Vanadium [Vanad]:

-Jan Scholten


Vanadium is briefly described in Boericke and Clarke.

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The name Vanadium is derived from the Nordic goddess Vanadis.

Vanadis is very similar to Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The person who discovered this metal chose the name Vanadium because its slat compounds are so beautifully coloured.

It was discovered in 1830. The name also reminds us of the Latin word vanitas, meaning emptiness or vanity. (postponing-stage 5).

Vanadium gets used to increase the hardness other metals so that they don't bend so easily. Tools and keys are often made of iron-vanadium alloys. When added to steel, together with Chromium, it increases the shock absorbency properties.

It also increases the elastic properties of steel and makes it easier to cut. When Vanadium is being processed it releases yellow vapour.

Concepts

Stage 5 Ferrum series

Preparing Task Work Duty

Advance guard Craft Use

Proposal Doubt Ability Perfectionist

Postponing Routine Order Rules

Reservation Evasive Control Exam

Premature Observed Criticised

Alternating Failure Guilt Crime

Tantalising Torturing Pursued Tried

Adult

Village

Group analysis

Hesitating to put their abilities into practice.

Tortured by the idea that they can fail.

Alternately working and not working.

Postponing their task.

Tortured by their perfectionism.

Evading their task.

Success alternating with failure.

Strength alternating with weakness.

Preparations for the job.

Picture of Vanadium Essence: Hesitating to put their abilities into practice.

Hesitating to put their abilities into practice

Although they have made a choice about what they are going to do, they still keep wondering whether this is what they really want.

They make plans and they feel a strong urge to do well, but in the back of their mind there is always the question: Will I manage? This continuous doubt is very strong, and manifests itself in all areas of their life: Did I choose the right profession? Am I intelligent enough, good enough, beautiful enough?.

Tortured by their fear of failure

Always this nagging doubt: I probably wont make it. Always the same theme that they will probably make mistakes, be blamed, fail their mission etc. It also comes back in their dreams where they just miss the train, or can't find the telephone. They don't want to take responsibility for their choice because they feel they will fail anyway. And when they do fail they feel very guilty. The cause usually lies in the way they have been brought up. Their father is successful and very strict. The child gets the message that he must do everything he can to please other people, particularly his parents. He should be good and kind and successful. The child doesnt dare to resist and tries his best to live up to this picture of the perfect child. They don't even know what or who they are doing it for, they are just trying to be good and successful. Inevitably they lose connection with who they are and what they want for themselves. The message of be successful may have been slightly ambiguous in itself, in the sense of but don't you dare be more successful than your father!

Tortured by their perfectionism

Their goals are usually very high, a bit too high! They want to be good, even perfect, and want to achieve something big. But their ideals are almost impossible to live up to. They never feel they have done enough; they can't find a realistic goal to work towards.

Success alternating with failure Success and failure are two key phrases they use a lot. It is typical of Vanadium that success and failure follow each other in rapid succession. They want to be successful, so they start off with great dedication which leads to initial successes. But their goals are impossibly high, coupled with a deep-down feeling that they cannot or should not succeed, so sooner or later this success is followed by failure.

They may also be afraid to succeed, because if you succeed your next goal should be even higher and this could prove to be too much.

Evading their task

When they think they can't reach the goal they have in mind they may give up altogether. If they can't succeed anyway they might as well sabotage the whole job and fail properly. Throwing all their old principles overboard they will turn round and make a complete mess of it.

But knowing that they have really spoilt it now, the old urge to succeed begins to play up again. And so it goes on in a vicious circle. Once they realise the sort of pattern they are in, rather than breaking it they may feel it is not worth carrying on. Any success leads to failure again, so why bother?

Alternately working and not working

The same theme can be seen in their job, alternately working and not working. One day they will be on time, the next day they are late. Nothing ever reaches a conclusion; the job is always postponed to the next day.

Strength alternating with weakness

Another duality you often hear them talking about is strength and weakness. They feel they have to be strong, but they are afraid of doing things wrong and therefore turn out to be weak. This lack of self confidence makes them indecisive. Their very high ideals are bound to lead to failure anyway, like the junkie who wants to stop taking drugs but feels that he can't suddenly stop, so he wont try.

They are usually a bit weak and nervous. They are easily influenced and don't quite know what to do. They would rather not grow up so as not to have to take responsibilities. The other side of this picture is someone who is very stubborn and carries on regardless with his plans. It is usually the small unimportant things they want to push through. It gives them a feeling of strength. They might get into the habit of thinking up little rules about the things they should and should not do. It gives them some sort of grip on the situation.

Postponing their task

They want to prepare thoroughly for the task ahead. They often feel they havent done enough ground work, they havent looked at all possible angles of the job yet. So before they make a start they had better look at the whole thing once more. In other words, the job gets postponed. You could say that this means they have failed, but on the other hand you can't fail if you havent even started, so once again we have this duality.

Alternating control: anorexia- bulimia There is a strong tendency towards anorexia and bulimia. Here we find the same themes again: feeling good when you have succeeded, feeling bad and guilty after a binge. The binges are a way of compensating for the lack of warmth and support. The same goes for other addictions they may have.

Expressions

Fears: failure, criticism, opposition, observed, anticipation, being late, missing the boat, arteriosclerosis, cockroaches.

Dreams: being late, missing the train, futile efforts, paralysis.

Mood: alternating, happy on success, gloomy on failure; soft, yielding, easily influenced, easy crying; hard, (>) control, obstinate (<) trifles, restless.

Mental: manic depressive psychosis, anorexia alternating with bulimia.

Contacts: warmth, company.

Generals

Build: blond.

Locality: right.

Weather: cold, cold hands and feet. Raynauds syndrome.

Time: (<) 7 am.

Desires: liquorice, sweet.

Menses: little or none; (<) before menses; (<) ovulation.

Complaints

Retarded growth. Cancer. Paralysis.

Anaemia (3).

Eye problems.

Teeth problems; tongue discolouration green (!).

Tonsillitis and sore throats, coughing up small, greenish-yellow, bitter mucus. Thyroid problems. Pneumonia, bronchitis, dyspnoea, tiredness, weakness, sore chest; colds with sneezing (Dreisbach).

Stomach and bowel affections.

Degeneration of liver and cancer. Diabetes. Disturbed fat and glucose metabolism.

Constipation. Diarrhoea.

Pain in ovaries. Lactation problems.

Sciatica, osteoporosis. Restless, itching legs.

Warts.

DD: Ferrum series, Stage 5, Anacardium, Baryta carbonicum, Carcinosin, Hypophysinum anterior, Ignatia, Lithiums, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla, Thuja.

DD Titanium: has only just started and doesnt really know what awaits him. Vanadium has more idea of what awaits him and he is afraid; he begins with extensive preparations and postpones the real task.

DD remedies containing Vanadium: Anethum graveolens, Petroselinum, Piper nigrum, Raphanus, mushrooms, seaweed.

DD substances that influence the metabolism: Phosphoricums, Cystine, Cysteine, Glutathion, Glucose, Vitamin C and E, Saccharum officinale.

Case by Anton Kramer

A 3 year old girl is a bad eater (Vanadium). Her growth is obviously retarded (Vanadium) both in height and in weight. She regularly receives artificial feeding. Her mother had decided during the pregnancy that she should eat healthier food and had adopted a strict regime (Ferrum series) for the sake of her unborn child. But she hadn't enjoyed it at all. China didn't help this little girl, but Vanadium did. Her eating pattern became quite normal.

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