Ricinis communis Anhang

[Richard Pitt]

The proving involved 8 people, 6 females and 2 males. It was a single blind proving. All the provers were given the remedy in C 30 and told to take it 3x daily for up to 7 days or until any change was noticed, when it was to be stopped. The provers were followed by the proving coordinator and all the provers and coordinators met 4 weeks after beginning the proving. The proving was commenced in the summer of 2006.

Ricinis communis is a plant from the Euphorbiaceae botanical family. Its common name is castor oil, though the remedy is made from the bean. Ricin, the poisonous element found in the bean is no longer active when it becomes an oil, as cold pressing the bean eliminates the ricin, a protein. Castor oil has been used to rub on joints as well as taken internally as a purgative. The plant is a native to Egypt and India and it has been used herbally to increase the flow of milk in women. Its other major effect is on the gastrointestinal tract, causing great purging and diarrhea. Its similarity to many of the best cholera remedies has been commented on. The poisoning effects have been well documented and include death from taking as few as 3 seeds. “After 20 seeds gastroenteritis and death preceded by general convulsions and collapse occurred.” (Murphy)

Notes on the proving

One of the most commonly seen uses of the oil is to produce violent diarrhea, hence it’s homeopathic use in dysentery and cholera. In this vein, it shares similar symptoms with some other remedies from the same botanical family: Jatr-c. Jatr-u. Crot-t. Other “cholera” remedies such as Verat. and Podo. can also be compared.

In the proving, there was diarrhea produced, and one prover had a sudden outbreak of diarrhea, forcing her to run to her home. The interesting thing here is that she had not even taken the remedy yet. She was going to take it when she got home. There was no other reason for her to get the diarrhea and the severity of the symptoms took her totally by surprise.

In the proving, one of the strongest mental symptoms produced was one of depression. One prover, #5, felt a deep depression descend on her after she opened the vial, before taking the remedy. This continued for over two weeks. There was also noticeable irritability and anger, and in people’s dreams some destructive and violent themes emerged. Prover #1, the one who produced violent diarrhea before taking the remedy, had unusual dreams where destruction was a theme, and a man in the dream was so dangerous he had to be tied up. When the coordinator called her to verify these dreams (two months later), she dreamt that night that she was the devil with horns coming from her head. This was interesting given that another remedy in the same botanical family, Mancinella, has delusions that he sees a devil, or will be taken by the devil.

She had not had that dream before. There were also some spaced out, lightheaded feelings, like vertigo, which is also similar to the mental symptoms of Manc.

Also, there was some confusion of time, and prover (#6) had a strange dream of looking down at her feet and noticing her toenails were painted with silver mercury, which was very ornate. (This is only mentioned as this proverb has a tendency to reflect something on all the remedies she has proven and this happened in the first few days of the proving. Although not replicated by anybody else it still justifies mentioning here).

Physically diarrhea was a strong symptom, and there were general sensations of cramping, numbness, stiffness and achy, shooting pains. This was experienced in the back and extremities. The teeth seemed to be another major area affected.

Sankaran: a common theme found in the Euphorbiaceae family is that of being tied and untied, or bound and unbound. Other feelings are that of being hidebound and of constriction, tension, tightness and gripping. These common themes were revealed mainly in the remedies Crot-t., Manc., Euph. and Hura.

Crot-t. expresses these perhaps the strongest and is the remedy Sankaran began with.

In the proving of Ricinus communis, there were physical symptoms of stiffness, cramping, numbness, as well as the intense diarrhea, which as mentioned similar to Jatr. and Crot-t. However, on the mental level, prover #1 had this interesting dream, which involved falling in love with a dangerous man, in which he had to be tied up.

The theme of danger is also postulated as an association with being tied up in the remedy Manc. The same prover had two other dreams just before this in which the theme of destruction arose, relating to the general feeling of danger. Therefore, some tentative connections can be made here, perhaps confirming the observation by Sankaran and others in relationship to remedies of the Euphorbiaceae family.

The concept of danger and destruction should be mentioned in relationship to Ricin, the toxic component of the castor bean has been used as a deadly poison and potential terrorist weapon. Obviously, the theme of destruction is relevant here and studying the toxicology of ricin leaves us to consider that danger and destruction could be a key theme in understanding the psychological pattern of people needing this remedy. Studying the toxicology of substances being proved has always been a valuable source of information in getting details of the more morbid effects of any substance. In fact, some of our best-known remedies only had toxicological data and were not proven with higher potencies.

Conclusion: this proving only revealed a few characteristic symptoms. It should be proven again in different potencies, with a larger number of provers.

Proving Overview

The main areas of affinity were the Mind, Dreams, Mouth and Teeth, Stomach, Rectum, Back, and Extremities. Pains were achy, sharp, shooting. Common for a few provers was a sensation of numbness, cramps, or stiffness experienced in different parts of the body.

The following categories were created for the mind section and dreams:

Spaced out and lightheaded

Anxiety

Easy going and buoyant

Depressed, hopeless, sad, inertia, sluggishness

Anger, expressive

Mental fatigue, stupor

Levitating, head taken off from body

Confusion of time (dreams)

Anxiety and frustration (dreams)

Destruction, danger, violence, not safe (dreams)

Ricinus communis Anhang

Synonyme: Wunderbaum, Christuspalme, Hundsbaum, Läusebaum, Römische Bohne

Rizinus birgt viele Formen, in denen er sich je nach Standort sehr unterschiedlich ausgestaltet. Die etwa 20 Varietäten lassen sich dennoch gut an den auffälligen großen, sieben- bis elfzipfeligen,

schildförmigen Blättern sowie den lang gezogenen Blütenständen erkennen. Von Aug – Okt. brechen die unscheinbaren, grüngelben Blüten in Verbänden am Stängel entlang auf, wobei Geschlechtertrennung

herrscht. Oben stehen nur weibliche Blüten, darunter nur männliche. In den glatten oder stacheligen Früchten reifen jeweils drei Samen mit schwarzbrauner Zeichnung, erinnern an Bohnen, aber tödlich giftig.

Das Eiweiß Ricin macht die tödlich giftige Wirkung der Rizinussamen aus. Das aus den Samen gewonnene Rizinusöl ist frei von Eiweißstoffen und deshalb ungiftig. Ist es ein wichtiges Abführmittel. Seine Wirksamkeit erlangt es erst während des Verdauungsprozesses im Darm. Die dabei freigesetzte Rizinolsäure regt die Darmbewegung an und verursacht vermutlich über die stimulierte Synthese des Gewebshormons Prostaglandin eine vermehrte Aufnahme von Wasser und Elektrolyten in den Darmraum. Das Stuhlvolumen vergrößert sich dadurch.

In Kosmetik verarbeitet unterstützt Rizinusöl den Feuchtigkeitsgehalt der Haut und glättet. Dekorativer Kosmetik dient es als geschmeidig machende Grundlage.

Die Samen des Rizinus erinnern in ihrem Aussehen an vollgesogene Zecken (lat. ricinus). Das lateinische Wort „communis“ bedeutet „gemein, gewöhnlich“. Der deutsche Name Christuspalme entstand aus einer falschen Übersetzung der Bezeichnung „palma Christi“, die übersetzt eigentlich Christushand heißt.

Der Bezug zu Christus rührt wahrscheinlich von der wichtigen Rolle eines Rizinusbaums in der Bibel her. Gott hatte Jona beauftragt, der sündigen Stadt Ninive (im heutigen Irak) eine Predigt zu halten.

Jona entzog sich der Aufgabe, indem er sich in Richtung Tarsis (Spanien?) einschiffte. Gott boykottierte Jonas Fluchtversuch durch einen Sturm, der das Schiff in Seenot geraten ließ.

Als die Seeleute erkannten, dass der Sturm Jona galt, warfen sie ihn über Bord. Ein großer Fisch verschlang den Ertrinkenden und spie ihn an Land wieder aus, wo Gott schon auf ihn wartete, um ihm erneut den Auftrag zu erteilen, in Ninive zu predigen. Diesmal fügte sich Jona. Nach der Predigt, in der er die baldige Zerstörung der Stadt prophezeite, taten alle Bewohner Buße. Gott verschonte daraufhin die Stadt und vergab den Bewohnern ihre Sünden. Jona war außer sich, dass Gott so schnell nachgab. Er richtete sich außerhalb Ninives in einer Laubhütte ein und wartete wütend auf seinen Tod. Gott ließ hinter der Hütte innerhalb eines Tages einen schattenspendenden Rizinusbaum wachsen, über den Jona sich freute. Umso empörter war er, als Gott am nächsten Morgen den Rizinusbaum wieder dahinraffen ließ. Doch genau das war Gottes Gleichnis: „Dich jammert die Staude, um die du dich nicht gemüht hast, hast sie auch nicht großgezogen, die in einer Nacht ward und in einer Nacht verdarb; und mich sollte nicht jammern Ninive, eine so große Stadt, in der mehr als 120.000 Menschen sind, die nicht wissen, was rechts und links ist, dazu auch viele Tiere?“.

Das Rizinusöl, das in Dr.Hauschka Kosmetik enthalten ist, stammt aus Indien. Dieses Öl ist in vielen Präparaten Bestandteil der pflegenden Grundlage. In sulfatierter Form bildet es die Basis der Dr.Hauschka Bäder. Rizinusöl ist zudem in WALA Chelidonium Kapseln enthalten, die bei Verdauungsstörungen, Gallenfunktionsstörungen, Verstopfung und Blähungen helfen, sowie in WALA Juniperus/Berberis comp., Kapseln, die bei einer Ausscheidungsschwäche im Nierenbereich, zum Beispiel bei Nierensteinen und Gicht, sowie bei Blähungen Einsatz finden.

Castor-oil

(RICINUS COMMUNIS – BOFAREIRA)

Has marked action on gastro-intestinal tract. Increase the quantity of milk in nursing women. Vomiting and purging. Languor and weakness.

Head: Vertigo, occipital pain, congestive symptoms, buzzing in ears.

Face: pale, twitching of mouth.

Mouth: dry

Stomach: Anorexia with great thirst, burning in stomach, pyrosis, nausea profuse vomiting, pit of stomach sensitive.

Abdomen: Rumbling with contraction of recti muscles, colic, incessant diarrhœa with purging. Rice water stools with cramps and chilliness.

Stool: Loose, incessant, painless, with painful cramps in muscles of extremities. Anus inflamed. Stools green, slimy, and bloody.

Fever: emaciation, somnolence.

Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.