Tuesday 28 February 2012

Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: Bruce Springsteen living the shattered dream!



Springsteen’s songs have brought to the foreground an image of America that we couldn’t possibly have without his lyrics and his music.

He has introduced us to the working class American, the one who anonymously helps to build the American superpower, picture perfect, and glittery proud ideal the US has tried to portray to the world!

The US has bombarded the world with carefully crafted images of glamour and easy living through the US propaganda, Hollywood films, advertising, literature, political speeches and so on.

Springsteen, the “Boss”, is the one who showed us the dirty faces stricken with sweat and tears of the underpaid miners.

He gives us the other face of the victorious home coming of the war veterans with amputated limbs, unable to get work or to make a decent living, and forced to beg on the streets.

He has ripped the picture perfect reality of the middle class America to show us the dirty and smelly kids from drug addicted parents, who fear going back home at the end of day and would rather roam the streets or leave their hometown where there is no future for them.

He has also spoken often of the true spirit of freedom, of being able to break free from the oppressive environment of a small town and setting across the country.

Springsteen has rebelled against oppression, has given inspiration and hope to those who have nothing.  He has been the shouting voice muffling the glitzy propaganda for the American fantasy world of the fifties, he has lead the chorus of protest of the sixties speaking out for the kids who were left without a father as a result of the War, and he has showed us an America that has no rights, no welfare and no place in society.

His music has no place in the picture perfect Hollywood of a young beautiful and wealthy America with glamorous actresses covered in jewels and fur and smartly dressed actors driving expensive cars.

Springsteen has faithfully and relentlessly sided with the other America: the one living the shattered dream.

He has showed us the despair of many, but he has also given the underdog faith in the future, he's fueled their fight, given them the "spark to start a fire", not to give up and to fight for their rights.

His music is for taking to the streets, to the never ending American roads, to go see the world, the world that it’s ours, everyone’s.

He talks about an unrepressed desire for living behind the oppressive small town: a fascination to follow the road in to freedom, into the big city, into hope of a better life.

His message however is one of doom and gloom, the better life never materialises, because there is always social injustice, and oppression of the poor for the benefit of the rich no matter where you turn to.

Springsteen is a religious man, he has never hidden his strong links to Catholicism, and some of his songs are religious hymns; others are hymns to  freedom they are for uprising, and for rebelling - without religious or political conformism.

He is of Irish ancestry and as a child he was educated at a Catholic school, but even then his individuality, and his refusal to conform to the pre-established values caused havock with the nuns, and he soon had to be moved to another school!

As a teenager he didn't integrate within his school environment - his former headmaster recalls Bruce as a "loner who only cared for playing the guitar"... he completed his studies but didn't attend his own graduation as he didn't feel comfortable amongst his school mates.

Springsteen is an anti-hero denouncing social injustice, locked in eternal battle with the powers that be, he has been a constant voice for those who have lost their status and have no voice.

But he is an empty handed Messiah: bringing no salvation, he offers no solution, only the steely, cold, nude reality of a broken America.

Bruce Springsteen’s homeopathic remedy is Veratrum Album:

Veratrum Album is a remedy for deeply religious people, even fanatical. They can easily view themselves as a Christ, or a Messiah bringing salvation to the world.

They do not stand for social injustice. They can be very bossy, and unmoved in their opinions.

They can get irate easily, even cursing and insulting others. They can have an ironic smile, and they smile when angry.

When upset they isolate themselves, either by driving others out of their space, or by leaving home and abandoning their loved ones.

They have a pessimistic view of the world, they are well known for their doom and gloom prophecies.  They criticise existing values without offering a solution.

They feel they are superior to others and they are outspoken against those they perceive as wrong doers.

The Boss’ psychological profile is that of Veratrum Album, he has many characteristics of the remedy which on a healthy individual like himself can make him charismatic, but can also reach extreme behaviour if provoked into unbalance!


By the Undercover Homeopath




















Saturday 18 February 2012

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: David Bowie between heaven and earth

David Bowie, EmilyinChains714 Photobucket
David Bowie, English multitalented artist was born in Brixton, London in 1947.



At home it was difficult to communicate with his parents, young David had a particular hard time discussing emotions with his dad, and he was a precocious child sensitive and talented child.



Yes David was anything but original, intriguing and perhaps disturbing and one can’t help but smile while reading his earlier school reports:



Between 4-6yrs old - “a gifted and single-minded child—and a defiant brawler”.



