Galla quercina ruber (Galla-qr) caused by Cynips calicis (= Gallewespe)/= Knopper Oak Galls

 

Vergleich: Siehe: Gallen allgemein

 

Repertorium:

Gemüt: Abscheu gegen sich selbst

Albernes Benehmen

Angst (durch Erwartungsspannung)/Furcht (vor Infektion)

Aphasie

Argwöhnisch, misstrauisch (andere würden Pläne schmieden, ihn umzubringen/Menschen würden etwas verbergen, verstecken)/geheimnistuerisch, verschlossen

Erhöhte Bewusstheit

Einswerden, Vereinigung, Unio verlangt

Ekstase

Empfindlich

Euphorie/froh/Hochgefühl

Verlangt zu fahren, Autofahren [schnell (rücksichtslos und gleichgültig gegenüber den Konsequenzen)

Macht Fehler [bei Namen/schreibend (falsche Buchstaben, Zahlen/lässt Buchstaben aus)/Sprechend [Worte/benutzt falsche Worte]

ohne Gedanken; Gedankenleere/Gedanken vergehen, schwinden

Gefühllos, hart

Gesellschaft abgeneigt (vermeidet Anblick von Menschen/Anwesenheit von Frauen)/verlangt Gesellschaft

Gleichgültig, Apathie

Hass (auf die Menschheit)

Verlangt nach Hause zu gehen

Gewissenhaft, peinlich genau i.B. auf Kleinigkeiten/heikel, pingelig [i.B. persönliche Erscheinung (anderer Menschen)

Heimweh

Konzentration schwierig

Kichern/Lächeln möchte Menschen zum Lächeln zwingen/Lachen (verlangt zu lachen)

Langsam (alle anderen bewegen sich zu schnell)

Menschenfeindlich, Misanthropie

Monomanie (zu fotografieren)

Mutig/überstürzt, vorschnell, unüberlegt, unbesonnen/verwegen

Raserei, Tobsucht, Wut

Ruhelos

Schüchtern, zaghaft

Schweregefühl

Seelenruhe, gelassen (mit innerer Wärme)

Selbstvertrauenmangel (fühlt sich aber gut)

Sinne - abgestumpft, stumpf/scharf/Stumpfheit

Spaßen (erotisch/schwarzer Humor)

Tadelsüchtig, krittelig

Gedanken an den Tod

Traurig (nach Essen)

Ungeschickt

Unwirklich - alles scheint

„Wie verlassen“ - „Wie isoliert“

Verwirrt geistig (beim Versuch sich zu konzentrieren)

Wahnideen [Abgrund (an der Kante eines Abgrunds zu stehen)/sie würde aufgesaugt/unter einer dicken Bettdecke zu sein/sei empfindungslos/Strom von Energie von r. nach l./als ob erstickt (Brust sei von Luft aufgebläht)/Fliegen (als ob wegfliegt)/sei formlos, ohne Gestalt/sei zu sehr von Frauen umgeben/gehasst zu werden von anderen/sei getrennt von der Welt/habe keine Hände, als ob sie amputiert/Körper sei formlos/keine rechte Hälfte zu haben/Körper sei leichter als Luft/würde Menschen leersaugen/feuchter Nebel hängt über allem/Parasit zu sein/sei eine Perle aus einer langen Perlschnur, die im Weltall schwebt/wäre schwanger (beim Blick in einen Spiegel)/schweben [in der Luft/wie ein Drachen o. Ballon an einer Schnur/sieht Spinnweben/Steinstufen passen perfekt zusammen/wäre verbannt/alles was man berührt sei verunreinigt, kontaminiert/schwerer Vorhang würde zwischen ihr und den anderen hängen/eine schwere schwarze Wolke würde sie einhüllen/Bild eines schwarz gestrichenen Zauns]

Zeit scheint länger; vergeht zu langsam/scheint kürzer, vergeht zu schnell

Zorn (wird leicht, schnell zornig/platzt vor Zorn/plötzlich)

Zynisch

Schwindel: im Allgemeinen

Kopf: Bewegung ist schwierig

Wird nach vorne, hinten und nach r.  gestoßen, aber nie nach l.

„Als ob Gehirn vom Schädel abgetrennt wäre, auseinander, abgetrennt getrennt“

Leeregefühl, „Wie hohl“

Schmerz [erwachend („Wie von einem Schlag“)/„Wie von einem Schlag“)/stechend/“Wie ein Ziehen“/Seitlich  l. (stechend)]

Schweregefühl

Völlegefühl seitlich r.

Zusammenschnürung „Wie Band o. Reifen“

Steifheitsgefühl („Auf der Kopfhaut“)

Auge: Schmerz/Schweregefühl

Sehen: Farben vor den Augen - blau/bunt gescheckt, buntscheckig/schwarze Streifen/verändernd, wechselnd/Lichtstrahl mit einem schwarzen Streifen darin

Überempfindlich

Ohr: „Wie Hitze“ (r.)

Jucken im Gehörgang

Schmerz r. (stechend)

„Wie verstopft“/Völlegefühl (r.)

Hören: Schwerhörig

Nase: Geruch, Geruchssinn - überempfindlicher Geruchssinn (Blumen)

Gesicht: Jucken in Wangen

Spannung der Haut - „Als ob Eiweiß, Eiklar auf dem Gesicht eingetrocknet“

Mund: Schmerz - Zungenspitze (brennend)

Zähne: Schmerz (> Zusammenbeißen der Zähne)

Innerer Hals: „Wie anhaftend, klebrig“

Scharfes Kratzen

Schmerz (r./brennend/“Wie durch etwas Scharfes“

Magen: Angst

Appetit - fehlend morgens/Heißhunger/vermehrt (morgens)

Schmerz (brennend)

Rektum: Durchfall/Obstipation

Nieren: Schmerz

Blase: Wasser lassen unwillkürlich (< Lachen)

Männliche Genitalien: Empfindliche Eichel

Weibliche Genitalien: Menses dunkel

Metrorrhagie zwischen den Perioden

Schmerz in Uterus (reißend)

Kehlkopf und Trachea: Schmerz in Trachea (brennend)

Zusammenschnürung in Trachea

Atmung: Atemnot, Dyspnoe, erschwertes Atmen

Husten: im Allgemeinen

Zusammenschnürung in der Trachea

Brust: „Wie Hitze“/“Wie Leere“/„Wie vergrößert“

Zusammenschnürung im Herz

Beklemmung (abends < im Bett/< einatmend/Herz)

Herzklopfen

Schmerz [im Herzen (< Einatmen/stechend, durchstechend)/in Mammae (stechend)/in Schlüsselbeine erstr. Hand]

Schweiß (unter den Mammae)

Rücken: Kälte (einschließlich Frost) [l.]

„Wie durch einen Schlag“ im Zervikalregion erwachend

Schmerz (Lumbalregion)

Steifheit in Dorsalregion/Zervikalregion -r.

Glieder: Ameisenlaufen in Handgelenke

Ameisenlaufen in Handgelenke „Wie durch Fliegen“

Gefühllose, taube Finger morgens erwachend

Hautausschläge - Beine - Bläschen

Hitze in Hände (r./und kalte Füße)

Jucken in Knöchel (an einzelne Stellen)

Kälte (in  Fingerspitzen/in Hände)

Pulsieren in Hände/Schläge, Erschütterungen

Schmerz [krampfartig/Arme/Beine/l. Hand/Handgelenke/Waden (krampfartig)]

Schwäche in Hände/in Unterarme

Steife Beine (r.)

Schlaf: Erwacht nach Mitternacht - 3 h - 3 - 4 h

Schlaflos (nach Zorn)

Schläfrig [mittags/nachmittags (15.30 h/16.30 h)]

Verlängert

Träume: Ballons/bedroht zu werden/Beerdigungen/Bettdecken, die sich in einem Wäschetrockner drehen/schneller Bewegung/Blumen/enge Orte, Plätze/erfolglose Anstrengungen/schnell Fahren mit dem Auto; (aktiv, als Fahrer)/
gelb/purpurn, blaurot/Zimmer, das mit Federn gefüllt ist/Flüsse/sei Fotografiert/Gefahr/Gefühl von Gefahr fehlt/Wurm kriecht aus der Stirn/macht Gymnastikübungen/

ist heimatlos, ohne Zuhause (sucht nach einer Unterkunft)/keine Zimmer im Hotel/Kerzen/Kindern gehen verloren/Kirchen auf einem Schutthaufen/Unterwäsche/sei klein/(enge) Korridore, Hausflure/Krankenhäuser/Labyrinthe in kreisförmige Spirale o. Spinnennetz/nackte Brüste/Mord/Trommeln/nackte Menschen (Mann mit

vertrocknetem, verdorrtem Penis)/Nacktheit/nasse Orte/Pelzmäntel/Penis (geschrumpft)/weiß, wohin sie gehört, wo sie ihren Platz hat/Räuber, Diebe, Einbrecher/Reisen/

steckt jeweils Dinge einer Art in Säcke/Schlangen (ohne Angst)/Schmutzig (Orte, Plätze/zu sein)/Schwanger zu sein/Schwimmen/Soldaten aus Porzellan/Spinnweben/

(sich bewegende) Spiralen/große Sprünge/Ställe/alles bewegt sich in einem Strom von r. nach l./Tiere (gefährlich/schmutzig, dreckig)/Tod/traurig/Treppen/Überfall durchzuführen in einer Bücherei/Überschwemmung/Umzüge/unerinnerlich, bleiben nicht im Gedächtnis/von Polizei verfolgt zu werden/Vorhänge (die eine Abtrennung darstellen/dunkle/wehen nach oben/eine andere Welt, die dunkel und kalt ist/Zäune (und Mauern/schwarze)/nicht genug Zimmer/Zirkus

Frost: innerlich „Wie Kälte in den Knochen“

Haut: Ameisenlaufen „Wie durch Fliegen“

Jucken (in Flecken)
Kälte/“Wie Kälte“

Allgemeines: r. dann l.

Analgesie/gefühllos, taub innerlich

“Wie Hitze“ - l./“Wie innerlich“ + äußerlicher Kälte

Hitzewallungen # Frost/Lebenswärmemangel

> kaltes Baden/“Wie Kälte“ in den Knochen

Pulsieren innerlich

Ruhelos (> nachts)

Schmerz [r./stechend/in Gelenke (wandernd)in Muskeln]

Speisen und Getränke: Verlangt: (kaltes) Bier;  >: kalte Getränke, kaltes Wasser;

Schwäche

verlangt  Tabak

 

Themes:

Flying, Floating, Blown upwards.

Nakedness, Sexuality, Pregnancy.

Anger, Violence, Recklessness.

Insecurity, Ugliness, Criticized.

Homesickness, Homelessness, Lack of Space.

Emptiness, Old and Tired.

Curtain, Fence, Separation.

Ostracism and Exclusion.

Death, Black humour.

 

Quelle: Helios Homœopathic Pharmacy, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

 

Repertory:                                                                                                [Misha Norland]

Mind: Anger (bursting with anger/easily/sudden)/anxiety (from anticipating)/aphasia/audicity/awareness heightened/awkward/censorious/cheerful/

Mind: Company (aversion to (avoids sight of people/company of women/desires)/difficult concentration/self-confidence (wants/+ feels good)/confused (trying to concentrate)/courageous/cynical/thinks about death

