Potassium Carbonate. Kali Carb. K₂Co₃ Solution.

"The Kali Homeopath is a reductionst. He want the facts."

The first element in the Iron series. Scholten predicts the focus of pathology in this series is on security, particularly on work and jobs. Some of the hardest metals are in this Period. They are concerned with defence and/or being attacked.

In general Kali's are conservative and conventional, Hence, the well known image of two dimensional, controlled, rigid people with a strong sense of duty. I think of Civil Servants ... They can be very "straight" or "square", and stiff. It is as if the life force is restricted. Just like Mr. Spock, they have no feelings are the ultimate rationalists. The mind rules the emotions, so don't play poker with a Kali! Alternative Medicine is too left brained for these unemotional guys!

Kali Carbonicum, sometimes called "vegetable alkali," because it is found in plants can be obtained from the ashes left from burning wood and other organic plant matter. The molecule has a Potassium Ion which is in Group I, which is notably insecure, a Carbon Ion, where the focus is on feeling comfortable with oneself and an Oxygen ion, which may suggest a fragile or easily burnt-out state. The Carbonate ion may give a sense of the individuality emerging, the fragility is demonstrated when it dissolves in water.

If the sense of self is fragile and insecure they would fear being alone, or having to stand up for themselves. They would find structure and support in a a routine or a position, and in such a timid person loyalty would be strong (Scholten). The extremist and irrational belief (Ellis; REBT) is that stability depends on relationships at work ... productivity and rules! "If people do not treat me fairly life will be awful. I can't stand it."

The essence of this delusion is that they are unimportant and doing their duty is the only route to acceptance. Because they need support they may appear to be mild, holding back their anger for fear of offending. Ahh! But when they get home ... just watch it! (Lyc)

Kent: The mental state of K. ca. is one of peevishness and irritability. Easily startled by any noise (especially if unexpected). Quarrells with his family and with his bread and butter. He needs the stability and support of the family, but is irritable, and expressing his discontent.

• Vexed and irritated mood; trifles vex one; noise is disagreeable.
• Desires company, yet treats them outragously

Kali Carb persons become oversensitive to everything. Fear is prominent; fears to be alone. What if this that or the other should happen! Horrible dreams.

• Tendency to take alarm. Shrieks about imaginary appearences.

• Closing eyes amel.
• Delusions, abyss behind him.

Kent: Intellect impaired, does not care for anything. Indifferent, with bodily exhaustion; when questioned does not know what to answer. The "touchiness" of the remedy is very marked: "Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly, especially on the feet".

The pains, e.g. neuralgias, are sticking and burning like hot needles. These fly from place to place. Congestive headaches, the catarrh is thick and yellow. Hard tonsils and paritids. The colics have cutting, tearing senstaions.

Relationships with the Plant Kingdom: Nux-v, Lyc, Puls.

Affinity: Muscular System, e.g. heart, Serous and Mucous Membranes.

P5 Strengthens Fire (Circulatory System)

K5 and Water (Mucus System)

KALI BICHROMICUM: Potassium Bichromate, K ₂ Cr ₂ O ₇

Kali bi. causes great prostration, discomfort, debility, and desire to lie down. The neuralgic attacks sometimes recur every day, at the same hour. Violent, Cutting stomach pains.

• Ill humour; low spirited. Listless.
• Anthropophobia; taciturnity; misanthropy. Vanishing of thoughts.

Affinity: Mucous Membranes, esp, nasal. Fibrous tissue, esp. joints. Circulation.

P5 Strengthens Fire (Circulatory System)

K5 and Water (Mucus System)

Kali Iodatum

Clarke points out that it has an important Syphallitic assosiation. It affects the glandular structures as syphilis does. The ulcerations and and catarrhs are like Meurcuius. In the mental state there is irriatbility,cruelty and harshness of temper. The sense of mental refinement is lost.

• Anxiety. Fright at every trifle; every little noise starting.

In Kali's there is great concern about security and stability. Relationships at work are emphasized.

• AILMENTS, from business failure,
• Rubrics, Mind; OCCUPATION, diversion amel

V5 Air (Nervous System) T.B.C.

K5 and Water (Mucus System)

Causticum. (Potassium Hydrate)

The Causticum child is delighful, she is very sensitive and excitable. Her stomach is easily upset. She may even stammer. Rubric, "Excitement during debate, while talking". She is extremely aware of others and intensely sympathetic for the suffering of others.

• Cannot support injustice.

They are in tune with the environment and social issues. She also has a highly analytical mind, and she combines these traits with a deep sense of justice. This generates a practical idealism, and may take the form of social activism "to realise his vision of a more caring society". Rubric, "Inclined to discuss political issues". They frequently write angry letters to the Gaurdian! John Pilger's documentary style is a good example. Caustcum's serious conversation, when she gets onto recycling or global warming can be a bore!

The heart of the case, Rajan suggests, is the delusion - "I must protect everyone."

The emotions are very intensely felt. Prolonged grief, such as nursing a sick relative, may precipitate her troubles. Rubrics; "Full of cares about relatives" and "Sentimental during drunkeness".

Idealistic Causticums become disillusioned when the world does not respond, and his campain comes to naught! If it breaks their spirit they can despair and become very bitter. The Causticum enthusiasm for causes can degenerates into fanatacism. Eventually the energy focuses inwards and they withdraw. It's a gradual paralysis that starts with the nervous system. She has a warm romantic heart, and the loss of a loved one can be devasting, they pine for years.

They do suffer from anxiety. That they will forget something, or a feeling that something terrible is going to happen - especially to the family. There are repetitive negative thoughts, perhaps ruminating over unpleasant experiences. If the paralysis progresses to the mental plane, the reasoning starts to weaken and focus inwards, we can find great melancholy, with mental dullness. A type of compulsive neurosis can occur. There is a need to keep checking, and she becomes more fearful at night, esp 3-4 a.m.

There is often a history of slowly progressive debility, stiffness, and, if the pathology is strong, paralysis.

Its Affinities in the Body

• C.N.S. Motor and Sensory :
• Conditions that affect the muscles, Cramps, Twitches etc. Facial paralysis. agg. Cold dry wind: gluey discharges and ear problems.

Relationships with the Plant Kingdom: Coloc, Lyc, Puls.
Affinity: Nerves, Muscles, Skin. Chilly, wet weather amel.
Minerals: Carnotite K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O

V5 Air (Nervous System) T.B.C.

P5 and Fire (Circulatory System) T.B.C.

Beryllium was discovered as the Oxide in beryl with Silicon and Aluminium. Beryl has a glassy look, and has a hexagonal crystal structure. It is one of the lightest metals.

Clinically it is especially a remedy for respiratory deficiency with audible heartbeat.

• Loss of weight - Anorexia

Concept of this state: Group :Alkali Earth Metals (Anxiety on being observed). Period: Found naturally with Al (impressionability) and Si (support)

Combining the Group "anxiety being observed" with the Period "lack of self-hood" and Silica "need of support" we would expect the Berryllium (or Beryl) mind to be like a delicate child, quite like Lithium, lost in its own trance-like world of fantasy and impressions. (Little Worlds of toys and games, marbles, Jig-saws, Xbox?)

The state concept also suggests an Autisic mind, but compare with the Drug Remedies, esp. Anaholium (the crystal is quite beautiful - especially when impurities add further dimensions of colour).

Affinity: Nutrition. Respiration. Mind.

Ayurveda: V5 Air (Nervous System)

Magnesium; Magnesia carbonate;
3 (MgCO₃) Mg(HO)₂ 4H₂O.

In Alchemy it represented eternity, the infinite flame or ascension.

David Lilley suggests that there is a deep sense of rejection or abandonment. A feeling of being unlovable. He gives the image of an unborn child cowering in the womb because the Kali father demands an abortion or adoption. That degree of rejection! A rejection that is impressed upon the Amygdyla. The child grows up and clings to you in terror. The insecure child is hyperactive and naughty, (capricious), and scolding only emphasises the sense of severance. The adolescent is "disturbed". Like Natrum he needs to connect, which causes anxiety about relationships, even at home. They can become peacemakers to sooth their own feelings.

Rajan says that their survavial strategy depends on sensitivity. The irrational belief (Ellis; REBT) is that their relationships will end in rejection, ("I will be dammed") unless they take a submissive role.

