Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.44.15
666.44.15 Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Names: means excellent flavor, leaves of Artemis.
English: Rag weed; Hog weed.
French: Ambrosie a feuilles d’Artemis.
Culture: ambrosia is the drink of the Gods, making people immortal.
Introduction
They feel they are not valued, respected or recognised. But there is nothing they can do about it, so they have to undergo it. They feel they have lost everything. They look at it with a kind of bitterness but also keep their respect and equanimity. They understand that others cannot do better, that they cannot understand their sensitivity and insights.
Mind
Beaten woman, adapted to it, masochistic.
General
Time: < 9 pm, < late summer and autumn, < December.
Body
Eyes: red, wet, burning, intolerable itching of eyelids; smart and burn; copious lachrymation.
Nose: hayfever, < autumn; with dryness, watery discharges, frontal sinuses, sneezing, wheezing; watery discharge; severe, watery coryza; nosebleed, < blowing the nose, < morning in bed; obstructed.
Lungs: obstructed; tracheitis, bronchitis, dry, wheezy, asthmatic cough, asthmatic attacks, wheezing respiration.
Rectum: diarrhoea, dysenteria, < summer.
DD: Aralia, Arsenicum, Arum triphyllum, Eucalyptus, Kali-iodatum, Sabadilla, Wyethia; Succin ac; Ars jod; Arundo, Euphr, Puls, Sulph, Succ-acidum.