Acer saccharum (Acer-s) = Marsh sugar maple
Vergleich: Siehe: Sapindales + Baumgruppe + schafft für
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[Jason-Aeric Huenecke]
Themes Mentals
Assertive, Forthright vs. Non-motivation
Includes a sense of apathy and lethargy that
can prevent a person from moving forward. They may have “many thoughts”, but
little or no desire to act.
Other side of this they may feel assertive or
forthright allowing them to speak their mind. They can feel the desire to act
“reckless”, to act on impulses “held back”
in the past.
Attraction, Amorous, Sex
Burning, Heat, Fire and Color Red
Calm, Quiet, so Peaceful as if Gently Moving
vs. enraged
True polar opposites in extremes. The rage can
be sudden and forceful + stabbing movements/feels uncontrollable and it might
be in response to a perceived intrusion into
their personal property, like someone reading
“their journal“. The complete opposite of this is the sense of calmness that
can be “gently moving” and peaceful,
“As if in a water world“.
Connection vs. Disconnection
central theme: at the base of this state is a
feeling of intense isolation and disconnection from others. Almost leprous in
its intensity and includes the feeling of exclusion.
“I have felt more alone than ever; completely,
completely alone,” as if in a “tunnel” underground, excluded, “I didn’t have a
place where I belonged“. It is as if there is
“As if a wall between them and others“.
Other side of isolation is connection. The
nature of the connection is deep and intuitive. It’s a connection where one
might “read each other minds, or finish each other's thoughts“.
It’s also a sense of
community. This “intuitive” connection was also felt towards nature. They were
entranced with the blending of nature around them.
Effects of Excessive Sugar Consumption
Giddiness, Laughing, Jesting, Goofiness
They
could exhibit a giddiness and silliness/might be hyper-active and restless at
times, hearing their heartbeat louder than normal.
They might feel
spacey or even intoxicated, in almost a “sedated”, druggy like state.
Awareness of Heartbeat, Increased Pulse
Hyperactive, Restless, Fidgety
Intoxicated, Druggy Feeling, Sugar Cravings
Lightness, Floating, Weightlessness
Piercing, as if by arrow or spear
Key part is the sensation of being “pierced“.
From the method of tapping a Maple tree for sap, this sense of being pierced or
stabbing by a sharp instrument seen throughout
the state.
The key to differentiate from other plants or
trees with connection and disconnection themes. There can also be much
flushing, heat and burning in this state.
Unmotivated, Held Back
Repertory:
Mind:
Ailments - from disappointment/ quarrelling
Alert
Ambition, loss of
Anger -
with indignation/sudden/with stabbing
Animal
consciousness
Anxiety
Ardent
Attractive, feels
Aversion, to members of family
Biting
Burn,
things, desire to
Calm
Caressing, inclination to caress
Clairvoyance, „As if reading one’s mind“
Company,
aversion to, desire for
Connection, intimate, feeling of
Concentration,
difficult;
Confident
(assertive)
Content
Consolation
Countryside,
desire for;
Cursing
Déjà vu
Delusion
– alone/alien, familiar things seem strange/is doing drugs/excluded from
party/hearing noise/held back/intoxicated/isolated from others (in a
tunnel)/body
feels light („As if filled with air“)/seeing
[blood/fire/insects (spiders)/mushrooms growing on tree branches]/someone is
behind him/thoughts are separated from him/of waves/weightless, as if light on
feet.
Going seeing
another picture closing my eyes. This time it is me lying on my back and a
spear or a long arrow is being pierced through my front to back, right through
the constricted area. I know it is killing me.
If the stabbing through my throat does not suffocate me, the piercing of the
spear through the back of my neck (spine) will
surely do the trick.
