3-633.45.09 Heliconia psittacorum
Clades: Angiospermae, Lilianae, Liliidae, Commelinoids, Zingiberales, Stage 9.
Names: Parakeetflower; Heliconia Parakeetflower; Parrot’s Beak; Parrot’s Flower; Parrot’s Plant; Parrot’s Tonque; Popokaytongo.
Mythology: Gaia protecting her children against Uranos; parrots.
DD: Uranium, Plutonium, Placenta.
Introduction
They are very strong and warm for their family and surroundings. They do what is needed and even more for friends and people around them. It makes them well respected and appreciated. They have a tendency to do a lot for their community, being one of the central figures in it.
Big beautiful earth mother, loving, mamma in the community, helping and healing people in the community.
There are sometimes disharmonies in their family, that stay without being solved, till something severe happens like an accident or disease.
Mind
Well respected, appreciated.
Joyful sadness; funeral is a festival.
Child being overprotected, limited, wanting to be free.
Profession: midwife; farmer.
Lost child, family member.
“We have got the whole world in our hand”.
Post traumatic stress syndrome.
Gratitude, thankfulness, beauty, love.
Respect, let people and things free, but be there when they need you.
Body
Head: headache, frontal, pressing.
Female: postpartum hemorrhage; ovary problems.
Themes
Mind
Transitions, and being autonomous in transitions.
Transformation.
Birth and death.
Allowing love.
Getting very ill (cancer) because of blocked love.
I cant receive love, the other is blocking me and not receiving it.
Actinides.
Old wisdom, ancestors, Gaia.
Parrots, co-dependence.
Positive outcomes.
Placenta.
Animals carrying illness of people they are connected to.
Being autonomous and connected.
Beauty and love in life-and-death situations.
Body
Cancer; esp esophageal and uterine.
Bleeding from mouth, uterus.
Birth; stuck in transition.
Death; stuck in transition.
Headache like a stripe from eyebrows to occiput.
Headache occiput.
Pressure in head.
Pressure in head, ears, throat, chest.
Burning in right ear.
Throat, Chalky taste.
Throat, twitching near adam’s apple.
Abdomen, cramps below umbilicus.
Stomach, sharp pain.
Background
A herbaceous upright small Heliconia, indigenous to Central and South America, the Amazon rainforest, and some islands of the South Pacific, Heliconia psittacorum flowers are actually highly modified leaves and bracts growing up to no more than four feet tall. The long pointed leaves are shiny green. The pinkish-red bracts arise from a central point on the stem. The flowers have 3, 4 to 1 inch long peduncles that rise above the pointed bracts. Beautiful frosty cream colored bracts, shading from pinkish-red to mauve to the tips. Its sepals are cream colored with green-black bands.
Heliconia are abundant bloomers all year long. The flower stays almost constant, and may last from several days to several months. Heliconias like places with a lot of water, rich soil, and sunlight. Most species of Heliconia can be found in moist or wet regions, but some are found in seasonally dry areas. Although Heliconias flourish in the humid lowland tropics at elevations below 1500 feet, surprisingly, the greatest number of species are found in middle elevation rain and cloud forest habitats. Heliconia psittacorum does not mind cool temperatures, but does best in warm, humid areas. Their easy cultivation and spectacular presence have made them favorite garden subjects throughout the world.
In the American Tropics, hummingbirds are the exclusive pollinators of red, yellow, pink and orange heliconias while nectar feeding bats are the pollinators of green heliconias. Some regions in the Caribbean use their leaves for roof thatching or as food wrappers, and in Brazil certain Heliconias’ roots and seeds are used for medicinal healing properties.
Sources
From National Tropical Botanic Garden: http: //ntbg.org/plants/plant_details.php?plantid=5957.
and http: //www.jaycjayc.com/heliconia-species.
3-633.45.09 Heliconia psittacorum proving
Proving: trituration proving, Bocas de Toro, 25-2-2016.
The proving is written as it unfolded from C1 through C3.
Master Prover: Jan Scholten.
Pharmacist: Robert Muntz.
Supervisor: Patricia Maher.
