Actinoides Anhang
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Actiniden
Der Arzneischatz der klassischen Homöopathie hat sich im letzten Jahrzehnt deutlich vergrößert, so dass wir für die homöopathische Therapie aktuell über 6500 Arzneien
zur Verfügung haben.
Auch aus der Gruppe der Actiniden haben wir zahlreiche Reinelemente und Salze in
die Materia Medica aufgenommen und teilweise geprüft.
Allerdings waren diese radioaktiven Substanzen nur für kurze Zeit verfügbar,
aus arzneimittelrechtlichen Gründen sind sie als offizinale
Zubereitungen bald wieder von den Angebotslisten verschwunden.
Der Gesetzgeber regelt für
radioaktive Arzneimittel, dass sie in Österreich abgegeben oder für die Abgabe
im Inland bereitgehalten werden dürfen, wenn sie vom Bundesamt für Sicherheit
im Gesundheitswesen zugelassen sind. In Deutschland ist es verboten,
radioaktive Arzneimittel oder Arzneimittel, bei deren Herstellung ionisierende
Strahlen verwendet worden sind, in den Verkehr zu bringen, es sei denn, dass
dies durch die Rechtsverordnung zugelassen ist. (8) Eine Registrierung von
radioaktiven Substanzen als Homöopathikum ist schon
allein deshalb unmöglich, weil der homöopathische Charakter durch Publikationen
nicht belegt werden kann.
Davon abgesehen ist es
erforderlich, dass bei der Herstellung einer offizinalen
Zubereitung alle Schritte dem Arzneimittelgesetz und dem Apothekengesetz
entsprechen müssen. Dies bedeutet auch, dass ein Nuklearforschungsinstitut, in
dem ein Apotheker radioaktive Ausgangsstoffe bis zu einer C12 potenziert, einer
Arzneimittel-Herstellerlaubnis nach § 63 AMG bedarf. Da aber die Herstellung
von Arzneien in Forschungsinstituten meist nicht zu deren Aufgaben gehört,
liegt eine derartige Bewilligung im Regelfall auch nicht vor.
Die genannten Punkte sind dafür verantwortlich, dass die noch vor einigen Jahren verfügbaren Vertreter der Actiniden heute nicht in Verkehr gebracht werden können.
Die Aussage, es handele sich „nur
um Homöopathica, in denen ja ohnehin nichts vom
Ausgangsstoff mehr enthalten sei“, trifft nicht den Kern der Problems. Auch
wenn die Wahrscheinlichkeit gleich Null ist, bei einer C12 noch Reste der
radioaktiven Ausgangssubstanz vorzufinden, so ist doch immer die theoretische
Möglichkeit gegeben, dass bei jedem Verdünnungsschritt die Substanz
weitergelangt und im Endprodukt auftaucht.
Natürlich stellt sich die Frage, wie denn ursprünglich Plutonium als spaltbares Element in die Materia Medica gelangt ist - immerhin gibt es davon eine Prüfung.
Wir werden es heute wohl nie erfahren.
[Deirdre Holmes]
The Actinides: The Ultimate Challenge
Pluto and Charon
The actinides, or radioactive elements, belong to the 7th and
final row of the periodic table; they relate to extreme or final stages of
life, and the ailments of these times.
In physical form, these substances have immense capacity to destroy,
either by inducing serious or fatal illness or from the effects of nuclear
weapons, or from their capacity
to pervert the course of natural existence via damaging genetic change.
Yet, paradoxically, they can too offer hope for life, through radiotherapy
treatment for disease,
medical imaging for pathology that would otherwise be hidden, and in
homeopathic usage. These extremes of life and death are part of actinides’
themes. The realms they
are used for may not be physical: their challenges may involve extremes
of emotional or psychological suffering, the quest for spiritual survival in
the face of enormous
odds and when the costs are huge. If the battle is won, however, the
gains are great, releasing the patient from a life that is lived on the edge or
in shadow, captive to conditions that may seem hopeless or insurmountable.
