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By Joy Lucas RSHom.
Magnesium carbonicum is all about support structures and a dependency on
this support - the picture often appears more clearly in children
because their need for support is more obvious than that of an adult who
might have gone through many streams of suppression or repression.
On a physical level the support comes in the shape of food - and Mag
carb affects the stomach and nerves, the need for nourishment
accompanied by anxieties. There is poor assimilation of food (especially
milk and meat) maybe leading to an emaciated state. They might also
crave these substances as well. Perhaps the child (or adult) anxieties
prevent them from eating, or even refusing to eat as in anorexia. But
the lack of nourishment will effect the teeth, nails, skin (dry and
scaly), stools are clay like or green, the bowels lose their elasticity,
menstrual cycle messed up (flow only at night or lying down), lots of
neuralgic pains.
Of course one of the main forms of nourishment for children (and adults)
is love and security and the anxieties may well be centred around the
family.
All the Magnesiums have a duality with aggression versus peace keeping
and this is why they are often thought of as a group for children who
are caught up in the middle of family disputes or divorce or abuse etc.
The aggressive force is a form of self protection and the peaceful and
even introverted aspect is purely one of "this is how it should be,
please let it be like this all the time" - (this is more the
carbonicum influence) - the child may get stuck in either of these
states.
But, of course, the rest of the picture has to fit.
On the emotional level they fear that what security they do have will be
taken away from them - again this fear and anxiety is bound to present
with parents at war. There are delusions about counting money (to make
sure it is all there) and delusions about being murdered - they see dead
people (this might be fearfully true) and also delusions about seeing
thieves - again, this is about having their security stolen from them.
Understandably there is homesickness, always fearful of something going
to happen or of misfortune. As said before they can be either extremely
irritable and won't do anything (typical teenager but this is extreme),
or they will be reserved, sensitive, easily startled, timid, do not like
being touched and really do not like being looked at - this is a big
keynote of this remedy.
The emotions can be damaged in many respects - Scholten talks about it
in terms of respect - craving respect they feel is due to them and this
is another reason why they are aggressive and demanding and it is the
carbonicum aspect which softens this aggression somewhat.
If the person has become stuck in the more introverted side of this
remedy, then the suppression and/or repression will show themselves
through dreams (dreams of fire, floods, quarrels,), strange sensations
as if everything is unbalanced (well it actually is), as if the white of
an egg has dried on face (dry scaly skin is common with Mag Carb - they
might even present with this sx), and can go on to develop epilepsy (suddenly
fall unconscious).
Rich as many of these emotional symptoms are I personally feel that you
more likely to decide on this remedy from the physical symptom picture,
and sometimes the very appearance of the person - they always look ill,
are thin, weak, feel the cold intensely, sallow and dirty looking, may
even smell bad - sour, dry and wrinkled skin.
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