Lanthanides

The rare earths and their color preferencesA case of rheumatoid arthritis: Cerium muriaticum
By Ulrich Welte and Markus KuntoschRare earths are valuable new remedies for autoimmune diseases. The rare earths or Lanthanides or simply 'the Lanthanides', as we want to call them here, are a group of metallic elements that were discovered relatively late, but have been indispensable in the contemporary high-tech world for decades. Due to their specific properties, they have quickly become irreplaceable building blocks in laser technology, in micro-motors, strong magnets, fiber optic cables, in color displays and in general in the technology of digital color generation. In homeopathic therapy, too, they are now particularly valuable in knowledgeable hands, because they have made a name for themselves in the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis or Hashimoto's thyroiditis; They have also proven their worth many times in ophthalmology and in behavioral disorders in children and adolescents (see spectrum 2/12). This article was also written to draw attention again to these treatment options, which are still too seldom used.
But the most important thing is a new, simplified approach to finding resources. So far, knowledge of the series and stages of the periodic table according to Jan Scholten was and remains an indispensable condition for finding a remedy, but since February 2020, since the assignment of the individual Lanthanides to certain color preferences, there has been a new and simple way of drawing attention to a certain element to steer this middle group, which could cure the person concerned and their illness or at least improve it. Finding homeopathic remedies is made easier by a preference for color, but does not replace the basic knowledge that one still has to acquire in order to be successful.The Lanthanides have a problem with the choice of color: The color preferences of the Lanthanides have long been a problem in homeopathy. Patients who need other remedies often quickly and clearly decide on one or two colors. But for people whose disease requires a lanthanide, the clear choice of color can be a problem. One hears, for example, that they have “no favorite color”, or they say they like “all colors”, or they take the whole rainbow right away. These patients feel uncomfortable when asked to commit, and they ask counter-questions about why and why; in short, they make a problem of it. This can either be an indication of the very complex color green as the actual color preference, or it can indicate that you need a lanthanide as a remedy, especially when it comes to autoimmune diseases.The indecision in the choice of color is a typical problem of stage 3: The ambivalence of the lanthanide patients in the choice of color has a good reason: the Lanthanides are all in stage 3, the stage of indecisive trying. The Lanthanides are a subgroup in the third column of the sixth row of the periodic table. They all react chemically as well as in the homeopathic sense after stage 3. There are 15 metals that react chemically in practically the same way and therefore share very similar homeopathic peculiarities, namely that they do not want to commit themselves. This fundamental tone of stage 3 is modulated by overtones of its own series of Stage 3 to Stage 17, which result from a step-by-step filling of the inner electron shells by one electron each time; the outermost shell, which determines the chemical reaction form or the social contact with the environment, is the same for all. Well known elements of stage 3 are boron and aluminum, of which the peculiarity of indecision from the old drug tests has long been known. This indecision tends to be arbitrary or to frequent changes, to trying things out: they are very reluctant to be fixed. It is precisely this peculiarity that leads to problems with the choice of color and is intensified because the Lanthanides have a special relationship to colors. Colors mean a lot to them, and they often know astonishingly well about them: and now they should decide on just one. No.The old XXL categories of Lanthanides have not proven their worth: Your indecision in the choice of color has led to the fact that, from June 2006, we created special categories for Lanthanides in the color lists of www.homeo.de, which summarized several colors such as almost the entire turquoise spectrum in a single special section 17BC to 19BC. The rare earths played a special role in color homeopathy, similar to the periodic table, where they were separated out as an appendix as a special section for 150 years until Jan Scholten discovered them for homeopathy around 2005 and integrated them sensibly into the periodic table. Practice showed us, however, that the extra-wide color categories for the lanthanides hardly contributed anything useful to finding means because they were too unspecific due to their special size and the allocation was often not correct. We practically no longer used these imprecise rubrics and preferred to rely on the other, more reliable characteristics of the Lanthanides when choosing the remedy, as they are presented so clearly and easily learnable in Jan Scholten's masterpiece “Geheime Lanthanide”. According to the criteria that result from the understanding of series and stages, we found a suitable lanthanide for so many patients over the course of about 20 years that our case reports grew more and more and we can now survey hundreds of good lanthanide cases.The Lanthanides have been integrated into the normal color categories since 2020: This fund of case Lanthanides, in which the color preferences were usually determined several times, was large enough to find a significant mean value for most of the Lanthanides despite the wide range of color preferences. At the beginning of 2020 we went to work and compared the colors that these patients had selected for each individual lanthanide. Although the colors scattered more widely than with other remedies, enough reliable color categories emerged in 10 of the 15 Lanthanides to place them in the third degree, and two more in the second degree. Only Promethium, Terbium and Lutetium are still open.
We started with remedies of which we had a particularly large number of cases. An overview of the case reports of Cerium, Neodymium and Samarium already showed that the approach was useful, and confidence grew that one or two typical color preferences would also be found in the other Lanthanides. Lo and behold, it worked for most of them. Like any other remedy, the rare earths could be assigned to the known color categories in the usual way: their color preference is not as arbitrary as it appears at first glance. So we decided to do away with the unattractive special categories and to include the individual Lanthanides in the known categories of the color repertory, which happened at the end of February 2020. Since that time, the Lanthanides could also be found as excellent remedies through the color categories, and sometimes they gave us the first clue about the right remedy. There were also cases in which we would have chosen a completely different lanthanide using the usual method, as the case of Markus Kuntosch is intended to make clear at the end.The colors of the Lanthanides: If there are enough good cases that show a certain color preference more than randomly, the mean is given as a trivalent color with this color. If a second color also appears more frequently, but in fewer numbers than the main color, it is given in two values. Even if a sufficient number of cases results in a second color, it is still only given in two values ​​to show the gradient compared to the main color.Lanthanum 15-16C
Cerium 3C, 23-24C
Praseodymium 15-16D
Neodymium 17C, 8-10D
Promethium 8-10D (Promethium muriaticum)
Samarium 15-16D, 19C
Europium 4-5C, 23-24C
Gadolinium 8-10E, 23-24C
Terbium 15-16B
Dysprosium 15-16B, 8-10D, 15-16C
Holmium 15-16C
Erbium 17AB, 17C
Thulium 4-5C, 15-16C
Ytterbium 23-24D, 20-22D
Lutetium 20-22DIn the table above, only the colors of the actual lanthanide are given, without any additional mention of their salts. So e.g. "Cerium" with yellow 3C trivalent (bold print) and yellow-green 23C to 24C bivalent (italic). The salts can differ slightly around this mean value. One can see that with the remedies with the most frequent cases a second color has also crystallized, while for the monovalent Promethium there is only the chloride as remedy and there are also too few cases to be able to specify a reliable color. For example, with Terbium, which is monovalent under light blue 15B to 16B due to a Terbium metallicum case, while the lactate Terbium lacticum is named with both colors of the patient 10C and 3C due to a good case. So here the main color is still completely open. Lutetium, the drug used by gamblers, is also called monovalent. We have two good cases of Lutetium fluoratum, but that is not enough to be able to give a safe color for Lutetium.
For cerium and its salts we have 88 cases, mostly children, from which we were able to extract the color preferences of cerium. Besides pure metallic Cerium, the successfully used Cerium compounds (the so-called "salts") were: Cerium arsenicosum, Cerium bromatum, Cerium carbonicum, Cerium fluoratum, Cerium lacticum, Cerium muriaticum, Cerium nitricum, Cerium oxydatum, Cerium oxalicum, Cerium phosphoricum, Cerium silicatum and Cerium sulfuricum. Let us take the chlorine compound Cerium muriaticum as an example. We have an overview of 16 cases, 7 of which have primarily chosen the color yellow, namely from lemon yellow 1C to 3C, but with a focus on 3C, a warm buttercup yellow, which was also shown as the main color in the other salts. Another focus for Cerium muriaticum is yellow-green 23-24C, in four cases, and then other colors without particular accumulation.
The categories can be found in the online color repertory in the medium, color list: https://www.homeo.de/de/remedycolor.htmIn the following we want to look at a case report by Markus Kuntosch, which gives more meat and blood to what has been said, so please butter the fish.
What is particularly striking here is that the usual analysis of series and stages did not result in the remedy despite many years of treatment, because the patient does not show the typical Cerium characteristics in her behavior: she is anything but amazed, closed in on herself upturned, but rather turned towards phosphorus, communicative and without the usual uncertainty of stages 2-5. It was only through the suggestion of the color category that bivalent cerium appeared, which, as stage 4 lanthanide, actually only appeared in the behavior of the patient's mother. Only the sentence "my mother blocks my freedom" made people sit up and take notice. Originally, the color category looked specifically for a lanthanide because it has an autoimmune disease, severe rheumatoid arthritis.