An impression of Tilia eureopea, a Lime-tree The trituration of Tilia eureopea during March and April 2003 The Hahnemann Institute. Graduation in homeopathy May 15, 2005 Maartje de Kok A famous Dutch tongue twister: Along the long lime-tree lane, Lientje taught Lotje how to walk. But when Lotje stopped walking Lientje let Lotje behind. When Lotje was named Charlotte she walked with her lover along the same lane, not knowing that she had practiced in love years earlier. 2 3 Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and do not learn. Your poetry issues of its own accord when you and the object have become one--when you have plunged deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there. However well-phrased your poetry may be, if your feeling is not natural--if the object and yourself are separate--then your poetry is not true poetry but merely your subjective counterfeit. Submerge yourself into the object until its intrinsic nature becomes apparent, stimulating poetic impulse. Matsuo Bashõ (1644 – 1694) 4 5 Index Index .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 1 Common themes of the trees ........................................................................... 11 The anatomy of the trees in general .............................................................................................. 11 Differences between deciduous, conifers and (sub-) tropical forests. ......................................................... 11 Material functions of the tree for mankind .................................................................................................. 12 Features from the botany of trees ................................................................................................................ 12 The symbolism of the trees in general ........................................................................................... 13 The theme of connection ............................................................................................................................. 13 The theme of protection ............................................................................................................................... 16 The theme of the cycle of life and death ...................................................................................................... 16 An overview of the themes of the trees in general ........................................................................ 18 Chapter two – The themes of the Lime-tree; anatomy and symbolism ................................. 21 The anatomy of the Lime-tree ........................................................................................................ 21 The history of the Lime-tree: from wood tree to a village tree .................................................................... 21 The anatomy of the Tilia eureopea shortly delineated: ................................................................................ 21 The symbolism of the Lime-tree .................................................................................................... 22 Chapter three The phytotherapeutics of the Lime-tree ..................................................... 29 The theory of signature of the Lime-tree ...................................................................................... 29 History of phytotherapeutic use of the Lime-tree ........................................................................ 29 Analysis of the medical parts of the Lime-tree ............................................................................. 30 The toxic and allergic effect of the Lime-tree ............................................................................... 32 Possible physical regions for homeopathic use of the Lime-tree ................................................ 33 Chapter four The Materia Medica and former provings of the Tilia family ................... 37 Proving Tilia eureopea by Müller and Frohlich ........................................................................... 37 Proving Tilia cordata from R. Bannan ......................................................................................... 38 Vermeulen’s Materia Medica ........................................................................................................ 39 Sankaran’s insight into plants ....................................................................................................... 40 Chapter five The trituration of Tilia eureopea ................................................................ 43 The choice for this specific tree ...................................................................................................... 43 The conduction of the trituration .................................................................................................. 43 Physical symptoms of Tilia eureopea ............................................................................................ 47 Mind symptoms of Tilia eureopea ................................................................................................. 55 Immersion positive seed .............................................................................................................................. 55 Immersion negative seed ............................................................................................................................. 61 Dreams of Tilia Eureopea ............................................................................................................... 71 Chapter six The Lime flower essence of Tilia platyphyllos & her archetypal force. ........ 77 The Lime flower essence of Tilia platyphyllos .............................................................................. 77 6 The archetype Hestia - the Goddess of the Hearth and the Temple ........................................... 78 Chapter seven A summary of Tilia Europae ....................................................................... 85 Chapter eight Differential Diagnosis ................................................................................ 87 Literature ................................................................................................................................. 95 Appendix A Literally texts of the provers of Tilia Eureopea .......................................... 97 C1 – March 12, 2003 ....................................................................................................................... 97 C2 - 12 maart 2003 .......................................................................................................................... 98 C3 - 9 april 2003 ............................................................................................................................ 100 C4 - 23 april 2003 .......................................................................................................................... 106 C5 .................................................................................................................................................... 110 Appendix B Dreams during the proving period of the Tilia eureopea ........................ 111 Appendix C List of mind symptoms in alphabetical order ........................................... 115 Appendix D List of physical symptoms of Tilia Eureopea ........................................... 117 Appendix E Case ‘A tree with a heart’ .......................................................................... 119 Appendix F Analysis of the poem Patterns ................................................................... 120 7 Introduction Basho was a Zen Buddhist, who was innovative in writing his haikus in those days when poems had to be written in an elegant but limited vocabulary. Basho recommended not only everyday experience as the subject matter of poetry, but everyday language as well. It was pungent, lively, direct, and put the poet closer in touch with the concrete reality of his material existence. The three poems below are examples of his haiku writing, where you can feel the energy of the Cherry tree and the Plum tree become apparent in words1: Old pond Under the cherry blossoms The two plum trees Frog jumps in None I love their blooming Splash! Are utter strangers. (Issa) One early, one later. (Buson) His thought was that if the language was common to all the people in the society, then poetry was no longer the exclusive province of the aristocracy. Common people could begin to appreciate the poetry written in their own idiom and could even begin to write it as well. In his efforts to raise poetry above class, Basho came to be known as the people's poet, and his haiku the poetry that was meant especially for them. Serving the community is typical something of the tree families, as we will see further on. The practice of meditation is characteristic for trees; an immersion in quietness or in activity as they are standing there. According the Buddhist thought meditation will reduce the painful sense of self-separateness that‘s the source of our ignorant suffering and can