Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.73.14
665.73.14 Duboisia myoporoides
English: Corkwood tree.
Introduction
In the case below we see the theme of violence and fear of the Solanales and Phase 7. These are ailments for a youth with a lot of violence. It comes with the feeling of being rejected by one’s father or parents in general.
Stage 14 is expressed in the feeling that there is nothing that can be done and that disaster can come at any unexpected moment.
Mind
Absent-minded, incoherent.
Air of fun and humour.
Memory impaired.
Silly, nonsensical; places shoes on bed, boots on dressing-table.
Fear: dark, dangers; glances suspiciously under bedclothes and behind back.
General
Sweat: scanty.
Body
Infection: scarlet fever.
Nervous: locomotor ataxia, paralysis agitans.
Head: headache with sleepiness.
Vertigo: impossible to stand with eyes shut, as if stepping on empty space, tendency to fall backwards < going up stairs, with pale face; without nausea.
Eyes: conjunctivitis, acute, chronic; fundus red, blood-vessels full and tortuous; pupils dilated, red spots floats in the field of vision; dim vision; pain over eye, between it and brow, feel swollen.
Nose: dry.
Mouth: dry; tongue feels enlarged.
Throat: dry; dry pharyngitis, with black, stringy mucus; exophthalmic goitre; larynx dry, voice hoarse, speech difficult.
Lungs: dry cough with oppressed breathing.
Limbs: weak, staggers; trembling, numb.