Mind
Poverty
There is a fear of poverty, of not having enough to fulfill the needs. Beans are often seen as the food for the poor people, it fills the stomach and cost little. This is expressed in the Dutch sayings “hunger let raw beans taste sweet” and the “rats, kuch en bonen” as food in the army.
Enjoy
They like to enjoy life but have the feeling that their resources are exhausted. There is a desire for a simple enjoyable life, without much trouble and complications. They want to live in a beautiful, clean and natural surrounding, but don’t want the dirt of nature or the work to make things beautiful. They have a desire for help, but have the feeling that nobody will help them, that they are an outcast, the scapegoat or persecuted. The complaints often start after a mononucleosis, also called “kissing disease”.
They have a desire for freedom, for lightness, and an aversion to the heavyness, duty and problems of live. They want to do pleasurable things. They like nature, natural things and environments. “Full of beans” means lively, jumpy. Esau sold his birthright to his brother Isaac for a plate of lentils.
They can be joyous in order to get what they need.
Work
They have the feeling that they have to work hard for their living, they really have to earn their living. We see this reflected in the Dutch saying “One has to clean one own peas”. They are perfectionists in their work. They want to do things very good. This often leads to working harder than they really can. They do things that exceed their power.
Often they are teachers. It’s a job that gives them a secure income and long holidays.
Serious dry
The opposite of enjoying is seriousness. In the later stages they often are very serious and dry. They lack “joie de vivre”, joy. Things don’t go smoothly anymore, it is as if they lack lubricant “jus”. They miss playfulness, the French “jeu”. They lack humor.
This is often the consequence of lack in money, love, freedom, motherlove and all the pleasant things in life.
Split
Their dipole is between duty and pleasure. But they cannot bring them into balance. And that leads to their feeling of being split, a symptom which is very well known for Baptisia that can feel himself split into thousands of pieces. The theme of split is also present in the characteristic fruits of this family. The beans, peas and peanuts are all fruits they are formed double and in a row.
Powerless
They often have the feeling that they cannot cope with the problems. The problems are too big for their power. It’s like the Calimero effect. In English one calls something little “it’s peanuts”.
Moral Justice
There is a kind of moral problem. They have the feeling that they have to be innocent, like a “holy bean”. They have the feeling that they won’t get something for nothing. They think they will be punished for their mistakes. A Dutch saying is “beans as wages” meaning that one cannot avoid the result of ones own actions. Or that they will be punished with bullets, “blue beans”.
Jacob’s ladder is a ladder grown out of a bean leading to heaven.
Confusion
They have the tendency to exhaust themselves, both mentally and physically. The mental exhaustion leads to difficulties in thinking and concentration. In the end they feel completely confused. A dutch saying for making all kinds of errors is “Being in the beans”.”Walking in the beans” means getting lost. And of course most people will know the comic “Mr Bean”, who makes all kinds of stupid mistakes. Mentally they lack energy and ambition, leading to dullness, confusion, mistakes, forgetful, absentminded, weak memory, indifference and apathy.
The reverse of the confusion is alertness. This is often the case in the beginning stages of the problem. This is also expressed in saying “Knowing how many beans make five.
Mind
Sensitivity: touch, weather
Disappontment, critical
Jack in the beanstalk
Generals
Type: big, stout.
Sensation: dry.
Weather: < wet cloudy weather (2), mouldy surroundings; chilly, desire sun.
Desire: peas, beans, lentils, cheese, fish, meat, fat.
Aversion: peas, beans, lentils, cheese
Food: peas, beans, lentils, cheese.
Sleep: desire much sleep, unrefreshed, never enough; sleepless.
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome, also called myalgic encephalitis is very strong in the Fabaceae. The lack of energy is outstanding, even after a little exertion they have to lie down again. These problems often start after a period of sickness with slight fever and much fatigue, like mononucleosis.
With the Fabaceae this fatigue probably has to do with aminoacids. It’s known that many of these plants have strange aminoacids in them and when they are not digested and build into the proteins in the body, the proteins can stop functioning. Evidence for this is the fact that carnitine, an aminoacid, is known in orthomolecular medicine to have a beneficial effect on ME. The fatigue is both physical and mental. Physically it can go to real paralysis. Paralysis is present in many Fabaceae. We can see it as a further stage of the lack of strength and power. The lack of strength can also express itself in feelings of vertigo and in epilepsy. Poliomyelitis.
Physical
Vertigo, as if drunk, < alcohol.
Chronic fatigue syndrome, ME
Paralysis, poliomyelitis. Epilepsy
Mononucleosis.
Throat: diphtheria.
Stomach, full
Stomach: nausea, eructations. Digestion is difficult, trypsin inhibition
Abdomen: fullness, bloated, rumbling, belching, flatus.
Pancreas
Constipation. Fungal infections of intestines.
Diarrhoea, offensive. Typhus. Flatus, offensive.
Differential Diagnosis
DD: Nitricums, Nitrogen doesn’t have CFS. They are fighting for their own so they don’t get loss.
DD Psorinum: strong fear of poverty, of not having enough of money, energy, joy etcetera.
DD Ironserie, mang, zinc (Lamenting), Calciums.
DD amino acids, Carnitin: an amino acid that can help in some of these fatigue cases; Glutamin.
DD carc, lyc, ars, oxyg, Acidums, Pfeiffer nosode, Hydrog