Vine

Botanical name: Vitis vinifera Linn.
Family: Vitaceae
Synonyms:

• English: Vine, Wine Grape, European Grape;
• Spanish: Vid;
• French: Vigne;
• German: Weinrebe, Echte Weintraube.

Mind/emotions

Feels empowered and strong as a person; “born leader” types. Overambitious, oriented toward achievement and power.  High expectations toward own self and toward others; demanding and exacting.  Able to develop strong willpower and personal resolve; high self-discipline in regard to goals and accomplishments.  Self-righteous and self-serving, believes to be entitled to be in charge of others.  May resort to violence, threats, overt or covert manipulations to realize own goals.
Insensitivity or cruelty of heart; lack of empathy.  Haughtiness and arrogance; egotism; lack of humble and service-oriented attitude; (delusions of grandeur in mental illness).  Incensed at being humiliated or disrespected. May appear emotionally closed and stubborn; unyielding, brazen-faced. Persisted-in refusal to cooperate, to acquire a socially sound and respectfull attitude. Rebelliousness or passive-aggressive manipulations if suppressed in the personal right for self-expression and self-determination; [disruptive behavior disorder (especially conduct disorder), problems with impulse control, passive-aggressive personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder; factitious disorder and malingering, these disorders denoting feigning of illness and procrastination for personal gain].

• MIND – CENSORIOUS
• MIND – DICTATORIAL
• MIND – WILL – strong will power

Physical

Intimidating posture, overbearing demeanor, gestures of dominance. Vigorous, often healthful appearance; exuding strength; may have paucity of physical symptoms due to exercising the right of self-determination and due to self-indulgence. Muscular tension. Pushes own self and that of others to limits of endurance; may become exhausted and burnt-out.  Forcefulness of will and overambitiousness create overexertion of the organism, especially of the heart muscle (coronary heart disease); Hypertension from enhanced self-control and suppression of enmity, though driven by a need to assert.  Migraine headaches and other complaints from being undermined; may manipulate others with illness. Thwarted ambition to achieve manifests in gastric ulcer formation.
Physical complaints tend to manifest primarily as the urge to dominate is suppressed by inevitable circumstance; internal rebelliousness and/or feelings of being thwarted create disturbance in the organism; the main indications on the mental/emotional plane, those determining the choice of Bach remedy, may move into other remedy selections as the Vine tendency abates.
May have high sex drive. (In gemmotherapy, based on the medicinal use of young shoots and buds, Vitis vinifera has been found to have an affinity with white blood cell   regulation and bone metabolism, while addressing bone deformities.)

• Coronary heart disease  
• Gastric and duodenal ulcers – overambitious patients  
• Hyperthyroidism  Hypertension  Migraines 
• Gastric and duodenal ulcers – tyrannical patients

Compare

Vervain: Excessive willpower and overambitious drive; attempts to convert others to own opinion; impulsive urges.
Chicory: Overly interested in controlling or manipulating others; the goal is to stimulate their devotion and gratitude; feigning of illness to gain attention (also Heather).
Beech: Controls others by critical and fault-finding attitude.
Impatiens: Works and achieves at efficient and fast pace; impatient and demanding with those slower and less efficient; problems with impulse control (also Cherry Plum).
Water Violet: Feels superior and believes own self to be more capable than others.
Holly: Abusiveness and outbursts of temper from feeling threatened or undermined; irritated by sensory impressions; problems with impulse control.
Chestnut Bud: Failure to learn from mistakes; moral immaturity; persists in wrong-doing, may be careless with others; malingering.
Willow: Resenting others, blaming others, with efforts to manipulate and retaliate; aggressive, passive-aggressive, disruptive behavior; feigning of sickness and malingering.

Homoeopathic Medicine  and  Vine

Lycopodium clavatum: Overambitious, craves power and recognition; dictatorial and tyrannical with subordinates and family, while subservient to authority; egotism; migraines; hypertension; gastric ulcers develop when thwarted or humiliated; high sex drive.
Nitricum acidum: Dictatorial, critical, and dissatisfied; gastric ulcer; (ulceration with splinter-like pains in places where mucous membranes meet the skin).
Chelidonium majus: Very forceful personality, wants to control others; self-control is high, overambitious and exacting; controls own self in regard to emotions that are not indulged in, does not allow for temper outbursts, controls others with subtle tyranny; migraines; muscular tension.
Nux vomica: Ambitious and overly driven; demanding and exacting with others, assumes role of executive; does not like to be challenged or contradicted; egotism; migraines; heart complaints; hypertension; gastric ulcers from being thwarted and from excessive demands; general muscular tension and rigidity; high sex drive.
Platinum: Dictatorial and haughty; self-absorbed and self-admiring, egotism; ruthless; constrictive headaches and migraines; muscular contractions and muscular tension, constricting feeling; high sex drive.
Apis mellifica: Busy, active, vital, and controlling; does not tolerate to be thwarted, reacts with rage; tired and bruised feeling in extremities; (connective tissue disease); high sex drive.
Aurum metallicum: Ambitious and seriously given to tasks; may appear ominous or intimidating; egotism; does not tolerate humiliation or failure, easily offended; outbursts of anger; affections of the heart; hypertension; (connective tissue disease).
Medorrhinum: Interested in fulfillment of needs and passions; can be cruel and demanding; migraines; hypertension; gastric ulcers from being thwarted; high sex drive.
Palladium: Wants to control social situation by pleasing and manipulating others; egotism; easily offended, easily feels left out.
Lilium tigrinum: Tyrannical and demanding attitude; expects to be served and cherished, longs for noble and fine things; extremely irritable on being thwarted; affections of the heart; high sex drive.

Vervain

Botanical name : Verbena officinalis Linn.
Family : Verbenaceae
Synonyms:

• English: Common vervain, Holy herb;
• Spanish: Verbena;
• French: Verveine officinale;
• German: Eisenhart, Eisenkraut.

Mind/emotions

Awareness, knowledge of, and identification with values and principles. Enthusiasm and elan in one’s efforts to implement one’s chosen goals and principles. Fervency and exuberance of expression; strength of personal presentation.  Uses willpower and resolve to master challenges and work for progress.  Conscientiousness in one’s efforts.  The goals of achievement, advancement, quality, progress and results are important motivational incentives.  Attempt to inspire others to join in the effort, attempt to convert them to one’s own viewpoint and highly valued principles.
Self-righteous certainty and self-justification in regard to the correctness of one’s opinions; feels self-righteously empowered to influence others.  Becomes overwrought from continued effort and need to uphold goals, principles, and one’s work performance; escalating nervous tension and strain, heightened nervous sensitivity (nervous breakdown).  May precipitate mentally and attempt to achieve high goals prematurely rather than taking one step at a time. During repose or rest, the mind grips ideas in regard to projects, with restless urge to put thoughts into action (insomnia).
Fanatic, rebellious, driven in pursuance of goals and ideals; religious fanaticism; urge for outward, expressive show.  Excitement of the mind; ecstasy; racing mind. The Vervain state constitutes the underlying, propelling dynamic in psychological disturbances and mental illness when there is forcefulness of personality and self-expression or manic or ecstatic states; (bipolar disorder, mania, problems with impulse control, delusions and psychoses with excessive fervency or ecstasy, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, and hysterical neurosis with excessive drive and tension and attempts to influence others).

• MIND – CATATONIA 
• MIND – CENSORIOUS
• MIND – DULLNESS
• MIND – DULLNESS – epilepsy – with
• MIND – GESTURES, makes
• MIND – GESTURES, makes – enthusiastic
• MIND – PROSTRATION of mind
• MIND – SPEECH – enthusiastic
• MIND – WILL – strong will power

Physical

May have thin, wiry, and intense appearance. Great restlessness and urge to move or move fast.
Nervously overwrought and overly sensitive to external impressions such as light, noise, confusion. Escalating nervous tension leading to a nervous breakdown. Mental and physical complaints from overexertion of the will. Rigidity of fiber; rheumatoid, arthritic tendencies; connective tissue diseases. Increased muscle tension, seen in extreme form in manic or catatonic states; increased strength during manic episodes; hyperactivity. Hyperthyroidism.  Hypertension; heart palpitations. Sleep disturbances. A head injury may cause cerebral disturbances, marked by heightened tension and nervous/sensory sensitivity, a driven state, and increased rigidity of fiber. Impaired cognitive functioning, however minute, may challenge the person to increased use of willpower and exertion of personal strength. [The related species Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain or Ironweed), by use of the tincture of the entire fresh plant, has been found of value in affections of the nervous system, especially in insomnia, mental exhaustion, and epilepsy.]

• Coronary heart disease 
• Gastric and duodenal ulcers – overambitious patients
• Tension headaches, cervical, thoracic, and lumbar troubles, dysmenorrhea  Hyperthyroidism  
• Hypertension  
• Insulin-dependent diabetes 
• Soft tissue rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis 
• Insomnia – intermittent type (due to excessive demands and suppression of hostility) 
• Skin disease (psoriasis)  
• Gastric and duodenal ulcers – patients with character neurosis  

 Compare

Cherry Plum: Nervous breakdown, extreme tension; internal battles to overcome impulsive, unwanted urges; strives to do what is right; superhuman strength; hyperactivity (also Chestnut Bud); head injury.
Impatiens: Driven, impatient, and tense; urges others on to work faster from sheer lack of patience and calm; escalating tension, nervous breakdown; hyperactivity; head injury.
Oak: Strong resolve and feats of willpower; wants to persevere due to sense of duty and loyalty.
Rock Water: Idealistic, follows a path of personal or spiritual progress; attempts to convert others; prone to self-denial and strict self-mastery.
Chicory: Conscientious overcare toward others; wants to guide others for sake of developing close relations; possessiveness.
Vine: Guides and influences others by overpowering them against their will.
Red Chestnut: Cares for the well-being of others; anxious attempts to persuade them to avoid potentially harmful roads.
Rock Rose: Nervous breakdown, sensitivity of nervous system to outside impressions; great fragility of nerves and chronic anxiety; racing mind;  head injury.
Holly: Overly sensitive and easily vexed by disturbing sensory impressions.

Homoeopathic Medicine  and   Vervain

Chelidonium majus: High principles in regard to achieving and accomplishing; pragmatic attitude, does not want to be deterred by emotions and expects others to do likewise; tension, soreness, and rigidity in muscles and tendons; rheumatic complaints, especially in hips and thighs; intermittent insomnia, wakes at 4 a.m.  and cannot go back to sleep due to thinking about the work ahead and that it should get done.
Causticum: Fanatic and rebellious, very sympathetic toward the oppressed, wants to fight for justice; rigid fibers; contracted tendons, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis; fibrositis; rheumatism and arthritis; head injury.
Nux vomica: Overambitious, determined, exacting; sensitive to external impressions; headaches from tension; heart conditions (heart palpitations); hypertension; gastric ulceration; fibrositis; rigid fiber, spasmodic tension; insomnia; head injury.
Dulcamara (Solanum dulcamara): Rigidly opinionated, wants to interfere in and dominate the lives of others, especially family members; hypertension; connective tissue disease; rheumatism and arthritis, (worse rainy weather); lumbar pain.
Iodum: Anxious and agitated, restless, hyperactive; compulsive overexertion and conscientious exactness, checks things repeatedly; heart conditions (heart palpitations, arrhythmia); hyperthyroidism; propelled to move; emaciated; psoriasis; (internal heat).
Stramonium (Datura stramonium): Hyperactive and intensely exaggerated in expression; manic-depressive; wild laughter, violence, rage, strong fears, stammering; intense, energetic; nervous and sensory oversensitivity; spasmodic muscles; head injury.
Veratrum album: Self-righteous, expressive; religious fanaticism, urge to  convince others; hyperactive, manic-depressive; severe dysmenorrhea; muscles tend to cramp and twitch; (internal coldness and coldness of extremities).
Tarentula hispanica: Intensely hurried and restlessly driven; works at fast pace; hyperactive in mind and body, moves and thinks with a rapid internal rhythm; destructive, prone to impulsive and manic reactions, with increased strength; rebellious; nervous and sensory oversensitivity; heart conditions (angina pectoris, heart palpitations); diabetes; dysmenorrhea; muscular twitches and jerks; sleep disturbances; head injury.
Coffea cruda: Overly excited mental/emotional state; ecstasy; uncontrollable thoughts, racing mind; nervous and sensory oversensitivity to external impressions; heart palpitations from excitement; insomnia from overactivity of the mind.

Sweet chestnut

Botanical name: Castanea sativa Miller.
Family: Fagaceae
Synonyms:

• Latin: Castanea vesca Gaertn., C. vulgaris Lam.;
• English: Sweet chestnut, European chestnut, Spanish chestnut.;
• Spanish: Castano;
• French: Chataignier;
• German: Edelkastanie, Esskastanie, Maronenbaum.

Mind/emotions

Unbearable suffering, one believes that the utmost limit of endurance has been reached.  Failure to see any meaning or purpose in one’s own suffering or that of others; failure to see the “hand of God” despite the adverse circumstances.  Deep-seated faithlessness and lack of hope; “dark night of the soul.”  A general sense of the meaninglessness and futility of life.   Lack of inspiration, incentive, and soul-joy; negation of values. Nihilism; prolonged or repeated preoccupation with morbid content such as in regard to death and decay; may become prone to superstitions, foreboding, or compulsive ritualism. Failure to raise consciousness to a vision that extends beyond the earthly existence to a winged path of spiritual unfolding.  Severe pains or agony of death that threaten to break the mind, even calling for release by suicide.  Severe depression and existential despair with suicidal ideation (depressive disorders). Withdrawal from others, introversion, absorption with one’s inner soul struggle. Religious despair of salvation; self-depreciation; disgust of life.
Destructiveness that arises from a sense of futility and disrespect for life and creation, with underlying loss of all aspiration and creative joy.

• MIND – DESPAIR
• MIND – RESTLESSNESS
• MIND – RESTLESSNESS – night 
• MIND – SADNESS

Physical

Vitality and the power of rejuvenation and recuperation are threatened to the very core. Pains that are unbearable and deeply torturing, with inclination to suicide. Symptoms resembling those accompanying a deep depression, such as lowered vitality, chronic fatigue, appetite and digestive disturbances, sleeping disturbances, lack of interest in healthful habits.  A sense of being compressed and staunched throughout the organism. Darkness of the mind, as if there is a shadow over one’s cognitive perception; depletion of mental or intellectual power. Diseases may reflect the self-destructive severity of the psychological state and present with deep-reaching and intrusively torturing symptoms that gnaw at the very root and structure of existence. A tendency to nightly aggravation of symptoms on all levels of the human being. A tendency to drug use, to fatalistic endeavors in general, with self-destructive features. History of syphilis or gonorrhea in the patient or the family. May come on from sexual excess, sexual disease, and sexual depletion, or from suppression of sexuality; a breakdown in the area of sexuality tends to precipitate mental/emotional states of meaninglessness, despair, and disgust of life. This medicine is indicated in any type of psychosomatic illness that is marked by deep existential despair.

Compare

Pine: Despair of salvation; self-depreciation, remorse, and loss of spiritual joy; superstitions, compulsive ritualism.
Cherry Plum: Despair from the pains, fear that the mind will break, suicidal ideation; extreme sense of tension and inner struggle; compulsive ritualism.
Rock Water: Loss of creativity, joy, and playfulness, due to staunching one’s capacity for pleasure in self-mastery; compulsive ritualism.
Agrimony: Internal torture and disharmony that are concealed behind a    mask of cheerfulness.
Mustard: Gloomy introversion, depression, lack of inspiration.
White Chestnut: Repeated preoccupation with unwholesome thought content that evades solution.
Gorse: Deep-seated hopelessness and lack of incentive to live.
Gentian: Faithlessness that is anchored in a lack of personal certainty.
Aspen: Morbid preoccupation with sinister content, anxious foreboding and superstitions.

Homoeopathic Medicine  and  Sweet chestnut

Natrum sulphuricum: Severe depression and inclination to suicide by shooting or hanging; gloomy consciousness, intensified depression during cloudy and dark skies (may come on from head injury); sadness from lively and happy music; gastric ulcer; ulcerative colitis; rectal cancer; (diabetes, leukemia); arthritis, connective tissue disease; malignancy; gonorrhea.
Plumbum metallicum: Weary of life, gloomy and guilty conscience; fear of being assassinated; resignation, yet also destructiveness; psyche and body contract inward, self-protective withdrawal; compulsion to view own image in the mirror; muscles constrict toward the body; sunken abdomen, region around navel feels as if pulled toward spine, causing feelings of dread and despair; (diabetes); muscular atrophy, paralysis, general nerve degeneration; nightly aggravation; may come on after sexual excess.
Sulphur: Excessive theorizing and dwelling on soul’s salvation, disgust with life; morbid ideas preoccupy; destructive and egoistic; suppressed vitality in spirit, mind/emotions, and body; outlets are sought in sudden temper outbursts and physical discharges; alcoholism; gastric ulcer; inflammatory bowel disease; arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, connective tissue disease; general tendency to purulent infection; malignancy; chronic fatigue and lack of physical stamina, especially in regard to posture.
Arsenicum album: Feels threatened and insecure on deep existential level; despair of salvation, despair of recovery; severe anguish during death struggles; depression to the point of suicide; destructive impulses to kill; perfection-oriented, compulsive, ritualistic; anorexia nervosa; gastric ulcer; inflammatory bowel disease; acrid and excoriating discharges; malignant ulceration; (leukemia); great, anguished restlessness; nightly aggravation; syphilis in history of patient or previous generations.
Conium maculatum: Depression, anguish, and emotional withdrawal; destructiveness; aversion to people, yet disinclination to be alone; mental depletion and lack of incentive; superstitions and anxieties; state may be precipitated by sexual exhaustion and depletion or come on from suppressed sexuality, for example after death of spouse; impotence; tumors and induration of glands, cancerous malignancies; progressive paralysis (nerve degeneration).
Agaricus muscarius: Depression; preoccupation with morbid thought content such as in regard to life, sickness, death and decay; despairing fear of disease, especially of cancer; alternating mental and physical symptoms, vacillation between fears and ecstasy; neurological and degenerative symptoms, twitches and spasms; may come on after sexual excess.
Selenium: Deepest despair, abject melancholy and sadness; theorizing; preoccupying with and doubtful of soul’s welfare; suspicious and fanatic; mental exertion aggravates; symptoms from sexual excess and depletion; (chronic liver affections); (selenium provides an important constituent of bones and teeth); effects of genitourinary organs; chronic fatigue and debility; nightly aggravation.

star of bethlehem

Botanical name: Ornithogalum umbellatum Linn.
Family : Liliaceae
Synonyms:

• English: Star-of-Bethlehem, Summer snowflake, Star-flower, Nap-at-noon;
• Spanish: Leche de Gallina;
• French: Ornithogale en ombelle;
• German: Doldiger Milchstern.

Mind/emotions

Grief and poignant sadness after any severe loss.  Chronic disheartenment and “locked-in” feelings after experience of grief.  Assists in releasing any chronic psychological disturbances after grief or trauma (post-traumatic stress disorder and adjustment disorder, the latter connoting reactions to a less severe trauma).   The grievous or traumatic experiences overshadow one’s whole existence, cannot be released.  One’s former happiness appears irretrievable; the facts in regard to the loss appear cold and alien.  Sense of utter abandonment, of having lost all support or possibility of help; depression of spirits.  Avoidance reactions to “numb” one’s receptivity to the full severity of the impact, such as denial (Agrimony), anger (Holly), longing for death (Clematis), resigning and emotional standstill (Wild Rose), sinking into depression (Mustard), resentment and blaming (Willow), criticizing (Beech), and giving in to thoughts of nihilism (Sweet Chestnut); (both, Star of Bethlehem plus the specific remedy are indicated).  Lack of rational acknowledgment of limitations, lack of recognizing new possibilities arising from the grief; dominance of emotions.

• MIND – AILMENTS FROM – mental shock; from 
• MIND – ANGUISH 
• MIND – ANGUISH – pain; from – Stomach
•  MIND – GRIEF
•  MIND – SADNESS
•  MIND – SADNESS – extreme
•  MIND – SADNESS – suicidal disposition, with
•  MIND – SUICIDAL disposition

Physical 

Trauma and shock imprint on each cell of the organism due to psychological and mechanical intrusions; Star of Bethlehem releases this memory.  Trauma in mind and body after head injury.
Headaches after grief.  Generally subdued organism, loss of healthful functioning.  Prostration, tendency to circulatory collapse or fainting, lack of appetite and other gastric disturbances (ulcerative colitis), weight loss, cramped diaphragm and impaired breathing (sighing), heart disturbances, hair loss  Moaning and crying during sleep; insomnia.    (In homeopathic use, Ornithogalum umbellatum is indicated as well in severe states of “intrusion,” marked predominantly by gastrointestinal ulceration, an agonizing feeling in chest and stomach, and generally depressed spirits. The remedy is prepared from the tincture of the fresh plant.)*

