Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
633.62.08
633.62.08 Smilax officinalis, Sarsaparilla
Names: Smilax ornata.
English: Catbriers; Greenbriers; Prickly-ivys; Smilaxes; Sarsaparilla; Zarzaparrilla; Sarsparilla.
Culture: Greek myth of Krokus and the nymph Smilax, the unfulfilled and tragic love of a mortal man who is turned into a flower and a woodland nymph who is transformed into a brambly vine.
Introduction
They have a feeling of being left out, ignored, neglected, unwanted, not seen as a child, by parents, siblings, friends or colleagues. Or they fear that will happen. They fear not to become accepted and that will stay single, alone. But they want to belong to the group, so they adapt. They can become very good workers, good helpers such as secretaries in order to get accepted.
A typical situation is that of a woman in the wedding night who gets disappointed in her husband. She has idealised the love and then her husband is egotistical, not attending her needs and falling asleep after his satisfaction. She has the feeling that she has to adapt to her husband and thus says nothing about her disappointment. She keeps going on in a situation were she feel not fully accepted and almost pushed out. The marriage is in a way already over before it started. Her silent grief is expressed in a cystitis with burning tears.
Mind
Extrovert, hard working, dynamic.
Ambitious.
Desire to be attractive.
Fight with husband, < no desire for sex, after divorce.
Idealistic.
Fear of hurting others; hurt and offended easily.
Religious, chanting much.
Ailments from loss of relatives, jolly, good natured and main and big personality in the family.
Ailments from having to live in a small house, with shared toilet, coming from a big house of his parents; feeling alone.
Feeling of being in a vacuum, emptiness.
Working hard, vigorous efforts, workload too much, not achieving; responsible for juniors.
Brother abusing and insulting parents.
Aversion guilt and debt, feels limited and restricted, has to redeem them.
Aversion to live a life with only work and care and no relations and going out.
Child learned to be proud of herself.
Delusion giving a lot to friends.
Feeling limited by children, work, household, pregnancy.
Mood changeable.
Fear: alone, friendless, divorced.
Forceful in relation.
Depression, < headache.
Pushy secretary.
Strict but loving farther.
Despondent, sensitive, easily offended, ill humoured and taciturn.
Reserved, difficult making contact, forced to do by mother.
Shock from death of father, feeling having no-one in this world, isolated, alone in the world, no roof.
Fear: death; disease; poverty; loss of vitality and love.
Fear: being treated as an outcast, not being accepted, < parents divorced, < secrets told.
Delusion: friendless, does a lot to keep friends, < being unattractive.
Dreams: unsuccessful efforts; to do various things; to reach a distant place.
Dreams: soiling himself with stool.
Dreams: amorous, lewd, lascivious, voluptuous.
Dreams: accidents, fatal; disaster; riots; misfortune; casualties; dead bodies, relatives.
Dreams: animals, large spiders.
Dreams: business of the day; sleigh rides; slipping; spinning; missing the train, having visa papers not ready.
Dream: dead ancestors.
Dreams: frightful, fights, with ghosts, spectres; falling, in water; flying to escape.
Dreams: anger, angry; pleasant; exhausting; vexatious.
General
Type: tall, slender; hair dark, brown.
Weather: < dampness at night.
Time: < 7 pm, < spring.
Desire: alcohol, whisky.
Food: < alcohol, < coffee.
Aversion: onion.
Physical: < urinating, < yawning, < before menses.
Body
Infection: influenza.
Head: pain, shooting, above right temporal region, from occiput to eyes; headache, sensation of a band, with dim sight, prostration, vertigo; words reverberate in ear to the root of nose.
Face: eruptions, acne, moist, itching, upper lip, scalp, < before menses; crusta lactea.
Mouth: tongue white; aphthae; salivation; metallic taste; no thirst; foetid breath.
Lungs: asthma, pneumonia.
Heart: hypertension; angina, arteriosclerosis.
Stomach: acidity.
Abdomen: rumbling, fermentation; colic and backache at same time.
Rectum: much flatus; cholera in children; constipation; ineffectual urging.
Urinary: cystitis, pain, unbearable, ineffectual straining, with screaming, neck of bladder, < end of urination, > standing, < sitting, > menses; air coming from urethra; urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody, thin, feeble strepm bladder distended, tender; kidney stones, gravel; kidney colic, extending inguinal, pain stitching < breathing.
Male: emission, < night, < amorous dreams, < slightest excitement; pain spermatic cord < sexual excitement; emissions, bloody; eruption, herpetic, squamous, itching, scrotum, perineum, smell offensive, intolerable; syphilis.
Female: menses late, scanty; nipples small, withered, retracted; polycystic ovaries; yellow, acrid leucorrhoea.
Limbs: pains, paralytic, tearing, rheumatic, bones, periosteum, < gonorrhoea; trembling hands, feet; swelling of feet, hands, oedema, veins swollen; gout; left inguinal glands swollen.
Skin: emaciated, shriveled, in folds, dry, flabby, hard, indurated; eruptions, eczema, rash, dry, itching, herpetic, crusty, < open air, < spring, < summer, < hot weather, < vaccinations; genitals, groin; ulcers; hands, feet, swollen, cracked, cracks; pain burning, cutting under nails; ulcer around ends of fingers; urticaria; boils, psoriasis.