Folliculinum - Mist or Miasm?
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1993 Nov / Dec Vol II NO 6.
Dr Melissa Asalem.
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Folliculinum is made from Oestrone, a synthetic form of oestrogen. The source we are using today comes from Dr. Donald Foubister. Although there have been no organized provings in the traditional method, millions of women have been proving it since the discovery of synthetic hormones in the 1940s. Dr. Lea De Mattos had done exhaustive clinical studies on the remedy and has published her work in French. You can also find a good picture in Julians Materia Medica. Much of what I will be relating here, however comes from my own experience with the remedy, especially the mental picture. I have been using it a great deal over the past four years, with remarkable success.
I wish to begin by explaining how and why I came to see the wide indications for Folliculinum, I feel that an inherited miasm is being created by indiscriminate use of synthetic hormones. When I was a student I was going to write my thesis on the remedies with relationship to the moon. So about four years ago I started using moon menstrual calendars, asking my patients to fill in their symptoms on the chart. I am still using them today, because they are so incredibly useful. All sorts of interesting patterns emerge. It soon became clear that many women had symptoms between ovulation and menses and most of them had been on the Pill at one time or another.
Another amazing thing to emerge was the fact that many young women were having these problems, had not been on the Pill but their mothers had been on the Pill before they were conceived. Remember the Pill has been available for thirty years now. At first I confused the picture with Medorrhinum symptoms such as early sexuality, urinary infections, spaciness etc. but as I got to know the Folliculinum picture better it began to dawn on me as to what the causation might be.
Folliculinum is a remedy which expresses so much of what is out of order in our world today. So that we can see the whole picture of what is going on today, we need to go back in history and lift some of the mists of time. So I am going to tell you a little story. Let me call it a drama documentary. So settle back, relax, close your notebooks and open your eyes, your heart, your mind or whatever you need to open when you read.
A Story
Once in the very first times, there was a land where women were respected
where womens business was womens business, and they loved and respected themselves and
each other. The women lived a bit separate from the men at times, in order to carry out
this business. They were in charge of their own religion and their own bodies. They
celebrated the monthly rituals of bleeding by the moon and they all menstruated together.
It was time of high energy and creativity and the Great mother Goddess was worshipped. She
was earth centered and life giving. The celebrations took place in the Womens House that
was called TAPUU, which meant magic. When a girl had her first menstruation, the women
welcomed her into the magic of being a woman. Her responsibilities were to celebrate being
a women. Her health and well being belonged to her sisters an herself and she felt
powerful.
Early anthropologists and missionaries, white men from European cultures, interpreted these separations as being a banning and turned the magical word TAPUU into TABOO, which has become an everyday word in our language with quite a different meaning.
Back to the land where time was told by the moon and where a girl learned of the tides within her body which matched the two great monthly heart beats of the earth - beats of balance between the full and the new moon and the mother earth, Time was told according to these beats ovulation and menstruation. Then things began to change and more father centred religion took over the womens business and men began to discuss how things should be. Women were separated from each other, and the father religions called the bleeding unclean and they took new born children and baptized them in deep cleansing rituals to wash away the mother below from them. Father healers began to take over the management and control of womens business.