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

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

Homeopathy Celebrities on the couch: Demi Moore, sour milk

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:

http://undercover-homeopath.blogspot.com/2011/12/celebrities-on-couch-lady-gaga.html

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