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1. PLUMBUM METALLICUM
BY GEORGE LOUKAS
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2. Discovered : known to ancient
civilisations
Origin : The name is derived from the
Anglo-Saxon ‘laedan’. The chemical
symbol comes from the Latin
‘plumbum’, meaning lead.
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3. This easily-worked metal has been used for pipes,
pewter and paint since Roman times. It has also
been used in lead glazes for pottery and, in this
century, as an additive to raise the octane level of
petrol. All these uses have now either been banned,
replaced or discouraged as lead is known to be
detrimental to health, particularly that of children.
Daily intake of lead from all sources is about a tenth
of a milli gramme, and the average human body
stores about 120 milligrammes in the bones. Lead is
still widely used for cable sheathing, car batteries,
lead crystal, radiation protection and in some
solders.
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4. The following symptoms help us
The following symptoms help us
understand the psychic state of
understand the psychic state of
Plumbum:
Plumbum:
Delusions, sees castles and
Delusions, sees castles and
palaces
palaces
Delusions, thinks he is working a
Delusions, thinks he is working a
mashine
mashine
Delusions, people appeared like
Delusions, people appeared like
dolls
dolls
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8. The castles and the palaces are
symbols of material power and
money.
The machine is a symbol of
productivity. The industrial
revolution was based upon
machines. A working machine
produces enough work with low
cost.
The doll is a lifeless object, a
thing.
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9. So the Plumbum person is a person
who seeks money. He is a great
materialist. His only dream is to
become very rich. Moral values and
ideals do not mean anything to
him. He uses everybody else with
the intention to achieve his aim. In
some professions such as
shipowners, building constructors
car dealers, bar and dancing club
owners the Plumbum medicine is
more frequent.
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10. But one does not have to be rich to be
Plumbum. Someone can be poor but at the
same time can be thinking constantly of
making money.
As the years go by, Plumbum becomes a
more frequent medicine. Car fumes cause
constant pollution form lead. But the
psychic state of our times too tends to
syphilitic situations. Plumbum is a
sympilitic medicine par excellence. The
main disturbance of the syphilitic miasm
is the tendency for conquest in Plumbum
too there is a strong tendency to conquer
money and material things in general.
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11. The above can be seen by the
The above can be seen by the
symptoms:
symptoms:
Business, talks of
Business, talks of
Delusions, thought, they were pursuing
Delusions, thought, they were pursuing
ordinary business
ordinary business
Delusions, is engaged in some
Delusions, is engaged in some
occupation
occupation
Delusions, is engaged in ordinary
Delusions, is engaged in ordinary
occupation
occupation
Industrious
Industrious
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12. That’s how he can see the behavior of
the Plumbum person. The father or the
mother Plumbum do not show feelings
for their children, they are cruel and
treat them like dolls. They educate
them without sentiment. They don’t
teach their children to sympathize and
help other people. They only
encourage them to make money in
their lives. Their sexuality has no
sentimentality. A sexual companion
for them is nothing but an object. They
use other people as pleasure dolls in
order to achieve their sexual
enjoyment.
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13. The Plumbum scientists chooses the most
profitable branch of his science. For
example the Plumbum doctor in order to
become as rich as possible prefers to
specialize as a gynaecologist or plastic
surgeon or a heart surgeon. He is very
professional. He does not give money
away to any of his customers and he ever
takes money from his close relatives. He
enters and associates with the rich
society of his community and aims to rise
financially. He tungles up with financial
investments with the stock market or even
with gambling as well. He tries every way
he knows to build palaces.
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14. Gambling or lucky games when
done systematically must make
us think of Plumbum. The
Plumbum person has a strong
tendency to gamble and to win
money. He himself
systematically fills in “Pro-po”
or “Lotto” and from the moment
he wakes up in the morning he
seeks the system he will use to
win the millions of the lottery
money on Sunday.
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15. But where can that life style lead to? The
person adopts a hostile attitude towards
other people. He thinks that other people
want to harm him and spoil his plans. He
sees nothing but enemies around him and he
is trying to find -in vain- a single friend. He
reaches the conclusion: “Everybody goes
after money. There are no friends these days
...”. Sometimes Plumbum can be advisable
to paranoids. Their suspicion is very intense.
The person thinks that he is being chasesd
and that his enemies have put the police to
arrest him. He thinks that they are trying to
kill him and his family. 15
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16. The above can be seen by the
symptoms:
Company, desires of a friend.
Delusions, danger of his life.
Delusions, is about to be arrested.
Delusions, sees corpse of dead
brother and child.
Delusions, sees corpse of husband.
