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Schuessler salts - Calcarea Sulphurica
Apr. 18th, 2019 12:02 amContinuing with our meditations on the (potential) personalities of Schuessler Salts, I decided to skip ahead so we can complete the Calcarea family. As a reminder for those following this series, Calcium based remedies tend to be shy, slow and hesitant. Of the two we have discussed so far, Calcarea Fluorica manifest this traits as a insecurity, - specially concerning money afairs, - while Calcarea Phosphorica embodies those same traits as immaturity.
That leaves only one more Calcium salt in Schuessler's: Calcarea Sulphurica. That's simply Gypsum, the mineral where plaster comes from. That's a nice, unpretentious compound, and it will have to make for a very short blog post because there's not that much to say about it. The first thing I noticed was that this is not listed in one of the main sources that I am using for this project: Deniz's Psico-Homeopathy book.[1]
The issue became clearer when I checked the remedy in Vijnovsky's Materia Medica.[2] There are but a handful of mental symptoms, and none of those have a high score. It is not clear what exactly these scores represent, - in theory this is the relative frequency when each symptom shows up in the probings, but it is clear that many symptoms come from heuristic insights and clinic experience, - but it is clear that the higher the number the greater the relative importance of this symptom in the overall similia or the remedy. There are two mental symptoms with score 1: jealously, and anxiety/fear (to death or illness, to darkness); and two more with score 0: the first is actually a bunch of correlated traits (moody, disgruntled, irritable), the second is sudden loss of memory or conscience.
The meaning of these scores is nuanced. If we were talking about homeopathic probings, - the process by which the use of the remedy is discovered through its experimentation on healthy subjects, - a low score means that the symptoms do not show up in most subjects, but only in the most susceptible probers.
But on the question of the prescription of the remedy, what it means is that those symptoms do have a low diagnostic value. It is true that some patients may find this remedy useful to thwart their, let's say jealously, but only in those cases when the physical symtoms (open absceses with supuration, hypertrophy of glands or lymph noes, skin or digestive conditions) are also present. More over, there are plenty other remedies indicated in case of excessive/undue jealously; Lachesis, Hyosciamus and Apis are some of the better known.
So, all in all, I will have to say that Calcarea Sulphurica does not seem to have a personality at all. Mental symptoms, sure; but those do not seem to coalesce around a full fledged personality. I don't recall if I said it before, but not all remedies have personalities, as a matter of fact most do not.
In this case, the aforementioned lack seems to be related with today's salt being basically plaster. I know the argument is shaky at best, but the material is bland, so it's not surprising its effect on the mental plane is bland as well. It was a bit of a disappointment for me, because I wanted to continue the trend we established before, and discuss the implications of what Sulphates bring to the table. We will have a few more chances down the road, and one extra I was not expecting at all.
And with this, we have completed the first milestone in this project, which is to review the Calcarea family within Schuessler's salts, from a psychological-homeopathic point of view. My original plan was to continue with the Kali family, the salt compound that include Potassium as a main component, but I thought better of it. You see, while reading on Calc-S, I realized there's a remedy that is very close to it, - a polycrest with a strong and, for lack of a better term, sulphuric personality, - and one that is indirectly related to the Calcarea family. So, next week we are going to take a little detour, leave Schuessler salts aside, and take a good look at Hepar sulphur calcareum.
[1] Deníz, Octavio. Psico-Homeopatía. Remedios para la mente y el corazón. 1st edition. :Lulu.com: 2007
[2] Vijnovsky, Bernardo. Tratado de Materia Médica Homeopática. Buenos Aires:Macagno, Landa y Cia:1978
That leaves only one more Calcium salt in Schuessler's: Calcarea Sulphurica. That's simply Gypsum, the mineral where plaster comes from. That's a nice, unpretentious compound, and it will have to make for a very short blog post because there's not that much to say about it. The first thing I noticed was that this is not listed in one of the main sources that I am using for this project: Deniz's Psico-Homeopathy book.[1]
The issue became clearer when I checked the remedy in Vijnovsky's Materia Medica.[2] There are but a handful of mental symptoms, and none of those have a high score. It is not clear what exactly these scores represent, - in theory this is the relative frequency when each symptom shows up in the probings, but it is clear that many symptoms come from heuristic insights and clinic experience, - but it is clear that the higher the number the greater the relative importance of this symptom in the overall similia or the remedy. There are two mental symptoms with score 1: jealously, and anxiety/fear (to death or illness, to darkness); and two more with score 0: the first is actually a bunch of correlated traits (moody, disgruntled, irritable), the second is sudden loss of memory or conscience.
The meaning of these scores is nuanced. If we were talking about homeopathic probings, - the process by which the use of the remedy is discovered through its experimentation on healthy subjects, - a low score means that the symptoms do not show up in most subjects, but only in the most susceptible probers.
But on the question of the prescription of the remedy, what it means is that those symptoms do have a low diagnostic value. It is true that some patients may find this remedy useful to thwart their, let's say jealously, but only in those cases when the physical symtoms (open absceses with supuration, hypertrophy of glands or lymph noes, skin or digestive conditions) are also present. More over, there are plenty other remedies indicated in case of excessive/undue jealously; Lachesis, Hyosciamus and Apis are some of the better known.
So, all in all, I will have to say that Calcarea Sulphurica does not seem to have a personality at all. Mental symptoms, sure; but those do not seem to coalesce around a full fledged personality. I don't recall if I said it before, but not all remedies have personalities, as a matter of fact most do not.
In this case, the aforementioned lack seems to be related with today's salt being basically plaster. I know the argument is shaky at best, but the material is bland, so it's not surprising its effect on the mental plane is bland as well. It was a bit of a disappointment for me, because I wanted to continue the trend we established before, and discuss the implications of what Sulphates bring to the table. We will have a few more chances down the road, and one extra I was not expecting at all.
And with this, we have completed the first milestone in this project, which is to review the Calcarea family within Schuessler's salts, from a psychological-homeopathic point of view. My original plan was to continue with the Kali family, the salt compound that include Potassium as a main component, but I thought better of it. You see, while reading on Calc-S, I realized there's a remedy that is very close to it, - a polycrest with a strong and, for lack of a better term, sulphuric personality, - and one that is indirectly related to the Calcarea family. So, next week we are going to take a little detour, leave Schuessler salts aside, and take a good look at Hepar sulphur calcareum.
[1] Deníz, Octavio. Psico-Homeopatía. Remedios para la mente y el corazón. 1st edition. :Lulu.com: 2007
[2] Vijnovsky, Bernardo. Tratado de Materia Médica Homeopática. Buenos Aires:Macagno, Landa y Cia:1978
