Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Jul 29, 2021 9:57:17 GMT
SPIGELIA – pinkroot
Spigelia is in a state of agitation and pain and is confused to the point of being cheerful when in pain – this is a very curious symptom because their pain is of the neuralgic type and a type that can drive to despair. They can feel excited after being sad and full of mirth after the heart has palpitated into action, as though the palpitation is a ‘shock’ factor necessary to bring highly tensed emotions to the fore. Something has happened that was sudden and shocking and they have been thrown into a state of agitation and anxiety. They have been shocked or concussed and feel that they will fall from their previous healthy circumstances of security. But there is still this strange mirth and cheerfulness that can accompany the pains. I think it has something to do with being confused initially – a confusion that takes on an intoxicating sensation and with a tendency to an alternating emotional state fuelled by a restlessness, then this strange symptom gets easier to appreciate.
Spigelia is also an intermittent remedy in as much as the state of anguish will subside into a gloomy dejection, where they just sit and stare as though lost in thought and then the heart will palpitate and they will be shocked back into action again.
The main affinity for Spigelia is the nerves and it is easy to see how the intermittent quality presents – neuralgia, an intermittent but severe pain that ‘runs’ through a nerve, up and down, back and forth, coming and going, coming in attacks suddenly, almost like electricity and during an electric shock, first you have the sudden and painful attack and then you have the numbing, pins and needles and then the shock that almost paralyses.
The entire emotional state mimics the neuralgic pain – pain that runs through the nerves back and forth, up and down, shooting and darting here and there, always on the move.
This is also seen in another characteristic symptom of Spigelia and that is a feeling of numbness and pins and needles – intense pain followed or preceded by numbness.
Pins, needles, sharp and pointed objects such as knives feature a lot in Spigelia. Not only are the pains described as electric like, or as sparks, or as knives or as if needles were thrust in but there is an intense fear of anything sharp or pointed such as these objects and this fear exists because these sharp and pointed objects perfectly represent the characteristics of the forceful neuralgic pains. Even being touched produces intense sensitivity. These pains can follow any nerve path but most often seen in the face, head, eyes, teeth, fibrous tissue and the heart.
With all this going on Spigelia becomes a remedy that is very needy, is ‘full of desires’.and apart from needing a release from the demands of the pains there is another reason for this being ‘full of desires’.
Spigelia and a number of other remedies in the rubric ‘full of desires’ are remedies that have a special affinity to worm conditions – Arsencium; Carcinosin; Cina; Ipecacuanha etc. It is precisely the presence of this ‘other’ that produces an almost constant status of capriciousness often seen in all the ‘worm’ remedies. This is especially seen in diet requirements – the appetite is either voracious or there is complete disdain for food. This can be recognized as bulimia and/or anorexia in some.
Spigelia even has the sensation as if a worm is rising in the throat. Forever having to please this ‘other’ as well as the ‘self’ there is always an uncertainty in their desires. Always picky, vacillating, changeable, never really knowing what they want and when they get it they throw it away (to the worm who readily takes it). Hence they are always full of desires, never satisfied and the ‘wanting’ is wasted on the worm.
But it isn’t just the ever present worm that can cause this. Not everyone who needs Spigelia has worms but there is a definite sensitivity in Spigelia that suggests they are being drained in some other way.
They are very concerned about their future, very serious, feel the threat of evil somewhere in their life (and as already written Spigelia is one of the remedies that has a profound fear of anything sharp such as knives, needles, pins – links in with the pins and needles theme), these sharp objects represent the threat. With this sensitivity they can become very timid and anti-social, easily offended and pushed back and a total indifference can prevail and this is what is draining them – worse than any parasite I can think of.
Spigelia is in a state of agitation and pain and is confused to the point of being cheerful when in pain – this is a very curious symptom because their pain is of the neuralgic type and a type that can drive to despair. They can feel excited after being sad and full of mirth after the heart has palpitated into action, as though the palpitation is a ‘shock’ factor necessary to bring highly tensed emotions to the fore. Something has happened that was sudden and shocking and they have been thrown into a state of agitation and anxiety. They have been shocked or concussed and feel that they will fall from their previous healthy circumstances of security. But there is still this strange mirth and cheerfulness that can accompany the pains. I think it has something to do with being confused initially – a confusion that takes on an intoxicating sensation and with a tendency to an alternating emotional state fuelled by a restlessness, then this strange symptom gets easier to appreciate.
Spigelia is also an intermittent remedy in as much as the state of anguish will subside into a gloomy dejection, where they just sit and stare as though lost in thought and then the heart will palpitate and they will be shocked back into action again.
The main affinity for Spigelia is the nerves and it is easy to see how the intermittent quality presents – neuralgia, an intermittent but severe pain that ‘runs’ through a nerve, up and down, back and forth, coming and going, coming in attacks suddenly, almost like electricity and during an electric shock, first you have the sudden and painful attack and then you have the numbing, pins and needles and then the shock that almost paralyses.
The entire emotional state mimics the neuralgic pain – pain that runs through the nerves back and forth, up and down, shooting and darting here and there, always on the move.
This is also seen in another characteristic symptom of Spigelia and that is a feeling of numbness and pins and needles – intense pain followed or preceded by numbness.
Pins, needles, sharp and pointed objects such as knives feature a lot in Spigelia. Not only are the pains described as electric like, or as sparks, or as knives or as if needles were thrust in but there is an intense fear of anything sharp or pointed such as these objects and this fear exists because these sharp and pointed objects perfectly represent the characteristics of the forceful neuralgic pains. Even being touched produces intense sensitivity. These pains can follow any nerve path but most often seen in the face, head, eyes, teeth, fibrous tissue and the heart.
With all this going on Spigelia becomes a remedy that is very needy, is ‘full of desires’.and apart from needing a release from the demands of the pains there is another reason for this being ‘full of desires’.
Spigelia and a number of other remedies in the rubric ‘full of desires’ are remedies that have a special affinity to worm conditions – Arsencium; Carcinosin; Cina; Ipecacuanha etc. It is precisely the presence of this ‘other’ that produces an almost constant status of capriciousness often seen in all the ‘worm’ remedies. This is especially seen in diet requirements – the appetite is either voracious or there is complete disdain for food. This can be recognized as bulimia and/or anorexia in some.
Spigelia even has the sensation as if a worm is rising in the throat. Forever having to please this ‘other’ as well as the ‘self’ there is always an uncertainty in their desires. Always picky, vacillating, changeable, never really knowing what they want and when they get it they throw it away (to the worm who readily takes it). Hence they are always full of desires, never satisfied and the ‘wanting’ is wasted on the worm.
But it isn’t just the ever present worm that can cause this. Not everyone who needs Spigelia has worms but there is a definite sensitivity in Spigelia that suggests they are being drained in some other way.
They are very concerned about their future, very serious, feel the threat of evil somewhere in their life (and as already written Spigelia is one of the remedies that has a profound fear of anything sharp such as knives, needles, pins – links in with the pins and needles theme), these sharp objects represent the threat. With this sensitivity they can become very timid and anti-social, easily offended and pushed back and a total indifference can prevail and this is what is draining them – worse than any parasite I can think of.