Tri-miasmatic evolution of mind of hamamelis virginica

Dr Fahmeedah BK

Hamamelis has extensive 273 mind symptoms which are unknown to most of the homeopaths. 

INTRODUCTION:
Hamamelis virginica – the Witch Hazel, is a homoeopathic therapeutic agent well known for its action on the venous system. It is also known as the Aconite of veins. This remedy has been clinically abused in conditions like varicose veins and haemorrhoids. Yet the pathogenesis of this remedy at the level of mind is being overlooked in our Materia Medica. Boericke has no mind section under this remedy in his Materia Medica , Kent has forgotten to mention this remedy in his Materia Medica, Nash has not mentioned any mind symptom under this drug ,Clarke has described the mind of Hamamelis in four to five symptoms.

However, from the knowledge of repertory it is found that hamamelis has extensive mind symptoms which is unknown to most of the homoeopaths. Schroyen’s Synthesis-9.0 gives 273 mind rubrics of Hamamelis. It is essential to study the miasmatic evolution of the remedies in order that we know what symptoms and rubrics can be given more importance at what stage.

Listed below are the tri- miasmatic evolution of mind of Hamamelis virginica.

PSORA SYCOSIS SYPHILIS
ACTIVITY : 

  • desires activity

AGILITY: mental

AILMENTS FROM

  • Rudeness of others

ANXIETY

  • Night
  • Future, about

CARES : FULL OF

  • Company, with aversion to
  • Waking on

CHEERFUL

  • Morning

COMPANY

  • Desires for

COMPLAINING

  • Disease of

CONCENTRATION

  • Active, morning

CONSCIENTIOUS

  • About trifles

CONVERSATION

  • Desire for : sublime, to hear

EXCITEMENT

EXERTION

  • Physical – aversion

HOME – desires to go

INJUSTICE

  • Cannot support

IRRITABILITY

  • Daytime
  • Easily
  • Exertion, from
  • Expression, from unintelligible
  • Forgetful, because
  • Sudden
  • Trifles, from
  • Working, when

MEMORY

  • Active – names, for proper

QUITE disposition

SENSITIVE 

  • Opinion of others, to the
  • Reprimands, to
  • Reproaches
  • Rudeness, to

SHRIEKING, anger in

SINGING

STARTING

  • Noise, from

SYMPATHETIC

TIDY

TRANQUILITY

WALKING

  • Air, in the open- amel

YIELDING

  • Disposition 
ABSENTMINDED

ABSORBED

ADMONITION: agg

AILMENTS FROM

  • Anger
  • Indignation with
  • Contradiction
  • Jealousy
  • Love, disappointed
  • Mortification
  • Quarrelling
  • Reprimands
  • Reputation, loss of
  • Scorned, being

ANGER

  • Contradiction from
  • Mistakes, about his
  • Misunderstood, when

CAPRICIOUSNESS

COMPANY

Aversion to: alone amel, when

CONCENTRATION

  • Difficult
  • Afternoon
  • Evening
  • Studying
  • Writing

CONFIDENCE

  • Want of self-confidence – others have none, which makes her unhappy, and thinks

CONFIDENT

CONFIDING

CONVERSATION

  • Aversion to

DISCONTENTED

  • Everything, with

DULLNESS

  • Morning, rise on
  • Morning, walking on
  • Afternoon
  • Walking on 
  • Walking

EXPRESSING

  • Cannot express oneself

FEAR

  • Death of, diarrhoea during
  • Happen, something will
  • Narrow place, in (= claustrophobia)
  • Narrow place, in trains and closed places, fear of

FIRMNESS

HAUGHTY

IDEAS – Abundant

  • Morning – restless, sleep after
  • Forenoon 

INDUSTRIOUS (= mania for work)

IRRESOLUTION

  • Acts, in
  • Laziness, with
  • Trifles, about

JEALOUSY

  • Accuses – husband – neglect
  • Appreciate anything, desires that others shall not
  • Irrational

LAZINESS

  • Morning

MOROSE

  • Forgetfulness, from

OFFENDED – easily

OPINIONS – Respected, expects her opinions to be

PATIENCE

PLANS – making many plans

POSITIVENESS

QUIET

  • Wants to be – response and tranquillity, desires

RESPECTED, desire to be

RESTLESSNESS

  • Driving about

REVERENCE

  • For those around him

SADNESS

  • Morning
  • Evening – amel
  • Evening – bed
  • Coition, after
  • Friends , as if having lost affection of
  • Gloomy
  • Masturbation, from
  • Pollutions, from
  • Slight, from an undeserved 

SUSPICIOUS

SYMPATHY

  • From others, desire for

TACITURN

THINKING

  • Analytical thinking
  • Aversion to
  • Complains agg, thinking of his complains
  • Complaints – constantly to his ailments

VIVACIOUS

WATCHED

  • To be – desires to be watched

WEEPING

  • Desire to weep
  • Music, from
  • Thanked, when
AILMENTS FROM

  • Reproaches

ANGUISH

  • Pain, from abdomen

AVERSION

  • Family, to members of

AWKWARD

  • Drops things

CAREFREE

COMPANY

  • Aversion to

CONFUSION of mind

  • Daily affairs; about
  • Identity, as to his – duality, sense of
  • Writing, while

DEATH

  • Desires

DELUSIONS 

  • Alone, being – belong to anyone, she did not
  • Appreciated, she is not
  • Criticized, she is
  • Despised, is
  • Falling, he is
  • Forgetful, he is
  • Forsaken, is – care for her, no one would
  • Friendless, he is
  • Great person, is a – reverenced by all round her, she ought to be
  • Insane – become insane, one will
  • Become insane, one will, hammering over left eye, with
  • Laughed at and mocked at – being
  • Looked down upon , she is
  • Mind – out of his mind, he would go
  • Neglected – he or she is neglected
  • Separated:
  • body mind are separated, body and
  • himself, he were separated from
  • world, from the – he is separated
  • sleeping – not enough sleep, he had – morning, in the

DESIRES 

Full of desires – grandeur, desire for

DESPAIR

  • Criticism, from the smallest
  • Recovery, of
  • Social position, of
  • Trifles, over
  • Work, over his

EXHILARARTION

  • Evening

FANCIES

  • Confused

FORGETFUL

  • Words while speaking

FORESAKEN Feeling

Isolation, sensation of

HEADLESS

HELPLESSNESS Feeling of

HURRY

  • Eating, while
  • Everybody – moves too slowly

IMPATIENCE

  • Coryza, with
  • Slowly, everything goes to

INDIFFERENCE

  • Morning
  • Afternoon 
  • Adverse circumstances , to
  • Business affairs, to
  • Everything, to
  • Excitement, after
  • Family, to his
  • Household affairs
  • Loved ones, to
  • Relations, to
  • Reprimands, to all
  • Surroundings, to the
  • Welfare of others, to

LAMENTING

  • Appreciated, because he is not
  • Sickness, about his
  • Trifles, over

LAUGHING

Easily

Trifles at

MEMORY weakness of memory

  • Do, for what was about to
  • Persons, for
  • Proper names
  • Read, for what he has
  • Say, for what he is about to
  • Words, for

MENTAL EXERTION

  • Agg impossible
  • Aversion to
  • Desire for
  • Desire for – night

MENTAL POWER –  increased

MISTAKES, making

  • Reading, in
  • Speaking
  • Speaking in – intend, what he does not
  • Speaking, in – words – wrong words, using
  • Time, in
  • Writing, in
  • Writing in – confounding letters
  • Writing, in – wrong words

PROSTRATION of mind

READING

  • Unable to read

SPEECH

  • Finish – sentence cannot

SPOKEN TO

  • Being – aversion

STUPEFACTION

  • Afternoon
  • Mental exertion, after

THOUGHTS

  • Wandering – studying, while

TRANQUILITY

  • Haemoptysis, haemorrhage, in

UNFEELING

UNSYMPATHETIC.

CONCLUSION:
The above information reveals that Hamamelis is basically a remedy with high esteem and is haughty, concerned about social position and desires to be respected, the lack of which will lead to the pathological expressions of the mind symptoms. This remedy has affections mainly at the intellectual sphere of the mind. 

The above study also gives inference that many expressions of mind in Hamamelis are of syphilitic nature. Hence, we can conclude that Hamamelis can be prescribed not only by organoleptic approach but also considered in constitutional approach of prescription.

REFERENCES:

  1. Dr Kapil K Sharma Mental Personalities with Their Linking Rubrics and Important Remedies .2nd corrected and added ed. New Delhi: Indian Books And Periodicals Publishers (P) Ltd; 2009.
  2. Radar Software : Frederik Schroyens Synthesis Repertory ,Version 9.1

Dr.FAHMEEDAH B.K
PG Scholar, Department of Materia Medica,
Government Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Bengaluru.

1 Comment

  1. hamamelis very useful for circulation in painful leg veins probably mini lachesis as this snake has too alert tongue eyes scaly skin.

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