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The source of the remedy:
Cypripedium Calcicolus or Lady’s Slipper is an orchid. Considered the most beautiful of European orchids, it has a large flower for its size that attracts insects by its yellow, swollen and hollow slipper-shaped labellum [the plant is called “Sabot de Venus” in French, which translates into Venus’ hoof; Ed].
Orchids are full of contradictions. Of incredible fantasy and diversity, they are widespread everywhere, but remain
rare. They have their homeland everywhere but remain foreign everywhere. The flower sacrifices its stamens and transforms them into a floral piece. The shape of the flower is modelled on an animal shape [the “hoof” in French – see above; Ed]. An orchid never lignifies. Its purpose is the flower. Flowering is very long. Only pollination brings it to an early death.
They are never parasitized or poisonous. They are only there to be admired, to embellish the appearance of the world.
Remark: The female part is inferior, i.e. it is outside the flower and below it, well separated from it. In orchids, there is a twist in the threads of the female parts that rotates 180°. As a result, the flower points its upper part downwards and its lower part upwards. For example, a flower with a swollen and hollow lower lip (labellum), shaped like a slipper, first wears this slipper on its head like a strange helmet. During the twist, the helmet goes down and becomes a slipper.
The pathogenesis is very incomplete.
The complete extraction of Radar gives us one hundred and eight symptoms, 20% of which are related to insomnia. In the metals (42 symptoms) we can retain the agitation, especially at night, the screams and howls during sleep, the excitement, the irritability and the sadness, but also a desire to play, to scream and laugh, especially at night. Also note the prostration of the mind (only remedy) and general weakness after the flu, as well as a dull and deep pain in the brain during dentition (only remedy) with intestinal pain (only remedy) and heaviness and dragging sensation of the left foot after vertigo (only remedy).
Perhaps we can risk an analogy between the inversion of the slipper and helmet of the plant and that of the day and night of the patient?
Bibliography:
• Man and medicinal plants Volume 3 Pelikan
• Jacques Prat Cahiers Hahnemanniens n° 3 and 4 – 2002
• Clinical case - F. Van Oproy - Revue Belge Homéo - March 89
• Clinical case - A Doneux - CLH Review n° 31
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