Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Homeopathy and the Elements
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
2.1.5
2.1.5 Lithium muriaticum
Signature
Lithium muriaticum has a fatty, salty taste (Clarke, Vol.2, page 297). But it has no clear mental picture.
Concepts
Lithium Muriaticum
Changeable Broken relationship
Impulsive Naive Mother Child
Manic depressive Care Nurturing
Worthless Attention
Weak willed Mother
Unthinking Self pity
Easily influenced Attention seeking
Childish Sadness
Alone
Anti social
Analysis
Changeable from fear of a break up of the relationship
Impulsive care and nurturing
Doubt whether she can be a mother
Doubt whether she is being appreciated as a mother
A manic depressive mother.
Asking for attention by being changeable
Naive self pity.
Too weak willed to dare to ask for attention.
Feeling worthless accompanied by self pity.
Unthinking and anti-social.
Picture of Lithium muriaticum
Essence: Changeable for fear of losing relationships.
Changeable from fear of a break up of the relationship
They are very unsure of themselves and suffer from changing moods. They are afraid that the relationship with their mother, their friends or other people will come to an end. That makes them go along with whatever way the wind blows. They’ll adapt to whoever they happen to be with at the time. They might even change their thoughts and opinions in the presence of the same person. They simply don’t know who they are. They don’t know who they should be in order to keep someone either.
Impulsively caring and nurturing
They are inclined to start taking care of the other person in order to create a tie between them. But they do this without any forethought, just on an impulse. When it goes wrong they’ll move on to the next opportunity. They are very spontaneous and can be fun to be with when they are taking care of you.
Doubt whether they can be a good mother
They lack the self confidence to feel good about themselves as a mother. They feel they don’t have a strong enough personality to be a good mother or they feel unappreciated, both as a mother and as a wife. They do whatever comes up in their head and when things go wrong they feel they’ll never be any good and they get depressed.
A manic depressive mother
Their own mother could have been very instable too, with mood swings between laughing and crying, between happiness and anger. Such a mother could not give them any stability in life, no base for trust and self confidence. She was too changeable and weak to provide the care that a child needs. Such a mother would try to keep a hold on her children by means of emotional blackmail, with threats or with presents.
Asking for attention by being changeable
To avoid losing their mother or their child these people will try to get the attention in any way they can. Either by nagging, crying, acting the clown, being angry, whatever works to get the attention at that moment.
Manic depressive after break up of a relationship
If they do happen to lose a friend they go mad with grief. They feel utterly rejected and useless, to such an extent that they don’t know who they are anymore. They can’t bear being alone and will moan and cry all the time.
Naive self pity
They may indulge in self pity the way a child would, sitting there for hours worrying about everything that other people said to them. The most innocent remark gets turned into a major form of criticism, until they feel utterly sorry for themselves and think that they are the most stupid and the weakest person in the whole world.
Too weak willed to dare to ask for attention
Although they feel they are useless they dare not ask for help. They are too afraid that the other person will think even less of them if they ask for attention. If they show their dependency they feel even more worthless. Comfort and sympathy aggravate their feelings.
Very low self-worth combined with self-pity
Or the opposite might happen where they feel too insecure and worthless to know who they are, therefore they need someone else to provide a sort of yardstick for them by which they can measure their own actions. By showing how helpless and naive they are they hope that others will take pity on them and take them under their wing and not leave them behind.
Unthinking and anti social
An extreme form may be that they are very naive to the point of being anti social. They enter a relationship without thinking and they leave again without giving it any further thought either. Or they keep depending on the people who are taking care of them without ever thinking of offering anything in return.
Expressions
Fears: alone, water, danger, vague, unknown, unexpected, life, strangers, future, travelling, flying, crowds, streets, failure, disease, death, others being able to look through them.
Dreams: water, sea, waves, drowning, children, mother, disease and death of family and relations.
Mood: timid, unsure, indecisive, sensitive, busy, ironic, emotional, complaining, attention seeking, depressed, listless, suicidal.
Aggression: aggressive.
Contacts: -> care and support, talking much.
Mental: forgetful (3) names, learning, names of places, films; dementia, confusion, slow, orientation problems, psychoses, schizophrenia, dissociation.
Causes: loss of parents, family or friends.
Generals
Build: thin.
Locality: left.
Weather: slightly warm, sea.
Perspiration: profuse.
Time: < 11 pm.
Desires: drinking, coffee, tobacco, salt, starch.
Aversion: meat.
Food: < fruit, chocolate, starch.
Menses: < before, during or after menses, < after pregnancy; painful and swollen breasts before menses.
Sleep: difficulty falling asleep.
Physical: < light; <<< radiation, chemotherapy.
Complaints
Dryness of mucus membranes.
Retarded growth.
Affections of lymph glands.
Headache with hemiopia and tingling, deafness, + weakness and fainting. Pain above lateral side of right eye. Vertical hemiopia right side. Ptosis.
Salivation; metallic taste.
Hypothyroidism, goitre.
Cardiovascular diseases (3). ECG abnormalities.
Nausea, vomiting, stomach pains > eating. Stomach ulcer.
Sterility, little milk, miscarriages.
Constipation, stool hard and dry.
Diarrhoea, < fruit, < chocolate, < night.
Kidney malfunctions (3), stones in kidney, bladder(3), uremia, frequent and copious urination.
Arthritis and gout.
Trembling hands, muscular shocks at night.
Acne, psoriasis, itching, hair loss, increased sebaceous secretions, herpes on lips, seborrhoeic eczema.
Skin eruptions, on chest and arms, red spots, << sun.
DD: Carbon series, Silicon series, Stage 1 and 17, Hydrogen, Carlsbad, Titanium, Vanadium.