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P O S O L O G Y

Indicated in mental retardation of children; convulsions; chorea; epilepsy; delirium tremens. Of value in conditions resulting from any form of excess, drunkenness or debauchery.

Can be considered in relation to nystagmus, facial tic, facial neuralgia, also uterine prolapse.

A special indication is in relation to chilblains in association with Tamus ointment applied locally.

Venus and Jupiter A N T H O N Y T U R N E R , M . n . , B . s .

Venus is the Goddess of Beauty, Love, Laughter and Marriage. Some say she is the daughter of Jupiter and Dione, who was the Goddess of Moisture. Others report she was born out of the foam of the sea. The ocean nymphs were the first to discover her, cradled on a great blue wave. They carried her down to a coral cave, where they nursed her and taught her with the utmost care. Then, when they judged the time to be ripe for her to be introduced to the other gods, the ocean nymphs carried her up to the surface waves. Here Tritons, Oceanides and Nereides offered her pearls and coral, they pillowed her softly on a large wave and entrusted her to the safety of Zephyrus, the soft south wind, which blew a gentle breath and wafted her to Cyprus Island.

She was welcomed here by the four beautiful Horae (the seasons) and by the three Graces; and on her way to Mount Olympus she was met by the God of the Desire of Love, the God of the Amities of Love, the God of the Soft Speech of Love and the God of Marriage. She took her seat on a throne on Mount Olympus, and without much ado all the gods fell in love with her and wished to marry her. But Venus scornfully rejected their proposals. The king of the gods felt so slighted that he decreed that for punishment, Venus should marry the God of the Forge, who was deformed.

But Venus, being a modern Miss, declared she would please herself. We come to know Venus, a very sanguine character; she follows her desires, forever experiencing new situations. She fell in love, in secret, with Mars, with whom she had several children, Harmonia and Cupid amongst them. Cupid remained a chubby little boy, only beginning to develop when Anteros, God of Passion, was born.

Venus also fell in love with the perfectly formed young shepherd boy Adonis, of whom Byron says much. She also married Anchises, Prince of Troy, and their son Aeneas, and so she broke all the rules.

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Venus's most ardent admirers were always the young people, for she delighted in their youthful sentiments and helped nil young lovers.

Cupid, the son of Venus, married Psyche, who was in the employ of Venus. She got Cupid to shoot arrows into the hearts of lovers to seal their love.

Having entered into some the mysteries of Venus and her character, it is interesting to follow up the knowledge of copper.

One might say that the richest source of copper lies in Katanga and Rhodesia, and if this area were to be made the North Pole, almost all other copper would lie around the new equator, including Cyprus. We should, as well, take note of where copper lies in the earth. Most of it is related to the oldest part of the earth, and occurs naturally at great depths, and here is related to sulphur. I t is only when it is thrown upwards and combines with air and water, tha t we get oxides and carbonates.

Speaking chemically we find copper very enthusiastic. I t is very much related to water, it forms very many different types of crystals, some of them containing up to 36 per cent. of water. Copper draws water to itself. A second feature is the vast number of combinations copper makes with other compounds; a chemistry textbook will show tha t it is second in this respect only to carbon. Avogadro's Law states tha t elements combine in simple propor t ions--but copper entirely ignores this law, and makes all kinds of illegitimate combina- tions, just as our friend Venus was wont to do with the other gods. Copper forms combinations with inorganic and organic substances; in fact, it is the process connecting copper with wood pulp which has given an artificial silk. In the Middle Ages, the alchemists were very much more truthful than the Greeks. The Greeks raised Venus to the ranks of the gods, but the alchemists called copper the "Har lo t" of the metals.

The third feature related to copper is another type of Form, tha t is colour. On a visit to a geological museum, one is straight away drawn to the copper section; here is the most colourfnl display, from the green of malachite, the blue of azurite, the red of cuprite and the reddish gold of the native tree-like form of copper. Bornlte shows all the eolours of the rainbow.

All these different ores of copper show its extremely sanguine nature. We see the same characteristics in copper and its behaviour, as we saw in the legends about Venus.

There is no doubt, taking into consideration the scientific work performed by Kolisko, Pfeifer, Agnes Fyfe and others, tha t the processes emanating from the planet Venus are the very same that manifest through copper.

The metamorphosis of these processes may be followed further when organic life is considered. In the plant world the absence of copper has severe effects. I t especially causes trouble in the reproductive sphere, and copper must be present for the proper functioning of chlorophyll, the operations involving water and light giving colour and life. All our important foodstuffs contain traces of copper.

When we enter the animal kingdom, copper seems to take on an ever more important role. On examining the molluscs, those in the sea and also the fresh water, and land snails, even cuttlefish and crabs, we find tha t they breathe by means of the copper in their blood. Here at this stage we find no voice, and no warm blood; the body of the oyster is all fluid, plastic, living protein. All hardness has been expelled outside into the shell. The copper impulse is entirely metabolism. However, when we ascend to higher evolution, for instance the

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birds, and take the touraeo as an example, we see a very colourful bird, green, blue, violet and red, there is also much movement in flight and additionally the presence of the voice. The blood contains iron; copper has been pushed out into the feathers. In the touraco the pigment turacin contains 6 per cent. of copper. We witness what copper tells. As soon as iron enters the blood, we have interiorized higher members. What surrounded the plant as light and warmth and energy has been interiorized in the animal, and gives it movement and voice.

As man comes on the scene, an individual Human Being, we can still follow the metamorphosis of the Venus process. The body contains 0.3 g of copper. I t exists in the plasma at a potency of 2x. I t occurs at its highest level in the liver, and is essential to the healthy blood. The ratio of copper to iron is greater in the female, dear Venus, and the ratio of copper to iron increases markedly in pregnancy, fevers, and infection. The more active the metabolism, for example in thyrotoxicosis, the greater the ratio of copper. In jaundice, the levels of bilirubin and copper run parallel. Serum copper levels are also increased in epilepsy, manic-depressive states and schizophrenia. The one-sided sanguine temperament which is related to the kidney is also a manifestation of the copper process. In man we see the beautiful Venus; having shown herself sailing on the copper sulphate sea enthroned on an oyster shell, in man she has landed on Cyprus, she not only organizes the fluid metabolism, but also permeates the a i r - - the soul; she hands over the fluid metabolism to meet the airy organism, and thus we see her very much related to the kidney, and to the sanguine temperament. All the stories concerning the character of Venus amongst the other gods and men of Cyprus are typical of the sanguine nature of the human soul.

As we see copper metamorphosing through the various evolutionary spheres, we note tha t it is not the substance copper which is important , but the "living act ivi ty" which seizes it.

A few case histories may serve to illustrate the copper process. Miss B., aged 66. Severe hypertension since 1947. Developed in 1971 severe

intermittent claudieation. No palpable pulses below the femoral arteries. Burning feet. She was confined to her house. She refused vascular surgery. She has received an injection of Cuprum 10x into her legs twice weekly on and off since 1972. She can now go out shopping in comfort, and can walk reasonable distances.

Mr. A, aged 72, called me to see him because he could not get down to his beloved pub, 100 yards away, because he had severe intermit tent claudication. He received an injection of Cuprum 10x twice a week, and after two months was walking over a mile to my surgery.

Mrs. S., aged 35, several years' history of severe epigastric pain, a t other times pain in the pelvis, sometimes midway between the periods; often in bed; became very depressed and tearful. Small, dark, mouse-like. No t reatment had ever helped her, laparotomy negative, appendicectomy. She was given injections of Iscador with copper, and abdominal massage with copper ointment 0 .4 per cent. She changed completely, found life worth living, and the pain has disappeared.

Miss D., aged 23, unmarried, completely sanguine, being manipulated by every impression from life. Was adopted when three weeks old, and had had very severe asthma and eczema since being a baby. Always changing her work, very enthusiastic until something new came along. A whole procession of boy friends. Began to drink and had a scene with the police. Seen two years ago.

