BERYLLIUM METALLICUM

COMMON NAME: Beryllium

CLASSIFICATION: Mineral: Alkaline Earth Metal: Element No 4

SCHOLTEN: Column 2, Row 2 Carbon series

SANKARAN: Column 2, 2^nd row, fears separation, dependant

PREPARATION: Trituration

AFFINITY: Skin, bone

LATERALITY:

MIASMIC LINK: Acute

FIRST IMPRESSION: Insecure, clingy, anxious, runs back to safety

 Psychological type

The beryllium house is young (around six to seven) and remarkably insecure, somewhat passive and usually gentle in nature. There is a need for support and reassurance, so when challenged with anything unfamiliar or anything new, they literally head back to their mother or to their owner. This is their safe place.

They will stop suddenly at a water jump or a fence and are unable to decide what to do. Initially stupefied and fixed to the spot in what looks like a trance, they look around for a bit, think about things for a while and then finally head for safety in a bit of a panic.

Here we see some of the acute miasmic traits surfacing, stupefaction, sense of danger, mild panic and escape. However, for many Beryllium horses, there is also a more passive need for support, stopping at jumps or on the loading ramp, looking around for what seems like ages, refusing to move, then casually and slowly edging towards you, standing in your space and then touching you briefly but gently. That is all that is needed.

 Main health issues

Behaviour problems, skin masses (sarcoids), lungs and issues with bone

Key pointers (main indications in bold)

• Insecure, anxious, anxious about the future, fears being alone
• Lack of confidence, timid, confused, bewildered, overwhelmed, yielding
• Passive, allows other horses to take their feed, to push in
• Panic, runs to safety
• “Mummy’s boy”
• Irresolution, indecision, unable to decide what to do
• “Head in the sand,” “it’s not happening”, “let’s pretend it’s not there”
• Dislikes being watched or observed
• Poor sense of orientation
• Irrational fears, crowds, strangers
• Chews fences
• Pain in the lower back
• Nodosities on the bones of the lower leg, ringbone, DJD of fetlock, coffin or pastern joints
• Difficulty breathing with a deep painful cough
• Weepy skin eruptions
• Nodules in the skin
• Skin growths
• Sarcoids usually singular or two or three close together, nodular or ulcerated fibroblastic type

Modalities

Worse/aggravated by: Heat, exercise, being alone, crowds

Better/ameliorated by: Company, by reassurance

Remedy interactions

• Works well with:
• Incompatible with:

Consider also:

Lycopodium: Lack of confidence

Lac caninum: Lack of confidence, seeks reassurance, looks at owner constantly

Scandium: Knows what to do but cannot decide what to do

Thuja: Sarcoids and other skin masses

Nitric acid: Sarcoids, usually those that bleed, near mucocutaneous junctions

Silica: Yielding nature, nodular “hard” sarcoids

Causticum: Kind nature, sarcoids around the head area, on the nose especially, often flat