CHERRY PLUM :
Remedy Picture- Complete Guide to Bach Remedies Practice by Dr. D.V. Krishnamoorty.
Unable to control ones emotions or desires cravings - short- temper - shouting or throwing things in a fit of anger - weeping due to uncontrollable sufferings or feelings, pains, etc. - feels he will go crazy or become mad - impulsiveness - sufferings that become unbearable or unendurable - Uncontrollable anger, cravings, feelings, pain, etc.
When mental disturbances go beyond a limit we classify them as insanity. while dealing with psychic cases or persons with mental derangements cherry plum is one of the frequently needed remedies.
Unbearable cannot endure any more are the expressions frequently used by the patients needing cherry plum. one goes in the hottest sun. Thirst becomes unbearable. Cherry plum is the answer.
We should have the phrase knows it is bad but cannot help it to describe the field of action of this flower remedy. A patient with chronic headache once came to us for getting relief from violent colic with which he was suffering at that time. He told: I know I should not take aspirin for my headache, because, though it stops the pain, afterwards it causes intense colic. But when the headache comes on I cannot help taking the aspirin. (Out of the frying pan into the fire) cherry plum cured her of the colic at that time and a course of the same remedy also cured her of the recurrent headache.
Knows it is bad but cannot resist the temptation. Lasciviousness or sexual mania are all covered by this remedy.
Sometime ago there appeared a news item in the daily: A middle-aged man, who was a womaniser, had forcible coition with his daughter who was attractive. Cherry plum is the remedy for curing such impulses and cravings or uncontrollable passions.
A certain patient said, I am a diabetic patient and so I know I should restrict sweets; even a small quantity of it will affect me greatly. But I have such an irresistible craving for sweets that on seeing one I cannot control myself and so I take it, though it results in aggravation of my diabetic troubles. Cherry plum helped him to restrict sweets and a course of the same remedy over a few months also relieved him to a greater extent of the symptoms of diabetes.
IMPORTANT: Medical emergencies are of two kinds: One causes death directly i.e. the disease ends in death viz., cholera, heart attack etc. The other kind causes death indirectly. that is, the patient resorts to violent means to put an end to his unbearable sufferings. The pain is so intense that he is driven to commit suicide or resort to violent means to stop the pain, which also may cause death. It is in the second type of emergencies, i.e. where the patient prefers death to his sufferings, that cherry plum comes to the patients rescue. We often read in the news papers about persons committing suicide either by swallowing poison or jumping from multi-storeyed buildings as he had been suffering from colic or incurable headache over a number of years. Man dies by taking poison due to unbearable colic or headache is often reported in the dailies. Cherry plum would not only remove the impulse to commit suicide but it also cures the patient of his unbearable pains. (In homoeopathy, the equivalent remedies are Aurum, Metallicum, etc. See kents Repertory MIND--SUICIDAL disposition, pains, from...)
Be it mental torture or physical suffering, if the patient says I am unable to bear the pain, then Cherry plum is to be prescribed. Unquenchable thirst and insatiable appetite also in this category. In hot summer every one takes cool drinks or sherbats. Add a few drops of cherry plum to the big bottle containing the syrup with which cool drinks are prepares A summer tonic indeed--to bear the heat and to quench to their the thirst. Our patients keep a phial of pills of this remedy in their pockets while traveling in the hottest months, to reduce thirst and to prevent sunstroke.
A certain poor man reported to us: You see, in the hot summer days when I go out in the day-time on my duty, I get enormous thirst and so I have invariably to take soft drinks four or five times which is beyond my means as I cannot afford at the rate of one rupee for each bottle I take. But I cannot help it because cold water is not available on the road. Cherry plum helped him a lot to cut his expenses on the soft drinks. Lather, he also reported that he never had an attack of diarrhoea while on the remedy; he used to get these attacks prior to our medicine.
In homoeopathy, the remedy Cantharis is almost a specific for burn injuries and scalds, besides Arsenicum and a few others. In the system of Bach remedies, we have Cherry plum whose symptoms are exactly similar to the suffering of the person immediately after burns, and, therefore, this remedy can be used almost as a specific in burns immediately after the accident, if the expressions of the patients do not point to other remedies such as willow.
Cold water should not be applies over the skin immediately after burns because though for some moments after applying water it may seem to palliate the burning pain, it latter only increases the suffering. But immediately after burns, the agony is such that the person cannot bear it had so he has the tendency to apply cold water to alleviate it. (* See our book HOMOEOPATHY IN ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES WITH A SHORT REPERTORY ON EMERGENCIES Cherry plum should be taken every few minutes in case of fire accidents.
In the text-book (Beginners Guide to Bach Flower Remedies) it is stated fear of the mind losing control. Let us examine this now:
(1) Due to some worries, a person says: I feel I will go mad.
(11) A person wants to observe fasting for some reason - religious or for health reasons. Or, say, one has been advised to restrict his diet, e.g., a heart-patient who should take salt- free diet. But he feels after a day or two of observing such a diet: I feel I will go mad if I don't add it to my food.
Be it fasting, or hunger-strike or restricting salt or sugar, Cherry plum will give the necessary strength of will to be without food or without a particular taste.
Once a south Indian went to North India on transfer and settled down there. He remarked: I don't get rice in hotels in this new place. I am eating chappathis, but day by day I feel I will go mad without eating rice. It is not aversion to wheat; in fact I like it, but to be without some quantity of rice-food it is impossible for me to get on. Cherry plum helped him to overcome the feelings. (If this person feels difficulty with chappathis, then WALNUT will help him.)
I want to avoid coffee and cigarette but cannot cherry plum and walnut, if taken regularly will help one to cut his cigarettes and cups of coffee.
When hungry, persons of cherry plum type cannot wait for food. A certain heart patient once retorted because he was ordered to remain on salt-free diet and so the people in his house did not allow him to have it in his food; Let me die by eating salt instead of avoiding it, because to take that tasteless food (without salt) is a torture to me than death. He prefers death to his suffering caused by saltless food. Cherry plum will not only modify his craving for salt but also actually cured his heart troubles. Let us now take some examples from our day-to-day life:
When the child causes some disturbances or gives some troubles and such things go beyond our limit of endurance we scold or curse them. I Cannot endure this any more will be the words uttered by the persons requiring cherry plum.
If a person beats his wife when he becomes irritable or throws household things on the floor then he needs cherry plumb and within minutes after a dose of cherry plum he calms down. In anger, he beats his head with his hands or knocks it against the wall.
One of the best examples:
I know cigarette smoking makes me restless and it also causes insomnia. Normally I try to avoid it and have given up the habit of buying in packets. but when a cigarette is offered in company I am unable to resist my temptation and I cannot refuse it. Cherry plum gives the strength of will to resist the temptation.
As the centaury patient is weak-willed so that he cannot refuse others demands, so also the cherry plum type cannot refuse himself or overcome his own intense desire.
An author of novels wrote to us: I have to take several cups of coffee daily; without them I cannot concentrate. whether it is a matter of habit or temptation I cant say. After reading your book Beginners Guide... I took the combination of cherry plum and walnut for over two months and now I take only one or two cups in the morning. Impulses. In anger he would have stabbed anyone (In homoeopathy the corresponding remedies are Hepar Sulph., Staphysagria etc. for this symptom.)
Lasciviousness Masturbation falling in love with another mans wife adultery raping all come under the symptoms of this remedy. Rage Craziness erotic mania singing amorous songs lascivious furor etc.
Shopping spree spending too much kleptomania all can be cured by cherry plum.
Bidding in the auction, though he has no money in his packet.
For weeping, cherry plum is the remedy. (But in children of CHICORY type they weep because they do not get what they ask for. They pretend to feel grief when refused and so weep till they get the thing asked for.)
Pain compels her to weep. (Coffee, Mezereum, Platina, and pulsatilla in homoeopathy if the pain belongs to acute disease.) weeps due to uncontrollable emotions. Violent anger.Scolding in anger uttering curses taking vows in anger (the last symptom is covered by the remedy VINE also.)
Going out in the hot summer one is unable to bear the heat - one has to take a lot of cold drinks. *Cherry plum is the remedy for unquenchable thirst. (For conditions which reach the extreme states and which are worse than cherry plum, compare SWEET CHESTNUT.)
Thirst not quenched even after several glasses of water or cool drinks. (Veratrum Alb. etc. in homoeopathy.)
Insatiable appetite.
When anything is carried beyond a limit we find it no more possible to endure. Then unbearable comes up. What is otherwise called the breaking point of mind in psychology. Cherry plum will cure unbearable pain, unbearable thirst Unbearable suffering etc.
School teachers and parents teaching the lessons to their own children need cherry plum if they beat the children when the latter fail to grasp the matter in spite of repeated lessons. (For not learning the lessons in spite of repeated teaching, the children need CHESTNUTBUD.)
Shouting in anger.
If I get angry, I will not hesitate to mutilate or even murder others. (Along with cherry plum compare VINE remedy also for this symptom. In homoeopathy, Staphysagria.)
Anger is a symptom of weak will an cherry plum gives a strong will in this respect so that one may not lose the reason of his mind.
Injuries to finger tips in another example where cherry plum cannot be ignored. The type of pain caused by injuries to finger-tips is unbearable and, therefore, cherry plum is a specific like the remedy Hypericum in homoeopathy. A heavy weight falls on toes crushing them; unbearable pain is the result. The injured person tosses in agony. A dose or two of cherry plum would cure such conditions. The finger tip is caught between the doors while closing them or crushed while closing the drawer of the table. (If the sufferer blames the carpenter for making such a table then he needs WILLOW, of course.)
Let us hear the report of a Bach practitioner in his very words: The other morning I was winding the wall-clock. Since I had overdone it the spring recoiled and so the key also quickly rotated in the opposite direction. As its handle was long and sharp on both sides it injured my first, second and third fingers cutting them up to the second joint resulting in unbearable pain and profuse bleeding. I immediately took a dose of cherry plum. (I thought first to take the homoeopathic remedies Ledum, Hypericum etc. but as I wanted to try the effects of flower remedies I did not take homoeopathic remedies.) Within minutes of taking the flower remedy considerable relief was felt by me and the bleeding too stopped gradually but quickly. Fifteen minutes later I took another dose and the pain vanished completely. Therefore, I repeated it every Eight hours and in two days the wound healed completely leaving no scar. By other modes of treatment it would have taken a minimum of two to four weeks besides handicapping me as anticipated by my family members. They were surprised to see by clean and healthy fingers on the third day. My joy was unbound and I bowed my head before the phial containing pills of cherry plum in great reference.
Unable to control ones emotions or desires cravings - short- temper - shouting or throwing things in a fit of anger - weeping due to uncontrollable sufferings or feelings, pains, etc. - feels he will go crazy or become mad - impulsiveness - sufferings that become unbearable or unendurable - Uncontrollable anger, cravings, feelings, pain, etc.
When mental disturbances go beyond a limit we classify them as insanity. while dealing with psychic cases or persons with mental derangements cherry plum is one of the frequently needed remedies.
Unbearable cannot endure any more are the expressions frequently used by the patients needing cherry plum. one goes in the hottest sun. Thirst becomes unbearable. Cherry plum is the answer.
We should have the phrase knows it is bad but cannot help it to describe the field of action of this flower remedy. A patient with chronic headache once came to us for getting relief from violent colic with which he was suffering at that time. He told: I know I should not take aspirin for my headache, because, though it stops the pain, afterwards it causes intense colic. But when the headache comes on I cannot help taking the aspirin. (Out of the frying pan into the fire) cherry plum cured her of the colic at that time and a course of the same remedy also cured her of the recurrent headache.
Knows it is bad but cannot resist the temptation. Lasciviousness or sexual mania are all covered by this remedy.
Sometime ago there appeared a news item in the daily: A middle-aged man, who was a womaniser, had forcible coition with his daughter who was attractive. Cherry plum is the remedy for curing such impulses and cravings or uncontrollable passions.
A certain patient said, I am a diabetic patient and so I know I should restrict sweets; even a small quantity of it will affect me greatly. But I have such an irresistible craving for sweets that on seeing one I cannot control myself and so I take it, though it results in aggravation of my diabetic troubles. Cherry plum helped him to restrict sweets and a course of the same remedy over a few months also relieved him to a greater extent of the symptoms of diabetes.
IMPORTANT: Medical emergencies are of two kinds: One causes death directly i.e. the disease ends in death viz., cholera, heart attack etc. The other kind causes death indirectly. that is, the patient resorts to violent means to put an end to his unbearable sufferings. The pain is so intense that he is driven to commit suicide or resort to violent means to stop the pain, which also may cause death. It is in the second type of emergencies, i.e. where the patient prefers death to his sufferings, that cherry plum comes to the patients rescue. We often read in the news papers about persons committing suicide either by swallowing poison or jumping from multi-storeyed buildings as he had been suffering from colic or incurable headache over a number of years. Man dies by taking poison due to unbearable colic or headache is often reported in the dailies. Cherry plum would not only remove the impulse to commit suicide but it also cures the patient of his unbearable pains. (In homoeopathy, the equivalent remedies are Aurum, Metallicum, etc. See kents Repertory MIND--SUICIDAL disposition, pains, from...)
Be it mental torture or physical suffering, if the patient says I am unable to bear the pain, then Cherry plum is to be prescribed. Unquenchable thirst and insatiable appetite also in this category. In hot summer every one takes cool drinks or sherbats. Add a few drops of cherry plum to the big bottle containing the syrup with which cool drinks are prepares A summer tonic indeed--to bear the heat and to quench to their the thirst. Our patients keep a phial of pills of this remedy in their pockets while traveling in the hottest months, to reduce thirst and to prevent sunstroke.
A certain poor man reported to us: You see, in the hot summer days when I go out in the day-time on my duty, I get enormous thirst and so I have invariably to take soft drinks four or five times which is beyond my means as I cannot afford at the rate of one rupee for each bottle I take. But I cannot help it because cold water is not available on the road. Cherry plum helped him a lot to cut his expenses on the soft drinks. Lather, he also reported that he never had an attack of diarrhoea while on the remedy; he used to get these attacks prior to our medicine.
In homoeopathy, the remedy Cantharis is almost a specific for burn injuries and scalds, besides Arsenicum and a few others. In the system of Bach remedies, we have Cherry plum whose symptoms are exactly similar to the suffering of the person immediately after burns, and, therefore, this remedy can be used almost as a specific in burns immediately after the accident, if the expressions of the patients do not point to other remedies such as willow.
Cold water should not be applies over the skin immediately after burns because though for some moments after applying water it may seem to palliate the burning pain, it latter only increases the suffering. But immediately after burns, the agony is such that the person cannot bear it had so he has the tendency to apply cold water to alleviate it. (* See our book HOMOEOPATHY IN ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES WITH A SHORT REPERTORY ON EMERGENCIES Cherry plum should be taken every few minutes in case of fire accidents.
In the text-book (Beginners Guide to Bach Flower Remedies) it is stated fear of the mind losing control. Let us examine this now:
(1) Due to some worries, a person says: I feel I will go mad.
(11) A person wants to observe fasting for some reason - religious or for health reasons. Or, say, one has been advised to restrict his diet, e.g., a heart-patient who should take salt- free diet. But he feels after a day or two of observing such a diet: I feel I will go mad if I don't add it to my food.
Be it fasting, or hunger-strike or restricting salt or sugar, Cherry plum will give the necessary strength of will to be without food or without a particular taste.
Once a south Indian went to North India on transfer and settled down there. He remarked: I don't get rice in hotels in this new place. I am eating chappathis, but day by day I feel I will go mad without eating rice. It is not aversion to wheat; in fact I like it, but to be without some quantity of rice-food it is impossible for me to get on. Cherry plum helped him to overcome the feelings. (If this person feels difficulty with chappathis, then WALNUT will help him.)
I want to avoid coffee and cigarette but cannot cherry plum and walnut, if taken regularly will help one to cut his cigarettes and cups of coffee.
When hungry, persons of cherry plum type cannot wait for food. A certain heart patient once retorted because he was ordered to remain on salt-free diet and so the people in his house did not allow him to have it in his food; Let me die by eating salt instead of avoiding it, because to take that tasteless food (without salt) is a torture to me than death. He prefers death to his suffering caused by saltless food. Cherry plum will not only modify his craving for salt but also actually cured his heart troubles. Let us now take some examples from our day-to-day life:
When the child causes some disturbances or gives some troubles and such things go beyond our limit of endurance we scold or curse them. I Cannot endure this any more will be the words uttered by the persons requiring cherry plum.
If a person beats his wife when he becomes irritable or throws household things on the floor then he needs cherry plumb and within minutes after a dose of cherry plum he calms down. In anger, he beats his head with his hands or knocks it against the wall.
One of the best examples:
I know cigarette smoking makes me restless and it also causes insomnia. Normally I try to avoid it and have given up the habit of buying in packets. but when a cigarette is offered in company I am unable to resist my temptation and I cannot refuse it. Cherry plum gives the strength of will to resist the temptation.
As the centaury patient is weak-willed so that he cannot refuse others demands, so also the cherry plum type cannot refuse himself or overcome his own intense desire.
An author of novels wrote to us: I have to take several cups of coffee daily; without them I cannot concentrate. whether it is a matter of habit or temptation I cant say. After reading your book Beginners Guide... I took the combination of cherry plum and walnut for over two months and now I take only one or two cups in the morning. Impulses. In anger he would have stabbed anyone (In homoeopathy the corresponding remedies are Hepar Sulph., Staphysagria etc. for this symptom.)
Lasciviousness Masturbation falling in love with another mans wife adultery raping all come under the symptoms of this remedy. Rage Craziness erotic mania singing amorous songs lascivious furor etc.
Shopping spree spending too much kleptomania all can be cured by cherry plum.
Bidding in the auction, though he has no money in his packet.
For weeping, cherry plum is the remedy. (But in children of CHICORY type they weep because they do not get what they ask for. They pretend to feel grief when refused and so weep till they get the thing asked for.)
Pain compels her to weep. (Coffee, Mezereum, Platina, and pulsatilla in homoeopathy if the pain belongs to acute disease.) weeps due to uncontrollable emotions. Violent anger.Scolding in anger uttering curses taking vows in anger (the last symptom is covered by the remedy VINE also.)
Going out in the hot summer one is unable to bear the heat - one has to take a lot of cold drinks. *Cherry plum is the remedy for unquenchable thirst. (For conditions which reach the extreme states and which are worse than cherry plum, compare SWEET CHESTNUT.)
Thirst not quenched even after several glasses of water or cool drinks. (Veratrum Alb. etc. in homoeopathy.)
Insatiable appetite.
When anything is carried beyond a limit we find it no more possible to endure. Then unbearable comes up. What is otherwise called the breaking point of mind in psychology. Cherry plum will cure unbearable pain, unbearable thirst Unbearable suffering etc.
School teachers and parents teaching the lessons to their own children need cherry plum if they beat the children when the latter fail to grasp the matter in spite of repeated lessons. (For not learning the lessons in spite of repeated teaching, the children need CHESTNUTBUD.)
Shouting in anger.
If I get angry, I will not hesitate to mutilate or even murder others. (Along with cherry plum compare VINE remedy also for this symptom. In homoeopathy, Staphysagria.)
Anger is a symptom of weak will an cherry plum gives a strong will in this respect so that one may not lose the reason of his mind.
Injuries to finger tips in another example where cherry plum cannot be ignored. The type of pain caused by injuries to finger-tips is unbearable and, therefore, cherry plum is a specific like the remedy Hypericum in homoeopathy. A heavy weight falls on toes crushing them; unbearable pain is the result. The injured person tosses in agony. A dose or two of cherry plum would cure such conditions. The finger tip is caught between the doors while closing them or crushed while closing the drawer of the table. (If the sufferer blames the carpenter for making such a table then he needs WILLOW, of course.)
Let us hear the report of a Bach practitioner in his very words: The other morning I was winding the wall-clock. Since I had overdone it the spring recoiled and so the key also quickly rotated in the opposite direction. As its handle was long and sharp on both sides it injured my first, second and third fingers cutting them up to the second joint resulting in unbearable pain and profuse bleeding. I immediately took a dose of cherry plum. (I thought first to take the homoeopathic remedies Ledum, Hypericum etc. but as I wanted to try the effects of flower remedies I did not take homoeopathic remedies.) Within minutes of taking the flower remedy considerable relief was felt by me and the bleeding too stopped gradually but quickly. Fifteen minutes later I took another dose and the pain vanished completely. Therefore, I repeated it every Eight hours and in two days the wound healed completely leaving no scar. By other modes of treatment it would have taken a minimum of two to four weeks besides handicapping me as anticipated by my family members. They were surprised to see by clean and healthy fingers on the third day. My joy was unbound and I bowed my head before the phial containing pills of cherry plum in great reference.
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