Picus viridis = Grünspecht/= green woodpecker
Vergleich: Siehe: Aves:
[Olga Fatula]
After processing and analysing the results of proving we suggest that
the remedy Picus viridis carries an acute component and may belong to the
Typhoid or Malaria miasm (Sankaran’s classification).
This conclusion made based primarily on physical symptoms. Every prover
had enduring diarrhea several times a day and frequent urination. Along with
this provers had high fever, with heat, a chill
night and day and a heavy sweat repeating every day approximately at the
same time. Provers lost up to eight kilos in weight.
Summarizing: the core theme of Picus viridis is the focus on his own
separate opinion and belief about what to do and how to do it, how to live and
to survive, which is different from the opinion of
others. He has proper, orderly and clearly organized principles of life,
which often contradict the commonly accepted norms. His intrinsic conflict is
in misunderstanding and non-acceptance of his
opinion by others not belonging to his limited group of the likes, with
a need to oppose and to clash. Picus viridis stubbornly insists on its own
pattern, its own orderly logic and feels it necessary to
prove his case (health).
Connection with the source of the remedy: The woodpecker relentlessly
punches the wood to get its food in a manner rather unusual for other birds.
Besides, it carefully chooses the spots to peck
selecting the affected wood and taking out vermin from under the decayed
crust. People do not hunt them, do not capture them into cages, they preserve
woodpeckers as the “doctors of the forest”.
Any bird is usually scared of being captured, to be in a cage. In human
beings, this can be expressed in the life scenarios of behavior and interchange
with the society. The “prison” of Picus viridis
may be expressed as a problem of being the odd one out, the loner. In
the nature even in the mating season, its behavior is bellicose when paying
attention to a female.
The themes of ice and snow probably express the limitations and the
danger to the survival in the wintertime when the food is hardly available.
The symmetry: the nest (the cave) of these birds has an accurate
geometric form. It is possible that the Western Europe (the habitat of these
birds) is expressed in the drug by the peculiarities of its architecture
(medieval castles, churches, gothic architecture).
Singing and music: the rhythmic (musical) drumming of the woodpecker
informs the environment of its intentions.
Vision, eyes, and oculists: a woodpecker does not see things located
straight in front of it’s beak. It finds insects with its tongue and with the
help of its fine sense of smell. The whole family is
notorious for its sensitivity to smells.
The order of Piciformes includes about 350 species combined into six
families, the most populous being Picidae – woodpeckers. These are medium sized
birds, with bright plumage.
In Europe, the most abundant species is the green woodpecker (Picus
viridis). It is the largest species of all woodpeckers in this part of the
world. Its length reaches 30cm (12in). The plumage is
green, and it wears s a peculiar “red hat” on its head. The steering
feathers of woodpeckers are very sharp, firm and strong to serve as a tail
support for the body when they nestle up to a tree.
Their flight is heavy and noisy; it flies in a peculiar manner; the
flight path resembles a sequence of deep waves.
Any woodpecker is a born wood inhabitant. They live on trees and they
are perfect in climbing vertical trunks and branches and can climb head over
heels. Picus viridis prefers more civilized areas; therefore, one can hardly
meet a green woodpecker in a deep forest.
The woodpecker’s beak is firm and strong; it serves to drive out ants
and other insects from inside the wood. These are the main source of food. The
woodpecker licks them off with its long tongue.
The beak is also the tool for making holes in the of birch rind (the
woodpeckers like their spring sap), and for hollowing out the nest.
Woodpecker’s job resembles that of a proper jackhammer. Therefore, the
structure of the woodpecker’s skull rules out a chance of a brain concussion.
Special modifications of the bones and the
muscles of the skull ensure the sufficient shock absorption. Another
shock softener is the structure of the tongue. It is sticky, sharp-tipped, and
very long. The green woodpecker is capable of
protruding it for 10cm (4in). The tongue can “crawl” into any
sophisticated hole made by wood beetles and larvae. In order to fit such a
device into the mouth the tendon base of the tongue is
placed beyond the throat; it coils around the skull.
In the nesting season, the bird hollows out a deep cave in a tree (or
wall) where the female lays up to seven elongated glossy white eggs. The cave
is of an absolutely accurate shape with an oval,
round, or a square entrance. This hard work is usually finished within
two weeks.
While punching the dry wood the bird taps out special serenades to its
“girlfriend”. Every woodpecker strikes in its own rhythm and the tree vibrates
in response, in a unique frequency range.
By varying intervals between strikes, the duration of its drum-roll and
other “orchestration” of such “music” the woodpecker informs others of its
intentions. An expert can say for sure whether
the male pecks in its own territory or aspires for others’, calling a
female or inviting her to show the site chosen for the nest.
A woodpecker is an ultimate loner. Therefore, it behaves rather
unfriendly with the female. The way of paying attention to a female is
bellicose; aggressive gestures prevail. The couple can hardly
tolerate each other; if one comes to the nest the other one leaves at
once. As soon as the chicks are raised up, the couple departs. Each one lives
in its own territory and expels anyone from it
including its own young.
Woodpeckers are wandering not migrating birds. They fly different
distances back and forth, irrespective of the direction and the season, alone.
However, other birds often follow a woodpecker
in flocks. They cannot punch holes themselves; however, the larvae ants
and bugs left out and down after the woodpecker’s visit is a perfect food for
them.
Woodpeckers’ natural enemies are the hawks. Human beings are seldom
angry about woodpeckers; however, apiarists sometimes are eager to revenge some
of them for spoiling beehives.
The Russian winter is the worst enemy for woodpeckers because the
insects are hidden under the snow.
The drug was made from a feather of a green woodpecker, potency 30K, M.
Goyens pharmacy, Belgium.
Themes
Familiar / Unfamiliar. – People: Friends / Strangers
Dreams: “Nothing but get-togethers”.
“I am with my friend and
my grandson. I should feed them”.
“My American friends teach me to
make and to drink tea”.
“I ask my friend to buy a house for
me”.
“I forgot to see my friend good bye but I did not feel ashamed.”
“A friend called and offered a doctor.”
Dreams: “An unknown man is walking uphill along a treaded footpath, I am
following him.”
“A stranger walking inside the flat”.
“A friend of mine gives me a poem”.
“I am at my friend’s place as a guest with
some people unknown to me”.
“Me and my friend walking along a dark
street.”
“Some of my acquaintances blame me for
stealing something”
“I study at the courses with two friends of
mine or some people whom I knew before. Both of them say that they do not know
me and, in the presence of others, pretend that we are not acquainted. I behave
the same way”.
“I know that my friends made phone calls and
agreed that he should back me up at the exam”.
“His face resembled to me some of my
university friends”.
Discussing the room for the seminar.
Constraint when communicating with strangers.
“I missed my friend‘s wedding party”.
The sun. Brightness / Clarity.
The perception of objects is more vivid.
“We have a solar eclipse today. The impression is that birds have lost
their vision and are waiting for it to come back.”
“I called a friend and suggested to her to make a homeopathic remedy
from the solar eclipse and prescribed what to do and how to do it.
“Today is a very sunny day, I felt this. The snow is blinding.”
“Happiness in the morning because of the sunny weather.”
“I am conscious that the outlines of the objects are brighter and
clearer, even of the tiny ones.”
Dream: “I am walking amongst the
hills covered with a white snow carpet. The sun is blinding.”
Sun. Ice. White color.
Dream: “I am walking
amongst the hills covered with a white snow carpet. The sun is blinding. The
air is fresh and frosty.”
“Chilly. When falling asleep the body feels as if made of ice.”
“I found myself in some wild place – I am in the middle of wasteland
covered with snow, with hills and snow around. Dots of light afar. The road and
the snow run into one.”
“I recollected all kinds of animals, the way they live. I feel that I
myself as a frozen crocodile right now.”
“The music from some fairy tale about the New Year holiday.”
Dream: “I am looking for a job
closer to my home. I am walking along a snow field in the town where I live
now.”
“I went outside. The snow was blinding. It was too bright.”
Dream: “My girl insists
on me receiving the patients saying: ‘Here you have white forms for every
patient’.”
“I am
hugging a girl in a white kerchief “.
Symmetry. Geometry. Gothicism. Castles.
“I am lost among the mountains. The hills of snow are of an accurate
geometric form.”
“Symmetric spots appeared on palms.”
“I have developed itch and rash where I had a trauma of my leg before;
the same appeared symmetrically on the “healthy” leg. “
“An unknown town is located on the hill. The road is a ravine that
accurately divides the town-hill into two equal parts.”
“The town is a gothic castle cut out in the rock.”
“A tall skyscraper. It looks like crooked and declined in my direction.”
“I find myself among huge elongated crystal castles of the Western
European style”.
“A girl with a beautiful face but the left eye is missing. I keep being
bewildered that she has no eye and her eye–pit is hollow.”
Time. Past – Future. Fast – Slow.
Dream: “I realized that I recovered
and was going to correct my mistakes that I did in the past. I will start from
my moving back in time.”
“In the evening I was sitting at the light of a lamp feeling quiet as if
I was young again. “
“I could travel in my mind into different periods of my early childhood
and could see pictures that I had forgotten long time ago.”
Dream: “The ways of birth. If this
way – one thing happens, if that way – another thing happens”.
“The time seems running too fast.”
“It seems that the time is constricted into one dot.”
“Fussiness. Hurry. Feeling as if I am late to do something.”
“Unwillingness to hurry, slow thinking. Swaps of the mood.”
“My usual sluggishness has switched to fast pace of movements and
actions.”
“Can hardly think. I must go to the office, slowly.”
“I do not speed up the process. I accept it as it is.”
“I am late all the time.”
Dream: “I was two minutes late for the train”.
“All of a sudden a train is crossing
a field of snow… I am trying to jump into the train on the move despite the
absence of a platform.”
“I was late to go out of a public building. The lights were switched off
and the doors were being closed”.
“I was behind and they locked me in the building after the studies (at
the course).”
“I am going in cycles in my problem. If some situation occurred it runs
over and over again even at night. It hampers my sleep, it prevents from
thinking of something else.”
Dreams: “I missed a week of my study at the course”. “I came for the
studies but I want to run away.”
“I am in the past; ...I
go out to a large field with hundreds of students passing the last exam, suddenly
the dean says, that’s it, the exam time is out”.
Doctors. Treatment / Vision. Eyes.
“On that day they requested the pharmacy to finish preparation of two
homeopathic remedies.”
“I chaired the doctors’ board. The cosmoenergist told me that the potency
had run out already.”
“A friend called me, offered an herb specialist to me to treat the
liver.”
“We have a solar eclipse today. The impression is that birds have lost
their vision and are waiting for it to come back.”
Dream: “I work as an ophthalmologist somewhere. A man comes with
complaints of his right eye. I find out that he has glaucoma. I have neither
the forms to fill in nor the seal. I handle
the prescription with big difficulty.”
“The girl without l.
eye says, go and take patients’ cases. I refuse because I feel indolent and
scared. I answer that I am unwell and I have come to listen to the theory. I
will leave
if it is necessary to receive patients.
I tell that I will treat only the
eye diseases and nothing else… Then they show me a card filled in with the
diagnosis and the treatment course. I am surprised how simple it is”.
“I understood that I recovered and I
was going to correct the mistakes that I made in the past when I was unwell… It
was the moment of time when I did not have the doctor’s certificate.”
“At the seminar I was sharing my experience in treating psoriasis.”
“After taking the remedy I can read without screwing my eyes, even small
script.”
“The vision is clearer even through the glasses.”
“I can see into the distance with eyes wide open. The sharpness of
shapes has become evident.”
Dream: “I can read small print without glasses”.
“A discussion of treatment results
at my patient’s home. I do not clearly see him and his mother. His grandmother
says, look at the spots attentively”.
“In the evening I noticed that I can see the outlines brighter, and my
vision is clearer (myopia, -3 both eyes).”
“Visited bioenergy therapist. One must register a visit to him long
beforehand.’
Money / Coins
Dream: “A purse full of banknotes and various coins”.
“My bag is stolen. I
have another one, however, with money scattered in it in a complete mess.”
“Recurrent dreams about money. In a
dream, somebody tried to scare me: “You will stay without a single ruble!”
“I enter a classroom. My desk is the
first from the left. There are scattered coins on it and under it, with the
pictures of different animals (like in Malta). Some of the coins are not
finished
yet; they are only printed on paper
but not stamped yet. Those around me try to persuade me to keep all the coins
with me because a lot of people need them.”
“A man squabbles to get
a free prescription.”
Childhood. Children / Parents.
Dream: “I frightened others’
children and they were crying.”
Recurrent dreams about
kidnapping.
“I am in a strange
castle town where I am trying to find my daughter kidnapped as a baby five
years ago. They introduce to me a girl in a white kerchief. I hug her, cry of
happiness.
I am surprised that she is not an
infant (as I imagined).”
“I received a postcard from my granddaughter, with a jumping bird
pecking a worm in it.
“At night I sang a song to my granddaughter (who lives in another
country) about a small pot, and I imagined that we cuddle each other.”
Dream: “I am pregnant, this is very
good, and it is a big happiness, a perfect condition.”
“Very strong and warm
attitude towards the parents especially to the mother. Such a feeling can
probably only be in the childhood.”
Daughter was laughing when sleeping. She asked not to wake her up and to
allow her to see the dream to the end. I woke up from that.
“My daughter cried and thrashed about while sleeping.”
“Straight after taking the drug my consciousness dived into the
recollections of the childhood. I could travel to different phases of my
childhood. I had lasting dreams about my childhood.”
“In the first night I saw my infantile dream, which had shocked me at
that time. “
“Suddenly I understood how strong my parents’ love towards me is and how
much they did for me. I was wrong to have taken offence at them because they
wished only the good for me.”
“When I had fever I asked my mother to come to me from the office, “Mom
I am dying”.
Conflicts. Disagreements
“Desire to insist on my own way is very strong. I contradict those who
do not agree with me. There is a desire to prove, to do something my own way.”
“I could not send away the driver who went with me. He seemed to have
torn away a part of my heat and this hurts me.”
“Scolded my housekeeper who did not do her job as she should do”.
“A chat with my daughter. She cannot stand me repeating the same things.
She has a feeling that I peck her brains. But I do want to punch, that is, at
every round I get a new idea.
Maybe I am a bird and she is a worm?
Here you go, it’s karma.”
“How do I need to treat sick people to avoid contradiction?”
“Day and night the tension lasts, that I am going to get into a mess
somehow.”
“A feeling of a conflict. Desire to slip wide of the policemen, not to
fall into their hands.”
“Fixed thoughts of conflicts.”
“If a clash happens it is going over and over again in my mind for the
whole night.”
“Desire to hit this problem into its mug to and to take all the tension
away from myself. To influence it and to disappear.”
Dream: “One of the guests wanted to
slaughter somebody.”
“Persistent thoughts about the conflict. It hampers my sleep, and does
not allow thinking about something else.”
“Desire to hide away and to be lost in the crowd in order to skip the
conflict.”
“The complete self confidence.”
“Desire to tell them where they belong, those who tried to humiliate
me.”
Dream: “A man who has just returned from the war comes and rowdily
demands a free prescription to cure his little daughter.”
“People who usually
treat me well say, “This Armenian insists on expelling you from the university
because you are too proud, and they want to organize a test in order to check
if you know something else apart
from the eye diseases.” I am bursting into flame threatening to complain to the
dean’s office”
“I made a firm decision
that I am sure of myself. I will stop to cringe and fawn upon the teachers. I
will go complain to the dean and I will make it to the re-exam.”
“…an impertinent young
doctor resembles some of my acquaintances who used to offend and humiliate me
at the university…”
“I answered sharply to the cheeky guy and thought afterwards if I went
too far? Will they revenge me?”
“Lack of self-assurance, not certain about my capabilities. An emotional
restraint, suppression.”
“In my dreams, I feel an unusual confidence and courage. In reality, I
feel the opposite – the growing emotional restraint and despondence. There are
problems communicating with people.”
Dream: “I am jealous and suffering because of this. Nevertheless I
behave calmly and confidently.”
“A discussion of the results of the
treatment of my patient…. Notwithstanding the boy’s general improvement his
grandmother announces, “He is not better at all!” I oppose and say,
“What are you telling me?!
Look at those spots!” I have an
impression that I know nothing, as it appears.”
“Somebody was killed with a knife
into the belly. On top of that, they screwed the knife. A sadistic violence.”