In classical Homeopathy Mag. c. is like Calcera in that there are nutritional problems i.e. milk agg. Mag-c. has similarities with Gels., Cham. and Ars. in nervous irritation and sleeplessness. But the nervousness of Mag. c. is of the type of nerve exhaustion...

• Uneasiness, with trembling of hands and absence of mind.

"Water containing Magnesia and that coming from magnesian limestone districts is peculiarly soft to the feel. There is reason for supposing that this softness has a soothing effect upon the nervous system when used in the form of baths e.g., Buxton and Matlock in England."

Indicated for "worn out women " that is, the state of nervousness induced by excess of the cares and worries of life.

One leading note of Mag. c. is sensitiveness, mental and bodily, sensitive to touch, sensitive to cold air. Effects of shocks, blows, or mental distress. The least touch causes starting. This sensitiveness passes into neuralgic pains of the highest intensity, neuralgia, lightning like;

• Trembling, anguish, and fear, as if some accident would happen all day, going off after going to bed Ill humour in evening.

Relationships with the Plant Kingdom: Cham, Puls.

Affinity: G.I. Tract. Nerves. Chilly, open air amel.

V5 Strengthens: Air (Nervous System)

K5 Strengthens: Water (Mucus System)

Magnesia Muriatica; MgCl₂

Mag. m. first appeared in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases. The general feature of Mag. c. appears in many symptoms, notably those of nervous disturbance and hysteria.

• Nervous excitability, with tendency to weep readily.
• Excited; unhappy; fitful; emotional.

Patient is anxious, restless, always agg by mental exertion; during or after dinner seized with nausea, eructations, trembling and faint spells, amel by eructations. Palpitation agg when quiet, amel moving about. Perversions of taste and smell are marked in Mag. iii., and I have frequently restored with it loss of taste and smell after influenza.

Relationships with the Plant Kingdom: Bell, Nux, Puls.

Affinity: Nerves, Liver. Digestion, Pelvic organs. Chilly, open air amel.

V5 Strengthens: Air (Nervous System)

P5 Strengthens: Fire (Circulatory System)

Magnesia Phosphorica; (MgH PO₄₇H2O.)

Hering says it is suited to: Young and very strong persons; teething children. Mien says that though it is best adapted to emaciated persons, it acts promptly in stout, fleshy persons when well indicated. The attacks (of pain, &c.) are often attended with great prostration, and sometimes with profuse sweat. "Languid, tired, exhausted; unable to sit up".

• Drowsiness on every attempt to study. Very forgetful. Dulness and inability to think clearly. Indisposition to study; to mental effort.

Affinity: Nerves. Chilly.

V5 Strengthens: Air (Nervous System)

K5 Strengthens: Water (Mucus System)

Calcera; Calc Carb.

Calcera is taken from the flesh of the Oyster. It manifests its energy in either mineral processes or in the life force seen in the Oyster itself. The characteristics of Calcera and the Carbonate can still be seen when combined. Calcera processes are slow and progressive.

From the beginning of life on Earth, mineral calcium has been involved in protecting organs, eg. the shells of early Stromatoliths and Mollusks. Animal skeletons protect vital organs in a cage or ribs, or a skull, and give support for the muscluo-skeletal system.

The mineral energy may be expressed in strong, homebuilding mothers, while the sea creature theme, may be expressed in softer, slower and flabby girls, like the Oyster, which is sessile, cold and wet.

Aetiology:The Calcera child is shy and easily hurt. They try not to show it and work hard to be appreciated. Encouragement is important, since they may be late developers (their pearls develop slowly!).

• Excessive anguish, with palpitations of the heart, ebullition of the blood, and shocks in the epigastrium.

• Feared she would lose her reason, or that people would observe her confusion of mind (Cimic.).

• Anxiety and anguish, excited by fancies, or frightful stories, also shuddering and dread during the twilight, or the night.

• Despondent and melancholy (Ign., Puls., Natr. mur.). Disinclination for every kind of work.
• Disposition to weep, even about trifles.

Driven by fear to protect their inner pearls of comfort and sanity they can, like other carbons "burn themselves out". If this endangers the security of home the distress is deeply felt. It represents the loss of everything the carbon aspect of her lives for. She may find comfort in her inner wisdom, as shown in the Rubric "Reads Bible all day", or as Dr. Sehgal observed, she is reassured by imagining that she is wealthy.

• Delusions, wealth of
• Fear poverty of

Relationships with the Plant Kingdom: Bell, Dulc, Puls, Ip, Lyc, Sars.

Affinities: Nutrition, Glands, Blood. Cold.

  Strengthens: Water (Mucous System).
  Kledaka Kapha Sx: Emaciation, appetite with
  Tarpaka Kapha Sx: Congestion
  Avalambaka Kapha Sx: Heart, anxiety, anguish with.

Compare the physcial and mental symptoms to see which chakra/dosha is affected.

Affected Chakras   Joy, Grief Love, Giving >>Insight, Confusion >>Emotion, Shy >>Courage, Fear:

Corresponding Symptoms Head: Throbbing. Hot, Perspiring or Icy. Mouth: sour, dry Throat: Tonsils, Cough. Chest: Palpitation. Dysponea. Abdomen: Distension Irreg. Periods Constipation alt. loosness. Sour.

 
Scholten predicts there will be the uncertainty and the fear of judgements characteristic of Group 2 remedies such as Calc and Baryata. These traits are seen strongly in the Carbonate, (the sense of self-worth is challenged in all the Carbonicums) and the nightmarish fears of the metal seem to support the concept of vunerability.

Period 5 metals, the Silver series, have shining ideas, and a gift for performance. Strontium's "shining" is quickly tarnished! The anguished Carbonate is not going to be much of a performer, either!

The available rubrics (Trinks Proving) indicate very disturbed nightmares, filled with imaginary evils. The mind feels very vunerable.

• Busy, Occupation amel.
• Delusions, lifted during sleep, lifted up.
• Fear, Evil, Striking around him at imaginary objects.
• Destructivness

Strontium Carb.

Occurs as Strontianite in lead mines, as massive fibrous, stellated orthorhombic crystals.

The rubrics of the Carbonate confirm the predictions above - a very uncertain or frightened state of mind.

• Inquietude and anguish
• Aiilments from anticipation, forboding.
• Ailments from scorn, being scorned.

Affinities: Pains in the long bones. Bone affections: enlargement, osteoporosis and caries. Nervous dyspepsia. The connection to the skeletal system resembles Calc. Action on the vascular system resembles Barium.

P5 K5

Baryata Carb. Ba CO₃ and Baryta acetica Ba(C₂H₃O₂)₂

The Baryata Homeopath smiles a lot, and makes you laugh

The paradox of Baryata is that it is in the Gold Series, so responsibility and authority are important, but Baryata children have a serious lack of confidence, in old age they give the impression of being a bit childish and naive. They feel they are being laughed at.

• Delusion, that he walks on his knees

• Mistrust; want of self-confidence, the child doesn't want to play.
• Repugnance to strangers or to society; (the sight of them agg symptoms or causes a recurrence).

• Scrupulous, irresolute, suspicious temper, with mistrust of one's self.
• Anxious inquietude about domestic affairs.

Cowperthwaite; Great forgetfulness, does not know what he has just spoken (Anac., Arn.). Great mental and bodily weakness; childishness; old people. Deficient memory; child cannot remember or be taught (Calc. phos.). Want of self-confidence (reverse, Plat.). They have lots of sympathy for other people who are disadvantaged.

Dread of strangers; imagines she is being criticised and laughed at. Child does not want to play. Fear and cowardice.

David Mundy give the example of the deeply inadequate Roman Emperor Claudius.

Relationships with the Plant Kingdom: Dulc, Con, Chin, Lyc, Puls.

Affinity: Nutrition, Glands, Nerves. Chilly.

V5 Strengthens: Air (Nervous System)

K5Strengthens: Water (Mucus System)

WolframTungsten

The Tungsten Homeopath is detached and clinical

Connection with feelings : Heart, Love, Family, etc. Disconnection with feelings : Indifferent, Detatched, Loss of Inhibition.

• Affectionate
• Company, averse to
• Delusions, floating,
  separated from the world.
• Delusions, Tall, he is.

Ayurveda: Strengthens Air (Nervous System), T.B.C.

Boron

Borax: Sodium biborate. Na₂ B₄ O₇ 10H₂O.

Group VII seems to have difficulties establishing personal boundaries.

We normally set up our boundaries when we can say "No!", or "That's enough!". In adulthood our boundaries, even our personal identity, can be damaged when we allow ourselves to be imposed upon. On the other hand being loved is a delightful merging of boundaries.

The Borax child often comes from a home where the parents are frequently absent. Without sufficient nurturing a childs feelings of separation and lonliness cause an intense desire to be loved... to merge. If this basic need is constantly denied the child learns that it has no-one to rely upon.

Ref: In Harlow's behavioural experiments infant monkeys preferred a terry-towl mother substitute with no milk to a wire mother with milk; see: http://www.violence.de/tv/rockabye.html. The article concludes that love-hunger is stronger than food-hunger. Mason and Berkson's moving surrogate produced less severe abnormalities, demonstrating that there are good reasons for rocking a child to sleep!

Borax children are hypersensitive and nervous, startled by the slightest noise, like a jet passing overhead. Very easily shaken.

• Easily frightened and startled with least noise.

• Irritability. Disposition to be angry, with ill-humour and passion.

• Dread of downward motion; child has anxious countenance when laid in cot, or carried downstairs.
• Great anxiety, especially when riding in a carriage or descending a mountain.

When this child grows up it lacks the will to complete anything.

• Idles through the afternoon; does not get at work;
  changes from one work to another; from one room to another; without keeping to any object.

Relationships with the Plant Kingdom: Bry, Lyc, Nux.

Affinity: Nutrition. Urinary System. Skin. Chilly. Heat in palms of hands.

P5 Strengthens: Fire (Circulatory System)

The Alumina Homeopath wants you to share his opinion

Signature: Clay is Smooth. This is echoed in the Delusions rubric:

• Imaginations, smooth being

The consciousness of his personal indentitiy is confused. It seemed as if he was not himself. Consider the puzzling rubric ...

• sees something, when he, someone elses eyes; seems as though he saw through

It suggests the possibility that he is so impressionable that the only reality he can accept is that of his teacher or role model. Perhaps this is the attraction of teenage cults that hand you a ready-made identity.

Carlyon suggests that strict parental control can weaken the will - and then this weakness runs through the entire constitution.

Kent:The ability to form Intellectual ideas and judgemts is disturbed. Cannot follow a chain of thoughts. Things seem unreal.

Alumina has a slow deep action, it affects directly the motor nervous system, giving a paralytic condition, with depression of stimulus transmitting centers. Everything slows down. The prick of a pin is felt moments afterwards. The slowness is seen as mental sluggishness.

• Time passes slowly, an hour seem like a day. Slow to accomplish anything at all. Talking fatigues.

• Mental confusion. Uses the wrong word. Mistakes in spelling.

There is a general apprehensiveness. Constantly troubled. Anxiety; uneasiness as if she has done something bad. Changing mood, at one time confident, at another timid. Peevish and whining (Cham); obstinate, dread of impending evil (Anac., Ars., Calc. c., Chin. sulph.).

The bladder dribbles, the digestion is practically given out. Constipation.

• Desires indigestable things - dirt, chalk.

Other Rubrics:
Dryness. Deficient in Vital Heat. Desires warmth and warm clothing.
Must sit down. Suited to old or emaciated persons.

There are violent impulses. A fear of Knives. Self harm. (more cult stuff, e.g. piercings?)

Relationships with the Plant Kingdom: Allen, "Aluminia is the chronic of Bryonia". Bry

Affinity: Spinal Chord. Mucus Membranes. Skin.
Minerals: Wavellite Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O

V5 Strengthens: Air (Nervous System)

K5 Strengthens: Water (Mucus System)

Manganum: Mang.

The Manganum Homeopath will talk about the weather, or the modalities

 
In the same series as B and Al, immature personalities, where boundaries are not fully developed.

These guys are very closed, and unresponsive. They sulk when they don't get their own way. There is anger but no way to retaliate. As an example of the metals theme of attack and defence you could say Manganum builds a defensive brick wall.

They talk about "things" but give nothing of a personal nature away. You find yourself wondering if the actually is a person in there at all ... they'r just blank.

Their persuits are frivolous too, little jobs, gardeners, tinkering with cars. Nothing that requires commitment, not even a home, they are always on the move. Maybe becoming so disorganised that they end up Dossing on someones couch. Often needed around the ages of 28 - 30 to develop some comittment.

Poor ability to make sequential judgements may be a the root of it. Pot or L.S.D. problems?

Cowperthwaite; Acts powerfully upon the motor nervous system, producing paralysis, beginning with paraplegia. It differs from Mercury in first affecting the lower extremities, and in not exciting tremors.

Kent: "Great apprehnsiveness. Something awful is going to happen. He walks the floor, and the more he walks the more anxious he becomes. He cannot think. The queerest thing is that if he lies down it all passes away."

• Embittered mood, he doest forget wrongs. Fosters resentment for a long time.
• Sadness. Aversion to joyous music (but sad music amel. - it makes them cry).

Affinity: Larynx, periosteum. Anemia. Chilly. Cold damp weather agg.

P5 Strengthens: Fire (Circulatory System)

Iron; Ferrum

The Iron Homeopath attacks your delusions in a very penetrating way. (Dr Sankaran? :-)

It is one of the prominent constituents of the animal body, being present in considerable quantity in the blood.

Patients with Ferrum symptoms appear to be bloodless. Weakness and prostration; weakness even from talking.

• Weakness, almost amounting to paralysis of the whole body and of single parts

• Irritable; little noises drive to despair.

• Anxiety as after committing a crime.

 
  Ferrum is Group 8, Compare with Group 9...

Relationships with Plant Kingdom: China, Ham.

Affinity: Vasomotor nerves. Blood vessels. Digestion. Mucous membranes.

V5 Strengthens: Air (Nervous System)

P5 Strengthens: Fire (Circulatory System)

K5 Strengthens: Water (Mucous System)

Ferrum Phosphoricum

Affinity: Vasomotor nerves. Blood vessels. Lungs. Nose. Mucus membranes. Cold, but cold applications sooth.

V5 Strengthens: Air (Nervous System)

P5 Strengthens: Fire (Circulatory System)

K5 Strengthens: Water (Mucous System)

Osmium Osm.

Executives. Heavy pressure at work. Very tense. Aggressive (Nux-vom).

Recall the Myth of Sysiphus. Pushing a stone up to the top of the hill. Reorganising everything in a very dictatorial manner.
Rubrics:

• Thoughts of accidents happening to others.
• Aggressive, persistant thoughts of doing injury to others.
• Deams of being busy and of fire.
• Flaunting one's knowledge

Relations: There is a triad in nature, Osmium, Iridium and Platina. Esoterically, each one is an aspect of a functioning whole, the mind itself. Iridium is clarity and purity. Platina cognizes clarity and purity, Osmium brings it into the world.

K5 Strengthens: Water (Mucous System)

Cobaltum; Cobalt.

If we order the rubrics from Sehgals according to aetiology, we begin to see what is happening to this person:

• Ideas abundant
• Memory active
• Work aversion and/or desires
• Ailments from emotional excitement - Hysteria
• Delusion: Criminal he is, and others know.
• Reproaches himself

Feels condemned, as though guilty of something. Low spirited, thinks too little of himself. Vivacity and rapid flow of thought. Tries to study, but soon feels it is beyond him, "dullness with aversion to mental exercise". This dullness extends to the physical Sx.

• Pain occiput. Eyes, aching
• Dull, fullness, better going out

  Self reproach, Hurry and Indolence.

What mental factors are present in self reproach?  

Interpretation: This kind of person must be concerened with his performance, he wants his bright ideas to work out, and when they dont he feels so unappreciated, so rejected in fact, that he feels as if he can do nothing right. He reproaches himself because he has irrationally and unessesarily exaggerated and overgeneralised his failure ("Awfulising" - Albert Ellis), to the point that he feels almost as if he is a criminal. In that state of mind he throws in the towel.

This interpretation ties in, more generally, with the concept of attack and defence in the Metals.

Iridium Irid.

In classical M.M...

• Concentration, difficult, as if mind were a void. (Choudary)
• Concentration amel. (Clarke)

Contemplative stillness and Focus on Inner Self -
Detatched. Company amel.
Cramped. Company agg. Space amel.

Relations: Platina sees herself as the self authorised standard of excellence. Iridium is clarity itself - conciousness. Osmium is the force of change - the Dharma.

Affinity: Nerves.