Introduction 1 The Meaning of Illness 1 The Spirit of Homeopathic Medicines 4 Taking the Remedy 5 Which Potencies to Use? 6 How Many Doses? 7 How Does Illness Evolve? 7 A Few Words on Childhood Psychomotor Development and Hahnemann's Miasms 8 Right Side, Left Side 11 Human Society 12 Toward the Higher Purpose of our Existence 12 Maturity 13 The Remedies 17 Rare Remedies and Polychrests 17 A 22 Abrotanum The Vampire 17 Aconitum The Sphinx 18 Aesculus Hippocastanum Hemorrhoids 19 Aethusa Cynapium Mother-Infant Misunderstanding 20 Agaricus Muscarius Clumsy 21 Agraphis Nutans Adenoids 22 Ailanthus Glandulosa Severe Sore Throats 22 Allium Cepa The Onion 23 Alumina All Dried Up 23 Ambra Grisea They're Eating Me Alive 24 Anacardium Orientale The Choice 26 ix
x THE SPIRIT OF HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES Anantherum Muriaticum 27 Angustura Vera The Bridge 28 Anthracinum 28 Antimonium Crudum The Hungry Smurf 29 Antimonium Tartaricum Difficult Breathing 30 Apis The Honeybee 30 Argentum Nitricum Mind Incarnate in Matter 32 Arnica The School of Hard Knocks 33 Arsenicum Album The Death of the Body 35 Arsenicum Iodatum 38 Arum Triphyllum Hoarseness 38 Asa Foetida Reverse Peristaltic Motion 38 Asterias Rubens The Starfish 40 Aurum Metallicum Transgressing the Law of the Father 41 Other Forms of Aurum Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum 42 Aurum Sulphur 42 B 43 Baryta Carbonica J Don't Understand Anything at All 43 Belladonna In the Delirium of Fever 44 Bismuthum No One Clings Tighter 45 Borax Fear of Falling 46 Bromium The Happy Mariner 46 Bryonia I Want to Stay Home 47 Bufo Rana Solitary Pleasure 48 C 49 Cactus Grandiflorus The Night-blooming Flower 49 Caladium Seguinum Up in Smoke 49 Calcarea Carbonica Fear of Leaving the Shell 50 Calcarea Fluorica Avarice 51 Calcarea Phosphorica Growth 52 Other Forms of Calcarea (Salts of Calcium) Calcarea Arsenicosa 53 Calcarea Bromata 53 Calcarea Iodata 54 Calcarea Silicata 54
xi Calendula The Homeopathic Antiseptic 54 Camphora The Antidote 54 Cannabis Indica Finding an Identity 55 Capsicum Nostalgia for a Paradise Lost 56 Carbo Vegetabilis Taking the Next Step 57 Carcinosin Incarcerated 58 Causticum Damocles' Sword 60 Cenchris Contortrix The Primitive Scene 61 Chamomilla Vulgaris The Storm 62 Chelidonium The Great Light 62 China Anemic 64 Chininum Arsenicosum 64 Cicuta Virosa Crazy Times, Crazy People 64 Cimicifuga or Actea Racemosa ( Tn Pain You Shall Bring Forth Children" 65 Cina The Worm Was in the Fruit 66 Coca High Altitude 67 Cocculus Controlling the Movements of Life 67 Coffea Joy 68 Colocynthis Repressed Anger 69 Conium Maculatum The Path to Knowledge 70 Croton Tiglium Contents Under Pressure 72 Cuprum Metallicum I Don't Measure Up 72 Curare Refusal of Self-Responsibility 73 Cyclamen Hidden Grief 74 D 77 Digitalis Failure 77 Diphtherotoxinum 77 Drosera The Carnivorous Plant 77 Dulcamara Damp Cold 79 E 81 Ethylicum 81 Eupatorium Perfoliatum Influenza 81 Euphrasia 81
THE SPIRIT OF HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES F 83 Ferrum Metallicum By Force of Will 83 Ferrum Phosphoricum Viral Bronchitis 84 Fluoricum Acidum Love Without Responsibility 84 Formica Rufa The Red Ant 85 G 87 Gelsemium Paralyzed by Fright 87 Glonoinum Explosive 88 Graphites J Could Have Been a Diamond 89 H 91 Helleborus The Winter Rose 91 Hepar Sulphur The Pyromaniac 92 Hura Brasiliensis The Death of the Child 93 Hydrastis A Cold and Constipated, Too 93 Hydrophobinum Rabid Desire for Control 94 Hyoscyamus The Jealous Exhibitionist 95 Hypericum Arnica for the Nerves 96 I 99 Ignatia This Vale of Tears 99 Influenzinum The Homeopathic Flu Vaccine 101 Iodum Action and Contemplation 102 Ipecac Impeccable for Spasms 105 Iris Versicolor 106 K 107 Kali Bichromicum The Scapegoat 107 Kali Bromatum "Idle Hands do the DeviVs Work" 108 Kali Carbonicum The Suffering of Dependency 109 Kali Iodatum 110 Kreosotum Eaten Away Ill L 113 Lac Caninum I am Worthless 113 Lachesis Too Far to the Left 115 Laurocerasus Pleasure in Activity 118 Lilium Tigrinum The Lily 119 Lycopodium Too Far to the Right 119 xii
xiii M 123 Magnesia Carbonica The Adopted Child 123 Magnesia Muriatica Nonviolence 124 Magnesia Phosphorica 125 Medorrhinum What Comes Next? 126 Mercurius Solubilis The Swindler 127 Other Forms of Mercurius Mercurius Corrosivus 128 Mercurius Bi-iodatus 128 Mercurius Proto-iodatus 128 Mercurius Sulphuratus Ruber (Cinnabaris) 128 Mercurius Sulphuricus 128 Mezereum Disoriented 129 Millefolium 130 Moschus Defamation 130 Muriaticum Acidum The Death of the Mother 131 N 133 Naja Tripudians 133 Natrum Carbonicum Harmony With the Cosmos 133 Natrum Muriaticum The Father 135 Natrum Phosphoricum Freedom 137 Natrum Sulphuricum Water is the Issue 137 Nitricum Acidum It's the Law 138 Nux Moschata Playing the Ostrich 139 Nux Vomica Overworked 140 O 143 Oleum Animale Fat 143 Oleum Jecoris Aselli Cod Liver Oil 143 Opium Paradise 145 Oscillococcinum The Homeopathic Antiviral Medicine 147 P 149 Palladium Pure Mind 149 Pertussinum Whooping Cough 150 Petroleum The Skeptic 150 Phosphoricum Acidum Exhausted 151
xiv THE SPIRIT OF HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES Phosphorus Ablaze 153 Phytolacca The Mercury of the Plant Kingdom 154 Platina Substance versus Glitter 155 Plumbum Zero Tolerance for Constraints 156 Podophyllum 157 Psorinum 158 Pulsatilla Mama! 159 Pyrogenium The Homeopathic Antibiotic 162 R 165 Rheum Too Acidic 165 Rhus Toxicodendron Movement is Life 165 Rumex Crispus Colds 166 Ruta Graveolens Major Sprains 166 S 167 Sabadilla False Self-Impressions 167 Sabal Serrulata The Small Breast 167 Sambucus 167 Sanguinaria 168 Sanicula Aqua The Silent Spring 168 Sarsaparilla Lost Heritage 168 Secale Cornutum The Link in the Chain 169 Selenium Early Aging 169 Sepia Couldn't be More of a Woman 170 Silicea The Crystal 172 Spigelia 175 SpongiaTosta The Sponge 175 Stannum Metallicum The Tin Man 176 Staphysagria Frustrated 177 Stramonium Eat or Be Eaten 179 Sulphur I Suffer 181 Sulphuricum Acidum The Accident 184 Sulphur Iodatum 184 Symphytum Officinale 185 Syphilinum Syphilis 185
T 187 Tabacum Tobacco 187 Tarentula Hispana Fear of Slavery 187 Taxus Baccata No One Can Do Anything More for Me 188 Tellurium Fear of Being Touched on Sensitive Spots 189 Teucrium Marum Verum 190 Thuja The Tree of Life 190 Tuberculinum Tuberculosis 192 U 197 Urtica Urens The Death of the Father 197 V 199 Valeriana Officinalis False Circumstances 199 Veratrum Album The Lie 200 Vipera The Viper 202 X 203 X-ray 203 Z 205 Zincum Metallicum Fear of the Law 205 Conclusion 207 Index 209