Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
655.43.10
655.43.10 Boswellia serrata, Olibanum
Names: Boswellia balsamifera.
English: Indian frankincense.
Use: incense in the catholic church.
DD: bor, carc, myrrh, nat-m, rose quartz, thuj, tere.
Culture: gift to Christ at his birth.
Source: Wachsmuth, Heiliger Weinrauch; Enna Stallinga, Interhomeopathy, March 2009.
Introduction
They take the blame, guilt for what goes wrong in the family or society. They feel guilty, bad, criminal when there is disharmony, when people are sick or have died. They cannot cope with farewells or death as the most extreme form of farewell.
In order not to feel guilty they will go on helping and giving, working for peace and harmony. They are mediators, pleasing everybody, helping, pleasing but in a contorted way. From childhood on they feel responsible for the atmosphere in the house and they are very sensitive to it.
Mind
Ailments from trauma, suffering of themselves and others, blaming themselves, guilt.
Religious; sacral; holy mood; mystic; religious thoughts, fantasies, speculations, about snakes, priest, cathedrals, church music, crucifixion, convent, nuns, Angels, God; Christ consciousness; connected to God.
Aloof outlook on things.
Direct, open, honest, frank, blunt.
Self-satisfied.
Strong, persevering; tough.
Alone, outsider, misunderstood.
Ambitious.
Confusion of mind, identity.
Conscientious, about trifles.
Responsibility, unable to take.
Reverence, for those around him.
Desire activity, < evening, giving exhaustion.
Dissociated, ungrounded.
Soft, timid, sensitive, vulnerable, refined, yielding.
Serving, helping, sympathetic, empathy, generous; affectionate.
Shy as a child, obstinate in puberty.
Erotic and violent sex desire; eroticism.
Cannot stand or cope with conflicts and injustice.
Sympathetic, yielding, helpful, generous.
Tough.
Ambitious, performing well as a compensation.
Cheerful.
Emptiness; sensation of.
Often shy as a child, obstinate in puberty.
Fond of children, often working in the educational field.
Burnout.
Clairvoyance; sees ghosts.
Desire: peace, rest, harmony; kindness, softness, kind people; love, contact, being understood.
Desire: heavenly peace, faith, unification, salvation; space, travel.
Desire: dance, music; beauty; truth, clarity; talking, philosophising, theorising, literature.
Aversion: conflicts, quarrels, injustice; noise.
Delusion: being in connection with God; divided into two lines; angels, music; ghosts, shadows; loving persons.
Fears: water, heights, fire; shadows, ghosts; death; rat, snake, robbers, narrow, fire, dark, night, alone; failure, losing control.
Dreams: dead relatives, deceased people; clairvoyant; deceased people; lovers; religious, prophetic.
General
Weather: < sun; > open air, outside; heat alternating cold.
Desire: bread, fruit, tomato, coffee, spicy; sour, chocolate, milk, cheese; alcohol, cold water, meat, sausages, tea, salty; spicy; lsd, marijuana.
Aversion: bread, fruit, tomato, coffee, spicy, sour, chocolate, milk, cheese; sweets; slimy.
Food: < alcohol, < wine; < peppers; onions; coffee gives nausea.
Sleep: sleepless, falling asleep is difficult, waking frequently.
Physical: > motion, exercise, sport; allergy trees; < antibiotics.
Body
Energy: weak; burnout.
Vertigo: dizzy, < seeing dirt and garbage, < motion of head; wobbling head before going to sleep.
Head: migraine; headache, dull pressing, > conversation.
Ears: otitis.
Nose: coryza; hayfever; sinusitis; smell acute.
Face: sinusitis, frontal, maxillary; herpes lips.
Mouth: cold; feeling of butterflies on the tongue.
Throat: pharyngitis, throat pain, lump, pressure; thyroid problems.
Lungs: bronchitis, pneumonia; sighing.
Heart: palpitation, worse smoking.
Chest: empty; breasts swollen, < before menses, cysts.
Abdomen: cramps; solar plexus opening white and large.
Urinary: cystitis, > beer; urination dribbling, < walking; involuntary, < sneezing, coughing.
Female: menses problems; premenstrual symptoms.
Back: pain, lumber, extending to knee and foot; stiff, sacrum; pain neck, shoulder.
Limbs: pain joints, stiff, thumb, < morning, > gentle motion; muscles cramps, aching, stiff, calf; complaint of ligaments, contractions; cysts; fibromyalgia; pain shoulders.
Skin: burning, itching, worse washing, warm water; herpes; eczema hands, blisters, cracks; intertrigo; vitiligo, warts, ecchymoses, < sun; hair loss.