Minutus

If you make a request I can send you the little history of an old classmate
and her behavior which led me to wonder about lyc or palladium, though I'm
sure there could be more possibilities. The story is a little to personal to
broadcast to the public.

"The central polarity in Lycopodium is POWER -- having it or not. The
Lycopodium patient is exquisitely sensitive to power positions in
relationships, and acts accordingly. If not in a position of power, the person
needing Lycopodium acts subordinate, timid, afraid to rock the boat. If in a
position that s/he perceives as hierarchically powerful, then the person
becomes a dictator, not caring what the less powerful people think of him/ her
-- only caring that his/ her will can prevail. This duality is not likely to
appear in the patient needing Palladium, who is all about others thinking
positively of him/ her"

This person acts like a lycopodium..but when someone of "lesser value", (less
money, no social status) contradicts her, in other words, does not follow her
will..which she is pushing non-stop..in the end she feels disrespected and
IGNORED and will get hysterical..sort of screaming that the person treated her
badly, ignored her. When the person has more social status and they have
ignored her she will try to get others to ignore them. She is can be very
unconsciously cruel in ignoring others but when it is done to her it makes her
crazy. She will lie and manipulate and talk non-stop,can't get a word in
talking, to get people to do things her way, or see things her way. More
subdued when around power or social status in a group but with
individuals...trying to impress ...my husband works for so and so, my kids
have these accomplisments...we live in such and such neighborhood. She seemed
to be pathological shy in high school. Now she seems almost manic to certain
individuals but in a group....she can control herself. I've tried to figure
her out for years. Then it was trying to figure out what remedy she needed.
Lycopodium always came to mind. BUT then I suddenly recalled that 30 years ago
I told her to go to a homeopath as she was having warts removed from her
fingers and I told her not to do it..that if she removed them she would
probably get bronchitis..(she had been prone to that in her youth). The day
after they were removed she got bronchial asthma. Ten years later she told me
that she went to see a homeopath after the bronchial stuff in another city and
he prescribed Palladium. She sounds like a combination of both to me. She has
accused others of trying to control her when they make suggestions to her when
their suggestions contradict the suggestions that she is trying to push. Very
pushy.