Provers: Prover 1: Female, age 61; Prover 2: Female, age 50; Prover 3: Male, age 52.
Start
Supervisor’s observation: Before the proving began, Prover 1 wielded the flower like a scepter and said to me: “You are the Queen of the Forest; I am the Statue of Liberty.”.
C1
Prover 1: Big and colorful and proud of itself.
Prover 2: Sturdy and strong.
Prover 1: Standing up straight; really confident.
Prover 2: Strong straight spine.
Prover 1: Like a big woman of color that’s so happy with herself. Big, gorgeous, voluptuous, really colorfully dressed. Big earrings, like in those movies where there is a tribe walking in a parade and woman is in front of the parade… All the people are following her, carrying fans etc. She’s just walking really proud. Everyone loves her. She’s kind and nurturing and awesome, like our eyes get big when we look at this person; wow!. I’m looking at her, saying wow, she is amazing. I’d like to be like her. There is no way I could be like her.
Figure 1. Drawing of the Woman’s dress.
Prover 2: It’s not attainable?
Prover 1: No, she’s just so different from me. I wonder where her grandeur comes from….
Prover 3: Admiration or jealousy?
Prover 1: Admiration, in awe. It’s okay that I can’t be like her; but I appreciate her.
Prover 2: Headache; immediately. From eye brows back over head like a stripe to back of head.
Prover 3: it takes time to see what my role is…. At first, calm then a bit doubting. That was at first. What is my role here? Three women and a man for first time [in the provings]. R had said to him: you are with three women. What prover 3 heard in that was “good luck.”.
Prover 3: When we did the first trituration of placenta there were 7 midwives. Three gave them the remedy to triturate. He had a strong feeling; I have to leave, I can’t stand it. I’m not feeling that now but…. I am reminded.
Prover 2: Did you use the placenta right after birth?
Prover 3: Yes, I organized it.
Prover 2: Did you know your son needed it beforehand?
Prover 3: Beforehand I had a feeling about it.
Prover 2: Exciting; I’m just learning about it.
Prover 3: I don’t know what my role is; give me time.
Prover 2: I’m having post nasal drip and tightness in chest near sternum; but this could be me.
Prover 3: This picture of this woman [Prover’s 1’s image]; normally I would be afraid that this kind of woman would be disrespectful of me.
Prover 1: For me she is a big bunch of love; she has love for everyone. She is powerful in a way that is nurturing. People love her. Her power is in her love. Like Gaia, Mother Earth. Solid and grounded. She laughs and has a beautiful smile. Wise. In her 50’s. She’s big. Large breasts, big hips. Babies want to snuggle up on her. Big beautiful powerful wonderful Mothering.
Prover 3: Big breasts, big hips?
Prover 1: Yes.
Prover 3: Because the flower is so thin and straight!!.
[laughter}.
Prover 3: Placenta comes up; not so far away. At first I saw, interpreted an erotic woman but this is more earthy, maternal.
Prover 2: The flower looks very sensual though, feminine.
Prover 1: This woman is very sensual. She has a lot of amazing things to say, gives a lot of advice. She is the one everyone goes to.
Prover 3: Around menopausal age. Three women, one man, overgrowth of female power.
Prover 2: Before proving, Prover 1 grabbed me and recruited me. Maybe she needed another woman.
Prover 1: The thing is, she doesn’t give advice unless you ask. She lets people be until there is a problem. She waits; doesn’t interfere. I want to be like her.
Prover 3: But where is the shadow?
Prover 1: This is very village-like. The community is successful at living; balance. A lot of cooperation, people helping each other. That’s why she doesn’t interfere. But when they get stuck she helps.
Prover 3: Like a midwife?
Observation: a flock of parrots screech by.
Prover 1: She helps through transitions. When someone goes through transition [in birth] and doesn’t know what to do…. Transition is the hardest time, last stop before birth. The mother says; I hate you, I don’t want to have this baby. The baby is transitioning from womb through birth canal; very painful. Mothers go though phase of blaming the father; it’s your fault. I can’t do this, I’m done. We’re not doing this.
Any transitions are very difficult, going into the unknown. In birth, both baby and mother are in major transition.
Prover 3: These may have been my doubts in the beginning. A Borax state; when the baby stops. Phase 3 doubts.
Prover 2: Tight cramping feeling at top of stomach.
Prover 1: She has the wealth of experience but there is a line here; she is carrying knowledge of her ancestors… she can help people through transitions because she is drawing on what she inherited as knowledge.
Prover 3: Great wisdom.
Prover 1: An actinide type of wisdom. Ancient knowledge.
Prover 3: We all have this actinide quality; a healthy thing.
Prover 1: But I’ve seen it as a problem; I gave Uranium nit to a 3 year old; she was always helping people solve their problems.
Prover 3: But the problem of the actinides is decay. There are always carbon problems. In every actinide is a lost child, destruction of family. In the loss the child finds her wisdom and autonomy. It seems like wisdom but not normal to have so much wisdom at that age. Child falls back on grandparents or social programs; for kids who are orphaned.
Prover 3: Like in Lanthanides; autonomy, a combination of carbon and Lanthanides; because of decay of social, political, family systems. The child then is lost; on the one hand the lost child of carbon and the wisdom of actinides.
Prover 1: This woman has so much knowledge and is able to guide people through transitions.
Prover 3: if you combine these, there is a developed aspect and a child state.
Doubt; maybe I still have doubt.
Supervisor: is it the doubt of the baby in the birth canal?
Prover 3: I feel restlessness in the heart but not so strong…a little bit of doubt, a bit restless, but I don’t know… I don’t; know my role. I have to wait until I know. It will come. I hope you don’t stress me until I find my role!!.
Prover 1: I want to go over and hug you, you’ll be okay.
Prover 1 draws the dress of the woman she’s envisioned.
Prover 1: Big hips and breasts, beautiful face and eyes, dark skin. Hair up and wrapped. Incredible eyes, lanthanide like.
Prover 2: Makes me think of someone who goes to a homeopath. When you go through a transition is when you go to a homeopath. It is that kind of wisdom that homeopaths need to have. There is wisdom in homeopaths, like actinides, to be able to see into something. Prover 1 has that quality as a homeopath; warm wisdom. But you wait for people to come to you; you wait.
Prover 3: Like a midwife.
Prover 2: Bigger than that.
Prover 3: Three women, one man; but three women and a child. I would have trouble being held.
My role is that of the child. Actinide; child is the wisdom, the child is the oldest part of us. Periodic table: child is oldest; hydrogen, carbon.
Actinide is the newest part. There is a problem; too protected and too lost, free.
Prover 1: she’s the one who can balance it. There is a feeling that she may not always wait. She would guide, not tell them what to do if she sees a problem and they don’t. She has the wisdom to guide and not be dictatorial and in a kind and loving way is able to put things into perspective. She tells a story so they come to a realization on their own.
Prover 2: Then you think about it and get it.
Prover 2: Supervisor and I had a conversation the other night about parrots. If they lose the flock they are hurt and traumatized, and then they attach to a human, and then they are abandoned again.
Supervisor tells story of program in San Francisco that rehabilitates traumatized Iraq war vets and orphaned parrots suffering from PTSD.
Prover 1: The documentary was about that; the parrots of telegraph hill.
Prover 3: Back to actinides. Birds are very actinide. Uranos; heaven. Heaven is the place for birds. And Gaia is the wife of Uranos. They were the first couple. Gaia and Uranos had a lot of children. He oppressed the children, put them under the earth. They couldn’t come up. Gaia was also oppressive; she plotted with her youngest, Kronos, to murder Uranos. Every night Uranos came down to have sex. They planned to cut off his genitals. (I say I am a child for my safety!).
A plan is made…. Kronos follows Uranos; all the other brothers, Neptune, Pluto etc… The actinide problem is the picture of this mythology, the end of the patriarchal system.
We found in the proving of Uranium problems of father-son conflict and gender wars. Men lost their power in the uranium age; cant have power in social system,. He has to find his autonomy and inner wisdom.
Prover 2: Its all meant to be; there was a conversation about parrots….
Prover 1: The positiveness of Placenta last night at dinner.
Prover 3: The remedy Placenta (Ritzer) is my son.
Prover 1: Green is the color. Community is green. What is green? Balance.
Prover 1: Parrots and Vets.. That two creatures can have similar trauma and come together, so beautiful. Sweet. A parrot and a man and they come together to heal each other; amazing and awesome.
Prover 3: Lanthanide quality because Scholten says they are in plants; he doesn’t understand actinides because he himself is in this line and he cant see it. He needs an actinide!.
Prover 1: I told Jan he needed Plutonium. You don’t want to or can’t see what you’re in.
Prover 3: We can see it because we have four eyes. We started with Placenta today. Before Placenta we proved Plutonium and after we proved Uranium.
Placenta__Uranium__Plutonium.
Prover 1: and the woman [from my vision] is here.
Prover 3: Plutonium is a strong remedy for C sections with a special combination of symptoms-- c section, night terrors, spastic bronchitis, croup. Placenta and plutonium are also a combination….
Prover 2: Tremendous pressure around my whole head… Birds lead with their heads.
Prover 1: I feel like my breasts have doubled in size, growing.
Prover 2: We were talking about having voluptuous breasts when nursing.
Master Prover arrives.
Prover 3: The Master comes late….
C2
Prover 1: When I got verklempt about parrots and vets… when I was in NYC a couple of years ago visiting my son, it was November, in the high 40’s, 50’s. There was a parakeet sitting in the tree soaking wet. There was nothing I could do about it; I knew it would die. I couldn’t do anything. I still think about it.
Prover 3: I need freedom. Don’t press me. No one press me.
Prover 1: [To Prover 3] I wanted to hold you. For me it was nurturing.
Prover 3: I feel good, free, I can be like I am. The problem is: I need freedom.
Prover 1: In this place this woman allows everyone to have their autonomy.
Prover 3: I have a picture of my birth. My mother has 4 children. I am the youngest. 750 am. It started in a good way. Midwife stayed around for a few hours afterwards. Suddenly my mother hemorrhaged. [he chokes up.] I felt my mother would die. I lived and she lived. I am weeping with happiness. My aunt had come; she had dreamed my name. I already know he’s a boy and his name is F. I have a picture of my birth because my mother told me. I am moved by sadness and happiness.
Prover 1: Positive outcome, and that knowing, Your aunt knew.
Prover 3: In my clinical [perspective]…. The Plutonium state of my mother. Life-threatening situation and uterine bleeding. I had a case, bleeding, bleeding, low hemoglobin. They wanted to do surgery; plutonium stopped the bleeding. My own experience of my own birth.
Plutonium is most used around birth.
Prover 1: You were born at home?
Prover 3: Yes.
Prover 1: I had my children at home; not common in US. People think you’re crazy, that dangerous. My births were wonderful. When women come in and tell me their terrible stories, so much fear that doctors create in mothers. I feel so grateful that there was none of that energy in my births. It was loving and wonderful but I feel bad that many women’s experience is so bad….
Prover 3: [weeping] I think about the midwife. She saved my mother [weeps]. She helped all of my mother’s births.
I had the same feeling when my father died: love and gratefulness. Nothing else. A kind of sadness. When my father died it was a festival, he had a political connections; there were a lot of people.
Facilitator: What Prover 1 described; a woman being there for the village; that’s like your father.
Prover 3: You feel how esteemed father was. Father died 13 years ago and this is the first time I weep.
Prover 1: When I was feeling tearful earlier it was joyful. Tears were joyful; about the parrots and men with PTSD helping each other.
Prover 3: Plutonium is a good remedy in PTSD. Transformation. Eagles are powerful, also Plutonic. … I have never experienced such deep emotion in a proving, because I am a child. Now my mother is 85 and she is wonderful. She is so able to change. She got cancer a couple of years ago; she changed her life. My brother took over the farm. My mother resolved a problem with a daughter-in-law. I was so moved. She said to my mother in front of 50 people: “I am so happy I found a new relationship with you…” The family became harmonious. Tension had been in background. Cancer was connected. She had non Hodgkin, which is aggressive and is treatable with chemotherapy. The main remedy she was on was Uranium.
the same feeling: love and joy. Transformation and change.
