ANACARDIACEAE

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

Synonyms: rigid, hard, firm, hardened, inelastic, non-flexible, inflexible, un-giving…
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 [Allen’s 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 caught entrapped not being able to
stiff tight held move
stuck clasped inelastic paralyzed
stuck up cramp immobile free
taut grabbed jammed liberated
Tension grasped limited unchained
band plugged Trapped
blocked restricted wedged
captured rigid motion amel.
catch ensnared movement
Glimpse of presentation of vital sensation from cases-
 My body is stiff on waking perhaps because I have been dreaming. It’s as if I am in a different world. I am
trying to break from sleep but I cannot. I am scared I won’t be able to get up. I feel trapped, I can’t
move my body, can’t open my eyes. I feel suffocated, claustrophobic, as if someone is holding me,
trapping me and won’t let me go. No matter what you do, your efforts won’t help.
 I have this stiffness in my neck and I am not able to move freely. Now it’s sprained
 It gets more and more straightened and I am not able to move the neck both ways. I can’t move. I can’t
move in my work because of this; my neck doesn’t move, and my work doesn’t move.
 Does meditation - it gives peace, less internal commotion - It was different before, I was reacting to
everything; it felt like being caught. I wouldn’t 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 I’m 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.

CACTACEAE
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 it’s 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 Tubercular Cereus-bon

Typhoid Carnegia gigantean Cancer Anhalonium
Ringworm Opuntia Leprosy Cereus-s
Malaria Cactus

Key words compressed get smaller pressed enlarged

boxed condensed grabbed pressurised expanded
boxed in constrained grasped shrunk growing bigger
caged constricted grow smaller squashed infinite
caught contracted jailed squeezed limitless
clasped crammed made smaller tight no boundaries
clenched crushed oppressed weighed down spreading out
clutched downtrodden pack together boundless unlimited
compacted encaged Packed endless vast
Glimpse of presentation of vital sensation of Cactaceae in cases-
 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 disr espect or scornful abuse.

Synonyms: offend, disparage, discr edit, libel, slander, malign, defame, denigrate,
impugn, slur, revile, calumniate, hurt, mortify, wound, snub, r ebuff, 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 Tubercular Abrotanum
Typhoid Chamomilla Cancer Bellis perennis
Ringworm Taraxacum Leprosy Lactuca/Inula/Lappa
Malaria Cina / Eupatorium perfoliatum Syphilitic Echinacea
Sycotic Senecio

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 it’s hitting my head.
I feel like slapping my son at that time.
 They can bang on the head with something.
 I don’t like hard rock music. I don’t like it. I feel something is banging my head.
 A mini train is following me in the garden. I am running. Don’t 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
can’t 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 scalded concussion thrashed blunted
banged Shocked crashed wounded numb
beat striking knocked burn tough
blunt injuries accidents pounded hurt
hammered blows punched run over
hit boxed smacked anaesthesia
injured bumped smashed analgesia

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.

CONIFERS
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 Sycosis Thuja
Typhoid Terebinthina Cancer Sabina
Ring worm Pseudotsuga Tubercular Pix-liquida
Malaria Abies Nigra
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 don’t feel connected, I need to trust.
Key words defenseless soft unconnected fall to pieces hard
brittle vulnerable strength break up sever rigid
delicate unprotected connected break away connection armor
fragile tough together cut off attached shield
frail susceptible breaking fragmented separated
broken weak cracked shattered detached
breakable disconnected fall apart empty
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 that’s 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:

Lepidium bonariense (Brazilian Malaria Iberis amara (Bitter Candytuft)
Acute
Cress) Ring worm Sinapis alba (White Mustard)
Typhoid Sinapis nigra (Black 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 obstructed gag no vent freeze moving ahead
barrier stopped up get in the way no release go through smooth flow
blockade stuck gridlock no place to go pent up free
blocked unobstructed halted anywhere seized let go
deadlock barricade hampered no way out breaking the unhindered
get stuck blockage hindered plugged barrier way around
impasse bottleneck impeded stopped clearing the
interrupted choked jammed trapped flow
no free flow clogged no opening captive free flow
obstacles entangled no passage find its way flow
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, it’s 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 Cancer Euphorbium
Typhoid Mancinella Leprosy Hura
Malaria Cascarilla Syphilis Stillingia
Tubercular Acalypha indica
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 can’t 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 mother’s behavior. I didn’t 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 can’t 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 tied around straight jacket prisoner boundless freedom
bound held tight caught chain free break away
tied tightness clutched Gripped liberated break free
chain around taut clasped wrapped released unwind
rope around held grasped choked untied can't move
tight around get entangled seized unbound 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 région
 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
 Stomach: contraction: general: cardiac orifice
 Clothes were too heavy
 Gangrene
 Pains of cancer
 Cancer of nose and prostate
 Epithelioma
 Stomach: gangrene: sensation of

Hura 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 the feeling of excitement.
Synonyms: exhilaration, elation, animation, enthusiasm, eagerness, anticipation, fire, zeal, 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 sexual desire and suppressed sexua
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 (Allen’s 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 (Allen’s 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 (Allen’s 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 account 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 famil

The type of excitement of the Libiatae is one that stirs one to activity: “let’s do this lets do that! Let’s enjoy lets have fun, let
party, lets take pleasure rides etc”. it’s 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 obtain excitement found in the min
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 home 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 (Buck’s 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 one’s limit, or exercising extreme self-control (over one’s
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 had’nt 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 did’nt 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, considere
herself crazy, and those 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 the 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, bur st, explode, implode, splinter, crack, fracture, fragment,
disintegrate, devastate, demolis h, 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-Mind- Silent 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 Sycotic Gelsemium

Typhoid Nux vomica Cancer Ignatia
Ringworm Upas tieute Leprosy Curare
Malaria Spigelia 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 ruined astonished blow paralyzed

shocked Torn to pieces devastated astonished immobile
shattered disappointed surprised astounded
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'.
MAGNOLIANA E

Bewilderment meaning: a state of being confused and puzzled. Not understanding,

but it goes beyond that - it implies a state of complete mystification. People
experience bewilderment when they are utterly baffled 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 one’s 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 Tubercular Myristica

Typhoid Nux moschata Cancer Asarum
Sycotic Cinnamomum 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 hadn’t 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 one’s race. (withdrawal)
 It’s very unrealistic; I’m aware of that. I want someone I can trust. I want my life to be taken over. I’m
lost when it comes to me
 I feel like I’m two people, me who the world sees and me who’s lost, who’s 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 mystify familiarize cloudy withdrawal
absurd perplexed find a way confused Alienation
baffled strange mysterious misty Buoyancy
beclouded unfamiliar puzzled muddy comatose
befuddled Alien uncertainty murky dazed
bewildered astray unfamilier research dizziness
bizarre change astonished unclear floating
clarity completely astounded unsure flying
familiar different bemused isolate
lost disoriented clearness shut it
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).
 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).

MALVALES

Attachment meaning: an extra part or extension that is or may be attached to

something to perform a particular function.
Affection, fondness or sympathy for someone or something.

Synonyms: accessory, fitting, fitment, extension, extra, adjunct, addition, add -on,
appurtenance, appendage, accoutrement, auxiliary…

The remedies with their families under Order Malvales are

Malvaceae (Hibiscus) Malva sylvestris Adansonia digitata
Gossypium Abroma augusta
Althaea officinalis Sterculaceae Tiliaceae (Lindens)
Abelmoschus Chocolate Tilia europaea (Common Lime)
malvine Cacao Tilia-a
Kola or Sterculia acuminata Til-c.
Study of chocolate revealed following symptoms :
 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 Malaria Abroma

Typhoid Abel. moschus Sycosis Tilia
Ring worm Gossypium 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 that’s always been with me. Like I’ve never had a real
connection with people. It’s 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 I’m 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. That’s how I feel about everything!
 If I'll love others, people will love me.

Key Words separated connected tied link up with

attached apart disconnected unconnected merge with
detached binding linked united not together
estranged bond severed break up splitting
joined bound take apart coming apart 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
suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fir e beneath the earth
where the wicked are punished after death.

Synonyms: abuse, tor ment, maltreatment, r etribution, 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 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. 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:

Morphinum, Cancer Opium
Acute
Morphinum-sulph Tubercular Succinum acidum
Typhoid Argemone Leprosy Codeinum, Fumaria
Ringworm Sanguinarinum nitricum Syphilis Corydalis formosa
Malaria Chelidonium
Sycosis Sanguinaria

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 can’t bear it. It’s 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 can’t 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 hostility brutality slaughtered deaden
agony nightmare cruelty tolerance of pain deep sleep
hell severe pain distressed anesthesia fast asleep
intense pain terrorized executed benumbed hibernate
intense suffering tormented frightened blunted put to sleep
misery tortured murdered insensitive
pain and sorrow bearing capacity Punishment no feeling

PIPERACEAE

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 Piper nigricum, Matico (Piper angustifolium)

Cancer Piper Methyasticum (? Leprous)
Leprous Cubeba
Other Remedies
Piper betal [Betel leaf]
Piper sarmentosum [wild betel leaf]
Piper umbellatum [Periparoba]
Peperomia pellucida
Key Words
amusement thrill colorless agony efficiency
boredom unexciting colorless torment exhaustion
boring uninteresting dry anguish fatigue
ennui distracts dull tormenting prostration
entertainment enjoyment enjoying torture strength
diversion fun insipid horror tired
monotonous past time partying distress weakness
not interesting pleasure tasteless misery
recreation stimulates intense pain hell
routine Bland intense suffering suffering
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 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. 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, ill-humored, 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 Cancer Staphysagria

Typhoid Helleborus Tubercular Cimicifuga
Ringworm Actea spicata Leprosy Hydrastis
Malaria Ranunculus bulbosus Syphilis Clematis
Sycotic Pulsatilla
Other remedies
Aconitinum (Aconitine) Helleborus viridis (Green hellebore)
Aconitum cammarum Pulsatilla nuttaliana (American Pulsatilla)
Aconitum ferox (Indian Aconite) Ranunculus acris (Goldcup)
Aconitum lycoctonum (Great Yellow Wolfsbane) Ranunculus ficaria (Lesser celandine)
Clematis vitalba (Old man's beard) Ranunculus glacialis (Carlina)
Helleborus foetidus (Bear's foot) Ranunculus repens (Creeping buttercup)
Helleborus orientalis 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 shocking sharp shooting insensitive
annoying honor stinging knife like blunt
bursting Hypersensitive stitching Numb stunned
insulting morbid sensitivity stabbing benumbed
sensitivity touchy cutting deaden
vexed rude poking anesthetized
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 can’t 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, limen-b-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, zinc-chr.
 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. kali-br. 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
Miasm…Tubercular
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
Miasm…Malaria 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 (Allen’s 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 plan’s 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
Miasm…Typhoid
Information:
Ipecacuanha means ‘the plant that makes you vomits’. This plant was used to forcibly empty stomach’s 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 Melilotus Tubercular Balsamum Peru
Typhoid Baptisia Cancer Physostigma
Malaria Robinia Leprous Caesalpinia
Ringworm Chrysarobinum Syphilis Lathyrus
Sycosis Copaiva

Key words get it together bond tied

bound hold together breaking in many parts united
bound together keep things together close knit all over the place
breaking apart not together connected breaking up
coming apart scattered consolidating joining
cutting off scattering detaching merging
dispersing shattering disconnecting spreading in many
dividing splitting apart dissociating directions
drifting apart togetherness looseness tearing apart
falling apart as a unit separating in many parts
fragmenting to pieces Attached taking 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 Tubercular Verbascum

Typhoid Euphrasia officinalis Leprosy Gratiola
Ringworm Veronica officinalis Cancer Scrophularia nodosa
Malaria Chelone Syphilis Leptandra virginica
Sycotic Digitalis

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.
Key words hold close Unconnected detached break free
bonds hold tight adhered disjointed break up
connected loose connection Apart separated joined
disconnected tie together attached stick to severed
held tight togetherness bound united tied
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 Tubercular Phellandrium

Typhoid Aethusa Cancer Conium
Malaria Sumbulus Leprous Cicuta
Sycosis Asafoetida 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 couldn’t handle it; it was a shock.
 My son’s 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 I’d 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. It’s 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 violence assaulted blunted stupefied
blow suddenness brutality deadened deep sleep
mutilated Abruptness cruelty debilitated convulsion
stabbed unforeseen shock drowsy fainting
sudden aggression out of the blue injured exhaustion hysteria
sudden violence without warning numbness anesthetized
unexpected riots benumbed