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17. Delusions, that every one around him is a
Delusions, that every one around him is a
murderer
murderer
Delusions, thought he was pursued by
Delusions, thought he was pursued by
friends
friends
Delusions, there were conspiracies against
Delusions, there were conspiracies against
him
him
Delusions, are conspiring to murder him
Delusions, are conspiring to murder him
Delusions, that he was about to be poisoned
Delusions, that he was about to be poisoned
Delusions, thought he was pursued
Delusions, thought he was pursued
Delusions, of being murdered
Delusions, of being murdered
Delusions, of being poisoned
Delusions, of being poisoned
Delusions, pursued by police
Delusions, pursued by police
Delusions, pursued by soldiers
Delusions, pursued by soldiers
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19. A depressive syndrome or even more
the manic-depression acon can be other
ways this person’s end up. The
plumbum constitution as syphilitic
predisposes for maniac and depressive
incidents.
Symptomatology that appears in those
cases is not enough by itself to indicate
or suggest Plumbum as the only
medicine. We must search for the
deeper causes of this depression or
mania, so we can find the basic
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20. Symptoms that are related to the
state above are the following:
Biting, himself.
Company, aversion to.
Cursing.
Destructiveness.
Indifference, apathy etc.
Laughing.
Loathing life.
Loquacity.
Mania.
Moaning.
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21. Morose.
Memory active.
Mirth.
Rage.
Runs about.
Sadness.
Sighing.
Spits in faces of people.
Striking.
Suicidal disposition.
Talk, indisposed to.
Thinking of complaints agg.
Weary of life.
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22. Years ago, Plumbum would reccomended to
people who suffered from later stages of
syphilis disease. In those occasions the
Plumbum person would have intense ideas
of greatness, he would believe that he
owned palaces, that he was very rich and
that he had great economic power. Cases
such as the one described are not seen in
our times any more.
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23. One other disease in which Plumbum
could be useful is the “epileptoid
stimulation”. It appears suddenly and it
can last from a few hours up to a few
days. The basic symptom is the
disturbance of conscience. The
patients are in a state of confusion.
They are obsessed by frightening
pictures-delusions. They think that
someone is after them, someone who
wants to kill them or their family.
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24. Invisible people come in their rooms
trying to kidnap their children and
their wives. Soemtimes they picture
others as demons that are trying to
harm them Obsessed by those fears
they jump out of their beds and
windows trying to escape, or they
just run up and down, kicking,
hitting, biting, spitting or attacking
violently whoever happens to be
around. The next day they do not
remember anything.
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25. The above can also be seen by the symptoms:
Confusion of mind.
Delusions, he will be murdered.
Delusions, sees dead brother and child.
Delusions, all persons are devils.
Delirium, raging, raving.
Delirium, anxious.
Delirium, violent.
Delirium, after epilepsy.
Delirium, wild.
Destructiveness.
Striking.
Escape, attempts to.
Spitting, in faces of people.
Fear of being murdered.
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26. Plumbum can also be given to someone
who is delirious. Again the basic
symptom is the disturbance of
conscience. The patient is in a confused
or blurred state. He does not know where
he stands. He moves his body and his
arms or legs without purpose in a way
that is related to his everyday activity. It
is possible that the patient will express
intense illusional experiences. He might
see people or animals, but bihind all of
those symptoms, there must always be
the symbolism of the Plumbum state as
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27. The above can also be seen by the following
symptoms:
Cofusion of mind.
Delirium.
Delirium tremens.
Delusions, of animals on bed.
Delusions, assembled things, swarms,
crowds etc.
Delusions, bed is full of ants.
Delusions, sees figures.
Delusions, sees insects.
Delusions, sees people.
Gestures, makes of his usual vocation.
Unconsciousness, coma, stupor. 27
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28. Plumbum is also advisable for epilepsy or other
mental retarding cases. If we cannot conclude to
the choise of Plumbum after what has been said
so far, we must take under consideration the
general and the physical symptoms. Also we
must concentrate on the effort of finding a
Plumbum picture in one of the parents or finding
out if patient or his parents have ever been
poisoned by lead. Often, physical symptoms may
lead us to suspect that we have Plumbum state,
for what we must have knowledge, not only of
the pharmakology of psychism that has been
described above, but also of the rest of
“pharmacology of the medicine” as it has been
described in different Materias Medica.
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29. THE PLUMBUM GROUP
PLUMBUM ARSENICOSUM
PLUMBUM BROMATUM
PLUMBUM CARBONICUM
PLUMBUM CHROMICUM
PLUMBUM IODATUM
PLUMBUM IODATUM KALINATUM
PLUMBUM METALLICUM
PLUMBUM MURIATICUM
PLUMBUM MURIATICUM NATRONATUM
PLUMBUM NITRICUM
PLUMBUM PHOSPHORICUM
PLUMBUM SULFURICUM
PLUMBUM SULFURICUM KALINATUM
PLUMBUM SULFURICUM CALCAREATUM
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