A friend of mine asked me to search for information about an homeopathic remedy called limestone-durren. Does anybody know something about this?

TIA, Axel.

I am assuming this would be limestone taken from some place called Durren?

Limestone the remedy is made from rock taken from St. Fachanan's well in Carran, Co. Clare Ireland.



[This message has been edited by Djkempson (edited 30 September 2000).]

You are unlikely to find much on Limestone as it is a recent proving by Nuala Eising. Limestone is from the Burren area not Durren. Suggest you get a copy of her proving which also includes the remedies Granite and Marble.

Louise is the bb chick who knows about this. Maybe she'll answer.

It's in Vermeulen's 2nd Synoptic MM. I just found it.

Louise, that's quite a moving proving.

To think one can go back in time (as one does with homoeopathy) and re-experience the being of those pre-historic little things.

The feeling of water running over them in their peaceful watery grave reminds me of those beautiful lines in The Tempest:

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearl that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange.

It's a sublime sadness tempered with beauty.

Hello, I am the said chick who has a copy of this proving and if there's anything you specificaly want to know, will try to oblige.

It is a sedimentary rock formed from the remains of tiny shellfish, who absorbed lime to form their shells, then on their death fell to the sea bed. Under their own pressure and with passage of time, were cemented and pressed together to form Limestone. Violent earth movement raised up the sea bed to form mountains.

The Burren is full of streams, and many provers were preoccupied by the notion, feeling of water running over them, as well as a long list of many other symptoms.

Interesting quote but studying the provings is always the best source of information on any remedy. Unless you can talk to the proving superviser of course! As I trained at the Burren school with Nuala we got a good insight to the remedies she has proven. For limestone think of trolls......

Frank, I don't know the proving at all apart from what Louise told. The quotation was just me being whimisical and was not intended to convey a sense of the remedy, rather my response to what Louise posted.
I agree completely regarding the necessity of studying the proving for clinical purposes. But do tell more about trolls. Sounds fascinating...

I remember the trolls in the Hobbit and how they are a little slow on the uptake. By day they are fixed as rock but come alive at night. Thought process is slow and tendancy to get stuck in a rut in conversations which <. Remember trying to raise a point with Nuala once repeatedly and discussion had moved on (AM with hangover). She said it was like talking to limestone....
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