Beschrijving

This monograph presents homeopathic provings and clinical insights for three remarkable “survivor” trees: Diospyros kaki (a persimmon that endured the 1945 Nagasaki atomic blast), Welwitschia mirabilis (the long-lived desert gymnosperm of Namibia), and Pinus longaeva (the Methuselah bristlecone pine). Creveld situates each remedy in its natural history and symbolic ecology, then reports proving data (including dream-provings) and subsequent clinical applications. Together, the trees form a thematic triad of resilience, longevity, and adaptation to extreme environments. For Welwitschia mirabilis, Creveld details the preparation from male and female plant material and explores themes of duality, overstimulation, and high sensitivity, linking proving symptoms and patient narratives to the plant’s stark two-leaf physiology and desert habitat. Pinus longaeva is associated with communication, memory, and time—echoing the species’ millennial lifespan—while Diospyros kaki emphasizes trauma, radiation, and recovery, reflecting the Nagasaki survivor tree lineage. The book weaves materia-medica portraits from structured observations, dreams, and cases. Structurally, the volume (≈290 pages) combines introductions to each species, step-by-step proving reports, extracted keynotes, and illustrative cases to support remedy selection in practice. Creveld’s approach aims to bridge ecology and therapeutics: the trees’ biological strategies become metaphors—and sometimes clinical predictors—for human resilience under stress, toxicity, and long-term adversity. As such, Three Trees extends contemporary materia medica with a focused exploration of “survivor” remedies grounded in both natural history and clinical observation.