Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.71.16
665.71.16 Mandragora officinarum
Names: mand = herd, agora = assembly.
English: Mandrake.
Introduction
In the name mandrake we can see the theme of the Solanales, the fight between man and drake, the dragon. They are an outcast, wandering around after the destruction. They feel like a person walking around in a destroyed city after a war, between the ruins and dead people.
Mind
Changing moods.
Depression alternating with euphoria.
Affectionate; embraces everybody.
Feeling of insecurity.
Sensitive to noise.
Inability to keep out evil, dark thoughts on account of a weak intellect.
Restlessness.
Destructiveness.
Possessiveness.
Neediness.
Fear: evil, insanity, dark, devil, war.
Dream: war, ruin, fight, attacks, murder.
General
Sensation: burning, congestion, full.
Localisation: right.
Weather: chilly, < cold; < damp; < before storm.
Sweat: profuse, < night.
Time: < 3-5 am; < night.
Desire: salty, pepper, salami, garlic, coffee; strange things.
Aversion: alcohol, fat.
Food: < cold drinks.
Sleep: sleepy, drowsy alternating with alert; somnambulism.
Physical: < beginning to move, > bending backwards; > continued motion; > urination.
Body
Nervous: anaesthesia, numbness, spasticity.
Vertigo: sudden attacks, faintness, < insecurity, < lying down, < turning over, < motion, < walking downstairs, > open air, with noises, Meniere.
Head: headache, < stomach empty.
Mouth: herpes labialis.
Throat: choking.
Heart: pain.
Stomach: nausea.
Abdomen: pains > bending backwards, duodenum and gallbladder problems.
Back: sciatica right side.
Limbs: muscle problems.