REMEDIES
LYSSIN – rabies nosode
An extraordinary amount has been written about abuse, maybe less so about the terrors of hydrophobia and its links to rabies – all I can do is add to that accretion based on the symptom picture of Lyssin.
I can hear church bells ringing, clanging in my brain A silence, slight, before the convulsion again.
Ideas insane
As the evening falls on me, outcast and wretched,
Not just the evening falling but my fear of an unprovoked assault, fetched A knowledge that something terrible will happen
Excited and impulsive, I can hear voices, Water running, sharp knives and choices That exhilarate me
But I cannot look in that mirror, it is insulting.
Visions of fire, water is splashing
I must cut the crap, I must cut the surface
Become misshapen, when the terrible thing will happen
I am viciously clamped, ready for attack My fears are fine tuned as I turn my back Away from the mirror and begin to run, Growling and forsaken, please hide the sun.
My bones are aching, my wounds are blue from slashing and biting I am contaminated, impatient, restless and agitating
Because I have the terror that something will happen
Jaws stiffen, teeth grind, the chill is intense Words fall out, loquacious, but have no sense.
Voice oppressed as the mouth fills with a gasp Spitting, spitting, spitting like an asp
Hypersensitive to all that conforms me.
Protection comes first because physically,
I am violent and suffocating as the skin is broken A breath of air is just a mere token
That fuels the viral infected brain
Endangering the abstraction of something evil and insane.
But I have clairvoyance as well as my wounds, Insomnia, nausea, delusions of sounds
It counsels my terror to that which will happen.
SENEGA – snakewort
As the name suggests this remedy has been used to ward off and antidote the trauma of snake bites and as such a stimulant it is easy to appreciate that Senega is effortlessly mortified and emits a profusion of symptoms thereof.
Physically this mortification takes the form of falling unconscious with a feeling of pressure in the eyes and blindness and other visual disturbances – the eyes feel like large balls of ice, a very strange sensation – also the lungs feel as if pushed back against the spine and at the same time a feel-ing as if the chest would burst – a physical form of recede and then attack.
Emotionally this mortification is seen as a very quick response to any-thing abusive and they are abusive in return (venomous like the snake at-tacking to protect itself). One moment they will be happy, affectionate and then they will remember an event, perhaps from long ago, and imme-diately they change, just like the physical unconsciousness their emotions become chaotically reactive.
If there are lingering memories of abuse these will present as a shock that can be pushed back but one that will keep bursting forth with chaos.
So, there will be alternating moods due to this memory, this re-call of ter-ror and abuse and quite a chaotic state will develop.
It is the glycosides found in Senega that allow the physical and emotional
‘poisons’ to be exited from the body – the poisons are bound to the sugar
The recede and attack action resembles a sneeze – an intake of breath and then the aaachoooo (in various sounds and modifications). Likewise the sensation as if the lungs were pushed back against the spine is actually defining one of the main uses of Senega and that is as a remedy for many lung conditions such as Bronchitis, Asthma, Pleurisy and Pneumonia. It is also a very valuable remedy for Hay Fever and other allergic states, when the symptoms fit. Also the sneezing is a reality in the symptom picture and often accompanies the lung disorder.
The physicals are well documented in the Materia Medicas but we have to come back to the reason why Senega is found in this rubric – ailments from being abused. Senega is an extremely sensitive remedy and it feels tenderness and pain very easily, it is mortified and prostrated out of pro-portion but it is a fighter for survival by mimicking the abusive behaviour as if to ward off an assailant – this might work, but usually, instead, they become ill as they pay the price of being abused.
FORMICA RUFA – red ants
Actually this remedy is made from crushed live ants and that’s terror and abuse enough!
It is a very deep acting remedy that has deep and serious pathology – chronic kidney disease; cancer, tumours and polyps; arthritis, gout and many other painfully rheumatic type states; brain disorders; tuberculosis;
lupus; spleen affections; paralysis and chorea. Quite a list gifted from the revenge of the crushed ant.
It is a wounded remedy, wounded by the cruelties of life – apprehensive and fearful, always expecting bad news, and getting it, cannot cope with this and it becomes the aetiology of the deep disease process. These wounds do not heal, maybe as a means to stay alive, representing a con-tinuous need for healing and this is paralleled with another emotional symptom – dwelling on past disagreeable occurrences – if we live in the past it prevents the terrible future from occurring. This is what happens in cases of abuse, the past can never be forgotten or shaken off even though the memory might be weak enough (as it is in Formica) for these memo-ries to fade.
They become so wounded by pain, emotional or physical, that they are steeped in sullen pessimism but then totally elated when the pain has passed. That is how serious their pain is. And when you’ve been crushed, what would you expect.
To prolong the agony the pains appear suddenly and move around rapidly, so there is an acuteness attached to the pain sensations even though the general state is a chronic one - an apoplectic reaction often results.
During the spate of being abused Formica is displaced, totally dislocated – each joint, muscle, ligament and tendon is trampled into oblivion. Rest-less with the idea and intent of escape they become excited, exhilarated even, until the bubble bursts and the body and mind become paralysed by terror.