Leontopodium alpinum = Gnaphalium lentopodium = Edelweiß./= Silberstern
Vergleich: Enthält: Tannin;
Compositae.: Verletzung/vulnerability;
Siehe: Asterales + Berggruppe + Sterngruppe
Gnaph. ↔ Leon. ↔ Arn.
Repertorium: [Uta Santos]
Mind: Weakness of memory
Nase: Smell of sulfur and garlic
Mouth: Taste of sulfur and garlic
Teeth: Clenched/grinding/pressure
as if lock-jawed (physically as well as in a dream)
Inner pressure < external pressure
Any
touch is painful, oversensitive towards being touched, oversensitive to pain.
Stomach: Burning/flatulence/re-occurring
sensation of bloating and pressure in the bowels.
In
one place in the stomach, located under the xyphoid, there is a sensation of
heat. All the time I feel bloated like a balloon, the colon is filled so much
with gas that
the
diaphragm is pushed upwards thereby causing a strong pain in stomach.
> zusammengekrümmt sitzen/Druck auf den Magen/Ruhe (nach dem
Schlaf)/Wärme, < enge Kleidung/nach Essen von rohem Gemüse/Genuss von
Kaffee/Alkohol.
Rectum: Durchfall/constipation/bowel
motion every 3 days; Urge more often, but the stool does not pass. >: eating
(warm > than cold food)/sitting bent/pressure
on
stomach/resting (after sleep) and warmth, <: tight clothes/after eating raw
vegetables/coffee/alcohol;
Stool: clay-colored and sheep-dung like.
Limbs: walking/movements/actions/restless
> motion in general
Steif/verkrampft
Paralysis
l. arm
> Aufrecht stehen/> Geradeaus blicken stiffness/tenseness/looking aside was
impossible.
Genitals: Sexual desire increased
Back: in back/coccyx: feeling of
fragility (Verletzung?)/
Generals: Sensitive to cold
„As
if been hit by a blow“/“please don’t touch”/soft touch could cause severe pain.
Schwerpunkte der Symptomatik betrafen die Extremitäten, den Bereich des Gehens, des Bewegens und des Handelns
Zieht Fliegen an/hat Schweiß-ähnliche
Substanzen.
Antidotiert
von: Arn.
Allerlei:
Edelweiss often grows in stony places, hardly accessible and demands of the
collector: boldness, physical flexibility and endurance. It is therefore the
image for
these
attributes and in myths and legends it is the sign of love and the proof of the
bold hero’s love, who offers this flower to his beloved as the token of his
love.
Mythos: Entstanden aus Tränen. einer vereiste Junkfrau wann sie sah wie ein Jungemann abstürzt und stirbt.
Eine schöne, junge Frau ist erstarrt im Eis.
Junge Männer wollten sie besitzen und stürzten ab. Dann fing die junge Frau an
zu weinen, aus ihre Tränen entstand das Edelweiß.
A last dream as a metaphorical language typical
for this plant:
I
am walking about in an hotel, I am looking for my husband, who wanted to enjoy
a hot bath somewhere in the hotel. I am wearing Jeans, a T-shirt and I am
carrying a brief case with me. Downstairs there are swinging doors in wooden
frames and milk glass or frosted glass. Steam is coming towards me. All the
guests are wearing towels and are hanging at the side of the doors as if
wrapped in white plastic/ synthetics. Staff is running around and is handing
out rose-colored pieces of soap. One of them is soaping the guests’ faces. I
find my husband at the end of an aisle, he also is wrapped in a white bath
towel. He is being pursued by someone and wants to get away from there.
We
flee along aisles, dark aisles in this otherwise white house and we end up in
the office section. We hear voices calling and hide in the dark behind the door
of a cabinet
in
the nearest office. A person in a business-suit enters and switches on the
light. We are shocked, the office is ravaged and on the floor there are shapes
of human beings,
who
have already been carried away.
Then:
With my husband on an island with wild cliffs and an amazing, beautiful coast,
fog is lifting, the sun shines on and reflects from a blue-green ocean. Feeling
of freedom…
Contrasts: The white, clean-soaped figures
enclosed in plastic/synthetics wrapping and the dark aisles…
Light
(in the sense of enlightening, perspective, clarity) focuses on something,
which was formerly alive (the dead ones who have been carried away), who have
met their
death
in a place of bureaucracy, of formalism… contrary to the hotel, then this
amazing, beautiful nature, where fog is lifting and clarity and foresight comes
up…
Again
and again the
color white appears in the dreams, which Aeppli, a Jungian
analyst, explains as follows: “White is not yet a color, it is purity beyond
life, is a demand
to
be dissolved into its spectral colors, the colors of the vivid life”.
In
fact, again and again a kind of non-vitality appears, a white, which is cold,
sterile, without life and constraining.
This
constraint,
stiffness, paralysis and threat probably are related to public
places, which are under social rules like the classroom, the hotel, the office,
while nature means freedom.
Ascending is threatening, be it on the narrow glass catwalk
(the dream with the white moon- boots), on which every step is followed by the
anonymous viewers, or be it in
the
escalator, which is threatened by social descent, the free fall, or be it the mountain heights, where
a cold adverse wind obstructs walking forward and one is not allowed
to
protect oneself.
Authentic feelings and
instincts are suppressed and even more predominant in a dark
and threatening way. (I mentioned only the dreams about the dogs of the one
female prover, there have been more on this topic).
Summary and a hypothesis: aspects
of the Compositae: oversensitiv and vulnerable, physically as well as mentally
Gnaphalium
botanically the most similar, has its center of gravity (concerning its
symptoms) also in the area of extremities, and Arnica as a potent antidote of
these long-lasting, strong and extremely uncomfortable proving-symptoms also
shows strong resonance with Leontopodium.
As
a special topic of Leontopodium I assume that the patient would feel weak and
insecure [socially highly normative context, where you have to behave
differently than
your
own feelings and impulses tell you and you are constantly threatened to be
blown down by a social cross- current “wind from the front-side” (=
gesellschaftliche Gegenwind)].
Harsh
socialization with the center of gravity of what “ONE DOES”
leads to an early suppression of one’s own emotions and instincts, which might
lead to the behaviour
that
accepts external rules as a yard-stick in every situation of life and that the
person is not used to follow his own findings any more, even if these seem
adequate and in
tune
with his own inner voice.
As
a metaphor the image comes to mind of the hero, who risks death to pick the
Edelweiss from the highest rocky mountains as a proof of his love for his
beloved who
herself
not only agrees to his high risk, she maybe even expects or demands it, as she
measures the love she receives from her admirer by his extraordinary gift.
She
lacks the sense necessary to realize emotions in the very immediate encounter.
“if
he risks his life, he probably loves me, how else could I know it, and if he
dies due to this, he dies as a noble, white, pure hero and his death raises me
as a white widowed virgin, untouchable, spending a lifetime in a cold, glass
coffin”.
The
opposition of nature and culture, of emotion and instinct on the one hand, and
the social taming on the other hand seem to be a conflict; conscious of its own
lack of protection, Lentopodium compensates by submission under a cold,
non-vivacious entity, which knows only itself as white and the other as black,
where everything alive
is
shattered as if on a rock face.
Mir scheint sehr klar, dass Leontopodium deutliche Züge eines Korbblütlers hat:
Die Überempfindlichkeit und Verletzlichkeit sowohl im körperlichen als auch im seelischen und auch in den träumen erlebt ist sehr deutlich.
Gnaphalium, die botanisch ähnlichste Arznei, hat ihren Symptomen
Schwerpunkt ebenfalls im bereich der Glieder, und Arnica als wirksames Antidot
der langanhaltenden starken und äußerst unangenehmen Arzneisymptome zeigt
ebenfalls deutliche Resonanz mit Leontopodium.
Als Metapher dafür könnte man sich ganz gut das bild jenes Helden merken, der den Tod riskiert, um das edelweiß vom höchsten Felsen zu pflücken als beweise der liebe
zu seiner angebeteten, die diesem tun nicht nur zustimmt, sondern es vielleicht sogar verlangt, weil diese äußerliche, hervorragende der Maßstab ist, mit dem sie die liebe
ihres Verehrers misst, weil ihr die sinne dafür fehlen, Gefühl in der unmittelbaren Begegnung wahr zu nehmen.
„wenn er sein Leben riskiert, dann wird er mich wohl lieben, wie sonst wollte ich es wissen; wenn er dabei zu Grunde geht, stirbt er als edler, weißer reiner Held und sein
Tod erhöht mich als edle weiße verwitwete Jungfrau, unberührbar, schon zu Lebzeiten im kalten gläsernen Sarg.
Phytologie: Diarrhea/Blutdruck
regulierung/
Entzündungen/Antibakteriell;
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum