George Loukas

The following symptoms help us understand the psychic state of Plumbum:

• Delusions, sees castles and palaces.
• Delusions, thinks he is working a machine.
• Delusions, people appeared like dolls.
• The castles and the palaces are symbols of material power and money.
• The machine is a symbol of productivity. The industrial revolution was based upon machines. A working machine produces enough work with low cost.
• The doll is a lifeless object, a thing.

So the Plumbum person is a person who seeks money. He is a great materialist. His only dream is to become very rich. Moral values and ideals do not mean anything to him. He uses everybody else with the intention to achieve his aim. In some professions such as shipowners, building constructors car dealers, bar and dancing club owners the Plumbum medicine is more frequent.

But one does not have to be rich to be Plumbum. Someone can be poor but at the same time can be thinking constantly of making money.

As the years go by, Plumbum becomes a more frequent medicine. Car fumes cause constant pollution form lead. But the psychic state of our times too tends to syphilitic situations. Plumbum is a sympilitic medicine par excellence. The main disturbance of the syphilitic miasm is the tendency for conquest in Plumbum too there is a strong tendency to conquer money and material things in general. The above can be seen by the symptoms:

• Business, talks of.
• Delusions, thought they were pursuing ordinary business.
• Delusions, is engaged in some occupation.
• Delysions, in engaged in ordinary occupation.
• Industrious.

That’s how he can see the behavior of the Plumbum person. The father or the mother Plumbum do not show feelings for their children, they are cruel and treat them like dolls. They educate them without sentiment. They don’t teach their children to sympathize and help other people. They only encourage them to make money in their lives. Their sexuality has no sentimentality. A sexual companion for them is nothing but an object. They use other people as pleasure dolls in order to achieve their sexual enjoyment. The Plumbum scientists chooses the most profitable branch of his science. For example the Plumbum doctor in order to become as rich as possible prefers to specialize as a gynaecologist or plastic surgeon or a heart surgeon. He is very professional. He does not give money away to any of his customers and he ever takes money from his close relatives. He enters and associates with the rich society of his community and aims to rise financially. He tungles up with financial investments with the stock market or even with gambling as well. He tries every way he knows to build palaces. Gambling or lucky games when done systematically must make us think of Plumbum. The Plumbum person has a strong tendency to gamble and to win money. He himself systematically fills in “Pro-po” or “Lotto” and from the moment he wakes up in the morning he seeks the system he will use to win the millions of the lottery money on Sunday.

But where can that life style lead to? The person adopts a hostile attitude towards other people. He thinks that other people want to harm him and spoil his plans. He sees nothing but enemies around him and he is trying to find -in vain- a single friend. He reaches the conclusion: “Everybody goes after money. There are no friends these days ...”. Sometimes Plumbum can be advisable to paranoids. Their suspicion is very intense. The person thinks that he is being chasesd and that his enemies have put the police to arrest him. He thinks that they are trying to kill him and hsi family. The above can be seen by the symptoms:

• Company, desires of a friend.
• Delusions, danger of his life.
• Delusions, is about to be arrested.
• Delusions, sees corpse of dead brother and child.
• Delusions, sees corpse of husband.
• Delusions, that everyone around him is a murderer.
• Delusions, thought he was pursued by friends.
• Delusions, there were conspiracies against him.
• Delusions, are conspiring to murder him.
• Delusions, that he was about to be poisoned.
• Delusions, though he was pursued.
• Delusions, of being murdered.
• Delusiosn, of being poisoned.
• Delusions, pursued by police.
• Delusions, pursued by soldiers.

A depressive syndrome or even more the manic-depression acon can be other ways this person’s end up. The plumbum constitution as syphilitic predisposes for maniac and depressive incidents.

Symptomatology that appears in those cases is not enough by itself to indicate or suggest Plumbum as the only medicine. We must search for the deeper causes of this depression or mania, so we can find the basic delusions of Plumbum state. Symptoms that are related to the state above are the following:

• Biting, himself.
• Company, aversion to.
• Cursing.
• Destructiveness.
• Indifference, apathy etc.
• Laughing.
• Loathing life.
• Loquacity.
• Mania.
• Moaning.
• Morose.
• Memory active.
• Mirth.
• Rage.
• Runs about.
• Sadness.
• Sighing.
• Spits in faces of people.
• Striking.
• Suicidal disposition.
• Talk, indisposed to.
• Thinking of complaints agg.
• Weary of life.

Years ago, Plumbum would reccomended to people who suffered.

In those occasions the Plumbum person would have intense ideas of greatness, he would believe that he owned palaces, that he was very rich and that he had great economic power. Cases such as the one described are not seen in our times any more.

One other disease in which Plumbum could be useful is the “epileptoid stimulation”. It appears suddenly and it can last from a few hours up to a few days. The basic symptom is the disturbance of conscience. The patients are in a state of confusion. They are obsessed by frightening pictures-delusions. They think that someone is after them, someone who wants to kill them or their family. Invisible people come in their rooms trying to kidnap their children and their wives. Soemtimes they picture others as demons that are trying to harm them Obsessed by those fears they jump out of their beds and windows trying to escape, or they just run up and down, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting or attacking violently whoever happens to be around. The next day they do not remember anything. The above can also be seen by the symptoms:

• Confusion of mind.
• Delusions, he will be murdered.
• Delusions, sees dead brother and child.
• Delusions, all persons are devils.
• Delirium, raging, raving.
• Delirium, anxious.
• Delirium, violent.
• Delirium, after epilepsy.
• Delirium, wild.
• Destructiveness.
• Striking.
• Escape, attempts to.
• Spitting, in faces of people.
• Fear of being murdered.

Plumbum can also be given to someone who is delirious. Again the basic symptom is the disturbance of conscience. The patient is in a confused or blurred state. He does not know where he stands. He moves his body and his arms or legs without purpose in a way that is related to his everyday activity. It is possible that the patient will express intense illusional experiences. He might see people or animals, but bihind all of those symptoms, there must always be the symbolism of the Plumbum state as we described above. The above can also be seen by the following symptoms:

• Cofusion of mind.
• Delirium.
• Delirium tremens.
• Delusions, of animals on bed.
• Delusions, assembled things, swarms, crowds etc.
• Delusions, bed is full of ants.
• Delusions, sees figures.
• Delusions, sees insects.
• Delusions, sees people.
• Gestures, makes of his usual vocation.
• Unconsciousness, coma, stupor.