Nicotiana alataPositive qualities: Inner peace centered in the heart and breath; physical and emotional well-being through harmonious connection with rhythmic pulsations in the EarthPatterns of imbalance: Rigid or mechanized qualities in the body; blunted feelings, shallow breathing; over-use of hard-edge masculine forces
Berberis aquifolium Positive qualities: Loving inclusion of others, positive expectation of good will from others, ability to trust Patterns of imbalance: Paranoid or defensive behavior; expectation of hostility from others; antagonistic projection
Mentha piperita Positive qualities: Mindful and wakeful clarity, warm metabolism balanced with cool head forces Patterns of imbalance: Dull or sluggish, especially mental lethargy; under-active metabolism which depletes mental forces
Erythranthe lewisii (Mimulus lewisii) Positive qualities: Emotional transparency; courage to take emotional risks with others Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of shame, guilt, or unworthiness; fear of exposure and rejection due to prior abuse or trauma
Achillea millefolium var. rubra Positive qualities: Loving awareness of others within a field of self-contained consciousness; appropriate emotional boundaries Patterns of imbalance: Unbalanced sympathetic forces, overly absorbent auric field, lack of emotional clarity, dysfunctional merging with others
Toxicodendron diversilobum Positive qualities: Positive vulnerability, ability to make contact with others through touch Patterns of imbalance: Fear of intimate contact, protective of personal boundaries; reactive or rejecting in relationships
Punica granatum Positive qualities: Joyful expression of feminine creativity, actively productive and nurturing at home or in the world Patterns of imbalance: Ambivalent or confused about the focus of creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and procreative, personal and global
Triteleia ixioides Positive qualities: Radiant inner beauty; self-acceptance in relation to personal appearance despite handicaps or blemishes Patterns of imbalance: Feeling ugly or rejected because of personal appearance; over-identified with physical appearance
Diplacus kelloggii (Mimulus kelloggii) Positive qualities: Love-based rather than fear-based spirituality, calm and clarity when experiencing spiritual phenomena; the courage to trust in one’s own spiritual experience or guidance Patterns of imbalance: Fear of retribution or censure if one departs from religious conventions of family or community; apprehension or avoidance of threshold experiences due to fear-based beliefs…
Briza maxima Positive qualities: Harmonious community consciousness, flexible and receptive in group work Patterns of imbalance: Dysfunctional in group settings, inability to compromise, over-attachment to personal will and desire in social situations
Daucus carota Positive qualities: Spiritual insight and vision; integration of psychic faculties with sexual and emotional aspects of Self Patterns of imbalance: Projection or lack of objectivity in psychic awareness; distortion of psychic perception or physical eyesight due to sexual or emotional imbalances
Chaenomeles speciosa Positive qualities: Loving strength and firm loving; integration of masculine initiating power and feminine nurturing qualities Patterns of imbalance: Inability to catalyze or reconcile strength and power with affection and tenderness; dysfunctional or inconsistent parenting or leadership behavior
Ericameria nauseosus Positive qualities: Lively and alert mental field; acute sensory perception and mobile state of mind Patterns of imbalance: Easily overwhelmed by details; unable to cope with simultaneous events, “fuzzy” consciousness that is unable to register details
Trifolium pratense Positive qualities: Calm and steady presence, especially in emergency situations, internally generated behavior Patterns of imbalance: Susceptible to mass hysteria and anxiety, easily influenced by panic or other forms of group thought