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Egoism, struggle,

survival in the world,

society

Relationships to

groups, hierarchies,

organizations

Forming and nourishing

of the individual,

giving and taking

Efforts to separate and

become independent

Longing to merge with

the lost unity

Still part of the unity

and the boundless

mother

Evolution:

→

Individuation

Defending individuality

Sharing individuality

Nourishing individuality

Rejecting unity

Losing unity

Withdrawing into unity

→ increasing yang →

→ decreasing yin →

Asteridae

Rosidae

Dilleniidae

Caryophyllidae

Hamamelidae

Magnoliidae

↓

Stages of life

Solanales

Rosales / Rosaceae

Myrtales

Theales

Dilleniales

Magnoliales

Fabales = Leguminosae

Nepenthales

Ebenales

Urticales

Piperales

Illiacales

Nymphaeales

Geraniales

Laurales

Aristolochiales

Gentianales /

Apocynaceae

Gentianales /

Loganiaceae

Euphorbiales

Malpighiales, Violales

Malvales

Hamamelidales

Ranunculales /

Berberidaceae

Scrophulariales

Orobanchaceae

Sapindales / Rutaceae

Rhamnales, Cornales

Primulales

Caryophyllales /

Cactaceae

Juglandales

Ericales / Ericaceae

Rubiales

Plantaginales

Sapindales /

Anacardiaceae

Ranunculales /

Ranunculaceae

Lamiales / Lamiaceae

Boraginaceae

Dispacales

Campanulales

Santalales, Celastrales

Cucurbitales

( = partially Violales)

Myricales

Asterales / Asteraceae

Apiales = Umbelliferae

Capparales

Cruciferae

Salicales

Polygonales

Fagales

Papaverales

pre-birth

↓

baby

↓

young child

↓

child

↓

teenager

↓

adult

↓

old age

LAMIACEAE ¦ PIPERACEAE

SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY

ANGELIKA BOLTE, JÖRG WICHMANN ¦

PIPER METHYSTICUM: PIPER NIGRUM: TEUCRIUM SCORODONIUM

any recognizable relationship or pattern. An examination of the

evolution of plants, which we are normally unaware of since it

is not as obvious as the organizational hierarchy of the animals,

can help us here.

It might be clear if we think of a fern, which is as develop-

mentally distant from thyme as a frog from a horse – but the

notion that a marigold is as distant from magnolia as an ape

from a mole is less evident. Michal Yakir was the first homeo-

path to draw attention to this important structure, which she

illustrated in her well-known table. In the light of the Sensation

method, we can make several adjustments here since Yakir's

table mainly uses input from the emotional and biographical

level, whereas we are interested in the structure of the dif-

ferent sensations.

The Piperaceae belong to a primitive group of the flowering

plants and are closely related to the Magnoliaceae and Lau-

raceae, and rather more distantly to the Papaveraceae and

Ranunculaceae. Magnoliaceae, Piperaceae, Ranunculaceae,

Berberidaceae, and Papaveraceae – as families of the subclass

Magnoliidae – are characterized by rather non-specific states

of stimulus and reaction, which are very close to emotional

states. During case-taking, it is often difficult to disentangle

statements belonging to level 3 or 4 from the vital sensations

The Cronquist system of plants distinguishes six sub-

classes in the dicotyledonous plants, beginning on

the left with the ancient Magnoliidae, progressing

on the right to the more complex organization of

the Asteridae, the most recent development in the

Plant kingdom. Michal Yakir's idea was to contrast this

plant development with human development, from

the original unity with the mother and the world up

to ever higher stages of individualization. Within each

column (subclass) there is a further development

corresponding to the stages of human life.

In the table shown here, we can see how the

Piperaceae and the Lamiaceae are at opposite poles

of the developmental scale.

OVERVIEW OF THE SIX SUBCLASSES OF THE DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS