Mammalia Anhang 2
[Ghanshyam Kalathia, Zdravka Hristova]
We as a small international group of homeopaths and students try to
elicit and learn one group of remedies every year. Our focus last year was
Mammals. We would like
to share the outcome of this study.
When we went through the list of Mammal remedies, it was a surprise to
find that, although we used Mammal remedies routinely in our practice, we did
not know much
about them, despite the fact that in our materia medica there are good
provings of nearly seventy Mammal remedies.
For example, in the Cervidae family we have 6-7 deer remedies, but in
general we only prescribe one, Moschus. We know very little about the other
remedies because of
our lack of collective knowledge of Deer as a group.
A proving is not enough to understand any specific remedy, we need to
understand the substance and the themes or characteristics of the substance’s
deeper pattern.
In this series of articles we will study some common themes of subgroups,
and through this develop an understanding of the deeper pattern of several
members of the subgroups in detail.
We hope that it will help you in your practice and ultimately in the
mission of healing.
Introduction
- Mammals as a group
Mammals are a group of vertebrates that possess mammary glands in
females, which produce milk for the nourishment of young. They are the most
evolved and intelligent creatures of the Animal kingdom.
Mammal remedies are derived from a vast diversity of animate sources (human,
horse, cat, lion, dolphin, goat, elephant, monkey, kangaroo, camel, and bats).
As a group, these remedies focus on issues of self-worth, dependence,
competition, attractiveness, nurturing, hierarchy, territory, group acceptance,
jealousy, performing and suffering wrongful acts, and, in our patients, the
split between the animal and human side of one's nature. By examining Mammal
families and a few of their more prominent members, both the common and
individualizing mammal themes become readily apparent. What has emerged from
comparison centering around dependence and independence, nurturing and lack of
nurturing, a feeling of having suffered wrong and the suppression of natural
instincts in order to harmonize with the group to which one belongs. Each
mammal will express these themes in its own way.
- Essential themes of mammals
1. Need to belong to a group
Strong desire to belong to a
group, except in some of the felids, fox etc. In patients, this aspect is seen
as an intense need and dependency on friends, family, community,
etc., and a fear of being
expelled from the group. Feel safe and secure within the group
The stability of a group
provides them with a sense of security, which means they have to follow the
norms of the group at all cost.
Conflict between their own
desire and group’s rules and norms
Patient’s expressions
Herd
Community
Society
Social animal
Belong to a group
Included
Excluded
Expelled
Safe in a group
2. Issue of hierarchy
The hierarchy and fight for
supremacy within the group is the strongest issue among the mammals. In
patients, this is seen as an issue of 'Superiority and Inferiority'.
Fight for the dominant
position, for example leader, manager, head of a family, being a mother-in-law
(especially in Indian culture) etc. They have an intense desire to be
superior or to maintain a
dominant position by not allowing anyone to “boss” over them.
Patient’s expressions
Hierarchy
High rank
Low rank
Superior
Inferior
3. Strong maternal instinct
Mammals and especially females
have a natural instinct for the nourishment of young. This aspect is also
expressed as needing motherly care and love, warmth, nurturing
as a young one, and on the
side of the mother, an extreme anxiety about (her) children.
Patient’s expressions
Motherly love
Warmth
Nurturing
Anxiety about children
4. Other common issues
Issues related to lactation
and menses
Breast heaviness or
painfulness before, during or after menses
Symptoms related to function
of ovary or hormonal disturbances
Playfulness
Fear of snakes
Headache
- Classification of Mammals
The classification is according to Rajan Sankaran’s Vital Quest
software, natural histories of synergy software (KHA) and
www.provings.info website by Jörg
Wichmann.
We have made this classification as easy as possible, and there is still
room to make changes and add more mammalian members.
Class mammalia has three main
subclasses
1) Protheria – Egg laying mammals
2) Metathera – Pouch bearing mammals
3) Eutheria – Placental mammals
Class, Subclass, Order and
Suborder written in BOLD UPPERCASE
Superfamily, Family, Subfamily written in
Italics Lowercase Underline
Classification is written in
this order…… Substance – Species name – Scientific name (Abbreviation)
A medicine prepared from the
same substance but a different species is written on a separate line and with
one indent.
Only substances which have
been prepared as homeopathic medicines by any homeopathic pharmacy worldwide
are mentioned here.
A substance written in bold
has available materia medica or a proving.
There is information on 136
substances and more than 60 sarcode remedies. This gives us plenty of
information on mammals but still is not complete.
Within this list, there are 68 mammals and more than 20 sarcode remedies
which have good materia medica and proving information.
There is a great deal we don’t
know or only partially know about mammals. If you would share your suggestions
or any additional information or cured cases we would
be pleased to hear from you.
We are keen to know more and always ready to discuss and share our knowledge,
experience and development - let’s grow the system together. You can contact us
here… drkalathia@gmail.com
CLASS MAMMALIA
SUBCLASS PROTHERIA
ORDER MONOTREMATA (egg laying)
Echidna – Tachyglossus
aculeatus (Tachy-a)
Platypus
SUBCLASS METATHERIA (pouch bearing)
ORDER DIPROTODONTIA/ MARSUPIALIA
Kangaroo – Lac Macropus
giganteus (Macrop-g)
Koala – Phascolarctos cinereus
(Phas-c)
Opossum – Didelphis virginiana
(Did-v)
SUBCLASS EUTHERIA (placental)
ORDER ARTIODACTYLA
Family Bovidae
Goat – Capra hircus/ Lac
caprinum (Lac-cpr)
Mountain Goat (Chamois) – Lac
rupicaprinum (Lac-rupi)
Alpine ibex – Capra ibex
(Capr-i)
Sheep – Lac ovis/Ovis ammon aries (Lac-o)
Lana ovis (Sheep’s wool) (Lana ovis)
Antelope – Impala – Aepyceros
melampus (Aepc-m)
Springbok – Antidorcas
marsupialis (Antid-m)
Blue wildebeest –
Connochaetes taurinus (Conn-t)
Common Eland – Taurotragus
oryx (Tauro-o)
Yak – Bos mutus (Bos-m)
Cow – Lac defloratum/Bos primigenius
taurus (Lac-d)
Lac vaccinum (Lac-v)
Fel Tauri (Ox’s gall bladder) (Fel)
Buffalo – American wild Buffalo – Lac Bisonis/ Bison bison (Bison-b)
Asiatic domestic water
buffalo – Bubalus bubalis/ Lac bubali/ Lac buffalo (Lac-bubal)
African Buffalo – Syncerus
caffer (Sync-c)
Family Camelidae
Camel – Lac cameli dromedarii
/Camelus dromedarius (Camelu-d)
Bactrian Camel – Camelus
bactrianus (Camelu-b)
Lama – Lac glama (Lama-g)
Alpaca – Lac alpaca/ Lama
pacos (Lac-alp)
Alpaka Fleece – Lama pacos
/ Pel paceris (Lama-p-pel)
Family Cervidae
Deer – Musk Deer – Moschus (Mosch)
Brazilian Deer – Cervus
brasilius (Cerv)
European Deer – Cervus
elaphus (Cerv-e)
Fallow Deer – Dama dama
(Dama)
White tailed Deer –
Odocoileus virginianus borealis (Odoc-v)
Roe deer – Capreolus
capreolus (Capre-c)
Dippel’s Oil – Oleum animali
(Ol-an)
Reindeer – Rangifer tarandus/
Lac rangiferi (Rang-t)
Moose – Alces alces / Lac
alcesum (Lac-alc)
Family Giraffidae
Giraffe – Giraffa
camelopardalis (Giraf-c)
Family Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus – Hippopotamus
amphibius (Hippop)
Family Suidae
Pig – Sus scrofa domestica /
Lac suis (Lac-s)
All pig based sarcodes
Wild Boar – Sus Scrofa (Sus)
ORDER CETACEA (Cetaceans are evolved from ARTIODACTYLA)
Baleen whales (Mysticeti)
Blue Whale – Balaenoptera
musculus (Bal-m)
Northern Minke Whale –
Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Bal-a)
Humpback Whale – Megaptera
novaeangliae (Megap-n)
Toothed Whales (Odontoceti)
Sperm Whale – Physeter
catodon/ Ambra grisea (Ambr)
Killer Whale/ Orca –
Orcinus orca (Orc-o)
Dolphin – Atlantic
Bottlenose Dolphin – Tursiops truncatus / Lac delphinium (Lac-del)
Amazon River Dolphin –
Inia geoffrensis/ Delphinus (Del)
ORDER CARNIVORA
SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
Family Canidae
Dog – Lac can/ Canis familiaris (Lac-c)
Lyssin (Lyss)
Excrementum caninum
(Excr-can)
Gray Wolf – Lac lupinum/ Canis
lupus (Lac-lup)
Coyote – Canis latrans
(Cani-l)
Black-backed Jackal – Canis
mesomelas (Canis-m)
Red Fox – Sanguis Vulpes/
Vulpes vulpes (Vulp-v)
Pulmo vulpes (Pulm-v)
Superfamily Musteloidea
1) Family Mephitidae
Skunk – Mephitis putorius (Meph)
2) Family Mustelidae
Otter Small-clawed Otter –
Aonyx cinerea (Aony-c)
Eurasian Otter – Lutra
lutra (Lut-l)
Beech Marten – Martes foina
(Mart-f)
Badger – Meles meles (Meles-m)
Weasel – Stoat – Mustela
ermine (Must-e)
Ferret – Mustela putorius
furo (Muste-p)
3) Family Procyonidae
Raccoon – Procyon lotor (Procy-l)
Family Ursidae
Brown Bear – Ursus arctos/Lac ursinum
(Ursus-a)
Grizzly Bear – Ursus arctos
horribilis (Ursus-a-h)
Polar Bear – Ursus maritimus
(Ursus-m)
Giant Panda – Ailuropoda
melanoleuc (Ailu-m)
SUBORDER PINNIPEDIA (closely related to suborder caniformia)
True seal – Phoca vitulina/Lac phocae
(Phoc-v)
Eared seal – Antarctic Fur Seal
– Arctocephalus gazella (Arctoc-g)
South American sea lion –
Otaria flavescens (Otar-f)
Walrus
SUBORDER FELIFORMIA
Family Felidae
Tiger – Panthera
tigris/Sanguis tigris (Panth-t-s)
Lion – Panthera leo/Lac
leontis (Lac-l)
Jaguar – Panthera onca
(Panth-o)
Leopard – Panthera pardus
(Panth-p)
Snow Leopard – Panthera unica
(Panth-u)
Cheetah – Acinonyx jubatus
(Acin-j)
Puma – Puma concolor/Lac puma
(Puma)
Lynx – Canadian Lynx – Lynx
canadensis (Lynx-c)
Bobcat – Lynx rufus (Lynx-r)
Ocelot – Leopardus pardalis
(leopa-p)
Cat – Lac felinum/Felis
sylvestris domestica (Lac-f)
Family Hyenidae
Spotted Hyena – Crocuta
crocuta (Crocu-c-p)
Striped Hyena – Hyaena hyaena
(Hyaen-h)
Brown Hyena – Parahyaena Brunnea
(Hyaen-b)
Family Herpestidae
Mongoose – African Meerkat-
Suricata suricatta (Suri-s)
Banded mongoose – Mungos mungo
(Mungo-m)
Marsh mongoose – Atilax
paludinosus (Atil-p)
ORDER CHIROPETRA
Common Vampire Bat – Desmodus rotundus
(Desmo-r)
Black flying fox – Pteropus
alecto (Pterop-a)
Mouse eared bat – Myotis
myotis (Myo-m)
Indian Bat – Pipistrellus
coromandra (Pipis-c)
ORDER XENARTHRA / EDENTATA
Sloth – Pale-throated three-toed
sloth – Bradypus tridactylus (Brady-t)
Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth –
Choloepus didactylus (Cholo-d)
Ant eater
Armadillo
ORDER PHOLIDOTA
Chinese Pangolin – Manis
pentadactyla (Manis-p)
ORDER INSECTIVORA
Mole – European Mole – Talpa
europaea (Talpa)
Townsend's mole – Scapanus
townsendii (Scapa-t)
Hedgehog – Erinaceus europaeus (Erin-eu)
Alpine Shrew – Sorex
alpines (Sorx-a)
ORDER LAGOMORPHA
Hare – Lepus
europaeus (Lep-eu)
Scrub hare – Lepus
saxatilis (Lep-s)
Rabbit – Lac Oryctolagus
cuniculus (Oryc-c)
Pika – Ochotona princeps
(Ochot-p)
ORDER PERISSODACTYLA
White Rhinoceros –
Ceratotherium simum (Cerato)
Tapir – Tapirus terrestris/Lac
tapir (Lac-tap)
Donkey – Equus africanus
asinus/Lac asinum (Lac-as)
Horse – Equus ferus caballus/Lac equinum (Lac-eq)
Horse urine – Urinum
equinum (Urin-eq)
Calculi of amniotic fluid
– Hippomanes (Hipp)
Rudimentary Thumbnail –
Castor equinum (Cast-eq)
Zebra
ORDER PRIMATES
Monkey – Rhesus Monkey –
Macaca rhesus / Lac rhesus (Lac-rhes)
Red Howler Monkey –
Alouatta seniculus (Alou-s)
Geoffroy's spider monkey –
Ateles geoffroyi (Atel-g)
Capuchin Monkey – Cebus
apella (Cebu-a)
Vervet Monkey –
Chlorocebus pygerythrus (Chloroc-p)
Chacma baboon – Papio
ursinus (Papio-u)
Apes – Gorilla – Gorilla
gorilla (Gori-g)
Chimpanzee – Pan
Troglodytes/ Lac Pan Troglodytes (Lac-p-t)
Orangutang– Pongo pygmaeus
(Pong-p)
Humans – Lac humanum (Lac-h)
Lac maternum (Lac-mat)
All metridonals
All human based sarcodes
ORDER PROBOSCIDEA
Elephant – Asiatic elephant –
Elephas maximus (Lac-el)
African elephant – Lac
loxodonta africana (Lac- lox-a)
Ivory of African elephant
– Loxodonta africana / Ebur africanum (Lox-a)
ORDER RODENTIA
Beaver – Castor canadensis/
Castoreum (Cast-c)
Dormouse – Glis glis (Glis-g)
Mice – House mouse – Mus
musculus (Mus-m)
Wood mouse – Apodemus
sylvaticus (Apode-s)
Rat – House rat – Rattus
Rattus (Ratt-r)
Common rat – Rattus Norvegicus
(Ratt-n)
Porcupine – Hystrix indica (Hystr-i)
Tree Porcupine – Sphiggurus
spinosus (Sphigg)
Squirrel – Common Squirrel –
Sciurus vulgaris (Sciu-v)
Alpine Marmot – Marmota
marmota (marm-m)
Siberian Chipmunk - Tamias
sibiricus (Tami-s)
Guinea pig – Cavia porcellus
(Cavia-p)
Golden hamster – Mesocricetus
auratus (Mesoc-a)
Common vole – Microtus arvalis (Pel-mu)
[Marty Begin]
About a year and a half ago, my colleague Pascaline Phillips inquired
about my experience producing remedies that do not yet exist. She had taken a
case that she felt required the Yellow Box Fish. After making the remedy,
Pascaline again requested my assistance, but this time for a Hahnemannian
proving of this fascinating fish.
Both of us had participated in a proving Louis Klein had directed of the
Blue Tang, another beautiful coral reef fish. Lou had preceded Pascaline’s
actions by first prescribing the remedy successfully, and then doing a proving.
Prior to the proving of these two fish remedies, Louis Klein’s case of Blue
Tang had firmly given clinical confirmation of his hypothesis of the common
theme of fish remedies in general; these remedies address neurodegenerative
brain problems, such as Alzheimer’s disease. His Blue Tang case of an undefined
progressive dementia and prior to that, his Oleum jecoris case of
advancing Alzheimer’s
disease, were especially convincing.
Louis Klein has an uncanny way of distilling highly pertinent
associations between disease pathogenesis and the natural history of remedy
sources, allowing him to create hypotheses for remedy affinities that can then
be further verified clinically. On the topic of neurodegenerative disorders
such as Alzheimer’s and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, both involve lesions in the
brain that are thought to originate from prion formation. Prions are misfolded
and seemingly infectious proteins forming brain lesions that disrupt neural
communication. The corresponding bovine disorder is Mad Cow disease, or Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Epidemics amongst cattle have been inoculated
by the recycling of infected tissue used as feed, from both sheep and cattle
sources. In essence, Mad Cow disease is bread via forced cannibalism. Louis
Klein suggested that the most cannibalistic animal species known in nature is
fish.
Another supportive analogy has to do with “Dori”, a caricature of the
Blue Tang that was featured in Disney’s Finding Nemo. Dori was portrayed as a
fish that was a little vacant at times. Disney animators are said to have
studied the species they portray, as they try to capture the essence of the
animal. Pascaline, with her choice of the Yellow Box Fish, had considered the
staring and vacant aspect of her patient’s experience and disposition.
It was interesting to compare what was found in the Blue Tang and Yellow
Box Fish provings. In terms of supporting clinical observations for the brain
disorders, the commonality in both provings that underlie that terrain has to
do with memory problems and a sense of disconnectedness. The latter comes
through in the provings in a more socially existential form. Like in the Blue
Tang, we see in Prover #3’s entry: “I feel like I’m in a bubble, something
buffering my interface with people, my family especially…” In the Yellow Box
Fish, especially prover #1, who was normally familiar with a sense of isolation
and not being included or supported, instead felt a deep sense of connection to
her family, to family roots, and felt wholly involved socially. The opposite
was seen in prover#15 who felt totally detached from her family, to the point
of indifference, aggression, and depression around them, even with a dread of
having to care for her children. Sepia was successfully given as an antidote.
Another “inside-outside” experience, probably a source expression, was
seen in prover #2 who entered: “Dreamt I was in a glass room with people
staring/gawking at me, while I jetted up and down in an anti-gravity machine.”
When we start fishing around in provings, we can understand this disconnectedness
as a general fish theme and perhaps, the best symptomatic expression for the
neurodegenerative conditions. We see it clearly in Susan Sonz’s seahorse
proving with the sense of being cut off, muffled, isolated, inward, and
dissociated. Isolation and imprisonment is stressed in Palmer’s Carrasius
auratus, the goldfish. And in Jeremy Sheer’s salmon, we see isolation, being
unloved, and unsupported, on a difficult journey to conception, where new roots
have been grafted.
When the symbolic fish tank is broken and the boundaries lost, the
outward side of the Yellow Box Fish comes through strongly in prover #10: “Open
to energy, open to thought… felt very open with crown chakra and the universe…
felt like opening up of the skull; sloughing off of an exoskeleton… like a
cracked egg… consciously felt huge… expansive, but limited by my corporeal
self.” Oleum jecoris could be on par here, since he feels he is losing his
mind.
Ostracion is a solitary fish, but it may be just one pole of the single verses
group dynamics present for all fish. Interesting dreams came through in prover
#2, regarding the challenges of group decision-making. We can compare fish and
birds in this respect, relative to schools and flocks. Perhaps more with
underwater life though, it loses or makes boundary in its response to
threatened survival.
The idea of being threatened stands out very strongly in Ostracion.
Prover #8 was proactively disconnecting himself from others in an aggressive
uncaring, cynical, standoffish kind of way: “I will say or do whatever I want…”
He was not holding back, used harsh language, gawked at women, but if perceived
gazes were coming his way he would think “What the f*#@ are you looking at?”
Other provers became violent or had dreams of war and fighting; escaping from
being captured by Ugandan soldiers and feeling free.
Different members of the Ostraciidae secrete toxic steroidal surfactants
that permeate their surroundings when under stress. The order of
Tetraodontiformes includes the Pufferfish family, the second most poisonous
vertebrates in the world, and if that is not enough for defence, they can
expand their elastic stomachs with water and puff up.
The way this defensive kind of puffy expansion takes place presents
itself clearly in the Box Fish proving in a very specific way. The threat can
arise from being cornered. With this, comes the feeling of being small or
inferior, susceptible to being ostracized (as in Ostracion). Then, there is a
need to equalize oneself to the larger threat. This even played into prover
#10’s expansiveness, as we see when he identifies the disparity: “My
consciousness embraced the vastness of the universe, while recognizing the
insignificance of my physical being to the larger picture.” Prover #11 wanted
to be bigger and felt getting out in nature could do that for him. He felt both
big and small in primary and secondary reaction. Coming more from the small
side, pre-proving, he then noted: “Now, I’ll defend myself; my point of view is
equally valid – they are not an authority.” And another comment: “Feeling
equal, not inferior. Not a child in front of a powerful adult. Being free,
grown up. Hope it will stay with me.” Prover #1 contributes here: “My emotional
state is great. As if from a child, I finally became an adult. I’m equal!
Focused. I do things without an effort. Productive.” Prover #8 in one dream
felt he was equal to the pit-bull he saw, driving in his sports car picking up
chicks. There were many dreams of dogs too, and cats, and having to eat an ugly
fish.
On the physical sphere, we notice symptoms perhaps related to the
poisonous aspect of the fish. It may turn out to be a good food poisoning
remedy, with nausea and gripping pains. The gold bladder and liver were also
given to nausea, pain and discomfort. On the day of the collation meeting, I
experienced 3 expanding poison ivy-like blisters on my wrist, but had not been
exposed to anything as far as I knew. It felt like the proving to me. Another
prover’s Crohn’s disease was aggravated.
I think fish remedies have somehow been a little underused in
homeopathy, but the Yellow Box Fish proving, along with other newer fish
provings, should open the way to more cases, as it has and will broaden our
understanding of this group. Now, we have an understanding of the unique
expression of this cute little awkward cubed polka dot fish you do not want to
mess with.