PLUMBUM METALLICUM

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PLUMBUM METALLICUM
BY GEORGE LOUKAS
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Discovered known to ancient civilisationsOrigi
n The name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon
laedan. The chemical symbol comes from the
Latin plumbum, meaning lead..
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This easily-worked metal has been used for pipes,
pewter and paint since Roman times. It has also
been used in lead glazes for pottery and, in this
century, as an additive to raise the octane level
of petrol. All these uses have now either been
banned, replaced or discouraged as lead is known
to be detrimental to health, particularly that of
children. Daily intake of lead from all sources
is about a tenth of a milli gramme, and the
average human body stores about 120 milligrammes
in the bones. Lead is still widely used for cable
sheathing, car batteries, lead crystal, radiation
protection and in some solders.
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The following symptoms help us understand the
psychic state of Plumbum Delusions, sees
castles and palaces Delusions, thinks he is
working a mashine Delusions, people appeared like
dolls
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The castles and the palaces are symbols of
material power and money. The machine is a symbol
of productivity. The industrial revolution was
based upon machines. A working machine produces
enough work with low cost. The doll is a lifeless
object, a thing.
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So the Plumbum person is a person who seeks
money. He is a great materialist. His only dream
is to become very rich. Moral values and ideals
do not mean anything to him. He uses everybody
else with the intention to achieve his aim. In
some professions such as shipowners, building
constructors car dealers, bar and dancing club
owners the Plumbum medicine is more frequent.
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But one does not have to be rich to be Plumbum.
Someone can be poor but at the same time can be
thinking constantly of making money. As the years
go by, Plumbum becomes a more frequent medicine.
Car fumes cause constant pollution form lead. But
the psychic state of our times too tends to
syphilitic situations. Plumbum is a sympilitic
medicine par excellence. The main disturbance of
the syphilitic miasm is the tendency for conquest
in Plumbum too there is a strong tendency to
conquer money and material things in general.
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The above can be seen by the symptoms Business,
talks of Delusions, thought, they were pursuing
ordinary business Delusions, is engaged in some
occupation Delusions, is engaged in ordinary
occupation Industrious
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Thats how he can see the behavior of the Plumbum
person. The father or the mother Plumbum do not
show feelings for their children, they are cruel
and treat them like dolls. They educate them
without sentiment. They dont teach their
children to sympathize and help other people.
They only encourage them to make money in their
lives. Their sexuality has no sentimentality. A
sexual companion for them is nothing but an
object. They use other people as pleasure dolls
in order to achieve their sexual enjoyment.
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The Plumbum scientists chooses the most
profitable branch of his science. For example the
Plumbum doctor in order to become as rich as
possible prefers to specialize as a gynaecologist
or plastic surgeon or a heart surgeon. He is very
professional. He does not give money away to any
of his customers and he ever takes money from his
close relatives. He enters and associates with
the rich society of his community and aims to
rise financially. He tungles up with financial
investments with the stock market or even with
gambling as well. He tries every way he knows to
build palaces.
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Gambling or lucky games when done systematically
must make us think of Plumbum. The Plumbum person
has a strong tendency to gamble and to win money.
He himself systematically fills in Pro-po or
Lotto and from the moment he wakes up in the
morning he seeks the system he will use to win
the millions of the lottery money on Sunday.
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But where can that life style lead to? The person
adopts a hostile attitude towards other people.
He thinks that other people want to harm him and
spoil his plans. He sees nothing but enemies
around him and he is trying to find -in vain- a
single friend. He reaches the conclusion
Everybody goes after money. There are no friends
these days .... Sometimes Plumbum can be
advisable to paranoids. Their suspicion is very
intense. The person thinks that he is being
chasesd and that his enemies have put the police
to arrest him. He thinks that they are trying to
kill him and his family.
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The above can be seen by the symptoms Company,
desires of a friend. Delusions, danger of his
life. Delusions, is about to be arrested.
Delusions, sees corpse of dead brother and
child. Delusions, sees corpse of husband.
