Melissa Assilem was a visionary homeopath and teacher who gave language and life to this family of remedies, but sadly passed in 2020. Through her pioneering work Matridonal Remedies of the Humanum Family – Gifts of the Mother, she explored how these human-derived substances bridge the worlds of biology and spirit.

Her work revealed how deeply these remedies speak to the core of our being. They address not only physical ailments but the psychological and spiritual imprints formed through our earliest experiences. Melissa described them as “The Gifts of the Mother,” teaching that the healing they offer is not sentimental but evolutionary. They guide us toward maturity of consciousness and reconnection with our original source of love.

Through her insight and compassion, she gave the homeopathic world a language for understanding how the Mother principle expresses itself within the human soul. Her work continues to ripple through generations of healers and seekers, calling us back to the remembrance that to heal the self is to return to the Mother..

The Gifts of the Mother

Each Matridonal remedy is a whisper from the Mother, a transmission of love, protection, and evolution. They are thresholds through which the human soul moves from unity to individuality and, ultimately, to conscious co-creation.

These gifts are not sentimental; they are initiatory. They help us face the places where we have lost our primal sense of belonging by activating the cellular memory of being held, nourished, and safe.

Through them, we heal the separation from Source, the fractures in our maternal lineages, and the collective disconnection from the feminine principle of creation.

Connection to the Miasmatic and Matridonal Families

In classical homeopathy, miasms describe inherited energetic patterns, these are predispositions or distortions that influence our susceptibility to disease.

The Matridonal family extends this understanding into the realm of the humanum miasm, the miasm of being human itself. It addresses not only pathology, but the spiritual task of incarnation: to move from unity into duality and back again, carrying consciousness through the body as a vessel of the divine.

These remedies help to bridge that separation. They reach into the ancient memory of unity and remind the body and soul of their shared purpose. Where traditional miasms speak to inherited disease, the Matridonal remedies speak to inherited disconnection. They heal the schisms between mother and child, body and spirit, self and Source.

Through them, we come to understand that the story of being human is not one of exile, but of remembering how to live again in harmony with the divine matrix of life.

Amniotic Fluid

“The Protective Waters”

Potency Range: 6x – 1M

Source Description

Amniotic Fluid is the first home of the human being, the sacred sea in which life begins. It is the medium through which sound, rhythm, nourishment, and love reach the unborn child. Within this water, the developing being is completely held and supported.

The remedy carries the vibration of divine containment, of knowing that one’s existence is both wanted and sustained. It restores the primal sense of safety that precedes thought or memory.

Key Themes

Safety and containment
Trust in life
Healing the fear of separation
Restoring the ability to receive nourishment
Reclaiming the memory of being held

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Amniotic Fluid brings comfort to those who have never felt safe in the world. It gently dissolves the sense of isolation and abandonment, reminding the soul that it was once surrounded by love.

This remedy helps rebuild the energetic membrane of trust, allowing one to soften into life again. It reconnects the individual to the divine mother and to the experience of unconditional support that exists within all creation.

Core Indications

Birth trauma or early separation from the mother
Adoption or time spent in incubators
Chronic fear and hypervigilance
Difficulty relaxing or receiving love
Feelings of disconnection or spiritual isolation

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Unheld Child, guarded and afraid to trust.
Healing Archetype: The Reborn Self, who knows safety, softness, and the sacredness of surrender.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I am held in the waters of creation.
I am safe, supported, and nourished.
Life carries me, as it always has.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem spoke of Amniotic Fluid as a remedy that heals the cellular memory of separation. It calls the being back into the awareness of unity, reminding us that before fear, before form, there was love.

This remedy whispers a message of deep peace:
You were never alone. You were always held.

Lac Maternum

“The Milk of Humanity”

Potency Range: 30C to 1M

Source Description

Lac Maternum is a remedy made from the milk of nine nursing women. It is both deeply personal and profoundly collective, embodying the nourishment of humanity itself. It represents the first bond of physical love — the act of feeding, receiving, and sustaining life.

Within its essence lies the entire spectrum of the mother-child relationship: connection and separation, giving and receiving, nourishment and need. It carries the story of what it means to be nurtured and what it means to nurture others.

Key Themes

Nourishment and bonding
Giving and receiving love
Healing the mother wound
Balancing self-care with care for others
Integration of the feminine principle

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Lac Maternum reconnects us to the milk of life, to the flow of love that sustains both body and spirit. It heals the distortions of giving too much or withholding love, of over-nurturing or emotional starvation.

The remedy helps those who feel drained by caregiving or disconnected from maternal energy. It restores balance by teaching that nourishment must flow in both directions. To give is sacred, but so is receiving.

This essence brings a sense of belonging, helping one to feel embraced by the greater body of humanity, the collective mother who nourishes all.

Core Indications

Exhaustion from caregiving or motherhood
Difficulties with bonding or breastfeeding
Feelings of emptiness or resentment in giving
Fear of dependence or intimacy
Eating disorders or body-image struggles linked to nourishment and control

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Self-Sacrificing Mother who gives until depleted.
Healing Archetype: The Holy Nourisher who gives and receives in equal measure, flowing with abundance and compassion.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I receive as I give.
Love flows freely through me.
I am nourished by the same Source that I nourish.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem described Lac Maternum as a unifying force, one that transcends individual identity. Through the milk of many mothers, the remedy reminds us of the shared humanity that links us all.

It helps heal the personal and ancestral patterns of depletion, control, or neglect. In its vibration, the soul learns that love and nourishment are infinite resources, freely given and received.

Lac Maternum teaches that to be human is to belong to one great body of love, to be sustained, supported, and sacred.

Folliculinum

“The Lost Self”

Potency Range: 30C to 1M

Source Description

Folliculinum is derived from the ovarian follicle, the delicate membrane that nurtures and releases the ovum — the seed of new life. It represents the feminine cycle of becoming and surrendering, the rhythm of receptivity, creativity, and flow.

This remedy speaks to the feminine principle in both women and men — the part of us that knows how to create, receive, and surrender in balance with the natural cycles of life.

Key Themes

Loss of self in service or relationship
Over-identification with the needs or desires of others
Suppressed individuality
Hormonal imbalance and exhaustion
Reclaiming personal boundaries and authentic expression

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Folliculinum helps restore the lost rhythm of the self. It addresses the feeling of being absorbed by others — of giving so much that one’s own sense of identity dissolves.

It is for those who have become extensions of another’s will: the devoted wife who lives through her husband’s life, the mother who no longer knows who she is beyond her children, or the caretaker who defines her worth by being needed.

The essence of this remedy reconnects the individual to the pulse of her own being. It awakens the cyclical flow of creativity and reminds her that the sacred feminine is not only receptive, but also self-contained and sovereign.

Core Indications

Exhaustion from emotional or energetic over-giving
Loss of individuality in relationship or work
Hormonal irregularities connected to cycles of self-denial
Depression following control, abuse, or codependency
Disconnection from personal desires, creativity, or sexuality

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Lost Self, the one who has given her identity away in devotion or dependency.
Healing Archetype: The Sovereign Feminine, the one who honours her cycles, boundaries, and individuality while giving from fullness rather than depletion.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I belong to myself.
My energy is my own.
I give and receive from the sacred rhythm of my being.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem described Folliculinum as a remedy for those who have “lost the thread of themselves.” It speaks to the disconnection that occurs when the natural feminine rhythm is overridden by duty, conformity, or control.

Through this remedy, the individual begins to rediscover the natural tides of energy — when to give, when to receive, when to rest, and when to create. It invites a profound return to self-possession and inner authority.

Folliculinum teaches that the true feminine essence is not submissive but cyclical, sovereign, and creative. It is the rhythm of life itself, pulsing through the body and soul as one harmonious movement.

