Minutus

Hi Carol,
"...the passion behind not wanting to compete." Do you recall whether
you were "always" like that, and what's behind it? I mean, are you
afraid of hurting someone's feelings, or afraid too much would be
expected of you, or want to "win" without attracting the attention, or
?
Okay, so there's the "drive" (to compete with yourself), but not
externally oriented ambition...?
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Is that new, since the cramps stopped, then?
My impression has been that it just never occurred to her in the past;
and since the matter was brought to her attention (long ago), she just
isn't interested, doesn't care. I think she'd say she does indeed
"compete with herself", she's ambitious I think in a similar way to
what you're describing, but doesn't seem to have any particular
thoughts about competing or not competing with others. Maybe I should
ask more...

LOL! So "not competing" is good for your wallet...

Hi Shannon,

Using Boeninghausen's repertory, almost every time I repertorise, Nux
Vomica comes up top - I'm guessing he used it a lot!
From Sankaran's plants -

Nux is from the Loganaiceae family which also includes curare,
gelsemium, ignatia, spigelia, strychnine, Upas.

He has the family sensation as being "shocked, let down,
disappointed, torn to pieces, shattered, ruined" which is easy for us
to see in say ignatia and gelsemium.

The passive reaction is of paralysis, not being able to move, unable
to weep, faintness.

The active reaction is of being beside oneself, excitable and having
convulsions. The compensated appearance is of composure and calm, for
example composed and calm in the most shocking circumstances.
He lists for Nux from Complete
Ailments from: anger, vexation: fright with shock;
bad news
death; child of a,
death; parents or friends, of
disappointment
friendship deceived
love; disappointed, deception
losing money
mortification
pecuniary loss
position, loss of
shock.

He descibed it in the Soul of Remedies as a psoric remedy, but he has
changed his mind since he has expanded his miasmatic classification,
and now classes it with the typhoid miasm. He gives the example of
the delusions around losing the bed and says "so the feeling of Nux-v
is that someone has occupied his bed and place of comfort. He wants
to regain his position of comfort and will try to do this (zealous,
in a fiery way) by hook or by crook."

He combines the feeling of the loganiaceae family with the typhoid
miasm and the result is:

"shattered and torn to pieces and must make rapid efforts to recover
from the shock very fast"

I think this summary is too short and might miss the essence of
calculation that I think can play a part in Nux - you know what you
see in a business man who gets to the top - not necessarily the one
to bulldoze his way through but the one who competes like a good
chessplayer - keeping a calm face even though you panic inside.
Interesting, I've been looking at Gelsemium for the fear of heights
that I posted on before and what came through strongly for me with
that is the ability to mask and keep going while in the middle of the
situation.

Gail
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
contains strychnine. Recent neurophysiological studies show that
strychnine is a neurotransmitter which acts in the human brain to
excite the pyramidal (corticospinal) system, responsible for ur motor
functions (glycine, on the contrary, calms this symptom). This
clearly confirms the homeopathic observation that Nux vomica is a
person who is overexcited, on edge after excesses of any kind (rich
food, drink, intellectual labor...) without an adequate expenditure
of physical energy."
as it's the drive and ambition that got them there."
effects on the body.

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Gail wrote:

Yes, he did.

Regards

Luise
--
One thought to all who, free of doubt,
So definitely know what's true:
2 and 2 is 22 -
and 2 times 2 is 2:-)
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Gail, thank you so much--this is *exactly* the kind of information I
was hoping for! Gives me plenty to chew over. Thanks again!
Shannon

Gail wrote:
Not necessarily, in my opinion.
Nux-v in Radar has 12,000 rubrics.
Some remedies only have a few hundred rubrics, but can be just as
powerful - they are just not as well known as Nux-v.

So one has to weight the remedies according to their
prominence/representation in the repertory. Just because Nux-v comes up
does not necessarly make it fit - the Materia Medica wkll determine when
it does.

Namaste,
Irene
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P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
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"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

Hi, Shannon. Very well said. Actually plant remedies like Bell, Nux-v, Rhus-t and Bry I think got short-changed in my education, as they were generally considered "acute" and by definition not deep and long-acting. So it's their "chronic" expression on which I feel we're generally lacking in information.
Rosemary