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Orchids Revealed: A New Family of Homeopathic Remedies is the largest family in the world with over 30,000 . Orchids were considered elegantly mysterious and valuable, even causing what was known as “orchid fever” or “orchid delirium.” • In spite of Orchids being the largest plant family in the world, only 4 orchids were partially described and indicated in the classical homeopathic literature. Orchid Remedies in Classical Texts

• Corallorrhiza odontorhiza – Allen has a very brief description • pubescens – introduced by Hale • Spiranthes autumnalis – more information on this orchid, various classical materia medicas • Aromatica – Boericke describes the effect of smelling the extract The Orchid Project- Led by Louis Klein Homeopaths internationally working together to introduce, collate and understand Orchid Homeopathic Remedies.

• With this modern introduction of more homeopathically prepared Orchids, they have become important remedies for homeopaths treating individuals with various problems. The History of Modern Use of Many New Orchid Remedies Discovery of Orchids Usefulness in Autism and Neuro- behavioral Disorders by Louis Klein FSHom • Case of a 4 year old child • In 2003 Cypripedium pubescens, described in the classical literature, was successfully given for a 4 year old child with autism. Prior to age 2 she was progressing very well but then: • The child’s condition started after frequent episodes of waking at night wanting to play and being joyful with active laughing • After a period of months the child’s speech stopped developing and she began to stim, be out of touch with those around her and stopped developing mentally/emotionally • She came into the interview and stood off by herself, she would at times squeal and have a blissful expression while shaking her hands She is very sensitive to certain foods like milk and wheat • She hit her chin with a strong bruise a few weeks prior. • After Cyprepidium 200c a number of doses over a period of times she started to progress to the point where she would have a conversation Cypripedium pubescens Cypripedium pubescens

• Abbreviation: Cypr. Common Names: a) Small Yellow Lady’s Slipper, Small Slipper Orchid, Small • Moccasin b) Large or Great Yellow Lady’s Slipper, Large Slipper Orchid, Large Moccasin Flower Older common names include Our Lady’s Shoe or Slipper, Calceolus Mariae (Mary’s Slipper) and in French, Sabot de Vénus (Venus Sabot or Shoe) • Scientific Names: a) Cypripedium parvi orum Salisb. var. parvi orum b) Cypripedium parvi orum var. pubescens (Willd.) O.W. Knight Cypripedium pubescens- Classical Literature Quotes • Clarke Materia Medica: “It is indicated in the brain- hyperesthesia of children who wake in the night lively and full of play.” • Choudhuri: “Little babies are often seen to wake up in the middle of the night and laugh and gambol in the bright light; if this continues night after night, the parents should take warning, as often such functional irritability and cerebral hyperaesthesia end in convulsions…In respect of sleeplessness it compares well with Coffee and Scutellaria.” • Hale: “Profound indifference to everything, even to his studies duties, and the common courtesies of life.” Cypripedium Symptom Synopsis

• Excessive Cerebral Activity • various stages and worst is autism • Choudhuri: “Temporary Exhilaration”• Hilarious dreams • Sleepless at night • hilarious pleasant disposition, • child or adult wakes happy and giggling easily exhilarated and joyful • laughing in sleep • “rush of thoughts” • Squealing • wakes laughing and giggling • fear at night; shrieking (can alternate • desire to play at night with laughing) • cerebral activity • sensitive to touch- impelled to touch • pleasant ideas and disposition- • desire to touch, sensual touch, soft; overcrowd and lead to sleeplessness • sensitive to things not feeling good; • rush of thoughts at night has to have things feel right • cerebral inflammation • encephalitis • viral encephalitis Cypripedium Synopsis Cont… • anxiety from slight discomfort • happy children who masturbate • needs everything comfortable and constantly (oreganon, bufo) joyful • sexual eroticism • Distraught- Severe anxiety from slight • may be in a profession where helping stomach upset people with sexual problems • Rhus poisoning • Aggravation 9PM- 5AM • Convulsions, laughing before or after • Drinking ameliorates • ailments from teething; convulsions • Skin: Lipoma • cerebral inflammation during teething• Sleeplessness • post influenza prostration • Weakness from sleeplessness • severe weakness after influenza • Pain stomach after eating small • weakness from slight cause amounts • high blood pressure • Tickling cough at 3AM • attraction through sensuality • over affectionate

The Orchid Project • As a result of this Rx with Cypripedium in 2003, I decided to expand the Materia Medica of Orchids • “The Orchid Project” was initiated. Students, colleagues and other homeopaths contributed to building a materia medica of orchids and a deeper understanding. • Over 60 orchids have been elucidated with various kinds of provings and clinical experience- many having a full Hahnemannian proving. • It was discovered that Orchids can be used for a wide range of problems and pathologies. Many more provings and Orchid remedies introduced led to a book: More on Orchidaceae Distinctive Elements of in Orchidaceae- (Orchid Plant Family) • 1. The presence of a gynostemium. (The central reproductive stalk which consists of a and pistil fused together). • 2. The flower is bilaterally symmetric. • 3. The pollen is glued together on filaments. • 4. The of most orchids are microscopic and lacking food reserves (). The most exceptional is the seeds of the Vanilla orchid. • 5. The seeds under natural circumstances can only germinate in symbiosis with a certain fungi. Order and Orchidaceae Family First Full Orchid Proving: Vanilla planifolia Vanilla planifolia- Vanilla was chosen first because it is the most used orchid because of its use as an extract in flavoring … Hahnemannian Proving of Vanilla Planifolia

• Whole plant acquired from and prepared by Robert Muntz of Remedia Homeopathic Pharmacy in Austria • Master Prover Louis Klein • Provers took a single dose of 30c potency and carefully recorded their symptoms with a supervisor • Proving was collated and some of the symptoms are recorded in repertories world wide • Download the proving for free from http://www.homeopathycourses.com/provings/ • The proving is also included in the book Orchids in Homeopathy by Louis Klein Hahnemannian Proving of Vanilla Planifolia

• Provers and supervisors did not know what the remedy was until after the proving was over • In spite of that, they demonstrated some elements of what you might expect from an orchid such as elegance, materialism and other symptoms Main Mind Theme from the Proving of Vanilla Planifolia:

– Intoxication by sensuality texture, color, bathing, sexuality, luxury, – Material world and struggle with it-being specific (perfect) about the kind of material things- gentle, soft, perfectly elegant – Wanting to shop for clothing, shoes and material goods – Cashmere, new dishrags become beautiful, making home beautiful, design, renovations and a specific weakness or material craving was accentuated; (fetishes for shoes, expensive materials and clothing etc.) – Bringing elegant order to disorder – Protecting others – Cleansing evil – making things “vanilla”, faceless silhouettes – Bees and wasps – Blue and orange colors – Time goes slowly – Strong dreams and many more mental/emotional symptoms- see full proving Some quotes from the Vanilla Provers:

• “feet planted on the ground” • “clay feet” • “While shopping had to exercise great restraint to keep from buying pottery that was a beautiful teal blue contrasting with the warm orange-redness of the terracotta. I had a very intense feeling of attraction to these colors.” • A different prover: “I spend my time looking at dishcloths instead of buying the things I need. I examine each of the colors and the different types and marvel at the texture of the weave of the cloth. Physical • Apis-like symptoms (melipona bee pollinates the Vanilla plant)-such as reddish swellings • Hormonal issues, cramping during menses • Many symptoms related to flushes of heat - especially in the face • Also hypotension and faintness • Headaches with pressing and shooting pains • Foot, ankle and hand pains and symptoms- sprains, fractures, stitching pains, feet problems A Case of a Severe Foot Injury

A Letter from a Prover with a history of a severe foot injury:

“Lou, I want to thank you for the proving that our class did in Toronto over 2 years ago. It was Vanilla and I was reluctant to do the proving because I thought my injuries of broken bones and fatigue from a previous car accident would interfere with the data. I chose to do the proving out of curiosity for the experience and a huge desire to participate in a proving.

My recollection of the first two days after taking the remedy are indelible. I got headaches when going into the hot tub and at night my right foot which had 5 pins to hold the calcaneum together (from the accident) hurt like hell. My foot hurt so much the first 2 nights. I experienced shooting pain, spasms and sharp, boring pain where the drill had made the hole in my ankle. I was accustomed to pain at night especially if the weather changed. In some ways, my foot pain was my weather barometer and I could predict rain and snow with precision.

When the docs at the hospital, in Toronto, look at my X-rays of my right ankle, I can hear an audible whistle from their reactions. They become a little more kinder because they are expecting me to be begging for pain killers and anything to address the damage seen on the films.

It’s been 3 years now since the Vanilla proving and I have not had another single episode of pain since the proving. The weather does not affect my foot anymore and I am virtually pain-free (if I take care in walking on flat surfaces). Lou, I am so grateful. When we did the meeting to discuss the proving in class, it was too soon to know how the remedy would be for me. Now, I know that the Vanilla proving was curative for my arthritic pains in my broken ankle [and foot].”

[Update now 13 years after Vanilla planifolia- “The Vanilla is still working! I have a taken a few doses over the years and have not had any considerable foot pain since the proving.“] Vanilla planifolia for Injuries to Feet or Hands

• Consider Vanilla planifolia and other orchids for injuries to or conditions of the foot and hands where the disposition (mental/emotion) agrees • First aid for injuries to the foot especially • Pains are worse from damp or wet weather • Pains aching in spots, strong, shooting • Healing broken bones and sprains in the foot and ankle • Coldness in feet with heat in injured area • Painful conditions of the feet including Morton’s neuroma- pain in spots in heels or soles

Two Important Aspects of Orchids and Orchid Remedies • 1. Mycorrhizal-A is a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular host plant. (Greek: μυκός, mykós, "fungus", and ρίζα, riza, "root”, pl. mycorrhizae or ) - Wikipedia • 2. and Mimicking the Specific Element, Animal or that Helps with Orchid Mycorrhizal

• All orchid plants need a fungus for the to germinate and that is the meaning of “mycorrhizal” • This is the most important aspect of Orchids which differentiates them from other plant families • It reflects in the mind and disposition themes • Fungus grows best on rotting or decaying matter • The dark, death, destructive, battle-like, war-like elements of fungus (such as in Agaricus) gives forth to the beautiful elements of an Orchid- like in the movie- “A Beautiful Life” • Joy in the Midst of Conflict, Death and Destruction • From Calypso bulbosa Orchid Proving: “…the juxtaposition of suffering with innocence. I saw entertaining children at the fence of Auschwitz.” 1. Orchids Transform the Fungus How This Forms Individual Dispositional Indications for Orchid Homeopathic Remedies • The disposition of individual orchids can reflect how they handle the fungus or attempt to heal the fungus energy • Orchids transform the dark fungus to positive growth in the light • So a statement of the mind disposition theme can begin with: “In the midst of…” and end with some dark or fungus like situation For example- • Dendrobium lasianthera- “In the midst of being prisoners of war or in the midst of violent conflict” • Trichoceros antennifer- “In the midst of toxic sexuality” • Sobralia macrophylla- “In the midst of dying, burial and death” 1. ‘Fungus Tranformation’ Example: Sobralia macrophylla

• Large leaved orchid from Panama or Costa Rica • Homeopathic Proving in Panama- Master Prover- Matilde Flores • In this proving much about death, funerals and burials came up for the provers • Theme of this orchid therefore is: ‘In the midst of dying, burial, funerals, the meaning of death” • Patient may be focused on death, yet have some other orchid themes • Additional Themes: Meditating, constant thoughts on death and dying, dying alone with dignity and peace, chronic depression and perseveration on death, ancestors, family memories, violence and gore, clothing, hysterical laughing • Physical: disorientation, confusion, difficulty concentration, yawning, pain right ear, pain neck face, right shoulder, sunburn, soreness joints

2. Adaptation Over Time, Many Orchids Have Adapted and Mimic the Specific Element, Animal or Insect that Help with Pollination • Either through appearance or smell • Some actually copulate with the orchid- a kind of sexual trickery by the orchid plant • The can be quite sexually expressive or expressive of an animal or insect • Flirtatiousness, high sexuality etc. can be reflected in the disposition of some patients who need orchid homeopathic remedies • Many homeopathic orchids have symptoms of the insect that pollinate them such as in Apis-like symptoms in Vanilla planifolia and the melipona bee. 2. Adaptation Example: Trichoceros Antennifer- Orchid

• Remarkable adaptation to the fly of the Paragymnomma that pollinates it- flower looks like a fly • The photo is just of the orchid flower that looks like a fly: Trichoceros Antennifer- Fly Orchid

• Hahnemannian Proving led by Master Prover Louis Klein FS Hom in Vancouver, • Some symptoms similar to the proving of Musca Domestica, the fly also published on the web site www.homeopathycourses.com • Full proving text of the Fly Orchid is available in the book, Orchids in Homeopathy Trichoceros antennifer Brief Summary

• Fly Orchid • “In the midst” of toxic sexuality • acceptance of the fragility of life and being in the midst of death; desire for fast motion; joyful communication, keeping everyone uplifted when a relative is suicidal • herpes; greasy skin; vesicular eruptions on the face; eruption on tips of fingers; migraines left side; muscle pains (similar to Musca domestica)

The Orchid Project Meant Many More Orchid Homeopathic Provings As well as many New Clinical Indications

Some of the First Early Full Provings in the Orchid project: • simia • Phalenopsis gigantea Orchis Simia

• Monkey Orchid • Proving in Portland, Maine- • Master Prover- Nancy Frederick, Sally Williams • Consultant Louis Klein • ‘In the midst of’ smart people who do foolish things • ‘In the midst of’ war, destruction and holding on and covering up • Movie: Life is Beautiful • animal-like stimming; escape from danger; reacting to anger, violence, war • sudden and severe exhaustion; frequent colds and influenza; throat and ear problems worse swallowing; bronchitis, pleurisy; Raynaud's phenomena; hormonal; easy miscarriage - for holding onto the baby; motion sickness; effects of vaccination, autism, monkey like behaviour • Provers had lengthy and very long, detailed dreams • Many Dreams of stairs, room to room etc. Phalenopsis Gigantea • Proving – Master Prover Sally Williams RS Hom, Consultant Louis Klein • Elephant Ear Orchid, Gigantic , Giant-leaved Orchid • The most widely-grown orchids in the world are from the genus Phalaenopsis, -including hybrids. This particular species is native to forests up to 400m in parts of Indonesia and Malaysia including Borneo, Sabah, and Sarawak, described in 1909. • ‘In the midst of’ hypercritical persons or group; explosive behavior • Very good for ADD, ADHD; especially where there is difficulty in communicating, • Depression, frustration, < learning and school problems, < being misunderstood, < misunderstanding. • Delusion: trapped, inability to escape; being lost, without direction. • Problems with comprehension, focus, memory and communication; • Malaria maism • Acid reflux; spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen; hormonal, pregnancy issues; dizziness; • herpes Phalenopsis Gigantea More Proving and Clinical

• One prover remarks: “I was not able to listen and remember – almost like I cannot hear... My concentration is lacking; I have a dopey feeling all the time.” Another prover records: “Letters on the computer screen made no sense at all; I had to read [them] over and over.” • The frustration over the inability to communicate creates social embarrassment. There is a feeling of being trapped by what they perceive as an overpowering disability – a disability that must be hidden; this is experienced as both a desire and an inability to escape. • These will be patients who have great difficulty in reading and will avoid reading books, instead watching television, videos, or movies. The Orchid Project Advances

• More orchids made into remedies! • Many more orchids have been proven • Many more orchids have good clinical indications • Leads to general themes and symptoms described in the book Orchids in Homeopathy Definition: Mind and Disposition • Hahnemann stresses both symptom and disposition, but especially the latter, in Aphorism 210 of the Organon: “…and in all cases of disease we are called on to cure, the state of the patient's disposition is to be particularly noted, along with the totality of the symptoms, if we would trace an accurate picture of the disease, in order to be able therefrom to treat it homeopathically with success.” • Disposition is that which shapes each person’s unique way of responding to events. This includes those consistent attributes, positive and negative, that form our attitudes and our actions. • I came to this succinct definition after careful thought and much application. • As much as disposition plays a prominent role in the selection of the remedy, the evaluation of whether we have successfully applied a homeopathic remedy is to be found in the curative positive change in pathology, in the “annihilation of the disease” (as Hahnemann said), and not necessarily with regard to any change of disposition in the early follow-ups. Orchidaceae Mind and Disposition General Themes Mind and Disposition Themes Desire to party Naturally Disengaged, Escaping responsibility Unencumbered- single patients Enchanted, Beautiful Sensuality who like a free life style Style Or patients who have children at Inordinate focus on puppies, a late age kittens and cute things Patients of immature very young parent(s) Perfection of Materialism Redeeming a disengaged person The best of material and sensual or group pleasure Elegant and “fine” possessions Heaven on Earth, Spirituality, Fashionable clothing and/or Hedonism Exquisite spirituality Perfection of Food ‘Heavenly bubble’ Desire for perfect food Enlightened joy and playfulness Preparation and eating Exuberance and charm, Connoisseur and refined tastes Chefs Sexuality, Alluring Behavior, Adaptability within conflict and Intoxicating Attractions Effects of physical abuse Name and look of orchids reflect and evoke reproductive genitalia Heightened Senses and Extreme Sensitivity Sensuality Senses accentuated Flirting, sexual trickery Or the opposite, where senses are Animal-like sex, sexual appeal, overwhelmed and blocked and decadent eroticism Sensitive to material environment, Effects of sexual abuse allergies Emotional sensitivity, especially to Orchid Mycorrhizal Disposition – Joy injustice in the Midst of Conflict and Clairvoyance and clairaudience Destruction Difficulty communicating with In the center of, and attempting to frustration heal, conflict, violence, politics, and war Work having to do with conflict The Outsider and Issues Dreams of numbers of Support Specific numbers – 3, 4, 7 Feeling outside the group – Number relationships expelled Computer gaming and fantasy Stylish eccentricity and gaming individuality Gambling Autism Sports and sporting events ADD, ADHD, problems Dreams stairs, communicating Into puppies, kittens, cute cats and Enhanced perception without dogs corresponding action Secretiveness and Deception Some of the general mind themes Feeling ripped off are listed here and specific orchids Secretive have their own indications. See the Games and Numbers book Orchids in Homeopathy for a Desire to play full listing. Making conflict and violence into a game

Homeopathic Information on a Few Select Orchids Calypso bulbosa Brief Summary • (Eastern) Fairy Slipper, Venus's slipper, Bulbed Calypso, Calypso Orchid – found in Canada, pine forest, trituration proving in Canada • In the midst of dark hopelessness of prison and prisoners • sexualized or sexually abusive mother; intoxicating states; comatose • comatose; encephalopathy; brain infections; unresolved infections; coughs, chest affections; allergic reactions with swelling; infertility

Cochleanthes discolor Brief Summary • The Different-Colored Cochleanthes, the Different- Colored Warczewiczella • In the midst of the protective shell of superficial wealth • Weak, immature sense of self and identity; avoiding depth through materialism, financially supported by family as adults • Can become party organizers, wedding planners • Physical: hypersensitivity to certain foods, pesticides and herbicides; flushes of heat with redness; stabbing, shooting, throbbing, or pressing pains; contractions, cramps, tension; fuzzy, tingling, numbing, – urinary tract infections- pain worse at end of urination

Spiranthes autumnalis Brief Summary

• Lady Tresses, Autumn Lady's Tresses; Lady's Traces, Sweet Cullions – Homeopathic Orchid Remedy in the Classical Materia Medica • In the midst of those who abuse power • spiral, twisting, whirling, as if intoxicated; sensation of heat • Boericke: “ Has been used for milk-flow in nursing women, lumbago and rheumatism, colic, with drowsiness and spasmodic yawning. Is an anti- phlogistic remedy akin to Acon. its symptoms showing congestion and inflammation. Acidity and burning in oesophagus with eructation.” • Mental/Emotional: Ailments from mental effort; Confusion, discomfort, indolence, ennui, complaining; Dreams: lascivious, amorous; remorse over past sexual indiscretions; Weather: flushes of heat; hands alternately hot and cold; Sweat: palms; Desire: acid, sour; drinks, constant thirst; Aversion: food, loss of appetite; Sleep: drowsy; spasmodic yawning; restless nervous; Physical: < touch; < stooping; < bending or raising arm; > lying on left side, on back; > walking Spiranthes autumnalis Brief Summary cont.

Physical: dry vagina; alopecia, hair failling; chemical allergies;, fever: congestion and inflammation; vertigo: < rising from bed, < lying down, < sitting, > walking; head: headache; wobbling feeling in the brain with desire to lean the head against the wall; mouth: toothache, cold, < night; heart: palpitation, < least emotion, excitement; stomach: acidity and burning in oesophagus, belching; abdomen: heat, lower, < laughing; colic; rectum: burning and itching, < stool; urinary: kidneys pain, < going upstairs, > lying on back, > urinating; Female: vulva red, itching; vagina dry, burning, < coition; leucorrhoea, yellowish, bloody; milk scanty; pressing pain uterus; Back: lumbago; Limbs: weak, > urinating; rheumatism; sciatic pain, right side; pain, lancinating, shoulders, < stooping, < bending over, pain hands, joints; swelling of veins of hands; coldness of feet and toes. • Important first aid remedy for Spiral Fractures

Disa uniflora Brief Summary

• The Pride of , Red , Single- flowered Disa, • National flower of South • Proving done by Homeopath Professional Association in and full description included in the book ‘Orchids in Homeopathy’ • ‘In the midst’ of hypocrisy of political correctness • Arrogance and haughty; hedonism followed by depressive states; better in mountains, open air • Physical: vaginal dryness and irritation; asthma better open air; warts and naevi

Remedia Pharmacy Homeopathically Prepared Orchid Remedies • >Aerangis distincta • >Dendrobium tetragonum var. • >Anacamptis pyramidalis giganteum • >Arpophyllum giganteum • >Dendrochilum cobbianum • >Arundina graminifolia • >Disa uniflora • >Bletilla striata • >Dyakia hendersoniana • >Brassavola nodosa • >Encyclia cochleata • >Coelogyne pandurata • >Eriopsis biloba • >Cymbidium devonianum Paxton • >Eulophia angolensis • >Cypripedium parviflorum var. • >Gomesa radicans pubescens • >Gymnadenia conopsea • >Cypripedium reginae • >Liparis viridiflora • >Dactylorhiza fuchsii • >Lycaste aromatica • >Dactylorhiza maculata • >Malleola dentifera • >Dactylorhiza majalis • • >Dendrobium lasianthera More Orchid Remedies From Remedia Pharmacy:

• >Maxillaria uncata Kalii • >Maxillaria variabilis • >Serapias lingua • >Miltonia clowesii • >Sobralia macrantha • >Oncidium • >Spiranthes autumnalis ornithorhynchum • >Thelychiton speciosum • >Orchis mascula • >Trichoceros antennifer • >Orchis militaris • >Vanda Miss Joaquim • >Orchis simia • >Vanilla madagascariensis • >Phalaenopsis gigantea • >Vanilla planifolia • >Pleione bulbocodioides • >Zygopetalum maculat • >Pleurothallis lanceana • >Psychopsis () Helios Pharmacy Homeopathically Prepared Orchid Remedies

ACAULIS • COCHLEANTHES DISCOLOR • CYMBIDIUM ORCHID • CYPRIPEDIUM • DACTYLORHIZA PRAETERMISSA • ENCYCLIA CORDIGERA • ORCHIS MORIO • SOBRALIA MACROPHYLLA Summary of Orchids Revealed: A New Family of Homeopathic Remedies • Orchids are the largest plant family • Themes having to do with joy, and are found within varied elegance, materialism and even environments hedonism • Orchids have unique characteristics • Stylish eccentricity and individuality as flowering plants • Sexuality, Alluring Behavior, Flirting • Mycorrhizal is a distinguishing • Profuse dreams-Dream of stairs, characteristic of orchids meaning houses, parties, war Orchids use fungus to germinate • Many varied physical problems and • This can be translated into mind and pathology like other homeopathic disposition themes- Joyful, other remedies mind states but in midst of a serious • And Individual orchids have dark environment- therefore “In the individual problems midst of” • Hand and Foot Injuries and • Adaptation to - reflect and problems as well as fractures redeem animal or insect • Hormonal issues • Neuro-behavioural problems including Autism, ADD, ADHD • Encephalopathy and the effects of, • Vertigo, light-headed Photos of Expressive Orchids • A healthy Homeopathy profession means that the profession, science and art of homeopathy evolves and modernizes. • Since 2004, over 60 new Orchids have been added to our homeopathic materia medica as a result of The Orchid Project. • ©Louis Klein FSHom 2017

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