SPHAGNUM CYMBIFOLIUM [Sphagnum Moss/Bog Moss]
True to its common name “bog moss”, SPHAGNUM CYMBIFOLIUM is found throughout wetlands, moorlands and peat bogs across the Northern Hemisphere. Slow growing and highly absorbent of up to twenty-six times its weight in water, this moss has long been used as a poultice to ease inflammation and as dressing, to staunch the bleeding and suppuration of wounds. As a homeopathic SPHAGNUM CYMBIFOLIUM is a welcome addition to our series of moss remedies, its defining mental and emotional picture replete with NEGATIVITY, DARKNESS and UNEASE. Years of BITTERNESS, RESENTMENT and INTERNAL CONFLICT gradually culminate in one prone and even addicted to CATASTROPHISING. They fuel this TORRENTIAL NEGATIVE THINKING through DISTRACTION - the news, disturbing films and “doom scrolling” reinforce the status quo.
SPHAGNUM CYMBIFOLIUM may appear FLUSTERED, TROUBLED and RUSHED yet with a quality of HEAVINESS that they are likely unaware of. Its inherent ability as plant, to retain large quantities of water, manifest at the level of the psyche with a sense of FOREBODING, ENMITY and STAGNATION often due to the accumulation of GRIEF, SPIRITUAL ANGST and EXISTENTIAL CONFUSION. They are essentially BLOCKED, in advanced presentations this STASIS may lead to serious psychological states from HYSTERIA to PERSONALITY DISORDERS and even BREAKDOWN.
It is no surprise that this is a remedy defined by the body and its water in which RETENTION, DISTRIBUTION and issues around ABSORPTION are marked. There is often the SUSCEPTIBILITY TO FUNGAL CONDITIONS and even ALLERGIES TO MOULD which arise in conjunction with their SENSITIVITY TO THE DAMP. Primarily a DETOXIFYING remedy, SPHAGNUM CYMBIFOLIUM can be considered in those INFECTED or PRONE TO INFECTIONS - the tendency for SUPPURATING WOUNDS, CHRONIC INFECTIVE STATES and INFLAMMATION are characterised by a GRADUAL, ENCROACHING ONSET.
Considered historically as a “bone breaker” in those suffering with SALIVARY STONES, KIDNEY STONES and GALLSTONES, SPHAGNUM CYMBIFOLIUM has a CLEANSING ACTION on the BLOOD and LYMPH. It is a remedy indicated in GOUT and CONGESTIVE STATES with EXCESSIVE MUCOUS. Accompanying these patterns of accumulation is often a TIGHTNESS in the system especially centred around the LUNGS and HEART, such as ASTHMA, PLEURAL EFFUSION and tension of the PERICARDIUM.
The meditative proving of this remedy was undertaken by Colin Griffith and will be published in his next New Materia Medica.
ABOUT HOMEOPATH PAILIN BRZESKI BSC(HONS) LCHE R.HOM.HINT.
Pailin has a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree through Middlesex University and Licentiate to practice from the College of Homeopathic Education in London United Kingdom. A professional homeopath and Human Chemistry Integrated Therapy [HC] Practitioner working from a New Biology foundation.
Working with all ages, Pailin runs her ONLINE CLINIC worldwide , specialising in COMPLEX CHRONIC CONDITIONS arising from TRAUMA, TOXICITY and DEFICIENCIES from the neurological to musculoskeletal, hormonal to developmental.
