Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
655.37.15
655.37.15 Theobroma cacao
Names: Theobroma means 'food of the gods'; cacao is derived from the Aztec Nahuatl cacahuatl.
English: Chocolate.
Content: theobromine.
Culture: Movie “Chocolate”; Hedgehog
Source: Sherr.
Introduction
They have a strong need for connection, contact. But often they have lost it or never had it. Their parents have been absent, physical lyand or emotionally. They can be maltreated, beaten, sexually abused and left alone.
They feel sad and alone, estranged from their family, losing their family. They can be excluded from society for being refined, artistic, a bit strange with normal people. Sometimes there has been one person that gave them warmth, like a mother in a cold world, in a war. Sometimes they have nobody to give comfort. Then they have a tendency to withdraw into themselves, to create a fantasy world that is smooth, soft, warm and loving. This can make them seem even more strange, weird and odd, especially when they flee into art, painting, acting and music. Or they flee into a world of drugs, alcohol, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin.
Mind
Ailments from discords, fighting and quarrelling between and with relatives, family, friends.
Lost faith in life, the meaning of life, < hatred, absurdity, chaos of the world.
Desire love, to be seen, loved, cared, hugged, motherly love, breast feeding, smoothness, warmth, melting, nourishment.
Refined, sensitive, vulnerable, easily hurt.
Sensation: unconnected to children, <- looking after nourishing children.
Desire being independent, free, uninhibited, without cares.
Aversion to children, to nurture or look after them.
Affectionate alternating with indifference or aversion.
Creative.
Energetic.
Animalistic.
Malicious jesting.
Mother with child with handicap, could not do her things, sensation of standing outside of the community.
Ambitious.
Want of self confidence, > stimulants.
Excitement, < anticipating events.
Forsaken feeling.
Indifference, to joy and suffering, to pleasure.
Concentration difficult; vacant; weak memory.
Rational; does not recognise his face.
Thoughts intrude and crowd aroaund each other.
Reproaches himself because he had not accomplished enough.
Sensitive to pain.
Weeping, < menses, >.
Anger, hatred.
Bulimia.
Fear: pain, violence, torture, rejection; accidents to him or to family.
Delusion: being enlarged, small, divided in four parts.
Dreams: accidents, violence, torture, rejection.
Dreams: accusations; wrongful of crimes, stealing, theft; murder.
Dreams: children; babies; childbirth; being pregnant; acquaintances, distant; people; crowd; losing his own family; friends falling from a window; people being crushed; death of relatives; familiar people; bathing babies, helpless little animals, almost dead.
Dreams: animals; birds, large black; fishes, gold metal; goats; horses; creeping worms.
Dreams: computers; darkness; fire; flying; jumping; food; gypsies, fortune tellers; food, fruit; growing things; guns; gypsies; hanged man falling down an interminable lift shaft; injuries; water; sea; injuries; guns.
Dreams: buildings; journey, boat; cars, driving; wheels detaching from body.
Dreams: abdomen covered with warts and ulcers; abdomen painful; uterus painful.
Dreams: hung, hanged: hanged man falling down an interminable lift shaft.
Dreams: lost, at home.
Dreams: unsuccessful efforts.
Dreams: children, being murdered, killing; has to take exam.
Dreams: fragmented, confused; comical; obscure; vivid; hurried; exciting.
Colour preference: 18C.
General
Type: short, bristly hair.
Weather: > warm; flushes of heat, < eating, < waking, < exertion.
Time: < full moon; < 7 pm.
Desire: chocolate; spicy, coffee; stimulants, drugs; unhealthy food; beets; cold drinks; oranges; cayenne pepper; fats; rich food; cannabis.
Aversion: chocolate.
Body
General: obesity.
Nervous: stroke, apoplexy.
Head: heavy; headache pressing, forehead, < eating, motion, >< pressure.
Nose: obstruction, < warm room; watery discharge in open air.
Face: red, < waking, < drinking, < eating.
Lungs: asthma.
Heart: problems.
Stomach: pain, > pressure; nausea < headache.
