Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Picture
Chapter:
666.46.00
666.46.00 Senecioneae
Names: (= like senecio, an old man).
Botany: 150 genera; 3, 000 species; widest possible range of forms; annuals, minute creeping alpines, perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, succulents, trees and semi-aquatic plants.
Content: pyrrolizidine alkaloids, furanoeremophilanes.
Taxonomy
Senecioneae is a Tribe of the Subfamily Asteroideae of Asteraceae.
In the Plant theory Asteroideae is split in four clades Heliantheae, Astereae, Senecioneae and Anthemideae. Senecioneae is placed in Subphase 6.
Introduction
They often have situations where they are abused, neglected and hurt, both emotionally and physically. There is a strange combination of being self aware and having self-confidence and on the other hand letting themselves being abused.
They often start with a good family that breaks down; one of the parents die or depart after a divorce. Then they feel neglected and unloved. Or one of the parents becomes abusive, violent, beating and domineering. They have strong problems to maintain their self-respect and independence in those situations. There is a mixture of feeling like they belong to the group at one hand and feeling unappreciated and disrespected on the other hand. It feels like a violation of their integrity. They cannot understand that people behave abusively. They feel like a stranger in the world, even in their family since they are too sensitive and internally refined to be understood by most people.
Later in life the pattern becomes repeated with an abusive husband. In general it is more for women.
Mind
Fear of losing their vitality, becoming an old weak man.
Ailments from being dominated, beaten.
They have the feeling that they have to work against a lot of resistance, that they fight their way through the world.
They can build a lot in the world. As a whole this subfamily has a Stage 8 quality.
Need for integrity, integrating all aspects of themselves.
Sensitive, to violence, to animals.
Broken, overruled.
Ailments from physical intrusions like wounds, injuries, beatings, operations, vaccinations, drugs.
Ailments from mental intrusions, domination, humiliation, rape, incest; divorce and neglect of parents.
Delusion: lack of resistance, they need more resistance.
General
Weather: chilly; shivering from cold alternating heat; > mountain.
Body
Discharge: haemorrhages, ecchymosis.
Fever: influenza.
Nose: hayfever; sinusitis, frontal.
Liver.
Female: menses copious; miscarriage.
Rectum: dysentery.
Skin: wounds; injuries.