EssenceIn essence the mental picture of all of the remedies in our materia medica is about freedom and restriction, but nowhere is this more apparent, or more verbalized than in the Bird Group.
ThemesGhostly
Association with death, tendency to notice or come across dead people and dead animals.
Thoughts about death and endings.
Dreams of death.
Night people, very awake, live at night, inactive and very sleepy during the day.
contradiction between facing things and avoiding them could be an important issue in the remedy.
MindClarity and reflection.
Inwardly focused, unable to self-observe, confusion, unfocused.
Only see what I want to see
Amazed and delighted by all the colors in the sunlight
Playful, calm, love nature, birds moonlight, excitement for music.
Confidence and determination
Outspoken
Speaking one‘s mind.
Dark, darkness, endings
Rage, anger – tendency to destroy things – towards husband
Talking intensively about death and dying
Blackness, evil – suspicious, things seems very black,
Terrible black thoughts – suicidal.
Vulnerability, anxious
Sensitive to birds, surrounding, emotions
Scared and fearful
Frightened to going to sleep – sleeplessness
Lonely, sadness, despair
Anxious about future, family – busy haste, banishing ritual
Sensation: feeling something bad will happen ( to my husband) and it will be my fault.
Solitary, indifference.
Feel single in itself, do not want to do group thing – desire to be alone, wants to be quiet.
Irritability from noise with sadness, with trifles.
Reserved, forsaken.
Delusions: one‘s space is being invaded, feel cornered.
pushed out of my space – reserved.
Delusion: husband is selfish and envious.
Delusion: body was scattered about.
Delusion: he has neglected his duty.
Delusion: others are laughing at her confusion, feels misunderstood.
Sensitive to: birds, surroundings, emotions; sinister creepy, terrible black thoughts, suicidal; weighed down; from straight line to way line; isolation; of a pushing like torture; threat against a group.
Head is totally empty, hollow, can‘t absorb anything, just making time.
Extreme rejection and isolation.
Sensitive to all impressing.
Sensitive to crawling animals, maggots through skin; guilty ( duty).
Aversion: closeness; to talk; sex; company.
Fears: others judging him; highs and lows; ever decreasing circle; terrified of slipping into an abyss; panic, on going to sleep, dying in sleep; of going to work, anticipatory tension.
Dreams: anxious, threatening, journeys, lost; childhood, home; stone building; rocks; children, protecting children; water; exploring wild places; thoughts of grandmother.
Increased sexual desire,
Prone to accidents, injuries often to extremities.
Colour preference: 3C.
GeneralSensation: sharp, throbbing, piercing, with heaviness, tightness.
Region: chest, heart, eyes.
Weather: flushes of heat; < indoors; < warm, heat; > outside.
Time: periodic, lunar cycle, annual cycle; > evening, night time.
Desire: alcohol
Aversion: eating, tea.
Sleep: sleepy, < afternoon; > short sleep at noon.
Body
General: energy increased; tired, weariness.
Head: headache, frequent, frontal, pain around crown as if being jabbed with a finger, like a band from ear to ear over the top of the head, pressure in the head as if it was going to pop, > outdoors, >< eating, > sleep.
Eyes!: itching, left, desire to rub, cutting as from sand, swelling lids under eyes, vision acute, blurred while driving, photophobia while reading. Chest – stabbing, aching, tingling, stiff.
Mouth: dry, sticky, burning, swollen; tongue burning, coated; gums inflamed, bleeding; accidents with teeth.
Throat: pain, with inflammations, >cold drinks, partly with expectoration.
Stomach: pain; nausea, >< eating.
Abdomen: pressure, pain in liver.
Rectum: diarrhoea, flatulence.
Female: menses too late, too early; leucorrhoea yellow, dark, offensive, tenacious.
Limbs: pain in shoulder as if from wearing a sling for a long time; bones, joints, muscles problems.
Skin!: small red spots, irregular, vanishing soon, pimples, itch, >scratching.