Lesser Known Remedies - Raphanus Sativus (Raph.)

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Raphanus sativus
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Raphanus sativus is one of the most important remedies
indicated in women with nymphomania with great
aversion to their own sex.

Raphanus sativus is usually indicated in women. They
cannot tolerate their own sex.

MIND - AVERSION - women; to
MIND - AVERSION - women; to - women; in
MIND - AVERSION - children, to - little girls; to -
women; in
MIND - FEAR - women; of
MIND - HATRED - women, of

'Feeling of aversion towards all women; she is
provoked by seeing women going and coming about her;
their approach threw her into a fury; the mere contact
with a woman's dress caused intolerable distress; if
even a female, to whom she was much attached, took her
by the hand, she felt weariness, disgust, and a degree
of rage which almost consumed her.' (From Allen)

On the other hand there is a great desire for
approaching men. 'Men' whoever they are.

MIND - NYMPHOMANIA
MIND - LASCIVIOUS
MIND - MANIA - sexual mania - women, in
MIND - MANIA - lascivious

The proving quote from Allen clearly shows the typical
nymphomania of Raphanus.

'From morning to noon she would not have been able to
resist the advances even of a man for whom she had not
the least friendly feeling; from noon to 6 p.m. she
could not have held out against any man whatsoever;
from 8 to 11 the demands of sense were so importunate
as to silence the voice of shame and reason; she
became even furiously delirious, and would have thrown
herself into the arms of the first man she met.'

Raphanus patients show a hysterical tendency with
changeable mood which is aggravated during first day
of menses.

MIND - HYSTERIA
MIND - HYSTERIA - menses - during - first day of

They are fearful patients. There is a great fear of
death with sensation as if one was going to die.

MIND - FEAR - disease, of impending - unrecognized
MIND - FEAR - death, of
MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was
MIND - DEATH - presentiment of - alternating with -
anguish

Although the physical aspects of this remedy are not
well known, one of its most important features is
obstructed flatus. It is one of the remedies indicated
in hypoactivity and paralytic affections of the bowels
after abdominal surgery (Like Opium).
Regards,

Ardavan

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Dr Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom
President of Iranian Homeopathic Association
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[Julian Winston]

At 1:30 AM +0100 7/23/04, Ardavan Shahrdar wrote:

[snip]
I have had occasion to use this twice-- both with people who
underwent abdominal surgery and were suffering from incarcerated
flatus. In both cases it cleared the condition within 20 minutes--
much to the relief of the patients. In one case, the fart nearly blew
out the windows.
Most powerful stuff!
Definitely should be in the kit of "after surgery" remedies.

JW