Last week I read a book on family constellations Trauma, Bonding & Family Constellations: Understanding and Healing Injuries of the Soul by Franz Ruppert. And the similarity with homeopathy is striking.
He describes cases of schizophrenia, paranoid psychosis and severe depression that were cured by family constellations. A very important issue, there is the uncovering of secrets, family secrets in this case. The trauma’s of unwanted children, children having died early and not being honored anymore, the trauma of murder are kept secret, but that doesn’t help or resolve. The contrary happens: the offspring is disturbed and the kept secret becomes worse and therefore the worsens the disturbance.
The uncovering is essential in the healing process. It is as we know in homeopathy: not knowing is disease, knowing is healing.


For example, Franz Ruppert presents a case of paranoid schizophrenia. The man feels persecuted, thinking he has committed a crime, caused an accident. In the research of the family history it turns out that his grandmother had conceived a child form the brother of his grandfather. Also, a family member was killed in a car accident, but that the man who caused it was not persecuted as he was a man of high rank.


It turns out that it is useless to run away from a problem. It follows you like a shadow. The man in the case above tries very hard to get rid of his ideas of persecution, but in vain. It is useless the fight the symptoms, they will come back in another form. The only thing that helps is going to the source of the problem, uncover it and show it.


In a way one can say that the Law of Similars is used in family constellations: one goes to the problem, the simillimum. More generally said we can say that the Law of Similars is not just a law in or of homeopathy, but that it is a law of healing. It is applicable to all healing forms.


The above book is originally in German "Verwirrte Seelen - Der verborgen Sinn von Psychosen" and translated in Dutch as "De verborgen boodschap van psychische stoornissen".


The editors wish you a very happy 2009 and pleasant reading of this issue.

Jan Scholten

Literature Reference:
Franz Ruppert - http://www.franz-ruppert.de/
German: Verwirrte Seelen. Der verborgene Sinn von Psychosen - Kösel Verlag
English: Trauma, Bonding & Family Constellations: Understanding and Healing Injuries of the Soul
Green Balloon Books (an imprint of CWT) - ISBN 978-0-9559683-0-3
see: http://www.constellationswork.co.uk/page67a.html
Dutch: “De verborgen boodschap van psychische stoornissen - De waarheid heelt de waan”
ISBN 978 90 77247 73 0 - 464 pagina’s - € 32,50 - april 2008 - uitgeverij akasha

Case
Original case taken 3/31, 2006
Female 43


Main:
Chronic diarrhea for approximately 7 years. It did not bother me until I got this horrible pain that started 3 years go. Had cramping pain for a week and had to go to hospital. Kept me in the hospital for a week and felt sick for 2 weeks after that.

Tests: Upper GI, Cat Scan, stool and blood tests. Was in the hospital again last year and they did a colonoscopy and ultrasound of abdomen. Finding: Tiny kidney stones.

Tendency to stomach Viruses.
Lots of diarrhea—2 to 10 movements a day- with severe and debilitating cramping in abdomen. More often on the left, sometimes the whole abdomen. Crawls up in bed and not able to move. It comes in bouts that go from 2 days to 1 ½ weeks and diarrhea more frequent when going through a bout. Nausea and vomiting sometimes.

No appetite, forcing herself to eat. Evening, >heat for all the aches—Stomach, shoulder—

Never had a bad relationship with food but when she has the pain she does not want to eat. Takes Ensure and only have one meal a day. Since September has lost a lot of weight.

Other Symptoms:

Tiredness-Linked to MS diagnosis and < since the pain pattern started.

Postnasal drip:

MS: Pins and needles that come and go, not all the time. Tiredness is the major sx.
I do not have typical sx. Of MS very pronounced. I have been ambulatory all this time.
When I have difficulty walking it is a kind of weakness related to being recovering from abdominal pain. Mild lack of coordination and balance.

Neck and shoulder pain

Worn out – Takes naps to be able to function.
Activities of the day: Takes daughter to school, tries to walk there, checks e-mails, sort out laundry, naps, picks daughter from school, helps her with homework, takes her to after school classes. Don’t do a lot of cleaning, ‘not my priority’.
I wait to take a nap until 10:30 am or 11 because I could lie down earlier and stay there the whole day. ‘Stopping any activity makes me feel better’.

Migraines: Horrible migraines since 12. Weather related, barometric pressure changes.
At 12 moved to Toronto. Did not want to go and leave friends. I was ahead in school in many ways and the move meant having to learn French.


Medications:
Neurantin-Was taking it for MS. Neurologist stopped it to determine if the pain got better without.
Donnatal—Phenobarbital and belladonna alkaloids: hyoscyamine atropine and scopolamine) anticholinergic/antispasmodic drug.

Medical history:
Since early childhood URI, ear infections. Throat infections. Would get an infection 5x. a year. Always allergic, postnasal drip. Sneezing spring and fall.


DISPOSITION/Emotional
Hair died very red highlights.
During the interview she is changeable, can be sobbing and starts laughing.
She looks pale, anxious, not a lot of movement.
Sits with left ankle over the right knee and both hands with fingers tightly clasped under the crossed leg, picking at the cuticle of the thumb with opposite thumbnail. The more emotional she gets the tighter she clasps the fingers and the more she digs into the thumb.
She is very emotional reporting the symptoms of the pain.

Her opinion of the pain: “The pain is a punishment, this pain is something I brought on to myself. It is a punishment for not living up to my potential. Too lazy or too afraid to do anything else.”

I guess I feel guilty that I have not done more with my life, other than raising Julia and making some jewelry. Only Catholics would feel guilty about things like these. Nobody else is giving me a hard time. My husband does not resent me for not cleaning he house, but I feel guilty anyway. There is clutter everywhere.


Dreams:
Used to have elaborate dreams of houses...famous people...guest stars. My friends would joke, whom is guest starring now?
I would be an actress, or a writer, or a dancer.
Even after I was diagnosed with MS still had these grand sort-of-dreams where I would do things that are not physically possible. As in I am not able to be a ballerina in real life, but in my dream I was.
Dreams were wildly unrealistic, not many recently (Cries.) It is kind of sad. I don’t see why I cannot be a ballerina while I am sleeping if I cannot be one in real life. Then she laughs and says funny, isn’t it? Why Not?

In my dreams I could be an architect. Then I would joke with friends saying if I had a client I would say to him or her, let me take a nap and I will get back to you. I swear the next day I would remember exactly all the details of their house.

Dreamt that I was a composer and woke up trying to remember the song.

When sick: weird realistic nightmares. Horrible, my house in reality is cluttered and I am a pack rat. Neither husband nor I like it, but I am too tired to put the effort to fix it.
In my dream husband and I had a big fight about the mess. We started to clean and he was still yelling at me that I had not done the cleaning. I am ‘we were cleaning, doing something about it,’ I felt blind-sided; he keeps saying this house is a mess and you have to get rid of this stuff. I am “we are working on it” I was mad at him.


In reality we don’t fight that much. When annoyed with him I call him and tell him what I am annoyed about because I know when he comes back I won’t be annoyed any more.
I feel that I don’t have the right to be mad at him because I am not doing anything. Cries.
I take pictures and do jewelry, nothing that is useful to the household. We planned on me staying home and be a mom.

My major fear right now is that this is it. This is as healthy as I will be. I am sleepwalking through life. Not really doing anything. Aware since out of the hospital that I am afraid to do things (sobs), to make plans, what if I won’t be feeling well. Never happened before. I had MS diagnosed for a long time and never worried about it. With this stomach thing I feel helpless, hunched over with pain, if it does not go away I wont have any kind of life. Days are boring, long and hard. This is affecting daughter. She saw my father and mother having a hard time and now I am having a hard time. She woke up one day and was hysterical and did not want to go to school.

Off and on has done some writing and wants to get back to that. People comment on how funny my Christmas cards are. I should write a book about the funny aspects of being sick. Being sick is a scarier thing lately, feeling helpless, useless, exhausted, depressed (holds her belly) I don’t want to think about the stomach ache.

Asked her about holding her belly? She said is protective. The MS is something I got; the stomach thing is my fault. Old testaments stories about a person being blind because he or his parents did something wrong.


The other fear is that I will end up being not a good mother, tired and crappy. Crabby with Julia. I don’t feel well and I yell for something minor. Don’t want her to have that memory.
Daughter is 7, that was around the time when diarrhea started, but don’t remember any particular stress then. Mother got sick a few years later. (Cries) She had a brain tumor and died in Oct 2005—5 months ago—sobbing. Father had heart attack around the time mother was diagnosed. I guess father is ok. (Cries and laughs) he keeps going, he had another heart attack a month or so ago. The horrible bout of pain in January was a couple of months after mom died. It has been worse since mom died.


Dreams: floating. Specifically remember telling somebody about a dream, relaying the whole experience of floating. Not as a body, but the whole experience of the dream, the place or the room was floating. Last night I had a dream of flying, involved flying, preparing to fly in an airplane.


ANALYSIS

-Wants to be an artist, but not able to perform in anyway.
In her dreams she performs and is around people that are famous performers.
In dreams she is an architect, always art. She makes jewelry and likes photography.

-I am not doing anything, not using my potential, too lazy or too scared.
Should be punished
Stomach pain is a punishment for not doing anything with her life.
In dreams husband mad at her because she does not clean, blaming her.

-Changeable: from crying to laughter. From sadness to biting sense of humor.


Silver Series: The artist, Creating, Performance
Stage: 5
Torturing herself, tantalizing, wants to do it. Unrealistic. She dreams that she is what she wants to be, but not able to make it a reality.
She is unable to move forward to do her art.

Scholten:
Not able to decide if they can do it. Content with seeing others do it.
--She can only do it in her dreams.

Can be changeable, but more about not being able to decide how to go about doing what he wants to do. Piles of unfinished paintings, writings, etc. The mountain never gets any smaller.

Prescription: Niobium 200c. 

Follow Up May 16, 2006
"Have not had any stomach aches since the remedy.
Not a lot of diarrhea either, and I had that a lot before the pain started.
2 bowel movements a day and most of the time perfectly normal.
Because of feeling better I feel more optimistic about things.
I do not feel punished. I feel if it happens again I can come out of it.

Still get headaches before it rains and it has been raining a lot, but not getting them every time it has rained."

Dr. recommended to go back to Neurantin and gave her Nortrityline (add drug that has headaches in the most frequent side effects)
Tiredness is better; postnasal might be a bit better. Eating better.


Follow Up July 11, 2006
Had a relapse on June 7, sick to stomach, nauseous. Had her repeat the remedy in water for several doses. Though I was relapsing I was basically functioning, did not need to go to bed as it used to be.
Had one day with the humidity feeling the left side of her body weak. Then got better.
Headaches are still coming and related to the weather. Better when in air-conditioning.
She looks much better, energetic and animated.


Follow Up October 10, 2006
The stomach problem has been fine. Occasionally a day that I feel nauseous but it goes away quickly.
Right knee hurting when going up and down stairs.
Had a sinus infection and was put in two rounds of antibiotics.
Doing a lot of cleaning lately. Husband helping rearrange things on the porch. Getting lot done and organizing her shop.


Follow Up December 12, 2006
Headaches are better though still get them.
No sx. Of MS
Energy somewhat better but threw her back out and ended up at the ER and they gave her medication. The back pain slowing me down.
Stomach and diarrhea ok.

Prescription:  Niobium 1m.


Follow Up Feb. 6, 2007
Stomach has been ok. Last week just a bit nauseous, but not severe.
For a week and ½ bad cold. Congestion, post-nasal, stuffy nose, sore throat, body aches. Alternating hot and cold. Cough.
Have not had many headaches.
In the last 2 months pins and needles left arm. PC thought it was carpal tunnel syndrome because of what I have been doing with the jewelry.

Prescription: Niobium 1m. in water 3 doses tonight and call to report on progress.


Follow Up Feb. 8, 2007
The cold is better, still some congestion left.

Follow Up Called her Aug. 8, 2008
to see how she was but could not get in touch with her.


Matilde Flores
email:
Matilde lives and practices in Maynard, MA, USA.
She has been in practice since 1983 and is a Board Member of the New England Homeopathic Academy.
She is Certified by the Council of Homeopathic Certification since 1995.

Case
Taken November 13, 2007


Female – 28 y, very attractive and sensual look to her.

Main:
Stiffness in neck, particularly on right side since 7 days ago.
< Bending forward
Painful in the occipital area, tension in the neck and into the shoulders.
Not a lot going on right now physically

Emotionally:
“Major life drama”
Broke up with fiancé 3 weeks ago.
Re-evaluating work situation.
Issues in the relationship mirrored at work.
I do not want to be in that situation any longer, stress coming with that as well. Aware that while it is not a crisis I need to make a move. Anxiety and strain that comes with that.

My fiancé was in Iraq for a while and came back a month ago.
I was selflessly sacrificing, waiting, putting everything on hold and worried sick. Even before he left I was commuting and going to see him. “Giving a lot of me and not getting a lot back.” I thought it was ok, because I thought his work was good and he was verbally appreciating the support. He came back and completely ignores me. It is bizarre. As if he dropped from the face of the earth, incomprehensible. Beyond me. I made it known that this was unacceptable, and did not hear from him.

Anxiety with that. No answers, Afraid I am again putting out a lot and nothing coming back. It is the history of the relationship and that is how it ended.

At work (she is a buyer for a reputable furniture company in NYC) Great job, compensated well. Love what I am doing in terms of my career but my boss is a complete narcissist, maniacal, immature, temper tantrums, all about him. I put the work in, day in and day out. Feeling on the verge of a nervous break down, unsupported.
I needed a day off and had the right to take the day and when I came back he is acting as if I did something wrong.

It hit me all at once.
With fiancé: “fuck him, he does not deserve my ass”

I handled it well; I could be a mess now. Picked myself up. My mind starts to wander and it is upsetting. I need to keep moving, I am functional. Then I get depressed, not recognized or acknowledged as a human being.

With work. Nothing is perfect. Instead of making a desperate move, I will be methodical and wait till the right opportunity comes.

Normally when stressed react by eating more but now do not feel like eating.

Basically putting a lot out and getting nothing back.

Fear: That I won’t meet anybody else. The Idea of an open, loving, genuinely caring forthright man exists. But now I really started to doubt that. Not from my experience.
Or from the experiences of my friends. It is a dire situation. I don’t know if it is the age, the maturity is not there with the guys; maybe I should start hanging out with older men.
I want somebody that openly confronts things.

With work the situation has not changed, but my perspective changed. Afraid I won’t put my thoughts into action in a timely fashion, that the situation will become unbearable and I will not be able to fake my interest and participation in work.
I am respected there and the role I play is respected and is important to walk away from the job maintaining that. Involved with people highly recognized in the industry. Cannot lose anything that I gained. Afraid I will become so disillusioned that I will not care.


Upbringing/past history:
Her father is from Syria; her mother is from Costa Rica. Racial tensions between father’s family and mother for years.
She considers her father weak and close-minded.
She is an artist with a master’s degree In Fine and Decorative Arts in England.
Lived in Amsterdam for a few years after London. She followed her boyfriend to Amsterdam and married him. The situation was very difficult; they were both depressed and he was abusive to her. She divorced. Big disappointment.
She has always being very naïve, ‘wide eyed.’ Yet gets into fixed ideas and impulsively challenges the establishment.
She had bouts of depression In Holland and England and felt that she took the decision to take the program in England due to an impulse and not because she had all the facts.

When she started the job in NYC she met a woman and entered into a Lesbian relationship. She was not sure if that was her sexual orientation. Her partner then putting a lot of pressure on her to challenge the values of her father and mother which she did and her father had a nervous breakdown.
She ended up feeling abused by this woman and eventually left the relationship.


