Limenitis bredowii California

The California Sister (Adelpha californica), sometimes placed in the genus Limenitis), is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The butterfly is named for its black and white markings on the forewing that resemble

a nun's habit. It is commonly found on oak trees (on which it lays its eggs) and by water sources where it sips salts from the mud.

Mind: Irritable driving a car Restlessness

Anger # sadness (over mother who died 8 years ago)

Anxious (will catch germs from others/free-floating)

Delusion - will become insane

Nose: cold inside “As if had smelled menthol”

Male organs: sex desire increased

Limbs: Restless leg

Skin: cicatrices become red

Dreams: anxious

[Alta Vogel]

Limenitis bredowii california (California Sister Butterfly) This butterfly remedy points to the tubercular miasm like most of the insect remedies discussed above.

The connection with this miasm is illustrated below.

- Ideas abundant, clearness ofMIND but their fatigue can lead to mental passivity, confusion, and aversion to mental work :

MIND - CONCENTRATION - active (Schroyens, 2001). “Mentally, there was a feeling of dullness and not wanting to do anything intellectual” (Herrick, 1998).

“The most significant symptom to emerge from the proving was the aversion and inability to think. As one prover put it:"It's as if the gears in my head are filled with a thick, gooey, viscous gunk and that they are not

moving well and that they freeze" (Herrick, 1998).

“She was talking, I suddenly became aware that she was speaking with an accent. I then wondered, "How do I understand what she is saying? How can I understand any language at all? " I thought: "I will not be able to

understand her at all-and that's because I am not making any mental effort at all to understand her." So my thought was that my mental faculty is likely to disappear” (Herrick, 1998). “No mental energy, did not want to do

anything involving mental outputs, did not want to do anything with my head. I felt that the head associations are just so mundane and limiting. I want to dream in a MINDless state” (Herrick, 1998).

- Love of mountains, crave fresh air and open spaces

“Resentful of having to be inside in this weather. Wanting open air” (Herrick, 1998). “It was a long day at work, productive and good. I felt resentful that I had to be indoors working on such a beautiful day. I wished I

was a kid. I went to sit in some woods; I felt in the wrong medium. I want to be in another state, either planted in silence in the earth or existing in space” (Herrick, 1998).

- Tend to be feverish, sweating a lot

“Woke feeling very hot as though I had a fever. Face flushed and burning” (Herrick, 1998).

FEVER - EVENING (Schroyens, 2001).

GENERALS - HEAT - sensation of - fever; sensation (Schroyens, 2001).

- Sensation of being caught, suffocated and compressed (a picture of a man being trapped in a very narrow tunnel)

“Whilst eating breakfast of potatoes, sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese I realized that my mouth and palate and tongue felt numb and swollen. My upper windpipe felt somewhat closed or rather narrower, I never ever

had anything like this in my life (I eat potatoes, sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese frequently)” (Herrick, 1998). “Dream:For some reason there were several animals in boxes. If they were left there, they would die.

There also was a small child in a box” (Herrick, 1998).

“Dream:I was at a friend's ranch in Wyoming. There was a birdhouse in the Backyard, mounted on a fence. I looked inside, and there were a pair of purple

martins nesting. I was concerned for them because the entrance had been damaged and the hole widened so much, it would be easy for a cat or squirrel to come up the fence and paw into the nest …I was afraid they would be suffocated” (Herrick, 1998). “Dream:“I was in some large studio; I was waiting to take a lesson from Michael Jackson with a gymnastic Back flip harness. I was intrigued by this contraption, I was impatient and tired of

waiting so tried using it by myself. I was soon buckled into it and doing Back flips. I was amazed at how easy it was. Then Michael Jackson showed up, and I was embarrassed that I had started without him. Suddenly I was

nervous and became clumsy and could not use the device correctly anymore. The feeling was of being caught” (Herrick, 1998).

- Hectic activity, uses all its effort to change, to get out

DREAMS - METAMORPHOSIS; about (Schroyens, 2001).

“Dream: I dig the nails of my left hand under the skin of his neck as hard as I can. I can feel the skin break and his blood. I lay into him hard. I am fighting for my life. It is totally graphic. I am enraged, impassioned,

and wild” (Herrick, 1998).

- Pathologies of tuberculosis and asthma

“Within the first half hour I had an asthma attack” (Herrick, 1998). Quantitative analysis pointed to the tubercular miasm via keywords active, close and freedom:“Wanting to be very physically active. Wanting to move

and connect with other people this way” (Herrick, 1998). “Slight burning at close of urination. This is unusual, since I drank a lot of water” (Herrick, 1998). “Spent last night and today with a group of mothers and daughters

from my sons class. It was very moving to hear girls express themselves. Tears came to my eyes several times, at the expression of pain and separation; wanted to be treated still as young girls but also wanting their

freedom at the same time” (Herrick, 1998). In essence it seems that the butterfly represents a state of emotional freedom and love without the "hindrances" of responsibility and thought processes (Herrick, 1998).

Limenitis bredowii california (California Sister Butterfly) 
This butterfly remedy points to the tubercular miasm like most of the insect remedies discussed above. The connection with this miasm is illustrated below. 
- Ideas abundant, clearness of mind but their fatigue can lead to mental passivity, confusion, and aversion to mental work: 
 MIND - CONCENTRATION active (Schroyens, 2001). 
„Mentally, there was a feeling of dullness and not wanting to do anything intellectual“ (Herrick, 1998). 
„The most significant symptom to emerge from the proving was the aversion and inability to think. As one prover put it: "It's as if the gears in my head are filled with a thick, gooey, viscous gunk and that they are not 
moving well and that they freeze" (Herrick, 1998). 
„She was talking, I suddenly became aware that she was speaking with an accent. I then wondered, "How do I understand what she is saying? How can I understand any language at all?" I thought: "I will not be able to 
understand her at all-and that's because I am not making any mental effort at all to understand her." So my thought was that my mental faculty is likely to disappear“ (Herrick, 1998). 
„No mental energy, did not want to do anything involving mental outputs, did not want to do anything with my head. I felt that the head associations are just so mundane and limiting. I want to dream in a mindless state“ 
(Herrick, 1998). 
- Love of mountains, crave fresh air and open spaces 
„Resentful of having to be inside in this weather. Wanting open air“ (Herrick, 1998). 
„It was a long day at work, productive and good. I felt resentful that I had to be indoors working on such a beautiful day. I wished I was a kid. I went to sit in some woods; I felt in the wrong medium. I want to be in 
another state, either planted in silence in the earth or existing in space“ (Herrick, 1998). 
- Tend to be feverish, sweating a lot 
„Woke feeling very hot as though I had a fever. Face flushed and burning“� (Herrick, 1998). 
FEVER - EVENING (Schroyens, 2001). 
GENERALS - HEAT - sensation of - fever; sensation (Schroyens, 2001). 
- Sensation of being caught, suffocated and compressed (a picture of a man being trapped in a very narrow tunnel) 
„Whilst eating breakfast of potatoes, sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese I realized that my mouth and palate and tongue felt numb and swollen. My upper windpipe felt somewhat closed or rather narrower, I never ever 
had anything like this in my life (I eat potatoes, sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese frequently)“� (Herrick, 1998). 
„Dream: For some reason there were several animals in boxes. If they were left there, they would die. There also was a small child in a box“ (Herrick, 1998). 
„Dream: I was at a friend's ranch in Wyoming. There was a birdhouse in the backyard, mounted on a fence. I looked inside, and there were a pair of purple martins nesting. I was concerned for them because the entrance had 
been damaged and the hole widened so much, it would be easy for a cat or squirrel to come up the fence and paw into the nest „¦I was afraid they would be suffocated“ (Herrick, 1998). 
„Dream: „I was in some large studio; I was waiting to take a lesson from Michael Jackson with a gymnastic back flip harness. I was intrigued by this contraption, I was impatient and tired of waiting so tried using it by myself. 
I was soon buckled into it and doing back flips. I was amazed at how easy it was. Then Michael Jackson showed up, and I was embarrassed that I had started without him. Suddenly I was nervous and became clumsy and could 
not use the device correctly anymore. The feeling was of being caught“ (Herrick, 1998). 
- Hectic activity, uses all its effort to change, to get out 
 DREAMS - METAMORPHOSIS; about (Schroyens, 2001). 
„Dream: I dig the nails of my left hand under the skin of his neck as hard as I can. I can feel the skin break and his blood. I lay into him hard. I am fighting for my life. It is totally graphic. I am enraged, impassioned, and wild“ (Herrick, 1998).
- Pathologies of tuberculosis and asthma 
„Within the first half hour I had an asthma attack“ (Herrick, 1998). 
Quantitative analysis pointed to the tubercular miasm via keywords active, close and freedom: 
„Wanting to be very physically active. Wanting to move and connect with other people this way“ (Herrick, 1998). 
„Slight burning at close of urination. This is unusual, since I drank a lot of water“� (Herrick, 1998). 
„Spent last night and today with a group of mothers and daughters from my sons class. It was very moving to hear girls express themselves. Tears came to my eyes several times, at the expression of pain and separation; 
wanted to be treated still as young girls but also wanting their freedom at the same time“� (Herrick, 1998). 
In essence it seems that the butterfly represents a state of emotional freedom and love without the "hindrances" of responsibility and thought processes (Herrick, 1998). 

Vergleich: Compare: Apis. Canth. Culx. Form. Lim-b-c. Vesp. in Inflammation - Anger - Violence - Sexual passion - Weakness.

Siehe: Arthropoda

Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.