Homeopathy and Minerals
About “Homoeopathy and Minerals”; a brief introduction.
*The subject of this book is the use of minerals in homoeopathy. The minerals that are discussed are the combination remedies or salts; especially the unknown remedies, such as calcium and barium fluoratum.
*An important method used in the book is the study of groups of remedies. This method is called: ‘group analysis’. Groups of remedies which contain the same element will be compared and the common symptoms will be extracted, for instance the natrium symptoms.
Then those symptoms will be put to the various remedies that contain that element, such as natrium fluoratum.
*In one aspect this book is unusual in homoeopathy. It is the first book in which we look at remedies from a more abstract point of view tan before. The abstraction is not that we go
deep into the theme of one particular remedy, but that we go deep into the theme of a group of remedies. This creates a new level of looking at remedies; one could call it a ‘meta’ level.
This abstraction even makes it possible to predict, to a certain extent, the picture of unknown remedies. In practice these predictions prove to be correct.
*Contents: The first chapter is ‘Disease as Creation’, about the meaning of the mind in homoeopathy.
Then follows ‘Group analysis’, its meaning and its use; followed by the basic remedies.
First the Cations: the Calciums, Magnesiums, Kaliums, Natriums and single elements.
Then the Carbon element and the seperate Carbonicums: Graphites, Calcium Carbonicum, Magnesium Carbonicum, Natrium Carbonicum.
And so on with the Muriaticums, the Sulphuricums and the Phosphoricums.
Next come the less used groups with the remedies belonging to them: the Bariums, the Acidums, the Ammoniums, the Nitricums, the Fluoratums, the Bromatums and the Iodatums (see table). Lastly come the remedies of the Ferrum group, with the groupanalysis of these chemically related metals: Vanadium,
Kalium Bichromicum, Chromium Metallicum, Manganum, the Ferrums, Ferrum Metallicum, Ferrum Muriaticum, Ferrum Sulphuricum, Ferrum Phosphoricum, Ferrum Iodatum, Niccolum, Cuprum and Zincum.As addenda are given: Argentum Metallicum; and the very valuable search strategy of a time table.
‘When I met the ideas of Jan Scholten for the rst time in December 1992, I was surprised: enormous possibilities offered themselves. Now, some months later, having had experi- ences with these new remedies, I can speak of a fundamental revolution in homeopathic thinking. The method Jan is offering in his book, seems too beautiful to be true, but it works! It is not easy to explain his method brie y, but I shall try to do so with an example from his college in February 1993. A woman of 30 comes with a variety of complaints, such as allergy to the sun, pain in the right forehead, sciatica right, intestinal troubles, swollen and painful breasts before menses, and fatigue. Mind: she needs attention, and compli- ments. “I didn1t dare to ask for attention and got irritated when my husband didn1t say anything of my work. My mother had too little time for us and I was the one who man- aged. I was a big girl”. The theme of Œattention1 is found in the Muriaticums, and the Œtimidity1 and Œinsecurity1 in the Calciums. The remedy: Calcium muriaticum (desire for attention, but not daring to ask for it). The woman got cured after the remedy. By analysing different minerals (Calcarea, Natrum, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Baryta etc.) and metals Jan has developed some key concepts for every element. In practice it is possible to make many combinations of these concepts and so nd the remedy that ts the patient. Try to imag- ine what it means once we have found the key concepts of every element of the periodic system….Maybe that is what Kent felt when he said that all remdies could be found in one kingdom (mineral, plant or animal). The work of Ary Vrijlandt, who has studied the peri- odic system in his own way, can get its own place. This book gives us the start. We practis- ing homeopaths now have the job of verifying and expanding this information. A huge task and a fantastic challenge.’ (Frans Kusse)
“Jan Scholten offers us a fascinating way to review our Materia Medica”. Lorraine Taylor, in Homeopathic Links, 1994, no 2
“Jan Scholten has given a brilliant start for an enormous enrichment of our Materia Medica”.
Kees Dam, Simillima, 1993, no 2
“This book is a must for all hoemopaths and a revelation for patients that are interested in homeopathy”
Publication data
Title: Homeopathy and Minerals
Author: Jan Scholten, M.D.
ISBN: 90-74817-01-7
Translation: Mariette Honig
Translated from: Homeopathie en Mineralen, Jan Scholten, 1993
Cover design: Ton Davits
Lay-out: Ton Davits
Foreword: Rienk Stuut
Publisher: Stichting Alonnissos
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Calcarea muriatica
Only Clarke (1985, part 1, page 357) briefly mentions Calcarea muriatica. It does not appear in Kents Repertory. It is quite likely that many Calc cases will turn out to be Calc-m in the future. The picture of Calc-m is similar to that of Calc, but it does have its own character. Calc-m appears to be a great children’s remedy. Many cases in which I would previously have given Calc, with medium results, are now going much better with Calc-m.
Concepts
Calcarea Muriatica
What do others think Self-pity
Sensitive to criticism Care
Insecurity Nurturing
Shyness Mother
Fears Attention
Protection Self-awareness
Withdrawal
Group analysis
The theme of Calc-m, according to the group analysis, is the fear that others will see that they need a lot of care and attention. The first part of this theme corresponds with that of Calc: ‘What will others think of me’. But in Calc-m this fear is mainly focused on care and attention. They are afraid to ask for too much attention, to appear too needy and to be criticised for that.
Another variation is that they are afraid to give either too much or too little attention, especially as a mother to her children. They are afraid to spoil,or to neglect, their children. And the fear is especially that, by doing so, they will be rejected by others.
It is a theme that can easily be passed on from mother to child. The mother is very uncertain about how to care for the child. The child does not get enough and starts to ‘whine’. It wants more nurturing and attention. On the one hand the mother would like to give this, but on the other hand she is afraid to spoil the child. And ‘What will the neighbours and others say?’. She gets angry with the child and sends it away: ‘Don’t whine so much!’. And so the child becomes very unsure about his feelings and his need for love and nurturing.
Case
A woman aged 50 comes with various complaints. Her first complaint is a skin rash from the sun on her chest and arms. She is especially sensitive to that in the spring. She gets little red itching lumps. She has had this complaint since the birth of her first child.
A second complaint is a frontal headache, together with a cold. She feels pressure in her eyes, and has a watery discharge from the nose. Sometimes she has pain in the upper jaw, mostly left sided. These complaints started since her second pregnancy, when she suffered from sinusitis. It makes her very tired. She is also very moody and impatient. She cannot tolerate a lot from the children. She also feels dull, ‘like a Zombie’. The complaints are worse in the winter, although the weather does not have a direct influence on them.
A third complaint is itching of the vagina and labia. There is little discharge. This complaint is worse before menses.
A fourth complaint is constipation. Stools are hard, thick and dark. Stool is expelled with difficulty < 16 till 21 h. She sometimes gets stomach cramps, mostly in left abdomen.
A fifth complaint is backache. She has had this for two years, starting two years after the birth of her second child. They were moving house and she did a lot of heavy carrying. She was exposed to a dry, cold wind. It started with sciatica, pain in the sacro-iliac joint and also in the coccyx. The pain extended to her right leg and calf. The pain is cramping and drawing, worst in the tendon in the hollow of the knee. She could only sit; lying made everything much worse. The modalities change sometimes: lying down, bending the leg, stretching the leg, changing position. Sometimes with cramp in toes and soles of the feet.
She has a tendency to put on weight quickly.
She suffers from painful and sometimes swollen breasts. Sometimes before the menses, but also sometimes for a few weeks without any connection to the menses.
Past history: severe mumps. Car sickness.
General characteristics:
Temperature: cold, cold hands and feet; cold feet make her knees ache.
cold weather makes her depressed.
Perspiration: often at night, on the back, chest and in axillae.
Time: < 3 pm; sometimes moody in the morning.
Desires: sweets (3), chocolate (3), grapes (3), coffee, smoking.
Aversion: cabbage, beans (2).
Menses: quite frequent, sometimes every 14 days, often copious, only during daytime; moody one day before menses.
Sleep: unrefreshing; lies on right side.
Mind
Quickly worried about husband and children. If her husband is late coming home, she gets very worried, so they have arranged that he will ring her if he is going to be late. She is afraid that the children will fall down the stairs. She also worries in her dreams. She dreams that she has to save her children from drowning.
She feels a great need for attention. Her parents, and especially her mother, had little time for the children, as they had a business. She feels that she missed out on attention. She often pities herself. Even now she has the feeling that her mother does not help her enough. Her mother is always ready to support her sisters when they are ill or when they are having a baby, but is never there for her. Everyone has always thought ‘She will manage on her own’, even when she was a child. She finds it difficult to ask for help, feels that she should be able to manage by herself.
She can be very moody. Is short tempered with the children. She feels like crying, but doesn’t want to, so she starts to sigh and swallow a lot instead.
She is afraid of insects and spiders. Also afraid to drive and have an accident.
She cannot stand criticism. She reacts with ‘sort it out yourself then’.
She works hard, thinks that she has to.
Her marriage is good. There was a problem in the past that her husband worked too hard and too many hours. He was often busy at night and even at the weekends. She felt that she was only a housekeeper to her husband. That was again the old problem of not getting enough attention.
Analysis
It took me three years to come to the conclusion that this woman needed Calc-m. During these three years she was given: Lyc, Sep, Tub, Lac-c, Cimic, Graph, Calc, Calc-s, Am-m. These remedies worked only temporarily or not at all.
Only Graphites had a positive and lasting effect. She became more stable. After that her complaints were sometimes more left sided, but nothing else changed. So Graphites took off one layer, but there had to be another remedy. The fact that Graphites is comple-mentary to many remedies has already been discussed in a previous chapter.
Reaction
After Calc-m 1M she first got a heavy cold with yellow-green and brown mucus. Then her headache disappeared. Following that, all her old complaints started to come back one by one, and also went away again: the swollen breasts, the backache, the constipation. After two months she felt her old self again, at ease with herself. She lost her excess weight, without much difficulty. After three months Calc-m was repeated for a return of the tiredness after a busy spell.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments 7
Foreword 9
Introduction 11
Disease as Creation 15
Group analysis 23
1 Cations 27
The Calcarea’s 27
The Magnesiums 29
The Kali’s 31
The Natrums 33
Single elements 35
2 The Carbonicums 37
Graphites 39
Calcarea Carbonica 41
Magnesium Carbonicum 43
Natrum Carbonicum 47
3 The Muriaticums 49
Chlorum 51
Calcarea Muriatica 53
Magnesium Muriaticum 57
Kali Muriaticum 61
Natrum Muriaticum 65
4 The Sulphuricums 67
Sulphur 69
Calcarea Sulphurica 71
Magnesium Sulphuricum 75
Kali Sulphuricum 79
Natrum Sulphuricum 83
5 The Phosphoricums 85
Phosphorus 89
Calcarea Phosphorica 91
Magnesium Phosphoricum 95
Kali Phosphoricum 99
Natrum Phosphoricum 103
6 The Baryta’s 107
Baryta Carbonica 109
Baryta Muriatica 111
Baryta Sulphurica 115
Baryta Phosphorica 119
7 The Acids 123
Sulphuric Acid 125
Phosphoric Acid 129
8 The Ammoniums 133
Ammonium Carbonicum 135
Ammonium Muriaticum 139
Ammonium Sulphuricum 143
Ammonium Phosphoricum 147
9 The Nitricums 151
Nitric Acid 153
Calcarea Nitrica 155
Kali Nitricum 159
Natrum Nitricum 163
Baryta Nitrica 167
10 The Fluoratums 171
Calcarea Fluorata 173
Magnesium Fluoratum 177
Kali Fluoratum 181
Natrum Fluoratum 185
Baryta Fluorata 189
11 The Bromatums 193
Bromium 195
Calcarea Bromata 199
Magnesium Bromatum 203
Kali Bromatum 207
12 The Iodatums 211
Magnesium Iodatum 213
Kali Iodatum 217
Natrum Iodatum 221
13 The Ferrum Group 225
Vanadium 227
Kali Bichromicum 233
Chromium Metallicum 235
Manganum 241
The Ferrums 247
Ferrum Metallicum 249
Ferrum Muriaticum 251
Ferrum Sulphuricum 255
Ferrum Phosphoricum 259
Ferrum Iodatum 263
Niccolum 267
Cuprum 271
Zincum 273
14 Addenda 275
Argentum Metallicum 275
The times 283
The time table 285
Epilogue 289
Bibliography 293
The periodic table of elements 294