somatized - expressed at a physical level; this can give rise
to many symptoms in the body.

The sensitivity in the Ranunculaceae family is so high that it cannot be sustained and
the consequence is an outburst of emotion (Acon. Helleb. Hydras.Clema.), (Active
Reaction) or bluntness. (Passive Reaction).
For example in Pulsatilla this outburst is in the form of weeping, in Staph an outburst
of anger
Helleborus is the bluntest, most dull remedy of all but this theme run through the
family as the other side of the excessive irritability and anger.

The element of fright is very important in the family (Acon. Puls. Staph. Ran.B.)
The term 'trifles' is important in the family - a trifle is a small thing, which shows the
trend in sensitivity.
In Ran-b:
The rubric: Mind; anxiety; trembling, with; evening, after eating, change of
temperature, especially heat to cold, agg. (1) (Complete), reflects the psychosomatic
aspect of the family.
T.F. Allen mentions, his ill humour and chagrin occupy his mind for days, long after the
actual occurrence.
We see also that the excitability of the nerves remains for some time after the exciting
cause. Feelings (mental and physical) continuing for some time after the event are
common to the Ranunculaceae family.

Sensation:
Sharp, sticking, stinging, stitching pains.
Raw nerves as if there is no insulation mentally, emotionally and physically.
Shock-like pains.
Easy excitement.
Morbid sensitivity.

Vexed, distressed, annoyed, harassed.

Insulted.
Sensitive to trifle.
Bursting.

Passive reaction:
Numbness and blunting
Active reaction:
Many emotions felt together, raw emotions one on top of the other.
Raw nerves: all the emotions and pains felt very intensely.
Somatisation; mental and physical connections or alternations, suppressed.
Outbursts and brooding.
The pain lingers.
Easily excited.
Tremors from emotions.
Passionate. Nervous tension.

Compensation:
Equanimity (the quality of being calm).

Remedies and their miasm:

Acute

Aconite

Typhoid

Helleborus

Ringworm

Actea spicata

Malaria

Ranunculus
bulbosus

Sycotic

Pulsatilla

Cancer

Staphysagria

Tubercular

Cimicifuga

Leprosy

Hydrastis

Syphilis

Clematis

Other remedies
Aconitinum (Aconitine)
Aconitum cammarum
Aconitum ferox (Indian Aconite)
Aconitum lycoctonum (Great Yellow
Wolfsbane)
Clematis vitalba (Old man's beard)
Helleborus foetidus (Bear's foot)
Helleborus orientalis
Helleborus viridis (Green hellebore)

Pulsatilla nuttaliana (American

Pulsatilla)
Ranunculus acris (Goldcup)
Ranunculus ficaria (Lesser celandine)
Ranunculus glacialis (Carlina)
Ranunculus repens (Creeping
buttercup)
Ranunculus sceleratus (Marsh
buttercup)

Glimpse of Ranunculaceae sensation from cases

He broods so much that he loses sleep. He feels humiliated and feels a

cold wave moving from his head to his feet.

If someone criticized me I would easily get hurt. I was very sensitive to

small things.

Key Words
annoying
bursting
insulting
sensitivity
vexed

shocking
honor
Hypersensitiv
e

morbid
sensitivity
touchy
rude
sharp
stinging

stitching
stabbing
cutting
poking
shooting
knife like

Numb
benumbed
deaden
anesthetized
insensitive
blunt
stunned

Aconite N.:
Fear
The most common symptom that we know of aconite is the fear of disease, here we see
in terms of possible serious illness there is a lot of anxiety related to the symptom.
They are anxious because of their symptoms and their symptoms are often congestive
and explosive; they cannot contain this dynamism and then lose control of their
system.
Panic attacks:
They are excitable, can flare up suddenly with fright, and get panicked which drives
them crazy enough to intensify the thought to nearing to death. Delusion that he is
about to die.
Closely resembles to Nux Vom, Stapysagria, Chamomilla. What differs in the other
remedies is that they are not so anxious and restless. They just cant sit still; need to
toss about from one place to another.
Pulsatilla:
Emotions
They are most emotional unstable after Ignatia. What differs from them is the degree
of emotional intensity. As they are known for mood swings, Moods Alternating; but
Ignatia emotions are far deeper, and suppressed.
For them when relationship in life is smooth; then things are fine with them. When
they are disturbed in this aspect then it triggers a sense of emotional instability. Any
sort of withdrawal on this front affects them deeply.
Hysteria
Their hysterical moods are not commonly seen at a conscious level; in a
decompensated state they can express these hysterical attacks in a passive way at
times of withdrawal of love by a gentle cry; Insanity in woman who was mild, gentle,
and tearful she sits on chair answering nothing or merely nodding her head for yes
or no.
Gentleness
They are very gentle and timid when away from home, as they are on an assessment of
safety & friendly atmosphere. Bashful, timid.
In terms if the stranger appears hostile then they immediately get into fright & would
withdraw oneself; in case if the atmosphere is good enough they quickly get into the
mode of freeness.
Staphysagria:
Anger

The main issue in these people is that the anger is obsessive. This takes over the
personality, creating enormous tension in the body and mind, which feels like they
could explode. The commonest cause of this resentment is the rejection by the loved
ones, and especially when this rejection comes from in an aggressive way.
Sensitivity
They are very sensitive type of personality, they are particularly sensitive to parental
aggression, and disapproval. Oversensitive, Ailments from reproach.
Rubiaceae
Stimulus meaning: a thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction
in an organ or tissue
Synonyms: spur, stimulant, encouragement, impetus, boost, prompt, prod,
incentive, inducement, inspiration, fillip, motivation, impulse, provocation,
goad, incitement
The alkaloids
Amphetamine, Methylcephaeline, Cephaeline, Caffeine. Quinine etc.
Caffeine acts as a central nervous system stimulant, temporarily warding off
drowsiness and restoring alertness.
Studies have shown that caffeine potentially induces chromosomal aberrations, and
shows both teratogenic and mutagenic properties.
It produces increased wakefulness, faster and clearer flow of thought, increased
focus, and better general body coordination.
Adenosine acts as an inhibitory neurotransmitter that suppresses activity in the
central nervous system. "Largely as a consequence of its blockade of adenosine
receptors".
If we study the amphetamine-like remedies, one will see that substances like
coffea, cacao, guarana, yohimbe, & kola were used as stimulants.
One of the main effects of these plants, even for ex. leaves of coca, was used to
give strength, to improve the possibility of working, fighting etc.
These amphetamines give a boost of energy, but after a few hours you are drawn
out.
General rubrics:
Mind- activity- general, hyperactive: Agar, agav-t, anag, ang, ant-c, arn., ars-s-r,
aur, BELL, canth, carb-ac, chin, chlor, CINNB, cob-n, COFF, COFF-T, corc-cor,
gaert, hyos, huper, ign, KOLA, lac-h, lach, lil-t, lys, MED, nux-v, op, PHOS, phys,
sep, spig, spong, stram, tarent, veart, verb, zing.
Mind-Joy, diarrohea with sudden: Acon, COFF, gels, OP
Mind- excitement, excitable, coffea, as after: Chin, CHININ-S, gink-b, haliae-lc,
sulph, valer.
Mind- Fancies exaltation of, sleeplessness with:
Agar, alum, ambr, anh, ant-t,
ARG-N, BELL, borx, bry, calc, caust, cham, CHIN, cocc, COFF, coloc, GRAPH,
hep, ign, kali-c, kali-n, led, LYC, merc, nat-c, NUX-V, OP, petr, ph-ac, phos, plat,
PULS, RHUS-T, sabad, SEP, SIL, spong, staph, sulph, thuj, VERAT, viol-t.
Mind- plans, future, of the:
COFF
Mind- plans, many: Adam, anac, ang, arg-n, CHIN, CHININ-S, COFF, harp,
hydrog, ignis-alc, nux-v, olnd, op, sep, SULPH, tab, tax, uran-met, visc.

