Cadmium sulphuratum [Cadm-s]:

- Jan Scholten


Cadmium sulphuratum is the best known of all the Cadmium compounds. We have to make a subtle difference between Cadmium sulphuricum or Cadmium sulphate. Boericke gives us a description of Cadmium sulphuricum but this is probably a mistake because both Allen (Vol. 2, page 330) and Clarke (Vol. 1, page 328) are clearly talking about Cadmium sulphuratum.

Signature

Cadmiumsulphide is a semiprecious stone with a yellow or red colour and it is called greenockite.

It is used as a yellow or red colouring agent.

Concepts

Cadmium Sulphuratum

Powerless Love

Dwindling talents Marriage Partner

Reproductions Self love Egotism

Forgery Jealousy

Dramatic Theatrical Joy Satisfaction

Artificial Harmony Aesthetics

Clothes

Lazy

Ugly

Theorising

Group analysis

Reproducing success in order to be loved.

Forging success with the loss of love.

Powerless against your partner.

Powerless as a partner.

Using love in the fight against decay.

Dramatic relationships.

Artificial love.

Artificial, exaggerated clothes.

Dwindling of talent leads to neglect.

False love.

Picture of cadmium sulphuratum

Essence: Reproduce success in order to hold on to love.

Reproducing success to hold on to love

They feel they have to continue their success whatever opposition they may encounter. Otherwise people, particularly their partner, wont accept them anymore and will leave them for the sake of someone else. But it is not easy to maintain their success, there are predators all around and they have to be on their guard all the time. By relying on the old and trusted methods they hope to be able to continue their artistic or scientific career, because they are convinced that only successful people will be loved.

Forging success at the cost of losing love

When love is withdrawn they may seek compensation in their success. If they wont be loved they might at least get praised.

They escape from the troubles in their marriage and throw themselves into their work, which is after all their strong side.

They are very good artists or scientists etc. But even here they have to face the fact that there are newcomers on their way to the top who might soon take over. Holding on to the old ways is the only hope they have got to keep their position. In extreme cases they might even falsify scientific data in order to keep on presenting something new and interesting to the public.

Powerless against your partner

They feel powerless in front of their partner, or in front of powerful and authoritarian figures in general. They feel they can't talk to or get through to them. And when their partner talks to other women or flirts with the opposite sex they feel even more powerless and jealous. But they wont leave him because they haven't got the strength. They can't stand the sight of other women who follow their partner like a little lamb. This situation might come about from having a very dominating father.

A powerless partner

Or they choose a partner who is very weak and who can't maintain his position at work. They prefer to marry someone who has a creative profession, so they can easily be the stronger of the two. They want their own work to be better than their partners and they often use his meagre creations as a comparison against their own brilliance. They may even use his success to create an even bigger success for themselves. They can also be quite bitchy towards their partner if he doesn't do exactly as they say. Thus the partner will often feel weak and threatened in his own creative career.

But on the other hand they don't have any respect for men who are too docile.

Dramatic relationships

All this often makes for a very dramatic relationship. They have great difficulty surrendering to love, because they are afraid of losing themselves. Their love may even become a bit artificial until they no longer know whether they really love their partner or not. But all the drama that is created around the whole thing makes it look as if there is quite a strong tie between them. In extreme cases they may even use this drama to keep the relationship together.

Artificial clothes

The same difficulty with keeping things in proportion is reflected in the type of clothes they wear. They may have quite good taste in principle but it is often a bit exaggerated. Their clothes are often just a little bit too far out, a little bit overdone, it doesn't quite go together.

Dwindling talents lead to neglect

They are also extremely sensitive to criticism, especially as far as their clothes and their creativity is concerned. Again they feel as if everyone is against them and that they can't win, because the fight is unequal. They may try to turn the tide in the name of love, but this only means more drama. Eventually they feel that everyone, including their partner, is against them so they give up. They let themselves go, neglect their appearance and don't bother about their clothes or their creations anymore.

Expressions

Fears: heights, narrow spaces, performances, speeches, dark, threatening; being approached, poverty, ugliness, dirt; easily frightened (<)(<) breaking. Dreams: heights, falling, not reaching his goal, running behind someone, slow movements, plants that have grown too large, marriage, tight clothes, nightmares (<) lying on back. Delusions: unreal, no grip or control, breaking, cracking, slow and retarded movements. Mood: haughty; indifferent, without emotions, cold, hard; innocent, impatient, unstable, restless, (<) sunlight; excited; hyper sensitive, extremely unstable; cheerful, laughing; serious, gloomy, crying. Irritability: contrary, (<) humiliation, (<)(<) least opposition. Mental: forgetful about details, forgets where he put things, mistakes rooms, times, lack of concentration, confused, absentminded, clumsy, handicapped, loss of orientation with regard to front and back. Contacts: (>), (<), (<) alone, (>) company; shameless, suspicious(<) being spoke to. Work: (<), (<). Professions: artist, painter, writer, musician, teacher, scientist, doctor, priest, vicar, bishop, shaman, governor, secretary, representative, public relations officer, advertising agent, top sportsman or woman. Causes: loss of loved one, divorce, disaster, humiliation, wounded pride, annoyance, sadness, worries, reproaches, insults. Generals Locality: left (3). Weather: cold, (<) cold, (<) heat, (>)(<) open air, outside; (<) sun; hot flushes. Time: (<) 5 am and 5 pm; in waves. Perspiration: easy (<) exertion. Stinking. Desires: sweet (3), alcohol, brandy, water, fruit, fat, fried, spices, sour, cold drinks. Aversion: egg, bread, sour, sweet. Food: (<) alcohol, tobacco, beer. Menses: profuse. Sleep: sleepy, yawning, falling asleep (<) sitting, deep; frequent waking; (<) sleeping late; groaning, smiling. Physical: (<) bathing, (<) sunlight; (<)(<)(<) accidents; (<) motion, (>) lying down.

Complaints

Discharges yellow and thick, smelling of rotten eggs.

Burning (3) pains. Full, heavy. pulsating feeling.

Cancer, sarcoma. Inflammations with fever; yellow fever.

Weakness, bruised pains, itching.

Headache; forehead, temples, vertex; light, empty, clean, hot; with waving and flickering before eyes; (>) vomiting.

Eye complaints: infections, disturbed vision; cataract, cloudy cornea; lachrymation (<)(<) yawning; night blindness. Face dark red, numb, paralysed. Colds with watery coryza. Ulcers in nose; loss of smell. Bad smell in nose; polyps. Teeth have yellow roots, stop growing. Voice problems: hoarseness, stammering, loss of voice. Lung complaints: inflammation, asthma, emphysema, oedema, fibrosis, cancer. Cough with thick, stringy, yellow mucus. Heart problems, shock, high blood pressure, anaemia. Vascular diseases, varicose veins, heavy legs, haemorrhages and haematoma. Stomach: cramps, nausea, vomiting black and green mucus, like coffee grounds, (<) touching lips; cancer. Diarrhoea, cholera; blood clots. Diabetes. Problems with genitals; testes, atrophy and cancer, cancer of prostate, affections of ovaries, sterility. Kidney tubuli disturbed. Urine contains sugar, phosphates and protein. Neck pains; stiffness. Arm problems; back of hand tingling, bruises, swollen arteries. Pain in back and thighs; osteoporosis, broken bones; waddles like a duck. Pain in anus and coccyx with itching, (>) cold water.

Skin blue, yellow; eczema, itching (>) scratching, scaling, with yellow pus.

DD: Silicium series, Silver series, Stage 12 and 16, Asteria rubens, Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa.

Case

A 10 year old girl is always coughing. Usually it is only a little dry cough, but at the end of spring it tends to get deeper and she starts coughing up white lumps of mucus like bread crumbs. This has been going on for three years and it is worse when she is at school.

She has frequent colds and sniffs every five minutes. This comes and goes, but it is worse at home and when she visits other people. She sometimes has a stomach ache after swimming. During the first five years of her life she had a fever at least twice a month with diarrhoea, vomiting and coughing, (<) between 5 and 9 pm. From the age of 5 onwards she had a high fever for one day every year.

She does very well at school. She is a very emotional type of girl, who can be extremely happy, or extremely sad. Her emotions come out in a violent rush and then it is all over again. She likes to do well in everything, she has to be good and she has to be fast. She is afraid of being different, of missing the boat and therefore losing the affection of her family and friends. She is always focused on others, loves being with other people. She also likes to be independent, she played the recorder when she was very little and now has started playing the flute. She is always keen to do something different, she gets bored with things quite quickly.

Her birth was 6 weeks premature and she needed extra oxygen for a while. Her mother suffered from toxemia and had a craving for salt, she was also very tired during the whole pregnancy. Her father was a vicar who had been made redundant just before the birth. He couldn't handle the pressure of the job and wasn't able to perform his duties adequately. He got depressed, started drinking and stayed in bed most of the day. Her mother tried her best to get him out of his depression, to be kind to him and cheer him up, but he didn't even notice her efforts, which made her feel very powerless. At first she thought it would all be different once their child was born, but this didn't turn out to be the case. He stayed depressed until one day he fell in love with another woman. Her mother was very angry and left him. She was angry with the other woman because she did manage to get him out of his depressed state.

Generals

Weather: warm, feels suffocated (<)(<) heat, cold toes and nose.

Time: (<) February and March.

Desires: pancakes, pizza, cucumber, egg, fish, vegetables.

Aversion: fat, gravy, sour, meat, sprouts (2), chicory (2).

Sleep: difficulty getting asleep; on right side.

Analysis

Her mothers problems during the pregnancy is the most significant aspect of this case. She felt powerless (Cadmium) with regard to her husband (Sulphur). In the little girl we can recognise the theme of Cadmium sulphuratum in the fact that she wants to be good at everything she undertakes, she is afraid of missing the boat (Cadmium), otherwise she might lose the affection (Sulphur) of other people.

Other symptoms that confirm the Silver series: father was a preacher, she plays the recorder and the flute, achieving, (<) routine.

Cadmium symptoms: intense emotions, sadness and happiness are extreme, (<) 5 pm.

Sulphur symptoms: jealousy of the mother, focused on other people.

Reaction

After Cadmium sulphuricum she has a headache for three days. After another week she has increased mucus discharge from her nose. One month later the barking cough has gone, all that is left is the little dry cough from time to time. She is more cheerful and less irritable when tired. For the first time in her life she is having happy dreams instead of horrible dreams about witches or the death of her mother and father.

Case

A 30 year old woman has asthma. She has a relationship (Sulphur) with a Turkish man, but it isn't going very well. He is already married and has several children, but he says he loves her and wants to spend the rest of his life with her. When they are on holiday in Turkey together everything is fine, but when she is back home on her own the troubles start again. He hardly ever writes or phones, it is always she who has to keep the communication going. She finds it difficult to talk about her problems, she can't stand up to him (powerless, Cadmium). When she was little she wanted to go to ballet (Silver series), but this was strictly forbidden by her Dutch reformed family (exaggerated, Stage 12, ideas, Silver series).

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