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more of a naivety in the left-side stages.
So with Katrina, we have a timid cat who hides in a box and avoids others; furthermore the others are not interested in her. She must then be towards the right or left, not in the center. Is she on the right? Holmium is withdrawn but cynical and bitter; Anne said Katrina was playful and rambunctious, so I did not think so. Similarly with Erbium and Thulium, her withdrawal did not have that feeling of loss of connection and the darker aspects of this feeling. On the left, however, we have Barium, Lanthanum, and Cerium. Lanthanum feels teased and mocked and bullied, but the cats did not bully her; they ignored her. Barium has the hiding and sense of powerlessness, so this was possible. Cerium has a fear of new things, and they are watchful, but they feel isolated, in a cocoon, and locked in. Could the small boxes she liked represent this? It seemed possible. But the next question is do we use Cerium metallicum or a salt of Cerium? The second element in a salt sort of represents how the individual reacts to the position of the first element. It may also show different aspects of the individual, things which don’t fit to the primary element. And from a practical matter, I had Cerium muriaticum, Cerium oxydatum, and Cerium phosphoricum on hand, so I decided to try one of these. As oxygen is stage 16, there is also a sense of being neglected or even an outcast, and I thought this could also fit her. Plus oxidation is involved with inflammatory processes. I sent her Cerium oxydatum 200C in
September 2013.
However, as Anne had been concerned
about the gum bleeding, I had suggested she try a dose of Nat mur 30C on Katrina while I researched this, knowing it would take a little time to get the remedy to her as she lives at a distance from me and remedies must be mailed to her. She gave the Nat mur on September 4th. Anne said she came out a bit more after the Nat mur but the mouth did not change, so she gave the Cer-ox on September 20th. By October first, she reported that Katrina was now “back to how she was when she first came:” chattering, chasing others, sitting on the refrigerator. So
she still sought safety, but was more sociable. Additionally, her mouth looked better already. The red areas were flattening and narrowing.
By November 12th, the mouth was better yet, although still a little red. We repeated the Cer-ox a couple more times over the next few months, and she improved a bit more, but not completely. The mouth still had a red line, and Anne needed to coax her out of the room but she would then stay out and be fine. We tried another dose of the Nat mur 30C, as this also seemed to bring her out a bit and I wondered how much this had helped, rather than the Cer- ox, but we saw no change; rather the gums got a tad worse. She also was hiding a bit more but would come out for food bribes. I decided to change the remedy, and I thought about Barium because of the hiding, but decided the improvement so far had been good, so I switched the salt, to Cerium muriaticum 200C, because the Nat mur had also touched her. Anne gave this on April 21st, 2014. By the end of May, the gums had improved a lot, especially on the right side; the left side was not quite as good but still much improved. By the end of June she was out of the room all the time, but the gums had not changed much, and might have slipped a bit. She still has fears, but she stays out of her room in the daytime. Anne says she is feral-like, and as she was a feral kitten who was trapped, wonders if this is part of her issue. She is “painfully shy.” We tried another dose of the Cer-mur 200C, and this again helped the gums but there was no more improvement in her fears. I decided to move to the 1M, which we gave on September 14th.
Even within four days, Anne saw some change; Katrina would come downstairs and be with the “group” more. And then by mid October, she was much better. Anne said “she is different,” with emphasis. “Her personality, there is this enormous shift. She is just different. She stands up for herself with Bob” (another cat who picks on all the cats). I even changed her name, to “Punky Brewster,” because she is so different. “She doesn’t seem so skittish and scared. And I decided the thing around the mouth just isn’t as big as it was.”
(She means the gums are better, not such a large red area, not much of a problem now). By November, she became a tad more timid and we repeated the Cerium muriaticum 1M, and she improved much more again, becoming “super affectionate, and she even cuddles with me at night. Even her mouth is a bit better. She seems to be doing well.”
Cerium, the metal, along with many of the lanthanides, has qualities of heat and phosphorescence, including being part of the “flint” in a cigarette lighter, and it can spontaneously ignite. It can also sometimes act as an anti-oxidation factor in chemical reactions, and when added to magnesium alloys it improves heat resistance. All of the lanthanides are frequently used in many technological applications, especially with electronics, computers, and mobile phones. As such they are a part of the modern world to a massive degree. Their development parallels our devolution into more syphilitic and cancer miasm pathologies as inhabitants of this world, although I am not suggesting there is a cause and effect relationship (although I also am not suggesting there is not!). But as a consequence of this temporal if not causative relationship, Scholten believes the lanthanide remedies are important for autoimmune diseases. This makes sense to me, but I would also wonder about the actinide series, which may be even more degenerative and syphilitic/cancer miasmatic remedies. Of course, this does not mean all autoimmune diseases require one of these remedies; rather I believe this case shows the potential validity of the assumption.
As well, it shows we might be wise not to ignore these remedies and the periodic table approach to remedy selection as a viable alternative to other methods. Ganga White, in his book “Yoga Beyond Belief,” said that an elderly Chinese teacher once told him, “If I teach you, you must stand on my shoulders.” Ganga explains: “We don’t throw away tradition: we stand on the shoulders of the past to find out how we can see a bit farther.” T
Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy 2015 Conference 12-14 June 2015, Sweet Briar College, Amherst, Virginia
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