Malvales

Malvales Maarten van der Meer, version 2009 From several successful Malvales case studies, an attempt was made to collect common characteristics: similarities in personality and manner of reaction of the persons involved, possible predisposition, causa, or triggering circumstances. The starting point for the prescriptions made was initially the information Jan Scholten gave in the syllabus Plants 8, 2005. For the drugs from the subgroups of the Malvales, this syllabus gathers several keywords from the materia medica and own case histories, reflecting themes that are important or central to a Malvales case. The following Malvales cases were used for this article with good results: Abroma augusta 3x, Abel-moschus 2x, Althea officinalis 3x, Chocolate 3x, Cistus canadensis 3x, Daphne-indica 7x, Dirca-palustris 8x, Gossypium herbaceum 5x, Kola nitida 4x, Malva sylvestris 3x, Mezereum (Daphne mezereum) 3x Theobroma cacao 1x, Tilia europaea 6x. (Note: in Qjure, the Malvales as group is divided in Thymeleales, Cistales, and Malvales. The characteristics described overlap all these families and can even be used as characteristics of the Malvidae, to be extrapolated to Silver series). First follows Scholten's publication, which was used as a starting point for the aforementioned prescriptions.MALVALES, characteristics, Scholten, Plants 8 (2005)
As an order, it has to do with stage 3.
- Conflict of loyalty, especially Mezereum, to condemned not loyal to themselves, separated from the body.
- Anger, showing anger aggravates, fear of speaking out is paralyzing, anger is not allowed, it strikes back.
- Separated (body parts) or Paralysed (body parts or emotions) -slime, mucilage (dry mucous membranes ).
- Speech as a theme, especially Sterculoideae (meaning speech of God). Hold it back from nervousness.
- Compensation: vivid, mirth/ feeling mighty, aggressive.
- Internalising anger Malvaceae: together and then separated (sensitive, nervous, parasympathetic is overactive).
Sterculoiceae: hedgehog, selfish, brutal, affectionate, limbs separated.
Tiliodeae: estranged, separated: discouraged, they have no or useless communication, unattainable love.
Cistaceae: speaking out is paralyzing.
Thymelaceae: anger, timidity, scattered(body parts), apprehension, dreams black cats, fire. Sensation of enlargement-swelling. Erratic pains, electric shocks, darting, neuralgia. Falling to the left (their pollen has similarity to Euphorbiaceae). Irritability, confusion, oversensitive pains. Withdrawing what they had utter. They need protection (of the group). Don't give their meaning, they reflect it. Holding in gives fear. Physical anxiety with emotions. The body reacts to stress (paralysis, coldness, sensations of air in or on the body, sinus ethmoidales, corners of the mouth, eating ameliorate.Note 1: during the development of Wonderful Plants, the predecessor of Qjure, characteristics, and features were collected from descriptions, to extrapolate to the whole family. Through experience and feedback from practice, the classification and keywords to be used will be refined and adjusted. It helps us finding a ‘theme’, in principle a theme of a plant family, later a theme of a plant clade or plant order, or a Classe as used in Qjure.Note 2: this article is an example how evolution of analyses progresses, the possibility of analyzing a case and interpretation of information is shown. After 15 years we have enveloped from this base of characteristics of the Malvidae: Silver series aspects, problems with neck-shoulder, the themes performance, art, creativity. Silver series characteristics can be determined: mucous problems, theme’s like ‘voice’: problems with, special in using the voice or using language, holding in, non-verbal, dyslexia, chest. Their consciousness has a special focus placed outside the body, and reflecting to the inside, to their own feelings or experiences. They are looking for images and ideas outside their head, mostly above, and at the same time reflecting what they are ‘reading’, looking for the words. Very sensitive, they can feel energy of people and surroundings. A theme as description in Plant analysis can be the burden, the solution, a sensitivity for of a characteristic.)The following is a description of Malvales' experiences, from the premise of 2005 described above.
