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RUBRIC – DELUSION BODY IS SHRUNK LIKE THE DEAD
SABADILLA OFFICINALIS – cevadilla seed
Sabadilla has many delusions, nearly all confront some appalling imaging of the body. The active ingredient responsible is veratrine, a substance used to kill worms and it is possible that this is where the delusional state arises from – the action of a worm infestation penetrating the nervous system.
So the gravity is all about being ‘taken over’ by a parasite of some kind or another and this is why another delusion is prominent, that of the delusion he is being devoured or corroded.
Here’s a little about Veratrine from the King’s American Dispensatory:-
“Locally, veratrine (or its salts) is an irritant. When applied in alcoholic solution, ointment or oleate, it excites a singular sense of heat and tingling, or prickling pain, which, however, does not last long, but is followed by a coolness and more or less numbness; there is seldom redness or vesication unless the preparation is strong and applied with brisk friction. Taken into the nostrils, even in minute quantity, it occasions severe coryza and excessive sneezing. Muscular twitching has resulted from its application in ointment to the face, and sometimes it gives rise to headache, nausea, griping, slight diarrhoea, and. depression of the action of the heart. When swallowed it is a violent, irritant poison, causing great acrimony in the parts over which it passes, salivation, peculiar prickling numbness of tongue and mucous membranes, violent vomiting, profuse and sometimes bloody, and bilious diarrhoea (sometimes constipation); weak, irregular and quick pulse; cardiac depression; pallor of face and great faintness; cold sweats; muscular twitching and aching pain along the spine; contracted abdomen and pupils; and occasional extreme pruritis and tinglings which may persist for weeks. In medicinal doses it produces a feeling of warmth in the stomach and bowels, which extends to the chest and extremities. In poisoning by this agent, the stomach should be thoroughly evacuated, and tannin solutions freely given and pumped out. Stimulation should be resorted to to overcome the depression; for this purpose alcoholics, aromatic spirit of ammonia, ammonium carbonate, artificial respiration, etc., may be employed. Veratrine has been recommended internally in nervous palpitation, palsy, epileptic convulsions, pertussis, gouty, rheumatic and neuralgic affections, dropsy, etc.; but its efficacy in these affections, except in sciatica and other forms of severe neuralgia, is not well established. Besides, it is too dangerous a remedy for internal administration, and is seldom, if ever, so employed by Eclectic physicians. The dose is from 1/12 to 1/6 grain, 3 times a day, in pill form. One grain of veratrine may be mixed with 12 grains each of liquorice powder and extract of hyoscyamus, and made into 12 pills; one of these may be given every 3 or 4 hours. It is best used in the form of a salt, as the acetate, tartrate, citrate, or sulphate. Veratrine is more frequently used as a local application than as an internal remedy, and even then is considered by many a very dangerous agent. When so used it is chiefly to allay the pains of superficial functional neuralgias, for which it is less effective than aconitine, though the latter should be used only in extreme cases, and very cautiously at that. Veratrine is formed into an ointment, liniment, or tincture in the proportion of from 5 to 40 grains of veratrine to 1 ounce of lard, or oil, etc., a small portion of which is to be rubbed on the affected part for 10 or 20 minutes each time, repeating the application twice a day. Not over 3 or 4 grains must be used in a day, and in ordinary cases only 1 or 2 grains. If the skin is tender or irritated, still less must be used; and if there be a cut or abrasion, it must not be used at all. It is also applied externally in the above-named forms of disease. The doses of veratrine recommended are: For internal use, 1/120 to 1/4 grain; endermically, 1/8 to 1/4 grain; hypodermatically, 1/6 grain. The latter occasions much pain, and may produce a local abscess.”
That’s about it, in a nutshell, or rather a seed shell of sabadilla (that is contracted and shrunken as it dries out) and the text perfectly illustrates the homeopathic symptom picture as we know it.
These are deep seated situations – allergies (mainly Hay Fever), worms, influenza, asthma, whirling vertigo, deformity, melancholy, mania, dullness and oppression, a sensation of being devoured, confusion, abstraction, fear, guilt and remorse, imaginary diseases – the one here being a tendency to shrink away and play dead. If one is diminished or small then one will go unnoticed and there can be no blame, no retribution, no take over from the parasite.
