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By Joy Lucas RSHom.
Mancinella - aka manganeel apple or manchineel apple.
The case I had was one of rape of a 35 year old woman who was so
horrified and disturbed by the incident that she refused to report the
matter to either the police or health authorities.
She presented as an extremely nervous and shy person.
The incident happened late at night as she was going home from a
friend's house.
An important aspect is that she knew the person who raped her, although
this made no difference to her attacker's intentions, but to her it made
it ten times worse - to have to live with the knowledge of this person,
his name, where he lived, who he was (some would say that it would be a
relief not to know your attacker).
She had kept the incident secret but it was now making her ill.
"I am going mad with the worry of it all, what should I do?" I
am going to go insane if I don't work this out and get rid of the
nightmare.
What evil have I done to deserve this?"
She went on to tell me that she couldn't sleep, she was frightened of
the night and the dark, couldn't face people or crowds.
Her self esteem was very low and she obviously could not confront the
episode.
She had terrible feelings of indifference and apathy towards everything.
She had since developed catarrhal states (throat and uterus) which
discharged a sticky white and acrid liquid (the juice of manganeel apple
is just like this), and once a warm bloodied person she now felt the
cold intensely.
She stayed at home, wouldn't go out much and only felt comfortable with
one or two people at a time.
Mancinella 200c - single dose not only opened her up to informing the
police but she also approached her attacker and beat him up!! (not sure
that should be part of the healing process but she felt great about it!).
She went on to a full recovery.
She never actually used any words such as "fear of being taken by
the devil" which is a keynote of this remedy, but this was the
inference and the thing about Mancinella is that their devil in question
IS SOMEONE WHO IS CLOSE - KNOWN.
Keynotes = fear of going insane, fear of being taken by the devil, fear
of crowds, fear of the dark and night, internal battles of sanity versus
insanity, nervy quick and hurried, cannot sleep at night, become
convinced they are evil, convinced they have a dark soul, a sexual
element is nearly always involved, sensitive but do not confront, sit
paralysed with fear, feel as though possessed by the devil, catarrhal
states, burning pains, icy coldness.
The juice of the plant causes blindness (prefers not to see???).
Keep in mind that their devil can be someone close to them and the fear
of ghosts or spectres or spirits that they develop is someone in their
past (but not actually dead) - they "know" their attacker.
Stramonium is certainly a remedy of terrors - dominated by a fear of
being alone or abandoned.
The terrors often originate from a distant and unknown trauma (yes, I
know this can be the aetiology of many diseased states but it is
particularly so for this remedy).
It is often prescribed to children with Autism where it is discovered
that they were born during a "C" section - this is their
terror - not being born 'properly'.
The terror is never dealt with or resolved and the slow regression into
another world takes over.
There are many delusions - more to do with being attacked than by being
spooked by spirits, but this brings a connection to Mancinella - the
spirits attack as well.
Stramonium needs company/society, unlike Mancinella.
They need sunshine and daylight (both Rx are plants so this makes sense).
Both can be cheerful and happy by day but sombre and fearful at night
and in the dark.
I think there is more delirium with Stramonium.
Often they go on to adopt a religious fanaticism, fervently praying but
believe themselves to be the devil - a divided state.
They see Christ in the churchyard, they see devils both during an acute
short lived hallucinogenic state and a more chronic mental state.
In the examples I am giving the Mancinella connection with the devil is
a metaphorical one - with Stramonium the delusion is actual and totally
believed during the episodes.
The same can be said for ghosts, spectres and spirits.
But many more cases would have to be compared to elaborate on this.
By the way, Stramonium grows extremely well in isolated and abandoned
waste sites and also graveyards and cemeteries - must be all that
bonemeal!!
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