Manihot
esculenta = Maniok/=
Jatropha manihot
Vergleich: Enthält: Hydr-ac. (nur in rohe Form/verschwindet durch mahlen/kochen/trocknen);
Siehe: Malphigiales + Lacs vegetabil + Stärkeknollen
‡ Heimat:
Brasilien, Paraguay.
Inhaltsstoffe:
Knolle: etwa ein Drittel Kohlenhydrate, 1% Protein, 0,2 bis 0,3% Fett,
Blausäureglykosid Linamarin, Vitamin C.
Beschreibung:
meist nur als extrem harte große und spindelförmige Wurzel bekannt, aus der
beim Anschneiden weißer Milchsaft perlt.
Die
mit einer erdfarbenen, leicht runzeligen Haut überzogene, im rohen Zustand
giftige Wurzel liegt häufig in asiatischen oder afrikanischen Lebensmittelläden
und kann ein Gewicht bis zu fünf Kilogramm auf die Waage bringen.
Die
Pflanze, die diese harten Knollen als Speicherorgan in der Erde ausbildet,
wächst in tropischen Regionen
als
mehrjähriger, bis zu 3 Meter hoher Halbstrauch. Die großen Blätter sind geteilt
und sehen wie grüne Hände mit vielen langen Fingern aus. Am Strauch wachsen
männliche und weibliche Blüten. In Rispen sind jeweils etwa 200 männliche und
20 weibliche Blüten zusammengefasst, die ungefähr fünf Tage lang blühen. Zuerst
gehen die weiblichen, dann die männlichen Blüten auf. Aus den weißen bis
grünen, eher unscheinbaren Blüten entwickeln sich runde Kapselfrüchte, die mit
einem Knall aufspringen, sobald sie reif sind, und dabei die Samen
herausschleudern. Für die Vermehrung reicht es, abgetrennte Stängel in die Erde
zu stecken.
Verwendung:
Maniokwurzel enthält doppelt so viel Stärke wie Kartoffeln. In ihren
Ursprungsländern ist sie ein wichtiger Bestandteil der täglichen Ernährung, aus
dem die Brasilianer zum Beispiel Beijú, einen Kuchen, Farofa, geröstetes
Maniokmehl als Beilage, oder das Getränk Tarubá herstellen. Die Peruaner lieben
Yucca à la Huancaína, ein scharfes Gericht mit Maniok und Mais. Aus Maniok
lässt sich ein Bier brauen, und ausgebackene Maniokscheiben werden in
Südamerika wie Chips in Tüten verkauft.
Getrocknet
und gemahlen ergibt die Wurzel die so genannte Tapiokastärke, eine nahezu
geschmacksneutrale Stärke, die in Form kleiner Kügelchen (Sago) oder von Fladen
in den Handel kommt. Besonders die westafrikanische und südostasiatische Küche
verwendet die eingeweichten Sagokügelchen, um damit Süßspeisen zu binden.
Die
Brasilianer machen daraus eine Art Eierpfannkuchen, den sie mit Butter,
Kokosmilch und Käse essen.
Die
Futtermittelindustrie setzt Tapioka als Kohlenhydratlieferant ein, der
gleichzeitig Futterpellets in Form hält.
Die
Volksmedizin der Ursprungsländer nutzt frische Maniokwurzel bei Geschwüren und
Verbrennungen.
Wissenswertes:
Die Ureinwohner Südamerikas schätzten Maniok als wichtigstes Nahrungsmittel,
von dem sie zahlreiche Sorten züchteten. In Nordostperu kennt man zum Beispiel
mehr als hundert ungiftige Maniok-Sorten,
die
allerdings anfällig für Fressfeinde sind. Die Wildform ist indes nicht mehr
bekannt, was auf die lange Geschichte des Manioks mit dem Menschen deutet.
Maniok
ist in vielen Mythen Südamerikas erwähnt. In den Erzählungen der Shuar,
Indianern im ecuadorianischen Amazonasgebiet, sorgt die Herrin der Nahrung,
Núnkui, dafür, dass die Feldfrüchte üppig gedeihen. Um diese Erdgöttin
anzurufen, singen die Frauen auf dem Feld Lieder für sie oder gehen nachts auf
das Feld, um mit der nachtaktiven Núnkui Kontakt aufzunehmen.
Niemand
sonst darf nachts das Feld betreten, weil dann die Göttin in Zorn gerät und der
Maniok den Menschen das Blut aussaugt. Die Frauen nutzen diesen Zorn wiederum
als Schutz für ihr Haus, das traditionell von Feldern umgeben ist. Ein
Einbrecher müsste in der Nacht diese Felder durchqueren.
Die
Indianer Zentralbrasiliens sahen im Sternbild Orion ein großes Gestell, auf dem
Maniok getrocknet wird.
Roh
ist die Maniokwurzel wegen des Inhaltsstoffes Linamarin stark giftig und für
Fressfeinde ungenießbar!
Die
Pflanze sammelt dieses cyanartige Glykosid in den so genannten Vakuolen,
membranbegrenzten, blasenförmigen Speicherräumen in den Zellen. Wenn die
Wurzeln und damit die Zellen verletzt werden, tritt Linamarin aus der Vakuole
aus. Enzyme im Zellraum setzen es in zwei Schritten zur giftigen Blausäure um,
die bei Genuss zu Bewegungsstörungen und Sehschwäche führen. Erhitzen
verflüchtigt die Blausäure vollständig, die Wurzel wird essbar.
Für
die Mehlgewinnung aus den Maniokwurzeln schälen die Ureinwohner Brasiliens
traditionell die Knollen, zerreiben und stampfen sie und weichen sie
anschließend ein, um das giftige Linamarin auszuwaschen.
Nach
mehreren Tagen füllen sie die Masse in ein so genanntes Tipití, ein konisches
Gefäß aus Palmblättern,
das
unten offen ist. Das Wasser fließt durch die Öffnung ab, zurück bleibt die
entwässerte und entgiftete Wurzelmasse, die in der Sonne oder in Öfen fertig
getrocknet wird. Das dabei entstehende Maniokmehl vertragen gerade Menschen mit
einer Allergie gegen Weizen oder andere Getreide sehr gut.
Maniok
kann wegen seines geringen Eiweißgehalts zu Mangelernährung führen, wenn er
nicht durch proteinreiche Nahrung ergänzt wird. Brasilianer essen die
eiweißreichen Maniokblätter zur Knolle, um einem Mangel vorzubeugen.
Erstaunlich ist die Entdeckung, dass Völker in Malariagebieten den Maniok
weniger sorgfältig auswaschen, sodass giftiges Linamarin im Mehl zurückbleibt
und sich Cyanide im Blut der Konsumenten ansammeln. Cyanide hemmen den
Sauerstofftransport im Blut und zahlreiche Enzyme der Atmungskette. Zusammen
mit dem Eiweißmangel, der durch einseitige Maniokernährung entsteht, wird die
Entwicklung von Malariaplasmodien im Blut gehemmt.
Maniokmehl
spielte eine wichtige Rolle bei der Ausbreitung der Portugiesen in Brasilien.
Nur mithilfe des lang haltbaren Mehls waren die langen Expeditionen ins das
Landesinnere möglich.
Von
Südamerika über Portugal gelang Maniok nach Afrika, wo die stärkehaltige Knolle
heute das Grundnahrungsmittel von 500 Millionen Afrikanern ist. In den 1970ern
bedrohte eine aus Südamerika eingeschleppte Schmierlaus die Maniokbestände
Afrikas. Mithilfe von Wespen als natürliche Fraßfeinde konnte ein vom Schweizer
Wissenschaftler Rudolf Herren geleitetes Forschungsteam die Laus erfolgreich
bekämpfen und damit Hungerkatastrophen verhindern.
Die
gewaschene, fein vermahlene Tapiokastärke kann Ausscheidungsprodukte der Haut
absorbieren. Sie ist in Dr. Hauschka Melissen Tagescreme, Abdeckstift und
Translucent Face Powder loose enthalten sowie in Dr. Hauschka Med Pflege Lotion
Mittagsblume.
In Malawi in April 2012 with students and others working in the
homeopathy clinic we were helping in. I entitled the proving “Enough to
Survive, not to thrive.”
Great hunger, with weakness. Increased salivation, with sour, bitter
taste. Much spitting. Sores inside and outside the mouth. Nausea and vomiting,
churning in stomach, thirst, hunger, feeling about to vomit with increased
saliva. Diarrhea. Pain in the feet, ext. up and down, burning in the feet,
staggering, not being in control, heavy of legs, sensation of paralysis.
Weakness felt in feet ext. leg.
Dreams: danger, knives, threats, death, killing, fighting, fear, worry.
Weakness, aching of body.
The symptoms of the proving seems to fit the psoric miasm - the feeling
of lack, of hunger, constant effort merely to survive. The great hunger felt
may also reveal its need in the opposite, of no hunger at all and especially
the inability to eat cassava.
Its affinity for the whole gastro intestinal tract and also the nervous
system may make it applicable in cases of AIDS, especially when cassava can no
longer be eaten +/o. when sores are found in the mouth, along with weakness of
the whole system. (Often seen in cases of SLIM that people can no longer eat
their staple food, which is often cassava. It is no longer digestible but there
is no other option for most people).
It is interesting to note the relationship between one of the main crops
used in Africa (originally imported from South America, along with maize and
sweet potatoes) and the predominant miasm and experience of many millions of
people.
Repertorium:
Gemüt: Bewusstlos/Mangel an moralischem Empfinden
Mürrisch (erwachend)/reizbar/gereizt (erwachend)
Traurig/weint
Schwindel: im Allgemeinen
Auge: Starren, Stieren/Pupillen erweitert
Gesicht: Kalt
Magen: Appetit fehlend morgens
Schweregefühl nachts
Rektum: Obstipation - vergeblicher Stuhldrang und vergebliches Pressen
Stuhl: Grün/hell
Harnröhre: Hitze
Männliche Genitalien: Schweiß an Skrotum
Atmung: Langsam/nicht Wahrnehmbar
Brust: Schweiß in Achselhöhlen (übel riechend)
Rücken: Kälte (einschließlich Frost) - Zervikalregion
Schmerz (Wehtun/Lumbalregion)
Glieder: Kälte einige
Schmerz l./Armen/einige
Schwäche in Knie < Treppensteigen
Schwellung in Knöchel
Zittern (im Knie)
Schlaf: Einschlafen nachmittags - 16 h/spätschläfrig
Träume: Feuer/von Kindern (zu retten)
Schweiß: stinkt/reichlich
Allgemeines:
Ohnmacht/Schwäche
Antidotiert von: Caps,
Allerlei: S. Amerika Wurzeln
werden gegessen
Repertorium:
Gemüt: Bewusstlos/Mangel an moralischem Empfinden
Mürrisch (erwachend)/reizbar/gereizt (erwachend)
Traurig/weint
Schwindel: im Allgemeinen
Auge: Starren, Stieren/Pupillen erweitert
Gesicht: Kalt
Magen: Appetit fehlend morgens
Schweregefühl nachts
Rektum: Obstipation - vergeblicher Stuhldrang und vergebliches Pressen
Stuhl: Grün/hell
Harnröhre: Hitze
Männliche Genitalien: Schweiß an Skrotum
Atmung: Langsam/nicht Wahrnehmbar
Brust: Schweiß in Achselhöhlen (übel riechend)
Rücken: Kälte (einschließlich Frost) - Zervikalregion
Schmerz (Wehtun/Lumbalregion)
Glieder: Kälte einige
Schmerz l./Armen/einige
Schwäche in Knie < Treppensteigen
Schwellung in Knöchel
Zittern (im Knie)
Schlaf: Einschlafen nachmittags - 16 h/spätschläfrig
Träume: Feuer/von Kindern (zu retten)
Schweiß: stinkt/reichlich
Allgemeines: Ohnmacht/Schwäche
Antidotiert von: Caps.
Allerlei: S. Amerika Wurzeln werden gegessen
Cassava is an interesting food. It is well suited to subsistence life.
It grows easily, even in drought and in bad soil. It requires no fertilizer and
can be replanted year after year. It gives excellent carbohydrate energy and is
a very efficient crop to grow, given limited resources and land. However, it
offers virtually no protein at all. What it does offer is balanced in amino
acids but you can barely survive on it. To be healthy, alternative forms of
protein have to be found. But it fills you up like nothing else. It satiates
hunger, even the idea of hunger. It seems to tap into the miasmatic memory of
hunger. Many Africans love it and eating large amounts is central to their
lives. Without it, they don’t feel full. I have seen people eat volumes of rice
but still say they don’t feel satisfied until they have had their cassava; but
it is hard to digest and is an acquired taste. In fact, it tastes of nothing in
particular, its effect more in the solid, satisfying full feeling one has on
eating it. The proportion of cassava (carbohydrate) to protein (fish, meat,
beans) is much greater than the portions we eat in the West. This suits a
subsistence lifestyle where digging daily for survival is the main occupation
and physical labor a daily chore. Millions of subsistence farmer in Africa
simply live off what they grow and supplement this with small amounts of animal
product and vegetables, if they can afford it. But for many people, life is
lived on the margins of hunger. There is never enough it seems (although in
reality, even in famine times, food is often around. It just doesn’t get to
those who need it. There is nearly always food). There is often tension around
food and where it will come from. If you organize an event, or meeting, the first
question often is, what are we eating?
[Richard Pitt]
Proving
Enough to Survive but not to Thrive: A Proving of Cassava
Cassava is one the most popular staple foods in the African continent.
Everybody grows it and it is essential for the nutritional well being of many
of the poorest people in the region, who often have no choice but to eat it.
This proving was carried out at the Chintheche Homeopathy Clinic and AIDS
Project, in Chintcheche, Malawi. Around twenty people participated, all local
people connected to the clinic, but reports were obtained from only sixteen
people. Provers comprised a 50-50 mix of men and women, ranging in age from
twenty to forty. A piece of cassava root and some cassava leaves were mixed
together, using maize flour instead of lactose as a medium.
Enough to Survive but not to Thrive: A Proving of Cassava
Cassava Proving: March 16, 2012
Chintheche, Malawi
The intention to prove cassava is based on the fact that it is one the
most popular staple foods in the African continent. Everybody grows it and it
is essential for the nutritional wellbeing of many of the poorest people in the
region, who often have no choice but to eat it. However, most people love it and are content to eat it, along with
maize twice a day.
Its value is that it grows very easily in most regions. You simply
replant stems of last year’s harvest and it grows. It is quite drought
resistant and doesn’t need fertilizer.
However, although it gives a great sense of satiety after eating, and
for poor people who experience hunger, a great sense of relief from actual
hunger or the memory of it, its nutritional value is poor.
Both the root and leaves are eaten, often together. The leaves have more
protein than the roots.
Protocol
The proving was carried out at the Chintheche Homeopathy Clinic and AIDS
Project, in Chintcheche, Malawi. Around twenty people participated, all local
people connected to the clinic, but reports were obtained of only sixteen people. There was
approximately a 50-50 mix of men and women, from ages of twenty to forty. A
piece of cassava root and some cassava leaves were mixed together, using maize
flour instead of lactose as a medium. They were all mixed together in a
traditional mortar and pestle and the mixture was made into a 3c potency using the
traditional Hahnemannian method of trituration. From the 3c mixture, additional
potencies to a 30c were made using dilution and succession. During the initial
trituration, all the participants sat in a circle, except for when they were
dancing around the circle in a traditional African way. All participants were
initially given a 6c potency of the remedy. Two of the provers were
subsequently given a 30c potency.
Botany
Cassava’s latin name is Manihot esculenta and is also known as yucca,
mogo, mandioca and kamoteng kahoy. In a
food form, it is commonly called fufu, garri or nsima. Each country has its own
name. It is a member of the Euphorbiaceae family, in which other homeopathic
remedies are found, such as Croton tiglium, Hura brasiliensis, Ricus communis
and Jatropha.
Background Thoughts
Cassava is the perfect food
for subsistence cultures in Africa. It supplies the bare necessities for life
and fills you up. It satisfies a person’s hunger. It is a good famine reserve
as it has a wide growing schedule and is adaptable to drought and unpredictable
weather. It is reliable.
It therefore relieves hunger
in the most immediate way. It gives respite to the millions who don’t get
enough to eat each day (1/4 of Sub-saharan Africa) and palliates the collective
experience of hunger in the continent.
But it doesn’t give enough to
live well. It is just enough, and also takes quite a lot of effort to farm. It
is not easy.
It perfectly suits the
subsistence farming culture of much of Africa, but such a mono mania for
cassava sustains and reflects the lack of variety and adaptability in a
culture.
It doesn’t let a society leave
the “here and now” of survival and the desire for immediate satiety – the full
belly.
Nutrition
Cassava root is a poor source of protein. Despite the very low quantity,
the quality of cassava root protein is fairly good in terms of essential amino
acids. Methionine, cysteine and cystine are, however, limiting amino acids in
cassava root.
Cassava is a highly productive crop in terms of food calories produced
per unit land area per unit of time, significantly higher than other staple
crops. Cassava can produce food calories at rates exceeding 250,000
cal/hectare/day compared with 176,000 for rice, 110,000 for wheat, and 200,000
for maize.
No continent depends as much on root and tuber crops in feeding its
population as does Africa. In the humid and subhumid areas of tropical Africa,
it is either a primary staple food or a secondary co-staple. In Ghana for
example, cassava and yams occupy an important position in the agricultural
economy, and contribute about 46% of the agricultural gross domestic product.
Cassava accounts for a daily caloric intake of 30% in Ghana, and is grown by
nearly every farming family.
The importance of cassava to many Africans is epitomised in the Ewe
language (a language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin) name for the plant,
agbeli, meaning "there is life". The price of cassava has risen
significantly in the last half decade, and lower-income people have turned to
other carbohydrate-rich foods, such as rice.
Toxicity of Cassava
Cassava contains anti-nutrition factors and toxins. It must be properly
prepared before consumption (boiling/grinding/drying/mit Wasser auswaschen).
Improper preparation of cassava can leave enough residual cyanide to cause
acute cyanide intoxication and goiters and may even cause ataxia or partial
paralysis
The so-called sweet (actually not bitter) cultivars can produce as
little as 20 milligrams of cyanide (CN) per kilogram of fresh roots, whereas
bitter ones may produce more than 50 times as much
(1 g/kg). Cassavas grown during drought are high in these toxins. A dose
of 40 mg of pure cassava cyanogenic glucoside is sufficient to kill a cow. It
has also been linked to tropical calcific pancreatitis in humans, leading to
chronic pancreatitis. Symptoms of acute cyanide intoxication appear four or
more hours after ingesting raw or poorly processed cassava: vertigo, vomiting,
and collapse. In some cases, death may result within one or two hours.
Chronic, low-level cyanide exposure is associated with the development
of goiter and with tropical ataxic neuropathy, a nerve-damaging disorder that
renders a person unsteady and uncoordinated. Severe cyanide poisoning,
particularly during famines, is associated with outbreaks of a debilitating,
irreversible paralytic disorder called konzo and, in some cases, death.
(Source of information from Wikipedia)
Proving Overview
Great hunger, with weakness. Increased salivation, with sour, bitter taste.
Much spitting. Sores inside and outside the mouth. Nausea and vomiting,
churning in stomach, thirst, hunger, feeling about to vomit with increased
saliva. Diarrhea.
Pain in the feet, ext. up and down, burning in the feet, staggering, not
being in control, heavy of legs, “As if paralysed”. Weakness felt in feet ext.
up the leg.
Dreams of danger, knives, threats, death, killing, fighting, fear,
worry.
Weakness, aching of body.
Proving comments
The symptoms of the proving has to fit the psoric miasm. The feeling of
lack, of hunger, of constant effort merely to survive.
The great hunger felt may also reveal its need in the opposite, of no
hunger at all and especially the inability to eat cassava.
Its affinity for the whole gastro intestinal tract and also the nervous
system may make it applicable in cases of AIDS, especially when cassava can no
longer be eaten and/or when sores are found
in the mouth, along with weakness of the whole system.
The Proving
Mind: Day Five: Feeling fearful.
Head: Day Three: Headache forehead, hammering pain,
< morning > evening.
Day Two: Headache in morning with hunger. Hunger at night, along with
having heavy pains in the whole body as if I have been beaten with a stick. Day
Three: Hunger in the morning with headache. General body pains. Day Four: 3am.
Headache, with hunger, pains of body and itching of eyes.
Day Three: headache at night. Abdomen also upset with need to vomit.
Day Four: headache with weakness of body. Day Six: headache in forehead, with flue
feeling.
Day One: Headache forehead, < evening. Day Six: Headache and sweating at night.
Day Two and Three: headache, neck pains, vision affected (blindness).
Day Two: Headache, forehead
Headache. Day 6: 5am: Hunger, with headache, tiredness, saliva
increased, thirsty, tired. 10 h. Hunger, thirst, headache.
Mouth: Day One: Taste bitter,
Day One: Salivation, excessive.
Day One: Spitting.
Day Two. Sour taste, as if eaten bad lemons. Soreness in the mouth, in
the upper palate and lower lips.
Day Three: Feeling as if sores in the mouth.
Day Six: Increased saliva, with headache, tiredness and hunger. Feeling about to vomit, along with increased
saliva.
Throat: Day Two: Pain throat, extending to stomach,
as if eating hot food < morning on waking.
Stomach: Day One:
Nausea, < eating (cassava). Aversion to normal food.
Day Two: Pain in stomach like something is rolling inside.
Day five: Increased hunger with fever < evening.
Day One: Nausea and stomach churning and stirring. (lasted two days.)
Also on 4th and 5th day, with weakness.
Day Two: Increased hunger in the morning, with headache. Day Four: 3 h.:
Hunger and tiredness, with pains in the body, and itching of eyes, with
headache. 8pm: Hungry and tired, itching of eyes, headache, abdominal pains,
body pains and later sleeplessness. Day Five: 1 h. Hunger with sleeplessness,
tiredness. Feeling cold. Also feeling thirsty. 5 h. Tired, cold, hungry and
increased saliva in mouth.
Nausea, feeling about to vomit. 14.30 h. Thirst, headache, hunger, about
to vomit.
Day One: Hunger and coldness. Day two. Pain in stomach with headache.
Day four: loss of appetite, pain in stomach with pain in muscles and headache.
Day Five: The same.
Day One: Hunger and weakness of the body.
Day Two. The same.
Day Three: Hunger, with pains in body.
Day One: Increased hunger (30 minutes after taking the medicine). <
eating. Made her more hungry.
Day One: Increased hunger, even after taking food < morning and
evening.
Day Four: Stomach/abdomen upset, vomited once. Stomach churning,
stirring, with increased saliva. Felt
weak. Day Five, Increased hunger, with
weakness and headache.
Day One: Increased hunger, with headache and sneezing.
Day One: Stomach ache in evening.
Day One: Hunger increased on waking in morning.
Day Three: Hunger with weakness.
Day Two: Stomach churning. Increased hunger in morning, but eating does
not >.
Day One: Stomach/abdominal pain, with headache, tiredness, dizziness and
desire to vomit.
Rectum: Day Two: Diarrhea, 3 times in two hours <
early morning. Weakness after.
Chest: Day One: Heart beating faster.
Extremities: Day Two: Staggering, as if has taken beer.
Day Six: Joint pain left arm. Pain knee joint.
Day Two: pain in the right foot and ankle.
Day Three: Pain moves to the left foot for three days. Top of the foot.
Day Two: Pain left hip extending down to foot. Leg heavy, difficult to
pick up and use. Paretic sensation.
Day Two. Weakness in the feet going up to the knees < exertion.
Sleep: Day Six: Sleepless night.
Day Three: Sleepless that night.
Day Four: Sleeplessness.
Day Four: Sleepless, along with loss of appetite.
Sleepless for four night. Very unusual. Whole body felt weak and idle.
Only sleeping about two hours a night.
Day One: Was sleeping and woke up with heart beating. Sleepless, waking
after 3am.
Difficult to sleep, feeling heat in body and weak feeling.
Dreams: Day One: I was in a big town where lots of
cars were moving in the streets. I wanted to cross the road and saw a crowd of
people also wanting to cross and so I stopped them and said not
to cross while the cars are still moving. We had to wait until it was
time for pedestrians and we all crossed but I realized I had left my son behind
and I was calling him. Then I woke up feeling very worried because I had left
him behind.
Day One: Two people were quarrelling and supported one of them. There
was a verbal fight.
Day Three: I was arrested in South Africa for 6 months for overstaying
my visa.
Day Five: People were coming for me with knives, trying to kill me. I
woke up scared.
Day Five: Bad dream, as if dead people were trying to catch me. Bad
dreams for the next 3 nights. Fearful
dreams. One a person had a mask, not sure if man or woman. He/she was trying to
kill me with a stick. A big snake was chasing me and I ran and jumped in a
river. I was going to be killed.
Day ?: Dream a group of Europeans were building a big house for us and
later they allowed us to enter the side of the house.
Day 5: Dreams of a snake running through the window.
Day 5: Dreaming of walking on a bridge and falls into a river.
Day Five: Dream of two snakes chasing each other. I ran away, scared.
I was flying and fell down among sharpened trees. A huge man who was
very angry threw me against a tree. I was very scared and fearful.
Fever: Day Five: Fever < evening. For two days.
Hunger with fever.
Day Three: Morning: Feeling cold but feet feel as if they are burning.
Fever and sweating at night, but feeling chilled.
Day One: Feeling hot, much more than usual < 16 h. – 5 h. Heat
feeling in chest.
Generalities: Day Three: General body pains and feeling
weak.
Day Five: Tired and unsettled, feeling thirsty and weak in the body.
Day Five: Pain in whole body, with headache and stomach ache. General
tiredness.
Day Three and Four: Heat and weakness of the body in the night.
Day Four: General weakness of the body for 3 days.
Day One-Two: Weakness of the body, < morning, from feet to knee
joints.
Day Five and Six: General tiredness of the body.
Prover #13: 30c potency used:
Day One: stomach/abdominal pains, headache, tiredness, dizziness and
desire to vomit. Later in day headache in temple, feeling hunger with abdominal
pains and itching of the eyes.
That night had a dream which was very frightening and was trembling and
restless.
Day Two: Increased hunger, more saliva and spitting with more saliva,
heavy eyes, abdominal pains, sores on the mouth, especially the left side of
upper mouth. He felt colder in the body,
with desire to vomit and continuous stomach pains. Saliva was sour. That night
he had a bad dream where the chief had sent people to kill him. He woke
anxious, worrying about his life and what will happen. He was restless and
sleepless, with a headache in the forehead and vertex. His heart was beating
fast, and was trembling and cold.
Day Three: 3 h. continued to have stomach/abd pains, > lying on the
abdomen and < sitting. He had itching of the eyes, frontal headache, more
saliva in the mouth, spitting with a sour taste, desire
to vomit and sores in the upper mouth on the outside. Feeling hungry and
sleepless. Same symptoms continued into the early morning. 5pm. Continued
headache, coldness, desire to vomit, tired, itching of the eyes and heaviness,
pains in the joints, esp knees and desire to go to bed and rest. 8pm Joint
pains continue, general body pains, pounding frontal headache, and restlessness
in bed. Dreamt that night that the eyes were itching and heavy.
Day Four: 5 h. Same symptoms as before, with sour saliva, increase
hunger, tired etc. 11pm. Headache, cold, bad dreams which woke him up. Itching
eyes, joint pains, sour saliva, spitting etc.
Day Five: Same symptoms, including itching and heaviness of eyes,
hunger, body and joint pains etc. 21 h. Same symptoms (sores on the lips).
Dreamt that was put in a fire by someone he didn’t know. Felt scared and
afraid.
Day Six: Sour saliva, sores in mouth, pain in joints, increased thirst,
abdominal pains, headaches. Also had new symptom forgetting things which had
never happened before. Also feeling cold. 17 h. Increased hunger, thirst,
stomachache, abdominal pains, tired and
weak.
Day Seven: still forgetting things, even words he normally uses. 11am.
Frontal headache, abd pains, forgetting things. Some dizziness and tingling of
legs.
Prover #14. Taking 30c potency:
Within a few minutes of taking the remedy, felt as if to retch and vomit
but didn’t and then felt headache. A few
hours later, felt a burning pain in both feet, which lasted till the following
morning.
Day Two: Felt a headache on waking. In the evening, felt the burning
pain in the feet which lasted until the morning.
Day Three: Burning pain in the feet again.
Day Five: In evening, from 7pm, felt intense burning pain in feet
extending up to the knees. Pains were better by the morning.