Animals Anhang 2

[Massimo Mangialavori]

Animals: The Final Synthesis of Evolution

Animals are the most evolved creatures according to phylogeny [= is the study of evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms (e.g. species, populations)],

which are discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices). From unicellular organisms to the most complex animals.

The anthropocentric perspective of humans lead “man” to behave to often as the “consumer” of our system.

A strange king with the power of defining even the hierarchy of nature

According to other cultures the origin of the universe involves belief in a systemic idea of nature: man, animals, plants, fungi, minerals are integrated parts of our system.

A biological system is not the same if even one part of it is missing.

A system is in a more balanced and healthy state according to the conditions and the interactions of all its parts

There are several reasons why the most common “medicines” came from vegetables.

Easier to find even in the wilderness

Easier to cultivate

Observations of animals (using Chel., Arum-t. ..)

Common use as nutrients

Easier to prepare, to store and to use.

Ethical reasons which can make it difficult to “use” animal parts

Sophisticated concept to introduce a mineral into the body

… Some possible other reasons ….

The desire and the importance to go on a quest (= spezielle Suche mit Elan) for a medicine.

For this reason many medicinal plants grow in the wild and later on even importes from distant countries.

In many shamanic cultures the medicine man does not know the healing remedy and begins to seek in the forest in an

Altered state of consciousness …

… Some more …

The animal world is to close to our human being.

The mineral world is to distant from what we are.

Often the content of our anguish and dreams can be inanimate (no-anima, no-soul), like possible blocked or unexpressed emotional life.

Often animals are common images of our dreams and anguish. The most dangerous and threatening are animals

distant from us in the phylogenetic state.

Very often animals are used as totem images in many cultures.

So much so that often the non-animal and non-mineral can easily be part of our inner world.

The plant world is easier to be integrated.

Often animals are the projection of our emotions and anguish.

Often they are a symbol of something which has very little to do with the so-called “Reality”

…. Think about the …

Wolf/killer whale/Tarentula/Lady bird/Ant and cicade …

Even animals without any real use

Certain animals are such clear images of us that some cultures with domesticated animals, selected and transformed them as they liked (dog and cat as “affectionate” ones).

Studying an animal remedy requires a good balance.

It is easy to fall into anthropomorphic projection (Disney).

It is easy to fall into a limited approach which considers a substance only from a biological-biochemical perspective (Apis, Tarentula, Lacs etc.)

These two extreme positions can lead to an antithetic and apparently different understanding, where diversity is not an enriching perspective but an opposite one.

In this way diversity becomes a limitation of thinking.

With the wealth of knowledge about the substances, it is limiting to exclude all the information beyond which comes from the homeoprhic proving. Limiting is the consideration that the proving is the only or the best possible way to study substance.

Probably it is better to remember where our pharmacopoeia comes from.

Our Western tradition is a development of medicine which grew in the mediterranean area and influenced by Egyptians, Greeks, Middle Easterns,

Romans and Arabs.

Had our pharmacopoeia come from China we would probably have many more animal remedies.

H. used traditional sources with clear evidence from previous medical literature. Mainly from alchemy which used very few animal remedies,

The access to this information was available only to qualified experts. One of the most important aspects of H.’s genius was to search for a rational demonstration of previous information; to select and combine a logical with an analogical approach, according to alchemical knowledge and intuition. It was a renowned effort in tune with its time.

H. was not only a genius but a scientist of the Enlightenment era.

When the Western culture had to found a science based upon a precise methodological and rational basis.

H. demonstrated his wide open mind; H. did not exclude what worked even without being able to fully explain how it worked.

Studying animal remedies it is easier to recognize a “living part” of the substance, then in plants of minerals.

The philosophical meaning of “Vitalism”

The idea of Vitalism is rooted in many cultures. It has more to do with a physic’s paradigm than a biochemical one.

The concept of something “alive” in everything was a way to describe the concept, every substance is a specific organisation of the “material”.

A very well known concept in alchemy recognized that the calcium carbonate of an oyster is different from that of the coral, and of calcareous

rocks and other forms of this chemical compound.

A hoemopathic remedy is not just a name.

Calcarea carbonica is the shell of an oyster

Natrum muriaticum is the dried salt from sea water

Aurum metallicum is also not a pure element

This concept is very well known and allowed many different cultures to use an analogical and then empirical knowledge about many substances

…. like ……..

Digitalis

Willow bark

Taxus

Colchicum

Cinchona bark

Originally the concept of Signature was not so different from the concept of Similar.

The concept of signature changed dramatically with the evolution of the western culture from the analogical to a more logical approach to nature.

The Enlightenment was the turning point in our culture.

At the time Analogy was dramatically impoverished to a single attribute of substance instead of the analogy of a process.

Which is like reducing a movie to one picture, a poem to one word, a remedy to one concept.

H. returned dignity to the old concept of similitude and did his best to demonstrate it.

H. clarified that similarity is a complex model, not based on single symptoms but upon an Organisation of symptoms.

Similarity is a coherent organisation of symptoms.

An original and rational model to investigate a substance through the proving and the demonstration of efficacy in clinical experience.

The remedy is not just the result of the proving: to call it “remedy” we also need substance

A good proving

A good analysis of the proving

Good clinical confirmation of what is really important, reliable and characteristic of this possible remedy after significant observation (time, number of cases etc.)

A peculiarity of the animal remedies is that their survival strategies are more easily observed.

This is one of the basics of the process of analogies and similitude.

The theoretical structure of the Method of Complexity

A coherent study of the substance, researching the “survival strategies” of every substance

A coherent organization (themes) of the symptoms from the proving and the reliable clinical experiences. Search for possible coherence by studying the substance.

A definition of the fundamental, the most important, “themes” of the remedy.

The possible relation with other remedies based on the possible common themes (concept of homeopathic family).

A reliable clinical confirmation with a long term follow-up.

The substance: Oleum animale = Dippel’s oil (= Bone oil), invented by Johan Conrad Dippel

… as a process, an adaptive strategy to exist as it is

… which relations exist between this substance and humans in different fields

… what is the reason to study it

Oleum animale: a nitrogenous by-product of the destructive distillation manufacture of bone char. A liquid, dark colored, highly viscous, smell unpleasant. Enthält Pyrrol.

Inventor: Dippel who discovered also the proporties of nitroglycerin. Used it as substitute of potassium carbonate to produse red dye, this produced Preussisch Blau”. There are many legend around Mr. Dippel. He lived on Frankenstein, where

Uses: sheep dip, animal repellent, insecticide. Seen as panacea.

Source: Stag’s horns thrown of in winter (= more bone-like than horns of cattle/which are permanent)

After rectification the liquid is slightly yellow, thin, oily, penetrating, but not disagreeable odor and an acrid burning taste, which changes to a cool and bitter one.

It darkens and thickens on exposure to air and light, and is extremely volatile.

A drop on paper evaporates without leaving a greasy stain.

Has an extremely complex position, it may be regarded to belong to the group of volatile carbons.

Proved by Nenning, Schreter and Trinks.

Leitsymptom: Stitches and pressure in all directions (from behind forward)

Substance: Bone char (= bone black/= animal charcoal) is produced by calcinating animal bones: the bones are heated to high temperatures in the absence of air to drive off volatile substances. It consists mainly of calcium phosphate and little carbon.

Bone char has a very high surface area and a high absorptive capacity von lead, mercury and arsenic.

Traditional use of bone char:

Egypt: removes demons during headache.

Dioscurides: … 2 spoons daily > diarrhea, hemophtoe, burning pain in the stomach, catarr of the bladder. As powder > menses, eyes

ulcers.

Scotland, Highlands: wounds of stag’s horn is very dangerous, difficult to cure. Often causes extreme debility and bad health.

Dog becomes paralytic or epileptic; or a wise dog becomes perfectly stupid.

Removes fluoride from water (aquarium). Refining sugar for decolorizing.

Mythen:

Egypt: The symbol of the cosmos and the mother of the sun was symbolized as a large horned female doe, often shown carrying the sun

between her horns. Sometimes the sun itself was symbolized as a stag = the sun of the doe in the legend.

Hellas: Actaeon followed a stag and came upon the valley where Artemis was bathing. Artemis was furious and turned Actaeon into a stag.

Celtic mythology: magical, can move between the worlds. Humans are transformed into deer.

The antlers are compared to tree branches, may represent fertility. Antlers are shed yearly and re-grown every year, may symbolize

rejuvenation and rebirth.

Spain, Andalusia: stag’s horn is a talisman. Children wear s silver-tipped horn by a braided cord made from the hair of a black mare’s tail, against the “evil eye”.

Repertory:

Proving symptoms

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Clinical symptoms

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Confirmed clinical symptoms

Withdrawal

Mind: Absent-minded

Absorbed. Buried in thought

Abstraction of mind

“As if in a dream”

Dulls, sluggish, thinking and comprehending difficult

Indolent, aversion to work

Introspection

Introverted

Meditation

Prostration of mind, mental exhaustion, brain fag

Senses dull, blunted, vanishing

Sits still, silent

Talking indisposed to, desires to be silent, taciturn

Thoughts vanishing, lost

Unconscious, in coma (transient)

Vertigo: On waking

Head: “As if numb”

Pain < mental exertion

Ear: “As if stopped”

Hearing: Lost

Nose: Obstructed

Face: Paralysed

Mouth: Taste: Insipid, watery, flat

Limbs: Numb, insensible (fingers)

Sleep: Prolonged

Sleepy, inclined to lie down, and morose

Yawning frequently

Dream: country, beautiful/unremembered

Generalities: Faintness, fainting tendency (with vertigo)

Congestion

Head: Congestion, hyperemia (entering room/in occiput)

Constriction (< evening in bed/in temples)

Heat in general (afternoon/evening/forehead/temples/and cold hands/and hot hands/”As from warm vapor”)

Heaviness

Pulsating, beating, throbbing [after dinner/< sitting/in sides (after dinner)]

Ear: Pulsation

Face: red (l./and cold/without fever)

Hot burning (and red l. side/cheek bones/chin)

Stomach: “As if full” (”As from water)

Heat flushes (ext. over chest)

Pain burning (ext. to chest)

Abdomen: Heat ( after soup)

Chest: Congestion, hyperemia

Burning (in mammae/in the middle)

Bursting (sneezing)

Sensation of warmth

Back: Heat (in cervical region)

Pulsation (in sacral region)

Limbs: Heat [in upper limbs/in hand (in palm)/in foot (insole)]

Skin: Burning

Generalities: Flushes of heat (“As if room is hot/in climacterium/”As if hot wind blowing on parts”)

Burning externally

Pulsation (ex-/internally)

Pulse full

Burning

Eye: burning, smarting, biting [morning (on waking)/evening (by candle light)/< open air/< candle light]

Ear: Heat (“As if escaping”)

Face: Heat [burning (and l. side red)/during chilliness]

Pain [burning (l.)/cheek bones/chin]

Stomach: Pain, burning (ext. chest)

Abdomen: Pain, burning

Male organs: burning [(root of) penis]

Limbs: burning [in forearm (> rubbing/anterior part/posterior part)/in fingers (1^st/thumb)/ankle (malleolus (l./internal)/foot (sole (in

afternoon/> walking))]

Fever: Burning heat (“like sparks”)

Skin: Pain, burning

Obstruction/Suffocation

Nose: “As if vapour rising”

Throat: Choking, constricting (morning/evening)

“As if foreign body”/”As if a plug”/”As if skin hanging in throat”/”As if vapour, fumes internally”

Spasms, spasmodic constriction, convulsions (nervous)

Swallowing difficult

External throat: Constriction

Stomach: Eructations ineffectual and incomplete

Larynx and Trachea: Constriction [of larynx (in evening]

Laryngismus stridulous

Respiration: Asthmatic (from suppressed foot sweat/hay asthma/nervous)

Difficult – ascending/from obstructed flatulence/< lying (on back)

Impeded, obstructed [from flatulence/< lying (on back)]

Chest: Constriction, tension, tightness (middle)

Oppression (ascending/> passing flatus

Stiffness/Block

Back: Pain “As if the back would break”

Stiffness (in cervical region)

Tension (cervical region)

Limbs: Paralysis [upper limbs (l./”As if paralysed”)/in lower limbs (l.)]

Stiffness [lower limbs (< walking)/Knee (< walking)]

Tension (in thigh/in knee)

Walking – infirm/shuffling

Pain paralytic (in foot)

Ineffective

Mind: Cowardice

Rectum: Constipation – difficult stool/ineffectual urging and straining

Pain – Tenesmus

Urging, desire anxious

Bladder: Pain – tensmus

Urging to urinate, morbid desire

Urinating in thin stream

Urine: Scanty (and frequent)

Male organs: Ejaculations, seminal discharge premature, too quick

Erections troublesome (in morning half asleep/disturbing sleep/without sexual desire/without erotic thoughts)

Speech and voice: hoarseness/lost/whispering

Hypochondria

Mind: Anxiety - in chest (with shuddering)/during fever/with heat/hypochondriacal/with palpitation

Frightened easily

Hypochondriasis

Sadness, despondency, melancholy - during chill/during headache

Vertigo: with heart symptoms

Head: < thinking of pain

Clinical evidence:

Long term follow-up cases

Information and Themes

Used in traditional medicine and alchemy for headaches and we now call neurological diseases

Symbol of the stag’s horns: loss of masculine power

Common pathologies:

Headache – frontal/digestive

Recurrent otitis, hearing impaired

Parasthesia, numbness, pruritis sine material

Inflamed nerves, radiculitis, trigeminus

Teeth agenesia, jaw articulation

Fainting, convulsions (clonic)

Depressive withdrawal

Corpus Perceptions

Lower part cold with hot upper part

Energy moving upwards

Piercing penetrating pain, often from the back

Rigidity, blocked, broken

Desire for rubbing

Foreign bodies often < sense of suffocation

Fullness, congestion, heaviness versus emptiness

Offensiveness, repulsive

Possible main anguish

Unable to satisfy father’s expectation

Ineffective efforts

Being rejected

Additions to repertory from 6 long term follow-ups cases for more than 5 years with the same remedy:

Mind: Anger, irascibility, tendency – with himself/over own mistakes

Too much concern about his physical appearance

Self destructive

Reproaches himself (he has accomplished enough)

Slowness (in motion)

Head: Pain chronic (maddening/neuralgic/piercing/penetrating

Ear: Discharge offensive

Inflamed middle recurrent (middle ear)

Tympanum perforated

Hearing: Impaired (> after removal of earwax)

Smell: Odors imaginaryand real: burnt

Face: Acne

Teeth: Agenesia

Back: Acne

Heaviness, weight (cervical/lumbar region)

Pain – “As if broken”/neuralgic in spine

Sleep: Deep/prolonged (not refreshing)

Dreams: Of animals [escaping (because of fire)/wild]

Of fire (causing danger)/being soaked in rain/storms

Surgery

Generals: Convulsions – after anger/from emotions

Food and drinks: Aversion to meat;

Numbness in single parts

Numbness causes suffering

Pain – intolerable/lancinating/neuralgic (from anger)

Broken bones heal slowly

Possible relating homeopathic families:

The concept of “families” a possible evolution in homeopathic thought

The idea of families is just a perspective

Possible families:

Miasmas

Kingdoms

Scientific classifications (Botany) (good reasons to use these, but not only according to the homeopathic thought model)

Typologies

Organisation of similar themes and symptoms

DD.: Drugs, Aether. Agar. Anh.

Bufo

Cann-i. Coca. Conv-d.

Iboga

Lact-v.

Nab.

Op.

Penth. Pip-m. Psil.

Horizontal relations of Oleum animale (the substance)

Animal: Cervus. Moschus.

Oils (from animals): Ol-j. Lec. Ichth. Pix-l.

Carbons: Carb-an. Carb-v. (carb-m.) Graph. Adam. Germ-met. Carbn-s. Carb-ac.

Vertical relation (according to fundamental themes of Ol-a.):

Some Rutaceae: Ang. Xan. Ptel. Dict.

Some Fabaceae: Dol. Der. Lath. Mim-p.

Some Silica-like: Cast-eq. Bamb-a. Equis. Sphing.

Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum