Picus viridis = Grünspecht/= green woodpecker
[Olga Fatula]
After
processing and analysing the results of proving we suggest that the remedy
Picus viridis carries an acute component and may belong to the Typhoid or
Malaria miasm (Sankaran’s classification). This conclusion made based primarily
on physical symptoms. Every prover had enduring diarrhea several times a day
and frequent urination. Along with this provers had high fever, with heat, a
chill night and day and a heavy sweat repeating every day approximately at the
same time. Provers lost up to eight kilos in weight.
Summarizing:
the core theme of Picus viridis is the focus on his own separate opinion and
belief about what to do and how to do it, how to live and to survive, which is
different from the opinion of others. He has proper, orderly and clearly
organized principles of life, which often contradict the commonly accepted
norms. His intrinsic conflict is in misunderstanding and non-acceptance of his
opinion by others not belonging to his limited group of the likes, with a need
to oppose and to clash. Picus viridis stubbornly insists on its own pattern,
its own orderly logic and feels it necessary to prove his case (health).
Connection
with the source of the remedy: The woodpecker relentlessly punches the wood to
get its food in a manner rather unusual for other birds. Besides, it carefully
chooses the spots to peck selecting the affected wood and taking out vermin
from under the decayed crust. People do not hunt them, do not capture them into
cages, they preserve woodpeckers as the “doctors of the forest”.
Any bird is
usually scared of being captured, to be in a cage. In human beings, this can be
expressed in the life scenarios of behavior and interchange with the society. The
“prison” of Picus viridis may be expressed as a problem of being the odd one
out, the loner. In the nature even in the mating season, its behavior is
bellicose when paying attention to a female.
The themes
of ice and snow probably express the limitations and the danger to the survival
in the wintertime when the food is hardly available.
The
symmetry: the nest (the cave) of these birds has an accurate geometric form. It
is possible that the Western Europe (the habitat of these birds) is expressed
in the drug by the peculiarities of its architecture (medieval castles,
churches, gothic architecture).
Singing and
music: the rhythmic (musical) drumming of the woodpecker informs the
environment of its intentions.
Vision,
eyes, and oculists: a woodpecker does not see things located straight in front
of it’s beak. It finds insects with its tongue and with the help of its fine
sense of smell. The whole family is notorious for its sensitivity to smells.
The order
of Piciformes includes about 350 species combined into six families, the most
populous being Picidae – woodpeckers. These are medium sized birds, with bright
plumage.
In Europe,
the most abundant species is the green woodpecker (Picus viridis). It is the
largest species of all woodpeckers in this part of the world. Its length
reaches 30cm (12in). The plumage is green, and it wears s a peculiar “red hat”
on its head.
The
steering feathers of woodpeckers are very sharp, firm and strong to serve as a
tail support for the body when they nestle up to a tree. Their flight is heavy
and noisy; it flies in a peculiar manner; the flight path resembles a sequence
of deep waves.
Any
woodpecker is a born wood inhabitant. They live on trees and they are perfect
in climbing vertical trunks and branches and can climb head over heels. Picus
viridis prefers more civilized areas; therefore, one can hardly meet a green
woodpecker in a deep forest.
The
woodpecker’s beak is firm and strong; it serves to drive out ants and other
insects from inside the wood. These are the main source of food. The woodpecker
licks them off with its long tongue. The beak is also the tool for making holes
in the of birch rind (the woodpeckers like their spring sap), and for hollowing
out the nest.
Woodpecker’s
job resembles that of a proper jackhammer. Therefore, the structure of the
woodpecker’s skull rules out a chance of a brain concussion. Special
modifications of the bones and the muscles of the skull ensure the sufficient
shock absorption. Another shock softener is the structure of the tongue. It is
sticky, sharp-tipped, and very long. The green woodpecker is capable of
protruding it for 10cm (4in). The tongue can “crawl” into any sophisticated
hole made by wood beetles and larvae. In order to fit such a device into the
mouth the tendon base of the tongue is placed beyond the throat; it coils
around the skull.
In the
nesting season, the bird hollows out a deep cave in a tree where the female
lays up to seven elongated glossy white eggs. The cave is of an absolutely
accurate shape with an oval, round, or a square entrance. This hard work is
usually finished within two weeks.
