Page 24 - Spring 19

How Big Is Your Holism? By Geoff Johnson, UK
A cow is stressed, hot, over-worked, over-fed and gets mastitis – fast, hot, red and painful. Of course we use Belladonna.
Then we may need the 'constitutional remedy' to finish the case. Calc carb would be likely, as it follows a Solanaceae state well, and is ideal for a big, bony, milky, mild and
gentle beast.
Then we must take into account the aetiology – the previous and present abuse. This is clear in the Proving of Lac defloratum, with dreams and sensations of being pursued, being beaten, losing children and parents and the need for community. It also
has the strong physical 'Head bursting pain as if forced asunder' – maybe as the bullet crashes in at the end of her life? Maybe every cow needs a dose of lac-d every year? Is that our biggest holistic picture?
Actually no. The cow is a prey animal that lives in a herd. Studying the milk remedies we discover that a central essence for these prey animals is 'I must sacrifice my identity for protection'.
Those who treat whole herds discover that the mental state and health of the farmer is an important factor in the history taking, and hence we need the farmers remedy for all the cows.
Wait! The farmers themselves are living in a world, where it is perceived to be OK that they are the instruments for enslaving
and killing a sentient fellow mammal. Would Anacardium help prevent such cruelty? Should we put 1M into all the reservoirs on earth? Would that address the cause? I think not.
We must treat the disease of human society as a whole, which is disconnection,
the opposite to unconditional love - fundamental to all humans. This is what we should receive from our mothers. However unconditional love is so often missing, leading many humans to seek to obtain it from other sentient fellow species – eg dogs and cats.
We must treat the disease of human society as a whole, which is disconnection, the opposite to unconditional love...