Due to the extreme lack of proven trilobite remedies, any trilobite proving would be beneficial at this time. I do however strongly suggest that identified species of trilobite be used, to avoid confusion and duplication of efforts.
So far we have one member of the Phacopida, and one member of the Ptychopariids proven. As such members of the other trilobite orders, such as the Agnostida, Redlichiida, Corynexochida, Odontopleurida, Lichida, Proetida, Asaphida and Harpetida would be excellent additions.
Some suggestions of potential candidates[i] are Isotelus rex, the largest trilobite ever discovered to date at about 70 cm long, members of the Walliserops genus, which had a trident like appendage which may have been used for hunting, sexual display or other applications. Dicranurus monstrosus had a very large number of spines, likely for defensive purposes. Another genus Ceratages, also possessed a great deal of spines, and also a very distinctly sinister aura.
[i] I would like to thank the following websites for suggestions of interesting trilobites.
http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=trilobiteswebrin;id=7;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftriloblog.blogspot.ca%2F2008%2F01%2Fstrangest-trilobites.html
http://www.umanitoba.ca/science/geological_sciences/stuff/geoaware/suletosi/
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Strangest-Cambrian-Creatures-Ever-Discovered
[i] I would like to thank the following websites for suggestions of interesting trilobites.
http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=trilobiteswebrin;id=7;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftriloblog.blogspot.ca%2F2008%2F01%2Fstrangest-trilobites.html
http://www.umanitoba.ca/science/geological_sciences/stuff/geoaware/suletosi/
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Strangest-Cambrian-Creatures-Ever-Discovered.
Hi Everyone. So if you are, like me, a resident of Calgary who gets out and about fairly often, you have noticed the many plant diseases circulating about the city this year.
Fireblight, Birch Leafminer, and a number of other plant diseases are affecting Calgary plants this year. Many Trees and shubs have been severely infected due to the warm and dry weather, with some deaths occuring.
However, most notably to me, is the problem of Oystershell scale. This scale insect has been destroying many of the beloved hedges in this city. When it is severe, the only treatment is completely pulling down the hedges, spraying the regrowing spouts, and hoping for the best.
However, Homeopathy can help. Recently the field of Agro Homeopathy has been founded with the express idea of treating the diseases of plants with Homeopathy in nontoxic and biologically sustainable way.
With this in mind, and with the great preventative power of Homeopathy for infectious disease, I have endevored to created a remedy for this condition, both in terms of treatment and prevention. I intend to test this remedy on some of the plants in my neighborhood.
The remedy so far as I have determined it to be is composed of
Coccinella 1M
Sulphur 1M
Secale 1M
All three combined in a water bottle and will be sprayed on the affected plants.
I will be spraying this preventatively on bushes around my house, and curatively around some of the affected plants around my neighborhood. I will post the results here,
If anyone else wishes to participate, I will be giving away the components of this remedy at my clinic. Please do email me (drpaultheriault.nd (at)gmail.com) and I will leave them out for you.
Together we can remove this pathogen from Calgary!.
Echinoderms are extremely poorly represented in the materia medica. Very few provings have been conducted, and even those still have very limited pictures available. Multiple categories of echinoderms such as sand dollars have not even been potentised. Others, such as feather stars, sea cucumbers and sea stars all have either one or two species potentised. So far, sea urchins are the only class of echinoderms with many potentised species. Other Echinozoa beside the sea Urchins are very poorly known.
In short, provings or triturations of any echinoderms are sorely needed. Several interesting species and groups exist, which may give interesting provings[i]. Elasmopodida, sea cucumbers which actively swim, and resemble jellyfish, leading a floating lifestyle. Of this order, one species Pelagothuria natatrix has a fascinating umbrella like swimming structure, remebling cephalopods or Medusal Cnidarians. The sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) is the largest species of sea star. The Pincushion starfish (Culcita novaeguineae) create a habitat for multiple organisms, such as shrimp and small fish. The Blue Sea Star (Linckia laevigata) is a fascinating sea star, living on carrion. Another sea cucumber known as the Sea Pig (Scotoplanes globosa) is an common deep sea scavenger. The Giant Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) is a very large sea cucumber native to the pacific coast of North America.
A final suggestion for proving relates to the recent die offs of sea stars on the pacific coast in recent years. While originally speculated to have been due to radiation from the Fukushima disaster, it has been largely accepted that the cause is a virus, specifically a densovirus[ii]. This virus causes sea stars to lose structural integrity, and literally to fall apart. This disease seems closely linked to the Homeopathic themes of Echinoderms, and so a proving of this nosode seems warranted, and even urgent. The mass use of this nosode could potentially avert or reduce the toll of this disease. This nosode could also prove useful for many of the immune collapse disorders with which we are presented today.
[i] Thanks to the following websites for the following suggestions:
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/19-bizarre-and-beautiful-starfish-species
[ii] Hewson et al. Densovirus associated with sea star wasting disease and mass mortality. PNAS 111 (48): 17278-83..
Hey Guys. My Book is coming along well. You can see what has been happening so far here and here, but I thought readers at my professional blog would like to see my proving suggestions for the mollusks as well.
Enjoy!
Mollusks have a number of well proven remedies, including several polycrests amoung them. Three classess of mollusk, the Bivalves, the Gastropods, and the Cephalopods are extensively proven, each posessing a number of well known remedies. However the other classes of Mollusk such as the Aplacopohra, Rostroconchia, Helcionellida, Scaphopods and Serialia have almost no provings whatsoever. Future provers should focus on expanding the materia medica into these catagories.
However, a number of members of the well proven classes do still appear fascinating and would merit further Homeopathic exploration.
One family of Bivalves the Sphaeriidae, such as Sphaerium corneum have the ability to climb op plants to find more suitable locations for feeding. One very large and long lived species is the Geoduck Panopea generosa. Another interesting species is the Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) which has invaded many lakes throughout North America. Tridacna gigas is also known as the giant clam, and is the largest bivalve species. One other potential remedy would be a recently detected cancer which is in and of itself conagious among eastern soft shell clams on the east coast of North America[i].
Among the gastropods, many species present tempting targets for proving. One species I have always wanted to prove is Elysia chlorotica, a sea slug which extracts chloroplasts for the algae it feeds on and internalises them, photosynthesising itself. It in fact contains a number of algal genes within its genome which can immensely prolong the life of the cholorplasts (which normally die outside plant cells). Another would be Glaucus atlanticus, the Blue Angel, a species which feeds on cnidarians such as Physalia physalis and acquires their stings. Another species Hinea brasiliana glows when it is disturbed[ii]. One deep sea vent species Crysomallon squamiferum, incorporates heavy metals from the local environment into it’s shell[iii]. One fascinating species is Conus geographus, which in addition to having potent toxins, injects a form of insulin into it’s prey, causing hypoglycemic shock. This species has already been potentised, and merely awaits proving, potentially providing an immense remedy for blood sugar issues. In terms of nosodes, a Schistosimiasis nosode made from one of the host species of snails carrying this pathogen could prove very valuable, both therapeutically and as a prophylactic for the disease. A final suggestion could be the Sea Butterfly, (Limacina helicina in the Arctic and Limacina Antarctica in the Antarctic) which split their foot into two winglike structures and fly through the water, and which are a keynote species, providing food for many others.
Cephalopods are relatively well represented, but several interesting species are still available[iv]. Idiosepius notoides is the smallest cephalopod species, living amounst sea grass. The flapjack optopus Opisthoteuthis is flattened like a pancake, and lives like many other Octopi in Cirrina family, as free floating oceanic organisms, none of which are proven. Metasepia pfefferi is a poisinous species of cuttlefish. A fascinating species is Vampyroteuthis infernalis, literally the “vampire squid from hell” a species living deep in the abyss and the only Cephalopod to subsist off of decomposing detritus. The largest recorded species of Octopus, the Pacific Giant Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) would also make an excellent remedy.
[i] Dennis, Brady. Researchers trace Origin of Cancer in East Coast soft-shell clam. Portland Press Herald. April 9th 2015.
[ii] Nightingale, K. Clusterwinks Bask in the Afterglow. 2010. Online Document Accessed April 7th 2015. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/15/3093673.htm
[iii] Barley, S. Deep Sea Snail could inspire Next’Gen Armour. 2010. Online Document Accepssed April 7th , 2015. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18404-deepsea-snail-shell-could-inspire-nextgen-armour.html#.VSSIZBfIfRC
[iv] Gratitude to Wojcik, J. 10 Incredibly Strange Cepahlopods. 2013. Online Document accessed April 7th 2015. http://listverse.com/2013/06/05/10-incredibly-strange-cephalopods.
Hi Everyone. here is a health and Beauty Presentation I did in May 2015. Hope you all enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0SXOqS_Mr4&feature=youtu.be.
Hi Everyone. Here is my latest video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjBEz1TJnY&feature=youtu.be.
Sorry I haven’t been blogging as often as I had hoped. I’ve been very very busy with my book lately!
But anyway I recently came across a piece of research which I found to be fascinating: http://omicsgroup.org/journals/internal-medicine-abstract.php?abstract_id=51723
This paper is fascinating on several levels. Firstly it is stated many times by a number of people that Naturopathic Medicine “lacks evidence”. This statement is now able to be shown to be categorically untrue. Naturopathic medicine has evidence for efficacy in a wide variety of illnesses, such as Cardiovascular disease, Low Back pain, Anxiety, Menopause, and many other conditions.
Secondly this paper emphasizes that in some areas Naturopathic interventions appear to be superior to the standard treatments. Some of the research pieces highlighted (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19644905 , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17878954 , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19718255 ) show this clearly in Lower back pain, Rotator Cuff Tendonitis and Anxiety. Knowing several of the researchers who do this kind of work, I am also aware that there are several other similar trials ongoing which are likely to enlarge this list even further.
Thirdly, in addition to being a superior interventions, many time Naturopathic interventions were also more cost effective as well, even when used in addition to the standard of care. In the following study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24451612 ) Naturopathic medicine reduced cardiovascular risk strongly, reducing the potential medical expenses later on to the extent that the cost of Naturopathic Care was offset. The average cost savings were $1138 in medical expenses and $1187 in employer expenses per year. In another study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18383988) Naturopathic Medicine in the care of lower back pain resulted in average savings of $1096 per patient in medical and employment expenses.
With this evidence in mind, we need to examine the structure of Canada’s healthcare system. There is no justification for the provinces of Canada to spend increasingly large amounts of money on treatments created from a paradigm that focuses on disease, rather than preserving and increasing health. The evidence available suggests that Naturopathic methods, both on their own and adjunctively, can do a better and more cost effective job in managing and preventing an increasing number of illnesses.
Why then is Naturopathic Medicine so heavily excluded from the public health infrastructure and from research funding? With such potential for cost savings, why would research funding bodies not be pouring money into Naturopathic research? With such potential for cost savings, why has access to Naturopathic medicine not become a priority of public health bodies?.
Due to the extremely small numbers of sponges that have been homeopathically proven, any sponge provings would be very useful to the homeopathic world.
Due to the fact that two Desmosponges have been proven, more extensive provings of both Hexactinellid and Calcareous sponges are strongly recommended. One remedy, Clathrina clathrus has already been made into a remedy by Remedia, and so would be an excellent candidate for provings.
In terms of sponges which may be particularily fascinating to prove, I would like to suggest both the Carnivorous Sponges and Photosynthetic sponges.
Carniverous sponges are desmosponges of the family Cladorhizidae which passively capture small organisms and actively digest them extracellularily. I cannot even speculate on the homeopathic themes this sponge would have, but would be fascinated to see the results.
A second group of sponges that would be fascinating to prove are the photosynthetic sponges. A diverse group of sponges have evolved symbiotic relationships with photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria (precursors of photosynthetic organelles of plants) bringing them very close to plants in their life modes[i]. This crossover, in the context of a layer one remedy family would be fascinating to observe. These sponges are particularly abundant in Australia, so I do hope my Australian colleagues will take up a proving of these magnificent animals. One genus suggested would be the blue sponges Collospongia.
Lastly, while not strictly a sponge, another remedy which would be most illuminating is the choanoflagellates. This group of organisms represents the boundary between cells that live as individuals, and cells that begin to work together in organisms. They lie at a crucial point in evolutionary history, and thus would have great significance within homeopathy. A proving of a pure culture of any choanoflagellate species would be most enlightening.
[i] Lemloh, M. et al. Diversity and abundance of photosynthetic sponges in temperate Western Australia. MC Ecology 2009, 9:4.
Mollusks have a number of well proven remedies, including several polycrests amoung them. Three classess of mollusk, the Bivalves, the Gastropods, and the Cephalopods are extensively proven, each posessing a number of well known remedies. However the other classes of Mollusk such as the Aplacopohra, Scaphopods and Serialia have almost no porivngs whatsoever. Future provers should focus on expanding the materia medica into these catagories.
However, a number of members of the well proven classes do still appear fascinating and would merit further Homeopathic exploration.
One family of Bivalves the Sphaeriidae, such as Sphaerium corneum have the ability to climb op plants to find more suitable locations for feeding. One very large and long lived species is the Geoduck Panopea generosa. Another interesting species is the Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) which has invaded many lakes throughout North America. Tridacna gigas is also known as the giant clam, and is the largest bivalve species. One other potential remedy would be a recently detected cancer which is in and of itself conagious among eastern soft shell clams on the east coast of North America[i].
Among the gastropods, many species present tempting targets for proving. One species I have always wanted to prove is Elysia chlorotica a sea slug which extracts chloroplasts for the algae it feeds on and internalises them, photosynthesising itself. It in fact contains a number of algal genes within its genome which can immensely prolong the life of the cholorplasts (which normally die outside plant cells). Another would be Glaucus atlanticus, the Blue Angel, a species which feeds on cnidarians such as Physalia physalis and acquires their stings. Another species Hinea brasiliana glows when it is disturbed[ii]. One deep sea vent species Crysomallon squamiferum, incorporates heavy metals from the local environment into it’s shell[iii]. One fascinating species is Conus geographus, which in addition to having potent toxins, injects a form of insulin into it’s prey, causing hypoglycemic shock. This species has already been potentised, and merely awaits proving, potentially providing an immense remedy for blood sugar issues. A final suggestion could be the Sea Butterfly, (Limacina helicina in the Arctic and Limacina Antarctica in the Antarctic) which split their foot into two winglike structures and fly through the water, and which are a keynote species, providing food for many other species.
Cephalopods are relatively well represented, but several interesting species are still available[iv]. Idiosepius notoides is the smallest cephalopod species, living amounst sea grass. The flapjack optopus Opisthoteuthis is flattened like a pancake, and lives like many other Octopi in Cirrina family, as free floating oceanic organisms, none of which are proven. Metasepia pfefferi is a poisinous species of cuttlefish. A fascinating species is Vampyroteuthis infernalis, literally the “vampire squid from hell” a species living deep in the abyss and the only Cephalopod to subsist off of decomposing detritus. The largest recorded species of Octopus, the Pacific Giant Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) would also make an excellent remedy.
[i] Dennis, Brady. Researchers trace Origin of Cancer in East Coast soft-shell clam. Portland Press Herald. April 9th 2015.
[ii] Nightingale, K. Clusterwinks Bask in the Afterglow. 2010. Online Document Accessed April 7th 2015. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/15/3093673.htm
[iii] Barley, S. Deep Sea Snail could inspire Next’Gen Armour. 2010. Online Document Accepssed April 7th , 2015. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18404-deepsea-snail-shell-could-inspire-nextgen-armour.html#.VSSIZBfIfRC
[iv] Gratitude to Wojcik, J. 10 Incredibly Strange Cepahlopods. 2013. Online Document accessed April 7th 2015. http://listverse.com/2013/06/05/10-incredibly-strange-cephalopods.
Due to the very few annelid species currently proven, any Annelid proving is strongly encouraged. It is however particularly encouraged to be sure about species identification, and annelid species can be difficult to determine without biological expertise.
Potentially interesting species of Clitelatta could be members of the Enchytraeidae, the ice worms, which live in glaciers and die at higher temperatures and the Americobdellidae, an order of leeches which hunt earthworms. The worlds largest known leech, Haementeria ghilianii can be upto 18 inches long, live 20 years and can inject its proboscis upto 15 cm into the hosts skin[i]. Another leech, Coratobranchus mestrovi, is a cave dwelling, transparent and has several appendages, appearing to be predatory.
Some interesting polychaete species for proving could be[ii] Alvinella pomojana, the hydrothermal vent worms, some of the most heat tolerant organisms in the world and one which lives off of sulphur fixing bacteria , Osedax species, or the bone worms which decompose whale bones in the deep ocean, Hesiocaca methanicola, which derives energy from methane deposits and Lamelibrachia luymesi, a cold water worm which may live to be over 250 years old. Hesiocaeca methanicola is a species of iceworm that inhabit methan hydrate deposits and feed off of bacteria that metabolise those hydrates[iii]. One family, the Amphinomidae are called the fireworms and cause itching and pain when handled due to a secretion of complanine from the worm chaetae[iv]. Another species, Eunice aphroditois is a voracious predator, often slicing its prey in half due to the fury of its attack.
Any species of Echiurians or Sipunculata would be excellent candidates for proving due to the near complete lack of representatives from this phyla in the material medica. One Echiuran, Bonella viridis has already been potentised and would be quite easy to effectively prove. One group of Echiurians, the Thalassematidae can alter their body shape incredibly, and rarely maintains the same shape for long[v].
[i] Anonymous. Online Document Accessed March 12th 2015. http://invertebrates.si.edu/Features/stories/haementeria.html
[ii] I would like to thank the Wikipedia page on Polychaetes for these suggestions. Accessed March 3rd 2015. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychaete
[iii] Fisher et al. Methane Ice Worms: Hesiocaeca methanicola Colonizing Fossil Fuel Reserves. Naturwissenschaften. April 2000, Volume 87(4) Pp 184-187.
[iv] Nakamura et al. Complanine, an inflammation-inducing substance isolated from the marine fireworm Eurythoe complanata. Org. Biomol. Chem. 6 (12): 2058–2060.
[v] Online Document. Accessed March 12th 2015. http://mucholderthen.tumblr.com/post/65748522495/a-morphing-marine-worm-a-truly-weird-animal.