Dear Sara,
This is from Vermeulen's Synoptic MM 2 (Extracted from
EH):
Psilocybe caerulescens
Psil.
Signs
Psilocybe caerulescens Murray. N.O. Strophariaceae
[Agaricaceae].
Psilocybe is a genus with approx. 75 types of fungi
spread around the world. Some types from the section
Caerulescentes contain hallucinogenic substances
[psilocybine and psilocine] and are eaten by Mexican
Indians. Other types are deadly poisonous. Most have
quite a thin stem and a bullet-shaped cap that ends in
a nipple-like top. Its height varies from 3 to 10
centimetres. The generic name caerulescens refers to
the blue discolouration of the flesh of the cap when
damaged.
Psilocybes are quite common in Western Europe. They
grow on grassy roadsides, on sandy forest floors and
in heavily fertilised soil. They have no psychotropic
effect.
P. caerulescens prefers "clayey soils recently or
freshly crumbled or caved in with no vegetation;
sometimes it develops in sugar cane plantations,
apparently associated with the pressed pulp of the
sugar cane, but never growing upon the pulp itself. It
grows in charac-teristic clumps of five or six
mushrooms, which the natives call families." [Flores
Toledo]
The Central American Indians have a mushroom culture
that is many centuries old. The Aztecs used them in
mythological and sacramental rituals. Nowadays the
emphasis has shifted to divination and healing
rituals. The mushrooms evoke visual and auditive
hallucinations in which the dream state becomes
reality.
"The effect is strongly ethereal, but has an earthy
quality as well. You can, for example, spiritually
reach for a person or a place and perceive how they
are doing. If something were to be wrong with the
person in question, you could 'feel' it. You can
travel to the future and know how a certain matter
would develop. You can also, as a spiritual being,
examine your own body. You would pick up signals of
the black areas and know what to do about them."
[Hellinga and Plomp]
The chemical structure of psilocybine and psilocine,
the active constituents, has the same basis
[tryptamine] as the neurohormone serotonin. This
similarity in basic structure means that they probably
affect the same parts of the nervous system. Serotonin
is present in relatively high concentrations in some
areas of the central nervous system [hypothalamus,
basal ganglia]; it is a vasoconstrictor that inhibits
gastric secretion and stimulates smooth muscle.
Proved by David Flores Toledo in 1968; according to
Julian three provers [2 women, 1 man] were involved,
whereas Flores Toledo mentions the participation of 43
"experimenters". The experiments included ingestion of
the mushroom, olfaction ["involuntarily inhaling the
substance to prepare the mother tincture"], and
application of five different potencies [D5, C6, C12,
C30, LM6]. A full account of the "initation of a
pathogenesia" was published in La Revue Belge
d'homeopathie, 1984, 36, [1], p. 27-53.
Compare
Cannabis indica. Anhalonium. Sulphur. Lachesis.
Agaricus.
Region
Central nervous system. Gastrointestinal tract.
Mucous membranes [nose; throat; lungs]. * Right side.
Leading symptoms
M Sensation of flying.
Idea that one can be in several places at the same
time and think differently in each place.
Sensation of being in visual touch with God.
Telepathic speaking with superior spirits.
Alternatively attracted to God and the devil.
Sensation of being possessed by a divine force.
Involuntary laughing.
Sensation of being two or three personalities at the
same time that cannot fuse, as if looking into several
mirrors.
Sensation of being able to resolve whatever problem
of mathematics or being able to understand any
language.
An old and badly dressed woman looks young and
beautiful.
Vivid hallucinations of luminous colours.
[Symptoms evoked by chewing the mushroom; they
strikingly resemble those of hallucinogens like
Anhalonium and Cannabis.]
M Feels that someone is spying on him from behind
and to the right, which makes him turn over in an
summersault. [Olfaction]
M Distraction. [D5 and LM6]
Loses the thread of his conversation.
Listens with interest but only some minutes later it
occurs to him what was said.
Forgets everything, from lack of involvement; yet
without feeling worried about it.
Sensation of being in the moon.
Time appears shorter, passes too quickly.
Failed five times an examination, from mental
weakness [in a prover who never had failed an
examination before].
M Indifference to everything around him. [D5 and
LM6]
"Want of ethical and religious principles."
[One of the provers was a religious woman.]
M Brilliant visual hallucinations.
M Sadness.
"Great depression, recalling the past as if something
was left undone, recalling occurrences with great
detail, making one melancholic." [LM6]
M Vindictiveness ["without knowing why or against
whom"]. [LM6]
M Dreams:
of being robbed and attacked in his own house and
being incapable of defending oneself. [C12]
of being chased by a vampire in a big house and being
pursued by it flying and jumping as high or far as
half a block. [C30]
of eating frogs with thorns; and waking up with
epigastric pain. [LM6]
G Weakness and nausea.
Great weakness after eating; desire to take a nap;
amel. motion.
[All persons taking the LM6 experienced an extreme
weakness and tiredness.]
G Cold agg. or amel..
agg. Cold, wet weather.
G Flushes of heat at night.
Increased sexual desire at night.
G Voracious appetite. [D5 and LM6]
Gets up at midnight to eat.
Yet "slow digestion with sensation of suffocation at
night, amel. cold drinks."
G Thirst, not amel. drinking.
G Sexual desire increased [in females].
G agg. Morning on waking.
G Pains appear and disappear suddenly; pains
pricking and stinging.
Fleeting and erratic pains. ["As if the Christmas
tree lights were blinking on and off."]
G Painlessness of complaints usually painful.
Sensation of strength.
G Dryness.
Sensation of obstruction of nose and watery
discharge.
Sensation of dryness of mouth and salivation.
Sensation of dryness of throat, not amel. drinking.
Sensation of sweating around the mouth, but the skin
is dry.
G Vertigo.
amel. Sitting.
and Trembling.
and Momentary loss of consciousness.
Sensation as if the earth were slipping away under
one's feet.
Weakness and trembling of legs; tendency to fall to
the right side.
P Throbbing headache, esp. on the RIGHT side. [LM6]
P Watery [mucous] nasal discharge with sneezing.
[all potencies]
P Sour eructations after spicy and fatty food.
Sensation of heaviness in stomach and indigestion
amel. drinking water.
P Great pain in right shoulder, as if covered with
ice.
"Pain agg. by small movements rather than by big
movements." [Flores Toledo]
Rubrics
Mind
Absent-minded when conversing [1]. Abstraction of
mind and fixed eyes [1/1]. Delusion that he is
hovering in the air like a spirit [1]; changing
suddenly delusions [1; Cann-i.]; delusion of having
creative power [1]; of being in communication with God
[1]; of being under powerful influence [1]; of seeing
brilliantly coloured objects [1]; as if possessed
alternately by God and the devil [1/1]; of being under
superhuman control [1]; thinks he is well [1]. Dreams
of vampires [1/1].
Head
Heaviness in forehead when stooping [1]. Pain,
headache on head getting cold [1]; increasing
gradually [1]; headache simultaneous with other pains
[1/1]; pain in forehead from sunlight [1; Ign.]; pain
in temples while chewing [1]; pressing pain as if by a
band [1].
Eye
Sensation of enlargement of left eye[1; Arg-n.].
Burning pain in eyelids on winking [1].
Vision
Colours, black spots during headache [1; Meli.].
Nose
Violent attacks of coryza [1]; coryza in warm room
[1]. Obstruction and watery discharge [1]. Sneezing in
morning after rising [1]; in morning on waking [1].
Mouth
Aphthae, bleeding easily [1]. Salivation and dryness
of tongue [1]. Metallic taste, with sensation as if
oesophagus were knotted up [1/1]; at tip of tongue,
seemingly originating from the teeth [1/1].
Throat
Dryness of throat agg. emotions [1/1]; dryness not
amel. drinking [1]. Inflammation of tonsils from
smoking or from tobacco smoke [1]. Mucus in morning on
waking [1]; sensation of mucus [1]. Pain when touched
[1]. Constant disposition to swallow from lump in
throat [1].
Stomach
Emptiness, weak feeling amel. pressure [1/1]. Nausea
in morning on waking [1]; from odours [1]; while
smoking [1]. Thirst, vanishing at sight of water
[1/1].
Abdomen
Pain in liver after cold food [1; Mang.].
Larynx
Weakness of voice after talking [1].
Chest
Palpitation, paroxysmal [1]; sudden [1].
Back
Coldness as from ice [1].
Extremities
Desquamating eruption of palms of hands [1];
desquamating eruption on soles of feet [1]. Itching of
soles of feet [1]. Wrinkling of fingertips, as if
dehydrated [1].
Sleep
Falling asleep from weakness [1]. Short sleep
refreshes [1]. Sleepiness during pain [1].
Unrefreshing [2]. Difficult waking in morning [1];
waking from hunger [1].
Food
Worse: Cold food [1].
--- Sara Klein Ridgley PhD
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