• Deep-sighing respiration  
• Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
• Bronchial asthma with expiratory difficulties 
• Gastric and duodenal ulcers – patients with character neurosis

Compare

Gorse: Deep hopelessness, no more incentive to live.
Clematis: Grieves over present lack of happiness, yet dreams of a fulfilled future.
Honeysuckle: Sadness and reminiscences in regard to irretrievable past.
Wild Rose: Apathetic withdrawal after grief, emotional standstill.
Sweet Chestnut: Utter despair over meaninglessness of life; faithlessness.
Mustard: Depression and joyless introversion.
Rock Water: Inner sadness and depression from forgoing playful and pleasurable pursuits, from ruling oneself with an iron fist.
Willow: Grief from being treated unfairly.
Beech: Criticism of the grievous event to avoid experiencing the severity of the impact; grief over loss of a former state of perfection that now has been displaced by a less perfect reality.

 Homoeopathic Medicine  and  star of bethlehem

Ignatia amara: Severe grief after sudden disappointments, romantic reversals, severe experience of loss; emotions are held inside, taciturn, does not want to cry; headaches from grief; weight upon the chest and deep-sighing respiration, asthma; heart palpitations from grief; spasms and cramping, prostration; moaning during sleep; dreams of waves breaking over self, as if drowning in sorrow.
Aurum metallicum: Depression and compression throughout organism,  burdening grief after severe loss, after disappointments in love, or after humiliations; suicidal ideation, cannot release pain; darkening of consciousness, gloominess, after grief or head injury; serious mood; chest feels as if encased in armor; heart palpitations from grief; (deep-seated bone pains); moaning during sleep; insomnia.
Phosphoricum acidum: Emotional standstill after grief or disappointment in love; resignation and indifference; headaches with a heavy feeling on top of head; (grief leading to hair loss or premature grayness); ulcerative colitis; (diabetes); collapse states and weakness.
Causticum: Grieves over losses, often coupled with outcry against injustice received or witnessed; intensely sympathetic for others; asthma from intense or suppressed emotions; colitis; (indurations of tendons, slowly progressing paralysis).
Crocus sativus: Tendency to sadness, yet also great changeability of symptoms; laughing alternates with sadness or anger; deep-sighing respiration, heavy feeling around heart; heart palpitations; weakness with fainting fits; (feeling as if something alive in various internal organs, also in right breast).
Colchicum autumnale: Grieves from being mistreated by others; unsupportable suffering; appetite vanishes, odors of food nauseate, especially of eggs and fish; heart palpitations; difficulty of respiration, oppressed chest; intestinal catarrh, dysentery, much withheld abdominal gas; weariness (rheumatic and arthritic complaints).
Opium (Papaver somniferum): Complaints from trauma or fright, consequences of head injury; darkening of consciousness, drowsy state, almost blissful; also nervousness and impatience; (flushed face); chronic bowel obstruction and inactivity from trauma, especially in small intestine; prostration and fatigue; insomnia.
Natrum muriaticum: Locked-in emotions after grief, introversion and dwelling on adverse or grievous experiences; sensitive and vulnerable; bears grudges; headaches from grief; asthma, sighing; heart palpitations; gastric ulcers from not being able to work through grief, colitis; insomnia from recollection of hurtful events; head injury.

scleranthus

Botanical Name: Scleranthus annuus
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Synonyms:

• English: L Scleranthus, Annual knawel;
• French: Gnavelle;
• German: Sommerknäuel.

Mind/emotions

Indecisiveness; vacillation between options, first one choice seeming right, then the other.  Dread of making the wrong decision; “deadlock” feeling.   May feel need to solve problem alone. Overstimulation by impressions and ideas; oversensitivity to external impressions.  Lack of mental peace and lack of having an overview.  “Wild,” unfocused feeling in the head; thought processes do not readily translate into decisive and pragmatic action.  Lack of reasonable clarity; emotions may predominate.  Lack of power of concentration.  Emotional imbalances and mood swings (bipolar or manic-depressive disorders).  Capriciousness; hysterical sensitivity and alternation between mental/emotional and physical symptoms (hysterical neurosis, conversion type).  Dissociation within the personality, alternation between different expressions of personality (dissociative personality disorder).

• MIND – CONFIDENCE – want of self-confidence
• MIND – IRRESOLUTION
•  MIND – MOOD – changeable
•  MIND – POSTPONING everything to next day
•  MIND – SLOWNESS
•  MIND – SLOWNESS – irresolution; from

Physical

All alternating symptoms or symptoms shifting between planes, as mental/emotional symptoms alternate with physical symptoms.  Hysterical neurosis with physical manifestations.  Hormonal imbalances.  Nervous oversensitivity in regard to disturbing, interfering impressions, as when experiencing excessive light, noise, turmoil, or when pressured to receive too much information or input at once.  The body does not find stability or balance in expression and function.  Disturbances in equilibrium such as dizziness, vertigo, fainting, travel sickness.  Difficulty in focusing the vision; problems of visual accommodation.  Insecure, staggering gait.  Failure to synchronize thought processes with actions; failure of coordination.  Mood swings, lack of mental serenity and calm reasoning power, “wild” feeling in head after head injury.

• Any physical illness based on conversion disorder (or hysterical neurosis, conversion type) 
• Migraines 
• Susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis  
• Asthma with inspiratory difficulties – ‘singultus’ 
• Skin allergies  Skin diseases (atopic dermatitis – infantile eczema, pruritus, psoriasis)  
• Gastric and duodenal ulcers – tyrannical patients

Compare

Elm: A sense of being overwhelmed by multiple impressions and demands; cannot find an overview, lack of pragmatic power in one’s actions; lack of ability to oversee problems of an emotional nature; may be triggered by head injury.
Cerato: Indecisiveness from lack of self-assurance and from lack of trust in one’s own wisdom; asks others for advice.
Wild Oat: Lack of direction in life; cannot decide on a meaningful occupation or path; lack of incentive; may be triggered by head injury.
Hornbeam: Lack of mental clarity, lack of power of concentration, mental fatigue; may be triggered by head injury.
Chicory: Capriciousness; changeable emotions; wants to bind others closely in order to feel appreciated; hysterical neurosis.
Chestnut Bud: Lack of reasonable clarity; mental overstimulation; impulsiveness of decisions.
Cherry Plum: Extreme imbalance in the mind; vacillation between two opposing tendencies, one being the need to control the mind with reason, the other being the inclination to give in to impulsive, irrational urges; oversensitivity to external impressions; may be triggered by head injury.
Agrimony: Changeable, contradictory state; surface demeanor is friendly and cheerful, while inner turmoil takes its toll; repeated disharmonious or spiteful remarks, as if to vent internal pressure; oversensitivity to external impressions.

Homoeopathic Medicine and scleranthus

Lilium tigrinum: “Wild,” unfocused feeling in the head; cannot attend decisively to work-related details; vacillation between religious aspiration and sexual inclination; manic-depressive; capricious; hysterical neurosis; visual weakness of accommodation (astigmatism); lack of steady gait, cannot step well on uneven ground, cannot walk straight; burning itching in various parts of the body; (sleeplessness from unruly mind).
Pulsatilla nigricans: Changeable emotions and physical symptoms, weeps and laughs alternately; difficulty in making a decision; nervous sensitivity; capriciousness, wants attention; hysterical neurosis; vertigo; migraines; susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis; hormonal imbalances; itching, pricking skin eruptions, skin allergies (after eating pork, for example).
Nux moschata: Bewildered state of mind; alternating moods, crying and laughing; believes to have two heads (symbolic sensation of the two-fold mental/emotional expression); vertigo, as from drunkenness (drowsiness, head feels enlarged, wavering sensation through head); asthma with inspiratory difficulties; psoriasis (dryness of skin and mucous membranes).
Berberis vulgaris: Concentration difficult, especially when interrupted; weeping mood, morose, indifferent; dull intellect in the morning, excitement at night; anxiety from motion; rapid change of physical symptoms, especially in regard to shifting location and character of pains; vertigo (head feels enlarged); skin eruptions over whole body.
Lachesis muta: Irresolution; lack of incentive, especially in the morning, more stimulated at night; strong emotional fluctuation, passionate; manic-depressive states; hysterical neurosis; vertigo; migraines; breathing disturbances (suffocative attacks); gastric ulcer; skin eruptions; in general, symptoms move from left to right; head injury.
Onosmodium virginianum: Difficulty in focusing and concentrating the mind; irresolution; mind precipitates, thoughts do not coordinate with actions; listless and without direction; migraines from eye-strain; difficulty accommodating the vision and focusing the eyes; hormonal disturbance (loss of sexual inclination, yet preoccupation with matter); staggering, unsteady gait (objects seem too high, stepping high).
Platinum: Alternating mental/emotional states, weeping and laughing; haughtiness, then fear of being abandoned; as mental/emotional symptoms abate, physical symptoms emerge, and vice versa; nervous sensitivity; hysterical neurosis; vertigo; migraines; various parts of the skin itch and burn, with shooting pains.
Petroleum: Great irresolution; anxious and dejected, yet suddenly flares into anger; bewildered feeling in head; sensation of being double or that someone else is lying next to own self (symbolic sensations of the alternating parts of the self, of the vacillating imbalance in the psyche); vertigo as if one had been swinging; motion sickness; itching eruptions, psoriasis.
Medorrhinum: Wild, unfocused sensation in head; erratic and extreme behavior, strongly passionate and poetic, then cruel and uncaring (tyrannical); manic-depressive states; vertigo that is worse on movement; migraines; inspiratory disorder especially in children (due to feeling alternately loved or rejected and developing emotional indecisiveness); gastric ulcer; urticaria, pruritus.

Rock Water

Botanical Name: Aqua petra
Synonyms:

English: Rock water

German: Quellwasser

Mind/emotions

High aspirations toward spiritual advancement by means of self-mastery and by following a path of disciplined application of principles and routines. Belief that this strict path of willpower, with negation of vital, emotional, or instinctual needs and desires, is the best way of advancement; too self-absorbed. Personal pride and a sense of accomplishment from the reinforced routine and the success at self-mastery. Motivated to inspire others to the same path, to the same degree of self-martyrdom. Failure to see that each individual has a personal way of unfolding and advancing.
A beginning Rock Water state may come on unwillingly, as death of a spouse or other calamity impose restriction of vital needs; the typical Rock Water state, however, arises as one believes to have overcome dependency on such needs and attempts to inspire others to the same perception.
Deep-seated depression, joylessness, or anger that may not be apparent but stifle soul joy in its very roots; lack of emotional fluidity. Preoccupation with and intensified focus on denial of vital needs, overemphasis on disciplined measures; lack of seeing new opportunities for growth and joy.
Compulsive, obsessive, perfection-oriented, ritualistic, self-punitive measures. Idealization of the concept of purity; purity of spirit, mind, and body is desired; fear of contamination, can hardly be carefree or playful. Temporary Rock Water state during drug rehabilitation, as former habits and desires are being mastered.

