HOMEOPATHY: General Repertory translation

I've got some good articles on homeopathy that I'd like to share with you from time to time. This one was for my class I taught at DISCH, Desert Institute of Classical Homeopathy in Phoenix, Arizona.



Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
Thunderstorm over the Mogollon Rim

I now share it with you


Copyright Eileen Nauman 2006
This is the womb where the tornados form--so cool to see these pendulus clouds--cumulonimbus mammatus.



HOMEOPATHY: GENERALITIES by Kent’s Repertory
by Eileen Nauman, DHM(UK)

Copyright 1998 Eileen Nauman
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Using Kent’s repertory, which is written in 19th century medicalese, is like trying to learn and understand a foreign language for people of the 21st century attempting to use his book to take a homeopathic case. I converted these 19th century medical terms into 21st century terms when I taught at the Desert Institute of Classical Homeopathy, Phoenix, Arizona. This was a hand-out to my students, but you can use it when you utilize “Generalities” in Kent’s Repertory. I hope you find this of some help.

NOTE:
agg.: stands for ‘aggravation’ or ‘worsening’ of a particular symptom



A
Abdomen swollen 545 (ABDOMEN, Distention)
Acid Reflux Disease 497 (STOMACH, Eructation's, water of, water brash)
Activity: Ascending,; Bath; Descending; Exertion; Jarring; Lifting; Menses: Motion: playing piano; Riding; Rising; Running; Sleep; Talking; Touching; Uncovering; Undressing; Vomiting; Walking.
Affects, of Sleep; Waking
Air: open, desire, sea, smoke, vault (see: Air, draft; Wind)

Abuser 70, 91
page 91 (MIND, Unfriendly humor)
page 91(MIND, VIOLENT, vehement, etc., deeds, rage, leading to)
page 70: (MIND, Rage, fury)

Achilles tendon 976 (EXTREMITIES, Cramps, ankle, Tendo-Achillis)
Adhesions (scar tissue) 822 (CHEST, Adhesion, sensation of)
Acne (Rosacea)--red rash across cheeks and nose--366 (ERUPTIONS, nose, acne)
Air passage irritation 749 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, Irritation in air passages)

Alcoholism 36, 57, 64, 71, 1397, 1422
page 36: (MIND, Dipsomania)
page 57 (MIND, Intoxication)
page 64: (MIND, Mania-A-Potu) delirium tremens
page 71: (MIND, Remorse)
page 1397 (GENERALITIES, Reveling, night, from)
page 1422 (GENERALITIES, Wine)

Allergies (seasonal) 326 (NOSE, Coryza, air, annual (hay fever))
Alzheimer’s 71 (MIND, Recognize, does not his relatives)

Angina 822, 880
page 822: (CHEST, Angina pectoris)
page 880: (CHEST, Stenocardia)

Anchylosis--stiffness--952 (EXTREMITIES, Anchylosis, elbow)
Anorexia 39 (MIND, Eat, refuses to)
Anus 606 (RECTUM)
Anesthesia 1303 (SKIN, Anesthesia (can’t feel skin--numb))
Aneurysm 541 (ABDOMEN, Aneurysm)
Apnea, sleep 763 (RESPIRATION, Arrested)
Appendicitis 553 (ABDOMEN, Inflammation)
Appetite 476 (STOMACH, Appetite--many types here)
A--continued
Arthritis 966 (EXTREMITIES, Contraction of muscles and tendons)
Asphyxia 763 (RESPIRATION, Asphyxia)

Asthma 763, 766, 782
page 763: (RESPIRATION, Asthmatic)
page 766: (RESPIRATION, Difficult)
page 782: (COUGH, Asthmatic)
Asthma, allergic 765 (RESPIRATION, Asthmatic)
Asthma, hay 765 (RESPIRATION, Asthmatic, hay asthma)
Autumnal 1281 (FEVER, Autumnal)
Aversions 480 (STOMACH, Aversions)


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Here's a beautiful, huge Thunder Being forming on the Mogollon Rim around 3:00 p.m. today

B

Back injury 947 (BACK, Straining, easy)
Bed wetting 659 (URINATION, Interrupted, night: (incontinence in bed)
Belching 489 (STOMACH, Eructation's)
Bifida, spina 884 (BACK, Bifida)

Birth, after 723, 743
page 723 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Lochia (vaginal. discharge afterbirth)
page 743 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Prolapsed uterus)

Bites 1422 (GENERALITIES, Wounds and bites of poisonous animals)

Bladder infections 646, 656, 673
page 646 (BLADDER, inflammation)
page 656 (BLADDER, Urination, dribbling, dysuria (painful urination)
page 673 (URETHRA, Pain)

Bladder stones 645 (BLADDER, Calculi)
Bleeding gums 418 (MOUTH, Scorbutic Gums)
Blind 281 (VISION, Loss of vision (blindness)
Blind spot 283 (VISION, Scotoma)
Bloodshot eyes 238 (EYE, Ecchymosis (bruising))
Blood poisoning 1399 (GENERALITIES, septicemia)
Blushing 1376 (GENERALITIES, Orgasm of blood)
Body functions: Hemorrhage; Loss of fluids; Menses; Perspiration
Body type: Dwarfism, Nursing children; Old people; Thin--see: lean, Emaciation; Fat--see: Obesity; Flabby
Bone, outgrowth abnormal 1358 (GENERALITIES, Exotoses)
Bronchitis 835 (CHEST, Inflammation, bronchial tubes)
Bruxism (grinding of teeth) 432 (TEETH, Grinding) (See: TEETH, Clinch 431)
Bunions 954 (EXTREMITIES, Bunions, foot)
Burns 1303, 1346
page 1303 (GENERALITIES, Burning)
page 1346 (GENERALITIES, Burns)

Bursae 954 (EXTREMITIES, Bursae)
Butt 954 (EXTREMITIES, Bubbling sensation, nates)

C

Calluses 954 (EXTREMITIES, Callosities, horny,on hands)
Cancer 715, 1409, 1410
page 715 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Cancer of ovaries, uterus, vagina)
page (GENERALITIES, Tumors)
page 1410 (GENERALITIES, Ulcers, cancerous)

Candida 397 (MOUTH, Apthae (thrush/candida)
Carbuncle 1310 (SKIN, Eruptions, burning, carbuncle)
Catalepsy--trance/seizure/psychotic patient 1347 (GENERALITIES, Catalepsy)

Cataract 236, 279
page 236 (EYE, Cataract)
page (new one) 279 (VISION, Foggy, incipient cataract)

Canker sores 398 (MOUTH, Canker sores (See: Apthae 397)
Car sick 509 (STOMACH, Nausea, riding in a carriage or on the cars, while)
Cavities (teeth) 1346 (GENERALITIES, Caries of bone)
Chafed skin 1327 (SKIN, Intertrigo)
Chapping 1304 (SKIN, Chapping)
Chewing, pain 437 (TEETH, Pain, masticating, from)
Chilblains 955 (EXTREMITIES, Chilblains)
Chlorosis (anemia/green skin) 1347 (GENERALITIES, Chlorosis)

Chorea (muscle twitches) 956, 1347
page 956 (EXTREMITIES, Chorea)
page 1347 (GENERALITIES, Chorea)

Cicatrices (scar tissue) 1304 (SKIN, Cicatrices
Cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver 541 (ABDOMEN, Cirrhosis, liver)
Clammy 1295 (PERSPIRATION, Clammy)
Clenched teeth 431 (TEETH, Clinched, together and Clinched, firmly) See: Bruxism above
Coition (intercourse) 1348 (GENERALITIES, Coition)

Cold (virus) 325, 746, 1347
Page 325 (NOSE, Catarrh, post nasal (See: Discharge)
page 325 (NOSE, Coryza (runny discharge from nose during cold))
page 746 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, Catarrh (mucous)
page 1347 (GENERALITIES, Catarrh (mucous), suppressed)

Cold blooded 1259, 1261, 1296, 1349, 1366
page 1259 (CHILL, Morning, uncovered, if)
page 1261 (CHILL, Evening, undressing)
page 1296 Cold (feeling)
page 1296 (PERSPIRATION, Cold)
page 1349 (GENERALITIES, Cold, air, agg., becoming)
page 1349 (GENERALITIES, Cold, Becoming, place, entering a, agg.)
page 1366 (GENERALITIES, Heat, vital, lack of)

Cold sores 368, 369
page 368 (FACE, Eruptions, herpes)
page 369 (FACE, Eruptions, herpes, lips, mouth, around, nose)
Concussion 109 (HEAD, Concussion of brain)
Congestive heart failure (dropsy) 829 (CHEST, Dropsy)

Constipation 606, 621
page 606 (RECTUM, Constipation (See: Inactivity)
page 621 (RECTUM, Inactivity of rectum)

Contractions 716 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Contractions)

Convulsions 114, 357, 480, 489, 547, 968, 1351, 1352, 1353
page 114 (HEAD, Convulsions of the right side of head)
page 357 (FACE, Convulsions, spasms)
page 480 (STOMACH, Aura Epileptica, felt at solar plexus)
page 489 (STOMACH, Epileptic aura)
page 547 (ABDOMEN, Epilepsy, begins in)
page 968 (EXTREMITIES, Convulsion)
page 1351 (GENERALITIES, Convulsions)
page 1352 clonic (contraction/relax of muscles) (GENERALITIES, Convulsions, clonic)
page 1353 (GENERALITIES, Convulsions, epileptic, aura)
page 1355 tonic (muscles rigid) (GENERALITIES, Convulsions, tonic)

Crabs (men/sex) 694 (GENITALIA-MALE, Crab-lice)
Cracks 1305 (SKIN, Cracks)
Cramps 559 (ABDOMEN, Pain, Menses, before, during, after)
Cravings 483 (STOMACH, Desires)
Crossed-eyes 266 (EYE, Strabismus)
Croup 785 (COUGH, Croupy)

Cyanosis--face turns blue; lack of oxygen 359, 1356
page 359 (FACE, Discoloration bluish)
page 1356 (GENERALITIES, Cyanosis)

Cyst, vagina (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Tumors, ovaries, vagina, cysts)
Cyst, ovarian 745 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Tumors, Ovaries, cysts, fibroids, vagina)
Cyst, sebaceous (fat-filled) 1340 (SKIN, Wens)
Cystitis See: Bladder infection

D

D.T.’s (delirium tremens) 64 (MIND, Mania-A-Potu)
Deafness 323 (HEARING, Impaired, lost)
Decubis ulcer 1331 (SKIN, Sore, becomes (decubitus))
Dental cavities 1346 (GENERALITIES, Caries of bone)
Diabetes 691 (URINE, Sugar)
Diarrhea 609 (RECTUM, Diarrhea)
Discharge 1347 (GENERALITIES, Catarrh suppressed)
Discoloration 1305 (SKIN, discoloration)

Drafts 1344, 1422
page 1344 (GENERALITIES, Air, open, agg)
page 1422 (GENERALITIES, Wind)

Double-vision 277 (VISION, Diplopia)

Dreams 81, 86, 1235, 1242
page 81 sleepwalking (MIND, Somnambulism)
page 86 talking in sleep (MIND, talking, sleep, in)
page 1235 (SLEEP, Dreams)
page 1242 precognition dreams (SLEEP, prophetic)

Dropsy See: Edema
Dry eyes 238 (EYE, Dryness)
Dry heaves 525 (STOMACH, Retching)
Dyslexia 66 (MIND, Mistakes in calculating)


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Here's a lovely slice of the sunset forming

E

Ear infection (otitis media) 322 (HEARING, Impaired, catarrh of eustachian tube)
Ear wax (cerumen) 320 (EAR, Wax)

Edema (dropsy) 1199, 1356
page 1199 (EXTREMITIES, dropsical)
Edema
page 1356 (GENERALITIES, Dropsy)

Elbow (tip of) 1084 (EXTREMITIES, Pain, aching, elbow, olecranon)
Emaciation (skin and bones)
Endocarditis (inflammation of endocardium--transparent lining membrane of heart) 1198 (EXTREMITIES, endocarditis)
Enlarged heart 835 (CHEST, Hypertrophy of heart)
Epiglottis 748 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, Dryness, larynx, night, Epiglottis)
Epilepsy See: Convulsions
Erection, wanting 694 (GENITALIA-MALE, Erections, troublesome)
Exotoses--abnormal outgrowth of bone 1358 (GENERALITIES, Exotoses)
Eyes, blind spot 283 (VISION, Scotoma)

Eyes, cataract 236, 279
page 236 (VISION, Cataract)
page 279 (new one) (VISION, Foggy, incipient cataract)

Eyes, wandering 246, 268
page 246 (EYE, Movement, eyeballs, constant)
page 268 (EYE, Turned (See: Movement)

Eyebrows 355 (will find in FACE section)
Excrescence's (warts) (SKIN, Excrescence's)

F

Facial expressions 374 (FACE, Expression)
Farinaceous--loves cereals/starch/pasta type foods--480, 485
page 480 (STOMACH, Aversion, farinaceous food)
page 485 (STOMACH, Desire, farinaceous food)
Farsighted (eyes) 280 (VISION, Hypermetropia)
Farting 617 (RECTUM, Flatus)
Felon--suppuration of a join of finger/abscess--1005 (EXTREMITIES, Felon)

Fever, constant--an afternoon rise in temperature associated with TB--1287 (FEVER, Hectic fever)
Fever, every 7 days 1281 (FEVER, Autumnal)
Fever, hemorrhagic--manchurian fever-- 1285 (FEVER, Continued, hemorrhagic)
Fever, remittent (improves; doesn’t get well) 1289 (FEVER, Remittent)
Fever, one-sided 1290 (FEVER, Side, one-sided)
Fever, septic 1290 (FEVER, Septic fever)
Fever with stomach flu 1287 (FEVER, Gastric fever)
Fever, succession of stages 1290 (FEVER, Succession of stages)
Fever, with infectious disease--malaria/yellow fever 1292 (FEVER, Zymotic fevers)
Fibroids, ovaries 745 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Tumors, ovaries, fibroids)
Fibroids, uterus 745 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Tumors, ovaries, uterus)
Flooding--irregular and abnormal uterine bleeding--729 (GENITALIA-FEMALE, Metrorrhgia)

Fingernails 956, 970
page 956 (EXTREMITIES, Claw-like finger nails)
page 970 (EXTREMITIES, Corrugated nails)

Flu 1347 (GENERALITIES, Catarrh suppressed)

Food 1362, 1346, 1357, 1361, 1367, 1403
page 1346, (GENERALITIES, Breakfast, after, agg.)
page 1362 (GENERALITIES, Food)
page 1357 (GENERALITIES, Eating, before...more rubrics here)
page 1361 (GENERALITIES, Fasting, while)
page 1367 (GENERALITIES, Hunger, from)
page 1403 (GENERALITIES, Starving)

Formication--bugs crawling on skin sensation 1364 (GENERALITIES, Formication)

G

Ganglion--encysted tumor--1009 (EXTREMITIES, Ganglion, wrist, on, hand, instep, sole)
Glaucoma 240 (EYE, Glaucoma)
Gonorrhea 1406 (GENERALITIES, Sycosis)
Goose bumps 1009 (EXTREMITIES, Goose-flesh)
Grave’s Disease: hyperthyroid (see: Throat, external, Goiter, Exophthalmic (bulging eyes))
Grinding of teeth 432 (TEETH, Grinding)
Guilt 6 (MIND, Conscience, of (as if guilty of a crime)
Gums, receding 399 (MOUTH, Detached from teeth, Gums)

H

Hardening of tissue 1367 (GENERALITIES, Indurations)
Hay fever 326 (NOSE, Coryza, air, annual (hay fever)
Headache 132 (HEAD, headache in general)
Hearing 321 (HEARING--sounds that originate INSIDE our ear)
Heart, enlarged 835 (CHEST, Hypertrophy of heart)
Heart murmur 838 (CHEST, Murmurs)
Heat without fever (hot flash) 1326 (SKIN, Heat without fever)
Heel (os Calcis) 1008 (EXTREMITIES, Formication, heel)
Hemorrhage; Injuries (see: Burns, Shock, Slow Repair of bones; Wounds; Head, Concussion; Head, Injuries to; Head, Sunstroke, Extremities, Injury, Skin, Stings of Insects)
Hemorrhoids 619 (RECTUM, Hemorrhoids)
Hernia 552 (ABDOMEN, Hernia, femoral)

Herpes 365, 368, 369, 378, 1312
page 365 (FACE, eruptions)
page 368 (FACE, Eruptions, eczema, herpes)
page 369 (FACE, Eruptions, herpes, lips, mouth, nose)
page 378 (FACE, Heavy feeling)
page 1312 (SKIN, Eruptions, herpetic)

Hiccups (hiccoughs) 501 (STOMACH, hiccough)

Hip bone 564 (ABDOMEN, Pain, hypochondria, walking, while, ilium, to)
Hip joint disease 1017 (EXTREMITIES, Hip-joint disease (See: Pain in Hip)
Hip replacement 1017 (EXTREMITIES, Hip-Joint disease) See: Pain in Hip

Hot flash 841, 894, 1326, 1365
page 841 (CHEST, Orgasm of blood (See: Heat Flushes)
page 894 (BACK, Orgasm in nape of neck, extending over top of head to forehead, afternoon during motion)
page 1326 (SKIN, Heat without fever)
page 1365 (GENERALITIES, Heat, flushes of)

Hoarse 758 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, hoarseness)
Homosexual 95 (MIND, Women, aversion to)
Hyperthyroid 262, 471, 472
page 262 (EYES, Protrusion, exophthalmus)
page 471 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Goiter)
page 472 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Goiter)
Hysteria 52 (MIND, Hysteria)

I

Ileo-cecal valve 565 (ABDOMEN, Pain, hypogastrium, ilio-caecal region)

Incontinence 655, 657, 659
page 655 (BLADDER, Urination, dribbling (by drops)
page 657 (BLADDER, feeble stream (slow))
page 657 (BLADDER, frequent)
page 659 (BLADDER, Urination involuntary, night (incontinence in bed)

Impetigo 369 (FACE, Eruptions, herpes, impetigo)
Impotence 695 (GENITALIA--MALE, incomplete)
Indigestibles, eating 485 (STOMACH, Desires, indigestible things)

Infertility 744 (GENITALIA--FEMALE, Sterility)

Inflammation 1326, 1368
page 1326 (SKIN, Inflammation)
page 1368 (GENERALITIES, Inflammation externally)

Insect bites 1331 (SKIN, Stings of insects)
Intercourse (see: Coition 1348)

J

Jaundice 1307 (SKIN, Discoloration, yellow, jaundice, etc.)

L

Lassitude--weak and exhausted feeling--1370 (GENERALITIES, Lassitude)
Laryngismus--crowing inspirations/inhalation, asthmatic or spasmodic croup--750 (LARYNX and TRACHEA, Laryngismus stridulus)
Lenticular--resembling a lens or lentil. Skin has crystalline appearance--1307 (SKIN, Discoloration, red spots, lenticular)
Leukemia 1370 (GENERALITIES, Leukemia)
Liver 553 (ABDOMEN, Liver and region of)
Loss of fluids (vomiting, sweating, bleeding, diarrhea) 1371 (GENERALITIES, Loss of fluids)
Lupus 1330 (SKIN, Lupus)

Lymph nodes swollen 472, 473
page 472 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Induration of glands)
page 472 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Pain, cervical glands)
page 473 (EXTERNAL THROAT, Pain, soreness, cervical glands)

M

Men, fear of (rape/abuse) 65 (MIND, Men, dread of) See: Company

O

Otitis media 322 See: Ear infection (HEARING, Impaired, catarrh of eustachian tube)
P

Pain, can’t feel 1345 (GENERALITIES, Analgesia)
Palpitations 873 (CHEST, Palpitation, heart)
Pimples (blackheads) 1305 (SKIN, Comedones--See: Face)
Pneumonia 835 (CHEST, Inflammation, bronchial tubes, Lungs)

Poisoned 1345 (GENERALITIES, Arsenical, (arsenic) poisoning)
Pregnancy, nausea 509 (STOMACH, Nausea, pregnancy, during)
Pulmonary edema 838 (CHEST, Edema, pulmonary)
R

Rape 65 (MIND, Men, dread of)
Relapse 1289 (FEVER, Relapsing)


S

Sex 1348, 1358, 1376, 1399
page 1348 (GENERALITIES, coition)
page 1358 (GENERALITIES, emissions)
page 1376 (GENERALITIES, Onanism, from --incomplete intercourse or masturbation)
page 1399 (GENERALITIES, Sexual excesses, after)

Sensitive, super 1369 (GENERALITIES, Irritability, excessive physical)
Serial killers (MIND, Estranged, society, from)
Sleepwalking 81 (MIND, Somnambulism)
Stiffness 952 (EXTREMITIES, Anchylosis, elbow)

Stroke 1345, 1390
page 1345 (GENERALITIES, Apoplexy)
page 1390 (GENERALITIES, Paralysis, one-sided--Hemiplegia--1176)

Syncope--faintness--1358 (GENERALITIES, Faintness, fainting)

T

Teeth, loose 432 (TEETH, Looseness of)

U

Upset stomach 504 (STOMACH, Nausea)
Upwards or moving up 1345 (GENERALITIES, Ascending)

W

Warm-blooded (gets hot or overheated easily--see: Fever) 1364, 1367, 1404,1412, 1417
page 1363 (GENERALITIES, Food, warm food agg.)
page 1367 (GENERALITIES, Heated, becoming)
page 1404 (GENERALITIES, Summer, in--Sun, from exposure to, agg)
page 1412 (GENERALITIES, Warm, agg)
W--continued
page 1417 (GENERALITIES, Weakness, heat, from--hot room--summer, of)

Warts See: Excrescence's


MAJOR AREAS FROM A-L IN GENERALITIES

1. TIME 1341-1343, periodicity 1390. Morning 6-9 am (see: Waking 1411)

2. COLD 1348-1350 (being cold) and COLD air and Cold, wet, weather agg.

3. Cold-blooded: Cold, tendency to take 1349, Heat, Lack of Vital 1366, Cold, becoming 1349, Cold, Entering a Cold Place 1349, Uncovering, Undressing; (see: CHILL section)

4. CONSTRICTION 1350--internally and externally felt/sensation

5. CONVULSIONS (epilepsy) 1351-1356

6. DROPSY 1356--edema, swelling of hands and feet--also congestive. heart failure

7. FAINTNESS 1358-1361--women did a lot of fainting in those days....

8. FOOD 1362-1364

9. HEAT, flushes of (hot flashes) menopause 1365

10. HEAT, sensation of 1366

11. HEAT, vital, lack of (always cold feeling....can’t get warmed up) 1366

12. INFLAMMATION--external and internal 1368

13. INJURIES (blows, falls, and bruises) 1368


Copyright Eileen Nauman
Here's tonight's sunset



In Spirit...

Jack of All Trades....

Hi Everyone

What a hectic day. I didn’t sleep well because at 3:00 a.m., I got boomed awake by a thunder storm rolling in. It took me nearly two hours to get to sleep.

Then....just as I was drifting off....

.....thunk....thunk....thunk....


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Yep, here's the "nefarious" mouse--a third one. She's bigger than the other two and I suspect, the mom of mouse #1 and #2 that I have already found in my paper shredder basket

Yep, you know that sound as well as I do by now! Groaning, I saw it was 5:00 a.m. on the clock, grabbed the flashlight, got out of bed and went over to my shredder waste basket.

Sure enough--there’s a mouse in it--trying to leap out of it!

That was THREE mice.


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Yep, it's a third mouse all right...the LAST one!

That’s it! Tomorrow night, I’m setting traps. They’ve had warning and have not heeded my request.

I removed the shredder from the top of the wastebasket.

Darned if this mouse, which was older and bigger than the other two (probably “Mom”), hopped right up and out of it and ran around on the edge of it!

I’m standing there groggy, sleep deprived, watching this mouse run around like she’s a trapeze artist on the quarter inch lip of the waste basket. What to do? My brain wasn’t functioning. I wasn’t functioning.

I set the shredder down. It fell down with a crash, waking Dave.

I straightened up and the mouse is looking at me. I cuffed it and sent it back into the waste basket.

“You’re outta here,” I growled, grabbing the waste basket. I stopped long enough to take photos and then opened the front door. It was raining. I did the old heave-ho with the basket and the mouse went flying off the porch and into the dirt. It promptly rolled, got up and scurried off.

By this time, I was in a very bad mood because now, I was awake. I was grumpy because I had to finish editing a chapter today or else. Getting coffee would help.

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Here is a Swallowtail butterfly on a Joe Pye weed in bloom near our greenhouse. I got this photo on the way up to take care of Cinnamon's leg this morning. A nice upper for the start of the day!

Then, the Unna’s Boot on Cinnamon’s leg had worked its way down--I had not wrapped it tight enough. This morning, Dave and I went up. I had my gloves, my bandages, my Unna Boot dressing, my scissors, my vet wrap....look like a doctor going to the office...

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Here is Cinnamon. She's wearing a fly mask. As you can see, her right front leg has the unna boot on it--but it has slid down because it wasn't wrapped tightly enough. Time to change it!

The good news was in two days of wearing the poultice, the swelling went down about 70%! I was amazed. And relieved. I’d rather wrap the horse’s leg and get the swelling down than give her a diuretic the rest of her life--which is very hard on her liver/kidneys--and I was resisting that completely.

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Here is a comparison of Cinnamon's front legs. It is the right front that has sustained the swelling. You can see the difference between it and her left front leg. Still, the swelling, thanks to the unna boot, is down by at least 70% and that is good news!

So, my mood improved because Cinnamon’s leg looked much better. Plus, there was less serum leakage out of her corona band as a result. Thank goodness! This time, I wrapped it a lot tighter. Cinnamon didn’t like it too much. She’d lift her left, point her toe to let me know. But, we’ll have to see if it’s too tight by tomorrow morning. I’ll know if it is because there will be fluid retention as a result. This is how it goes--you keep experimenting until you find the right pressure for the wrapping.

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Here is a look at the injured leg. You can see the grayness along her pastern and coronet band just above the hoof. This is indicative that blood is not flowing properly down to this hoot and so it 'grays' out.


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Here is the Unna boot poultice applied to Cinnamon's leg. As it dries, it will continue to draw out fluids, and I hope, the cactus spine lodged in her leg on the flexor tendon, according to the vet.


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Here is the finished wrapping--white adhesive tape at the top of the poultice/green vet wrap to hold it in place. Any time you wrap a joint, it's going to loosen over time. There's lots of'give' to the poultice gauze and to the vet wrap so this should ensure that it won't get too tight on Cinnamon's leg. We'll see!

Tonight, Linda M. came over and we walked the canyon together.


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Here is our pink Hibiscus blooming today!

It’s nice having company.


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Here is a close up on the Hibiscus--they are so beautiful and only last one day!

Not much of a sunset, but Linda had thoughtfully brought along some nuts for the Sunset Point ant hill from reading my blog. That was very thoughtful of her. She appreciated the beauty of the canyon, the wonderful fragrances, all different and euphoric. And tonight, because we got torrential rainstorms up in Sedona, Dry Creek, a tributary that flows into Oak Creek, ran heavy. When it does, Oak Creek becomes a blood red, opaque color. Dry Creek is just that--dry most of the time except in monsoon and winter season when there’s heavy run off around the Sedona area. It is red clay and sand. So, when a ‘flash flood’ scours through this tributary, it definitely muddies up Oak Creek for about a week afterward until the red silt settles.


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Here is Oak Creek 'blood red' from the infusion of soil from Dry Creek, that sits north of us. It will remain red and opaque looking for about a week before the silt settles to the bottom of the creek.


I got some great Thunder Being photos building today. We didn’t get any heavy rain (just a nice gentle rain this evening), but the one cloud had cumulonimbus mammatus--or what they call the ‘pendulous breasts’ that are the forewarning of tornados possibly forming from one of them. It’s an excellent shot and I hope you enjoy it.

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Tonight's sunset

In Spirit.....

Lightning Bolt Photos

Hi Everyone!

Today was a day of storms. We got another wonderful drenching by a monsoon line of thunderstorms coming in off the Rim area--about 4:00 p.m. it started. We got an hour’s worth of life-giving water....and so did the surrounding areas of Camp Verde and Cottonwood and Cornville, as well.

When the storms stopped, I went for a walk at 6:00 p.m. tonight with my trusty Nikon, my trusty Golden Retriever, Rocky, and my trusty white hefty garbage bag in case it started to rain on my camera.

There was a lot of lightning with these storms. As I walked up cardiac hill, there was bolt after bolt above Deer Mountain, which is at the top of the hill. So, I stopped and figured; why not? Well, I got a beauty as you can see below!

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This was taken as lightning arced over Deer Mountain, which is at the top of Cardiac Hill. Pretty cool!

Higher than a kite, I thought: maybe lightning can strike twice in the same place. Maybe I can get some more lighting bolt photos! I knew I’d never duplicate what I got a week ago--but now, I had bolt fever.

The storms were moving off to the southwest and the canyon walls were there so I knew I had to hot foot it up and out of the area and make it to Sunset Point where I could get a clean shot -- and a chance -- again -- to try for some great lightning photos.