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She has been treated with injections of Cuprum per chamomile, several courses of ten injections. Eczema and asthma now gone. Her psyche is much better. Has now had a job for a considerable time. Her mother says tha t she can now live happily with her. One gets the feeling that copper has put a barrier between the outside events and herself, she now controls the events. She has no as thma but has developed a rather moist catarrhy bronchial mucous membrane, for which she has had Stannum per Taraxacum with some benefit.

And this case brings me to Tin, Stannum. These tin cases, contrary to the previous cases which all suffered from age and drying up, these tin cases give a different picture, more of youth and a watery organism out of control.

Paul W., aged 4, a rather large loose-fleshed child, not very energetic, with a largish head. Mother complained of his lack of energy, and a mucous cough since birth. He was given Stannum per Teraxacum 0.1 per cent. twice daily, and Stannum ointment to massage nightly into his head, ia August. By October he was much better and the mother said tha t his cough disappeared in two weeks.

Mr. T., aged 55, an accountant, heavy drinker, who had alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver with much jaundice and ascites; he had been in hospital. He was given twice weekly an injection of Stannum 6x, and Stannum ointment to rub over the liver. The fluid all disappeared after 3 months. He has been quite well for the past four years.

Master B., aged 12, severe osteochondritis of both tibial tuberosities. Tuberosities much swollen and painful. Seen in August and given Stannum ointment 0.1 per cent. to rub in twice daily. The condition is almost normal now and he has commenced playing games.

Mrs. U., aged 60, developed a pneumonitis last Boxing Day. Three weeks later, when convalescing, began to get severe rheumatoid arthritis affecting hands, feet, ankles and knees, very painful and a lot of swelling with some fluid. Treatment was based upon injections of Stannum 10x twice weekly, and intermittently Staunum 30x by mouth. She had several relapses, but can now go out walking. She has almost normal joints.

Mr. R., aged 32, bus driver, became very depressed and indrawn, feared going out and had been unable to work. Unable to think and felt he had "nothing in his head". Stannum powder 30x was prescribed three times a day. After two months he returned to work.

As regards tin, we can picture through these cases a sequence. The child with the watery head, the boy with the swollen cartilage. The young woman with the congested lung, the watery liver and peritoneum, and the watery joints. Cases in which the copper water organizing forces have got out of hand. Here we see tin (Stannum) doing its work. Tin works from outside on the fluid organism, keeping it in check and encasing it. I t gives the balance between the fluid and the physical, taking the physical as being "form".

In the human being tin is found in greatest concentration in the tongue, which is a little difficult to understand. I t must have to do with the dissolving of food-form into the fluid element. The next greatest concentration is in the skin, and then in the liver, also in boundaries of the organs. Compare this with copper which occurs in the plasma.

Traces of tin have been found in animal tissue but little work has been done on this.

There are certain plants which are known to inhabit the tin areas. For example, species of the Primrose family.

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In its chemistry the contrast to copper is great. Copper flirts with all its multitude of chemical combinations and breaks all the laws of chemistry. But not tin. Stannum is regal and has no par t in this. Stannum keeps all the laws, there are no surprises. Tin itself is very stable, it is averse to water and gets rid of it if i t can. The stannous compounds revert to stan~ic compounds, thus giving up water.

In the earth tin follows altogether different laws from copper. I t rarely occurs as pure metal. Almost all t in occurs in deposits of tin oxide, cassiterite. I t occurs mostly on islands, as if to say, I hate water, and so draws the island out of the sea around it.

We found copper with sulphur in the bowels of the earth. But not tin; it is found near the earth 's boundary, bound up with oxygen of the air. Not with the lavas, but with granite. Similarly it is found in the skin, here too amongst its compatriot silica. And just as granite shows its forming qualities in the beautiful quartz crystals, so does tin in the four-sided, glistening and hard crystals of cassiterite.

So thinking of tin, especially in its form and forming qualities, we tunx to Jupiter. Jupiter, king of the gods, a dignified, impressive and benign figure. More often portrayed in sculpture than in picture. King of the gods, supreme ruler of the universe, special deity of mankind, the personification of air and sky, the guardian of Peace and Order. All the other gods were obliged to submit to his will, and trembled at his nod. Interestingly the gods of Fate and Destiny were the only beings who dared to oppose his supreme will. Though immortal, like all the gods, Jupi ter was prey to all the passions which befall man. I t was Jupi ter who presided at the Council of the gods on Mount Olympus. The world was his footstool, and the eagle, sign of strength, his emblem

Let it be further stated tha t in the my th stories there are many instances of Jupiter, for many reasons, changing his form, thus appearing on the earth at one t ime as a white bull, another as an eagle and so on. There are many temples to Jupiter; the Capitol at l~ome, also at Dodona and Mount Olympus. And here at Olympia, every five years, the people of Greece were wont to assemble for the Olympic Games in honour of Jupiter. And what were the Olympic Games about? Nothing else but the Human Form. Within this temple there stood a magnificent statue of Jupi ter in ivory and gold, the work of Phidias. I t was considered one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World. Phidias longed and prayed for some recognition of his fine work from the gods. In answer, Jupi ter sent down one of his thunderflashes which illuminated it, but left it quite unharmed.

And so in the myth tales of Jupiter, we see them permeated with much to do with the force of Form. On the other hand, we see in the stories of Venus very much the opposite. These stories tell the tale of fluid, of the organization of fluid, and of movement.

I t has been said tha t " the loss of knowledge of spiritual factors in material substances deprives us of the systematic s tudy of Format ive Forces".

In these days, how does this concern us in Homceopathy? Two centuries ago Samuel Hahnemann began something new. At this t ime

there were also a few other great spirits on earth, Goethe a great scientist, Novalis the poet, and our own artist and poet William Blake. Compton Burnet t ' s first Hahnemann Lecture in 1880 gives a good picture of the situation at tha t time, and especially of Hahnemann. He shows how Hahnemann was one of the first modern men, more a man of our day; when we read the Organon,

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and note the thought and the way it is writ ten out, it is rather in the manner of thinking of Thomas Aquinas, but in many other ways he was modern. He took responsibility himself, he rejected all the knowledge of previous times, of the Hermetists, of Paracelsus, of the Alchemists. He had to find it all out for himself. He devised an up-to-date method of proving medicines, and developed pictures of illness, and pictures of abnormal states of psyche. He renewed the Law of Similars in a scientific way, out of his o w n consciousness, something which had not really happened before. He is interesting in tha t he showed this new form of consciousness really before its time, a form of consciousness that should arise in men of today more and more.

On the other side today, we have a science of different form, completely sense-orientated, no imagination, completely materialistic and mechanistic, the electric circuit of the heart, of the brain, the chemistry and physiology of protein, biochemical systems, etc. All of which are interfered with during therapy in a quite negative way.

I t is more impor tant to look at the way in which this arises, rather than at the theories of illness as such. The present theory of illness arises from an intellectual approach to thinking only, an analytical thinking, solely because it is produced by analysis and breakdown in the nerve-cells. The analysis in the thinking and the breakdown in the nerve-cells run parallel. These materialists come to the conclusion tha t " I think, therefore I am".

Homceopathy is certainly not in this way "intellectual". We think, at least some of us think, but the pr imary process going on when we confront a patient is an Imaginat ive Process to which we add our thinking. We imagine pictures of states of illness, of states of psyche, pictures of the medicines spread out over the earth. This imaginative thinking is not destructive and analytical, but on the contrary it is constructive and works upbuildingly towards the whole.

We can therefore say " I am, therefore I think". Thus we can be conscious of "manifestation of being" and not only "manifestation of thinking". We become conscious of an inner "being" within man.

Orthodox medicine is a science, but Homceopathy has made a start to change the slagheap of scientific and materialistic data into a living picture of the Human Ego.

Mr. Chairman, I have only been able to put before you, very immaturely, and in a very elementary way, a little about the planet Venus, and about the metamorphosis of its processes through the Venus legends, through copper and through plant, animal and man and thence into the psyche, and on the other hand, a little about the metamorphosis of the Jupi ter forces through tin.

The provings of copper show cramps, epilepsy, all sorts of spasms, venous congestion and cyanosis, and in the psyche, tenseness, anxiety, nervous excite- ment in the solar plexus and restlessness. All tha t leads to the affective side of the psyche, arising out of the unconscious, arising out of the blood and metabolism.

The provings of tin, on the other side, show pulmonary congestion and bronchial discharges, coryza, mucus everywhere. Sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Chest feels weak, voice husky and very weak, can hardly talk. Paralysis of the extremities, drops things. The mind becomes weak, unable to link one thought to another.

Copper and tin are opposites, the one related to the blood, the other to the nervous system.

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But if we seek behind the Venus legends, copper and the copper process in plant, animal and man, we can begin to divine a force. We must resolve the element into an active process, which can be seen within copper and right up into the human being. Likewise with tin.

What then are the myths? What then is the brain and thinking? What is the kidney and the affective side of the psyche?

We could see it this way. The ancient Greeks did not think in the same way as we do now, otherwise they too would have thought up the hydrogen bomb. They too would have thought up pace-makers and the like. No, they were not so excessively clever as we are. But on the other hand they had great wisdom. This wisdom they instinctively saw outside themselves spread out over nature. The myth stories and pictures, handed down to us, arose spontaneously outside in nature and led them in all wisdom. They did not think.

So how is it that we think, freely and individually ourselves? Since this Greek era, there has taken place the event on Golgotha, where a God went through death, overcame death and matter. And now 2000 years afterwards we are able, but only of our own free will, to take these God-given resurrection forces into our thinking. The Jupi ter forces which were outside in the ancient Greek time, have now become interiorized and work on the form of the brain, allowing men to think. The Venus processes which were outside man in ancient Greece, are now in us, and permeate our blood with enthusiasm and will. I t is, in freedom, our choice to bring to living reali ty the tin-forming forces of our brain and thinking. This we can do by permeating them with the warming will-forces of copper in the blood.

I f we do not do this, then what? Look at tin again, tin is the only metal tha t becomes "ill". There was great trouble with the tin roofs of buildings and churches, for t in at freezing temperatures becomes sick, it blisters and the blisters break down to form a powder. Now the interesting thing is that if this powder is rubbed into normal tin, it too becomes ill and develops blisters, it is infectious. This can only be cured by a "copper process", namely by heating it until it melts.

The same happens with our thinking; in cold intellectual and materialistic medical circles, thoughts are powdered into atomistic and mechanistic bits and pieces. But if we warm our thoughts with the imaginative copper of our blood, we shall come to a living knowledge of the reali ty that hides itself behind the human frame.

Mr. Chairman, the Beautiful Venus and the Forceful and Forming Jupi ter again become our best friends, and we are privileged to see again spirit in matter. We witness the warm, enthusiastic creating forces in the blood, and on the other side the cold destructive forces of the other pole, the nerves. Only do we as doctors walk aright, i f we find the pa th to balance these two poles.

Copper related to the sulphur in the bowels of the earth, and related in us to sulphur which inflames the metabolic system, and tin related to silica in nature, and related in us to silica and the form-giving force, copper and tin, Venus and Jupiter, are the two sculptors who mediate between the flaming metabolic system and will on the one side, and the freezing form-giving and thinking nervous system on the other.

Samuel Hahnemann pointed the way, but it still remains for us to put before the medical profession real knowledge of the human Being in sickness and health. We have knowledge, we must also find Life and Being. We have know- ledge of a process seizing Stannum and Cuprum, thus giving Life to Being.