Sea Remedies and the Evolution of the Senses by JO EVANS [#EVASEA]

Description This book is a truly excellent and even model homeopathic materia medica! This book is a full-color, photographic materia medica. As well as being a homeopath and writer, Jo  Evans is a skilled photo editor, working mostly on The Times, and The Times Literary Supplement, which are established, quality English newspapers. She brings these skills, developed over the best part of two decades, to the book, along with more than 90 full color photos and manydrawings. Jo is also a former editor of The Homeopath, journal of the Society of Homeopaths. It is from the ancient sea creatures that the human senses have evolved; in fact we use less senses than some sea creatures, which also have a keen awareness of electromagnetism and lateral line symmetry. The book traces the evolution of our senses through the natural, biological and evolutionary history of those creatures that dwell in the deep oceans, with appendices on the sensations of the remedies for each of the senses. There are individual chapters on the Senses of Hearing, Smell and Taste, Touch, and Vision. Jo Evans’ idea is to draw together the sensations of the sea creatures. To this end, each materia medica chapter begins with a summary of the remedy and its sensations, and then opens out to a wider examination of the sensations, functions and pains of the remedy in every aspect. The layout of the materia medica is guided by the senses. Each materia medica chapter is followed by the natural history of each remedy; the uses of the source material in other medicines; and the folklore, symbol and signature surrounding the source substance. The photographs are spectacular! BOOK REVIEW This book review is reprinted with the permission from The Homeopath (Spring 2010). The Society of Homeopaths — www.homeopathy-soh.org Reviewed by Francis Treuherz With 24 remedies in 653 pages and around 100 full-page colour illustrations, this book has quality and size. It is surprisingly slim, heavy, perfectly bound on high-grade paper with an elegant font and a great aesthetic; the central materia medica section has a shaded marker on the edge of the page so you can find it. The first 125 pages set the tone with the sensual themes. Will we ever feel at home with these families? In this book I think so, it is an underwater adventure with correspondences, taste, smell, vision, touch, hearing all analysed, indexed and referenced in such an elegant and poetic fashion that I think the author has been writing prose all her life without knowing it. Each remedy is summarised before being described in detail, with some cases from our literature. Porifera, cnidarians, echinoderms, arthropods, molluscs, gastropods, bivalves, cepaholopds … there is a new unfamiliar vocabulary to help define familiar remedies like Calcarea carbonica and Sepia, and new remedies like Eledone cirrhosa or Pecten jacobaeus. Then there is a spiral journey of homeopathic process, integrated with spiral and shell remedies. There follow glossaries of the unfamiliar terms and a thematic repertory, bibliography and index, as part of these last 100 pages. It looks good enough to eat – about the only information that seems to be missing is this: the sea creatures so lovingly, carefully and comprehensively described in this book are a forbidden food for observant Jews on a par with pig meat. Oh and there are no recipes. I look forward to the second volume that I hope will deal with real vertebrate fish with fins and scales. Desires fish (3). This is a superlative book in every way, the sensual medium is the message, not only for look and feel but for quality and integration of the information about the medicines. I have never seen a materia medica with so many sources and so much integration of philosophy with useful material. I have a habit of reading an article from a journal or a remedy from material medica in bed most nights. This one is taking me longer as it is so rich and I look forward to more early nights. Buy it for yourself or ask someone dear to you to give it for your next birthday. CONTENTS CORRESPONDENCES Evolution and the Unity of the Senses Myth, Mirror and Healing Alienation and Inner Space Illustrated timeline of animal evolution THE CHEMICAL SENSES: TASTE AND SMELL The Nose Knows Fantastic Voyage Smell: A Sense Base or Sublime? Alchemy of the Sperm Whale Smelling and Tasting in the Oceans Sensations and Symptoms: Smell, Taste, Chemical Messaging THE SENSE OF VISION In Darkness Inner Space: As Above, So Below Feeling Light Watercolours and Tricks of the Light Th e Colour Purple Ocean Eyes Cnidarian Vision, Cnidarian Senses Overwhelmed by the Senses: Tropisms The Brilliance of Brainless Coral Th ird Eye: Cnidarians and the Pineal Gland Powers beyond Seeing Self-Consciousness in Sea Animal Remedies Additional sea remedies: sense of self consciousness An Eye for an Eye Relevance to the Cnidarian remedy provings (jellyfi sh, coral, anemones) Spies of Light Sensations and Symptoms: Vision THE SENSE OF TOUCH The Paradox of Touch Of Life and Limb Th e Language of the Skin Sensitivity and Numbness On Having a Shell On Being Armoured or Disrobed Sensations and Symptoms: Touch THE SENSE OF HEARING The Dance of the Sea Dance, Society and Invertebrate Mood Modulators Notes on the Evolutionary Origins of Music and Language Singing the World: Homeopathic Poetry Sensations and Symptoms: Hearing, Singing, Dancing, Movement Evolutionary Echoes: birds, insect s, spiders Materia Medica PORIFERA: marine sponges Tree of Life Natural History Spongia tosta (roasted sea sponge) CNIDARIANS: coral, sea anemones and jellyfish Tree of Life Cnidarian Remedies Natural History The sea anemone remedies Corallium rubrum (red gorgonian coral) Anthozoa Anthopleura xanthogrammica (giant green sea anemone) Anthozoa Stichodactyla haddoni (Haddon’s sea anemone) Anthozoa Physalia pelagica (Portuguese man of war) Hydrozoa Medusa or Aurelia Aurita (moon jellyfish) ScyphozoaChironex fl eckeri (box jellyfish) Cubozoa ECHINODERMS: starfish and sea urchins Tree of Life Echinoderm Remedies Natural History Acanthaster planci (crown of thorns starfi sh) Asteroidea Asterias rubens (red starfi sh) Asteroidea Toxopneustes pileolus (fl ower urchin) Echinoidea MARINE ARTHROPODS: lobster and horseshoe crab Tree of Life Natural History Limulus cyclops (horseshoe crab) Cheliceramorpha Homarus gammarus (European lobster) Crustacea MARINE MOLLUSCS, GASTROPODS AND BIVALVES: sea shells Tree of Life Natural History Introduction OPODS & SHELLS Marine Mollusc Remedies: the shells Gastropods Natural History Cypraea eglantina (dog rose cowrie ) Gastropod Murex (Tyrian purple dye) Gastropod Bivalves Natural History Pecten jacobaeus (scallop) Bivalve Venus mercenaria (clam) Bivalve Calcarea carbonica (oyster shell) Bivalve Conchiolinum (mother of pearl) Pearl Remedies Mytilus edulis pearl (pearl of blue mussel) Bivalve Pearl (pearl of oyster) Bivalve Pearl in Medicine Pearl in Nature Pearl Signature and Symbol MARINE MOLLUSCS, CEPHALOPODS: nautilus, octopus, squid, cuttlefish Tree of Life Cephalopod Remedies Natural History Nautilus (nautilus) Nautilida Sepia officinalis (sepia/cuttlefi sh ink) Sepiida Eledone cirrhosa (lesser oct opus) Oct opoda Onychoteuthis banksii (clubhook squid) Teuthida SPIRAL JOURNEY: Part I: The Homeopathic Process Spiral as Symbol Non-Dual Duality Spirit and Sensibility A Remembered Present SPIRAL JOURNEY: Part II: Spirals and Shell remedies The Spiral and the Goddess Left and Right Handed Shells Which Way to Turn? Sexuality and the Shell Remedies Anima and Animus: Reciprocal Spirals Uroboros: Cycles and Spirals Three in One I Rise Again Polarity and Duality Darkness and Light Into the Labyrinth Shadow and Sex Shells and Moon The Sinistral Way: Th e Copper Breathers Life Breath: From Gills to Lungs Air and Soul The Shell in the Desert: Assigning Value Summary of Shell Symbolism Material to Spiritual: The Journey Spiral Chambers Conclusion