Peganum harmala
Peganum harmala, called Syrian rue is an interesting plant, introduced in homeopathy by Timofera Tirapolski in the year 2000. A lot of mythical stories about it, growing often on graveyards, containing hallucinogenic alkaloids, used as soma of huoma in ancient India and Persia. As a herb it stimulates the uterus and the digestive system, is anti parasitic, relieving pain, and in large quantities it is emetic and hallucinogenic (D. Bown). Cases can help us to make a good understanding of prooving symptoms, and to value or judge the interpretation, as well as the usefulness of it by a feedback.
Remarkable symptoms as ‘bewitched, delusions under powerful influence, the evil eye’, made it useful before and did well in a psychiatric case. Now the remedy is placed in the family of the Nitrariaceae, in the Sapindales.
The described cases can help us to determine or confirm the phases and stage. This cases confirm Phase 5 and suggest Subphase 6.
In the cases there are symptoms as ‘disconnection, with people and with self’, a feeling of ‘in between worlds’, fitting the MAO-inhibiting action of the drug.
The sensitivity to people, spheres, entities, energies fits the Malvales. Striking is the heaviness about that. More a feeling rather than a threatening as in Solanales, mostly in Nightshades it has to do with psychotropic visions and feelings. In Peganum harmala it is a sense, as in other Malvidae, they can use it if they are in good form.
Rage, outburst, breaking things in a remarkable way, dreams can be horrible, about death, about murdering. A drive to reach a goal. Ambition, a drive. Phase 5 aspects.
Energy low, worn out, disgust about self or being rejected, not accepted. All aspects of Phase 6 quality.
Nostalgic, holding in, retreating, loss of ambition, brooding points stage 13.
In other stage 13 case histories (of Holmium), words are used as: past the gloom, past the fight or ambition, memories, loss, resigned, broken resistance, lets leave it, and resembles this cases.
The violence was surprising, the best description for me was ‘volcanic’ rage or damage they have, it remembered me in literature at the book ‘Under the Volcano’. The author Malcolm Lowry, an alcoholic himself, let see us some interesting resembling between the remedy information of Peganum at one side, and the other side the presentation, the build-up, of the book and also the personalities, which can help us to remember many aspects of this remedy. First destruction and death. It is about loosing control, addiction, loosing love and ambition, most actors are artistic persons, actors in film, singer-songwriter, having spiritual aspirations, much reverences to literature and myths as Faustus and Oedipus. Lost ambition, followed by over- ambition of the writer. The philosophic build up and structure of the book is a balance of artistic and analytic about mans spiritual aspiration in life, about ‘idea’ and culture, full of symbols, allusions. Full of hallucinations and memories. As well as heaviness, addiction and destruction. Much similarities with the cases.
Confirmatory symptoms out of the proving:
anger after grief, break things desire to, codependency, ailments after death loved ones, delusion under powerful influence of evil eye or superhuman control, embarrassment aggravate, ailment grief, hatred, mortification, striking, dreams murder or pleasant or colorful, skin hairy, twitching, desire tobacco, blisters.