Oxygenium Anhang 1

 

Louis T. Masson from the book 'Chemistry Made Easy'.

While we could exist for days without water or food, we should succumb quickly if deprived of air. With respect to oxygen, the human body is an animated engine.

Through chemical change this gas helps to maintain a low fire within us, at a constant temperature of 98.6 °F. Many functions of the human body depend on the energy thus released. Research studies indicate that the weight

of oxygen used by us daily exceeds the total weight of the food consumed by us in the same time.

Air, the medium in which we live, is about 1/5 oxygen (= 21%) by volume.

Water is 8/9 oxygen by weight. The cells of all living matter - both plant and animal - contain oxygen. It is also a constituent of thousands of compounds known to man.

In the free and combined states, it is the most abundant of nature's building materials. It equals in weight the total of all the other elements of the earth's crust.

That is why chemists call it the indispensable element for humans. Rightly said! The proof for this we find in the proving of the remedy Oxygen, which is the verbal expression of the feelings of the substance Oxygen as expressed by humans.

[Chetna Chukla]

The preparation of the medicine Oxygen

The most common method of preparation of oxygen, the decomposition of potassium chlorate, was used. This was heated to about 360 °C, potassium chlorate gets decomposed and its oxygen is liberated. The gas was collected by water displacement in 10 ml of distilled water. The oxygen was collected till saturation.

Manganese dioxide was used as a catalyst in the process. My friend's mother Mrs Manju Chhabria, a chemistry teacher, helped me in this procedure. Since Oxygen is only slightly soluble in water, no time was wasted in the preparation of the 1C potency out of the distilled water through which the gas Oxygen was passed. The 10 ml of distilled water through which Oxygen was passed was used as the Q potency. 0.1 ml of this with 9.9 ml of pure alcohol was given 10 succussions that gave the 1C potency. The subsequent potencies were made using Korsakoff method up to the 3OK potency.

Themes:

• Necessary/Value/Important/Ego

• Bluntness/Rudeness

• Air

• Free

• Money

• Nature

• Dullness

Necessary /Value/Important/Ego

• Dream: The feeling in the dream is that it is very important for him to have a job in the U.S or he will have to come back to India (PI).

• Why do gadha-majoori (donkey-work)? It is not necessary to work for people who don't value your work, however big they may be. We may be seeing 2 - 3 patients... in fact they cannot do without the work we do.

Our work is equally important (PI).

• So what if we are junior to them, they must respect us (PI).

• Because till now I feel I have been taken advantage of. They have taken me for granted (P2).

• If I can explain, it was that I was only satisfying my ego; that I wanted to be a person of great importance. I wanted to satisfy my ego (P2).

• I feel my ego has reduced. I have just no problem at all. Earlier if m y father spoke in a high pitch, I used to flare up (P2) <C>. (<C> Means cured symptom)

• You don't think at all from others' point of view. I was not going to the discussion for you. You can't take me for granted (P3).

• We are harming everything and destroying everything, animals are becoming extinct. We just don't value anything. I was feeling angry towards the human race (P3).

• Dream: Only because we pay they are running the whole show. Through our taxes they get their salary paid. They are there because of us (P4).

• When somebody speaks or answers bluntly to me I feel they are not even considering me, and not considering my emotions (P5).

Bluntness/Rudeness

• I was very blunt in the past, now I am not (P2).

• I was very blunt with her. But I had no hostility towards her. I answered back to another friend and spoke bluntly to him (PI).

• I fought with my mother and have been talking to her very rudely (P3).

• Dream: bluntness (P4).

Air

• I have been telling everybody that "I have been born by a special birth, I am vayu-putri (the daughter of air, vayu = air)" (PI).

• My star sign is an air sign; I might as well be in the air (P2).

• I had dreams of birds practically daily, which is very unusual for me (P3).

• Dream: I am in a nightdress and I have to climb up some place in a balloon (PI).

Free

• I have also been very expressive about my feelings with everybody. I feel free to communicate (PI).

• I had dreams of birds practically daily, which is very unusual for me (P3).

Money

• I have also been quite thoughtful while spending money. I don't travel by rickshaw much; I travel by bus for the same distance and save money, and petrol and the environment into the bargain (PI).

• I was a spendthrift. I have begun to save every possible rupee I can. I also don't dream as much as I used to (P2).

• My mom lost a large sum of money (P3).

• Dream: The scene is that of extreme poverty (P3).

• Dream: He tells me that 1 book costs 10 rupees, outside it will cost more. I say I will take 4 books for 40 rupees and the next time I come I will buy more (P5).

• I have been spending a lot on food, on booze, on cigarettes and on note books (P5).

Nature

• I can't tolerate the noise of the television. I cannot tolerate this noise pollution (PI).

• I travel by bus for the same distance and save money, and petrol and the environment into the bargain. That is how I think (PI).

• I don't like the atmosphere in Bombay. Here people don't have time for each other. The freedom to do things, that is totally gone (P2).

• It is as if all this is because we are going against nature. We don't value nature. Everywhere we are going against nature (P3).

Dullness

• For the last two days I have been feeling very dull. I sleep a lot during the morning hours. I had to force myself to go to work; I feel too dull to do any work. I feel very dull in the head (PI).

• During the period of the proving everything was dull, nothing was registering, there was no inclination to do anything, no driving force to do anything (P3).

                                              

Exploring the theme of Worthlessness in Oxygen (Stage 16).

The Oxygen client is normally sensitive and sympathetic. Have a sense of what is just and fair/easily offended. Then they rationalise everything and loose contact with their emotions. The resulting depression extends to diminshed self-appreciation. They can try to compensate by being sarcastic and egotistical.

Oxygen rubric, "Indifference to external things" describes the state that arises from the feeling that everything is worthless.  A similar state (Worthlessness + Indifference) found in Agn. Anac. Thuj. Perigrine Falcon.

Agn.: arrogance, discontent, alternating with self-contempt, deep sadness and a worthless feeling. 

Anac.: tries to impress because she feels helpless, insecure and has a lack of confidence.

Thuj.: feels unlovable - lonely and empty.

Peregrine.: feels trapped.

The rubric "Indifference to external things" lists several other remedies. Do the other remedies listed in this rubric express the same sense of worthlessness?

Schroyens: agn. am-c. am-m. anac. berb. bit-ar. bov. buth-a. calc-p. cann-i. cham. cic. coca-c. con. euphr. falco-pe. Hell. Kola. lyc. merl. olib-sac. op. ozone. part-ra.

Ph-ac. plat. polys. rumx. Stann-met. staph. SULPH. tarent. thuj. verat. Vip.

Roger van Zandervort:. achy. allox. bac. Bos-s. choc. Heroin. lsd. oxyg. PHOS. pyrit. sul-ac.

The expression of 'worthlessness' can be determined by examining each remedy in the context of our best understanding of its totality.

Some examples:

Achy.: Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae: achyranthes calea: Psychological themes: rationalizing, lack of feeling, depression; Apathy; Remorse, repentance; Fear of

            suffering. The indifference looks like the expression of a moral dilemma - the amoral polarity swings back to quietude, fear, repentance and remorse.

This is one-step removed from the Pyrites feeling and two-steps removed from the Oxygen feeling.

Bos-s.: = Frankincense - Boswellia serrata: Sapinales. Normally, Religious, sensitive and clairvoyant, harmonious, loving and altruistic, he can loose his state of grace and

            become worried about trifles, ashamed and discontented with himself and even confused about his identity. There is detachment and misanthropy.

Am-c. and Am-m.: Both Ammoniums, Am-c. = the (bi)carb [NH4HCo3] and Am-m. = the chloride [NH4Cl], contain Nitrogen. Nitrogen (stage 16) has the delusion that

            everything is meaningless, which is only a short step away from getting into the indifference of Oxygen (stage 17). Am-c also contains Oxygen so it's no wonder that it is estranged, indifferent and has a delusion that things are empty.

Carbonicums. can also feel that their self-worth doubtful and to them the world is a hard place - carbon adds a softness to any compound. Carbon compounds dissolve harsh

            realities into soft tears and the world takes on a softer aspect.

Am-m.: Ammonium chloride (the chloride ion is at stage 17) has its own special take on loathing and aversion to everything. The tears of Chlorine compounds

            (Muriaticums) can flow from self pity. The bicarb decomposes to the chloride which mirrors the homeopathic change from stage 16 to 17 ...

NH4HCO3 + HCl → NH4Cl + CO2 + H2O

Allox.: Alloxan is produced by the oxidation of uric acid (ammonia again)!

Pyrite.: = fools Gold: FeS2: Psychological themes: rationalizing, lack of feeling, depression; shame, offence; despair; loneliness; self-appreciation diminished;

            Delusions: is being beaten. Dreams: stealing, persued. Misanthropy. Quiet wants to be. Sadness. Weeping.

Pyrites seems to have an Indifference that is similar to the Oxygen feeling.

Generally Ferrums. push hard, but can breakdown (weakness of will) when they are criticised. The sense of worthlessness may be due to the disulphide since Sulphur (Stage

            16, like O2) has various degenerate themes, e.g. "He is disgraced". Sulphur also comes up emphasized in capitals in this rubric.

PHOS.: Stage 15: Psychological themes: Altruism. Compulsions, responsibility decreased, avoiding it. Distance, reservation. Apathy. Desires nothing. Discontented with

            everything. Disgust with everything. Estranged. Indifference.

The indifference in Phos (Stage 15) is close to the Oxygen state (Stage 16) - but a healthy Phos is usually very affectionate so the state of indifference develops as a result of being let down or being put upon, if there is a feeling of worthlessness it arises from a different cause. Oxygen needs respect, Phos. wants love.

Bitis arietans.: Viperidae: The Puff Adder: Forsaken. Homesick. Delusions: “As if far off”; separated from the world. Everything seems unreal. Spaced out feeling, “As if

            had taken drugs”.

Vipera berus.: Viperidae: The European adder: Indifference. Discouraged. Forsaken. Hatred. Revengeful.

Indifference in the two Vipers considered above seems to be because their feelings are so intense that they are out of touch with reality. Its not a lack of self-worth.

 

[Jonathan Hardy]

Oxygen is the most common element on earth. Half of all matter consists of oxygen. Of the air we breathe 16 per cent consists of oxygen gas. It is surprising then that, until recently, Oxygen has been very little understood homeopathically and prescribed seldom. However in recent years we have been given many interesting insights into the homeopathic application of this gas.

Oxygen is described chemically as O2 (two oxygen atoms combined) and Ozone is O3 (three oxygen atoms combined). Oxygen is essential for life. Ozone is formed in the Earth’s atmosphere at altitudes of 20 - 50 kilometres (in the stratosphere) through the action of the sun’s short-wave ultraviolet radiation. The layer of ozone was an absolute necessity for the development of life on our planet and still is essential to life. Earth’s existing life forms need protect­ion from the sun’s lethal UV rays. This is why the decrease in the ozone layer and the occurrence of holes in it are cause for serious concern. Ozone is destroyed by a number of man’s activities and man-made products, including CFCs in aerosol sprays, which is why they have been banned. Air traffic and nitrogen oxides from fertilisers also decrease the ozone layer. It is fascinating then that the concept of a protective layer is the major theme in homeopathic Ozonum cases.

Oxygen is essential for life because it is part of the burning process. In meta­bolic processes in the body oxygen com­bines with a variety of substances and this burning process frees the energy which is stored there. This “oxidation” is a key process in all forms of life. It is a slow internal process; there is no actual fire to be seen of course. It is a necessary process for remaining alive but at the same time it means the end of something, a sort of death and the idea of being “used up” is a key theme in Oxygen cases.

There are other fascinating themes in relation to these remedies. Oxygen lies in the second row of the Periodic Table of elements. Row 2 has a number of themes homeopathically. The major one is to do with feelings of self-worth, value and meaning. Often people needing these remedies have very low self-esteem. Sometimes this feeling can be so extreme that the person feels simply not noticed and even invisible to others.

Another key theme in row 2 cases is that of separation. There are eight ele­ments in row 2, starting with the metal Lithium and finishing with the gas Neon. The row of eight remedies can be seen as representing the process of separation from the mother: starting with Lithium where separation is considered a com­plete impossibility and ending with Neon where separation is so complete as to feel as if one is in a cocoon.

The elements in between represent the progressive stages in this process.

Row 2 has also been seen in terms of the birth process: the elements on the left hand side of the row (Lithium, Beryllium and Boron) are still feeling psychologically as if they are in the womb and want that protective covering of the mother’s womb, its warmth and security. The elements on the right side of the row (Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine) feel bound and constricted by the attachment to the mother and want freedom and release. It is interesting that homeopathic Nitrogen and nitrates have very strong feelings of claustrophobia and are pictured as if in the birth canal and experiencing constriction and suffocation. Oxygen, the next element, is of course related to the first thing we do after birth – we take a breath, and breathe in oxygen.

Knowledge of these themes aids homeopathic practitioners in understanding our patients and the following cases illustrate how helpful this can be. Ozone appears to be an important remedy for teenagers. A number of my teenage cases of this remedy talk about being “zoned out” or “in the zone”. It is interesting they use a word which actually has the same root as the remedy they need!

In all these cases personal details have been changed for complete confidentiality.

 

David’s story:

David came to see me a year ago when he was 18. His chief complaint was insomnia. He was unable to sleep and could not wake up in the morning and consequently was suffering with extreme tiredness. I asked him to describe how he felt.

“I don’t want to do anything. If I sit down I fall asleep. It makes me depressed. It’s like a deep sleep, like you are walk­ing around and your eyes are closed, you are not with it, you are not noticing things. It is like you are somewhere else. I’m in my own little world. It is black, there is nothing there, everything is slower. People are talking to you but you don’t take it in – like you are walking in a bubble, outside noises don’t get in.”

I asked him to elaborate.

“It is like you are in a different space to everyone else. Only really loud stuff comes in. Like you are in a balloon. Something massive could be happening but you don’t take it in.”

What is it like in the bubble? I asked.

“It is a lot quieter and a lot slower. This sounds silly but it seems warmer. It could be raining but I would not feel wet. It is like you’re daydreaming. If you were cold you would not notice. You are not really there physically or mentally.”

What would be the opposite of the bubble?

“Very aware, you would hear a pin drop. You are aware of everyone who is there, where you are; you have got eyes in the back of your head. You are aware of everything going on.”

What David is describing is the typical Ozone state. It is as if they are in a bubble, shut off from the outside world. Doesn’t it sound like he is describing being in the womb? Warm, safe and cut off from other people. That is exactly what the womb is like: a warm and safe environment. We also know that the foe­tus is extremely sensitive to any stim­uli and that sounds like the “opposite” state which I asked him to describe: hyper-alert.

I spoke privately to his father who commented, “He has very low self-esteem. He says, ‘I am not any good at anything’, ‘I am not clever’, ‘I am not good looking’, ‘I’ve got spots and a big nose’. When he gets depressed he is dreadful, he is whingeing, moaning and negative and can’t see anything good about himself or anyone else. He is just constantly moaning.”

So we see the row 2 theme of lack of self-esteem: feeling awful about oneself, in particular about one’s body which is another theme of row 2. Also the Oxygen theme of “used up”: it can be a feeling of just being used up as a person, a feeling of being abused and complete loss of self-worth – being a victim. This leads to the moaning and complaining.

So I prescribed Ozonum and one month later David reported that he was “really well. I am not tired. I have much more energy. Also that bubble feeling has gone.”

His father: “He is much more positive, my wife has noticed it too. He’s sleeping much better and thank goodness he is not complaining any­more! Mealtimes are much more posi­tive and pleasant.”

Michael’s story:

Another 18 year-old, Michael, came to see me because of depression. “I never wake up fresh, I can’t concentrate,” he said. “I never seem to be ‘in the zone’. I am always half-drifting along. At its worst I am just ‘zoning out’ – I can see my teacher talking but nothing said is being absorbed, I just sit there blank and everything washes over me – I am not there mentally.”

On asking him to describe these feel­ings more fully, Michael commented, “I am drifting off into another place, nothingness. A place where there is noth­ing else but me. It is white. It’s nothing, I am just there, I am not sat on anything, I am not standing on anything, it’s kind of floating. It is just somewhere to be. It happens if I am upset, for example by an argument at home or with my girl­friend or if I have forgotten to do my homework.”

I asked him to tell me about the feeling of floating.

“There is something around you, but you are not on solid ground. There is no telling if it is gravity or if you are upside down.”

Again we are hearing described a womb-like state. The baby just floats peacefully in the womb without a worry in the world and under stress Michael is regressing into this womb-like state.

He continued.

“Sometimes I am like Kevin the teenager! I am just going ‘life’s not fair’. I get angry, I don’t want to talk to anyone. There are times when I get upset and I really want to talk to my mother – she is my ‘attachment figure’.”

Here, he is talking about two more themes: a grumpy teenager who thinks he is a victim is an Oxygen theme and it is very interesting he talks about his mother as an “attachment figure”, because as we know separation from the mother figure is a big theme in row 2.

His mother tells me that “he makes life hell on earth! He is very isolated and totally disengages from everybody and everything. He very rarely expresses what’s the matter.” Again we see this theme of cutting off.

Naturally Michael had Ozonum and one month later he was sleeping much better. “I am much less tired, actually I am quite amazed how refreshed I am in the morning. I am zoning out much less and I am much more focused. I am feel­ing much closer to my father, I feel con­nected to him, more supportive of him.”

Here we have the opposite sensation of separation: connection.

Angela’s story:

Angela, at 17, also came because of depression. Her mother said to me, “She goes into a quiet state, she still smiles but is withdrawn. She does not enter into any conversation. She is very solitary.”

Angela described her condition. “It feels floaty, it feels zoned out. I don’t want to do anything; I can’t talk. I just want to be on my own, not trying too hard. Just in my own little world. I am floating, it is like being somewhere else completely. It is like being in a big bub­ble. I don’t hear anything. There is a big wall between me and everybody, no communication.”

I asked her what the opposite of that state would be.

“Talking to everybody, wanting to be with people, being the centre of atten­tion: actually when I am in the zoned out state I really do not want to be acknowledged.”

Again, we have a beautiful descrip­tion of the womb-like state. She also touches on the issue of self-esteem and value: she does not want to be acknowl­edged when she is in the zoned out state. After taking Ozonum the depression went and she no longer cuts herself off.

Robert’s story:

With complaints of depression, tired­ness and recurrent mouth ulcers, 40 year-old Robert commented, “I am feeling so tired. At half-past eight I want to go to bed. It is strange, in the past I used to feel almost hollow, fragile, as if some­one had knocked the breath out of me. As if I could be blown over by the wind, as if there wasn’t much substance to me as a person.”

When asked to explain this more, he said he felt “as if I could be knocked out of the way, as if I would just go unno­ticed. I feel like I am not on an even keel. I feel off balance, almost dizzy. It is like I am not on solid ground, a kind of float­ing, nothing substantial. I am almost on quick-sand, no stability. It is a kind of emptiness.”

What was the opposite of that feeling? (This is a very useful question in homeopathy!)

“Flying, buoyant, it is like the air is beneath you – buoyancy. It is air. Support and a warmth about it. It is almost like a balloon, but more mal­leable like a plastic that supports you.”

This is what we mean by “sensation” in homeopathy. A sensation level of experience which people can describe is the experience of their remedy state com­ing directly from the source material.

When he describes something “floating, empty, unnoticed, buoyant and invisible” he is connecting with a very deep experiential level of the source of his remedy – the gas “sensation”: a gas is all these things – invisible, buoyant and so on.

But which gas does he need? “I think my depression is to do with relation­ships. I always feel less attached to oth­ers than they do to me. I can’t form a real close bond with other people.

My attachment with people is not strong. I always feel at some time someone is going to leave me therefore I am very independent. I rarely ask for help – I do everything myself, in anticipation that people will leave me.”

Here he is describing the issue of separation in row 2. Can I be connected? Do I dare to be connected? Or do I have to remain separate?

I prescribed Ozonum and as the months passed Michael felt better and better, commenting: “I feel very relaxed, solid. Very well and more grounded.” In other words the opposite of floating, invisible and insubstantial. “My voice is lower, deeper. Last year you could have pushed me over with a finger. Now I could stand up in a wind tunnel! I have no mouth ulcers. I am on my journey and I can see blue sky all the time now.” (Interesting considering where we find Oxygen and Ozone.)

In response to my question about being grounded, he replied, “Before I felt almost transparent as if people could see through me. I had no substance. Since the remedy I feel centred and solid and

I have presence. Previously it was like my feet were not on the ground, I was floating.”

Again we see the themes of no self-worth, of not being noticed and also the sensation of being a gas with no solidity.

The recent developments in homeo­pathy are fascinating. They build on the solid data from provings and clinical material which we have always had but add a dimension which penetrates deep to

the source of our remedies. The use of themes and looking at remedies in relation to the group or family to which they belong can increase the reliability and accuracy of our prescribing. Sensation material can add that extra degree of certainty which helps us to prescribe one remedy from a group of very similar looking remedies with great precision and confidence.

 

[Marion Walsdorf]

Das homöopathische Mittel Oxygenium steht im Periodensystem in der 2. Reihe in Spalte 16. Laut Scholten ist das Thema der 2. Reihe die Ablösung von der Mutter. Das bedeutet, dass Menschen, die Oxygenium als homöopathisches Mittel benötigen, Probleme damit haben, sich als eigenständiges Individuum zu erleben und ihr Leben erfolgreich zu gestalten.

Die Stellung im Periodensystem gibt Auskunft über die Lebensthemen derjenigen Menschen, die das jeweilige Mittel als homöopathisches Mittel benötigen. Das Periodensystem laut führenden Homöopathen so verstanden werden, dass die Elemente der Reihen 1-3 die Situation eines Menschen von der Zeugung bis kurz nach der Geburt abbilden.

Während die homöopathischen Mittel Hydrogenium und Helium gegeben werden, wenn sich ein Patient als "gar nicht richtig auf der Welt angekommen" beschreibt oder als "vollkommen isoliert", werden die Mittel der 2. Reihe gegeben, wenn es Probleme bei der Abnabelung von der Mutter gibt. Dies kann sich auch erst im späteren Leben zeigen, wenn Patienten darüber berichten, wie groß ihre Probleme sind, sich als getrenntes Wesen zu begreifen. Dies kann sich darin zeigen, dass es jemanden schwer fällt zu wissen was er gerne mag oder wenn Patienten sich schwer tun, für sich und ihre Bedürfnisse einzutreten.

Das homöopathische Mittel Oxygenium bei Asthma und Bronchitis einsetzen

Sauerstoff wird noch nicht lange als homöopathisches Mittel angewandt, obwohl Sauerstoff lebensnotwendig für Menschen und Tiere ist. Das Hauptanwendungsgebiet für das homöopathische Mittel Oxygenium sind Atemwegserkrankungen. Das Gefühl nicht ausreichend Luft zu bekommen, wie es Menschen häufig haben, die unter Asthma bronchiale leiden, kann ein wichtiger

Hinweis auf das homöopathische Mittel Oxygenium sein.

Das psychische Bild

Auf der psychischen Ebene kommt häufig ein starkes Gefühl der eigenen Wichtigkeit hinzu. Patienten, die Oxygenium als homöopathisches Mittel benötigen, treten sehr fordernd auf.

Sie vermitteln dem Homöopathen und ihren Ärzten das Gefühl, dass ihnen eine bestimmte Behandlung zusteht. Oft geben sie auch anderen Menschen die Schuld an ihren Beschwerden.

Gleichzeitig klammern sie sich sehr stark an ihren Partner. Kinder, die Oxygenium benötigen, klammern sich an die Mutter.

Oxygenium-Verbindungen in der Homöopathie einsetzen

 

Es gibt einige homöopathische Mittel, die als Verbindung mit Oxygenium eingesetzt werden. So kann das homöopathische Mittel Calcium-oxydatum eingesetzt werden, wenn eine Calcium-Persönlichkeit deutliche Aspekte von Oxygenium aufweist und unter Atemwegserkrankungen leidet. Andere Oxygenium-Verbindungen, die häufig in der Homöopathie eingesetzt werden, sind Ferrum-oxydatum, Alumina-oxydatum und Europium-oxydatum.

Fazit:

Das homöopathische Mittel Oxygenium wird häufig bei chronischen Atemwegserkrankungen eingesetzt (Beschwerden nach einer traumatischen Geburt). Kinder, die Oxygenium benötigen, klammern sich während der Anamnese stark an die Mutter und treten sehr fordernd auf. 

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