Themes of modalities

QUANTITY:

Increased analytic discrimination.

The sexual desire came back dramatically at 1 p.m.

Many abundant ideas.

                    

                   QUALITY

Aristotle divides the quality into four groups:

a) According to the effects on the subject in terms of quantity: THE FIGURE

b)     According to whether the subject is capable of activities: POTENCE AND IMPOTENCE

c)      According to whether the subject is susceptible to alteration: THE PASSIBLE QUALITY AND PASSION

d)     In respect of whether he can be good or bad, conditioned as nature: HABIT-CAPACITY AND DISPOSITION.

a) FIGURE: The respective disposition of his different parts.

b) POTENCE AND IMPOTENCE: That which the substance has immediately at its disposal for the operations. The immediate principle of operation. A certain way of being, in this or another way. The physical strength to execute or not. In case of impotence one refers to the potence if it is weak.

Drank much water and did not need to urinate.

The vision surpasses all mental functions.

Loss of execution because of an excessive visual sensation.

Cerebral dissociation accompanied by numbness of the limbs and tongue.

Loss of execution.

Lost mobility, the body is as if moving through thick molasses.

Feeling of impotence, sorrow and shock.

Tired legs, sensation of a weight upwards.

Extreme fatigue, did not want to do anything, dozing.

c) THE PASSIBLE QUALITY AND PASSION

Susceptible to alteration; follows or produces a sensible alteration. The alteration is verified; sensible qualities of the matter, color, sound, odor, taste and heat, and the physical properties of bodies: solid, liquid or gaseous. The passible quality is durable, the passion is ephemeral, and temporary.

Emotional action in all perceptions.

The residual image lasts all day.

Acute vision, in sunlight.

Cloudy vision with headache.

Green is experienced as taste.

The images are internalized into the ear, sound.

Hypersensitivity of senses.

Sensitivity to odors, there is an unusual ginger odor, and although it is so strong, it is not noticed by anybody, I felt I could suffocate.

Coldness, pallor. Feels cold. Pale discoloration of the cheek.

Coldness of genitals.

Partial peripheral anesthesia.

Lack of vital heat.

Blurred vision, ameliorates by warm bathing.

Dreams of pleasantly warm water.

Frontal headache, dull, like a cramp.

Dryness of the scleras, internal dryness.

Softer stool than usual, less gases.

Feels dead. Cold.

Sensation as if the heart had stopped.

d.1. HABIT - CAPACITY :

To be good or bad, in being or activity. If they are close to being good, virtue; if they are far from being good, vice.

Division between the conscious and unconscious life.

Depersonalization. Loss of self conscience. Loss of feeling.

Introverted. Loss of the existential horizon. Feeling of the lost position.

Handles everything concentrated now. I feel strong, firm, capable of taking charge of the world, I felt comfortable. Feet and arms could move, and I could walk there, open and balanced, I‘m in my world and take charge of it well.

Cautious, firm and alert. Feels free.

Always ready, alert, conscious. Increased vibration.

Cosmic mysticism. Egotism. Flight of ideas.

Egocentric introversion. Euphoria, ecstasy, enjoyment.

Beautiful food. Full of color. Organic.

d.2 THE DISPOSITION: The dispositions change without difficulty, are changeable. They refer to the internal senses.

Detached, lonely, mistrust. Withdraw from reality, retreat.

I don’t feel so self conscious while talking to others.

Standing beside/by himself.

Desire to experiment with himself (masturbation?)

Wants to do the things in slow motion, as if the mind and body were moving through thick molasses.

Ability to draw abstract conclusions.

Spontaneous, open to express happiness, feel tired inside in the true sense. 

                   RELATION ad aliud

“Orientation to another being”

Self identification with the environment.

Aversion to be touched.

Mistrust, thinks that he is laughed at, that his companions laugh at him.

Slight aroma of perfume in the air. One reminds him of his dead mother.

I say good bye to someone whom I will not see again; wanted to enjoy the moment.

Feels left aside. Family relations: I argued with my parents. Felt that I missed  being closer to my family.

Fatigue: tired feeling in the evening, especially if there are other people around, easily tired by others.

Impatient with the boy.

A sister married. Secret marriage. The family is annoyed and felt left aside.

                   ACTION actio

From Latin: agere, to act, realize,

power – the act to act.

It is almost a sensuality, a pleasure to take care of myself. I really liked it.

Egocentric introversion. Observes himself. Pondering.

Walks through a shop, smelling the perfume his mother used. Keeps on walking back and forth, smelling it.

Sudden changes of attitudes toward the action.

Avoids decisions, irresolute.

Submerges underwater.

Handles everything concentrated now.

Feet and arms could move, and I could walk there, open and balanced, I am in my world and take charge of it well.

He goes swimming in the sea, which is unusual because he normally does not like cold water, feels very good.

There are large groups of animals in a forest. I guided kangaroos and dogs to a safe place, “I must take care”. Two giant friendly dogs, the will hurt every hunt animal.

I’m riding horses in a large field.

TIME: When?

“The time is the motion measured in successive instants, it is the measurement of movement and change”

Distention: He feels bloated after eating a little, in the morning on waking.

Rigid neck on waking.

Fatigue: tired feeling in the evening.

Aggravation at noon.

Anorexia and nausea: late in the afternoon, and early in the evening.

Irritable in the evening.

Alternations – periodicity – Sequences – concomitants - recurrence:

Waking from a dream at one o’clock in the morning, ameliorates when defecating.

Aggravation before menses.

PLACE AND SPACE: (Ubi)

“The immobile surface that surrounds the body immediately”

Increased orientation towards the environment. Feels attracted to the rocks.

Lies down besides a moss-covered rock which feels very comfortable, leaving a warm impression for the rest of the day.

Uncomfortable sensation of the environment and surroundings:

I was in ruins with a friend. Ugly sensation, we shouldn’t be there.

“No, there is plutonium all around, we shouldn’t be here, we don’t belong to this place.” Ugly sensation, we shouldn’t be there. There was a very old wall, which collapsed. Ominous feelings. Only during the day. I felt anxious.

Darkness ameliorates.

I wanted to go out to feel the coldness in the face.

Lost in the middle of nowhere.

POSITION

Lying ameliorates.

Restless motion of feet while lying in bed.

Gnawing pain in stomach, felt hot and did not want anything in the body, sensitive, as if there was something over the body.

Numbness of buttocks when sitting in meditation.

                 HABIT

Self care attitude, I’m using good bathing salts, and humectants after showering, wearing comfortable clothes.

PASSION

What he suffers reluctantly, what he suffers.

The ideas and visions penetrate the consciousness of the individual in quite rapid succession; they seem to impose themselves on the individual who cannot control them. He is unable to resist them and is forced to listen and answer them verbally. This is as if the logical mind would lose control and as if the subconscious or part of the supraconscious mind would take command.

(In this case it is the passion that floods the consciousness)

Sensitivity to odors, there is an unusual ginger odor, and although it is so strong, it is not noticed by anybody, I felt I could suffocate.

Sensation as if cutting wire, or pliers, would dissect the head.

Anxiety in the heart. Constriction of the heart.

Oppression of the heart.

Hammering in the body.

Anxiety, panic, hurry.

Anxiety about death.

Throbbing pain, crushing, internal, in the skin. Sensitive nipples.

Severe cutting pain.

Color produces a metallic taste.

Pain in the occiput, the bones wanted to move, pulsations. Exploding.

Pulsations behind the eyes.

Overburdened by responsibilities, sad, as if he had done something dishonest.

A dog patient died, and although I had only been with him for some minutes, I felt sad and cried. I had a bad conscience because if I hadn’t been so selfish and had considered his urgency, the dog would be still alive.

Anxiety, slightly anxious about her son, whom she did not see for about a month, during his travels. 

Euphoria, ecstasy. Enjoyment. Cosmic mysticism. Sensation of being borne by music.

Aversion to the sun. Photophobia, needed sunglasses.

Dreams: of disasters. Children in danger. The planet explodes. Women decide to kill themselves.

Necessity to go.

Hopelessness.

      GROUPING

1. He himself and the environment

Self identification with the environment. Increased orientation toward the environment.

Depersonalization. Loss of self consciousness. Loss of feeling.

Cerebral dissociation accompanied by numbness of the limbs and tongue. Partial peripheral anesthesia. Lack of vital heat. Feels dead. Cold.

