IQ Homeopathy, London (2025)

24/10/2025

If remedies were people

These portraits aren’t about diagnosis — they’re about personality, symbolism, and energy.
In real life, no one fits a single remedy perfectly, and certainly not from a public image alone.

But each remedy carries a flavour — a rhythm of thought and feeling — that sometimes shows itself in art, interviews, or behaviour we can all recognise.

This series simply explores those visible patterns: the radiant givers, the fierce protectors, the quiet hearts, the rebels, the dreamers.

It’s a way to see the living language of remedies — not as labels, but as reflections of human nature.

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23/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Saccharum album

Sweetness as safety - Saccharum album speaks in the language of sweetness, the fleeting comfort of sugar melting on the tongue, softening the ache of inner emptiness.

A polarity of hunger and safety defines it: the child who feels unloved until the treat appears, the adult who reaches for sugar when the heart dips. Sweetness is the proxy for belonging.

Gestures emerge in craving, restlessness, and small emotional collapses after pleasure, cling, feed, regret, repeat. The body follows: quick pulse, sweat, and dreamy fatigue after the crash.

Keynote: trembling irritability when hungry; worse fasting or after sweets, better steady meals and quiet affection. When nourished in rhythm, both mood and metabolism steady, the storm between love and sugar finds peace.

Differentials: vs Pulsatilla, seeks sweetness for affection, gentle dependence; vs Lycopodium, craves sweets to uphold control and status; vs Arg-n. eats sweets to calm anxious anticipation.

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22/10/2025

If Remedies were people!

Homeopathy doesn’t just describe diseases, it describes people. Each remedy carries a temperament, a rhythm, a way of moving through life.

Some burn bright and give everything, radiant, generous, the life of the room, until exhaustion dims their glow.

Some are fiery and driven, building, pushing, organising, never resting until perfection appears.

Some live in quiet grace, feeling deeply but showing little, their strength hidden behind composure.

Others lead with creativity, freedom, and rebellion, dishevelled thinkers who turn chaos into brilliance.

These are the living faces of remedies, not diseases, but patterns of being human.
Which one sounds most like you today?

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21/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Melissa officinalis
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A balm for the fluttering heart and nervous stomach—soft, aromatic calm wrapped in the scent of lemon leaves and evening quiet.

The mind trembles between over-arousal and gentle surrender: too easily stirred, too easily soothed, seeking warmth, quiet, and touch to steady the pulse.

Her gestures are sighs, soft smiles, a hand on the chest, a craving for tea and stillness; she curls into calm, drawing strength from tenderness and routine.

Keynote: fluttering heart with queasy epigastrium; worse from excitement or caffeine, better for warmth and gentle pressure. When set to slow breath and soft light, the flutter settles into rhythm again.

Differentials: vs Aconitum—fiery panic and fear of death; vs Ignatia—contradictory spasms of grief; vs Coffea—joyful sleepless brightness where Melissa seeks rest and hush.

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19/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Phlorizinum
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A body like a leaking cistern: fuel slips away in the urine while thirst and hunger keep knocking.

The mind swings between tired practicality and irritable weariness, clearer in cool air, fogged in heat.

Gestures and drives: reaching for cold water, frequent bathroom stops, planning journeys by lavatories, small regular meals, window open at night yet waking unrefreshed.

Keynote: copious pale urine with unquenchable thirst and hollow hunger; worse heat or warm rooms, better cool moving air and measured cold draughts. When set to small, regular meals and cool air, the head clears briefly and the drain eases.

Differentials: vs Uran-n. when albumin and oedema signal destruction; vs Syzygium-j. for sugar reduction but less clear thirst–polyuria–emaciation triad; vs Phos-ac. when diabetes follows grief with mental apathy more than hunger.

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18/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Thlaspi bursa pastoris
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Shepherd’s purse as the flood-manager—draining the swollen river so the banks can breathe again.

The inner tone pulls between heaviness and the urge to purge: weighed down, yet restless until what must pass has passed.

Gestures and drives: clutching the lower abdomen; frequent urging to urinate; expulsive effort with relief after clots; pausing, then regaining steadiness.

Keynote: profuse uterine bleeding in dark clots with cramping, expulsive colic; worse during me**es. When set to free passage and clots are expelled, the griping subsides and the whole system steadies.

Differentials: vs Sabina—brighter bleeding, sharp sacral pains, worse slightest motion; vs Ipecac—bleeding with persistent nausea and clean tongue; vs Sepia—pelvic bearing-down and congestion, less marked relief from clot expulsion.

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17/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Justicia adhatoda
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When the night closes in with a tickling throat and rattling chest, Justicia adhatoda is the breath that reaches for the window and the warm cup—fresh air meeting steam.

The mind fears suffocation yet craves air; worse in the warm, closed room, better by the open window—this is the psyche of obstruction and release.

Its gestures are urgent and restless: gasping, propping, sneezing, sipping. The voice falters to a whisper; every cough trembles between spasm and relief.

Keynote: suffocative, rattling cough with little expectoration; worse at night or lying down, better for cool air and warm drinks. When set to rest and fresh air, breath steadies and the chest loosens.

Differentials: vs Ipecacuanha—more nausea, less nose; vs Antimonium tart.—heavier weakness, coarser rales; vs Drosera—midnight whoop, scant coryza.

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16/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Bryonia alba

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Stillness itself becomes medicine. Bryonia alba is the dry earth after heat—aching to be left untouched, yet thirsting for deep, cool water.

The mind clings to order and silence, vexed by interruption, fearing the chaos that motion brings. Beneath that irritability lies fatigue and longing for calm.

Its gestures are measured: lying still, guarding the painful part, speaking little, clutching the chest when coughing. Every movement feels like a debt paid in pain.

Keynote: stitching, bursting pains—worse from the least motion, better from firm pressure and rest. When set to absolute stillness, fever softens, dryness loosens, and relief unfolds like shade after glare.

Differentials: vs Rhus toxicodendron—needs motion to ease; vs Apis mellifica—stinging, thirstless heat; vs Aconitum—fearful onset with agitation.

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15/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Lac humanum

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Milk of belonging: the ache to be welcomed, to be “good” enough for love—one dyad, one tribe, one heart.

The psyche tilts between yearning to be included and fearing rejection; it performs the good child/carer while a quiet emptiness asks to be seen.

Gestures of appeasing and caretaking, smoothing conflicts, tidying, watching faces for approval; craving closeness yet apologising for needs.

Keynote: desire for milk with aggravation (bloating/mucus) and a tight, sighing chest; worse with criticism or crowds, better with consented holding, fresh air, and steady routine—when set to named needs and gentle touch, breathing settles and sleep stitches.

Differentials: vs Lac maternum—nine-donor, perinatal thresholds (landing/cord imagery); vs Carcinosinum—duty and perfection with suppression; vs Sepia—distance from depletion rather than tribe-seeking.

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14/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Viola tricolor

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Viola tricolor speaks through the tender child whose skin and tears tell the same story, honey-coloured crusts and cat-sharp odours that long to breathe in cool air again.

The psyche holds a quiet contradiction: craving closeness yet recoiling from touch, fretful until relief flows freely, like a window opened on a heavy night.

We see head-rubbing, restless wakefulness, shy withdrawal, and the soft plea for air, light, and space; irritability melts as exudation resumes its course.

Keynote: honey-crusted eczema of scalp and face, worse from heat of bed, better for cool air. When set to stillness, pressure builds; when air moves, peace returns.

Differentials: vs Graphites, drier, less odorous crusts; vs Rhus-tox., itch eased by heat not coolness; vs Kreosotum, excoriating urine without the honey-ooze scalp.

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13/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Buddleja davidii
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The butterfly bush offers quiet refuge in the ruins—its violet blossoms rising where the world seems broken, embodying tender strength after shock.

The psyche swings between compassion and collapse: the heart feels the pain of others so acutely that it forgets to breathe for itself.

Gestures are those of refuge-making and retreat—tidying, tending, weeping, then finding solace in still gardens, slow breath, and gentle motion.

Keynote: tight chest and sighing breath; worse for noise, fumes, and sorrowful images; better for nature, warm water, and quiet companionship. When set to rest, the armour softens and compassion finds rhythm again.

Differentials: vs Aconite—acute terror and heat; vs Ignatia—personal grief with spasmodic restraint; vs Phosphorus—open empathy without the guarded tension.
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12/10/2025

Remedy of the day: Paracanthurus hepatus
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The blue tang glides through reefs like a flicker of living calm—its instinct is to hide from glare, to find safety in rhythm and soft light.

The psyche balances between exposure and protection: too much brightness or scrutiny brings blankness and retreat; dimness and gentle motion restore presence.

Its gestures are modest and rhythmic—covering the skin, seeking dim rooms, soft voices, slow music. A mild vigilance hums beneath the surface, thawing only in trusted company.

Keynote: “as if drugged,” disoriented in bright spaces; worse from glare and crowds, better when covered or swaying slowly. When set to calm rhythm, speech and orientation return, like the tide resettling the shore.

Differentials: vs Sepia—cold aversion and duty-fatigue; vs Nux moschata—dreamy dryness; vs Gelsemium—heavy dullness rather than over-tuned blankness.
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