Ficus macrophylia = Moreton Bay Fig
Vergleich: Repertory:
Siehe: Rosales + Bonsaigruppe + Baumgruppe.
[Alistair Sinclair]
HOMEOPATHIC PROVING of FICUS MACROPHYLLA
Australia for the amount of shade they provide in the summer. Like other
trees, this one bleeds and there are characteristic tear streaks of gum like
material on the trunks of the Morton Bay Fig.
The dark green glossy/leathery leaves are about 20cm by 8cm in size and
bear companionship to the bounty of the tree, the Fig. The fruit of the Moreton Bay Fig as with the fig family in general, ripens
all year round, and is quite unique in that it also doubles as the tree’s
flower. If dissected, close inspection of the spotty purple fig will reveal
something that looks as though the flower and stamens therein have been turned
in on itself, or inside out. On closer inspection of this spotty purple fig,
one may also find a nest of minute wasps. These wasps may use the fig fruit as
their home and humidicrib, but they also serve to
continue the lineage of the Moreton Bay Fig tree. It
is interesting to note (if one is interested in the sex life of plants) that
most of the fig [= ficus] species has its own unique
'in house' wasp species.
These wasps seem to have exclusive rights to the pollination of the Fig
tree. This is by way of a quite fascinating sequence. The female wasps enter
the fig via the opening and lay their eggs into specialised sterile female
flowers, the eggs hatch and the larvae live off the flower tissue. This
nourishment takes them to adulthood, whence they mate, the wingless males then
die without ever leaving the fig and seeing the outside world (as most male
insects are want to do after sex), and the females leave the fig by way of an
exit opening populated with male flowers. The female wasp is dusted with pollen
by the male flowers on her way out and flies off in search of another fig to
pollinate, lay her eggs and begin the whole cycle again.In
the wild the sapling of the ficus macrophylla
often begins its life growing on the trunk of another species of fig, which due
to the growing roots soon becomes strangled and smothered by it.
Australian Aborigines found many uses for the Fig tree long before European
settlement. In fact many of these uses of the tree were taken up by the
settlers following the Aboriginal example. Not only was the fig eaten (=
withstanding wasp) as a vegetable, or pound to a paste, possibly whilst under
the shade of the tree, the milky sap which exudes from the tree when cut was
used as a medicine to treat infections and dress small wounds. This is quite
fascinating as often this sap that is common to all fig trees is found to be an
irritant when it comes in contact with the skin.
Other records show that the inner bark of the fig tree was used to make
cloth. In the Brisbane district the Aborigines used the root and bark of the
Morton Bay Fig as a source of cordage for bags and fish nets. Often the
branches as well as the bark were utilised for the manufacture of dug-out
canoes. The bark of the tree has been described as a dark to greyish brown, and
smooth, ideal for the above purposes, as well as having numerous blister type
marks and small scales scattered all over it.
The first historical and botanical record of the Moreton
Bay Fig tree was taken by Sir Joseph Banks. Banks was the official botanist
accompanying Captain James Cook on his exploratory voyage along the east coast
of Australia (1770). Banks mentions the Morton Bay Fig in his Endeavour
Journal, Volume II, and noted in his journal the unique structure and
inhabitation of the fig, whilst Cook noted the contours of what he later named Moreton Bay. James Cook first 'discovered' the area in 1770
and named it after James Douglas, Earl of Morton, President of the Royal
Society in 1764 and one of the Commissioners of Longitude. European settlement
commenced in 1824 (the first in Queensland), and from this time to 1839, the
bay was actually the site of a penal colony. Up until 1859, when Queensland
separated from the colony of New South Wales,
the whole of what came to be known as Queensland was referred to as the Moreton Bay District. Aborigines had occupied the area for
thousands of years prior to this time. Moreton Bay,
itself, is a large shallow, mud and sand shoaled bay on the south-east coast of
Queensland. With Brisbane situated on its banks, the bay measures about 90 kms north to south and about 30 kms
east to west. The eastern side of the bay is formed by the two islands of Moreton and North Stradbroke,
while the western edge of the bay is formed by the Brisbane suburb of Redcliff,
Deception Bay and Bribie Island. Several rivers also drain into the bay.
(Thanks to Michelle Carnachon)
AN IMPRESSION OF MORETON BAY FIG
The immediate signature of the tree in its current and natural
environment suggests protection from the fierceness of the Australian summer.
Any Australian child will tell you stories of playing in the roots and root
systems of the Morton Bay Fig in the summer, and nowadays at any time of the
year, there are literally hundreds of kids playing in the root systems of these
trees on the Australian beach water fronts.
Strikingly, and in comparison with other trees we use in Homeopathy, the
Morton Bay Fig is not tall, the branches only just out of reach of the human
hand, the first branches shoot parallel to the ground in all directions and
cover a distance of up to half a football field. For our purposes in Homeopathy
the remedy is instantly sycotic. There is gum and
there are discharges.
THEMES FROM THE PROVING OF MORETON BAY FIG
MIND: Ungrounded and floating
There was a profound feeling of ungroundedness.
There was a feeling of floating in air.
Provers felt incredibly grounded or
completely ungrounded.
One prover experienced grounding after eating.
Another prover had an air feeling in her head,
air head, the head was full of air.
Provers felt spacey, there was the delusion
that there was air in the head and it felt like on drugs.
"I am up there above my body" said one prover.
(Compare Anacardium and Thuja)
• Spacey. Was very busy all day and felt 'spacey' a little light headed
(even faint a couple of times).
Air in the head
The sensations were spacey and vague and very detached. There was a
space between the mind and the body, between the head and the body, a
separation of the head. (Compare Thuja) There was air
in the head.
• I feel a bit air headed (light headed), on the way home as my mind
feels airy.
Speediness
• A feeling of being woolly headed. Its as if I was on cannabis. My mind
is going around in circles, above my head,
There was a sensation as if drinking lots of coffee – rushing and
shaking of the head, fuzzy and buzzy in the head.
• I am totally out of it on drugs.
One prover described that the mind went in
circles in the air and then settled back into the head. In the head there were
headaches on the right side of the head, as if a band, heavy eyes. And the
modalities were around cold air. Applications and anything cool made the head
the eyes and the ears better.
• I am laughing and speeding. I am wired as if I have had coffee.
• I'm feeling restless and irresolute about going home. Feeling in an
altered state like I'm on drugs.
Senses are acute, i.e eyesight.
• At work I'm feeling edgy and not grounded, like I've had a strong
coffee. Scattered can't focus on one thing, get distracted, focus on one thing,
get distracted easily, not finishing the chores set out for me today at work
before starting another one.
• Feeling speedy, shaky as if had a few coffees. Busy like a bee with my
work, but this time actually getting stuff done and quickly (NS, unless I have
had coffee) however
I find myself sometimes stopping everything and staring into space as if
in a daze (NS).