While
punching the dry wood the bird taps out special serenades to its “girlfriend”. Every
woodpecker strikes in its own rhythm and the tree vibrates in response, in a
unique frequency range. By varying intervals between strikes, the duration of
its drum-roll and other “orchestration” of such “music” the woodpecker informs
others of its intentions. An expert can say for sure whether the male pecks in
its own territory or aspires for others’, calling a female or inviting her to
show the site chosen for the nest.
A
woodpecker is an ultimate loner. Therefore, it behaves rather unfriendly with
the female. The way of paying attention to a female is bellicose; aggressive
gestures prevail. The couple can hardly tolerate each other; if one comes to
the nest the other one leaves at once. As soon as the chicks are raised up, the
couple departs. Each one lives in its own territory and expels anyone from it
including its own young.
Woodpeckers
are wandering not migrating birds. They fly different distances back and forth,
irrespective of the direction and the season, alone. However, other birds often
follow a woodpecker in flocks. They cannot punch holes themselves; however, the
larvae ants and bugs left out and down after the woodpecker’s visit is a
perfect food for them.
Woodpeckers’
natural enemies are the hawks. Human beings are seldom angry about woodpeckers;
however, apiarists sometimes are eager to revenge some of them for spoiling
beehives. The Russian winter is the worst enemy for woodpeckers because the
insects are hidden under the snow.
he drug was
made from a feather of a green woodpecker, potency 30K, M. Goyens pharmacy,
Belgium.
Themes
Familiar /
Unfamiliar. – People: Friends / Strangers
Dreams: “Nothing but get-togethers”.
“I
am with my friend and my grandson. I should feed them”.
“My American friends teach me to
make and to drink tea”.
“I ask my friend to buy a house for
me”.
“I forgot
to see my friend good bye but I did not feel ashamed.”
“A friend
called and offered a doctor.”
Dreams: “An unknown man is walking uphill along
a treaded footpath, I am following him.”
“A stranger walking inside the flat”.
“A friend of mine gives me a poem”.
“I am at my friend’s place as a guest with
some people unknown to me”.
“Me and my friend walking along a dark
street.”
“Some of my acquaintances blame me for
stealing something”
“I study at the courses with two friends of
mine or some people whom I knew before. Both of them say that they do not know
me and, in the presence of others, pretend that we are not acquainted. I behave
the same way”.
“I know that my friends made phone calls and
agreed that he should back me up at the exam”.
“His face resembled to me some of my
university friends”.
Discussing
the room for the seminar.
Constraint
when communicating with strangers.
“I missed
my friend‘s wedding party”.
The sun.
Brightness / Clarity.
The
perception of objects is more vivid.
“We have a
solar eclipse today. The impression is that birds have lost their vision and
are waiting for it to come back.”
“I called a
friend and suggested to her to make a homeopathic remedy from the solar eclipse
and prescribed what to do and how to do it.
“Today is a
very sunny day, I felt this. The snow is blinding.”
“Happiness
in the morning because of the sunny weather.”
“I am
conscious that the outlines of the objects are brighter and clearer, even of
the tiny ones.”
Dream: “I am walking amongst the hills covered
with a white snow carpet. The sun is blinding.”
Sun. Ice.
White color.
Dream: “I am walking amongst the
hills covered with a white snow carpet. The sun is blinding. The air is fresh
and frosty.”
“Chilly.
When falling asleep the body feels as if made of ice.”
“I found
myself in some wild place – I am in the middle of wasteland covered with snow,
with hills and snow around. Dots of light afar. The road and the snow run into
one.”
“I
recollected all kinds of animals, the way they live. I feel that I myself as a
frozen crocodile right now.”
“The music
from some fairy tale about the New Year holiday.”
Dream: “I am looking for a job closer to my
home. I am walking along a snow field in the town where I live now.”
“I went
outside. The snow was blinding. It was too bright.”
Dream: “My girl insists on me
receiving the patients saying: ‘Here you have white forms for every patient’.”
“I
am hugging a girl in a white kerchief “.
Symmetry.
Geometry. Gothicism. Castles.
“I am lost
among the mountains. The hills of snow are of an accurate geometric form.”
“Symmetric
spots appeared on palms.”
“I have
developed itch and rash where I had a trauma of my leg before; the same
appeared symmetrically on the “healthy” leg. “
“An unknown
town is located on the hill. The road is a ravine that accurately divides the
town-hill into two equal parts.”
“The town
is a gothic castle cut out in the rock.”
“A tall
skyscraper. It looks like crooked and declined in my direction.”
“I find myself
among huge elongated crystal castles of the Western European style”.
“A girl
with a beautiful face but the left eye is missing. I keep being bewildered that
she has no eye and her eye–pit is hollow.”
Time. Past
– Future. Fast – Slow.
Dream: “I realized that I recovered and was
going to correct my mistakes that I did in the past. I will start from my
moving back in time.”
“In the
evening I was sitting at the light of a lamp feeling quiet as if I was young
again. “
“I could
travel in my mind into different periods of my early childhood and could see
pictures that I had forgotten long time ago.”
Dream: “The ways of birth. If this way – one
thing happens, if that way – another thing happens”.
“The time
seems running too fast.”
“It seems
that the time is constricted into one dot.”
“Fussiness.
Hurry. Feeling as if I am late to do something.”
“Unwillingness
to hurry, slow thinking. Swaps of the mood.”
“My usual
sluggishness has switched to fast pace of movements and actions.”
“Can hardly
think. I must go to the office, slowly.”
“I do not
speed up the process. I accept it as it is.”
“I am late
all the time.”
Dream: “I was two minutes late for the train”.
“All of a sudden a train is crossing
a field of snow… I am trying to jump into the train on the move despite the
absence of a platform.”
“I was late to go out of a public building. The
lights were switched off and the doors were being closed”.
“I was
behind and they locked me in the building after the studies (at the course).”
“I am going
in cycles in my problem. If some situation occurred it runs over and over again
even at night. It hampers my sleep, it prevents from thinking of something
else.”
Dreams: “I missed a week of my study at the
course”. “I came for the studies but I want to run away.”
“I
am in the past; ...I go out to a large field with hundreds of students passing
the last exam, suddenly the dean says, that’s it, the exam time is out”.
Doctors.
Treatment / Vision. Eyes.
“On that
day they requested the pharmacy to finish preparation of two homeopathic
remedies.”
“I chaired
the doctors’ board. The cosmoenergist told me that the potency had run out
already.”
“A friend
called me, offered an herb specialist to me to treat the liver.”
“We have a
solar eclipse today. The impression is that birds have lost their vision and
are waiting for it to come back.”
Dream: “I work as an ophthalmologist somewhere.
A man comes with complaints of his right eye. I find out that he has glaucoma.
I have neither the forms to fill in nor the seal. I handle the prescription
with big difficulty.”
“The
girl without l. eye says, go and take patients’ cases. I refuse because I feel
indolent and scared. I answer that I am unwell and I have come to listen to the
theory. I will leave if it is necessary to receive patients.
I tell that I will treat only the
eye diseases and nothing else… Then they show me a card filled in with the
diagnosis and the treatment course. I am surprised how simple it is”.
“I understood that I recovered and I
was going to correct the mistakes that I made in the past when I was unwell… It
was the moment of time when I did not have the doctor’s certificate.”
“At the
seminar I was sharing my experience in treating psoriasis.”
“After
taking the remedy I can read without screwing my eyes, even small script.”
“The vision
is clearer even through the glasses.”
“I can see
into the distance with eyes wide open. The sharpness of shapes has become
evident.”
Dream: “I can read small print without
glasses”.
“A discussion of treatment results
at my patient’s home. I do not clearly see him and his mother. His grandmother
says, look at the spots attentively”.
“In the
evening I noticed that I can see the outlines brighter, and my vision is
clearer (myopia, -3 both eyes).”
“Visited
bioenergy therapist. One must register a visit to him long beforehand.’
Money /
Coins
Dream: “A purse full of banknotes and various
coins”.
“My
bag is stolen. I have another one, however, with money scattered in it in a
complete mess.”
“Recurrent dreams about money. In a
dream, somebody tried to scare me: “You will stay without a single ruble!”
“I enter a classroom. My desk is the
first from the left. There are scattered coins on it and under it, with the
pictures of different animals (like in Malta). Some of the coins are not
finished yet; they are only
printed on paper but not stamped
yet. Those around me try to persuade me to keep all the coins with me because a
lot of people need them.”
“A
man squabbles to get a free prescription.”
Childhood.
Children / Parents.
Dream: “I frightened others’ children and they
were crying.”
Recurrent dreams about kidnapping.
“I
am in a strange castle town where I am trying to find my daughter kidnapped as
a baby five years ago. They introduce to me a girl in a white kerchief. I hug
her, cry of happiness. I am surprised that she is not
an infant (as I imagined).”
“I received
a postcard from my granddaughter, with a jumping bird pecking a worm in it.
“At night I
sang a song to my granddaughter (who lives in another country) about a small
pot, and I imagined that we cuddle each other.”
Dream: “I am pregnant, this is very good, and
it is a big happiness, a perfect condition.”
“Very strong and warm attitude
towards the parents especially to the mother. Such a feeling can probably only
be in the childhood.”
Daughter
was laughing when sleeping. She asked not to wake her up and to allow her to
see the dream to the end. I woke up from that.
“My
daughter cried and thrashed about while sleeping.”
“Straight
after taking the drug my consciousness dived into the recollections of the
childhood. I could travel to different phases of my childhood. I had lasting
dreams about my childhood.”
“In the
first night I saw my infantile dream, which had shocked me at that time. “
“Suddenly I
understood how strong my parents’ love towards me is and how much they did for
me. I was wrong to have taken offence at them because they wished only the good
for me.”
“When I had
fever I asked my mother to come to me from the office, “Mom I am dying”.
Conflicts.
Disagreements
“Desire to
insist on my own way is very strong. I contradict those who do not agree with
me. There is a desire to prove, to do something my own way.”
“I could
not send away the driver who went with me. He seemed to have torn away a part
of my heat and this hurts me.”
“Scolded my
housekeeper who did not do her job as she should do”.
“A chat
with my daughter. She cannot stand me repeating the same things. She has a
feeling that I peck her brains. But I do want to punch, that is, at every round
I get a new idea. Maybe I am a bird and she is a worm?
Here you
go, it’s karma.”
“How do I
need to treat sick people to avoid contradiction?”
“Day and
night the tension lasts, that I am going to get into a mess somehow.”
“A feeling
of a conflict. Desire to slip wide of the policemen, not to fall into their
hands.”
“Fixed
thoughts of conflicts.”
“If a clash
happens it is going over and over again in my mind for the whole night.”
“Desire to
hit this problem into its mug to and to take all the tension away from myself. To
influence it and to disappear.”
Dream: “One of the guests wanted to slaughter
somebody.”
“Persistent
thoughts about the conflict. It hampers my sleep, and does not allow thinking
about something else.”
“Desire to
hide away and to be lost in the crowd in order to skip the conflict.”
“The
complete self confidence.”
“Desire to
tell them where they belong, those who tried to humiliate me.”
Dream: “A man who has just returned from the
war comes and rowdily demands a free prescription to cure his little daughter.”
“People
who usually treat me well say, “This Armenian insists on expelling you from the
university because you are too proud, and they want to organize a test in order
to check if you know something else apart from the eye diseases.” I am bursting
into flame threatening to complain to the dean’s office”
“I
made a firm decision that I am sure of myself. I will stop to cringe and fawn
upon the teachers. I will go complain to the dean and I will make it to the
re-exam.”
“…an
impertinent young doctor resembles some of my acquaintances who used to offend
and humiliate me at the university…”
“I answered
sharply to the cheeky guy and thought afterwards if I went too far? Will they revenge
me?”
“Lack of
self-assurance, not certain about my capabilities. An emotional restraint,
suppression.”
“In my
dreams, I feel an unusual confidence and courage. In reality, I feel the
opposite – the growing emotional restraint and despondence. There are problems
communicating with people.”
Dream: “I am jealous and suffering because of
this. Nevertheless I behave calmly and confidently.”
“A discussion of the results of the
treatment of my patient…. Notwithstanding the boy’s general improvement his
grandmother announces, “He is not better at all!” I oppose and say, “What are
you telling me?!
Look at those spots!” I have an
impression that I know nothing, as it appears.”
“Somebody was killed with a knife
into the belly. On top of that, they screwed the knife. A sadistic violence.”
Singing.
Music. Radio
“A frequent
desire to sing.”
"I
hear singing of the birds that the man walking near me doesn’t hear.
Dream: “A friend of mine gives me a poem and I
am trying to sing it.”
“I went to
the market to buy a player”.
“At night I
sang a song to my granddaughter about a small pot…”
“I went to
work, on my way something happened to me and I started to sing songs.”
“I became
more open. I even sang songs.”
Dream: “They give me a radio set. A woman
switches it on, tunes in a nice broadcast and gives it to me. I refuse to take
it because it has no FM range but only the AM range. I am not interested in a
good broadcast
at this wave frequency range.”
“I had a
constant desire to sing and kept offering others to sing.”
Note: This
month several people paid my attention to birds’ singing.
Note:
Another teacher for this group of students (she did not know about the proving)
suggested singing several times during the lecture. After the lecture, the
group sang a song together with the teacher.
Large /
Small. Areas. Lost.
Dream: “A huge yellow head of Koschei the
Deathless. He holds his hand before his face and I am on his palm.”
"I
felt myself in my consciousness as the smallest of small among the huge
elongated crystal castles.”
Dream: “I go out to a large field
with hundreds of people passing the last exam… A huge figure of the examiner
mounts over the field.”
“A strong
anxiety, even worse in the underground and in narrow spaces. As if I am lost
there.”
“I am
looking into one point and cannot take away my eyes. I want to get away from the
looks at me.
"Desire
to hide and to be lost in the crowd.”
“Desire to
hide myself in the room.”
Dream: “I lost myself among the mountains.”
“A feeling
of despair. There is no way out.”
The energy
of the source
“In the
morning after taking the remedy there is a strong energy. At the breakfast
there is a sensation that some light and tender part of me has separated and
hovers over me.”
Sensation
of freedom, strength as if you are hovering.
Sensation
of hovering in the daytime as a kite.
“I fell
down in the street. At the peak of good mood I wanted to fly up but I fell down
(it happened twice).”
The
description of vertigo symptoms corresponds to the curve of a woodpecker’s
flight.
Physical
General: fever 38.5 + extreme chills, heavy
sweat. < at night 13 h.
chills at 15
h.
chill when
going to bed, sensation that body parts are icy
fever, <
at night. Sensation as if a “punching heat”. Followed by heavy sweat,
impossible to sleep.
Vertigo: “As if falling through”/”As if in
an elevator duct”/”As if a change of air stream”, “up and down”, deep fall –
high rise.
with
sensation of flushes in the head, to the occiput.
unclear. “As
if drunk”. Desire of support, to clutch at somebody or something.
fear to
fall down and collapse.
< in
closed space/narrow spaces; difficult to breath in.
> in fresh
air/in the open/without a cap.
Vision: precise and clear perception of
subjects, down to smallest details
blurred,
unclear
looking
into one point, impossible to turn off, something makes you to look
looking
with wide open eyes, without glasses
looking far
with wide open eyes
Face: pale, with blue circles around
eyes during fever
Eyes: strong lachrymation, “As from
onion”, < outdoors; both eyes, in streams
Morning swollen
lower lids
soreness of
distal corners of the eyes
Mouth: permanent dryness in the mouth,
throat
dry mouth,
constantly
“As if
burned”
thirst
strong/want of thirst/want of appetite
Food and
drinks: Desires: tea (mate)/boiling water, hot water/cold water, large
quantities (during fever)/potato/salted food, adds surplus salt to the food/sugar,
chocolate; Aversion to: coca-cola, canned juices/any liquids/cereals/porridge (rice):
Abdomen
and stomach: “As if
strong heat in epigastria, between the right breast and the navel as if burnt
through”/”As if a huge balloon bursts”.
pain in the
right hypochondrium, when walking
strong pain
in the stomach, “As from ulcer”
nausea,
vomiting
Rectum: diarrhea, loose stool, several
times daily
Stool: bright color, orange color
Urination: frequent (painful)
urge for
urination, painful, almost fainting
Extremities: numbness
coldness,
fingers and toes get cold, when falling asleep
Skin: bright pink spots on both palms
sensitive
to washing in warm water – hyperaemia of skin
itching,
face, chin, edge of lower jaw
Synchronous:
Two provers scalded their hands during the proving
Vergleich: Siehe: Aves:
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum