Spectrum Liliales 01 2019

LILIALES

Deborah Collins

¦ Crocus sativus

SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY

Relationship and distance:

“I look back over my life and see

that I spent all my effort trying to be included, but it does not

work that way. I ended up pushing people away. Now, I don’t

have the need to be hugged all the time, or to hug others.

“Everything is changing in me, I feel like I am saying goodbye

to my old self. I hardly recognize myself. It is as though I’m

transforming from a dog into a cat, such a profound change.

For a while I was almost afraid of all this change in myself, as if

I was losing a part of me that was uncomfortable but familiar.

I used to live so intensely, I was never in neutral. The old ‘me’

had to tell everyone about every little thing that happened in

me, always in excess. I could be intensely sad for nothing at all,

or over-the-top joyful for tiny things. I still feel joy and sadness,

but I don’t need to talk about it all the time and I don’t get so

submerged in emotions anymore. I used to be sensitive to any

remark, taking everything personally. Now I just say ‘Hey, that is

not nice.’ I feel an observer in me, someone who takes a healthy

distance. I knew this part theoretically, but never as a reality. Life

used to be such a theatre, not now. I used to feel that if I did not

have those huge emotions I did not exist. It is becoming calm and

smooth. I exist in myself, here, now. There is a big silence in me.”

Comments:

She has been able to easily wean herself off her

medication, saying that in contrast to her past, where she felt

such a strong need for it, she would often simply forget to take

it, with no ill effects. Her kidneys are improving, and she is recon-

necting with her mother, who she had not seen for several years.

Crocus sativus belongs to the order Asparagales according to APG taxonomy

but to the order Liliales according to Cronquist – see the overview by Jörg

Wichmann in this issue of Spectrum.

DR DEBORAH COLLINS

born in Canada in 1953, she stud-

ied medicine in Holland, and then

homeopathy. She has been in ho-

meopathic practice since 1986.

After teaching for many years in

Europe, she emigrated to New

Zealand, and in 2011 to France,

where she continues to practice

and teach. She is chief editor of

the online journal ‘Interhomeopathy’ and the English edition

of ‘Spectrum of Homeopathy’. Deborah is closely involved

with Dr Jan Scholten’s new plant system, and has written a

manual explaining the use of this system.

Contact:

forphilo@gmail.com

Together with iris and gladioli, the crocuses belong to the

family Iridaceae. The onion-like bulbs resemble the gladi-

oli whereas irises have a more pronounced rhizome (root

stock). Crocuses have been bred so long and intensively

by gardeners that even specialists can scarcely keep track.

The approximately 235 species of crocus (as of January

2017) are especially widely found in the Orient but also

in Europe, North Africa, and as far as West China. They

have been fondly cultivated for hundreds of years. They

bloom early and can therefore be easily seen in the parks

and gardens of the temperate zone in spring.