LMHI 63o Congress

Belgium Oostende
2008

Clinical verification on the pathogenethical symptoms of Anacardium or.,

regarding the general aspects of the Human Being

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo, M.D., F. F. Hom. (Lon.)

Summary

The subject of this paper is to call for the attention of the homeopathic doctors
that having symptoms emerged from the proving on the healthy individual or
single clinical symptoms (rubrics arranged in the way they are in our repertories)
is not enough when we are prescribing for the sick. Its necessary that all the
information from those data collection, gathered together around a given
substance, should be used mainly to give us a first approach to a general idea of
who is our patient, and to whom a given substance should be prescribed.
In this study, Anacardium or. exemplifies how the general comprehension of a
remedy could be obtained.
The pathogenethical symptoms were grouped together around single topics and a
comparison was done with the symptoms obtained from a series of homeopathic
interviews of five patients.
The Anacardium image is discussed in the conclusion.

Objectives

The purpose of this paper is to show how possible is to have a general idea of
whos the Human Being sensitive to the curative effects of Anacardium or.
through a comparison between symptoms from our Materias Medicas with
symptoms collected from our patients.

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 Introduction

The information used before and nowadays by most of the homeopathic doctors
all around the world, regarding the indication of our remedies are, basically, the
three great Materias Medicas: Hannemanns, Allens and Herings huge data
collection on information about the pathogenesis of thousands of substances.
New pathogenetical experimentation are nowadays been held and at the same
time clinical verified symptoms are also added to our repertories.
Therefore, to complement the information collected from our books, a
comparison between the pathogenetical symptoms of Anacardium or. and the
clinical symptoms obtained from a group of patients much helped during their
treatment with this medicine was performed. The goal was, as stated before,
through the patients own words, to obtain an explanation, direction and
meaning to the symptoms, giving us an idea of who is the Anacardium or.
patient.

Methods

Anacardium orientale (Mallaca nut) was first introduced as a remedy by the

arabs, many centuries ago, its indication being for several clinical diseases. But
Anacardium completely fell into oblivion up to Hahnemanns time. It was
brought back to medical use by Hahnemann, and it was homeopathically proved
by himself, together with his fellow collaborators.
The first observations were described in Hahnemanns Chronic Diseases.

The symptoms taken from those Materia Medicas, along with some hints
presented by Dr. Kent in his Lectures were first arranged in topics.
These topics are a natural result of a group of symptoms that were connected one
to the other with the same subject.

Common symptoms from those authors were all put aside, and the same
symptoms that appeared in different books were not repeated. It was quoted the
author after every symptom.

These topics are not in sequence or related by any way through a logical model.
As the papers purpose is to have a clear image of who is the Anacardium or.
patient, only mental symptoms were used. It doesnt mean that all the other
symptoms shouldnt be taken in consideration during and after an interview with
the patient.

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Those groups are:
1. Indifference

2. Persecution

3. Future

4. Confidence

5. Violence

6. Work

7. Memory

8. Intellect

9. Mood

10. Wickedness

11. Sense of reality

12. Devil/Demon

13. Duality

14. Love

15. Body

16. Money (not present in the MM)

Patients:
M. G., female, born on October 1986, my patient since October 1989.
L. T., female, born in September, 1981, my patient since September 1990.
A. V., male, born in June, 1987, my patient since August 2007.
P.B., male, born in April 1976, my patient since March 1989.
C.B., female, born on January 2005, my patient since January 2007
In some cases Anacardium was prescribed after some years of ups and downs
with relative successful prescriptions. But, after prescribing Anac., we finally
managed to cure the patient from his clinical symptoms, altogether with a
changing in his mental attitudes towards life.
So, those early symptoms were also included in our study, meaning that all
mental symptoms from these five patients, since their childhood, were taken in
consideration.

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 1. Indifference

He is very indifferent and unfeeling; neither agreeable nor disagreeable objects

excites his interest *, **, ***

Clinical observations

L.:
She is indifferent to everyone and everything. Dont want to talk to my friends
Doesnt want to go out with her friends, doesnt answer the phone. She stays at
home during the weekends, without returning or answering the phone calls. Has
a sort of indifference to people and things.
She locks herself up at home if her dress was not properly ironed.
She gives nothing, she only asks.
She has no boyfriend, staying at home during the weekends.

P.:
He stays in bed for hours, with no interest in anything. Hes doing nothing. His
common duties like taking care of his documents or going to school are put aside.
He never does what he should do.

2. Persecution

When walking he felt anxious, as if someone were pursuing him; he suspected

everything around him *
he imagine himself surrounded with enemies *
as if someone were coming behind him; everything around him seemed to
him suspicious ***
That a stranger is by his side, is another recognition of the two wills ****

Clinical observations

A.:
He cannot trust his friends. He thinks that they will take him to evil ways.

P.:
The house will be assaulted, so every night he goes to sleep with his mother.
He got dreams of persecution.
He has this feeling of been accused of something that he had not done. Hes
always saying I didnt do that!
Aversion of been looked at, since childhood.
When I wake him up, he always came up frightened
Dream: with his girlfriend: that she is helping a thief to cut off his penis with a
knife.

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The thief commands her to cut him out; she obeys and helps the thief to do it. He
take his penis is his hands and start running through the streets, looking for a
doctor to get it sutured.
Dream: My hand was cut out and I run to a doctor, holding my amputated hand,
to be sutured back in my arm.
Dream: my girlfriend is having sex with my best friends, I got mad but Ive got
no strength to beat her down. When I woke up I punched my bed and my pillow
with my fists until I got hurt.

C.:
Shes afraid of the Securitys personal of a Mall.
Shes frightened when hearing male voices.
Very suspicious, she always observes people.
She has aversion of being touched by strangers.

3. Future

The future appears dangerous to him, as if nothing but misfortune and danger
were reserved for him; want of confidence in his strength *
threatening misfortune *
Internal anxiety, which did not leave him any peace; he felt solicitous on
account of every trifle, as if it would lead to some great trouble; with
apprehension of the future as if it would cause great injure *, ***,
his future seems to him very dangerous, distrust in his own power and
despotency ***
; he thought his name was called by the voice of his far distant mother and
sister; at the same time, apprehension and anguish foreboding the future ***,

Clinical observations

M.:
Weeping mood when thinking about the future, because she knows that, later in
her life, her parents will be dead.
Fear of the time passing, someone will die.
Fear that her family could die and she gets herself alone in the world.
She calls her mother, asking her if the world is coming to an end; if the building
they live would be set on fire; fear of accidents, any sort of danger.

P.:
He wanted to come to the USA but immediately he assumes that hes going to die
before accomplish that. Hell not going to make it, that it will be too good if he
manage to travel to the USA (to have a better working opportunity).

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 4. Confidence

and has so little confidence in himself that he despairs of being able to

accomplish what is demanded of him ***, *
Sadness; looks at the dark side of anything **
Hes separated from the world and has so little confidence in himself that he
despairs of being able to do that which is required from him *, **

Clinical observations

M.:
She anticipates all her home-works. But she feels as if she will not succeed to
make it done, she will not be able to give the right answer.
She goes to her exams assuming that she knows nothing on the subject.
She always assumed that she will fail her school exams.
Always anxious, afraid of not succeeding, afraid of failure. Ive got my goals, my
ambitions, everything should happen the way Ive planned.
Im methodical.

L.:
She withdraw at any difficulty, any new enterprise. When she started learning
how to ride a bicycle, she got so much anxious that she started vomiting. She
doesnt like new things.
Too anxious before an examination.
Pessimist. She assumes that shes unlucky, that things are not the way they
should be, nothing will turn alright for her, and that she got pimples on her face.
That her life time is not enough to reach what she wanted to do.
That shes not going to make it.
Ive got the impression that all my colleagues at the Business Company will start
gossiping, talking about me if I fail, they will say that I shouldnt fail.
Fear of failure, if my boss calls me on the phone, I think: what have I done
wrong?

A.:
Im so much anxious before an examination that I got myself completely
paralyzed, cant stop thinking on that up to the results are given. Im afraid of not
obtain good marks.
Before the exams he trembles, and has a cold perspiration all over the body.

P.:
Always imagine the things will not get done. It would never work out.
Pessimist.
Thinks hes incapable to learn. That hes dumb, ignorant, that he has no capacity
for learning. Hes the worse one. Every time that something difficult happens to
him, he back off, feeling helpless.

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Despair, helpless, doesnt know what he should do in his life. He got bad luck and
hes not able to accomplish anything.
I dont have any confidence in me, never accomplish anything. From the very
first moment I started having that feeling Ive been trying nothing. I feel unable
of doing anything, to study, to be near by the girls.
He destroyed his photo with red ink.
Ive got this inferiority feeling, I feel like s*
Now I got confidence in my work but not to women. Feel Im not too good for
her, and that Ill not be able to satisfy her (sexually), that Im not a man (sexually
good enough).
I feel as I was lesser than the others.
(He feels that the only way to satisfy his girlfriend is to have many sexual
relations a day. He imagines that only one intercourse a day will be not enough
for her and then he feels miserable, impotent).
I imagine qualities on other people that my girlfriend wanted me to have but I
dont.
I fancied been married and someday my wife got sexually involved to a mason,
whos stronger and taller than me. I got myself excited thinking on that (and
starts masturbating himself).

C.:
She screams during the night due to nightmares, when she started Kindergarten.

5. Violence

A slight offence makes him excessively angry, breaking out in personal

violence *
He takes everything in bad part and becomes violent *, **, ***
Excessively peevish and ill-humored *, ***
Very peevish and out of humor, with great sensitiveness to all offences ***
Passionate and contrary ***
breaking out of violence ***
Furious, has to be kept in a straight jacket **

Clinical observations:

M.:
During a party there were this group of baby chickens and there was a lot of fuzz
around them. She said that she wanted to kill them all, because everyone at the
party was paying attention only to them, not to her.

L.:
She wanted to push her fingers into her sisters eyes.
She tore her hairbrush apart only because her hair was not combed the way she
wanted.

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(During one of the consultations I observed that she was very much offended due
to the mothers description of her physical symptoms. I got the impression that
she was blaming someone else for her sufferings)
When shes on her examination week at school, she looses all control: She bites
herself up to perforate her skin and scratch her face with her nails up to start
bleeding. It seems to me as if the houses roof would fall down on our heads!

P.:
He takes everything in a bad part.
Easily offended, since he was a baby
He got very angry when someone tries to help him.
Hes expecting to be killed in an accident, murdered by someone else, always
predicting that hell be killed in a violent way.
Had a furious attack and broke several things in his house.
Hes throwing things on people.

6. Work

Every kind of intellectual labor is difficult for him, like a kind of absent-
mindedness *
Dread of labor; hes afraid of undertaking the least labor; he likes nothing *
Indisposed to work; hes afraid of undertaking anything, he has no pleasure in
anything (***)

Clinical observation

L.:
My work is a burden. I feel the pressure too much.
Cant sleep due to anxiety, Im too conscious, too perfectionist, couldnt bear if
any mistake shows up, its the end.

7. Memory

Great weakness of memory; cannot remember anything; forgets everything

immediately *, **
He remembers with difficulty; he retains nothing in his memory; he is deficient
in ideas and he soon loses his subject without been aware of it *, **, ***
he cannot find the words he wanted ***

Clinical observations

P.:
Sometimes Ive got a sort of a memory gaps, I lose my recollection of thoughts.

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 8. Intellect

Extreme excitement of the fancy, with a number of projects ; hes not able to
control his attention; little by little the mind becomes dull, so that hes without
ideas *
Increased fantasy; something new continually occurs to him, which he must
follow out ***
his head feels confused and empty *
Obtuseness of senses, with anxiety; he hardly notices what passes around him
***
Dullness of mind and inability to think **
Anacardium enfeebles the understanding (Hahnemann quoting Matthiolus)
Everything intellectual is hard for him ***
Any exertion in the mind causes him a sensation of prostration in the brain ***
He can only think when a subject is suggested to him; he does not think of
himself anything; he cannot independently determine on anything ***

Clinical observations

M.:
Shes a very good student, full of responsibility, nothing can be left undone. Shes
organized, conscientious, and careful with her duties at the school. She wants her
marks to be always above the class average.
Im happy only when Im the best student of my class. I always wanted to be the
best one, to reach the best marks
I dont like to make any mistakes.
I always ask myself: am I doing the right thing? Is everything alright? My
problem is my Ego. Its like to have potential and at the same time this feeling of
lack of importance to the others.

L.:
She always wants to have the best grades in school. So before any test she suffers
strong stomach pains.
Shes never late at school. Full of responsibility, she got always very good marks.
But she got the impression that she will be given the worse marks at every exam.
Shes always weeping, after every test.
After she got not a very good mark in Math at school, she got deeply ashamed of
everyone. She doesnt want to address to anyone, stops asking for anything.
She sits and learns every day more and more but she is more and more nervous
before exams.

P.:
Has no concentration, his room is a mess, never finishes what he starts.
Hes always late at school, he lost his books, has low marks on six subjects.
He had failed his final years examinations for many consecutive years.

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 9. Mood

Hypochondriac, troubled mood, depression, unsociableness, ***

Estrangement from individuals and society, with fear of future **

Clinical observations

L.:
Very angry mood, attacks of very bad feelings towards the others. Irritable, dark
mood. Angry, she throws things away. Constant bad mood.
Access of anger, when she doesnt get the best marks at school. She screams,
strike her sister and everyone else at home, breaking thinks or throwing them out
all around the house.
She throws things on his family.
Too much sadness, alternating with bursts of anger.
Changing mood every five minutes
Depressive mood, spend the weekends at home, after working 12 hours a day.

P.:
Hes very angry before any sort of criticism.
Very irritable to his family, but nice to his friends.
He only eats when the food is well cooked, arranged, when the taste of the food is
very good.
Suspicious, doesnt want his mother to tell me the information that I am asking
about of him. Commands his mother to stop talking.
Is always crossed, fighting for the least trifle. During these moments he throws all
things away.
Hes very rude with his mother and his family. Hes always blaming his family for
his bad irritable mood, for things that happens to him.
Very aggressive, the slight argument brings anger, shouting, bad mood.
Hes very critical towards the others.
Never satisfied with all the things he has, always wants more.
Life is horrible
He wants to kill himself; that his place is in the graveyard. Life is not worthy to be
lived; for him, living has no meaning.

C:
Irritable, bad mood.
She teases her older sister saying: your hair is full of cockroaches!

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 10. Wickedness

Disposition to malice, seeems bent to wickedness **

lack of moral sense (flagitiousness, impiety, inhumanity, hardheartness ***
Irresistible desire to curse and swear ***
Want of moral feeling, depravity, ungodliness, inhumanity and hardness of
heart **
Malicious, wicked and cruel **

Clinical observations

M.:
Her mother said that shes a proud, capricious and haughty person. Nothing
satisfies her. When she receives a gift at her birthday, she doesnt open the
packages, only asking if theres more. And at the end of the party she complains:
its only these ones?
She must be told that everything around belongs to her, otherwise she starts
shouting and screaming to everyone.
She says that she wants to live in a castle.
When she goes to a birthday party, she wants to be the person whos at the center
of the festivity, she doesnt accept not to be the one. She needs also to be the
prettiest girl at the party.
She says that she is better than the other children and that shes superior, wants
to be the first one, showing what shes able to do.
She said to her mother: I want everything that belongs to you. Why dont you
stop using those things? Because I want them all and if you use them they will be
second handed in the future.
Why do you have those clothes and I dont?
When she sees her cousins or friends with different clothing, things that she
doesnt have, she gets out of her mind.
Ive got a boyfriend, but he never satisfies me. I want to be with the guy that is at
the magazine cover. I want to win the Oscar, to be above all the others. But deep
inside myself Im ashamed the way I am (weeping)
Ill never be as famous as I wanted to be because Im not good enough

L.:
Shes very rude and hispid to everyone in the house. Shes very hard to the
employees of the house. Shes very dictatorial to everyone but her friends.
She always compares herself to others. She wants to be the best one, the prettier
girl around, the one who got the best clothing.
She beats her sister everyday on account of her jealousy.
She only thinks on herself
She has no feelings towards the others, shes is hard to everyone else, doesnt
accept any caresses and any affection from anyone of us
Unfeeling towards the others. Shes rational, cold minded, doesnt care about
the others.

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Very competitive in her work, has no friends, treats everyone around in a hard
way, distant. She sees all her colleagues as enemies and she fights them due to
her growing inside the company plans.
She has no Human-hood feelings (her mothers observations) no piety, no
compassion.
I love my dog. When I took him in my arms I want do squeeze him up to the end.
I used to push my fingers into my sisters eyes saying mama told you to go to
sleep

A.:
He loves sports cars. Has one of his own and had changed it and put in there all
sorts of car accessories. He has even a DVD player on board.
Hes very keen on clothes, he uses a large silver collar around his neck and own
this sports car and has this body building attitude.
My father couldnt afford to give me all the things I wanted, so my grandma used
to give me those things

P.:
He had been drinking too much, almost every night. Hes also on drugs, smoking
grass, using cocaine. He drank twenty beer cans along with many Rohypinol
pills, he almost got himself killed.
He never does what he should do at school, his obligations and his duties.
Everyone has obligations to him and he got none. He is always asking for more
things, demands many things, but gives nothing in return.
What God should do with useless people like me?
Sometimes I wanted to be a positive person; but I know that inside myself Im a
bad person
He laughs from the Law and says that hes able to free from jail any criminal that
hire his services. That it doesnt matter what crime someone had committed, he
can use his knowledge to release the bandit. I make a lot of money doing that.
Sometimes I got hired to destroy someone else. This gives me a sensation that
Im not doing the right thing
I can have no moral feelings if I want to.

C.:
She couldnt stop laughing when she first saw a child who had fell down and got
his head hurt.
She had outbursts of laughing, when her mother advised her that she could fall
down and hurt herself.

11. Sense of reality

Everything appears as if in a dream **

Idea of everything perceived had no reality, all things appear as in a dream **

Clinical observations: None

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 12. Devil/Demon

Fixed ideas: , about redemption of mind and soul and about the devil; that a
stranger is constantly at his side; that strange forms accompany him, one to his
right, one to his left **
Hallucination; a demon sits on his neck and tells him most offensive things **
Uses profane language, swears, thinks himself a demon **
Has a devil in his ear whispering blasphemorous words **
Hallucinations: a demon sits on one shoulder and an angel on the other ****

Clinical observations

A.:
I have always seen many spirits, Im afraid of spirits ever since. It happens from
to time to time since I was a child up to now. I see a kind of smoke and I know its
the devil and I know also that he wants to give me a message, he wants to tell me
something, but I reject it, Im afraid to listen what says the message.
I always fell the devil behind me, I looked back, saw no one. I used to spray Holy
water in my back, believing that Holy Water could cure me

P.:
Dreams with the devil.

13. Duality

In one ear a devil, in the other a angel, prompts him to do murder or acts of
benevolence **
Feeling as if spirit was separated from body *, **
Thinks hes double **
A condition as if he had two wills of which the one annuls what the other impels
him to do; sensation as if his spirit were unconnected with the body ***
she laughs at serious and is serious over ludicrous occurrences **
Contradiction between reason and will **
Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding to do what the other
forbids **
Hes in a continuous controversy with himself ****
He is persuaded by his evil to do acts of violence and injustice, but it is withheld
and restrained by a good will ****

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Clinical observations

M.:
She thinks too much to decide anything and then she got herself paralyzed
When I was a child, I bought myself a picture frame that has a devil in one
corner and an angel at the other, half a devil and half an angel and I put my
picture in
Im afraid to make an option of the Goodness side in life and miss all the nice
things the Evil side can offer to me

L.:
Lots of indecisions She doesnt know what to do with the money she earns; try
many dresses and never know what to buy. And when she buys something, she
doesnt use it, saying that shes fat.
She changed all her birthday gifts several times, each one of them.
She always changed all the gifts she received.

A.:
My parents will help me in the direction of Good, to the right way. I dont want
to hurt anyone. A lot of people do not want the welfare of others. I can be
influenced by a false friend and follow the wrong path. I dont have enough
knowledge to decide between Good and Evil, between Right and Wrong.
Im afraid to lose my family, my parents, then there will be no one to tell me
which way I should take in direction of Good (and so follow the Evil way).

P.:
Ive got the sensation that my body is divided in two parts, as if they were apart
of each other
We stop smoking
Ive got two sides: one is competitive, wants to win, this is the healthy one; the
other side is depressed, full of fears, has difficulties on taking decisions.
I realized that my whole life was to deciding between Right and Wrong. And Ive
been choosing the Wrong side (after Anac.).
Im convinced of the conflict Ive got inside myself, between Right and Wrong. It
seems to me that Ive got two persons inside myself

C.:
Singing during fever.
She only weeps when shes angry

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 14. Love

After having caressed her husband or child she pushes them away from her, as
if they were not what she supposed **

Clinical observations

M.:
The clinical symptoms shes complaining now have started when her sister was
born. She was madly jealous. She started striking her baby sister every time she
could. A baby dog was given to her as a gift, but as soon as she discovered that the
dog was also a baby, she literally thrown him away, hurting the poor animal.
My parents love is only to my sister. I shouldnt have become a grown up.
She is always singing songs that she invented for herself. And the words are
always about how shes not loved by anyone.
She complains that her friends dont love her. Nobody wanted to stay or to talk to
me at school.

L.:
She couldnt accept her mothers milk ended. Inconsolable, she got sick and
started to have allergies at any food that contains cows milk.
She was jealous of her sister, since the baby was born. She used to climb in the
cradle to strike her. She wanted to perforate the babys eyes
When her sister starts developing she got mad: Who told her how to walk? And
who told her how to talk?
Shes always complaining that her mothers love is only for her sister.
She complains every day that I love her sister more than I love her. So she starts
to beat her sister.
You love her more than me. Shes the princess of this house!
Shes only happy when her father is around.

A.:
Vitiligo developed after his Grandmas death. It seemed to me that I was special
to her, she gave me attention, caring more of me than the others. She used to give
me many gifts, clothes, stuff for my car. Its so difficult when Im at home and she
is not there

My relationships never last too much, Im too jealous. I want to find out the
perfect person. Im afraid of being betrayed by a girlfriend. It happened to all my
friends.
Im afraid to lose my parents, Im too attached to them, I dont know what will
become of me if I lose my parents. Id rather die before them. What would I do?
Who will take care of me?
Has no girlfriends whom to love, saying they will betray him like they did to
everyone else.

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P.:
Nobody cares for me, nobody gives me any attention
My father is an asshole. Ive decided not to talk to him anymore
I always feel myself apart from the others.

L.:
She wants to be the one who got all the attention. Shes very jealous of her sister,
even of the admonitions given to her.
She knows that I love to put her to sleep, but she turns away saying that she
doesnt want me. As if she wanted punish me, to hurt me.
She is very sweet with her friends, got many friends.
If her grandpa gives more attention to her sister, she stops talking to him.

15. Body

Dreams that her face is covered with white, ugly pustules *

Clinical observations

M.:
Shes very cautious; shes afraid of blood and when looking at a swimming pool
she always asks if its deep. If she sees a small spot on her skin, she shouts and
cries for help. When she started learning how to walk, it could be only if she was
grabbed to someone or to something she could hold at; she was afraid to fall and
hurt herself.
She said to her mother that she loves her so much that she wanted her for herself.
But she says also to her mother: I want to be prettier than you are. If she goes
out with her mother, she wishes to be dressed only with her more expensive
clothing.
Everyone has a prettier hair, everyone got a nicer house.
She complains that shes ugly and weird. That shes fat (shes not), her hair is
awful.
She found herself skinny and so she starts eating more than she needs. So, she
got herself nauseated.
Do you really think Im pretty?
Completely insecure, thinks shes ugly. (She became a very nice young woman).
She hides her body under heavy clothing.
When her mother started to going to a gym to work out, she was very displeased,
saying you will be prettier than me.
Shes very pleased when her mother eats more than she and completely destroyed
when the opposite occurs.
After starting hormone pills to avoid pregnancy, she got her face filled with acne
boils. Roacutan didnt help her, so she went into a completely despair, weeping
and crying.

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Depressed, weeping mood, since her face got itself covered with acne. Those
eruptions became a torture to me. I cant stop crying, one day after the other

L.:
Every time she travels, she gets sick, saying that shes afraid of leaving home, she
misses home.
Very cautious, always worried of not getting hurt.
Fear of violence.
Fear of accidents, fear of driving.
Shes afraid of growing up, to be a woman, to start her periods.
She says that shes ugly, that she got an ugly nose (she hasnt). And thats all her
mothers fault, she doesnt take care of her
Stops eating, thinks shes fat (shes not). She blames on her mother for being fat.
Im ugly, my legs are full of cellulites, Im fat and my hair stinks
After her mother suffered an accident, she was deeply affected. She developed a
strong eruption on her face. After using some allopathic creams it turns into a
severe allergic swelling. She was then medicated with a series of vaccinations.
After that she developed facial acne hard enough to cure, treated by a heavy dose
of steroids.
Shes too vain, always worried with the superficial thinks of life.
Afraid of getting old, I hate old people, they become deaf, blind. I avoid my
grandma for that.
Too much attached to creams for the skin.
Bathing compulsion, she is taking showers several times a day.

A.:
Hes a sort of Hulk type of guy. He exercises every day in order to become
stronger, full of muscles.

P.:
Sometime before I wanted to push my teeth inside my mouth, I wanted to break
my teeth. But now I want to protect my teeth, I fell as if they would break
I feel rotten inside
Afraid of having cancer. panic. He says that, if he got sick, hell kill himself.
Sensation that I had done something bad and this thing is destroying my body.
He returns to consultation nine years after the last one. Now hes a lawyer. Hes
dressed in a black suit and shirt. Hes wearing a Golden watch, golden rings and
silver tie. He submitted himself to a plastic surgery on his nose to fix some
imperfections.

C.:
Busy with clothing, hair brushing, nail varnish, make up. (Shes only two years
old)
Fear of hurting herself; of having an accident.

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 16. Money

(Not in the Materia Medica)

Clinical observations

L.:
Since her parents divorce shes taken to herself the financial control of the family.
Doing exams to become an Economics University student.
Shes in charge of the Financial Department of a Fast-food Company.

A.:
One of his concerns was on who will give him all the accessories, clothing and
other things his grandma used to provide him with. This, together with
grandmas advice on how to become a righteous person was the reason why he
was grieving so much, after her passing.

P.:
Hes always suspicious that the things promised to him (like money, clothing, all
sort of things he wanted) wouldnt be given. If anything is promised, he
immediately starts to complain that he knows the promise will not be fulfilled.
He constant asks for more money and has no control over his expenses.
He is always asking for something.
He worries too much on money subjects.
(His grandpa complained to me that Paulo is too rude, only paying him a visit
when he wants some money.
Mother: He wanted me to sell the house and to give his share to him
Hes always asking for more money. Thats his major ambition, to become rich.
He says that if doesnt make enough money in the honest way, hell kill for it.
He needs to have money. Never stops spending, with no control over his
expenses. He makes a lot of money but wastes it all, never knowing how much he
makes.

Discussion

Modern world translates itself to everyone through success and money.

Unfortunately, is the result of our income that shows to the world, on first hand,
who we are. It is through our clothing or how many travels abroad we made, its
from the type of car we can afford that we are recognized as winners or losers.
Comfort, power, expensive goods, beautiful women, luxury cars, good
restaurants, jewels, all the signs of a successful professional life are related to
money. And people fight for it, work hard for it, steal and kill for it.
It is all around us, its the tale of our time.
And, should we accept it or not, the greed on money belongs to Evil. As we waist
our lives for it or kill and steal for it or suffer for it, the greed for money only

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bring us suffering and pain. Its a kind of a trap, and each and everyone feels
himself locked inside it.
We must also reflect on the internal nature of the Human Being: his primitive
nature, his feelings for survival, his inherited violence who promoted him as the
ruler species of this planet. We kill and eat almost every living thing that exists,
walks, flies or swims in this planet. We got an internal license to kill for survival,
to kill anything that can become a threat to ourselves. Ages ago we could kill for a
female or be killed by someone else for the same reason. Early tribes killed
themselves, as our modern wars, for land, food, women or simply greed for
power. Nowadays our governments kill millions of inhabitants for oil, for
cultural, racial or religious differences, for power and domination over other
countries.
This is our very own nature and evolution and civilization are a constant quest for
a better world, a better understanding between all the living beings from this
planet. Philosophy, Ethics, vegetarianism, sports, Yoga, healthy food and natural
environment, the caring for our natural resources, religion apart from fanaticism,
are all movements in the direction of a better world, a better place to live.
We named the primitive consent for killing and attaining anything through force
as belonged to Evil and the quest for a better understanding and evolution to be
named Goodness.
So we have Goodness and Evil in our everyday life. We have Duality as part of our
life; we are always fighting inside ourselves against the primitive impulses that in
early ages were a normal accepted part of our human nature.

Conclusion

Like someone who has no acquired social limits or self criticism of the things he
wants, Anacardium wants her mother or everything else for himself. Why should
he divide her beloved mother with someone else? Why shouldnt he get
everything thats around him? Why he shouldnt have all the things he wanted?
Hes not ashamed of feeling the way he feels. If beauty is something that each and
everyone of us, with no exceptions, wants, why shouldnt he? He wants to be the
best, the prettiest, because he soon discovers that the best students are
reverenced, the pretty ones are the most looked at, the winner takes it all.
Arent we also that way? Dont we look for the same things?
The difference here is that civilization, ethics and good willing can be avoided by
our patient. He can put those human achievements aside to fulfill his desires. Our
acquired conscience forbids acts against Right and Good. We learn since the
very beginning of our lives what is Right and what is Wrong. The conscientious
mother teaches her son not to take home other childs pencils, stating that this is
not Right. She educates her son on the righteous way, on religion, on Ethics, on
Moral feelings.

But the Anacardium patient doesnt take it for granted. He doesnt understand or
even accepts these teachings. He thinks: why shouldnt I be the one?

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Why shouldnt be the beloved one, the prettiest one, the richest one, the strongest
one? Everyone around love these guys, why shouldnt he become one of those?
Society is dual on these subjects. It gives gold for the winner but assumes that
wanting to be a winner belongs to vanity and selfishness.
Anacardium can feel this duality very present in his daily life, strong as it is on
him. This schizophrenic information given from society, from our parents and
teachers provides him with a fight inside himself that tends to become a lasting
rupture.
Having a devil (Evil) in one side and an angel (Good) on the other is not a simply
delusion, but it exemplifies the conflict that runs our modern society and our
values. We watch on TV the soccer players making millions and on the other side
billions of people doing their hard work for peanuts, for almost nothing in return.
The Anacardium patient has an internal license to obtain what he wants with no
remorse. Thats the great difference between him and the others. He aloud
himself to long for things that are obtained only by those who follow Evil. He can
break social rules for money, if its needed. He asks his mother to sell the house
and give him his share.
If it is through money that everything can be attained, so lets have money at any
costs.
If being pretty is one of the greatest modern values, lets be pretty! Nice hair, nice
clothes, an expensive car, a worked out body, being able of daily sexual relations.
Longing for the pretty folks as well, for the Oscar, success, why not?
Hes also very cautious with his body, trying to avoid anything that can hurt it.
Anacardium is related to the remedies that are present in the Synthesis rubric
Cautious (from Dr. Jahr). But the meaning of being cautious, for Anacardium,
is that his body should be kept always pretty, strong, healthy and intact. It is
related to beauty in all aspects.
There is no Anacardium symptoms in our Materia Medica or in our repertories
about money, but is very simple to understand its importance to the Anacardium
patient.
And why he had so many enemies? Because people are in his way in order to
interfere in achieve his ambitions. He wants to become what everyone else also
wants. He knows that everyone is fighting for success, the difference being that he
got no rules, no moral values, no Ethics to follow.
Another reason is that he knows that hes taking a different path, that he chose a
way thats heavily criticized by everyone else. He knows that hes running against
everything thats part of evolution, Ethics and good will. He knows that he can
choose evil inside, meaning that he has a sort of a license to become the earlier
human being, a cave man kind of type, and no rules to follow. And he knows,
from our cultural acquired conscience, that he is not doing what he should do, he
will not do the right thing to be done.
Duality comes only as conflict between what he feels and what he should feel
from what he learned from the religious and moral concepts.

His relationship towards the others follows the same path: he wants others
affections only for himself, but nothing to give, only to have. He is the eternal
child, who longs to have all the attention drawn from the others. So love becomes

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a fight for domination. He wants to have all the others affection, leaving nothing
to anyone else. Any sign of affection to someone else by someone that he loves
is viewed as he had been betrayed.
His frustration is always expressed through outbursts of irritability and anger,
temperament and violence. But it was not clear that he is violent to extremes, like
killing, fighting, stabbing and shooting. What had become clear to us is his dark
mood, his capriciousness, egoism and vanity, are enabling him to do some
mischievousness.
Lack of confidence was one of most important things. Several symptoms are
related to it. But again, he has this longing from being the best. This brings a sort
of finals year examination tension happening at every small test. They became
very good students, but only to be the best ones, longing for the golden medals.
Worn out people, due to this long and tiring effort, with fear of failure at every
examination, these symptoms all belonged to the Anacardium patient. But the
reason behind this effort is what counts for any remedys prescription.

Anacardium or. will be indicated for someone that has this quest for material
success in all its aspects. But he establishes for himself this quest with no moral
or ethical rules. He can use all resources available, even if these possibilities are
against common sense, against social and moral achievements. He can do it, if its
necessary.
Duality is present only because he was told by her parents or society what he
should or not should do. He can use Evil to achieve his goals, when necessary.
He is very cautious with his body, very worried about appearance and clothing.
And money is one of his major issues, as long as its related to comfort and
wealth.

Bibliography

Allens Materia Medica Pura (*)

Herings Guiding Symptoms (**)
Hahnemanns Chronic Diseases (***)
Kents Lectures on Materia Medica (****)
Sankaran R., The soul of remedies.
Schroyens, F. Synthesis

Claudio C. Araujo
claudio@claudioaraujo.com.br
Rua Gal. Venncio Flores 305/712
22441-090
Rio de Janeiro RJ
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