Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on May 24, 2021 8:38:28 GMT
LEDUM PALUSTRE – marsh tea
Ledum has the most awful dreams and nightmares. Why? Possibly be- cause this plant was used to adulterate and increase the intoxicating pow- ers of beer – Hahnemann voiced concern about this – and might be one reason why this remedy has ‘difficult concentration’, ‘confusion of mind’, ‘sees visions on closing the eyes’, but I doubt this is the full and only reason.
Ledum is all about being abused, injured or harmed, specifically being punctured – pierced, stabbed or perforated, crushed or lacerated. Doesn’t matter how you say it these words are threatening and quite frightening and induce an extreme sensitivity to touch as you might expect.
Worse than this a hatred of people develops, mixed in with fear, mania, repulsive moods, a malicious nature even to the point of violence and avoiding the sight of people is probably the best direction for them to take. They give you the cold shoulder at best and Ledum is one of the coldest remedies accompanied by the peculiarity of feeling >>> for more coldness, so a warm hug is not for them – they are misanthropists and alone in their own wilderness of pain.
These pains travel upwards. They begin with a strange sensation, as if the feet are a magnet and held to the earth and cannot move; the feet feel as if filled with blood, but they are also driven by fear and impetuosity so they have to move, even though they are heavy, bloated, mottled and swollen.
Thus you have a pain as if dislocated – totally out of place (muscles feel as if they are in the wrong position). Other pains are felt as pressure, shooting, tearing, gnawing, numb, pricking, biting, as if beaten – this spreads over the whole body until they begin to feel completely battered and bruised.
A chronic state such as this will bring about the need to crawl away, retire into solitude, into the wilderness far away from anyone and desiring death when it is extreme.
No-one can sleep easily with this torment happening. When sleep comes it is poor quality, restless and punctuated with the frightful dreams or nightmares. The skin feels as it lice are crawling all over the surface. As if to escape this the dreams are about constantly changing places, full of agitation and anxiety, seeing phantoms, ghosts and other spirits, crowded thoughts and ideas that just encourage further restlessness and fear.
Being in the twilight zone during all this, i.e. semi wakeful, the main fear is to actually fall asleep after these dreams because they are convinced they will then die.
Although it might not be obvious Ledum can be a very sad remedy. Deposited into a lonely place by their own volition does not mean to say that deep sadness isn’t present. For all the anger, malice and shunning of people Ledum can be very timid, cowardly and sad. They sob and sob in a spasmodic manner until almost suffocating and cannot take in air. Then you get another curious symptom of double inspiration.
Ledum has the most awful dreams and nightmares. Why? Possibly be- cause this plant was used to adulterate and increase the intoxicating pow- ers of beer – Hahnemann voiced concern about this – and might be one reason why this remedy has ‘difficult concentration’, ‘confusion of mind’, ‘sees visions on closing the eyes’, but I doubt this is the full and only reason.
Ledum is all about being abused, injured or harmed, specifically being punctured – pierced, stabbed or perforated, crushed or lacerated. Doesn’t matter how you say it these words are threatening and quite frightening and induce an extreme sensitivity to touch as you might expect.
Worse than this a hatred of people develops, mixed in with fear, mania, repulsive moods, a malicious nature even to the point of violence and avoiding the sight of people is probably the best direction for them to take. They give you the cold shoulder at best and Ledum is one of the coldest remedies accompanied by the peculiarity of feeling >>> for more coldness, so a warm hug is not for them – they are misanthropists and alone in their own wilderness of pain.
These pains travel upwards. They begin with a strange sensation, as if the feet are a magnet and held to the earth and cannot move; the feet feel as if filled with blood, but they are also driven by fear and impetuosity so they have to move, even though they are heavy, bloated, mottled and swollen.
Thus you have a pain as if dislocated – totally out of place (muscles feel as if they are in the wrong position). Other pains are felt as pressure, shooting, tearing, gnawing, numb, pricking, biting, as if beaten – this spreads over the whole body until they begin to feel completely battered and bruised.
A chronic state such as this will bring about the need to crawl away, retire into solitude, into the wilderness far away from anyone and desiring death when it is extreme.
No-one can sleep easily with this torment happening. When sleep comes it is poor quality, restless and punctuated with the frightful dreams or nightmares. The skin feels as it lice are crawling all over the surface. As if to escape this the dreams are about constantly changing places, full of agitation and anxiety, seeing phantoms, ghosts and other spirits, crowded thoughts and ideas that just encourage further restlessness and fear.
Being in the twilight zone during all this, i.e. semi wakeful, the main fear is to actually fall asleep after these dreams because they are convinced they will then die.
Although it might not be obvious Ledum can be a very sad remedy. Deposited into a lonely place by their own volition does not mean to say that deep sadness isn’t present. For all the anger, malice and shunning of people Ledum can be very timid, cowardly and sad. They sob and sob in a spasmodic manner until almost suffocating and cannot take in air. Then you get another curious symptom of double inspiration.