Mind: Delusions: standing at the edge of an abyss/ was one of a long string of beads suspended in space/under a thick blanket/body is lighter than air/floating in  air (like a ballooon)/flying („As if would fly away)/is shapeless/a heavy black cloud enveloped her/sees cobwebs/desires to be connected/is not connected/contaminates everything she touches/curtain - heavy curtain hangs between her and others/chest (enlarged/hollow/empty)/image of a black painted fence/has no hands/hated by others/wet mist hangs over everything/being numb/is banished/is a parasite/is pregnant (looking in a mirror)/seperated from the world/does not have a r. side/stairs of stones fitted perfectly together/energy stream from r. to l./is being sucked up/is sucking people dry/“As if suffocating“ (chest is blown up wirh air)/to much surrouded by women/driving fast, reckless,

indifferent to consequences

Mind: Dull/extasy/euphoria/exhilaration/giggling/jesting (black humour/erotic)/desire to laugh/wants to force people to smile/fastitidious (about personal appearanceof others)/fears infection//forsaken feeling/“As if isolated“/foolish/hatred (of humankind)/

„A sif heavy“/disires to go home/homesick/indifferent/loaths self/misantrophy/makes mistakes [names/uses wrong words in speaking/writing (omittng letters/wrong letters/wrong figures)]

Monomania (taking photographs)/rage/rash/restless/sad after eating/secretive/senses acute (to minutest detail)/oversensitive/slow (everybody else moves too fast)/

Suspicious (other people are hiding from him/people plotting against him)/thoughts (vanishing/vacant)/time (passes too quickly, appears shorter/passes too slowly appears longer)/

Timid/tranquil /serene calm (+ inner warmth)/unfeeling/harthearted/everything seems unreal

Vertigo: in general

Head: Constriction „As from a band o. hoop/“As if empty o. hollow“/Fullness r./heavy/Motions difficult/

Pains [„As from blows“ (on waking)]/pushed for- and backward and to the side, never to the l.//“As if brain seperated from skull“/“As if stiff (on surface)

Eye: heavy lids/pain

Vision: acute/colors before eyes (black in stripes/blue/changing/variegated/white stream of light with a black streak in it

Ear: „As if full“ (r.)/itching in meatus/pain/“as if stopped“/“As if warm“ (r.)

Hearing: Impaired

Nose: Smell acute to odors/flowers

Face: Itchin on cheeks/Skin tense „As if egg white is dried on it“

Mouth: Pain - burning on Tipp of tongue

Teeth: Toothache/> biting teeth together > pain

Throat: „As if adhesive o. sticky“/pain/scratching

Stomach: Anxiety/appetite [increased (morning/ravenous/wanting in morning)/pain burning

Rectum: Constipation/diarrhea

Bladder: Urination involuntarily (laughing)

Kidneys: Pain

Male genitalia/sex: Glans of penis sensitive

Female genitalia/sex: Menses dark/metrorrrhagia between menses/pain tearing in uterus

Larynx and trachea: Constriction in trachea/pain burning trachea

Respiration: Difficult

Cough: In general/from constriction in trachea/constriction/“As if empty“/“As if enlarged“/oppession (evening in bed/inhaling/heart)/pain (Clavicle ext. hand /heart

[on inspiration)/stitching (heart/mammae)]/palpitation of heart/perspiring (under mammae)/sensation of warmth

Back:  sensation as from a blow in cervical region on waking/cold (l.)/pain (lumbar region)/stiff (cervical region r./ Dorsal region

Extremities: cold (hands/finger Tipps)/Lower limbs vesicles/Formication [wrist („As from flies“)]/

Heat [hand (r./+ cold feet)]/itching ankle in spots)/numb finger morning on waking/Pain [upper limbs/weist/hand l./lower limbs/cramping (calf of leg)]

Pulsating in hand/shocks/[stiff (lower limbs (r.)]/weak (forearm/hand)

Sleep: prolonged/sleepy (noon/afternoon - 15.30 h./16.30 h.)/s h.leepless/waking after midnight 3 h. - 4

Dreams: Animals (dangerous/dirty)/balloons/she knows where she belongs/naked breasts/worm climbing out of the forehead/penis (shriveled)/canles/lost children/circus/underwear/conwebs/purple/yellow/corridors (narrow)/curtains (blowing upwards/dark/seperating)/danger (from animals7lacks sense of danger/ by gang of teenaged drug abusers)/death/driving a fast car/room filled with feathers/fences (and walls/black)/flood/flowers/funerals/fur coats/performing gymnastic exercises/homeless (looking for accommodation)/hospitals/no room at the hotel/journeys/jumping with great leaps/labyrinth/of moving/murder/drumming music/nakedness/naked people (man

with dried up penis)/taking photographs/damp, dirty, narrow places/being pregnant/pursued by police/robbers/robbing a library/not enough room/putting things all of one

kind in sacks/sad/sheets circling in a drying machine/snakes (without fear)/porcelain soldier/spirals (moving)/stairs/everything moving in a stream from r. to l./ swimming/unremembered/rivers/another world that is dark and cold

Chill: Internal coldness „As if in the bones“

Skin: Cold/“As if cold“/formication „As from flies“/itching (spots)

Generals: Analgesia/> cold bathing/feeling cold in bones/foods and drinks [Desires: beer (cold)]; >: cold drinks;

Heat [flushes (# chills)/lack of vital heat/“As if heat“ (l./internal heat + external coldness)]/numb

Pain (r./wandering in joints/muscles/stitching)/pulsation internally/restless (> night)/r. then l./desires Tab./weak

 

spherical in appearance and develop as a foreign body on a plant. Oak apples develop when a gall wasp lays

its eggs in the vegetative cone of a gall-oak bud. A hollow spherical form develops around the larva over a

6-month period. The cavity wall is covered with relatively thick oily nutrient layers that are slowly consumed by the insect. Thick layers of parenchymatous cells containing tannins and calcium oxalate develop on the outside. The tannin content is 25 - 45%. The almost fully developed insect gnaws a straight passage through the chamber wall and hatches.

Gall is a kind of fertilization of a plant principle by an animal principle, and the oak responds by producing

a uterus-like hollow organ, the oak apple. An astral principle coming from an animal interpenetrates with an etheric principle in the plant, and they condition one another. The whole process may serve as an image of the way tannins stimulate the astral body to extend its activity to the ether body.

 

Wirkung: adstringent

Allerlei: Dysentery/diarrhoea/cholera. Externally: painful haemorrhoids/haemorrhage from nose and gums.

Dust of oak bark was considered effective against consumption, a disease that tanners were particularly immune to.

 

[Misha Norland]
Common name :
Oak Galls

Read full proving: Oak Galls (Andricus Quercuccalicis)

About Oak Galls

About the Plant
Andricus quercuscalicis is a gall wasp species inducing knopper galls. It is a mass of green – yellowish, that is ridged, with sticky plant tissue on the bud of the oak, breaking out as the gall between the cup and the acorn.  It is a rigid out growth on the acorn; they are sticky and red, later becoming woody and brown.

Source and Description
Andricus quercuscalicis is a gall wasp species inducing knopper galls. These develop from a chemically induced distortion of growing acorns on pedunculate oak trees caused by gall wasps, which lay their eggs in the buds. Gall wasps are part of the family from the order Hymenoptera, which are classified with the Apocrita suborder of wasps in the larger family Cynipoidea. Their common name derives from the galls they induce on plants for larval development. The gall provides developing gall wasps with a safe refuge during the most vulnerable time of their life cycle. Using their ovipositor they bore through the gall and lay their egg on the gall maker. The larva of most gall wasps develop in the plant galls where they induce themselves. The plant galls develop after the female lays her eggs. There is no known evidence that explains inducement for the formation of the gall, however many speculate that there are chemical, mechanical and viral triggers. When the larva is hatched it is nourished by the nutritive tissue of the galls, in addition to it providing a protective cover from the external environmental factors.

The host plants and the shape and size of the galls are specific to the majority of the gall wasps, where as the various types of oak trees have 70% of the known species. These wasps live prominently as gall formers on oak trees. The gall produced can greatly reduce the reproduction of the oak host, making the gall potentially a threat to the reproduction of the tree.

