I want to add a few comments about Neptunium, also Stage 7, and very closely related to Rhenium. Neptunium adds to the sense of personal presence, a process which is begun in Rhenium.
The feeling in both is “I’v arrived! With a bit of co-operation I can accomplish anything”.

The feeling is even stronger in Neptunium – the ‘grand’ remedy…[Read more]

N.B. ’fright and shock’ in this context refers to Post Traumatic Stress.

Another remedy in the ’injustice- cannot support’ rubric is Mag-c (Mag-m also).
Mag-c also has the fear that something bad is about to happen.
Mag-c, Calc, and Caust, all close to the top-left corner of the Periodic Table, form a useful little group of fright and shock remedies.

Thanks for your kind comment Surabhi.

Reflecting on the primordial elements in Ayurveda again, I would say Causticum is ’Fire’ (Pitta) to Calcera’s ’Water’ (Kapha).

Causticum also has signs of Air (Vata) disturbance … spasms, coldness, tingling and sensations of electricity in the nerves…

GENERALS – SHOCK – electric-like (Air => mobile +…[Read more]

Compare the sympathies and anxieties of Caust with Calc (Stage 2)
- profoundly affected by hearing about sad stories, etc.

Causticum doesn’t just cower though … he/she will take action!

The core of it is ’heightened awareness of suffering’. They perceive suffering, inner and outer, everywhere in everyone and everything.

The Sanskrit word (or concept) of ’Dukkha’ just about covers Causticum’s reality.

The remedy brings the worst fears to the surface. It can be an intense and scary experience, especially is there is some serious pathology behind the anxieties.

An example from Footy Culture … Roy Hedgehog has landed the job of England Manager. How will he cope? He’s OK as long as popular opinion is behind him … without it he crumbles. So its Stage 7 for Roy.

Compare with Steve Keane (Blackburn Rovers) … the fans wanted him out – but he battled on to the bitter end without showing any signs of collapse ……[Read more]

The ’Stage’ describes our level of comfort with stress, our comfort zone… its an equilibrium between our inner strengths and resources and the external opposing obstructions we encounter to our goals – from start to finish.

We don’t always finish … our inner resources become exhausted, or are simply inadequate, and we can go no further.

Once you find a persons ’Home Stage’ (i.e. column of the Periodic TI able) you can help them through the different challenges of life found in the ’rows’ of the P. T.

Is there a ”Home Row’ of the P.T. for each of us? If so, it would depend on our habitual focus … If work is all that matters we are naturally focused on The Ferrum Series.

Some of these themes are found in Promethium (Stage 7, Lanthanides).

Here the emphasis is on inner resourcefulness and freedom. They feel quite strong so there is an element of exploration and testing: Scholten, “They just want to be free in all kinds of situations”.

They want others to be strong too, so they combine cooperation with their…[Read more]

Just to clarify, Rhenium didn’t make me want to take on the stress to Stage 8 – I don’t want to jump up and join an intensive care crash team. Stage 7 is just fine.

I just got used to this relaxed feeling and enjoyed the weekend… The set of worries arising from that stressful crisis have just dissolved. It’s just hitory now. Its like the remedy dissolved one single big knot of stress that nothing else could untie – not even daily meditation.

The remedy just affected one part of my brain – more precisely…[Read more]

My feeling – it is just a feeling – about the gums and oils in the Sapindales order, (which includes the Anacardiaceae, Rutaceae, Burseraceae, and Meliaceae ) is that they are smooth, penetrating, spreading and warming – hence the great benefit to patients who feel cold and stiff, both physically and emotionally.

I think this proving symptom from Anacardium demonstrates the same sort of thing …
* Dread of labour: Every kind of intellectual labor is difficult for him, like a kind of absent-mindedness.

In Rhus-t ’Stiffness on the mental plane’ would probably be best described by proving symptoms such as …
*Disposition to criticize and find fault, from 7 to 9 P.M. (seventeenth day).
* Impatient and vexed at every trifle; she does not endure being talked to,.
* He was exhausted, thought was difficult, and talking irksome.
(T.F. Allen)

Yes. A lot of the remedies in this group suffer head problems arising from a disordered liver.

Cheladonium is a close Botanical relative … Sensation of a band round forehead. Neuralgic pain in forehead, right side – extending into orbits. Tearing in right cheek bone.
Face yellow and waxy. Skin wilted and wrinkled.

The proving symptoms of Tungsten (above) shows how changes the balance of the doshas due to the remedy affect the mood and perception of the provers.

The language the provers use gives us an exceptionally clear idea of how each dosha influences their perception of the situation.

Pitta decreases markedly, and as Vata increases there’s a feeling…[Read more]

Misha Norland makes a similar point in his book on the 4 Elements … Gold can represent both ’value’ and ’purity’ to some, but ’power’ and ’corruption’ to others.

A more thorough consideration of the rubrics that can be associated with each dosha is given in my article @ http://structuralhomeopathy.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/three-miasms-in-ayurveda.html

These elemental concepts give rise to the historical idea of ‘Hippocratic Temperaments’. Similar use is made of the element concept in Acupuncture and Ayurveda. T.C.M. describes five elements – each system has its own inner coherence and beauty – and we can learn from them all, but a sometimes a little confusion can arise when making…[Read more]