[Life, death, rebirth.].
Prover 3: Last year in July…. My mother is a farmer’s wife but so open…at her birthday she invited family and friends. A friend of my wife’s is a well known artist in China. She attended the birthday party, and so did two Africans, two nuns… It was international.
Facilitator: family life.
Prover 1: We know your role.
Prover 3: Birth has to go by itself.
Prover 1: Terrible interventions cause many problems.
Prover 3: Positive side of Plutonium: Let it be on its own. 10 years ago I wanted to pull my wife into my homeopathic world. Plutonium. I recognized that I forced her too much. Stage 8; a strong force inside a couple. Let each other be.
Prover 1: This idea of birth…one of the reasons it went so well. I felt no pain. I went inside and I went with it. It was 5 hours for one son and 8 for the other.
Prover 1: When women go to a hospital [to give birth] they control the process to make it easier for them. They give women Pitocin to speed it up…. Baby’s heart rate drops because contractions are too strong, then a c section. They incite so much fear about birth.
Prover 2: Perfectly healthy babies; just leave them be.
Prover 1: We made a decision to do it at home and stay out of that system. We didn’t get them social security numbers because we didn’t want anyone messing with them. Midwife got the registration of birth.
Prover 3: Stage 8, transformation. Bad differentiation is better than no differentiation. Not too strict. Stage 9 is a kind of craziness.
Prover 2: Pressure up throat. Right ear is burning, and while head. Hot flashes, burning pressure.
Prover 3: I’m really astounded; [I thought this flower was] beautiful but not so useful.
Prover 1: Like a dumb blonde.
Prover 3: Then you [Prover 1] started in with the beautiful woman.. in the end I am the infant.
Prover 1: in the US this woman would not be considered beautiful. When you [Prover 3] saw this flower you thought “dumb blonde” …how could there be depth?
Prover 3: The beauty is inside, the beauty of my life… when I see the change between my mother and sister in law….
Prover 1: That’s where the beauty lives; love and relationship. Pretty stuff is pretty but real beauty is deep and is heartfelt.
Prover 3: When my father died it was a festival.
Prover 2: Celebrating death is a good thing.
Prover 3: I don’t know how long my mother will live… with my father I see in death how great he was. I can see it in my mother’s life now.
Prover 1: My father was a bastard. He had some good qualities but he was harsh. His greatest gift was his death. He dies of esophageal cancer. My mother, brother, sister and I were there. I was going back every weekend. I would always call and say “I’m on my way.” As soon as I got there he was on the way out. He was in his favorite chair, he looked so peaceful. He smiled and said I love you and then fell unconscious and died in a matter of hours. It was so beautiful. It was the sweetest. He died well. He was home and he showed us love and we showed it to him… it was such a gift. My mother brother and sister were a mess. They had a funeral and people came from all over and no one could say anything at the funeral. My husband stood up and gave the most beautiful eulogy. He was the one who got up, he knew him the least and was able to speak to people he didn’t know.[weeps]. It was the most beautiful point in my life in relation to my father.
My father was always dictatorial, bigoted, prejudiced. He would yell at my kids. I was 50 when he got sick. A month before he died …. He liked to have a Manhattan every night. I went to get ice and the tray fell. He screamed at me. I turned to him and said: I am 50 years old and you’re going to die soon. Stop yelling at me.
Prover 3: This reminds me of the change between my mother and sister in law. What is the clinical picture [of this remedy]? What is the problem?
The Problem: there is a block to love and gratitude.
When my father died, I got a call. In the newspaper, there was love and thankfulness.
Supervisor shares that the previous night Prover 2 and she had had a long conversation about their fathers’ deaths.
Prover 2: Parents couldn’t express love verbally but my father was warmer, more comforting and embracing. He nurtured. As he got older and saw his grandchildren being loved by his kids, he learned to say I love you. His death was beautiful too. Before he died he talked to people on the other side, to his best friend, to my mother. Transition. My father asked my husband, have you ever done this before? My husband said no…My father needed to make sure I was taken care of before he could die. He had dementia. I didn’t know if he knew that my husband and I were married. I was the baby. He had a really good transition.
Now I have pain up my Achilles tendon on the right side.
C3
Discussion of possible stages of this plant…. Stage 4? 6? 9? the facilitator says stage 9, almost there, a sense of finally, but something still lacking. In the stories it is 9, in the plant a 6.
Prover 3: Sudden fulfillment of love through death.
Prover 3: Story of my niece, she studied and didn’t want to sit for exams. You’re so good we’ll accept 80%. Stage 9.
Discussion of phases: 633.45.09. joy and love. Festival feeling at father’s death and mothers birthday party are suggestive of Subphase 5. Also the image of the woman in a very big parade. Positive outcomes.
Facilitator: Prover 3’s father was more 5 and mother more 4.
Prover 2: Cramps; below belly button. Sharp pain by right rib, right center of upper abdomen.
Discussion: what does the patient look like? What is the problem?
• they love each other but cant love each other.
• situation where you feel the love but you are put down or squashed, like Gaia.
• the actinide children, there’s no one there for them.
Prover 1: This is my own experience. When P did her astrological chart, she said to me, you have done it all alone. You’re forced to because you’ve got no one else.
Difference between a lanthanide and an actinide, lanthanide has to find autonomy and actinides are forced into autonomy.
Discussion: actinide experience and bird experience. Nest or not, flock or not. Children who live apart from parents. This remedy is for an actinide-y, bird-y person with a plant problem.
Supervisor: is there a connection to cancer in this remedy?
Prover 2: Uterine? I just got a cramp in my uterus.
Prover 1: An acute remedy for a woman stuck in transition (birth) or in transition to death.
All: The remedy is about transitions and transformations.
Prover 1: My image of the woman [from the beginning] is the remedy.
Prover 3: Becoming an infant in the proving is not my personal stuff. I miss nothing, lack for nothing. I’m autonomous. Maybe this remedy is a complement to an actinide state of autonomous being. Dying is an autonomous process. No fear. The plant looks autonomous, it grows in a group but is not connected.
All: The remedy could be used for the birth of a child where the infant is disconnected through parental absence or illness.
Needing to transform. Love is the transformation. They are feeling the love but not connected.
Prover 1: The wise woman is welcoming people to be autonomous and facilitating transformation through love.
Something huge is happening, not heavy and pressured. It feels big because life and death. What is creating the transition, transformation is a big thing, life, death, rebirth.
Prover 2: Fast cramps in uterus…cancer?
Provers sing “Let It Be…speaking words of wisdom…”.
Prover 3: My father in law suffered from esophageal cancer. They were in the hospital with their newborn son (the source of the placenta remedy!) Blood came out of his mouth. It was a dramatic situation. I gave him placenta; the bleeding stopped immediately. One week later he died peacefully.
This is a remedy for transition.
Prover 3: My mother changed through love; otherwise wouldn’t have survived cancer.
All: this could be a remedy for esophageal cancer, uterine cancer. Cancer as a result of blocked love.
Supervisor: I had uterine cancer last year, and survived it through undergoing a profound transformation. I experienced deep healing through love of friends and by going through an Afro-Caribbean healing ritual that opened me up to receiving the love that is all around me….I had been blocked. I had surgery and homeopathy only, and most importantly, I changed on a deep internal level.
All: The healing through this plant is to be autonomous and connected. Wisdom from behind you. It is about beauty and love in life and death situations.
Prover 3: My mother’s cancer. My mother decided to get radiation only. Cancer went away and then 4 weeks later it came back. an old friend of mine is an oncologist, he was great. Autonomy, we didn’t push my mother and she made the decision for additional treatment, a friend of hers supported her. Cancer and blocked love and positive outcome.
Prover 1: This is so stage 9; great outcomes. Not really challenging, not having to work hard. 7 is the beginning of 8; hard.
Prover 3: Love between parents and children is natural.