The Development of the Senses: Cnidarian Remedies

Jo Evans 16/05/2014

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In an evolved and adapted form we carry the sensory structures of the ancient sea-dwellers within us. Our auditory ossicles developed from the gill arches of reptiles; the origins of our sensory organs, our nervous system, brain and immune system arose from life in the sea.
Life in the sea does not recognise the limitation to the traditional five senses normally attributed to humans. Life in the sea requires more than five senses; electrical and magnetic senses are only two of them. Primeval animals such as jellyfish provide clues to the evolutionary development of the senses. Smell and taste are chemically based; touch and olfaction are closely linked to taste, and the sense of movement and balance are closely connected with hearing and touch.
Homeopaths work with the connection between language and feeling. We work with the 'script' of the case: the patient's exact words describe how they feel and how we find it again in the homeopathic proving. Every remedy speaks in emotional and physical symptoms. By directing their attention to the language of the senses, the homeopath can approach the essence of a case with greater clarity.
Jellyfish, Coral and Sea Anemone Remedies (Cnidarian remedies): - Corallium rubrum (Red Coral) Anthozoa - Anthopleura xanthogrammica (Giant Green Sea Anemone) Anthozoa - Stichodactyla haddoni (Haddon's Sea Anemone) Anthozoa - Physalia pelagica (Portuguese Man‑o'‑War) Hydrozoa - Medusa or Aurelia aurita (Moon jelly) Scyphozoa - Chironex fleckeri (Box jellyfish) Cubozoa
Typical feelings of the Cnidarian remedies - Burning, stinging, needles, electric shock, tingling, throbbing, pulsating - Feels like jelly, weakness, collapse of structure, numbness, emptiness - Itching, tingling - Dislocation, fragmentation, disorientation, deactivation - Beaten - Swelling, enlargement, stretching - squeezed out, pinched, compressed, narrowing, pulled, withdrawn, suppressed These sensations can of course include real pain, as well as delusions about the nature of the body.
Characteristic sensations of the Cnidarians - Heat and burning, external burning and internal cold - Electric shocks, pulsating pains, tingling, numbness - Pricking / stabbing - Dislocation (Corallium rubrum) - Lack of substance, dissolution, collapse, weakness with trembling, like jelly - Feeling of swimming or flowing in a dream
Sense of uprootedness The homeopathic remedies made from jellyfish, corals and sea anemones often suffer from a sense of uprootedness. Physically they may feel fragmented, dislocated or spineless. The group has an affinity with neurological illnesses and conditions, such as states of weakness, post‑viral fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It also has an affinity with the endocrine system (pineal gland, pituitary and adrenals) after long or short periods of stress, and tends towards burnout symptoms and illnesses.
In the first phase they are hypersensitive, hyperactive, hurried, constantly 'on' and tend, like the legendary Medusa, to "lose their head". In the next phase the patient describes feelings of 'not being grounded', flowing, not fully in their body, being disoriented. In later stages of illness they feel heavy, exhausted, numb and emotionally cut off. There is a feeling of unreality and an inability to connect with the environment.
Yet they also have inner visions and possess the ability to see things beyond our reality. These are remedies for extremes: fast and slow, heavy and light, joyful or apathetic, oversensitive or numb, with burning symptoms. Cnidarian remedies burn brightly at first and then burn out.
- Emotionally impulsive: they "lose their head." Oversensitive, overwhelmed by feelings, uncontrollable reactions - Burn‑out, with nervous exhaustion and neuromuscular complaints - Strong likes and dislikes. Highs and lows. Intense, burning sexual desire. Fierce passion
	- Highly sensitive to pain, generally intolerant - Picks on others: critical, contemptuous. Dictatorial, insulting, angry. Lack of empathy - Violence: beaten, broken, feels forcibly separated. Aggressive. Desire to fight or hit - Delusion of being outside the body, not grounded, duplicated - Weakened boundaries and inhibitions, like being drunk - Altered perception of time and distance - Inner vision and clairvoyance; prophetic dreams - Feels detached, as if viewing themselves from outside or from above; dreams of spying - Light: fluorescent colours, green. Light sensitive. Feeling of bodiless light - Darkness: dark mood, black clouds, shadows - Right hemisphere: impulsive, timeless, creative, lateral thinking, visual, intuitive, sees the whole picture before the details, can grasp many things at once - Left hemisphere less able: difficulties with arithmetic, writing, logic; confusion
- Overreaction, oversensitive, quick or: dull, distant, detached, slow - Desire for music, dance, laughter, joy or: unable to enjoy. Aversion to seeing others' joy. Laughter irritates them - Sensitive to rudeness or: rude, insulting and intolerant - Lack of adaptability or: "going with the flow." - Connectedness, enlightenment, lightness, floating, filled with light, peace and bliss or: separated, cut off, darkness, heaviness, depression
Physical symptoms: Cardiovascular. Immune system. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, post‑viral fatigue. Endocrine system (pineal gland, pituitary and adrenals). Neuromuscular complaints. Arthritis. Urethritis. Skin: urticaria, oedema, eczema, ulcers, herpes. Gastrointestinal: diarrhoea, poisoning. Dehydration, heatstroke, photosensitivity. Cough, pertussis, sinusitis and tonsillitis.

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This shortened excerpt from *SeaRemedies, Evolution of the Senses*** (Sea Remedies, Evolution of the Senses, by Jo Evans, published by Emryss) shows the sensory symptoms of remedies from the Cnidarian phylum: corals, sea anemones and jellyfish. The book is available from Narayana Verlag: http://www.narayana-verlag.com/Sea-Remedies/Jo-Evans/b7346.
The book Sea Remedies contains a detailed materia medica of 24 remedies from a range of taxa as well as chapters exploring the evolution of the senses.

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