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Oyster remedy (Crassostrea gigas Pacific Oyster)

Hello,

My son's homeopathy has given us an oyster constitutional remedy (Crassostrea gigas Pacific Oyster) and I can't seem to find any information on this. It is not listed anywhere as a homeopathic remedy, as far as I can tell.

Does anyone have any information on this?

Many thanks.
 
  Tululeh on 2011-05-04
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Crassostrea gigas is a new remedy. You probably are not yet able to access information on it, as it usually takes some time for the new proving information to enter the public domain.

It is also quite likely that your pratitioner is using the Sensation method as outlined by Dr. Rajan Sankaran and his associates in Mumbai. This method looks at a variety of features not directly included in the proving of a remedy - Kingdom (Animal), Environment (Ocean/water), Group (Mollusc), Sub-group (Bivalve). These features have been collated from all provings of remedies made from these groups, as well as clinical experience with them.

It is hard to know specifically what drew your practitioner to this remedy. It could have been a number of themes from any of the groups the remedy belongs to, as well as something we call source language (specific words or gestures related to the substance itself).

One of the main features of all the bivalves is the closing and opening of a shell as defence mechanism. Each one feels a great sense of vulnerability when they are open and unprotected, and respond to this fear and insecurity by closing themselves off behind a wall or some other kind of protection. One of our main polycrest remedies is actually made from the Oyster shell - Calc-carb - where this specific feature is greatly exaggerated.

A pratitioner may choose to use the whole Oyster as a remedy because the patient expresses problems and symptoms which go outside of the simple 'Shell for protection' concept of Calc-carb. Feelings of being stuck and immovable, acute feelings of a soft vulnerable interior, a tendency to withdraw and retreat from any threat. Although they need to close themselves off for protection, there are distressing feelings of being cut-off, disconnected or claustrophobic.

There are pains which may be hammering, pounding, stabbing, piercing, crushing, shattering, penetrating, drilling.

There are many more ways of coming to this remedy - by looking at the case you gave I could probably tell why they gave it, but it is hard to know without that.

So a summary of all the Oysters is:

A soft tender vulnerable person who needs to build a protective covering around themselves as a defence from a threatening outside world.

A need to close themselves off, to shut off, to withdraw or retreat, to move away.

Feeling of needing to be hard on the outside, but being soft on the inside.

Opening and closing as a theme (gestures, language, movements, behaviour)

Open = vulnerable
Closed = safe and secure

Coming out where they can breathe and interact but then they feel unsafe

Going back inside where it is safe, but then they feel suffocated and cut-off

Needing to be enveloped by a blanket or other security measure, to be wrapped up is to be safe.

Feeling attached to something for security, but then being stuck and unable to move (forward).

David Kempson
Professional Homoeopath (and Sensation prescriber)
 
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