Comparison Salix fragilis (Sal-f)
with Others
[Marisa
Laguna]
Ignatia. and Salix fragilis
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Common
Symptoms: alternate states, mental and emotional, changing mood
Discontented,
sad, self-absorbed, dwell on the past, dwell on sadness.
Want of
confidence. Irresolute, indecisive. If we study punishment, correlated to their
anxiety of consciousness, Ignatia and Salix Fragilis share these delusions: that they will go crazy,
that they will be criticized or persecuted, that they are pregnant, both
perceive ghosts and fear thieves. They also present ailments for loss of loved
ones, for unresponded love, outrage, mortification,
and reproach.
Both can
manifest want of sex desire and painful coition.
How they
differ:
Ignatia
can present symptoms related to their perception of their disease and religious
themes. Both themes are not present in
Salix fragilis. Remember Ignatia
fears disease or has the sensation of being sick or having a fatal disease,
feeling desperate to recover and in the religious sphere: anxious about
salvation, with excessive religious scruples. Ignatia
is hypersensitive and paradoxical. Finds it difficult to express their
suffering.
Kent says
paradoxical is the opposite of expected. Ignatia is
affectionate, but rejects comforting- they present constipation with soft stool
or their angina gets better when eating solids. Ignatia
is nostalgic, sensitive to injustice. Does not feel forsaken.
Salix fragilis differs from Ignatia in
their feeling of splitting and antagonism. They do not bring up disease or
religion, they feel forsaken and teary. They isolate themselves from their
environment and get better when comforted.
Anacardium.. and Salix fragilis:
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Repertorization of the core mental symptoms of Salix Fragilis:
Self-Antagonism;
confused about identity, with feeling of duality; want of confidence; forsaken,
and anxiety of consciousness.
Only one
remedy answers to these symptoms: Anacardium.
Stramonium
and Thuja share the same symptoms, but they are not
antagonistic.
Naja also
shares the same symptoms, but does not feel forsaken or isolated.
Shared
Symptoms:
Antagonistic,
confused about their identity: with feelings of duality, sensation of having
two wills. With delusion of splitting body.
As regards their want of confidence, they share the fear of failure,
feeling of failure and inadequacy. Irresolute.
Intellectual deficit: weak memory, with difficult concentration.
They want
comfort, they are sad patients, better with weeping. Jealous and clairvoyant.
Can show themselves separate from the world, indifferent. Condescending and
self-loathing. Delusion of going mad,
sensation of seeing ghosts or that someone is behind them. They fear being
alone, or failing, or thieves. Death is one of the themes they share:
Anarcadium:
delusion of being dead, that liin in a coffin, see
dead people, or foresee death, dreams with coffins,with
graves, with dead people. Can manifest a suicidal disposition or wish to kill.
Salix Fragilis: present feelings related to death, dream with
slaughterhouses (E), dream with death or dying; dream with murder.
Differential
Symptoms:
As regards
the splitting or separation, between both remedies, you can perceive a
different tone when reading the two provings; Salix Fragilis feels isolated from their environment, related to
feeling forsaken and alienated.
“I had
stopped going to my Buddhist group when we first took the remedy (with which I
have been involved for some years) because when I last went after taking the
remedy I felt alienated, as if
I did not
belong. I also felt like that when I went to a Graduation Ceremony. I felt very
alone, isolated and not part of the group. I slunk off and cried all the way
home because I felt so lonely”.
06P 00 XX.XX
NS.
In Anacardium, duality has an ethical tenor, one face is good,
the other bad.
They don’t
know whether they are behaving well or badly, this makes them think they don’t
do anything right. This may be the point where they feel divided. Their
separation from the world correlates with their want of confidence, not with
feeling forsaken.
At a general
level, Anacardium feels better of eating, physically
and mentally.
Present
tropism in digestive system and skin. Interestingly, in botany, both trees are angiospermous dicotyledon. This
means they develop two cotyledons in the embryo. (Arboles
Ibéricos, 2013).
Platina. and Salix fragilis
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At EMHA (Ecuela Médica Homeopática
Argentina), we studied what remedies, other than polychrest,
could be considered in the differential diagnosis with Platina.
Repertorization of symptoms: haughty, contemptuous
and dictatorial were found in: Salix Fragilis, Ignis Alcoholis, Succinum, Chironex Fleckeri, Lac Leoninum and
Uranium Metallicum.
Platina
and Salix Fragilis: both share:
Forsaken with
feeling of isolation; with indifference towards loved ones.
Anxiety of
consciousness. Sad, thoughts of death.
They cry for
anger or admonition.
They think
they are great persons, they feel possessed, they see ghosts or spirits; they
feel controlled by a supernatural being.
They can
manifest dictatorial, contemptuous, disdainful.
They dance
and they are jealous. They lose their way in well-known roads. They are clumsy
and drop things. They present ailments: for outrage, unresponded
love, death of a loved one.
However,
Salix Fragilis is different mainly on feeling
self-antagonistic.
Want of
confidence, with fear of failing; want of sexual desire and aversion to
coition.