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homeopathic_meditationsThis is hardly the topic I would choose to begin with the exploration of the Homeopathic Art, but the thing is that the last push I needed to actually jump into this project was a short exchange that happened a couple of days ago at John Michael Greer's Magic Mondays post: https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/52147.html?thread=3767475#cmt3767475
The question was whether diseases form egregores (for those not familiar with the term, an egregore is basically a sort of hive-mind that arises in a group of people that shares something together, instead of just happening to be in the same place. If you have cheared at your favorite team in an stadium full of fans, or worked at a company with a well developed corporate culture, you'll know what I am talking about). And it is a pretty interesting question from the point of view of Homeopathy, because we have all this mental symptoms in addition to the physiologic ones, which in the case of many polycrest remedies develop into full fledged Homeopathic Personalities.
Then, a follow up question was rised: "What about Schessler salts. Do they have personalities too?". Well, the short answer is that I know precious little about Dr. Schuessler therapeutic method (though a little more than I knew last Monday), and I do not feel qualified to guess what him may or may not have thought about egregores. However, I decided I may address the same question from a different angle.
Schuessler salts are at the end of day homeopathic remedies. They are based on the same chemical substances and use the same method of preparation (though for different reasons), so it is just a matter of figuring out what the Homeopathic Materia Medica has to say about such salts. For the record, Schuessler's original 12 salts are these:
No. 1 - Calcium fluoratum
No. 2 - Calcium phosphoricum
No. 3 - Ferrum phosphoricum
No. 4 - potassium chloratum
No. 5 - Potassium phosphoricum
No. 6 - Potassium sulfuricum
No. 7 - Magnesium phosphoricum
No. 8 - sodium chloratum
No. 9 - Sodium phosphoricum
No.10 - Sodium sulfuricum
No.11 - Silicea
No.12 - Calcium sulfuricum
Which are known under slighly different names in the Materia Medica:
No. 1 - CALCAREA FLUORICA
No. 2 - CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
No. 3 -FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM
No. 4 - KALI CHLORICUM
No. 5 - KALI PHOSPHORICUM
No. 6 - KALI SULPHURICUM
No. 7 - MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA
No. 8 - NATRUM CHLORICUM
No. 9 - NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM
No.10 - NATRUM SULPHURICUM
No.11 - SILICEA
No.12 - CALCAREA SULPHURICA
Before we go into the individual list properties, I'd like to talk about generalities. All these are inorganic salts, which means that their atoms have weak bonds between a metallic ion and a non-metallic ion. Chemistry is not really my strenght and I am sure I am oversimplifying here, but in general, metal elements have a tendency to loose electrons and non-metals likewise have a tendency to catch those electrons. The resulting "atoms" are electrically unbalanced, and are called ions. The ionic bond is weak because the elements in the molecule do not really share any electrons, instead they get attracted by the electric charges resulting from these imbalance, but each negative ion is not necesarily bond to the specific positive ion from which it "stole" its extra electron(s).
The relevance of all this is that the individual characteristics of each chemical element carries to the salt. The way you learn this in Homeopathy is that you notice there are "families" of remedies: All Calcareas, Kalis, or Natrums have more or less distinct symptoms that are shared by all remedies, and then each remedy has a tendency to show affinity for different organs, tissues or areas in the body.
Please keep that in mind. In the next episode of this series, we will have a look at Calcareas in general, and specifically at Calcarea Fluorica.
The question was whether diseases form egregores (for those not familiar with the term, an egregore is basically a sort of hive-mind that arises in a group of people that shares something together, instead of just happening to be in the same place. If you have cheared at your favorite team in an stadium full of fans, or worked at a company with a well developed corporate culture, you'll know what I am talking about). And it is a pretty interesting question from the point of view of Homeopathy, because we have all this mental symptoms in addition to the physiologic ones, which in the case of many polycrest remedies develop into full fledged Homeopathic Personalities.
Then, a follow up question was rised: "What about Schessler salts. Do they have personalities too?". Well, the short answer is that I know precious little about Dr. Schuessler therapeutic method (though a little more than I knew last Monday), and I do not feel qualified to guess what him may or may not have thought about egregores. However, I decided I may address the same question from a different angle.
Schuessler salts are at the end of day homeopathic remedies. They are based on the same chemical substances and use the same method of preparation (though for different reasons), so it is just a matter of figuring out what the Homeopathic Materia Medica has to say about such salts. For the record, Schuessler's original 12 salts are these:
No. 1 - Calcium fluoratum
No. 2 - Calcium phosphoricum
No. 3 - Ferrum phosphoricum
No. 4 - potassium chloratum
No. 5 - Potassium phosphoricum
No. 6 - Potassium sulfuricum
No. 7 - Magnesium phosphoricum
No. 8 - sodium chloratum
No. 9 - Sodium phosphoricum
No.10 - Sodium sulfuricum
No.11 - Silicea
No.12 - Calcium sulfuricum
Which are known under slighly different names in the Materia Medica:
No. 1 - CALCAREA FLUORICA
No. 2 - CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
No. 3 -FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM
No. 4 - KALI CHLORICUM
No. 5 - KALI PHOSPHORICUM
No. 6 - KALI SULPHURICUM
No. 7 - MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA
No. 8 - NATRUM CHLORICUM
No. 9 - NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM
No.10 - NATRUM SULPHURICUM
No.11 - SILICEA
No.12 - CALCAREA SULPHURICA
Before we go into the individual list properties, I'd like to talk about generalities. All these are inorganic salts, which means that their atoms have weak bonds between a metallic ion and a non-metallic ion. Chemistry is not really my strenght and I am sure I am oversimplifying here, but in general, metal elements have a tendency to loose electrons and non-metals likewise have a tendency to catch those electrons. The resulting "atoms" are electrically unbalanced, and are called ions. The ionic bond is weak because the elements in the molecule do not really share any electrons, instead they get attracted by the electric charges resulting from these imbalance, but each negative ion is not necesarily bond to the specific positive ion from which it "stole" its extra electron(s).
The relevance of all this is that the individual characteristics of each chemical element carries to the salt. The way you learn this in Homeopathy is that you notice there are "families" of remedies: All Calcareas, Kalis, or Natrums have more or less distinct symptoms that are shared by all remedies, and then each remedy has a tendency to show affinity for different organs, tissues or areas in the body.
Please keep that in mind. In the next episode of this series, we will have a look at Calcareas in general, and specifically at Calcarea Fluorica.
