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Editorial: welcoming diversity
by Deborah Collins
In homeopathy, we have not only a vast diversity of remedies but also countless ways
of finding the appropriate one for the patient. As Jan Scholten remarks, “the remedy
does not mind how it is found.” In other words, any method that helps us to understand
the person and the depth of their problem can be useful. Rajan Sankaran points out
that one’s approach must be “homeopathic”, so that we fine-tune our consultation to
the needs of the patient rather than following one strict agenda. This gives us the
liberty to try different approaches where necessary, while at the same time, the
responsibility to remain true to the basic homeopathic principles of finding the most
accurate remedy possible.
In this issue, rather than having a theme on a certain topic, we have a collection of
cases that reflect very different approaches to finding the remedy – or sometimes, a
series of remedies rather than just one.
Piotr Stach, too, has started to apply the Sensation method, and his case of a woman
with depression and marital problems after an abusive childhood shows the results of
going deeply into her feelings of being “trapped”. From this case, we also gain insights
into a remedy that is more well-known for its physical aspects.
Vladimir Petrocci examines a cured case of eczema in hindsight, making use of Jan
Scholten’s recent findings on the plant families. Here, we see how the symptoms and
the behaviour of a young girl not only mirror those of her mother, but also accurately
express the themes of the family from which the plant is derived. One can even see the
mineral components of the plant being manifested – the Nitrogen quality, as well as the
Carbon and Silica qualities of the monocots.
Guy Payen’s case of depression and anxiety in a young man illustrates another reaction
to a traumatic childhood, one where he felt “possessed” by a castrating mother. Here,
we see the necessity of understanding family dynamics: this man felt taken over by his
mother’s urges to hurt her husband, and ended up almost losing his own sense of
reality and his mind.
A case of my own again shows the need to look into the family dynamics in order to
understand the behaviour of the various members. A young girl, who had been
terrorizing her family with her wilful attitude and constant fits of anger, seemed to
reflect the unresolved history of her grandmother, who had been badly beaten by her
father, then later by her husband. Here, it was not just one remedy, but three, and
each from a different kingdom, which brought harmony back to the family.
Wiet van Helmond has ventured into unknown waters by prescribing remedies whose
workings have been intuited, as well as proved by the more traditional method. The
controversial books on “Meditation Provings” by Madeline Evans contain a veritable
storehouse of information, and Wiet has put aside his initial doubts and prescribed a
remedy for a traumatic situation, which brought help where our well-known remedies
had failed. This little-known remedy will surely take its rightful place in our pharmacies,
when we look for remedies for the treatment of deep-seated grief.
Roma Buchimensky makes use of yet another modality, a chart of the plant kingdom
developed by Michal Yakir, along with the sensation method. Here, we can see how
different methods lead to the same beautiful result, the finding of one’s inner
equilibrium. His case of a young scientist who hates to be disturbed, and researches
exactly that same phenomenon, perfectly demonstrates the Violaceae family.
The amazingly quick and thorough healing of a young girl’s psoriasis, shown in a case
from Arul Manickam was brought about by carefully applying the Sensation method. By
understanding her inner state, one of boredom, and the right miasm, he was able to
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prescribe a remedy, which might have been almost impossible to find via traditional
repertorisation. The photos before and after treatment speak for themselves.
Angela Hair has extended her traditional practice of homeopathy and her experience as
a psychologist by adding another tool to her kit: applied kinesiology. After a lengthy
regular homeopathic consultation, she makes use of the patient’s innate knowledge for
fine-tuning the remedy, coming up with sometimes unexpected remedies which, on
looking further in the existing literature, indeed make sense. In such a way, she
accurately follows the twists and turns of the patient’s progress, prescribing for the
layers as they show up.
The art and science of homeopathy is in rapid development. For many homeopaths, this
is a disturbing time, as the previous certainty of “one right method” is being replaced by
a variety of possibilities. For those who “dare to know”, there are many approaches
possible. Following the example of Hahnemann himself, let us continue to develop, and
at the same time keep our feet firmly planted on the solid homeopathic base laid down
for us by our predecessors.
Categories: Editorials
Keywords: editorial
Remedies:
Caught in a trap: a case of Drosera
by Piotr Stach
I would like to describe my first experience of treating a patient with Sankaran’s
method.
I first became fascinated by this method after attending the autumn seminar last year
in Poznan. Sankaran’s convincing way, in which he described the precisely targeted and
repeatable selection of drugs, his explanation of miasms and systematics of drugs with
their kingdoms and subkingdoms, all illustrated by very interesting cases of cured
patients, convinced me to continue the study of this method and to check it in practice.
Attending the seminar was the first step, the next one was to purchase the computer
program VitalQuest, and I did not have to wait long for the first results in my practice.
My patient had been treated homeopathically for a while.
She reacted quite well to Natrium muriaticum. She had been attending psychotherapy
for a relatively long time because of her marriage problems.
She says that her problems are caused by early childhood trauma:
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Patient (P): “…hence my sadness. I'm a sad melancholic type, very introverted and
closed. I have difficulties in expressing my emotions. A black hole of despair, I couldn’t
escape...”
Since psychotherapy she has experienced a boundless sorrow.
P: “… I can still fall into the hole but now, I know how to get out of it. I have problems
in contacts with people. I like solitude, I’m well for a while but then, I feel miserable.
“In conflict situations, I don’t stand up for myself. I only raise my voice in extreme
situations. During the argument, I'm tense; I have to pull myself together, then, I have
to break through my husband’s monologue. I give up and listen submissively and
finally, I prefer to isolate myself and read books. Books and films have replaced my
reality. I show anger passively – I get offended because I feel insulted and I totally fall
into myself, I do not want to talk. I find it hard to overcome my mental blockages to
express my emotions and opinions.
“I didn’t complete university’; I wasn’t self-confident enough.
“My way to cope with stress is eating.
“My sadness comes from realizing that as a child I did not get from my mother the most
important thing: unconditional love. In my family home, if you wanted to avoid
punishment, you had to hide your emotions, otherwise you were punished for
crying.You were supposed to be polite, quiet, calm, and to follow the instructions. My
father drank, and my mother was physically and mentally abusive towards us. I was six
months old when my mother sent me to my grandmother. I was brought up by both of
them: mother/grandmother. I didn’t have any emotional contact with either of them. At
my grandmother’s, I grew up among animals.
“As a schoolchild, I started to suffer from bronchitis, pneumonia, and then, I developed
bronchiectasis. I spent a lot of time in sanatorium, where I wasn’t ill at all – I felt safe. I
used to be sent over parcels.
“I like sweets, dark chocolate, coffee, and salty foods.
“I avoid the sun; I don’t feel well in hot weather.
“In the past, I had acne, cold sores on the lips, constipation, and painful menstruation.”
At some point, she experienced spotting and pain in the vagina. An USG test showed a
myoma of 1.0 cm in diameter. The patient became overwhelmed by panic, fearing
cancer.
After taking Natrium muriaticum, she calmed down and the vaginal pain decreased by
50%. She started to have a repeated dream: lost children, always girls, wandering
alone, getting lost. She feels helpless, and the following day, she looks for these
children.
Although she took Natrium muriaticum, some more problems appeared, which she
associates with a tick bite. She suspects that it is Lyme disease, and her suspicion is
reinforced by the fact that her husband and son suffered from it.
She was taken to hospital and treated with antibiotics. Detailed tests excluded Lyme
disease, and we met again on her follow up visit, during which I was trying to practice
my newly learned Sankaran method.
P: “…I have a slightly elevated TSH, and fT3 and fT4 in the lower limits of the normal
range. I was prescribed Euthyrox with a recommended daily dosage of 50 micrograms,
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and since then, I have been in a better physical condition, but for the last three days, I
have been feeling a significant drop in mood and energy.
“I feel as if I’ve had a depression. I don’t feel like doing anything, I have to force myself
to everything. No joy, just inner sadness, nothing makes me happy. Life is lame, I feel
nothing at all. I feel as if I’ve broken into pieces and I can’t pick myself up.
“When I found out that I didn’t have multiple sclerosis, I was disappointed about not
being seriously ill. I thought it would be great to be ill and attract the attention and
care, and now I still have to be an efficient machine…”
PS: What does ‘breaking into pieces’ mean?
P: “…I can’t find any meaning in my life, in my activities. I find it hard to put everything
together, to make sense of it. Natrium alleviates me, but doesn’t change what is inside
me…”
She begins telling me about her recurring dream and emphasizes that it strongly
reflects her current situation, her feelings.
Dream: “Bus Station, last night it was a taxi stall – I'm in those places, I want to escape
but there is no way out. I don’t know where I can buy a ticket and where the platform
is. I have the feeling of being in a trap and I can’t escape. I always walk around with a
feeling of being lost and with gloomy helplessness. The feeling of being trapped is very
strong. I’m in despair because I can’t get out of the station; I'm totally devastated by
that situation.
PS: Please, tell me a little more about being in a trap.
P: “It’s desperation, I feel unhappy, hopeless and defeated. I think I should make some
changes in my life but I’m not able to do that. I get lost, I can’t find my own path in my
present situation.
“The only decision is to divorce my husband. That would make me free from this
feeling. However, there are some buts: will I be able to manage without him, and what
about the child who is emotionally connected with his father? Would it be a good
solution in the long run? I don’t know, I have a lot of ambivalent feelings and thoughts.
The strongest one is the fear of mental consequences; will I be able to bear the stress,
the responsibility?
“I feel as if I’ve been trapped in my life.
“I am becoming aware of the fact that my husband will never change: I either get stuck
in it or I leave him, there is no other possibility.
“A trap – I can’t make up my mind about leaving and I am unhappy with the way I live.
“Internal conflict, the dilemma whether to split up and live on my own, or stay and fight
for my family.
“This is a war, I have to fight but now, I completely don’t feel like fighting. It’s a no-win
situation.”
Case analysis
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Analyzing the interview, I focused on the patient’s dream sensations. She emphasized
that her dream closely reflects her current condition. There was a great amount of
energy in her dreams. I made the analysis with the use of Sankaran’s computer
program, VitalQuest. It allows you to enter all of the patient’s interview data, either
selected parts or just single phrases or words. The patient’s expressions chosen by me:
trap a feeling of being losthelplessness despair because I can’t get out no way out
In the first stage, the program shows the percentage of the kingdom in which the
medicine should be found. In my case:
plant kingdom 58%, miasms 23%, animal kingdom 17%.
Features shown by the patient belong to the plant kingdom: strong feeling, sensitivity,
“I feel insulted, I can’t stand it.” In her sensations, there are no items from the animal
kingdom: rivalry, a survival theme, attractiveness, sexuality or an attacker and a
victim.
So, I narrowed my search to the plant kingdom. In the next stage, the program
indicated the orders of plants and among them Nepenthales / carnivorous plants, with
the highest percentage. The main drugs in this order are Drosera and Sarracenia.
Key words for the carnivorous plants expressed by the patient:
caughttrappedno way outcan't escape
Now, it was time to identify the type of patient’s miasm.
In the past, she often suffered from bronchitis and pneumonia. Currently, she says that
she feels weakness; she has a strong sense of oppression and that her weakness is
exploited. It mainly concerns the relationship with her husband. These are the
properties of tubercular miasm.
According to Sankaran’s method, the drug must be situated at the cross-point between
the order and the miasm.
In the case of Nepenthales the drug for tuberculosis is Drosera.
Drosera belongs to the genus of "sticky-trap" plant. Beautiful colors and sweet nectar
attract unsuspecting insects. Tentacles located on the leaves have sticky dew that helps
to catch insects, which are gradually, enzymatically digested, and eventually absorbed
by the plant.
Prescription: Drosera 1M
Follow-up
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Three weeks later: “I feel inner peace and it is not suppression. Emotions have
weakened. Small bad things that I formerly would have considered to be gigantic
problems are now much more bearable. I started to see more positives than negatives.
Life isn’t ‘lame’ anymore.
“Two weeks ago, I had a big argument with my husband and I put “all my eggs in one
basket”. My husband is starting to change, and I'm more understanding.
“I used to focus on bad things, now I keep the right balance.”
Dreams?
“Nothing special; the bus station dream has never come back.
“Recently, I’ve started to enjoy the sea and the sun, and I feel great. Now, I can’t stand
the mountains that I used to like in the past.”
A year later, the patient’s depression has not returned and her marriage is back on
track. With the right remedy, the recovery has been swift and lasting.
Photos
Portrait by Candace Charlton
Leaf of Drosera rotundifolia; Siga;
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Categories: Cases
Keywords: sensation method, black hole of despair, emotional abuse, bronchitis,
pneumonia, trapped, internal conflict
Remedies: Drosera
Cheerful and lively: a case of Sabadilla
by Vladimir Petroci
A five-year-old girl with very itchy eczema in the cubital region was brought to me by
her mother. She is a very pretty, nicely chubby girl with blond hair and brown eyes. She
sits on her mother’s lap, constantly smiling and giggling. Her mother admonishes her to
behave because she is shy and embarrassed during the examination, which is not usual
for her. Typical for her, however, is this cheerful, lively, chuckling behavior; she is
either laughing or crying, nothing in between.
She is very affectionate and likes hugging, and she likes to show off to attract attention.
When her mother criticizes her, tears appear. She is afraid of ghosts and storms. When
she was younger, she was afraid of ladybugs, now she is afraid of flies and wasps. She
likes the water, but after swimming her eczema is worse.
She wants her mother to read her fairy tales in the evening. Once, she dreamed of a
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dragon. Her favourite activities are dancing, singing, reciting, drawing, playing with
dolls and toy cars and playing hide-and-seek. She learned to ride a bike by herself. Her
favourite colour is yellow.
She often argues with her brother, who is three and a half years older. If he refuses to
give her something, however, she does not have tantrums, as he did when he was
younger.
She loves to eat honey (3), chocolate, tomato soup, sweet noodles, Nesquick balls with
pasta, sausages, crackers, chips, apples, but in general can be quite picky in her eating.
She does not like lentils, bean soup, vegetables, cabbage or meat. She drinks quite a
lot.
Her eczema started when she was 18 months old. She was sitting in the hallway when a
neighbor began to drill into the wall. She was so scared of this noise that she started
crying very loudly, and shaking over her whole body. For the next seven days, she had
bad constipation with very hard stools, tough as a stone, which had to be manually
removed from her rectum. Since that time, she feared sitting on the toilet. A month
after this incident, the eczema occurred. Apart from the eczema, she now has
conjunctivitis in her left eye.
Past history: chickenpox, 3 x otitis media, ruptured eardrum in the right ear, with
beige-green pus. She has had fevers with high temperature twice, about 40° C. She
uncovers herself during sleep.
The child is similar to her mother, so I also ask about her. Like her daughter, she is
cheerful and enjoys dancing. She says that her father died when she was fourteen. Four
years ago, she started to have symptoms of allergy in her eyes; she has a sensation of
dryness when moving them, as if the surface of her eye would be wrinkling and
crinkling, but only up to the pupil. She has swelling of the lower eyelids, and her eyes
and the region around them itch, then she has pain under her eyes. Sometimes, she
sneezes. The condition improves by putting spoons chilled in the freezer on her eyes.
She had smallpox four years ago, at the same time as her daughter.
She loves spring and summer. When asked to compare herself with something, she
says she could be a plant.
Usually, she is chilly. She likes meat and has an aversion to sweet dishes.
She is afraid to drive a car in order not to hurt someone. If something would happen,
she feels she would have it in front of her eyes forever. She cares about others and is
anxious for her children. She cannot bear raised voices.
Her brother had eczema until the age of two, and four middle ear inflammations.
Analysis
I noted the obvious similarity between mother and daughter. The most characteristic
symptoms were the excessive gaiety of the girl and her enormous desire for honey. I
used the following rubrics:
Ailments, fright, from
Generals, food and drinks, honey, desire
Cheerful
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Hamamelis, Sabadilla and Veratrum album came up. When repertorizing, I always take
notice of connections between remedies coming up. Of these three remedies, two
belong to the same family: Sabadilla and Veratrum album.
Further clarification is obtained, if we use a rubric of her mother: Cares, full of others,
about
The only remaining remedy is now Sabadilla.
This medicine is also in the section "hard stool" and "constipation", but they are very
large, so I did not use them. The important part, however, is the genius of the remedy
Sabadilla: shrinking, shriveling sensation (For example: Mind, Delusions, diminished,
shrunken, parts are). It is a feeling that her mother felt in the eye: shriveled surface of
the eye.
Botanical names of Sabadilla remedy are Schoenocaulon officinale, Melanthium
sabadilla, Veratrum officinale. This plant belongs in APG3 classification to the family
Melanthiaceae (as well as Veratrum album), order Liliales. According to the latest
findings of Jan Scholten, Melanthiaceae family belongs to a subphase 5 of a phase 6
(Liliales) of class Monocots. Subphase or phase 5 brings the nitrogen quality of
enjoyment of life, vitality, vibrancy, vigour and enthusiasm. It is perhaps the reason
why both mother and daughter had such a desire for laughing, singing, and dancing. I
believe that nothing is completely random. Shrinking can mean the opposite of the
expansion that nitrogen desires.
In the case of the Sabadilla girl, the remedy corresponds to the Monocot class, which
has a strong theme of silicium and carbon. The mother of our patient lost her father at
fourteen, a period which corresponds to the silicium series. I do not want to say that we
should automatically take everything into the account, although it is advisable to make
as comprehensive and meaningful a totality of the case as we are able to.
Prescription: on May 25th 1998, I prescribed the girl Sabadilla 5CH 3 x 2 globules.
Follow-up
July 28th: her mother told me that a week after taking the remedy, the eczema got
worse, so she stopped administering the remedy. After three more days, the eruptions
and itching subsided and since that time they have not reappeared. Mother also
reported that her daughter had much less desire for honey. Meanwhile, fifteen years
have passed, and the eczema has not returned.
Photos
Playing with confetti;Lee J Haywood; Flickr
Shriveled; Qhimm; Flickr
Categories: Cases
Keywords: eczema, excessive gaiety, constipation, shrunken sensation, desire for
honey, worried about others, APG3 plant classification, Scholten
Remedies: Sabadilla
Visited by demons: a case of Mancinella
by Guy Payen
J. is a young man who I saw for the first time in 2003, when he was 26 years old. He
had recurring complaints: pain and tension in his back, a loss of sensitivity in his left
hand on waking, and especially a general feeling of malaise, which increased in the
course of years with the responsibilities that he took on. But right from the beginning
the tone is set:
J: “When I was about 17, I became depressed. I could not centre myself, I felt
completely lost. I had periods where I thought I would become crazy. I sought refuge in
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religion, but I did not have my feet on the ground anymore. It still comes back, in
cycles.
“I am always waging a battle of duality, between good and evil. Sometimes, I am
completely taken over by my thoughts – they rule me. I am afraid that my thoughts will
take on a life of their own.”
He is very afraid of illness and admits to being “hypochondriac”; he resorts to magical
or ritual acts in order to find his way out.
He is a furniture maker by trade. He was married to a young woman, with whom he has
a young child. The couple was quickly in a crisis, though, and his partner left him. He
made a long journey through the desert, where he confronted his “demons”.
J: “That threw me into the past, the fear of being alone. It is a disaster – I am incapable
of overcoming it. I always have something against people, and I have negative thoughts
about those who are close to me. The presence of my partner calmed me down and
clarified my ideas. For me, thinking is a creative act, and to create thoughts bring the
possibility of manifesting them. I have always had a great difficulty in distinguishing
between good and evil. For me, spirituality is a high mountain. I go very high; I avoid
myself by being on the mountain.”
He starts a relationship with his ex-wife’s sister, who has two children and is on the
point of divorce. He is tired, and says that he feels he is carrying the weight of the world
on his shoulders. He does not invest in his work; everything is heavy. He goes into
therapy.
Dream: “I dream of my ex-wife, of having lots of sex with her. She is dominant – often
my mother interferes in this dream…” Interpretation: “I behave like a little boy.”
The years pass; J. is 32 years old.
J: “I am anxious from time to time. For several months, I have to repeat the same
phrase all the time. For example, I am afraid of doing something to hurt Lola (the first
child of his new partner) by my thoughts. I’m afraid of sending her negative energy
when I hold her.
“I am afraid of being invaded by the invisible. I always need to protect myself in my
head. I feel like I am being influenced.”
He starts his own business in interior design but has problems managing it. He is caught
up in his internal conflicts.
GP: Tell me about your family?
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J: “My parents divorced when I was about 12 years old. My father was a cabinet-maker.
He was very violent; he attacked my mother and my brother. My mother and my
grandmother thought he was crazy. He was committed to a psychiatric hospital. I have
witnessed scenes of verbal violence and gestures. I took my mother’s side so much that
I started to have thoughts of killing my father. After their separation, I slept with my
mother – she took refuge in my bed. I still have a very fusional relationship with her – if
she is alone, I call her up.
“My mother has always given me a very black image of my father. I think that she is a
castrating woman; my father has probably been frustrated all his life. He used to call
her “Saint Touch- me -not”.
“I have problems staying in the present; I don’t feel centred in my axis. I am very
hypochondriacal, and I am afraid of death. I am afraid that I will not live long, or that I
will have a serious illness, especially cancer.
“I have had my spinal column put back in place, and that has helped – I was becoming
stooped. I cannot stand up straight. My head is full of mist and I can’t think properly. I
don’t feel anchored, and that makes me anxious. I feel like my equilibrium vacillates a
bit. It is not vertigo (he makes a movement back and forth with his head). When
everything accumulates like that, I go down. I bring everything into question – my life,
my relationship. It is not an idea of suicide, or of death. I am afraid of losing control of
myself, of becoming crazy.”
The feeling of vacillation develops into a real vertigo, and he undergoes a series of
otological and neurological tests, all of which prove normal.
“My brain is not in step with me; I feel like I am beside myself. I have just learned that
I am going to have another child; I didn’t realise. The more time passes, the less
prepared I feel. I don’t manage to have an opinion on the matter, I am completely
unprepared.
“It goes in cycles. At times, I have obsessional thoughts, where I am feeling pulled
between good and evil. I always have negative thoughts, and I am always fighting
against them. I am always afraid of evil, of the devil. In my head, I only want light and
goodness, but I have thoughts that are completely the opposite. It is a ceaseless
interior battle. I should have thoughts of praises, thoughts of Archangel Gabriel, but
suddenly the opposite happens: it goes from praising the Lord to the devil. I am afraid
of losing control.”
GP: Tell me about your obsessional thoughts?
“I need to make sure that I don’t have times when I think of nothing, because that’s
when the obsessional thoughts come. I cannot tell them to you, because to talk about
them is to give them life. I feel like it drives me crazy.”
Dream: “I have big worms on my head.”
J: “Sometimes, I feel the need to say prayers, to read religious texts, but I am afraid to
not address myself to the right person, and after that, for about I week, I feel like I am
lost. For about 2-3 weeks, I feel like I am beside myself, not in my axis, as though I am
out of my body.
“I feel like the devil is in me, as though I am possessed. I am afraid that all my evil
thoughts will manifest themselves. These obsessional thoughts can be insults to God –
after that, I feel like I am going to be punished.”
Prescription: Mancinella 15 CH
Follow-up
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Two months later: “I didn’t notice anything, no change. I am extremely tired, mentally
and physically. Every day, I greet the day with joy; especially in the morning because
my thoughts are gone when I wake up. After that, it all starts again. The ideas circle
around, taking on enormous importance, and I have to fight against them. I am starting
to have tics – I have to rub my face to fight against these ideas.
“The obsessional idea is: I don’t want the devil. It is as though I am afraid of going to
that side. If I want to have a positive thought, a thought of the light, it is exactly the
opposite that comes, becoming obsessional to the point of covering up the positive
thoughts.”
Prescription: Mancinella 30CH
Three months later: “I am still subject to obsessional thoughts. I have to push away the
devil, all the time. I am obliged to do ceremonies, rituals.
“Our daughter was born at the beginning of April, and I dreamed that it was my mother
who was giving birth, not my wife. I am afraid of the power of my thoughts.
“I don’t really have pleasure in the sexual act; it is more in my imagination and my
fantasies.
“All those thoughts started during my adolescence, with the separation of my parents.
My guilty feelings, too, when I masturbated. I had to ask God’s pardon.
“When I see a police car, I say to myself ‘it is for me’. If I am not sure of myself when I
am driving, I think I might have run over someone, so I go back to check that there is
no one lying on the road.”
At this point, I am perplexed since I am sure that I have given him the right remedy.
Something is escaping me – I give him Kalium bromatum 15 CH, then 30CH. He comes
back four months later, saying that the vertigo he had some time ago has come back.
He is more and more anxious:
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: “It makes me think of death, it disturbs me a lot. I feel like I could die. I always have
those obsessional thoughts, but I manage. I think that it has to do with my mother: she
does not need to say anything, it is just her tone. I know that she is waiting for me
when I call her on Sunday. Every Sunday, I feel obliged to do that, to go and see her. I
don’t feel like a man in front of her. She has a part that is castrating – she transmits
her fears.”
The symptoms are:
- Delusion, possessed
- Delusion, two trains of thought at the same time
- Delusion, under a powerful influence
Prescription: Salix fragilis
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Follow-up
Two months later, I see him in an emergency situation: he has severe vertigo. An ear,
nose and throat specialist told him “I know what you don’t have, but I don’t know what
it is that you do have!” This magic formula brings about a crisis of panic on top of his
vertigo. A dose of Conium puts an end to the vertigo, but not to the anxiety.
J: “I had a dream: I went in an elevator, looking for people at the airport. I got stuck in
the elevator, and that woke me up – I was suffocating. The next day, I went out to do
some shopping, and I felt more and more oppressed. I did not go to the shop, but went
straight to the emergency department, and came out with a prescription of Laroxyl.”
He starts to tell me about his obsessions again, his fight with the devil, the fear that his
thoughts will materialise, the fear of losing control and to fall onto the other side.
“I think that I have a great guilt in me. I think that that has to do with my sexuality, or
perhaps with the relationship between my parents. Has something happened to my
mother? These obsessional thoughts started when my parents separated. I have the
image of my father being a sexually frustrated man. I always defended my mother; it
was a fusional relationship with her. During puberty, I even slept in the same bed with
her. I wanted to kill my father.”
He has recapitulated his history in a nutshell. I reread his notes, and reflect on them,
then give him Mancinella MK, one
dose.
We see each other again two months later, and I marvel at the seeing the theory of
homeopathy and the law of Hering in practice.
J: “It was like an electroshock. The symptoms of oppression disappeared for 3-4 days,
then reappeared, involving all the organs: in my chest, then in my lower belly. Then, it
went down even lower, as though someone was scraping his fingers in my kidneys.
Then. I had burning in my urinary tract, in my urethra, and then in my testicles. Then,
it went down to my thighs, then my calves, as though the circulation was being cut off.
I had the feeling of having icy cold hands and feet, tingling, and alternation between hot
and cold.
“Now I feel fine – not at all tired. I feel that my obsessions are starting to leave. I’d say,
I’m about 80% better. I feel much more anchored in myself, much more centred. I have
hardly any more vertigo. I was very afraid of losing control and doing something bad
around me, but that feeling has gone.”
GP: Any dreams?
J: “I dream much more but they are more concrete, realistic dreams. I dream a lot
about the family. I have much less sexual desire. My partner is more in seduction mode
with me.”
This case has a follow-up of a year, during which time J. has not been visited by his old
“demons”.
Photos
Portrait des Teufels aus der Kirche in Rennes-le-Chateau; Awobo;
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Scissors; Mike Paradise; Flickr
Creative
Categories: Cases
Keywords: fear of being possessed, hypochondria, obsessional thoughts, invaded by
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the invisible, vertigo, fear of insanity, castrating mother
Remedies: Mancinella
Angry et violent: the case of a destructive young girl
by Deborah Collins
“Anna” was twelve when she came for the first time, along with her mother, but she
had in fact been under homeopathic treatment for a large part of her life. Her mother
had even taken up the study of homeopathy in order to help find something for her
daughter, as the situation was running completely amok. Having heard of this “demon
child” for several years from a previous homeopath, I was well-warned, and put away
anything breakable or of value in my clinic. Anna sat beside her mother, visibly
discontent at having been dragged to yet another therapist. “It’s not me, it’s my
parents. My mother is terrible, she only gives us prison food to eat.” One would think
that the girl had been beaten, starved and tormented in every possible way, from the
way she talked about her parents. And yet, her mother must be one of the sweetest
and patient women I have ever encountered, doing all that she could do to find help for
her daughter, and for the family, which was suffering badly from the girl’s behaviour.
Everything had to be on Anna’s terms, in her own time and in her own way, with no
consideration for anyone around her. She would for instance get something in her mind,
and then “have to have it”, otherwise she would throw a full-blown temper tantrum, no
matter where she was, complete with cursing, swearing, attacking people and smashing
everything around her. She was known to completely demolish anything in her sight –
the television, the computer, or the dinnerware. In fits of anger, she would tug the
tablecloth off the table, and the family’s meal would end up on the floor, while the other
children would scream and cry. Her mother wrote: “Every time I disappeared into
another room, she would rip up my work. She won’t listen, but at the same time blames
me for not helping. It’s like a no-win situation with her. She has written awful stuff on
my desk with a permanent marker, ripped up all my note pads, letters, used up all my
cello-tape, staples, ink on stamps, and so on.”
She would be so insistent that her parents often ended up giving in, even to her most
expensive and excessive demands. For years, she said that if she could only have a
horse, she would be happy, and finally, her parents bought her one. Anna ended up
spending all her time with her horse, which she much preferred to the girls of her age:
“They’re all mean!” She would make friends, then always have a fall-out with them. She
was failing badly at school, and ended up being home-schooled, but most of the time,
she simply lazed about and lay in bed, as she said that she was “too tired” to do her
schoolwork.
There was always time and energy for her horse, though; she would spend days at a
time with her horse, neglecting all else. She insisted on having only the best for her
horse – the best food, the best stable, the best saddle, otherwise another fit would
follow. Once, when driving home with her mother after buying horse fodder, she went
into a rage on the highway, shrieking and pulling her mother’s hair. “You have not
bought the right food! It’s not good enough! You are starving my horse!” Her mother
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tried to explain that the “right food” was sold out at that moment, but that what they
had bought was in fact perfectly fine. This, however, brought on even more rage, and
Anna tugged at her mother’s hair until she nearly fainted from pain, almost losing
control of the car.
Anna was extremely picky about her own food, as well. She would not eat Indian food,
although the family was of Indian origin, and the mother was an excellent cook. She
would demand certain foods, such as ten Big Mac hamburgers, and then eat one bite
and throw the rest away. “It is as though she is simply trying to torment us all the time
– nothing we do is ever right for her, and we get blamed for her bad moods all the
time.”
Meanwhile, she was gaining weight, and was diagnosed with a thyroid condition. Her
skin was greasy and pimply, and her stools smelled putrid. Her personal hygiene was
atrocious – she refused to wash or shower, and no one dared to touch food that she had
put her hands on. She was continually scratching herself, picking her nose and her
bottom, much to the disgust of her siblings.
The relationship with her father was especially fraught – anything that her father asked
her to do ended up escalating into fights between them. Of this she said: “If I do what
he says, I would be giving in, and then, I would have lost the battle.” If he misplaced
anything that had to do with her horse, all hell would break lose, as though he was
personally abusing her.
The family’s history was revealing. Anna’s mother described the situation of her
husband’s parents, in particular. They had been born in India, but had moved to Fiji in
order to better themselves financially. Once there, however, they found themselves
going from the frying pan into the fire. They were treated like slaves – having to
scrounge for even poorly paid work, and living in squalor. The husband was maltreated
by his boss and in turn, he beat his wife at home. She had already been beaten by her
own father while living in India. The husband also beat their son, the father of Anna,
who carried a deep resentment towards his father.
Anna’s father managed to free himself from the situation, marring a loving and caring
wife, also of Indian origin, and founding a family. He worked extremely hard, and
became very successful, but suffered from his pent-up anger.
Anna’s mother often compared her daughter to her mother-in-law: “They are both so
wilful. Nothing that anyone ever does is right. They have the same fits of anger, and
they blame everything on someone else.”
Given Anna’s extreme attachment to her horse, I started with Lac Equinum 200C, one
dose. Her behaviour reminded me of a horse gone mad from abuse, kicking and lashing
out. After this, she settled down immediately, getting along with her siblings much
better and getting her schoolwork done. Her mother noted that her sense of playfulness
and humour returned – she joked instead of snarling, and asked to snuggle with her
mother. Her “obsession” with her horse diminished: she no longer needed to spend all
her time with him, nor did she go into rages around his care. Some things remained,
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though: she was still picky about her food and refused to wash. She continued to clash
with her father.
Her habit of demanding things she later refused led to the next remedy, perhaps one
that she needed all along: Cina, in ascending potencies. After the first dose, she
expelled a lot of threadworms and stopped picking her nose. Gradually, her behaviour
settled even more and she considered going back to school instead of staying at home.
This posed many problems, as she easily felt bullied and misunderstood. It was
becoming easier to reason with her about the need for her to complete her homework,
though she did it with reluctance and a fear of failure. Repeated doses over time led to
a calming of the situation at home and at school, much to everyone’s relief.
Despite this, she still refused to wash and she still clashed with her father. The final
remedy was then Ammonium carbonicum. According to Jan Scholten, this corresponds
to “resentment for the father”, along with the well-known “uncleanliness”.
In the course of two years, Anna has gone from a “demon child” to a friendly young
woman, who has friends of her own, and gets along well with her siblings. Her thyroid
condition normalised.
In this case, the family dynamic was the most crucial aspect of the case. One would
wonder why a girl with such loving parents would take on the behaviour she did, until
one looks at the situation of her grandmother, with whom she was so often compared.
Beaten as a child, and then later as an adult, put down, humiliated and made to live in
impoverished conditions while working hard, she carried a pent-up rage. It would seem
that this rage was transmitted to her son, who channelled it into hard work, climbing
the ladder of success. This rage, however, found its expression in Anna, who behaved
as though she herself had been beaten and tormented. One could say that Anna carried
the family pain, forcing the family to look at it and heal the family history of abuse
rather than push it away by sheer hard work.
Interestingly, as Anna began to reintegrate into the family, her paternal grandfather
became ill with heart complaints, reminiscent of Aurum. Anna’s father was reluctant to
visit him, as he was unresolved about the relationship. I suggested Aurum carbonicum
for Anna’s father, since his wife was concerned that he was going in the same direction
as his father, and would end up with heart complaints himself. He took the remedy and
things became steadily more harmonious at home. I no longer receive panic emails,
only mails to say how well things are going (note that nearly the whole treatment has
taken place by email, after one initial in-person consultation, since we live on opposite
side of the globe).
Cina belongs to the Compositae family (Asteraceae), along with Arnica, Bellis perennis,
Calendula and other trauma remedies. Often, the response of someone needing a
remedy from the Compositae family is to become tough and independent, fighting back
and not giving in. The Cina reaction is one of anger, and even violence, at anything that
they perceive to be an intrusion of their boundaries. Jan Scholten places Cina in stage
13 of the Compositae, similar to Mercurius, the stage of fighting, as though everyone is
their enemy. He writes of Cina, in his new book “Wonderful Plants”: "They cannot stand
to be interfered with or taken over. They easily feel violated, for instance by doctors
who decide over them, or by parents or teachers who overrule them. It feels like a
threat, as if they are violated and even as if they are threatened with being killed. It is a
blow to their integrity and autonomy. It makes them very angry. They can express their
anger very violently, but often they retire into themselves, feeling grudging and bitter.
They can be very snappish and sarcastic about the world.”
Photos
Happy Halloween; Amisrobot; Flickr
Girls and horse; MTSOfan; Flickr
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Categories: Cases
Keywords: temper tantrums, contrary behaviour, violence, tormenting, threadworms,
family dynamics
Remedies: Ammonium carbonicum, Cina, Lac equinum
true remedy for trauma: two cases of Buddleia davidii
by Wiet van Helmond
When I first read about this remedy, I was very skeptical. It sounded like the
homeopathic equivalent of Bach's rescue remedy and therefore it did not appeal to me.
Since I already had rescue remedy, which had proven its worth, I wondered why would
I need this new remedy, which came from a book called ‘Meditative Provings’. This
speculative title alone gave me reservations.
All in all it did not appeal to me, and though it remained somewhere in the back of my
mind I did not prescribe it (or even order it from a pharmacy) until Alize Timmerman
reminded me of this remedy again a couple of years ago. I slowly started prescribing it
now and then in acute situations, but I also allowed myself to ‘experiment’ with a new
remedy instead of just prescribing Aconite, Ignatia, Phosphoric acid or another first aid
remedy for an emotional trauma.
Then, Madeline Evans, who introduced this remedy, came to the Hahnemann Institute
(in Holland) for a lecture, in which she clearly stated all of her remedies were not just
meditated on, they were also proved traditionally. This removed my last doubts, and I
started prescribing it with more confidence and, probably therefore, with better results.
I would like to present two cases, where the healing power of this remedy is both
perceptible and profound without doubt, and which both demonstrate the essence and
depth of this remedy for which I will be forever grateful to Madeline Evans; I hope this
wonderful remedy will find its way to your practice was well.
Case 1
A thirty-three year old woman made an appointment because of listlessness, irritability,
nervousness, sleeplessness, headaches, and recurring colds.
Patient (P): “Lately, I’ve been very irritable, especially at home with my family. They
(oldest son and husband) should all hurry up and stop complaining! My husband (with
whom I have been married for 12 years) and I have two children, two boys: one is five
and the other is almost four. The youngest has multiple handicaps, which demand more
time and more planning.”
She works part time in a retirement home as an organizer of all sorts of activities. Most
of these people are slightly demented and have physical handicaps, but she loves the
work and has been doing it for about ten years.
P: “I get a lot of appreciation for my work there, which is very important to me, but
lately, I let people take advantage of me and I get nervous quickly. It’s a restless
nervousness.
“The thing is, I don’t know why this is all happening now. There have been no real
changes at work and as a person, I’m not prone to nervousness. It doesn’t belong to
me, and although I still enjoy the work, I’m always nervous nowadays. I also get
headaches, which I never had before (pain: occipital, sore).
“Since last year, I get one cold after another. It starts as a common cold but then, I get
a sore throat. Sometimes, I lose my voice, which makes it really difficult to function.
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When I lose my voice, I can no longer express myself and I no longer have a say in
things.
“With our youngest child, we need to have a solid structure and clear boundaries.
Usually, this isn’t a problem for me as I myself love to organize things and tend to lead
a structured life but when I lose my voice, this all falls to pieces.
“Our youngest has a rare neurological condition and can’t walk; he has limited vocal
abilities, very weak muscles and is a few years behind in his development for his age.
“Usually, I’m more patient. Now, I get irritable when people do not cooperate or when
things get in my way.
“Until two years ago, I used to ride my motorbike to unwind but since we have children
the risk is too big, so I sold it.”
Although she is talking a lot about structure (which is mineral), she gives me the
impression that her current condition is really the result from some acute situation, so I
ask her what has happened in the period when the colds and her irritability first
started.
“In April, our youngest had to go to the hospital for some tests. Due to his condition, he
has to go to the hospital often so for routine checks; sometimes, my husband goes with
him and other times I go. This time, though, he had to stay overnight, it was only a
simple test and a blood sample and I was accompanying him. The doctors didn’t expect
many difficulties, but it was horrible. The procedure was very painful and then we had
to wait for 2 days for the results to come in. It was a terrible experience and I had to
try to comfort him but also had to keep my emotions inside for two days, which seemed
like an eternity. My husband wasn’t there and nobody understood! I was angry, felt
helpless, and when I explained to my husband, he didn’t understand either (she has
difficulties controlling her emotions while telling this). I was all alone! It was after this
experience that everything started.”
As she is re-telling (and reliving) the experience, it becomes clear to her too: this
experience is at the root of her current condition.
Prescription: based on this, I decided to give her Buddleia 200K.
Follow-ups
6 weeks later: “It was amazing! Immediately after the remedy, I got so much energy!
I barely slept for three days but I didn’t miss the sleep. I was all hyper, as if I had an
energy boost to do spring cleaning. There was work to be done and I wanted to do it!
This surge lasted for about a month and now, it’s slightly decreasing and I start to get a
bit weary again.”
WH: What else has changed?
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P: “My husband is always complaining: ‘You don’t do anything’ and then, we get into
this vicious circle where I get angry and the whole situation gets blocked. After the
remedy, he accused me again, but instead of reacting out of indignation, it was possible
for me to remain calm. I asked him why he was always accusing me of this when he
knows it’s not true. I told him it hurts me and I asked him not to do it anymore. I
understand he only says it out of his own helplessness and frustration and that he
doesn’t mean it, but we have to stop this pattern! After I said it, I felt better and we
haven’t been in this role play again. There is now room to discuss our frustrations
without taking it out on each other. So, our relationship has started to grow.
“My oldest son and my husband both have a nervous restlessness. They try to do
everything at once and they can’t sit still. I feel now that my nervousness is from them
and I can leave it with them.”
The events of April seem to have been processed. She now only remembers it as being
very unpleasant but she can let it go.
P: “During this last period, my irritability was much less and the headaches have
disappeared. Since the lack of energy and irritability are now slowly coming back, I
would like to have another one please.”
Although a deeper problem with her husband is now arising, I want to see how much
Buddleia will affect this, as it seems it has also touched this problem in a positive way.
Prescription: Buddleia 200K, single dose
Another six weeks later: “I still feel great. All my complaints have gone and have not
returned. My husband used to say it’s my job to keep a happy atmosphere in the house,
which felt like a burden because I was responsible for everybody’s mood. Now, I let that
go and my relationship with my husband is deepening and I feel much better.”
She and her husband are working on things in a constructive way, so I do not prescribe
and decide to wait.
Differential diagnosis
There are several remedies that come to mind, Staphisagria probably being the first
with its suppression and disappointment. She does, however, express anger. She is mild
but her problem does not lie in the suppression of anger; she had to go through two
hellish days and nobody understood her or was there to comfort her. She got very
angry with her husband for not understanding this but it didn’t help. So, in depth there
is a big change. The causation lies more in the experience than in the suppression
element. Of course, Phosphoric acid could also be useful as there is a listlessness after a
grievous event, after which her husband didn’t show any understanding (and later there
was even the problem of bad communication). It probably would have helped her as
well to some extend but for some reason it did not feel right (it did not resonate with
me as being Ph-ac).
Case 2
This is a case I have been working on for years. This patient, a sixty-nine year old
woman, has been treated by many other therapists and has had many different
treatments including: homeopathy, psychotherapy, acupuncture, herbal treatment,
EMDR, Hellinger family constellation, Reiki, and Ayurveda before she came to me.
This is one of the most traumatized patients I ever treated, and until Buddleia the
progress was minimal at best. If you came across a book with such a troubled main
character, you would have thought that the writer had overdone it. To me, it illustrates
the negative sides of living in a small rural area, where many things can go unnoticed.
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It has taught me the incredible depth of this beautiful remedy.
As there are many traumas, I will give a short chronological biography of the patient’s
life, mentioning only some of the bigger traumas.
She is the oldest of three children and comes from a religious farming family. Her
mother, a very reserved and dominant woman, did not want to have children. So, when
she got pregnant, she was not too happy about it - an understatement, because when
her daughter was born, she refused to feed her. After two days (!), the local doctor,
together with a police officer, forced the mother to feed the child. Although she did not
starve, her mother never missed an opportunity to let her know she was not welcome.
Her mother wanted nothing to do with her and a maid came into the house, who was
also a very dominant woman, who did not want the job (in these small local farming
houses, young women of poor farmers were forced to earn a living by tending to other
farmers’ children) and disliked children. This woman had some violent habits of making
her do exactly as she wanted her to. Often, her mother would be in the same room
while she was being beaten by this maid, and she did nothing about it.
When her mother became pregnant again, she did not hate the child (a boy) as much as
her first born because now most of the work could be passed on to the maid and the
first born; she did not have to care for the children much.
The maid was keen enough to see that she only had to punish the oldest child for the
faults of the other two children, this way ensuring that the oldest child would do her
every bidding and make her job easy.
My patient learned from a very early age to take care of her brother (and later on a
sister) in a way that they would all avoid beatings.
Her brother, sister, and the maid had a relatively easy life. Needless to say that these
conditions taught both her siblings to be manipulative. Her brother later developed a
classic borderline personality, creating more havoc in later years.
When she was of school age (8), she was sent to a local school a couple of kilometers
from the farm. On her way to school one day, she was attacked and raped by a soldier
(this was in the middle of the Second World War). Completely overwhelmed and in
shock from the experience, she ran home, where her mother locked her in her room.
She did not know how to handle a child in such distress and, living in such a small town,
did not want too much fuss created about the perpetrator. The girl figured she had to
deal with it by herself, remaining in her room for 2 days without any contact. The same
thing happened again when she was 15, and again when she was 19. The second time,
her parents eventually believed that she had not provoke the attack, and the third time
she did not tell her parents at all.
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As she was constantly taking care of her brother and sister, there was little space for
personal development and after her parents died, she remained to take care of her
siblings. When she moved out, they went to live with her: her brother for a total period
of 45 years (!) and her sister for 28 years.
She is now living on her own, as her sister died a few years ago of cancer and she could
no longer look after her brother (his behavior made him impossible to live with). It took
her years to finally muster up the courage to no longer look after him, and she still feels
guilty about it (he loves to manipulate her through this guilt).
She fell in love with a man when she was about 30, but when she discovered he had
diabetes in his family she broke off the relationship since she had diabetes in her family
as well and did not want to take the risk of passing it on to her children.
She became a schoolteacher and has worked as such for about thirty years, until she
finally retired, admitting to herself that it was too hard. She was constantly trying to
protect all the children from any form of suffering and trying to be the best possible
teacher; both tasks exceeding her (and anyone else’s) capability.
During this period, one of her pupils was the son of the man who raped her when she
was 15. She spoke with him at every parent-teacher meeting and saw him almost daily,
when he brought his children to school, but she never did anything. He knew, and she
knew. Imagine what that must have felt like!
These are the most important traumas, though there were many more, which will give
you a good picture of the foundation of her current condition.
She comes to me because she cannot weep, cannot feel or express anger, trembles all
over (internally as well as externally), has panic attacks (she is a hypochondriac and
during the panic attacks, she walks quickly through the living room), is an extreme
perfectionist with very low self-esteem, has vertigo, is constantly full of care about
everyone and everything, and has nervous tics in almost every muscle of her body,
especially the facial muscles (her face is in constant motion). She has all sorts of
digestive problems, recurring colds, painful dryness of the mucous membranes, and she
has trouble sleeping.
From previous homeopaths, she has had several remedies without any deep or lasting
results. Among them were, in alphabetical order: Arsenicum, Carcinosinum,
carcinosinum-cum-cuprum, Gelsemium, Ignatia, several Magnesiums, several Natriums,
Staphisagria, Stramonium, Zincum and many others in different potencies. Although
they had some effect, she always fell back to where she was before the remedy, and
there was no personal growth. It seemed as if the remedies only worked in acute
states, taking away the edge but not touching the deeper levels.
Prescription: Buddleia MK
Follow-ups
In the days after taking the remedy, the vertigo and her headaches disappeared and
her mucous membranes became ‘wet’. She was very tired during the daytime and
sometimes, even had to sleep during the day.
After six weeks, she came back and the physical complaints had improved. The
trembling is almost gone, and her face, which was always full of tension with much
twitching, is now so relaxed, the skin is literally hanging down from her cheeks.
Although she cannot remember them yet, she is starting to dream. More importantly,
her emotions are coming a bit more to the foreground. She is becoming angry about
several things in the present, and also about things that have happened in the past.
She is also noticing that she can become almost tearful when someone is telling
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something sad. This is, of course, the safest way to express your emotions: projecting
them onto someone else and weeping for their grief. The panic attacks are becoming
less intense and less frequent.
To this date, I have repeated the remedy several times and she is still improving very
well. She can now become angry, and even react and express her anger, whereas in the
past she would have an anxiety attack, not even realising that she was in fact angry.
Her next step was to realise she was angry, brooding on it for days: “What should I
have said and how should I have responded.” A couple of weeks ago, someone made a
jesting remark and she angrily responded: “If these are the only types of comment you
can make, you should shut up and keep them to yourself!” During the interview, she is
constantly expressing her anger (“Damn this…” and “Damn that…”) on various subjects,
expressing herself directly from the emotional layer.
She has been able to cry on several occasions but still ‘from a safe distance’; she can
cry for someone else, but not for herself yet.
For the first time, she is allowing herself to look at her life and see what has happened
from an emotional point of view. She is not in a victim role or stuck in self- pity, but is
dealing with the events.
She still has a long way to go, but after Buddleia there is a beginning, an opening of the
case. This is a path of real progress; even if there is a relapse, she will never fall back
completely because now, there has been real growth.
Summary
Besides being a huge trauma remedy, I find that this is a remedy for this day and age.
Most of my Buddleia prescriptions are for people who are just going through too much
at the same time – it need not all be negative. For instance, a woman going through
divorce and moving from her home, while her daughter moves out to live on her own.
All this while going through several changes in her work, causing an overwhelmed state,
where she is crowded by emotions and no longer able to live life from the heart.
Another patient is a single mother whose only child is going to school for the first time,
giving her time to start a new job, and meanwhile moving to another house.
Each event is a “life event” and it requires a certain time to cope. But as life is becoming
faster and more intense people want to (and are forced to) do several things at once,
causing a stagnation in our vital energy flow. This could also be a great remedy for
ADHD children, who are pushed by their parents to the maximum of their capacities, or
just not allowed to be a child: they have to grow up too quickly.
These people get caught in the flow of events and lose the ability to come back to their
own rhythm.
It is not like Nux vomica who knows what he wants but lacks the time or focus to do it
all at once. These people get overwhelmed and then blocked. They often describe
feeling many emotions at the same time, for example: “I feel happy, sad, angry and
relieved at the same time.” This remedy will bring equanimity. Often, that is all they
need: a breather, which makes this remedy, in my opinion, all the more wonderful. If
we give these people Arnica, Nux, Ignatia or some other acute remedy, it will easily put
its matrix over the essence of the patient, possibly suppressing certain processes.
Buddleia in its way of healing comes before all others. It brings a calmness from which
the patient can decide what needs to be dealt with and in which way. If that causes
problems one can still give Nux, Ignatia, etc., but I’ve found that people often work it
out without further help.
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Madeline Evans writes: “Does not want to take on life's task after a shock.
Detachment, isolation, withdrawing into the self, not connecting with the heart centre;
stuckness and an inability to move forward, a stilling of the emotions so that nothing is
felt directly.”
I think this is very true. It is, however, not that they do not want to move forward, but
they cannot seem to be able to let go of the trauma and go on with their lives. As with
Natrium muriaticum, something happens and it is as though from there on, in their
entire life development, there is a thread going back to this event. As you can see in the
second case, she is letting go.
With each follow up, I notice the past is less and less deciding what is happening in her
life in the here and now.
This remedy should be remembered for people suffering from any form of birth trauma.
Repertory
In my opinion, Buddleia Davidii should be added to the following rubrics:
MIND - ABSENTMINDED
MIND - ABSORBED
MIND - AFFECTIONATE
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being - children
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being - indignation; with
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being - marriage; in
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being - physically
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being - sexually
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being - violence; from
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - abused; after being - violence; from - children
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - ambition - deceived
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anger
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anger - anxiety; with
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anger - fright; with
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anger - indignation; with
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anger - silent grief; with
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anger - suppressed
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anticipation
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MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anxiety
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - anxiety - prolonged; from
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - bad news
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - betrayed; from being
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - cares, worries
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - deceived; from being
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - disappointment
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - domination - long time; for a
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - emotions
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - excitement
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - excitement - emotional
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - excitement - suppressed
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - fear
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - forced; from being
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - friendship; deceived
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - fright
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - fright - old fright
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - grief
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - grief - silent grief
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - hurry
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - love; disappointed
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - mental exertion
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - mental shock; from
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - neglected; being
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - prostration of mind
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - punishment
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - quarrelling
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - responsibility
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MIND - AILMENTS FROM - rudeness of others
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - surprises - unpleasant
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - unhappiness
MIND - AMBITION - increased
MIND - ANGER
MIND - ANGUISH
MIND - ARGUING - not arguing
MIND - AVERSION - everything, to
MIND - BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS - children; in
MIND - BROODING
MIND - CARES, full of
MIND - CARRIED - desire to be carried
MIND - CAUTIOUS
MIND - CONCENTRATION - difficult
MIND - CONFIDENCE - want of self-confidence
MIND - CONSOLATION - agg.
MIND - CONSOLATION - amel.
MIND - DESPAIR
MIND - DESPAIR - recovery, of
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MIND - DESPAIR - work, over his
MIND - DETACHED
MIND - DETACHED - sensation of being
MIND - DETERMINATION
MIND - DISCOURAGED
MIND - DULLNESS
MIND - DUTY - too much sense of duty
MIND - DUTY - too much sense of duty - children; in
MIND - DWELLS - past disagreeable occurrences, on
MIND - EMBITTERED
MIND - EMOTIONS - predominated by the intellect
MIND - EMOTIONS - suppressed
MIND - ESTRANGED
MIND - EXCITEMENT - nervous
MIND - FEAR
MIND - FEAR - alone, of being
MIND - FEAR - dentist; of going to
MIND - FEAR - doctors
MIND - FEAR - happen, something will
MIND - FEAR - hurt, of being
MIND - FEAR - injury - being injured; of
MIND - FEAR - solitude, of
MIND - FEAR - sudden
MIND - FORSAKEN feeling
MIND - FORSAKEN feeling - beloved by his parents, wife, friends; feeling of not being
MIND - FORSAKEN feeling - isolation; sensation of
MIND - FRIGHTENED easily
MIND - FRIGHTENED easily - trifles, at
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MIND - GENEROUS; too
MIND - GRIMACES
MIND - HELPLESSNESS; feeling of
MIND - HOUSEKEEPING - unable to do housekeeping; women
MIND - INSECURITY; mental
MIND - IRRITABILITY
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - agg.
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - agg. - fatigues
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - agg. - impossible
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - aversion to
MIND - MILDNESS
MIND - ORPHANS
MIND - PATIENCE
MIND - PERSEVERANCE
MIND - POSTPONING everything to next day
MIND - PRECOCITY of children
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind - anxiety, after
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind - cares, from
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind - grief; from
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind - pain; from
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind - sleeplessness, with
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind - working too hard
MIND - PUBERTY; in
MIND - QUARRELLING - aversion to
MIND - QUIET disposition
MIND - REFLECTING
MIND - REPROACHING oneself
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MIND - REPROACHING others
MIND - RESERVED
MIND - RESIGNATION
MIND - RESPONSIBILITY - taking responsibility too seriously
MIND - RESTLESSNESS
MIND - SADNESS
MIND - SADNESS - disappointment, from
MIND - SADNESS - grief, after
MIND - SERIOUS
MIND - SITTING - inclination to sit - wrapped in deep, sad thoughts and notices
nothing; as if
MIND - STARING, thoughtless
MIND - STARTING
MIND - STUDYING - difficult
MIND - SYMPATHETIC
MIND - TACITURN
MIND - THEORIZING
MIND - TIMIDITY
MIND - UNFORTUNATE, feels
MIND - WEARY OF LIFE
MIND - WEEPING
MIND - WEEPING - amel.
MIND - WEEPING - cannot weep, though sad
MIND - WEEPING - children, in
MIND - WEEPING - desire to weep
MIND - WEEPING - involuntary
MIND - YIELDING disposition
VERTIGO - MENTAL EXERTION - agg.
VERTIGO - VERTIGO
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HEAD - HEAVINESS
HEAD - HEAVINESS - mental exertion agg.
HEAD - INJURIES of the head; after
HEAD - PAIN - anger; after
HEAD - PAIN - anticipation; from
HEAD - PAIN - fright - after
HEAD - PAIN - injuries; after mechanical
HEAD - PAIN - mental exertion - agg.
NECK - TENSION
EYE - QUIVERING
EYE - TWITCHING
EYE - WINKING
NOSE - DRYNESS - Inside
NOSE - DRYNESS - Inside - painful
FACE - TREMBLING - Lips
FACE - TREMBLING - Mouth - About
FACE - TWITCHING
FACE - TWITCHING - Mouth - Around
FACE - TWITCHING - Mouth - Corners of
TEETH - OPERATION; after dental
THROAT - LUMP; sensation of a
STOMACH - ANXIETY
STOMACH - NAUSEA - anxiety - with
STOMACH - NAUSEA - excitement; after
ABDOMEN - ANXIETY in
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - anxiety - with
EXTREMITIES - RESTLESSNESS
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - anxiety, from
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SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - cares; from
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - thoughts - activity of thoughts; from
SLEEP - UNREFRESHING
GENERALS - CHRONIC FATIGUE Syndrome
GENERALS - COLD; TAKING A - tendency
GENERALS - CONVALESCENCE; ailments during
GENERALS - INJURIES
GENERALS - INJURIES - ailments from; chronic
GENERALS - INJURIES - operation - ailments from
GENERALS - JET LAG
GENERALS - PAIN - Muscles
GENERALS - SLEEP - loss of sleep; from
GENERALS - WEAKNESS
GENERALS - WEAKNESS – Muscular
For further reading:
Madeline Evans – Meditative proving volume I
http://www.madelineevans.com/
Photos
Peacock butterfly on buddleia flower; Alan Fryer; Creative Commons Attribution
2.0 Generic license.
Sad child; Cuito Cuanavale; Flickr
Buddleia; Tony Hisgett; Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Categories: Cases
Keywords: emotional trauma, fatigue, irritability, helplessness
Remedies: Buddleia davidii
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Comments:
wiet
Posts: 4
buddleia - Monika Gruehn
Reply #4 on : Thu September 05, 2013, 19:15:11
Dear Monika, Thank you for your comments. Yes it is a difficult remedy to
grasp. Even after the new proving it remains difficult but we seem to have
a good essence now which will be published soon in the Homeopathic
Links.
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Monika Gruehn
Posts: 4
Buddleia, Trauma treatment
Reply #3 on : Wed September 04, 2013, 19:57:07
Dear Wiet, thank you for publishing these two cases. You write about case
2 that one might think a writer would have overdone it. Personally, I can
easily believe those traumas, as I am working in psychosomatic medicine,
and there you often meet traumatized people; some of them are even
more traumatized than that woman. In people with a more severe
depression you often find underlying traumas like severe neglect, and both
physical and verbal abuse; also sexual abuse, which is, unfortunately,
much more common than we would believe, as it still is a taboo theme.
And quite often, sexual abuse occurs through closely related persons
(family members, neighbors, good friends of the family). E.g. a neglected
girl may feel ambivalence to her grandfather who abuses her sexually for
years, as in a way, he is the only person who cares for her at all; or abuse
through an elder brother – I have heard such stories again and again, and
can quite often see the long term results of such trauma (feelings of
shame and guilt, of not being okay, flashbacks, dissociations, anxiety and
even panic, nightmares, etc.).
As to Buddleia, the remedy picture is not yet sufficiently clear to me, which
is why I could not yet prescribe it that successfully – although I have read
all accessible information. I dearly long for more information and
experiences by homeopathic practitioners, so that we can prescribe it with
confidence. Seems a great trauma remedy – thanks again. Kind regards,
Monika
wiet
Posts: 4
Buddleia
Reply #2 on : Mon September 02, 2013, 09:43:05
Dear Sir, the buddleia made by Madeline Evans can be bought at
Helios.co.uk
Jorge A. Pardo Febres-C.
Posts: 4
Buddleia davidii
Unaffected by small perturbations: a case of Viola tricolor
by Roma Buchimensky
A twenty one year old student comes, in August 2010, for a problem of tonsillitis
recurring several times a year (not only in winter), with white pustules. It is very painful
swallowing and lasts 1-2 weeks each time. After sexual intercourse, 18 months ago, he
had a bout of urethral exudation with irritation of the glans penis.
In Grade 2: headaches, splitting pain, worse from noise. He missed six months of
school. He is currently doing a masters degree in physics and wants to become a
theoretical scientist.
Patient (P): “My immunity should be raised. I constantly feel that I’m about to get sick.
“I have two sisters. At home, the atmosphere is tense: my grandmother is irritable and
it affects others; there are frequent quarrels. Soon, I will travel abroad to study, and I
am anxious; I don’t have butterflies, but scorpions, in my abdomen. I get diarrhea
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when I’m anxious, before exams or before a date with a girl. Lately, I am trying to learn
to control my emotions and teach myself to remain calm.
“During the last half-year, I lived with a friend, but had no corner for myself, which is
very important for me. I am an introvert and I find it difficult to work when many
people are around. I like to be left alone. I like to go on treks and to the theatre. I
prefer to have few friends, just a few close ones; ‘three musketeers… three
comrades’.[1] I’m old-fashioned in my relationships; I’m a gentleman with both
girlfriends and friends. I am sensitive and easily hurt. In my free time, I play the guitar
and listen to classical music. I like to be out in nature. I am emotional and am trying to
overcome it. Once, my doctor said that I would develop a hernia and I fainted. I find it
difficult to swim free style because the water gets into my ears.
"My mom began labour after the nurse took her blood pressure and left her alone with
the tourniquet inflated. They cut my umbilicus incorrectly. I toe-walked as a child, and
was late in starting to speak.
"I am irascible. Lately, I have little patience for things that I don’t want, be it people,
society, or being compelled to do something against my will. I won’t speak with a
person I don’t like. I am indifferent to the opinion of people I don’t know. I care only
about my tightly knit group of friends. I like the United States less and less: people are
hypocritical and robot-like. I also don’t like the education and healthcare systems. I
need my own corner.”
RB: Tell me about your corner?
P: “Nobody can disturb me (hand gesture: tremulous hand), otherwise I cannot
concentrate on my stuff, and I become irritated: a flashing in the head, eyes wide open,
needing to take a breath in, a feeling of a small explosion in the head, something has
been destroyed, concentration is gone, anger. I wait for it to pass, cannot continue the
train of my thoughts, disappointment, chest, weakness in arms and legs, helplessness…
I don’t control the situation. I would like to distance myself but cannot. I haven’t
fulfilled my mission. Worry, irritable, vacillation, I want to go back.”
RB: Does it remind you of anything?
P: “Of the wind or a violin (spontaneously). A childhood dream: waves, a point that
expands and contracts, it happens simultaneously in three of my senses (sight, hearing,
touch).”
He displayed a dependent relationship with his healthcare providers, with an anxiety
about his health.
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Analysis
The essential theme of the case is his desire to be alone and sensitivity to being
disturbed. This corresponds directly to the vital sensation of the Violales order according
to Rajan Sankaran[2], including the aversion to being disturbed, avoidance of people,
morose disposition, and, on the physical level, sharp, lancinating, stitching, tearing
headaches. The general oversensitivity and the two-sided sensation (disturbance and
avoidance thereof) arguably support the assignment of the case to the plant kingdom.
The theme of ‘three’ is strong in the case: three siblings, three musketeers, three
comrades, three senses.
In terms of known symptoms of the remedy[3], we observe the introspective, morose
quality, with disinclination to talk, sadness about domestic relations, hypochondriasis,
and physically, an affinity for the urinary organs (swelling of the prepuce with itching).
The indifference of the remedy here appears to be directed toward the outside world
rather than to close friends.
During the ‘passive case-witnessing’ phase of the interview[4], the theme of his need
to have his own corner arose repeatedly. We thus began the ‘active-passive’ phase of
the interview, enquiring about his experience of having his own corner. In his reply, he
referred back to his headaches without being prompted. At the same time, his speech
became somewhat incoherent, he mentioned being unable to reach his mission, and
brought up the sensation of vacillation, which mirrored his prior hand gesture. All
together, these suggested that he was expressing himself in the source-language of his
remedy. Finally, in the ‘active-active’ phase of the interview, he referred to the violin,
and spontaneously retold a childhood dream in which the theme of three arose one final
time.
A possible central theme of the remedy is that of the wave[5]: the remedy displays
various wavelike (wavering, staggering) sensations, including:
Head; waving sensation (89)
Heart & circulation; waving, undulation; heart (8)
Heart & circulation; palpitation heart; wavelike (1)
Generalities; wavelike sensation (163)
Generalities; pain; undulating, waving (86)
This, in this context of the dream about a wave, may reflect an emergent aspect of the
remedy that may turn out to be quite central to it.
From the point of view of Michal Yakir’s table of plants[6], we see the following
characteristics: The Violales order belongs to the fifth column of the table, which
represents the split between the feminine and masculine evolutionary impulses, namely
unbounded emotions and the mind which tries to control them (for example, the Viola
odorata symptom: Emotions predominated by the intellect). This relates to the patient’s
mentalized reaction to his oversensitivity to outside stimulation.
There may be an interest in the exact sciences or a preoccupation with marginal details,
with a rigidity and respect for rules, against a desire to become individual and fulfill
one’s unique vocation.
The anxiety before exams relates to the early stages (rows of the Plant’s Table) of the
ambition for success in the world, which is characteristic of the fifth column: specifically,
stage four represents penetrability due to immaturity, with respect to setting up
boundaries, provoking a reaction of withdrawal and disconnection.
Finally, the state of the external world penetrating and being resisted by the rigid mind
can be likened to a string of a musical instrument, which when disturbed by an external
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force releases the disturbance vibrationally in the form of a musical wave. In this sense,
the wave is both the expression of the disturbance and the manner of its resolution (cf.
the aversion of Viola odorata to the music of the violin), so the theme of the wave and
the wavering sensation may characterize the entire Violaceae family.
Prescription: Viola tricolor 9c once daily
Follow-ups
Six weeks later: headaches after beginning school-year at university. Occasionally tired:
“I keep myself busier than before.” Twice had the beginning of tonsillitis, but it did not
become full-blown.
“I can work more easily with people around me.”
Prescription: continue Viola tricolor 9c once daily.
Eleven weeks later: had a bout of tonsillitis, but not as severe as usually.
Your favourite composition?
“Bach’s Chaconne in the guitar version by Andrés Segovia”.
Prescription: raise potency to Viola tricolor 12c once daily.
Sixteen weeks later: “No tonsillitis, apart from occasional very dull pain at the back of
my mouth on the left, but it doesn’t develop into anything more. I handle stress much
better, and I’m more comfortable emotionally. I worry less and enjoy life more. I enjoy
my studies a lot.”
What is your specialty within physics?
“I study states that are unaffected by small perturbations.”
Prescription: raise frequency to Viola tricolor 12c twice daily.
Evolution of the case over the next 2.5 years:
Good energy, mood, appetite. Virtually no acute illnesses; any hint of them is addressed
with the remedy. “I’m more confident in myself.” (Noticed by a girl-friend).
The remedy was given daily, then twice daily, in gradually increasing potencies. He used
to be clingy and anxious about his health, now, he is much more independent. He has
chosen to discontinue treatment.
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I would like to thank David Nortman, N.D. for his assistance with the presentation of
this case.
Photos
Circular diffraction ripples at Point Reyes Lighthouse; Wing-Chi Poon;
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Creative
Viola tricolor; Wisniowy; Wikimedia Commons; public domain
References
[1] The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas; Three Comrades is a novel
by Erich Maria Remarque.
[2] Sankaran R. Schema, 2007 version, p.23
[3] Mainly from Allen’s Encyclopedia
[4] Chauhan D. The Scientifically Intuitive Case Witnessing Process: The Journey of
Three Steps
[5] Zandvoort van R. Complete Repertory, 2013
[6] Yakir, M. Wondrous Order: Systematic Table of Homeopathic Plant Remedies
Categories: Cases
Keywords: control of emotions, aversion to disturbance, irascible, waves, violin, desire
to be alone
Remedies: Viola tricolor
I'm bored and ignored: a case of Cubeba officinalis
by Arul Manickam
A 14 year old girl came to my clinic with the presenting complaint of psoriasis,
especially on her face and extremities, since one year. The eruption was worse in winter
and better in summer. Itching was worse at night and after bathing, and she was
bleeding after scratching.
She says the following about herself:
“I want to do something as soon as I think of it. Why should I have to follows the
opinion of others? I dislike to be criticized.
“I want to go outside, to see all the places I have previously not seen, but I am not able
to go outside now. I want to eat all the food I like but I am not able to eat a variety of
foods and I am not able to wear proper clothes. Now, I am constantly looking at the
same place in my house, I have been jailed in my room. I dislike being there in my
house. If I could go outside, I would play, enjoy good food, and nice scenery. I want to
go to the temple garden, which would be pleasant for me.
“I dislike being alone. I am not able to do my work alone, I need my parents help to do
my daily routine activities. In my home, nobody speaks to me, the time passes slowly; I
dislike being there in the same place for a long time. I want to go to the Velankanni
temple (one of the religious site on the Bay of Bengal Coast). My friends have gone to
this temple and told me of the enjoyment of that place. If I go to different places, my
mind would become relaxed. Due to my complaints, I want to be in my room and I
dislike to speak.
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“I am afraid that my complaints will affect my brain, heart, or my lungs; when I eat, the
scaly lesions might fall into my food and affect my major organs. It might affect my
brain, which will lead to madness like my father, who is suffering from psychiatric
illness.
“I am afraid that if this condition persists for a long time, I may end up becoming an
outcast. I want to weep alone. The pain of my lesions makes me want to die – it is
throbbing and dragging. I fear death due to my complaints.
“I am constantly worried about what others think of me and what they say about me.
At school, all the students and teachers neglect me; they don’t want to come near me
or to touch me. It makes me angry when people look at me closely and ask me why I
have this disease, what happened? I think that everyone is watching me; they are
embarrassed about me, even if their looks are sympathetic. Now, I don’t go to school
and I don’t want to go outside. Nobody talks to me, even at home. I don’t like to speak
to strangers, either, because of what people say about me. I get palpitations when I
speak to strangers.
I think that I have a contagious disease that will spread to everyone, so I don’t like to
go to public places.
“If this complaint persists, I won’t be able to go out of my home. I don’t like to be in
jail; I may become mad if this condition persists. I want to die.
“It makes me angry when people boss me around. Why do I have to follow these
people’s advice? I feel low, these people are high, they are in good in health, that’s the
only reason they can command me around like that.
“My father has the same problem of psoriasis with insanity, so people say that my
complaints originated from him, and that he is mad. I feel very angry when others
comment about my father. I don’t like this complaint about me being spread, so I am
conscious about my activities. If my father was healthy, he might be affectionate
towards me, and give me things to play with.
“My mother used to weep and scold me a lot for my complaints; she would say “why
were you born? Go away and die!” I got lot of reproaches. I think that I have done
something wrong. I often want to die when my mother scolds me. I feel like I am
disturbing her. My mother doesn’t buy toys for me, only for my sister. If I did not have
this complaint, she might care for me a lot, like my younger sister. My mother often
prepares food which I dislike and I never want to eat, and she buys things that I dislike.
I get angry and ask her why she prepares such food.
“In my family, one relative beats my mother. I am afraid of what will happen to my
mother. My brother was stabbed by some rowdies and I fainted when I saw the blood.
After that, I don’t want to see blood because that frightens me lot. I have a fear of
accidents, of blood, of injuries, and of quarreling.
“I want to watch cartoon programs on TV and to laugh at the jokes. I want to play
tennis and cricket – both are exiting and stimulating games and they bring liveliness. I
am not able to do my own work.”
Mother’s point of view: “She always fights with her sister. She is obstinate, and she
doesn’t yield, she does what she wants to do. She is easily angered; she doesn’t want
to do her daily routine work without the help of others. She is egotistic, and has no
affection towards her sister.”
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Observations
Generals:
Sweating on upper lip and neck
Climate: eruption < winter
Winter desire
Summer aversion
(Sweating, heat, aversion)
Fan at maximum in all climates
Covering: great aversion in all climates
Bathing: normal water in all seasons
Appetite: good
Thirst: 2-3 litres /day
Motion: not satisfied, alternating day, difficulty to pass stool
Pain during stool, bleeding occasionally.
Urine: normal
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Menses: 10 days lasting from last 4 months, regular
Dream: “A lot of snakes are surrounding us, nobody is there except me and my mother.
This is a critical situation. Nobody is there to secure them and we are calling for help. I
think that we are going to die. Then, the snake went away and we escaped from that
situation. God has saved us.”
Food and drinks: desire curd rice, pepper pongal; pepper gives the taste to pongal
Drawing:
I asked her to draw some pictures and to talk spontaneously about them.
1. Apple, grape, mango: “I desire to eat apples because of the sweet taste. I want to
eat grapes and mango; they have a sour taste, these fruits are very tasty fruit
compared to other fruits.”
2. Flowers – roses, jasmine: “Both look very beautiful, we can decorate beautifully. I
want to be alone, because if I am alone nobody can say anything about my complaints.
If we are in nature, that is a relaxed environment.”
3. Mountain, sun, river, man going in a boat: “This is a natural, calm environment, cold
climate, a very entertaining place; I want to be in this place that I have never seen
before. This place gives joy me and pleasure.”
AM: Please close your eyes and tell me whatever spontaneously comes to you now.
P: “Calm places. There is nobody who commented on me before. It’s a pleasurable
place, it gives me joy.”
4. Nature, house with garden, trees, birds, sun rise, sun set, fish, hen, zoo: “I love
nature, I like to see the sun rising and setting, it looks beautiful. Fish, hen, both look
beautiful, these animals are my pets. They never disturb me or bite me. No
disturbances, no noise, nobody there. Pleasant sound. Chilly looking place. I like to be
there, we can play well, and pets give affection. This gives me pleasure. Gardens and
zoo are the places which look very beautiful and I like to see these animals, it creates a
good mood where we can play.”
Analysis
1. She wants amusement and entertainment.
2. She wants tasty food.
3. She wants exiting and stimulating games. She wants liveliness.
4. She wants pleasure and cheerfulness.
5. She feels that time pass slowly (boredom).
6. She wants pleasurable places with beautiful scenery: temple, garden, zoo, mountain,
sun, river, man going in a boat, nature, house with garden, trees, birds, sunrise and
sunset, fish.
Plant kingdom
Sensitivity and reactivity.
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On the one side, her sensitivity lies in her painful situation that causes boredom and a
lack of excitement, and on the other side, she wants amusement and enjoyment. The
basic main sensation fits the Piperaceae family
Miasm: Leprosy
Despair
Forsaken feeling
Outcast
Disgusting, dirty, embarrassed situation so she avoids the sight of people
From Rajan Sankaran’s schema:
The Piperaceae family and the Leprosy miasm gives: Cubeba officinalis
Confirmation: desire for pepper pongal, coinciding with pepper family.
Rubrics
MIND - AMUSEMENT - desire for; Piper methysticum (Piperaceae family)
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - delicacies – desire; Cubeba officinalis
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - fruit - desire – sour; Cubeba officinalis
Prescription: Cubeba officinalis 200C, 1dose
Follow-ups
Two months later: one week after the medicine, she had fever and cough lasting for two
days. Sleep is good, itching is better, and the head scales have completely disappeared.
Overall, 50% of the eruption disappeared. No difficulty or bleeding when passing
motion. Intensity of desperation is less compared to before. Ten days ago, she went to
the Velankanni temple with her friends and enjoyed herself. Her boring and painful
situation has now changed, and she goes out to enjoy herself.
Six months later: eruption is almost gone; no itching, no scarring. Sleep is good, no
dreams. Stools are regular, without straining. Mentally, she feels good; she started
going to school again and became very interested in her studies. She was mingling
easily with the other children. The neglected feeling is almost gone. She is very happy
with her recovery.
Prescription: Sac lac
Eleven months later: no recurrence of the eruption, generally she feels well. She visited
various amusing places and she enjoyed herself.
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Prescription: Sac lac
Fifteen months later: tiny eruption on the knee and finger, with mild itching lasting one
month. She comes back five months later, due to the fear that the eruption would
recur.
Prescription: Cubeba officinalis 200C, one dose
A month later: eruption has totally disappeared, no itching. Sac lac prescribed.
Two months later: no recurrence, she is healthy physically and mentally, and studies
well. The desire for enjoyment and amusement is less in comparison to before.
Photos: Arul Manickam
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Categories: Cases
Keywords: psoriasis, boredom, desire for pepper, fear of reproach, excluded
Remedies: Cubeba officinalis
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Chandran K C
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Reply #1 on : Mon September 02, 2013, 05:39:32
Author says 'Sensitivity and reactivity' led him to PLANT KINGDOM. He says: "On the one
side, her sensitivity lies in her painful situation that causes boredom and a lack of
excitement, and on the other side, she wants amusement and enjoyment. The basic main
sensation fits the Piperaceae family". Thus he was led to piperaceae family.
Next he decided the patient has "LEPROSY MIASM, on the basis of "Despair, Forsaken
feeling, Outcast, Disgusting, dirty, embarrassed situation so she avoids the sight of
people".
Final step : "The Piperaceae family and the Leprosy miasm gives: Cubeba officinalis".
Piperaceae, also known as the pepper family, is a large family of flowering plants. The
group contains roughly 1,920 currently accepted species in 13 genera.
My wonder what is the magic wand he used to decide CUBEBS as the similimum, on the
basis of "piperaceae family and leprosy". How he ruled out all those thousands of plant
belonging to piperaceae family? Does he say only CUBEBS has "leprosy miasm" among
these 1920 plants belonging to 13 GENERA under PIPERACEAE family? Hope somebody
would explain that magic.
Author says SENSITIVITY and 'REACTIVITY' led him to PLANT KINGDOM. On the basis of
which materia medica and repertory he says so?
Our materia medica does not show that only ‘plant drugs’ produced ‘sensitivity’ in
provers. We can see many ‘animal’ and ‘mineral’ drugs with high order of ‘sensitivity’. If
not from materia medica, where from Dr Sankaran ‘invented’ that ‘vital sensation’ of
‘sensitivity’ is the basic characteristic of ‘plant kingdom’?
See the rubric ‘sensitive’ in ‘mind’ of kent repertory:
[Kent]Mind : SENSITIVE, oversensitive:- Acon., Aesc., Aeth., Alum., Am-c., Anac., Ang.,
Ant-c., Apis., Arg-n., Arn., Ars., Ars-i., Asaf., Asar., Aur., Bar-c., Bell., Bor., Bov., Bry.,
Calc., Calc-p., Calc-s., Camph., Cann-s., Canth., Carb-an., Carb-s., Carb-v., Cast.,
Caust., Cham., Chin., Chin-a., Chin-s., Cic., Cina., Clem., Cocc., Coff., Colch., Coloc.,
Con., Crot-h., Cupr., Daph., Dig., Dros., Ferr., Ferr-ar., Ferr-p., Fl-ac., Gels., Gran., Hep.,
Hyos., Ign., Iod., Kali-ar., Kali-c., Kali-i., Kali-n., Kali-p., Kali-s., Kreos., Lac-c., Lach.,
Laur., Lyc., Lyss., Mag-m., Med., Meph., Merc., Mez., Mosch., Nat-a., Nat-c., Nat-m.,
Nat-p., Nat-s., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Ph-ac., Phos., Plat., Plb., Psor., Puls., Ran-b., Sabad.,
Sabin., Samb., Sanic., Sars., Seneg., Sep., Sil., Spig., Stann., Staph., Sulph., Tab.,
Teucr., Ther., Thuj., Valer., Verat., Viol-t., Zinc.
In this list, 46 remedies belong to ‘mineral kingdom’: alumina, ammo carb, antim crud,
arg nit, ars, ars iod, aur, baryta, borax, calc, calc phos, calc sulph, carb sulph, causticum,
cupr, ferr, ferr ars, ferr ph, fl acid, hep, iod, kali group, mag mur, mercury, natrum
group, nit acid, phos acid, phos, platinum, plumbum, sanicula, silicea, stannum, suplh,
zinc
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12 remedies are from ‘animal kingdom’: Apis, cantharis, carb an, crot h, lac can, lach,
med, moschus, psorinum, sep, theri.
Remaining 56 remedies are of ‘plant kingdom’.
On what basis author says ‘sensitivity’ is the ‘vital sensation’ of plant kingdom? How can
anybody say persons who are ‘sensitive’ at the deeper’ level need ‘plant remedies only?
How can this theory be called homeopathy?
If SENSITIVITY was the BASIC THEME of plant kingdom, what about those hundreds of
plant drugs that do not show SENSITIVITY during drug proving?
What about those 46 MINERAL drugs and 12 ANIMAL drugs coming under
SENSITIVENESS? How the author decided those drugs need not be considered in this
case at all?
What is this this LEPROSY MIASM? If you read CHRONIC DISEASES carefully, you will see
that hahnemann never considered leprosy as a miasm different from PSORA.
Who invented only CUBEBS has LEPROSY MIASM among all plant drugs belonging to
PIPERACEAE family?
How he decided LEPROSY MIASM by "Despair, Forsaken feeling, Outcast, Disgusting,
dirty, embarrassed situation so she avoids the sight of people". Does he say all these
rubrics point to only ANTI LEPROSY drugs?
Any homeopath who knows how to repertorize and decide a similimum using materia
medica, could have very easily selected a similimum in this case by classical method in a
very simple way, on the basis of symptoms the author provides.
Journey to the light: the Kinesthetic Resonance Method
by Angela Hair
Life is an extraordinary journey toward greater awareness, understanding and
experience. As living beings, infused with biophotons of light, we consciously and
unconsciously interact with our environment. The possibilities of our responses are
infinite. Choosing the optimum response is hugely beneficial.
Over the past four years, I have integrated into my homeopathic practice a system of
kinesiology called Kinesthetic Resonance Method (KRM). Therese Boyle RCHom has
adapted this very fine form of muscle testing into a system that allows us to make a
quantum connection with our clients and energetically check their resonance with over
3000 potential remedies. This initial testing only takes 5-10 minutes at the end of the
consultation. Through this process with our clients we are able to identify the remedies
and potencies that are needed to facilitate their healing journey. For me, this has been
a major step forward in how I practice homeopathy. By accessing the client’s innate
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knowledge of their internal resources they move forward with mind, body and spirit, in
unison.
As a homeopath working in this way it is a release from the overly analytical approach
of choosing remedies for clients, agonising over these choices and often wondering if I
had missed the indicated remedy.
Having already had 10 years working as a classical homeopath before using Kinesthetic
Resonance, I knew there were multiple ways to support our clients to health. In
hindsight however, I didn’t really understand the process of healing then as intimately
as I do now.
I am now much more accepting of the route each individual takes to be healthy. It may
be one remedy or many that are required. It is a beautiful dance through an
extraordinary field of light energy.
KRM in conjunction with homeopathy truly provides a quantum approach to healing.
The development of C4 homeopathic by Witold Ehler, Alize Timmerman and others, has
opened the way for homeopathic medicines to work beyond the individual, rippling
through the field of our family, community and beyond.
Each level of the triturating process to create C4 remedies works at a different level in
the field. The C1 level manifests symptoms primarily from the physical realm; C2 from
the emotional realm; C3 from the cognitive and mental realm and C4 from the level of
the soul. As we go beyond C4, we move into the greater field of community, which is
why it is not unusual to hear a person say after a C5 or C6 remedy that a family
member who was disconnected from them for years suddenly writes or calls. Such is the
pulse through the vibrational field when we choose to work beyond ourselves.
Our work as homeopaths is to walk beside our client, in their own time, providing the
support that is needed. We bring our acquired and innate skills to the journey and,
where necessary, call on the skills sets of other therapies when that is required.
Lucy’s (name changed for privacy) story is a lovely example of self-directed healing
toward greater happiness, understanding and wellness.
Lucy (early thirties) has consulted with me for the past two years and together we have
selected remedies using the Kinesthetic Resonance Method. I have noted use of this
system by the initials ‘KRM’. ‘RX’ indicates the client has ‘tested in’ as needing the
previous remedy.
Lucy arrives at my clinic with long blond hair that tends to cover her face. Her chin has
signs of acne. She is softly spoken and gently laughs to herself as she tells her story.
She is married, with two children, the youngest still breast fed. For the sake of brevity, I
have selected just her main presenting symptoms.
First Consultation: 22/3/10
Excessive growth of body hair, especially bikini area and lower abdomen. Previous
medical tests have shown DHEA levels are high. Painful indurated facial acne, low
energy, aches and pain. Lower back pain. Burning in one foot with hot head. Lucy has
gained weight since she was pregnant with her second child. She is emotionally
hypersensitive. She has a history of sexual abuse, depression, and some post natal
depression.
KRM: Oleum jecoris 20x 3 drops daily
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Comment: Dr J Clarke says Oleum jecoris (cod liver oil) is used for topical treatment of
ringworm in a tubercular patient. Faulty nutrition in children. Always taking colds.
Abnormal hair growth or alopecia. Emaciation or weight gain.
The decimal potency selection and narrow totality of this remedy indicates that Lucy’s
system has chosen to work at a physical (C1) level.
Follow up: 20/4/10
Lower back pain less but returned last week. Better immune response. No longer
burning foot and only occasional hot pains to head. Few acne outbreaks. Desire
sweets++. Feeling sad and down. Hair growth unchanged. Old symptom of psoriasis
returned for a few days. Energy improved, less feeling of being ‘on edge’, generally
happier. Breast engorgement decreased a couple of days later (she is currently
breastfeeding).
KRM: Oleum jecoris 20X 3 times a day and less on good days.
Comment: the physical symptoms are improving and immune response is better. Her
emotional state is more clearly seen and old symptoms have returned and resolved
again.
Follow up: 19/5/10
Much better. Tummy bug last week but not as exhausting as during previous bout,
when baby was 5 month old. Back ache improved but sore at present. Hair growth a
little worse. Lots of acne. Recurrent dream of her lost cat, she searches for him and
finds him. This dream recurs for many years now, always finding the cat in the end.
KRM: Oleum jecoris Q11 5 drops daily for 2 months.
Comment: still good improvement on the remedy and her system is still selecting the
remedy albeit at a different slightly higher potency of the C3 level. At the subconscious
level, I interpret the dream as a positive sign since the cat, perhaps representing a part
of herself, is always found.
Follow up: 14/7/10
Sniffly nose but didn’t get the tummy bug that the rest of the family came down with.
Bout of mastitis (fever, aching, red stripes radiating from breast) when sleep-deprived,
caring for the sick family members. Back ache returned. Acne is coming to a head
except one pimple on chin that is not coming out. Desire sugar ++ . Drinking lots of raw
milk now.
KRM: Oleum animalis. This animal oil is indicated for effects of loss of animal fluids,
especially nursing women. The remedy is not suitable for this acute breast infection so a
different remedy is selected.
RX: Phytolacca 200C, t.d.i for two days.
KRM: Thyroid protocol (T3 6c, Zincum met 12c, Selenium 200c) twice daily for two
weeks after Phytolacca.
KRM: Oleum jecoris Q15 one drop daily after the Thyroid protocol has been completed.
Comment: breast tissue has the second largest store of iodine in the body after the
thyroid. During breast feeding, there is a much higher need for iodine for the health of
baby and mother so thyroid support is given to support this process. Advised her to
increase her dietary sources of iodine (seafood, sea vegetables).
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Follow up 13/9/10
Mastitis responded well to Phytolacca. Energy is good. Improved bowel function at end
of the Thyroid protocol. Feeling hot.
She has not taken Oleum jecoris drops for 2-3 weeks. Lower back achy before menses
since teens, improved with Oleum jecoris drops. Bloating and tenderness with menses
has returned, which had improved on drops. Acne is coming and going, worse before
menses. It feels as though something is brewing.
“Acne almost feels like it is not part of my body - a foreign big thing stuck on my face, it
is a separate being. I don’t want anyone to see me when my face is like this. I am being
punished for something. It is associated with anger and rage, things wanting to come
out, to get rid of things. I have fairly quick temper, I can feel all this rage and I leave
the house, go out and get in the car and I really yell it all out, then I come home and
feel relaxed and peaceful - when I was younger I would go out and ride my horses – I
had a miserable depressed feeling. When I’m on the horse I feel quite comfortable, in
the right place, the sense of freedom, in the fresh air, the movement, speed, connection
with horse. I loved being around them or on them. From 4 years old I hopped on them,
and this felt right. I got such a big sense of relief from going out riding. When I was
younger I felt the world was ending - no hope, no way out, stuck in a rut or a pit; now I
feel like that but I know it’s not true.”
KRM: Lac equinum 1M one dose every 6 days.
Comment: now, the patient has the strength to face the emotional issues related to
frustration with her ‘herd’. She tells us where to find her next remedy, in the solace of
her relationship with a horse. This is an adaptive strategy that allows her freedom from
these stressful relationships and may have been a pattern from very early in her life.
The remedy is needed repeatedly as her family situation is currently an obstacle to cure.
Follow up: 17/9/10 telephone
Breast infection returned but resolved with continuing feeding and compresses.
Phytolacca given, to be taken if needed.
Follow up: 21/10/10
From the last appointment until a few days ago, no skin eruptions on chin or forehead.
5 weeks of feeling good and not having to hide behind her hair. Had assessment with
social services regarding sexual abuse. She felt flushed and anxious that night and said:
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“I saw the acne coming back - it felt foreign as if it shouldn’t be there. I definitely didn’t
want it to be there - I felt dirty, ashamed, yuk, I hated myself (she cries). I look in the
mirror, I just hate you! With my weight and my skin, I look in the mirror and it is so
justified - it is disgusting. I have seen how clearly my emotions tie in with my body
stuff.
Lately, I have been on the spiritual plane, astral traveling. I was asking for help from
angels and guides. I felt someone in the house. I really have to wake myself up and get
up. Then, I was awake and I went out through the lounge window into space. It was a
series of visions, of stars, very dark blue, I am out there and I haven’t asked for any
protection. What if I can’t get back to my body? I need to be there for my son.
I had trouble breathing, then a voice said ‘you are not underwater, you can breathe.’ At
the very end, when I thought about coming back to my body, I did feel as though I was
under water, exactly like diving underwater and knowing you have to come up for the
next breath. I could feel myself gasping for breath.
The noise of leaving my body was deafening. It is like being on tarmac and hearing 20
jet engines going through my head, and angels wings beating as well. After that
experience I realized that a lot of things going wrong with me are self-punishment. I
realized that I am carrying deep shame and I am punishing myself for it. A voice said ‘it
is not Lucy’s pain’ - but I am carrying it. I started to feel some forgiveness of him (the
perpetrator) which I have never been able to do before.
I had a dream about looking at property with a lot of land belonging to a friend. My
husband wanted to buy it and I felt ready to move on to this land with the horses. This
stuck with me.”
I encouraged Lucy to hand those feelings of shame back to the perpetrator - they are
his feelings, not hers. Fifteen months later, Lucy writes “This is the most important tool
anyone has ever given me. I imagined hundreds of pack horses carrying his shame and
guilt back to him. I have never experienced the horrible, disgusting feeling (relating to
the abuse) that I could not even put into words, again. I feel almost totally recovered
from the effects of the sexual abuse – it is amazing to reach this place, I didn’t ever
think I would.”
RX: Lac equinum 1M one dose in clinic.
KRM: Living Tree Orchid Essence - Unveiling Affection - opens the heart to love
yourself.
Comment: there seems to be a remedy coming up from the human remedies, indicated
by language such as ‘astral traveling’, ‘angels and guides’, ‘very dark blue space’, ‘being
underwater’. At the moment she is doing tremendous emotional work processing the
abuse situation so I will wait until testing indicates she is ready to go there.
Follow up: 22/11/10
Felt younger and lighter after the last visit. Last week her husband went on a ‘bender’ of
drug-taking, drinking and gambling. Lucy was able to contain her anger so her husband
could talk about it and apologize. Her sense of self-worth was not very affected by the
incident and she was able to express how it had hurt her. Her back was somewhat sore.
Skin had more clear patches. She had a big cyst but it didn’t feel foreign. Menses have
improved. No more astral traveling.
After this she had a dream “I got married, and on the wedding day my husband-to-be
unexpectedly gave me a lot of jewelry, I felt really special and treasured.”
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Wore a bikini! Doing the community weight loss program based on low GI and avoiding
sweets.
RX: Lac equinum 1M one a day for three days
RX: Unveiling Affection as needed.
Follow up 15/12/10
Had a cold, sinusitis, lots of mucus, felt as if in a bubble. Anger coming up last week
related to a visit from her husband’s family.
We discussed how horses communicate with each other about boundary issues.
RX: Lac equinum 1M (6 spare doses to repeat as needed for anger).
Comment: in my experience, when patients say ‘last week such and such’ something
important is happening and I have learned to listen to this.
Follow-up: 24/1/11
Lots of ‘positives’. Skin is very good most of the time, just some premenstrual outbreak.
Extra doses of Lac equinum taken when anger surfaced, usually before menses.
“Most of the time I feel happier than I have ever felt before.” Doing lots of work on the
inside but smoking again - once a day as a reward when everyone is in bed. I have put
myself in a bubble where my husband (and his family) can’t hurt me now. In the past,
smoking would help to take away the hurt. In a meditation, I was in my childhood home
where I was molested and then in my dream, I went to the same home and there was
lots of blue light - it was really beautiful.
KRM: Skookum chuck 6x / twice daily for 6 weeks
KRM: Birth Control Pill/ Diane 35
RX: Syphilinum 200C, one dose given.
Comment: Skookum chuck is a homeopathic mineral salt that aids detoxification.
Affinity with skin and catarrhal states. Her language still suggests a human remedy. I
suspect at some point she will test in needing a human remedy at a C4 level because
this seems to be coming from a soul place. However, at this time her system is testing
to be cleared of a drug or vaccine. We identified all the chemicals, drugs and vaccines
she has had and listed them. Through the testing, her system identified the birth control
pill as a problem. As this wasn’t readily available, I tested to see if Syphilinum 200c
would serve a similar purpose to antidote this and other drugs.
Follow up: 26/5/11
Lucy stopped smoking 7 weeks ago. Feeling really good. Skin lovely. Broke out before
menses and was also very angry, crying falling apart. After the remedy, had a boil along
the bikini line - a deep abscess with pus coming out. Through the 6 weeks taking the
Skookum chuck, boils were coming and going.
Putting in boundaries for her husband who has been smoking dope, gambling and
drinking again.
KRM: Nicolum fluoratum 200C three times a day for three days
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RX: Skookum chuck 6x daily
RX: Lac equinum 1M as needed for anger before periods.
Comment: Natrum fluoratum is about being stuck in a situation where one is trying to
control a ‘fluoric’ situation - her husband opting out through drugs and gambling.
Syphilitic miasm.
Follow-up: 3/11/11
Issues with skin, hormones and weight have returned. Enlarged cervical glands – she
has had a history of glandular fever as a teenager. Nausea with last period similar to
morning sickness.
“My body feels very self-conscious, I mainly don’t like it around the middle. There is
almost some comfort there because it reminds me of pregnancy. I went to that stage
where I started to love myself. I had all these lovely clothes, smooth belly, part of me
wants to be pregnant. My tailbone has started to come forward; it stuck out badly after
childbirth. During pregnancy I had lovely clear skin and afterwards all the scarring
came.
"When I lose even a couple of kilos I feel really good, especially from around the
middle. There is a comfort around my posture when I don’t have all this weight around
my tummy. I walk taller, I can move freely. I am distressed to wake up and feel this
weight around my belly – self-disgust. I feel self-conscious and a bit unworthy. I feel
every alone with weight problems, like someone with less value.
"PMT is improving, less anger, had more of the 'wiped out' feeling, fragile for a day or
two and can cry easily, but that’s a good release. Menses is every 25 days now.
"On right hand side, I get a few sharp pains before the period - under my appendix
scar, that was where I had all the pain and contraction in the birthing - on the right
side.”
Craving sweet, grapefruit and cucumbers, raw milk and cream.
KRM: Placenta C220/5 one dose in clinic.
KRM: Tuberculinum 10M one dose 6 days after Placenta remedy then monthly.
Comment: at last, Placenta from the human group of remedies has tested.
Interestingly, she has tested positive for a C5 level which indicates an opportunity to
facilitate healing at the soul level and in her wider family. When people are clearing
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though the many layers of toxicity with organ and drainage remedies, they come to a
place where they suddenly see a way to navigate a way out of their stuckness. It’s like
seeing through clean windows.
Follow-up: 17/2/12 email
"Long time, no see! My skin was quite good after Tuberculinum, long periods of no
breakouts, acne more superficial, none of the deep painful ones. Just having a bout of
the painful 'glandular' type breakouts now - on face and inner thigh area, and I
wondered if I could have another dose of it, please?
"Also, the Placenta remedy was lovely - after only a day or two it felt different. I would
recommend it to anyone who has that empty, unloved feeling – being around people
and still feeling really alone. It's been a while since I took the remedy - but I have not
had that empty feeling again. PS: My husband and I separated early January, it is sad
that it came to that, but it’s a positive move."
RX: Tuberculinum 10M monthly with a follow up scheduled for next month.
Comment: when I first started working with Lucy, I did not have access to Placenta
C220/5 although I did have C3 potencies. Leaving her husband is a (healthy) C5
response to a destructive situation.
According to Melissa Assilem, Placenta has the following themes: Separation and
connection. Internal nourishment. Dreams of being excluded, not needed, fenced off,
hard to reach one’s goal. Tiredness, heavy feeling as if dragging limbs up a hill, feeling
spaced out, drifting in thoughts, intolerant, indifferent, feeling unloved before menses.
Isolated, disconnected, violent and cross in the family, unfinished business, loss of self,
need for space, wanting to watch and listen, hiding - wanting to be home, self-reproach,
dreams of being pregnant, fat, under water. Wants to build bridges, build on the circle
of love. Craving for sweets is an important symptom and has improved with this
remedy. Being in a bubble.
Placenta themes resonate throughout this story but Lucy had to find her own timing,
when exactly the right remedy was available to bring her out of the Placenta state.
Though it is early days in her long-term healing, I see how her system was choosing
remedies to nourish herself (Oleum jecoris, Thyroid protocol) and cleanse and detoxify
(Skookum chuck, Syphilinum). She was able to release self-punishment through the
support of Lac equinum and her deep connection with animals. A mineral element came
through Niccolum fluoratum, when she was trying to manage her husband’s destructive
behaviour. Each remedy enabled her to come to the place where she could make a deep
shift with Placenta.
Following on closely with Placenta, she was ready to work with the underlying
Tubercular element which finally surfaced to continue the good work that Oleum jecoris
had started. Her system needed Tuberculinum monthly to augment Placenta. Perhaps
the tubercular element gave her the substance to follow what Placenta remedy had
shown her.
I have come to realize that when homeopathy is practiced without in some way
connecting to the quantum field of the patient, we miss valuable information and as a
consequence many people may not get the results they want. We live in a complex and
toxic environment, where it is increasing difficult to nourish ourselves. Often, our foods
are sprayed, irradiated and lifeless, further stressing our detoxification channels. By
using the organ support remedies in low potencies, while also working with remedies
that stimulate healing at the physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual levels, we are
able to walk beside our clients on their journey of wellness. When our clients are ready,
our C4 -C7 remedies take us much deeper into the collective unconscious, enabling
healing of ourselves, our families our communities and our relationship with nature.
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Photos
Ray of light; AlicePopkorn; Flickr
Female horse rider; Mike Baird; Flickr
Placenta print; Buster Benson; Flickr
References
* Becker J., New Worlds of Homeopathy and the forces of life. With C4 texts from
Witold Erler. Verlag IHHF (Institut für Homöopathische Heilmittelforschung), Freiburg
2000
* Kinesthetic Resonance Method website www.intentionalgrace.co.nz
* Reference Works – Dr John Clarke – Oleum-jecoris
* Smits, Tinus “Beyond Autism – Cease Therapy”
* Thyroid Protocol - Linda Hanson seminar Auckland NZ July 2007
* Timmerman Alize - proving seminar Lake Tahoe, USA Oct 2010
Categories: Cases
Keywords: kinesiology, C4 trituration, acne, hirsutism, sexual abuse, depression, rage,
out of body, separation
Remedies: Lac equinum, Niccolum fluoratum, Oleum jecoris, Placenta, Syphilinum,
Tuberculinum
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Comments:
Angela Hair
Posts: 3
Kinesiology and homeopathy
Reply #2 on : Tue September 03, 2013, 07:27:18
Thanks for your comments Lee-Anne. I hope kinesiology will be used by
many homeopaths in years to come. Not only is it much easier to work this
way, but patients find it fascinating that they have the answers within
themselves. My clinic is also very busy and satisfying and there is great
potential for us to learn more about the healing art of homeopathy from
following our patients.
Lee-Anne McCall
Posts: 3
Kinesiology and Homeopathy
Reply #1 on : Tue September 03, 2013, 06:42:15
Thanks so much for posting this case and giving an insight into how you
work. I work very similiarly in my clinic and it amazes me the body's own
process of healing that it chooses. It's great to see how others are using
homeopathic knowledge and kinesiology as complementary tools in
supporting a client's healing process. In my homeopathic community, it is
often frowned upon and yet my clinic is bursting at the seams with clients.
When I read your article, I found encouragement and support.
Thanks again
Journey to the light: the Kinesthetic Resonance Method
by Angela Hair
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Life is an extraordinary journey toward greater awareness, understanding and
experience. As living beings, infused with biophotons of light, we consciously and
unconsciously interact with our environment. The possibilities of our responses are
infinite. Choosing the optimum response is hugely beneficial.
Over the past four years, I have integrated into my homeopathic practice a system of
kinesiology called Kinesthetic Resonance Method (KRM). Therese Boyle RCHom has
adapted this very fine form of muscle testing into a system that allows us to make a
quantum connection with our clients and energetically check their resonance with over
3000 potential remedies. This initial testing only takes 5-10 minutes at the end of the
consultation. Through this process with our clients we are able to identify the remedies
and potencies that are needed to facilitate their healing journey. For me, this has been
a major step forward in how I practice homeopathy. By accessing the client’s innate
knowledge of their internal resources they move forward with mind, body and spirit, in
unison.
As a homeopath working in this way it is a release from the overly analytical approach
of choosing remedies for clients, agonising over these choices and often wondering if I
had missed the indicated remedy.
Having already had 10 years working as a classical homeopath before using Kinesthetic
Resonance, I knew there were multiple ways to support our clients to health. In
hindsight however, I didn’t really understand the process of healing then as intimately
as I do now.
I am now much more accepting of the route each individual takes to be healthy. It may
be one remedy or many that are required. It is a beautiful dance through an
extraordinary field of light energy.
KRM in conjunction with homeopathy truly provides a quantum approach to healing.
The development of C4 homeopathic by Witold Ehler, Alize Timmerman and others, has
opened the way for homeopathic medicines to work beyond the individual, rippling
through the field of our family, community and beyond.
Each level of the triturating process to create C4 remedies works at a different level in
the field. The C1 level manifests symptoms primarily from the physical realm; C2 from
the emotional realm; C3 from the cognitive and mental realm and C4 from the level of
the soul. As we go beyond C4, we move into the greater field of community, which is
why it is not unusual to hear a person say after a C5 or C6 remedy that a family
member who was disconnected from them for years suddenly writes or calls. Such is the
pulse through the vibrational field when we choose to work beyond ourselves.
Our work as homeopaths is to walk beside our client, in their own time, providing the
support that is needed. We bring our acquired and innate skills to the journey and,
where necessary, call on the skills sets of other therapies when that is required.
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Lucy’s (name changed for privacy) story is a lovely example of self-directed healing
toward greater happiness, understanding and wellness.
Lucy (early thirties) has consulted with me for the past two years and together we have
selected remedies using the Kinesthetic Resonance Method. I have noted use of this
system by the initials ‘KRM’. ‘RX’ indicates the client has ‘tested in’ as needing the
previous remedy.
Lucy arrives at my clinic with long blond hair that tends to cover her face. Her chin has
signs of acne. She is softly spoken and gently laughs to herself as she tells her story.
She is married, with two children, the youngest still breast fed. For the sake of brevity, I
have selected just her main presenting symptoms.
First Consultation: 22/3/10
Excessive growth of body hair, especially bikini area and lower abdomen. Previous
medical tests have shown DHEA levels are high. Painful indurated facial acne, low
energy, aches and pain. Lower back pain. Burning in one foot with hot head. Lucy has
gained weight since she was pregnant with her second child. She is emotionally
hypersensitive. She has a history of sexual abuse, depression, and some post natal
depression.
KRM: Oleum jecoris 20x 3 drops daily
Comment: Dr J Clarke says Oleum jecoris (cod liver oil) is used for topical treatment of
ringworm in a tubercular patient. Faulty nutrition in children. Always taking colds.
Abnormal hair growth or alopecia. Emaciation or weight gain.
The decimal potency selection and narrow totality of this remedy indicates that Lucy’s
system has chosen to work at a physical (C1) level.
Follow up: 20/4/10
Lower back pain less but returned last week. Better immune response. No longer
burning foot and only occasional hot pains to head. Few acne outbreaks. Desire
sweets++. Feeling sad and down. Hair growth unchanged. Old symptom of psoriasis
returned for a few days. Energy improved, less feeling of being ‘on edge’, generally
happier. Breast engorgement decreased a couple of days later (she is currently
breastfeeding).
KRM: Oleum jecoris 20X 3 times a day and less on good days.
Comment: the physical symptoms are improving and immune response is better. Her
emotional state is more clearly seen and old symptoms have returned and resolved
again.
Follow up: 19/5/10
Much better. Tummy bug last week but not as exhausting as during previous bout,
when baby was 5 month old. Back ache improved but sore at present. Hair growth a
little worse. Lots of acne. Recurrent dream of her lost cat, she searches for him and
finds him. This dream recurs for many years now, always finding the cat in the end.
KRM: Oleum jecoris Q11 5 drops daily for 2 months.
Comment: still good improvement on the remedy and her system is still selecting the
remedy albeit at a different slightly higher potency of the C3 level. At the subconscious
level, I interpret the dream as a positive sign since the cat, perhaps representing a part
of herself, is always found.
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Follow up: 14/7/10
Sniffly nose but didn’t get the tummy bug that the rest of the family came down with.
Bout of mastitis (fever, aching, red stripes radiating from breast) when sleep-deprived,
caring for the sick family members. Back ache returned. Acne is coming to a head
except one pimple on chin that is not coming out. Desire sugar ++ . Drinking lots of raw
milk now.
KRM: Oleum animalis. This animal oil is indicated for effects of loss of animal fluids,
especially nursing women. The remedy is not suitable for this acute breast infection so a
different remedy is selected.
RX: Phytolacca 200C, t.d.i for two days.
KRM: Thyroid protocol (T3 6c, Zincum met 12c, Selenium 200c) twice daily for two
weeks after Phytolacca.
KRM: Oleum jecoris Q15 one drop daily after the Thyroid protocol has been completed.
Comment: breast tissue has the second largest store of iodine in the body after the
thyroid. During breast feeding, there is a much higher need for iodine for the health of
baby and mother so thyroid support is given to support this process. Advised her to
increase her dietary sources of iodine (seafood, sea vegetables).
Follow up 13/9/10
Mastitis responded well to Phytolacca. Energy is good. Improved bowel function at end
of the Thyroid protocol. Feeling hot.
She has not taken Oleum jecoris drops for 2-3 weeks. Lower back achy before menses
since teens, improved with Oleum jecoris drops. Bloating and tenderness with menses
has returned, which had improved on drops. Acne is coming and going, worse before
menses. It feels as though something is brewing.
“Acne almost feels like it is not part of my body - a foreign big thing stuck on my face, it
is a separate being. I don’t want anyone to see me when my face is like this. I am being
punished for something. It is associated with anger and rage, things wanting to come
out, to get rid of things. I have fairly quick temper, I can feel all this rage and I leave
the house, go out and get in the car and I really yell it all out, then I come home and
feel relaxed and peaceful - when I was younger I would go out and ride my horses – I
had a miserable depressed feeling. When I’m on the horse I feel quite comfortable, in
the right place, the sense of freedom, in the fresh air, the movement, speed, connection
with horse. I loved being around them or on them. From 4 years old I hopped on them,
and this felt right. I got such a big sense of relief from going out riding. When I was
younger I felt the world was ending - no hope, no way out, stuck in a rut or a pit; now I
feel like that but I know it’s not true.”
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KRM: Lac equinum 1M one dose every 6 days.
Comment: now, the patient has the strength to face the emotional issues related to
frustration with her ‘herd’. She tells us where to find her next remedy, in the solace of
her relationship with a horse. This is an adaptive strategy that allows her freedom from
these stressful relationships and may have been a pattern from very early in her life.
The remedy is needed repeatedly as her family situation is currently an obstacle to cure.
Follow up: 17/9/10 telephone
Breast infection returned but resolved with continuing feeding and compresses.
Phytolacca given, to be taken if needed.
Follow up: 21/10/10
From the last appointment until a few days ago, no skin eruptions on chin or forehead.
5 weeks of feeling good and not having to hide behind her hair. Had assessment with
social services regarding sexual abuse. She felt flushed and anxious that night and said:
“I saw the acne coming back - it felt foreign as if it shouldn’t be there. I definitely didn’t
want it to be there - I felt dirty, ashamed, yuk, I hated myself (she cries). I look in the
mirror, I just hate you! With my weight and my skin, I look in the mirror and it is so
justified - it is disgusting. I have seen how clearly my emotions tie in with my body
stuff.
Lately, I have been on the spiritual plane, astral traveling. I was asking for help from
angels and guides. I felt someone in the house. I really have to wake myself up and get
up. Then, I was awake and I went out through the lounge window into space. It was a
series of visions, of stars, very dark blue, I am out there and I haven’t asked for any
protection. What if I can’t get back to my body? I need to be there for my son.
I had trouble breathing, then a voice said ‘you are not underwater, you can breathe.’ At
the very end, when I thought about coming back to my body, I did feel as though I was
under water, exactly like diving underwater and knowing you have to come up for the
next breath. I could feel myself gasping for breath.
The noise of leaving my body was deafening. It is like being on tarmac and hearing 20
jet engines going through my head, and angels wings beating as well. After that
experience I realized that a lot of things going wrong with me are self-punishment. I
realized that I am carrying deep shame and I am punishing myself for it. A voice said ‘it
is not Lucy’s pain’ - but I am carrying it. I started to feel some forgiveness of him (the
perpetrator) which I have never been able to do before.
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I had a dream about looking at property with a lot of land belonging to a friend. My
husband wanted to buy it and I felt ready to move on to this land with the horses. This
stuck with me.”
I encouraged Lucy to hand those feelings of shame back to the perpetrator - they are
his feelings, not hers. Fifteen months later, Lucy writes “This is the most important tool
anyone has ever given me. I imagined hundreds of pack horses carrying his shame and
guilt back to him. I have never experienced the horrible, disgusting feeling (relating to
the abuse) that I could not even put into words, again. I feel almost totally recovered
from the effects of the sexual abuse – it is amazing to reach this place, I didn’t ever
think I would.”
RX: Lac equinum 1M one dose in clinic.
KRM: Living Tree Orchid Essence - Unveiling Affection - opens the heart to love
yourself.
Comment: there seems to be a remedy coming up from the human remedies, indicated
by language such as ‘astral traveling’, ‘angels and guides’, ‘very dark blue space’, ‘being
underwater’. At the moment she is doing tremendous emotional work processing the
abuse situation so I will wait until testing indicates she is ready to go there.
Follow up: 22/11/10
Felt younger and lighter after the last visit. Last week her husband went on a ‘bender’ of
drug-taking, drinking and gambling. Lucy was able to contain her anger so her husband
could talk about it and apologize. Her sense of self-worth was not very affected by the
incident and she was able to express how it had hurt her. Her back was somewhat sore.
Skin had more clear patches. She had a big cyst but it didn’t feel foreign. Menses have
improved. No more astral traveling.
After this she had a dream “I got married, and on the wedding day my husband-to-be
unexpectedly gave me a lot of jewelry, I felt really special and treasured.”
Wore a bikini! Doing the community weight loss program based on low GI and avoiding
sweets.
RX: Lac equinum 1M one a day for three days
RX: Unveiling Affection as needed.
Follow up 15/12/10
Had a cold, sinusitis, lots of mucus, felt as if in a bubble. Anger coming up last week
related to a visit from her husband’s family.
We discussed how horses communicate with each other about boundary issues.
RX: Lac equinum 1M (6 spare doses to repeat as needed for anger).
Comment: in my experience, when patients say ‘last week such and such’ something
important is happening and I have learned to listen to this.
Follow-up: 24/1/11
Lots of ‘positives’. Skin is very good most of the time, just some premenstrual outbreak.
Extra doses of Lac equinum taken when anger surfaced, usually before menses.
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“Most of the time I feel happier than I have ever felt before.” Doing lots of work on the
inside but smoking again - once a day as a reward when everyone is in bed. I have put
myself in a bubble where my husband (and his family) can’t hurt me now. In the past,
smoking would help to take away the hurt. In a meditation, I was in my childhood home
where I was molested and then in my dream, I went to the same home and there was
lots of blue light - it was really beautiful.
KRM: Skookum chuck 6x / twice daily for 6 weeks
KRM: Birth Control Pill/ Diane 35
RX: Syphilinum 200C, one dose given.
Comment: Skookum chuck is a homeopathic mineral salt that aids detoxification.
Affinity with skin and catarrhal states. Her language still suggests a human remedy. I
suspect at some point she will test in needing a human remedy at a C4 level because
this seems to be coming from a soul place. However, at this time her system is testing
to be cleared of a drug or vaccine. We identified all the chemicals, drugs and vaccines
she has had and listed them. Through the testing, her system identified the birth control
pill as a problem. As this wasn’t readily available, I tested to see if Syphilinum 200c
would serve a similar purpose to antidote this and other drugs.
Follow up: 26/5/11
Lucy stopped smoking 7 weeks ago. Feeling really good. Skin lovely. Broke out before
menses and was also very angry, crying falling apart. After the remedy, had a boil along
the bikini line - a deep abscess with pus coming out. Through the 6 weeks taking the
Skookum chuck, boils were coming and going.
Putting in boundaries for her husband who has been smoking dope, gambling and
drinking again.
KRM: Nicolum fluoratum 200C three times a day for three days
RX: Skookum chuck 6x daily
RX: Lac equinum 1M as needed for anger before periods.
Comment: Natrum fluoratum is about being stuck in a situation where one is trying to
control a ‘fluoric’ situation - her husband opting out through drugs and gambling.
Syphilitic miasm.
Follow-up: 3/11/11
Issues with skin, hormones and weight have returned. Enlarged cervical glands – she
has had a history of glandular fever as a teenager. Nausea with last period similar to
morning sickness.
“My body feels very self-conscious, I mainly don’t like it around the middle. There is
almost some comfort there because it reminds me of pregnancy. I went to that stage
where I started to love myself. I had all these lovely clothes, smooth belly, part of me
wants to be pregnant. My tailbone has started to come forward; it stuck out badly after
childbirth. During pregnancy I had lovely clear skin and afterwards all the scarring
came.
"When I lose even a couple of kilos I feel really good, especially from around the
middle. There is a comfort around my posture when I don’t have all this weight around
my tummy. I walk taller, I can move freely. I am distressed to wake up and feel this
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weight around my belly – self-disgust. I feel self-conscious and a bit unworthy. I feel
every alone with weight problems, like someone with less value.
"PMT is improving, less anger, had more of the 'wiped out' feeling, fragile for a day or
two and can cry easily, but that’s a good release. Menses is every 25 days now.
"On right hand side, I get a few sharp pains before the period - under my appendix
scar, that was where I had all the pain and contraction in the birthing - on the right
side.”
Craving sweet, grapefruit and cucumbers, raw milk and cream.
KRM: Placenta C220/5 one dose in clinic.
KRM: Tuberculinum 10M one dose 6 days after Placenta remedy then monthly.
Comment: at last, Placenta from the human group of remedies has tested.
Interestingly, she has tested positive for a C5 level which indicates an opportunity to
facilitate healing at the soul level and in her wider family. When people are clearing
though the many layers of toxicity with organ and drainage remedies, they come to a
place where they suddenly see a way to navigate a way out of their stuckness. It’s like
seeing through clean windows.
Follow-up: 17/2/12 email
"Long time, no see! My skin was quite good after Tuberculinum, long periods of no
breakouts, acne more superficial, none of the deep painful ones. Just having a bout of
the painful 'glandular' type breakouts now - on face and inner thigh area, and I
wondered if I could have another dose of it, please?
"Also, the Placenta remedy was lovely - after only a day or two it felt different. I would
recommend it to anyone who has that empty, unloved feeling – being around people
and still feeling really alone. It's been a while since I took the remedy - but I have not
had that empty feeling again. PS: My husband and I separated early January, it is sad
that it came to that, but it’s a positive move."
RX: Tuberculinum 10M monthly with a follow up scheduled for next month.
Comment: when I first started working with Lucy, I did not have access to Placenta
C220/5 although I did have C3 potencies. Leaving her husband is a (healthy) C5
response to a destructive situation.
According to Melissa Assilem, Placenta has the following themes: Separation and
connection. Internal nourishment. Dreams of being excluded, not needed, fenced off,
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hard to reach one’s goal. Tiredness, heavy feeling as if dragging limbs up a hill, feeling
spaced out, drifting in thoughts, intolerant, indifferent, feeling unloved before menses.
Isolated, disconnected, violent and cross in the family, unfinished business, loss of self,
need for space, wanting to watch and listen, hiding - wanting to be home, self-reproach,
dreams of being pregnant, fat, under water. Wants to build bridges, build on the circle
of love. Craving for sweets is an important symptom and has improved with this
remedy. Being in a bubble.
Placenta themes resonate throughout this story but Lucy had to find her own timing,
when exactly the right remedy was available to bring her out of the Placenta state.
Though it is early days in her long-term healing, I see how her system was choosing
remedies to nourish herself (Oleum jecoris, Thyroid protocol) and cleanse and detoxify
(Skookum chuck, Syphilinum). She was able to release self-punishment through the
support of Lac equinum and her deep connection with animals. A mineral element came
through Niccolum fluoratum, when she was trying to manage her husband’s destructive
behaviour. Each remedy enabled her to come to the place where she could make a deep
shift with Placenta.
Following on closely with Placenta, she was ready to work with the underlying
Tubercular element which finally surfaced to continue the good work that Oleum jecoris
had started. Her system needed Tuberculinum monthly to augment Placenta. Perhaps
the tubercular element gave her the substance to follow what Placenta remedy had
shown her.
I have come to realize that when homeopathy is practiced without in some way
connecting to the quantum field of the patient, we miss valuable information and as a
consequence many people may not get the results they want. We live in a complex and
toxic environment, where it is increasing difficult to nourish ourselves. Often, our foods
are sprayed, irradiated and lifeless, further stressing our detoxification channels. By
using the organ support remedies in low potencies, while also working with remedies
that stimulate healing at the physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual levels, we are
able to walk beside our clients on their journey of wellness. When our clients are ready,
our C4 -C7 remedies take us much deeper into the collective unconscious, enabling
healing of ourselves, our families our communities and our relationship with nature.
Photos
Ray of light; AlicePopkorn; Flickr
Female horse rider; Mike Baird; Flickr
Placenta print; Buster Benson; Flickr
References
* Becker J., New Worlds of Homeopathy and the forces of life. With C4 texts from
Witold Erler. Verlag IHHF (Institut für Homöopathische Heilmittelforschung), Freiburg
2000
* Kinesthetic Resonance Method website www.intentionalgrace.co.nz
* Reference Works – Dr John Clarke – Oleum-jecoris
* Smits, Tinus “Beyond Autism – Cease Therapy”
* Thyroid Protocol - Linda Hanson seminar Auckland NZ July 2007
* Timmerman Alize - proving seminar Lake Tahoe, USA Oct 2010
Categories: Cases
Keywords: kinesiology, C4 trituration, acne, hirsutism, sexual abuse, depression, rage,
out of body, separation
Remedies: Lac equinum, Niccolum fluoratum, Oleum jecoris, Placenta, Syphilinum,
Tuberculinum
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Comments:
Angela Hair
Posts: 3
Kinesiology and homeopathy
Reply #2 on : Tue September 03, 2013, 07:27:18
Thanks for your comments Lee-Anne. I hope kinesiology will be used by
many homeopaths in years to come. Not only is it much easier to work this
way, but patients find it fascinating that they have the answers within
themselves. My clinic is also very busy and satisfying and there is great
potential for us to learn more about the healing art of homeopathy from
following our patients.
Lee-Anne McCall
Posts: 3
Kinesiology and Homeopathy
Reply #1 on : Tue September 03, 2013, 06:42:15
Thanks so much for posting this case and giving an insight into how you
work. I work very similiarly in my clinic and it amazes me the body's own
process of healing that it chooses. It's great to see how others are using
homeopathic knowledge and kinesiology as complementary tools in
supporting a client's healing process. In my homeopathic community, it is
often frowned upon and yet my clinic is bursting at the seams with clients.
When I read your article, I found encouragement and support.
Thanks again
Selecting similimum is most important in homeopathy. Similarity of
symptoms is our guide in selecting similimum. All these talk about
‘kingdoms’, sub kingdoms, families and such things only contribute in
making homeopathy complex, and confuse the young homeopaths. It may
help in creating an aura around the teacher, which would attract people to
seminars.
In his Homeopathic Links interview, Vithoulkas says: “Sankaran alone has
done more harm to homeopathy than all the enemies of homeopathy
together.”
Andre Saine writes on his website: “Sankaran demonstrated several basic
errors of methodology and reasoning in his example of how he ‘discovers’
a remedy”
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"Homeopathy – from
Childhood to Old Age"
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practice with 40 patients a day. Heidi Brand and Norbert Groeger introduce us to the
remedy picture of the alga Chara intermedia, which has provoked a flurry of interest,
proving especially popular for geriatric cases. Wrapping up is the Israeli homeopath
Michal Yakir, who shows how childhood behavioural disturbances can be treated with
the insights from her groundbreaking discoveries in the typology of plants.
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Wonderful Plants by Jan Scholten
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After many years of intensive research, Jan Scholten’s long-awaited book
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Jan Scholten’s previous works on the systematic classification of the
elements of the periodic table as homeopathic remedies was the greatest
breakthrough of the last ten years in homeopathy.His discoveries have
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Jan Scholten’s research is not the Mineral but the Plant kingdom. This can
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The same natural laws that can be seen in the series and stages of the periodic
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The path to the required remedy is not as easy to recognize as with the mineral
elements – indeed, it is still evolving! One of the timeless values of this work lies
in the essences of the plant families.
The synergy in homoeopathy by Rajan Sankaran
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Traditional Classical Homoeopathy, with symptoms, rubrics and keynotes has
stood the test of time. Introduction of newer, more contemporary ideas of
kingdom, levels, miasms and sensation have brought Homoeopathy into a new
paradigm. Never before has the connection between the patient and the remedy
source been as clear.
These contemporary ideas have become very popular and have led to many
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generation have started using it as a shortcut, and have sometimes neglected
traditional knowledge. The profession became split, with conventional and
contemporary homoeopathy sharply divided.
The originator of the Sensation Method, Rajan Sankaran, has always maintained
that symptoms and system are two sides of same coin and that success results
from an integrated approach. It is like using both the left and right sides of the brain;
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The knowledge and understanding found in old masters like C. M. Boger is now
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Wondrous order by Mikal Yakir
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The book "Table of Plants - Wondrous Order" is currently being
translated into English and is expected by the end of 2013. In the
meantime, this short table is available. The table summarises the
concepts of the book, giving the main qualities of each family and
order of plants according to its position in the table.
Similarly to the periodic table, the botanical system can be used
as a basis for homeopathic prescribing. The homeopath Michal Yakir,
a former botanist, uses the Cronquist system and has developped a
logical and easy to use way of applying the plant system to homeopathy.
The table provides a scheme that connects between plant development
stages to human developmental stages – from birth to old age: from
unity to individuality.
The plant table explains the traits of groups of plants, small remedies
and new provings. Even our cases can be understood more clearly,
and the homeopathic prescription improved.
Meditative provings by Madeline Evans
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A contentious subject for traditional homeopaths, meditative provings are among a
growing number of new
proving methodologies. In this book, fifty-two remedies provings are proposed;
Stonehenge, Tiger's eye,
Goldfish, Mimosa, Rose quartz, Chalice Well, Clay, Berlin Wall, among others. As with all
pioneer work, this
is a work in the making with all the limitations it implies. The ultimate test, however, is
whether the remedy
will bring cure to the patient and it seems that verification in practice by the Guild of
Homeopaths' members
has been consistent in quality compared with traditionally proven remedies.
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Keywords: Panorama
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