Wild rose

Botanical name: Rosa canina Linn.
Family: Rosaceae
Synonyms:

• English: Dog rose, Hip-rose;
• Spanish: Escaramujo, Rosal silvestre;
• French: Eglantier;
• German: Hagebuttenstrauch.

Mind/emotions

 Lack of inner liberty and joy; lack of spontaneity and exuberance.  Wishes, dreams, and longings are submerged.  Stifled, dormant, subdued vital urges; lack of assertiveness. Apathy and resignation, lack of interest in surrounding reality. Monotonous way of talking, flat affect, unimaginative (schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder, developmental disorders, psychosis).
Stagnant inner potentials and lack of creativity. Does not expect to be favored by fate, does not rely on divine providence; general negative expectancy.  Does not seek active engagement in stimulation and recreational diversion. Depressive tendency; emotional deadlock; may come on after grief or disappointed love; cannot release the emotional hurt which then becomes submerged. May be taciturn, secluded, and not seeking to share personal concerns with others. The Wild Rose state may follow a period of rebelliousness against one’s fate, with subsequent recognition of the futility of the efforts and resignation. Resignation may serve as self-protection, so as not to touch at old wounds. The Wild Rose state may not necessarily be apparent in all aspects of life.

• MIND – AMBITION – loss of
• MIND – RESIGNATION

 Physical

Lack of incentive to live during life-threatening illness. Lack of interest in healthful routines that are to further recuperation or prevent illness during healthy times. Lethargy, listlessness, lack of energy and elan, flat affect. Subdued vitality; vital needs are not recognized; for example, lack of sexual interest. Declining sexual interest and sexual power after disappointment in love; women may cease menses. Lack of appetite; emaciation. Intestinal ulceration from submerging of conflicts and from coping silently. Breathing disturbances from sunken vitality, from lack of personal empowerment and lack of self-determination; sighing.  Sensorial depression; may feel, hear, see, taste imperfectly (cf. Clematis). Insensitivity to pain. Lack of vital heat. Loss of hair or nails.
 Diseases from suppression of symptoms. (In gemmotherapy, a medicinal approach using young shoots and buds of plants, Rosa canina has been employed in the treatment of headaches and migraines that have shown resistance to standard treatment and tend to show an allergic component; the remedy enhances adrenal cortical stimulation, while also calming the nervous system. In herbal preparation, rose hips make a tart, stimulating tea.)

• Susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis   
• Asthma with inspiratory difficulties – ‘singultus’
• Skin disease (atopic dermatitis – infantile eczema)
• Gastric and duodenal ulcers – dependent patients
•  Nervous breathing syndrome – ‘respiratory corset’

Compare

 Gorse: Lack of vitality, lack of desire to live during life-threatening illness; no more hopes and joys.
 Gentian: Lack of perseverance during endeavors; is not actively seeking all avenues to improve an unfavorable lot; faithlessness.
 Clematis: Does not find fulfillment in the present; dreams of a future happiness; sensorial depression.
 Honeysuckle: Has given up belief in finding a present or future happiness, reminisces of gone-by past happiness.
 Mustard: Lack of joy, lack of incentive; broods in seclusion; depression.
 Centaury: Subdued inner potential from serving in wrong situation, often under the influence of domineering person(s).
 Star of Bethlehem: Standstill of emotions after shock or trauma.
 Elm: Feels unable to overcome obstacles; work appears overwhelming; may resign.

Homoeopathic Medicine  and  Wild rose

Phosphoricum acidum: Stagnant emotions, apathy, resignation; effects of grief, shock, or disappointed love; impaired memory (mental debility); subdued despair; listlessness; lack of sexual interest or power; (diabetes; great thirst for refreshing, juicy drinks); what appears to be a depleting and debilitating chronic diarrhea leaves no detrimental marks on overall constitution, “as if body was indifferent”; colitis; skin conditions; hair loss;  emaciation.
 Helleborus niger: Sensorial depression; cannot see, hear, or taste correctly; thoughtless, apathetic stare; answers slowly; may come on after disappointment in love; involuntary sighing, constricted chest, with anxiety; suppressed menses and lack of sexual interest from disappointed love; ulcerative colitis; loss of hair and nails; may come on after suppression of eczema or after head injury.
 Crotalus cascavella: Magnetic stare; indifference; thoughts preoccupy with death; hallucinations; sensorial depression, especially diminished hearing; chest feels as if encased in iron armor; suffocative feeling with dread; colon/rectum irritation.
  Opium (Papaver somniferum): No desires or needs; depressive, drowsy stupor; general insensibility of the nervous system; may experience pleasant and also frightful hallucinations; state may come on after fright; stertorous breathing; vomiting and colic; chronic constipation and suppressed menses from fright or trauma; emaciation; chronic fatigue.
 Conium maculatum: Apathy, indifference, general lack of interest in the world; may come on from grief or sexual suppression; spasmodic colic; (hardening of glands); lack of natural vital heat.
 Natrum phosphoricum: Indifference and apathy in regard to loved ones; lack of incentive and aversion to work; desire to be silent, tranquility; sadness and depression; acidic stomach, gastric ulcer; worse from sugar and fat; lassitude.
 Stannum metallicum:  Anxious discouragement and general debility; indecisive and subdued; dreads seeing people; great fatigue after conversation, too weak to talk; tendency to tuberculosis; cramp-like colic; emaciation.
  Cadmium metallicum: Indifference and disinterest in seeing anyone; internal stagnation, yet irritability; ulcerative colitis; low vital reactions, lassitude, deficient digestion, lack of vital heat.
 Ignatia amara: After severe disappointments and grief, this remedy state can develop a Wild Rose tendency; taciturn reaction, the psychological pain is held within (spasms and cramps throughout the organism from the supression of emotions); sighing, singultus (inspiratory difficulties) after grief or after affection has not been returned.
 Mezereum (Daphne mezereum): Indifference and apathy; irresolution; hearing loss; anxiety is felt in the stomach region; gastritis, gastric ulcer; infantile eczema (purulent matter exudes from underneath crusts); lack of vital heat, great sensitiveness to cold air.