• MIND – CENSORIOUS
• MIND – CENSORIOUS – oneself; of
• MIND – GESTURES, makes
• MIND – GESTURES, makes – enthusiastic
• MIND – IDEALISTIC
• MIND – SPEECH – enthusiastic
• MIND – WILL – strong will power

Physical

Self-mastery leads to rigidity and hardening of the physical structures; indurated glands; muscles may cramp more readily; musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders. Inner tension and strain from feats of willpower. Set jaw, gnashing of teeth; temporomandibular joint dysfunction.
Strict adherence to imposed discipline during drug rehabilitation; adverse effects on mind and body from the regiment. Detrimental effects from suppression of sexuality.

• Tension headaches, cervical, thoracic, and lumbar troubles, dysmenorrhea
• Psychosomatic diseases in overly intellectualized patients
• Soft tissue rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis
• Skin disease (pruritus)
• Eating disorder (anorexia nervosa)
• Nervous breathing syndrome – ‘respiratory corset’
• Irritable colon
• Insomnia – initial and intermittent (due to compulsive thought activity)

Compare

Oak: Stoic adherence to duty, loyalty despite personal hardship; feats of willpower and self-mastery.
Vervain: Excessive drive and willpower, is guided by principles, fervency of expression; wants to convert others to own cause, usually morally broad or political cause; cause is not necessarily linked with suppression of personal needs.
Pine: Denial of vital needs, with high self-blame for failure; self-punitive, ritualistic, compulsive-obsessive measures.
Crab Apple: Shame and despair over personal uncleanness; wish to be purified from unwholesome urges; fear of contamination.
Centaury: Negation of personal needs from inclination to serve others; failure to fulfill one’s potentials.
Water Violet: Belief that one’s spiritual growth is advancing and that others are less perceptive and refined; feelings of superiority.
Wild Rose: Resignation in face of loss of gratification instead of mastering the dependence on gratifying experiences.

Homoeopathic Medicine and Rock Water

Conium maculatum: Bad effects from suppression of sexual desires, often after death of spouse (sexual dysfunction); deep-seated depression; hardening and numbing in mind/emotions and on the physical plane; indurated glands and advancing weakness and paralysis from below upward.
Apis mellifica: Aggravation from suppression of sexuality, from grief; cross, busy, vital, controlling others; burning and stinging pain in chest, shortness of breath when ascending; hardened, swollen glands; ovarian cysts; dysmenorrhea; arthritis, connective tissue disease; skin manifestations, urticaria.
Kali carbonicum: Works hard, negates own emotions and vital needs; adheres to strict routine; swelling and induration of glands after contusion; breathing disturbances (asthma and edema of lungs); arthritis, connective tissue disease; burning, dry, itching skin; gnashing of teeth during sleep.
Kali bichromicum: Has strict routines of work, does not like to be interrupted; rigid and conforming at expense of diversion and enjoyment of people; irritable and morose; rheumatoid arthritis; breathing disturbances, (catarrhal conditions and asthma); (rheumatic complaints alternate with asthma and gastric complaints).
Arsenicum album: Seeks purity and perfection; feels threatened by lack of security, by disorder and confusion; adheres to strict routines and principles; attempts to control others and expects same perfectionism of performance; compulsive and ritualistic; breathing disturbances (‘respiratory corset,’ asthma); anorexia nervosa; inflammatory bowel disease; skin conditions (psoriasis); insomnia.
Causticum: Enthusiasm in regard to spiritual or social principles, tries to inspire others; idealistic, sympathetic; can become overly fanatic or rebellious; hurriedness and compulsive checking during task completion; temporomandibular joint dysfunction; harsh, “rock-like” feeling in chest (asthma from suppressed emotions); sexual dysfunction, aversion to coition; cervical tension; hardening of tendons, contractures of muscles and tendons; rheumatic complaints, arthritis, slowly progressing paralysis; eczema.
Ignatia amara: May become internally hardened and prone to negation of needs after disappointments and grief; constricted breathing, sighing; rectal spasms (irritable colon); arthritis, musculoskeletal tension.
Rhus toxicodendron: Overexerts and works on despite high demands; lack of emotional fluidity, diminishing affectionate responses, decline in playfulness; superstitious, compulsive, ritualistic; temporomandibular joint dysfunction; (asthma); rheumatism and arthritis, stiffness and pain in the muscles (worse cold and wet); itching skin eruptions (urticaria, herpes).; restless sleep and dreams of exertion.

Rock Rose

Botanical Name: Helianthemum nummularium
Family: Cistaceae
Synonyms:

• English : Common Rock Rose
• German: Gelbes Sonnenröschen

Mind/emotions

Acute response of terror to imminent threat of a severe kind. Acute fear of death, either in regard to one’s own life or that of another. Shock from fright and long-lasting chronic complaints from such fright, such as nervousness, timidity, phobias, nightmares, insomnia; (post-traumatic stress disorder, adjustment disorder that classifies reactions to a less severe trauma). Intense phobic reactions and fixations, frightful delusions, nightmares that develop gradually due to predominantly intrapsychic reasons rather than having been prompted by a severe shock; (anxiety disorder, panic disorder). Fragility of nerves; starts easily, frightened easily, fears approaching objects, generally apprehensive and fearful of new challenges. Chronic want of nerve power from prolonged fearful worry, from leading a demanding and hectic life, from prolonged loss of sleep. Instability of emotions, weepiness, irrationality, fears of abandonment, and feelings of helplessness. Advanced hypochondriasis and fearfully escalating sensation during observation of symptoms. Intense nervousness and feelings of being threatened can give rise to aggressive states, impatience, and violence.

• MIND – ANXIETY
• MIND – ANXIETY – beside oneself from anxiety; being
• MIND – ANXIETY – fear; with
• MIND – FEAR
• MIND – FEAR – death, of
• MIND – FEAR – sudden

Physical

Nervous system is depleted, fragile; lack of stamina on all levels of human being. Threatened or acute nervous breakdown. Hypersensitivity of the senses; noise, bright light, odors, jars disturb deeply and set the nervous system on edge. Acute states of anxiety, marked by accelerated heart and breathing rhythm, choking sensation and constricted breath, dry mouth, indigestion with possible nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, dizziness and fainting, perspiration, internal and external trembling. Chronic states of anxiety present the acute features in varying degrees of intensity. Insomnia and nightmares. Intensification of symptoms by anxious observation and exaggerated imagination, as happens in cardiac neurosis. Indicated during especially frightful or painful procedures of rehabilitation and recuperation. Muscular rigidity in manic and catatonic states that are marked by terror.

• Cardiac neurosis
• ‘Emotional diarrhea’
• Hyperventilation syndrome

Compare

Mimulus: Mild phobias, chronic timidity, nervous anticipation, fear of renewed injury during convalescence.
Cherry Plum: Nervous breakdown; aggression and violence from nervous strain and from intense intrapsychic fear of losing control; nervous and sensory oversensitivity. Aspen: Phobic reactions in regard to broad or natural phenomena such as water, wind, open spaces; nightmares with sinister character.
Red Chestnut: Fear for the welfare of another; fragility of nerves.
Vervain: Intense nervous strain from overexertion of the will and from having to guide and control others; nervous breakdown; nerves are on edge, sensory oversensitivity.
Impatiens: Highly strung nerves; tension, with loss of temper, restless and impatient; nervous breakdown; nervous and sensory oversensitivity.
Holly: Aggressiveness and violence from being threatened; easily vexed; nervous and sensory oversensitivity. Star of Bethlehem: Trauma after grievous or frightful experiences, with connotation of sadness.

Homoeopathic Medicine and Rock Rose

Asarum europaeum: Profound fragility and sensitivity of nervous system; very apprehensive, performance anxiety; wants to do a good job, hands start perspiring when merely imagining the tasks ahead; extreme sensitivity to noise; internal trembling; tendency to diarrhea; perspiration from anxiety; severe insomnia, inability to fall asleep due to nervousness.
Opium (Papaver somniferum): Acute states of shock and fright, with loss of power of consciousness; chronic effects from fright; aggravation of symptoms and new fright on recollection of frightful experiences; drowsy, rather pleasant, dream-like, stuporous state or acuity of senses (alternation between those states can occur); acute diarrhea from fright, chronic constipation from inactivity of the bowels after a shock (small intestine particularly); tremor and insomnia; (head injuries).
Arnica montana: Fragility of nerves, may come on after overexertion or after accidents; feels unprotected and vulnerable, is threatened by moving objects or when meeting a forceful person, fears being injured; cardiac neurosis, fear of heart disease (especially at night); dysentery; insomnia, cannot sleep from bruised and exhausted feeling, bed feels too injuries).
Aconitum napellus: Fear of death, predicts the hour of own death; anxiety states following experiences of fright or shock; phobic reactions in regard to crowded rooms, airplanes, earthquakes, heart disease (cardiac neurosis); heart palpitations or pulsations after fright; perspiration from anxiety; restlessness and sleeplessness from anxiety and agitation.
Argentum nitricum: Fearful imagination and apprehension; anxious impulsiveness; claustrophobia; fears disease, heights, being late, heart disease; anxious observation of symptoms (as in cardiac neurosis); diarrhea from apprehension (‘emotional diarrhea’); generally nervous, sensitive, and suggestible. especially around 4 a.m. ; (easily frightened infants with dread and anxiety on being put down).
Ignatia amara: Chronic effects from fright, shock, or grief; nervous apprehension; taciturn state, withholding of emotions; weight upon the chest, difficult inspiration with desire to take a deep breath, rapid expiration (hyperventilation syndrome), sighing respiration; diarrhea from fright; spasmodic, nervous, sensitive condition; light sleep, jerking of limbs on going to sleep.
Arsenicum album: Great fear of death, sensation that death is near; restless anguish; fear of solitude, of robbers and ghosts; strong anxiety of conscience; cardiac neurosis; ‘emotional diarrhea’; fragility of nerves and oversensitivity of senses; perspiration from anxiety; insomnia and nightmares, with restlessness