Tinea Ringworm
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[Rajan Sankaran]
Shares his remedy picture of Ringworm, which includes the theme of an
alternation between struggle and resignation. The theme has shown up in the
dreams of provers.
Ringworm is a nosode, the centre point of the ringworm miasm. This miasm
lies between psora and sycosis. It is characterized by an element of struggle
as well as a resigned acceptance. The nosode was prepared from scraping of the
eruptions of tinea taken from an infected patient. Histopathological
examination of the scrapings confirmed it to
be tinea.
I conducted a proving of this nosode. From the result of the provings,
as well as from the patients that I have treated with Ringworm, I have
understood the main feeling of this nosode to be that the task at hand is just
beyond where the person can be sure of success.
The main action of the prover or the patient is therefore trying to do
something, trying to accomplish a task. He starts with a kind of lack of
confidence, becomes hopeful, tries to accomplish the task and struggles at it. At
some point however he decides that it is not going to work, that he will not be
able to accomplish the task by this method, that it is beyond his reach. So he
gives it up, and accepts that he has to live with it.
As a result, he doesn’t do anything for quite some time. After a while
however another possibility seems to open up for him and he becomes hopeful
once again. He starts trying and struggling all over again, only to give it up
after realizing that it is beyond him. So there is an alternation between
struggling and trying, and then giving up, between hopefulness and resignation.
I have found that, in the dreams of most of the provers as well as in
the lives of most of the patients, one can see an alternation of this struggle
with periods of inertia, whether it is trying to reach college on time, trying
to give up smoking, trying to get rid of his illness or trying to build a
relationship. A typical example would be the struggle of an obese person trying
to lose weight; there are periods of jogging, walking, dieting (struggling),
followed by periods of indolence, calories, chocolates (acceptance).
Dream: of one of the provers is worth
noting. He dreamt that he was inside a tent and was trying to come out. But
outside the tent were thousands of crows that pecked at him each time he got
out. So he had to get back in again. He would try repeatedly to come out but
each time he would have to give up and go back inside.
This dream clearly brings out the alternation between the struggle and
the resignation. Other provers had dreams with similar themes. For the details
of the proving of Ringworm, I refer the reader to my book, “The Substance of
Homoeopathy”.
I have seen that these patients generally lack confidence. There can be
egoistic talk like in Sulphur, or on the other hand, a cover up like in
Medorrhinum. There can be
anxiety attacks as well. But the pathology and symptoms all come and go
in phases.
There is often a history of fungal infection, either in the groins, or
in between the toes, with periods of terrible, intolerable itching, alternating
with periods of no itching whatsoever. The symptoms never really become acute
or destructive, and the person feels that he will have to live with the
problem, although it would be better to try and get rid of it. He struggles
periodically but when he fails, he just accepts it.
DD.: Calc-s. Mag-s. and Calc-sil.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum