Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Gerard Butler, the beauty and the beast

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Gerard Butler

"300" Los Angeles Premiere, By Barbara.Doduk, Flickr.com

This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Gerard Butler's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.


Gerard Butler is a successful Hollywood actor.

He’s been in a few romantic comedies like P.S. I love you, and Bounty Hunter but he is at his best in roles with a very dark side such as Attila, Leonidas, Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, Childers in the Machine Gun Preacher, and his latest: Tullus  Aufidius in Coriolanus.

His life has not always been a success, as he puts it: “At 24, I thought dying might be a relief.”

Originally from Scotland, he comes from an educated but modest background. His father abandoned the family when Gerard was 2yrs old, but returned when the actor was 16yrs.

Father and son didn’t have much time to get to know each other as he left the family again when Gerard was 22yrs, this time for good, due to terminal cancer.

His mother according to Gerard is a “lioness”, referring to her courage in bringing up three children single handed, her bravery protecting the family and their home against the neighbourhood thugs, her dignity, and her loyalty towards him even when he was in trouble with the police as a youngster.

A gifted student with a good intellect he went on the study law, but in the end his heart won and he became an actor.

He came into acting later than most actors and without the usual drama school background, but with armed with determination to succeed and the emotional depth that only real life experience can bring…

His characters are strong, powerful, raw, and intense. Their energy is like a radioactive force that emanates from the deepest collective unconscious where it has laid dormant, rising up to permeate our reality.

To watch one of his movies is to be pulled right into the eye of an emotional storm:

Where we can no longer ignore the ugly side of human kind but we must outweigh the reasons for the character's behaviour – we are forced into making our own moral judgement.

Stormy is also the character of this actor – we can sense that his friendly charm has the shadow of a potential storm brewing… referring to his make-up disfigurement in the Phantom of the Opera he says: “It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us”.

Gerard is now a long way from his wildest younger days: he practises meditation to help him curb his compulsions and to seek his spiritual dimension.

We can sense that he has done a lot of soul searching, and it has paid off:

He has managed to keep his alcohol and smoking addictions under control, and has become a more balanced individual.

He was recently involved in a near death experience: while filming a surf scene he was dragged underwater by powerful waves, in the ambulance on the way to hospital, he had a strong urge to go back and try again…

That's who he is: someone who doesn't give up, someone who thrives on a challenge!

Gerard Butler’s homeopathic remedy is Plutonium Nitricum:

Plutonium is part of the radioactive group of the periodic table: the actinides.
It is a remedy of deep action unto the subconscious, it has a strong desire to dwell into the darkest aspects of the soul as well as a great sense of lightness and exhilaration.

It's a seeker of spirituality, but with a vertical polarity: just as it can reach great enlightenment it can also reach the greatest depths of darkness.

It is well indicated where the patient oscillates between conflicting emotions, in manic depressive states. It's also a remedy for addictions, alcoholism, and strong sexual compulsions.

This remedy carries the primeval archetype of the cave man: they fantasise being powerful warriors, they need an outlay for all that excess testosterone, male sexual energy that is so typical of this remedy. Sexual addiction can also run high in these patients.

Patients desire red meat, they can even suffer delusions of being a vampire craving fresh blood, or dreaming of being bats hanging upside down in the Underworld.


They have a great charisma, even an aura of magic about them.

And Just like Plutonium is a powerful source of energy but can also cause terrible destruction and devastation far reaching both in time and space, so can the Plutonium patient – they can be a great source of inspiration to a vast number of people, they are dynamic and motivating when they are emotionally balanced, but can become unstable easily, they then become needy and energy draining even at a psychic level – from a distance.

Plutonium Nitricum has all of these characteristics but tries to repress them:

The destructive power of Plutonium is now contained by the Nitricum aspect. On doing so, this patient type tends to suffer bouts of depression, with occasional rages of devastating proportions if they are thrown off balance.

They are the type of patient you wouldn’t like to get on the wrong side, and I wouldn’t like to get on Gerard’s wrong side either if you ask me…

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Professor Green, between shadow and light

Professor Green Newcastle Academy by David Wala, Flickr.com

This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Professor Green's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.



He comes from a difficult background: he grew up in Hackney, a poor and crime ridden London borough. He was raised by his Nan to who is full of praise. He had a tense relationship with his father who eventually committed suicide a few years ago.

His classmates called him Professor Green: professor because of his bright mind, and green as an allusion to the Cannabis he sold.

He shot up to fame after a Freestyling session at a friend’s party – he won the competition even thought he had no previous experience.

His first single “Before I die” was a success, “Remedy”, “Monster” are also well known tracks, and his new album to be released on Monday “Never Be A Right Time ” is waited with anticipation by his fans.

Some of his video-clips are quite gruesome, such as “Before I die” where he appears to be hang from a strip of paper with black and white piano keys. He also appears to simulate sex in bed with a woman. Then we see him again as a third persona covered in blood, holding his own internal organs, and singing …

What is most staggering is the lack of emotional involvement from both him and his female partner throughout the clip.

It’s like throughout this horror scenario nothing really matters, it is of no consequence, and it is not really being experienced.

In real life, Professor Green has had a few dramatic exchanges with other rappers who resent his apparently effortless success.

But perhaps the most dramatic of the attacks he has suffered was when he was stabbed in the neck, on top the word “lucky” a tattoo he had done only a few days earlier. Lucky or unlucky? It is debatable, perhaps the attacker didn’t like the tattoo or didn’t believe in luck, but for Green it was certainly a close call!

Green used to suffer from sleep paralysis, I sense this has been supressed through drugs, but his subconscious tends to spill out through his artistic expression.

Professor Green homeopathic remedy is Stramonium:

Stramonium patients suffer from all sorts of sleep disturbances such as sleepwalking and sleep paralysis.

They can have a history of suicidal tendencies: in Green’s case, it was his dad’s demise,  but also a possibility in “Before I die”.

They have a very rich but conflicting subconscious which they try to supress once they mature.

As children they are less guarded: they are difficult children with conflicting emotions, often expressing themselves through tantrums, excusing their violent actions with imaginary characters: for them these can appear very real, instructing them to perform all sorts of violent acts.

Stramonium has been used to numb people, and to make them comply with other people’s wishes: there are narratives of this poison been used by many cultures throughout the world for these means.

Perhaps the most notorious is the Zombification of Haiti natives: they would be given a cocktail of Stramonium and a neurotoxin extracted from Puffer fish, this would induce dead like symptoms.

They were buried, but later dug up and “resuscitated” by the Zombie maker. In their confused state where the victim had seen themselves as dead and then brought to life, they were apathetic and less likely to resist when they were taken to plantations to work as slaves.

This homeopathic remedy is also indicated when the patient is afraid of the dark, but feels worst when exposed to light.

The Stramonium patient has a strong sexuality, Professor Green has made an interesting allusion to this: when asked which animal he would like to be, he replied: “Dolphin because they are the only other animal who has sex for fun”.

People who require Stramonium as a remedy tend to wear either black or white- Green often wears his trademark black with white stripe tracksuit, sometimes just the bottoms with a white T-Shirt.

For those patients who suffer from visual disturbances, black appears as green, which is interesting considering the Professor’s name...

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Antony Worrall Thompson cut off from reality

Antony Worrall Thompson

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This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Antony Worrall Thompson's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.

Antony Worrall Thompson has been caught shoplifting from his local supermarket.

He had a technique: he used self-checkout, scanning some items and failing to scan others such as cheese and wine. Thompson has now been charged with five theft offenses all committed during a period of two weeks.

Those two weeks coincided with the run up to Christmas and New Year – stressful times for most of us and more so to a professional chef, with a lot of expectations put on the cooking and presentation of food, party hosting and so on.

Antony is not just a professional chef, he is a celebrity chef made famous by his appearances in the TV program Ready, Steady, Cook.

He has an image to preserve…yet several times throughout his life he’s let the mask slip. He comes from a middle class family, and thanks to his grandmother he had a privileged upbringing, but his upbringing was also very traumatic and damaging.

His parents who were both actors separated when he was only three years old. He was then sent to boarding school, sexually abused by people to whom he was entrusted and who should’ve been his role models.

He was neglected by his mother, starved of her affection and yet desperate to please her; held at arm’s length by a grandmother who tried to provide him with a solid education consistent with their social status but depriving him, at the same time, of the love and affection that every child needs.

He was left disfigured both in emotional and physical pain throughout his teenage years, due to a sports injury, waiting facial reconstruction which was only possible at twenty one years old, once his bones stopped growing.

He seems to have gone through his life with a cavalier attitude towards himself and those close to him.

His life has been a bit of rollercoaster. He’s had multiple affairs, and a few failed marriages. In business has also met success and failure.

But he is proud of his life and his achievements, he is a survivor – he’s has overcome more than most of us – When he published his autobiography Raw revealing all the abuse he went through but saying that he survived it un- scattered… well, up until now…

This week when the news of his arrest were made public, he finally admitted that perhaps the abuse and neglect he suffered as a young child, together with the pressure of trying to keep his career a float a midst professional and personal strain, might have played a part in his acts. He has publicly apologised and promised to seek help.

I think this is the first step to emotional healing – the acknowledgment that all is not well, the admission that after all, his past has been traumatic and has left psychological scarring – now is the time to start healing!

Thompson’s homeopathic profile is Anacardium:


Anacardium is psychologically split. They feel continuously divided between what they represent and who they really are. They may have a public image to preserve; social values become less and less important to them as the psychological damage sets in. This damage tends to occur in their early years, but remains repressed until the individual can longer cope with the contrast between social / moral values and what they’ve experienced during their formative years.

In order to survive the abuse they’ve been subjected to, they had cut themselves from their own feelings.

They tend to compensate by overeating, and they tend to become overweight: they crave sweets and alcohol. Some report “not being themselves” while eating or shopping!


They are prone to terrible mood swings which can make them extremely violent, and yet they are also pacifists as they fear conflicts and other people’s rage – they will repress their own anger for as long as possible in order to avoid direct confrontation, afraid of their own reactions, until it all becomes too much…

Some patients who are within the Anacardium psychological profile have described themselves as having a good side and a bad side.

An angel sits on one shoulder, a demon on the other whispering at them - is how some have describe it.

Antony has mentioned the “demon on his shoulder” telling him to do what he did…

By the Undercover Homeopath

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch, Chelsea Manning torn apart

PFC Bradley Manning [Sixth Grade Yearbook]

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This week the Undercover Homeopath analyses Bradley Manning's psychological profile according to homeopathy principles, and prescribes a homeopathic remedy.

Army intelligence analyst Private First Class Bradley E. Manning accused of releasing classified information to WikiLeaks.

He has been detained in solitary confinement since July 2010 and he waiting trial.

Before Manning joined the army he was an idealist who held the role of his country in the fight for freedom into great account.

After joining the army as an intelligence analyst, however, the cracks started to appear: his view of the military as a defender of the good against the evil changed.

He was quoted saying to Lamo, on a chat room: “I don’t believe in good guys versus bad guys anymore,” “Only a plethora of states acting in self-interest.”

On another occasion he asked Lamo: “If you had free reign over classified networks for long periods of time… say, 8-9 months… and you saw incredible things, awful things… things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC… what would you do?”

To Assange he is quoted with saying that publishing a file of hundreds of thousands of classified reports on Iraq and Afghanistan would prove ‘one of the more significant documents of our time, removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of 21st-century asymmetrical warfare.’ ”

He was also going through severe hardship and emotional turmoil in his private life, which were made worse when his long term relationship broke up.

According to court evidence, he asked for help from his superiors by writing a letter describing his gender identity crisis and attaching a photo of him dressed as woman – Brenna Manning, his new identity.

He even held a Facebook account and email address as Brenna. His pleas for help were ignored and so were psychotic episodes he suffered.

During his psychotic crisis he alternated between physical violence towards a female superior, and a desire to isolate himself from his reality – when he was found on the floor curled up into a ball.

His background:

He grew up in a small American town, Crescent, Oklahoma.

As a child he was small, and wore glasses. Considered by both his teachers and his peers as a bright intelligent child, who always had an opinion about issues discussed in class, he was a shy, but pleasant young man.

He played music, first trombone and later electronic synthesizer. He also enjoyed philosophic discussions about ethics and what was right or wrong with his small group of friends, although as he became an adolescent he became more and more isolated, spending most of his time in his room at the computor.

Life was difficult at home, when his parents’ marriage ended him and his mum had to move from to Wales, his mum's country. Before he went he had a confession to make: he told his two best friends that he was gay.

Being gay brought him into direct conflict with his dad who threw him out of in the streets making homeless. Yet being true to his values, Manning openly campaigned for Gay’s rights, even after enrolling in the army where the policy at the time was “don’t ask, don’t tell”.

Manning’s homeopathic profile is Silica:

Silica individuals are normally of small frame, they often have eye sight problems. They have a strong intellect, great aptitude for scientific and technological disciplines. They try to define their identity by fitting in the best they can within their group, without causing too much controversy since they are shy and dislike open confrontation or antagonism. They are however compelled to stick to their own ideals and convictions, and are considered by some to be of fixed ideas, and impossible to be persuaded otherwise once they have made their mind up.

The silica individual often feels divided: divided between loyalties when their duty goes against their ideals. Even at a physical level they present with many symptoms that imply this separation. What can be a healthy, inquisitive, and bright creative mind of the silica patient can also be easily affected by a difficult childhood – they need a strong and supportive family environment if they are to develop harmoniously.

In Manning’s case, his family breakdown may have seriously hampered his emotional development. When later on his life he sought that order and strong structure in the army, his need for support was once again eroded, this time by the conflict in between what he thought his mission should be and what it had become.

Going through both a crisis between his moral values as a US serviceman as well as in his private life through gender confusion, his psyche became fragmented and damaged and he suffered psychotic episodes with aggressive behavior towards his superiors when his new identity as a woman was not acknowledged or honored.

The patient who needs Silica as a homeopathic remedy often feels imbalance between their brain and their body, their duty and their ideals, a career in science or in art, a contradiction in between their life choices and that their loved ones would like them to choose.

Isolation and a feeling of being cut off from a part of themselves are the feelings that ensue. Which is exactly where Manning finds himself at the moment!

By the Undercover Homeopath