Understanding Anacardium or.

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D. F.F. Hom. (Lon.) et al.

 

Let's first look on Anacardium's own world. What do they perceive, what is all around?

Being first his impression: of how dangerous the world is. There's only misfortune and danger ahead.

 

Anxious dreams, full of danger,

Anxiety in all his actions; everything appears to him more terrible; he imagines himself surrounded with enemies; then he feels warm and the blood seems to boil within him.

Illusions of the Fancy; he imagines he hears his name called by the voice of his far-distant mother and sister; accompanied by an apprehension of misfortune and anxiety,

 

Dreams about fire, the sleep being otherwise sound,. 

Anxious dreams about fire,

He dreams that he smells tinder* and sulphur ; on waking up the illusion continues,

Dreams: of smelling burning punk or sulphur , continues after waking; of fire; of dead bodies.

 

Anacardium's world is full of impending misfortune and danger. We can add to it his lack of confidence in his own strength, in order to face all dangers. We can imagine now someone, living in this dangerous and frightful world, with the internal sensation of not being able to face all the challengers and menaces. He is apart, lonely, insecure and helpless. Shall we combine both sensations? That's probable the starting point, in Anacardium's life.

That's why, later in the school, we will have such a frightened child before the school tests. Anacardium don't trust himself; he doesn't trust his abilities to face reality, with its dangers and challenges.

He is separated from the whole world, and has so little confidence in himself that he despairs of being able to do that which is required of him ,

The future appears dangerous to him, as if nothing but misfortune and danger were reserved for him; want of confidence in his strength and responsiveness.

Estrangement from individuals and society, with fear of the future.

Unsocial, complaints of weak memory. θ Coryza.

We can foresee how Anacardium's fears and fantasies during childhood will be. It's not detailed in the proving, but we can deduct from the symptoms: Anacardium shall be a scared child, afraid of strangers that are about to steal her from her family.

When walking he felt anxious, as if some one were pursuing him; he suspected everything around him,. 

Anxiety in all his actions; everything appears to him more terrible; he imagines himself surrounded with enemies; then he feels warm and the blood seems to boil within him.

Internal anxiety, which did not leave him any peace; he felt solicitous on account of every trifle, as if it would lead to some great trouble; with apprehension of future.

Some symptoms represent another aspect in Anacardium's fears: His hypochondriac anxiety, his fear of disease, both in himself and in the others.

She is dreaming about the loathsome diseases of others.

He dreams that his face is covered with white, ugly pustules,

Anxious and hypochondriac, shuns people.

Anxiousness; despairs of getting well. θ Apoplexy.

Hypochondriac sullen mood.

Hypochondriac mood in forenoon, dejected and desponding, with foolish, clumsy actions.

Hypochondriasis. θ Hemorrhoids and constipation.

 

The Anacardium patient might also someone with a pessimist look into reality. For him things are meant to be wrong. Associated with that feeling there is his almost aversion to people. He got scared of people, he felt persecuted, and he doesn't like their company.

Peevish mood all day; everything about him made a disagreeable impression upon him, [6].

Sadness: looks on dark side of everything.

Estrangement from individuals and society, with fear of the future.

Unsocial, complaints of weak memory. θ Coryza.

Anxious and hypochondriac, shuns people.

A slight offense makes him excessively angry, breaking out in personal violence,

He takes everything in bad part and becomes violent.

Did not know those around her. θ Palsy.

After having caressed her husband or child she pushes them away from her, as if they were not what she supposed. θ Melancholy.

Has the fixed idea that her husband is not her husband, her child not her child; now she fondles them and again pushes them away. θ Mania.

Anacardium has also another strong characteristic: he cannot say when it's future or present, he makes a lot of mistakes when dealing with time ad reality.

Also with facts that had been dreamed and reality, he doesn't know what had really happened, what he had dreamed.

He doesn't know if he is dreaming, or he is in the living world.

He confounds the present with the future,

Vivid dreams at night, which recurred to him during day, as if things dreamed of had really happened.

vivid dreams about old events,

Everything appears as in a dream. θ Melancholia.

Idea as if everything perceived had in reality, all things appear as in a dream.

This is how our patient, being a child or an adult, will present to ourselves. Afraid, scared, insecure, he doesn't believe in his own intellectual and physical strength, apart from the fact that he is losing his memory and concentration.

Loss of will power. θ After apoplexy.

Cowardice.

Many remedies can present themselves in that way: afraid, insecure, having difficulties in learning and before the school tests. But there is a difference in the Anacardium patient and is that difference that will make Anacardium different from the other remedies:

Want of moral feeling, depravity, ungodliness, inhumanity, and hardness of heart.

Malicious, wicked and cruel.

Disposed to malice, seems bent on wickedness.

Irresistible desire to curse and swear.

 

That's his strategy, in order to overcome all his fears and difficulties. Somehow, he managed to leave out of his life his conscience and all the moral and religious teachings of our society.

So, when did he become someone wicked and cruel? The first indications in the proving are those: He is having fun at serious and grave things and according to the observer it's a “strange temper”. Something is wrong with him.

 

He laughs when he should be serious,

When occupied with serious things he is forced to laugh on account of a tickling at the pit of the stomach; when occupied with ludicrous things he is able to refrain from laughter.

Strange temper, she laughs at serious and is serious over ludicrous occurrences.

Extreme merriment, laughs when he should be serious.

 

 

Another aspect of his temper is that the Anacardium patiet is indifference and unfeeling. So now we have someone laughing at serious things, afraid, insecure, apart, indifferent and unfeeling. We will have someone indifferent to the feelings of others.

 

He is very indifferent and unfeeling; neither agreeable nor disagreeable objects excite his interest.

After having caressed her husband or child she pushes them away from her, as if they were not what she supposed. θ Melancholy.

Has the fixed idea that her husband is not her husband, her child not her child; now she fondles them and again pushes them away. θ Mania.

Estrangement from individuals and society, with fear of the future.

 

Anacardium will do anything in his power to get rid of his fears. And most of his threats are lying in the future. What the future brings to him? We already know, it's a misfortune. But how does this misfortune looks like?

 

Internal anxiety, which did not leave him any peace; he felt solicitous on account of every trifle, as if it would lead to some great trouble; with apprehension of the future.

Anxious dreams, full of danger.

Anxiety and feeling of impending misfortune.

Internal anxiety, which did not leave him any peace; he felt solicitous on account of every trifle, as if it would lead to some great trouble; with apprehension of future.

 

 

Is Anacardium aware of this strange nature since the beginning of his life? Of being unfelling, indifferent, dispose to malice and cruelty? Does he is aware that he is different from the others?

Was he punished before in his early days, by his parents due to some cruelty? Had he been said that he needed to change his attitudes and his indifference toward the others?

Anacardium feels as if he has two different opinions and longings. He felt as if double.

His body longs for something his spirit rejects. There is a fight between his desires and his conscience.

And at the end, was he afraid to be taken by the devil due to his bad actions?

 

Contradiction between reason and will. θ Headache. θ Pertussis.

Feeling as if spirit was separated from body.

Thinks he is double.

Anacardium weakens the understanding ( Matthiolus ).

 

Fixed ideas: that mind and body are separated; about redemption of soul and about the devil; that a stranger is constantly by his side; that strange forms accompany him, one to his right and one to his left.

Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding to do what the other forbids.

In one ear a devil, in the other an angel, prompts him to do murder or acts of benevolence.

 

 

So much had been said about Anacardium's division between Good and Evil, the angel and the devil, presented in some of its symptoms.

 

In one ear a devil, in the other an angel, prompts him to do murder or acts of benevolence.

 

On the other hand there are so many symptoms and observations from the proving, describing Anacardium's state of mind. That in fact he has really been taken by the devil.

 

Uses profane language, swears, thinks himself a demon.

 

He had been taken, by his clinical observer, as someone with a lot of evil- ish qualities as a human being.

 

Want of moral feeling; depravity, ungodliness, inhumanity, and hardness of heart.

Malicious, wicked and cruel.

 

There is an important difference between the symptoms from the prover (the first ones) and those of the patient. The prover says that the remedy brought up a conflict inside himself, Good and Evil fighting within himself, insisting him to follow their advice. On the contrary, in the clinical observations, there's only one direction, the Evil one.

So, as we can see, there's no deep conflict in Anacardium. The conflict had been brought up only during the proving. Those “evil” feelings are something that does not belong to the inner nature of the prover. So then come the conflict.

We live in a society full of contradictions, well represented by the idea that first “the important is to become part of the games, to compete, never to win”. Have we not heart it before? And – is it true? Of course, it's not. The important in the eyes of our society is to win.

The rich man, the tennis or the football champion, the Ferrari given as a prize, the beautiful women surrounding the winners, the “actual handsome husband” of a famous actress, so many stories of “success” are present in our everyday press and TV.

