Filix spp.
Vergleich: Enthält: Al (Sporen),
liebt Ammoniak, flieht Na; Aspidium anthamanicum. Aspidium filix-mas w (= Filx/= Spora). Filix femina atyrium (=
Fil + schwach). Kou (Filx = ähnlich).
Vergleich: Siehe: Pteridophyta
Filix driopteris aspidiaceae mas (Fil) w = Aspidium filix mas/= Stinkfarn/= Federfaden/= Fünffingerwurz/= Maukenkraut/= Mausleitern/= Otternkraut/= Stockfarn/= Wanzenwurz/= Wurmfarnwurzelstock + Blattbasen/= Fougère mâle/= Male fern/= Dornfarn
Vergiftung: 1. Übel/erbrechen/Magen-/Bauchschmerz (Kolik) + geschwollen, Durchfall (blutig/choleraartig) + Schwindel//Leberschäden/Ohnmacht o. Krampf/Sehstörung,
2. Manische Psychose/nicht
zusammenhängende Gedanken/Krämpfe/schläfRIG, 3. Bewusstlos/Krämpfe;
Kind: Pubertätsbeschwerden bei Mädchen;
Negativ: A. BenomMEN („Wie nach Schlafmittel“);
Würmer + Verstopfung:, Tb. ohne Fieber junge Menschen, blaue Ringen um Augen/blasses Gesicht, GROßE Körper, Wurmbeschwerden/Lymphknotenentzündung/ Sterilität/Abort;
‡ Ausscheidung ‡;
Repertorium:
Gemüt: Angst (grundlos)
Bewusstlos
Mürrisch (bei Würmerbeschwerden)
Reizbar, gereizt (bei Würmerbeschwerden)
Kopf: Gehirnerschütterung
nach Kopfverletzung
Nase: Jucken
Auge: Amblyopie/Beschwerden i.B. auf Sehnerv
Magen: Schluckauf < nach Essen
Erbricht während Durchfall
Bauch: Auftreibung
Schmerz [+ bläulichem Gesicht/krampfartig (+ blassem Gesicht/+ Nasejucken)/Süßigkeiten (krampfartig)/durch Würmer (krampfartig)
Sehen: Verlust des Sehvermögens
Rektum: Durchfall + Übelkeit
Obstipation - vergeblicher Stuhldrang und vergebliches Pressen
Beschwerden durch Würmer (Bandwürmer/+ Obstipation/+ weißer Zunge)
Stuhl: Teigig, breiig
Blase: Schmerz/Tenesmus
Männliche Genitalien: Steril
Weibliche Genitalien: Abort
Prolaps - Vagina
Steril
Brust: Tb. im engeren Sinne bei jungen Menschen
Glieder: Gefühllose, taube Handgelenke
Schlaf: Ruhelos/schlaflos/schläfrig
Allgemeines: Entzündung der Drüsen entwickelt langsam
Pubertätsbeschwerden bei Mädchen
Speisen und Getränke: >: Kaffee; <: Süßigkeiten;
Schwäche
Chronische Schwellung der Drüsen
[Misha Norland,
Mani Norland & The School of Homeopathy]
Meadowsweet
contains Salicylic
acid, the chemicals used to make aspirin, a small section of root, when
peeled and crushed smells like Germolene, and when chewed is a good natural
remedy for relieving headaches.
Having
read the proving summaries from students, looking at the themes and considering
the substance I feel there is a nice little story that can be told that links
in with the meadow sweet plant being described as the lady or queen of the
meadow.
The
meadow is a common place, a field enjoyed by all, it makes on think of nature,
spring and summer time, alive with bees, bugs and birds. Warm, sunny and
relaxing.
If
you were the lady or queen of such a place surely everyone would want to talk
to you, it would be fun, exciting, sociable. You would feel connected, happy
and joyful.
You
would hold your head up high and look out over the meadow. This feels like a
fairly tale, where one would giggle, sing and dance. At its heights there is
bliss, euphoria and pure whiteness, like a goddess (the little white flower
heads looking up to the sun).
Meadowsweet
has a pleasant taste and flavour and is traditionally used as a strewing herb
to flavour wine, beer and mead – always good for social gatherings! It is also
strewn on floors to give rooms a pleasant aroma.
One
can also imagining going to a meadow to be alone, silent and calm - a place to
enjoy being in nature and reflect on ones thoughts. But this quiet place can
become exaggerated, so one feels isolated, excluded, detached and disconnected.
So withdrawn that they become numb. Salicylic acid occurs naturally in the
plant in greater quantities than anything else in nature and are synthesised
for use in Aspirin to numb headaches.
Physically
there was a strong connection to the digestive tract, the ‘earthy’ processes,
with a great deal of diarrhoea, abdominal pain, nausea, flatulence and
constipation.
The
whole plant is a traditional remedy for an acidic stomach, and the fresh root
is used in herbal remedies.
She
may become angry, swearing and indignant or she may numb out. Hide the pain and
create a barrier. And then there is the dark side, the night and the dirty
earth.
The
common meadow is no place for a queen. Now we see depression, remorse and
guilt. Things are black and full of despair. There is disgust, sexual desires
and rape.
It
is not a safe place for a lady!
It
is like Meadowsweet produces Salicylic acid in its roots to numb the despair,
detached and dirty underworld. The common plant holds its head up high above
the other flowers with a crown of graceful small pure white flowers giving of a
sweet pleasant aroma. But she has to drink, water has to come up her stem, it
‘leaks’ through bringing with it strong feelings and emotions from the dark
underworld. She tries to rise above, stay sociable, connected and pleasant (the
goddess), but sometimes she just wants to be alone, and if the ‘leaks’ get to
bad then she becomes anxious, despairs and gets depressed, dark and moody.
History
Meadowsweet took its name ‘Queen of the meadow’ in Europe for bringing
happiness and joy, also by how it could dominate a damp meadow. Meadow sweet
was held scared among the druids along with water-mint and vervain.
A druid was a member of the educated, professional class among the Celtic
people of Gaul, Britain, Ireland
during the Iron Age. The best known among the druids were the
religious leaders.
In
1597 botanists John Gerard said of the herb meadowsweet ‘The smell
thereof makes the heart merry and joyful and delighted the senses’. During the
16th century Queen Elizabeth I, desired meadowsweet above all other
herbs in her chamber, when it was customary to strew floors with rushes and
herbs for its pleasant smell and calming energy. English physician Nicholas
Culpeper wrote in 1652 about the planets therapeutic effects on the stomach.
Meadow
sweet flowers were used to flavour alcoholic beverages in England and
Scandinavia and was one of fifty ingredients in a drink called the ‘Save’, In
the 14th century being called ‘medwort’ or ‘meadwort’ as it was one of
essential ingredients in making mead. This was the mead or honey wine herb, and
the flowers were often put into wine and beer.
Folklore
In Russian folklore the heroic knight Kudryash became terrified at the prospect
of his own death and refused to fight. In shame, Kudryash planned to drown
himself, a fair maiden emerged from the water giving him a garland of
meadowsweet flowers, they told him that ‘no harm would befall of him if he wore
it in battle’. Kudryash remained unscathed and undefeated.
Fresh
meadowsweet is placed on the altar for love spells, or dried is used in various
love mixtures. It is also strewn about the house to keep peace and the scent of
Meadowsweet is said to cheer the heart. If gathered on midsummer, Meadowsweet
will give you information regarding thieves: if you have been robbed, place
Meadowsweet on water. If it sinks, the thief is a man. If it floats, a woman.
Meadowsweet
is used for love, peace and happiness. The fresh plant is used as an altar
decoration or in a bridal bouquet. The scent of meadow sweet is said to cheer
the heart.
Medical Uses
Meadowsweet is used
to treat a variety of illnesses such as arteriosclerosis, arthritis,
cellulitis, cervicitis, colds, cystitis, diarrhoea, dropsy, dyspepsia, oedema,
fever, flu, gastritis. Gout headache, heartburn, hyperacidity, insomnia,
nausea, nephritis, pain, prostate enlargement, rheumatism, ulcers, urinary
tract infection, and vaginitis.
Meadow
sweet is used in much of the same way as aspirin, however the herb contains a
buffering agent that counter aspirins side effect of causing gastric bleeding,
preventing over acidity in the stomach and being one of the best remedies for
heartburn. It is a valuable herbal remedy for diarrhoea, and it is
believed to be very effective in the treatment of diarrhoea in children. It is
frequently used as a natural treatment for afflictions of the blood and used
for natural pain treatment.
Meadowsweet
can be used topically as an eyewash to treat conjunctivitis and eye inflammation,
and also to heal wounds. In addition it can be used as a compress to relieve
muscle aches and rheumatic joints. Meadowsweets flower essence can help to
relax tension in the head and neck, or as a relaxing bath herb.
Aspirin
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid or ASA) has only been manufactured and marketed
since 1899. Medicines made from willow and
other salicylate-rich plants appear in Egyptian pharonic
pharmacology papyri.
Salicin
was found in meadowsweet by Swiss pharmacist Johann Pagenstecher in 1830. By
1853 Charles Frédéric Gerhardt determined the chemical structure of salicyclic
acid and chemically synthesises acetylsalicylic acid.
The
first rigorous clinical trial of salicin in 1876 finds that it induces
remission of fever and joint inflammation in patients with rheumatism. Felix Hoffmann a German chemist created a synthetically altered
version of salicin in 1897, derived from the species, which
caused less digestive upset than pure salicylic acid. The new drug, formally acetylsalicylic acid, was named ‘Aspirin’ by Hoffman's employer Bayer AG
after the old botanical name for meadowsweet (Spiraea
ulmaria).
Aspirin
entered the Guinness World Records in 1950 for being the most frequently sold
painkiller. Its popularity declined after the development of paracetamol in 1956 and ibuprofen in 1962. In the 1960-1970s John Vane (English pharmacologist) discovered the basic
mechanism of aspirin's effects, while clinical trials and other studies from
the 1960-1980s established aspirin's efficacy as an anti-clotting agent that
reduces the risk of clotting diseases.
Herbal/ Homeopathic Uses
The entire herb possess a pleasant taste and flavour. Traditional herbalist
simmered the flowers in wine to treat fevers and to cure depression. Meadow
sweet is astringent and helps with indigestion, in addition to having diuretic
properties, which is helpful in cases of oedema. The fresh flower tops drunk in
tea are said promote sweating, along with being used to treat respiratory
infections, gout and arthritis.
The
fresh root is used in many homeopathic preparations for various ailments. The
active ingredients in meadowsweet are essential oils, flavonoids, phenolic
glycosides, salicylic acid, and tannins. Meadowsweet is used in homeopathy to
treat bronchitis, coughs and other respiratory conditions.
Mythology
Blodeuwedd (flower
face) was created by two magicians Gwydion and Math; she was made from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet and oak, and is the virgin
Goddess of spring. She was the wife to Lleu Lalw Gyffess. He was placed under a
tynged by his mother so that he would never have a human wife. To counter act
this curse the magicians took the flowers and produced the fair maiden
Blodeuwedd.
She
caused much devastation by having an affair, then conspiring to kill her
husband. Through her deceit she tricks her husband into revealing how he may be
killed, as Lleu cannot be killed by any conventional means, with this new
information she arranges his death. Lleu is struck by a spear and is
transformed into an eagle; Gwydion switches him back into human form and nurses
him back to health, before he reclaims his land back from Blodeuwedd. Gwydion
sees Blodeuwedd fleeing, overtaking her he strikes his powers turning her into
an owl, the creature hated by all other birds.
Amanda Biggs Proving Supervisor writes:
“It wasn’t until we heard the mythology around meadowsweet that certain
things in her experience started to make sense, including one thing she later
admitted she hadn’t told me at the time! This was a feeling of being somehow
special, like a chosen person. The myth of Blodeuwedd is part of the famous
Mabinogion and is of a woman ‘Flowerface’ who was created for a god (because
his mother had spited him and cursed his ability to marry a mortal woman) out
of various (stories differ as to how many exactly) types of flowers including
meadowsweet, and lived well with him until one day she fell in love with
another man. So they colluded to kill the husband (as so often happens in
myths!) – Blodeuwedd tricked her husband into revealing the rare circumstances
in which he could be killed, which required a special spear that had to take
exactly a year to make only on Sundays and then be used in a suitably unlikely
position – one foot a goat, wearing a fishing net etc! When they managed to
kill him, he transformed into an eagle then was later restored, while
Blodeuwedd was punished by being turned into an owl, which apparently were
unpopular birds, and were separated from the company of most birds because of
being nocturnal.
The myth is said to have layers to it – on one level it is about the
empowerment of the woman to choose real love instead of what she was given to,
a tale of self-realisation. On another (and probably more the original
intention) it is a straight Celtic fertility myth, with Blodeuwedd being the
summer goddess and the male gods representing the summer and winter seasons,
and the need of both of them to combine with the woman, one dying to make way
for the other as seasons do. From this perspective it was necessary to ‘make’
Blodeuwedd, in order for her husband to be a king, as only those who had
undergone fertility rites and fully declared their love for the earth via a
priestess or otherworldly woman could be true kings. This is interesting as it
makes her more central than the men, in fact the source of their power, which
underlines the goddess aspect again. The myth is from a time of goddess
worship, before the coming of the masculine traditions, and has to be seen in
this light – e.g. there were no ‘love goddesses’ in Celtic culture equivalent
to Aphrodite, as they were always made of natural parts of the land such as
flowers and fruit. I think the myth came through very strongly in my prover,
and leaked into the lives of those around her.”
Astrological
Meadow sweet has strong connections to the planet Jupiter. Jupiter style herbs
appear to promote growth by expanding the consciousness of the mind and our
awareness. Giving us greater understanding and thereby helping with ones own
spirituality, in addition to also creating new and different opportunities.
‘Jupiter
is the regent of the meadowsweet. The flowers are alexipharmic and sudorific,
likewise astringent, binding, and useful in fluxes of all sorts’
Nicholas
Culpeper 1653
[Frans Vermeulen]
Bringing
out the hero – Russian herbalist often tell the story of the brave knight.
Medical
uses- It is used as astomachic, mild urinary antiseptic, anti, anti- rheumatic,
astringent, antacid, anit-inflammatory, diurectic, diaphoretic, anti emetic and
tonic.
In
Germany it is used to treat the common cold. Here the high salicylate content
reduces fever through diaphoresis. Recommend for water retention, bladder and
kidney ailments, it can also serve as a wash for wounds and inflamed eyes. A
decoction of the shredded rhizome and flower is recommend for nervous
disorders.
Mind
– Nocturnal feeling of remorse for a slight fault committed long go with the
most frightful of stings of conscience and horror of self. Disconnected with
self, instinctual side. Problems with sexuality difficulty integrating lower
body parts. The need to be independent and they often don't have stable
relationships.
Generals-
Aversion to smoking, hot feeling in the whole body and general outbreak of
sweat and rush of blood in the head after eating. Burning pains.
Sensations- Head is encircled and squeezed by a hoop, enlarged after washing in
cold water. Something hot mounting up onto the eyes, eyelids heavy as lead. Pressing
feeling in oesophagus. rectum as if drawn in. Inspired air in the room as
if very cold. Hot feeling all over.
Locals- Pressing, pulsating headache, heartburn, stool in balls, stitches from
bladder to rectum. Palpitations and anxiety, ascending heat and suffering from
cramp.
[Jan Scholten]
They
are left alone by their lover or they feel left alone, without real love
anymore. Remorse over a long past slight indiscretion, with most fearful
qualms of conscience and loathing of himself. On account of this he could not
rest but was obliged to walk about.
Mind-
Morbid conscientiousness, hydrophobia, dullness, laughing (when talking about
serious things), angry person. Dreams no one is driving the car, plane, loss of
control, floating and flying. Dreams vivid, confused.
General-
triple warmer, heat indoors, open air, wet weather. Sweat profusely, chest,
face and hands, heat and eating. Aversion to smoking. Time, afternoon, 1am.
Sleep discomfort after siesta, overpowering, sleepiness, difficulty falling
asleep, restlessness, frequent waking. Physical sneezing, motion, moving
head, bites of mad animals, rabid dogs, snakes.
Body-
Astringent , energy, exhaustion, weak, stretching of limbs and yawning. Infection,
nervous, vertigo as if all senses vanished. Head full and heavy. Eyes burning,
heavy, vision indistinct and foggy. Face red, heat, congestion. Mouth
toothache. Throat heat, warmth, pain, burning, pressing. Lungs cold,
inspiration, cough, dry and loose. Heart palpitations. Chest pain, pressing.
Stomach belching, nausea, vomiting. Abdomen moving and griping. Rectum
pain, prickling, burning, sore, stool urge.
Urinary
cystitis, bright yellow, gritty, oily film. Male prostate gland, violent
erections with great sexual desire. Limbs heaviness, cramp in muscle,
pain.
Wirkung:
Tuberkulin/konzeptionshemmend
Allerlei: Europa/Wald/steinig
Hat 7 Gefäßbündel/Blatt entspring direkt aus Wurzel
Phytologie: Sammeln:
Wurzelstock (Spätherbst/reinigen/im Dunklen trocknen/gute Qualität Droge hat grünliche Bruchfläche)/markige
Blattstielen behalten.
Getrocknetes
Kraut gegen Hundeflöhe
Würmer: 1. Trockene Substanz einnehmen, 2.
Abführmittel,
Rezept:
gestoßener Wurzel bei (alter) Verbrennung.
Filix femina atyrium o. Athyrium filix femina = Farnweibchen
= Fil + schwach;
brings
awareness on all levels, resolution and balance, allowing to let go of the past
and to move forward into the future - although it is more in the sphere of
activity rather than in the mind where this comes through/have irritability and
anger/ have vivid dreams which bring resolution and put past problems into
perspective/healing by balancing
the
physical and the spiritual/= green and a stone.
have
absentmindedness and lack of concentration/work on the mind, head, eyes and
digestion/have vivid dreams which bring resolution and put past problems into
perspective/balancing the masculine with the feminine aspects/= green and a
plant.
Allerlei: Hat 2 Gefäßbündel
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum