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Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Jul 8, 2021 11:56:38 GMT
Tends to laugh about serious matters Feels as though something is struggling to keep alive around the heart good luck
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Post by becksnyc on Jul 8, 2021 19:07:14 GMT
Castor equi. If this is correct, I have some thoughts from my research on this & related remedies. And questions. Of course.
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gordana
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Post by gordana on Jul 8, 2021 20:25:22 GMT
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Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Jul 8, 2021 20:32:18 GMT
Castor equi. If this is correct, I have some thoughts from my research on this & related remedies. And questions. Of course. Hmmm way too easy. I need to try harder 😂
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Post by becksnyc on Jul 8, 2021 21:10:48 GMT
Well, easy or hard, it got me to study a remedy I'd never even heard of! So well done, you!
The Alpha-keratin composition of this part of the horse (called the "ergot" in USA) probably explains its affinity to toenail growth and brittle/crumbling nails. And if one looks for broader connections between the SRP symptoms, I think possibly actin would be involved? It is a precursor to keratin formation. It's a constituent of contractive muscles and the sheets that line the surface of the heart (something alive struggling AROUND the heart), determines strength of epithelial cell junctions (cracked skin), is related to connective tissues (coccyx pain). The mention of scalp numbness and pain brought to mind the connective nature of the fascia. "As though his mammae would fall off"--obviously (!!!) a connective tissue rubric, echoed in reference to "nipples...only hanging on strips." (ouch) Laughter at serious things reminded me of amygdala's role in reading faces (Schizophernia, autism)m which leads to anxiety, which leads to laughter as a release. The amygdala also provides a scaffold to connect emotions to memories (dreams of his mother who he had not thought of the day before--I know, a stretch). I see family ranked high for such a "small" remedy, and I wondered what aspect of family life? My overall impression was, themes of structure, framework, connectivity. And a final random association: when I read "Dreams in winter of fresh fruits hanging from the trees," and of laughing at serious matters, I was reminded of the poem "A Moth Seen in Winter" by Robert Frost, partly quoted below,
"And what I pity in you is something human, The old incurable untimeliness, Only begetter of all ills that are."
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Post by becksnyc on Jul 8, 2021 22:43:46 GMT
The description in Allens is somewhat confusing, since, according to this horse anatomy book, the castor equis is behind the fetlock, not above it and on the "inner side." Another, similarly horn-like callosity is found "on the front legs of a horse above the knee, or sometimes on the back legs of a horse below the hock" and is called the "chestnut." I've seen photos of both the ergot and the chestnut used on homeopathic websites describing (or selling) Castor equis remedy.
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Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Jul 9, 2021 7:10:14 GMT
It is yet another requirement of us to know what part of the ‘item’ is used for homeopathic preparation. It’s hard being a homeopath 🤔
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