SABADILLA OFFICINALIS – cevadilla seed
Sabadilla has many delusions, nearly all confront some appalling imaging of the body. The active ingredient responsible is veratrine, a substance used to kill worms and it is possible that this is where the delusional state arises from – the action of a worm infestation penetrating the nervous system.
So the gravity is all about being ‘taken over’ by a parasite of some kind or another and this is why another delusion is prominent, that of the delusion he is being devoured or corroded.
Here’s a little about Veratrine from the King’s American Dispensatory:-
“Locally, veratrine (or its salts) is an irritant. When applied in alcoholic solution, ointment or oleate, it excites a singular sense of heat and tingling, or prickling pain, which, however, does not last long, but is followed by a coolness and more or less numbness; there is seldom redness or vesication unless the preparation is strong and applied with brisk friction. Taken into the nostrils, even in minute quantity, it occasions severe coryza and excessive sneezing. Muscular twitching has resulted from its application in ointment to the face, and sometimes it gives rise to headache, nausea, griping, slight diarrhoea, and. depression of the action of the heart. When swallowed it is a violent, irritant poison, causing great acrimony in the parts over which it passes, salivation, peculiar prickling numbness of tongue and mucous membranes, violent vomiting, profuse and sometimes bloody, and bilious diarrhoea (sometimes constipation); weak, irregular and quick pulse; cardiac depression; pallor of face and great faintness; cold sweats; muscular twitching and aching pain along the spine; contracted abdomen and pupils; and occasional extreme pruritis and tinglings which may persist for weeks. In medicinal doses it produces a feeling of warmth in the stomach and bowels, which extends to the chest and extremities. In poisoning by this agent, the stomach should be thoroughly evacuated, and tannin solutions freely given and pumped out. Stimulation should be resorted to to overcome the depression; for this purpose alcoholics, aromatic spirit of ammonia, ammonium carbonate, artificial respiration, etc., may be employed. Veratrine has been recommended internally in nervous palpitation, palsy, epileptic convulsions, pertussis, gouty, rheumatic and neuralgic affections, dropsy, etc.; but its efficacy in these affections, except in sciatica and other forms of severe neuralgia, is not well established. Besides, it is too dangerous a remedy for internal administration, and is seldom, if ever, so employed by Eclectic physicians. The dose is from 1/12 to 1/6 grain, 3 times a day, in pill form. One grain of veratrine may be mixed with 12 grains each of liquorice powder and extract of hyoscyamus, and made into 12 pills; one of these may be given every 3 or 4 hours. It is best used in the form of a salt, as the acetate, tartrate, citrate, or sulphate. Veratrine is more frequently used as a local application than as an internal remedy, and even then is considered by many a very dangerous agent. When so used it is chiefly to allay the pains of superficial functional neuralgias, for which it is less effective than aconitine, though the latter should be used only in extreme cases, and very cautiously at that. Veratrine is formed into an ointment, liniment, or tincture in the proportion of from 5 to 40 grains of veratrine to 1 ounce of lard, or oil, etc., a small portion of which is to be rubbed on the affected part for 10 or 20 minutes each time, repeating the application twice a day. Not over 3 or 4 grains must be used in a day, and in ordinary cases only 1 or 2 grains. If the skin is tender or irritated, still less must be used; and if there be a cut or abrasion, it must not be used at all. It is also applied externally in the above-named forms of disease. The doses of veratrine recommended are: For internal use, 1/120 to 1/4 grain; endermically, 1/8 to 1/4 grain; hypodermatically, 1/6 grain. The latter occasions much pain, and may produce a local abscess.”
That’s about it, in a nutshell, or rather a seed shell of sabadilla (that is contracted and shrunken as it dries out) and the text perfectly illustrates the homeopathic symptom picture as we know it.
These are deep seated situations – allergies (mainly Hay Fever), worms, influenza, asthma, whirling vertigo, deformity, melancholy, mania, dullness and oppression, a sensation of being devoured, confusion, abstraction, fear, guilt and remorse, imaginary diseases – the one here being a tendency to shrink away and play dead. If one is diminished or small then one will go unnoticed and there can be no blame, no retribution, no take over from the parasite.