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Infertility and Homeopathy.

The objective of the talk was to bring to our awareness to the relationship between Fertility (Infertility), Growth, Degeneration and Regeneration. We will examine how these concepts are intertwined and the relationship to Development.Leila Joffe | Homeopathy North Shore | Auckland

Fertility, Birth, Growth, Decline and Death are all parts of the cycle of Life. They balance each other and each individual person’s vitality reflects his or her relationship to this cycle.

We as homeopaths are in the business of facilitating movement to places or parts we perceive and observe to be stuck in the patient’s whole. It is this “ stuckness” which prevents the individual from truly expressing their full potential in those areas of their life in which they desire expression.

And so it is with “ infertility”.

It would be good for us to define “infertility” so as to fully understand the information that follows.

Infertility: lack of fruit or creativity

Fertile: comes from ‘fertilis’ stem of ferre /faire French for “to make” or “ to bear”

So fertile is to produce abundantly, rich in resources or invention; fruitful; prolific.

Able to produce young, seeds and fruit. To be fecund.

Life today concentrates on “life” rather than any focus on “death”. There is not much attention given to “degeneration” although this seems to be a trend occurring in so many areas of life on planet earth.

Fertility is the ability to fully go into Life and to do or undertake the journey required to live “Life”. So just as fertility, birth and growth, decline and death are all parts of the spiral of life, they all relate to health and healing and to degeneration and regeneration.

There always has to be a balance between birth and death and between successive generations.

Development mentioned at the beginning relates not only to the individual but to the family, to society and to the human race.

The imbalance in society  is the expressed imbalance in the male and female aspects of life as it has evolved over time.

 As homeopaths working to resolve infertility we must focus on the stuckness in the client as it particularly relates to an imbalance between the male and the female aspects of their lives to find the particular area of degeneration so as to offer a chance of regeneration with our material medica and insights.

To understand how we can better define these “male and female” aspects we might want to have a glimpse at History. It is however important to plant the seed of understanding in defining the  female aspect as being a representation of: “Listening to or following Nature”; to the seasons; to food; and to propagation”.

Nurturing is found in the regeneration principle, countering degeneration or ultimately accepting it.

We have adapted ourselves in the last centuries to the male way of thinking and arranged our lives in such a way which has resulted in the suppression of vital elements in our health relating to the balance of male and female and this has impacted on our health and fertility.

As healers we must learn not to limit ourselves to think in terms of Knowledge. Knowledge being defined as the accumulation of facts, ideas and information. We tend to want to avail ourselves as much as possible of facts and information and more data, making this our own. This is a very masculine way of operating—from our heads---and often has the disadvantage of our thinking in linear terms, cause and effect. So many diagnoses in the allopathic approach to healing is based on this method. It is easy as homeopaths to try and allow ourselves to get caught up in this paradigm but we need to access the feminine in ourselves and think in terms of WISDOM and not only KNOWLEDGE.

This internal Wisdom is much more seated in our hearts and is part of the  intuition that has evolved in spirals over generations and often expresses itself in archetypical knowing of “wise women”.

It is time to recover our wisdom of the feminine and remake our connections with conscious knowing and integrate this in balance with the knowledge to support our clients. Our transformative work with our clients must be approached with as much an integrated whole of female and male as we aspire to foster and reintegrate in our clients. This work brings them into a more” balanced and healthy way of living”. So we prescribe homeopathic remedies but we must also prescribe good food, herbs, exercise to fully support our work. ( seeds grains, Vit E, minerals)

In the first input session we went through an overview of  History and here follows a brief summary of what we examined.

From the  Early Stone Age, we are talking about the period from 30,00BC until 3000BC, Venus statues have been dug up.

 ( reference “ From Venus to Madonna” and “Venus is not a Tramp” by Annine van der Meer).

  • These female gods are associated with earth, life , death and birth and food. In these statues female virtues are exaggerated.
  • In the extended family we see the central role for the mother as the head of the family.
  • We see the group as an entity thinking as “WE”
  • We see the rhythm of life and death
  • Spirits of the ancestors are an active part of the extended family
  • Central role for the shaman often females
  • Females are the healers

The Stone Age:

It was Mother Earth, Motherland.

  • Family centred around the mother giving birth, giving life, giving food(milk)
  • There is a perceived abundance ( no psoric state)
  • The hierarchical line went from mother to daughter
  • Ancestral soul......cyclic thinking
  • Blood is sacred, sexuality is sacred
  • There is coherence in experiences

(In the last input session we examined plant related remedies and discussed how when the above is polluted we often see allergies, lack of fusion, lack of  bonding with mother and psoric remedies are required.)

The forgotten primordial mother manifested herself in all her glory as is evidenced by the numerous statues. This period we referred to as summer.

In the autumn of the timeline we  reviewed, the Mother Goddess is depicted as past her prime. We followed her through Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, Canaan and Greece. God the Mother gives birth to a son who gradually grows in statue and finally overshadows his Mother.

Winter ( The Bronze Age) approaches and heralds the downfall of The Mother and attention turns towards her son and husband. The father gods are on their way. In many cultures these fuse into one and we get monotheism, one and only one omnipotent God. In Christianity he becomes God the Father. The worship of God the Mother is forbidden and she is erased from the texts. The goddesses Ashera and Eve are demonised and her daughter Sophia is degraded and transformed into a quality of God: his wisdom. In her earthly daughter Mary Magdalena is despised as a prostitute. It is here that a split occurs and there is now Good and Bad, Good and Evil.

 ( Here we discussed how the snake remedies are an important group of remedies if we want to heal this rift and how Naja is the main remedy used to address this split. We also briefly looked at how this could have been an invitation to the Cancer miasma...everything has to be perfect to ascend to heaven. Reference was made to the literature on the remedy Carcinosinum in Prisma by Frans Vermeulen.

Spring approaches...many of these statues are excavated and in several disciplines she starts to attract attention ( archaeology, anthropology, theology, psychology and the Arts).

It appears that God the Mother is hidden in her own images and symbols and in fact she never left us. We just stopped speaking the symbolic language of the Mother.

And it is in our sons and daughters that this stuck expression and the above described split is evident. The infertility and problems connected to it are but symptoms of her banishment. It is only through our reconnection that we can successfully approach and understand issues surrounding infertility.

In our work with our clients this split is not always obvious nor does it reveal a point in life where the client might have experienced “trauma” to have invited this split.

Following history we come to the 1600’s and we could say that we start to observe the “Conium Age”, the start of infertility and cancer. Suppressed fertility and sexuality. If we look at this remedy briefly we find under the Emotional:

Indifference and hardness/ introversion and isolation

Materialist with great attachment to the material world and due to this materialism, often Conium suffers from the loss of a sexual partner.

Under the physicals we see : indurations and tumours

(Prisma pages 526 and 537)

The different periods of history have their own “pathology “ as it were and a very brief reference to the various remedies was made.

We looked at and briefly discussed androgynous energy, asceticism , antagonism inside of the female with outside male dominance and conflict arising because of wanting to be accepted in a male world. We also looked at how intuitive wisdom and love has been suppressed for rational thought and accumulation of knowledge.  I referred to the remedy families and particular remedies associated with these concepts.

We ended this input session with a short discussion on male infertility  and the miasms.  We can think of issues to do with sperms in terms of psora, sycosis and syphilitic maisms A good reference for this is “Miasms in Labour by Harry van der Zee.

Psora: fear, lazy sperm, falling out of Paradise....think of Sulphur.

Sycotic: high quantities of sperm but poor quality....think of Med Americanum

Syphilitic: sperm distorted....think of Merc and Syphilinum.

 

Many remedies were referred to during the course of the input session.

This session attempted to reveal but the tip of the iceberg of an extremely important subject.

It is something we will see more and more of in society and in our practices as expressed in their unique and very individual ways by our clients.

Leila Joffe  will be offering a course in 2012. This will be delivered one day a month for 12 months starting in April 2012.

She will be going into much more detail describing the remedies used for all the different aspects of infertility touched on briefly in this input session. She will also use cases to illustrate the remedies. She will develop the themes mentioned and she will also be working with information of C4 remedies as well as introducing the Matridonal remedies as taught to her by Alize Timmerman. She will also conduct C4 triturations with participants.

Leila will be coordinating this course with Alize Timmerman in the Netherlands.

For more information please contact Leila .

www.andromeda333.com

[email protected]

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Submitted At: 22 February 2012 11:11am | Last Modified At: 29 February 2012 12:54pm
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Author: Homeopathy
Leila Joffe has had over 25 years of extensive experience as a teacher, trainer, therapist and classical homeopath working with both adults, children and families in various education and health contexts in both New Zealand and internationally.

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