Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
655.44.08
655.44.08 Acer pseudoplatanus
English: Sycamore tree.
Dutch: Gewone esdoorn.
Source: Prometheus.
Mind
Love is dried up due to adultery. Impels a rigorous chastity under cover of tenderness.
Poor self-esteem; sense of being undervalued or unappreciated for their efforts. Judgmental: quick negative conclusions based on scanty evidence.
Loses opportunities by being too critical.
Pessimistic.
Lack of self-awareness; lacks belief in self yet denies ability in others and wants to influence them to do things differently; envy.
Wrong choices, locked into the place they have created for themselves.
Irresolution, two minds, putting things behind; doubts, anxiety, indecision.
Sensitivity: to other people's emotional states. Yet is often perversely egotistical and disinclined to see the other person's point of view.
Antagonistic.
Relationships in turmoil, avoids issues of the heart.
Purpose lost after children have left home.
Sexuality is in doubt: homosexuality after a history of traumatised upbringing.
Infertility, desperate to conceive.
Intellectuals, successful in the world, emotionally hobbled and inhibited.
Intellectually stimulated, excited, underlying sadness and emptiness.
Hyperactive but achieving very little; restless, churning mind.
Straitjacket, troubles from the past, disinclination to deal with a negative issue.
Smoking, excuses for not persisting in their efforts to give up smoking.
Twins.
Delusion: being trapped, imprisoned.
Fear: heights; falling; panic attacks.
Dreams: falling.
General
Desire: chocolate, carbohydrates; water, thirst.
Sleep: poor << hot flushes, << chuntering thoughts.
Physical: > rubbing, > massage.
Body
General: sphenoid bone; endocrine.
Nervous: imbalance hemispheres.
Vertigo: < rising, circular motions.
Head: pain, pressure; middle forehead, across eyebrows, extending to temples, occiput, > pressure; + tense neck and shoulders; + nausea, + faint, + heat, + dizziness; vertex, pressure coming outwards; skullcap of metal pressing down; head feels separated from body; buzzing in head associated with ears.
Eyes: vision dim, < headache, < earache, objects spinning vertigo, hazy, blurred, peripheral; arcus senilis.
Ears: blocked ears with wax or catarrh; hearing diminished, buzzing, whining sounds, tinnitus, watery sounds, one sided, + imbalance.
Mouth: dry, dry lips.
Throat: post-nasal catarrh.
Lungs: tickling cough, > night, < rising, < morning.
Heart: knotted up, pierced, heavy, dense, burning.
Chest: heat.
Stomach: nausea, < headache, < dizziness, < tight diaphragm, < twisted spine, < the coeliac plexus.
Abdomen: bloating, oedema, dropsy; gurgling, rumbling; discomfort, < some hours after eating.
Rectum: piles.
Urinary: urge frequent; retention and thirst; urine clear, frothy, pale, almost no smell, copious, small quantities.
Male: lack of libido, < occupied.
Female: hot flushes, sweats, < menopause; uterus patulous, waterlogged; thickened tissues; blocked fallopian tubes, right; infertility; lack of libido; hysterectomy, threatened, attracted to it.
Back: aching, cervical spine, sacrum; twisted spine, rotated, < injury, < difficult birth, > twisting in the same direction as the rotation.
Limbs: oedema of the lower extremities, right side, aching, tension, varicose veins; oedema, right; joints tight, inelastic; loosening bone structure; incoordination.