I would like to share the case of the lovely lady on the left with my homeopathy friends: last Wednesday we accompanied Camilla to one of her clinics. Somehow I knew this case would be special as she is patient nr 304, that is the same as my birthday (30th April) and my unit nr back at home.
She had pains in her whole body, it started a long time ago. She also gained a lot of weight (from 75 to 125kg) suddenly after the premature birth of her child 6yr ago. She also feels coldness through her spine even if it’s hot. Pain in lower back ext to sitting bones. Coldness in spine goes to her whole body, trembling and she has to cover herself, during night and day. Pain in the muscles of the neck back and front to left shoulder around breast and they end in the left armpit causing numbness of the left arm (only with pain). She has high blood pressure, she gets pain in her heart. Also suffers from stomach ulcers. Pain in both knees and swelling of the ankles. Pain in soles when walking. Menses: severe pains in lower abdomen, thick blood, no clots, normal red. Mind: angry and sad, mostly angry before menses. Also sometimes annoyed by children, at work or by her husband. 5 children. Appetite good. Taste she likes: lemon and pepper but they aggravate the stomach ulcers. Sleep: goes to bed late because of her work, takes alcohol to sleep, is otherwise too restless mentally to sleep. Dreams: working or crying or walking and laughing with other people in a group. Dream of someone cutting flowers. Crying in dreams about family problems. What problems? She got married to man who was already married, got shocked when she heard about it and got bleeding, had premature baby. She is not allowed to have a co-wife in her religion. She doesn’t want to think about it and is still married. Very sad and cries about it. She married at 19, was in love with him, now is not happy having sex with him. She hides and cries, decided to keep quiet about it (not even her mom knows). Fears: that her husband will die, he faints when she tells about her body pains. How is she going to live?
At this point we are all quite clueless and getting nowhere with our repertorization. Then Camilla asks about fears for the second time. Then the lady tells us that she is afraid of her co-wife, the husband's 1st wife. Why? Because she will always be 2nd to her. Now the light goes on for Camilla and Anna and I still have a blank stare in our faces. A few more confirmatory questions and the case is 'solved'. Female gen: itching, was treated for uti. Perspiration: cold sweat on head at night. Also during the day.
Can you guess the remedy? These are the rubrics Camilla used: back coldness spine, extremities swelling ankles, generals hypertension, generals obesity, mind irritability menses before (*name of the remedy at the end of this blog).
Thanks Camilla for teaching us to have patience and keep asking until we get a clue to the remedy!
She had pains in her whole body, it started a long time ago. She also gained a lot of weight (from 75 to 125kg) suddenly after the premature birth of her child 6yr ago. She also feels coldness through her spine even if it’s hot. Pain in lower back ext to sitting bones. Coldness in spine goes to her whole body, trembling and she has to cover herself, during night and day. Pain in the muscles of the neck back and front to left shoulder around breast and they end in the left armpit causing numbness of the left arm (only with pain). She has high blood pressure, she gets pain in her heart. Also suffers from stomach ulcers. Pain in both knees and swelling of the ankles. Pain in soles when walking. Menses: severe pains in lower abdomen, thick blood, no clots, normal red. Mind: angry and sad, mostly angry before menses. Also sometimes annoyed by children, at work or by her husband. 5 children. Appetite good. Taste she likes: lemon and pepper but they aggravate the stomach ulcers. Sleep: goes to bed late because of her work, takes alcohol to sleep, is otherwise too restless mentally to sleep. Dreams: working or crying or walking and laughing with other people in a group. Dream of someone cutting flowers. Crying in dreams about family problems. What problems? She got married to man who was already married, got shocked when she heard about it and got bleeding, had premature baby. She is not allowed to have a co-wife in her religion. She doesn’t want to think about it and is still married. Very sad and cries about it. She married at 19, was in love with him, now is not happy having sex with him. She hides and cries, decided to keep quiet about it (not even her mom knows). Fears: that her husband will die, he faints when she tells about her body pains. How is she going to live?
At this point we are all quite clueless and getting nowhere with our repertorization. Then Camilla asks about fears for the second time. Then the lady tells us that she is afraid of her co-wife, the husband's 1st wife. Why? Because she will always be 2nd to her. Now the light goes on for Camilla and Anna and I still have a blank stare in our faces. A few more confirmatory questions and the case is 'solved'. Female gen: itching, was treated for uti. Perspiration: cold sweat on head at night. Also during the day.
Can you guess the remedy? These are the rubrics Camilla used: back coldness spine, extremities swelling ankles, generals hypertension, generals obesity, mind irritability menses before (*name of the remedy at the end of this blog).
Thanks Camilla for teaching us to have patience and keep asking until we get a clue to the remedy!
On Thursday and Friday we went out on our own again. I drove to the clinic on Friday over very bumpy roads and on the left side of the road, as the English do. We saw a man we prescribed Ars to (arranging his jacket below), a boy who has had diarrhea for 3 years now (!) since he fell out of a tree on his tummy. He was examined at hospital externally, not internally. He reminded us of the boy we saw with Jeremy earlier this week, very weak and malnutritioned as he cannot absorb nutrients properly. We started him on Arnica and he will be back in two weeks again.
At the end of the clinic day we were happy to go back to town and celebrate the beginning of the weekend with a cup of coffee and lemon cake at one of our two favourite coffee places: The Coffee Shop (the other one is Union Cafe). It is the small things here that make you infinitely happy!
At the end of the clinic day we were happy to go back to town and celebrate the beginning of the weekend with a cup of coffee and lemon cake at one of our two favourite coffee places: The Coffee Shop (the other one is Union Cafe). It is the small things here that make you infinitely happy!
(*) Veratrum album 15c: the hierarchy issue is interesting (fear of loss of position in society), plus cold sweat, cold spine (feeling ice-coldness in veins), desire and aggr lemons. Weakness. Colic.
RSS Feed