• Jumpy and on edge. Out all night and felt as if on speed, stomach all
knotty, eyes wide open and so tired, everything was altered, very very sensitive, getting on so friendly with everyone. A bit
impatient and can't get my sentences together, sentences are broken.
• Hurried and on the go, buzzing, can't sit still, restless. A bit
spacey you could say, not grounded at all. The most grounded I have been is at
the ocean after a swim.
Irritable
Very irritable, very impatient, short tempered.
• I feel so agitated towards everyone.
Calmness
Feeling calm and peaceful.
• Like a veil coming off me.
Assertiveness
Provers stood up for themselves for the
first time and experienced "growing into who I am". One prover was more confrontational, and where previously would
never have said anything was now happy to confront.
SHELTER COMPASSION HEALING PARENTING
Consistent themes to emerge from the proving were those of shelter,
compassion, mothering, protection and connection with children. A male prover experienced strength in the veins of the arm while
the maternal, nurturing, protective aspects of the tree emerged also. Dreams of
healing, dreams of mothering, and dreams of the Guru. All provers
had experiences of nurturing and compassion, of being obsessed with compassion
for animals and the treatment of sick people. Imagery of the mother and the
grandmother consistently came to the fore.
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES
Constant images, dreams and thoughts of schools, places of learning and
universities by the sea. The imagery is consistently around cathedrals,
universities and schools.
OCEAN AMELIORATES
Provers were better at the ocean, better
from the beach and water and swimming,
• A bit spacey you could say, not grounded at all. The most grounded I
have been is at the ocean after a swim.
AGGRAVATION 14 h.
The aggravations were between two and two thirty in the afternoon when,
it was postulated, the sun is at its zenith and hottest bearing out the
protective theme of the remedy.
CLEAN
Another theme to emerge was the necessity to clean and do so
fastidiously. 60% of provers had the necessity to
clean.
SPLIT
• Have sensation the (right) side of body is quite different to the left
side. Feel almost split down the middle with a heavier sensation to the
(right).
ANIMALS
• At a beach where there are a lot of families and pets I notice I have
this warm connection with the animals, playing and talking with them more than
I would normally.
One dog came up to me out of the blue and just smiled at me. More than
ever, dogs and cats, coming up to me and smiling and waving their tails.
• I have observed how at lunch time today I helped ants carry their
crumbs to their hiding holes. I had a lot of compassion for them, this animal
thing, I was watching them, carrying crumbs, I picked up the crumb and carried
it to its hole,
NURTURING
• We were given a case history to diagnose. I was quite upset with this
mother's lifestyle. She was smoking when pregnant and on the pill when
breast-feeding. It made me really angry and felt that it was a severe injustice
to her child. I don't usually get this opinionated about things. I have been so
opinionated, other peoples incompetence triggers it.
• Dream, In Morocco with E again, and her child this time a 3 boy who
again is very intelligent and talks like a 12 year old. His face is very
expressive and we have a warm connection. We both look
over him as he plays by a pool then suddenly I see him play too close to
the water and he falls in.E doesn't seem to be startled,
she is unexpressive, but I panic and jump in
to save him fully clothed.
We walk out drenched into a restaurant full of people to go to our room
to get changed. I'm feeling very self-conscious of every one staring.
• Dream of girlfriend with leukemia ringing me
and telling me she's in remission for 3 years. I say how pleased I am but fear
it is a false alarm and that she will stop her natural therapies and get sick.
• Dream, I was with a little girl child that looks like I did when I was
little. I was nurturing to the children in my dream. One had a rash on her face
and ask for my help she spoke as if an 8-year-old but she looked about 2y.o. I
responded with warmth and gave her a big hug.
• Dream, I had a dog that needed treatment at the pound for some reason.
I started getting worried/paranoid that the pound would take it away for
experiments. I started panicking because I found this to be true and I felt
horribly responsible for letting my dog go there.
DRYNESS
The theme of dryness runs through the whole remedy. Dryness of the
throat and itching of the ears and of the head. There was dryness in all the
parts.
HEAD
• Dull headache
• Lightness in the head.
• Fuzzy
• Right side, throbbing and hot
• Feeling very speedy, spacey with heaviness over my eyes as if
increased pressure. The right eye is weepy
• Headache both sides of head like a clamp, also back of head.
• Felt as though someone is patting me on the top of my head.
• Sharp pains down into my left side like a meat cleaver, from behind.
Its been travelling all around throbbing, pulsing. > lying on a hot water
bottle
• A head sensation as if someone put a tight band around my head, lasted
for a couple of days, felt like pulling the band off, there was no pain but so
annoying.
Tight feeling – no pain.
• I feel a r.-sided headache moving to the back of my neck, occipital,
and the back of my head on the right side.
• I feel as though I have been hit in the back of the head
• I feel a pressure pain in the right temple radiating to the top of my
head upon rising.
EAR
• Notice my left ear very hot.
• Notice (left) ear itchy and a bit hot and red
• Itchy left ear, felt numb, a bit swollen and as if something was in it
• My right ear is clicking in and out of being blocked.
• My right ear feels blocked again as the air conditioner in the room is
noisy and the sound is annoying it
NOSE
• My nose was dripping like a tap for a whole day after I made the
remedy, like hayfever, I went through I whole tissue
box....it lasted for days.
• Runny nose.
• I feel my nose blocked with mucus like a head cold, on rising.
• My nose feels like it is constantly running with clear mucus, while
walking around.
• As soon as I took the remedy out of my pocket I have had a headache,
and a cold runny nose.
NECK
• Throughout this proving I had an incredibly sore neck, in fact months
later it doesn't feel as if it is attached to my back or head properly, neck
stiffness.
• Stiffness in my neck up to my skull, not my usual neck tension. Seemed
connected to the fuzzy head feeling
• Tightness and neck tension. Upper throat and all around jaw
SKIN
• Four months after the proving my skin is so so
dry, and moley and warty.
• My skin feels dry so I put on stronger moisture cream.
EXTREMITIES
• Knees
• Back
• Neck
• Shoulders
DREAMS
There are dreams of historical events, old-fashioned cars. Water emerges
as a consistent motif, the beach, the sea and galleons, which is a consistent
theme in tree provings.
Another consistent theme was insects, weevils and beetles. Moreover
galleons, boats and water were common motifs.
• In this dream there are aeroplanes crashing. A Qantas one comes in and
lands, and an Air New Zealand jumbo cartwheels across the tarmac, wing over
wing.
• My grandmother in the water. In the sea. Near rocks and the water and
the surf is choppy. There are huge waves crashing and I am there holding onto
the rail of a pool
which is in this seawater. I feel fine and calm.
• Dream of problem solving. Ask questions in a college situation and
then am able to work them out, even surprises me in dream that I know the
answers.
• Dreams of bringing a guru into shop.
WATER
• Dreaming of being in Thailand with my Mother where they convince me to
take the driver's door off and attach something for easy buying of goods. Seems
like a good idea at the time
(Mother not convinced) and then find I'' running around trying to get
front door back. It all takes place in floating market place.
• I remember going into I think Mum's kitchen and it was flooding – I
had to pull the plug out, water was sloshing around.
• On the beach, sand, tide coming in. Could only just grasp the memory
of this dream; couldn't remember any other details.
• I was on a beach, golden sand, there with friends – tide coming in, I
couldn't let towels get wet.
• I dreamt I was scuba diving in the ocean with someone else checking
these fine nets pushing fish off them to save the fish. Accidentally touched an
electric wire and got a shock.
• I lived in a unit overlooking the ocean. I had the key to a friend's
place up stairs. Water spouts by 2 are on the water coming this way.
Unorganised, papers getting blown around in my friend's place. I run downstairs
where it is safer but I realise my friend's place has the windows open. I have
to go up, but it is dangerous. Then I woke up – very anxious on waking.
• Dream l: I was at school like Loretto Kirrabilli (it has a likeness to a cathedral) and it was on
top of a rocky area with caves below and a beach, and my husband was telling
this nun about a
tunnel that went under the rock to the area where classrooms were in the
ground. We went looking for this tunnel and found this hole with a ladder which
went into the ground. Above this hole
was a sign written in a foreign language. Part French and something
else. We didn't go down into the tunnel, as it was dark, so we thought we would
get a light or torch.
WEEVILS
• A girlfriend, R had nits in her hair, these turned into black beetles.
• I was in an old house, 3 or 4 levels, showing someone around – seemed
like I was exploring it myself. Went down to the garden and there was a pear
tree, an avocado tree and
another fruit tree, I don't recall what fruit though. I cut open the
fruit and there were weevils in it, couldn't be eaten.
• I dreamt I had something in my ear, it was like a weevil, got it out
with a cotton bud. Didn't feel repulsed or anything.
OTHER
• Went into cave underground. Came to a large opening, there were a
circle of people, all foreign, looked very kind (good vibe from them). Have
still got an image of man directly in front of me – (Mexican maybe?), bald
head, black moustache, very powerful looking. I think the lady next to him was
Chinese.
• Dreamt I was at a university open day but it was at night. Went into a
huge pavilion that looked as though there was a boat show going on inside. All
types of maritime things, Spanish galleons etc. I had to weave my way through
all the people and the exhibits to get to an exit that opened up onto a grassy
knoll. On top of the knoll was this old three story building that was very much
designed
in the Georgian style architecture. There was a commotion with peopled
gathered around below and I look up and there is James Bond abseilling
down the corner of the building. He jumps into a huge tree (like a fig) and I
ask him where the dissection house is (there is a path leading into darkness
next to the tree), he offers to take me there himself and starts chatting me
up. I'm not really interested because it is Pierce Brosnan,
and I would prefer to go to this dissection house. We come to another building
of Georgian type architecture where everyone is craning to see inside the huge
illuminated windows. Something of great historical significance is taking place
in there. It doesn't interest me. I see the dissection house and start to walk
over there but as I do I'm stopped by two homeboys who start making snide
remarks about my chastity. I grab one by the collar and scream in his face. At
least I have morals. At least I don't have any STDs like aids or syphilis or gonorrhea. I then woke up.
RIGHT SIDED
The remedy is manifestly right sided: right sided headaches, right sided
back, sciatic pains, right sided shoulder and elbow sensations of being cold
and numb. There is tension in the body, there are problems of the throat and
most definitely of the knee where virtually all provers
had sensations of being stretched; pain, rheumatic symptoms in the knees. There
were severe problems of the ear and itching of the ear and of the right side of
the head and shoulders.
REACTIVITY
Consistently there was the over reaction to small events and the under
reaction to big events.
ADAMAS
Most strikingly, and with a huge amount of surprise, it was discovered
that in the conversion of symptoms to rubrics that there are many, many
comparisons to the new remedy Adamas, surprising
because the substances are so vastly different. Both Adamas
and Morton Bay Fig cannot weep. There is a sense of courageousness, they walk
fast and need to walk fast and move quickly, and there is a sense of profound
confidence.
TEEN YEARS
Morton Bay Fig sent provers back to age 7–15.
"At my childhood home, I lived there age 7–15, where I am preparing a room
for guests to stay and I'm running around trying to clean up and make their
beds while they are watching TV, the Shining. I'm madly running around in a
rush and nothing seems to be getting done, there are lots of obstacles in the
way.
Provers of Morton Bay Fig said it bought up
old teen issues. With one prover her teen issue was
feeling 'left out. I have missed out. I am the dunce, I am not that good. I
have no family'. These teen issues were revisited.
THE PREPARATION OF THE REMEDY
Primary immediate response from the collection of the substance,
preparation of the substance, succussion and
dilution. I am overcome with fatigue
Making the remedy the succussions I did with
my R hand were much cleaner and sharper then the left
The left hand would roll and catch and be off the mark The two dates I
had set up in the afternoon and the evening both cancelled on me I feel strong
in my right arm
Collecting the remedy I felt a mixture of furtive, guilty and protected.
Dry throat
I feel spaced out
That my lips are bigger
My state is exaggerated, mental intensity
Physical tiredness and fatigue
Lonely
Scared
Stiffness in my neck
I want to bend my neck backwards
MORETON BAY FIG; A SHORT STORY
Synchronicities: 4 months after the ending of the proving of Moreton Bay Fig, I was sitting in a hammock at Mangrove
Mountain reading the Sunday supplement about some great holiday venues to visit
in Southern California. There was a story about Santa Barbara. And one of the
biggest attractions there is a huge tree. It's a Moreton
Bay Fig and it stands downtown, near the freeway and was brought there in 1877
by a sailor. The tree spans 160 feet and can shade more than 1000 people. Now
the really spooky thing is that I have seen it. More than that I learned the
story behind it and why it has a mail box nailed to it, although I never
realised what sort of tree it was at the time I was there.
Santa Barbara has a stunning climate and it is an obvious place to
winter for the homeless. Hobos from all over the States aim for there in
October. However it was determined in the US long ago that
no one can collect any social security unless there is an address for
information to be sent. The city of Santa Barbara decided to make the tree an
address because it sheltered so many people each year.
In 1987 I sat amongst its twisting roots chatting to the locals who
called it home. Interestingly there is another huge specimen in Santa Monica in
the grounds of Shutters Hotel. Planted in the 1890s, it came ashore via a
drunken Australian sailor who gave it to a local bar owner because he couldn't
pay his bill, who in turn gave it to John P Jones, one of the city's founding
fathers, for his mansion.
Theme; Protection of the Needy.
HOMEOPATHIC PROVING OF FICUS MACROPHYLLA
MIND
Spacey/Fuzzy/Strange Head
Was very busy all day and felt 'spacey' a little light headed (even
faint a couple of times).
At 3.25 h. I am not me. I woke up – feeling strange, something playing
with my head, I couldn't shake it. I got up to go to the toilet, then went back
to bed. Fell back to sleep pretty quickly.
