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Samarium
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January 2021

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... 3

Samarium ..................................................................................................................................................... 5

Samarium metallicum................................................................................................................................. 5

Essence: ................................................................................................................................................... 5

Series-Stage ............................................................................................................................................ 5

Analysis .................................................................................................................................................... 5

Characteristics of Mind........................................................................................................................... 6

Mind .......................................................................................................................................................... 7

General ..................................................................................................................................................... 7

Physical .................................................................................................................................................... 7

Symbolism................................................................................................................................................ 8

Samariums ................................................................................................................................................... 9

Samarium carbonicum ........................................................................................................................... 9

Samarium fluoratum............................................................................................................................. 10

Samarium muriaticum .......................................................................................................................... 11

Samarium oxydatum ............................................................................................................................ 13

Samarium phosphoricum ..................................................................................................................... 14

Samarium sulphuricum ........................................................................................................................ 15

CHEMISTRY.................................................................................................................................................. 17

Periodic Table of Elements and the concepts............................................................................................. 19

MATERIA MEDICA ....................................................................................................................................... 21

Samarium metallicum: ............................................................................................................................ 21

CASES .......................................................................................................................................................... 33

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Samarium metallicum proving ................................................................................................................ 33

Samarium carbonicum; Chest pains, Migraines, Chronic fatigue syndrom ............................................ 42

Samarium muriaticum: A case of a woman with menopausal problems ............................................... 44

Manganum, Samarium oxydatum case .................................................................................................. 46

Samarium sulphuricum and rheumatoid arthritis .................................................................................. 49

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Samarium
Samarium metallicum

Samarium's quality is heaviness. All the Lanthanides are heavy, but Samarium is
extremely heavy. It's as if they carry the burden of the whole earth on their shoulders.
They carry on doing things against all resistance and pain. They are real builders. The
heaviness and pressure expresses itself strongly in migraines. Samarium is the most
pronounced migraine remedy of the Lanthanides.
Essence:
Forcing to become independent

Series-Stage
Lanthanide 6a autonomy; self, own; deep; control, power, spiritual; vision
series

Stage 8 pushing, persevering; forcing; massive, huge; inertia, resistance.

Stage 8 has those typical aspects of overwhelming struggle that overtakes one completely.
Moreover, in general one can see that the even Stages have more of a struggle aspect. The odd-
numbered Stages are more easy going or have seduction as a theme. Birds are a symbol of
the Lanthanides. Hard work and enduring are typical themes of Stage 8.

Analysis
Forcing to become independent
Building independence and freedom
Pressure to gain freedom
Concentrated constructive power
Realizing autonomy
Working hard for autonomy
Lonely fight for freedom
Pressure of freedom
Working hard to become free
Being a savior involves hard work
Creating something big yourself
Heavy task of spiritual development
Opposed in their quest
Forcing self-control
Forcing spiritual development
Achieving spiritual development

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Lonely builder
A fighting therapist

Characteristics of Mind
Forcing to become independent
They have the feeling that they have to do a lot in order to keep their independence.
They work under pressure for the benefit of others. This leads to even more pressure
and tension than in the other Lanthanides. They have the feeling that there’s still so
much to do. They have an enormous power that they can use to create something big.
They are real constructors, both in the physical world and in the psychological world.
They can push through even when the task looks impossible or Herculean.

Heavy task of spiritual development

The pressure can also be a kind of feeling that they want to develop spiritually but they
don’t have enough time left in life to do it.

Opposed in their quest

They often feel opposed and obstructed in their goal. People don't seem to see the
value and benefit of what they are creating and even see it as threatening. The
opposition is often felt as criticism and it feels harsh as they are trying as hard as they
can to do good for humanity. It feels like being hit by the arrows of the Stymphalean
birds. But they keep going on and not giving up, even against all odds. They mostly
work on their own, seeing this as their quest, their own personal choice in life. And
everyone is free to do the same or something else, so they won't try to force others.

Forcing spiritual development

They can experience a desire for spiritual development. They want to be able to control
themselves. But they tend to do it in a forceful way. It looks as if they want to reach
liberation in a few weeks. They force themselves to be free, free in the outside world
and in their inner world.

Autonomy
For Samarium autonomy is a major struggle. They feel attacked in their autonomy
from all sides and have to be on guard all the time. They have to fight to gain their
autonomy.

Shadow
It becomes even worse: to conquer the shadow one has to endure hardships. In the
labors of Heracles the fight with the Stymphalean birds is the first where he is injured

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and wounded by the bird's arrows. Heracles endures and keeps on fighting as if he
hasn't felt anything. Here we can grasp the idea that one has to give up things in order
to conquer the shadow.

Power
Samarium exerts really significant power under pressure. They build and realize big
things with their continuous exertion of power.

Mind
Do-gooder, starry-eyed idealist.
Builder of an ideal world.
Pushing through ideal and visionary images.
Indomitable, uncompromising.
Build Delusion: he’s stupid to let himself be blocked and carry everyone.
Being locked in all the tasks taken on.
Profession: constructor, builder.
Myth: Heracles fighting the `Stymphalean birds.
Myth: The Good Samaritan.

General
Sweat: copious << night.

Physical
Migraine (3).
Medial muscles of the eyes; glaucoma.
Lungs: granulomas, pneumoconiosis, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis.
Chest pressure, very heavy.
Liver pain, the pain spatially having the form of an old fashioned key.
Liver problems: necrosis, fatty degeneration; spleen problems.
Colitis, diarrhea.
Kidney problems.
Male: testis, epididymis, seminal vesicles, infertility.
Female: ovaries, uterus, infertility, miscarriage. Birth expulsion difficult.
Arthritis.
Blood: platelets, coagulation problems.

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Symbolism
Myth: Heracles Labor 5: Heracles kills the Stymphalean Birds.
Myth: The good Samaritan.

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Samariums

Samarium carbonicum

Series -stage
series stage Samarium fluoratum

Samarium Lanthanide 6a 8 Forcing to become independent

Carbon Carbon 2 10 The final theme is that of the father figure

Concepts
Realizing autonomy to get self-worth
Working hard for values gives freedom
Working hard to get values or freedom
Working hard to get values and freedom
Working hard to find inner values
Working hard for spiritual development
Working hard to be respected as an independent person
Father works hard to establish independence
Pressurized by father to be autonomous
Realizing freedom through father
Realizing freedom through God
Father is a hard-working therapist

Characteristics-mind
Realizing autonomy to get self-worth
Autonomy and self-worth are strongly connected for them. It can be difficult to combine them.
They have the feeling that it will be a lot of work before they can have both independence and
self-worth. They must achieve a lot before they can be autonomous and thus can be respected
as a person. Or they have to work hard for their freedom. They achieve a lot through their hard
work but it gives them the feeling of being under pressure, as if they don't have time enough to
get all the work done.

Working hard to find inner values

They can also experience a desire for spiritual development. Then they also have the feeling
that they have to work hard for it. They feel that their self-worth cannot depend on something
superficial, but has to be found somewhere deep in their soul. Real self-worth can only be

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grounded in the deepest core of their being but it's hard work to achieve that. They can go into
religious groups where they work hard for others. Saving other people can become a means to
liberation. In the end it can be felt as if freedom can only be realized through God.

Father works hard to establish independence

Their father is often also working hard for his freedom. He can have the idea that only hard
work can bring autonomy. Realizing money and possessions can be seen as a form of
independence. But their father can also be working hard in a psychological or spiritual field to
achieve inner freedom.

Their father can also press them to become autonomous, He can put a lot of pressure on his
children to become autonomous. As a consequence they can do the same to their own children
as a father. Or they see autonomy as such an important thing that they work hard to give their
children the means to become independent, by possessions or education.

Samarium fluoratum

Series-Stage
series stage Samarium fluoratum

Samarium Lanthanide 6a 8 Forcing to become independent

Fluorine Carbon 2 17 letting go of personality and values

Analysis
Working hard to be independent and free from taboos
Struggling for freedom and self-respect
Realizing autonomy in the world of glamour
Realizing autonomy as a rejected child
Lonely struggle against crime
Lonely fight for autonomy and moral freedom
Being rejected in their lonely hard work
Realizing self-control in order not to feel bad
Struggling to give away all possessions
Spiritual pressure to let go of taboos

Characteristics of MIND

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Working hard to be independent and free from taboos
They work hard to become autonomous and free from taboos. They feel the pressure of morals
in society and want to get rid of taboos. They can have a strong sexual drive and they find it
difficult to express it in a world full of repression. But it's a lonely fight for autonomy and moral
freedom. They have to do it on their own, which gives them the feeling of being an outcast.
They feel rejected in their lonely, hard work. They can also start fighting against crime, to free
the world from amorality.

Struggling for freedom and self-respect

They have to fight for their self-respect and the respect of others. They often feel treated like
someone bad. They cannot stand criticism because that triggers their feeling of being a bad
person.

Realizing autonomy as a rejected child

As a child they were often rejected. Their father or mother can have left them or given them up
for adoption, because they themselves had problems with drugs or crime. Or their father
treated them as a bad person, as someone that should be totally rejected. They developed a
contracting power. They retired completely inside of themselves, building a wall around
themselves. As they couldn't fight as a child, they concentrated their power inside to give it
form later in life. They will show that they have an enormous power to build things on their own
and that will show that they are not bad. They can realize their autonomy in the world of
glamour.

Realizing self-control in order not to feel bad

In later development they can go into self-control. They struggle to be free in their mind, free
from selfishness and rules or taboos. They can go into spiritual groups where they struggle with
their sexuality. They struggle to show that they're not selfish by giving away all their
possessions. They can build huge things in order to show for themselves that they are not bad
as a person.

Samarium muriaticum
Samarium muriaticum seems to be the most common of all the Lanthanides in our culture.
The combination of struggle, autonomy, care and mother seems to be frequent.

