Patient, female 43y., suffering from continual tiredness and sadness. At the same time there is a feeling of being ‘not quite there’. In this case, the patient’s physical complaints centered around her "water works": her tendency to retain so much fluid around her menses, and her extremely frequent need to urinate. This, plus the out of body feeling led to the remedy given.
A very tired male, age 37, who feels empty and irritable. In order to get self-recognition people find peculiar ways to re-balance themselves. Striking in this case is the fact that the patient felt so much better whenever he could hold a sermon.
The idea of being controlled without the exercise of will was the essential characteristic in this case. Being confined too tightly for too long. The remedy restored her sensation, her emotional expression, and her vitality.
To live together. The appropriate miasm is the sycose. Three cases in which the remedies spigelia resolved a stinging pain in the eyes - trigger: surrounding factors, kalium phosphoricum and a mourning process - trigger: dreams, uranium nitricum resolved inflammation / occupation with well-being of surrounding people - trigger: strong non-verbal communication
This article is written primarily to attempt to describe what the medical art of Homoeopathy is and how it acts to cure suffering and disease. The central idea described here is that in suffering the person is in the process of suppression of healthy feelings. The author shows also some of the most outstanding features of suffering which includes an explanation of what is underlying the chronic miasm of psora and also what is taking place in the other miasmic dispositions.
Some characteristic processes of suffering: - a potentised remedy also creates an altered state of being and it is from the disharmony of this altered state that symptoms of distress begin to appear; - somehow suffering is related to feelings.