Sepia succus Anhängsel

[foleyhomeopathy]

“I can’t feel anything anymore”. Doesn’t Feel Love Anymore (love that does not go forth to affection)

At mercy of hormones

Bitter, angry, sarcastic, esp. PMS

Spent, dull, worn out

Low Sex Drive

> Activity (vs. lachesis)

More beleaguered women

Worn out from hormones wiped out

I’m just a regular kind of a gal – who is worn out

Not as remorseful (as Lach)

Anything with Hormones

The Butt

Cracking lips, fingers

Food, cravings,

1. < in company. Prefer to be alone, but want someone w/them

1. Left-sided (strong)

2. Chilly, < in cold

3. Strong periodicity

4. >: vigorous exercise/thunderstorms/stimulation to the mind.

5. < missed meals (15 – 18 h.)

6. Cravings: vinegar intensely, sweets (esp. chocolate), aversion to fat.

7. Empty sinking feeling in stomach

8. Worse with any hormonal change, anything, menses, menopause, pregnancy, miscarriage, sex

9. Anything in reproductive area, Infertility, miscarriage, endometriosis, herpes, genital warts, Males have prostate problems, impotence, premature ejaculation

10. Tension Migraines, left-sided, worse from hormonal change, comes on when missing meals

11. Yellow across nose

12. Stick up the butt

13. Dry cracking lips or fingers

Afraid of poverty, discontent with financial state, even if rich.

Sepia – Mollusk (good idea)

Sepia (like a Mollusk)

Has aspect of being in a shell

Good because it is protecting

Bad because it is isolating - it’s lonely – so you are cut off

More beleaguered women

Worn out from hormones

wiped out

I’m just a regular kind of a gal – who is worn out

Not as remorseful (as Lach)

Ink from cuttlefish, excreted by females and full of sodium chloride (salt). Cuttlefish female determines when she will mate. So

if she’s not interested, she excretes ink. When she mates, they make a lot of babies. She cleans each egg and hides it in kelp.

When she finishes she has no energy left. So worn out, that the male takes care of the babies.

“I can’t feel anything anymore”

Sepia Mental State

At mercy of hormones

PMS, peri-menopause, puberty

post-partum depression

“Washer woman” in the olden times.

Then she starts to get hopeless, starts feeling she’s unattractive (therefore unlovable).

Becomes colder, harder, more bitter.

As Young women

Want to date and have children, but subject to broken hearts.

Animal drive to get a new boyfriend but salt element puts her in bad relationships

When premenstrual, at her worst.

Jealous of co-workers who marry

Angry, Critical, Bitter

Quite angry during PMS.

Angry tears at home.

As Children before hormones

Vibrant

bright

Excited, play, dance, love life.

Their energy lasts about 1 - 2 hours

then they flatten out

When puberty comes, symptoms start

At start of period, intense mood

swings. Pain, cramping

Stimulation helps

Ameliorated by activity

so she’ll throw herself into work.

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Like adrenaline rush.

Or they exercise strenuously

Some stimulation from thunderstorms

W/out movement there is stasis.

Later…

SPENT

WORN OUT

They get dull

inability to learn during PMS or old age.

If a Sepia women marries and does manage to have children, she will eventually wear out.

Doesn’t Feel Love Anymore

LOVE THAT DOES NOT GO FORTH INTO AFFECTION

She loves her children, but doesn’t feel the love anymore

They feel guilt about not showing children affection

No sexual energy anymore

Averse to husband touching her.

“Leave me alone.”

Men:

Gender confusion shame.

Gay, bisexual

If hetero:

feel conflicted about sexuality

Low sex drive

May feel badly about it.

Make it the fault of the partner

that he doesn’t want to have sex.

Critical, nit-picking.

Small in height and size,

puff themselves up.

No strong male characteristics.

May compensate by having a lot of

sex with someone other than partner.

Low Sex Drive

To balance ambivalence about sex

Become spiritual seekers with monastic lifestyles and celibacy (then physical problems start)

Often sexual energy gets converted to

Afraid of poverty, competitive energy.

discontent with financial state, even if rich.

Themes

Anything with Hormones

The Butt

Cracking lips, fingers

Food, cravings, agg. missed meals

Keynotes and Confirmations

1. Left-sided

2. Better from vigorous exercise

3. Chilly, worse in cold

4. Worse missed meals (3-5 pm)

5. Cravings: vinegar intensely, sweets (esp. chocolate),

and aversion to fat.

6. Anything (headache) worse with any hormonal

change, menses, menopause, pregnancy, miscarriage,

sex

7. Strong periodicity

8. Anything in reproductive area, Infertility, miscarriage,

endometriosis, herpes, genital warts, Males have

prostate problems, impotence, premature ejaculation

9. Yellow across nose

10. Stick up the butt

Dry cracking lips or fingers

General

• Chilly, worse from cold

• Better from vigorous exercise

• Better in evening

• Worse from 3 -5 or 3-6 PM

• Worse before and during periods

• Worse with hormonal change

• Worse from a miscarriage

• Can be worse in general from having sex

• Left-sided symptoms

Strong periodicity

Head

• Migraines, tension, left-sided, worse from hormonal change, comes on when missing meals

• Yellow across nose

Lips: cracking, middle lower and corners.

Digestive

• Cravings: vinegar intensely, sweets (choc.), and aversion to fat.

• Empty sinking feeling in stomach

• Stick up the butt feeling

Hemorrhoids, itching of rectum, Rectal cancer

Reproductive

• Vaginitis (chronic or for 7 -8 years) with lots of discharge, itching, Goes w/ hormonal cycle. Symptoms go away during period

• Any symptoms for menstruation

• Uterine prolapse (real or sensation)

• Any symptom of pregnancy

• Infertility, miscarriage, endometriosis, herpes, genital warts

• Males have prostate problems, impotence, premature ejaculation

• Stress incontinence

Breasts after nursing or illness will shrink to almost nothing

Back

Pain better from pressing. Worse before and during menses

Skin

• Dry and hard, thickens, cracks of hands/fingers

Vitilago (white patches, losing pigmentation)

Mind

• Flatness, dullness, worn out

• Love that does not go forth into affection

• Bitter, angry, sarcastic, esp. PMS

• Irritable, angry (primary), weeping (secondary)

• Worse with company. Prefer to be alone, but they want someone with them

• Better with activity

• Better from thunderstorms or stimulation to the mind

• Drawn to celibate religious orders, but develop physical complaints upon doing so

Afraid of poverty, discontent with financial state, even if rich.

‡ Folgendes hat anthroposofische Einschlüße ‡

Frei nach: Cyril H. Boynes, D.V.M.

In an alumni newsletter from Tuskegee University. Under a section for theatre it indicated the title of a play: "Sepia - Looking Back to See Ahead".

Sepia is the ink or secretion of the Cuttlefish. All animals show by their differentiation of form the same constructive forces as those found in humans, but developed in a onesided way. What in the human being is balanced

and in full harmony appears in the animals in such a way that one organ overwhelms the others and gives the animal its character. The cuttlefish has large eyes and a large head (with highly developed sight and taste) and little

else. It represents exaggerated parts of the human head, adapted to a free-swimming form of life.

In the water the vulnerable Cuttlefish secretes sepia for protection, to hide or to blind the attacking predator. If the Cuttlefish is disturbed through fear, anger or depression, it retreats backwards while ejecting its ink forward

and around itself. The ink, Sepia, is one of homeopathy's major remedies, known for female problems including depression, moodiness and nervous irritability.

R.S. linked depression with the liver/liver = as a very discriminating sense organ (a seeing eye from inside) which perceives things and then secretes the bitter substance called bile, just as our eyes secrete tears. When we are

sad, we start to cry. Similarly, the secretion of bile is connected with the perception of the liver as to whether something is good or bad for the body, the extent depending on how harmful something we have taken in is. In the

liver, this is happening all the time. The liver is in constant state of sadness and, seeing the human body as it is during life on earth, one has good reason to be sad. For though it is endowed with the highest potential, our body simply does not look all that good from the inside.

R.S.: "In a way the eyes are a kind of liver, and by the same token we can say that in animals the eyes are much more like the liver than in human beings"

To elaborate on the meaning of an hepatic process, let us consider a street cleaner. He becomes dirty while cleaning the street for us to pass through, going to our daily jobs, etc. He withstands all the scents, dealing with the

impure and dirty environment. Isn't this also an hepatic process? If the cleaning is not done, then we will get sick from the pile-up of dirt. If the workers refuse to do the job, then you have to remove the trash in some other way. The point is that there are many hepatic processes going on around us. Just as we are not aware of the liver's work with the impurities in the blood, so we are unconscious of, and not thoughtful or thankful to, the one who cleans

the street, nor do we give much importance to the value of his job. The hepatic processes are all around us. In anthroposophical treatments the key must be to find the two processes: the larger one in the outside in the world,

the smaller one in the microcosm in the body.

This gathering of facts and information beforehand helped me practice dynamic thinking as R.S. taught it, rather than getting medical facts from a mechanical diagnosis and treating with a traditional pre-ordained method.

It helped see the processes in the cosmos or environment, matching the same processes in a body transformed through illness, so that I would know how to bring the outer, healthy, process into the pet to show it the direction

for regaining health.

On March 26, 1994 I examined "Skid". a fat 3 year old male cat who had been castrated and de-clawed. He weighed 17 lbs. He mostly got dry cat food, and ate fast. Skid had a low fever and was anorectic, listless and depressed.

He was picky, his owner said, but when he ate, he ate "like a pig". The owner had gone away for one day and that's when the illness had developed, with a slight yellowness appearing after she had returned. When I saw the cat it was 4 days since the yellowish coloration had begun. On examining the cat I palpated an enlarged liver. With no testing, my diagnosis was Feline Hepatic Lepidosis, or fatty liver syndrome, one of the most commonly recognized primary feline hepato-biliary diseases. Obesity appears to be a common underlying factor. Some stressful event often will create anorexia, as seen in this case, where the owner had left the cat alone for a day. Consistent findings include jaundice, an enlarged liver, lethargy, sometimes dehydration and diarrhea, and depression. The condition occurs when the hepatic lipid composition is greater than 5% of the total hepatic weight. The prognosis always is guarded for this condition. Overall the ability of the liver to metabolize and detoxify substances is impaired.

Skid was hospitalized for 4 days. Treatment was Sep. D12, twice daily, for 3 days. Supportive treatment was with fluids, antioxidants and liver supplements. A decrease in color of the skin was observed after the 2nd day, a further decrease on the 3rd day. Sep. was stopped on the third day, as the cat was really doing well. On 4th day Skid was discharged. (My experience is that Sepia twice daily is sufficient for acute conditions in cats. It is better to go slowly.)

Discussion: Let's first begin with the name "Skid". In ancient times there was great significance in a name, which often described a person's line of work or appearance. Although this is no longer the custom, descriptive words given as names can work back on us through repetition. If we call a person "Skid" all his life, through conditioning, the meaning of the word may begin to be apparent in the person's behavior. The name of the pet may influence the owner's behavior toward the pet so that he shows the meaning of the word skid (to slide off) or it may prevent the owner from treating the pet in certain natural and good ways).

In looking at the large body of the cat, and its name, I knew that its feeling body (astral body) was sliding or had slid away, leaving its metabolism to go its own way, increasing its size and losing its form. And as with the pile-up of dirt in the street, the cat had become sick from the blockage of his liver, which was no longer sensing properly or secreting bile. Skid's indications appeared to be matching the characteristics of the Cuttlefish before it releases its ink.

I had already prepared and isolated an hepatic process in the Cuttlefish, with its secretion of Sep. and knew that these processes could now be taken into Skid to show him the right way to heal himself.

We have seen here an hepatic or liver process both in the pet and outside. We can even say that the expression "looking back to see ahead" could be associated with this process. In summary: one with an understanding of anthroposophy can see this hepatic process in whatever field he or she is engaged.

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