Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.61.12
666.61.12 Sambucus nigra
English: Elderberry.
German: Holunder.
Dutch: Vlier.
Content: cyanides, alkaloid, flavonoids, anthocyanins; viburnic acid, = valerianic acid; calcium oxalate.
Culture: symbol of barren, cursed place; Goddess Hel, Holunder, of the underworld, fertility, richness, happiness.
Source: Jannie Verheij, Links 1999.
Introduction
There is often a situation of being very much in love with someone who is not in love with them. They try to establish a relationship, fight hard for it and have a tendency to force the other. The fight is even more so a fight because they have difficulty to bind themselves as that would diminish their freedom. In the end the other leaves them, from not being really in love or by feeling oppressed and forced. Then they feel really abused, disappointed and left alone. When they have children they feel it as too much of a burden to raise them alone. They feel they will not be good enough, cannot control their children enough or will be limited in their freedom to live their own life.
Mind
Fear of suffocation during anger.
Sees images when shutting eyes. Constant fretfulness.
Fright very easily, followed by suffocative attacks.
Repeated separations from spouse and subsequent reuniting; ‘the goat’ ?
Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending.
Trembling with anxiety.
Frightful images on closing the eyes.
Ailments from fright, violent mental emotions, anxiety, grief, excessive sexual indulgence, being cheated by his wife.
Fright causes suffocative attack.
Pump up.
Holding on to power, cramping, obstinate.
Fretful.
Pedantic.
Ailments from loss, death of parents, mother.
Theme duality: light versus dark, optimist versus pessimist.
Dreams: drowning; flying cats; meeting old friends; people not seen for years; green water in pool; green recliner which allows me to vault over and sail through the air.
Dreams: nightmare, rightful; pleasant; unremembered; vivid; amorous, lewd, lascivious.
Colour preference: 15-16C.
General
Sensation: stupefying.
Type: robust and fleshy, suddenly become emaciated.
Weather: chilly, < dry, cold air; < while heated; < uncovering, < cough, < waking.
Sweat: !! profuse, < waking; debilitating, < night; violent sweat; < fright.
Time: < 2 to 3 am.
Aversion: drinks.
Food: < cold drinks, < fruit, < coffee, < milk.
Sleep: < sleep, < rest.
Physical: > pressure over a sharp edge; > motion; > wrapping up warmly, < rest, < head low, > sitting up in bed; < lying down in bed, on left side, with head low; > sit up to regain breath, >< expiration.
Body
General: dropsy; emaciation; obesity; immune function disturbed.
Fever: dry heat, sleeping, < uncovering.
Infection: influenza; plague.
Head: headaches, < catarrh; pain, forehead extending to occiput; as water in the head, < motion.
Eyes: half open eyes; burning.
Ears: infections.
Face: blue, < cough; puffy; red, burning spots on cheeks; heat, perspiration.
Nose: dry, completely obstructed, difficult nursing; colds, coryza of infants, snuffles, oedematous swellings; descending colds; hayfever; coryza, dry, allergic, < dry cold weather; blocked, < night; no discharge.
Mouth: pain teeth, < menses.
Throat: sore; hoarse; screeching voice; tenacious mucus in larynx; laryngism; spasm of glottis; hoarse.
Lungs: snuffles; respiration arrested, through mouth, < drinking, < babies; cough, dry, deep, loose, rattling, choking, suffocative, strangling, sudden; dyspnoea, he fears suffocating, > sitting, > warm moist air, > warm applications on his larynx, + sweat, face blue, restless; tuberculosis; whooping cough; croup, spasmodic; expiration difficult.
Heart: angina pectoris; arteriosclerosis; blood intoxication.
Chest: palpitation, < coffee.
Stomach: nausea; indigestion; knot.
Abdomen: bruised bowels; colic, + nausea and flatulence; frequent watery, slimy stools; ileus; invagination.
Urinary: urine scanty, profuse, + dry heat of skin; frequent, scanty; nephritis, acute, congestive; dropsy.
Male: hydrocele.
Back: pain dorsal.
Limbs: cold foot, < night in bed; hands blue; oedema, legs, insteps, feet; tendons tight, too short.
Skin: dry heat, sleep; bloated and swollen; herpes; general dropsy; profuse sweat on waking; dark red swelling. bloated, << contusions.