Rosaceae Anhang
[Jan Scholten/Deborah Collins]
The Rosaceae, or rose family,
belongs to the much larger order of Rosales. As well as the familiar garden
roses, the family also contains many fruits and berries, such
as apple, crab apple, pear, strawberry,
raspberry, blackberry, and many stone fruits such as peach, cherry and apricot.
Like the garden roses, these are often (though not always) thorny plants,
protecting themselves and their fruits by flesh-tearing thorns along the
branches. Many of these plants also contain the precursors to hydrocyanic acid,
one of the most lethal poisons known to man – only on eating the fruit is it
turned into hydrocyanic acid in the stomach. So, here we already see several of
the themes of this large family: the sweetness of the fruit, together with the
thorniness of its protection, and a stifling quality, breathlessness and
suffocation, brought on by the cyanides within the plants.
Homeopathy uses several of
these plants, although until recently, many of them have not been well-known as
remedies. By understanding the themes of this family,
and the sensations that
accompany it, it has become much easier to recognize and prescribe them. The
well-known remedy Crataegus oxyacantha or hawthorn, for
example, has long been used to deal with heart
problems, and its thorny character is obvious. Until recently, however, we have
not seen it in its larger context, which pertains to all the Rosaceae: heart
complaints due to problems in (romantic) love relationships.
Jan Scholten has described the
overall theme of the Rosaceae as “the pain of a broken heart”; the heart and
circulation are generally where the problems manifest
most clearly. Each of the
various members of this family deals differently with issues of romantic love
and its possible pitfalls.
The rose is a symbol of
romantic love, with its sweet smell and beautiful blossoms. It is often gifted
to one’s lover, and is often used in bridal bouquets. The apple,
too, is a symbol of love and
sexuality. Problems relating to love can be reflected in the sexual sphere as
well, as seen in the rubrics: coition aggravates, weeping,
sadness and irritability.
People needing a remedy from
the rose family can have a tendency to idealize love – they romantically dream
of “the prince on the white horse” or “the unattainable
princess”.
Once they are in a relationship, they have the tendency to give all that
they have. They can be very sweet, as sweet as a peach or a cherry. They are
often very cheerful in order to bring happiness, but they tend to give more
than they receive. They live for their love so much that there is no space for
them, no room to breathe. The air is there, but they cannot breathe it in
because they give themselves away completely. They demand that love be perfect
and exclusive, there is no room for affairs. They might have fallen in love
with someone who is unattainable or who does not love them in the same way, and
they get the idea that they are unlovable. In the end, they can feel empty, having
given themselves away in vain. If their love is unfulfilled, or even worse, if
it is deceived, they can become ill,
both physically and emotionally. Then, they can
become irritable, making nasty remarks, or expressing their irritation
constantly, showing their thorny side.
Although this “love” aspect is
generally associated with romantic love, these remedies can also be of use for
those who put all their passion into their work, or another
field, and end up feeling
disappointed if it is not returned.
Ulrich Welte: the theme of
unrequited love = Comparison Natriums +
Rosaceae + Sulphur
General:
Desires: sweets, strawberry,
peach, prune, apple, pear, apricot, blackberry, raspberry
Aversions: as above
Food: < stone fruits
It is sometimes possible to
recognize a Rosaceae remedy by their pronounced desires, aversion, aversions or
allergies to a particular fruit.
Menses: painful, irregular.
Physical:
Vertigo, faintness
Neurological: convulsions, epilepsy., tics, twitching,
trismus, opisthotonus, coma
Headache
Mouth: burning
Lung: respiration obstructed,
asthma, dyspnea
Heart: arrhythmia, infarction,
failure, decompensation, dilatation, hypertension, hypotension, angina pectoris
Pulse: fast, slow, hard, soft,
strong, weak, irregular
Arteries: obstruction,
arteriosclerosis
Stomach: nausea
Genitals: vaginitis, fluor
albus
Skin: blue discoloration of
lips, nails, face, arms
In Scholten’s system, the
remedies can be placed in stages, according to the periodic table of elements.
Here only the general themes are given.
Stage 1: Hydrocyanic acid/=
acute of the rose family. The most lethal poison known to man, this gas has
been used in the ultimate form of lovelessness:
Extermination
(Zyklon-B of the holocaust gas chambers).
1.1: Quillaja (Chile soap bark
tree) Naïve, impulsive in relationships
Stage 2: Geum urbanum
(avens)They have the idea that they have to adapt (stage 2) to their partner,
that they are not allowed to have something for themselves,
sometimes nothing at all. They think that they have to
give everything in a relationship. They can adapt easily and so they can easily
fulfill their role, but
they can also feel that it is not good to adapt so
much. They feel that they should also have space for themselves, but this can
lead to guilt: “If you do that,
your love is not real.” This duality can give the
feeling that they do not have the space to live or the air to breathe, and it
can lead to asthma.
Physical: see
Clarke for a full description
Asthma; bladder
disorders; pains in penis; shooting pains in abdomen
Stage 3: Potentilla
tormentilla (Tormentil)
They are in a relationship
that is in its starting phase (stage 3). They have the feeling that it is not established
yet, and that they cannot count on their partner.
This can lead to sadness,
irritation, fighting or indifference. They can be very irritable, trying to
force their partner to make a choice for them but, as a reaction, (s)he
becomes more and more
reluctant to make that choice, seeing the relationship as a trap that cannot be
escaped. The result can be that the relationship is always in
turmoil. It can also be that
they themselves cannot make a choice, and that their doubts concerning their
partner makes them avoid marriage. They could also fall in
love with someone who is not
really available, a married person, a priest or a homosexual. This can also
lead to triangle relationships.
Physical:
Nose: sinusitis
Mouth: inflamed, bleeding
gums, gingivitis provoked by mercury
Pharynx: inflamed
Stomach: ulcer, vomiting,
blood
Liver: icterus, diabetes
Rectum: prolapse, diarrhea,
bloody, enteritis, dysentery
Menses: menorrhagia
Limbs: gout
Skin: wounds, weeping eczemas,
cracked hands and lips, contusions
Stage 4: Sorbus domestica
(Rowan tree, mountain ash tree)
This person cannot stand his partner being
closed; behind this is the fear of betrayal. He has his doubts about the
marriage and whether the partner really loves him. He asks himself if he has
made the right choice and if there is real love, and even whether he should be
married at all. It can be that the partner is silent and does not speak about
important issues. “Love should be open, love can accept everything from the
other.”
Physical: Heart problems,
pain, palpitations, fast pulse, lying left side <
Stage 5: Malus communis
(Apple)
The relationship has started
but they ask themselves if they should go on with it. There are doubts about the
relationship: is it a good choice? Does the partner really
love them? Are they strong
enough to go on? Do they really love the other? Their ideals of relationship
are so high that they doubt if they can live up to the huge task.
It can be from a situation
where they have been seduced into a relationship that they did not really want.
They wonder if there might be a better partner for them, or if
they might be a better partner
for another spouse.
Stage 5.1: Malus pumila (Crab
apple)
Delusion: dirty, everything,
food, himself
Delusion: abused, molested,
victim, being soiled or abased
A feeling of dirtiness is
common in those who have suffered sexual abuse or inappropriateness
Stage 6: Sanguisorba (Great
burnet)
Here, the feeling is that the
relationship is not working well; the partner has chosen for them but doesn’t
really go for it. This makes them angry so they try to force
their partner to really make
the commitment. The partner has to prove that he really loves them. On the
other side they have to prove that they really love their
partner, but that feels just
as difficult. So they have the tendency to choose someone who is not really
available, a married person, someone from abroad.
Sensitive, irritable patients
Physical:
Head: congestion
Lungs: bleeding
Intestines: dysentery
Genitals: menses long,
profuse, climacterium, chronic metritis
Legs: congested, varicoses
veins, ulcers
Stage 7: Alchemilla vulgaris
(Lady’s cloak)
They have a very loving and
helping quality. Mistakes are often covered with the cloak of love. They want
to spread love in the world, bring harmony in the people
around them. They can be very
perfectionistic in their work and actions. This often results in much criticism
toward themselves. They have the feeling that they
should do better. They have a
marriage in which they do the most, but they like that. Even when the partner
is not friendly or is even violent, they keep on helping and
loving.
Physical: see Boericke
Eyes: inflamed
Mouth: inflamed
Respiratory system: cough
Digestion: gastritis,
enteritis
Kidneys: urine scanty, edema
Genitals: menses copious,
leucorrhea, menarche late, menopause problems
Skin: wet eczema, cuts,
bruises, wounds suppurating
Dream: Working too much, in a
caring institution, refusing the reward for it, giving gifts, being criticized
for the work.
Delusion: people are more
alike than different
Delusion: distance from the
world
Stage 7.1: Agrimonia eupatoria
(Agrimony)
They have a partner who is not
well, either emotionally or physically disturbed, or both. He is not giving
much and he laments about his problems. It feels like a
heavy burden to carry. In the beginning they do
it with love, but after some time the burden becomes too much for them. Out of
a feeling of responsibility they cannot leave the partner, and they continue
with sorrow in their heart.
There is a tendency to avoid the problems
instead of facing them, to glide over difficulties, with attempts to stay
cheerful, find diversion, or reach for stimulants like alcohol or drugs. There
is a forced cheerfulness externally; they hide their suffering, even though
suffering internal torment.
Physical:
Weakness
Kidneys: pain, deep, colicky
pointing in the lumbar region, extending down the ureters; urine muddy, foul
smelling
Genitals: pain in uterus
Stage 8: Prunus spinosa
(Blackthorn, sloe, bullace)
They have a relationship that
is hard. They have the feeling that they have to work hard to keep it going,
that they have to give themselves completely. This gives
them the feeling that they are
constantly busy for their spouse. It is never enough, the husband is never
satisfied. He always says that their love isn’t real, otherwise
they would have done more. It
can also be that they demand complete love from their spouse. The proof of
their love is that they do everything for them, that their life
is completely for love and the
marriage. This leads to much grief, sadness, irritation and sourness.
Physical: see Boericke,
Clarke, Phatak
Ailments from sexual abuse
Generals: night sweats
Sensation: shooting, pressing
outwards, lightning, wandering
Time: night
Aversion: food; < warm food
Stage 9: Cydonia vulgaris
(Quince)
They have the delusion that
their relationship is almost fulfilling, almost complete, but it still requires
some minor adaptations, corrections or approval.
Physical: see Culpepper
Ailments started after deadly
poisons, white hellebore
Diarrhea, dysentery
Stage 10:
- Rosa canina (Dog rose)
They feel love as ideal and
noble. There’s no cover. In Western culture, there is the ideal that love
should be all giving, the ideal of romantic love for the partner.
Writing poems to loved ones.
- Rosa damascena (Damas rose)
A very old symbol of love, the
theme of which is present in all members of the Rosaceae. Love is idealised in
its most romantic form, as in the time of the
troubadours, the medieval
ideal of love, a love that will never come into form because it is too ideal
and too idealised. Dwelling in romantic thoughts and feelings.
Stage 11: Amygdala amara
(Bitter almond)
See Boericke
Excessively brilliant eyes,
sardonic laughter, joyful countenance, sparkling eyes
Stage 12: Crataegus (Common
hawthorn)
There is an overreaction in
love matters. They want to do it too well and tend to give too much but they have
the feeling that people or circumstances are acting
against them. This can lead to trying to
control the circumstances or the partner. It can lead to over-control or even
tyranny. They become very bossy and irritable from the least thing that they see
as resistance.
They can also be controlled
too much by their partner, if they have a partner who is a tyrant. “The war of
the roses” – fighting and not giving an inch.
Physical: See Boericke,
Clarke, Grimmer, Phatak, Anschutz
Weak, exhausted; irritable, cross,
hurried
Melancholy, despair, feels
weak and fragile
Mental dullness; confused
Calmness; nervous
General: weather: > fresh
air, < warm room. < rest, quiet
Sleep: insomnia of aortic
patients
Stage 13: Rubus fruticosus
(Bramble)
The relationship is unfulfilling.
They feel that they do not receive much love, although they themselves give too
much. Their partner is often demanding, irritable,
self-centered or egotistical.
This leads to the feeling that they don’t want to continue with the
relationship. But on the other hand they stay on because of feeling
responsible for the other, or
because they hope that it will improve. They feel that they cannot leave, it’s
too painful. It reminds one of the thorns of the blackberry
that point inwards; one can go
quite easily into the brambles but cannot come out without getting scratched
everywhere.
They can also be in a
relationship with someone who is always thinking of leaving. It feels as if
only half of the love is left.
Circumstances can also give
them the feeling of being locked in a marriage. They can feel imprisoned by the
care for the partner and children. They can no longer do
what they want.
Physical: heart problems,
palpitations
Prostate complaints
Stage 14: Spiraea ulmaria
(Meadowsweet, Queen of the meadows, Hardhack)
See Boericke, Clarke, Hansen
A relationship where the
relationship is a formal one, it has no real content anymore.
Morbid conscientiousness
Stage 15?
Stage 16: Fragaria
(Wood-strawberry)
They know that the relationship is in fact over,
but they keep waiting for their lover to come the back one day, recognizing
that the relationship had been true love. They can keep on waiting for years,
even when their friends and relatives, and they themselves see their “delusion”
as unreal. They continue to fantasize and
speculate on how and when their ex-lover will
come back. Since they are still full of their old love, they cannot open for a
new love, so they remain alone and end up as old spinsters.
Generals:
Sweat: profuse, viscid sweat
Physical:
Faintness. Suffocation,
stroke, convulsions, anascara
Lungs: dysponea, sarcoidosis
and especially swollen tongue. Strawberry tongue
Skin: urticaria, chilblains
DD.: rosaceae, Arsenicum, Apis
Stage 17: Laurocerasus (Common
laurel, Cherry laurel)
See Boericke, Clarke
They have the delusion that no
one loves them and that no one can love them. They think that they have lost
all the love there is and are not lovable at all, so they
don’t even try to find love.
This can be the consequence of sexual abuse, fighting parents, fright and
shock. It is understandable that someone born with such an
attitude does not want to
live, like the blue baby after birth. They retire from life, which can be
physically expressed in fainting, heart disease, strokes and coma.
Delusions: sees old men with
distorted faces and long beards
Dreams: hideous, misfortune,
dead bodies, dead people
Fear and anxiety about
imaginary evils
Memory loss provoked by
fright, pain, etc.
Dullness of special senses
Ailments from loss of love,
every excitement, fright
Rajan Sankaran places the
Rosaceae somewhat differently, making use of the miasms:
- Acute miasm: Hydrocyanic acid and Pyrus
americanus
- Typhoid miasm: Amygdalus
communis
- Malarial miasm: Prunus spinosa,
Rosa damascena
- Tubercular miasm: Prunus
cerasifera
- Ringworm miasm: Amygdalus
persica
- Leprous miasm: Laurocerasus
- Syphilitic miasm:
Crataegus
Repertorium:
Angst zu ersticken/Furcht vor
spitze Gegenstände
Ärgerlich/schnell aufgeregt
Arrogant
Atemnot
Askese Luxus
< Aufregung
Aussehen ist wichtig/Verlangt
Beachtung/Verlangt nach Bewunderung/ist gerne im Mittelpunkt
Bedrängnis
Beklemmung
(Sich) Benehmen/Form
wahren/Sitten/sittsam/Tugend(haft)
>/< Bewegung/verlangt
schnelle Bewegung
Blutungen
Cyanose
Darmbeschwerden – Durchfall +/o.
Obstipation
Diabetes mellitus
Dramatisch/hysterisch/impulsiv
Duft
Durchsetzungsvermögen ausgeprägt
o. Mangel
Emotionale Verletzungen
(Demütigung) als Ursache
Emotionen stark/intensiv (alles
ist zuviel/überwältigt davon)
Erschöpft
Ersticken
Erwartungsspannung
Fröhlich (und schnell verärgert)
Fruchtbarkeit
Fülle
Fünf/Stern
Geburt (Für-/Nachsorge)/Gebären
Gemütsmensch
Harmonie(bedürftig)/harmonisch
Herausdrücken/-schießen
Herzbeschwerden
Hochmut
Kollaps
Kommunikation schwierig
Konservativ/Konservierend
[Beziehungen/Arbeitsverhältnisse/(ungute) Situationen]
Magie/Okkultismus interessiert
darin
Maß(halten/-voll) anmaßend
Müde
Plötzlich
Redselig/kommunikativ/geschwätzig
Reizbar
Ruhelos
Schenken
Schlicht
Schmerz – brennen/durchbohren/stechen/von
Innen nach Außen
Schönheit
Schuld(gefühle)
Schwäche
Sexualisiert/Sinnlichkeit
innerhalb Sittlichkeit
Steif in alle
Hinsichten/Verhärtung
Stolz
Überladen
Unversehrt
Urgesundheit
Verachtung
Wahnidee: angeklagt zu
werden/hässlich zu sein/ohne Leiden macht das Leben keinen Sinn/wird nicht
geliebt/ist schuldig
> wandern
Willenskräfte ausgeprägt/mangeln
Wissen verlangt danach
Träume: Ersticken/hohe
Plätze/Rosengewächse
Allgemein: Galle-/Leberbeschwerden
Steinbildung
Menses – Beschwerden
(verlängert)/Uterusbeschwerden
Rheuma
Trockenheit
>: Bewegung/im Freien/frische
Luft/wandern;
<:
Akupunktur/Aufregung/Bewegung/Hitze/warmen Zimmer/Spritzen;
Speisen und Getränke: Abgeneigt:
Him-/Brombeere/Hagebutten/Äpfel/Birnen/Quitten/Mandeln/Kirschen/Pflaumen;
<:
Him-/Brombeere/Hagebutten/Äpfel/Birnen/Quitten/Mandeln/Kirschen/Pflaumen;
Verlangt:
Him-/Brombeere/Hagebutten/Äpfel/Birnen/Quitten/Mandeln/Kirschen/Pflaumen;
Enthalten:
Hydr-ac. = Blausäure
Fette. Ole
Fruchtsäure
Pektine
DD.:
Hydr-a. + Spinnen:
Gemeinsam: Angst zu ersticken –
ruhelos – impulsiv – plötzlich - Schuld – Wahnidee schuldig zu sein – Atemnot –
Cyanose – Herz- /Leberbeschwerden – Schmerz: bohren/stechen
Unterschied: Rosen weniger wild,
aggressiv/exzentrisch, < Bewegung
Spinnen: > Bewegung
Kaliums:
Gemeinsam: Regen sich schnell
auf. Konservativ/maßvoll/reizbar/steif/Herzbeschwerden
Unterschied: Rosaceae: Interesse
in Esoterik/Magie/Okkultes/alles wird zu eng/< Hitze
Kaliums: < Kälte
Acidums:
Gemeinsam:
Opfer/aufopfern/Schuldgefühle/schwach/erschöpft/ruhelos/plötzlich/Darmbeschwerden/Rheuma/Schmerz
brennend/Steinbildung/Enge >/<
Unterschied: Acidums: müder/erschöpfter
Mangialavori: Anteilnahme an Schicksal anderer und
erscheint unbeteiligt. Ursache: emoTIOnale Erlebnisse/AUFregung. Das Leiden
gibt das Leben Sinn.
Wilhelm Pelikan: „Edles Maß innerhalb große
Fülle“/schenkende Fülle mit strenge Formkraft.
Sankaran: Reagieren auf Konflikte mit Atemnot und ein
Gefühl der Beengung (Kollaps). Reagieren darauf mit Verlangen nach Bewegung
(Rennen/Reisen/Wandern)/Beschwerden verlagern sich im Körper von Stelle zum
andere Stelle.
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.