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Vermeulen Synoptic 2\Ginkgo bilobaGINKGO BILOBA


Gink.


&lt;Signs&gt;
Ginkgo biloba. Maidenhair Tree. N.O. Ginkgoaceae.

Ornamental Chinese fan-leaved tree. The name is a corruption of the Chinese name 'yin kuo', 'silver fruit.' It is the only species in the Ginkgoaceae, a separate class to the Coniferae. It does not belong to the Taxaceae, as is sometimes mistakenly stated. There is a close relationship to the Coniferae, but Ginkgo differs in its wide, fan-shaped, flat leaf and its method of fertilisation.

The ginkgo is the last link in the long chain of evolution of the Ginkgoaceae. It probably already existed in the Devonian era, but definitely in the Permian era. It reached its peak in the Triad and the Jura eras. Only one living species of this plant family has survived to the present day: G.

biloba. This is considered as the oldest living fossil on earth, a claim also made for Sequoia. It stems from an era more than 200 million years ago.

During the Tertiary era the ginkgo in the wild covered the entire northern hemisphere, a region now reduced to an area in southeastern China. It is an ancient culture plant in the Far East, where the tree has been an object of veneration since time immemorial and is cultivated near residential areas and temples. Its cultivation as a temple tree spread from China to Japan, where the tree is sacred. The tree can live for 2000 years. In Europe the ginkgo has become popular in recent centuries as an ornamental tree. The tree purchased in 1754 by Kew Gardens in London can still be seen there. Because the seeds stink so much [although they seldom ripen in Western countries], male trees are preferred as ornamental trees. As the most resistant of tree species against insects, disease, and pollution, Ginkgo is frequently planted along streets in cities. The oddly proportioned young trees become stately with age. The administration of a ginkgo preparation to students in a big city, lead to remarkable improvements in their school results in no time.

Respiratory complaints caused by air pollution in the city, showed detectable improvements. Ginkgo extracts enhance the utilization of oxygen.

The fan-shaped leaves have two lobes [hence bi-loba]. Ginkgo biloba, dioecious and deciduous, blossoms in June. The female flowers are in pairs.

Only one of the two seeds ripens. The oil-rich brownish-yellow seed resembles a small plum and stinks of rancid butter. In old trees the bark is grey and looks like the skin of an elephant; in young trees the bark is brown with cork-like cracks.

If the skin brushes against the seed mantle [especially if it is rotting], intense skin irritation occurs, sometimes only after 1 or 2 days, which is called ginnan-kabure in Japan. It usually disappears spontaneously after a week. Other poisoning symptoms include respiration disorders.

In China and Japan the seed mantel is removed through fermentation. The remaining endosperm is then cooked, roasted or baked. In Japan the seeds are also used against worms. The leaves are laid between the pages of books to drive off parasites. The cosmetic industry uses the leaves for hair colouring agents [to look younger] and allopathy to combat oedema. "Medical excitement over ginkgo comes principally from the herb's ability to interfere with the action of a substance the body produces called platelet activating factor [PAF]. Discovered in 1972, PAF is involved in an enormous number of biological processes: asthma attacks, organ graft rejection, arterial blood flow, and the internal blood clots involved in heart attacks and some strokes. By inhibiting PAF, ginkgo has been shown to have enormous healing potential, particularly in conditions associated with aging. ... Preliminary reports suggest ginkgo may help prevent the rejection of transplanted organs.

It may also be effective against allergies, high blood pressure, kidney problems, and Alzheimer's disease." [Castleman] Ginkgo biloba is extremely rich in acids and fatty acids [chinic acid, ascorbic acid, benzoic acid, oxalic acid, butyric acid, propionic acid, caproic acid, caprylic acid, linoleic acid].

Proved in 1933 by Maury on 7 persons [5 men, 2 women]. Also proved in 1987-89 by Swoboda and Knig on 50 persons. McIvor did a proving on himself in 1971.


&lt;Compare&gt;
Rhus toxicodendron. Selenium. Spigelia. Cocculus. Gelsemium. Muriaticum acidum. Sulphur.

Comparisons
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Headache in left temple or above left eye.


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Ginkgo: Left-sided temporal or supraorbital headache, agg cold air, agg

cold, amel rest and lying down; + pain in left eye; + vertigo; + impaired vision.


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Niccolum: Nervous headache or migraine in intellectuals, + dyspepsia or constipation; headache on waking, agg towards noon, amel open air, cold applications and after eating.


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Spigelia: Neuralgic or cardiac headache extending from occiput to left eye, amel cold, agg motion and towards noon.


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Selenium: Left-sided supraorbital headache in exhausted persons, agg sun and strong odours.


&lt;Region&gt;
Central nervous system. Circulation. Skin. * Left side. Right side.


&lt;Leading Symptoms&gt;
M Mentally weak and exhausted.

Poor concentration.

Loss of memory and inability to solve mental tasks.

Absent-minded and forgetful.

Indifference on account of weakness.

"The provers remarked that everything felt too much. 'I can't do it, I

feel totally exhausted'. A dull feeling in the head, difficulty in concentration. Avoiding people and conversation. A drawing back. Rising at 7 a.m. and sitting and waiting for the time to go by. Doesn't even bother to eat; doesn't cook, or if she does, then badly." [Swoboda]

M Postponing everything.

"Nothing matters, neither to go to work nor to keep an appointment."

M Irrational fears + rapid speech.

M Suppressed anger + tendency to tear up something.

Disposition to criticise others or self-criticism.

M "The dreams were clearly remembered. Dreams of water, flooding and a characteristic fearful waking from dreams. Dreams of robbers and fights. Another prover dreamt of falling down and breaking her head in three parts. They were all fearful dreams wherein the prover woke with a fright and felt unrefreshed in the morning. Dreams of bomb explosions, of escaping and death in the family; of grave yards, of misfortune. Dreams of millions of ants, of corpses and of being dissected." [Swoboda]

M Delusion of being old. [Comp. Sequoia, another 'fossil' tree as old as Ginkgo.]

"One prover described herself as 'feeling old like an old mother,' while the mother of another prover said: 'you look like an old woman'. Sitting there in the morning, bent over, with no contact with the surroundings and concentration problems, tired and dull, forgets to cook [what she always liked to do], and dreaming that her hair gets grey. A full picture of a lonely, withdrawn, demented old person." [Swoboda]

G Pale, chilly, dry and weak people.

G Great physical fatigue.

"At the time of preparation [of the Mother Tincture of Ginkgo biloba], I

felt a certain heaviness of the head, but decided the sensation was unimportant. Within a day or two, however, my head began to feel unbearably heavy. The neck muscles felt so weak that it was necessary for me to support my head with one hand. The cervical vertebrae began to crack with head movements, particularly when turning the head to the left, and I felt overcome with exhaustion. The muscles of the arms began to feel unbearably weak, so that any form of manipulation became a great effort. Even moving the fingers and lifting the arms was exhausting." [McIvor]

G Chilly.

Icy coldness of feet and fingertips. [Unger]

Paroxysmal symmetrical paleness of hands.

G agg Cold damp weather.

agg Humid weather or warm atmosphere. [McIvor]

G Desire for cold drinks [due to dryness of throat].

G agg Alcohol. [Unger]

G Intolerance of fats. [Unger]

G Inability to perspire.

Skin dry, like parchment [as in hypothyroidism].

[McIvor also noted dryness: "Skin felt dry and body felt dry, but there was no thirst."]

Or: Offensive, sticky sweat.

G Sleeplessness, or waking, between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.

Nightmares; dreams of corpses.

G Dryness.

[nose; mouth; throat; skin]

P Left-sided temporal or supraorbital headache.

agg Cold.

amel Rest; lying down.

+ Vertigo.

+ Weakness of nape of neck.

+ Pain in left eye.

+ Impaired vision.

Dull pain in temples.

P Painful weakness of cervical region.

Great pain on turning head to left.

Stiffness and cracking on turning head to right.

P MYASTHENIA.

Muscular Weakness agg Cold.

Dupuytren's contracture.

Writer's cramp.

Increasing muscular atrophy + fibrillation and decline of reflexes.

[Unger]

[Sources: H. Unger, Ginkgo biloba, in: Leesers Lehrbuch der Homopathie, Pflanzliche Arzneistoffe I, p. 296-304.

F. Swoboda and P. Knig, A Proving of Ginkgo Biloba D 30, Homoeopathic Links 1/92.

F. Swoboda and P. Knig, Ginkgo biloba, Documenta Homoeopathica 11/1991 +
13/1993.

E.G. McIvor, Ginkgo biloba - a proving, British Homoeopathic Journal 64/2, 1975.]

RUBRICS*
Mind: Absent-minded [2]; inadvertence [1]. Abstraction of mind while driving car [1]. Anger with herself [1]; while listening to talk of others [1]. Anxiety on waking from frightful dreams [1]. Cheerful in spite of itching eruption [1]. Aversion to company [2]; avoids people [2].

Concentration difficult [3]; while talking [1]; while writing [1]. Aversion to conversation [2]. Delusion she is old [1]; she is poor [1]; she is pregnant [1]. Disgust with herself [1]. Aversion to being disturbed [2]. Fear of poverty [1]. Aversion to going out [1]. Irritability [3]; from trifles [2]. Pities herself [1]. Wants to be quiet [1]. Indisposed to talk during sadness [1]. Weeping amel [1]; easily [1]; before menses [1]; when telling about her sickness [1].

Vertigo: With obscuration of sight [1].

Head: Heat in head after drinking wine [1]. Pain, headache [4]; amel

coffee [1]; constant [1]; + dullness [1]; + sensation as if skull were too small [1]; from odours [1]; amel sleep [1]; from loss of sleep [1]; + desire for wrapping up [1]. Sensation of perspiration [1].

Eye: Lachrymation when looking steadily [1]; during pain in eye [1].

Pain amel cold air [1]; amel open air [1]; as from exertion of vision [1]; burning pain amel rubbing [1].

Ear: Red discolouration of ears + heat in head after drinking wine [1]. Noises in ears + nausea [1]; + vertigo [1].

Face: Corners of mouth cracked [1]. Eruption, herpes wing of nose at beginning of menses [1]. Pain agg draft of air [1]; amel warmth [1]; amel warmth and wrapping up [1].

Mouth: Taste as from tobacco in mouth [1].

Teeth: Pain amel biting teeth together [1]; beginning long after extraction [1].

Throat: Pain at night [2]; amel drinking [2]; agg empty swallowing [3].

Stomach: Sensation as if stomach were filled with ants [1/1].

Fullness [2]; after eating ever so little [1]; + thirst [1]. Thirst at night [1].

Abdomen: Pain, at night, waking from sleep during menses [1]; agg

clothing [1]; amel warmth [1].

Rectum: Constipation, difficult stool, stool recedes [1]. Flatus, offensive smell like spoiled eggs [1]. Sudden urging in morning [1]; waking her at night [1].

Bladder: Involuntary urination during cough [1].

Urine: Copious in morning on waking early [1].

Female: Menses more at night [1]; copious and short [2]; too frequent [2]; short duration [3].

Chest: Palpitation of heart [2]; in evening in bed [1]; agg lying on left side [1]; amel motion [1]; amel motion of legs [1]. Offensive perspiration in axilla [1].

EXTREMITIES: Awkwardness, hands, drops things during headache [1].

Excoriation between toes as from perspiration [1]. Formication legs while sitting, amel motion [1]. Brittle nails [1]. Pain long after injury [1]; pain in joints during rain and cold, damp weather [1].

Perspiration: While talking to someone [1].

GENERALITIES: Morning [4]. Evening [3]. Night [2]. Lack of vital heat in evening in bed, preventing sleep [1]. Lassitude # activity [1]. Weariness [3]; in morning on waking [2]; amel walking in open air [1].

*[Derived from Swoboda and Knig]


Food

Aversion: Alcohol [1]; beer [1]; coffee [1]; eggs [1]; milk [1]; tobacco [1].

Desire: Alcohol [1]; beer [1]; chocolate [1]; coffee [1]; cold beer [1]; cold drinks [1]; meat [1]; salt [1]; sugar [1]; sweets [1]; tuna fish [1].

Worse: Alcohol [2]; fat [2]; coffee [1]; cold beer [1]; smell of tobacco [1].

Better: Coffee [1].

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Dr. Faiz Rasool Faizy<br />Registered Homeopath

Vermeulen Synoptic 2\GinsengGINSENG


Gins.


&lt;Signs&gt;
Panax ginseng. Aralia quinquefolia. Panax quinquefolia. N.O. Araliaceae.

With 55 genera and 700 species, the Araliaceae plant family is relatively large. It mainly involves trees and shrubs, often prickly or climbing. They are chiefly tropical in distribution. A well known genus is Hedera [Ivy].

The name 'Panax' is derived from Gr. pan, all, and akos, a remedy, in allusion to the root of this herb to which miraculous virtues have been ascribed [panacea]. The American variety, called Panax quinquefolia, is a native plant of the cool woods of eastern North America. The Asiatic ginseng is native to Manchuria, Korea, and Japan. From time immemorial, the Chinese have believed that ginseng is a cure for all diseases and infirmities. The word 'ginseng' is said to mean 'the wonder of the world'. Because of its slow growth, it takes about five to seven years for the ginseng plant to mature from seed to the full plant. The older the plant, the more valuable.

"The reason wild ginseng sells for a much higher prices than cultivated ginseng is that it is more potent and more difficult to secure. The belief that radioactive substances from the earth are more potent in ground where the ginseng grows wild also brings a better price for the wild plant.

However, wild ginseng is more difficult to find, for it is believed that the ginseng plant is so sensitive that it will, at the slightest sound, fold its flowers and make itself look like other plants." [Twitchell]

In Tibet, the herb is gathered during the early season of the year, right after the snow has left the ground. It must be searched for in the dark hollows of the hills where it hides itself from human eyes.

This has a simple explanation. Ginseng grows naturally in shaded forests where no direct sunlight comes through. This should be remembered when cultivating the plant. Sunlight must be avoided; therefore, the plant is treated and harvested in clear moonlight.

During the Second World War, the Russians carried out much research into the plant, which led to the discovery that the roots contained many radioactive properties.

In the Orient, ginseng is prized as an elixir for 'staying young,' whereas in the Far East it is highly valued as a sex rejuvenant. Chinese healers insist that ginseng does not stimulate the sex glands into unnatural activity but that it is a restorer of the normally healthy sexual function that has become 'weary.' Russian scientists claim to have found substances in ginseng that stimulate endocrine secretions and act as a tonic to the cardiovascular system.

One doesn't need a great deal of imagination to see in the unusually shaped root a human form with head, torso, arms and legs. This partly explains the belief that ginseng root affect the entire human being. Mandragora, 'the dragon which resembles man,' has gathered similar mysteries and myths around itself.

A lot of research has been carried out into the plant's constituents. It is definite that ginseng contains a lot of saponins, as well as vitamins B1, B2, B12 and C, and a large number of minerals and trace elements, such as magnesium, aluminium, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, vanadium, manganese, iron, cobalt, copper, germanium, arsenic and especially sulphur.

Oestrogen-like substances are only found in wild species.

Ginseng root has the following effects: 1 It has a stimulating effect on the central nervous system without, however, evoking a subjective feeling of excitement as do amphetamines.

2.It protects the organism against external factors such as cold, warmth, ultraviolet radiation.

3.It lowers the blood pressure. This effect, however, only lasts for about 5 to 15 minutes.

4. It lowers the blood sugar level and activates insulin activity.

5. In chronic gastritis it improves the appetite.

6. It stimulates the adrenal cortex, which probably explains the herbs capacity to resist infection and its gonadotropic characteristics.

Due to the plants low toxicity level, no poisoning symptoms are known.

Proved by Jouve in 1836 [number of provers unknown] and by Lembke on 3 persons in 1848.


&lt;Compare&gt;
Gelsemium. Phosphoricum acidum. China. Aralia racemosa. Agnus castus. Zincum.

Onosmodium.


&lt;Region&gt;
Lumbar region. Central nervous system. Genitals. Mucous membranes. * Right side.


&lt;Leading Symptoms&gt;
M Mind generally calm; still there are impatient impulses and fear of accidents, with, at times, disposition to weep, or to be anxious about the future. [Allen]

M Mental and nervous exhaustion from overwork.

G Neurasthenia after debilitating diseases.

G General prostration + stiffness of lumbar region.

amel Continued motion [stiffness].

agg Continued motion [prostration].

G Great sensitiveness to cold.

G Great drowsiness.

Awakens with difficulty or else with a start.

G Sexual weakness.

+ Rheumatic pains in hips, groins and back.

G Sensitiveness to light.

"Sensation of fatigue in eyes when exposed to the light; objects appear double when looked at fixedly; in reading, the characters become confused." [Clarke]

G Tight clothes intolerable [stomach and abdomen].

G Great dryness of mouth, tongue, lips, and palate.

"Swallowing of saliva very difficult; a swallow of water moistens only for a moment." [Clarke]

"The extremely distressing dryness of the lips, which are rough, and the mouth and fauces, is aggravated by the open air and by talking; at the same time there is a very scraping sore sensation in the fauces, aggravated by empty swallowing and by drawing the air in through the nose, which is dry." [Allen]

"All the parts of the mouth stick together; no collection of saliva is possible; he can speak only with difficulty." [Allen]

Dryness agg open air and on slight physical exertion.

G Vertigo on going down winding stairs.

While standing, the ground seems to waver.

Reeling sensation in occiput, + grey spots before the eyes.

P Heaviness and falling of upper eyelids.

Inward pressure on eyes.

P Face alternately pale and red.

P Indigestion + Hiccough.

P Lumbago, sciatica and chronic rheumatism.

+ Frequent desire to urinate.

+ Sexual excitement.

P Rheumatism.

"Bruised pain affects the lower back and thighs, associated with burning, stiffness, numbness, heaviness. The joints feel stiff and contracted and crackle on movement. The hands feel swollen and the skin seems tight.

Coldness is felt in the region of the spine. The fingertips burn." [Gibson]

P Coldness, trembling, and numbness of hands, with deadness of fingers.


&lt;RUBRICS&gt;
Mind: Full of cares [1]. Hurry in movements [1].

Vertigo: Sensation of falling backward, while sitting [1]. Occipital [1]. With obscuration of vision [1].

Head: Pain, headache from mental exertion [1]; headache in forehead, alternating sides [1]. Pulsating from exertion [1]. Swollen feeling [1].

Eye: Sensation of coldness on surface of eyeball [1]. Itching and biting in margins of lids [1]. Pupils alternately large and small, but frequently enlarged [1].

Vision: Diplopia on looking steadily at objects [1].

Nose: Sensitive to inhaled air [1]. Pain on inhaling air [1].

Mouth: Bitter taste after drinking [2].

Abdomen: Pain in right hypogastrium extending to groins [2]; colic commencing on the right side and extending to the left, and then rising to the region of the heart [1/1].

Respiration: Difficult respiration while sitting [1], amel walking [1].

Chest: Oppression amel walking [1].

Back: Sensation of great coldness, extending into vertebrae, + cold hands and blue nails [1/1]. Cracking in upper cervical vertebrae on moving head [1]. Heat after wine [1]. Lancinating pain between scapulae when straightening himself up [2], + difficult breathing [1].

EXTREMITIES: White discolouration of fingers during coldness [1]; blueness of fingernails [1]. Sensation of lightness and flexibility of limbs, in morning [1/1]. Sen-sation of swelling of hands, on closing them [1].

Sensation of internal trembling [1].

Sleep: Sleepiness during headache [1].

Food

Desire: Alcohol [1]; stimulants [1].

Worse: Wine [1; heat of whole body, esp. of back, with distended veins].

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RSHom - Registered Homeopath

This is fun--

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Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath

Oh Faizy, welcome

Thanks for the update, have you renewed your registeration?

The last date is 12 feb 2004.

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KN

Ricky, arre you getting this from CARA? Whenever I try to copy and paste, I can only do one section at a time (each blank line makes a new section). Do you have a technique for doing a copy and paste of the entire page at one time? Or are you getting the information somewhere else?

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Shirley Reischman

In the new ISIS there is the opposite problem- you can't just copy a section - but only the full thing and I don't know which is more annoying!!!!! (I just sent someone a Sherr proving which was 146 pages long!!!!)

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RSHom - Registered Homeopath

Kausar,

I am not interested at all in renewal. The only benefit, we can get from this renewal process is we will become eligible for casting vote. Rest there is no facility which you can get. Secondly, you can get renewal at any stage of your practice. Allopaths pay 1000 Rupees after four years but ministry provide lot of facilities / advantages to them if we pay 500 then what will be the advantage for us except that you can cast your vote?

So for only seven thousand applications out of 90 thousands have been received in the office. This also tells something.

In Pakistan, quack are practicing allopathy without having MBBS degree. No body is interested to stop them but we are genuine licensed homeopaths who will stop us?

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Dr. Faiz Rasool Faizy<br />Registered Homeopath

dear dr faiz and Kausar
knoledge does not require registration and by registering yr competence will not enhance and those who r registered r not necessarily true and professional hOmeopath
so i agree with y faiz the work of candle i to spread light whether it is on sharine or on dinning table
god bless y