Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Nov 5, 2021 7:05:32 GMT
GUNPOWDER PLOT (another old one)
For those of you not familiar with the events surrounding Firework Night in Britain, here is a little bit of history…
On November 5, 1605, a solitary figure was arrested in the cellars of Parliament House. Although he first gave his name as John Johnson (not Boris 😂), a startling series of events gradually unfolded under torture. Guy Fawkes, as he was really called, was one of thirteen who had conspired to use copious amounts of Gunpowder to blow up the parliament, the King, and his Lords, thereby throwing the country into turmoil, out of which these traitors hoped to raise a new monarch, sympathetic to their cause, and return England to its Catholic past.
Depending on how your politics and religion sway, many people in this country now celebrate November 5th as a victory with parties, bonfires and fireworks – often with absolutely no connection to the governing powers.
Gunpowder has been around for a long time. The Chinese used it in weapons as long ago as the 8th century AD. The main ingredients are potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal (the authentic European charcoal would have been willow but the Chinese would probably have used bamboo). Very often sugar is used instead of charcoal to reduce the amount of smoke produced.
So, homeopathically you have – kali nit; sulphur; carbo veg or salix or bambusa and/or saccharum officinale.
If you want to make your own here is a little recipe:-
Mix equal amounts of the above mentioned ingredients and completely grind together. The resulting powder is called ‘serpentine’ and is very, very dangerous, so probably best not to bother, just to read on.
The hazards of this concoction can be reduced by adding some form of liquid at the grinding stage. This is then made into slurry from which small pellets are made. These are then allowed to dry.
All it takes is a single spark to ignite Gunpowder. Boom! The kali nit will provide a purple haze, sulphur a yellow haze and charcoal will provide the smokescreen - extremely eruptive stuff as will be evident in the homeopathic symptom picture.
Gunpowder is a wound remedy, par excellence. Clarke recommended using it during the war for blood poisoning and septic wounds. In 1915 he produced a small pamphlet with all the necessary instructions for practical use.
The concoction had already been in use in the crude form for rubbing over boils; sheep farmers used to eat it as a preventative against infection when handling sheep with foot rot and it was one of the favourite remedies for Gonorrhea. This crude form would have been rather unpleasant if not dangerous to take and so Clarke recommended the use of 3x. (Interestingly the bark of Sambucus nigra – black elder – is also a remedy for sheep with foot rot, so maybe this could also be used as well to provide the charcoal).
Clarke also considered it to be a prophylactic against suppurating wounds, spotted fever, ascarides, and cerebro-spinal meningitis. The Indians of North America and Canada used it for snake bites.
“The symptoms of poisoning which call for Black Gunpowder are almost invariably abscesses or boils or carbuncles, and frequently, though not always, exaggerated swelling of the poisoned limb,
accompanied with discoloration of the skin, so that the arm from the tips of the fingers to the axillary glands is almost of a purple or black tint.”
Clarke gives a case of blood poisoning from earthquake dust… “In 1912 I had under my care a lady who had been in the great earthquake which wrought so much havoc in Jamaica some years
before.
She asked me if I thought I could do anything for her little niece, aged 4, who lived in Jamaica and suffered from a skin trouble. She was born soon after the earthquake, was a very tiny child, had
always been nervous, and suffered, as many other children of the colony have done since the earthquake, from eruptions on the skin. It was as if the earthquake had thrown up from the depths some new kind of irritant and poisonous dust. The first symptoms were " prickly heat," with much itching.
Then sores appeared, forming blisters, the fluid of which had to be let out. The parts affected were chiefly the ankles and the trunk. Every mosquito bite made a poisoned wound. This little patient was very languid, was nervous at night, and a restless sleeper. These were the facts I elicited from her aunt.
I thought Gunpowder was the very thing for her, and on January 4th, 1912, I sent her a supply of powders of the 5 X. In due course I received a report that within a week of commencing the remedy she was much better. She slept better, the bowels acted better, and as for her appetite, whereas formerly she had to be coaxed to eat anything, now they could not give her enough. The skin improved at the same time. A second course of powders was sent on April 30th as there had been a relapse of the eruption with fever. From this time she steadily improved and got perfectly well.”
So, to expand on the remedy picture – abscess, acne, bites, boils carbuncles, cuts, ivy poisoning, sewer gas poisoning, pyorrhoea, tonsillitis, wounds that refuse to heal. They begin to swell and
become inflamed and suppurate. A ring of inflammation forms around the site of the infection. This spreads and detaches the epidermis. Glands swell considerably. Skin discolours purple or blackish. Generally <<< right side.
Anyone with a tendency to acne, boils and carbuncles suggests a deeper and more chronic level of disease with Gonorrhea; Vaccinosis; Herpes Zoster; Osteomylitis and Worms (Ascarides)
being within the symptom picture.
It might have been better and easier if Guy Fawkes had just prescribed Gunpowder 10m daily instead of trying to blow up Parliament!
Thanks for reading. Joy Lucas RSHom. November, 2004
For those of you not familiar with the events surrounding Firework Night in Britain, here is a little bit of history…
On November 5, 1605, a solitary figure was arrested in the cellars of Parliament House. Although he first gave his name as John Johnson (not Boris 😂), a startling series of events gradually unfolded under torture. Guy Fawkes, as he was really called, was one of thirteen who had conspired to use copious amounts of Gunpowder to blow up the parliament, the King, and his Lords, thereby throwing the country into turmoil, out of which these traitors hoped to raise a new monarch, sympathetic to their cause, and return England to its Catholic past.
Depending on how your politics and religion sway, many people in this country now celebrate November 5th as a victory with parties, bonfires and fireworks – often with absolutely no connection to the governing powers.
Gunpowder has been around for a long time. The Chinese used it in weapons as long ago as the 8th century AD. The main ingredients are potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal (the authentic European charcoal would have been willow but the Chinese would probably have used bamboo). Very often sugar is used instead of charcoal to reduce the amount of smoke produced.
So, homeopathically you have – kali nit; sulphur; carbo veg or salix or bambusa and/or saccharum officinale.
If you want to make your own here is a little recipe:-
Mix equal amounts of the above mentioned ingredients and completely grind together. The resulting powder is called ‘serpentine’ and is very, very dangerous, so probably best not to bother, just to read on.
The hazards of this concoction can be reduced by adding some form of liquid at the grinding stage. This is then made into slurry from which small pellets are made. These are then allowed to dry.
All it takes is a single spark to ignite Gunpowder. Boom! The kali nit will provide a purple haze, sulphur a yellow haze and charcoal will provide the smokescreen - extremely eruptive stuff as will be evident in the homeopathic symptom picture.
Gunpowder is a wound remedy, par excellence. Clarke recommended using it during the war for blood poisoning and septic wounds. In 1915 he produced a small pamphlet with all the necessary instructions for practical use.
The concoction had already been in use in the crude form for rubbing over boils; sheep farmers used to eat it as a preventative against infection when handling sheep with foot rot and it was one of the favourite remedies for Gonorrhea. This crude form would have been rather unpleasant if not dangerous to take and so Clarke recommended the use of 3x. (Interestingly the bark of Sambucus nigra – black elder – is also a remedy for sheep with foot rot, so maybe this could also be used as well to provide the charcoal).
Clarke also considered it to be a prophylactic against suppurating wounds, spotted fever, ascarides, and cerebro-spinal meningitis. The Indians of North America and Canada used it for snake bites.
“The symptoms of poisoning which call for Black Gunpowder are almost invariably abscesses or boils or carbuncles, and frequently, though not always, exaggerated swelling of the poisoned limb,
accompanied with discoloration of the skin, so that the arm from the tips of the fingers to the axillary glands is almost of a purple or black tint.”
Clarke gives a case of blood poisoning from earthquake dust… “In 1912 I had under my care a lady who had been in the great earthquake which wrought so much havoc in Jamaica some years
before.
She asked me if I thought I could do anything for her little niece, aged 4, who lived in Jamaica and suffered from a skin trouble. She was born soon after the earthquake, was a very tiny child, had
always been nervous, and suffered, as many other children of the colony have done since the earthquake, from eruptions on the skin. It was as if the earthquake had thrown up from the depths some new kind of irritant and poisonous dust. The first symptoms were " prickly heat," with much itching.
Then sores appeared, forming blisters, the fluid of which had to be let out. The parts affected were chiefly the ankles and the trunk. Every mosquito bite made a poisoned wound. This little patient was very languid, was nervous at night, and a restless sleeper. These were the facts I elicited from her aunt.
I thought Gunpowder was the very thing for her, and on January 4th, 1912, I sent her a supply of powders of the 5 X. In due course I received a report that within a week of commencing the remedy she was much better. She slept better, the bowels acted better, and as for her appetite, whereas formerly she had to be coaxed to eat anything, now they could not give her enough. The skin improved at the same time. A second course of powders was sent on April 30th as there had been a relapse of the eruption with fever. From this time she steadily improved and got perfectly well.”
So, to expand on the remedy picture – abscess, acne, bites, boils carbuncles, cuts, ivy poisoning, sewer gas poisoning, pyorrhoea, tonsillitis, wounds that refuse to heal. They begin to swell and
become inflamed and suppurate. A ring of inflammation forms around the site of the infection. This spreads and detaches the epidermis. Glands swell considerably. Skin discolours purple or blackish. Generally <<< right side.
Anyone with a tendency to acne, boils and carbuncles suggests a deeper and more chronic level of disease with Gonorrhea; Vaccinosis; Herpes Zoster; Osteomylitis and Worms (Ascarides)
being within the symptom picture.
It might have been better and easier if Guy Fawkes had just prescribed Gunpowder 10m daily instead of trying to blow up Parliament!
Thanks for reading. Joy Lucas RSHom. November, 2004