What stands out about the people I saw responding well to medication from the Malvales group is that they are very easy to deal with and almost problem-free. If they have no major problems and function well, they will not get in anyone's way. They have no pretensions but are very active and attentive in life. They can make contact well, take the initiative to do so, and keep a good grip both on the type of contact and how far that contact goes. Contact is intensive, it is more than talking, watching, and listening. The attention is such that I can best express this with that they “feel attention,” they probe the contact, the people, and the environment. It is a finesse or an accuracy. It seems to be innate or stems from a need for contact or a need for protection. Without exception, I notice that they expose a part of themselves easily and quickly, but also have a very clear and defined boundary as to how far they go in this, and how much of themselves they allow to see. In addition, the contact goes on or off at will, almost like a physics block pulse. They seem to be able to keep a constant eye on where or to whom their attention goes, and how much and what kind of attention comes to them. Readily recognizable is the high degree of nonverbal communication, and the capacity to do so. This can be visible in how a parent and child communicate, how they respond to your questions, and how aptly they can “read” you. Because they can do so much non-verbally, the development of language (especially reading) does lag, it is not necessary, and it causes dyslexia. Conversely, it can also be that because of dyslexia someone seeks refuge in the nonverbal, which this better developed than the average person. They possess a gentleness that emerges strongly in communication, using the remarkably strong sensitivity they have to atmosphere, to nonverbal transmission; expression, feelings, and emotions of others. Perceiving these signals is the result of attentiveness, rarely will they react primarily to what they perceive, but they signal it and store it. As a result, they function naturally in a spectator role, which brings them great understanding, people skills, and reliability. Because they do not react as quickly or strongly to people and situations, but initially wait and see, continuing to observe in the meantime, they can avoid many confrontations and difficulties. Sometimes this is necessary because they are, or think they are, not up to the circumstances, but mostly it is also a matter of being the wisest and keeping your mouth shut. Hear, see, and shut up. Keeping distance, no intervention with what you see and what you experience, but keeping in touch and feeling. As the Greek philosopher Epicures put it, “If you want to be happy you must neither worry nor interfere in matters beyond your control.” In Malvales indications one encounters a lot, that for one's feeling people have too little or even no control over things. This can be the basis for an attitude of “let me not be difficult, let me not interfere, make sure that my presence or actions do not offend, that the group or family must also take me into account.” An underlying cause of this attitude to life may be an insecurity about themselves; and whether they are capable of influencing the situation. It may also be because they are too sensitive or think they are too weak to engage in a fight. Especially to get into a fight. They are very sensitive to argument and disagreement, to aggression, to coercive direction. They desire literal space and figurative space, this is also where they function best. They prefer to make choices independently, they have enough insight and capabilities to do so but need a safe environment to do so. The most important approach in a situation is the preference to make sure in advance that everything goes smoothly. Because of their sensitivity and this attitude, they can also be as slippery as a bar of soap to influences from the outside world. A life attitude without being disruptive to others, but they risk becoming a plaything of circumstances or the environment as a result. This behavior results in a form of yielding, giving in, bending, and meekness. Usually, they are quite capable of not suffering, since they have a good sense of what and how much they can take. If it threatens to become too much, they can take action in time: retreat, usually into themselves, into their world of feelings or thoughts. Coming into action can also be that they give themselves some space again with aggression, or react retroactively to what has passed.
Mildness is also a good description. Mildness both to the outside (the outer world) and to their emotional world (the inner world). This tends to make them satisfied people, happy with the opportunities and position they have, despite the often present insecurity about the abilities they have in relation to others. There is often still a horizon they would like to look behind, interested as they are in other possibilities that are still open and waiting. In most of the cases discussed, they have a partner who is good at making decisions, who has an overview, and who likes to be in control. Traits they like to entrust to another, to have the space to function without conflict situations themselves. A good association is the candy Marshmallow, which was originally made from the mucilaginous substance of Althea officinalis, one of the Malvaceae used in homeopathy. The mucilage served as a soothing agent for throat complaints and mixed with sugar and egg white, this became the familiar soft, yielding, resilient, slimy candy. The sensation of a melting Marshmallow (nowadays made of gelatin) that you put in your cheek pouch and let melt there for minutes corresponds nicely to the gentle feeling these people emit or evoke in you. The cautious and probing they have by nature, is an uncompensated trait, which makes them get along well with people. Possibly becausethey have not often practiced assertiveness because of this attitude to life, vulnerability is an implication of sensitivity, even though they are often powerful people. As a rule, however, they can seek out people and an environment that is safe and good for them. In addition, they seem quite capable of withdrawing into themselves, letting a load of emotions, words, or thoughts slide past them, like the aforementioned trait of a slippery bar of soap. The same sensitivity makes them attentive, receptive, and sensitive, allowing them to experience and appreciate contact, relationships, and intimacy very intensely. Precisely because of this, it will come as a hard blow when a contact is broken or a relationship is disrupted.
The need described in the literature for a group, for contact and protection (Scholten, Sankaran), may be the outward piece of intensely enjoying the atmosphere and sharing feelings. It may give them a tendency to sit back and “savor” this, leaning back or not. This makes them sensitive people who have beautiful ideals, often based on their own intense experiences and the need to perpetuate or share them. The sensitivity and the often present warm humanity, are a good basis for understanding, sensing, and empathizing with fellow human beings. It gives them a good sense of beauty that they can enjoy in peace. Still waters with deep grounds, much understanding or the need for it. Thinkers. They usually appear stable in attitude and behavior, exude gentleness, they are trouble-free. In behavior or personality, there are no snags or eyes, or just a lot (as with the Sterculoïdeae), they can be quite vicious when necessary. This indicates that they have visibility and control over “hooks and eyes,” over behavior that can be disruptive.Expression, impression.What is common in Malvales is the ability or need for expression. This may be the aforementioned need to express with the voice, making your voice heard is essential. Expression can also be sought in art, drama, dance, or physically in bodybuilding or clothing and makeup. All for the purpose of showing how they feel, expressing themselves, or as compensation for the effort of making their voice heard. Once the “letting one's voice be heard” stagnates, the symptoms arise and can thus be named causa. An environment or situation that they experience as too harsh, combined with the tendency to withdraw into their little world, gives a feeling of being closed off, of not having a connection. Because of this, there is a great need for a group or environment where they feel at home. This is because they do not close themselves off completely, they remain aware of the lack of that beautiful world that they experience too little. As causa, this is not always easy to recognize. The sensitivity to and perception of feelings and impressions of themselves and others, provide opportunities for a rich emotional life with much reflection, leading to a sense of beauty. Because they are relatively good concerned with the inner self, beauty, and harmony are the basis on which they live. This beauty is outwardly visible because they can remain open-minded by creating security. Interest in art exists both passively and actively among those who want to express emotions or seek understanding of the multitude of impressions, integrated or not. Expressing oneself can be in words, using colorful or metaphoric language both speaking and writing, but also through visual art, dance, and movement, or, on the contrary, forming images in thoughts in the more contemplative people. With the aforementioned qualities, it is not always possible to stay emotionally out of harm's way when problems arise, which you would almost think if you read the above. The tension it creates to hold one's own, along with the sensitivity that also exists to one's own emotions and insecurities, naturally take their toll. The wondering and perceiving cannot always be fully controlled, they receive too many impressions more than once; this can be very stressful and lead to sleep problems, nightmares, fears, or aggression. The tension often manifests itself in vegetative complaints, with sensitivity of the mucous membrane being a typical feature.
Almost symbolically, because the mucous membranes function as our hard-to-protect and very sensitive contact with the outside world. I saw the airway and larynx with the vocal cords most often as additional physical complaints to emotional complaints. Problems with the voice, also psychological: difficulty expressing oneself, or problems with or through expressing oneself. The nervous system gives complaints of decompensation, both peripherally and in the form of tingling or neuralgias, up to tremors, and centrally in the form of overexertion.Beauty, Inner, Art, Prose, Music, Expression.While writing about a plant group, when delving into the people who responded well to these drugs, a picture of common traits, character traits, but also, what is more difficult to name, a picture of the atmosphere and that which people radiate. These traits are important bases for describing a theme and characteristics, as used in Plant Systematics. Practice shows that such a theme is a very rewarding input into a case and in characterizing a situation a person is in, beyond the use of physical symptoms and psychological patterns. While searching for associations and opportunities to transfer the knowledge of recognizing and forming an image, I found some nice examples for the Malvales. The mood and feeling that came to me with this writingabout the Malvaceae is well approximated with music in the work of William Handy (1878): surviving introverted blues music, not yet polished versions from the early days of gramophone recording. For a fuller overlap, I end up with Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt, a composer of Dutch origin. I found an equally striking resemblance in the paintings of Gonzales Morales senior (born 1905), an autodidact from Costa Rica. His work enjoys little fame outside its borders and certainly not in Europe. Beauty, harmony, and serenity in his productive time were pushed into oblivion by expressions of strife, symbolism, and nationalism, such as splashed out at the time in the work of giant Diego Rivera. Only later, in the 1960s, was Morales designated an icon of “classical beauty” by El Gruppo Ocho, which retroactively defined the Costa Rican school of painting. His in my opinion finest work remained in his possession during his lifetime. Later, his son did gain continental and global fame, in part due to his studies in Madrid. So it can go with an artist who probably has all the capabilities of the Malvales. True art, after all, expresses the inner life of man, an immense and unpretentious beauty, this remains of one's self, comes out best in the artist himself, and is never finished.
A second comparison in art, I found in the portrait as well as in the works of the painter Berthe Morisot, pupil, sister-in-law, and frequent model of Edouard Manet. Another example of talent is expectant observation and gentleness, which blends into a distinct form of pure beauty. Despite enormous potential talent and appreciation, she was a persistently modest and withdrawn, feeling person, although penetrated the “Salon” of the Impressionists, where her work and its appreciation gave her plenty to contribute. She had a pivotal role there, and thus an important contribution in the quest to express perfect beauty. Despite this, her name is hardly known. Perhaps because she was a woman, but possibly her very being a woman contributed to her ability to capture “sensitivity” on canvas. Described by her peers as having “powerful originality, capturing feminine charm, and sensitivity. Again, an example of Malvale's qualities, which can only be described approximately with prosaic choice of words. Her portrait has strong similarities to people who responded well to the drugs Daphne-indica and Althea.Instructive book, demonstrative film.A book steeped in Malvales thematas, and also aptly portrayed in an excellent film adaptation by Lasse Hallström, is the book “The Shipping News” by E. Annie Proulx. The film wonderfully expresses and portrays the characters and themes of the book in a recognizable way. The story is largely set in a desolate corner of Newfoundland, where the social culture, history, and intense emotional life, reflect a theme that bears a striking resemblance to both the theme described by Jan Scholten and Rajan Sankaran, and to our casuistry as described in this article. Annie Proulx is known for documenting herself thoroughly and doing years of fieldwork before writing. The region where this story is set may predispose the inhabitants to Malvalesian themes, through weather conditions, flora, or consuming the cartilaginous, slimy food. The living community is isolated from the outside world, where everyone knows each other and knows everything about each other without being talked about, because of the climate and because of the snow the months of isolation from the outside world, life with the sea that many fishermen do not return from, the gentleness and simplicity that makes the people not up to the world and the past that they cannot be proud of, determine the dependence of the inhabitants on each other. Too vulnerable to survive without the support of the community.The small community where it is better to remain silent than to speak out, allowing tensions to run high so that without a brake they can be disastrous and destructive. There are two ways to make your way there, for those who continue to conform by avoiding confrontation and struggle, which after all can be destructive or crippling to yourself or the community. The first way, according to prevailing morality, is to keep your mouth shut, given the experience that expressing your anger turns out very badly or brings to light things that you or the community cannot live with. The second way is to leave, severing the intense contact with the group, by moving out to the “rest of the world,” or by figuratively distancing yourself from the community as a hermit or an eccentric. All subgroups of the Malvales are covered in this story, for those who are interested and those who know the book or movie:
- Malvaceae can be recognized in the protagonist Quoyle (Malva), endearingly played by Kevin Kline, Herry (Althea) the son of Wavey Prowse, and Nutbeam (Gossypium).
- Tiliaceae in Wavey (beautifully portrayed by Julianne Moore), is the personification of the “tall, silent woman.
- Cistaceae in the person of Aunt Agnis with her secret, which petrifies her inwardly.
- Sterculoidae in the piratical ancestors of the Quoyle family with strife, anger, incest, alcohol, and brawls,the reclusive cousin Nolan Quoyle with his magical worldview (Kola), Tert Card, very much on his own, cynical and socially maladjusted (Abroma), the fierce Petal who leaves her children with Quoyle and their highly sensitive daughter Bunny (both Chocolate).
- Thymelaceae in the sensitivity of sister Sunshine (Daphne-Indica) omitted in the film, Billy Pretty (Dirca palustris), Jack and son Dennis Buggit (Mezereum).I give this extended reference to the characters because both in terms of their appearance in the film and in terms of the characters, behavior, and sensitivity described, they bear a wonderfully strong resemblance to the people I saw responding well to the above-mentioned drugs. In addition, the book is a great artistic and cultural document, like all of this writer's work. Through her extensive documentation and psychological depth in the people she writes about, she manages to create such an apt atmosphere and clear images, that by reading her books a good understanding of the essence of people emerges. Exactly what a homeopathic anamnesis is also about. Therefore, I think her books have such a clear theme and atmosphere that they are all useful to contribute to a clarification of the imaging of characteristics, as they are used in Plant Systematics. In the comparisons that follow, no case histories have been used, only the abstracted themes as published in the relevant syllabi by Jan Scholten. To better understand the Magnoliales, I recommend her book “Ansichten,” for the Fabales “The Last Trump,” the Cruciferae are encountered in the short, wry stories such as in “The Gouveneurs of Wyoming” (Wyoming Stories), the Scrophulariaceae in the “Two Cowboys” filmed as “Brokeback Mountain,” while “Accordion Crimes” has everything to do with the Iron Series, Ericaceae and the Rutaceae. These images and comparisons can help the articulation of a theme not always be taken, after all, this remains a description of something that can never be fully captured in words and concepts. In all clarification of aspects of people, homeopathy insights, and in all transmission of experience and insight, Louis Klein's standard statement is indispensable: “It has something to do with.....” You cannot be more concrete than that. Always, as in a Malvalesian indication, continue to probe, search, and observe. Do this before, during, and after interpreting that which you are studying. Here are two examples of the creation of the characteristics from case histories.Building up the picture of a Plant family
Note Similarities from several anamnesis, using examples of Scholten's themes, are collected to help recognize them in practice. Named, these are easy to articulate, giving a more detailed materia medica, and making the picture and the teme recognizable later “between the lines. The following fragments of Daphne indica and Dirca palustris indications are an example for characteristics of Malvaceae and the similarities within a medicine. In abstraction you can use these characteristics of a species for the whole family or order, this is extrapolating the properties. So it helps to describe the plant, and from that point the family (Malvaceae) and the botanical subclade (the Malvales) en the clade (Malvidae). Many of this build up pictures I used successfully to determine Silver series, as named in Wonderful Plants. It is the ‘what does it goes about’, ‘what is important’, ‘what is the world this person lives in and his antennas are directed on’. The Silver series is more various than its starting point, the Silver series, more complicate, so we have to make abstractions like themes or ‘pictures’. Reading the collected statements of one remedy, helps us to understand how a theme works out and important, how to recognize it. Collected statements from various indications of Daphne indica: “I always feel first, when I enter somewhere, only then do I look at how the people are, how they are doing. I never say that, I think I'm the only one who has that. I can't talk about it, it causes problems, and confusion. The past, I can't look at that now, it's too painful. I think”. Her energy hangs forward, and fans out (as if one can feel it around her), but as