This issue of Spektrum is a first further overview on the subject of avian remedies. Familiar and exotic birds have gathered. Jonathan Shore reports in an interview about his knowledge and helps us with orientation. Taking part in the avian concert are: the uncompromisingly aggressive sparrowhawk, cleverly captured by Markus Kuntosch, the majestic yet so anxious eagle by Heinz Wittwer, the despised and touchingly social vultures, convincingly described by Pat Deacon. The gentle, seemingly naive dove by Annette Sneevliet finally finds its voice in the patient; its exotic sister, the fruit dove Kereru in the case of Deborah Collins, presents herself for the first time. The sensitively presented remedy picture of the sometimes gloomy but highly clairvoyant raven portrays, with great openness, an extraordinary patient by Ose Hein.
Meanwhile a particular clown is at large, the racing cuckoo. Jan Scholten came across it. Finally the aerial acrobat Apus apus, the common swift, meets the very different waterbirds, the pelicans and albatrosses, which nevertheless partly show similar clinical pictures: stress and restlessness, for example, migraine and migratory pains. The macaw by Linda Johnston teaches us the tension between individuality and the group as well as, very coherently, the differentiation from other avian remedies. Rosina Sonnenschmidt shares her very own relationship with birds; through parrots and nibbling‑beaked birds she encountered themes of lack of grounding and excarnation. Louis Klein summarises it all: in the nosode Tuberculinum aviaire many pathologies and shadow sides of avian patients are revealed.