SERIES-stage
series stage
Samarium Lanthanide 6a 3(8) Forcing to become independent

Chlorine Silicon 3 17 letting go of relationships: splitting up

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Analysis
Realizing autonomy and real care
Realizing that independence is needed for real care
Combining care and independence is a struggle
Working hard to show that care is essential
Difficult to combine independence and feeling pitiful
Their mother presses them to become autonomous
Working hard or else their mother prevents freedom
They work hard in order not to be dominated by their mother
Mother works hard to achieve self-control
Mother works hard for freedom
Their mother works constantly to control her shadow
Pressurized to care in the spiritual world
Deep care can only be found in the spiritual world

CHARACTERISTICS OF MIND
Realizing autonomy and real care
They want to realize autonomy and real care. But it's a struggle to find space for both. Being a
mother can take so much time and effort that they have to struggle to find their independence.
They see that independence is needed for real care. They work hard to show that care is
essential in the world and that children and others need it to become free individuals. They
know it has no effect to be full of self-pity about their mothering work because that will make
them dependent. They can only work hard on their own and fight against their self-pity.

Their mother presses them to become autonomous

They can have a mother that has pressed them to become autonomous. Their mother can have
felt on her own caring for her children, as not being able to follow her own life, not having a job
to develop herself. And thus she pressurizes her children to have an education and a good job
to be independent. But the pressure from their mother can also be a hindrance to their
becoming autonomous as they have to follow their mother. It can become hard work not to be
dominated by their mother. Or their mother asks them later in life to care of her when she
becomes ill and handicapped. By pitying herself she demands attention from them. They feel
they cannot deny their mother as she has taken care of them, but combined with their own life
it's a struggle which puts their freedom in danger.

Mother works hard to achieve self-control

Their mother is often a strong person who has built up a lot and has worked hard for her
autonomy and freedom. She had good insight and was clever, but had to struggle to find space
for her personal and spiritual development.

Pressurized to care in the spiritual world

They can also struggle for self-control or spiritual development. They have the idea that deep
care can only be found in the spiritual world.

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Samarium oxydatum

Series-Stage
series stage Samarium Oxydatum

Samarium Lanthanide 6a 8 Forcing to become independent

Oxide Carbon 2 16 living on property and possessions: selfishness

Analysis
Working hard to be independent with your handicaps
Struggling for freedom and self-respect
Realizing autonomy as a neglected child
Working hard for freedom to prevent being abused
Lonely struggle against corruption
Lonely fight for freedom from abuse
Being abused in their lonely hard work
Working hard to be free from debts
Working hard to be respected as an independent person
Working hard to avoid being corrupted spiritually

Characteristics of Mind
Working hard to be independent with your handicaps
They have the feeling that they have to work hard and constantly in order to be independent.
This is the more so because they have handicaps that make it even harder for them to reach
autonomy. They won't give up and will keep going on. This will put them under pressure, as if
they don't have time enough to achieve what they want. Their handicaps can be real in the
form of missing limbs or poor bodily functions. Or the handicaps can be in the form of lacking
resources and debts. They cannot stand debts and will work hard to redeem them.

Realizing autonomy as a neglected child

Their attitude of hard working can come from a childhood where they were neglected as a
child. They felt not respected and sometimes even despised. Thus they came to the conclusion
that only autonomy can give them respect. Real autonomy is connected with freedom of debts,
be it in the form of money or psychological. They work hard to achieve their freedom so that
cannot be abused any more.

Working hard to avoid being corrupted spiritually

In later phases they feel the need for inner development. They start working hard to gain

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control over themselves. This is often out of fear of being corrupted. They put themselves
under pressure to control themselves all the time because they fear that if they don't look out
for a moment their desires and instincts can be stronger than their self-control. They have the
feeling that they have to control the shadow and ugly parts of their psyche.

Samarium phosphoricum

Series-Stage
series stage
Samarium Lanthanide 6a 3(8) Forcing to become independent

Phosphorus Silica 3 15 Spreading the word, communication.

Analysis
Working hard to achieve deep contact
Friends work hard for their freedom
Friends work hard to achieve self-control
Combining friendship and independence is hard work
Friends press them to become autonomous
Siblings work hard for their freedom
Siblings work constant to control their shadow
Pressurized to make contact with the spiritual world
Studying hard to achieve independence
Lonely builder of communication systems
Forced to be an independent thinker

Characteristics Of Mind
Working hard to achieve deep contact
They have the need for deep contact and essential communication with friends and
people but they have to work for it the hard way. They feel the pressure of achieving
that kind of contact. They have an aversion to superficial communication and small talk.
They can be like a lonely builder of communication systems.

Combining friendship and independence is hard work

It can be difficult to combine friendship and freedom. They can have the feeling that if
they will go their own way, that friends will leave them. It feels like hard work to

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convince friends that independence is a benefit for friendship, that it will make
friendship deeper and more lasting and real.

Friends work hard for their freedom

They often have friends that have to work hard to reach their independence. Friends
are under pressure to become autonomous, financially or psychologically. Siblings and
friends work hard to achieve self-control and not become a victim of their shadow.
Siblings can be in spiritual groups where they work hard for others.
They can also be pressed by siblings and friends to become independent. Friends see
autonomy as very important and keep stressing that to them.

Pressurized to make contact with the spiritual world

They can feel the pressure to go into the inner world, the spiritual world. They have the
idea that only their real friends can be found, or they look for real friends in churches,
spiritual groups and sects.

Studying hard to achieve independence

They can be under pressure from school or university to become independent.
Education and learning are seen as a means to become autonomous. They can feel
forced to be an independent thinker.

Samarium sulphuricum

SERIES-stage
series stage
Samarium Lanthanise 6a 3(8) Forcing to become independent

Sulphur Silica 3 16 seduction of relations: partner

Analysis
Working hard to achieve deep love
Working hard to show that love is essential
Struggling for independence and love
Husband works hard for his freedom
They work hard in order not to be dominated by their husband
Spouse works hard to achieve self-control
Realizing that independence is needed for real love
Combining love and independence is hard work

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Their wife presses them to become autonomous
Their wife works constantly to control their shadow
Pressurized to love the spiritual world
Deep love can only be found in the spiritual world
Difficult to combine the pressure of achieving and laziness

Characteristics Of Mind
Combining love and independence is hard work
They want to attain both independence and love but they have the idea that that's difficult to
achieve, that it will be hard work. They struggle to realize freedom and the struggle to attain
love is even harder because they prefer to be lazy. They keep putting themselves under
pressure in order to feel loved.

Husband works hard for his freedom

They can have a husband or wife that works hard to achieve independence. Their husband has
to work hard for it, under pressure, but he can do it. He has a real struggle for self-control. He
can work so hard that it becomes a struggle for the couple to have time for each other. This
can lead to problems in their marriage because they feel there's no time for love.

Their wife presses them to become autonomous

It can also be the other way around, that their husband presses them to become autonomous.
He struggles on their behalf or lets them struggle for their independence. He has the idea that
they need to be free in the outer world or in their inner world. In that sense he can even
become like a kind of pushy therapist for them.

Deep love can only be found in the spiritual world

In later development they realize that real autonomy can only be achieved when they are
autonomous in their mind. They want to sort out all the inner drives to find out what's within
them and what comes from other people especially their lover or spouse. Sorting this all out is
hard work. It's so much a struggle that they put themselves under pressure in order to feel they
can make it in time. Their struggle is needed because they know that to feel real love they have
to be free in their inner world. They can even have the idea of bringing love into the world by
making everyone free.

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CHEMISTRY

Samarium is a rare earth metal, with a bright silver lustre, that is reasonably stable in air; it ignites in air at
150°C. Three crystal modifications of the metal also exist, with transformations at 734 and 922°C,
respectively.

Uses
1. Carbon-arc lighting for the motion picture industry (together with other rare earth metals).
2. Lasers; Doping CaF2 crystals for use in optical masers or lasers.
3. Samarium oxide is used in optical glass to absorb infrared light.
4. Samarium compounds act as sensitizers for phosphors excited in the infrared.
5. Magnets: SmCo5 is a strong magnet, 20 MGOe, the most used magnet in small electric motors, walkman,
sensors. Samarium-Cobalt magnets; SmCo5 is used in making a new permanent magnet material with the
highest resistance to demagnetization of any known material, and an intrinsic coercive force as high as 2200
kA/m.
6. Magnets: Sm2Co17 is a strong magnet, 30 MGOe, but is more expensive.
7. Alloys and headphones.
8. Samarium oxide is a catalyst for the dehydration and dehydrogenation of ethanol.
9. Neutron absorber in nuclear reactors.

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Elements Table Compounds REMEDIES
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18

R1 H He

R2 Li Be B C N O F Ne

R3 Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar

R4 K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr

R5 Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe

R6 Cs Ba La* Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn

R7 Fr Ra Ac**

R6a *Lanthanides> Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu

R7 **Actinides > Th Pa U Np Pu <

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Periodic Table of Elements and the concepts
The periodic system is a table of all existing elements, the atoms, from Hydrogen to Plutonium.
It includes the radioactive elements, such as naturally occurring Uranium and highly radioactive
Plutonium, a product of Uranium. This concept shows that every row and every column has a
specific theme. The 7 rows and 18 Columns have specific themes and concepts. The rows
depict seven levels in Human life from a free soul, birth, growth to death.

Rows -SERIES

Series Name what Life Elements

1 Hydroge theme of coming into being. Soul

n

Being, Incamation, Symbiosis, Conception & Hydrogen >

experiencing; timeless, spaceless; union. Unborn Helium

2 carbon the theme of the development of the ego Birth

identity, I; vitality, lust; money; value, Child, Body Lithium >

worth, good and bad; touch. Neon

3 Silicon the theme of relationships Growth

relationship, spouse, friends, siblings; Friends, and Sodium >

contact, talk, communication; love and hate; Teenagers Argon
taste.

4 Iron theme of work Work and Money

community, village; work, duty; routine, Youth Adulthood Potassium >

normal. Krypton

5 Silver theme of creativity Creation, fame

society, culture, ideas; arts, science; ripe Middle age Rubidium >
age; elite, special, wonder; hearing. Xenon

6 Gold the theme of the king, the leader Authority, power

world; power; leader; responsibility; heavy, elderly Cesium >

noble; vision Radon

Lanthani autonomy; self, own; deep; control, power, Lanthanum-

6a de spiritual; vision Lutium

7 Uranium End of life Decay

universe; magic; destruction; intuition Old age Francium >

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Plutonium

Columns- Stages
The columns of the Periodic table are called Stages and numbered from 1 to 18, starting from left to
right.The theme of the each series is depicted in eighteen stages. They are called stages because they are
stages in each series of life. These Stages reflect the process of life, coming into existence, to full
expression and then disappearing again leading to the next level. Each stage describes a theme, starting.

rising, coming to a peak and then declining to a loss and isolation. The stages in each series relate to the
miasms from Acute to the Syphilis.

Stage 1 start, begin; spontaneous, impulsive, unpredictable, manic; naive, childish, foolish.

Stage 2 observing, observed; timid, shy; passive, refusal; adapting; bewildered, overdone.:

Stage 3 searching, comparing; trying; understating; uncommitted.

Stage 4 deciding, staring, founding; committed; unsure; amased.

Stage 5 careful; unsure; preparing; avoiding, postponing; unsurmountable.

Stage 6 proving, challenge, daring; danger; inevitable; forcing; hiding.

Stage 7 learning, training, adding; complimenting; helping; together.

Stage 8 pushing, persevering; forcing; massive, huge; inertia, resitance.

Stage 9 examination, test; approval; call off; second, almost.

Stage 10 success, top, summit, glory; rigid, fixed.

Stage 11 maintaining, sustaining; benevolent, sharing; affluence, fortune.

Stage 12 defending; attacked, threatened, enemies; threatening, overdoing, exaggerating.

Stage 13 retiring, retreat, withdrawn; suspicious; nostalgia, homesick; moldy.

Stage 14 diverting, avoiding; powerless; form, formal, mask, facade; discharged, dismissed.

Stage 15 forgiving; loss, end; burning; poisoning; sacrifice.

Stage 16 neglecting, neglected; ruin, ash; ugly, dirt, offensive; seducing; reconciling.

Stage 17 erased, abolished; end; rejected; outcast; stealing, crime.

Stage 18 pause, rest, inactive; nonreactive, latent; transformation.

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MATERIA MEDICA

Samarium metallicum:

[Stephanie Hile]
[Jan Scholten ]
experience extreme pressure and heaviness. They have to force their way through
life. They have amazing inner strength, and they will put incredible pressure on
themselves to get things done.
Their own expectations are the driving force. Their forceful attitude to life might
be expressed as ....
"You just have to get on with it".
"Lets get it done. Whatever it takes."
"Nothings gonna bring me down".
A typical Samarium dream is of driving at great speed trying to keep the car on the
straight and narrow.
They still feel that they have lots to do and that they will go far. The reward for
their struggle is independence and autonomy.
They have to get over, round or through every obstruction. Opposition is felt as
harsh criticism, in fact it can seem like everyone's a critic. Its easy to criticise, but
much harder to DO!
Provings often give a mixed bag of results. In Clinical trials the remedy is judged
to be suitable for the person, which means they will be sensitive to it and their
reactions will be good indicators of its therapeutic role.
One person who took part in an early proving seems to have experienced the
expected result with Samarium, which is a Stage 8 Lanthanide (autonomy/power)
Remedy:
"I feel self-confident and assertive. The sensation is that I am who I am."
Various others described feelings of "hindrances" or of "breaking boundaries"
which are, in general, typical of Stage 8 - the theme of "pushing through".

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[Margriet Plouvier Suijs MD]
Autonomous
Self: thinking, exploring, deepening, differentiating, discriminating, measuring.
Measure, count, know.
Self-reliant.
Thinking about morality.
Secret service: what is allowed? Moral feeling.
Stage 8: Force, push press, struggle, tension, strife, resistance, opposition, confront

[Jason-Aeric Huenecke/Lori Foley and Hannah Albert]

Is in column 8 (Ferrum column) of the Lanthanide row. It represents resistance
under the burden of the weight of the whole earth. The headaches in this remedy
are representative of the Lanthanides. They experience even more pressure and
tension than the other Lanthanides. They work under pressure for the benefit of
others.
They may feel opposed or obstructed in their goal.
They mostly work on their own, on their quest for spiritual development.
(Scholten)
Uses:
Carbon-arc lighting for the motion picture industry. Lasers. Samarium oxide is
used in optical glass to absorb infrared light. Used in magnets, SmCo5 is used in
making
a new permanent magnet material with the highest resistance to demagnetization of
any known material. Samarium is used in headphones and as a catalyst in
dehydration of ethanol.
(Scholten)
Samarium has the theme of “Good Samaritan” In their quest for enlightenment;
they also seek to assist others. They can fight and strive to care for others.
Within Samarium is the concept of endurance of hardship. They continue striving
even after being injured. The concept is they need to give up things to conquer the
shadow.

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[Scholten]
Dogooder, Struggle, Pressing, Hard, Migraine, Realize, Build

Stage 8.
Lanthanides.
Samarium's quality is heaviness. All the Lanthanides are heavy, but Samarium is
extremely heavy. It's as if they carry the burden of the whole earth on their
shoulders.
They carry on doing things against all resistance and pain. They are real builders.
The heaviness and pressure expresses itself strongly in migraines. The most
pronounced migraine remedy of the Lanthanides.
Forcing to become independent/Building independence and freedom/Pressure to
gain freedom/Lonely fight for freedom/Pressure of freedom
They have the feeling that they have to do a lot in order to keep their
independence. They work under pressure for the benefit of others. This leads to
even more pressure and tension than in the other Lanthanides.
They have the feeling that there's still so much to do. They have an enormous
power that they can use to create something big. They are real constructors, both in
the physical world and in the psychological world.
They can push through even when the task looks impossible or Herculean.
Concentrated constructive power
Realizing autonomy/Working hard for autonomy
Working hard to become free
Being a saviour involves hard work
Creating something big yourself
Heavy task of spiritual development
The pressure can also be a kind of feeling that they want to develop spiritually but
they don't have enough time left in life to do it.
Opposed in their quest
Forcing self-control/Forcing spiritual development/Achieving spiritual
development

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They can experience a desire for spiritual development. They want to be able to
control themselves. But they tend to do it in a forceful way. It looks as if they want
to reach liberation in a few weeks.
They force themselves to be free, free in the outside world and in their inner world.
Lonely builder
A fighting therapist
Forcing to become independent.
Heavy task of spiritual development
Opposed in their quest
They often feel opposed and obstructed in their goal.
People don't seem to see the value and benefit of what they are creating and even
see it as threatening. The opposition is often felt as criticism and it feels harsh as
they are trying as hard as they can to do good for humanity. It feels like being hit
by the arrows of the Stymphalean birds. But they keep going on and not giving up,
even against all odds.
They mostly work on their own, seeing this Sas their quest, their own personal
choice in life. And everyone is free to do the same or something else, so they won't
try to force others.

Mind: Do-gooder, starry-eyed idealist.. Builder of an ideal world.. Pushing through

ideal and visionary images.. Indomitable, uncompromising.. Build Delusion: he's
stupid to let himself be blocked and carry everyone.. Being locked in all the tasks
taken on.. Profession: constructor, builder.
Physical:
Migraine (3).
Eyes: Medial muscles of the eyes; glaucoma.
Abdomen: Liver pain, the pain spatially having the form of an old fashioned key.
Liver problems: necrosis, fatty degeneration; spleen problems.
Rectum: Colitis, diarrhea.
Kidneys: Kidney problems.
Male organs: testis, epididymis, seminal vesicles, infertility.
Female organs: ovaries, uterus, infertility, miscarriage. Birth expulsion difficult.

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Chest: pressure, very heavy.
Lungs: granulomas, pneumoconiosis, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis.
Arthritis.
Generals: Sweat: copious« night.
Labor: Blood: platelets, coagulation problems.
Myth:
Heracles. Labor 5: Heracles kills the Symphalean Birds.
The good Samaritan.

Themes - Mental
Balance, Confidence, Speaking Out
Balance, “Peaceful Sensations”
“I can do anything,” Optimistic, “Did I just take a smart pill?”
Speaking Out, “I spoke clearly and without apology”
Bodhichitta, Universal Love
Universal Love, “As if in love connected to all”
Light, “The warmth of the sun”
Humanity, Good Samaritan, Responsibility, Caring for children
Upset at Inhumanity, “Strongly adverse to negativity”
Burning Karma, Transformation
Burning Karma, Transformation
Grief, “My heart literally hurts,” “A great emptiness deep inside me”
Clarity vs. Confusion
Clarity, “I can see clearly it is her and not me”
“Noticing just what is in front of me,” Present moment, Timeless
Scattered thoughts, Confusion, “My thoughts scatter”
Desiring Order, Forcing an Ideal
Creating an Ideal, Oriental Influence, Order and Clean
Disgust at uncleanliness

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Duality, Light and Dark, Two Poles
Two poles, “There was a polarity in the remedy”
Uncovering the shadow, Battling the shadow, “I am some kind of demon hunter”
Seeing the Light and the Dark, “I have to embrace the darkness”
Hidden, a Veil between Me and Others
“What I Normally hide,” “My hidden nature”
A Veil, A Fog, “Not penetrating my bubble”
The Shadow, Guilt, Criminal Behavior, “I was being blamed for her death”
Magnetic Forces, Pulling, Superhuman Force
Magnetic Forces, Energy, “I am aware of the energy shifting”
Drawn Together, Magnet terminology, “Draws me back in”
A Superhuman Force, “It was an invisible force we were fighting”
Mystical, Synchronicity, Shamanic
Resistance
Stuck, Resistance, “A wall we run into again and again”
Heavy, Pressure, “Obstacles in my way” “No resilience”
Adverse to Rigidity, “I don’t understand why they have this principled rigidity”
Nostalgia, Stuck in the past
“Just when I think symptoms are fading, more comes”
Separation, “A Distance,” Isolation

Separation, “A distance,” Isolation

“The real world holds me back”
Autonomous, “She is more a part of the circle on her own”
Irritation, “Send them to the moon”
No Libido, No exercise
Universal Flow, Freedom, Nature
In the flow, “Connected to something greater”
Everything is easy, Effortless, “Even keeled”

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Letting go (of fear), “Throwing caution to the wind”
Freedom, The freedom to explore themselves
The Force of Nature, “A large wave of water coming towards the house”
Water, “All my dreams happening near water”

Repertory:
Mind: Absentminded./ Abstraction../ Accident prone../ Ailments from being
forced../ Ambition../ Anarchist - revolutionary.. /Anxiety (# cheerfulness/#
contentment/when in company/on waking)/Fear [of accidents/”As if threatened by
some fatal accident”/accidents happening to friends/of apoplexy (with
palpitation)/of impending danger/of death/of impending disease/of driving a car (in
the snow)/something will happen/heart will stop/of embracing life/of people (yet
fear of being alone)/of poverty/of strangers/sudden/of suffocation/of work]/fearless
Desires to attack others
Avarice.. /Aversion to certain persons.. /Awareness heightened.. /Awkward
Benevolence.. /Busy
Censorious (disposition to be faultfinding or silent).. /Cheerful
Desire for cleaning.. /Colors - desires black (and white)/aversion to
bright colors/desire for gray/desire for purple
Company - aversion to.. /Computers - love for.. /Concentration - active/difficult..
/Want of self-confidence.. /Confident (feels safe to explore).. /Confusion (“As to
his identity”, sense of duality).. /Conscientious about trifles.. /Content (forgets all
his ailments and pains).. /Contradiction - intolerant of contradiction.. /Cowardice..
/Cursing (desire to curse)
Dancing with marked sense of rhythm.. /Death - desires.. /Delusions: body
wrapped/will be caught/heavy black cloud enveloped her/impression of danger/of
distances/division between himself and others/being double/.. /pulled downward/of
emptiness/eyes connected directly to her heart via a strong, muscular
chord/floating/is forced/two steel hands holding her head/head (is divided/.. /would
fall off/going to have a heart disease and die/is invisible/is a magician/.. /being in
two places at the same time/is poor/pulled backward/pulled inward, into a little
ball/pursued/is separated from the group/is tall/time seems earlier/is trapped.. /(in a
magnetic field)/believes in witches.. /Destructiveness.. /Detached (“As if observing
from outside/”As if detached”).. /Determination.. /Dictatorial

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Distances inaccurately judged “As if in a dream” (in daytime/had dreamt
everything that happened during the day)
Dullness
Feeling at ease.. /Euphoria.. /Exertion - physical - desire.. /Expressing - cannot
express oneself/desires to express oneself.. /Fastidious.. /Fatalistic
Wants to fight
Forgetful (when hungry/of words while speaking).. /Forsaken feeling - sensation of
isolation.. /Remarkable freedom in doing what he had to do.. /Giggling.. /Grief..
/Harmony - desire for.. /Hates persons who offended him.. /Haughty.. /Feels
helpless.. /Homesick.. /Idealistic.. /Impatient.. /Inactive.. /Incarnation poor..
/Indignation.. /Industrious.. /Injustice, cannot support.. /< Interruption.. /Intolerant..
/Irresolute.. /Irritable - with inanimate objects/on waking
Jesting.. /Joy.. /Loquacious.. /Love - for children/exalted/for friends.. /Loyal (in
relationships).. /> magnetized (desires it).. /Manipulative.. /Meditating
(deeply/desire for).. /Memory weakness for expressing oneself.. /Mildness..
/Making mistakes in speaking (spelling9.. /Offended easily.. /Optimistic.. /Order -
desire for.. /Perfume - aversion to use it.. /Pessimist.. /Playful.. /Excited by power..
/Prostrated mind.. /Quarreling - aversion to.. /Quiet - wants to be
Rebellious.. /Religious affections.. /Responsebility - aversion to.. /Restless..
/Revolutionist.. /Rude
Secretive.. /Sensitive (to rhythm).. /Sentimental.. /Soliciting silence.. /Slowness -
sensation of.. /Spaced - out feeling.. /Speech - convinces/disconnected/forcible..
/Spirals - awe at.. /Spirituality.. /Striking (himself).. /Stupefied..
/Superstitious/suspicious
Temper tantrums.. /Tension, mental.. /Thoughts - persistent [desires them/one
thought excludes all others/expressions and words heard recur to his
mind)/profound/rapid/rush of].. /Time - slowly, appears longer; passes too..
/Timidity (in company).. /Tranquility.. /Telling the plain truth.. /Sensation of
unification.. /Verses - making.. /Weeping (cannot weep, though sad).. /Strong will
power/”As if has two wills”.. /Yielding disposition (child9

Vertigo : + dim vision.. /“As if floating”.. /< Lying down/sitting.. /“As if

everything were turning in a circle”
Head: Constriction.. /“As if cotton wool” below vertex.. /Formication on scalp..
/Fullness.. /Heat < during fever.. /Heaviness (head falls backward).. /< Injuries of
the head.. /Itching of scalp
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Pain - r./daytime/+ pain in nose/+ obstruction of nose/> binding/cutting/pressing >
eating/in forehead pulsating/increasing gradually/< before menses/.. /< motion/>
motion/< noise/occiput (r.)/piercing/pressing “As from a cap”/pulsating/sore (in
waves)/from spinning/in temples (r./cutting rhythmical/pulsating)/..
/lancinating with vertigo/from complaints of vision/in waves;
Pressure < on vertex.. /> Scratching.. /“As if head separated from body”.. /Shocks
electric-like
Temples; complaints of Tingling (in vertex)
Eye: Dry.. /Heavy.. /Itching.. /Lachrymation (during coryza) < from light..
/Photophobia (during headache).. /“As if tired”
Vision: Acute.. /Blurred.. /Bright.. /Illusion - halo of color pulsating to the rhythm
of music
Ear: Noises rhythmical - fluttering sounds/roaring/whirling.. /Pain - aching..
/Pulsation.. /“As if stopped” (l.)
Hearing: Acute/impaired
Nose: Congested sinuses.. /Cracks in nostrils.. /Discharge [clear/copious (from
posterior nares)/dripping/greenish/thick/yellowish green.. /Formication inside
nostril.. /Obstruction (+ coryza).. /Odors imaginary and real.. /Smell acute (for
perfumes).. /Sneezing (< strong odors).. /Snuffling
Face: Chewing motion of the jaw.. /Cracked lips.. /Color - bluish/grayish.. /Dry
lips.. /Numbness r... /Pain - l./aching/jaws/with numbness/< pressure/in sinuses
(frontal/l. maxillary)/in a spot.. /< pressure.. /Pulsation.. /Swollen l... /Tension of
skin of jaws.. /Twitching
Mouth: “As if cotton”.. /Dry.. /Lower gums; complaints of.. /Numbness..
/Complaints of soft palate
Teeth: grinding/sensitive tender.. /Taste: metallic (< cough)
Offensive
Throat: < during cough.. /Dry.. /Disposition to hawk.. /Inflamed (ext. to larynx)”As
if a lump”.. /Mucus.. /Pain [r. (tonsil)/pinching/stitching].. /Prickley.. /Scratching..
/Tension
External throat: Constriction.. /Itching in thyroid gland < during cough
Stomach: Appetite - diminished (evening)/increased/ravenous.. /Distension (< after
eating).. /Hardness.. /Heaviness.. /Indigestion.. /Nausea - (with anxiety)/ascending,
rising from below upwards/in waves.. /Pain - > lying down.. /Thirst/thirstless

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Abdomen: Distended < after eating.. /Flatuelence - obstructed (lower abdomen)..
/Heaviness “As from a stone”.. /Pain - ext. perineum/in gallbladder (cutting/region
of gallbladder)
Rectum: Constipation + stomach.. /Diarrhea < after rising.. /Flatus (offensive)..
/Pain - tenesmus.. /Stool: like (small)
balls/copious/long/narrow/mushy/pasty, papescent/small quantity/soft
Female organs: Pain “As if raw”
Leukorrhea - bloody/ropy, stringy, tenacious.. /Menses - changeable in
appearance/offensive (strong)/scanty.. /Pain - burning/cramping (< before
menses)/in uterus + pain in back.. /Perspiration.. /Sexual desire -
diminished/increased/wanting.. /Complaints of - Uterus/Vagina
Larynx and trachea: Inflamed larynx.. /Voice hoarse.. /Cough: Asthmatic..
/Constant.. /Deep (sounding).. /Dry.. /Loose (morning).. /“As from smoke in”
Trachea.. /Sudden in morning.. /Tickling (in throat/in throat-pit < warm room).. />
Vomiting.. /Weak
Expectoration: Difficult.. /Globular.. /Milky (slimy).. /Mucous
(tenacious/transculent).. /Tastes salty.. /Thick.. /Yellow
Respiration: difficult
Chest: “As from a ball” in heart.. /Breathing deep <.. /Clutching at heart and
palpitation.. /Constriction (+ “As if lump in throat”/”As from a band + yawning..
/Heart, complaints of the.. /Oppression (morning).. /Pain - + nausea/pressing in
r. axillae/heart (r./ext. l. arm/hysterical).. /Palpitation of heart.. /Perspiration
in axillae.. /Sensitive.. /Sensation in side of chest, “As if ribs were smashed”..
/Mammae swollen < during menses
Neck: “As if cold”.. /Itching.. /Pain - sore.. /Stiff.. /Tension
Back: Pain - l. (sore)/morning < rising/aching/dull/ext. arms/< sitting/aching <
sitting down/sore/< standing/> stretching.. /Perspiration.. /Complaints of spine..
/Stiffness (< rising).. /Tension (cervical region)
Extremities: Awkward upper limbs.. /Chilliness - shoulders/upper arms.. /Cold -
becoming - < upper limbs.. /Feet complaints.. /Heat - in l. leg/1st toe.. /Itching in
legs.. /Pain - burning [(r.) hips]/cutting/sore (hips)/r. knees stitching.. /Perspiration
on leg.. /Pulsation upper arms.. /Complaints of shoulders.. /Stiffness of knees..
/Tingling in (l.) hand.. /Varices l. ankle
Chill: in general
Fever: intense

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Generals: r. side.. /< Air “As if thick and heavy”.. /Allergic to cats.. /Bathing -
desire for.. /Pressure of clothing >
Internal coldness with external heat.. /> after eating
Electrical equipment; failure of Electricity of the atmosphere; ailments from “As if
static electricity”
“As if emptiness”
Food and drinks: Desires: bread/chocolate/coffee/crunchy food/farinaceous food
(pasta)/juicy things/milk/rice/tea; Aversion to: sugar/wine;
Flushes of heat - afternoon - 16 - 21 h/after chilli(ness)/< during menses
Lack of vital heat/Sensation of heat - Internally (extending outwardly)
Heaviness (externally)
Injuries
complaints of the joints
> Magnetism
Motion rhythmical
(>) stretching (morning)
> warm bathing
Water - aversion to
Weakness
< Yawning
Perspiration: hot
Sleep: Deep
Falling asleep (< afternoon sitting/< sitting)
Short (in catnaps)
Sleepy/sleepless
Waking “As from anxiety”
Yawning
Dreams: Absurd/crash of an airplane/Aliens (from outer
space)/anger/annoying/boat/cats –
kitten/children/Christmas/cleaning/climbing/being on closet//in black and
white/foreign country/danger/dead of relatives (mother)/teammates dying in a

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airplane crash/being deceived/is a demon hunter/demons/destination unable to
reach/difficulties/disease/dragons/ driving a car/psychotropic
drugs/eating/elephants/embarrassment/Explosion (of bombs)/own family
(father/grandmother)/preparing food/childhood friends/gems/ghosts (flying)/
guests/heaviness/hiding from danger/about the meaning of life/of light/of
luggage/magic (gifts)/Menses/mutilation/gatherings (groups, school boards, church
commune)/strange places/plants/pleasant/poverty/being pregnant/pursued by
animals (elephant)/puzzles/rainbows/(has committed a) rape/sexual
Perversity/shooting about/skunks/sneaking/about spies/storms/teaching/trees/
tunnel/unpleasant/ unsuccessful efforts/ vegetables/
violence/wedding/witches/work
Skin: Dry, Excrescences, Goose flesh, Hot with fever, Itching, Scaly

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CASES

Samarium metallicum proving

by Margriet Plouvier Suijs MD

Proving Samarium Metallicum C 200 and C 30

CONCLUSION:
Lanthani;
Autonomous
Self: thinking, exploring, deepening, differentiating, discriminating, measuring.
Measure, count, know.
Self-reliant.
Thinking about morality.
Secret service: what is allowed? Moral feeling.

Samarium is stage 8:
Force, push press, struggle, tension, strife, resistance, opposition, confront

Extract of some memorable symptoms:

P 1 (C30) After the dose of Samarium Metallicum I recognize that my mother is
pushing me, I let go of it and return to myself.
P 2 (C30) Now I criticize it and say something like; "that shouldn’t happen like
that". That was it.
In another situation someone enters the room and asks what to do. In fact this
person is able to find her way. No reason at all she should ask something. Normally
she would have taken over, but now she is telling her to keep to her own things!!
End of the story!!!!!
P 3 (C30) Immediately I think; this remedy has to do with borders.
P 3 (C30) I suddenly decide to trim a plant in my consulting room that is not
looking good. (I was intending to do this for a long time, or to search for another
plant.)
P 1 (C30) I recognized what was hindering me in a mother of one of the children
at school. She is always crossing over my borders, she is exploring, calling me and
makes it her own idea. This is an "eye opening" for me.

P 1 (C200) This thinking is strange; literally I follow a pattern while thinking. Every

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new thought has a logic connection with the thought before, as if my thoughts are
sentences in a book.
P 1 (C200) Physical; pain in the right elbow, the joint of the Radius, together with
pain in the right shoulder close to the neck. This gives the sensation as if I hold on
to something and push it away in the same movement.
P 2 (C200) I feel self-confident and assertive. I react to everything that people
say. The sensation is that I am who I am.
P 3 (C200) Now I decide to do so.
P 5 (C200) I feel free (no resistance).
P 8 (C200) Every morning I wake up with a musty head as if I had taken a
sleeping pill. There is a storm in my head, sighing. Benumbed feeling, as if the
brains are not able to catch things.

Proving:
During the proving it was difficult to collect the information from the participants,
as if everybody kept the information for him/herself.

Samarium Metallicum C200:

Prover 1 ( ♀ )
I had to solve something in myself and so I decide (against my custom) not to
swallow the globules, but to put them under my pillow and try to have a dream-
proving.
It is a nice idea, but it doesn’t work, because I lie awake thinking. So I think about
the most fantastic ideas*, one after another, but I don’t sleep at all, so how to
dream? After some time I put the remedy away.

* Example of my thinking concerning the cross:

The vertical beam is the male, the spirit and the conscious. The horizontal beam is
the female, the feeling subconscious. Consciously you’re able to solve a problem in
yourself if you know what you feel. That moment of awareness is clarifying.
The Greek and Celtic cross is symmetrical and the junction of the cross is the heart-
chakra; in this level people are equal. This means the moment two people have the
same feeling, they understand each other, it gives an enlightening feeling.
The Christian cross has the junction at the level of the throat-chakra. On this level
it is clear when I am able to express what I feel by telling it.

What is the use of this way of thinking? None in daily life.

Immediately after this another subject comes to my mind, as theoretical as the

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other one and as useless for daily life.

Physical: Pain in the right elbow, the joint of the Radius, together with pain in the
right shoulder close to the neck. This gives the sensation as if I hold on to
something and push it away in the same movement. Later I have some pain in the
hamstring of the right leg.

Prover 2 ( ♀ )
I took the remedy on Thursday.
For some days I didn’t notice any change.
On Sunday I fell asleep in the afternoon while reading, which isn’t unusual for me, I
would like to have a siesta every afternoon.
Monday morning I wake up with a pressing headache in the middle of the forehead,
above the root of the nose.
I feel self-confident and assertive. I react at everything that people say.
The sensation is that I am who I am.

Prover 3 ( ♂ )
I took the remedy on Saturday at 15.00 pm.
I am at ease in the beginning.
For a long time before this proving I had the idea to lay down and in my mind go to
the moment that I was born (= doing what was planned for a long time).
Now I decide to do so, I do lay down. I can’t find the right position in the beginning.
After some time it is going better. My hands and feet feel relaxed. Nothing special
happens. When I get up I have some burps.
At night I have a dream; I am playing music in a band. We are playing without an
audience, but some people are watching and listening. I clap my hands fast and
rhythmical and I strike my thighs in the same rhythm.
I am overwhelmed by this.

Sunday:
I am very tired. I am sitting in my garden and it is difficult to read a book. In the
evening I am lying in my bed while watching a soccer match on television. I fall
asleep.
Dream; a green colour snake is coming and then I grasp it suddenly. I am holding it
behind the head, but one of my fingers is in its mouth and I press the finger as
hard as I can so that the animal can’t bite. At the same time I doubt - how will this
end?

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Tuesday:
Toothache left side.
Flatulence

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday: I don’t feel well.

Wednesday: well done feeling after stool.

Prover 5 ( ♀ )
Impressive dream:
I am participating in a summer camp of Druids. My husband J. is there as well. The
weather is nice, the meeting is pleasant and everybody is happy. I feel free. My
friend is there as well, it isn’t clear whether J. knows it or not. To me this is quite
natural and normal. In the afternoon I sit down with a friend. We have a nice
conversation. It is cosy. We are sitting down in front of the tent. Everyone is
walking around and doing something. Then this friend tells me that he would like to
kiss me. I agree and so we lie down and take our time to kiss. Nobody wonders.
Then I think: “Strange, J. is here, my friend is here and now this friend! Well, why
not? I have to be aware not to ask too much attention.”

You will understand that I was very happy while waking up. During the day when I
remembered the dream I was smiling about it. Are these my true colour?!

Prover 8 ( ♂ )
I took the remedy in 2 doses.
Dream:
About visiting a lecture, I am a member of the audience. Taking a coat of and on,
something in a railway station, I feel timid but it doesn’t matter. It is okay to be
timid.

Playing games with members of the family. Later I have a backache, it hurts very
much and it is lasts a long time.
At night my nose bleeds spontaneously.
In the morning I have to go to stool. I am not able to hold it.
Some is passing unnoticed. Bah. The urine has a dark colour and a bad smell. There
is a frequent urination during the forenoon with urging. I have to be aware not to
loose urine involuntary.
I feel insecure.

Sensation of wind blowing over the right leg shortly during the evening.

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On Sunday sitting in my chair I fall asleep. I am choking by my own saliva.
During the last days I have a sour sensation in the gullet while drinking red wine.

Dream: As if I am in the clinic with M (♀).

A man who is impotent with a woman who has a cervix carcinoma. M. is allowed to
examine the woman. May be after this examination they can have sex again.

Dream: I am member of a group of 12 girls about 20 years old who are joining for
therapy. An older and wiser woman is leading. She says: “would you like to
associate on my words and would you like to rhyme".
“dat poe t zo, mijn moe rilt zo” (the powder is vibrating, my mother is shivering).
Thought: I am searching for traumas about mother.

Before this dream the prover had to find a new place for his clinic. He found a new
place in a shop that had to be rebuilt. The old clinic will stay. It had to be done for a
long time. ( Now he is doing what was planned for a long time)

In the same dream I kiss one of the girls goodnight. She is a plump girl and longing
for attention. I kiss her on the lips, but she gives no reaction. I am amazed.
Every morning I wake up with a musty head as if I had taken a sleeping pill. There
is a storm in my head, sighing. Benumbed feeling. As if the brains are not able to
catch things.

Prover 9 ( ♀ )
Dream: Meeting of 10 people. Leaders, high functionaries.
H. is there. Good nature. A refreshment bar. Sausages are cut into pieces and
offered.
Dream about food.

Dream: She is standing with P. ( ♂ ) in front of a store. The doors are
opened. People go inside and they take whatever they are able to grasp. Diving-
suits, garden tools, rakes, spades with long holders. Everything is put in cars. They
are sticking out of the cars.
She is wondering; what to do because the police will take hold of them.
She is thinking; I have everything, but perhaps I could do the same? P. says: “no
way!” Nevertheless she grasps a tie and puts it away in her bag. Strange feeling,
what was it about? What is allowed and what is not allowed.
Moral and immoral.
There is no control and the question is; will you do the same like everyone or do
you keep your integrity?

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Dream: in a Muslim country.
A building with all kinds of spaces and rooms. Corridors in a building made from
glass, guards are there. One is an old lady with no teeth. She has a towel over her
head and is asleep, her mouth widely opened, she has only one tooth left.
In the rooms perverse sexual acts are happening. It is not allowed but it happens
because she is sleeping in stead of being on guard.
Again in this dream; moral and immoral.

Physical: I have a haemorrhoid that hurts and my underwear is wet.

Samarium Metallicum Proving C30

(To have an own point of view. To differ, to get clear.)

Prover 1 ( ♀ )
The first dose I took impulsively after visiting my mother. She is a widow now and
she is suddenly very interested in administration and finance. During the time I am
with her she persuades me that I have to know all about this. I trust my own
feeling mostly and I am not interested in details.
After the dose of Samarium Metallicum I recognize that my mother is pushing me, I
let go of it and return to myself.

Physically: Pain in the hips, during the evening after this first dose, right side more
that left. Some pain in my lower abdomen, in the ovaries.
Next day I have pain in de hollow of the right knee for just a short time in the
afternoon.

I had some pain in the sides and I had the need to put my hands there, fingers
turned to the back. This posture has the expression as if you know what you want,
self-confident, self-reliant.
I had the sensation that I had a flu, but it stopped.

I had an image (like a dream): Last year my husband (P) and I were on holiday on
bikes in the surroundings of Namen (Belgium). We where searching for a camping-
ground. Along the river we didn’t find a place. We had to climb a mountain; a tough
piece of work after the 100km we biked already during the day. But the camping-
ground was a nice one and the people were kind. The owners of the place were
Dutch people, stubborn. They decided to have a camping-ground that differs totally
from the other camping-grounds along the river.
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the bad aspects. They had to pay too much money, they had to repair everything,
Etcetera.
The sanitary facilities where a mess.
There was a group of Dutch people who were on the place to climb the rocks. We
all reacted in the same way and accepted the inconvenience about the place. We all
knew that the owners needed time to rebuild the place.

Next day I took the remedy again. I again had the sensation of a flu and it stops.
I wrote a text for a magazine for people who are burned. The text is not what it has
to be so I rewrite it together with the editor. Nice experience.

Physically:
Loose stool with flatulence.
Muscle-pain in the thigh after a tennis match. This is new.
After 2 hours it is gone.
Sleepy eyes.

Prover 2 ( ♀ )
Sunday evening:
Weakness in the left side (this I recognized during the proving of Indium Metallicum
C30 in the same way).
I slept very well, I woke up before the alarm and I was wide awake at 6.30. On the
radio people are talking about circumcisions, immediately I rise from my bed to find
another out-sender.
Monday morning I woke up early again. Now the radio was on the right program
and I heard the daily news.
At my work something had been arranged and I didn’t realize it. The week before I
knew it, but I didn’t react on it. Now I criticize it and say something like, "that
shouldn’t happen like that". That was it.
In another situation someone enters the room and asks what to do. In fact this
person is able to find her way. No reason at all she should ask something. Normally
she would have taken over, but now she is telling her to do her own things!! End of
the story!!!!!

Prover 3 ( ♂ )
I took the globule on Tuesday afternoon, immediately I think, this remedy has to do
with borders.

Wednesday I have itching in the inguinal region near to the scrotum.

Itching in the right ear.

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Some cramping pain above the right knee, front side.

I suddenly decide to trim a plant in my consulting room that is not looking good. (I
was intending to do this for a long time, or to search for another plant.)

Everyday I am doing some exercises 5x21 in repetition, now I am doing it more

often and it feels fine. It is easy.
I am jogging in the forest and I recognize that my hearing is acute.

In the evening I have an itchy spot between the 4th and 5th toe.
I have to go to stool and that is rare in the evening. After stool I pass an offensive
smelling flatus. This is unusual.
I feel pain in my right hip, knee and ankle.

While watching a soccer match on television I say to my son, "the time is running
too fast".

During the 2nd night I have a sound sleep and I wake up later than usual.
The pain in the knee and ankle is gone. While walking the pain in the hip is still
there. Today my hearing is still acute.
I have time to myself today, no patient visiting and I collect my administration to
deliver it to my book keeper.

Friday I wake up early again.

Dream: I have a conversation with a man who (illegal or against the rules) sends
cattle away to a butcher. For him it is just business. I try to explain him that people
will not be pleased and I try to convince him to cancel the deal, but I see the truck
coming already.

This day I worked well: I see patients who need Rhus Toxicodendron.

Prover 11 ( ♀ )
Strange globules I thought, they would have a nice taste like vanilla. I have the
idea of being in a temple with incense, very clear, spacious, spiritual. I inspire
deeply through the nose and I feel serene, quiet and clarity coming over me, a nice
and happy sensation. It seems as if I am able to see more clearly and intensely, the
colour are beautiful.
Warmth in the throat chakra extending to the crown chakra. Pressure on the head
with the sensation of clarity. For a moment I can hardly open my eyes, being too
sleepy.

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Blood crust in the nose, like I had in early days.
In the scene The King of Katharen I am playing the role of the minister "Clear". I
play my role with passion; clarifying.

An old pain in the bones of the cervical region and the back that is better by
turning.

My daughter and my partner observe that I take more distance.

Prover 13 ( ♀ )
I took the remedy and soon after taking it I felt bloated, especially after lunch and
diner.
I had the idea to be more assertive in giving my opinion. I was able to go around
doing what I saw as my part. It felt that everything was well arranged. I could
clearly discriminate between myself and the other. So I was sharp at the moment
my husband didn’t show up for dinner and my son told me that he couldn’t come at
once. “Well that is his responsibility. We are going to eat now!!”
I recognized what was hindering me in a mother of one of the children at school.
She is always crossing over my borders, she is exploring, calling me and makes it
her own idea. This is "eye opening" for me.

Prover 14 ( ♀ )
This is a person who is well organized and sincere.
Dream: During a meeting of colleagues someone explained about tests in
homeopathy. We all had the idea it was fantastic. It was rather strange that no one
was questioning.
During a meeting where people were talking about shares she had the same
feeling; strange, no one has questions!

Physically: Severe flu, she is ill, weak, chilly, pain in the muscles. That is why she
wasn’t able to visit our meeting.

M. Plouvier Suijs
[email protected]

Categories: Provings
Keywords: samarium metallicum
Remedies:

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Samarium carbonicum; Chest pains, Migraines, Chronic
fatigue syndrom
by Sally Williams
Case
Client: J.W., Age 32
Chief Complaint: Chest pains, migraines, and chronic fatigue.

February 2006:
"It all started in October of last year and before that I was fine and never to the doctor. I
was driving at 11 at night to pick up my wife. I had a really funny feeling in my head. This
did not go away. It lasted about 15 minutes. There was a tingling feeling in my sinus and
nose. My heart rate was up and so was my breathing. It felt like the blood drained from my
head. I stopped the car and took my pulse. It was 120. I carried on and told my wife. I was
able to drive home. I decided to sleep on it; instead it would start back up. I could not get
to sleep because of the pounding in my temples. The next day my 8 month pregnant wife
took me to the hospital. They thought it may be an allergic reaction. They gave me a
sedative and I went home.”

“A week later I worked all day and did not eat. I had a heavy meal and went to sleep. In the
morning I woke with heart burn and high heart rate. I went back to sleep and when I woke
my head was swimming. I went to the Dr the next day and the burning was really intense.
She checked out the heart stuff. I was miserable for weeks with the burning and a fever. I
could only take over the counter antacids. They did a lot of tests for the heart and it all
came back fine. By that time I could feel burning and chest pain right under the sternum. I
would also get vertigo. I was having heaviness in the chest. I feel gas in there and it is very
painful like a heart attack. I have to squirm to get it out. Then there were the migraines
that started in the back and would wrap around the sides.”

“The symptoms have never gone away. The difference now is I do not get the high heart
rate as frequently. I had it the other night though. I woke with it and sat straight up and it
went away in 20 minutes. I would feel like I had shin splints in the arms. I would work out
every day before the work stress last fall. I have not worked out since then. I had so much
on my plate with work is why.”

“I am basically working for R&D, we research new technology. I am one level below
management, but am high on the tech ladder. It is a very tough and militaristic
organization. Right now it is “my [boss’s] way or the highway.” There is a lot of tension and
stress with this new director because he is a military guy. I want to be in my own world and
left to do what I want and that is not possible anymore.”

“Over the past year I have worked on this new project. We are testing in Arizona. I was out
there getting this unit running and there were a lot of problems. It was very tough work

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with a lot of pressure. I had to go at times unexpected. I had to work in 120 degree
weather. In September I would get calls that it was not working properly. It was my project
and it was not working. I had a lot of pressure to make it work well. In October I did not
feel like eating because I had to solve this problem. I was constantly trouble shooting.
Things are better now. I was able to fix it, but after a lot of trouble.”

“My parents are here now living with us. My father likes to be head of the family. It was
stressful in the beginning… I was raised in a society where your parents are with you and
they tell you what to do. When he creates that situation I am silent. The thing that makes
me angry is not being able to do what I want to do……..”

Rx: Samarium Carbonicum, 200c.

Analysis:
Lou Klein teaches of Samarium; “A place of self autonomy from the forces of pressure and
perseverance.”
I choose the carbon salt because of the restrictions from his father not allowing him to be
autonomous.

Follow Up, May 2006:

“I am much better. I started to get better right after I saw you. I only took one dose. Things
were on the up swing from then… I do not get the rapid heart beat. I started to work out
and I can exercise with no problem. My stamina has improved a lot. I am not tired and can
stay up longer.”

“Work is good things have improved. I did have a frank and open chat with my boss, about
my concerns and he was very sympathetic and he said I have connections and we can move
you.”

“With my parents it is much better. I told them I had stress with them being there and they
backed off, but they are parents and you cannot change them so it comes back, but then I
remind them and they back off again. My son is doing very well. Part of why I know I am
doing better is because I can stay with the baby and take care of him and go for walks. That
was part of why I was so worried last time, because I was not able to know if I would ever
be able do the father stuff.”

“Previously I had kind of lost hope of recovering because I always felt bad physically. I now
feel like a cloud has lifted and I am much more confident about what I can do. I could
barely walk up stairs. I am almost confident that this will not happen again. I know that the
first signs of this happening I would not go down that road again. I will not create this for
myself again.”

Phone call, July 2006

“I still remain well. I am feeling much stronger in everything.”

Sally Williams
RSHom (NA) CCH 07/06/2006

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Samarium muriaticum: A case of a woman with
menopausal problems
by Bada Domic
Samarium Muriaticum case

Female, 43 years, University Professor, very communicative and pretty. Dressed in

comfortable clothes, but still looks very elegant.

Main Complaints:
She lost her menses too soon. She had normal menses, but two months ago it stopped and
her doctor told her that this is menopause and suggested hormonal therapy. She decided to
try something more natural.
Every time before her menses she had migraines, a pressing headache, and terrible
spasmodic pains. They lasted the whole day, and the pain was so strong that she couldn’t
bear a pillow under her head. It was always better once the flow started.

She has had high blood pressure for years. It appeared when her family started living with
her mother, and that was very difficult to handle.

“I took care of my mother for years. She was very ill and demanding constant attention.
When my second baby was born my mother asked for more attention than the baby. After
years of this I burned out and decided to send her to a retirement home. It was hard to
decide, but I felt that I had to choose either my mother or me. While she was in a
retirement home I had normal communication with her for the first time in my life. I always
felt she didn’t love me. She gave me the name “Rock”, because I didn’t show emotions. I
was fighting for her love my whole life. She used to tell me, “Why should you stay alive, and
your brother had to die”. I hated my mother, but I was deeply sad when she died and
struggled inside between hatred and sadness.”

She also had the diagnosis of scleroderma. It appeared when her husband and she lived in
two different towns over two years. It was very hard for her. During that period she had put
a lot of effort into surviving.

“My whole life was a huge effort, my brother’s illness, separate life when I had my first
baby, my mother’s illness and then the second baby at the same time, and University. I felt
pressure by my parents to become someone. They lost their only son and I felt I had to
achieve success. I did, but with great hardship and huge effort. I fought hard for my
position at the University. My hands were red and swollen, with extremely dry skin. It was
so irritable, that I didn’t know what to do. The redness and swelling could happen at any
time, a few times a day, and I felt bad because of the people around me…it was so obvious.
A very strange thing happened during and after my pregnancy, the scleroderma nearly
disappeared, or it was tolerable.”

“Then I decided to have psychoanalysis sessions. I had them for years in order to be able to
find myself and to solve my family problems. Then the scleroderma started to be a little
better and so many things inside me changed. I discovered why my mother called me
“Rock”. I was very closed and rigid… I’m a militant. I must fulfill my aim; there is no retreat
for me. I also discovered that my husband and I are very different and I decided to have my
own life in our marriage instead of divorcing. I feel very lonely, but I control my life.
During the psychoanalysis I also discovered that I could heal people, but I don’t know how

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to yet, and I intend to discover how.

Other Symptoms:
v Sinusitis whole her life, but this is not so disturbing.
v Difficult digestion and nausea when she is nervous.
v Dry skin and mucous membrane.
v Insomnia.
v Fears about family.
v Frequent tonsillitis in childhood.

She took Samarium Muriaticum LM 1 for 10 days, and she had all her old symptoms
returned during the week: sinusitis, tonsillitis, stomach pain, and severe swelling and
redness of her hands. The menses appeared after two weeks, and is still regular after six
months. Her emotional and mental state is better then ever in her life.

SAMARIUM MURIATICUM

1. STRUGGLE about MOTHER/care

1.1 “I hated my mother, but I was deeply sad when she died and struggled inside between
hate and sadness”.
1.2 “I was fighting for her love my whole life. She told me: Why should you stay alive, while
your brother had to die”.

2. CARE and LOVE

2.1 “After years of this I burned out and decided to send her to a retirement home. It was
hard to decide until I felt that I had to choose, either my mother or me”.
2.2 “I feel that she does not love me, she named me “Rock” because I did not seem to have
emotions”.
2.3 “I need love, I need to be loved”.

3. FEMALE
3.1 She lost menses (42 yrs).
3.2 Scleroderma > during and after pregnancy.

4. AUTONOMY
4.1 “I had psychoanalysis sessions for years to be able to find my self and to solve my
family problems”.
4.2 “My husband and I live different lives. We are so different; I discovered this after
psychoanalysis and decided to have my own life in our marriage”.

5. AUTO-IMMUNE
5.1 SCLERODERMA
5.2 Dry skin - red and swollen hands.

6. THERAPIST
6.1 “I feel I could heal people, I don’t know how yet, but I have the intention to discover
how”.

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7. SELF CONTROL
7.1 “I’m very lonely, but I control my life”.

8. FIGHT
8.1 “I fought hard for my position at the University”.
8.2 “I’m militant. I must fulfill my aim”.

9. PRESSURE AND MIGRAINE

9.1 "When my family lived together with my mother I had high blood pressure and
migraines”.
9.2 Headaches are spasmodic, always before menses, and with terrible pressing pains.

10. HARD, PRESSING, EFFORT

10.1 “My whole life is a huge effort: my brother’s illness, my mother’s illness and the baby
at same time University...”
10.2 “My husband and I used to live in different towns for two years; it was very hard for
me. During that period the scleroderma appeared”.
10.3 “I felt pressured by my parents to become someone". They lost their only son and I
felt I must achieve success. I did, but with great hardship and huge effort”.

BADA DOMIC

Categories: Remedies
Keywords: menopause, menses, scleroderma

Manganum, Samarium oxydatum case

by Anne-Marie van Raaij-Schouten

Case woman 70 years:

In May 2005 this woman came to me complaining about pains in her knees. She sings in a choir and
during the final rehearsal and the concert itself, she had to stand for a long time which caused a lot of
pain. The orthopaedic diagnosis ten years ago was arthritis, for which she was given artrotec. She
used to have a lot of medicine, but she stopped taking it about seven years ago and started with
physiotherapy and exercises. The pain has now returned and aggravated even more because of
standing too long It became necessary to take anodynes again which she frequently takes at the
moment, but which also causes complaints of the stomach for which she has other medicines.
In 1968 she had a car accident whereby the left collum femoris was smashed and the pelvis was
broken in four places. With traction and physiotherapy it has healed well, although the pain stayed for
a long time fortunately now it has completely gone. It is especially the left knee, which is so painful
after standing and much walking. Dampness and coldness aggravate it. Sun and warmth ameliorate it.
On rising or after sitting she can only stumble somewhat, but after a while movement does
ameliorate.
On doing needlework she quickly gets pain in the joints of the hands, which she calls “wear”.
She has the feeling of having been fighting her whole life. She is used to solving problems with
willpower. Now she is tired of seventy years of struggling.

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She is the oldest child in a family of three children. She has two younger brothers, of which the
youngest one is handicapped. She felt the need to try and keep her mother happy because her mother
had the feeling that everyone was against her. They didn’t use to talk much at home. She would
escape by reading her books because with everything she did, her mother was faultfinding.
At the age of nine years she had diphtheria with a high fever. This has left a slight murmur in the
heart.
After every examination (academic) she has had a throat infection and this has remained her weak
spot when she is tired.
Nowadays she is slightly deaf; wind causes pain in both ears, for which she wears a cap.
She has myopia.
Every morning she starts the day by doing respiratory exercises through which she feels more
centred.
Nearby the heart she feels an oppression that goes inwards.
She likes salty food, meat and cooked vegetables, but has an aversion to mussels or oysters. She
needs to eat in time.
As a child she was constipated, but that has stopped.
Every month she was depressed during menstruation.
She has had several bone fractures during her lifetime; the clavicle (four years old); the tarsal bone (a
few years ago); and the elbow.

She attended a grammar school and was university-taught. She has been working for a long time with
groups, teaching communication and leadership.
In this work and in her daily life she was always afraid of not being good enough. She does not want
to accept the limitations of life, she want to live optimally. She always searches what is bothering her
in order to learn how to handle it herself.
She has been married for 45 years and has three children and six grandchildren.
She takes glucosamine every day.

Prescription
First medication: Manganum mur. MK (21 may 2005)
After the medication she immediately had more energy. The third and fourth day the pain in her knee
had aggravated. After that there was an improvement and the seventh day an aggravation of the pain
again. The feeling of a whole slump had disappeared. In the second part of the night she wakes
frequently from a cramp in the left calf. Standing for a while on the cold floor ameliorates.
She tells now about being vulnerable and hurt quickly, for instance when she wants to go into depth in
her study group and the other members don’t want that. Then she has the feeling of having to adapt
herself and of not being able to be herself.

After three weeks again Mang.mur. MK (11 June 2005)

One week after this medication there is a sharp pain in the knee, which ameliorates in the days there
after. At the end of June she stops taking painkillers. Four weeks later the pain returns a little. She
stumbles on rising from a seat and has to move on. There is still an aggravation from dampness.

A repeat of Mang. mur. MK on 11 July, 29 July, 29 August, 11 September and 14 October.

She is now able to walk more than an hour without too much pain, but irregular underground
aggravates and she wants to do things in her own tempo, which is not too quick. Dampness still
aggravates. The arms are much better.
In every group, either study or conversation, she has the inclination to fullfill the stimulating role, but
she feels that she does not any longer want to do so.She is easier and can let things happen as they
come.

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In November no further amelioration seems to come. She has throat pain and a cough. Her knee will
only become swollen when forcing it, but rubbing ameliorates. Numbness and coldness keep on
aggravating her complaints. Then I went searching for another Manganum.

Manganum sulfuricum MK 14 November and 5 December.

Afterwards she gets influenza and the cough does not ameliorate, but stayed worse. In the choir she
has to sit. She wants to do several things, but even from the smallest things she gets extremely tired.
I am wondering what was going on, what can be the cause of these changes? End of January her head
feels still full of coryza and she has to sneeze frequently. On exertion she becomes very warm and
tired, she feels exhausted. There is vertigo too. She has to cry from her misery. She is short of breath
and wants to sit quiet or to lie down. There is no amelioration. She sleeps well. There is still thirst in
the night.

On 9 and 31 January she gets Samarium oxyd.M.

After this medication she has more energy, but the shortness of breath and the coryza stay. The
medication works only for a short time.

Then she tells that she has had the flu vaccination on 26 October 2005. .
At the beginning of March she gets poly-influenzinum 30, 200, M and 10MK with intervals of a few
days. After this medication she feels more optimistic and has more energy. The vertigo has diminished
and on going up and down the stairs the shortness of breath has diminished. For eight years now she
goes to a fitness centre and there she perceives that her energy has increased. There is still pain in
the knees after walking for an hour, but sitting for a while ameliorates so much so that she can do
everything in the household and that the knees feel good again.

The 20 March 2006 she gets again Samarium oxyd. MK, after which she feels gradually much better.

18 April the vertigo has gone and the blood pressure has normalised. During singing in the choir she
still needs to sit. On going up two stairs there is still some shortness of breath. She will go on a
sightseeing holiday to Greece so she asks for a repeat of the remedy.

In Greece she could walk amazingly well, she could join almost everything.
Again at home the numbness bothers still somewhat. In the choir she is able to stand a whole hour
and on going up two stairs she has no longer shortness of breath. Her study room is on the second
floor, but she does not dread having to go downstairs for a drink. She can accept things easier the
way they come and has become more relaxed.

Analysis:

Keynotes for Manganum are: always eager to learn, helpful, ears that are sensitive to wind, ailments
of the knees, a drive to get on in life.
The muriaticum part has to do with the relationship with her mother (always wanting to help her) and
being depressed before the menses. After taking Manganum mur. MK she immediately felt a lot better
and after a number of medications of Manganum mur. MK she said, that the feeling of being under
pressure that she had to do so much, had also disappeared.
After several medications of Mang.mur MK there was no further amelioration.
Manganum sulfuricum hardly did anything.
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book about them. So I decided to take a closer look at these Lanthanides.
This woman with arthritis (auto-immune) is since her youth self-relying, self-sufficient and worked
hard for autonomy, which fits in with the Lanthanides.
Manganum is, in the Periodic System, in stage 7; with the Lanthanides this is Promethium. This
remedy did not fit the patient, but the remedy of stage 8 fitted her story exactly, especially about life
being one big struggle and being tired from fighting and struggling all her life. She wants to do well
and to help everybody. This is the Samarium part.
There also is the feeling of not being good enough and the history of being neglected as a child, which
is the oxydatum part.
Samarium oxydatum ameliorated, although for a short time, during the influenza. That was when I did
not know about the vaccination. After the serie of Poly-influenzinum (30, 200, M, 10M) the remedy
Samarium oxydatum could bring further cure. It is now July 2006 and she is still going well and feeling
even happier with Samarium oxydatum.

Anne-Marie van Raaij-Schouten Klassiek Homeopaat

[email protected]
www.homeopathiedriebergen.nl

Categories: Remedies
Keywords: Manganum, Samarium oxydatum, arthritis, neglect, struggle
Remedies:

Samarium sulphuricum and rheumatoid arthritis

by Jan Scholten

Case
A woman of 50 years age presents with rheumatoid arthritis. I t started at her feet
and hands. Now she has inflammations in her metacarpal and proximal inter-digital
joints, with swelling and deformities. Most of her toes have grown bent. She has
arthritis in her left knee so she cannot walk well and comes with crutches. Her
elbows are inflamed and she cannot stretch them completely anymore. Especially
her left elbow is deformed with exostoses. Her wrists and ankles are also affected.
The pains are worse from exertion and sport, wet and cold weather, before menses
and from stress like having to rise too early in the morning. She has a lot of pain,
but bites it away. She has a fear of becoming dependent and not being able to take
care of herself anymore. The Roentgen photo's show deformed bones and lacking
cartilage of the joints. She is treated by her rheumatologist with salazopyrin,
Indocid, Ledertrexaat and Areva and anti TNF. The Ledertrexaat gives her stomach
pains and once she developed a stomach ulcer. The Arena gives her hypertension,
depression and headaches. She was also treated by a homeopath with Staphysagria
and Aurum metallicum.
It all started 17 years ago when she was divorcing. She had been married 15 years.
They met in the hippie time and traveled all over the world a lot like hippies, in
India, in France picking grapes and the like. But he could be very aggressive when
she did not do as he wished. She had a child, but he said that that should not have
happened, it was a plague. His anger should not have happened, but she stayed.

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She always had a very romantic idea. She wanted to solve his problems with her
love. She was naive, believed in the true love, " one has sex only when one wants
to have a child from a man". He was arrogant, using drugs and marijuana. He
always fell in love with her girl friends and wanted to have relations with them. She
thought for a long time that that could be possible with the idea of "free love". He
always let her down, but kept hanging on to her. At last she quit. She also stayed
long to prove herself to her father. Her father had said to her before her
marriage "Are you sure you want to marry him? It will give much grief!". So she
went on, showing that she could do it as one does not start so easily with a
marriage.

Family:
Her father was authoritarian and very hard. She looked up to him. He died from a
heart attack. Her mother was soft and very protecting. She was the youngest of 5
children and says "I was spoiled emotionally". She was raised by her eldest sister
who was 17 years older. She had to grow up fast, had to be "a big girl, strong,
tough".

Past history:
As a baby she had convulsions. She also had abdominal cramps with constipation.
She has been anemic her whole life.
She has a tendency to hypo-tension.
Once she had a severe diarrhea for 3 days when traveling in India. She was very ill
and cannot remember much of it anymore.
She was very happy during her pregnancy, but she gained much weight, almost 20
kilo. Labour was painful, but she would not scream. She had to let her husband
come from a cafe and wanted to show what she could during the labour,
thinking "when he sees what I can do he will stay with me".
Palpitations are periodically coming on. The first time she had it was when she was
20 after drinking cola. Since then she has it every five years. She can get it from
eating Turkish fruit. She feels very tired then, her heart is throbbing and she has
the feeling that electric currents are circulating around her heart.
She had an influenza before the arthritis started. She had a fever, she felt
alternating cold, was very sweaty, had joint pains and headache and was so lame
that she had to lie down. She felt her blood streaming through her blood vessels in
a painful way.

Mind:
She is perfectionistic. She always wants to do something, cannot sit still. She does

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many things at the same time. She always was very active, could handle things,
live for two and took people with her in her weird ideas. She becomes hyperactive
from sugar.
She has fears of driving fast in a car, much traffic, crowds in festivals, many people
in elevators or small rooms.

Dream: being beaten.

Dream: her child being taken away.
Dream: she is going up a mountain with a group, they are already quite high, then
she falls and keeps on falling in the depth, she wakes frightened.
Dream: she is going up a mountain with a group, they are already quite high, she
cannot go further and is left behind.

Generals:
Weather: desire for constant weather of around 20 degrees and a bit of sun.
Sweat: more since her menopause, which is a bit offensive.
Time : < 7 am.
Desire: vegetables, salad, goat cheese, sweet, white wine.
Aversion: mussels, oysters, shrimps, crab.
Food: < mussels, it once made her very sick with burning pains in her esophagus
and stomach. Coffee makes her speedy.
Menses: abdominal pains the first day of menses.
Sleep: sleepless periodically.
Quality of life: 30; she feels like almost dead, loathes life.

Analysis:
Rheumatoid arthritis is definitely an auto-immune disease and as such a very
strong indication for a Lanthanide. We can see many other Lanthanide themes in
her case. She is from the hippie time, thinking in free love. She has an aversion to
taking medicines and has a fear of becoming dependent, both strong indications of
Lanthanides. As a child she felt different. She has an aversion to rules and has a
desire for space and freedom. She is very sensitive. So the indications for
Lanthanides abound.
The Stage that is mostly indicated is Stage 1, as she went on and on in marriage,
trying to convince her husband of her love. She bites her pain away. She works and
lives for 2. This is a typical thing for Stage 8, where they do and work the most.
The Stage is also very nicely reflected in her dreams, where she goes up a
mountain, going up meaning a Stage on the left, before the top, which is Stage 10.
She is already quite high, so it must be near stage 10, something like stage 7, 8 or
9.

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There is in this case a differential diagnosis with Stage 6 as she said that she
wanted to prove that her love would work out well, proving being a typical
expression of Stage 6.
The salt is Sulphur as the core of the problem is around her marriage and love. The
disease started after her marriage was broken down. She has a very romantic idea
about love. The sulphur part expresses itself physically in heart problems. She has
palpitations and a feeling of electrical currents around her heart. The electrical
feeling are indicating Lanthanides again.
In the idea of “free” love” we see the combination of Lanthanide in “free” and
Sulphur in “love”.

Follow-up:
Within an hour after taking Samarium sulphuricum MK she gets cold shivers, is
thinking about death and dying and she feels like she did in earlier times. This
stayed the whole day. The next day she is ill, stays in bed the whole day, needs
rest, is weak and weepy. The joint pains are worse, but she feels emotionally
better.
After a week she feels more or less the same, takes the second dose and then
starts feeling "O, this is good".
One month after Samarium sulphuricum she feels much better and more cheerful.
She got her old energy back, feeling herself again. Shortly after the remedy she
started to walk more straight instead of bend forward.
She also reconciled herself with her arthritis instead of fighting and biting the pain
away. She can accept the medicines better. She feels less stiff, needs less
medicines.

Three months and three repetitions of the remedy later, she feels better with her
Arthritis. She can go upstairs. She takes her life in her own hands more and is
happier. She can become angry with her boy friend, a thing that she never could in
the past out her romantic idea of love. Her grudge against her husband is gone, she
can meet him at family parties without getting upset as in the past.

Three months and three repetitions of the remedy later, she is further ameliorated.
She has more energy, can walk 10 kilometer. She has more energy and less pain.
She stopped eating gluten. She had a dream like she had in the past of a
dangerous situation, like in a world war, but in the past she was very anxious with
those kind of dreams and now she look at the situation without fear, but with love.

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Three months and three repetitions of the remedy later, in total after 10 months
her pain is almost gone. She has stopped all her medications except the anti-body
treatment. She had gotten an influenza like she has had as a child. Her toes have
grown normal, straight. Her elbow can straighten much more and the outgrowths
on the elbows and hand joints have diminished. She has become very strong.
Her quality of life? 100.
In the past she has had Arum metallicum and Staphysagria without result.

Scholten, J.C.
Homeopathic Doctors Centre Utrecht

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