soon as she reflects, the distribution is right and she radiates certainty. Often she waits a moment, pondering if it was said right, heard, if there are words to the impressions received. Very angry I was, but I never freaked out, always afraid he would do strange things, I stayed calm. Acting, in musicals at school I had the lead roles. Swaying, balancing in the way of talking, moving. Always looking a little ahead, searching. The anger has become explosive. Occasionally I cry out, in the car, for example. With emotions dizziness. Constantly that filtering,I was a spontaneous girl, that has been punished severely a few times. You have to be careful how you say something, and what you do, it can be hurtful. It has become a filter since puberty, giving the desired reaction; 'good morning'. Being closed off; she can't say what she feels. She has her image, her world, she closes herself off. It is as if she has no desire to engage in much contact. 'The fear of the dreams is there very strongly'. Dreams: black cat, monster, wolf, fire, tidal wave, dolphin, whale, witches, crocodiles. I am contributing beautifully and neatly to care, and a creative piece; drawing, singing, haiku, I would like to write. She is graceful: beauty and a gentleness that, however, does not make her vulnerable. She is in a theater school and music blares through the house where she stands and dances. She also crafts a lot, working with beautiful color combinations, and already knows she wants to be an artist later. She used to draw a lot of opposites, women who were devils on one side and angels on the other, themes with dark light or water-fire, and in general a lot of dark drawings. Since training there is more color in her work, it is striking that she never succeeds in drawing a face, this is always out of proportion, “the head does not fit. In her play she has a lot of fantasy and even fantasy friends with whom she talks, remarkable is that when she sees a film or play she can say precisely “that is played, that is a role”. Later she wants to perform, become an actress or a dancer. At night she can start shouting “I don't want to, I want to be with you”. She doesn't like arguments, and is very sensitive to them, even to a raised voice when her parents are strict with her brother. When he wants to say something at home he asks his mother “please tell everyone to be quiet, I want to say something”. Sports are necessary to vent. Clumsy, breaks a lot, bumps into things. Collected statements from various indications of Dirca palustris
Service is the guiding principle in my work, it's in my character, I don't want to offend anyone.” After a brief pause, he continued, “Maybe I don't always express myself, it hits home. People need to be satisfied. Indoor soccer helps get rid of the adrenaline. It's as if he is shutting himself off from all surroundings that are further than half a meter away from him, sitting on a safe island. Remarkable is the way the story rolls out almost automatically for someone who has no experience with homeopathy, without me having to ask questions, it is a sense of what information is needed. There is difficulty with new situations, also because he wants to keep people friendly. A sweet girl, who responds remarkably quickly and appropriately when the mother says something or lets something be heard to adjust her behavior or for correction.
Although she crawls around my room very independently and out on adventures and seems well absorbed in her play, half a word or a sound from the mother is enough to make her react as if she is being called to order. No matter how small she is, her face seems to express “never mind” every time. Clumsy, stumbling, falling. Afraid that I say something too sharp, too direct, that gives a restraint. I don't beat around the bush, get to the point. Dyslexia. Helping the weak. No desire to confront. Afraid of getting very angry. In the past, I had many a conflict, but I don't feel like that anymore.
I already knew things about my parents that weren't told. To taste the atmosphere in a house. As a child I could sing well, the teacher recommended conservatory. At a singing teacher, I clammed up, I didn't feel good there, so I clammed up. That's how I am, no physical contact, I try to explain everything, but I shut down. Her big hobby is circus playing, including trapeze and balance, playing the piano, and singing. He talks in a squeaky voice, soft and pinched. Careful; affectionate children, withdrawn but helpful adults.