Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.45.06
666.45.06 Grindelia robusta
English: Gum plant.
French: Grindelia.
Taxonomy
Grindelia robusta and Grindelia squarrosa are taken together.
Introduction
They want to prove their independence and autonomy to parents, family, society and authorities. They feel they have a lot of potential and are very enthusiastic. But they feel they still have to prove for themselves that their idea of their potential is really true so they keep themselves back a little bit.
Mind
Need for integrity, integrating all aspects of themselves.
Grinding teeth.
Makes mistakes.
Wants to keep his image of a strong man.
Critical to others in order to keep his leading position.
Ailments from physical intrusions like wounds, injuries, beatings, operations, vaccinations, drugs.
Ailments from mental intrusions, domination, humiliation, rape, incest.
Delusion: lack of resistance; they need more resistance.
Colour preference: 8B.
General
Weather: chilly; shivering from cold alternating heat; > mountain.
Time: < night.
Sleep: < falling to sleep.
Sleep: sleepless < arrested respiration; smothering after falling asleep.
Physical: < lying; < motion in the dark, darkness, > sitting.
Body
Discharge: haemorrhages, ecchymosis.
Fever: influenza; chronic agues; malaria, chronic.
Head: terrible fullness, as from quinine, > towel tied around my head; congestion of the brain, full, as < quinine.
Eyes: pain, intense, running back to brain, < moving eyes; pupils dilated; purulent ophthalmia, conjunctivitis; iritis; glaucoma; optic nerve.
Nose: hayfever; sinusitis, frontal.
Face: sallow.
Lungs: respiration slow, arrested, interrupted, sudden, paresis, gasping, wheezing, sibilant rales, < sleep, waking startled, < 3 am, < lying, > sitting; apnoe, central, < sleep; Cheyne-Stokes; cough harsh, dry; pertussis; expectoration, profuse, tough, tenacious, viscid, foamy mucus, difficult, white, > sibilant rales; asthma, allergic; chronic bronchitis, oppression; pneumonia; emphysema.
Heart: weak; pulse fast, quick, slow, retarded, irregular; hypertension; anaemia; asthma << heart troubles, pulmonary circulation; paralysis.
Stomach: pain; nausea; retching; ulcer, < acidity; hyperaemia.
Abdomen: pain cutting, hypochondrium, extend to the hips, < pressure; pain sore, liver, spleen, < lying still, > hot applications; spleen enlarged, congestion, puffy; ascites; diabetes.
Rectum: dysentery.
Urinary: urine with sugar.
Female: vaginal catarrh; pruritus vulvae, vagina; menses copious; miscarriage.
Limbs: pain right knee-joint, acute rheumatism; paralysis.
Skin: dermatitis, allergic, like poison oak; impetigo, eczema; burns, blisters; vesicles, herpes zoster; rash, erythema, roseola; severe burning, itching; pimples; ulcers, swollen, purplish; wounds; injuries; bites.