Leontopodium alpinum = Gnaphalium lentopodium = Edelweiß / Sterngruppe
Vergleich: Enthält: tannin; Compositae: Verletzung/vulnerability;
Siehe: Asterales
Gnaph. ↔
Leon. ↔ Arn.
Repertorium: [Uta
Santos]
Mind: Weakness of memory
Nase: Smell of sulfur and garlic
Mouth: Taste of sulfur and garlic
Teeth: Clenched/grinding/pressure
as if lock-jawed (physically as well as in a dream)
Inner
pressure < external
pressure
Any touch is painful, oversensitive towards being touched, oversensitive
to pain.
Stomach: Burning/flatulence/re-occurring
sensation of bloating and pressure in the bowels.
In one place in the stomach, located under the xyphoid,
there is a sensation of heat. All the time I feel bloated like a balloon, the
colon is filled so much with gas that the diaphragm is pushed upwards thereby
causing a strong pain in stomach.
> zusammengekrümmtes sitzen/Druck auf den Magen/Ruhe (nach
dem Schlaf)/Wärme, < enge Kleidung/nach Essen von rohem Gemüse/Genuss von
Kaffee/Alkohol.
Rectum: Durchfall/constipation/bowel
motion every 3 days; Urge more often, but the stool does not pass. > eating
(warm > than cold food)/> sitting bent/pressure on stomach/resting (after
sleep) and warmth, < tight clothes/after eating raw
vegetables/coffee/alcohol.
Stool: clay-colored and
sheep-dung like.
Extremities:
walking/movements/actions/restless
> motion in general
Steif/verkrampft
Paralysis l. arm
> Aufrechtstehen/> Geradeausblicken stiffness/tenseness/looking aside was impossible.
Genitals: Sexual desire increased
Back: in back/coccyx: feeling of fragility (Verletzung?)/
Generals: Sensitive to cold
„As if been hit by a blow“/“please don’t touch”/soft touch could cause
severe pain.
Schwerpunkte der
Symptomatik betrafen die Extremitäten, den Bereich des Gehens, des
Bewegens und des Handelns
Antidotiert von: Arn.
Allerlei: Edelweiss often grows in stony places, hardly accessible and demands boldness of the collector, physical flexibility and endurance. It is therefore the image for these attributes and in myths and legends it is the sign of love and the proof of the bold hero’s love, who offers this flower to his beloved as the token of his love. Lentopodium alpinum Entstanden aus Tränen einer vereiste Junkfrau wann sie sah wie ein Jungemann abstürzt und stirbt.
A
last dream as
a metaphorical language typical for this plant:
I am walking about in an hotel, I am looking for my husband, who wanted
to enjoy a hot bath somewhere in the hotel. I am wearing Jeans, a T-shirt and I
am carrying a brief case with me. Downstairs there are swinging doors in wooden
frames and milk glass or frosted glass. Steam is coming towards me. All the guests
are wearing towels and are hanging at the side of the doors as if wrapped in
white plastic/ synthetics. Staff is running around and is handing out
rose-colored pieces of soap. One of them is soaping the guests’ faces. I find
my husband at the end of an aisle, he also is wrapped in a white bath towel. He
is being pursued by someone and wants to get away from there. We flee along
aisles, dark aisles in this otherwise white house and we end up in the office
section. We hear voices calling and hide in the dark behind the door of a
cabinet in the nearest office. A person in a business-suit enters and switches
on the light. We are shocked, the office is ravaged and on the floor there are
shapes of human beings, who have already been carried away.
Then:
With my husband on an island with wild cliffs and an amazing, beautiful
coast, fog is lifting, the sun shines on and reflects from a blue-green ocean. Feeling
of freedom…
Contrasts:
The white, clean-soaped figures enclosed in plastic/synthetics wrapping
and the dark aisles…
Light (in the sense of enlightening, perspective, clarity) focuses on
something, which was formerly alive (the dead ones who have been carried away),
who have met their death in a place of bureaucracy, of formalism… contrary to
the hotel, then this amazing, beautiful nature, where fog is lifting and
clarity and foresight comes up…
Again and again the color white appears in the
dreams, which Aeppli, a Jungian analyst, explains as
follows: “White is not yet a color, it is purity
beyond life, is a demand to be dissolved into its spectral colors,
the colors of the vivid life”.
In fact, again and again a kind of non-vitality appears, a white, which
is cold, sterile, without life and constraining.
This constraint,
stiffness, paralysis and threat probably are related to public
places, which are under social rules like the classroom, the hotel, the office,
while nature means freedom.
Ascending
is threatening,
be it on the narrow glass catwalk (the dream with the white moon- boots), on
which every step is followed by the anonymous viewers, or be it in the
escalator, which is threatened by social descent, the free fall, or be it the mountain heights, where
a cold adverse wind obstructs walking forward and one is not allowed to protect
oneself.
Authentic
feelings and instincts are suppressed and are even more
predominant in a dark and threatening way. (I mentioned only the dreams about
the dogs of the one female prover, there have been
more on this topic).
Summary
and a hypothesis: aspects of the Compositae:
oversensitiv and vulnerable, physically as well as mentally
Gnaphalium botanically the most similar, has
its center of gravity (concerning its symptoms) also
in the area of extremities, and Arnica as a potent antidote of these long-lasting,
strong and extremely uncomfortable proving-symptoms also shows strong resonance
with Leontopodium.
As a special topic of Leontopodium I assume
that the patient would feel weak and insecure [socially highly normative
context, where you have to behave differently than your own feelings and
impulses tell you and you are constantly threatened to be blown down by a
social cross- current “wind from the front-side” (gesellschaftliche
Gegenwind)].
Harsh socialization with the center of gravity
of what “ONE DOES” leads to an early suppression of one’s own
emotions and instincts, which might lead to the behaviour that accepts external
rules as a yard-stick in every situation of life and that the person is not
used to follow his own findings any more, even if these seem adequate and in
tune with his own inner voice.
As a metaphor the image comes to mind of the hero, who risks death to
pick the Edelweiss from the highest rocky mountains as a proof of his love for
his beloved who herself not only agrees to his high risk, she maybe even
expects or demands it, as she measures the love she receives from her admirer
by his extraordinary gift. She lacks the sense necessary to realize emotions in
the very immediate encounter.
“if he risks his life, he probably loves me, how else could I know it,
and if he dies due to this, he dies as a noble, white, pure hero and his death
raises me as a white widowed virgin, untouchable, spending a lifetime in a
cold, glass coffin.
The opposition of nature and culture, of emotion and instinct on the one
hand, and the social taming on the other hand seem to be a conflict; conscious
of its own lack of protection, Lentopodium
compensates by submission under a cold, non-vivacious entity, which knows only
itself as white and the other as black, where everything alive is shattered as
if on a rock face.
Mir scheint sehr klar, dass leontopodium deutliche züge eines korbblütlers hat:
Die Überempfindlichkeit und Verletzlichkeit sowohl im körperlichen als auch im seelischen und auch in den träumen erlebt ist sehr deutlich.
Gnaphalium, die botanisch ähnlichste arznei, hat ihren symptomenschwerpunkt
ebenfalls im bereich der extremitäten, und arnica als wirksames antidot der langanhaltenden starken und äusserst
unangenehmen arzneisymptome zeigt ebenfalls deutliche
resonanz mit leontopodium.
Als metapher dafür könnte man sich ganz gut das bild jenes helden merken, der den tod riskiert, um das edelweiß vom höchsten felsen zu pflücken als beweise der liebe zu seiner angebeteten, die diesem tun nicht nur zustimmt, sondern es vielleicht sogar verlangt, weil diese äußerliche, hervorragende der maßstab ist, mit dem sie die liebe ihres verehrers mißt, weil ihr die sinne dafür fehlen, gefühl in der unmittelbaren begegnung wahr zu nehmen.
„wenn er sein leben riskiert, dann wird er mich wohl lieben, wie sonst wollte ich es wissen; wenn er dabei zu grunde geht, stirbt er als edler, weißer reiner Held und sein Tod erhöht mich als edle weiße verwitwete Jungfrau, unberührbar, schon zu Lebzeiten im kalten gläsernen Sarg.
Phytologie: diarrhea;
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum