They desire open air and feel better in the open air but are worse from aĭraft of air on a sore stiff part. The Bamboo patient is usually very chilly – a cold felt deep in the bones – and made less painful with heat. Painful tension of breasts before menses.An important remedy for ‘ailments after parturition’. There can be pain in the ovaries before the periods and pain in the womb before. The menses can be painful, heavy, bright red and gushing, late and clotted. FEMALE GENITIALS: Bambusa is an important remedy for disorders of the menstrual periods including endometriosis.As if cranium were swelling from eyebrows upwards. As if eyes were bulging out of head Feeling of swelling/ distension. Pains mainly in the extremities, particularly in the hands and the feet. STITCHING PAINS: Appearing and disappearing suddenly.SNSATION AS IF OF “WEAKNESS: Other physical “sensations as if” are: of looseness and weakness and cannot support the body (the opposite of stiffness) and of pulsation.It should be tried for acute disk problems.” “With almost clinical certainty, Bamboo relieves a stiff neck even in 6c and12c potencies. Sensation of heat in feet, but cold to the touch. Limbs Awkwardness, hands, drops things, lower limbs, knocks against things.heat.Pain extends to head and/or shoulder. Painful STIFFNESS of NAPE of NECK.Turning head is difficult, painful, or results in cervical spine.Biggest impact of this remedy is on the neck, the back and the extremities. This painful wooden stiffness is very much worse after a night in bed, from becoming cold,, cold weather, before and during menstrual periods and during a headache and eased by applied heat – a hot shower or bath, a heat pad. It is painful, profound and prolonged – like wood or a heavy weight – felt in the bones, in the joints and in the muscles. SENSATION AS IF OF “STIFFNESS”: The key physical “sensation as if” is of stiffness and in bamboo, the stiffness mainly affects the spine and joints near the axis of the body – shoulders and hips.Everything is insecure, meaningless, wrong and everything will fail.Deserted, forsaken, alone in the world.A view of the complex heart of this fascinating remedy is seen in the proving, rich in “sensations as if”:.Impatience and irritable towards children Time passes too quickly. Forsaken feeling with weeping, feeling of helplessness. Despair everything is controlled by destiny and needs support. He is fond of solitude quarrelsome and cursing. MIND: Aversion to everything and want to remain in bed. After prolonged anxiety and suffering they eventually become overwhelmed by despair.īerndt Schuster conducted a proving of a species of bamboo, Bambusa arundinacea in 1997.He discovered many proving symptoms, showing markedly related to mind ,spine and extremities and menstrual etc. They desire change and freedom but feel helpless and stuck in their life situation and become irritable, jealous, restless and sad. They feel responsible for everything and no one helps them. Spine is central main support of body and theme of support appears to be central to the Bamboo remedy state. It lives many years (often over a century), flowers only once but for many years and after flowering, it dies.ĭOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE: Bamboo stem is straight and cylinder formed and stems have nodes between two internodes.It is strong, straight and having flexibility to bend all side likewise the spine is made up of 33 individual bones stacked one on top of the other. It is a tender plant and needs heat to survive – it will die if the temperature falls to 50☌. Bamboo has been used medicinally since ancient times in cancer, leprosy, tuberculosis, menstrual problems and disorders of the spine.īOTANICAL DISCRIPTION: This is a large bamboo whose shoots grow rapidly to eight metres. Bambusa is similarly effective in all rheumatic disorders where stiffness is the main complaint. BAMBOO ( Bambusa arundinacea) is emerging as a major remedy in Ankylosing spondylitis which is commonly known as Bamboo Spine an auto-immune destructive inflammatory condition of the spine with excessive stiffening and calcification of the spine.