PLUMBUM (Lead)
ESSENCE
Similar to the final days of the empire. The king is
still there, but in name only, because the real power
has passed into the hands of other people. Everyone
pretends the king is still in power, but in their hearts
they know better. The take over is happening any
moment now, any they won't shy away from violence
if necessary. Old king still ruling because of the
inherited power, ego, greediness, etc., not because of
his virtues. Looks powerful on the outside, but it is
only a show.
MENTAL SYMPTOMS
- Weakness or loss of memory, esp. for names …
inability to recall the "wanted word" … slow
perception … difficult comprehension … increasing
slowness and apathy … learning difficulties, late
learning to talk and write … absent minded …
confused … imbecile … insanity … dementia
- Quiet and melancholic … depression … taciturn ...
timid
- Restless and anxious … feigns sickness or
exaggerates her condition
- Selfish and self-indulgent
- Fears: of poisoning … of being assassinated
- Delusions: superior … Christ … alone … everyone
around is a murderer
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Slow developing, insidious diseases which show no
tendency to recovery … progressive muscular
atrophy
- Sclerosis (with contraction)
- NEUROLOGICAL affections (Parkinson's, MS,
etc.)
- Very CHILLY
ETIOLOGIES
Lead, cadmium or aluminum poisoning … hurt …
humiliation
AFFINITIES
Muscles … nerves … spinal cord … abdomen …
kidneys … BLOOD VESSELS and blood
MODALITIES
<: evening … night … slight touch
>: HARD pressure … bending double, esp. colicky
pains (Coloc, Mag-p) … rubbing … warmth …
stretching legs
SENSATIONS
Violent RETRACTION … INSENSIBILITY (to
radiating heat, to pain, to pricking) … of a string
pulling (SRP)
PAINS
COLICKY … shooting, lightning, extorting cries;
RADIATING in all directions
NOTES
- Appearance: Aging remedy. Anemic, cachectic,
ashen, deep furrows. The skin seems drawn tight over
the bones, with a shriveled look. Emaciation may be
marked.
- They have a fantasy of accumulating a great wealth
or, if they have it, great fear that it can be taken away.
Their dream is to get rich fast; nobody wants to win a
lottery more than Plum.
- High living; people who have been egoistic, selfish
throughout their lives; enjoyed the best of everything.
Apathetic; irritated about it, with self-destructive
impulses. Fixed, sclerotic attitudes and attachments.
Find excitement in risky, scandalous behavior. Seek
forbidden thrills (Vithoulkas).
- Professions: king, leader, director, manager,
president, chairman, captain, mayor, bishop, top
sportsman, stewardess, model.
- Easily confused with Lyco (desire for power but not
too much guts for it)
© 2004 Valerie Sadovsky, July 2004
PLUMBUM (Lead)
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
GI: bowl obstruction (Op.) … obstinate constipation
… paralysis of colon/rectum, no peristalsis … navel
feels retracted … COLIC accompanies many …
abdominal pains extending to groin or limbs …
symptoms … abdominal wall feels drawn by a
string to spine
Circulation: ARTERIOSCLEROSIS … organic heart
disease … angina pectoris … palpitations, < lying on
the left side … drawing pains in the chest
Back: spinal cord sclerosis … lightning-like pains, >
pressure
Extremities: thickening of tendons in palms …
WRIST-DROP, ankle-drop … gout … paralysis of
lower limbs … paralysis of single muscles … wasting
of single limbs
Skin: absence of perspiration
Sleep: takes STRANGE positions in bed during sleep
Children: marasmus of infants in apparently hopeless
cases, abdomen large and hard and constipation
extreme … infantile paralysis
Kidneys: chronic nephritis with great pain in
abdomen … contracted kidney … urine profuse but
flows slowly, drop by drop … tenesmus of bladder ...
paralysis of bladder
PRIME INDICATIONS
1. Sclerotic, slow, apathetic; seek forbidden thrills.
2. Very chilly. Sensitive to cold.
3. Better: rubbing, warmth, bending double, hard
pressure.
4. Retraction.
5. Lightning, radiating pains.
SOURCES
Gibson, Studies of Remedies
Morrison, Desktop Guide
Murphy, Homeopathic Remedy Guide
Scholten, Elements
Vermeulen, Synoptic
© 2004 Valerie Sadovsky, July 2004