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Sarracenia purpurea (Sarr.)

Sarracenia purpurea (Sarr.) appears in 60 rubrics in the repertory. Two of them are single-remedy rubrics, listing only this remedy, and four are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphases lie in delusions, indifference, and mental exertion, as well as activity, sadness, and weeping. The picture is that of a person whose drive alternates between apathy and activity and whose self-image is colored by shame.

Alternation of Indifference and Activity

Several rubrics follow the same pattern: indifference alternates with activity, and indifference alternates with desire for mental exertion. The second is a single-remedy rubric: "Indifference, apathy – alternating with – mental exertion, desire for". Lack of drive and urge to work replace each other, without either permanently determining the state.

Shame and Disgrace

Among the delusions, which form the largest block, are two that revolve around honor and disgrace. The single-remedy rubric records the conviction of having shamed the family of absent friends, a small rubric the notion of having brought disgrace upon family or friends. The notion that the head is light fits with this. This can be read as a guilt that exists toward no one and yet weighs heavily.

Depressed Mood

Sadness and weeping are recorded with four and three rubrics, supplemented by anxiety, dullness, and rubrics on memory and forgetfulness. They form the ground on which the delusions and the alternation of drive and indifference stand.

Summary

In the repertory, Sarracenia purpurea portrays a person between apathy and urge for action, who feels ashamed without reason and is accompanied by sadness. The number of specific rubrics is small; the two lines, the alternation of drive and the shame, carry the picture.

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