At 9yrs old – “an adequate voice for the choir, above-average musical ability for recorder playing, and strikingly imaginative dance routines which impressed his teachers as vividly artistic and astonishing for a child.”



Also aged 9yrs old he heard Little Richard for the first time, he says about the song Tutti Frutti: “I heard God!”

Bowie decided he wanted to be one of Little Richard's saxophone players. At 13 years old he got his first saxophone and began working as a butcher's delivery boy in order to pay it off. He also took ten lessons from jazz player Ronnie Ross who lived nearby, by then he quit going to see Ross because he felt that “he was ready to become a rock star.”



Bowie’s eyes are both blue, the trademark of different colour eyes: is the result of a dilated pupil. He also suffers from faulty depth perception resulting from the same injury, caused by a punch in the left eye by a school mate wearing a ring during a fight over a girl. David nearly lost his sight and had several operations over a period of four months but he and George Underwood remained friends, and worked together in several albums at the beginning of his career.



Described himself as the “Chameleon of Pop”, he named himself after Jim Bowie, a Victorian North American frontiersman, a controversial figure who is credit amongst other things with the invention of a large hunting knife – the Bowie knife.



David’s career took off in earnest with Ziggy Stardust an androgynous alien from Mars, a character he impersonated when playing with his band.



Bowie is a remarkable man, a multifaceted artist, who has excelled himself in several fields: music, art, and literature. His style is also eclectic and has covered many variations throughout his life.



In music he his style has ranged from, Pop, Glam Rock, Jazz, Disco, and House…he’s collaborated with rapper Snoop Dogg recently, and I believe we are still to see more of his irrepressible talent and adaptability to new musical styles in the years to come!



He has been almost as prolific in the creation of characters both on the musical scene, and on real life, when realities got mixed up, and David found himself living in a parallel reality of bizarre personality changes.



Although most of Bowie’s personality disturbances were fuelled by a cocaine habit that at some point threatened to take over his life and saw him overdosing several times and causing his mental and physical disintegration, some of his personality changes were also induced by a stage act gone too far: Bowie, a method acting student, took his dramatic creations to such an extent that they took over his real persona at times.



His various alter-egos caused some trouble at times: Ziggy stardust was bisexual, Thin White Duke was a sympathiser of totalitarian regimes…Bowie admitted being a robot off stage and only lighting up once he was able to incarnate his showbiz personas, but they certainly caused him some trouble as much as they have catapulted him into the limelight.



Throughout his career there have been many references to Space, and cosmic travelling - “Space oddity” with his Major Tom trying to contact ground control, Ziggy Stardust and the Spider from Mars, “The man who fell to Earth” with his character Thomas Jerome Newton, the extra-terrestrial, and so on…





We get a sense that at some level David is really a traveller of the cosmos, landed here on earth temporarily but still channelling cosmic awareness, leaving in a space between heaven and earth: a “Lodger” as he calls himself in an album made just after his extensive tour of Europe, Asia and Africa.



David is impulsive, emotions hit him fast, inspiration is not on short demand and it happens fast too. And we cannot help but stared with fascination at his kaleidoscope of unstoppable creative impulse.



Some of Bowie’s quotes



On people who influenced him:



About meeting and working with bizarre dancer Lindsay Kemp:

"He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence. His day-to-day life was the most theatrical thing I had ever seen, ever. It was everything I thought Bohemia probably was. I joined the circus."



Lindsay Kemp returned the compliment: "I didn't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself on the outside, ...I enabled him to free the angel and demon that he is on the inside."



Elvis Presley’s music:



"I saw a cousin of mine dance to ... 'Hound Dog' and I had never seen her get up and be moved so much by anything. It really impressed me, the power of the music. I started getting records immediately after that."



About his dad:



"I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten." "a classic case of British reserve."



About Little Richards:



“I had heard God”



About his characters:



"I know now for a fact that so much of my ambition and drive came from wanting to escape from myself and from feelings of inadequacy and vulnerability and not feeling I was loved by anybody in particularly. I would drive those feelings out by throwing myself not only into work, but eventually into characters."



About his sexuality:



Bowie seemed to be as undecided about the effect his revelations had caused to his career as much as he was about his sexual ambiguity itself:



In 1972 while launching” Ziggy Stardust” he declared himself bisexual.



By 1976 he said: "It's true—I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.”



In 1983 he said: "The biggest mistake I ever made … was telling that … writer that I was bisexual. Christ, I was so young then. I was experimenting."



And on other occasions he said that his interest in homosexual and bisexual culture had been more a product of the times and the situation in which he found himself than his own feelings, and driven more by "a compulsion to flout moral codes than a real biological and psychological state of being".



In 2002 he said: “I don’t think it was a mistake in Europe, but it was a lot tougher in America. I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual. But I had no inclination to neither hold any banners nor be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which were a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that bisexuality became my headline over here for so long. America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do.”



About meeting his second wife, Iman:



"I was naming the children the night we met ... it was absolutely immediate."



While launching his live album, and tormented by drug addiction:

David Live, ought to have been titled "David Bowie Is Alive and Well and Living Only in Theory"





On his stage characters:



Ziggy: "Offstage I'm a robot. Onstage I achieve emotion. It's probably why I prefer dressing up as Ziggy to being David."



Ziggy: "wouldn't leave me alone for years. That was when it all started to go sour ... My whole personality was affected. It became very dangerous. I really did have doubts about my sanity."



Thin White Duke: "I was out of my mind, totally crazed. The main thing I was functioning on was mythology ... that whole thing about Hitler and Rightism ... I'd discovered King Arthur ..."



David Bowie’s homeopathic remedy is Positronium:



“It has been postulated that in the big bang at the beginning of time, matter and anti-matter co-emerged, each having opposite charge, opposite spin and moving in contrary motion, the one from time past to future, the other from time future to time past. It is therefore also postulated that somewhere there may be a parallel universe identical to our own but composed of a preponderance of anti-matter in which events occur in anti-time. Were we to meet with this anti-universe, then we would annihilate each other in one mighty flash!”





Positronium is the smallest particle known, it is not even a full atom, and it’s called antimatter.



It has an Electron and its anti-particle: the Positron, both have the same mass and spin, but opposite electrical charges.



While on collision they annihilate each other.



If Positronium were to be positioned on the periodic table it would be 0 row, 0 column, before the 1st row Hydrogen which at a psychological level corresponds to the baby period.



The Antroposophical interpretation of Positronium:



Positronium is the non being, but as the non-being carries the cosmic blueprint for everything.



It’s a seed for matter channeled from cosmic nothingness. It is the nothing, the void: energy without matter.



This theme ties in with feelings of helplessness, and the feeling of being inferior and insignificant: unloved from those who need Positronium.


Spirituality, the Electron corresponds to Mother energy of divine love, it is bound to the nucleus of the atom by love, the Proton represents Father Will and carries a lot of information about values and concepts, and the Neutron is Christed energy.



Christed energy transcends religion – it expresses inherent morality that bounds us all as spiritual beings stemming from the rightful balance between two existential paths. It is unconditional love to all there is: free from duality between good and bad or from any religious, social or political constraints.


In the spiritual world matter comes into being from the unity of these three aspects, before finally incarnating into the physical world.


Positronium, the anti-matter: only has Mother divine love (Electron) and Father will (Proton) but without the Christed energy (Neutron) these two annihilate each other, causing a vacuum, a nihilistic attitude towards life.


I sense that the remedy has a strong component of split personality due to the absence of a neutron; there is a strong pull of forces, the electron and its anti-particle a positron.


In the spiritual world all vacuum must be filled, leaving the patient who requires this remedy open to entity possession, schizoid episodes or split personality disorders.



In this remedy we have two opposite forces fighting each other to the point of non self, annihilation, in vacuum, with the outcome that light is produced whilst one fights its inner shadow.

This battle of the Electron and the Proton expresses the dualistic issues addressed by the remedy; it is interesting that from their reaction, electron versus positron, the outcome is not just the one photon but two photons: revealing the potential both have to become light, and confirming the Antroposophical principal that evil is just misplaced good.


Positronium and the homeopathic proving:


At a mental and emotional level the proving revealed a need for balance of the right and left side of the brain, with some people wanting to be more creative, others starting to enjoy and understand better scientific theories.

A need for balancing the right and left brain, a great sensitivity to music, which ameliorates most of her symptoms, and with the patient expressing their creativity through dance.


In the proving there are issues about heaviness, of either feeling like a stone unresponsive to other’s emotions or over sensitive to them.


People tend to overeat and then feel that food heavies them.

The have a need for grounding and for being emotionally centered.


They tend to feel oppressed when having to share their space, very paranoid about people listening to their conversations or activities, very aware of other people invading their space.



They showed warmth and motherly feelings towards children, or emotionally vulnerable people.



Other themes in the proving: the desire for structure and clarity.
Empathy with Mother Nature and concern for nourishing and being nourished.

A desire for unity between their masculine and their feminine sides.

Very critical and assertive, trying to be objective and not wanting to make small talk or to be bogged down by social conventions and family obligations.
There is a great sensitivity to music, and feelings of being easily angry and threatened.
People who proved this remedy also had an intense desire for changing physical appearance, changing hairstyle and so on, in order to define themselves as individuals.
One doesn’t have to look hard to find how the keynotes of Positronium connect intimately with the life story of David Bowie!



By the Undercover Homeopath




Saturday 11 February 2012

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Gary Mulgrew, lone wolf


Gary Mulgrew by David Silver, Flickr.com

He was one of the “Natwest three”: three British bankers who were charged with fraud linked to Enron's downfall, and extradited to US for trial.

At the time there was a great uproar against what was called an ambivalent law that allowed British citizens to be deported to the US without any further explanation under the terrorism act.

In this country what they did, although it breached their contract with Natwest, was classed as "theft of opportunity", but in the US they faced a much more serious charge of elaborated fraud against Eron.

Mulgrew’s background:

He was born in Glasgow in 1962. The youngest of three boys, still a baby when they were all taken into care, when their mother and she couldn’t cope after their father left .

At four he and his brothers were moved to an orphanage, two years later their mum was finally able to take them back.

By then Gary’s psyche had been permanently damaged by a sense of guilty and self- blame from being abandoned, a desperate need for other people’s approval and a pathological fear of the dark.

His father eventually made contact with him when he was 11yrs and from then on they started to forge a relationship.

He has recently been release from jail and has just published a book: Gang of One


His book focuses on the time he spent at a notorious prison in the USA: Big Spring Federal Correction Institution.

It’s his account of the process that led up to his conviction and the time spent  in the notorious violent and lawless jail in the US, which he describes as a social experiment: a Big Brother House full of psychos, where a cell is like a warehouse with 80 inmates living in there.

He's donating most of the proceedings from the book’s sales to charity, and his main motivation for writing is the hope that it will help him to make contact with his missing daughter.

He has two children; Callum was 8yrs and Cara Katrina 5yrs at the time
Gary's process started. Gary and their mother had divorced two years earlier and while Callum chose to live with him, Cara shared her time between both parents. He believes that she is now living in Tunisia with her mum who re-married a Tunisian, but he has not heard from them since.

Coping with the absence of his daughter Cara Katrina:

He wants his book to be a record for her, while she's gone, to prove to her "that I was always trying, that she was always loved and it wasn't her fault.” He blamed himself from being abandoned by his father as a child and he is concerned that his daughter might feel the same way.

Some of his quotes:
He admits of being plagued by self-doubt and a need for other people’s approval throughout his life:

He describes it as "a powerful sense of self-doubt and a terrible need to be liked, even when he found himself at the very top of the money tree."

Recalling his orphanage report years later brings him a mixture of sadness for the child he once was and of anger towards the way he was treated:

"It was heartbreaking. It was terrible. I had once given somebody something, a cross or something, to 'be my best friend'. They describe me as a 'needy child'. I'm kind of pissed off about that, because why wouldn't you be.... Of course I was needy.

On the love for his children he says:

"Your love for your children doesn't diminish, it just doesn't. And it's very, very difficult to, um… it's difficult to see… to function normally, right?

On how he copes with his daughter’s absence:

I have to feel every day that I've done just a little bit. It just helps me."

He shows a determination to not let go of his children, to cope only through doing something every day towards them.

His fears:

Fear of the dark from being locked in a garage as a punishment at his orphanage.

He makes lists of his fears and tries to work through them using word association and grading them between bad and catastrophic. He admits having made many decisions in his life and even in his banking career by using this method.

On the days running up to conviction he worked through his apprehension about the impending prison sentence by making the following list: "PRISON" "rape", then "buggery". "Shagged". "Buggery" again. Then "violence", "darkness", "murder", "extortion", "blackmail", "bitch", "knives", "death", "gangs", "gang rape".

He admits never having been very brave.

He feels easily cornered and has always been afraid of violence, trying to avoid direct conflict with anyone, even in his short career as a bouncer he always tried to be nice.

In prison he refused to be associated with any of the gangs: they were notoriously violent towards anyone who didn’t belong. He managed to remain neutral and even when witnessing some of his fellow inmates being assaulted he didn’t intervene in order not to attract the same sort of violence towards himself.

If his people-pleasing tendencies were part of what made him so successful,  they were also his downfall.

On his career progression from bank cashier to running the high profile Greenwich Natwest investment division, he says that he was good at it, and fast-tracked by supportive bosses. He admits that he was proud of belonging to the Bankers' fold.

"I got paid a phenomenal amount of money. And I'll tell you something, I never asked for it. I was amazed when I got it, and what it meant for me was… Me! Me. Look at me. I've made it in this business, I can't bloody believe it. I think I had moments of extreme arrogance."

His father referring to his success in the City once sent him a letter saying: "Congratulations. Looks like you've finally beaten me." Later he elaborated: “You've always been driven by me. You've always wanted to beat me.”

He admits being "dazzled" by Fastow, the man who led him to the Enron infamous deal :

"He's the CFO of America's hotshot company, he's 36 years of age, an Ivy League guy. He has all those nice things in life: nice teeth, nice hair, shakes your hand properly. So when he offered me the investment, if he'd asked me to invest in a pizza parlour with him, I would have done it."

After they’d done the deal, Gary had second thoughts but he didn’t act on those:

"Of course, I was fascinated about how he had made so much money on the Swap Sub deal. And, of course, I never asked him. I thought about asking him, but instead I decided to act like I did that every Tuesday, that I was cool. And when I look at that now I just… I think I was a horse's arse. Those are the kind of bits where I think I must have been polluted by it. All I did was thank him. 'Thanks very much, that was great. Maybe we'll do some more in the future.' I just stood there like a big diddy. And that's dreadful, I think."

He has a tendency for blaming himself, both for his mistakes and for events out of his control:

He and his two colleagues took the plea bargain rather than fighting the case: losing would mean at least 20 years in prison instead of the 37 months sentence they got.

When asked if he was guilty he says: “In law, it's a fact that I'm guilty. I am guilty. Definitely, I have to be. I went to jail."

He blamed himself for his father’s abandonment as a child and he blames himself now for having abandoned his own children while serving his prison term.

When he had his son he couldn’t speak to his father for a while as the sense of abandonment he experienced as a baby became in more evident. Later he explained to his father: 'I didn't speak to you because I had a son, and I couldn't believe that you had f**** off and not been there. I can't understand that. I would never leave my kids.”

Now he blames himself: "I left them to go to prison. And everything that has gone wrong since."

He is a loner, brought out of his clan, his family from an early age.

He's never been able to integrate since.

He’s been through life always looking for approval looking for brethren to belong too.

For a while It seemed that he’d found it amongst the bankers, but still his continuous need for approval and for making friends, combined with arrogance and the pride of thinking that he could beat the system and make a quick buck got him in trouble.

In jail he couldn’t associate himself with a gang either, unable to find common ground with any of them.

In society he still finds himself as a pariah, he says: 'People get much more bent out of shape about me being an ex-banker than they do about me being a convicted fraudster. He jokes:  ' Convicted fraudster was the first step of my rehabilitation."

Gary’s Homeopathy prescription is Lac Lupinum:

Lac Lupinum is one of the homeopathic milk remedies, it's Wolf's milk.

All the milks are important for addressing childhood abandonment, lack of self-confidence, feelings of being unloved, and phobias that stem from childhood trauma.

Lac Lupinum has a particular concern about children, about caring for them and protecting them.

The wolves live in close knit community. Every group has a well-defined hierarchy, with the alpha female running the pack: every member knows exactly their place, and their function.

Contrarily to traditional tales, wolves tend to avoid direct confrontation and seldom attack a human unless they have no choice.

They only take sick or old animals which are an easy prey.

They never abandon a member of their pack when sick, old or wounded, it is normally the doomed animal that choses to isolate itself if they feel they are going to die.

Lac Lupinum patients have a deep need for integration: they feel outsiders in their own family, they crave approval and recognition, and they have to compete for status. They are very concious of being shuned by their community and have a deep fear of falling from grace: for them acceptance is a question of survival: if a wolf is forced to leave the pack it may not survive, as they hunt in group.

Wolves are responsive to the Full Moon: they need light, and they are particularly active during this period.  They are also fascinated by fire: another source of light.

Gary’s real clan is his family

It's been blown apart by his own acts, he admits, but he is determined to make emends and not to give up until they can be reunited again – he knows what's like to grow up without a father…


By the Undercover Homeopath

Further reading on Milks in homeopathy:
http://urbanhealing.hubpages.com/hub/Milk-in-homeopathy-a-spiritual-perspective

Friday 10 February 2012

Homeopathy celebrities on the couch: Kweku Adoboli, UBS brittle rough trader

Kweku Adoboli by El mostrador mercados, Flickr.com


The not so rogue trader, a soft, sensitive man. 


And a man of many ladies at least that’s what his neighbour says…
according to the same neighbour, whose favourite book was that written by a Wall Street man who claimed to

“party like a rock star and live like a king”


A man who kept himself to himself ( the nosey neighbour again!) who worked in finance and was trusted with the responsibility of dealing with huge amounts of money.

He comes from a strong religious background. He was Quaker educated, and his class mates recall how he would make motivational speeches about family values and about how his dad inspired him to be the best, yet kind and considerate towards others.

When stress kicked in, and the risk to be caught gambling other people's money as a UBS trader, his psyche threatening to crumble under the permanent stress, he confessed to his neighbour (that neighbour again!) that he needed a "miracle"...

In the end there was no miracle, and he decided to "jump rather then be pushed" confessing to his superiors what he had done.


His father, a former United Official has come in to offer support - he has pleaded with the Media to give his son a chance to be heard, he has claimed his son to be an honest man! 

Yet his son hasn't not spoken in court, has not offered a justification for what he's done, has not even entered a plea: guilty or Innocent.

Kweku's Homeopathic Remedy is Aurum Carb:

This remedy is all about gaining trust and respect. A lack of self-esteem and a constant fear of disappointing those in a position of authority causes the person who needs Aurum Carb to seek to prove to themselves further and further by assuming tasks where they are trusted to look after others within their family or clan.

Although they are ambitious and seek a status and responsibility, they are too weak be at the top of hierarchy, instead they need their self-worth to be validated by a father figure in their life.

This remedy is a salt, a combination of two elements: Gold and Carbon:


In the case of Kweku Adoboli, the "Gold" aspect of the remedy represents the social status and responsibility in the financial world as well as his religious background, and the need to keep dark secrets - those that would cause a fall from status if revealed.

Aurum has a suicidal tendency:

"Jumping rather than pushed" is very much part of the Aurum profile with its need to remain in control until the very end, even if this means having to take a dramatic action: it is the typical remedy deep depression with suicidal thoughts of jumping from high places.

The "Carbon" aspect of the remedy represents his sensitivity and vulnerability, as well as the strong paternal values. The individuals requiring Carbonicum remedies have a deep need for paternal guidance and approval. They define themselves by their father's status, and they try hard not to tarnish their family name - for them it is a question of acceptance too - being shunned by their family is the worth thing that could happen to them.

His week long trial has began today. He is quoted saying, while chocking back the tears:


"It isn't about a bank. It was about what I thought was my family, considering how much I neglected my real friends and family.

"Every single bit of effort I put into that organisation was for the benefit of the bank, the people around me and the book I worked on.

"If I was not so proud to work for UBS, I would never put so much effort trying to convince them that we could achieve something at this bank."

"To find yourself in Wandsworth Prison for nine months because all you did was work so hard for this bank..."

His father said in his defence:

"He wanted to make sure we could build something we could all be proud of," Mr Adoboli said.

By the Undercover Homeopath

Latest news on the trial
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20103852


Saturday 4 February 2012

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Demi Moore, sour milk


Demi Moore

Demi Moore, Culver City, California, 1991. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

LOZZY photos, flickr.com

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



Husky voice, dark long locks, a melancholic expression, beautiful expressive eyes between green and hazel, and I mean literally: her left eye is green and the right hazel. 

She was at one time voted one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.



Demi has always played sexy roles, perhaps the most memorable were in “Indecent proposal”, “Ghost”, and “Striptease”.

She seems to have an exhibitionist personality both on and off the screen.

She has posed nude many times before her career took off, also after, even striping at a talk show. The most famous of her nude poses is the photo above when she was heavily pregnant.


At the moment she is painfully thin, and was recently admitted to A&E suffering from the effects of drug abuse, malnourishment and quite possibly a broken heart. According to her spokesperson she‘s suffering from “exhaustion”.



She’s reported to have several addictions:

Adderrall, an amphetamine available on prescription in US and Canada but illegal anywhere else, used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy.

Red Bull, an energy drink loaded with sugar (28 spoons per can) and caffeine, plus a few other strong stimulants in small quantities considered not sufficient to affect a healthy individual - Demi is not a healthy individual thought, she is malnourished and under a cocktail of drugs.

Her other known addictions include alcohol, cocaine and nitrous oxide better known as laughing gas: an anaesthetic.

Without going into too much detail on the possible side effects of Red Bull: there’s a lot more to worry about as far as Demi’s regular drug intake is concerned, let’s just look at the side effects of Adderrall and Nitrous Oxide.  

Adderrall side effects include fast, pounding, or uneven heartbeats; feeling light-headed, fainting; increased blood pressure with severe headache, blurred vision, trouble concentrating, chest pain, numbness, seizure; tremor, restlessness, hallucinations, unusual behaviour, or muscle twitches, headache or dizziness; insomnia; dry mouth or an unpleasant taste in your mouth; diarrhoea, constipation; loss of appetite, weight loss; low libido.

Severe allergic reactions with rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; blurred vision or other vision problems; change in sexual ability or desire; chest pain; confusion; fainting; fast or irregular heartbeat; fever, chills, or sore throat; new or worsening mental or mood problems such as aggression, agitation, anxiety, delusions, depression, hallucination, hostility; numbness or tingling of an arm or leg; one-sided weakness; painful or frequent urination; red, swollen, peeling, or blistered skin; seizures; severe or persistent headache; severe stomach pain; severe weight loss; shortness of breath; sudden, severe dizziness or vomiting; slurred speech; uncontrolled muscle movement; unusual weakness or tiredness.

Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is an anaesthetic that is increasingly being used as a recreational drug; also known as Whip-its, it can cause anaemia in prolonged use. It also causes acidosis which is a disturbance in the acid-base balance in the lowering the blood serum PH, and leading to accumulation of lactic acid in the tissues, among other things.

At the emotional level, Moore expresses her feelings beautifully revealing a candid picture of herself:

She’s emotionally immature, part of her psyche has remained undeveloped, frozen in childhood.

She’s gone through life just like a child, feeling lonely when she is not in a relationship, trying to fit in when she is, afraid of being rejected, yet demanding and needy, wanting to be the centre of attention at all cost. Insecure about her looks, in her mind the only reason for her dejection is her physical body not being perfect, betraying her.

As a child she learnt what was like to be different, to have a deformity.

It can blight a child’s life to feel rejected for the way she looks, and having to wear an eye patch to correct a lazy eye must have been traumatic for Demi.

As a teenager she learnt to use her looks to manipulate those around her and to get what she wanted – undoubtedly pretty she started her career as a Pin-Up. And what she wanted was drugs – she spent most her first wages in drugs and partying showing a complete escapist attitude.

Some of her quotes:

She shows concern with being rejected or criticised: “I'm sure there are a lot of people who think I'm a bitch.”

Needy: fear of being abandoned, fear of feeling unloved. Needs to be in relationship in order to feel loved: "What scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me...and that I wasn't wanted here in the first place."

She’s is trying to come to terms with it, by repeating the advice she's been given, but for now those are just hollow words that she repeats without really grasping their full meaning: "I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can’t be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don’t have a choice,”

Fear of failure, fear that her body will let her down: "When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.”

Now she gets the reverse of the coin – her body has become too thin but she’s still doesn’t understand that it’s not all about her body: "I think I sit today in a place of greater acceptance of my body, and that includes not just my weight but all of the things that come with your changing body as you age to now experiencing my body as extremely thin - thin in a way that I never imagined somebody would be saying to me, "You're too thin, and you don't look good."

Self-doubt, and lack of confidence. Self-centred perspective of the world: thinking that everyone wants the same thing: “I think we all want the same things. We all want to feel loved, and feel a part of something, but we all have self-doubt no matter where we came from.”

Greedy: her nickname in Hollywood circles used to be "Gimme more" such were her demands for extra fringe benefits and perks.

Fear of losing it all: “Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. So the better place to keep yourself in is out of your comfort zone, willing to try even at the risk of failing. And that's not natural to me at all. In fact, it's completely unnatural.

And perhaps the most revealing: her lack of trust in others and in the universe, the need to control in order to feel safe: “What scares me the most is not knowing and accepting that just about everything is not in my control,” she said. “That makes me feel unsafe.”


Demi's homeopathic prescription:

Demi Moore needs a Milk remedy for the lack of nurturing she’s suffered in her childhood and which left her with a poor image of her body, eating disorders, lack of self-love and a permanent fear of being abandoned. But she also needs an Acid remedy to address her exhaustion.


Milk remedies in general:

Address emotional imbalances, depression, feelings of abandonment, eating disorders, and sexual dysfunctions that originated during the 1st seven years of a child.

When the emotional body is deprived of a normal development and unable to move on from the physical needs expressed during the first seven year period From this situation many psychological issues arise of abusing or being abused by others, at a physical level, there is a common tendency for lactose intolerance, skin diseases such as eczema which denote a lack of proper boundaries and an avoidance to being touched or held, general assimilation and digestive problems, poor self-image perception often with the idea that the person is impure, unattractive, inferior to their peers, etc., giving rise to issues about being bullied, and generally abused by others.

Acid remedies in general:

There are several homeopathic acid remedies they all treat exhaustion at one level or another, some are more suitable for addressing physical exhaustion others mental exhaustion and so on. I’ve already given you the picture of one of them, Phosphoric Acid when I presented the psychological profile of Lady Gaga.

Lactic Acid has exhaustion like all the acids but with the peculiar symptom of being restless.  It combines both the qualities of the Lac remedies and those of the acids. It also covers most of the side effects that can result from the abuse of both Adderrall and laughing gas!

Lactic acid is present in foods, primarily in sour milk products, such as koumiss, laban, yogurt, kefir, and some cottage cheeses. The casein in fermented milk is coagulated, curdled, by lactic acid.

Lactic acid has been blamed for the muscular pain we feel after exercising, although this long standing theory is now being disproved, and research has now concluded that the presence of lactic acid after exercising is actually part of the cell metabolism necessary for muscle development and its recovery.

Lactic acid is also essential for the brain metabolism, particularly but not only during pregnancy for foetal development: it's the “brain’s food” – it's used by our neurons when glucose is converted into Lactate.

In the homeopathic proving Lactic Acid is an important remedy for the treatment of diabetes, rheumatism and digestive symptoms such as alternating constipation and diarrhoea, as well as nausea: being one of the most effective remedies for morning sickness during pregnancy.

Lactic acid is now being proved vital for the development of the nervous system of a baby during pregnancy. As a homeopathic remedy it can correct the hormonal imbalance that causes morning sickness, with or without vomiting, and excessive salivation -

Pregnancy is a big issue for Demi:

Her father abandoned her teenage mum before she was born.

Demi herself is a fertility goddess of our time. She has become the embodiment of the sacred feminine at its most beautiful and powerful – the pregnant form, a symbol of nurturing and unconditional love when she had that famous photo taken, while seven months pregnant.

Incidentally Demi is short for Demeter her real name, and the namesake of the Greek Goddess of Fertility!

Patients who require this remedy may also suffer from dryness and rawness of mouth and throat, causing hoarseness – or in the case of Demi, a permanent husky voice.

It is also the indicated remedy when there is profuse sweating especially of the feet, excessive urination, great thirst, lack of appetite occasionally alternating with voracious appetite, burning and weight in the stomach, nausea first thing in the morning, vertigo. – These are all symptoms that can be present in diabetes, but they are also consistent with dehydration. And dehydration is one of the side effects of caffeine, in Demi’s case through the excessive intake of Red Bull.

All Lactic Acid symptoms are better for staying still yet the patient is restless - Demi takes Adderall a prescription drug to control ADHD.

Lactic Acid is the combination of both – a milk and an acid, and it could be the one to help Demi Moore to reach her full potential!

It’s a great remedy, well proved in its physical application but almost unknown for its mental picture. To paraphrase my friend Francis Treuherz an amazing homeopath and a most inspiring teacher: In every small remedy there is a pollycrest wanting to come out!

In my opinion Lacticum Acidum deserves further proving into its mental and emotional reach.

Particularly pertinent at this stage when science is just starting to understand the role of Lactate in the development and maintenance of our nervous system, and we are seeing a great incidence of neurological diseases both of formative and degenerative nature: the increase of ADHD and autistic spectrum disorders in children, as well as dementia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s in the elderly.

The original proving also seems promising in treating the characteristic symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: CFS.

By the Undercover Homeopath

Further reading:

Milk homeopathic remedies: a spiritual perspective: http://urbanhealing.hubpages.com/hub/Milk-in-homeopathy-a-spiritual-perspective

Lady Gaga, the homeopathic profile: Phosphoric Acid: