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ANGELIKA BOLTE AND JÖRG WICHMANN
¦ NATRIUM NITRICUM
SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
69
THIRD ROW OF THE PERIODIC TABLE ¦
SILICIUM SERIES
and bloody stool 200 – we shall clearly not make any progress
like this.
So let us check her experience using the sensation method. The
first step is the question of which kingdom we should look at
to find her remedy. We can assume that we are dealing with
a mineral remedy because the patient does not describe her
physical complaints as polar reactive (plant) or a process of
conflictual (animal) sensation-experience but purely function-
ally, explaining the role of the diarrhoea in her life. And she
describes the other situations and connections in her life in a
similarly functional manner. She is concerned with what she
can or cannot do, with what she has or what she is missing
– a mineral.
The patient’s expressions:
If we group her expressions accor
ding to what fits together, there is a striking description of the
toilet as a place of security: it started with the move to our own
house: I can’t let go of old things / I’m a hoarder / I’m attached
to the past / afraid to forget / I’ve kept it all with photos / I want
to stop time / can’t throw anything away / toilet means security,
four walls with a toilet / I need security / I have to release and
let go / it’s a loss / the body lets go, I can’t hold on to it.
And in the same connection there is an ever clearer aspect of
pressing out: something there wants to get out! / urging to
the toilet / pushing out to the exit (HG) – like a cow / sudden,
like an explosion, have to run / I’m defined by the diarrhoea /
I’m forced / I have to give into to the compulsion / I can’t do
anything about it, I have to go to the toilet / my body torments
me so much! / the diarrhoea plagues me / the diarrhoea has
to get out / it torments me, it has to get out / then I’m tied
to the house, to the toilet / the diarrhoea determines my life.
I will want to decide myself, without compulsion, free, free to
do what I want.
Row:
When we are in the mineral kingdom, the next question
is what period or row is relevant for the remedy? The above
quotes show that the patient is not concerned with the I-you
relationship and the formation of identity (third period) nor
with any of the following: securing one’s survival and place in
society (fourth period), personal fulfilment and creativity (fifth
period), influence on the world and responsibility (sixth period).
We can see on the one hand the toilet as a place of security,
which should preferably be close by. The patient attempts to
further guarantee her security by clinging on to and collecting
as much as possible. This is then experienced as a conflict,
culminating in the pushing out and having to let go of the
diarrhoea. This world of experience between hanging onto se-
curity within a clearly delineated space with as little change as
possible versus the ever more intense pushing out is known to
us as an indication for the second row of the mineral remedies,
with the central metaphor of the process of birth. A further
indication is the sudden, alarmingly urgent emergence of the
symptoms. Within this second period, the sudden urging out,
which plays a dominant role in the clinical picture, corresponds
to the remedy
Nitrogen
.
JÖRG WICHMANN
Lives in the countryside near Co-
logne, Germany, where he runs
his homeopathic practice, writes,
holds seminars, and teaches at the
Bergisch school of homeopathy.
Author of various works of homeo
pathy and founder of the internet
database for homeopathic system-
atics, naming, remedy provings, and manufacture.
Contact:
www.provings.info,
jw@provings.infoANGELIKA BOLTE
Has been running a homeopathic practice since the early
1990s after completing her paediatric training and working
in the university clinic in Essen, Germany. She teaches at
the Bergisch school of homeopathy. For the last ten years
her focus has been the sensation method according to
Rajan Sankaran.
So we can identify one component of the remedy as
Nitrogen
.
From the available Nitrogen remedies, we decide on a Nitrate
since the combination of Nitrogen and Oxygen (NO
3
) results in
an even more explosive and urgent clinical picture (nitrates are
key components of explosives, see below).
The patient’s statements and the question of identity:
Together with the patient’s remarks mentioned above, there is
another aspect of the patient’s comments that we have not so
far considered: I’m different due to the diarrhoea / I want to be
like everybody else / I’d rather go with the flow / I want to blend
in / I cling on, always fixated on one girlfriend / I want to be
like this best friend / who am I really? / I copy everything about
my girlfriend, all the daily rhythms, that makes me secure / I’m
in a role / I have no ideas of my own / I don’t like being alone.
Here we can see a very different world of experience, one that
does not fit the second period. So there must be another com-
ponent in the remedy – in other words, we are not dealing
SECOND PERIOD
• Toilet confers security
• Four walls with a toilet
• (= I’m in a bubble in
a uterus, protected
and secure)
NITROGEN
• The diarrhoea wants to get out
• I can do nothing against it
• I’m compelled by the diarrhoea
• It must get out, wants to get out
• It gets out