Folliculinum (Foll)

= Lach-ähnlich + beidseitig - < Schlaf/Eisprung/= Sep-ähnlich/Lach + Foll haben gemeinsam: abwechselnde Aufregung + Depression, empfindLICH bei Berührung, > irgendwelche Absonderung/= Carc xyy -ähnlich;

Thema: Beherrschung;

Lösung: negativ: Nicht reagieren; positiv  Rhythmus organisieren;

Negativ: Aufgeregt # depressiv; sensitiv zu Geräusche/Berührung/Hitze, alle Hormonumstellungen, überbeansprucht sich aus Druck (Pflicht sich bewehren zu müssen Beschwerden durch nicht bekommenes Lob/Verdienstzuweisung (auch nach eigenem Ermessen). < VOR (Kopfschmerz) Menses/in Gesellschaft, Schnupfen, Augen-/Mandelentzündungen, Husten;

“Wie von jemand anderem kontrolliert zu werden/nicht im Einklang mit ihren Rhythmen/überschätzt ihre Energiereserven/lebt nach den Erwartungen anderen/verliert ihren Willen. Sie ist voller Selbstverleugnung. Sie wird eine Retterin, mit der Sucht, andere zu retten/wird ausgelaugt/ist zu einer Fußmatte geworden/hat vergessen, wer sie ist/besitzt keine Individualität;

• Hot flashes: night sweats, feels hot and bothered, and facial flushing.
• Vaginal dryness. Yellow or brownish vaginal discharge.
• Menstrual cycle irregularities: either too short, too long, or none at all; flooding; pre-menstrual syndrome.
• Fibroids.
• Cystitis that recurs premenstrually, or chronic cystitis in menopause, chronic E. coli infections.
• Candida, yeast infections.
• Hair loss.
• Cardio-vascular problems: angina, palpitations, tachycardia, and other heart irregularities.
• Dizziness, air hunger, and faintness. Headaches and migraines.
• Weight gain without over eating, both obesity and water retention; and can gain up to seven pounds before periods.
• Abdominal swelling and heaviness; bloating; stomach rumblings. Chronic constipation, sometimes alternating with diarrhea. Heavy feeling in rectum. Swollen liver.
• Cravings for sugar and wheat.
• Allergies of all sorts, hay-fever, allergic reactions.
• Skin rashes; itching; dry and chapping eczema; easy bruising.

Feels drained emotionally or psychologically; over estimates her energy reserves. Is full of self-denial. There can be panic attacks. Hyperactive worse for resting. 

Better: during menses except specific menstrual symptoms, after the 3rd day of menses, movement, fresh air, hard pressure. 
Worse: before menses, from and during ovulation until menses, heat, warmth, noise, touch, resting, motion. 

All symptoms also related to sprue!!!

Ursache: (Töchter von) Frauen, die Pille/DES gebraucht haben, Cortison/unterdrückte Empfindungen;

Made from Oestrone [= Estrone (E1/= oestrone) is an estrogenic hormone secreted by the ovary and adipose tissue. Estrogens include estrone (the least abundant/ relevant to health and disease states because of its conversion to estrone sulfate, a long-lived derivative. Estrone sulfate acts as a reservoir that can be converted as needed to the more active estradiol/predominant estrogen in postmenopausal women)/estridiol (present almost always in the reproductive female body), estriol (abundant primarily during pregnancy).

A good picture in Julian’s Materia Medica. Much of what is related here, comes from experience with the remedy (mental picture).

An inherited miasm is being activated by use of synthetic hormones.

When I was a student I was going to write my thesis on the remedies with relationship to the moon. So about 4 years ago I started using moon menstrual calendars, asking my patients to fill in their symptoms on a chart. I am still using them today because they are so incredibly useful. All sorts of interesting patterns emerge. It soon became clear that many women had symptoms between ovulation and menses and most of them had been on the Pill at one time or another.