That's the hypocrisy that rules our time. Why shouldn't we say: “the winner takes it all”, it's far more accurate and trustful.

Let us imagine that someone wants a very expensive watch, gold and diamonds all around. And have no funds for it.

Then come the conflict. How many times we are just one more “someone else” in the crowd, rumbling in front of the windows of the shops in a Mall? Filled with longings, but with no funds enough to buy all the goods, cars and exotic clothing we are compelled to pay for?

How many travels to distant resorts with beautiful beaches, luxurious hotels, fine eating and drinking are we compelled to take, but with no money in our bank accounts enough to satisfied all our “new and acquired” longings?

We believe that is here, in this very spot, where our patient starts his look for reality.

He wants all and everything offered to himself. Are not the media promising him all the happiness he can get? There is to become rich, handsome, beautiful and successful?

Anacardium is born with that nature, with that look into reality. He longs for anything he can get. And there will be no conscience in between him and the things he wants.

This is what the doctor had observed: Want of moral feeling; depravity, ungodliness, inhumanity, and hardness of heart . Those are the eyes of someone watching someone else completely different from himself. The doctor, probably with his internal moral feelings and social behavior is watching someone else who doesn't share the same behaviors; who doesn't have the same moral and religious aspects and is deeply hard at his heart.

 

Malicious, wicked and cruel.

Disposed to malice, seems bent on wickedness.

 

These are observations on Anacardium's behavior, collected by his doctor. But Anacardium's maliciousness and cruelty must have a purpose, a direction; he is moving towards something he wants badly. Our hypothesis that he is moving towards his desires with no impediment coming from his conscience.

 

What are the threats and longings in Anacardium's life?

health/disease

Confidence/Lack of confidence, in order to succeed.

Been able to stand the test of society.

Economic stability .

To give enough room for his sexual longings.

 

And what the word “demon” means, apart from our common use of the word?

 

Uses profane language, swears, thinks himself a demon.

 

A demon , daemon or fiend , is a supernatural, malevolent often being prevalent in religion , occultism , literature , fiction , mythology and folklore . The original Greek word daimon does not carry the negative connotation initially understood by implementation of the Koine δα ιμόνιον (daimonion), ^[1] and later ascribed to any cognate words sharing the root.

In Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions , including ancient and medieval Christian demonology , a demon is considered an unclean spirit , a fallen angel , or a spirit of unknown type which may cause demonic possession , calling for an exorcism . In Western occultism and Renaissance magic , which grew out of an amalgamation of Greco-Roman magic , Jewish demonology and Christian tradition, ^[2] a demon is a spiritual entity that may be conjured and controlled.

psychological archetype

Psychologist Wilhelm Wundt remarked that "among the activities attributed by myths all over the world to demons, the predominant, so that in popular belief bad demons are clearly older than good ones." ^[7] Sigmund Freud developed this idea and claimed that the concept of demons was derived from the important relation of the living to the dead: "The fact that demons are always regarded as the spirits of those who have died recently shows better than anything the influence of mourning on the origin of the belief in demons." ^[8]

M. Scott Peck , an American psychiatrist, wrote two books on the subject, People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil ^{[ 9]} and Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption. ^[10] Peck describes in some detail several cases involving his patients. In People of the Lie he provides identifying characteristics of an evil person, whom he classified as having a character disorder. In Glimpses of the Devil Peck goes into significant detail describing how he became interested in exorcism in order to debunk the myth of possession by evil spirits – only to be convinced otherwise after encountering two cases which did not fit into any category known to psychology or psychiatry . Peck came to the conclusion that possession was a rare phenomenon related to evil, and that possessed people are not actually evil; rather, they are doing battle with the forces of evil. ^[11]

Although Peck's earlier work was met with widespread popular acceptance, his work on the topics of evil and possession has generated significant debate and derision. Much was made of his association with (and admiration for) the controversial Malachi Martin , a Roman Catholic priest and a former Jesuit , despite the fact that Peck consistently called Martin a liar and manipulator. ^[12][13] Richard Woods, a Roman Catholic priest and theologian, has claimed that Dr. Peck misdiagnosed patients based upon a lack of knowledge regarding dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder), and had apparently transgressed the boundaries of professional ethics by attempting to persuade his patients into accepting Christianity. ^[12] Father Woods admitted that he has never seen a genuine case of demonic possession in all his years. ^[14][15][16]

^(Source: Wikipedia)