Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.43.14
666.43.14 Prenanthes serpentaria, Nabalus serpentarius
English: White Lettuce, Rattlesnake Root.
Culture: Kirchenbann; Jeanne d’Arc; Nelson Mandela.
Source: Frederick, Interhomeopathy 2013 February.
Introduction
They feel as in a situation where they have no power left to resist the attacks on them. They feel tormented and unable to do anything, like being in a concentration camp or torture chamber. It gives the feeling of losing self-worth and autonomy, being totally helpless and powerless, handed over.
Mind
Omnipotence; delusion frightened by his power.
Withdrawal from reality.
Exaltation of fancies.
Religious affections.
Susceptibility to magnetism, magnetic contact, personal aura of others, friends.
No self-reliance, no self-confidence.
Duality between being strong and very weak.
Irritability of temper and occipital pain.
Depression followed by unusual buoyancy.
Tipsy sensation.
Identity disrespected.
Irritability < evenings.
Anticipation, < morning.
Cheerfulness, gaiety, happiness, buoyancy.
Clairvoyance.
Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending, < perspiration.
Loquacity, in meningitis, cerebrospinal.
Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy.
Ailments from death of parents or friends.
Sensation being in a straight jacket; in the power of others.
Fear: something will happen, something sinister and vague, < morning.
Dream: experimented on in concentration camp.
General
Weather: < heat, > mountain; chilliness, = heat.
Time: < night, < morning, < 1 pm.
Desire: lemonade, lemons, sour, acid food.
Aversion: < lemons, > lemonade; appetite and thirst diminished.
Food: < eating.
Sleep: sound, prolonged, light, broken, unrefreshing, tired on waking; somnolence, < afternoon, < evening.
Body
Fever: influenza; frontal sinusitis; hayfever.
Nervous: numbness, externally, internally; analgesia.
Head: bursting, neuralgic pain, forehead, occiput, trapezoid, deep, behind right eye-ball, over eye, + irritability, < turning the head; occiput, aching like torticollis; flushes over head and face.
Eyes: irritation of eyelids and margins; margins sting, smart, slightly swollen; sight weak, < reading.
Nose; sore right nostril; smell and taste slightly impaired.
Face: pimples, itching, around mouth, cheek, near nose; right; heat < evening in bed.
Mouth: taste impaired.
Throat: irritation, sore, tickling and scraping, < lying down, < swallowing saliva, + headache; guttural irritation.
Stomach: dyspepsia; belching, belching, acid, burning.
Rectum: burning pain < stool; diarrhoea chronic, < after eating, < summer; dysentery; constipation, obstinate, stool hard, painful, followed by prostration.
Urinary: sharp pain, right kidney; urine diminished.
Female: sharp throbbing in uterus; leucorrhoea, white, jelly-like, + weakness: menses delayed.
Back: pain cervical region, occiput, stiff, + headache; dorsal pains, like torticollis, neck, extending forward to the anterior margin of the trapezius muscle, aching, < moving head, stiffness.
Limbs: dull pains in joints, numbness, < waking; heaviness, as if blood-vessels filled with lead.
Skin: irritation; eruption, eczema, desquamating, itching, dry, < overheated; prickling as from suppressed perspiration; subcutaneous glands irritated and swollen, behind right ear and in neck; wounds; snake bite.