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Cuprum and Row 4 by Geoff Johnson (UK)
Testudo of Ancient Rome
Patients needing a remedy from Row 4 have issues about safety and security. Security can mean the family around you, your guard dog, your house, kennel, job, role, position, pension or money. We are kept secure by law and order, the police, police dogs, the courts, the prisons and the army. Sudden change is a threat to the established order. Rules are here for our and everyone’s safety and should be obeyed.
The development and subsequent loss of security is beautifully demonstrated as we move across the row.
Consider the oyster. This is an animal so vulnerable that we eat it without even needing to chew. Without that big clumsy shell, attached so firmly to the rock, it is utterly defenceless. The house is so important, and the idea of anything coming in uninvited provokes a pearl. Calcarea has a fear of mice and birds because they are small enough to get inside the house.
Move across to column 6 – chromium. We are past the indecision of row 5 and ready to protect ourselves, maybe others and certainly bicycles. It is a showy shiny protection, hiding a lack of confidence. At column 8 we reach the testudo of ancient Rome. Iron makes our swords and shields carried by the red-blooded soldier, stalking through the darkness sensitive to the slightest crackling of paper. All Row 4 has a sensitivity as if they were walking on egg shells. Iron also makes our locks and keys and gates, to keep the burglars out and the prisoners in. Now protection is strong and determined.
After the soldier, we need the policeman of cobalt and the judge of nickel – see Tim’s [Couzens] great horse cases. Column 10 sits at the top of the parabola, and can see equally left and right – a great position for a judge. Column 11 is just beginning to realise that security is transient, and could disappear. The reaction is to over-do and become a general, lest you become a lowly shop-keeper selling green vegetables.
Now move further to column 15 – arsenic.
This is the moment of redundancy – your world is collapsing in front of your eyes right now. However neatly you arrange your bones, it will not keep the chaos away. All that you built with such apparent confidence has gone. Selenium – lost it – did I need it? What do you think? Theorising like Sulphur directly above. Bromine – shall I let it all go, escape and move on without guilt?
So how does this look in the veterinary world? Just the same! Here are a couple of cuprum cases – just listen to the words. It is interesting to note the caring sympathetic side seen below. Cuprum is in the rubrics sympathetic, love for family, anxiety for others and duty – too much sense of. David Lilley feels that Cuprum is essentially female, analogous to Aphrodite. Cuprum is the blood of the molluscs, whose sensation of flowing versus stasis is the same as the sensation of progesterone and oestrogen.
CASE ONE
Oscar, 4 year old cocker male, castrated at 2 y/o to try to help with aggression problems.
The first prescription of testosterone was helpful, but Cuprum was the similimum. It does demonstrate the Row 4 qualities of testosterone – ’my role is to protect and provide’.
Brought by the wife – husband is very ill and been weak and in bed for some years. In the surgery he sat next to the owner whining slightly, not moving. After 5 minutes he started to explore, didn’t interact much, but happy with eye contact. He didn’t come to me, when I called him. Then he had another wander, and jumped up on the owner’s lap and gazed at me. Then he jumped down and had another wander.
“He is my brightest and cleverest dog. He looks at us so intently. If he is with my husband, he has perfect strength. He is a healing dog and has been here before. He has a high sense of right and wrong – the opposite to his brother, Rupert. If we tell Rupert off, so does Oscar. If he sees a dog on the beach, he goes forward and
snaps. He has bitten people twice, and will lunge at disabled people or hoodie wearers. He is really locked onto us, and is so loyal. He is with me all the time. He bit my husband last week, when he was grooming him and caught a knot. He reacts before thought. If he grumbles we put him in the kennel – he hates exclusion from the family. He hides things from us – especially the wife’s articles – he thinks hard, where he can put them, but it is not a game. He has a high sense of responsibility – his job is to look after us all. He thinks it is his job – he takes over to sort things out. He is very sensitive – his job is to look after the husband. He has a job and a purpose. He needs to use his brain, and sees danger everywhere, is wary, and works out what to do. It is all around my husband – Oscar protects him and settles on his chest. He is fiercely independent, loyal and has a huge sense of right and wrong. He is like a policeman. The most extraordinary thing about him is, he can heal my husband. He hates reprimand, and becomes insular, and then sits next to me to make up. He is sympathetic and intuitive and comes over quietly and puts a paw on my lap, if I’m upset. At training classes he is outside his comfort zone, with lots of bigger dogs, and looks to us for support and protection. He yawns a lot to relieve tension. He is jealous of Rupert He enjoys a stroke but is not a pest. With a stranger he is on guard, protecting. If we accept them then he is fine. He is like an animal, which controls its domain and its pack – yet also lacks confidence”.
When I examined him, he jumped and screamed and afterwards chewed his lead excessively.
Prescription: Testosterone 30 C.
Very much better for 3 months – relapsed – didn’t ameliorate with Testosterone 200 C. Changed to Cuprum M twice daily for 2 days.
One month later
“Thought it was about time for a report on the last treatment for Oscar. I gave it to him around
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