We made it up to the Point and I first gave my red ant hill its offering of nuts--and they all swarmed over the food immediately. I think they know when I come because you can see them all peeking out of their holes waiting. And talk about swarming! These are red ants who love their nuts!

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Here's the red ant hill up at Sunset Point. I like to bring them a gift when I go up there. Just a neighborly thing to do.

I got settled in on my favorite lava rock, with Rocky laying beside me. Now, you have to picture this and remember it’s still dropping rain around us. I don’t dare let my Nikon get wet. So, I pull out my trusty white garbage bag and put it over the top of my head, over the bill of my baseball cap I’m wearing and bring the camera under the plastic. The only part of the camera that’s exposed is the end of it and the lens.

Lucky for me, there was no wind. So, I set the camera with elbows on my knees, two hands on the camera, and the button pushed half way down and wait.

I’m getting so I know that after one bolt flashes, I might have a minute or so until the next one. Still, hit’s hot and stuffy under that plastic bag that’s wrapped around my head. My glasses are steaming up so bad I can’t see through the viewfinder! And the no-seeums, a nasty little bug, are landing on my arms and exposed areas like I’m their favorite lollipop to be eaten.

I’m sitting there in the rain, the white bag over my head, the black lens peeking out of it, scrunched down, hunched over, elbows dug into my thighs to keep that camera steady. And then, I have red ants crawling up my legs!

Between all of that, I’ll let you see what I shot below. I sent three of the photos to Channel 12 and 15 down in Phoenix, AZ...they may show up at the 10 p.m. newscast....one never knows...but I try. And even if none of them make the news--YOU get to see them!


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Here's a beauty--look at the glow--this is over Cottonwood, AZ

Enjoy! Our Thunder Beings really cooperated with me tonight....


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Here's another lightning bolt over Cottonwood, AZ


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And last one is a beauty because you can see the 'head' of the bolt before it struck! I find this to be a fascinating photo!


In Spirit...

Sleep Deprivation and a Sick Horse

Hi Everyone


I don’t know about you, but there are nights that I can’t sleep. I’m like a canary in a mine picking up signals from the ethers that others don’t. I really dislike nights like that--the next day--I’m totaled.

And this was one of those days: a SD day.

On top of that, it was 107F yesterday here and today, 102F. The swamp coolers (which are 5 cents an hour electricity-wise) work like air conditioners in dry climates. Except when the dew point is 50% or more and then, we start feeling like steamed clams or maybe a steamed lobster. And that just knocks the stuffings out of me and everyone else, too.


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There was a beautiful moth on our screen this morning and I had to shoot it. Nature is amazing....moths always seem so drab....but look at the color they hide!

You have tiredness with high heat/humidity and you get an idea of the day for me.

On top of that, I had to edit a chapter of DARK TRUTH with my brain feeling like mush. And, the swamp cooler in my old office where I’m at isn’t doing well--and the heat rises in here in the afternoon and is unbearable. On most days, I can’t take it like a champ, but today, it drove me out.

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The other day we went to our friend's house for Sunday dinner and in their roadway was a Gambel Quail Family!

I decided to go to my new office that Dave is building for me--that is above flood levels here in the canyon--and turned on that swamp cooler to see if it would get any cooler. This is the first time it has been turned on this year so I won’t know until tomorrow afternoon when I go up there to work on my book.


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Isn't this a cute little Quail family????

Monday’s are always hectic and this one was no exception. Cinnamon, my 18 year old Arabian mare, has had an ongoing leg problem (right front) and we tried an enzyme treatment that didn’t do anything. So, our vet, whose just a super guy, Dr. Jim Bleek, came out at 10 a.m. this morning. I had “Plan C” and so did he. Interestingly enough, we were both thinking the same thing.


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Cinnamon has something (we both think it’s a cactus spine that worked its way in behind the ‘elbow’ or joint area of her front knee and then the body encapsulated it with a hard tumor like cyst to prevent it from doing any more damage. The only problem is: this tumor is pressing against where the lymph has to move down into and up and out of her leg and hoof region.

I have been aggressively massaging that area behind her knee and the big, watery lump above her knee. It has kept the leaking of the serum from the corona area (hairy area just above the hoof) to about 50% and the swelling has stayed at about 50% as a result. But unless I do this 2 times a day, it will get horribly swollen and hard and serum starts leaking out like a sieve from her corona band. And I have to, every morning, get a warm pail of water, soap, a washcloth, my calendula ointment and a towel, and clean off all the gooped up crap around her corona band and pastern. The calendula ointment is wonderful because it is antibacterial but it also coats the area and stops the opened wounds from becoming infected--which could be a real problem for us.

We’ve been waging this battle for over a month and I’m tired. When you have animals, especially horses, you often get into a problem where you can go weeks or months doing daily treatments on them. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t so doggone hot and muggy. And Cinnamon,the champ she is, is such a sweetie and tolerant and patient. She actually is not a horse--a human living inside a horse’s body!

Anyway, Jim put a needle into the upper bulge above her knee and yellow serum leaked out. We collected some in a test tube and capped it. I got to be vet assistant today which is always fun. And then, he inserted another needle to the worst area behind her knee and that fluid was orange colored. These tubes will be tested for all kinds of things, but in particular, bacteria. We suspect there is bacterial infection and toward that end, he gave Cinnamon some antibiotic (shot) afterward. He also took blood from her jugular vein and we’re going to run some standard tests to see what it looks like, too.

Then, Linda M. had suggested a poultice and Jim was very interested in that. It used to be called unna boot and it’s a product from Germany. It is a poultice used on humans, but I got one and told my vet I was going to use it on Cinnamon to see if we couldn’t pull out whatever was in her leg causing all these other problems. He agreed. And, Jim found the small, nubby, hard tumor on her flexor tendon behind her knee! I felt it too. He can’t cut into her leg and get it--you would have a another Barbro, the poor horse who broke his back leg, situation on your hands. So, we have to hope this poultice does the work. Keep your fingers crossed!

Tonight, at 7:00 p.m., Dave and I are up in Cinnamon’s corral, along with Rocky, and I wrap her leg in the poultice, then add some gauze around it, some vet tape and then some standard white tape at the top and bottom--to hopefully hold it all in place. It’s tough wrapping a horse’s front leg because that knee has to bend. And of course, where we need the poultice to DRAW is behind that joint. And you can’t wrap the dressings too tight or you cut off circulation. But then, if you don’t wrap it enough, it slips down and you’ve lost the battle and the war. So, it’s a fine balancing act.

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Finally! I got a photo of one our local Desert Toads! I was out running around setting the huge lawn sprinklers at nightfall and there he was! He was nice enough to wait and let me run for the camera to take his photo. Isn't he CUTE??!!

Dave will go up before bedtime to see if Cinnamon’s dressing and poultice is still in place. If it isn’t, we’ll have to struggle with other ways to get this to hold in place. Everything with a large animal is a battle. She’s a thousand pound horse and it’s not like dealing with a sick baby! She is our baby, of course....just a big one!


Now....I gotta get a good night’s sleep. Too much going on and gotta stay on top of things!

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This is an orographic cloud--often confused as a flying saucer or UFO--and it'sn not. These types of clouds form around mountains where the air currents are swirling...and so the clouds look like mushroom caps of a sort--or UFO's...if one wants to use their imagation. This was a particularly well formed one the day I shot it. Another way the clouds can form is due to clear air turbulance and this is why this one formed because we don't have any mountains--they are 50 miles north in Flagstaff!

In Spirit....

HOMEOPATHY, FIRST AID FOR HEAT SYMPTOMS

Hi Everyone

Carol B.Willis, who is cooking in San Jose, California, emailed me earlier today and ask if I'd do a blog on treating heat ailments. I said yes. So, here it is:


First Aid Treatment for for HEAT related symptoms, recognition of HEAT symptoms, plus a few homeopathic remedies that might be of help as well....


With the USA burning up due to Greenhouse Effect, homeopathy can help--but you can also help--avoid heat exhaustion, heat cramps and sunstroke. Here’s what YOU can do. This information does NOT replace a medical doctor’s advice--so follow it first. This is a ‘what else can I do?’ after taking with your MD or calling 911.

1. Stay hydrated! I can’t stress this enough. Drink at least 6-8 glasses of water a day. This does NOT mean soda pop or sugary drinks. This means WATER, folks. Gatorade, the original, is okay to add to this.

ELDERLY: they tend not to drink enough liquids at all. If you are caring for an elder, make sure they are getting enough to drink. For example, my mother is 89 years old and does not drink near enough liquids and she lives out here with us in Arizona...where it’s over 100F every day in the Summer. TIP: We found out she loves Starbucks Frapaccinos! So, we go to Safeway, where there is a Starbucks, and order her a Strawberries and Cream “venti” (largest one they have) for her daily. She drinks the whole thing! When you consider it’s about 80% ICE--you get the idea--lots of WATER in it. With Elders, don’t worry if the drink has sugar in it--unless of course--they are diabetic or their doctor says no sugar. It’s more important to get them to drink. Think about no sugar added fruit juices such as grape, apricot, peach, guava, grapefruit and orange juice. Another good one is Gatorade because it replenishes their sodium-potassium balance--which is more than likely to give out during heat and lack of drinking enough water.

If you are caring for an elder, find out what they like to drink and keep it on hand. It might save them from heat exhaustion, heat cramps or worse, heat stroke.

2. If you have to go outside, wear a HAT and a long sleeved WHITE cotton shirt or blouse. Both will protect you from the sun--not to mention--skin cancer.

3. Do all your work outside in early morning hours or in the evening after 5:00 p.m. Don’t be stupid and work out in the middle of the day when the temperature and humidity are at their highest.

4. If you must work outside--work in the SHADE, if possible.

5. Do not wear TIGHT-fitting clothing. Choose cotton, silk or any other natural kind of fabric that breathes. Keep clothing LOOSE; it allows for better circulation of air over your body plus allows your perspiration to dry up.

6. If you suspect any heat related condition, call the person’s medical doctor right away. Get instructions from him or her. Or, if you suspect heat/sun stroke, call 911 FIRST, then attend to the person as quickly thereafter as you can. Try to find out the person’s medical doctor--call when you can.

THREE HEAT RELATED CONDITIONS YOU NEED TO WATCH OUT FOR....

I’m putting the most life-threatening first, Heat or Sun Stroke, then non-life threatening, Heat Exhaustion and finally, Heat Cramps, last. Below these symptoms/treatment are some homeopathic remedies that might be used, providing the person matches the symptoms--right along and after treatment (and 911 has been called in the case of heat/sunstroke).
SUN STROKE or HEAT STROKE

This is a life-threatening condition. Call 911 immediately/first and then help the person. This is a condition where the body is unable to deal with the amount of head buildup within it and can’t cool itself down. The temperature rises rapidly and tissues are destroyed. It can occur outdoors, in closed, poorly ventilated, humid spaces (think of the elderly stuck in a little apartment here...), heat waves, vigorous physical outdoor activity, places without air conditioning, without good ventilation. Children left unattended in a locked car on a hot day (this happens all the time in Phoenix, unfortunately).

SYMPTOMS:
1. Often, symptoms of HEAT EXHAUSTION occur first before the onset of the life-threatening SUN STROKE symptoms come next. However, their skin may be sweaty and skin may still be moist or wet--and this is a SIGN that you’re dealing with sun stroke and not heat exhaustion.

2. Body core temperature rises rapidly up to 106F degrees. This is where brain injury can occur.

3. Change of behavior are usually the first sign of sunstroke. They may be confused, not know where they’re at, not know your name, or their name...wandering around....dazed...changing levels of consciousness...slurring words, incoherent, mumbling, not making sense when they talk, are all examples of changing behavior. They may be stumbling around, flailing around, awkward appearing, as if unsure of their balance.

4. Then, quickly after that, person becomes unresponsive. Semiconscious or unconscious.

5. Pulse is usually rapid and strong at first but as person becomes increasingly unresponsive to you, pulse becomes weaker and blood pressure begins to fall.

TREATMENT: Call 911 first and then.....

1. Get person out of hot environment and into a cooler one--such as a house or a room where there is air conditioning or at least, a fan. If air conditioner available, put on HIGH or MAXIMUM and put them in front of it if possible.

2. Remove person’s clothing (keep on bra/panties/boxer shorts, however).

3. Wrap person in soaking wet bath towels (drenched and dripping in cold water) or a sheet. (If you happen to be out without help and there is a stream or lake nearby--have person sit in it and sluice water over them--but always keep a hand on them--they could go unconscious on you and drown!! This is the MOST important part of sun stroke treatment is lowering that person’s temperature as fast as you can. If you can get them to sit in a tub of cool water--so much the better--but many are not in that kind of shape to walk to move. Do what you can, with what you have--keeping in mind lowering their temperature with cooling water on the outside of their body could save their life.

4. Put person wrapped in soaking wet towels/sheets directly in front of a fan. What you have to do is try and lower their body temperature as quickly as possible.

5. Pour cold water over their hair/head--this helps cool them down quickly. Or, another way is to put a soaking wet towel and wrap it around their head--this helps lower temperature in brain tremendously.

6. Put a bunch of ice cubes in a zip lock bag, wrap in small towel and gently but firmly place it around the back of their neck--this cools the blood going into and out of the the brain and helps bring back consciousness level.

7. If they are conscious, have them drink cold water and if they want, water with ice cubes in it.

9. Be prepared to deal with someone who may not be ‘all there’ because their brain is boiling at 106F, and they may be hallucinating, may be combative, spacy, semiconscious or just plain hard to handle. If you have help, call for it. Usually, the more people around to help this person before 911 arrives, the better. One person can run and go soak bath towels in a bathtub of running water. Another person can go pack ice cubes in a zip lock bag.




HEAT EXHAUSTION symptoms
(also known as: heat prostration heat stroke or heat collapse)

If you get any of these symptoms it is because your body has lost too much water and your electrolytes (sodium and potassium, among others) have decreased due to heavy sweating. In other words: you’re not drinking enough water, often enough and you’ve depleted your body of necessary fluids that keeps your body going.

People in the Southwest don’t feel the perspiration because of low humidity, so are very prone to this condition. People who have higher humidity can see their are sweating profusely and this is a signal to start drinking plenty of water to replace what you’re losing!

1. Skin is usually cool, cold or clammy feeling to touch

2. Person will admit they have been working hard (except in cases of elderly--all they have to do is sit there in a hot place and they sweat and become exhausted)

3. Feeling dizzy

4. Feeling weak

5. Feeling faint

6. May or may not be accompanied by nausea

7. Vital signs are normal, although pulse (put two fingers on the inside of a person’s wrist) may be rapid

8. body temperature is usually normal or slightly elevated. On rare occasions, it can climb to 104F.

TREATMENT:

1. Get person water to drink immediately. Gatorade is okay. They suggest a liter of water should be drank--but don’t force a person to glug it down. If they want to constantly sip water, that’s fine too.

2. Put person in the SHADE if outdoors. Or, get them indoors where it is cooler. Put a fan on them if available. Or place them where there is air conditioning.

3. Loosen their clothing.

4. Treat for shock--which means lay them down (pillow under head) and slightly elevate their feet by putting a pillow under their ankles. You can also put pillows under knees to support them, as well.

5. Never force fluids by mouth on a person who is not fully alert--the fluids can go into the lungs and then you have a life-threatening problem on your hands.

With this care, a person should snap out of it in about 30 minutes.

If they do not, and you see changing levels of consciousness (may or may not their name, your name, where they are, disoriented, confused, ect.) or their temperature elevates and climbs (or does not go back to normal), then call 911.

After you have done all the above, you may think about one of several homeopathic remedies. Remember: you match the homeopathic remedy with the person’s symptoms. If they do not match the person’s symptoms--do NOT give it to them!!!

HEAT CRAMPS

Is a condition where you develop what we call ‘charley horses’ or painful muscle spasms that usually occur after vigorous exercise. Or, they may show up in the middle of the night--waking you out of a dead sleep--with horrific pain. The mechanism for what brings on heat cramps is not well known. But what they do know is that your electrolyte balance is not what it should be--and they are not distributed evenly in your body like they are supposed to be. No one knows why this occurs--in some people--it just does. Usually, there can be a loss of salt and/or potassium for starters, that makes these knotty, painful muscle spasms occur. Sometimes heavy sweating and vigorous exercise can trip these symptoms into appearing. Dehydration is believed to play an important part in heat cramps occurring. Large amounts of water can be lost from the body as a result of excessive sweating. The loss of water may affect your muscles that are being stressed and this causes them to go into spasms/cramping.

Heat cramps usually occur in the leg or abdominal muscles. In the abdomen, it can make you think you have a severe and acute abdominal problem (think of appendix here....).

TREATMENT:

1. Remove the person from the hot environment and get them inside to air conditioning or a fan on them.

2. Loosen any tight clothing.

3. Replace fluids by mouth. Use water or diluted (half strength) balanced electrolyte solution such as Gatorade.

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY TO USE: Natrum muriaticum 30C

I have found with myself, that I’m a thirstless person and don’t drink enough water. And when I do my two mile hike, sometimes I’ll end up with heat cramps in the middle of the night. I always have a bottle of Nat. Mur. 30C on my bed stand--I pop 2-3 pellets into my mouth and within ONE MINUTE, the cramps are gone. This is the remedy I specifically recommend for heat cramps. You won’t need Belladonna or Glonoine for this particular set of symptoms. Interestingly enough, Nat. Mur is common table salt. The homeopathic remedy helps redistribute the sodium-potassium balance in its correct levels with one another by taking this remedy. You will not need than 3 doses, five minutes apart, to handle these symptoms. If you do need more, you need to go call your medical doctor who will decide what should be done next.



HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES

If you don’t have these remedies, any good health food store should have them. Just call them up and ask. The POTENCY you want is: 30C.

If you can’t get the remedies, then perform the standard care and treatment as outlined above, instead.

Later, after the emergency is over, you might want to have these three on hand since Summer seems to be a pot boiling over for us. Here’s where you can order them online or via a toll free number:

Hahnemann Laboratories, Inc.
1940 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
HOURS: Monday-Friday --- 9am-1pm & 2 pm - 6 pm
Michael Quinn, RpH, owner

1-888-427-6422--toll free in USA

To order on the internet:

HOW TO ORDER ON WEB SITE:
Please note: for each remedy you order, you must repeat the below procedure. You can’t order three at once. It is one remedy at a time.

Hahnemann Labs

Go to:
http://www.hahnemannlabs.com/
2. In the upper RIGHT hand corner of the front page it says: ORDER HERE
click on that
It will say: Select a Remedy in the box mid-page
write in: Natrum muriaticum (or Glonoine or Belladonna)
(default on blue button is the Search by Official Name--leave as is)
click on FIND REMEDY

3. This will lead you to Step 1
Click on C

4. Step 2 is selecting potency. See box
point/click on 30C
and then click on Continue Select Size of Vial

5. Step 3 is selecting size.
point/click on 1/2 dram 9.95
point/click on: add to shopping cart

6. From there, you can order however more remedies you need and then, fill out name/address, ect.


HEAT SYMPTOM RELATED HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES

DOSAGE: In acute cases, taking 3-6 pellets under the tongue, ten minutes apart, for three doses, should do it. If there is no change in symptoms within this time then continue on with your traditional care of the person per your medical doctor and/or 911 arrives.

POTENCY: Never anything but a 30C. It is strong enough to change the symptoms.

FINDING A PROFESSIONAL HOMEOPATH NEAR YOU:
Any higher potency for any homeoapthic remedy should be prescribed through your professional homeopath, not taken without specific direction. For homeopathic directory, to find a homeopath nearest you:

Homeopathic Directory

BELLADONNA atropa 30C

1. Cold hands and feet, but face is hot feeling, red or flushed looking.

2. Eyes are dilated--pupils are huge and black appearing.

3. Eyes may be red appearing, brilliant or shiny looking in appearance.

4. Eyes feel swollen ad protruding sensation. Or, sensations as if eyes are half closed--but they re not.

5. Emotionally volatile; may get angry all of a sudden, get combative and strike out at you, or bite you.

6. Headache pains made worse by least jarring, noise, direct (sunlight) or indirect light (light sensitive), by heat, stooping over or coughing. Pains are throbbing or knifelike. May feel pulsation or pounding. They may tell you it feels like their brains are going to explode out of their head or get pushed out their eyes or head.

7. They feel better from light covering, sitting semi-erect, resting in bed, leaning head against something (pillow is good), bending or turning the affected part.

8. The feel worse from heat of the sun, from drafts on head (they probably will not want to be fanned or in front of an air conditioner--but ask first and see), getting jarred (just walking worsens them), too much light (sunlight or a light overhead in the room where they are lying in the shock position), too much noise (they can’t stand ANY noise, even people talking....they want it quiet and non-disruptive), doesn’t want anyone touching them, being around running water agitates them, and doesn’t want to look at anything shiny or glistening (think of a mirror here).

GLONOINE 30C

Is a premier homeopathic sunstroke and heat stroke remedy. I always suggest having this when you take a vacation, trip, or are out on business or keeping it in your medicine cabinet at home. This is one of those remedies that may save a life some day.

1. Sensation of pulsing (throbbing, wavelike) motion in head or in some part--or all of their body.

2. Confusion with dizziness. Cannot bear any heart about their head.

3. Throbbing headache with a feeling of surging blood from heart into their head.

4. Bursting, expansive sensation in their head--as if their head were going to explode.

5. Extreme irritability; gets excited by the slightest opposition.

6. Confusion about where they are (even if it is a familiar place).

7. Clothing feels tight to them.

8. Violent convulsions associated with cerebral congestion in the head. They may say it feels like there’s too much blood pouring into their head.

9. Feels very tired, cannot work or move.

10. General pulsation's with numbness.

11. They feel better if in open air (a fan on them or being fanned or in front of an air conditioner), elevating their head just slightly, placing a hand on head with pressure, drinking fluids and cool/cold applications (wet cloth over brow, wiping off their face and arms with cool cloth).

12. They feel worse out in sun, tight collars, from motion or moving around (they want to lie down--let them and put them into shock position--see above), stooping, drinking any kinds of stimulants such as coffee, tea or soda, lying down on left side.

NATRUM MURIATICUM 30C
Is well known for helping to rebalance the electrolytes between sodium (salt) and potassium

1. Headache, throbbing , but feels like a hundred hammers pounding inside their skull.

2. Blinding kind of headache.

3. Craving for salt (these people do well if Gatorade is available--mix with water). They may want to eat salty things like Fritoes, peanuts or whatever. Let them....but also get them to be drinking water along with the salty snack.

4. Emotionally, they get irritable, fuss over details that aren’t important, awkward, hasty, wants to be left alone to cry. May joke or make fun of their situation when its not really funny at all.

5. Rapid heartbeat. Fluttering, palpating, or intermittent pulse.

6. May get cramping in extremities; particularly the calves of the legs.

7. Not thirsty. Thirstless. But needs to drink water.

8. Eyes feel bruised. Eyelids are heavy; hard to keep eyes open.

9. Palms of hands are hot and sweaty. Numbness or tingling in fingers and lower extremities may be there.

10. Can look very pale or waxen looking in the face. Like ‘death warmed over’ kind of look.

11. They feet better in open air, moving air (fan, being fanned or near air conditioning unit), cold bathing or cold cloth over face, arms, lying on right side. Pressure against the back (lying down on back in shock position).

12. They feel worse with noise, music, warm room, any mental exertion (even talking), they don’t want consolation, to be touched or made a fuss over, heat or talking.

HOMEOPATHIC KITS BY EILEEN NAUMAN

Eileen Nauman Homeopathic Kits

I have created several homeopathic kits based upon needs of the below books I have written over the years. Every home should have a homeopathic kit as far as I’m concerned. And if you need one, check mine out! You can also get kits at local health food stores who carry homeopathic remedies, too.



BOOKS ON HOMEOPATHY WRITTEN BY EILEEN NAUMAN

Homeopathy Books by Eileen Nauman

If you have an interest in Homeopathy, you might check these books out that I have written over the last 15 years:


HELP! And Homeopathy by Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK) : What do you do in an Emergency after call 911 and BEFORE help arrives? When an emergency happens at home, on the job, in the car, or on vacation, the moments that follow after you call 911 are critical. Now, you can learn how natural homeopathic remedies can be an effective first line of defense in times of crisis while waiting for help to arrive... Price $16.95 USD

Homeopathy for Epidemics by Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK) : Fearful of getting West Nile Virus? SARS got you up at night and worried about contracting it? Nowadays, we are on the defensive against not only 'Super Germs', but also haunted by Terrorism and their promise to kill people with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. How can you protect yourself against these threats? Homeopathy can help. For a brief overview of the contents, click here... Price $25.00 USD

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Some other references:

Hot Summer Days Can Make Sick People Sicker
http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/Article/88/100056.htm?pagenumber=1

Surviving Summer
http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/article/88/99850.htm

Understanding Heat-Related Illness -- Treatment
http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/article/54/61501.htm



In Spirit....

It's The Little Things....

Hi Everyone

Well, I’m not quite finished with my eight-legged tales. I just love how the Universe works. I’m wrapping up for the night in my office, shutting down the computer after posting the blog and getting ready to go to bed.

I turn and shut off the radio, and then head out the door. As I head out the door, I see a dark flash near the carpet on my left. At the same time, something hits me in the trouser on my left, lower leg. I stop, frown and look down. It’s ANOTHER Tarantula!!!

I groaned, “Oh, no...are you BACK???!!!”


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He's BAAACKKK.....see that Tarantula? He's right inside my office! And he just leaped up on my leg! And fell off.

Taking a better look at this male Tarantula, he decidedly NOT the same one I put outside last night. Still, that makes TWO Tarantulas in our house!

And what happened tonight is I think the Tarantula was between the wall and the desk and I startled him and he leaped at me, struck my pant leg and fell off to the carpet!

Sheesh! Enough is enough!


So, I quickly got my trusty Nikon and took two shots to prove the story and then went and got my capture glass and he waited for me. I took him outside and put him even farther away than the first one!

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You can see this one has a lighter, almost cream colored shield on his back unlike the first one from the other night. About the same size, too. I think they both got in the back spa doorwhen it was accidentally left open one night--and they trunedled right into the house thinking they had swell digs!

I’m almost afraid to see what tonight will bring. Is there a THIRD Tarantula lurking somewhere around in our bedroom or office? Egads....

Today was a day of little things. For instance, Dave got the steel wire, a needle and we sat out on either side of the window screen enclosure around the main garden. What were we doing? Sewing up tears that had occurred in the screen. I had an animal--probably a skunk--come into the garden night before last. The reason I know is that there were two of my tomatoes, one green and one half ripe, eaten and laying on the red tile walks. I wasn’t happy at all about that. But we had plenty of entry points that we’d not attended too--and so I asked Dave to put in a new lower board on the screen door, plus, stapling the screen that tore loose from heavy monsoon winds at the base of the wood frame. We must have spent a good hour, each on one side of the screen, passing the needle with the fine, thin, steel thread back and forth.

It may sound boring, but I enjoy working with Dave. He’s my best friend and it’s a way to spend time with him. We work well together; we’re like two old work horses in a harness. We got the frame and the window screen all fixed, stapled back down and sewed up; and that ‘s a job that won’t have to be done for several more years unless or until we get another raging monsoon that can do damage to it.

The hike tonight was quiet. After so many exciting nights and days, I find there’s always a ‘down’ cycle, line a sine wave going up and down, to the up cycle. The sunset was a thin ribbon of orange against a very dark gray sky. Sometimes the monsoon clouds are very heavy and thick on the horizon. And when they are, you don’t get very pretty sunsets.

There’s an red ant hill up at Sunset Point. I make a point of carrying a snack on me--usually nuts, a protein bar--in case I get a hypoglycemic plunge. The last few nights, I’ve put some cashews and pinion nuts at the openings to this ant hill. It’s just a nice way to gift your neighbors. These are what they call ‘harvester’ ants--they are great garbage girls--they pick up all the seeds or anything edible and take it into their mound. When I put the nuts down for them they come bailing out of their holes in a swarm. Within 30 seconds, you can’t see the nuts--there’s so many red bodies swarming over them!

We have the mysterious and unique Desert Toads around here.....they hibernate in the mud, under ground, for 9 months out of the year. Usually, in July, they come out to mate. We have several around but I’m missing shots of them--every time I see them--I don’t have my camera with me! They have poison glands on either side of their heads. And stupid teenagers lick these glands thinking they’re going to get a hallucinogenic ‘high’ from it. What they get is a ride to the morgue. Stupid kid tricks...what ARE they thinking??? Well, actually, they aren’t, that’s the problem.


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Here is "Esmerelda" our Desert Toad. She used to visit us every night for three months out of the year. That's another story for another time. She's photographed sitting on our sundeck with some of our crystals I have around some of the pots. She was a sweetie!

One of these evenings, me and the Desert Toad will meet. There’s one up at our barn and one down by the front door. Dave almost stepped on it tonight by accident. And then he called me and by the time I got out there with the camera, the toad was gone. Patience.....I’ll get a photo sooner or later.

I had a lovely lunch with my friend, Linda M. at Murphy’s Grill today. We’re both on the Rosedale Diet (that’s a blog of its own) and I made up one of his salad dressings. That way, we didn’t get the bad fat in the restaurant dressing, we got the good stuff in the one I made. Misery loves company. Linda appreciated the salad dressing and it really was yummy on our salmon salads. Again, it’s the little things in life that I so appreciate. The important things are usually little things.


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This is a sunset that comes closet to tonights, which was very piddly...but it is orange!

In Spirit....

Eight-legged Tales....

Hi Everyone!


Yesterday was one of those days that you just find magical, shocking and chaotic. As you recall, we started the day off with a green rattlesnake calmly lounging on my mother’s red tiles at the bottom of her stair steps. It was fortunate she didn’t go out the front door and onto the sun deck and step down those stairs. Usually, she goes out the back door, thank goodness. And her cat, Mozart, who is fourteen years old and doesn’t have a clue that a snake could hurt him, didn’t amble dumbly down those wooden stairs, ether.

And Dave was ten feet away, throwing gravel out of the pick up onto the road surface because the weekly monsoons were making it a little muddier than usual. If the snake had slithered off the red tiles, it would have head directly beneath his pickup. And there was the chance as he leaped out of the bed, of landing near enough to get bit by it--and he’d never seen it go beneath the truck.

Lots of luck yesterday.

And after we put the snake in the snake bagger and released him, I thought the day would begin to wind down--but it didn’t. Which is why I’m using today’s blog to cover other incidents and events that occurred after I posted the July 20th blog!

After my hike, we buttoned up for the night by last minute watering on certain plants, closing up the greenhouse, getting the horse’s fly mask off, feeding her and locking her up for the night. There’s a lot of little chores around her before we can really call it a night. And usually, by that time, it really is dark!

As I was finishing up last night, I heard our two resident Great Horned Owls hooting to one another just across Oak Creek and near our house. It was nice to heart them. The female has a more melodic, softer hoot and the male has a longer, more dramatic and stronger hoot. It’s easy to tell them apart. I was wishing I could get photos of them, but the trees along Oak Creek are thick and profuse, not lending itself to find these two largest owls in the USA. Instead, I enjoyed their night calls to one another.

After listing the blog, I got ready to go to bed. It felt great to get the sweat and salt off my skin with a wonderfully hot bath. Sweating is such a normal thing in Arizona at this time of year and Dave can go through two or three t-shirts a day--just perspiring. Plus, we are having the hottest July on record--ugh--and that doesn’t help either.

I was walking quickly through the house to go to our bedroom. I zoomed down the hall and as I made a quick right turn into my book room, there on the ivory carpet was--

-- a tarantula!!

Yep, there he was. Looking terribly out of place on our ivory nubby carpet. I screeched to a halt, nearly falling over myself when I spotted him in the middle of the room.


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Now, put yourself in MY place and you saw THIS on your carpet! What would YOU have done??!!

“Now, what are you doing in HERE?” I asked him, putting my hands on my hips.


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Here's another angle of our 'friend' who visited us last night...think about that at night and you wouldn't see him on the way to the bathroom.....

He just sat there. A very young tarantula, he wasn’t really as big as the ones I see outdoors all the time on my hike. But, he was big enough to cover the palm of my hand and I don’t have small hands.

And then I wondered: Oh, geeze, how long has been in OUR house??!!!


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Here's our friendly neighborhood Tarantula who dropped by for a visit!

That was an uncomfortable question and I had no answer to it--which was even more uncomfortable. The only other time we had a tarantula come inside our home was shortly after we moved in. Dave was vacuuming the living room rug by the window. He moved some curtains aside and this huge golden abdomen female tarantula fell off the curtain. Dave let out a yelp, jumped six feet backward and couldn’t believe his eyes. The female tarantulas are golden bodied and are HUGE compared to their male counterparts. And this one was a grandmother--she could easily sit on a dinner plate and cover about 2/3rds of it with her 8-legged circumference!

It was me who found a bottle with a wide mouth to place over Grandmother and then gently and carefully slide a piece of cardboard beneath it to carry her outside. Tarantulas are very gentle spiders. They are very smart, too. As I think I said before, if you startle or scare the beejeusus out of one--it can leap SIX FEET in ANY DIRECTION. So, you stop and think about THAT possibility for a moment before you approach one.

They could leap on you and you’d be shrieking, screaming,flailing around and leaping out of YOUR skin if that happened!

Tarantulas rarely bite. And they are not poisonous, nor can they kill you; so those are all good things to keep in mind when dealing with one.

Also, Tarantulas survive mostly through their FEET. Their feet, all eight of ‘em, are highly sensitized to motion, vibration, taste, smell, and feel. Yes, Tarantulas have eyes and they can certainly see, too. But it’s their FEET that are their life and survival, really. That’s why, when one must capture one, you really want to be very careful and gentle with their little footsies...all eight of ‘em...

I told the male Tarantula to stay where he was and went to the pantry to get my glass and cardboard. Dave came along, in disbelief. “Doesn’t this stuff ever end tonight?” he asked. I laughed. I got my camera--made darned sure the card was in it this time because I was not going to allow two opportunities slip through my hands today....I’d lost shots of the beautiful green rattlesnake to no card in my Nikon.

Not this time! I double checked my camera and then took several shots. The Tarantula was not bothered by the flash of the camera, nor was he feeling in the least threatened. If they are feeling threatened, they stick their abdomens up in the air. But, he just sat there on our ivory carpet letting us take pictures.

When I was done, I told him mentally that I was going to have to carefully capture him in a large plastic cup--and that I would not hurt him--and that I’d release him out our front door. I knelt down quietly next to him--off to the side. And then I put the plastic glass over him, taking care not to mash, accidentally, one of his eight feet. Once that was done, I was even more careful sliding the cardboard beneath the mouth of the glass.

Once the cardboard nudged one of his feet, the Tarantula immediately ran up into the glass. It was easy, then, to put the cardboard over the end, tip it on its side and then carry him outside. The glass is fairly large and you can see my hands on either end of it. The ribbing on the glass magnifies the Tarantula, but you can still see him in there. He’s really a small one, considering everything.


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Here's my capture glass and I'm holding our visitor up so that can see through the plastic.

Outdoors, in the dark, I put the glass on the ground and took off the cardboard from the top of it. Tipping the glass up just a little, the Tarantula slide out and onto the ground. Again, he did not stick his butt up in the air as a threatening gesture. Nope, he just ambled off in Tarantula speed like nothing had ever happened to him! Tarantula’s walk in what I call ‘slow motion’; their legs are so long and hairy and they remind me of a ballerina moving one foot at a time. I never tire of watching a Tarantula walk; they are so graceful.

Of course, in bed that tonight you being to wonder: just how LONG has that Tarantula been in our house? The cats have, in the past, carried in a lot of lizards, small to large, a coach whip snake (that was fun to catch as he slithered in and around our couch!) But never a Tarantula. We know that Grandmother got in because we’d left the sliding screen door on the creek side open to our sun deck. I believe this one got in through another sliding screen on the sun deck near our spa--the door had been left ajar for a couple weeks for one of our cats, Bandy, who liked that way out of the house instead of through our cat door at another part of our home.

And laying there, you think: geeze, Tarantulas are active all NIGHT. They sleep in the day (which is why you’d never see them or find them in the house). And they come out at late dusk, when almost dark...which is what this one did. Luckily, I found it in the middle of the carpet--really hard to miss!

And then you think: getting up in the middle of the night to pee...and what if you STEPPED on him? I always ran to the bathroom, which sat across from the bedroom with the book room in between...in the DARK! I knew it by heart. However, the idea of stepping on a Tarantula you were not expecting to being the house--oh geeze!!!! They are so LARGE. And they have an armored exoskeleton so I can’t even begin to want to think what kind of cracking, crunching noise that would make--not to mention--to kill the gentle giant. I don’t know if I’d be more upset on stepping on one or killing it!

Your mind runs rampant to the fact that your bedding hangs on the floor....and what if the Tarantula was in our bedroom, crawled up that loose bedding and then was on OUR bed where WE slept! That kept me awake most of the night! I love spiders but not having a big, hairy giant come in slow motion to crawl over my arm, across my head or under the covers!!

And we really don’t know how long that Tarantula was in our house....


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Here are some of our orange Cana Lily shortly after our 20 minute monsoon in the canyon today...everyone was singing and saying thank you for the rain!

I do have one more Tarantula story....we actually had three visits from them so far, since living here. Dave and Grandmother was a whopper. I heard Dave’s shriek half a house away! I don’t think I’ve ever seen him so shaken up, hahahaha.


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Our colorful clown-faced Caladiums loved the rain. They were just stretching their little stem necks to get some of those life-giving drops of liquid.


The second time was at night...before we had a second bathroom built. I had to pee and it was around three a.m. as I blindly, half asleep, made it to the bathroom just off the kitchen. I didn’t bother turning on the light because it would wake me up. I sat down. There was moonlight streaming through the frilly curtains at the window to the left of me.

Something caught my attention. Dave had a wooden magazine rack where he placed his favorite reading material. I saw something dark sitting on top of the books--less than two inches from my thigh. Blinking several times, my eyes bad because I’m blind as a bath without my glasses, I squinted at the dark blob on top of the books. What was it? The moonlight got stronger as a cloud passed it and then, my eyes got huge. There, on top of the magazine rack, was the biggest male Tarantula I’d ever seen (then or now....). It was the size of my fist! And there was less than two inches separating him and me.

Now, consider this: you’re on the pot. And just where do you think you’re going to do in the middle of your business? And what if the Tarantula gets threatened? I’m only two inches away and there’s a wall on the opposite side of the spider. So where do I think he’ll leap if agitated? Why, on me! I sat there, frozen and contemplating my black bathroom humor of possibilities if this monster of a spider wanted to take one angling step toward me--he was so big that two inches was nothing and he could easily pick up one of his hairy, thick legs and touch me without really even trying.

I was stuck in more ways than one. I sat there talking mentally to the Tarantula, telling him I meant him no harm and would he please remain quiet and stand still? I didn’t even reach for the toilet paper dispenser which was less than six inches from where he sat, and a little above him. I did not want to startle him. What to do? What to do?

I was fully awake by now. WIDE awake! If i moved,it might startle the spider and he’d leap. Most likely in my direction since the wall was there. Where would I leap too? Not many places. If I leaped off the toilet and straight ahead, I ended up in the bath tub! My only way out was to the right and the bathroom door was open. And that’s the only way the spider could leap, too. The bath tub curtain was across the tub, so the spider, I’m sure, could see it as another wall. Nope, only one place to leap--at me--to the right.

I must have sat there for a good five minutes debating my options. A part of me wanted to jump off the toilet seat and race away. Another part said: “Dumb move,Eileen, you’ll rattle the spider and he’ll jump at you....”

argghgghhhhh! What do you do when your biggest desire is to RUN and you can’t? A toilet seat feels like being imprisoned. The bathroom, already small, feels like it’s closing in on you and I could hear the drums beating in time as the walls closed in around me....funny how at 3:00 a.m., your drowsy creative mind unravels all this scary stuff. To be rudely shaken out of deep sleep to see this giant spider two inches away from your thigh....well....you get the picture!

Finally, I couldn’t bear it any longer. I told the Tarantula I was going ease very quietly off the toilet seat and slowly move toward the door. Forget the toilet paper. Forget flushing the toilet. Forget standing up straight, too. If someone were filming this, I’m sure I looked like a slug oozing off the toilet seat very, very slowly. One hand was gripping the counter for balance. The other hand was pulled as far away from Spidey as I could get it. Time felt like it was holding its breath. I moved at a crawl, hoping that I made no sounds getting off the pot. I was hoping the toilet seat wouldn’t creak, either.

Like fog sliding down over a rock, I slid off the toilet seat in a mid-crouch, my pj’s around my ankles and thinking I was going to trip over them and kill myself anyway. I could see the headlines in the paper: Woman Falls off Toilet Seat and Dies In Fall....

The Tarantula could leap at ANY time. I knew that. I was scuttling along, my pj’s twisting around my ankles and making it difficult to inch forward hardly at all. I was in dire straights of tripping and falling flat on my face! My knuckles were white as I gripped the counter, still in my toilet seat crouch position. I thought: “Boy, this Tarantula's getting one hell of a scope of my butt!” I could not pull my pj’s up for fear of startling the spider and him leaping at me. I started giggling half way out of the bathroom imaging the huge,bulghy white, fleshy view the Tarantula had of me! What must HE be thinking? Was the newspaper headline going to read: “Tarantula Killed In Gas Attack By A Human...."

Somehow, I waddled, creeped, and awkwardly, like a duck caught up in duct tape, shuffled out of the bathroom and into the hall. The Tarantula was still sitting quietly on top of the magazine rack. Whew! Relief shot through me. Quickly, I grabbed my pj’s and yanked them up to my waist. I made a beeline for the big capture glass and cardboard that I kept in the pantry.

The Tarantula was so big he woudn’t fit inside it! Drat! By this time, of course, I had flipped on the bathroom light and poked my head cautiously around the corner to make sure he was still there. Yep, he was.

Wide awake now, I had to go out to the service porch to find a huge quart plastic jar with a wide mouth. I brought it back. The Tarantula wouldn’t fit in that, either! Double drat!

Muttering, completely awake now, I went stalking and prowling like a dog on a hunt around our house trying to find something large enough to capture this bathroom intruder. I finally settled on a one-gallon red plastic bucket. Somehow, I was going to have to encourage the spider into the bucket--but then--he could leap out of it, too. I brought along a towel large enough to throw over the top of it.

All this maneuvering and figuring out took me until about 3:30 a.m. and by the time I let the Tarantula loose out in the moonlight of our orchard, I was so wide awake it was senseless trying to go back to sleep. So, I stayed up, made myself some early morning coffee and read a good book. When Dave got up the next morning around seven a.m., he wanted to know what I was doing out in the living room at this hour reading. Boy, did I have a story to tell him!!!


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This is the first time I've seen veils of rain from Thunder Beings at sunset--a gorgeous fuschia color!

The hike out of the canyon tonight was monsoons all around us. Earlier in the day, we got a good 20 minute soaking! And as I hiked up and out tonight, more rain. It felt delicious against the heat. By the time Rocky and I got up to Sunset Point, we were in for a wonderful surprise! I hope you enjoy the photos!


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This is a panorama shot. The veils of rain from the Thunder Beings are turning pink because the slant of the sun is below the horizon. It is just an incredibly beautiful shot--I've never seen rain veils at sunset turn colors...lucky me...I got to experience it tonight!


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Here's an earlier shot with the sun going down--looks like an 'eye'

In Spirit....

ASTROLOGY: Chiron Return at Age 50!

Hi Everyone!

One of my athenians said she was going to have a birthday shortly and would turn 50! That is known as the Chiron age. And 50 becomes a turning point in many ways, in our life.


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Well, I think this is appropriate for tonight's topic! Buzzards are about dying and they symbolize the carrying of the soul to heaven or the Other Side. Here they are at dusk, high on the wall of Echo Canyon, circling. They do this often. When the sun comes up, they open their wings and allow the sun to dry them off. Then, they take off on individual sky trails and the clan of about twenty doesn't see one another until they come back to our canyon at dusk to gather and sit together as a family. Often, it's as if they are joyous at seeing one another after being alone all day and they circle and 'play' in spirals of updrafts. It's beautiful to watch. I hope you can see them in this photo!

And synchronistically,magically, guess who showed up on my mother’s red tile step that leads up to her sun deck and into her mobile home while I was writing this? Why, a green rattlesnake, of course!! And Mercury being retrograde and me being a Gemini (Gemini’s and Virgos are always doubly dogged when Mercury,their ruling planet, is retrograde--we’re more or less brain dead during those times...duh....), I grabbed my trusty camera once Dave got the snake bagger equipment--but there was no card in it. So, I snapped photos of the snake being released up at Dead Man’s corner, about 1.5 miles from our house, and no photos. Drats. Well, that will teach me to always put the card back IN the camera and don’t leave it laying on my desk near my computer.

Anyway, I had gone out at 5:15 p.m. tonight to tell Dave, who was putting gravel from the truck in front of my Mom’s house, on the road, that there had been a tornado warning for the Sedona area--and we’re only eight miles south of Sedona. As I told him, I started to go around the truck to run up to my Mom’s stairs to tell her. I screeched to a halt. There, laid out was a beautiful green rattler about 2.5 feet long and it had seven rattles on its tail. It was just laying there and wasn’t fussed up or rattling because of the noise or us being so near it.

I called Dave immediately and told him to run and get the snake bagger kit. He handed me the shovel because I didn’t want the rattler to get away. And sure enough, the snake started to move and I had to put the shovel between it and the slats between the stairs where he was headed. That did get him upset and he rattled and coiled and flicked his black tongue. I kept telling it telepathically that we weren’t going to hurt it and waited for Dave to arrive.

Snake Dave, as we call ‘em, put the gentle jaws on the back of the snake’s head and expertly put him in the double muslin cloth snake bag. I got the keys to the truck and started it. Dave wrapped the bag and set it in the truck bed and off we drove!

Up at Dead Man’s Corner, (this is a 90 degree bend in the dirt road where you cannot see who is coming) we parked and I peeked inside the bag. The rattler was climbing the sides and wanting out. So, Dave obliged him. We took more photos and let him slither off over the edge and down into a nice rocky ravine where he can live in peace without human encroachment.

I laughed on the way back to our place when I told Dave I was writing about ‘wounds’/Chiron and the fact that Chiron got severely wounded by the Hydra, a 9-headed snake/dragon with its poisonous blood. And who shows up? Why, the most poisonous rattlesnake in Arizona to reflect this!! I just love it! I feel such harmony when we’re talking about something and nearly instantaneously, it is reflected back to us through Nature. Helluva phone line if you asked me!

I’m bummed there are no photos...but it wasn’t meant to be. And by the way, this was NOT the rattlesnake we found in the horse barn last week, either--it was much darker looking, much bigger than this one. So, we keep watch out for it too--but it has not been back into the barn...but we stay alert...


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On tonight's two mile walk, I was hoping to find some flowers in bloom because of the two monsoons we've had in the last two weeks. All the Chaparral is in bloom. They have five petaled flowers. You can see that they are making the little green seed pods after being pollinated.

Back to wounding and Chiron!

In order to understand what Chiron is, we need to know three things. First of all, Chiron is the name of an asteroid out in space that is used by astrologers when they cast a natal chart for a client.

Chiron is also known as the Centaur constellation up in the sky--but has no impact directly on the Chiron Return (50 year orbit around the sun). So, don’t confuse the constellation with the asteroid! Astrologers use the asteroid.

Thirdly, Chiron is a myth from the time of the Greeks and without knowing the myth, you won’t understand about your Chiron return, so let’s look at one website that has an excellent way of putting all of this into a fairly digestible chunk to swallow--and then we’ll get on with how all this impacts us at 50 today, in the 21st Century.

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What do you see out on the desert? Anything? The desert is very good at camoflauging things. You learn to develop a different set of eyes as you walk in it. To your right is the Desert Four O'Clock plant!

THE MYTH OF CHIRON:


Chiron In Mythology
Chiron was known as a wise teacher, healer, and prophet. Chiron's father was Kronus (Saturn) and his mother was a beautiful nymph named Philyra. Kronus was a harsh, devouring father god – and he met the nymph Philyra while on one of his many searches to find and then destroy his (at that time) baby son, Zeus.

Upon seeing Philyra, Kronus was instantaneously was filled with desire (i.e. he got serious case of the hots). But the nymph Philyra did not share in his feelings and desires. So Philyra turned herself into a mare in the attempt to flee the desirous advances of Kronus. But Kronus likewise transformed himself into a stallion and thus was able to consummate his overwhelming desire to mate with the nymph, Philyra.