Another amazing thing to emerge was the fact that many young women were having these problems who had not been on the Pill, but their mothers had been on the Pill before they were conceived. Remember the Pill has been available for thirty years now. At first I confused the picture with Medorrhinum symptoms such as early sexuality, urinary infections, spaciness etc., but as I got to know the Foll. picture better it began to dawn on me what the causation might be.

I have used it with both girls and boys in their teenage years where the symptoms were drained, slow, and unable to identify with their selfhood. I have heard it said that children of the sixties often are a bit spacey because of all the social drugs their parents were on. However, there were many more women using the Pill than were ever using hash or marijuana. Studies have shown an increase in a rare type of chromosomal disorder in the aborted embryos of women who conceived within three months of stopping the Pill. I would like to see questions asked in the initial case taking around these issues so that we can see just how many children of Pill taking mothers have been effected. I am afraid the signs are increasing that show the inherited damage due to the Pill

The other indicator towards inherited disease through hormone abuse involves a drug called Diethylstilbestrol (DES). This is a man-made estrogen. Beginning in 1940, it was given to pregnant women who had histories of miscarriages, premature births, diabetes or hypertension, or showed signs of bleeding in the early stages of pregnancy.

We don’t know how many women were given this drug in the U.K., but in the U.S. it numbered well over a million. It was well known as early as 1953 that DES did not prevent miscarriage, but its use for this purpose was continued into the 70’s. A previously rare form of cancer, vaginal clear-cell adenocarcinoma, has been found in increasing numbers of daughters of women who were given DES. Over 500 cases have been diagnosed with a direct link to the hormone. Although these cancers can start as early as age eight, many are not triggered off until the girl is exposed to more hormones (Pill/hormonal treatment). (Perhaps this is a case of an acquired miasm triggering off an inherited one?)

There is growing evidence that shows a sharp increase in breast cancer and as much as a five-fold increase of cervical dysplasia in DES daughters. A high percentage of those who have not yet developed cancer have a condition in which glandular type tissue normally found in the mouth is found in the vagina - a matter of confusion in differentiation. They can have a whole range of abnormalities including incompetent cervix which prematurely dilates causing miscarriage, a higher chance of having difficult menstrual problems, and a lower level of fertility. Abnormalities of the genitals have now been found in male children also together with small testes, infertility, and subfertility. And as high as 40% of DES sons have low sperm counts or abnormally shaped sperm.

The ‘morning after Pill’ is made from DES and is still administered quite freely, even though the effectiveness of preventing pregnancy is not established. Large doses of DES were given to animals to fatten them up for slaughter and is still used to dry up women’s milk after childbirth. So, from these two facts alone, DES daughters and sons, and children whose mothers were on the Pill before they were conceived, an idea of what we may be facing.

Foll. is a remedy which expresses so much of what is out of order in our world today. So that we can see the whole picture of what is going on today, we need to go back in history and lift some of the mists of time.

What a panacea of control they had uncovered. They regulate our periods and fecundity with the oral contraceptive which totally blocks our ovaries from working properly and tricks them each month with a false message. The very delicate and complex pattern between pituitary, ovary, hypothalamus, and uterus is deceived and jangled. Just look at the picture of the reproductive cycle and see the intricate rhythms of the estrogen, the follicle stimulating hormone, progesterone, and the luteinising hormone. It is an awesomely elegant rhythm which has evolved over millions of years, and now, that rhythm is tricked and played with like a toy.

The Pill, of course, which had its 30th birthday this year, makes us sexually accessible at all times with no fear of fertilization. In fact, it often ends our periods altogether. There are no more eggs. When we are not fertile enough we are given hormones in the form of fertility drugs to produce more eggs. They induce our babies with hormones, often only for convenience sake, which is effectively injecting our babies with hormones before they see the light of day.

They inject Depo-Provera with its horrible side effects into women whom they consider not bright enough to follow the instructions on the Pill packets. The side effects are devastating, often causing flooding and pain. They give us the morning after Pill. They can abort us with hormones and now they have discovered Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) which they say will keep us young and feminine and keep us from aging naturally. But the major boon to this latest ‘revolutionary medical technique’ is, as studies have shown, that they will save packets of money on us when we are old because osteoporosis is costing over £500 million a year in treating fractures in old women.

There are ten million post-menopausal women in Britain who they wish to see the majority of on HRT. It is seen as a cheap and safe preventative medicine. In fact, it is being suggested that all women over forty be given it. They administer hormones to both sexes of animals to plump up their breasts and flesh them out. To produce more meat they regulate the female animals e.g. chickens, whose ovulation gives us eggs and cows, whose yearly calving gives us milk.

They put hormones in pesticides to spray our grains and vegetables, and now these hormones are excreted through our kidneys and back into the water supply. In London, by the time we drink the water, it has been through seven pairs of kidneys. The hormones are in the water and can’t be filtered out. The tyranny of hormone abuse is complete, from conception to old age. It is part of our life and a risk to our future. The rise in cancer in the reproductive systems in young women is only the first sign of what is to come.

So now you have the picture of Foll.

· She feels she is controlled by another

· she is out of sorts with her rhythms

· she is living out someone else’s expectations

· she feels she is being fed off emotionally or psychologically

· she loses her will

· she over-estimates her energy reserves

· she is full of self-denial

· she becomes a rescuer, addicted to rescuing people

· she becomes drained

· she has become a doormat

· she has forgotten who she is

· she has no individuality.

she loses sense of herself

There is a very strong link here with Carcinosin, and it is not surprising that Foll. works well when Carc. is indicated but does not act. Cancer cells after all are cells which have lost their identity, lost their ability to differentiate themselves, to individualize. They revert to primitive cells with no selfhood.

Foll. can help restore the will and re-empower. Foll. comes up over and over again in cases where women have been abused sexually, psychically or physically, either now or at any time in the past. (This can be true whether she remembers it or not.) She may be tied strongly to the abuser, as in early childhood when the abuser was a parent or a loved caregiver. She may never have been allowed to say ‘no.’ She may have evaded the process of her own growing up. Foll. can help her to break the control. Foll. is a link breaker and can give extra vitality when having to face heavy rememberings. It can be useful for those with emerging psychic abilities who can find no boundaries.

The ovary is such an organ of creativity. It simply seethes with life and activity. When it isn’t functioning well, creativity can be blocked. Maybe it is blocked by a domineering parent or spouse. Maybe it is blocked by the way our society views women’s creativity. If the energy is blocked, suppressed, and tricked, where is it going to go? It goes into disease, depression, anxiety, hypersensitivity and instability. She gets easily upset, easily hurt and unsure of herself. She does not want to be alone, gets restless, goes hyper, gets allergies. It appears like an estrogen allergy. The body gets confused and rejects the things that nourish it. The mind gets confused and can’t make decisions. Foll. helps to restore clarity. There may be panic attacks, dizziness, and faintness. She can become aggressive then depressed, put on weight without overeating, gain up to seven pounds before periods, or get into compulsive eating and have huge food cravings (before periods) but it can be at anytime. There can be both fat and water retention.

Katharina Dalton: helps to explain why we find allergic reactions in cases of hormone imbalance. Under normal conditions, the ovaries produce the progesterone needed for proper reproductive function and the adrenal glands produce chemicals that are eventually transformed into a group of hormones known as corticosteroids. During the process of chemical transformation, progesterone is manufactured. As the chain continues, the adrenal progesterone is altered and eventually, corticosteroids are produced. Under normal conditions, then, it has nothing directly to do with the sex hormone cycle of the pituitary-ovary-hypothalamus.

However, when the corpus luteum produces less progesterone than usual, the reproductive system appropriates progesterone from the adrenal chain. The feedback system of the sex hormones is then able to continue and the menstrual cycle is completed. It is almost like an extra backup system to ensure the survival of the species. So despite a lack of ovarian progesterone production, the menstrual cycle remains unbroken. But this occurs at the expense of the corticosteroid production in the adrenal glands. The chain leading to their production is broken when progesterone is borrowed, and as a result, fewer corticosteroids are produced.

A little hormone snatching leads to a large number of repercussions. The adrenal gland produces many corticosteroids, each with a different function. Some are responsible for the water balance in the tissues of the body, regulating the sodium and potassium in the cells. Some prevent allergic reactions. Some regulate the level of blood sugar and others mobilize parts of the immune system response. So we can see that this imbalance, happening at the stage of the cycle before the menses, would cause much disruption at this time.

Specific Symptoms.
Foll. is fairly well known. for having symptoms from ovulation to menses.

all symptoms < ovulation to menses
all symptoms > after menses except specific menstrual symptoms
< from heat, noise, touch, resting
> from fresh air.

Specific Symptoms

Foll. is fairly well known. for having symptoms from ovulation to menses.

· all symptoms < ovulation to menses

· all symptoms > after menses except specific menstrual symptoms

· < heat, noise, touch, resting

· > fresh air.

· Ovulation problems such as

1. drawing, burning, gripping pains,
2. spotting
3. ovarian cysts
4. polycystic ovaries

Premenstrual Symptoms

Reading down the list we can see how it covers the majority of symptoms found under the umbrella of the premenstrual syndrome:

· breasts swollen and painful < touch (Lac-c)

· migraines (Natrum muriaticum)

· nausea and vomiting diarrhea # constipation (Puls)

· diarrhea 10 days before menses

· very low or high libido

· weepy and depressed

· hyperactive,

· indecisive, with

· panic attacks. with

· huge mood swings from aggression to

· apathy, and

· unable to tolerate noise, touch or heat

Cand. A a group of symptoms which might be categorized as Candida albicans infestation:

· cravings (sugar/wheat)

· rumblings, bloating, weight gain and itching

· and recurrent cystitis which returns at this time.

This Candida picture may tie into the body’s inability to regulate sugar, due to the adrenal system not functioning properly, as already shown with the previous diagram.

Menstrual Problems

· painful periods centered in ovaries

· prolonged and heavy bleeding with

· bright red blood and dark dots

· all sorts of cycle problems,

· either too short, too long or none at all.

Menopause

Foll. is a really brilliant remedy around menopause, for which it is well known. It pretty well covers the whole range of physical and mental symptoms we might find at this time. Let’s have a look:

· cycle irregularities

· flooding

· hot flushes

· hyperactive < rest (hot and bothered)

· night sweats

· air hunger

· dizziness and faintness

· abdominal heaviness

· fibroids

· folliculaemia

· vaginal dryness

· slow movement and spacey chinking

· hypersensitive to noise, heat and touch

And of course, this covers any of these symptoms arising from a hysterectomy which is like premature menopause.

Clinical Situations

There are too many here to go over each one, but there are some special areas of interest here:

· history of abuse whether, sexual, physical or psychological.

· Myalgic encephalomyelitis; this is an obvious one when we consider the overall picture of feeling drained and exhausted;

· fibroids; Foll. will help to regulate the cycle while the tumor is shrinking. This of course is very important as there are often frequent periods with very heavy bleeding accompanying fibroids;

· Raynaud’s disease, a vascular disorder where the fingers go cold and numb and lose their ability to circulate properly. Horrifyingly enough it has been treated allopathically with the birth control Pill. Most of us are aware of the dangers when there are vascular problems and the Pill is known to be responsible for causing thrombosis;

· Cardiovascular problems: this aspect shows up in our Foll. picture in angina, palpitations, tachycardia, and other heart irregularities;

· Eating disorders; it is not surprising that Foll. is useful in eating disorders considering the mental picture of the remedy.

· Self-abuse with substances which should nourish.

· Self-denial, but that is such a huge subject in itself that I cannot elaborate here.

· Post-natal problems; another very interesting connection is that of post-natal depression, difficulty bonding with the baby and children unable to separate from their mother; all of these are about unbalanced connections. When our babies are born it is such a poignant reminder of the unresolved hurts from our pasts. As for the child, if the connections are not secure enough, or too tightly bound, the terror of separation is too painful to contemplate.

Timing and Potency

I have found that an optimum time to use Foll. is on 10th to 14th day of the cycle. This of course is not always the case. It would not be so for men or for amenorrhea where ovulation is unknown or indeed for postmenopausal women. I have used it a few days before the period, usually 5 days or so.

The C 3 or C 4 stimulates and can bring on menstruation;

The C 7 is a balancer,

The C 9 is a menstrual retardant, where there may be very frequent periods.

Not repeating Foll. is a myth. As with any remedy it is important to be creative in its use.

D.D. Sep: very close, but the cycle modalities are stronger in Foll.

Puls: Foll. cannot stand contact.

Lach: does the draining, Foll. gets drained.

Zinc: shares many symptoms/> hard pressure/warm air.

Thyroid has a different focus but can look alike.

Hypoth. shares characteristics of appetite.

Arist-cl: never been well since the Pill and recurrent cystitis.

Nat-m: re-establishes periodicity of the cycles.

Luna: out of tune with the world and it’s cycles.

Other remedies: Stap. Carc. Thuj. Lac-h.

Repertorium:

Gemüt: (eigene) Kinder abgeneigt

Angst (vor Menses)/Qualvolle Angst [abends (bei Sonnenuntergang)]/Furcht (plötzlich)

Leicht beleidigt

Berührt werden abgeneigt

Beschwerden durch Bevormundung (für lange Zeit)/nach Missbrauch/-handlung (nach sexuellem Missbrauch)

Empfindlich (gegen Berührung/gegen Geräusche/gegen Vorwürfe)

Entrüstung, Empörung

Erregt (# traurig)

Gedanken zwingend, nötigen ihn, etwas zu tun

High; fühlt sich

“Wie hilflos“ (während Menses)

Mitgefühl, Mitleid/nachgiebig

Reizbar, gereizt (vor Menses)

Selbstkontrolle erhöht

Traurig (vor Menses/im Wochenbett)/weint (vor Menses)

erträgt keine Ungerechtigkeit

Wahnideen (stehe unter einem mächtigen Einfluss)

Kopf: Schmerz < vor Menses

Gesicht: Hautausschläge - Akne

Innerer Hals: Schmerz < Schlucken

Magen: Übel < vor Menses

Weibliche Genitalien: vermehrte Erregbarkeit der Genitalien

Fluor - blutig/braun/gelb/zwischen den Perioden

Menses - geronnen/hellrot/lange sich hinziehend/reichlich/schmerzhaft am Anfang/unregelmäßig

Metrorrhagie - zwischen den Perioden/durch Myome

Schmerz während Ovulation

Trockene Vagina

Sexverlangen vermindert

Tumoren - Zysten auf Ovarien/Myom in Uterus

Atmung: Atemnot, Dyspnoe, erschwertes Atmen

Brust: Angina pectoris

Schmerz in Mammae < vor Menses

Glieder: Raynaud-Krankheit

Schweiß: Nachts (22 - 6 h)

Haut: Empfindlich

Allgemeines: 1 h.

< Bewegung <

Hitzewallungen (während Menopause)

< kalte Luft/< vor/während Menses/< Ruhe/< Berührung/< Wärme

Speisen und Getränke: Verlangt: Mehlspeisen, Teigwaren/Süßigkeiten/Zucker;

Wassersucht im Allgemeinen - vor Menses/während Ovulation

Komplementär: Carc. Prog.

Folgt gut: Apis.

Vergleich: Beta-sitotersterol (ähnelt die Grundformel aller Sexualhormonen).

Lil-t + Franz + Tilia (enthalten Foll.). Cars. (Foll. wenn Cars. versagt). Med.  

Siehe: Hormonen allgemein

Med (grenzenlos/Äußerlich = äußert wichtig) ó Foll ó Lach (extravagant)

Unerträglich: Hautbeschwerden

Wirkung: mindestens 3 Monaten wirken lassen/zu viel Foll. löst Blasenentzündungen durch Coli aus.

Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum