English: Lady bug; Sun-chafer.
Source: prepared from the freshly crushed beetles.
ZoologyThe popular name of
Coccinella septempunctata is ladybird. Ladybirds belong to the most beloved insects – because they are symbol of good and happiness. It is unusual, because people have different relationship to other insects. In European tradition ladybird is connected to the Holy Mother. The red color represents the red cloak of Virgin Mary and the seven black dots are signs of the 7 joys and seven sorrows.
Coccinella septempunctata is well-known and widely spread insect, living on vegetables in gardens and fields. Its head and thorax are black, flat, under body and feet are black, wing-shells are arched, oval, red or orange-yellow, with black dots, usually seven in number, of unequal size, wings nearly as long as body. When touched by hand comes thickset yellow juice from joints of feet.
Ekaterina Chamurliyska, MA, MSc, clinical psychologist made a homeopathic proving of ladybird with 8 people. It was decision spontaneously after a prescription of the famous Indian homeopath Dr. Mahesh Gandhi, who was in Bulgaria. The patient to whom he recommended this remedy liked very much to play with ladybirds, she had dreams of flying and kept in her something from that time, now, when she was mother of two children with successful career, she still had the childishness in her. She needed constant care and she said that she was feeling the best during her second pregnancy, when everybody around her paid attention to her.
Bibliography.Ekaterina Chamurliyska, MA, MSc: Coccinella 7-punctata.
C.Hering:Guiding
Symptoms of our Materia Medica.
William Boericke, MD: Homeopathic Materia Medica.