The word Knopper comes from the German word ‘Knoppe’ meaning a flat cap or helmet that was worn during the 17th Century. 

History
In 1735 the turkey oak was introduced into Britain and was required for the completion of the gall life cycle. Andricus quercuscalicis is a small gall wasp that obligates two-phase life cycle on pedunculate and turkey oak. This species as alternate sexual and parthenogenesis generations, developing in spring as small conical galls that form on male catkins of the turkey oak.

Woodway Gardens in Devon are hosts to both species, and were the first to send off research specimens of both life cycles stages. It had spread from Southern and Eastern Europe over the duration of 400 years. It came to Devon from the continent via the Channel Islands, appearing to arrive naturally crossing the English Channel on high altitude wind currents.  During 1979 Andricus quercuscalicis became out of control with a population increase, causing grave concerns that it would affect acorn fertility and affecting the future of England’s most ionic tree.

Knopper galls were first noted in Canonbie in southern Scotland in 1995, with their distribution often restricted to old country and urban estates. The acorns develop normally during the summer and are replaced by the gall growth, with the knoppers becoming woody and brown in early autumn, where they fall from the tree and the adult sexual female gall wasp merges through a vent at the top of the gall in spring.

Medicinal
Galls are used commercially in the preparation of gallic and tannic acid. They are used in tanning and dyeing for the manufacture of ink. They are a powerful astringent used as tincture internally in cases of dysentery, diarrhoea, cholera, in addition to being given as an injection for gonorrhoea and leucorrhoea. Preparations of gall are applied as

a local astringent externally, commonly as an ointment applied to painful haemorrhoids. It can also be used to gargle on enabling it to relax the throat and soothe inflamed tonsils. 

Folklore/Mythology
Oak is the best known and loved of English trees they can live for up to 500 years, with some be established to be 100 to 200 years old. Pedunculate means ‘stalked’ and refers to acorns, that grow on long stalks.  Quercus is thought to come from the Celtic ‘Quer’ that means ‘fine’’ and ‘cues’ meaning tree. The common name oak derives from the Anglo Saxon ‘old norse’ which means ‘fruit’ or ‘acorn’.   In folklore oak was held in high esteem throughout Europe, and was held with high regard and respect in association with supreme gods of the Greek, Roman, Celts, Slavs, and Teutonic tribes.  Druids held their rites and worshipped in oak groves, the term druid is seen to mean ‘men of the oaks’ derived from the Gaelic term ‘duir’ meaning oak.

Oak crown leaves were worn by ancient kings to symbolise the gods that they represented on earth. This high regard for oak held by the Celts filtered through to Christian religion, many pre historic churches were built near the sites of pagan oak groves.  Carvings of oak leaves, acorns and galls can be found in many parish churches, and in most of our English cathedrals, often they are hidden away under misericords or high in the roof. Celts believe that oak has significant power to preserve youth, to protect from lightening, and can cure toothache, bruised leafs were used to heal wounds.

Oak was used also in the tanning of leather and for making of dyes of various colours when mixed with other substances. Acorns were a traditional food for pigs over the course of many centuries, however they have also been used to supplement human food, especially in times of shortage, being dried and ground into flour or made into a coffee substitute.

Astrological
According to Celtic astrology from the Druid and Ogham properties, Celtic tree astrology is based on the ancient idea that the time of births is pivotal to the formation of our behaviour and personality. The oak tree is seen as the stabilizer and those born under this tree are seen to have a special gift of strength.

They are described as protective people, and will speak out for those who feel they do not have a voice. The Oak tree is defined as a crusader that is nurturing, generous and helpful and is seen as a gentle giant among the Celtic zodiac signs. Those under this sign will be confident and positive; they like structure, often going to great lengths to gain the feeling of control. Living long and happy lives, enjoying family, and social/community time.

 

 

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