CAUSTICUM

Psoric, Sycotic, Sphilitic, Tub

MINERAL (Pot ash, Kali like)

I will fight for the good of the family around me

My structure is the family around me
Any chink in the structure, I must defend (For a cause)
A fiery response (a loose cannon, suicide bombers)
Tremendous anxiety for others (underdogs)
At any moment, something terrible could happen
To unbelievable lengths (beyond logic, because it must be)
Very Sympathetic , Its Just Not Fair
Serious & Passionate (Im the strong one who must fight)
After long struggles, worn out (I waged a war)
A Fiery Response
Needs moisture, wants cold drinks, Burning, rawness in pains
A fire is very sensitive to drafts
Cant rest
Restless, twitches
Worn out
Worn out, Paralysis, worse over-use, muscles/tendons contract swell (no fight left)
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Chilly, worse from cold, Sensitive to drafts

Like cloudy, wet or rainy weather, worse in dry weather
Better cold drinks
Right-sided (Rebel)
Burning, Rawness & Soreness, Ailments after a fire (never well since)
Acute remedy for burns (2nd & 3rd degree, when blisters come)
Sense of rawness, hoarseness in throat; (paralysis of vocal cords), Hoarseness, worse every cold, worse in morning, worse
from over-use, better from cold drinks
Cough, Bronchitis, Burning, hoarse, hard racking, better cold drinks, worse bending forward, continually clears
throat, feels mucus still there
Cravings; Salty and smoked meats; Aversion; to sweets
Arthritis or Rheumatic complaints, worse cold, worse over-use and strain, worse bathing, worse dry weather
Paralysis (all kinds); Right-sided (I cant fight the cause anymore),
12. Bells Palsy (sudden onset facial paralysis) while drive in cool air, sensitive to drafts
13. Slow progressive paralysis; Cerebral accidents; Numbness (on left side); of tongue, of eyelids; Flexor muscles, especially right side (Jupiters Contractors);
14. Constipation, ineffectual stool, involuntary urine (from cough or sneeze), Stool passes better with standing (points to paralysis), urine retention
Eruptions on face, especially tip of nose, Warts, nose, eyelids, Rosacea burning
Aversion to coition, Loss of pleasure even if orgasm
Involuntary movements; Chorea, Seizures; Twitching, convulsions; worse in sleep, worse on right side
Fears
of things coming and getting you; of bad things happening
Fear of ghosts, dogs; of evening, being alone in bed, in dark, Fear from a noise
That something will happen (That friend got in an accident)

CAUSTICUM

Psoric, Sycotic, Sphilitic, Tub

METAL

Level 4Periodic Chart

K - My Security, My role, my task; No foundation in this area
My role, my task, my security is completely dependent on something out there
I dont have it in me; I find it outside

Main pathology
Urinary, involuntary, stool constipation
Nervous system, trembling, jerking, cramping, rheumatism
Muscles and tendons, contract, swelling
Local Paralysis; Larynx, of a single organ or part, voluntary & involuntary muscles
In a triad with Staphisagria and Colocynthis.
A lawyer representing immigrants and poor people
People who arent heard
They arent listened to
Justified just how they are
Getting their stories to be heard
Very emotional about children
Its just not fair for these little kids to have to die
Concern for family
**
Waiting for something bad is going to happen
Im married, own my house, - (over and over again)
Her world is rocked to the core
A little rebel
Horribly rebellious - drives her mother crazy
Cant schedule it enough
Cant plan it enough
Waiting for bad things to happen
Intense sympathy for other people *
Cares too much for other people
She cant do enough for them
She cant answer the phone when her friend calls
So dependant when freaks out calls her mom
Oh, no, wouldnt call my mom shows how subconscious this need is
(all 3 miasms from Causticum)
Rebellious pieces
Something is going to happen to someone she cares about
She depends on this family and she rebels from it

Causticum Mental State

Its Just Not Fair
Very Sympathetic
Rubric: Sympathetic

Not naturally occurring in nature

(like Kali)
(essence)

(also Phos. & Staph)

Story of sympathetic labor pains, actually
experiencing the labor pains of the mother

My role, my task, my security

is completely dependent on
something out there

Tremendous anxiety for others

At any moment
something terrible could happen
Im completely dependant on that structure
(whether it might be family or other)
If any part of this is wobbly or sick, then I
have to do what I have to do to take care of
that

Could be anybody
If something happens to the underdog, this
means to them that the structure is shaky
Deep remedy
After long struggles

After long grief

After long illness
They waged a war against an illness
The illness is the injustice,
Its just not fair that I got cancer
Worn out
after fighting this battle
From extremes
From mirth to despair (Clarke)
The ability to go way up and the ability to
go way down

The tears can pop out very easily

To a sense of paralysis
Of not being successful
Working against the big structures
You feel like youre burned out

Im not hooked up
I have to go to the bathroom and yet
it doesnt come
My will wants to do something, but
cant get body to do it
Mind and will wants to do something
and bits arent working

I dont have it in me
I find it outside
The structure must be outside them
Any chink in the structure,
I must defend
Contraction
Burning
Paralysis

Fears
(fear things could shake your structure)
That something will happen

Fear of ghosts
Fear of dogs
Fear of evening, being alone in bed, in
dark
Fear from a noise
Of death, of evil,

That friend got in an accident

Serious
Passionate
You wish you never mentioned politics

They go on and on, bigger and bigger

Rally to the cause

Its not fair they will say
If the underdog is bullied in a movie
Causticum will think unfair because my
foundation is being shaken (even if I don
know the person)

They are the strong one

They are the one who has to fight
If there is a weak link in the structure,
they are the ones that need to fix this
Intolerance for injustice
Intolerance for hypocrisy
Environmental law, fighting against
big trends
Born in a Brothel, about giving
cameras to children of prostitutes
in India

A fiery response
Can argue, can yell
Their reaction to a chink, is a fiery response

A loose cannon
The fear of being without family
If I were somewhere without my family I
would not know how to proceed
Why I am so involved in the church,
its because this is the structure onto
which I can lean

That fire passion is there

Suicide bombers

I have to go to extreme measures

to keep the structure safe

To unbelievable lengths
You work very hard,
beyond logic because it must be

Because structure has to stay in tack

Because it must be
As a mom
Lots of anxiety
As a mom, work very hard
Makes sure each one of the kids
gets a fair chance

Causticum

Laurie
Themes
Sense of paralysis
Burning
Contraction

General
Chilly, worse from cold, likes cloudy, wet or rainy wether
Burning
Rawness
Ailments after a fire
Sensitive to drafts (like driving and cool air comes in a facial paralysis comes on)
Paralysis
Bells Palsy (sudden onset of a facial paralysis)
Jupiters Contractors (in hands where tendon contracts and hands bend in)
Parts become paralyzed (I cant fight the cause anymore), right sided facial neuralgia
Head
Sense of rawness in throat causing paralysis of vocal cords
Rosacea burning
Eruptions on face, especially the tip of the nose
Paralysis of the tongue
Heaviness or paralysis of eyelids
G/I

Constipation
Stool passes better with standing (points to paralysis)
Involuntary urine with coughs, sneezing, blowing noses
Urgency (in urine, stool) and paralysis (and inability to act)
Cravings; Salty and smoked meats
Aversion; to sweets
Respiratory
Burning and hoarse cough, better cold drinks, worse bending forward
Hoarseness, worse almost every cold, worse in morning, worse from over-use, better from cold drinks
Constant desire to clear the throat, feels there is mucus in the throat which clears with difficulty, coughs deeper
and deeper trying to reach the mucus
Bronchitis with hard racking cough
Extremities
Restless legs, twitching, worse at night, better for warmth
Rheumatic complaints, worse cold, worse over-use and strain, worse bathing, worse dry weather
Arthritis of hand and fingers, Rheumatic complaints, worse cold, worse over-use and strain, worse bathing,
worse dry weather
Paralysis of flexor muscles, especially right side
Slow progressive paralysis
Paralysis; cerebral accidents or neuro-degenerative disorders
Chorea (involuntary movements of limbs) worse in sleep, worse on right side
Seizure disorder; generalized convulsions, worse in sleep, worse during menses, worse on right side of body

Twitching, jerking, tremor, convulsions after fright or grief

Numbness on left side of body
Skin
Acute remedy for burns (2nd & 3rd degree, when blisters come)
Warts, on nose, eyelids
Reproductive
Aversion to coition in women
Loss of pleasure even if orgasm in men and women
Substance
Potassium, and pot ash
Theory trying to distill the caustic nature of Potassium
Laurie remedies form not naturally occurring elements has a very different kind of feel to her
(from Val) - OCT

Mental
Paul Wellstone, visited the same Thai restaurant all the time, go out of his way
Tend to be quite thoughtful and well read (might gravitate towards professor of history, poli sci)
Very, very idealistic, sympathetic and sensitive (to an unbalanced degree)
Most sensitive to issues of unfairness, poor treatment, injustice
Quick to be incensed over those things
Even as children; 5 or 6, really upset if teachers treats someone else in the kids unfairly
We dont treat other beings badly (period)
Rebellious, political, stage up-risings
In the extreme, French Revolution, hauling all the royalty to the gallows, its too late you should have listened
to us earlier
Strong hatred of authority, because authority tends to be unjust (Sulphur hates authority; because I know best)
Caust & Phos similar, both nervous system, both have a lot of fears, fears that something bad will happen,
fear of dark, fear of dogs, fear of ghosts
Big grief remedy (can look like Nat-M) history of repeated losses. My dad shot the dog because it annoyed
him, a loss and an injustice
Grief that effect the person deeply for a long time (like Nat-M), can change a persons whole life
Can get cynical
Generals
Much better from wet rainy weather, or cloudy weather (worse is sun shiny and clear)
Warm and muggy, very good
Very chilly in general
Worse from drafts, open windows
Worse from suppression of eruptions (using cortisone on a skin rash)
Nervous system remedy
Numbness, trembling or paralysis especially on right side (big Bels Palsy)
Seizures and seizure disorders, tends to get seizures during menstrual period and during sleep
Head
Tends to get warts on tip of their noses (or pimples)
Right sided facial neraliga, especially being exposed to cold wind (Bels Palsy)
(a Kali) all kinds of sinus problems
Stammering, stuttering, feeling cant control the tongue, heavy of numb or paralyzed

Tub & Psoric remedy

Throat
Easy hoarseness of the throat
A desire to clear the throat
A feeling that there is mucus there, if I can just get the mucus out, Ill be okay
GI

Strong cravings; smoked meats, bacon, salt, aversion to sweets (unusual, yet not exclusive)
Stomach pain, better from cold drinks

Repro
Either a very low sex drive or aversion or sexual activity period, complain of no pleasure during act (working,
yet nerves not functioning), Impotence
Urinary
Incontinence, loosing the urine from laughing, coughing, sneezing, stress incontinence (like following labor)
Also, urinary retention, paralysis of bladder, if they wait after the first urging
Respiratory (Tub family)
Big for coughs, asthma, feels like mucus caught in chest, deep hard coughing to bring up mucus and better
once brought up mucus
Cough is much better from cold drinks
Asthma (wants to sit up and bend over) asthma will come on as a result of being emotionally upset
Back/Extremities
All kinds of neurological back pain
Neck pain; head goes back, cant bring it forward
Conditions of the spine that cause a real rigidity
Arthritis, especially fingers and hand joints
Restless leg syndrome, when you sit down at night your legs start jumping
Contractors of muscles or tendons, particularity in the hands
Warts (on nose) or on the hands, particularly around the cuticle
Easy to confuse with Sepia or Phos, or Calc Phos
As kids; Causticum kid wants to connect deeply with you, even a 4-5 year old, will talk to you
Sensitive to unfairness, unfairness between two siblings
As teenager; very difficult, might go get Malcolm X books out of library for a while (if balanced)
Then comes out: Urinary symptoms, contractors, numbness
Civil rights movement Causticum
Whatever it takes
Staph & Caust (Compl) Caust has predisposition against authority, Staph tends to be submissive to authority
Of such a great sensitivity that they cant tolerate certain things