Folliculinum Anhang
[Dr. Christina Ari]
Deutsche Version: http://www.christina-ari.at/data/Ari_Follikulinum_Koethen_2015.pdf
Since I myself have experienced all stages in a woman`s life, from puberty
to menopause, including all ups and downs, it is a special honour for me to
point out the importance of a remedy which can without doubt be considered the
most female of remedies of Materia
Medica Homoeopathica.
To find out more about the nature and essence of this remedy, I would
first like to take you on a historical journey, which in fact started much
earlier than in the middle of the 20th century, the time homoeopaths
for the first time gathered experience with this nosode.
A number of renowned colleagues have already closely studied the
substance over the past decades and through their findings have described a
wide spectrum of indications. Based on the illuminating results from the
analysis of the spectrum efficacy of oestrogens, I finally managed to explore
the inner essence of this remedy. This knowledge brought about a more
impressive characterization of Folliculinum and led to an extension of symptoms
and indications in Materia Medica, I intend to show in this performance. It is
of importance, as well, to explain distinctions to similar remedies through
differential diagnosis (Carcinosinum).
My personal experience in the treatment of patients adds to the attempt
to present you a new and extended picture of Folliculinum and finally to point out
its miasmatical importance.
Folliculinum or Oestrogen is a natural hormone secreted by the ovaries.
Besides oestradiol and oestrol, it is one of the physiological most active.
Oestrogens, a steroid hormone, with typical steran structure and the
formula C18 H22O2.
So the basic elements are carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, the matrix of
organic life.
Oestrogens are able to directly interact with nuclear DNA if connected
with a steroid-receptor. Therefore they are such important and urgent
transmitting substances.
The name oestrogen is derived from Greek. Oistros means “rut or lust”
and genao “to create”. What we are talking about is a “rut or lust generating
substance”.
The oestrone used in homoeopathy is derived from horse urine. It is a w
ater-insoluble, white, crystalline substance, triturated to C3.
Path towards the essence
This remedy was proved clinically in detail by Madame De Mattos already
in the 1950s. Results can be looked up in Materia Medica of New Homoeopathic
Remedies by
O.A. Julian. At that time mainly low potencies of the remedy were
applied and that primarily showed positive effects against the so-called
Hyperfolliculinia Syndrome, which was already described in the year 1936 by
Gilbert Dreyfuss. Whatever caused the syndrome could, at that time, not be
fully apprehended, though.
Real Hyperfolliculinia takes the form of a glandular-cystic hyperplasia.
It is manifested in an anovulatory cycle which can lead to clinical disorders
in terms of for example
a polycystic ovary syndrome, cysts or tumours of female organs that
finally leads towards infertility. This real hyperfolliculinia can be
histological verified through biopsy and is differentiated from functional
Hyperfolliculinia.
The later can not be proved substantially, but it responds positively to
the intradermal Hirschberg Test, that shows a kind of an allergic reaction, if
small doses of oestrogen are implied subcutaneously.
The primary assumption that the remedy could be of effect in all medical
conditions which result from an excess of or a disturbed level of oestrogen,
was questioned in an early stage, even by Lea De Mattos herself, since the
relation of pathological symptoms on a physical and an emotional or
psychological level at the same time and out of the same reason could not be
explained in the middle of the past century.
A full understanding of the complexity of the feedback mechanism between
hypothalamus, hypophysis and the gonads was not established at that time.
Today, we do know more about the intricate feedback mechanisms of neuro-humoral
transmitters, the so-called messenger substances. Possible connections between
symptoms and clinical pictures on different organ system levels can be
explained more accurately nowadays. It has been proven that sexual hormones
directly influence the neurotransmitting systems, unless they are even
considered to be neurotransmitter themselves.
It is therefore safe to say that treatment options of Folliculinum, when
applied as a homoeopathic remedy, show a very wide spectrum of indications,
exceeding cases of symptomatic, hormone specific disease patterns.
The essence of the remedy becomes manifest on close inspection of the
effective range of oestrogens.
Primarily they are responsible for sustaining fertility in human
organism.
Therefore oestrogens are responsible for the development, the
functioning, and regulation of female sexual organs.
They dictate the female hormonal balance and they safeguard the dynamics
of an individual balanced ovular cycle of a woman.
The follicular phase is determined by the effect of oestrogens. This
euphorigenic effect provokes lust in life to get stimulated and everyday
challenges to be met readily.
This is the aspect of femininity that is widely appreciated and the
image of women in general is reflected that way.
Better insight in the essence of this substance is gained considering
situations where the level of oestrogen is very high, at its summit, for
example during ovulation or when giving birth. In those moments tremendous
elementary powers are arising in a female organism, through a direct and
exceeding effect of oestrogens on the hypothalamus.
At the time around this hormonal peak women feel like high and get an
impressive and fascinating expression, full of effective power.
But simultaneously, somehow like a shade, this circumstance shows
definitely some kind of a repression of the controlled waking consciousness. It
seems like an invisible
force is taking possession of the female rational guidelines, of the
ratio itself and like intoxicated, women surrender to this exceptional state.
Around ovulation lust feelings are at its peak and cohabitation happens
thoughtless once a while. Even female climax never can be more satisfying than
around ovulation.
Ability for self-abandonment and loss of inhibiting mechanisms of
self-control finally facilitate successful fertilization, and as well allow for
an easier bearing of the fear
and pain connected to giving birth, and guarantee for a caring and
devoted mother-child relationship.
Summarizing one can say that these facts are substantial preconditions
for conservation of the evolution of higher species.
On the contrary, at that point, Homo sapiens find himself also
confronted with the drawbacks of hormonal effects, shown as unwanted
pregnancies and hopeless dependencies in relationships.
The analysing of this key effect of oestrogens finally uncovers the
central delusion of this remedy. It can be described as – Being lost in
devotion!
One can say that the ability to selflessly devote oneself to a task or a
relationship is profoundly female and can be attributed to the effect of the
oestrogens.
Fortunately, the physiological sequence of the two-phase female cycle
involves a natural opponent, the so called protective hormone gestagen. The
balanced interaction of both gonad hormones facilitates the development of a
multilayered perception of women, which is characterized by a creative and
flexible organizational ability and natural and consolidating leadership
qualities. Multitasking ability, often come across with women, can be put down
to this fact.
Every healthy woman, therefore, has her own individual rhythmical cycle
which helps her to find the right measure in relation to empathy, devotion,
self-determination, strength of will, and individuality. These are the essential
prerequisites of a healthy female organism.
Any disturbed or suppressed physiological cycle signifies a missing pace
setting signal of the oestrogens and leads to well known disorders in the sense
of hyperfolliculinia
and its reflecting symptoms, concerning the entire organism, body, sense
and mind.
Oestrogens are the pace maker in a healthy cycle.
Given the fact that women suffering on a disturbed hormonal balance are
not able to fully unfold their potential creativity on physical and emotional level,
a deficiency based diatheses in relation to the development of an individual
personality structure arises, which characterizes the guiding symptoms of this
nosode.
They are manifested in profound unsteadiness and poor ability to
personally dissociate oneself from others because of not being accorded to an
individual rhythm.
To compensate deficient feelings, the person somehow feels obliged to
surrender completely, to finally `nourish the whole world`, until he or she
becomes totally leached out.
This remedy is for someone who is longing for a life in autonomy but
unfortunately he or she is condemned to surrender in dependency.
In the end it seems there is no way out, he or she falls into deep
depression or gets involved into severe illnesses of the body.
Next is a detailed description of Materia Medica of Folliculinum:
Donald Foubister followed Madamme De Mattos, examining the remedy.
Publications added by Melissa Assilem have essentially contributed to the
development of contemporary remedy characteristics, well described in the
Synoptic Materia Medica by Frans Vermeulen.
In her manuscript `Mist or Miasma`, Assilem was the first to show up the
fatal consequences of hormonal abuse, effecting the following generations,
starting in the second
half of the past century.
During a period of about thirty years a drug called Diethylstilbestrol
(DES) was given to numerous of women, to
prevent miscarriages, in U.K. and U.S.A., causing a rare form of cancer, a
vaginal clear-cell adenocarcinoma in daughters of those women. Although these
cancers could arise very early, many were not triggered off until the girl was
exposed to more hormones, e.g. the pill, or another hormonal treatment. Assilem
claimed this to be a case of an acquired miasma triggering off an inherited
one. Many sons of those women treated with DES suffered on low sperm counts or
abnormally shaped sperms. The `morning after Pill` was made from DES as well.
Finally in 1999, Folliculinum was proved by Andreas Holling during a
seminar in Münster with Jayesh Shah involving 10 participants.
Complemented by the symptoms derived from this proving and by my own
extensive experiences with the remedy I would like to attempt to more precisely
characterize Folliculinum to achieve a better understanding of it and facilitate
differentiation with other remedies.
Indications prefering the female sex:
Since Folliculinum can primarily be considered a female remedy, I would
like to start emphasizing on indications concerning afflictions in preference
of the female sex.
In aetiological terms, I will proceed mainly according to clinical
aspects, which correspond with the typical pathognomic symptom complexes,
including all psycho vegetative symptoms, and also include the side effect
symptoms of synthetic hormones.
1. I would like to start with
indications which can be put down to physiologic fluctuations of the hormonal
balance:
Frequently in puberty, the development of the ovulary cycle, is
characterized by difficulties concerning the individualisation process leading
to womanhood. It is proved
as a remedy for boys as well, unless they are drained and slow and
unable to identify with their selfhood.
In case of abnormalities at the time of ovulation and the days before
menstruation 1, especially afflictions in terms of a premenstrual dysphoric
syndrome or menstrual disorders in general, despite the modality that the start
of the period causes improvement.
During pregnancy, around birth, during the breastfeeding phase,
especially when there is a lack in a balanced mother-child relationship, to the
point of puerperal psychosis
1. In menopause, the whole spectrum of physical and mental symptoms is
covered.
2. Furthermore, Folliculinum is
indicated in case of functional and organically manifested female diseases 1,
which can be attributed to an impaired ovulation cycle, such
as polycystic ovar syndrome, endometriosis, ovary cysts, myomas,
malignomas and other tumors, depressions and other physical or mental
manifested disorders.
All diseases regarding breasts, should someone remind of Folliculinum
1.
3. Now for iatrogenic causes:
Long lasting hormonal suppression or replacement therapies including all consequences represent a serious
iatrogenic cause, as severe physical side effects and a higher risk
of developing cancer are proven. That fact shows one of the main
indications for the remedy. It is common practice to treat functional endocrine
disorders with synthetic hormones. In that way to us homeopaths alarming
disorders as acne vulgaris, endometriosis and PCO syndrome are basically simply
suppressed.
Hormonal contraceptives , no matter what kind, totally blocks the
functioning of the ovaries. They are made available too easily to even very
young girls, whose cycle is barely developed yet. Suppression and deception of
one`s own balancing mechanisms often leads to an ovular cycle not able to
regenerate itself, which may cause infertility. This drastic consequence, the
side and after effects of contraceptives such as widespread urinary tract
infections, migraine etc. can successfully be treated with Folliculinum.
First stop suppressive drugs and than prescribe rhythmically repeated
medications of Folliculinum, because oestrogens are the pace maker in an
ovulatory cycle, this is a simple way to induce regeneration! This method has
proven to be very successful in my experience, in the sense of functional
therapy, in intervals, supplemented by the treatment with a Simile.
Modern medicine`s answer to infertility is further hormonal treatment
and finally in vitro fertilization , which most often needs to be repeated
causing severe symptomatic and functional disorders
Consequently, the children procreated this way may suffer form problems
and diseases . Here you can follow a severe miasmatic pressure already!
Antihormone therapy against hormone-receptor positive carcinomas has
lots of side effects, can clearly be made more tolerated by rhythmically
repeated medications of Folliculinum C200.
Some women respond to weekly, others to doses given every two weeks.
Now I am going to talk about gender-free symptoms and indications, as
well as the modalities of this homoeopathic remedy:
Sources: 1 Julian and deMattos, 2 Foubister, Assilem, 4 Cooper, 5 Holling, 6 Journal of
classical Homeopathy,
Trias of symptoms: Neuropsychic symptoms – symptoms of female genitals
including mammae – various sensitivity for pain.
Mind: mental/emotional symptoms:
Delusion, gets lost in devotion. Results in loss of individual
creativity. We have to look out for patients, permanently trying hard to do
their best, to express their true selves
to find a personal identity. They are not sure about themselves. They
prove their autonomy, but always remain in a trying position. Behind this lack
of self confidence, we discover forsaken feelings and a disposition to
dependency.7
She feels she is controlled by another. She is out of sorts with her
rhythms. She is living out someone else`s expectations. She loses her will. She
over-estimates her energy reserves. She is full of self denial. She becomes a
rescuer, addicted to rescuing people. She becomes drained. She has become a
doormat. She has forgotten who she is.
She has no individuality, she looses sense of herself, she may totally
lose herself in her relationships“.
„Pressure of a personality or a group on an individual; a dominant or
possessive parent, friend or marriage partner; and certainly where there is
intolerant religious dominance“.
Puts enormous efforts in order to give her best.
Disorders through paternalism, over a long time.
„ Pressure through conditions on work, also persons that have worked
over a period until exhaustion and seem to be unable to recover or to react to
a subscriped homoeopathic remedy“.
„Patients (under extreme pressure) not responding to homoeopathy“.
„There is a very strong link here with Carcinosinum and it is not
surprising, that Folliculinum works well when Carcinosinum is indicated but
does not act. Cancer cells have lost their identity and the ability to
differentiate or individualize”.
Loss of individual creativity.
Fear, to have neglected one`s duties.
Fear, remorse, to have done something bad.
Fear, in general and sudden.
Fear, in the evening, at dawn.
Fear tortuous.
Fear, to loose control.
Reproaches, self-reproach.
Thoughts force him, to be active.
Feels acknowledged by activities only.
Feels obliged to be friendly, sympathizes to get appreciation.
Hypersensitivity.
Excitability # depression.
Irritability, bad temper
Feels attacked, hurt and easily offended.
Sensitive to reproaches.
Feels not being taken seriously.
Can`t understand why others find everything she does for granted.
Emotionally reserved.
Indecision.
Feeling of helplessness.
Sadness.
Feeling of abandonment.
Feels high, spaciness.
Delusion to be under a powerful influence.
Delusion, to be assigned with an important mission.
Someone really gets heated up in situations, appearing very important to
him/her.
Wants to dictate and establish oneself.
Seductive, wants to put someone under one`s spell.
Pulls the nearest into her fate.
Wants to pull nearest into her dependency.
Can`t let dearest go, husband, children (overprotective mother).
Indicts her nearest, complains.
Aversion against own husband, children.
Falls into a feeling of emptiness, as soon the children leave home or
she loses her job.
Has a feeling of not being able to finish things. 5
Weak concentration if trying to do more things at a time, this irritates
him. Can only do one thing at the time, or as less a possible. 5
Makes things in series, not simultaneously. 5
Confused, if too many mental impressions at the same time. 5
Deficiency in concentration and fear when driving a car, fears loss of
control.5
Aggressive verbal attacks when getting parallel requirements. 5
Losing herself in details. 5
Avoids stress. 5
Longing for rest or for action alternate with need for rest.5
Cancels appointments and dates, escapes. 5eird slowness or agitated
hurry. 5
Feels overstrained, drained.
Territorial confusion, loses perspective. 5
Incapacity to keep the overview. 5
Generalities and clinical indications:
History of abuse whether sexual, physical or psychological.
Fixed ideas on sexual matters. 1
Lack of libido or increased libido.
Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia).
General risk for dependency.
Serotonin deficiency syndrome, depressions and psychosis,
on people, who cannot find boundaries.7
Burnout syndrome.7
Suicidal tendancy.3
Chronique fatigue syndrome.3
Immune deficiency syndroms.
[Dorothy Cooper]
Pressure in adults of continued ill health or slow recovery after
recurrent or severe infection. This covers, especially in my experience, young
men after glandular fever or presenting with what is
ecoming identified as post viral syndrome. In these cases I always start
by using Carcinosinum, but add Folliculinum if the Carcinosinum does not
achieve a lasting response. The same applies to patients not responding after
cortisone treatment“. My personal experience confirms a greater incidence for
Folliculinum, since I can differentiate in
a better way between Carcinosinum and Folliculinum.
The development of an immune mediated disease connected with a viral
infection. Almost every multiple sclerosis patient shows a mononucleosis disease
in his medical history. I have seen patients suffering for multiple sclerosis,
fibromyalgia, Bechterew`s disease and Darier White Syndrome showing good
results with this remedy.
Chronic B. Coli infections.
Sterility. 1
Candida albicans.
Edema.
Allergy.
Vasomotoric disorders.
Exhaustion and fatigue.
Heat, hot flash.
Modalities:
<: through wind/heat/noise/touch/rest/alcohol/nicotine;
>: through fresh, cool air/exercise outside/through commendation and
appreciation;
Craving for wheat and sugar (pastry, pasta).
Contradictory symptoms change quickly.
Period: 1 h./dependency on the rhythm of the moon/periodically;
Colour preference by Müller, Welte 12 – 14 C DD.: Lanthanides
Head:
Feeling as if more oxygen reaches the brain, this makes thinking easier.
Dizziness.
Headache, slightly can extend to migraine.
Alopecia.
Eyes:
Pale, ring`s under one`s eye.
Swollen conjunctivas.
Sore eyes.
Ears: Seborrhoae of the auditory canals with
pruritus.
Nose: Rhinitis vasomotorica.
Hay fever.
Seborrhoae of nares.
Face: neuralgia.
Facial acne.
Mouth: Itching, tickling, burning, a feeling that
you get from touching a battery with the tongue, or slightly burning of pepper.
Throat: Painful swallowing, pressure sensitivity of the
pharynx, hoarseness as far as anaudia.
Angina.
Tickling of the airway from the throat up to the xyphoid process, this
provokes a cough.
Spasmodic cough with up to choking.
Stomach: Gastralgia with nausea.
Abdomen: Diversified periodic dyspepsia.
Dyspepsia allergy (intolerances).
Tympanites.
Pain, right hypochondrium.
Hepatic dysfunction, liver swelling, liver carcinoma.
Biliary tract dysfunction.
Pancreas disorders.
Rectum: Diarrhoea # constipation.
Urinary tract: Recurrent infections of the urinary system,
incontinence, increased desire to urinate.
Small stings in the bladder.
Urine: smells like ammoniac.
Incontinency, pollakisuria, nightly dysuria.
Female Organs: Symptoms of the female gender have been
mentioned in advance. In general everything < around ovulation and before
menses.
Chest: Cardiovascular disorders, including disorders
of the rhythm of the heart and stenocardia, angina pectoris.
Accelerated pulse, with faintlessness.
Dyspnoea, breathlessness.
Longing for fresh air.
Takes deep breaths, deep sighs.
Labile hypertension or manifest hypertension.
Raynaud`s disease.
Thromboembolic disorders and varicositas.
Haematomas.
Back: Pain, arthralgia miscellaneous forms,
myalgia.
Glieder: Achillodynia, on the right side more than
left.
Neuralgia.
Eczema on the fingers, with fissures.
Skin: Dry lichen, itching.
Psoriasis.
Atopic dermatitis.
Eczemas; Foubister advises against the use of Folliculinum considering
skin complains. My experience does not cope with that.
Chloasma uterinum.
Cellulite.
Fibrinoid.
Dreams: Situations, which are difficult to cope with,
to feel to go under and to prove oneself something.
Occupied by adverse power and
forces.
Exhausting situations with obstacles.
Heroic doings.
Loss of controle.
Fear of loss of control while driving vehicles with obstacles.
Dream after taking Folliculinum C200 once: She is cooking a feast for
the whole family. As the meal is finished, the door bell rings, the guests
arrive. She panics, she is not showered, not combed, not dressed yet, she now
flees into the bathroom. She hears her brother saying amused: „It`s like
always, she is never ready on time, she is not able
to organise her time.“ She is in the bathroom, she is in despair and
stressed as she tries to get ready, she becomes aware that she can`t find her
own image looking in the mirror. She can`t recognise herself, she has no
identity.
The amount and complexity of symptoms points out the importance of the
remedy.
DD.: First I want to talk about the necessary differentiation of the
nosodes Carcinosinum and Folliculinum:
DD.: Compare Folliculinum to other close or related remedies:
Discerning nosodes, it is essential to find out whether a deficiency
based diatheses is present or not. Thyreoidinum as well as Medorrhinum can be
very similar.
Animal remedies follow sorted according to similarity.
Concerning female remedies De Mattos called Lachesis to be the closest
remedy, finding the following: excitability # depression, extreme sensitivity
to contact, and
> menstrual flow.
Folliculinum: No laterality, or < from sleep
< during ovulation. M. Assilem
adds: Lachesis does the draining, Folliculinum gets drained.
Elaps and Cenchris are close related as well as other snake remedies.
Sepia is very close, but the cycle modalities are stronger in
Folliculinum.
Sea remedies depending to rhythm, in general relate (Calc. and Aster.).
Plants: Lilium tigrinum, Staphisagria,
Ignatia, Aristolochia, Pulsatilla and Cyclamen are close.
Minerals: Natrium muriaticum, Samarium muriaticum, all the muriaticums and
lacticums could be compared as well as other lanthanides and remedies out of
the silver-serie.
Granit has aggravation at ovulation. Kalium carbonicum shows the
weakness.
How to prescribe?
Over the past ten years of intense studies with this remedy, functional
and miasmatic prescriptions of Folliculinum have become more common to me. In
this way and especially when complemented by a Simile the nosode accompanies
chronic recoveries. This method has proven to be successful with many patients
and resulted in lasting recovery. Foubister already experienced good effects
giving Folliculinum three or four days before an individually selected
constitutional remedy.
Exclusive prescription provides a solution with iatrogenic induced cycle
disorders, as already explained before. According to its properties I
rhythmically administer the remedy in case of chronic states, which can be seen
in connection with hormonal disorders, mostly in C potencies; the level of the
potency is always chosen according to the individual case.
If the remedy is to be prescribed solely according to the simile nature,
the most satisfying recoveries can be observed. In such cases, fluxion- and Q-
potencies have proven
to be successful.
Folliculinum and Miasma:
Now I would like to talk about the superior meaning of Folliculinum in a
miasmatic sense. In 2010 the birth control pill celebrated its 50th
aniversery. Three generations of women in industrialized countries have made
use of it. Millions of women have avoided experiencing their own individual
female rhythm, which is the basis of their creativity, and do not realize that
they are victims to the drug (men?).
In striving for liberation from paternalism, they haven fallen prey to
deceitful carelessness, which eventually leads to taking possession of female
sex again.
This attempt to escape is understandable, taking the role which has been
imposed on women over countless generations by the dogmas of world religions.
Women have been reduced to the caring form of expression of their being,
giving birth to and taking care of ten or even more children, definitely
missing a steady cycle. They were for the most part
refused to be seen as rational beings and therefore not considered to
have leading capacity.
Thousands of years of suppression of individual and creative
possibilities for development of women all around the world can primarily be
seen as a taking of possession of femality. Folliculinum therefore is an
expression of lost matriarchy, combining a desperate strife for rehabilitation.
The general impact on our health induced by increasingly incontrollable
hormone substitution and genetic engineering in animal breeding, though leading
to an appreciated worldwide rise in production,
can not be neglected either. Hormones pass our food, are excreted
through our liver and kidneys, go back into the water supply and are
reintroduced into the circle, as they cannot be filtered out. We are under a
constantly growing hormonal exposure.
Out of this hormonal pollution and in connection with taking synthetic
hormones over centuries, hormonal misuse has become part of our lives and has
to be considered a mayor risk to our health at present and even more in the future.
The rise in breast cancer and cervical dysplasia is alarming.
In Austria one out of eight women develops a malignant breast tumour.
The fertility rate in so-called industrialized countries is constantly decreasing
symptoms such as endometriosis and PCO syndrome are on the rise.
Not only women are afflicted by this phenomenon, disorders in
spermatogenesis probably induced by oestrogen can be observed with men. The
sperms are too slow, too small in number, or deformed. Whether environmental
pollution or the taking of the pill by their mothers before pregnancy is the
cause can not absolutely be differentiated.
In this context, I would also like to mention the Burn Out Syndrome
which affects both sexes and has been on the increase over the past years. It
is terrible to see how many people suffer from chronic stress.
People who have self-sacrificed themselves in tasks and duties and are
terribly striving to keep up control mechanisms, who have forgotten to perceive
and live out their capacities, have definitely lost touch with their individual
rhythm of life.
Folliculinum ought to be an option in these cases, a remedy which is
mirrored noticeably in the regretful state of our civilized society.
Assuming a miasma in general to be an influence that induces illness and
is hidden behind common pathologic symptoms which are signs of a disrupted
force of life, it is legitimate in this case, to speak of a new miasma that has
to be taken very seriously.
What we are talking about here and now, is neither a simple iatrogen,
nor a sex-specific nor a simple carcinogen miasma.
I would like to point out that this is a distinct folliculin miasma,
which can either be acquired or inherited. What we are dealing with is a
so-called adapted or chronic cancerogen miasma, which primarily leads to
degenerative disorders to sign up for reduced regenerative properties.
Coming to this point I hope for a broad acceptance of my mission, also
to do justice to the remedy which has proven helpful to mankind.
Folliculinum helps to restore and re-empower the patients. Finally they
are able to develop a new identification of selfhood, which is needed to re-
establish their individual rhythm of life - the chance to move out of this
destructive and degenerating miasma.
This remedy is of big importance and should be considered in the same
order as Carcinosinum or Medorrhinum.
[Melissa Assilem]
Folliculinum: Mist or Miasm?
This paper was first presented at the Society of Homoeopaths Seventh
International Conference at the University of Nottingham in September 1990.
Reproduced here by
kind permission of the author.
Folliculinum is made from Oestrone, a synthetic form of oestrogen. The
source we are using today comes from Dr Donald Foubister. Although there have
been no organised provings in the traditional method, millions of women have
been proving it since the discovery of synthetic hormones in the 1940s. Dr Léa
De Mattos has done exhaustive clinical studies on the remedy, and has published
her work in French. You can also find a good picture in Julian's Materia
Medica. Much of what I will be relating here, however, comes from my own
experience with the remedy, (mental picture). I have been using it a great deal
over the past 4 years, with remarkable success.
I wish to begin by explaining how and why I came to see the wide
indications for Folliculinum. I feel that an inherited miasm is being created
by the indiscriminate use of synthetic hormones. When I was a student I was
going to write my thesis on the remedies with relationship to the moon. So
about four years ago I started using moon menstrual calendars, asking my
patients to fill in their symptoms on the chart. I am still using them today,
because they are so incredibly useful. All sorts of interesting patterns
emerge. It soon became clear that many women had symptoms between ovulation and
menses, and most of them had been on the Pill at one time or another.
Another amazing thing to emerge was the fact that many young women were
having these problems, who had not been on the Pill but their mothers had been
on the Pill before they were conceived. Remember the Pill has been available
for thirty years now. At first I confused the picture with Medorrhinum symptoms
(early sexuality, urinary infections, spaciness etc). but as I got to know the
Folliculinum picture better, it begin to dawn on me what the causation might
be. I have used it with both girls and boys in their teenage years, drained,
slow, unable to identify with their selfhood. I have heard it said that
children of the sixties often are a bit spacey, because of all the social drugs
their parents were on. However there were many more women using the Pill than
were ever using hash or marijuana. Studies have shown an increase in a rare
type of chromosomal disorder in the aborted embryos of women who conceived
within three months of stopping the Pill. I would like to see questions asked
in the initial case taking, around these issues, so that we can see just how
many children of Pill taking mothers have been effected. I am afraid the signs
are increasing to show the inherited damage due to the Pill.
Diesthylstilbestrol
The other indicator towards inherited disease, through hormone abuse
involves a drug called Diesthylstilbestrol (DES). This is a man made oestrogen.
Beginning in 1940,
it was given to pregnant women who had histories of miscarriages,
premature births, diabetes or hypertension, or showed signs of bleeding in the
early stages of pregnancy.
We don't know how many women were given this drug in the UK, but in the
US, it numbered well over a million. It was well known as early as 1953 that
DES did not prevent miscarriage, but it's use for this purpose was continued
into the 0's. A previously rare form of cancer, vaginal clear-cell adenocarcinoma,
has been found in increasing numbers of daughters of women who were given DES.
Over 500 cases have been diagnosed with a direct link to the hormone. Although
these cancers can start as early as age eight, many are not triggered off until
the girl is exposed to more hormones, i.e. the Pill, or other hormonal
treatment. (Perhaps this is a case of an acquired miasm triggering off an
inherited one?) There is growing evidence to show a sharp increase in breast
cancer, and as much as a five-fold increase of cervical dysplasia, in DES
daughters.
A high percentage of those who have not yet developed cancer have a
condition in which glandular type tissue is found in the vagina, which is
normally found in the mouth,
a matter of confusion in differentiation. They can have a whole range of
abnormalities including incompetent cervix which prematurely dilates, causing
miscarriage, a higher chance of having difficult menstrual problems, and a
lower level of fertility. Abnormalities of the genitals have now been found in
male children also together with small testes, infertility, subfertility; and
as high as 40% of DES sons have low sperm counts or abnormally shaped sperm.
The 'morning after Pill' is made from DES, and is still administered
quite freely, even though the effectiveness of preventing pregnancy is not
established. Large doses of DES were given to animals to fatten them up for
slaughter, and it is still used to dry up women's milk after childbirth. So,
from these two facts alone, DES daughters and sons, and children whose mothers
were on the Pill before they were conceived, we have a frightening idea of what
we may be facing. Our regeneration is at stake, much less our health.
Folliculinum is a remedy which expresses so much of what is out of order in our
world today. So that we can see the whole picture of what is going on today, we
need to go back in history and lift some of the mists of time. So I am going to
tell you a little story. Let me call it a drama documentary. So settle back,
relax, close your notebooks and open your eyes, your heart your mind or
whatever you need to open when you read.
The story
Once in the very first times, there was a land where women were
respected ... where women's business was women's business, and they loved and respected
themselves and each other.
The women lived a bit separate from the men at times, in order to carry
out this business. They were in charge of their own religion, and their own
bodies. They celebrated the monthly ritual of bleeding by the moon, and they
all menstruated together. It was a time of high energy and creativity, and the
Great mother Goddess was worshipped. She was earth centred and life giving. The
celebrations took place in the Women's House that was called TAPUU, which meant
magic. When a girl had her first menstruation, the women welcomed her into the
magic of being a woman. Her expectations were to celebrate being a woman. Her
health and well being belonged to her sisters and herself and she felt
powerful.
To leave the story for a moment - and say that we know of course that
this story is true. From archeological remains, but mostly from the fact that
these things still happen with First Nation People all over the globe, in
America, Africa, Australia and the Pacific. People who have not lost their land
connection. Early anthropologists, and missionaries, white men from European
cultures, interpreted these separations as being a banning and turned the
magical word TAPUU into TABOO, which has become an everyday word in our
language with quite a different meaning. We also know that women living
together in groups; nuns, nurses and others, synchronise their periods. There
is an energy between them, the meaning of which we have long since forgotten.
So let us get back to our story. Back to the land where time was told by
the moon, and where a girl learned of the tides within her body which matched
the two great monthly heart beats of the earth - beats of balance between the
full and the new moon and the mother earth. [picture] Time was told according
to these beats, ovulation and menstruation, thirteen lunar months, regulating
the planting and the harvest; the conceiving and the birthing.
Then things began to change, and more father-centred religions took over
the women's business, and elite groups of men began to dictate how things
should be. Many people migrated and lost their connection with the land, and
women were separated from each other, and the father religions called the
bleeding unclean, and the father religions took the new born children and
baptised them in deep cleansing rituals, to wash away the mother blood from
them. Father healers began to take over the management and control of women's
business. At first it was only the women of the ruling groups who were
controlled. Poor women continued to be healers and midwives. Then the father
religions began to burn the women healers and the earth religion was termed
Devil worship, and the women were called witches. Nine million witches were
burned, and after those nine million murders, much of the knowledge of our
healing died. After that, women's knowledge was derided and called 'Old Wives
Tales', or 'Idle Gossip'. The father doctors passed laws to make sure that
other healers would never be as powerful as themselves. Women's bodies became
the property of the father doctors and father priests, and women forgot their
rhythms and their tides, and their earth connections. Women were now seeing
their menstruation as a curse, not a blessing. The father doctors had finally
got control. But they were not yet finished.The first surgical removal of
ovaries was performed in 1809, and marked the beginning of a long and brutal
history of excision as the answer to women's ever increasing bad health. And
then Hallelujah! the father doctors discovered hormones.
Hormones
What a panacea of control they had uncovered. They regulate our periods
and fecundity with the oral contraceptive, which totally blocks our ovaries
from working properly and tricks them each month with a false message. The very
delicate and complex pattern between pituitary, ovary, hypothalamus, and
uterus, is deceived and jangled. Just look at the picture of the reproductive
cycle and see the intricate rhythms of the oestrogen, the follicle stimulating
hormone, progesterone, and the luteinising hormone. It is an awesomely elegant
rhythm which has evolved over millions of years, and now, that rhythm is
tricked and fooled with like a toy.
The contraceptive Pill
The Pill of course, which this year had its thirtieth birthday, makes us
sexually accessible at all times with no fear of fertilisation, in fact it
often ends our periods altogether. There are no more eggs. When we are not
fertile enough we are given hormones in the form of fertility drugs to produce
more eggs. They induce our babies with hormones, often only for convenience
sake, which is effectively injecting our babies with hormones, before they see
the light of day.
Hormone replacement therapy
They inject depo-provera with its horrible side-effects into women whom
they consider not bright enough to follow the instructions on the Pill packets
- and the side effects are devastating, often causing flooding and pain. They
give us the morning after Pill - they can abort us with hormones, and now they
have discovered Hormone Replacement Therapy, which they say will keep us young
and feminine and save us from ageing naturally. But the major boon to this
latest 'revolutionary medical technique', is that studies have shown that they
will save packets of money?? on us when we are old, because osteoporosis is
costing over £500 million a year in treating fractures in old women. There are
ten million post-menopausal women in Britain, and they wish to see the majority
of these women on HRT. It is seen as a 'cheap and safe preventative medicine'.
In fact it is being suggested that all women over forty be given it. They
administer hormones to both sexes of animals to plump up their breasts and
flesh them out, to produce more meat- they regulate the female animals -
chickens, whose ovulation gives us eggs, and cows whose yearly calving gives us
milk. They put hormones in pesticides to spray our grains and vegetables with,
and now these hormones are excreted through our kidneys and back into the water
supply. In London, by the time we drink the water it has been through seven
pairs of kidneys and the hormones are in the water and can't be filtered out.
The tyranny of hormone abuse is complete, from conception to old age, it is
part of our life and a risk to our future. The rise in cancer in the
reproductive systems in young women is only the first sign of what is to come.
The picture
So now follows the picture of Folliculinum:
She feels she is controlled by another
she is out of sorts with her rhythms
she is living out someone else's expectations
she feels she is being fed off emotionally or
psychologically
she loses her will
she over estimates her energy reserves
she is full of self-denial
she becomes a rescuer, addicted to rescuing
people
she becomes drained
she has become a doormat
she has forgotten who she is
she has no individuality.
There is a very strong link here with Carcinosin, and it is not
surprising that Folliculinum works well when Carcinosin is indicated but does
not act. Cancer cells after all are cells which have lost their identity, lost
their ability to differentiate themselves, to individualise. They revert to
primitive cells with no selfhood.
she loses sense of herself she may totally lose herself in her
relationships
Folliculinum can help restore the will and re-empower. Folliculinum
comes up over and over again in cases where women have been abused sexually,
psychically or physically, either now or at any time in the past. (This can be
true whether she remembers it or not.) She may be tied so strongly to the
abuser, as in early childhood when the abuser was
a parent or a loved carer. She may never have been allowed to say NO.
She may have evaded the process of her own growing up. Folliculinum can help
her to break the control. Folliculinum is a link breaker, and can give extra
vitality when having to face heavy rememberings. It can be useful for those
with emerging psychic abilities who can find no boundaries. The ovary is such
an organ of creativity. It simply seethes with life and activity. When it isn't
functioning well creativity can be blocked.
Maybe it is blocked by a domineering parent or spouse. Maybe it is
blocked by the way our society views women's creativity. If the energy is
blocked, and suppressed and tricked, where is it going to go? It goes into
disease, depression, anxiety, hypersensitivity and instability. She gets easily
upset, easily hurt and unsure of herself. She does not want to be alone, gets
restless, goes hyper, gets allergies. It appears like an oestrogen allergy. The
body gets confused and rejects the things that nourish it. The mind gets
confused and can't make decisions. Folliculinum helps to restore clarity. There
may be panic attacks, dizziness faintness, she can become aggressive, then
depressed, put on weight without over eating, can gain up to seven pounds
before periods, can get into compulsive eating and have huge food cravings,
especially before periods but it can be
at anytime. There can be both fat and water retention.
Hormone imbalance
I got really excited when I came across a piece of research done by Dr
Katharina Dalton, which helps to explain why we find allergic reactions in
cases of hormone imbalance. Under normal conditions, the ovaries produce the
progesterone needed for proper reproductive function and the adrenal glands
produce chemicals that are eventually transformed into a group of hormones
known as corticosteroids. During the process of chemical transformation,
progesterone is manufactured. As the chain continues, the adrenal progesterone
is altered and eventually, corticosteroids are produced. Under normal
conditions, then, it has nothing directly to do with the sex hormone cycle of
the pituitary-ovary-hypothalamus. However when the corpus luteum produces less
progesterone than usual, the reproductive system appropriates progesterone from
the adrenal chain. The feedback system of the sex hormones is then able to
continue and the menstrual cycle is completed. It is almost like an extra back
up system to ensure the survival
of the species. So despite a lack of ovarian progesterone production,
the menstrual cycle remains unbroken, but this occurs at the expense of the
corticosteroid production in the adrenal glands. The chain leading to their
production is broken, when progesterone is borrowed, and as a result fewer
corticosteroids are produced. A little hormone snatching leads to a large
number of repercussions. The adrenal gland produces many corticosteroids, each
with a different function.
Some are responsible for the water balance in the tissues of the body,
regulating the sodium and potassium in the cells, some prevent allergic
reactions, some regulate the level of blood sugar and others mobilize parts of
the immune system response. So we can see that this imbalance happening at the
stage of the cycle before the menses, would cause much disruption at this time.
Specific symptoms
Folliculinum is fairly well known. for having symptoms from ovulation to
menses:
all symptoms < ovulation to menses
all symptoms > menses except specific menstrual symptoms
< heat/noise/touch/resting: > fresh air;
So there are ovulation problems such
as:
drawing, burning, gripping pains,
spotting
ovarian cysts
polycystic ovaries
Premenstrual symptoms
Reading down the list we can see how it covers the majority of symptoms
found under the umbrella of the premenstrual syndrome:
breasts swollen and painful < touch (Lac-c.)
migraines (Nat-m.)
nausea and vomiting diarrhoea alternating with constipation (both Puls.)
diarrhoea ten days before menses
very low or high libido
weepy and depressed
hyperactive,
indecisive, with
panic attacks. with
huge mood swings from aggression to
apathy, and
unable to tolerate noise, touch or heat
Menopause
A a really brilliant remedy around menopause, for which it is well
known. It pretty well covers the whole range of physical and mental symptoms we
might find at this time. Let's have a look:
cycle irregularities
flooding
hot flushes
hyperactive < rest (hot and bothered)
- night sweats
air hunger
dizziness and faintness
abdominal heaviness
fibroids
folliculaemia (4)
vaginal dryness
slow movement and spacey chinking
hypersensitive to noise, heat and touch
And of course, this covers any of these symptoms arising from a
hysterectomy which is like premature menopause.
Clinical situations
There are too many here to go over each one, but there are some special
areas of interest here:
history of abuse whether, sexual, physical or psychological.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis; this is an obvious one when we consider the
overall picture of feeling drained and exhausted;
fibroids; Folliculinum will help to regulate the cycle while the tumour
is shrinking. This of course is very important as there are often frequent
periods with very heavy bleeding + fibroids;
Raynaud's disease, a vascular disorder where the fingers go cold and
numb and lose their ability to circulate properly. Has been treated
allopathically with the birth control Pill.
Most of us are aware of the dangers
when there are vascular problems and the Pill is known to be responsible for
causing thrombosis;
Cardio vascular problems: this aspect shows up in our Folliculinum
picture in angina, palpitations, tachycardia, and other heart irregularities;
Eating disorders; it is not surprising that Folliculinum is useful in
eating disorders considering the mental picture of the remedy. Self-abuse with
substances which should nourish. Self-denial, but that is such a huge subject
in itself that I cannot elaborate here.
Post-natal problems; another very interesting connection is that of
post-natal depression, difficulty bonding with the baby and children unable to
separate from their mother; all of these are about unbalanced connections. When
our babies are born it is such a poignant reminder of the unresolved hurts from
our pasts. As for the child, if the connections are not secure enough, or too
tightly bound, the terror of separation is too painful to contemplate.
Timing and potency
I have found that an optimum time to use Folliculinum is on the 10th
– 14th day of the cycle. This of course is not always the case. It
would not be so for men or for amenorrhoea where ovulation is unknown or indeed
for postmenopausal women. I have used it a few days before the period, usually
five days or so. Léa de Mattos found that different potencies worked in quite
different ways, and I have found this to be true. The x or 4c stimulates and
can bring on menstruation; the c is a balancer, and the 9c is a menstrual
retardant, where there may be very frequent periods. There is a myth about not
repeating Folliculinum to which I have not taken heed. I have given it
repeatedly every month, or on five consecutive nights and in many other
variations. As with any remedy it is important to be creative in its use. I
have used Folliculinum from C up to 10M.
[Melissa Assilem]
Dies ist ein Mittel, auf das ich 1987 zufällig stieß, im gleichen Jahr, in dem ich das Mittel Lac humanum kreiert hatte (Erstaunlicherweise erkannte ich aber damals keinen Zusammenhang). Es wurde von Dr. Donald Foubister vom Royal London Homeopathic Hospital eingeführt. (Er machte uns auch mit Carcinosinum bekannt, das ebenfalls zur Menschen-Familie gehört.) Die hervorragende belgische Homöopathin Frau Dr. Lea de Mattos hat klinisch sehr umfassend mit diesem Mittel gearbeitet.
Damals hatte ich eine große Praxis in London; meine Patienten waren zu etwa 95% Frauen. In vielen Fällen wurde es deutlich, dass ihre Beschwerden auf die Pille zurückgingen. „Die Pille“ wurde am 9. Mai 1960 nach einer äußerst schlampigen Forschung - die später diskreditiert wurde, denn viele der Studienteilnehmerinnen hatten die Pille abgesetzt, weil sie davon krank geworden waren - genehmigt und zugelassen. Die Presse und viele Frauengruppen begrüßten sie als Befreierin der Frauen, die uns endlich die Kontrolle über unsere Fruchtbarkeit gibt. Doch wenn wir uns die Schwächen des Mittelbildes vor Augen führen, wird uns klar, was für ein betrügerischer Trick das war.
Einige Stichwörter und Themen von Folliculinum
Wie von einem anderen beherrscht und beeinflusst, leben sie die Erwartungen anderer aus, sind emotional und psychisch ausgelaugt, mit Helfersyndrom, ein Fußabtreter für andere, und voller Selbstverleugnung. Sie vergessen, wer sie sind, haben keine Individualität, kein Selbstwertgefühl, sind nicht ganz auf der Höhe mit ihren irdischen Rhythmen, und unfähig „Nein“ zu sagen.
Es besteht eine enge Beziehung zu Carcinosinum.
Ich glaube, dieses Medikament, das einer gesunden Bevölkerung zugeführt wurde, hat ein Miasma geschaffen. Seine giftige Galle wird Generationen durchseuchen. Ich habe herausgefunden, dass es ein erstaunliches Antidot bei allen Arten von Hormonmissbrauch darstellt. Hormonbehandlungen in der Postmenopause, hormonelle Behandlung von Akne etc. Ich lernte mehr und mehr darüber. Ich stellte dann meine Ergebnisse in der „1990 Society of Homeopaths Conference at Nottingham University“ in England vor. Der Vortrag wurde dann in deren Zeitschrift veröffentlicht und kann jetzt im Internet unter: http://www.homeopathyhome.com/reference/articles/follic.shtml nachgelesen werden.
Ich stellte sehr oft fest, dass Frauen, die die Pille genommen hatten, nicht auf gut gewählte Mittel reagierten, und oft waren ihre Symptome am Ende ihres Zyklus, vor der Menstruation, viel schlimmer. Auf Folliculinum kehrte ihre Kraft zurück. Es war, als ob ihre Lebenskraft befreit worden sei.
Ein genaueres Bild tauchte auf, und individueller eingesetzte Mittel taten ihre Wirkung. Erst später, nachdem wir die Prüfungen von Fruchtwasser und Nabelschnur durchgeführt hatten und ich dabei war, die menschliche Embryogenese zu erforschen, lernte ich, dass wir kurz bevor wir unsere Reise aus dem Mutterleib beginnen, mit Östrogen vollgepumpt sind.
Damit endet buchstäblich die Schwangerschaft, indem die Aktivität des Progesterons beendet wird, das die Schwangerschaft aufrecht erhalten hatte. Beim Blick auf das Mittelbild von Folliculinum mit seinen starken Verlust-Symptomen wie Identitätsverlust und das Gefühl, von einem anderen beherrscht zu sein, wird klar, wie es zu Individualitäts-Verlust, geminderter Lebenskraft, und dem dominanten Symptom: „Sie vergessen, wer sie sind“ beiträgt.
Meine Ideen sind vielleicht ein bisschen ungewöhnlich, aber diese letzten Momente der physischen Verbindung mit unserer irdischer Mutter und dem Ort, wo unsere Seele vor der Empfängnis gelebt hat, wird verborgen, damit wir unser neues Leben in Freiheit und ohne Reue, etwas zurück zu lassen, beginnen können. Vergesslichkeit kann auch als Geschenk angesehen werden, um das Leid der Trennung zu bewältigen.
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