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.

 

 

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