Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.43.01
666.43.01 Lactuca canadensis
Names: Lactuca scariola, Lactuca serriola.
English: Lettuc; Wild opium, devil's weed.
French: scarole (= endive).
Sanskrit: Vanya kahu.
Mind
Need for integrity, integrating all aspects of themselves.
Ailments from physical intrusions, wounds, injuries, beatings, operations, vaccinations, drugs.
Ailments from mental intrusions, domination, humiliation, rape, incest.
Delusion: lack of resistance, they need more resistance.
Disappointed from being flattered, feeling left naked without protection, without skin.
General
Sweat: scanty.
Weather: chilly; shivering from cold alternating heat; > mountain.
Body
General: dropsy, sedative, hypoglycemic activity; haemorrhages, ecchymosis.
Fever: influenza; sinusitis, frontal.
Nose: hayfever.
Lungs: bronchitis; severe, violent, spasmodic cough, + vomiting, < change of weather or temperature; pertussis.
Heart: palpitations.
Abdomen: loose bowels, constipation, ascites, gastric spasms; liver: congestion.
Male: priapism, involuntary sexual excitement.
Female: menses copious; miscarriage; convalescense after childbirth to hasten flow of milk from breasts.
Rectum: dysentery.
Skin: wounds; injuries; erysipelas, sunburn, acne; scorpions, bites of spiders.