[Melanie J.
Grimes]
In rhe
early days of Earth,.5 billion years ago, our planer was composed only of
minerals and ocean water. The atmosphere was full of gases: N, C, H and carbon
dioxide - but no oxygen. This atmosphere,
called,
anaerobic, was toxic to most modern life forms. Photosynthesis was required to
release the oxygen from carbon dioxide and make the earth habitable by other
life forms.
What caused
the change to our current oxygen rich atmosphere? Plants (blue green algae).
The algae were insensitive to the toxic atmosphere of earth. Appearing 5
billion years ago, in the late Precambrian era,
these
photosynthetic bacteria used primitive forms of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis
is accomplished in the cells by utilizing both chlorophyll and phycocyanin,
which creates the blue pigment and enables
the cells
to absorb different wavelengths for photosynthesis than that of green
chlorophyll.
This
reaction combined the carbon dioxide in the air with the water (hydrogen and
oxygen) in the ocean, and used the energy of light to produce carbohydrates and
oxygen. After enough time passed, an oxygen rich atmosphere
was
created, allowing other plant and animal forms to exist on the earth's surface.
The presence of oxygen permitted life based on respiration to exist and
permitted eukaryotic organisms to evolve. Today algae occupy
the bottom
of the food chain, playing a key role in the ecosystem.
The process
of photosynthesis carried on for 5 billion years before any cells with a
nucleus (eukaryotic) could exist.
Our modern
atmosphere is 70% N, about 0% O, contains small amounts of other gases.
Microcystis
aeruginosa is the most common toxic cyanobacterium in freshwater.
The
substance use in this proving was sourced during an algae bloom in Green Lake,
Seattle Washington on August 8.2002.
Labs showed
toxin levels of L3 microns/liter, above the WHO levels of micron/liter. The
city later treated the lake with $ million dollars worth of Alum, to reduce the
algae.
Cyanobacteria
produce two main groups of toxins namely neurotoxins and peptide hepatotoxins.
Vermeulen
explains in Monera
"Cyanobacteria
are somewhat of a hybrid between algae and bacteria. Their photosynthetic
ability and the presence of pigments links them to algae, their cell structure
and lack of a nucleus relates them to bacteria“.
"Clinical
signs following exposure to these compounds include lethargy, vomiting,
diarrhea [bloody], weakness, pallor, shock and death from massive hepatic
failure. Symptoms develop less rapidly as wirh anatoxins.
In China, a
high incidence of primary liver cancer in drinking water from ditches or rivers
has been ascribed to the presence of microcystin producing bluegreen algae in
these water supplies. The toxins were in the news in
1996 as
they caused liver failure in31 Brazilian dialysis patients who were exposed to
microcystins from the water used for dialysis.
Within 7
months6 patients died ofthe typical hepatotoxic effects associated with
microcystin, a constellation of symptoms now referred to as 'Caruaru Syndrome':
headache/nausea/vomiting/eye pain/blurred vision, painful
hepatomegaly,
jaundice, and a bleeding diathesis manifested by ecchymosis, epistaxis and
metrorrhagia“.
Proving
symptoms: aching in head, back, shoulders (most of the provers) and described
by some as "miserable" pain. Two found that coffee antidoted
temporarily.
At the same
time, the mental state included a feeling of benevolence, grace, and sympathy
and compassion for others. Fear of disease: “As if something foreign” in the
body, in the stomach area that needs to be taken out, fear of
fainting,
and fear of drinking hot fluids.
Itching:
eyes, shoulders, back and chin.
Dreams
incl.: water, being kidnapped, of being pursued, detective investigations,
theatre, animals (dog/mussels/crocodile/green parrot/fish) and the colors blue
and green.
Two
interesting dreams Seem to relate to the ancient origins of the substance.
"I had
a picture of honey running down from the sky like a curtain.
"I
give birth and the soul of the child is in a clear quartz crystal“.
An
interesting note: the substance is known to poison mussels and one prover
dreamt of eating mussels.
Curative to
the following symptoms: Dull neck/back pain, tension headaches, molar ache,
insomnia, itch from bites healed immediately, back and hip not sore while
driving long distances. As the proving also creared the
same
pathology in other provers, we can be quite sure of these symptoms as integral
to the proving picture.
Rubrics
follow, followed by number of provers who experienced
the
symptoms. I have retained some of the prover language,
rather than
put the symptoms into exact rubric language.
Repertory:
Head: ache – > coffee/dull/across
eyebrows/over entire head/around head with throbbing pain over eyes/to the vertex/above
the brows and occiput/pressure in the temples
Back: ache - > standing/with
headache/pain > lying on firm surface, stretching/pain with
restlessness/pain, ache in low back as well as hips
Stiff -
< sitting too long; > walking
Shoulder
pain (ache)
Extremities: Ache - bones and joints/hip
Shoulder
pain - > motion/> heat
Right arm
pain
Stomach: Nausea
Flatulence
Sleep: Frequent waking
Generals: Pain – ache (all over)
Fatigue,
low energy, weary, tired, exhausted
Extreme
fatigue
Appetite – no/increased
> Air
Feel
chilled
> hard
work/motion
Mind: Benevolence, grace, sensation of,
Impatient
Lazy,
avoiding work to play instead
Detached
Nervous
Defiant
Anxiety
about health (Fear of drinking hot fluids, fear aggravation of remedy. Fear of
fainting. Fear voice might fail.)
Dreams:
Pursued/Money/Theatre/Water/Animals
Vergleich: Siehe: Algae:
"Cyanobacteria
are somewhat of a hybrid between algae and bacteria. Their photosynthetic
ability and the presence of pigments links them to algae, their cell structure
and lack of a nucleus relates them to bacteria“.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressums