Triturated Remedies and Female Development

Abstract

Triturated remedies offer a different way of working with Homeopathy, using the resonance of the remedy and the initiated empathy of the therapist to approach the healing process of a patient at a deeper level. As in the trituration process a remedy reveals itself layer after layer, one can use the properties of these specific layers to address the needs of a patient in the successive periods of his or her lifetime. The levels of the remedy correspond with the development of the human person. Focussing on the female part of humanity, triturated homeopathic remedies follow, in the way they interact with female patients, a pattern similar to the development of women from girl to mature woman. So the story of a remedy (e.g. Sepia, Lac humanum feminin, Lac humanum masculin, Lac lupinum, Lac felinum) and the way it heals follows the line of development observed in a specific person. In a female lifetime we see first the awareness of the feminine self, followed by the awareness of propagation, the responsibilities of being partner and mother. In a general sense, women experience an inequality in social position as compared with man, but, in the third part of one's life, they can achieve the realisation of the archetypical feminine force and orientation on the female strengths. Thus the young girl, mostly oriented on male virtues, constitutes one pole in a spectrum. This orientation is also represented by the C1 to C3 triturations (the physical level) of a remedy. A woman in her forties and older represents the other pole: with orientation on female strengths and the spiritual level (C4 and C5 triturations). This development is illustrated in this article with an exemplary remedy, Sepia, offering, at different phases in a female life, different effects in the healing process.