Often, they can emerge with greater resilience or creativity; sometimes their
emergence from the suffering is miracle enough in itself.
Chernobyl
This polarity between the expression of health and disease is a feature of
the actinides and as in keeping with their position in the periodic table; not
for them the smaller
scale, more personally based stories of the higher series. The actinides
have pathologies that can seem utterly intransigent and may have their origins far
away in time and
space; the sinister instigating influences untraceable, the protagonists
faceless and unknown. Their stories may include genetic disorders, the effects
of intergenerational
and intercultural violence and abuse, suffering from nuclear,
electromagnetic, or environmental pollution, or trauma buried deep in the
subconscious from this lifetime
or others. The abuse may be on a corporate or government scale and cross
boundaries of nationality and terrain. The sufferers or their descendants may
never encounter
their abusers, as in the situation of victims of nuclear war, accidents,
or testing (Hiroshima, Chernobyl, the Pacific, and so on). Disorders may take
decades to emerge and
be slow to develop, as in the case of radiation induced cancer or
psychological trauma from previous abuse.
The full effects of the situation may not reveal itself for generations
to come. The pathology may be deep in the body, hidden from view -bone marrow
disorders, for example- insidiously affecting blood and immunity, the markers
of life force and its defence capability.
All actinides in a state of fast or slow decay (as described by their
half lives) and of transformation from one element into another. This
transformation is artificially achieved
in nuclear reactors with the creation of plutonium, the best known and
most powerful of the actinides, from uranium. Plutonium was named after Pluto,
the final planet known in the solar system at that time. (Interestingly,
another name proposed for plutonium was ultimium =
‘the ultimate element’). Plutonium is found at stage 8, which is concerned with
struggle and exercise of power, and most exemplifies the story of the
actinides. In Roman and Greek mythology, Pluto was the god of the underworld,
the dead, and riches. He was an all-powerful black-clad autocrat, merciless and
jealous, separate from the other gods. His kingdom was a cold dark shadowy
underground realm that was home to the dead, who gave up all rights and
personal power on entering his domain.
He ruled his world absolutely and could not be appeased or bargained
with. He fell in love with his niece Persephone, daughter of Ceres, and despite
opposition abducted
her by force, compelling her to live with him in the underworld, the
land of shadows, for a portion of the year. This devastation and loss to the
world created winter, where
all life seems to cease.
Persephone’s return to the world at the end of winter signals the
regeneration of spring, and life begins again. Thanks to Pluto’s cunning
deception, however, Persephone is condemned to return to the underworld at the
end of every autumn, and so the cycle endlessly repeats. Pluto is also known as
Hades, ‘the Invisible’. He is the god of riches, referring to the vast
storehouse of mineral reserves and mines underground, which is also home to the
actinides.
Pluto
This story is rich with imagery describing the themes of the actinides:
abuse of power and position, loss, devastation, amorality, profound
transformation, inexorability, cruelty, death, and transgression of boundaries
both moral and physical. There is powerlessness but the return to life as power
is regained. We see the conflict between light and dark, sacred and profane.
Ruthless selfish ego, acting from base or lower self motives, wreaks
havoc with far reaching and unforeseen consequences for many. The challenge for
the actinides is to exercise power with higher selfless motives, for the good
of all, and to conquer the dominion of their shadow aspect.
It is no accident that the discovery of the actinides and their
applications parallels the development of modern psychotherapy, with its
acknowledgement of self versus shadow, conscious versus unconscious. The power
of an unacknowledged shadow can be immensely destructive, until the light of
consciousness is shone upon it.
Often, actinides patients are struggling with either the darkness in
their own subconscious or the trauma created by the actions of another’s
shadow. Patients may describe
an immense sense of burden, responsibility, or karma; the ‘sins of the
fathers’ and issues passing through generations. The lanthanides can also have
this struggle and desire
to develop consciousness, but it is less intense and their sense of self
is more ambivalent, less vanquished or overreaching. For the actinides, the
struggle to free oneself from the effects of this oppression can be immense but
the rewards of this liberation are profound. The riches are in the form of
self-knowledge and personal empowerment, and
the ability to benefit others.
We also see themes of isolation, not necessarily by choice, which may in
patients be dictated by illness or complete breakdown and vulnerability. The
patient may be reclusive and feel not at ease in the world. In a healthy
actinide, withdrawal, time out, or a formal spiritual retreat may still be
necessary to maintain equilibrium and peace. They may need to remove themselves
totally from their environment, in order to heal or re-find themselves.
Actinides are fragile, volatile elements, in a state of transition and
decay, and prone to spontaneously setting alight in contact with the air. This
describes the fragile, unstable, and combustible patient, whose life can feel
in a constant state of instability, chaos, and threatened disintegration. This
energy may communicate to energy or power sources around them and electronic
devices may be prone to breaking down, light-bulbs shattering, and glass
breaking. Actinides as a group may have relationships to gem remedies, the lanthanides or aurum series, the bird family, Anacardium, and the AIDS nosode.
Illnesses are extreme and involve huge loss of power, function, and
freedom. Actinides patients may feel as
if they are living in a wasteland, or on the edge of existence.
They may feel not of this world, somewhere between life and death, as
indeed they may really be. Often, they have a translucent quality, or etherealism, not uncommon
in those approaching the end of life, or those with clairvoyant or
mediumistic abilities. For them the veil between this world and others is thin,
barriers disappear, and the invisible and hidden becomes visible. The world of
spirit may be more real than the physical plane they inhabit, and they may
struggle to be fully incarnate. These are also
the remedies of those with abilities to see, move energy, or heal at a distance.
They may see their work as the payment of a debt of some kind and can show
enormous
devotion to helping others in their healed state. The challenge is to
find their ability to live in this world, to transform and regenerate.
[Patricia Le Roux]
Therefore, this book shows very well, how the themes play out in
paediatrics. It extends our knowledge of Actinides by illustrating their
expressions in real life.
A significant theme of the Uranium series, the Actinides, is old age:
the years before death. In the casework, we see this expressed by the fact that
many children are raised
by their grandparents rather than their parents. These children are more
exposed with old age and the fragility that goes with it.
Another recurrent theme in the cases, is death of family members. The
deaths are often violent and include accidents and suicides. Early in life,
these children are confronted with death and disintegration. The disintegration
is also expressed in the family’s own disintegration after such violent deaths.
Death and disintegration are typical expressions of the Uranium series.
I can recommend this book to all homeopaths and not just paediatricians.
It shows that the Uranium series is much more common than one would think at
first.
These remedies are needed more than they are being prescribed today. We
can be thankful to Patricia Le Roux for making the pictures more precise, more
alive and thus, easier to apply. It belongs to the seventh series (Uranium
series).
[J. Scholten]
The following themes characterise this series: Energy, disintegration,
sense of responsibility; they attempt to act in spite of their doubts.
Sense of duty and control, very strong energy which must be channelled
or it becomes destructive, causing breakage and fragmentation.
High level of psychological maturity, old beyond their years, intuition.
It belongs to stage 4 and is the 2nd element in the Actinides
series.
According to Scholten, this stage is
characterised by the following:
They attempt to take the first step and fail.
Group Analysis
• The elements in this stage are: Titanium (Ti), Zirconium (Zr), Hafnium (Hf), Cerium (Ce), Thorium (Th).
• They have the following symptoms in common: The theme is the
foundation, the first step. They are starting to establish themselves; they
join the group, they are amazed.
Themes of the Actinides
• Energy - disintegration. Life and death.
• Intuition, magic, miracles.
• Serious illness, death, devastation, immorality.
• Intergenerational and cultural abuse.
• Explosion, decomposition.
• Breaking glass.
• Loss of power and function.
• Precocity, old beyond their years.
Oxydatum Element According to Jan Scholten
Selfishness, demanding.
They try to use their energy to obtain respect. They are very selfish and
try to control this. Often, they can be tough and resistant, in denial of their
needs.
Low self esteem
They must display their energy, in spite of their handicap.
They do this to gain respect, as they feel mentally and physically
diminished.
Abused, victim
They must display their energy (have been a victim in childhood).
Lazy, neglected, tramp (clochard).
They hide their inner world.
Characteristics of Thorium oxydatum
They take the 1st step even though they are fragmented, in
1000 pieces; they are selfish and demanding as well as being a victim. They are
lazy and adopt a marginal lifestyle, in spite of their maturity.
Clinical Case:
In 2008, L., age 13, is brought in for a depressive state that began at
the start of the school year. He comes from a family of three children, two
boys and a girl.
The family history is extremely difficult. His father was retired, 20
years older than his mother when the boy was born. Since the age of three this
boy has
suffered repeated sexual abuse by his father, who also abused his
sister.
When the abuse was discovered, the parents divorced and the father was
required to seek psychiatric help (theme of Oxydatum:
corruption).
In spite of this, the father committed another offence, and took his own
life in 1999, undoubtedly due to a deep sense of guilt. The family indeed
endured a series
of horrific events! The family went through a subsequent period of
disintegration. After some time, the mother managed to rebuild her life with a
very courageous man who embraced the family,
taking her and her three children under his wing, wounded and
disintegrated as they were.
It is December, 2008, nine years after the father’s death, and young L.
is covered with eczema, which began at the start of the school year. At night,
the itching torments him; his marks are going down, and the school alerts his
mother. This child is normally smiling and positive, full of energy and vigour
(theme: actinides). But now, any challenge seems enormous; the most minor test
or exam appears to be insurmountable to him. He does not even want to try
(theme: the first step, stage 4).
In addition, he is sinking into a destructive process; he feels
victimised, and suddenly becomes very dependent on others, relying on help from
them (theme: oxydatum).
Moreover, although he previously was quite aware of his physical
appearance, he is now letting himself go; he wears dirty clothes and looks as
unkempt as possible. He has difficult relationships with children of his own
age, yet he communicates well with adults and people older than himself (theme:
old beyond his years). He is not interested
in anything. Socially, he is totally withdrawn; he is grumpy and in a
permanently bad mood.
His food desires are not specific; he likes everything, but has been
eating less for some time.
First Prescription and Follow-Up Consultations
Thorium oxydatum 200C.
• Two months later, February 2009: The eczema has disappeared
completely. He is back to being clean and wearing good clothing. He is no longer
unkempt. The school sent home an encouraging note for the second trimester. He
receives a dose of Thorium oxydatum 1M.
• June 2009: He moves up to the next grade as usual.
Reasons for the Prescription
• Seventh series:
- Sense of duty, very strong energy, full of energy and very dynamic. A
strong notion of family disintegration present, along with severe pathologies,
suicide, and corruption.
• Stage 4: He cannot take the first step.
• Actinides:
- Energy - disintegration. Life and death.
- Intuition, magic, miracles.
- Serious illness, death, devastation,
immorality.
- Intergenerat ional and cultural abuse.
- Explosion, decomposition.
- Breaking glass.
- Loss of power and function.
- Precocity, old beyond their years.
• Oxide radical:
- Mentality of dependency.
- Notions of corruption, sexual abuse,
victimisation.
[Margriet Plouvier-Plouvier-Suijs
MD]
The hidden camera and the broken mirror
Six years ago during a course, I presented all I knew about the remedy
Uranium.