Of the comfortable environment. Of the uncomfortable environment.

We should not be here.

Lost in the middle of nowhere.

Detached, lonely, mistrust. Withdraw from reality, withdrawal.

2. Visions

Optic hallucinations, of colors. Distortion.

Loss of execution because of an excessive visual sensation. Loss of judgment because of irresistible visions. Bizarre vision. Black shapes. Faces appear like masks. Objects seem deformed. Theme of eye and vision.

3. Cosmic egotism

Abstract conclusions, thoughts into images, everything is transparent, cosmic, borne by music, ecstasy, increased ability. Confuses present with eternity. Cosmic mysticism. Egotism. Flight of ideas.

Egocentric introversion. Euphoria, ecstasy, enjoyment.

4. Execution capacity

Loss of execution capacity. Avoids decisions, irresolute.

Pondering. Anxiety about death. Cerebral dissociation with numbness, loss of mobility. Mistrust, thinks that he is laughed at, that his companions laugh at him. Ceased outside activity. Lost mobility. Fatigue. Acute stitches in the articulations.

Anxiety, panic, hurried, goes to a marriage, shoe confounded, hurried, does not bring flowers, badly dressed.

As if mind and body were moving through thick molasses.

5. Coldness, pallor - warm water

Coldness of genitals.

Pale discoloration of the cheek.

Partial peripheral anesthesia.

Lack of vital heat.

Blurred vision, ameliorates by warm bathing.

Dreams of pleasantly warm water.

6. Self care, I feel very good, comfortable.

Acute consciousness of the body. A sensation of an electric current.

7. Disasters.

8. I must take care of, and guide animals. Overburdened by responsibility.

It is as if had done something dishonest.

                   PILLARS

I. He himself and the environment

II. Visions - distortion and confusion of senses

III. Indiscrimination

Totality of projected Psora. 

How does he suffer?

1. Self identification with the environment, I felt I could suffocate.

2. Distortion of perceptions, shape, space, all objects.

Emotional action in all perceptions.

Color produces a metallic taste. Green is experienced as taste. The images are internalized into ear, sound.

Colorless objects seem to be colored.

Enhanced blue color.

Variable brightness.

The residual image lasts all day.

The vision surpasses all mental functions.

Sensitivity to odors, there is an unusual ginger odor, and although it is so strong, it is not noticed by anybody, I felt I could suffocate.

Excessive visual perceptions.

Objects seem deformed.

They are double, sparkling, cloudy.

Shapes, space, time, small bi-dimensional objects turn into multidimensional objects.

Bizarre vision. Black shapes. Faces appear like masks. Fusion of present with eternity.

3. The ideas and visions penetrate the consciousness of the individual in a quite rapid succession; they seem to impose themselves on the individual who cannot control them. He is unable to resist them and is forced to listen and answer them verbally. This is as if the logical mind would lose control, and as if the subconscious or part of the supraconscious mind would take command.

Abstract thoughts are transformed into images.

4. Acute stitches in the body

Stitching pain in the outer part of the right chest.

In the left sacroiliac articulation:

Painful mobility.

Cutting pain in stomach and abdomen.

Headache: sensation as if a cutting wire were cutting the head into two pieces.

5. Hammering in the body

6. Anxiety in the heart

                     Constriction of the heart

Oppression of the heart

Sensation as if the heart had stopped.

7. I say good bye to someone whom I will not see again; wanted to enjoy the moment.

Walks through a shop, smelling the perfume his mother used. Keeps on walking back and forth, smelling it, which makes him a little sad, and he is missing her.

8. Sad and compassionate for others

Cosmic sadness about the world.

9. Uncomfortable sensation of the environment.  We should not be there.

I was in ruins with a friend. Ugly sensation, we shouldn’t be there. There was a very old wall, which collapsed.

10. Ominous feelings. Only during the day. I felt anxious. Necessity to go.

Bicycling through the nuclear reserve of Hanford, like a thematic park of an energy department. My husband wanted to take his bicycle out of the street, and I told him: “There is plutonium all around, we shouldn’t be here, we don’t belong to this place.”

11. Eye and vision

Bizarre vision. Black shapes.

Pain of the pupil.

Pulsating pressure behind the eyes.

12. Loss of the existential horizon. Hopelessness. Anxiety about death.

13. Lost in the middle of nowhere.

14. I drove to the suburb of the city. People in the street run in panic. There is the sound of sirens, and odor of smoke. I arrived at the district where my sister lives. My dad and my brother were there, saying that my sister and her children had disappeared. We tried to find them but the police hindered us. Feeling of impotence, sorrow and shock.

A sister married. Secret marriage, the family is annoyed and felt left aside.

Overburdened by responsibilities, sad, as if she had done something dishonest.

A dog patient died, and although I had only been with him for some minutes, I felt sad and cried. I had a bad conscience because if I had not been so selfish and had considered his urgency, the dog would be still alive.

Anxiety, slightly anxious about her son whom she did not see for about a month, during his travels.

               Egolysis

Depersonalization, loss of self-consciousness.

Loss of execution because of an excessive visual sensation.

Loss of judgment because of irresistible visual sensations.

Sensation of lost position.

Loss of execution.

Ceased outside activity.

Wants to do the things in slow motion, as if the mind and body were moving through thick molasses.

Avoids decisions, irresolute.

Wants to escape.

Illusions, schematizes. Everything seems artificial. Everything transparent.

Faces appear like masks.

Cerebral dissociation accompanied by numbness of limbs and tongue.

Partial peripheral anesthesia. Lack of vital heat. Feels dead. Cold.

Dilatation of pupils.

Dryness of scleras, internal dryness.

Coldness of genitals.

Withdraw from reality, withdrawal, retreat.

Aversion to be touched.

Aversion to sun.

Fatigue: tired feeling in the evening, especially if there are other people around, easily tired by others.

Extreme fatigue, did not want to do anything.

Nausea on waking, lasting until forenoon, short, for 5 minutes.

Distention: feels bloated after eating a little, in the morning on waking.

Gnawing pain in the stomach, felt hot, did not want anything in the body, sensitive, as if there was something over the body.

               Alterlysis

(The dream attacking with a trident.)

               Egotrophy

                   The first degree denies the loss

Handles everything concentrated now. I feel strong, firm, capable to take charge of the world, I felt comfortable. Feet and arms could move, and I could walk there, open and balanced, I’m in my world and take charge of it well. Spontaneous, open to express happiness, feel tired inside in the true sense. I don’t feel so self-conscious while talking to others. She would like to know if she sounds crazy, but it doesn’t matter to her, she feels free.

Always ready, alert, conscious. Cautious, firm and alert. Increased vibration.

Standing beside himself.

Increased orientation toward the environment.

Quiet, reflexive humor. Feels especially attracted to the rocks while walking through the mountains. Lies down besides a moss-covered rock which feels very comfortable, leaving a warm impression for the rest of the day.

Beautiful food, colorful, organic.

I wanted to go out to feel the coldness in the face. Deep level of experience, but narrow.

I feel fantastic, enjoy everything.

Ability to draw abstract conclusions.

Increased ability.

Increased analytic discrimination.

Increased attention.

Ponders.

Conceptual thoughts about the own environment.

Acute vision in sunlight.

Illusions to make projects.

Second degree egotrophy, performs the attribute.

Egocentric introversion. Observes himself. Pondering.

There are many mental symptoms, what stands out is the increased development of the internal life, with a poor external life. Desire to experiment with himself. Loss of feelings.

Acute consciousness of the body.

Observes himself.

Egocentric introversion.

Self care attitude, I’m using good bathing salts, and humectants after showering, wear comfortable clothes. It is almost a sensuality, a pleasure to take care of myself. I really like it.

Euphoria, ecstasy. Enjoyment. Sensation of being borne by music.

Non egoistic consciousness.

Cosmic mysticism.

Ecstasy.

Loss of egocentricity.

Does not have a material body.

Sensation to float freely. Flight of ideas.

I guided kangaroos and dogs to a safe place, “I must take care”. I’m guiding a horse to a corral. The horse needed more training. Stubborn, and totally resigned. Did not want to do it.

Prophetic dream: To be/of being  in a house with ten young women and a male guru. He tells us that the planet is going to explode, and that we have to kill ourselves before this happens. We shall sit in lotus position and hold our arms up in a particular mudra [3] : and only direct our spirits towards the death. I realize that this is easy to do, but then I get aware: Eh! I don’t want to do this. I ask another girl if she really wants to do this and she replies that she doesn’t want to. So we escape and I feel relieved. We run and arrive at a section of the sea where the ice is melting. I jump as far as I can, trying to reach an iceberg, but I fall in the water. It is surprisingly warm, and really pleasant. I catch a stick to push me upwards, which is also warm. Even the iceberg is warm. Swimming sea lions come to me, I feel very happy.

Standing beside himself.

The vision surpasses all mental functions.

Abstract thoughts are transformed into images.

Nuclei

Transgression

A dog patient died, and although I had only been with him for some minutes, I felt sad and cried. I had a bad conscience because, if I hadn’t been so selfish and had considered his urgency, the dog would be still alive.

Overburdened by responsibilities, sad, as if he had done something dishonest.

Loss

Self identification with the environment.

Distortion of perceptions, form, space, all objects.

This is as if the logical mind would lose control, and as if the subconscious or part of the supraconscious mind would take command.

Faces appear like masks.

Fusion of present with eternity.

Loss of the existential horizon. Hopelessness. Anxiety about death.

Lost in the middle of nowhere.

Loss of execution.

Ceased outside activity.

Fear of punishment

A very old wall collapsed.

Ominous feelings.

Anxiety in the heart.

Sensation as if the heart had stopped.

Bizarre vision. Black shapes.

Anxiety; slightly anxious about her son, whom she did not see for about a month, during his travels.

Nostalgia

I say good bye to someone whom I will not see again; wanted to enjoy the moment.

Walks through a shop, smelling the perfume his mother used...

Justification

Ugly sensation, we shouldn’t be there.

We shouldn’t be here; we don’t belong to this place.

A sister married. Secret marriage. The family is annoyed and felt left aside.

Loss of execution because of an excessive visual sensation.

Loss of judgment because of irresistible visual sensations.

Prophetic dream: To be/of being  in a house with ten young women and a male guru. He tells us that the planet is going to explode, and that we have to kill ourselves before this happens. We shall sit in lotus position and hold our arms up in a particular mudra [4] : and only direct our spirits towards the death. I realize that this is easy to do, but then I get aware: Eh! I don’t want to do this. I ask another girl if she really wants to do this and she replies that she doesn’t want to. So we escape and I feel relieved. We run and arrive at a section of the sea where the ice is melting. I jump as far as I can, trying to reach an iceberg, but I fall in the water. It is surprisingly warm, and really pleasant. I catch a stick to push me upwards, which is also warm. Even the iceberg is warm. Swimming sea lions come to me, I feel very happy.

Reconciliation

I wanted to go out to feel the coldness in the face.

Words in the dictionary of the language.

Discriminate: to separate, distinguish, differentiate one thing from another.

Mix: to join, incorporate different things, obtaining a certain homogeneity.

Interfere: to introduce one thing in other in order to mix them.

Confound: to mix different things or people in a way that one thing cannot be distinguished from the other. Not to make the necessary distinction. To take one thing for another erroneously, to make a mistake.

Cut: to divide a thing or to separate its parts with a sharp instrument.

To stop continuity or union by dividing.

The envied attribute: Transcendence and immanence:

Transcendence supposes a “beyond” from the referral point. Beyond the world, and thoughts. Immanence means “inherent”, “to be in temporarily”. There are two antagonist currents regarding this point and God:

·        Pantheism: Denies the distinction of God with respect to the world, converting it in it’s own becoming or “substantial form”: God as the “soul of the world”.

·        Theism: The transcendence is characterized thereby that God “is in no way in the things”, or present. It is a God alien to the vicissitudes of the world, and to the necessities of men.

Saint Thomas analyzes these two positions and concludes that God is transcendent (distinct of the world, a.1 ad 3), but that he is in everything, because everything is subject to his power, because everything is present to his eyes (“presence”), and because he acts in everybody as the cause of their being (“essence”, a.3). Transcendence and immanence do not oppose in God, because he is distinct and intimate at once (a.1, ad 1).

Presence of God in the things: q.8

God distinct from the world:

“God (through his absolute power)… acts directly in everything. Therefore, nothing is distant from him. Nevertheless, it is said that the things are distant from God because of the dissimilarity between nature and grace, then he is above all due to the excellence of his nature” (a.1 and 3)

“Presence” of God:

“God is in the things in a double way:

1)     First, as a causative agent. Therefore it is said that he is in everything created by him.

2)     Second, the object of action because he is in the agent. This pertains to the operations of the soul; because the known is in what is known, and the desired is in what is desired. In this second way God is especially in the rational creatures, who know and love him actually and usually. (...) How he is in the other creatures can be understood considering what is happening in the other human things. It is said that the king is potential in his entire kingdom, although he is not physically present everywhere. It is said that someone is present in everything that is under his eye. Therefore it is said that someone is at home, although he is not substantially present in all and every part of the house. Through substance or essence is said that anyone who is present in an occupied place because of his physical totality.  (...)

…God is in everybody due to his power. There were others, who, even if they confessed that everything is subject to the power of God, denied that the Divine Providence occupies himself with the things of this world, according to what is said in Job 22,14: One walks through the vault of the firmament and is not noticed. [5]

Again this was to say that God is everywhere. (...) Therefore, it is to say that God is in everybody through power, as everything is subject to his power; that he is present in everybody, as everything is discovered by him; and that he is in everyone through essence, as he is present in everyone as a reason for being, as it was said (a.1)” (q.8, a.3)

Related ideas

Reality: Substance, substantiality, matter, materiality.

Substantiality: reality, physical existence, corporeality, to be a human creature,  entity, beast, animal, body, individual, anyone, someone, some, flesh, essence.

The opposite of substantiality, reality: nothing, the dream, sleep, what is not existing, not to be, shade, darkness, to evaporate, to disappear, to get lost, to escape, dissolve, dilute, immaterial, spectral.

Present 118. Present moment, the today’s day, presence.

Presence. 1 existence in the space. To exist, to be, to live, to lie, reside, to inhabit, to remain, to be present. To be, existence, entity, to subsist, time, to last.

Occupation. Recognition, to be present.

The opposite: non existence, non substance, non presence, non entity, not to be, absence, to cease, to disappear, to evaporate, immaterial, incorporeal. 

186. Eternity. 50. 69. 105

Infinity, not to have limits, undefined, eternized. Is lost.

Other

To be Different 18

Distinct. Different, division, order.

Diversity, distinctive.

Mask, disguise, mask, disproportion.

To confound.

Honest, respectable, honorable.

Decent, conform to the state or quality of the person, fair, proper.

Invisibility

Concealment, covered, hideout, mask, disguise, enigma, enigma, problem, retreat, withdrawal, intimacy, darkness, reclusion, eclipse, sacred, underground, invisible, secret, inscrutable, hidden, guarded, veiled. Mysterious. In darkness. To stay in the dark.

Opposite: visibility.

Perceptibility, perspicacity, evidence, clairvoyance, exhibition.

Discovery. To unwrap, to raise the curtain, tear the veil, apparent, manifest, unmasked, uncovered,  brazenly, to be seen, to see the light, to teach, to bring something up, to be visible.

References

Samuel Hahnemann: Materia Medica Pura

Guiding Symptoms of Materia Medica of C. Hering

Allen, Timothy F.: Encyclopedia of Materia Medica

Acts of the James Tyler Kent Institute.

Classes of Dr. Alfonso Masi Elizalde

Benot Affinity ideas repertory

Work done by Juan Carlos Galante, Nora Caram, Graciela Elicegui.

María Rosa Di Risio.

Author

Dra. Nora Caram
Arevalo 2279 - Cap. Fed.
Tel: 54 - (11) -4771 - 2257 Cel: 54 - (11) 15 - 45320078
e-mail: noracaram@gmail.com

Collaborators
Dr. Juan Carlos Galante
Dra. Graciela Elicegui
Lic. Maria Rosa de Risi

Instituto de Altos Estudios Homeopáticos

James Tyler Kent
Graduate School
Alfonso Masi Elizalde

Translators

Dr. Maria Gabriela Ruscica

MVZ Ignacio de J. Cabrera Larios

Katja Schütt MBA, HP, DiHom

Dr. Firuzi V. Mehta