Herbal Health

In the negative VERVAIN state the person keeps his mind over-busy with one project after another, rushing through the first project so that he can start the second. In the process he gives no respite to his body or to his mind. When the body gets tired, the mind by its sheer will-power forces it to continue the work, like a tyrant driving the slaves to work beyond their power.   In his over-enthusiasm he forgets to realise, rather he has no time to realise that even the most robust machines, made of steel, require some period of rest, if they are to be saved from total breakdown, and there is a law called “the fatigue of materials which applies to even non-living structures of steels. So what happens to the frail structure of the human body, when it is forced to work in top gear continuously without rest, can be easily foreseen—there may be breakdown of any over-taxed part of the body or a total breakdown of the health.

The retribution to the tyrant mind (who drove the body to over-work) comes in the form of tension and over-anxiousness, worry and sleeplessness. The nerves become taut, the muscles, the tendons and ligaments loose their flexibility, the joints become stiff. Gout, hyper-tension, nervousness, mental depression and a score of other ailments follow the general breakdown of health.

When the sufferer is unable to work with the same speed as before due to failing health, his mind feels tortured because of his helplessness in the timely execution of his projects.

Like a spend-thrift person, who consistently lives beyond his means, ultimately comes to grief, the negative Vervain person after consistently using enormous energies to keep going even when physical strength is exhausted comes to a sorry end—a physical wreck suffering from muscle tension, pain in eyes, headache etc. and an irritable nervous temperament. Vervain remedy given to the above person would curb his inclination to over-doing things or getting ahead of himself, at the same time retaining his enthusiasm in supporting a good cause. If he has to do several projects-he first fixes the priorities and then executes the jobs one by one. While doing one job, he puts his mind and soul in that job and does not let the burden of other projects weigh on his mind. If he has “to sell” a good idea to others, he does not, in his over – enthusiasm, do overtalking till the other man feels bored, but would allow the other person to talk also.

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