Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Jun 28, 2021 9:04:01 GMT
In the language of flowers Gratiola comes with a bit of a health warning as it ‘wards away evil spirits’. What evil spirits you might wonder as Gratiola is also known as ‘herb of grace’.
I think it is something that is all in the head, literally, because this remedy has a number of symptoms which emanate from the brain.
But the warding off of spirits is also a suggestion of cleansing, a need to cleanse the spirit of wrong doing or cleansing the body of choleraic disturbances - the latter being one of the grand affinities of Gratiola - violent, bloody, yellow diarrhoea that accompanies enteritis.
But back to the disordered brain. Trembling, convulsions, hydrocephalus, hysteria, mania, hypochondria, a sensation as if the brain were contracting and
becoming smaller. Perhaps it is as in diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
More to the point, Gratiola has the delusion of being diminished, small.
Emotionally though there is a state of being out of sorts with life - tired, indifferent, irresolute, suffers from excess pride and over indulgent feelings of always being ill.
Pride comes before a fall it is said and the herb of grace becomes an evil spirit - apprehensive, much ill humour, hysteria, nymphomania and all can be extreme enough to have suicidal tendencies. They become completely internalised and the sexual energies are so out of proportion that masturbation is common.
With such a poor feeling of self worth ‘normal’ relationships do not come easy. They do not bond or make relationships work.
Believing themselves to be small and of little importance can be a route to eating disorders such as anorexia, a state that compounds being diminished and small by ‘disappearing’ through not eating.
Gratiola has a ‘fear of eating’ and ‘refuses to eat’ and there are cases where this remedy has cured people suffering from anorexia.
It is a remedy of extremes. On the one hand there is retreat, making oneself be small and unwanted through not eating, feeling detached without the need for relationships with an aversion to everything and on the other there is an ‘over the top’ opposite such as nymphomania, clinging tightly to family and friends, always hugging and not letting go.
They cannot deal with the feeling of being too small to be wanted.
I think it is something that is all in the head, literally, because this remedy has a number of symptoms which emanate from the brain.
But the warding off of spirits is also a suggestion of cleansing, a need to cleanse the spirit of wrong doing or cleansing the body of choleraic disturbances - the latter being one of the grand affinities of Gratiola - violent, bloody, yellow diarrhoea that accompanies enteritis.
But back to the disordered brain. Trembling, convulsions, hydrocephalus, hysteria, mania, hypochondria, a sensation as if the brain were contracting and
becoming smaller. Perhaps it is as in diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
More to the point, Gratiola has the delusion of being diminished, small.
Emotionally though there is a state of being out of sorts with life - tired, indifferent, irresolute, suffers from excess pride and over indulgent feelings of always being ill.
Pride comes before a fall it is said and the herb of grace becomes an evil spirit - apprehensive, much ill humour, hysteria, nymphomania and all can be extreme enough to have suicidal tendencies. They become completely internalised and the sexual energies are so out of proportion that masturbation is common.
With such a poor feeling of self worth ‘normal’ relationships do not come easy. They do not bond or make relationships work.
Believing themselves to be small and of little importance can be a route to eating disorders such as anorexia, a state that compounds being diminished and small by ‘disappearing’ through not eating.
Gratiola has a ‘fear of eating’ and ‘refuses to eat’ and there are cases where this remedy has cured people suffering from anorexia.
It is a remedy of extremes. On the one hand there is retreat, making oneself be small and unwanted through not eating, feeling detached without the need for relationships with an aversion to everything and on the other there is an ‘over the top’ opposite such as nymphomania, clinging tightly to family and friends, always hugging and not letting go.
They cannot deal with the feeling of being too small to be wanted.