Book on essence of remedies

[Rhonda Bird]

Dear group,

Is there an amazing book about the essence of remedies?. I know there are
heaps of materia medicas and other books written about what characteristics
a remedy has for all parts of the body, but was looking for one that talks
about the real essence e.g. Cuprum Met may be considered to be a want of
self-confidence to prove they aren't worthless by holding everything under
their control, therefore lots of rigidity following thru in the remedy
picture. I know this is just what Joy Lucas loves - where are you Joy???!

Thanks,
Rhonda

[Rosemary Hyde]

Hi, Rhonda.

Sometime in 2003 Rajan Sankaran is expected to release his new book on the
essences of remedies. Should be interesting. Rosemary

[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Rhonda,
Doesn't Sankaran give this sort of encapsulation?
And maybe also Grandgeorge's "Spirit of Remedies"? (I haven't read that
book, and not much or recently of Sankaran's, but this was my memory.)
Shannon

on 12/6/02 2:31 PM, Rhonda Bird at rbirdhomeopath@powerup.com.au wrote:

[Dave Hartley]

If Cuprum were said to have "a real essence" it would have to be
spasmodic...
Chorea, epilepsy, spasm (of many types including asthmatic; whooping cough)

Whoever said that cuprum had "an essence" where it may be considered to be
"a want of self-confidence to prove they aren't worthless by holding
everything under their control, therefore lots of rigidity following thru in
the remedy"
-seems to have been off on an extremely fanciful lark.

One could allegorize psychological rigidity, though I think the only way a
person could fill-in the rest of this fanciful lark would be by bringing way
too much of their own psychological shadow to the table.

-or perhaps I am merely blind .. maybe someone can point out how the mentals
of Cuprum would lend credence to "want of self-confidence to
ove...etc" -I certainly don't see it in study of MM, and I certainly
didn't see it in the one notable cuprum case I had - a young woman who did
have a bit of "want of self-confidence" and a bit of self-deprecating
manner, but these facets were balanced out by apparently good self-esteem,
sense of humor, and adventurous outlook... In this case, I did not find an
extreme in the mental sphere.. the case was centered around a (strange,
exceptional, unusual, odd) symptom of cramping in calves at rest in
bed.."Cramps beginning in toes and extending to calves of leg, causing the
muscles to knot up in hard bunches" ..there was a concommittant metallic
taste. The cure of this symptom (which had been recurrent, but did not
recur within 3yrs after treatment) was attended by greater energy level &
reported general overall sense of wellbeing... none of which seem to be
"essentially" related to pre-existing state of rigidity.. nor do I think
I would've found this homeopathic cure assisted by allegorical
overly-mentalized so-called "essence."

Some mentals of cuprum, quickly located within EH-

N.M. Choudhuri Study on MM
The mental symptoms of Cuprum metallicum are important and should be
carefully studied.
Maliciousness is the predominant feature of the mental state.
They gloat over other people's misfortunes and they feel happy when they
find them in distress.
The feature is manifest even in mania and delirium.
They bite and strike and do everything to annoy their nurse or companion.
In delirium they manifest great fear and become afraid of anybody
approaching them.
They shrink away and try to escape from everybody. [Page 260. ]
Sometimes we find them bellowing like a calf, and at other times they are
seen to be in convulsive laughter.
The Cuprum mania is characterised by fierce rage, wild look and fear.
They try to bite and beat everybody near them and tear things to pieces.
They constantly protrude and retract their tongue in the mouth like that of
a snake, same as in Lachesis and Crotalus.
Marked loss of memory, unconquerable sadness constant restlessness
alternation of gaiety and depression are a few more of the mental
indications of Cuprum metallicum.
It should also be thought of in bodily and mental exhaustion brought on by
loss of sleep.
It is one of our remedies for the ill effects of fright.
Cases of chorea in girls after fright are cured with Cuprum.
A case of epilepsy in a boy after being locked up in the school, is also
reported to have been cured with Cuprum met.
Cuprum has congestion of brain as well marked as in Belladonna.
It is applicable in headache with convulsive motions of the extremities and
of the muscles of the face.
We think of it also in apoplexy when the above symptoms are present along
with half closed eyelids, heavy inspiration, and fixed state of the eyes.
It is particularly useful in brain diseases due to metastasis from other
organs.
Tossing about of head, immovability of pupils, quick rotation of eye-balls
under close lids, spasmodic distortion of face and frothing from mouth are a
few more indications worth remembering.

D.M. Gibson
Psychology
Emotional instability is prominent; 'flies off the handle' moods vary
sullen, loquacious, malicious, morose, often with fixed ideas, possibly a
terror of death. The spoiled child, tricky, changeable, disorderly,
dissatisfied. Sudden urge to injure, to scream, to run away, to escape.
Tendency to shrink from people; aptitude for mimicry. Wild-eyed, maniacal
fits of rage; or may lie like someone dead, blue and rigid.

T.F. Allen Encyclopedia
Mind
Emotional
- Immoderate laughter in the evening, [_a1].
- Spasmodic laughter, [_a1].
- Very cheerful;at night especially full of fun and laughter(curative
action), [a19].
- Crying like the croaking of frogs, [a6].
- Melancholy;she shuns the sight of people, seeks and loves to be alone,
and becomes anxious about her death, which she supposes imminent and
inevitable, [_a1].
- Great depression of spirits, [a55].
- * Slight attacks of deathly anxiety, without heat, [_a1].
- Fearful;want of courage, [a51].
- A kind of fearfulness;it seems as though he must tread lightly, in order
to avoid injuring himself or disturbing his companions in the room, [_a1].
- Feeling of general irritability, [a18].
- Fretful;he does not know what he wishes;he desires to be alone;after some
time this changes to cheerfulness, but the fretfulness soon returns, [a4].
- Aversion to everything, [_a3].
- Irresolute;satisfied with nothing;this only lasts as long as he is
fretful, [a4].
- Apathetic and inert, [a40].
Intellectual
- Disinclination to work, yet idling is burdensome to him, [a4].
- Loss of ideas, weakness of memory(after two hours), [a4].
- Confusion of mind;is fearful, and endeavors to escape, [a6].
- Senselessness;it seems as though he were in a half-waking dream, [a5]

T.F. Allen Handbook
Mind
- Delirium; with disconnected talking; in attacks with full, rapid hard
pulse, inflamed eyes wild look and disconnected talking, ending in sweat;
attack of surly; in attacks he fancies that he is a captain in the army,
fancies that he is selling green vegetables of that he is repairing old
chairs, merry singing, spitting in faces of attendants and laughing at it;
quiet, unintelligible murmuring interrupted by lamentation; furious.
- Rage in attacks, they tried to bite bystanders.
- Talking all the time.
- Crying like a child; C., out frequently.
- Howling in unexpected paroxysms.
- Spasmodic laughter; immoderate left in evening.
- Anxiety.- with tossing about (Arsen.); deathly in attacks, without heat;
that is peculiar to pain in pit of stomach.
- Fear; it seems as if he must tread lightly to avoid injuring himself or
disturbing his companions.
- Melancholy; with desire to be alone and anxiety about her death, which
she supposes imminent.
- Fretfulness, with irresolution and dissatisfaction with everything;
intermittent F., he does not know what he wishes, he desires to be alone.
- Apathy.
- Disinclination to work; yet idling is irksome.
- Aversion to everything.
- Taciturnity.
- Loss of sensitiveness and moping in a corner.
- Obliged to think a long time before they can answer.
- Loss of ideas, weakness of memory.
- Lethargic stupefaction.
- Coma.
- Semi-conscious, voice faint, eyes half open, fixed glassy, insensible to
light, pulse weak, in some quick, in others slow, difficult to arouse, when
aroused complaining of cold and of pain in abdomen.
- Senseless, he seems in a half-waking dream.
- Unconscious; and fell down in sudden convulsions

Boger - Boenninghausen
Mind
-Vanishing senses.
-Exaltation of.
-Spiteful, malicious insanity with hauteur, intermingled with clonic
spasms.
-Extraordinary anxiety as if afraid of death.
-Restless tossing about.
-Groaning.
-Desire to escape.
-Fearfulness.
-Frightened easily.
-Attacks of raving madness.
-Oversensibility of all senses.
-The attacks of frenzy end in sweat

Buck
Mind
- Melancholy-loves solitude ;
- Restless, uneasy-not disposed to do anything ;
- Senses vanish he lies down in a stupor ;
- Insensible ;
- or Exaltation, ecstasy-laughs, talks, delirious, incoherent ;
- Craziness;
- Delirium ;
- Imagines himself a great person

J.H. Clarke Dictionary
Mind
- Melancholy, with attacks of extreme anguish, like fear of death;
restlessness, groaning, and desire to escape.
- Want of moral courage.
- Anxiety and tears, alternating with buffoonery.
- Convulsive laughter.
- Incoherent, delirious talk.
- Mildness, alternating with obstinacy.
- Unfitness for exertion, with fear to be idle.
- Fits of abstraction, with fixed ideas of imaginary occupations at which
the patient labours, or with lively songs; or else with malice and
moroseness (with proud bearing, and at times interrupted by clonic spasms;
craziness), and often with quick pulse, red and inflamed eyes, wandering
looks, followed by sweat.
- Attacks of rage (wants to bite the bystanders).
- Furor.
- Dementia.
- Loss of sense and thought.
- Delirium.
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443
Asheville, NC 828.285.0240

[Rochelle]

Try the cheap Vithoulkas boot "The Essence of materia medica" Published by
B.Jain!! It has 53 Rx in but not Cuprum!!!!!

Regards
Rochelle
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[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Dave,

This post is back to, "shoot first, ask questions later"... Or should that
be, "shoot first, and deny any need of asking questions later"?

There's so much in many of the remedies that we are not so familiar with
yet. We are still learning various "aspects" and details of many remedies.

May I gently suggest that you may not be the ultimate authority on "deep
essences". Therefore, it might be more appropriate to (a) ask who the
authority is for that description, then (b) consider whether that person's
information has been overall found to be reliable or not, and then (c)
express your opinion on the subject in a manner which is respectful (e.g.
leave off the put-downs, such as "-seems to have been off on an extremely
fanciful lark" [it's a mild put-down -- thanks for the restraint! -- but a
put-down, nonetheless.], and at least a little bit open-minded (note that,
"perhaps I am merely blind" does not constitute open-mindedness (smile).).
And (d) (very important!) ask for feedback from folks who have *lots* of
very successful cuprum prescriptions, ask them to reflect on whether, in
*their experience*, this proposed essence might be on-target, or not?

Could I also note that I would not have recognized your patient, as you
described her, from *any* of the descriptions you gave below (the SRP, tho,
would certainly have brought it to mind!). Remedies have different
"levels", and not every patient will express the pathology on every level
(thank God!) or in every particular. And from what I was taught, not every
patient will express the "essence" (as presently understood) of the remedy
that works. We're still learning.

And it's a lot *easier* to learn if differences can be used as a learning
experience, not for target practice or one-upsmanship.

That said, I would love to hear more about the "essence" idea, whether folks
have found it useful or not, and whose "essences" have been found useful, or
not?

Shannon
on 12/6/02 12:19 AM, Dave Hartley at dave@localcomputermart.com wrote:

[Rochelle]

Hi Shannon,
Re Cuprum have you read Titus S.'s stuff on his website
?http://www.tinussmits.com/english/

Regards
Rochelle
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[Dave Hartley]

Hi Shannon,

If you read your chastisement and pretend that it is from someone else, and
directed to you, that might be interesting for you.

I know Cuprum reasonably well, and what I posted is very easily discernable
(well, you *would* have to READ it) within Materia Medica.

I can also tell you, that it is likely that if you had what appeared to be a
strange/exceptional/unusual/odd symptom which was of a spasmodic nature, and
most distinctly such originating in toes and extending to calves- and with a
concomitant metallic taste - you would find Cuprum, because if you did not
find Cuprum... then you simply haven't practiced your skill at the level I
know that you are competent of. There is no other remedy suitable to this
particular combination of location, sensation & concomitant. ( . )

For close onto 200 years, "the essence" of Cuprum has continued to be
spasmodic.

Not in any one of those years (excepting now, we are supposed to believe)
has Cuprum been known as want of self-confidence, etc.

There are plenty of mentals in evidence. No one, ever, in 200yrs has made
any reference to 'self-confidence' and Cuprum --now, some genius has
discovered that all those years Cuprum's "deep essence" has been blindly
ignored?!

HAH !

I deplore the outright INVENTION of such "essences" which seems an
unfortunate trend.
It is oh-so-trendy to come up with some new-agey and theoretical take on
"essence"

If such an invented "essence" is "useful" .. .what is it supposed to be
useful FOR?
For proving that homeopathy is just a stupid fantasy?
That MM is obsolete, now that we have dreamers of the heretofore hidden
new-age deep essence?

I think the essence of such trend is deep barn-carpeting.

I think the tendency for such to draw flies is natural, but the temptation
to shortcuts which don't jive with what we already know should be scrutinzed
very critically. The critical function of mind, you know? The one that
helps separate the wheat from the chaff.

How about this "deep essence" of Cuprum .. cuprum is so malleable and so
easily tarnished that it fears losing itself, and so pulls against its
yielding nature, creating spasmodic over-reactions.

Hey, count on it - I channelled if from the Great Nhoj Eel.

well, I'm off to see the Wizard,
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443
Asheville, NC 828.285.0240

[Shannon Nelson]

Not recently, and thanks for the reminder.
His writing is *fascinating*, but have had some uncertainty about parts of
it... But thanks, I'll have to have another look.
Shannon

on 12/6/02 5:21 PM, rochelle at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:

[Rhonda Bird]

"Dave Hartley wrote:
be
in
"
That "larker" was Tinus Smits who said (Quote:" The essence of Cuprum is a
want of self-confidence to prove they aren't worthless by holding everything
under their control" - Unquote). At the seminar I attended of his last
weekend on treating sexual abuse and cancer he didn't seem to be 'larking',
(or lurking!), but had lots of useful insights into remedies I believe he
knows extremely well, based on his experience with many cases, not just one
or two. If we are at all interested in broadening our knowledge ( as I
definitely am), we could all take what we want from homeopathic authors,
most of whom have decent experience in their practices before they make any
claims about remedies (I would think). Tinus Smits is just one author which
I may like, just like anybody will have their favourite authors - it is just
his opinion, afterall.

My question about "essence" (maybe "theme" is what I'm after - a common
thread like Cuprum with it's spasms, which you can track through the
mental/emotional sphere, as well as the physical being) has been helpfully
answered, thankyou all so much.

From the "fanciful lark" herself,
Rhonda Bird (pardon the pun - it's just a "bird joke"!)