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He’s called Black Demon... but he’s really a nice horse
Black Demon had been very well, headshaking 70% improved, skin much better, still a bit flaky but no more horrible eruptions, no need for blankets, no itching. He is more settled but he appeared to have lost a bit of it in the last 1-2 weeks.
Galeoc-c-h 10 M one dose
Mid October: he is doing very well, been team chasing and win- ning, less worried about going through gates. Headshaking 99% improved and skin shining for the first time in a long time. The owner also has seen him trotting in the field for the first time (normally he always galloped).
A year later, after the prescription, the improvement obtained is still there. No return of the skin problems and much more responsive to be ridden.
Discussion
When I make an extraction of the repertory, I find interesting ref- erences to time, to confusion when doing something, sensitive- ness (in relation to pain), many eruptions on the head/face and even tongue. There are also many confusing sensations (is hol- low, or in relation to voices). Pressure tends to ameliorate. (Black Demon needed to be able to count on the people around him.)
There are 100 different dreams out of 667 symptoms in the extraction. (There is one dream of repeating different scenes) A peculiar symptom: Mind; Fear of unable to reach his destina- tion (a physical sign according to Radar).
The tiger shark: acute eyesight and sense – a very good awareness of the world around him, eats anything it can find that has been dumped (litter) on the sea floor. He is accused of being one of the main killer sharks although there are very few reported cases, regardless of the fact that the shark is very present in shallow waters around the coats. He does not seem to make mistakes in regard to people when he has a go at eat- ing things.
A case by Catherine Sharfstein in Homeopathic LINKS of winter 2005 was titled ‘I want to be on top of the food chain.’ In my opinion this is the wrong title for the case and it certainly gives a wrong impression of this remedy. For me tiger shark is more assertive than aggressive. In the text of the case we can read that this wanting to be on top of the food chain is actually relat- ed to the fact that this patient hated having the feeling to be held back: something that is holding him down. Wanting to be on top of the food chain appeared to be his way of explaining on how he wanted to overcome this feeling of being held down.
The numerous references to time, not being able to focus on the job at hand in the proving confirms this important aspect of the remedy.
Putting these three sources of information together I would propose as dynamic for this remedy the following: it is as if this remedy has all the capabilities of being a good member of soci- ety but a certain form of clumsiness, an instinctive drive to keep going (shark), a heightened awareness makes their integration difficult: he cannot help it. Something is holding him back, or he cannot cope with the sensation of something that is holding him back.
It is important when one studies a remedy not to fall in the trap of a Paracelsus-like analysis and think of a remedy like tiger shark having shark like nature of being ruthless or other qualities we associate with sharks. It is what is peculiar, strange about the substance that will help in better understanding the remedy. By looking for what is present in the proving, the pub- lished cases and what is peculiar about the substance we can make an attempt to discover the dynamic of the remedy. (See the work of Mark Brunson.)