Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.46.06
666.46.06 Tussilago farfara
English: Coltsfoot; Butterbur; Cough wort; Horse-hoof; Son before the father; British Herb Tobacco.
Introduction
They need to be free, have to prove to themselves that others cannot control them. They do not want to be controlled by parents, teachers or society. They know that others can easily dominate, use and abuse them, especially when they are still children. They do not want to be ruled by directors, nor with friendliness, nor with criticism and negativity. They behave like a bouncing ball to keep their freedom. By being crazy others just cannot touch them.
Mind
Feels pressed to exercise his power.
Wants to live like a master without having the means and possessions.
Need for integrity, integrating all aspects of themselves.
Aversion: talk, or be talked to, or bothered in any way.
Thought she was going to die and was very restless all the time.
Confused and was very forgetful; she would lay anything down, then in two or three minutes she could not tell where she had put it.
Fighter, spirited.
Fearful, sensitive, vulnerable.
Connected to plants, nature.
Ailments from physical intrusions like wounds, injuries, beatings, operations, vaccinations, drugs.
Ailments from mental intrusions, domination, humiliation, rape, incest; violence in the family.
Fear: become ruined.
Delusion: lack of resistance, they need more resistance.
Dreams: murder, burglars.
General
Weather: chilly; shivering from cold alternating heat; < heat, < sun; > mountain; > open air.
Sweat: cold, hands.
Time: 3 pm, < December.
Desire: drinks; thirsty, large quantities.
Aversion: food.
Sleep: sleepy, constant gaping, drowsy, dull, stupidity; impossible to keep awake; restless, sleepless, < urination.
Physical: > leaning forward.
Body
Discharge: haemorrhages, ecchymosis.
Fever: influenza; feebleness, scrophulous tumours, plethora; scrofula; sinusitis, frontal.
Head: dull aching in forehead; aching pain left temple.
Eyes: continual watery discharge; dry, < closing lids; photophobia; sand beneath the eye-lids, < awaking; vision of black, oblong specks with white rings around them; dark cloud would appear before her eyes + nausea.
Face: pale alternating flushing; stiff, as if crying and her whole body was bloated.
Nose: coryza, constant excoriating; hot, irritating, burning, < long inspiration, < bathing, left nose; hayfever; watery, excoriating mucus; tingling sensation at the bridge of the nose, > leaning forward.
Mouth: tongue base coated white, dotted with red papillae, posterior tongue coated yellow; breath offensive; toothache; teeth felt long and sore.
Throat: burning, dry, constricted; difficulty in swallowing; sensation as of strong tobacco smoke; choking.
Lungs: coughs, violent, dry; whooping cough, sputum continuing; asthma bronchitis; emphysema; congestion; silicose; tuberculosis.
Chest: bruised; pain < laughing; breasts swollen, nipples, full of milk, sore, aching, < slightest touch, > nursing.
Stomach: belching, food, wind, tasting of medicine, sour belching; nausea; burning, hot; nausea + cold sensation; vomiting green, frothy substance, tasting bitter.
Abdomen: distended, epigastrium, pressing upward to the thorax; colic, hypogastric region, > sitting up straight, > leaning back, > exercise, < standing, > flatus, > lying down, > leaning forward; sharp, aching labour-like pains, left lumbar going to left side, then the right side, then right back then to left back, round trip every three to five minutes, down to vulva, bruised, thought she was going to die and was very restless all the time, > menstrual flow commenced.
Genital: gonorrhoea.
Male: itching, prepuce, scrotum, glans penis, fine red eruption on glans penis.
Female: menses dark and clotted, < sitting; pinkish red at the end, thin, watery, like lochia; leucorrhoea, white, little thicker than cream, very sticky; < first few days of menses, < walking around; labours hard, tedious; itching vulva, extended into vagina, cervix, unbearable, > scratching, no eruption noticed, = cold and hot water, lard, = honey, < lying down, < micturition.
Rectum: constipated; distress at epigastrium.
Female: itching vulva after urination; < lying down, < micturition; menses copious; miscarriage.
Rectum: dysentery.
Urinary: urine scalding, hot, burning, copious, light, nearly colourless.
Back: bruised, aching pain in lumbar region.
Limbs: weak, muscles powerless; arm, legs, numb, asleep, aching, right; bruised, aching pain hips, < first moving, < standing, > continued motion; right knee gave out < walking; twitching, jerking of the legs under the knees; gout; body soft and flabby, as if there was cold water beneath the skin.
Skin: wounds; injuries; veins look blue; hands swollen, burning, hot, itch, << mosquitoes bites.