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“The sea is a symbol of the dynamism of life. Everything comes from the sea and everything returns to it. It is a place of birth, transformation and rebirth. With its tides, the sea symbolizes a transitory condition between shapeless potentiality and formal reality, an ambivalent situation of uncertainty, doubt, and indecision.” Phillip Robbins[1]
The sea is regarded as the source of all life; it covers about 70% of the Earth’s surface, and contains virtually all of the known elements[2]. Given its huge significance for life on the planet, only a small number of homeopathic remedies sourced from the sea are widely prescribed: Natrum muriaticum, Calcarea carbonica, Sepia, Ambra grisea and Spongia, although there are currently nearly 100 sea-sourced remedies available. The sea is the habitat of 230,000 known species; it is estimated that only 5% of the ocean has been explored, and biologists believe that over two million marine species may exist!
More than in any other realm of nature, there is a huge healing potential lying dormant in unproved sea creatures and sea plants, and in seldom prescribed sea remedies that are already available. This has led me to engage in the study of sea remedies over the last 10 years, initially through setting up ‘The Sea Remedies Project’.[3] More recently, I have taught sea remedies in a series of workshops which have included short provings[4] of new sea remedies.
SEA REMEDY
THEMES
From work done by Massimo Mangialavori’[5], and my own research[6], some
themes that are characteristic of sea remedies have emerged:
Sea &
Water
Watery language e.g. “flow; drift; sink; swim”.
AFFINITY WITH WATER; people who need sea remedies
often like to be near water or by the sea; sea hobbies; swimming, scuba diving,
surfing, sailing, coastal path walking. Water seems frightening, with hidden
unseen depths and threats e.g. fear of drowning, fear of sharks.
Vulnerability
& Protection
VULNERABILITY: They feel VULNERABLE and have a need
for PROTECTION. Fear of being injured, touched, invaded or penetrated,
including sexually; need for SAFETY: “I stay
inside my shell.” WITHDRAWAL from bad experiences; try to hide or escape,
withdraw emotionally. Physically there may be contraction, spasms, cramps, and
numbness.
Sensitivity
SENSITIVE to PAIN and SUFFERING, sensitive to mental
impressions; sensitive to MUSIC; noise; odours. EMOTIONS; BEING HURT; NUMBNESS;
emotional indifference; unfeeling; numbness of extremities.
Relationship
Problems
ISSUES WITH BEING OPEN, INTIMATE, Sexual. LACK OF TRUST.
PROBLEMS CONNECTING to other people; WITHDRAW inside themselves; difficulty
with communication. Problems relating to their partner, children, close family;
estrangement; feel forsaken, abandoned, misunderstood. Ailments from: loss of
relationship; disappointed love. HURT and GRIEF: A tendency to dwell on negative
past experiences, withdraw as a protection against further hurt or loss.
Need for Private
Space
Need for PRIVACY. Prefer to be ALONE IN THEIR OWN
SPACE and not be disturbed. INTRUSION. CLAUSTROPHOBIA; AGORAPHOBIA. Feelings of
ISOLATION, they keep people at a distance.
Inhibition,
Guilt & Shame
INHIBITED, not spontaneous. Feel unable to be
themselves; restricted by feelings of guilt and RESPONSIBILITY; feel under
pressure, heavy, burdened, weighed down. Ailments from reproach. Ashamed; poor
self image. Need for recognition.
Food &
Nurture
Relationship problems can start with MOTHER; FOOD and
NOURISHMENT, eating disorders, anorexia or overeating. FOOD ALLERGIES,
intolerances: salt, milk, wheat, fish and shellfish, rich food. Cravings for
SALT, milk and fish.
Immaturity
& Dependency
DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS; emotionally and
psychologically. Immaturity; reluctant to leave home; internal conflict between
self-sufficiency, dependency and independency.
Gender
Issues
SEXUAL AMBIGUITY; homosexuality. Reversal of male/female
roles and responsibilities.
Movement
RESISTANT TO CHANGE. Anxieties about moving house. Difficulties
with MOTION; stiffness; paralysis. Some remedies have to move and be active;
overwork. Weakness, exhaustion, M.E from over-exertion.
BODY
AFFINITIES
HORMONAL CHANGES: menopause, PMT, uterine prolapse (especially
Calc carb, Sepia, Murex, Octopus)
GLANDS: all glands, particularly
THYROID and TESTES.
Pain, swelling, induration, ulcers of glands (especially Calc carb, Sepia, Spongia,
Nat mur, Sea Salt, Ambra grisea, Asterias, Murex)
HEART and CIRCULATION: Palpitations; fast or abnormal
pulse; high or low blood pressure. Varicose veins; distension of blood vessels;
sluggish circulation, heart pain. (especially Nat mur, Sea Salt, also Octopus, Cephalopods, Eel serum)
LUNGS: asthma; difficult breathing; wheezing;
whistling; congestion of chest and lungs; constriction and oppression of chest.
Coughs; suffocative; or dry and spasmodic; asthmatic cough. (especially Spongia Tosta, Calc carb, Sepia, Pecten jacobaeus)
WATER RETENTION; watery discharges.
DRYNESS: e.g.
throat; cough; inside nose; skin. (especially Nat mur, Sea Salt, Calc carb, Spongia, Sepia, Octopus)
SKIN: Allergic skin reactions; burning, itching,
stinging. Herpes; urticaria; vesicles; ulcers. Dry skin. (especially Cnidarians ~ jellyfish, urchins, coral,
also Sea Salt)
CANCER: cancerous ulcers. (especially Calc carb, Sepia, Sea Salt, Ambra grisea, Asterias, Murex)
AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES: (especially Cnidarians ~ Coral, jellyfish)
LANGUAGE COMMONLY
USED IN SEA REMEDY CASES
‘Sensation’ language is often used by patients who may
need a sea remedy:
SEA: ‘at sea’, adrift, awash, ebb and flow, in the flow, seasick, salty, clear,
murky, choppy, swirly, changeable, alive, wild, storm.
DEEP: depth, ‘out of my depth’, ‘hidden depths’, dark, sinking, submerged,
underwater, unseen things, drowning, gasping for breath, suffocated, diving,
timeless, vast space, immense.
FLOATING: ‘tossed about’, ‘like a ship at sea’, swimming, afloat, bobbing
along, buoyant, balance, bubbles, light, dancing.
WAVES: ‘it comes in waves’, tides, ‘up and down’, periods, rhythm, tidal wave,
tsunami, cycles, moon, full moon.
FISH: fishy, ‘wet fish’, slippery, slimy, oyster, mermaid, Neptune,
crab, whale, shark, dolphin, shrimp, squid.
SHELL: protection, ‘I stay inside’, ‘my house is important to me’, ‘in my
shell’, ‘soft and vulnerable inside’, ‘hard exterior’, spiral, ‘I close up’, ’half
and half’ (=bivalve), ‘I build a
wall’, ‘I withdraw’, ‘I hide’, ‘I close a door on it’, ‘I go into a cave’, Intrusion
by drilling, breaking, intruding, crushed, smashed.
SEASIDE:
seashore, beach, coast, ashore, ‘head in the sand’, shells.
DESERT ISLAND: lost, castaway, marooned,
stranded, remote, detached, disconnected, estranged, distance, on an island.
WATER: flow, fluid, pressure, heavy, energy, movement, overwhelming, powerful,
awesome, flood, flooding, danger, peril, engulfed, awash, cold.
GUIDELINES
TO PRESCRIBING SMALLER SEA REMEDIES
Salt is the main mineral constituent of sea water (3%). As Natrum mur is a polychrest well-represented in homeopathic
repertories, it is often prescribed in cases that may do better with another
sea remedy.
Natrum mur, Sepia and Calc carb appearing
in the top six remedies in a repertorisation, suggests looking at other sea
remedies as possibilities for the case.
‘Animal kingdom’ themes or language in a case that looks like Natrum mur is a clue to consider other
sea creature remedies.
If the case is Natrum mur, with sea
themes, (but no animal kingdom themes or language), you could also consider Aqua marina (deep sea water), Sea Salt (from beach water), and Himalayan Crystal Salt.
Remedies made from shells, or other calcareous material of the sea creatures,
often use words and phrases that suggest the mineral kingdom.
If a patient does well on one sea remedy, but the remedy action is less than
hoped for, consider other remedies in the same biological group. For instance
if Sepia helps to an extent but not
quite enough, you could consider other cephalopod remedies: Octopus (solitary,
hiding in a cave) or Nautilus (‘up and down’), or Squid (squid shoal as a social
group and has propulsion, whereas Sepia is solitary and has stasis).
New sea remedy cases, provings, and materia medica information is gradually
becoming more available on the internet, and in recent welcome publications by
Jo Evans[7] and Rajan Sankaran[8] . However, our overall
knowledge of sea remedies, like our knowledge of the sea itself, is still in
its infancy, and much work remains to be done. The cases presented in this
current issue of Interhomeopathy will hopefully shine a bit more light into a
vast little-explored treasure source of healing potential.
References:
[1] From the proving of Aqua marina by Phillip Robbins (1999)
[2] The
major elements found in the sea (in order of prevalence) are: Chlorine, Sodium,
Magnesium, Sulphur,
Calcium, Potassium, Bromine (also Iodine another Halogen), and Carbon. Other
important elements in the sea which are indispensable to organic life include
Phosphorus, Oxygen, and Nitrogen. Sodium Chloride salt comprises 3% of the
total mass of sea water.
[3] ‘The Sea
Remedies Project’ was set up in 2004. It involved a group of about 20 local
homeopaths and homeopathy students researching lesser known and newly-proved
sea remedies and then presenting them to other members of the project in
bi-monthly meetings in Bristol.
The project ran for about 5 years.
[4]
Trituration proving of
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris). Short meditation
provings of Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia
aurita), Pearl
(Pearl immersion), Seahorse (Hippocampus kuda), and Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys oliveacea ovum)
[5] ‘Remaining
in a Safe Environment: the Sea Remedies’ – transcription of Massimo
Mangialavori course by Vicky Burley.
[6] A computer repertory comparison of rubrics
containing all of the sea polychrest remedies. The rubrics were placed into
groups, and themes drawn out.
[7] ‘Sea
Remedies: Evolution of the Senses’ by Jo Evans
[8] 'Survival: the Mollusc' by Rajan Sankaran and Sudhir Baldota
Photos:
Wikimedia Commons; Bangalley Head, Australia; Nigel Howe
Scallop shell; Jürgen Weiland
Categories: General
Keywords: sea remedies, float, drift, sink, swim, vulnerability, sensitivity, protection, privacy, relationship, inhibition, immaturity, gender, movement
This article was originally published in www.interhomeopathy.org
