4. Sorbus domestica
Names: Sorbus domestica.
Abbreviation: sorb-d.
English: Rowan tree, Quick-beam, Mountain-ash, Cowantree, Witchen, Witchwood.
German: Eberesche, Vogelbeere
Dutch: lijsterbes.
Botanical
Stage: 4
This remedy isn’t known in our Materia Medica, as is the case with many plants of the rose family, the Rosaceae. The English name is rowan tree or mountain ash tree. It’s a tree or shrub that produces a lot of orange berries in autumn.
Sorbus has the same love problems as the other Rosaceae. And with problems with heart and blood vesles. The special symptom is he can’t stand his wife being closed. Behind is he fear of being betrayed.
I once presented this case in a seminar where there was a homeopath married with a husband from Finland. She said that People from Finland have the tendency to tell nothing about other love affairs. In general they are already quite closed, but with love affairs this is even more extreme. And Sorbus is very common tree in Finland. They make a syrup from the berries, cautiously caring that poisonous seeds are separated from the berries. This syrup is often eaten with meat. In Finland Sorbus also has a connection with love. Near the coast is an island that’s full of the rowan tree and is called “rowan tree island”. Love couples go to the island for their love affairs. So the theme of taciturnity and love affairs is connected with the tree culturally in Finland.
It’s difficult to say which symptoms are real keynotes for Sorbus from only one case. But In a good case like this, many modalities and symptoms are keynotes for the remedy: a remedy can only cure what it can produce in a proving. So my ideas about that are as follows:
Mind
They have stepped into a marriage, but are astonished of how it’s going. They ask themselves if the relationship is all right, if there’s real love. This results in doubt about the marriage, if it’s a good one or not. They doubt if their husband or wife is really loving them, if they have married the right one, or if they are married at all.
The reason can be that the partner is silent, doesn’t speak about some important issues. The partner doesn’t want to talk. They have the feeling that a real love relationship should be an open one and that love can accept everything of the other: “love is all accepting”
Generals
Weather: < too hot.
Time: < 3 am (2), < 7 pm
Physical
Heart problems, pain, palpitation.
Palpitations, fast pulse, < lying left side.