The Biology of the Plant
Bryonia alba = white fence beet (bryony), belongs to the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae).
It occurs in southern and central Europe. As its name indicates, it twines up on other plants or fences. The thin, rough-haired stem has no stability of its own. The plant is monoecious but has separate sexes. It blooms between June and July and has small, white, star-shaped flowers. The leaves are similar to those of the maple: they are five-lobed and heart-shaped.
The berries in September are small, black and spherical. 40 berries are considered fatal for adults, 15 for children!
Fresh berries have a disgusting smell, dried ones are odourless, but they taste disgustingly spicy and bitter. The fresh root is used for drug production. The plant produces a spicy milky juice.
Karmic aspect
Compared to other pharmaceutical topics, the task that Bryonia carries actually seems quite simple. But for a Bryonia mentality it is a hard nut to crack.
The earlier incarnations that are to be dealt with in today’s life have to do with thousand everyday fears, the fear of financial ruin and loss of house and livelihood. They have to do with barrenness, closeness, and narrow-mindedness. If there was no external threat in previous lives, the Bryonia forerunner created it himself. The focus was on hard work and to save money, and not to take any risks.
Bryonia tyrannised the whole family with his rigid ideas, everyone had to submit to him. Legally, no one had a chance to defy the instructions.
Usually – according to our culture – the forerunner was a man. But there were also women who took advantage of the softness of their husbands and ran a strict, merciless regiment over the husbands and, similar to Dulcamara, “wore the trousers”.
Bryonia comes this time to learn a few basics in living together; to get out of the hard shell that imprisons the soul.
The Bryonia childhood
With all its potentials, the soul attracts the appropriate environment to be born into it. That means Bryonia gets back into close, narrow-minded relationships. The parents are righteous, not really well-heeled, not quite young, because they first needed a livelihood.
The parents don’t even come up with the idea if they want the child, that’s just part of it and you can cope with it.
Everything is well planned and prepared. This is how the child gets into a well-ordered, small, narrow world. For the grandparents, it is important to life that the baby gets baptised. What else will people think!
The child is well taken care of, it doesn’t miss anything. No vaccination is omitted – one doesn’t want to get into debt later.
From an early age, the children learn not to doubt authorities, because after all, they have studied.
Naturally, the Bryonia child is clean by the age of two at the latest and can speak quite well. When adults talk, it keeps its mouth shut. So, it is easy to get along with a Bryonia child.
How should a child develop its own character, let alone be naughty, in an atmosphere that is saturated with feather duster and all-purpose cleaners?
A Bryonia needs support. The plant cannot stand upright without the fence on which it grows. And it has a deep root.
Such a child cannot defend itself, because this environment is sure to survive and it only knows this family – it has no comparisons yet.
The Bryonia school and teenage years
Of course, only a state school is suitable for the child. A Waldorf school or similar institutions are out of question.
Bryonia learns early that duty comes before everything else and that 90% of life consists of duty. From the remaining 10 % you also make a few other duties.
At school, again, we have a well-adjusted pupil without attracting attention.
Bryonia learns early to keep the little that he is allowed to feel, you should not have such feelings. The child feels bad when it is very scared or freaks out with joy.
Bryonia families usually have only one or two children in order to be able to give everyone an inheritance.
After graduating from secondary school, they start a bank apprenticeship, a retail apprenticeship, go into civil service or start an administrative career or would become a teacher.
The Bryonia adult
In a Bryonia environment, people get marrid early. They don’t spend money on expensive trips abroad, and certainly not for expensive hobbies. Life is regulated and structured.
You don’t have more than one or a maximum of two acquaintances before you find the right one. Hot, passionate love is just scary anyway. Something solid, reliable has much more a future.
And this is how we get to the topic of sexuality: it exists, but you don’t talk about it. You do it, because it is part of marital duties. Tenderness and flirting are not Bryonia’s strength.
In the life of Bryonia one is always short of money, one always has to limit oneself, and make compromises, and can never draw from abundance.
Like that, a new Bryonia generation begins. The longer such marriage lasts, the more common duties and apparent necessities prevail. The little tenderness, the little sex that was still there at the beginning is very quickly lost in the pool of duties.
Tolerance and flexibility are foreign words in Bryonia’s vocabulary.
Bryonia people can get very old without ever getting the idea that they should change something in their lives. The musculoskeletal system is very much affected by Bryonia.
For Bryonia it is hardly imaginable that there could be a connection between soul and body and that Bryonic rigidity could appear in the limbs and that bronchitis represents one’s own constriction.
The Bryonia healing
It means coming into contact a little more with life. First of all, by stopping to slave away all the time and enjoying life for a change. Very simple exercises, such as going out for dinner in the middle of the week, going to the cinema for an evening, are difficult tasks for Bryonia and need a lot of support.
Bryonia’s first big realisation is that it makes life difficult for yourself and that the others don’t expect what you expect of yourself.
The second step is to live much more in the present. Planning something ahead is nothing bad, but if you forget the present, it becomes difficult.
Bryonia doesn’t need great spirituality, it has no interest in past lives.
It stands firmly on earth with both feet, enjoys the small pleasures of daily life, knows its limits and stands by them.
Phrases
- No experiments!
- What do people think?
- Let’s not make any changes!
- Yes, yes, that’s how it is!
Practical aids
Dreams that point to the remedy
- Garden fences
- Household chaos
- Cleaning, quarrels, strife, anger
- Rage and wrath
- Flooding of water
- Storm at sea
Key Notes
- Solitary, reserved, morose, taciturn, stuffy, stubborn, narrow-minded, inflexible, choleric, offended, mistrustful, pessimistic, poverty and fear of loss, introverted, decent and upright fellow
Essence
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- Only when I behave properly and my everyday life runs according to conventional rules, I am safe.
Symbols
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- Turnip, garden fence, garden gnome, neatly trimmed hedge, pantry, roaring deer as a picture, Rumpelstiltskin, safety lock, regulars’ table, saving stockings under the mattress, camping site, amber.
Literature/Films
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- Don Camillo and Peppone, films by Heinz Erhard
Fairy tales/myths
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- Rumpelstiltskin, Ruebezahl
Personalities
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- Heinz Erhard, Federal President Heuss
Music/Instruments
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- Brass music, choirs singing folk songs
- Tuba, triangle
Sports
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- Hiking, walking, football, table tennis, badminton,
Professions
- Civil servant, local politician, retailer, accountant, porter, bank clerk, ticket inspector, cleaning lady
Healing aids and hobbies
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- Breaking habits, hiking, to play skat, to tell jokes, take a spontaneous vacation, let yourself be pampered
Healing
I enjoy life today
and
let things go for a change.
With kind permission excerpts taken from the book “Der homöopathische Seelenspiegel” (The homeopathic soul mirror) Volume III by Sarah Sylvia Hiener, Steißlingen
The German book is available at: info@schulamith.de
Contact:
Sarah Hiener
Naturopath
D 7825 Steißlingen
Germany
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