Fuzziness. At 22 h. – nowhere near as bad as yesterday but still there a
bit. There's something in there. It doesn't cloud my mind, but I can't describe
it. Can't get it out. NS
A feeling of being woolly headed.
I seem slower. At 16.30 h. it seemed like it was taking longer to walk
to the bus, felt I was moving the same pace as normal, but not getting there as
fast. Its as if I was on cannabis. NS
My mind is going around in circles, above my head, and it is settling
into the back of the right side of my neck behind my right ear with some
feeling of pain and I also feel a bit dizzy, in bed.
Teenager
Weird feeling that I had had as a teenager of being unsure, sense of a
touch of insecurity, anxiousness, like stew in a pot.
Olfaction from preparation of medicine
I realised this remedy had stirred up some old childhood reactive
patterns, long time since had them. Have settled but still feel slightly
agitated inside. This remedy has stirred up things from
me as a teenager and as a child.
Olfaction from preparation of medicine
Speeding
I am laughing and speeding. I am wired as if I have had coffee.
I'm feeling restless and irresolute about going home. Feeling in an
altered state like I'm on drugs. Senses are acute, i.e
eyesight (NS).
I am very hurried and impatient. Slamming doors and pushing, being hasty
with my hands as I prepare for work. Feel like I haven't enough sleep (RS).
At work I'm feeling edgy and not grounded, like I've had a strong
coffee. Scattered can't focus on one thing, get distracted, focus on one thing,
get distracted easily, not finishing the chores set
out for me today at work before starting another one.
I have been doing major stress, couldn't get the alarm right, making
mistakes. I cried because of the stress, and I was concerned because I thought
P thought I was an idiot.
Feeling speedy, shaky as if had a few coffees.
Busy like a bee with my work, but this time actually getting stuff done
and quickly (NS, unless I have had coffee) however I find myself sometimes
stopping everything and staring into
space as if in a daze (NS).
Jumpy and on edge. Out all night and felt as if on speed, stomach all
knotty, eyes wide open and so tired, everything was altered, very very sensitive, getting on so friendly with everyone.
A bit impatient and can't get my sentences together, sentences are
broken. Hurried and on the go, buzzing, can't sit still, restless.
I just had a massage and feeling very relaxed, eyes droopy, heavy lids.
Again I find myself staring into space with eyes wide open.
I feel nervousness in my speech as I talk to a customer, i.e thumbling with words. Feeling
very airy, not grounded at all.
Emotionally I'm feeling very down and depressed, unmotivated, antisocial
with no bright/positive outlook to my situation. Though I did manage to get
away for the evening and day
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HOMEOPATHIC PROVING OF FICUS MACROPHYLLA
ANIMALS
At a beach where there are a lot of families and pets I notice I have
this warm connection with the animals, playing and talking with them more than
I would normally. One dog came up to me
out of the blue and just smiled at me. More than ever, dogs and cats,
coming up to me and smiling and waving their tails. This lasted a whole week.
Oh there was a dead bird that was bought
in by my cat.
I have observed how at lunch time today I helped ants carry their crumbs
to their hiding holes. I had a lot of compassion for them, this animal thing, I
was watching them, carrying crumbs,
I picked up the crumb and carried it to its hole, I was passionate about
it I had tears in my eyes; D pointed out that maybe I have been functioning on
Beta waves since the remedy which can
explain the connection with the animal kingdom and the fact that I am
finding it hard to spell well and put sentences together grammatically correct.
I feel quite chirpy (talkative).
I am feeling quite happy now. I have been having strong mood swings
though – talkative to vacant, up and down.
I am feeling tired on the way home.
I really feel like a date, fig and apricot slice to eat.
HEAD
Dull pain at 20.30 h.. Dull headache came on.NS
Lightness in the head.
Aching at back of neck on left side – going up occiput.
Gradually became a headache, hard to concentrate in class. NS
Fuzzy feeling. Not quite a headache, pressure, still able to
concentrate, but it's just there. Frontal lobe and at sides above my ear. Went
from 8 h. through to 17 h. NS
Heat rising up to my face. < sitting in warm environment. > cool
air.
Right sided sharp pain that lasts all day but comes and goes in waves.
Starts at right temple and moves above forehead and behind eye. By the end of
the day it affects my whole head.
Nothing seems to relieve it fully- I've had water, fruit juice, neck
massage, herb teas nothing.
Right side, throbbing and hot, behind and above my eye.
Headache around forehead and above eyes, It's a dull ache like a
pressure over my eyes (RS). As before, it starts sharp and becomes dull and
intermittent throughout the day. It spreads to
both temples by lunchtime.
Temples beginning to have dull achy pin as before. Feeling very speedy,
spacey with heaviness over my eyes as if increased pressure. The right eye is
weepy. (NS)
I have had a headache since Wednesday, nothing has stopped it, its all
around, but also sharp pains down into my left side like a meat cleaver, from
behind. Its been travelling all around,
throbbing, pulsing. > lying on a hot water bottle, this is weird
because usually my headaches > with cold application.
Olfaction from preparation of medicine
A head sensation as if someone put a tight band around my head, lasted
for a couple of days, felt like pulling the band off, there was no pain but so
annoying. Tight feeling – no pain.
Olfaction from preparation of medicine
Headaches on left side, spread all over. It lasted 4 days, and came on
one day after proving the medicine.
Olfaction from preparation of medicine
I have a headache in my right temple, above my ear moving to my neck.
I feel a right-sided headache moving to the back of my neck, occipital,
and the back of my head on the right side.
I have an ache to the back of the right side of my head, near my neck
but my ear was better.
I feel pain at the base of the right side of my head and my neck and it
is shooting up to my temple, but my ear is clearer.
I am feeling tired so I am going to bed with a slight head ache behind
my right ear and this pain radiates to the back of my head at C3 and C4 region,
right sided.
I feel as though I have been hit in the back of the head, which lasts
about l/2 hour.
I feel a slight headache mainly in the right side front forehead, a
sharp pain.
I feel a different head pain, slight headache on top of my head which is
a dull pain.
As soon as I took the remedy out of my pocket I have had a headache, and
a cold runny nose.
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EYES
Eye lid muscle twitch – right eye. Eyesight acute (NS)
I am more tense this morning. A little bit of twitching in the eyes,
eyes are heavy, like they are wide open, pupils are dilated, and I see things
differently, I am on drugs.
VISION
My ision and colours seem a bit crisper.
EAR
Notice my left ear very hot. Feel a bit brain dead most of the day and
lounge around. Sort of burning – like a chilblain, like itchy, the right one is
fine.
Notice (left) ear itchy and a bit hot and red.
(Left) ear still a bit sore.
Itchy left ear, felt numb, a bit swollen and as if something was in it.
Doesn't respond to being cleaned out.
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I feel my right ear is blocked slightly. AS
My right ear is clicking in and out of being blocked. AS
NOSE
Noticed (right) nostril clear and left one blocked (do feel bit
congested after red wine).
My nose was dripping like a tap for a whole day after I made the remedy,
like hayfever, I went through I whole tissue box...it
lasted for days.
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Runny nose.
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I feel my nose blocked with mucus like a head cold, on rising.
My nose feels like it is constantly running with clear mucus, while walking
around.
My nose is streaming with clear mucus, while working.
As soon as I took the remedy out of my pocket I have had a headache, and
a cold runny nose.
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FACE
Had a nerve twitch in the right side of my face.
And feeling woolly headed.
The left side of my face has a twinging pain
in my sinus.
My friends tell me that my skin looks greenish in colour, in patches on
the left side of my face (to me this is my right side) and under my chin.
My face feels a twinging pain on the left side
and in my sinus.
MOUTH
Dry mouth immediately after making the remedy.
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I can taste a metallic type taste up the top of the inside of my mouth.
My mouth feels very dry.
My lips feel very dry, and they feel as though they are going to crack
or split.
I have a taste of chalk in my mouth.
My tongue feels furry and whitish in colour with big rough red spots on
tip of it, and it feels a little sore. I have to get up and check it in the
mirror.
Man, I had a dry palate.
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Incredibly dry palate.
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TEETH
In my upper jaw my teeth are hurting, all in gums, like an aching and a
dull ache, up into the top jaw bone, an ache like you need a filling, or as if
the tooth is loose but its not, and the
gum is letting go of them.
THROAT
Sore throat, beginning of flu feeling.
Right tonsil tenderness > swallowing at
16 h. Started in my right tonsil, then both, lasted a few hours. NS
Sore. 15 h. throat was a bit tender – top of throat near tonsils. NS
Sore. My throat was tender, quite sore; back of roof of mouth. NS
My throat feels very dry, and lower in my throat as well.
My throat feels very dry.
My throat feels sore and has a sharp pain when I swallow.
My cough is a slight deep throated cough.
Cough is a deep chesty cough with no phlegm.
When I cough it is a deep dry throated cough, but does not last long.
I cough a few times to clear my throat, it feels a bit irritated and
dry.
My throat feels dry and my cough is a deep throated sound, with no
phlegm.
I am coughing more frequently because my throat feels irritated, I have
a dry cough
My voice is breaking up and sounds like I have a cold.
I feel a tickling dry cough and seems < night.
Swollen glands immediately after the dose.
Throat constricted.
STOMACH
8 h. Had a few hiccoughs straight after taking dose. As soon as I took
it.
I bought some butterscotch lollies. NS
Nausea > after eating 15 h.
Feeling of nausea and hunger.
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Craving for brown sugar sandwiches.
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I have a craving for date, fig, and apricot slice, must have one.
Increase in appetite, craving sugar and coffee, huge amounts.
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Complete loss of appetite as soon as the dose was taken.
I have been eating really fast, indigestion and eating fast, ever since
the remedy started.
ABDOMEN
Diaphragm sore. I had a sore feeling deep to eighth rib, movement
doesn't make > or <. 15 h. NS
My chest has pain like digestion and it is moving left to right and
feels uncomfortable.
I have cramping pain in my ribs on the right side.
RECTUM
I have a bit of flatulence which is more than I would normally have and
with this I felt a bit nauseous before.
STOOL
Had a small movement and did this twice more before work. (Felt
incomplete still – small movements).
Upon going to the bathroom my stool looks a little yellow, greenish in
colour and smooth, finer and compact.
URINE
Wake up feeling O.K. Go to bathroom and notice my urine stream dribbling
a bit which is unusual. Some hesitancy at 4 h.
I am noticing that my urine is of greenish yellow in colour, and very
slightly cloudy.
I notice my urine is not as green/yellow, and definitely clearer.
RESPIRATORY
I have a slight cough, which is dry in sound.
NECK
Stiffness in my neck up to my skull, not my usual neck tension. Seemed
connected to the fuzzy head feeling. 8.55 h. NS
Stiffness. At 16 h. I felt stiffness nearly at lower skull, feels
muscular NS
Sensation as if glands swelling in throat, tightness (NS) < when
talking.
Very tense all over especially shoulders and neck.
Tightness and neck tension. Upper throat and all around jaw (NS). Glands
feel up.
BACK
Back tension in my shoulders from work being placed on my desk and I am
so stressed out.
Feel tired and back sore.
Tight/stiff. At 1pm so tense, like a rock. NS
I feel quite sharp pain on my right side in my back and I still feel
pain in my shoulder
I feel pain in my lower back in the middle radiating to my right side.
I feel pain in the right side of my back and it seems to be moving down
my spine to my shoulder blade and from the top of my neck down to my middle
dorsal part with
some lumbar ache on my right side.
I have pain in my right shoulder blade which radiates to my neck.
I feel pain in my neck and my shoulder but my ear is clearer going to
bed.
The right side of my shoulder has pain which goes to my neck when I was
getting out of bed.
My right lower back in the lumber region has dull pain which lasts about
2 hours.
My right shoulder has sharp pain radiating to my neck.
I feel pain in my right shoulder and this goes to my neck upon rising
out of bed.
I feel back pain as I am driving along, this is mainly in my neck on the
right side.
CHEST
HEART
I experienced racing palpitations early in the morning, I have had at
night for 2 weeks now, very strong 190 beats per minute and they appeared very
suddenly. They appear suddenly
for about 15 minutes, then disappeared suddenly.
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SKIN
The skin on my face has some red spots, with one under my eye and
another coming up under my chin.
My skin feels dry so I put on stronger moisture cream.
My skin is itchy all over my body and my scalp, on the way home in car,
but there are no eruptions.
My skin is itchy which is chronic but worse all over my body lying in
bed.
I am feeling itchy on the body but mainly on my extremities.
EXTREMITIES
(Right) arm between elbow and shoulder felt could and numb (goose bump
feeling). This sensation was while in hot shower and lasted about 1/2 hour. An
hour later my arm feels
better and the split sensation not as intense.
Arm sensation gone.
Notice my (right) arm is sore in same area where it felt cold.
(Right) leg feels sore but
different, more stiff like (right) arm (less heaviness).
Right knee sprain < movement. I think a ligament is over-stretched –
I'm not sure if it is due to remedy.12.05pm NS
At 22.30 h. in bed felt heaviness in my right leg.
Left arm pain. Felt pain in my left arm with tingling in forearm and
fingers, palms sweaty.
Went from shoulder down the ulna to my hand NS.
My left knee aches in the back of my kneecap when getting up from bed.
My right foot has pain, with a feeling of pins and needles shooting from
my footpad into my big toe.
I feel pain in my left knee still.
My skin on my feet feel cracked a little around my heels and around my
toes seem very dry.
I feel pain in my left hip lasting about l/2 hr. (dull pain in my hip
joint) worse when I walk.
I feel in my right foot pins and needles on rising from bed.
My right kneecap in the joint under the kneecap has a dull pain, like
arthritis.
My fingers of both my hands have pain in the joints like arthritis but
it is more so on right.
My right knee has still a dull ache.
My right foot has pain in the ankles with cracking, at 17.10 h.
The skin on my feet feels rough and dry like leather.
My hands and the knuckles of my fingers have a chronic ache but it is
worse in the right hand.
My right knee has joint pain in the kneecap.
I have chronic pain in the toe joints of my right foot in bed.
The knuckles of the fingers in my right hand have pain like arthritis.
The pain in my knuckles especially in the right hand feels better when I
move around.
I feel arthritic pain in the joints of my fingers of my right hand.
I feel like an arthritic pain mainly in the joints of my right hand.
The skin on my feet don't feel as dry as they have been.
The joints in my right hand still feel painfully sore.
My right hand feels painful when I put pressure on it, mainly joint
pain.
I have pain in my joints, like arthritis of my right hand and is worse
for pressure.
Sharp and lancing pain in big left toe for about 1 hour.
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Painful flare-ups of spots in right foot that don't normally have. One
under 4th metatarsal pharyngeal joint and one right on top of foot. Very
uncomfortable and aching persistently.
< cold.
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PERSPIRATION
SLEEP
Sleep – normally wake at 3 am wide awake and go and get sultanas (!) and
go back to bed, but I am sleeping straight through.
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I slept soundly with no dreams but I felt a bit chilly near the morning
for about l hour and had to put heavy covers back over me in bed at night.
DREAMS
Took a while to get to sleep. Woke up and was dreaming and wrote down 3
people's names (Nick, Beryl and Rex). I was sure I would
remember but didn't. Remember something fairly peaceful and possibly to
do with space or life after death theme.
Seem to remember a dream about projectile vomiting.
Go to bed at 1am remember vague dreams of negotiating with people, I am
quite calm, rational but definite.
Dream of problem solving. Ask questions in a college situation and then
am able to work them out, even surprises me in dream that I know the answers.
Dreams of bringing a guru in a new shop.
Woke up dreaming of being late for work, had to climb over houses to get
where I'm going.
Two girls (unknown) come with me. I didn't want them there and then one
fell. I woke up feeling guilty and also telling myself it wasn't my fault
(anxiety).
Dream of girlfriend with leukemia ringing me
and telling me she's in remission for 3 years. I say how pleased I am but fear
it is a false alarm and that she will stop her natural therapies
and get sick.
Dreaming of being in Thailand with my Mother where they convince me to
take the driver's door off and attach something for easy buying of goods. Seems
like a good idea at the time
(Mother not convinced) and then find I’m running around trying to get
front door back. It all takes place in floating market place.
Dream of being vindictive to old friend at party and wake wishing I
hadn't been.
Scared. I woke up and couldn't recall any dreams until I started to
think hard. In one dream I'm in a taxi and to get where I'm going, we have to
drive up this narrow extremely steep 70°
road, with like construction going on either side with that fencing that
keeps people out. We make it to the top and there is about a drop of about 2
metres between the ledge and the ground.
At first the workmen say we have to go back down but I was nervous
coming up and too scared to go back down because of the steepness. We were able
to get off the ledge as there was a gate
(like on the ferry). Then whilst in the taxi on the way home, I stopped
at a shop to get some things including 2 apple pastry things. They were on the
top shelf and bigger than what I thought –
2 people could share one but I still got two. When I got home, shared
the apple thing with a friend, giving him the bigger piece.
I remember going into I think Mum's kitchen and it was flooding – I had
to pull the plug out, water was sloshing around.
I dreamt I had something in my ear, it was like a weevil, got it out
with a cotton bud. Didn't feel repulsed or anything.
On the beach, sand, tide coming in. Could only just grasp the memory of
this dream – couldn't remember any other details.
I was on a beach, golden sand, there with friends – tide coming in, I
couldn't let towels get wet.
At student clinic, I was running late for a patient, caught another
student with their pants down. He had boxers and a shirt on, but no pants.
I was in an old house, 3 or 4 levels, showing someone around – seemed
like I was exploring it myself. Went down to the garden and there was a pear
tree, an avocado tree and another fruit tree,
I don't recall what fruit though. I cut open the fruit and there were
weevils in it, couldn't be eaten.
I dreamt I was scuba diving in the ocean with someone else checking
these fine nets pushing fish off them to save the fish. Accidentally touched an
electric wire and got a shock.
I lived in a unit overlooking the ocean. I had the key to a friend's
place up stairs. Water spouts by 2 whales are on the water coming this way.
Unorganised, papers getting blown around
in my friend's place. I run downstairs where it is safer but I realise
my friend's place has the windows open. I have to go up, but it is dangerous.
Then I woke up – very anxious on waking.
At my childhood home, I lived there age 7 – 15, it was a bad time in my
life; where I am preparing a room for guests to stay and I'm running around and
very hurried, trying to clean up and make their beds while they are watching
TV, the Shining. I'm madly running around in a rush and nothing seems to be
getting done, there are lots of obstacles in the way. I am trying to find the
sheets, everyone's waiting, but I can't get it together, the room is untidy,
stuff is piling up.
I was with a little girl child that looks like I did when I was little.
I was nurturing to the children in my dream. One had a rash on her face and ask
for my help she spoke as if an 8-year-old but she
looked about 2y.o. I responded with warmth and gave her a big hug.
I had a dog that needed treatment at the pound for some reason. I
started getting worried/ paranoid that the pound would take it away for
experiments. I started panicking because I found
this to be true and I felt horribly responsible for letting my dog go
there.
In the USA wilderness with E and another person bush walking and getting
lost progressively. We separated and I eventually found my way and set up camp.
I started panicking because some
time past and there was no E who was pregnant. I felt to blame for us
being lost and got upset. However suddenly she turns up totally ok, chirpy, as
if nothing had happened.
In Morocco with E again, and her child this time a 3 boy who again is
very intelligent and talks like a 12 year old. His face is very expressive and
we have a warm connection. We both look over
him as he plays by a pool then suddenly I see him play too close to the
water and he falls in. E doesn't seem to be startled, she is unexpressive, but I panic and jump in to save him fully
clothed. We walk out drenched into a restaurant full of people to go to
our room to get changed.
I'm feeling very self-conscious of every one staring.
Dream l: I was at school like Loretto Kirrabilli (it has a likeness to a cathedral) and it was on
top of a rocky area with caves below and a beach, and my husband was telling
this nun about
a tunnel that went under the rock to the area where classrooms were in
the ground. We went looking for this tunnel and found this hole with a ladder
which went into the ground. Above this
hole was a sign written in a foreign language.
Part French and something else. We didn't go down into the tunnel, as it
was dark, so we thought we would get a light or torch.
Dream 2: I was at a restaurant with a woman I was working for and then
the next time I was at the same restaurant, which was supposed to be next day
with my family and the woman turned up with her family for her birthday. We
both agreed an amazing coincidence but her husband in the dream is the husband
of a girl whose daughter went to school with my daughter.
I then woke up.
Dream l: I was at a shopping centre with people discussing its expansion
and they were thinking of closing the school across the road, the reason it was
too near the beach which was further
away to the west (where taller trees were) I then woke up.
Dream 2: I was in a bus going along when I dropped my savings bank book
and papers down the side of the seat and there was a hole in the buses side so
these papers dropped out to the
road. I stopped the bus and got off, ran back and collected the papers.
Then my sister was sorting piles of papers on the side footpath. I then woke
up.
I feel I may have had a dream but I can't remember it, upon waking –
maybe ocean or water?
FEVER
17 h. Feeling a bit feverish.
My whole body feels hot like a fever
I am feeling very hot and clammy
In bed I feel hot and feverish and throughout the night.
CHILL
My body feels chilly,
My body feels cold all over even laying with a cover.
GENERALITIES
At 21.30 h. kept putting my cardigan on, then taking it off, I couldn't
get to a comfortable temperature. NS
3.25 h. Warm sensation NS
Feeling hot, heat rising from abdomen area.(NS)
Feeling hot all over (face), which seems to be occurring intermittently
all day. I've also had no appetite all day (NS)
No appetite, but I'll eat anyway because I don't want to loose any
weight! However I'm eating really fast that I've got to consciously slow myself
down. Body feeling very restless, can't sit
still. Very thirsty > for water.
On rising; Nausea, head spinning, walking uncoordinated, almost falling
over. (NS)
Feeling uncoordinated, tired, spacey and totally unrefreshed
(from when I sleep in till late). I cannot wake up at all so I decide to have a
coffee.
Feeling very ungrounded again, my perception seems extra sharp though
and I'm feeling out of body. This lasts all day with it gradually wearing off,
I also have no appetite all day.
Restless feeling, need to change position (l. leg)
Olfaction from preparation of medicine.
I feel pain in all my joints in my body at Yoga and especially my right
hand.
Repertorium:
Mind:
Absence of, lost in thought, absent minded (distraction)
Activity restless
Agitated mental
Busy
Cares, nature about animals and plants
Company, aversion to
Confusion of mind
Concentration difficult (difficult attention cannot fix
concentration/while talking/during conversation)
Confident (and assertive)
Confidence, want of self
Courageous
Cowardice
Delusion - floating in air/”As if someone patting on the head”/parts of
body seem to large/walks slowly when walking quickly/divided in two
parts/mother wants to murder her/is tall/time seems
to slow/thoughts are in the right side of neck
Distracted preoccupied, unobservant, difficult concentration, can't
think
Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences
Excitement (excitable) - “As after coffee”/after coffee/nervous
Hide, desire to
Hurried (“As if speeding on coffee”)
Impatient morning
Impetuous, morning
Impulsive
Indifference
Indignation
Industrious
Irresolute
Injustice - cannot tolerate it/cannot support it
Irritable
Lie down, inclined to, lethargy, listless
Light headed, sensation of
Mistakes in - calculating/in spelling/speaking using wrong words
Order desires (in everything)
Quiet
Remorse - on waking/quickly repents
Reproaches - others/himself
Restlessness (night/# indifference)
Sadness - after anger/cannot weep, is impossible
Scattered
Spaced-out feeling
Sympathy, compassion towards animals
Sensitive (oversensitive)
Staring thoughtless
Stupefaction during vertigo
Thought moves in circles
Thoughts - vague/wandering (listening/talking)
Time passes to slowly
Tranquil
Vanity
Vertigo:
Coffee after
“As if elevated” “As if floating”
Head:
Ache behind the ears
Blow as of a single
Constriction, band or hoop
Fuzzy feeling
Injuries, of the head after
Itching, scalp of
Lightness, sensation of:
Morning, increases until noon, then gradually decreases
Pain [l./r. (ext. forehead)/evening/aching occiput/boring
(occiput r./temples)/ceases towards morning/> cold
applications/dull (forehead/temples/vertex)/ext. eyes/ext. forehead/ext. neck/
forehead above eyes (l./r./behind)/forehead r./> hot
applications/intermittent/> lying/maddening/occiput
(ext. r. eye/alternating temples)/and in neck/paroxysmal/periodical/pressing
(“As from a band”/r. temples)/> pressure/on rising/sharp (temples
(r.)/shooting occiput ext. temples/sore
vertex/stitching (l.)/temples (r.)/vertex rising on/wandering/in waves]
pulsating
stiffness, sensation, occiput in
swollen feeling
Eye:
Heaviness
Lachrymation r.
Pain pressing (during headache)
Twitching r.
Vision:
Acute
Nose:
Congestion to nose
Discharge, copious, dripping.
Ear:
Itchy l.
Face:
Red around eyes
Red spots
Heat in flashes
Pain - ache/dull
Mouth:
Gums bleeding on touch
Dry
Teeth:
“As if elongated”
“As if large and swollen”
Throat:
Dryness
Oesophagus
Tonsils - enlarged/indurated
Hawking from dryness
Pain - r./pressing (speaking)/rawness (swallowing)/sore (r./morning on
waking/stitching swallowing
“As if swollen”
External throat:
Pain - pressing (sides/ext. shoulders/sublingual glands)
Stiffness of sides
Tension in sides
Stomach:
Appetite diminished
Nausea - # hunger/with flatus/after eating
Pain (dull/after eating)
Thirst
Abdomen:
Pain - sides (r.)/hypochondria l. ext. to r./stitching (l. iliac region)
Rectum:
Flatus
Stool:
Small
Yellow-green
Urine:
Cloudy
Greenish
Yellow
Female organs:
Conscious of the uterus
“As if fullness in uterus”
Pain, bearing down in uterus supports abdomen
Larynx:
Voice, changed
Cough:
Dry - irritation in larynx/in chest/hawking in morning awaking
Short, tickling in larynx
Tickling in larynx (r.)
Back:
Pain [> fresh air/lumbar (ext. r.)/aching in lumbar region/cervical
(r./> fresh air/ext. down back/occiput to
head/cervical region (ext. head/r. shoulder)/clavicle/r. lumbar region/pressing
in cervical region/stitching ext. r. shoulder/r. scapulae (ext. to cervical
region/morning on rising)/> sitting erect/stabbed “As if by a wooden wedge
pain, stitching, dorsal region, scapulae, morning.
pain, stitching, dorsal region, scapulae, under.
Cervical region - stiffness/tension (ext. shoulder)
Tension in dorsal region [(between) scapulae/ext. neck]
Chest:
Perspiration on mammae
Pain - sore r./region of diaphragm/cramping (ribs r.)
Palpitations of heart - morning/night/sudden
Limbs:
Cracked skin - on heels/under toes
Cracking in ankle evening
Dryness, foot
Heaviness [lower limbs/thigh (r./night)
heaviness, lower limbs, night
Numbness in foot
Pain many
Perspiration in flexure of elbow
Roughness
Tingling [forearm (ext. fingers)/in foot (r./morning/rising)/in
fingers/in r. hand]
Sleep:
Flling asleep - afternoon/during
chill/studying.
Dreams:
Autopsies/dissection/admirable buildings/being busy/children/danger (from
wind/from water/flood)/difficulties/diving/driving up a steep rough
track/electric shock/
explosion of bombs/events (of future/previously heard read, talked or
thought about)/father/fruit (with weevil)/fishes (rescuing)/helpless, “As it
is end of the world”/ historical
events/houses,
xploring/insects/James Bond/murdered by
other/nakedness/is possessed/sea (overlooking/of ships)/tide coming
in/trees/water spouts/weevil in
ear/water
Chill:
Lying
Fever:
Night
Heat
Perspiration:
R.
During fever
Sudden
Skin:
Dryness/rough
Itching (at night)
Generals:
Air seashore >
Desires: sweets/sugar;
“As if heat ascending”
Flushes of heat ext. upwards
Heated, becoming
Lassitude
Lie, desire to/> lying
Pain - in joints (< touch)/sore all over
Restless
Sluggish
Strength, sensation of
Temperature change <
Warm applications >
Weakness
Weariness (afternoon, 14 - 16 h.)
Allerlei:
Theoreton Bay Fig stands as an impressive
Australian icon in its own right. Any an Australian child, will no doubt
remember the hot summer school lunches spent under the cool, welcoming
arms of this gentle giant. If it wasn't for the strict Australian school
rules, no doubt, most lunch breaks would be spent up the tree, defending its
honour from anyarauding invaders, namely
the teachers.
This tree of the Australian tropics (its native home) can often be found
still growing, shading, and protecting in the memories of any a child.
But this agnificent specimen is not confined
to the school yard, and not to the tropics.
While this fig is called Thoreton Bay Fig
because it was first found in theoreton Bay area of
South-East Queensland, its native habitat also ventures from the coastal
rainforests of northern
New South Wales to northern Queensland, as far inland as the Bunyaountains, and as far south as Illawarra
in South-eastern New South Wales.
Beginning around 200 years ago theoreton Bay
Fig has even been known to sojourn and re-populate en force toore
exotic places such as the likes of Sydney and
otherore cosmopolitan areas. This was not due
to the excrement of large travel hardy birds who partook of the bounty of the
figs each tree produces, but to early European settlers who
recognised the incredible usefulness for shade trees of this type, and
girth, and equal usefulness as aultipurpose childinder.
In the right conditions, one of these trees can reach up to 50etres in
height, with a large expansive thick buttressed trunk, large expansive, visible
spreading roots,
and a large expansive canopy. There is no mistaking that this tree is
big.
It prefers light to medium soils in an open and sunny position and is
drought resistant but frost tender. It is an evergreen andostly
grows to a height of 30etres with
a spread of up to 60etres.
The oft striking characteristics of the tree are that the roots are
above the ground and reach down in tendrils above the ground. The branches
cover a huge area. The trees are known and loved
in Australia for the amount of shade they provide in the summer. Like
other trees, this one bleeds and there are characteristic tear streaks of gum
like aterial on the trunks of theorton
Bay Fig.
The dark green glossy/leathery leaves are about 20cm by 8cm in size and
bear companionship to the bounty of the tree, the Fig. The fruit of theoreton Bay Fig as with the fig family in general,
ripens all year round, and is quite unique in that it also doubles as
the tree’s flower.
If dissected, close inspection of the spotty purple fig will reveal
something that looks as though the flower and stamens therein have been turned
in on itself, or inside out. On closer inspection
of this spotty purple fig, oneay also find a
nest ofinute wasps. These waspsay
use the fig fruit as their home and humidicrib, but
they also serve to continue the lineage of theoreton
Bay Fig tree.
In the wild the sapling of the Ficus macrophylla often begins its life growing on the trunk of
another species of fig, which due to the growing roots soon becomes strangled
and smothered by it.
In the Brisbane district the Aborigines used the root and bark of theorton Bay Fig as a source of cordage for bags and fish
nets. Often the branches as well as the bark were utilised for the
manufacture of dug-out canoes. The bark of the tree has been described
as a dark to grey-ish brown, and smooth, ideal for
the above purposes, as well as having numerous blister typearks
and
small scales scattered all over it.
The first historical and botanical record of theoreton
Bay Fig tree was taken by Sir Joseph Banks.
Banks was the official botanist accompanying Captain James Cook on his
exploratory voyage along the east coast of Australia (1770). Banksentions theorton Bay Fig in
his Endeavour Journal,
Volume II, and noted in his journal the unique structure and
inhabitation of the fig, whilst Cook noted the contours of what he later namedoreton Bay. James Cook first 'discovered' the area in
1770 and named it after James Douglas, Earl oforton,
President of the Royal Society in 1764 and one of the Commissioners of
Longitude. European settlement commenced in 1824
(the first in Queensland), and from this time to 1839, the bay was
actually the site of a penal colony. Up until 1859, when Queensland separated
from the colony of New South Wales, the whole
of what came to be known as Queensland was referred to as theoreton Bay District. Aborigines had occupied the area
for thousands of years prior to this time.
Moreton Bay, itself, is a large shallow,
mud and sand shoaled bay on the south-east coast of Queensland.
With Brisbane situated on its banks, the bayeasures
about 90 kms north to south and about 30 kms east to west. The eastern side of the bay is formed by
the two islands oforeton and North
Stradbroke, while the western edge of the bay
is formed by the Brisbane suburb of Redcliff, Deception Bay and Bribie Island.
Several rivers also drain into the bay. (Thanks toichelle
Carnachon).
The immediate signature of the tree in its current and natural
environment suggests protection from the fierceness of the Australian summer.
Any Australian child will tell you stories of playing
in the roots and root systems of theorton Bay
Fig in the summer, and nowadays at any time of the year, there are literally
hundreds of kids playing in the root systems of these trees on the
Australian beach water fronts.
Strikingly, and in comparison with other trees we use in Homeopathy, theorton Bay Fig is not tall, the branches only just out of
reach of the human hand, the first branches shoot parallel to the
ground in all directions and cover a distance of up to half a football
field. For our purposes in Homeopathy the remedy is instantly sycotic. There is gum and there are discharges.
Spreading was not due to the excrement of large travel hardy birds who
partook of the bounty of the figs each tree produces, but to early European
settlers who recognised
the incredible usefulness for shade trees of this type and girth and
equal usefulness as multipurpose child minder.
In the right conditions, one of these trees can reach up to 50 metres in
height with a large expansive thick buttressed trunk, large expansive, visible
spreading roots, and a
large expansive canopy. There is no mistaking that this tree is big.
It prefers light to medium soils in an open and sunny position and is
drought resistant but frost tender. It is an evergreen and mostly grows to a height
of 30 metres with a
spread of up to 60 metres.
The most striking characteristics of the tree are that the roots are above the ground and reach down in tendrils above the ground. The branches cover a huge area.