Botanical
The Fabaceae were formerly called Leguminosae. It’s the family of the beans and peas. It’s one of the biggest botanical families with 700 genuses and 17000 species. The fruit is characteristic for the family: a pod with beans. This also gave the name Leguminosae, which means vegetables.
The family has 3 big subfamilies: Mimosidae, Caesalpinoidae and Papillonidae. The Papillonidae is the biggest group with most of the homeopathic remedies. Papillonidae means butterfly, named after the butterfly from of the flowers.
There is a strong connection with Nitrogenium. Fabaceae are known to have a symbiosis with bacteria, which can convert nitrogen in nitricum. The plant can absorb the nitricum at their roots. It’s converted into ammonia and from that into glutamin.
Contents
Lectins: they produce “leaking intestines”: the mucosa of the intestines get intoxicated and get permeable; toxins from the intestines can enter the body undisturbed and nutrients get lost into the intestines; the lectins are destroyed by heating and cooking.
Flavonoides: Made from flavonoides by funghi: Fytoalexine: pisatin, faseollin
Melilotus: cumarine
Saponines
Cardenolides
Aminoacids: N-oxalyl-diaminobutyric acid, 2-4-diaminopropionic acid, 3-cyanoalanin, 3-aminopropionnitril
Chinolizidine alkaloids:
Cytisin: Cytisus laburnum
Spartein: cytisus scoparius
Lupanin: lupinus
Cyanogenic glycosids: trifolium, lotus
Fytooestrogens: trifolium
Manganum, selenium
Elemenst in Fabaceae
Arsenicum Lotus c.
Barium Oxytropis
Borium Medicago,
Cadmium Lotus c., Senna, Lespedeza
Calcium Lotus c., Sarothamnus, Melilotus
Chromium Lotus c., Lespedeza
Cobalt Caroube, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Lespedeza
Cuprum Phaseolus, Trifolium prat.
Ferrum Caroube, Glycyrrhiza
Germanium Glycyrrhiza
Kalium Lotus c.
Lithium Glycyrrhiza, Medicago
Magnesium Phaseolus
Manganum Sarothamnus, Lotus c.
Mercurius Medicago
Molybdenum Glycyrrhiza, Glycine max
Niccolum Phaseolus, Melilotus, Senna, Lotusc., Lespedeza, Arachis
Oxalicum acidum Oxytropis
Phosphorus Lotus c., Glycine max
Plumbum Melilotus, Phaseolus
Selenium Astragallus, Mimosa, Oxytropis, Phaseolus
Silicea Medicago
Sulphur Sarothamnus, Glycien max, Phaseolus
Vanadium Medicago, Glycyrrhiza, Melilotus
Zincum Phaseolus, Lotus c., Senna