Placenta

“The Bridge Between Worlds”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Placenta is the sacred organ that forms the bridge between mother and child. It is both a shield and a channel, providing nourishment, protection, and oxygen while filtering and transforming what passes between two lives.

In homeopathy, Placenta embodies the archetype of connection — the sacred membrane through which spirit becomes matter. It holds the memory of the first exchange between self and other, teaching balance in giving and receiving.

Key Themes

Connection and separation
Boundaries and energetic exchange
Healing co-dependency and emotional enmeshment
Integration after birth or trauma
Reclaiming sacred reciprocity

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Placenta carries the vibration of sacred exchange. It reminds us that giving and receiving are not opposites but movements of the same current. It heals relationships where boundaries are blurred or energy is taken without replenishment.

This remedy helps those who feel drained by others or who unconsciously carry the emotional burdens of loved ones. It is also indicated when there is guilt, grief, or confusion surrounding the themes of birth, loss, or motherhood.

On a spiritual level, Placenta restores integrity to the energetic field. It helps one discern what belongs to the self and what does not. It teaches how to remain connected without merging, and how to love without losing the self.

Core Indications

Emotional exhaustion from over-connection or energetic entanglement
Difficulty separating from others or feeling complete in oneself
Postnatal depletion or bonding disturbances
Grief following miscarriage, stillbirth, or traumatic birth
Feeling cut off from Source or unable to ground in the body

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Over-Connected One, taking on the energy, pain, or emotions of others as a way to belong.
Healing Archetype: The Sacred Bridge, the one who allows energy to flow freely but retains clear boundaries, trusting in the natural exchange of life.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I am the bridge between spirit and matter.
I give and receive in harmony.
What is mine is sacred, and what is not mine returns to the light.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem described Placenta as the ultimate symbol of connection and protection, the organ of selfless service that knows exactly when to detach. It nourishes until the time of birth, then releases, completing its task with grace.

In her writings, she reminded us that this remedy teaches the wisdom of right timing. When to hold on, and when to let go. Placenta helps to heal not only the physical and emotional trauma of birth, but the spiritual lesson of individuation.

Through its essence, we remember that love does not require merging. True connection honours both the giver and the receiver, forming a bridge that allows each to remain whole.

Umbilicus

“The Thread of Life”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Umbilicus, or the umbilical cord, is the lifeline that connects the developing child to the placenta and the mother’s body. It is through this cord that nourishment, oxygen, and love are exchanged, the sacred thread that sustains life in the womb.

In its energetic expression, the umbilical cord represents connection, dependence, and the transfer of vitality between beings. The remedy made from Umbilicus carries the imprint of attachment and separation, of nourishment and individuation. It teaches how to remain connected to life while standing in one’s own energy.

Key Themes

Bonding and separation
Nourishment and independence
Fear of abandonment
Energetic dependence or entanglement
Reclaiming autonomy while staying connected

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Umbilicus is the remedy of attachment and individuation. It helps heal the imbalance between dependence and self-sufficiency. Those who need Umbilicus may feel either overly dependent on others for energy and affirmation, or fiercely independent out of fear of being drained or controlled.

It brings awareness to the invisible cords we maintain with family, partners, or ancestral energies — the threads that may continue to pull or bind long after physical separation. The remedy supports cutting or recalibrating these cords with love and consciousness, restoring freedom to both parties.

Spiritually, Umbilicus teaches that connection need not come at the cost of autonomy. It harmonises the flow of life force between self and other, allowing each to remain sovereign within sacred connection.

Core Indications

Difficulty with separation or letting go
Energetic cords to past relationships or family members
Postnatal bonding issues or feeling disconnected from the child
Fatigue from carrying others emotionally or spiritually
Fear of abandonment or rejection

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Energetic Tether, the one who clings or gives their energy away to maintain connection.
Healing Archetype: The Golden Thread, the one who remains lovingly connected yet free, allowing love to flow without attachment or depletion.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I am connected to life through love, not through need.
I release what no longer nourishes me.
I am whole, free, and sustained by Source.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem recognised Umbilicus as a key remedy in restoring healthy energetic boundaries and resolving attachment trauma. She noted how this remedy helps those who never fully felt their own centre of gravity, who exist energetically through others rather than from within themselves.

Umbilicus supports the journey of becoming a fully embodied individual while maintaining loving connection to others and to the divine. It helps to release inherited patterns of dependence and reclaims the strength of being connected from within.

This remedy reminds us that true connection is not a cord of attachment, but a thread of light, flexible, luminous, and eternal.

Vernix Caseosa

“The Sacred Shield”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Vernix Caseosa is the creamy, protective coating that covers and nourishes the newborn’s skin in the final weeks before birth. Composed of sebum, water, and skin cells, it serves as both armour and anointing, a sacred film between the baby and the world.

This remedy carries the vibration of sacred protection. It represents the ability to remain open and sensitive while still protected, to be touched by life without being overwhelmed by it.

Key Themes

Protection and vulnerability
Sensitivity to environment or energy
Difficulty setting boundaries
Reactivity to external stimuli
Balancing openness with self-protection

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Vernix Caseosa helps those who feel exposed, raw, or too permeable to the world around them. It is for the empath who absorbs the emotions of others, the child who has never felt safe in their own skin, or the adult who overreacts to sensory or emotional input.

It restores the sense of having an energetic skin, a gentle yet resilient membrane that allows contact without collapse. This remedy teaches that sensitivity is not weakness but a gift that requires conscious stewardship.

Vernix helps re-establish a sense of safety in the physical body, allowing the soul to remain fully embodied and engaged with the world. It brings the comforting feeling of being “wrapped in light,” held and protected while remaining open to love.

Core Indications

Extreme sensitivity to noise, light, crowds, or emotions
Energetic overwhelm or empathic fatigue
Skin issues linked to boundary disturbances
Birth trauma or early exposure to harsh stimuli
Feeling raw, unprotected, or overly porous to others’ energy

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Unprotected Empath, the one who absorbs too much and feels unsafe in the world.
Healing Archetype: The Luminous Guardian, the one who moves through life shielded in light, open yet protected, sensitive yet strong.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I am safe within my sacred skin.
Light surrounds and protects me.
I am sensitive, strong, and held in grace.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem wrote of Vernix as the “natural protector” — the physical and energetic veil that helps us cross the threshold into life. She saw it as the remedy for those who feel born without a shield, exposed to the harshness of the world before they were ready.

Vernix helps re-form the subtle boundary between self and environment. It brings calm to the nervous system and strengthens the energetic field, making it ideal for children and adults who are hypersensitive, empathic, or traumatized by overexposure.

Through Vernix, we remember that protection need not mean withdrawal. It is a sacred membrane that allows us to engage with life in softness and strength, embodying the divine balance of openness and safety.

Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG)

“The Spark of Incarnation”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, or HCG, is a hormone produced shortly after conception by the developing embryo. It signals the mother’s body that new life has begun and sustains the early stages of pregnancy until the placenta takes over.

In energetic terms, HCG represents the moment of divine ignition, the soul’s decision to enter form. It carries the vibration of “Yes” to incarnation, the sacred spark that initiates life’s journey from spirit into matter.

Key Themes

Beginning and commitment to life
Fear of incarnation or of being in the body
Resistance to manifestation or responsibility
Awakening purpose and direction
Honouring the soul’s agreement to be here

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

HCG helps those who struggle with embodiment, who have one foot in the spiritual realm and one foot hesitating on earth. It is for the dreamer who cannot act, the sensitive who feels unsafe in density, or the soul that has never fully anchored into the body.

This remedy reconnects the spirit with the physical, bringing courage and clarity to inhabit one’s own life fully. It aligns the individual with the original “Yes” spoken at conception, the decision to live, to create, and to grow.

HCG restores the will to be here. It is the remedy of sacred commitment to life, to purpose, to incarnation.

Core Indications

Fear of life, of commitment, or of physical embodiment
Lack of vitality, direction, or will
Depression following loss of purpose or identity
Spiritual bypassing or disconnection from the body
Pre- or postnatal trauma affecting attachment to life

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Reluctant Incarnate, hesitant to be here, drifting between worlds, disconnected from the body.
Healing Archetype: The Embodied Soul, fully present, saying a conscious “Yes” to life and to its sacred journey.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I am here by divine choice.
I welcome life into every cell of my being.
My body is my home, my purpose is alive.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem described HCG as the remedy that rekindles the spark of life itself. She saw it as a vital support for souls who had never fully landed in their incarnation, or who had experienced trauma that made them question their right to be here.

In her teachings, HCG was said to “anchor the spirit to the body,” awakening the will to participate in life again. It strengthens the root of existence, the primal yes that begins all creation.

Through HCG, we reconnect with the original pulse of life that called us into being. It awakens joy, motivation, and courage to live consciously in form while remembering our divine origin.

DNA (Human)

“The Blueprint of Being”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the genetic blueprint of all living organisms. It contains the coded instructions that guide growth, development, and identity. Within its double helix lies the story of ancestry, evolution, and the transmission of memory from one generation to the next.

Energetically, this remedy represents the sacred architecture of life, the divine geometry through which spirit becomes form. It speaks to the remembrance of our wholeness and the healing of distortions that arise when that original code is forgotten or fragmented.

Key Themes

Ancestral inheritance and identity
Cellular memory and soul lineage
Healing distortion in the life blueprint
Integration of divine and human aspects
Reclaiming coherence, clarity, and integrity

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

DNA (Human) works at the level of the blueprint itself, restoring harmony to the deepest layers of being. It helps those who feel fragmented, broken, or genetically burdened by ancestral trauma or disease patterns.

The remedy acts as a kind of spiritual recalibration, reminding the system of its original design, radiant, intelligent, and self-healing. It is especially helpful for those who feel they have inherited “too much” from their lineage, whether that inheritance is physical, emotional, or karmic.

On a higher level, DNA reconnects the individual to the universal pattern that underlies all life. It brings a sense of belonging to the great web of creation, awakening the remembrance that within every cell is the light of Source itself.

Core Indications

Inherited illness or generational trauma
Feeling cursed, burdened, or defined by ancestry
Identity confusion or disconnection from origin
Post-viral or post-vaccination imbalance
Fragmentation following intense transformation or trauma

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Fragmented Heir, carrying the unhealed stories of the ancestors as personal truth.
Healing Archetype: The Divine Pattern, remembering the original perfection within, embodying harmony at the cellular and spiritual levels.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I remember who I am.
My cells are light, my body is wisdom.
I carry the perfection of Source within me.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem viewed DNA as one of the most profound of the Matridonal family. It is a remedy of remembrance and restoration. She described it as working “beneath the story,” reaching the foundational pattern that governs both health and consciousness.

She taught that DNA addresses the deep confusion of identity that arises when the individual is trapped in ancestral or collective patterns. It helps reawaken the original human template, clear, luminous, and unbroken.

Through DNA, we return to the truth that our lineage is divine. It reconnects us to the cosmic pattern of creation and restores the vibrational memory of unity within every strand of our being.

Insulinum (Human)

“The Sweetness of Life”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Insulinum is a hormone produced by the pancreas that regulates blood sugar, allowing the body to absorb and utilise glucose, which is the primary fuel of life. Energetically, it governs the exchange of nourishment and vitality, representing how we metabolise both physical sustenance and emotional sweetness.

This remedy addresses the ability to receive life’s nourishment with ease and to experience joy without guilt or depletion. It restores harmony to the relationship between giving and receiving, effort and ease, sweetness and structure.

Key Themes

Receiving nourishment and love
Balancing giving and receiving
Bitterness, guilt, or resistance to pleasure
Difficulty enjoying life or taking in sweetness
Healing from depletion and self-denial

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Insulinum speaks to those who have forgotten how to receive. It helps dissolve the subconscious belief that sweetness must be earned or deserved. It supports those who have become rigid through self-sacrifice or duty, allowing the flow of pleasure and satisfaction to return.

Emotionally, this remedy softens the heart and restores gratitude for the simple joys of life, food, love, beauty, touch, laughter. It brings back the capacity to delight in being alive.

Spiritually, Insulinum reminds us that joy is not indulgence, but nourishment. It reawakens the childlike wonder that knows pleasure as sacred, helping one to metabolise love and goodness without shame or self-reproach.

Core Indications

Emotional or physical hypoglycaemia
Burnout and chronic fatigue from over-giving
Difficulty receiving or trusting pleasure
Bitterness, guilt, or resentment
Disconnection from joy or gratitude

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Withholding Martyr, the one who denies pleasure, suppresses joy, and believes love must be earned.
Healing Archetype: The Sweet Alchemist, the one who transforms life into nourishment, receiving and giving joy with balance and ease.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I welcome sweetness into my life.
Joy flows through me and sustains me.
I am nourished by love and by life itself.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem described Insulinum as the remedy that restores “the ability to taste the sweetness of life.” She saw it as a balm for those hardened by struggle or shaped by deprivation, whose systems had forgotten how to receive nourishment freely.

She taught that it reconnects the heart with gratitude and restores the ability to metabolise emotional and physical nourishment without conflict. In this way, Insulinum rebalances the sacred exchange between energy and enjoyment, effort and ease.

Through this remedy, we are reminded that life is meant to be savoured. Pleasure, love, and sweetness are not luxuries but the very essence of vitality.

Oxytocinum

“The Hormone of Love and Trust”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Oxytocinum is derived from the hormone oxytocin, often called the love hormone. It is released during childbirth, breastfeeding, and intimate bonding moments, fostering trust, empathy, and attachment. It governs the body’s capacity to connect, to love, and to surrender safely into closeness.

Energetically, this remedy represents the alchemical bridge between self and other. The opening of the heart through trust. It invites the body and soul to remember that love is not earned, but inherent.

Key Themes

Love, trust, and bonding
Fear of intimacy or emotional closeness
Healing the heart after betrayal or abandonment
Difficulty giving or receiving affection
Restoring connection and empathy

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Oxytocinum awakens the memory of love as the original language of life. It supports those who long for connection but fear vulnerability, who crave closeness yet brace against it.

This remedy brings softness to the guarded heart. It helps dissolve the defences that were built around old wounds of betrayal, abandonment, or loss. It invites the soul to rest in the gentle truth that love is safe, love is available, and love is our nature.

Spiritually, Oxytocinum teaches that true connection does not diminish individuality, it expands it. In its presence, the heart becomes a temple of exchange, where giving and receiving merge into one continuous pulse of creation.

Core Indications

Fear of love or trust
Postpartum depression or bonding difficulties
Emotional distance in relationships
Loneliness, isolation, or fear of rejection
Healing from heartbreak or betrayal

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Guarded Heart, fearing intimacy, equating love with loss or control.
Healing Archetype: The Open Heart, trusting love as a divine force that heals, connects, and sustains life.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I open my heart to love.
It is safe to give and receive.
Love flows through me freely and endlessly.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem described Oxytocinum as a remedy that heals the broken circuits of love. She spoke of its ability to restore the natural flow of connection between mother and child, self and other, body and soul.

She observed that this remedy is particularly needed in our modern world, where human contact and trust have been disrupted by trauma, technology, and disconnection. Oxytocinum calls us back to the simplicity of presence. Eye contact, warmth, touch, and shared humanity.

Through Oxytocinum, the heart remembers its original design: to love, to trust, and to bond without fear. It softens what has been hardened, and heals what has been withheld.

In its essence, this remedy is pure grace. It is the medicine of belonging.

Oestrone (Oestrogen)

“The Flow of Feminine Wisdom”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Oestrone, one of the primary oestrogens, is a hormone that governs the menstrual cycle, fertility, and the graceful transitions of womanhood. It represents rhythm, fluidity, and the fertile power of change.

Energetically, this remedy embodies the sacred dance of creation, the ebb and flow between rest and renewal, receptivity and expression. It is the rhythm of the feminine principle moving through time, guiding the cycles of birth, growth, and transformation.

Key Themes

Cyclical balance and hormonal harmony
Creativity, sexuality, and receptivity
Transitions in womanhood — menarche, motherhood, menopause
Honouring the wisdom of the body
Acceptance of change and impermanence

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Oestrone supports those who struggle to flow with life’s natural changes. It brings harmony to the inner tides, emotional, hormonal, and spiritual. It teaches that transformation is not loss, but evolution.

This remedy is for anyone who has resisted their cyclical nature, whether through control, denial, or fear of aging. It invites the return of softness, creativity, and sensual vitality.

Oestrone reconnects us to the wisdom encoded in the body. The intuitive knowing that arises when we honour our natural rhythms. It reminds us that the feminine path is not linear, but spiralic, ever-unfolding in renewal and return.

Core Indications

Hormonal imbalance or emotional instability
Disconnection from the menstrual cycle or feminine identity
Creativity blocks or fear of change
Difficulty transitioning through puberty, pregnancy, or menopause
Rejection of femininity or aging

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Controlled Feminine, resisting the natural flow of life, suppressing emotion or intuition.
Healing Archetype: The Lunar Priestess, attuned to her cycles, flowing with grace through every phase of being.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I move in harmony with my cycles.
Change is sacred, and I am renewed through it.
I honour the wisdom of my body and the flow of my life.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem recognised Oestrone as a remedy for reclaiming feminine rhythm and vitality. She spoke of it as a key to balancing the masculine and feminine within, restoring the natural dance between activity and rest, doing and being.

She noted that when a woman is disconnected from her hormonal or emotional cycles, she loses touch with her inner seasons, the creative pulse that guides all of nature. Oestrone brings her back to that pulse, reminding her that every phase from menstruation, pregnancy to menopause is an initiation into deeper wisdom.

Through Oestrone, the feminine essence is remembered as sacred, sensual, and cyclical. It restores harmony between the physical and the mystical, helping the soul rediscover the joy of embodiment and the beauty of change.

Progesterone”

The Sacred Keeper of the Womb”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Progesterone is a vital hormone produced after ovulation and throughout pregnancy. Its name derives from pro gestation, meaning “to support life.” It prepares the womb for conception, maintains pregnancy, and stabilises the delicate hormonal interplay that nurtures growth.

Energetically, Progesterone is the sacred keeper, the quiet guardian who holds space for creation to unfold. It embodies patience, stability, and trust in the unseen process of becoming.

Key Themes

Holding space and trusting divine timing
Stability, grounding, and nurturing energy
Supporting gestation, creation, and manifestation
Healing fear of loss or collapse
Balancing masculine structure with feminine flow

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Progesterone teaches the art of sacred holding. It is the remedy for those who struggle to sustain what they have begun, who create with inspiration but lose momentum or trust before fruition.

This remedy supports the energetic womb, the space within where ideas, relationships, and dreams gestate before birth. It brings calm to the nervous system, restores faith in process, and invites a deeper sense of safety within the unknown.

For women, it helps balance emotional fluctuations, especially those linked to exhaustion or hormonal depletion. Spiritually, it awakens the archetype of the Wise Mother, steady, patient, and deeply connected to the rhythm of life.

Core Indications

Anxiety, restlessness, or instability during transitions
Fear of failure or premature collapse of ideas or creations
Hormonal imbalance linked with exhaustion or miscarriage
Loss of trust in one’s own body or creative process
Difficulty maintaining boundaries or energetic containment

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Fractured Container, unable to hold, rushing the process, or fearing collapse before completion.
Healing Archetype: The Sacred Keeper, patient, steady, and trusting the timing of creation.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I am the keeper of sacred space.
What is meant to grow will flourish in divine time.
I trust the process of creation unfolding within me.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem described Progesterone as the guardian of potential. The energy that allows new life to anchor safely in the physical world. She viewed it as essential for those who give life in many forms; mothers, healers, artists, visionaries, reminding them that creation requires both action and rest, both initiation and incubation.

Progesterone brings a deep sense of peace and containment to the system. It helps dissolve anxiety born of impatience or control, reminding us that all things gestate according to natural law. In her writings, Melissa noted that this remedy fosters “faith in the invisible”, the knowing that what is nurtured in stillness will come to fruition in its own time.

Through Progesterone, we learn that true strength is gentle and sustaining. It holds, nourishes, and protects the delicate miracle of becoming, the quiet alchemy that turns potential into life.

Lac Humanum

“The Milk of Humanity”

Potency Range: 6C to 1M

Source Description

Lac Humanum is prepared from human mother’s milk, the first nourishment given after birth, the elixir of unconditional love, and the bond of trust between mother and child.

It is a substance of profound symbolism: the first shared substance outside the womb, a bridge between dependence and individuality. It embodies both the physical sustenance of the body and the emotional nourishment of the soul.

Energetically, Lac Humanum represents humanity itself, our shared longing to belong, to love, and to be loved. It is the remedy of communion, connection, and compassion.

Key Themes

Belonging and connection
Nourishment of body, mind, and soul
Humanity, empathy, and forgiveness
Healing the wounds of separation
Integration of love and individuality

Emotional and Spiritual Essence

Lac Humanum is the heart of the Matridonal family. It holds the vibration of human love in its purest form, a love that sustains, forgives, and connects us beyond words or identities.

It helps those who feel estranged from humanity, disconnected from family or society, or unable to give or receive love freely. This remedy softens bitterness, heals alienation, and restores faith in the goodness of others.

Lac Humanum reminds us that the journey of individuation need not end in isolation. To be human is to be both unique and connected, to stand in one’s individuality while remaining open to the shared field of love that unites all beings.

It brings balance to those who have felt rejected by the world or who carry deep compassion but suffer under the pain of humanity’s flaws. The remedy awakens the soul’s remembrance that love is not a transaction but our original nature.

Core Indications

Deep feelings of isolation or disconnection from humanity
Difficulty giving or receiving love
Loss of faith in others or in the human condition
Guilt, shame, or resentment linked to family or community
A sense of not belonging, of being “different” or misunderstood

Shadow and Healing Archetype

Shadow: The Exiled Heart, detached from others through fear, hurt, or disappointment in humanity.
Healing Archetype: The Universal Mother, holding compassion for all beings, knowing that love transcends separation.

Affirmation or Meditation Prompt

“I am part of humanity, and humanity is part of me.
Love flows through us all as one living breath.
I am nourished by the milk of connection and compassion.”

Notes Inspired by Melissa Assilem’s Work

Melissa Assilem spoke of Lac Humanum as the remedy that heals the collective wound of separation. She described it as a key to integrating our divine and human aspects, the bridge between spirit and society, between self and the world.

She observed that those who need this remedy often feel out of step with humanity: deeply compassionate yet disappointed, spiritually aware yet emotionally weary. Lac Humanum helps these souls reconcile the dualities of existence, the sacred and the mundane, the ideal and the imperfect.

Through its action, the heart softens, forgiveness arises, and the individual remembers that to be human is to be both flawed and divine. It restores the sense of shared belonging that allows love to move freely again.

Melissa wrote that Lac Humanum is the milk of compassion, the essence that makes humanity possible. It invites us to recognise ourselves in each other, dissolving judgment and separation into the greater field of love that sustains all life.