Detached
Dictatorial
Doubtful
Ennui/inactivity
Exertion, physical activity desires
Flat
Fear -
of apoplexy/of death/of night/of shadows/of being alone
Flirting/jesting
Giggling/laughing;
Grief,
with indignation
Growling;
Heartbeat, body, feels throughout
Helpless
Howling,
night;
Hurried/impatience
Indifference
Industrious/restless
Inhibition
Irritability, evening;
Laziness;
Loquacity;
Magnetizing, others;
Meditating
Mood,
changeable
Peaceful
Piercing, sensation of
Praying
Quarrelsome
Quiet, wants
to be
Sadness,
after quarrel with husband
Sexual
desire, increased
Rage
Red,
desire for color
Reckless
Serenity
Sensitive, to all external impressions;
Servile;
Spaced-out feeling;
Stabbing, desire to
Taciturn;
<
thinking of his complaints
Time -
appears shorter/passes too quickly/passes too slowly;
Timidity;
Touched,
aversion to be;
Tranquillity (= calmness/serenity);
Violence, aversion to;
Violence, focused, desire to explode with
Will,
loss of will power
Dreams:
(((<<< viele >>>)))
Vertigo: < in
bed/< lying down
must hold on to something;
with obscured vision
Head:
Complaints of the head + ear pain, eructation, palpitations
Constriction „As if band or hoop“
Pain - < bending forward/burning/>
drinking/> eating/ext. jaw/in forehead behind eyes/in temples/in one spot -
extends, moves/< noise/on waking/
pressing (in-/outward)/pulsating/sharp/sudden)
Tenderness of scalp, < touch of scalp/<
yawning
Tingling
„As if pressure on the back of head, like a
string wrapped around head and body in a spiral from r. to l., kind of drawing
together“
Eye: Desires
to close eyes
Dilated
Discharges
„As if discharges sticky“
Discoloration, red
Drooping lids
Eruptions
Fullness of lids
Inflammation, conjunctiva
Itching in canthi
Movement, rapid
Photophobia, night
Quivering
Swelling, edematous
Twitching, constant, daily, left eye
Tension
Winking
Vision: Acute
Blurred/bright/foggy/loss of peripheral
vision/“As if in a tunnel“
Ear:
Fullness, sensation
Itching
Lobe itches
Noises, flapping
Pain, burning, > eating, pressing pain „As
from a band“
Pulsation
Stopped sensation
Vibration
Wax, dry, excess, increased, discharging 21
days
Hearing: Acute,
night
Illusions, his own voice, noises – echoes,
strange sounds
Impaired
Muffled
Unnatural
Nose: Acute
Discharge
Epitasis after anger
Odors, imaginary and real, musty
Face: Coldness
Discoloration – red/dark circles under the
eyes, grayish
Eruptions, eyes below, herpetic circinate
„As if eruption on lip“
Heat, flushes of/“As if sensation of heat“
Itching/burning, stinging
Numbness, tingly, as if Novocain in it
„As if thinner“
Wrinkled
Mouth: Dryness
Numbness, lips, tongue (one side)
Salivation (increased + by appetite
increased/with a sensation of dryness)
Taste – diminished/like chemicals
Ulcers, cankers
Teeth: <
cold water
Pain – aching (< chewing)
Sensitive tender.
Throat: „As if
closed“
Congestion/constriction
Dryness
„As if lump“ [< swallowing liquids (with
eructations)]
Hawk, disposition to
Mucus (tenacious in the morning)
Pain - < air/burning/scratchy
„As if water going reverse“ after swallowing
Suffocative sensation, „As of throat would
close“
Swelling
External throat:
Discoloration, redness in spots
Stomach: Anxiety
felt in stomach
Appetite – diminished/increased
Digestion – disrupted/after eating
Emptiness
Eructation < after drinking water
Fullness
< Grief
Heartburn < after eating
Heaviness
Nausea (< odors)
Pain, burning, cramping, hunger from, cutting
pains
Pulsation
Rumbling
Thirst - extreme, unquenchable
Uneasiness (after eating)
Abdomen: Gurgling
Heaviness before menses
Pain, cramping before diarrhea/stabbing, in
spot
Rectum:
Hemorrhoids, burning, itching
Pain - hot, sticking pain
Stool: Loose
(copious/soft, mushy)
Odor, sour
Undigested food of the previous day (lienteric)
Bladder:
Fullness, sensation of
Urination, forcible stream, involuntary, with
frequency, with urgency.
Kidneys: Pain,
sharp
Pulsation r. lying on l. side
Urethra: Pain -
on urination/burning (lasting after urination)
Urine: Odor
strong
Male organs: Sexual
desire, increased
Female organs:
Leukorrhea - clear, thin, white
Masturbation, disposed to + by aversion to
coition
Menses - copious, heavy flow/clotted 1st
day/red bright/too early
Ovaries „As if pulled together by a string“
Pain – cramping/during menses constant,
exhausting, > heat
Sexual desire – increased/wanting
“As if something was gripping my internal
organs and squeezing or constricting them and would not let go”.
Respiration
Difficult/superficial.
Cough: Dry;
Mucus, chest in.
Chest:
Arrhythmia, palpitation of the heart, irregular
Constriction
<
Eructation
Fluttering
Flushes
of heat in upper chest
Complaints of mammae before menses:
-heaviness, tenderness
Oppression
Pain,
cutting, darting pain between left nipple and axillae/intermittent/burning in
lungs/pressing, stitching
Palpitation/pulsation
„As if a bubble in chest“
Image: heart was cracking like an egg shell
cracks.
Back:
Compression, lumbar-sacral region
Energy rushing up spine
Heat in lumbar region
Lameness in lumbar region
Pain in cervical region ext. jaws, lumbar
region, sore before menses
Extremities: Clumsy
Heat
Pain – aching/in l. sciatic nerve + by uterine
complaints/stabbing, sharp
Pulsation in finger tips
Sleep: Deep
Falling asleep - in daytime/early
Sleepy
Desire to nap
Waking – refreshed/late
Chill: Lasting
all day/sudden
Fever: Sudden
Skin: <
Coldness
Itching (without eruptions)
Eruptions – itching/herpetic (curative)
Red
Formication
Gooseflesh
„As if heat“
Generals: <
Cold/sensitive to cold
Dehydration
Food and drinks: Aversion: to food on
attempting to eat; <: Choc/meat/wine; Deaires: fruits/tea/water/meat;
Heat, flushes of/lack of vital heat
< autumn
Allerlei: “Sugar maple is the only tree today used
for commercial syrup production, its sap has twice the sugar content of other
maple species. The sap collected in the spring,
is concentrated by boiling or reverse osmosis,
with about 35 - 40 liters of sap making 1 liter of syrup. A single tree may produce
5 - 60 liters of sap per year.
Nights below freezing and days at higher than
5° are needed to ensure good sap flow. Sugar maple was the premier source of
sweetener with honey to Native Americans/
early European settlers. Native Americans also
used sugar maple sap for sugar and candies, as a beverage, fresh or fermented
into beer, and soured into vinegar and used to
cook meat. White-tailed deer, moose, and
snowshoe hare commonly browse sugar maple. Red squirrel, gray squirrel, and
flying squirrels feed on the seeds, buds, twigs, and leaves. Porcupines consume
the bark and can girdle the upper stem. Songbirds, woodpeckers, and cavity
nesters nest in sugar maple. Although the flowers appear to be wind-pollinated,
the early-produced pollen may be important to the biology of bees and other
pollen-dependent insects because many insects (bees), visit the flowers.
Acer saccharum grow in clusters called a sugar
bush. The Anishinabe, whose name means “the original people” in the Ojibwa
language refer to the tree as “Ininatig”, the man-tree, “a reminder of the
importance of the lifesaving food in the harsh winters of the northern woods”.
Analgesic/anti-diarrheal/blood
purifier/diuretic/treat eye complaints (blindness)/skin conditions/shortness of
breath, as a pulmonary and expectorant cough medicine, gynecological and
venereal aid.
In Celtic Astrology, the Maple Tree represents
independent thinking and unity, dates of birth fall on April 11 - April 20 and
October 14 - October 23. People born under this sign are said to be
imaginative, reserved, ambitious and like to impress people.
With the coming of Fall, the leaves of the
Sugar Maple turn a glorious, vibrant shade of red. At first the tree will shift
to a yellow color and then eventually turn to a magnificent shade of crimson.
Over a forest of deciduous trees in the fall the maple will stand out and draw
your attention. Its beauty and attraction are clear to the viewer. It’s as if
it doesn’t mind getting your attention and even desires this.
Maple trees are tapped for sap that is used for
Maple syrup and related products in the spring. Both the method of tapping as
well as the nature of the sugary sap extracted
are present in the remedy. Tapping the
Tree The flow of sap is highly dependent
upon weather conditions. Flow does not begin until after a time of hard freeze,
followed
by several sunny days with temperatures in the
40s°. The peak flow occurs early in the sugaring season when
it freezes at night and is bright and sunny the
next day with the temperature in the 40s°. The flow will stop when daytime
temperatures do not go above freezing, or when night temperatures do not go
below freezing. The flow usually lasts roughly 3 – 4 weeks. While it flows,
collect daily the sap, preferably late afternoon. If the trees are tapped too
soon and flow does not begin, it is possible that the holes will seal over and
subsequent flow is inhibited significantly.
An American Indian
Legend - Nation Unknown
Long ago, Axsìnamìnshi, the Sugar Maple, was
suffering from an intense itching caused by grubs and beetles burrowing beneath
his bark. Though he had many arms and fingers, he could not scratch himself.
The itching became unbearable, and all that he could do was to writhe in
discomfort and torment. He could do nothing by himself to relieve his
suffering!
Finally, unable to bear the itching any longer,
he called out to the squirrels, porcupines, and beavers to help him, but they
were concerned only with their own affairs and
they did not offer any help.
All they did was to offer their sympathy. Next,
Sugar Maple called to the birds. They too, felt sorry for him, but could do
nothing.
Then, Papa'xes, Woodpecker, came along, and he said
he could help. So, he brought his cousins, Ulikwàn, Flicker; and Titàs, the
Downy Woodpecker. All of them worked very hard and finally were able to pick up
every pest from Sugar Maple's bark, and his itching stopped! What a relief!
Axsìnamìnshi thanked Woodpecker and his cousins
most happily, and they thanked Sugar Maple for
the good meal of grubs and beetles.
Years later, Papa'xes was in distress. Not
knowing what to do, he at last came to Axsìnamìnshi, who he hadn't seen in a
long time, and he related a sad story to him.
Due to a long period without rain, Papa'xes was
dying of thirst, and he asked Sugar Maple if he might help.
Sugar Maple, remembering the help he had
received from Woodpecker, told him, "Go to my trunk and drill some holes
and they will fill up with sap."
Woodpecker flew down and pecked away at the
trunk, making many holes. The holes filled up with sap, and Woodpecker drank
and joyfully slaked his thirst.
Woodpeckers have been drinking from trees ever
since. It was from the Woodpecker, that our Lenape'wak learned that trees give
sap and can be tapped.
How Maple-Sugar Came
a Native American Tale (Salteaux)
After Nanahboozhoo had given the Wild Roses
their thorns, he wandered about the world playing pranks on the Little People
of Darkness, so that they determined to be revenged on him and kill his old Grandmother
Nokomis. Nanahboozhoo loved his grandmother dearly, and when he knew that the
Little People wished to hurt her, he took Nokomis upon his strong back, and
flew away with her to a forest. Wonderful was the forest, for it was in the
Autumn of the year, and the Maple Trees were all yellow, green, and crimson.
From a distance they looked like a great fire. It happened that the Little
People followed after Nanahboozhoo, and when they saw the bright colours
of the Maples, through the haze of Indian Summer,
they thought the whole world was in flames, and turned back and hid in their
holes. Nanahboozhoo was so pleased with the beautiful Maples for having saved
his grandmother from the Little People that he decided to live among the trees,
and he made old Nokomis a wigwam of their brightest branches.
One day, some Indians came seeking Nanahboozhoo
to ask for help. They found him in his grandmother's wigwam among the yellow,
green, and crimson Maples, where he received them kindly.
"O Nanahboozhoo," said they,
"the Indians of the Far South have a delicious sweet thing they call
Sugar, and we have nothing of the kind. We sent runners with gifts to the South
to get an abundance of Sugar for our people; but some of the runners were
killed and others wounded. Tell us, therefore, O Nanahboozhoo, how we may make
Sugar
for ourselves."
At first Nanahboozhoo was greatly puzzled, for
he had been in the Southland and knew how hard it was to make Sugar. But old
Nokomis, when she heard what the Indians asked, added her pleadings to theirs,
for she too had tasted Sugar and longed for more. Of course Nanahboozhoo could
not refuse to help, so he thought a while, and said:
"Since the beautiful Maples were so good
to Nokomis, henceforth in the Spring of the year they shall give the Indians
sweet sap. And when the sap is boiled down thick and delicious, it will cool
and harden into Sugar."
Then Nanahboozhoo gave the Indians a bucket
made of Birchbark, and a stone tapping-gouge with which to make holes in the
tree-trunks; and he shaped for them some Cedar spiles or little spouts, to put
in the holes, and through which the sap might run from the trees into buckets.
He told them, too, that they must build great fireplaces in the woods near the
Maple groves, and when the buckets were full of sap, they must pour it into
their kettles, and boil it down. And the amount of Sugar they might boil each
Spring would depend on the number of Cedar spiles and Birchbark buckets they
made during the Winter.
And every Springtime since, when the Frost is
going out of the ground and the Arbutus blossoms under the snow, the sweet sap
mounts through the trunks of the Maple Trees, and the Northern Indians gather
the sap, and say, "This is the way Nanahboozhoo taught us to make
Maple-Sugar!"
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.