Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.45.05
666.45.05 Gnaphalium polycephalum
English: Cudweed; Old Balsam; Sweet-scented Everlasting Flower; White Balsam.
Introduction
They have an inner dignity and refinement that is often not seen and understood, not by their parents, spouse, teachers or managers. That means that they are often bypassed, neglected and walked over. They do not have the power to do anything against it. They try to divert the problems, avoiding the difficulties as they feel too weak to manage the conflict. They also feel too weak to leave the situation and thus keep on enduring the stressful state, hoping for the better. In all this they still maintain their own individuality and go their own way as far as they can without getting into an open conflict. By hiding themselves it is possible to maintain their own dignity and autonomy. They feel empty, lacking energy and power to address the situation. It is their philosophical understanding and spiritual trust that makes it possible to endure so much.
Mind
Tendency to injure himself.
Increased sexual passion.
No self-reliance, no self-confidence, insecure.
Feels guilty easily.
Insecure, withdrawal, not knowing how to react, - > not reacting.
Feeling of being walked over.
Energy: weak, cannot resist being overruled, have to tolerate it.
They do not show emotions.
Feeling of not being seen, being overlooked.
Perfectionism, wants to do things right.
Dream: lying in a coffin and everyone walks over her.
General
Physical: < walking; < lying; > flexing limbs; > sitting.
Weather: < cold damp.
Time: < 5 pm; periodicity.
Aversion: appetite and taste are lost.
Discharge: blood.
Body
Energy: languid, exhausted, < morning.
Fever: colds, fevers, night-sweats.
Vertigo: giddy, especially after rising from recumbent position.
Head: headache, > washing in cold water, > bathing, > cold applications; migraine, > vomiting, < chocolate, + vision of yellow spots; pain in occiput, dull, continuous pain, < 3 pm, < waking; full temples.
Eyes: shooting pains in eye balls.
Nose: sinusitis. frontal; hayfever.
Face: dull, heavy expression; bloated appearance; intermittent pains of superior maxillary.
Mouth: parched; toothache, < heat; taste flat, sweetish, sickening, badly; tongue long white fur, > cold water.
Chest: pains, darting from side to side.
Stomach: vomiting and purging; nausea, belching; hiccough.
Abdomen: distended; pain, colic; flatulence borborygmus, windy belching; rumbling, < before breakfast.
Rectum: offensive diarrhoea with colic, < morning, < summer; stool pale, dark, watery, copious, offensive; cholera in children; coecum sensitive; constipation; debility in anus.
Urinary: polyuria; bladder full, = urination; pain kidneys.
Male: irritated prostate, pain; pain extending along cord to testicles.
Female: menses chocolate-brown, painful, scanty, dysmenorrhoea; pelvis heavy, full; uterus bruised, sore, heavy, bearing down, prolapsed, displacement, < standing, < walking, < sudden jar; relaxation of vaginal tissue; leucorrhoea.
Back: chronic backache, lumbar, > resting on back, + numbness in lower part of back and weight in pelvis.
Limbs: ! sciatica, pain neuralgic, numbness, formication, > sitting on bended knees, > drawing limbs up, > flexing limbs; rheumatism, pain ankle, legs, as if joints lacked oil; pains, cramps in calves, feet, < in bed; gouty pains in big toes, nodules; neuralgia anterior leg; debility arms.
Skin: wounds; acne.