syn. Squilla maritima, Charybdis maritima, Urginea maritima; today Drimia maritima. 633.53.07. White sea squill. Hyacinthaceae, Asparagales.
by Ulrich Welte
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A tricky situation that never really blossoms.
Scilla and Charybdis. Dilemma. Vise.
Ruthless, lacking understanding.
Clinical: Deformations, pectus excavatum, deformed palate. Pleuritis, bronchopneumonia, breathlessness with stitches in the left chest, cough with involuntary loss of urine, heart failure.
Main focus: Nose, lungs, heart, urinary tract
DD Verat (pale, jealous, haughty, ambitious), Sabad (body parts deformed)
Ruthless. Envy and jealousy: Cold anger on rejection. Pale with envy and shock.
Devouring, teeth and claws:
The patient is eaten by a monster;
Fear in the abdomen, sometimes claws press into the lower abdomen.
A fang-baring mouth tears a piece of flesh out of the lower abdomen.
As if the intestines were bursting out of the belly.
Haughtiness, hard-hearted, commands.
Collapses inward, withdraws.
Terror of death with angina. Fear of being poisoned.
Sings and talks in her sleep, rolls her head.
Believes body parts are enlarged (sabad).
Patient feels body has swollen to an incredible thickness. Oedema.
Aversion to writing.
Diarrhoea with skin eruptions.
Involuntary dribbling of urine when sneezing and coughing.
Teeth have black spots. Nails break easily.
Legend of Scylla and Charybdis:
In a strait lived two sea monsters, between which seafarers had to pass. The six-headed Scylla devoured people who came too close. Opposite her was Charybdis, equally dangerous because of her whirlpool that drags everything down. "Between Scylla and Charybdis" is a dilemma between two dangers that one must pass through. If one avoids one, one comes too close to the other.
Scylla has the upper body of a young woman and six dog heads as a lower body. She was bewitched while bathing by the jealous Circe; they were in love with the same man. She devoured six of Odysseus' sailors when they rowed to avoid Charybdis's whirlpools.
Own cases: Pale with envy; tenacious little sergeant.
Proud, pale girl with dark rings under her eyes and a prominent chin. She presents with bran-like, itchy eruptions on the face, neck and flexures that recur. It itches so much that she must scratch, which only makes the itching worse. It is worse when she has a lot of stress at school, has to study a lot and therefore has no time for her friends. She is ambitious, afraid of failing and of dropping behind at school. One day before the rash she always has diarrhoea (only 4 remedies: ant-t, ars, chin, squil). She already played as a child in a grim/tenacious way. She is self-confident and assertive. With new tasks she keeps at them until she can do them. As a toddler her nickname was "sergeant". She decided what was to be played and ordered around her cousin, five years older, who had no chance. Only when she met stronger opponents did she give in. In puberty a massive malposition of the palate was corrected with expansion screws and turned. She dislikes onions and picks them out of her food, whether raw or cooked.
When her mother returned from the hospital after the birth of her younger brother she became pale with envy. Today she is sad when he is cheeky to her. She then has the feeling that he pushes her away. As did her mother and grandmother, she sings and talks in her sleep and rolls her head from side to side. In the dream she is eaten by a dinosaur (monster).
With Squilla the rash receded nicely several times. She was less tenacious and made a clear developmental leap.
Child of divorced parents, torn between quarrelling parents: prompt effect on irritating cough (17C + cough).
A hard, taciturn, inward-turning schoolgirl. She felt torn between her parents and was afraid they would divorce. She has to assert herself as the only girl against four brothers. She often has severe abdominal pains as if fingers were clawing into the abdomen or as if everything inside were turning. She then also feels nauseous and has headaches. Once the abdominal pain occurred when she wanted to hug her mother and the father suddenly shouted at her. She then went very pale in the face. Often she has a barking irritating cough, with a sensation as if someone were thumping against the chest from the inside. Here Squilla helped promptly within a few hours.
Own short checklist:
- fang-baring mouth tears a piece out of the abdominal wall alive
- Fear in the abdomen
- Sometimes collapsing inward.
- As if the sternum is drawn in funnel-shaped
- Harsh and dry behind the sternum
- Burning transversely over both lungs to the lung apices
- Burning in the lower abdomen and bladder, the lower abdomen burns as if sore
"Wonderful plants"
Hyacinthaceae: A tricky situation that never really blossoms.
Insecurity and self-confidence at the same time. They know what they want but are so shy that they do not dare. They could be perceived as too demanding and forward, no longer accepted if they show their true potential. Very cautious in expressing their own wishes, a kind of false consideration. Dominance and adaptation in contradiction, a sensitive balance of forces that is easily upset.
Squilla 633.53.07: locks everything deep inside; claws on; holds tight; clings.
Maintains a decorative façade, must keep up appearances. Loves jewellery.
Cruelty, inhumanity, desire for a sense of morality. Ruthless!
Dreams: amorous; terrible; grotesque.
Main focus and established indication: Nose! Lungs!; Heart!; Urinary tract!
Case from WP: Man, 40, insomnia.
He has difficulty falling asleep. Hayfever with sneezing and burning, red eyelids. He is allergic to house dust, plastics, raw carrots and strawberries. He coughs because his throat tickles. It is a deep cough that worsens with laughter and when lying down or getting up. As a child he often had bronchitis with breathlessness and without fever, mostly in January or February.
In his childhood and youth he had little chance to test his strength with others and never really learned to defend himself. Sometimes he argued with his sister when she teased him. In primary school he tried to stay out of everything and always kept to the edge of events. He is married but has a weekend relationship. He does not like it, but he comes to terms with it. His wife lives far away because of her work and because she cares for her father. She is a wonderful woman. Both are quite religious. He likes working with others in a group.
Analysis: Silicon series: married but has a weekend relationship. Asparagales: religious; hayfever. Phase 5: quite temperamental. Subphase 3: adaptation. Stage 7: cooperation.
After Drimia maritima (Scilla) MK he is more relaxed, sees everything a little more relatively. He is less influenced by his wife's moods. They have found a solution for their weekend relationship.
Another case comes from a reader of the newsletter. It is particularly interesting because not only a severe clinical condition (anal and vaginal prolapse) was cured, but because this case also reproduces the sensation of the whole plant family: the squeezing out in the sense of pressing out, similar to squeezing a tube of toothpaste.
Squilla maritima heals anal and vaginal prolapse
"I would like to share with you today my experiences with late effects of this year's influenza using Squilla maritima and also with longer-standing and deeper complaints. At the end of March a patient contacted me about a cough that had persisted for a long time after her flu in February and I gave her Squilla maritima C200. At the end of the consultation she asked me whether there might also be a homeopathic remedy for her 94-year-old grandmother. Her grandmother had stool evacuation with every cough since the flu and for 30 years had had an anal and vaginal prolapse. In the rubric 'Involuntary stool on coughing and sneezing' I found only nine remedies and one of them, bivalent, was Squilla maritima. I also gave the grandmother Squilla maritima C200 as a single dose. After four weeks the stool frequency on coughing had decreased by 70% and after a second dose of Squilla C200 no stool is passed with coughing and the anal and vaginal prolapses are also gone!!! The granddaughter's cough also disappeared immediately after Squilla maritima."
Sabine Rosner, naturopathic practitioner and pharmacist
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Photos:
Shutterstock_Inflorescence stem of Urginea maritima. © Leospek (title image)
Shutterstock_Sea squill (Urginea [scilla] maritima) or red squill or sea onion or ein sit or ada sogani or Drimia maritima, vintage engraved illustration.Trouss et encyclopedia (1886 - 1891). © Morphart Creation
Legend of Scylla and Charybdis © amandadd.
Shutterstock_Parents fighting and daughter being upset © Goodluz
Category: Cases
Remedy: Scilla maritima
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