 Mind- Reading, desire for: Adam, agn, alum, ancis-p, anth, calc, carc, chin,
clem, cocc, kola, nux-v, oena, puls, spect, staph, sulph.
Mind,Theorizing: Androc, ang, apis, arg-n, ars, AUR, aurm-m-n, aur-s, bar-s,
CANN-I, CHIN, cocc, COFF, helo, hydrog, kali-c, lac-e, lac-loxod-a, LACH, limenb-c, lyc, nat-c, nitro-o, op, puls, sel, SEP, sil, SULPH, uran-met, VERAT.
Mind- Writing, desire for: Chin, lipp, sphing, stram.
Mouth- Blood filled with, after agreeable surprise: Chin
Generalilites- Surprses, ailments from: Acon, chin, COFF, corv-cor, ferr, gels,
kali-bich, kali- c, merc, op, puls, verat.
Mind- activity- general- sleeplessness, with: COFF, dig, maland, rhus-t, thea,
zinc.
Mind- Desires, indefinite: BRY, chin, IGN, IP, lach, PULS, sang, sil, THER, zincchr.
Mind- Desires; numerous, various things, insane: Ars, bry, cham, chin, cinam,
coff, dulc, ign, ip, PULS, rhus-t
MIND - TRANQUILLITY, serenity, calmness general absin. adam. aesc.
aeth. aether alco. aloe androc. apis arb-m. arg-met. arge-pl. arn. ARS. asar.
aspar. aur. aur-ar. bamb-a. banis-c. bell. bell-p. borx. brass-o-r. bros-gau. cann-s.
caps. carneg-g. casc. cath-a. caust. cere-b. CHAM. CHEL. CHIN. chinin-s. chlor.
choc. chol. CIC. clem. coca cocc. cod. COFF. coloc. conin. croc. cycl. dros. ephe.
eucal. euph. falco-pe. ferr. ferr-ar. fl-ac. galeoc-c-h. germ-met. gins. glycyr-g.
gran. graph. haliae-lc. ham. HELL. hydr-ac. HYDROG. HYOS. ign. ip. jatr-c. kalibr. kola lac-del. lac-h. lac-leo. lac-loxod-a. lac-lup. lach. lact-v. lap-la. lars-arg.
lat-h. laur. led. lil-t. lim. limen-b-c. lith-c. lyc. lys. mag-s. maias-l. manc. meny.
merl. mez. morph. mosch. mur-ac. naja narcot. nat-c. nat-m. nat-p. neon nit-ac.
onop. OP. oxyg. paro-i. petr. PH-AC. phos. pitu-a. PLAT. plb. plut-n. porc-m. psil.
sars. seneg. SEP. sil. spect. spig. stann. staph. succ. sul-ac. sulph. tarax. tax. tell.
thuj. thyr. tung-met. tus-fr. uran-met. verat. viol-o. zinc. zinc-act.
Coffea cruda
MiasmTubercular
Rubrics:
Mind; desires numerous things, insane
Activity; creative
Activity; increased excessively
Activity; sleeplessness with
Ailments from; joy excessive
Ecstasy; sensitivity of female sexual organs, with
Emotions: ailments from: sudden, pleasant
Excitement; ailments from
Bad effects of stimulants, alcohol, tea, etc.
Taste: agreeable; tobacco to
There is great activity of the mind that produces sleeplessness. And again
joy and pleasant surprises aggravate.
The key is stimulation...
When the mind is stimulated, there is excitement, many ideas and sleeplessness
from thoughts. The person is already stimulated and wants more things, more
stimulation; this leads to over stimulation, and then aggravation.
JOY:

Mind; ailments from; joy; excessive (Chin, Chin-ar, Coff).

Joy is not a well known symptom of China but it also covers it:
Mouth; blood, filled with, after excessive joy (Complete).
This shows that Joy has a physical effect on the person, and that bleeding is a
china symptom.
Both china and coffea are aggravated by excessive joy; we could postulate that
joy effects them because it stimulates, then over-stimulates, then aggravates. In
the same way, both remedies appear in the rubric.
Stimulus
As the main seat of action of these drugs is on the cortex, it stimulates thus
enhancing the flow of impulses to the neurotransmitters causing over activity.
Full of ideas, quick to act; Acuteness of memory; thus they are mentally
hyperactive.
Activity
They tend to make a lot of plans for the future. The idea here is that they are
more of hypothetical dreamer, rather than actually putting it to utility. Like
China they keep theorizing a lot.
Their entire night is spent on thinking & over thinking due to which there sleep
gets disturbed and the next day due to these sorts of activities all though out
the night, they get completely exhausted.
China offincinalis
MiasmMalaria miasm
Rubrics:
Activity; general; hyperactive
Ailments from joy, excessive
Desires; indefinite
Excitement, excitable, coffee, as after
Fancies; exalt able of, sleeplessness, with
Ideas abundant, clearness of mind with
Plans future many for
Plans large number
Plans large number evening
Theorizing
Writing desire for
Mouth; blood, filled with, after excessive joy (Comp).
Reading, desires for; be read to (Comp)
Mouth; blood in; from; surprises, after agreeable (Allens Rep).
Delusions; persecuted, that he is (Complete).
Delusions; tormented, he is (Complete).
Delusions; unfortunate, he is (Complete).
Delusions; work; hindered at, is (Complete).
Fear; animals, of: dogs, of (Complete).
Fear; driving him from place to place (Complete).
Hahnemann says:

He makes number of grand plan for the future. He makes many plans and thinks
over their accomplishments; many ideas force themselves upon him at once.
He has many ideas, undertakes to carry out all sorts of things, builds castle in the air.
He has many plans in the head which he greatly desires to carry into execution, in the
evening.
A quality of scheming ideas.
Theorizing:
The main theme in china is that of making grand plans for the future, build all possible
theoretical possibilities and at the same time feels (acute) threat along with the other
component of this fixed idea (sycotic) that he is tormented, persecuted and hindered;
this is the chronic side.

Philosophical
Thuja too is sensitive & introvert like china, but tend to be more practical, whereas
China is more philosophical Theorizing, building air castle.
With their sensitivity and philosophical nature they tend to be more fearful and
suspicious. They lack self-confidence to make full use of it, but are rather wilful
persons.
China is associated with a selfish, self obsessed streak, they can get into rage and can
persecute a family member without knowing what she is doing. They can get into rage
with anyone imagining about others faults and insults. Delusion of being
persecuted.
Ipecacuanha
MiasmTyphoid
Information:
Ipecacuanha means the plant that makes you vomits. This plant was used to forcibly
empty stomachs contents when there was intoxication. It triggers immediate, sudden
vomiting; it is especially striking that patients feel better after vomiting.
Rubrics:
Desires: inexpressible, full of (Knerr).
Desires; indefinite (Complete).
Desires; numerous, various things, insane (Complete).
Greed, cupidity (Complete).
Ideas; deficiency of (this is the opposite) (Complete).
Tranquility, serenity, calmness (Complete).
Impatience: work: for (Complete).
Industrious, mania for work (Complete).
Irritability: general: business, about: proceed fast, when does not (Complete).
Morose, sulky, cross. Fretful, ill-humor, peevish: business does not proceed fast,
when (Complete).
Capriciousness (Complete).
Ipecac has many references to typhus and typhoid. The rubric above also
suggest the typhoid miasm; the numerous desires shows the impatience and the
childish quality present in the remedy.
Anger / Jealousy
Repertorically the symptom Jealousy is much more a sense of envy. Others have
something I cannot have. The maliciousness is not presented but is more of a hidden,
unexpressed anger directed towards evacuation.

The sensation with the typhoid miasmatic background could be:

Desires many things to stimulate him very quickly. Demands instant stimulation.
Phatak writes on Ipecac:
Cries scream howls and is hard to please (children). Full of desires, but knows not for
what.
So the adaptability of this family is stimulation.
Everything stimulates then over-stimulates. Which leads to aggravation.
The pace and the depth to which this is expressed will reflect the miasm of each
remedy in the family.
LEGUMINOSAE & SCROPHULARIACEAE TRANSCRIPT
[LEGUMES ARE PEA FAMILY- THE FRUITS ARE BOUND TOGETHER AND CAN
SCATTER ONCE THE BIND IS RELEASED]
Splitting up is the main theme of the pea family. There is an external factor splitting
them up. The energy from outside is splitting them up and they want to be bound
together.
LEGUMINOSAE
Splitting meaning: break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into
halves or along the grain.
Synonyms: break, chop, cut, hew, lop, snap, crack, bust, fracture, rupture,
fissure, splinter, slit, split
On studying the different drugs of this family, a common set of two symptoms covering
the two opposite polarity of same phenomena were evident Delusion: body, of: bed, scattered about, cannot get parts together. (1). (Knerr)
Cannot keep his mind together, a wild wandering feeling (as soon as eyes are
closed). (Vermeulen in Baptisia)
Generalities: Binding up, bandaging amel. (Complete - Mimosa-pudica)
The main sensation of Leguminosae could be, 'The feeling of either split apart or
tied together, either bound together or split apart.' (Incidentally, Legumes are the
pea family. The fruit is bound together and gets scattered once the bind is released.)
There is an external factor splitting them up. The energy from outside is splitting them
up and they want to be bound together.
Sensation:
Splitting apart
Coming apart
Scattered
Bound together
Fragmented
Passive reaction:
Feeling scattered and confused
Split up
Not together
Active reaction:

Getting things together

Compensation:
Feeling together and unified
Remedies and their miasms
Acute
Typhoid
Malaria
Ringworm
Sycosis
Tubercular
Cancer
Leprous
Syphilis
Key words
bound
bound together
breaking apart
coming apart
cutting off
dispersing
dividing
drifting apart
falling apart
fragmenting to

Melilotus
Baptisia
Robinia
Chrysarobinum
Copaiva
Balsamum Peru
Physostigma
Caesalpinia
Lathyrus
pieces
get it together
hold together
keep things
together
not together
scattered
scattering
shattering
splitting apart
togetherness
as a unit

Attached
bond
breaking in many
parts
close knit
connected
consolidating
detaching
disconnecting
dissociating
looseness
separating in

many parts
taking apart
tied
united
all over the place
breaking up
joining
merging
spreading in many
directions
tearing apart

Difference between families

Leguminosae and Scrophulariaceae
The vital sensation of Scrophulariaceae is bonds and connections are not strong, they
are loose, so he wants to hold on very tightly. In this family, at an emotional level
'connection' means one can exist without the other that there are two separate,
independent entities, but the bond between them is very important. When such a
connection breaks, he experiences the separateness, disconnectedness and the
incompleteness. While the main sensation of Leguminosae is, 'The feeling of either
split apart or tied together, either bound together or split apart.'
So we summarize the sensations of all the four families as follows:
Leguminosae-Different and discrete things are held together and Then scattered.
Scrophulariaceae- Bonds are not strong, they are loose.

SCROPHULARIACEAE
Connection meaning: a relationship in which a person or thing is linked or
associated with something else
Synonyms: association, attachment, bond, tie, correspondence, analogy,
bearing, relevance.
The vital sensation of Scrophulariaceae is bonds and connections are not strong.
They are loose, so he wants to hold on to very tightly. When the connection
breaks then fear, fright and delusion starts.
Three remedies of Scrophulariaceae (Verbascum, Gratiola and Digitalis) all have
amorous abstractions and reveries. The meaning of reveries is 'a state of
abstracted musing'.
The meaning of amorous is - strongly attracted or disposed to love, especially sexual
love - when there is a disconnection of any kind, one starts to seek connection; this
can be seeking to connect in a sexual way, in an emotional way or even in an abstract
way to spiritual things, which could result in finding oneself as if in a drug-like state.
In this family, at an emotional level 'connection' means one can exist without the
other, that they are two separate, independent entities, but the bond between
them is very important. The feeling is not that he is dependent or that one is smaller
than the other. Like a plug and a socket, one fits to the other and together they make a
perfect connection. And when such a connection breaks, he experiences the
separateness, disconnectedness and the incompleteness. As a result, he goes into
abstract or amorous reveries (active reaction to sensation).
Sensation:
Bonds and connections are not strong, so he wants to hold on to very tightly. When the
connection breaks then fear, fright and delusion starts.
Passive reaction:
Indifference
Detachment
Active reaction:
Adhesive
Attachment
Amorous

Compensation:
Does not need bonds.
Remedies and their miasm:
Acute

Digitalinum

Typhoid
Ringworm
Malaria
Sycotic
Tubercular
Leprosy
Cancer
Syphilis

Euphrasia
officinalis
Veronica
officinalis
Chelone
Digitalis
Verbascum
Gratiola
Scrophularia
nodosa
Leptandra
virginica

Other remedies
Epiphegus virginiana (Beech Drops)
Linaria (Toad - flax)
Mimulus (Bach flower remedy)
Glimpse of presentation of scrofularaceae from cases Now she volunteered at a senior center, and loved the warm, caring contact
with other people. (gives a hint of needing bonds)
Maybe it was a nightmare or a dream. I would hold on to somebody.
That stimulates me, the quietness where I reflect on life and think what we
are doing with our lives. This brings me together, and makes me more
complete.
For me success is to reach a state of detachment, bliss
I met my father late and I couldn't interact with him and I missed that
contact, I missed the contact part of love. There was no contact.
Those needs get directed to someone else. For me, it was my sister and there is a
bond between us.
hold close
Unconnected
disjointed
joined
Key words
hold tight
adhered
separated
severed
bonds
loose
Apart
stick to
tied
connected
connection
attached
united
disconnected
tie together
bound
break free
held tight
togetherness
detached
break up
Difference between families
Scrophulariaceae and Conifers
In Conifers, the feeling is of dissociation and not of separation from some thing. The
feeling is I am brittle, I will break into pieces, I will crumble and I will be dissociated
from my self. When glass is broken, it will dissociate from itself. It is not that there is
a connection and that connection will break.
It is not like two compartments of a train that are connected and these will now
detach and become discreet. It is simply that, I am one but because of a break in
the continuity, I will become two. Not that two things are together and they will
disunite, but rather one thing will become two, which is what a split means. The split
of Conifer One becomes two, the continuity is broken.
Now in comparison, in the vital sensation of Scrophulariaceae is bonds and
connections are not strong, they are loose, so he wants to hold on very tightly. In this
family, at an emotional level 'connection' means one can exist without the other that
there are two separate, independent entities, but the bond between them is very

important. When such a connection breaks, he experiences the separateness,

disconnectedness and the incompleteness.
So we summarize the sensations of all the four families as follows:
Scrophulariaceae- Bonds are not strong, they are loose.
Leguminosae-Different and discrete things are held together and then scattered.
Conifers-One becomes two, the continuity is broken.

UMBELLIFERAE
Violence meaning: a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt,
damage, or kill someone or something.
Synonym: brutality, ferocity, savagery, cruelty, sadism, barbarity, inhumanity,
mercilessness, ruthlessness, heartlessness, ferity.
In Aethusa one of the known drug of umbelliferae,we find;
Stabbing: fine, acute. (1) (Allen R)
Violent, sudden attacks: with profound exhaustion and lack of reaction
(Gunvante)
Violence is one of the key notes of this remedy (Vermeulen)
We see that 'violence' and 'stabbing' are important aspects in Aethusa. After
sudden violent attacks there is profound exhaustion and lack of reaction.
Study of other members shows that the sensations running through out are Stabbing,
knife like, violence, blows, wounds, injuries, sudden attacks followed by
numbness, stupefaction, dullness and sadness. Expressions of the violence and
sudden attack in this family, are riots and accidents. (Cicuta, Conium)
In the proving of Oenanthe crocata by Lesigang Helga (Links 1992) from Austria the
following is mentioned:
"Epileptic cramps which begin suddenly without an aura, the convulsion begins with a
scream. After the convulsion the patient sleeps and often cannot speak.".
Here we see 'epilepsy without aura', which means that it comes suddenly,
unexpectedly without any alarm signs and after such sudden unexpected
attack there is total numbness and the patient sleeps.

Weaving together all the aspects - the feeling or sensation of the Umbelliferae family
may be summarized as: Sudden unexpected violence and the attack in the form
of stabbing, blows, accidents, riots, epilepsy, vertigo, fainting followed by
numbness, stupefaction, dullness and sleep. The reaction to this sensation
therefore is furious attack, epilepsy, violent, hysteria (fits of emotions), [as
active reaction] and deep sleep, dullness, stupefaction, paralysis [as passive
reaction].

Sensation:

Sudden unexpected violence or attack.

Accidents
Blows, preparing for a blow
Riots
Stabs, Wound
Abuse

Followed by:

Numbness
Stupefaction
Dullness
Sleep.
On the physical level:

Stabbing
Lancinating (in Latin means to stab)
Vertigo
Fainting
Hysteria
Convulsion without aura

Passive Reaction:

Sudden weakness
Deep Sleep
Regressed
Paralysis
Relaxation
Stupefaction
Dullness

Active Reaction:

Violent
Convulsion
Mania
Furious attack
Fits of emotion
Escape
Compensation:

Calmness in a situation where there is violence and sudden unexpected attack.

Remedies with their miasm:

Acute

Oenanthe

Typhoid

Aethusa

Malaria

Sumbulus

Sycosis

Asafoetida

Tubercular

Phellandrium

Cancer

Conium

Leprous

Cicuta

Syphilis

Hydrocotyle /
Coriandrum

Other remedies
Aegopodium podagraria (Goutweed)
Ammoniacum gummi (Gum ammoniac)
Apium graveolens (Celery)
Eryngium aquaticum (Button snake root]
Eryngium maritimum (Sea holly)
Pastinaca sativa (Parsnip)
Petroselinum sativum (Parsley)
Zizia (Meadow parsnip)
Glimpse of presentation of Umbelliferae sensation from cases

Just now she came back after five years. I couldnt handle it; it was a shock.

My sons violent nature. I never say the right thing to anybody

The situation in the house becomes very violent. His life style, he smokes, he is
not to be questioned.

I felt that this was the most unfeeling thing, the most cruel thing that anyone
could do to anybody

I felt she had just slapped me in the face, kicked me in the stomach and turned a
knife in my heart.

It just struck me like a thunderstorm, not a clue. As if Id gone straight on into

a wall, boom and my head had burst open

I want to kill that person, destroy that person, just finish off that person.

I was standing there in front of my husband, to take the blow. He was wanting to
hit him. Its instinctive for him to hit. I was close to committing suicide one
time, jumping down from the sixth floor or taking a cyanide pill.

Key words
blow
mutilated
stabbed
sudden
aggression
sudden

violence
unexpected
violence
suddenness
Abruptness
unforeseen
out of the
blue

without
warning
riots
assaulted
brutality
cruelty
shock
injured

numbness
benumbed
blunted
deadened
debilitated
drowsy
exhaustion

anesthetized
stupefied
deep sleep
convulsion
fainting
hysteria