Minutus

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Polyporus
Phallus impudicus
Ringworm

Best wishes, Joy
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Hi Joy,

I have a little (old stuff) on ringworm, but almost nothing on the
others. Could you say anything about them?
Thanks!
Shannon

Ooooh, you do ask

Polyporus pinicola - liver rx, bilious fevers, spleen rx, congestion
finishing in constipation and/or haemorrhoids, neuralgic pains, fever
can begin in the throat with infection of the tonsils, feeling flushed
and very weary, headaches begin in the morning and get >> by mid
afternoon, lots of rheumatic pains. I would say this is an acute rx
with chronic implications but as one of the situations is that of
'invasion' then that is what all the fungi do and in acute situations
you will see fevers with a direct target on the spleen = entanglement,
struggling to fight off infection.

Phallus impudicus - very emetic, purging (the need to be rid of that
invasive force) so the digestive sphere very much involved,
gastro-enteritis, vomiting, sweats, but there is dullness also (as in
Polyporus) - again an acute rx needing to fend off the invasion and
lassitude or dullness might accompany or develop from the energy
required to do this.

The battle ensues with Ringworm, comes and goes, comes and goes and on.
The need to rise above the invasion - struggle, acceptance and then
more of the same, obstinate to say the least.

Thanks to Robyn for the info on fungi. Hope useful, best wishes, Joy
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LOL, yes, I love to ask!
Thanks for this, I'll add it to the little I've got. (What deliciously
awful names!)

So I imagine the fungus remedies might be considered for someone whose
personality or interpersonal dynamics are invasive and manipulating?
(But it would be in a different way from the spiders?) I do feel I'm
floundering in trying to absorb all the "family" information, but I'm
trying!
Cheers,
Shannon

So I imagine the fungus remedies might be considered for someone whose
personality or interpersonal dynamics are invasive and manipulating?
(But it would be in a different way from the spiders?) I do feel I'm
floundering in trying to absorb all the "family" information, but I'm
trying!
Cheers,
Shannon

****Shannon, my way of looking at the fungi would be that they feel
invaded, that there is a sense of being eroded and they will either have a
passive presentation which will encompass self-pity or being awkward and
foolish around others --- or an active reaction giving them an appearance of
strength, courage and egotism and at the other end of the spectrum,
violence, rage and looking for a fight

--- and when looking at the fungi, you will find that there are two main
types, firstly those that feed off dead cells - called saprophytes and those
that are parasites, being entirely devoid of chlorophyll and therefore
solely dependent on another organism for their nutrition.

Desai talks about this and offers that the level of pathological influence
would be greater with the latter group.

Agaricus and Boletus are saprophytes, and Ustilago and Ergot are parasites

Main action is on the spine and nerves, blood and blood vessels, sexual
sphere and the skin.

Thanks for the opportunity to explore these life forms more closely ---
that's what makes this list important to me, being inspired to look deeper
into things being discussed, for one's own growth.

Best

Robyn

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Robyn and Joy and all--
These explorations surely are "gold" for me--thanks so much!
Shannon

It's worth taking a visual look at some of the fungi they are amazing.
The phallus impudicus is the stinkhorn fungi and you can imagine its
appearance

yes, invasive and invading back - this can happen but sometimes the
'invasion' has a pleasing tone to it. One case of Agaricus I had was
someone quite driven by curiosity and fearlessness and he described a
situation when he was in the doctor's surgery and when she left the
room he took apart one of her instruments, saw it wasn't working and
mended it and put it back again without her knowing. He was ALWAYS
doing things like that. I wouldn't consider that to be manipulative and
as you say that would be a quality more for the spiders.

If you take the best known rx from a family it will always give some
kind of indication as to the sx of the rest of the family, thus making
our understanding a bit easier. Fungus infections being typically
invasive and extremely stubborn to remove. Best wishes, Joy

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And if I recall right, the Agaricus mushroom has that sort of
appearance, too--sort of comical. Hm, we keep getting "scolded" for
too free use of "doctrine of signatures", but the correspondences sure
do keep coming up!

Now what do you suppose your curious, fearless and helpfully invasive
patient would have done, in a similar situation but *after* the remedy?
Wold he still have fixed the tool, do you think? I find this
interesting--it's such a funny thing for him to have done (yeah kind of
invasive), but also clever, and useful!
Shannon

His curiosity continued, it was a healthy sign that helped lead towards
the simillimum but didn't need curing. The PC was bad backache from a
previous injury when he did a parachute jump and the parachute didn't
open properly. He really was a fearless character and this didn't need
curing either but the back pain did. Agaricus has a big affinity to
broken backs and the mushroom resembles a parachute One of my
favourite cases. Best wishes, Joy
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