Case 2:

Another patient, a woman of 37 years old, had a light diarrhoea for two weeks. After a marital dispute, the diarrhoea suddenly stopped and then she developed eczema. She likes people around her and she is very social-minded.

The dream she had is the following:

Her husband has moved her piano to his job with the excuse that there was too little wood. During her dreaming she felt very aggrieved.  In reality she plays piano as a pastime and her husband does some ‘woodworking ‘in his leisure time. Here it is remarkable that he takes possession of  something of hers and puts it in his territory, as if he is a mad dog who becomes master over (takes possession of) her territory.

Symptoms:

Generalities, metastasis

Dreams, removing * (cf. supra)

Theme: Need of being surrounded by people

Prescription and follow-up:

After taking Abrotanum MK the eczema disappears and the diarrhoea returns which then disappears after some days.

Discussion:

Abrotanum is a plant which cannot propagate by itself as a solitary plant, because the plant can only multiply itself when it is closely surrounded by other plants. The plant Vampirises and intoxicates the surrounding plants in order to maintain and develop itself, as if the plant is missing an essential element on its own!

cf. Mythology:

- The moon versus the sun: the moon does not give off light itself but reflects the light coming from the sun, and the fact that Artemis is considered as a moon goddess and her brother as a sun god.

- Diana as goddess of hunting (by which hunting can be interpreted as killing of others, so as to live oneself in a more wealthy manner).

The Abrotanum patient often has skinny legs with swollen feet and a swollen belly because of a shortage of proteins.

(cf. Loutan: In fact Abrotanum wants, in contradiction to the reality where he is energetically dependent of its surroundings, his own vital energy so he can operate ‘autonomously’.)

Also the individual Abrotanum Vampirises his entourage and captures the energy of other people in his surroundings and then leaves them behind, worn-out.

Abrotanum therefore takes control over the territory of others in order to appropriate something dear from them. In the dream this happens as a kind of projection: her husband appropriates to himself her piano, something which is very dear to her and something which is a source of positive energy to her.

This case illustrates also a kind of ‘male threat’.

Bernard Vial, in his ‘Le dictionnaire affectif des plantes’, writes about this as follows:

Abrotanum has the idea that male sexuality needs to be suppressed because of its destructive effect during the last trimester of pregnancy.  nb: Here the pregnancy can also be expanded to the carrying and expression of ‘ideas and creativity’.

An ever returning theme in these two dreams is that something or someone is being displaced (moved). Indeed, this is analogue to the symptom of ‘Metastasis’ which we recognize as key-note of Abrotanum.

Case 3:

A twelve-year-old girl has an acute fever up to 40C° in combination with coughing and right earache when she blows her nose. A clinical examination reveals a lightly infected right tonsil. The auscultation of the lungs is normal.

Some time ago she had the following dream:

She is biking together with her father to the city to do some shopping. She cannot find the first shop where she has to be and she asks her dad where the shop is. He answers that the shop is just behind a little wall, nearby. They do some shopping there and then they go to the bakery. The counter is placed ‘against’ the wall and the waitress, therefore, stands in front of the counter. There lies a big (huge) cheese-knife, measuring 2 metres of length, across the counter so that it is difficult to pass. Her dad takes this long knife in his hand and places it on the head of the waitress. This makes the waitress fall backwards on the counter. All the people present have to laugh about it.

The last remedy to which she has reacted positively is ‘Lycopodium’.

Themes:

A wall is referring to the ‘marking off‘ of space. Delineation means isolation and Abrotanum needs space and (social) ‘contacts’.  The waitress is standing to the side of the customers because there is no place left on her side behind the counter.

Here there is also an infringement by the father of the territory of the waitress and he makes her ridiculous by doing so. nb: Abrotanum has, according to Frans Vermeulen, an anti-authority attitude just like the other Artemisiae.

Case 4:

Another patient has a general back-burden since she has suppressed the diarrhoea about two weeks earlier by taking a couple of Imodium-capsules (which contain loperamide). Since then she always wakes up around 2:15 am to 2:30am and then can not get back to sleep for one hour. Sometimes she wakes up to read something.

These days she feels as if her husband and her children are taking away her energy, as if they are parasites living on her back (1).

She remembers a dream that she had this night:

She saw her son of twelve years old as a toddler playing together with his nephews on a protected place, close to the street. Because the gates of that safe place needed to be closed, she incidentally passes by the moratorium which is located a little bit further and goes inside because the entrance-door was left open, in the expectation of some real guests (2). She was, together with other people, looking for her son and his nephew. Because of the mere fact that the door from the moratorium was open, she suspected them to have entered and therefore she walked in to look for them. What she furthermore can remember is that the whole of the entrance hall was painted yellow (3). She therefore made the reflection: ‘I hope, we do not have to come to greet our own relatives.’ On that particular moment, the children came running to her.