Over the years I have learned much more about the remedy and about other
remedies of the Uranium-series: I know Radium, Thorium, Neptunium and Plutonium
as homeopathic remedies as well. Because of my own constitution I might be
sensitive to recognize these pictures.
In my book `Aspecten van de Homeopathie’ (2002) I described the pictures of Radium,
Thorium, Uranium and Plutonium in the same way Jan Scholten
does in his book: ‘Homoeopathy and the Elements’. The Element-theory has great
value to me in understanding the symptoms of remedies compose the picture of
that remedy. By describing the pictures of the remedies from the
Uranium-series, I give my contribution to the Element-theory as far as I know.
We need the contribution of colleagues to complete it.
(Neptunium muriaticum as homeopathic remedy is
made and proven by Didier Lustig).
During the last four years my knowledge about the remedies has
increased.
I will describe the Uraniumseries as a group
and explain the possible etiology of the
remedy-picture.
The Actinides are the 7e series of the periodic system. Jan Scholten uses the word Uranium Series in his book
‘Homeopathy and the Elements’.
In summary the themes of the series in Jan Scholten's
book are:
Hydrogeniumseries: being, fetus,
space.
Carbonseries: ego, child, body.
Siliciumseries: friend, family, teenager.
Ironseries: worker, adult, village.
Silverseries: inventor, performer, middle age,
city.
Goldseries: leader, ripe age, country/world.
Central words for the Uraniumseries:
Altruism
Communication
Wisdom
Observe, perceive
Overview, transparency
Sensitivity, Sympathy, Compassion
Universal truths
Old age
Archetype: the testifier, the witness, the joker, the jester, the clown.
Altruism:
This is to be recognized in individuals like Mother Theresa: still at
old age she cared for children and people who are unknown in this world.
Nelson Mandela as well is a man who gave all his energy to change the
system in South Africa; although he was in prison for many years and suffered a
lot, he kept to his beautiful message for the world. In his altruism the energy
is never lacking. The only possible way to live is by giving.
To communicate:
They are very good in both verbal and non verbal communication. Also in
children this aspect is to be noticed: the language they use is not appropriate
for their age. Whatever they say, they say it precisely. Thus a child of five
years old said at the moment she splashed of anger and was send to her room:
“however then I’ll go to my chamber and I will never return, not to eat and
neither to drink!!" Catherine Coulter describes in I<>‘Psychological
Portraits’ about the remedy Lachesis and the picture
of a child with such sharp language. In the Actinides however, there is no
competitive element at all like there is in Lachesis.
Wisdom, intuition:
They are wise, not in the sense of clever, they have a wisdom which
shows insight. The appropriate sense is intuition. They are clairvoyant and
sometimes they simply know. They recognize if intuition is colored
by emotion and know the truth.
To observe, to perceive:
They see through people and their actions. They are adapted to several
cultures and they will seldom be surprised about what happens. They can imagine
every life-event even the most inconceivable. The aim of living is to try to be
in peace with each other. In the cycles of lives a quality has different
stages: we are victim, actor, indicter, judge, defender, we are condemned and
finally we regret. People who need an Actinide know these stages and do not
have any judgment. In observing the judgment is absent.
Overview, transparency:
They observe as if everything is transparent. They understand what is
going on at the moment they see it. They do not filter. This way of looking at
things is like using a hidden camera. People of old age and little children
observe the world around them in this way. The similarity of elder people and
children is that they do not react on the world they observe, they have no
emotion about it, they are objective and just watching. Observing is pure and
objective.
Old age:
The high age belongs to this series.
In old age it is appropriate to be withdrawn while you are present. They do not
intervene.
Physical complaints:
Cancer, bone marrow disorders, leukemia.
Congenital deviations, genetic deviations.
The hidden camera:
Jan Scholten has literally discovered the
Lanthanides for us, as homeopathic remedies they were unknown. In Boericke only one: Cerium Oxalicum.
Jan Scholten explains about the main theme of
the Lanthanides which is autonomy. Other themes are searching, going deep,
reflection. This all is to learn from his book: ‘Secret Lanthanides’.
I would like to add analysis and thinking to the themes he describes.
People who need Actinides do not use analysis. What ever they observe is
transparent; they know, insight and overview is there at the same moment. That
is the reason for me to compare this observing with the use of a hidden camera.
Observing is pure and objective.
These qualities of observation we are intent to learn in our profession
as a therapist. For practicing homeopathy Hahnemann recommends this objective
observation. In our practice it is a quality,
but in daily life this quality can cause big trouble. In daily life this
objective observation of how people deal with each other can be a painful
charge because of the sense of liability. Again and
again the question comes up: ‘what to do with the insight, the overview
and knowing?’ If all the tricks and playing games in human behavior
are transparent, how to react? The only way to live
with this quality is improve compassion.
The broken mirror:
Children are most illustrative in showing the picture of Actinides. In
general there is an etiologic moment in their life. I name this moment:
‘breaking the mirror’.
Development in the first year of a child:
Rapidly after birth the baby has eye contact with one of the parents,
generally with some kind of recognition. From that first eye contact the baby
has ‘imitating mimicry’. The parent and the baby reflect each other. Initially
the child identifies itself in this mirroring face. At the age of 9 months the
child is able to distinguish faces and indicates its preference, this is the
period of timidity. The child develops the possibility to remember the favorite face and give it a name, Mummy.
Thanks to memory the child becomes aware of more than one face at the
same time, mummy and daddy. This is the awareness of the triangle; father,
mother and child. Up to that time the child was one unit with the mother. In the
unity communication is non-verbal. At the time the child is aware of the
triangle, it begins to talk.
Thanks to the awareness of the triangle the child will notice his own
individuality. At the age of three years old the child uses the word ‘I’ for
himself. At the same age the set of milk teeth are complete, the fontanel is
closed, the child is able to jump on the ground and he says “I”: I want and I
don’t want.
In the course of the first years everything the child is doing is
learned by imitation. In that mirror it recognizes itself. When, however, by a
dramatic event in those early years the parents cannot handle the situation,
the mirror can be broken. From that moment on the child will no longer imitate
the parents.
At that moment an Opium or Aconitum or other remedy-layer can come or
cover up.
Etiology of the Actinide:
If the remedy that is needed is an Actinide, something else will happen
at the moment of the dramatic event. Let us look at the moment of the first eye
contact between mother and child, this is a moment of recognition.
We are able to recognize someone we use to know in a former life. If we,
as human beings, reincarnate it is possible that the mother recognizes the new
born child and reverse.
Sometimes the incarnation is one of an old soul. At the moment of a
dramatic event, the moment the parents are not able to handle the situation
this incarnating part in the child takes the lead in the child’s life. The
personality that learns how to do by imitating others, babies-nature, will disappear.
From that moment on the identity of that old wise person raises in the child.
That person will help the parents to come to themselves, but afterward it is
possible that this state in the child continues.
This is visible in the social behavior and in
the language the child uses. New words heard by him or her are immediately used
in the correct context. For instance; a mother said to her daughter of 2 years
old: “you shouldn’t show off” and the little girl answered: "No, actress,
no!”.
The disadvantage for the child in this condition is that his childish
expression disappears, for the mother it is not appropriate to have this wise
guy on her lap.
After the correct use of the Actanide-remedies
for these children they regain their childish behavior.
In the history of adults who need an Actinide, I have seen this trauma
in their childhood and saw the disadvantage of growing up in such a state. As
infant or toddler they lost the contact with their own inner child. They have
no experience in quarrelling and standing up for themselves. The ‘wise elder
person’ inside them did not allow the kind of childish behavior.
For adults the correct application of an Actinide ‘brings the child back’ to
life. From that moment on a process develops in which I saw the growing of a
resistance, like children during early childhood.
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