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FOURTH ROW OF THE PERIODIC TABLE ¦
IRON SERIES
SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
ULRICH WELTE ¦
OVERVIEW OF THE IRON SERIES
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I will give a brief characterization of each remedy together with
its typical life situation.
THE IRON SERIES IN DETAIL
They have outgrown the confines of the parental family (Carbon
and Silicium series) and are now grown-up. Life already got
serious for them at school, where they were prepared for “life”
(
non scholae, sed vitae
: we do not learn for school but for life).
The social discipline that is initiated in the microclimate of the
family (as the “nucleus of the state”) with the Silicium series is
now extended at school to “real life” and is completed in the
larger setting of the workplace, the family; they set up with
their partner as an organization with rules and duties, or in the
communal structure of a village. School and apprenticeship are
preparations for the real Iron series. The emphasis of this series
is the drilling of rules and discipline.
Teamwork teaches them team spirit, the rules of work and
career, and social duties and rights. Much is required to be-
come a contributing member of society. Basic trust is learned
in childhood (Carbon series), in youth, the sensitivity to loving
relationships is developed (Silicium series) and the Iron series
includes the practice of the rules required for the coming of
age and the founding of your own family. An adult member of
society has a sense of duty and acts accordingly.
Rules, order, measures:
the everyday life of the Iron series is
characterized by routine and a predetermined order, grounded
in the power of social custom. So, the working day starts with
the commute to the office or factory, and the weekend is a time
for well-deserved relaxation, where you can really let your hair
down in the safe disguise of fancy dress. At work, your col-
leagues monitor you and in return you monitor them. Everyone
knows everybody else. You have to follow social rules and abide
by social norms. If others see you doing something wrong, you
will be corrected. Severe violations are invariably accompanied
by pangs of conscience and feelings of guilt.
A bad conscience is the result of contravening the rules; fear
of the police is an example. Feelings of guilt are typical of the
Iron series. They are at their strongest in stage 17 (Bromium)
because you have been kicked out of the team, which meant
everything to you.
In the fitness center, you will use the iron dumbbells or you
will go training with the football club. There is bragging when
drinking at the bar. The members of your circle of friends are
au fait with the technical details, they like going to the home
improvement center, and prefer pop music or brass band music.
The booming mechanical music of monotonous techno is also
characteristic of this series. Your squad is a well-oiled machine,
running like clockwork, marching to the beat, and capable of
unleashing a storm of enthusiasm. Machines, technology, and
all things mechanical kindle great fascination. Men can tinker
with their models for hours on end, messing around with their
cars or motorbikes or standing in admiration at building sites
to check the work in progress. The little ones love to play along
too and can reel off horsepower figures or ride their go-carts
until they drop with exhaustion.
Work:
the tried-and-tested techniques are standardized and
follow unified standards. Early on, the training is straightfor-
wardly mechanical but later on, those with experience can
develop a very high level of skill in their trade or handicraft.
It is a genuine pleasure to watch an accomplished welder,
cabinetmaker or mechanic at work, and to see the astounding
level of precision reached. Many a digger driver can operate
their enormous excavators with such silky smoothness that
they can lift an egg off the ground without shattering it. Every
movement of the hand is perfect so that the resulting product
functions flawlessly.
The Iron series depends on teamwork. A hundred men well
trained as a team can achieve vastly more than one. Yet, it
should not be forgotten that it is often a single person, such
as the coach (Silver series) or the manager (Gold series), who
is responsible for coordinating this flawless cooperation.
In a contented society, most people find pleasure and content-
ment playing their part in a well-oiled machine, doing their
best to fulfill their allotted task and thereby contributing to the
greatness of their country and its people.
Typical illnesses of the Iron series:
problems of the blood
(anemia), muscles (illnesses of the locomotor system, motility
of the vessels and intestine, spastic bronchitis, asthma), and
of the digestive system, particularly stomach, gall bladder, and
pancreas (gastritis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, diabetes, and
so on).
Elements of the Iron series by frequency in our practice:
the
total number of successfully treated patients of the Iron series in
our practice in Kandern is 630 good or very good cases. As you
can see from the graphic, the Calcium and Kalium compounds
comprise the great majority of cases. The classic Iron series rem-
edies, such as Calcium, Kalium, Cuprum, Ferrum, Manganum,
Arsenicum, and Zincum dominate.
The elements of the Iron series are not used in their elemental
form in most cases but rather as salts or compounds. We have
ELEMENTS OF THE IRON SERIES BY STAGE
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Kali
Calc Scan Titan Vanad Chrom Mang Ferr
Cob Nicc Cupr Zinc Gall
Germ Ars
Sel
Brom Krypt