Discussion:

(1):  the theme that others take away her energy.

(2): signature of the plant, symbolized by her children who, as a kind of extension of herself, enter a ‘deadly’ area, which corresponds to the plant which, once having extended its territory, makes other plants pine away. Furthermore, the dead area is situated ‘directly’ in her surroundings, which confirms again the signature of the plant.

(3): yellow = signature because yellow is the colour of the flowers of citronelle.

Dd: Peganum harmala (Homoeopathic Links, 1/00): vampirises the others in an energetic way; Art-v.

Energetic examination:

- Hypersensitivity of the fourth cervical nerve along the spine on the right side.

- Hypotone muscles are the left or right deltoideus posterior, the left romboideus, the right serratus anterior, the left or right pectoralis major (pars sternalis) and the right triceps brachii.

- The acupuncture points Bladder 4, right and Bladder 21, left and right, are out of balance.

- The Weihe point of the Abrotanum is located on the left side under the umbilicus.

EXAMPLE of one rubric of the ‘DREAM REPERTORY’ :

INTRODUCTION TO THE ENERGETIC EXAMINATION:

The correct homoeopathic approach requires the establishment of a total image. This image should take into account all levels: the pure energetic, the mental-emotional and the physical level.

The information coming from the mental-emotional level comes highest in the hierarchy. This however shouldn’t exclude examining the two other levels which were either less controllable, like the pure energetic level, or less substantiated, like the physical examination. In this way these additional data can substantially enrich the remedy image and total diagnosis.

As is commonly known, homoeopathy is an ‘energetic’ way of healing, where the homeopath tries to analyze the energetic disturbance through the symptoms of the patient. These symptoms are mostly subjective in nature, but are for us, a sufficiently reliable parameter to come a homoeopathic remedy image . For these insights we have to thank the genius of Hahnemann. He was the first to give real value to these subjective symptoms!

The oriental ways of healing, including acupuncture, base themselves on the quality of the life energy during disease and health. This life force runs through the body in different forms. One of these forms uses the meridians, to spread the vital force internally as well as externally.

Some thirty years back the chiropraxis succeeded in establishing the link between certain muscles and certain meridians. In this way meridians can indirectly be tested through muscles.

A sickness, as defined by our homoeopathic criteria, fitting into a certain homoeopathic remedy image, must surely, at the basis, be an energetic disorder. In the same way it should be possible to make objective this disorder; namely through the meridians and their corresponding muscles.

On a physical level there is also an objective correlation between the morphology and inner functioning .  As has been established in analytical psychology, major psychological events are being resumed and expressed into the image language of symbols. Likewise it can also be said that a certain energy structure correlates with a certain homoeopathic remedy, physically expressing itself in a certain appearance of the person in all his structures . We call this the  ‘physiognomy’. These structures are, in order of importance:  the central nerve system and the peripheral, the heart and circulatory system, the hypophysis and endocrine glands, the liver and gastrointestinal system, the lymphatic tissue, lungs and respiratory system, kidneys and urinary system, genitals, osseous tissue, muscles and connective tissue,  mucosae and finally the skin. These symptoms can, depending on their hierarchic placement, have an emphasized importance. For example: someone unconsciously biting the cheek during talking is expressing a symptom of the nervous system. Because of their clinical reliability, these symptoms score highly (e.g..: median cleft of the lower lip), or because of their reflex-energetic importance can be very valuable (for example : a solitary naevus located on known Weihe point, or a wrist cyst which indicates a meridian dysfunction).

The use of the W.P. goes back to around 1875, when doctor Weihe introduced the technique of the painful pressure points. This technique implies that, when a homoeopathic remedy is indicated with a certain patient, one excites a sharp pain by pressing the corresponding W.P.

A previously used technique was the ‘piano tapping’ (a.o. by  Dr. Nebel of Montreuil – Switzerland): one pressed the W.P. gradually harder with the tip of the index finger, and then all of a sudden let loose. When the WP was sensitive, the releasing of the point provoked an intense pain (cf. the rebound tenderness phenomenon like with peritonitis).

Doctor Pladys used the W.P. as a ‘confirmatory’ technique because the tension points unique to the physiognomy of each remedy diminish in a significant way by pressing on the corresponding W.P. Other coincidental valleix-points ameliorate by pressurising the W.P. My experience indicates that putting pressure on the W.P., the corresponding weak muscle test (as an expression of disturbed energy unique to the remedy) significantly improves.

The pressing of the W.P. is as if you were temporarily administering the remedy as long as the pressure is maintained.

The location of the W.P., described for each remedy, is only valid for right-handed people. With left-handed people the W.P. can be found on the hetero-lateral side. The laterality of the W.P. depends on which brain-hemisphere is dominant.

Also the muscle tests and the sensitive nerve exits mentioned in the book Physiognomy, change in laterality with left-handers!!  Many W.P. are located bilaterally, yet show only a positive reaction on one side (except for Calc-p.).

The W.P.’s are parasympathetic by nature (Bourdiol). This also why there are no W.P.’s at the limbs.  The parasympathetic nervous system is of endodermal origin, while the ortho sympathetic nervous system is of mesodermal origin .

I also use all acupuncture points in correlation with homeopathy, which is called homeosiniatry.

The method originates especially from R. de La Fuÿe and R. Bourdiol.

To give some illustrations I give you some acupuncture points and their associated remedies:

RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINESE ACUPUNCTURE MERIDIANS / POINTS AND HOMEOEOPATHIC  REMEDIES :          HOMEOSINIATRY.

Abbreviations :

1. R. de La Fuÿe

2. R. Bourdiol

3. F. Degroote

4. Schrecke and Wertsch

5. Margutti Victor

WP: Weihe point

°  unknown origin, originating among others from Tridosha (needs confirmation !!!)

The acupuncture points are referred to the original Chinese meridians as described in:

Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture, compiled by Bejing, Shanghai, Najing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Institute of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Bejing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980.

LARGE INTESTINE MERIDIAN:

1 : Allox. (r)³, Bapt.°, Calc-s.°, Chin-s.⁴, Ferr-p., Gels. (l)^3,5, Merc-c.⁴, Plan.^1,4, Plb.⁵

2 : Abies-n. (r)³, Am-caust.⁵, Arg-n.^1,4,5, Atra-m. (r)³, Bar-c.⁵, Croc.°, Eos. (r)³, Fel. (r)³, Iris-foe. (l or r)³, Kali-s.°, Lach.⁴, Oct-mac. (r)³, Ovi-p. (r)³, Sep. (l)³, Sulph.⁴, Tritic-vg. (r)³

3 : Aphis (l)³, Arg-n.^1,4,5, Bad. (r)³, Bit-ar. (r)³, Camph.°, Castm. (r)³, Chol. (l)³, Cypr. (l)³, Dict. (l)³, Eucal.⁵, Euphr. (r)^3,4, Irid-met. (r)³, Kali-p.°, Kali-s.°, Mand. (r)³, Merc-i-f.⁵, Morb. (l or r)³, Nitro. (l)³, Odobenus rosmarus (l)³, Passer-d. (l)³, Salam. (l or r)³, Sulph.⁴

4 : Acar-w. (l)³, Alum. (l)³, Am-m. (l)^°,3, Atra-r. (r)³, Bapt.⁴, Both-in. (l)³, Brass-n-o. (l)³, Buth-a. (l or r)³, Caust.⁴, Cham.⁴, Chin. (r)³, Con. (bil.)³, Hydr.^1,4, Lach-l. (r)³, Mag-p.°, Mucoc. (bil.)³, Op. (l)^1,3,5, Pardo-am. (l)³, Pic-ac.⁵, Pisc. (l)³, Seq-g. (r)³, Spig. (l or r)³, Verat.¹

5 : Agar. (r)^3,5, Am-br. (r)³, Am-c. (bil.)³, Chin-s. (bil.)^3,5, Clem. (l)³, Cur. (r)³, Eup-per. (r)³, Hydr.⁵, Kali-m.°, Lat-m. (l)³, Mag-m. (l)³, Mag-p.°, Mag-s. (l)³, Nat-s. (l)³, Nat.-s-f. (r)³, Pil-lup. (r)³, Pitu-a. (r)³, Prot. (l)³, Sin-n. (r)³, Tung.met. (l)³, Varic. (r)³,Vip-t. (l)³

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Dr. Filip Degroote graduated as Doctor in Medicine in 1978. He has had a full-time classical homeopathic practice for 28 years. Under the guidance of doctor A. Pladys, he developed a pioneering first work concerning clinical and energetic examination in homeopathy. The findings were put in the book ‘Physical Examination and Observations in Homoeopathy’ (1992).  In a second book, ‘Notes on Miasms and Heredity’, (1994) he indicated a difference between individual and hereditary energy in every human being. He concluded that the hereditary energy of a person shows itself in the symptom rubrics of the patient which contain Carc., Med., Syph. and Tub. Consequently, those nosodal symptoms are avoided when repertorising to find the patient’s “individual” homeopathic remedy.

The crowning achievement of his many years of practice is the development of a data-base of dreams, coming especially from his own practice.  In the last 18 years, Dr. Degroote has gathered about 130,000 additions, which will soon be available on RADAR. Those form a basis for making a better analysis of our patients, together with the data we have, especially from Hahnemann, Kent, Vithoulkas, Scholten and Sankaran.

In order to use those data in the best way, the author has written a guideline book of 919 pages to make it easier for the practitioner to find his way in the dreamland of our patients ‘Dromen vanuit homeopathisch perspectief’ (2004), which he is now working to translate into English from the Dutch.