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Delusions, that every one around him is a
murderer Delusions, thought he was pursued by
friends Delusions, there were conspiracies
against him Delusions, are conspiring to murder
him Delusions, that he was about to be
poisoned Delusions, thought he was
pursued Delusions, of being murdered Delusions,
of being poisoned Delusions, pursued by
police Delusions, pursued by soldiers
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A depressive syndrome or even more the
manic-depression acon can be other ways this
persons end up. The plumbum constitution as
syphilitic predisposes for maniac and depressive
incidents. Symptomatology that appears in those
cases is not enough by itself to indicate or
suggest Plumbum as the only medicine. We must
search for the deeper causes of this depression
or mania, so we can find the basic delusions of
Plumbum state.
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Symptoms that are related to the state above are
the following Biting, himself. Company, aversion
to. Cursing. Destructiveness. Indifference,
apathy etc. Laughing. Loathing life. Loquacity. Ma
nia. Moaning.
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Morose. Memory active. Mirth. Rage. Runs
about. Sadness. Sighing. Spits in faces of
people. Striking. Suicidal disposition. Talk,
indisposed to. Thinking of complaints agg. Weary
of life.
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Years ago, Plumbum would reccomended to people
who suffered from later stages of syphilis
disease. In those occasions the Plumbum person
would have intense ideas of greatness, he would
believe that he owned palaces, that he was very
rich and that he had great economic power. Cases
such as the one described are not seen in our
times any more.
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One other disease in which Plumbum could be
useful is the epileptoid stimulation. It
appears suddenly and it can last from a few hours
up to a few days. The basic symptom is the
disturbance of conscience. The patients are in a
state of confusion. They are obsessed by
frightening pictures-delusions. They think that
someone is after them, someone who wants to kill
them or their family.
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Invisible people come in their rooms trying to
kidnap their children and their wives. Soemtimes
they picture others as demons that are trying to
harm them Obsessed by those fears they jump out
of their beds and windows trying to escape, or
they just run up and down, kicking, hitting,
biting, spitting or attacking violently whoever
happens to be around. The next day they do not
remember anything.
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The above can also be seen by the
symptoms Confusion of mind. Delusions, he will
be murdered. Delusions, sees dead brother and
child. Delusions, all persons are
devils. Delirium, raging, raving. Delirium,
anxious. Delirium, violent. Delirium, after
epilepsy. Delirium, wild. Destructiveness. Strikin
g. Escape, attempts to. Spitting, in faces of
people. Fear of being murdered.
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Plumbum can also be given to someone who is
delirious. Again the basic symptom is the
disturbance of conscience. The patient is in a
confused or blurred state. He does not know where
he stands. He moves his body and his arms or legs
without purpose in a way that is related to his
everyday activity. It is possible that the
patient will express intense illusional
experiences. He might see people or animals, but
bihind all of those symptoms, there must always
be the symbolism of the Plumbum state as we
described above.
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The above can also be seen by the following
symptoms Cofusion of mind. Delirium. Delirium
tremens. Delusions, of animals on bed. Delusions,
assembled things, swarms, crowds etc. Delusions,
bed is full of ants. Delusions, sees
figures. Delusions, sees insects. Delusions, sees
people. Gestures, makes of his usual
vocation. Unconsciousness, coma, stupor.
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Plumbum is also advisable for epilepsy or other
mental retarding cases. If we cannot conclude to
the choise of Plumbum after what has been said so
far, we must take under consideration the general
and the physical symptoms. Also we must
concentrate on the effort of finding a Plumbum
picture in one of the parents or finding out if
patient or his parents have ever been poisoned by
lead. Often, physical symptoms may lead us to
suspect that we have Plumbum state, for what we
must have knowledge, not only of the pharmakology
of psychism that has been described above, but
also of the rest of pharmacology of the
medicine as it has been described in different
Materias Medica.
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THE PLUMBUM GROUP
PLUMBUM ARSENICOSUM PLUMBUM BROMATUM PLUMBUM
CARBONICUM PLUMBUM CHROMICUM PLUMBUM
IODATUM PLUMBUM IODATUM KALINATUM PLUMBUM
METALLICUM PLUMBUM MURIATICUM PLUMBUM
MURIATICUM NATRONATUM PLUMBUM NITRICUM PLUMBUM
PHOSPHORICUM PLUMBUM SULFURICUM PLUMBUM
SULFURICUM KALINATUM PLUMBUM SULFURICUM
CALCAREATUM