Thuja occidentalis

Summary

Traumas may have a physical or psychological cause. In this article we focus on the treatment of traumas with a psychological cause. In some cases, a trauma causes a dissociation of the Self, resulting in a rupture between the constituting parts of the self, negative parts becoming more dominant. The treatment of these patients must lead to reuniting the Self, recreating a wholeness in the person, integration of body, psyche and mind. Next to Minerals, Conifers are important remedies in these cases as they provide tools to help the patient to overcome the fragmentation of the Self and to restore a solid physiological and emotional status. A very typical case of Thuja as a remedy to heal a trauma with a psychological cause is presented.

Key words

Psychological trauma - Dissociated self - Tree remedies - Thuja occidentalis

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Alize Timmerman started her career in biochemical research working in hospitals in The Netherlands and Norway and at the University of Amsterdam. In the seventies she studied Naturopathic Medicine and Homoeopathy and started practising in 1981 and lecturing in 1986. She is the founder (1988) and director of The Hahnemann Institute of The Netherlands. The Institute organizes in-service training for practising homoeopaths. Alize lectures now all over the world, combining her unique insights in Homoeopathy and Psychology with a very special talent in didactics and presentation. In her seminars, Alize has also stimulated groups to start their own triturations, provings, the use of family constellations and other ways of enlarging their scope of classical homeopathy.