case michal yakir from hom. links ear Ros-d

In the following winter they came for an ad- ditional session as he had a slight cold and some teeth grinding. He has fears of ghosts. Again his mother tells me he is very popu- lar among his friends; he is bossy but in a sweet manner (he intervenes and says: “I am going to dress up as a king.”). He likes to feel soft fabrics, strokes his motherʼs sleeve before falling asleep. Again, he is jealous of the attention that the older sibling provides his sister. Now we refer to his eating habits: he is still a very picky eater and will not touch many types of food. Eats a small variety of fruits and vegetables and still prefers sweets. Prescription: Increase to Rosa damascena C30 1 drop daily Fifteen months after intake Still takes Rosa damascena C30. The cold is gone and for the rest of the win- ter he did not suffer from it. Sleeps well. His eating habits have improved. All of a sudden he has an appetite. It turns out that there was something they never reported: a tendency for weakness with heart involvement: it appears he would get tired easily. Also, when he com- peted with a friend, if the friend was about to beat him, he would complain that his heart aches. This has improved as well. He remains bossy. Treatment: continue for another month with Rosa damascena C30 and then in- crease to C200. Single dose. Two months later The parents report that all is well. Should the need arise, they will give a single dose of Rosa damascena C200. The Structure and Methodology of the Plant Table Plants are the source of natureʼs ability to evolve and develop. Observing nature, we learn thatdevelopment isinherent tothees- sence of the plants kingdom. Continuously growing1 and ever evolving, plants adapt to nature and create it at the same time. Plants were the first to fashion the idea of separation in nature: Unlike minerals, plants have a membrane separating them from the environment, an attitude that al- lows them to develop along their own evo- lutionary lines and pace, which is a quicker one than the mineralsʼ. The evolutionary changesplantsgothrough propel evolution- arychanges for thewholebiosphere, includ- ing the atmosphere, minerals and animals. More so, plants are the foundation for the existence of life, providing oxygen, carbon and nutrition. Plants propel minerals from earth outward and from the air inward into the earth, availing it to the biosphere, al- lowing growth and continuation of life on earth. In this sense, the plants kingdom acts as a stirring mediator between the worlds, expressing an archetype of continuous growth and development. In accordance with its developing nature, the plant kingdomʼs evolution can be seen to correspond with human psyche develop- ment, seeing that both share the innate na- ture of growth and development. At times where development is halted, manifesting as a disease, the corresponding plant can be summoned. This is one more gift the plant world offers. The Plants schema structure expresses this correspondence in a manner akin to the ho- meopathic understanding of the Periodic table of elements; its axes, however, are founded on evolutionary stages of botanical development. The building block of the ta- ble is not a single plant or a remedy, but a whole botanical group. Thus every square of the table contains one or few Orders2 or Families. The reason the Plants schema doesnʼt present specific remedies as its building blocks is that while the Mineral Kingdom contains 118 elements, the Plant Kingdom consists of thousands of plants which necessitated aggregating them by groups – namely Families and Orders. I found Cronquistʼs3 systematics suitable for the tableʼs scheme as it is led by evolution- ary vision, being grounded mostly on ho- meopathic-like “signs and symptoms” of function and sense in the Plant Kingdom. When the table is systematized in such an order, with vectors of botanic evolution, it becomes quite easy to decipher the homeo- pathic sense of it by assembling the Materia Medica information from all the remedies within each family – “as if one remedy”, and interpreting it according to its location in the table. In an astonishing order, the ax- es of botanical development and their cor- respondent remedies are found to parallel stages of human development. This way, each square in the table presents a convergence point of two axes – Ego con- struction and levels of growth and develop- ment: the horizontal axis is formed by sep- aration and individuation stages while the vertical axis forms maturation levels. This provides physiological, emotional and mental content to each family of plants. While Families of plants present the collec- tive themes that correspond to any given location on the table, a single remedy de- scribes only certain variations of those themes. The Table of Plants thus provides a schema that links plantsʼ developmental stages to human developmental stages. The table re- fers to the challenges and obstacles met during the developmental journey of the Ego from a primary stage of union and one- ness to an advanced stage of individuality. Learning and absorbing the lessons of the feminine and the masculine elements. The Plants table provides reason and expla- nations to remedies, as well as to qualities of families of remedies. It allows better understanding of cases, as well as promot- ing understanding of small remedies and new provings. The Plants table can provide an understanding as to why the remedy displays certain characteristics as well as to why a case calls for a remedy belonging to a certain Family. The beauty of the plant tableʼs systematics is that, without contra- 1 Most of the plants continue to grow and gain mass all their life. 2 Order is a higher taxonomic rank above Family. 3 In the 1980s, the botanist Arthur Cronquist (1919–1992) postulated a systemic scheme of classification that defined the evolutionary pro- cesses of plants in a way that created a clear as- sociation between families, orders and higher taxonomic rank. Cronquistʼs system places flow- ering plants into two broad classes, Monocotyle- dons and Dicotyledons, divided into subclass cat- egories, where related Orders, Families and Spe- cies are placed by certain morphologic order. Arranged from primitive to advanced, the inner order is decided by appearances, signs, and symptoms (as in homeopathy), by the evolution- ary advancement of the flower, fruit, pollen and seed structures. In this narrative, the most primi- tive plants are positioned in the base of the tree; the most advanced plants appear in the topmost part of the tree. Michal Yakir, A Case Study – Homœopathic Links Spring 2013, Vol. 26: 6–11 © Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd.8 MATERIAMEDICAANDCASES

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