HOMEOPATHIC TIMES
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A Lac can case is reproduced from 'Lac can New aspects of the remedy with clinical confirmation written and published by Karl-Josef Muller'. Madeline Evan's article on 'Meditative Provings and Bayleaf' can stir up a debate. The proving was conducted in a novel way. A group of provers gathered around a Bay leaf tree and then meditated. Then they potentised the remedy [not consuming it] and recorded the symptoms in the process. It gives an intuitive touch to the proving and one wonders about the authenticity of drug proved in this manner.

Ian Watson is quoted on progression of miasm: 'Psora would be thought of as survival. A struggle against the elements, climate, nutrition, water, hygiene- a need to live in harmony with nature, to survive from the source. Sycosis comes in after the basic survival is assured - as if, once our basic needs are met, we can explore the amazing sensory apparatus we have been given. The syphilitic, surprisingly, is not just an end state, but is a necessary preparation for the spiritual, after the exploration of the physical has been done'. Sally Cook in her article on 'Mercurius, the syphilitic miasm and spiritual awakening' speaks further along the same lines saying, Psora is needs, Sycosis is going out there, and then comes the apparent end-game, the Syphilitic miasm -contracting decay and death. In fact the miasms form a cycle of birth and death, giving balance and harmony to existence. She compares Mercurius as the nearest to the Syphilitic miasm and links it to the spiritual aspect of life and death.

To give an understanding of how vital force brings about the state of disease Charles Wansbrough explains his theory of Psychoneuroimmunology.
The Themes of Arsenic-alb, Antimony-crudum, Antimony-tart and Bismuth all belonging to group 5 in the periodic table, are identified by Jan Batty. On the mental level the strongest theme is fear of being isolated and alone. An affinity with the digestive system, most notably the stomach, is held by all four remedies. An ambivalent relationship with food and water can also be identified. On a physical level each of the remedies manifests a strong relationship to heat and cold. There is sensitivity to the external world and an overreaction to stimul-the sycotic element in these remedies. Overall we can see a polarity between energy and lifelessness. In fact the ambivalence extends to life itself with all four remedies having either suicidal tendencies or great despondency and apathy about alive.

In 1803, Smithson Tennant discovered a new element. Noticing that this brittle, silver-white metal became, in acid, astonishing multi-coloured and iridescent, he named it Iridium [from Latin, Iris-rainbow] it is one of the rarest and densest metal, being twice as dense as lead. Very little is found on the earth's crust, and where it is, it is alloyed with themes of total self absorption, grounded feelings, heaviness and a need in the provers to distance themselves from everything and everyone. On the face of it their does not seem to be much in common between how the provers expressed their experiences and Scholten's group analysis. A few rubrics are presented to give a birds eye view. Aplomb, awareness of body heightened, sits and meditates, with drawal from reality. [a rubric illustrating willful lack of communication] Aversion to answering; delusion separated from the world; estranged from wife. Delusion contraction of space; delusion weight pressing down from below; delusion he seems to reach the clouds. Desires company; escape, attempts to; break things, desire to.