Singing. Music. Radio
“A frequent desire to sing.”
"I hear singing of the birds that the man walking near me doesn’t
hear.
Dream: “A friend of mine gives me a
poem and I am trying to sing it.”
“I went to the market to buy a player”.
“At night I sang a song to my granddaughter about a small pot…”
“I went to work, on my way something happened to me and I started to
sing songs.”
“I became more open. I even sang songs.”
Dream: “They give me a radio set. A
woman switches it on, tunes in a nice broadcast and gives it to me. I refuse to
take it because it has no FM range but only the AM range. I am
not interested in a good broadcast at
this wave frequency range.”
“I had a constant desire to sing and kept offering others to sing.”
Note: This month several people paid my attention to birds’ singing.
Note: Another teacher for this group of students (she did not know about
the proving) suggested singing several times during the lecture. After the
lecture, the group sang a song together with the teacher.
Large / Small. Areas. Lost.
Dream: “A huge yellow head of
Koschei the Deathless. He holds his hand before his face and I am on his palm.”
"I felt myself in my consciousness as the smallest of small among
the huge elongated crystal castles.”
Dream: “I go out to a
large field with hundreds of people passing the last exam… A huge figure of the
examiner mounts over the field.”
“A strong anxiety, even worse in the underground and in narrow spaces.
As if I am lost there.”
“I am looking into one point and cannot take away my eyes. I want to get
away from the looks at me.
"Desire to hide and to be lost in the crowd.”
“Desire to hide myself in the room.”
Dream: “I lost myself among the
mountains.”
“A feeling of despair. There is no way out.”
The energy of the source
“In the morning after taking the remedy there is a strong energy. At the
breakfast there is a sensation that some light and tender part of me has
separated and hovers over me.”
Sensation of freedom, strength as if you are hovering.
Sensation of hovering in the daytime as a kite.
“I fell down in the street. At the peak of good mood I wanted to fly up
but I fell down (it happened twice).”
The description of vertigo symptoms corresponds to the curve of a
woodpecker’s flight.
Physical
General: fever 38.5 + extreme chills, heavy sweat.
< at night 13 h.
chills at 15 h.
chill when going to bed, sensation that body parts are icy
fever, < at night. Sensation as if a “punching heat”. Followed by
heavy sweat, impossible to sleep.
Vertigo: “As if falling through”/”As if in an elevator
duct”/”As if a change of air stream”, “up and down”, deep fall – high rise.
with sensation of flushes in the head, to the occiput.
Uunclear. “As if drunk”. Desire of support, to clutch at somebody or
something. fear to fall down and collapse.
< in closed space/narrow spaces; difficult to breath in.
> in fresh air/in the open/without a cap.
Vision: precise and clear perception of subjects,
down to smallest details
blurred, unclear
looking into one point, impossible to turn off, something makes you to
look
looking with wide open eyes, without glasses
looking far with wide open eyes
Face: pale, with blue circles around eyes during
fever
Eyes: strong lachrymation, “As from onion”, <
outdoors; both eyes, in streams
Morning swollen lower lids
soreness of distal corners of the eyes
Mouth: permanent dryness in the mouth, throat
dry mouth, constantly
“As if burned”
thirst strong/want of thirst/want of appetite
Food and drinks: Desires: tea (mate)/boiling water, hot water/cold
water, large quantities (during fever)/potato/salted food, adds surplus salt to
the food/sugar, chocolate; Aversion to: coca-cola, canned juices/any
liquids/cereals/porridge (rice):
Abdomen and stomach: “As if strong heat in epigastria, between the
right breast and the navel as if burnt through”/”As if a huge balloon bursts”.
pain in the right hypochondrium, when walking
strong pain in the stomach, “As from ulcer”
nausea, vomiting
Rectum: diarrhea, loose stool, several times daily
Stool: bright color, orange color
Urination: frequent (painful)
urge for urination, painful, almost fainting
Extremities: numbness
coldness, fingers and toes get cold, when falling asleep
Skin: bright pink spots on both palms
sensitive to washing in warm water – hyperaemia of skin
itching, face, chin, edge of lower jaw
Synchronous: Two provers scalded their hands during the proving
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum