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| Hpathy Ezine - April 2004 | ||||
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Spotlight on Hyoscyamus -- David Johnson |
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The opposite pole in Hyoscyamus could be described as 'it's better to have no attention than to have someone look too closely'. This tendency appears to stem from the challenges Hyoscyamus individuals experience with intimacy, and relating to people in a trusting manner. They can experience great difficulties learning to be vulnerable in a relationship. The Hyoscyamus adult has not been taught to trust, or if they did trust in the past, the trust was broken. So to have someone really 'see' them, with all their fears and defenses exposed, can be very threatening. They may expend a great effort to maintain defenses against this possibility (deceitful, sly). Vermeulen describes the Hyoscyamus 'fear of exposure' with feelings of shame and strong aversion to undressing, or aversion to men because "all they want is sex". Sankaran also conveys this fear by describing a woman who couldn't face anyone if she was dressed informally (embarrassment, reserved, bashful timidity). There are often times where both 'poles' of Hyoscyamus are seen alternating in the same person. One Hyoscyamus client complained her breasts were too small and no one paid her any attention; then she described a past eating disorder to stay small-chested so men wouldn't 'stare and whistle'. Hyoscyamus can become paranoid about others looking at them (fear of people, delusion - watched, desire to hide, agoraphobia), and what others' motives truly are. When one feels no trust in relating to others, it may seem others are 'out to get them'. This helps to explain the rubrics: fear of betrayal, fear of being sold, fear/delusion of being persecuted, fear/delusion of being injured, fear of being poisoned and fear to drink what is offered. Other common fears of Hyoscyamus include water, dogs and dark and alone. In spite of all the above, many well-adjusted Hyoscyamus individuals have a great deal of insight into their challenges--it's just that they may not know how to get beyond them! Hyoscyamus characteristics can be found in such positive rubrics as precocity, intellectual, introspection, inquisitive, and clairvoyance. Hyoscyamus may be compared to pulsatilla (complementary--Hyoscyamus demonstrates a more extreme need for attention), magnesiums (fears of abandoment), lachesis and other animal remedies (loquacity, themes of attractiveness), veratrum (themes of persecution), thuja (chameleon personality, reproaches oneself) and belladonna and stramonium (other members of the solanaceae family). The reader may read the proving and examine other rubrics for Hyoscyamus in order to fill out the above description. In summary (with apologies to Shakespeare!), the Hyoscyamus state can be respectfully characterized as: 'To be exposed or not to be exposed, that is the question.' |
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