Analysis
Naiveté
Impulsive
Sensuality
In the conflict at work we can see that she is just being established and is looking to be honored, but her biggest fear is to fail due to impulsivity and thoughtlessness.

Prescription: Rubidium Carbonicum 200c. One dose.


Follow Up Nov. 26, 2007

The stiffness in the neck is much better.
Feeling calmer and not so desperate with the break up.
Searching for a job.

Follow Up August 8, 2008

She said she had not called because she is doing well. At work the attitude of her boss has changed significantly so she stayed with the job. No relationship right now.


Matilde Flores
email:
Matilde lives and practices in Maynard, MA, USA.
She has been in practice since 1983 and is a Board Member of the New England Homeopathic Academy.
She is Certified by the Council of Homeopathic Certification since 1995. 

Interstitial Fibrosis of Lungs and Natrium phos


In the November of 1998 I was consulted by a lady of 62 years with her reports of her lungs. She looked very sad, but transmitted very good and strong energies. She had a smiling face, but it seemed that she was hiding a lot of sadness. She came with her brother who also was my patient. While he was with her she quietly and softly started to narrate. During the narration all the while she had her head tilted to one side…


“It all started with fever and they said that I have Malaria and was started on the treatment for it, but as I was not responding to the treatment they did a bronchoscopic examination of my bronchioles and they diagnosed it as Interstitial Lung Fibrosis. They said to take steroids and I didn’t want to take them so I come to you.

I had fever for 12-13 days and all the tests were done and they were all normal. The fibrosis they say is not due to the smoking I do. 6 months ago I stopped it. I feel a lot to smoke and I eat fennel instead.” (The brother leaves the room)

C: Now what is happening?
"No problem, no cough. Yesterday my friend had a kitty party and after seeing my reports she said that they are treating me for Tuberculosis. No fever, no cough. It was just fever. Since only 2-3 days I get this back pain on the left side and I get a pain while I breath." (She now sits with her hand on her head)

"Is it due to the air-conditioner? Maybe I caught a chill because of the cold draft. At my daughter’s house there is a A/C."

C: Normally you don’t sleep in the A/C?
“No.” (A big pause and she gets silent)

C: In the past did you have any problems?
"Regarding? Years ago I had a fall; I had fractured my right collar bone. It is still sticking out. I have always got a vertigo problem in the dark in the evening. It is for a lot years and I have tried a lot of doctors." ( A big pause and she gets silent again.)

C: Describe your nature?
"I am a very sensitive person. I have got 3 children, 1 son and 2 daughters. My son is in Dubai, one daughter is in France and one here in Bombay. I lost my husband 5 years back, he was a pilot in the Indian Airlines. I was the youngest in my family. My husband was a Rajput (Hindu) and I a Khoja (Muslim): At present I am living all alone. My daughter visits me when her husband goes on flights. I have my two drinks every evening and that is my habit. That’s all!"

"My son is married to a Catholic for 12 years. Being a Rajput’s son last year he was converted to a Catholic. It hurt me badly. My eldest daughter is in France and is divorced from her husband. She is living alone with her 7 year old daughter. It is a tension for me. My youngest daughter was an air hostess and didn’t want to get married because of me, that who will look after me. We forced her to get married. She is expecting now. I go to her often. In the building we have kitty party all ladies get together 2-3 times a week."

"I think I have said everything!"

"I get hurt very soon, am sensitive. I don’t express my inner feelings to people. I would rather suffer myself than let people suffer."

"Enough! That’s all! What else do I say, I have said everything!"

C: Describe this sensitivity?
"It is whatever I have said to you. Loneliness eats me up from the inside. Tell me now what to do…You think that I will get better without steroids?"

C: I think we can do it with out steroids, but if we need we will start, but at present we don’t need them.
"At present I am taking Calcium and Vitamins. He asked me to get these tests done. If I don’t need steroids why should I go to him?"

C: Be honest to him, say I didn’t want to take steroids and I wanted to try homoeopathy.
"What is this fibrosis due to? They have done a biopsy and it also shows that. What are you going to give me?"

C: Good medicine!
"These small sweet tablets!" (Smiling)

C: What hurts you the most?
"When my children are not happy and healthy! Whenever anything happens to them I pray to God and keep a vow for them, or fast for them. I went through all this (sickness), but I didn’t ask anything at all from God, I ask only for my kids, that nothing should happen to them. I only worry is for my children."

C: What is the worry?
"What will happen to them!?  How her life will go on. She is still not divorced. I worry for that small girl. They are in a foreign land. She had married a Frenchman. My son is not supporting me in any way. My son in law does. To depend on him is another tension.
I feel like a cigarette now!"( Weepy, there were tears in her eyes)

C: you have tears in your eyes?
“Yes!”

C: I will give you some sweets instead (My preceding patient, a little boy had left me some round sweet balls of different colours, these I gave to her and she took one .)
"If sometimes I smoke will it harm me? Just for the fun of it !"

C: Yes it is. You wept?
"I feel for my children. (Reaching to take another sweet). Like I said, I am staying with my daughter. My son sends some money as and when he feels like. I say to him, send me every month, but he never does."

C: What do you feel when he doesn’t look after you?
"After marriage sons always belong to their wives and not mother.
What is this pain that I get due to? Many times I get a catch in the chest and I am better drinking water. It could be gas? I get cramps also in my feet; doctor said it is calcium deficiency.
When do I have to come again to see you ?"

C: I still need to talk to you.
"You ask questions and I will answer."

C: It hurts that your son doesn’t care for you!?
"I feel obligated to my son-in-law. Even my daughter from France sends me some money. At present my daughter in law and grand son are here, they came yesterday. Last year he was with me for a year since my son could not afford to keep him there."

C: Son-in –law?
"Is good natured. He is a pilot. He is a non-veg and my daughter is a vegetarian. He never wanted my daughter to work. It is a love marriage. One daughter married a Frenchman, my son married to a catholic and she married to a South Indian. My husband a Rajput and I am a Muslim. We are a cosmopolitan family."

C :Do you feel obligated?
"Still I rather have my son look after me than my son-in-law. But somehow going to his house and staying I can’t. Same thing I feel at Dubai at my son’s house too. I feel like an outsider. I went twice to Dubai, once for my grandson’s pregnancy and once more. My daughter in law is very possessive of my son."

C: Outsider?
"Yes. The same I feel, I feel obligated with my son-in law. I don’t feel a right to stay there. It is my daughters house, it does make a difference. I do shuttle work, knitting. My daughter is pregnant and I made 5 sets already. My daughter has a daughter and son has a son. Whenever all my friends’ kids are expecting I knit for them, nothing else to do. I pass my time knitting. In 8 days I finish knitting. I will bring to show it to you."

C: What do you think while you are knitting?
"Nothing. “

C: What else?
"I love plants. I have green fingers. I have 20 of them. I like lilies, and all greens. I don’t like flowering plants, I like greens."

C: What else?
"I love sunshine and sunset."

C: You live close to the sea?
"Yes. I was surrounded by the sea when I came to stay here. I am on the 7th floor on the top and can see the sea still. I am alone so I feel there is no sense in getting up so early. I get up at 6.30 and go to sleep again and wake up at 8.30 a.m."

C: You get any dreams?
"Yes in the mornings. This one I got 2-3 times, it is that I am sitting in the sand and am moving my fingers in it and I suddenly find money, a lot of coins. I also get dreams of flying and my eyes open." ( Smiling)

C: Do you like birds?
"Yes I have a lot of pigeons and one of them sits near the bathroom and today she gave the 8th egg. I tell my servant not to touch it."

"I am fond of dogs, one died at 10 years and the other when he was 14. I want one since I am alone, but since I play cards between 2-7 p.m., I would not like to leave it. They are like a child and you get so attached to them, they become like family members. Till today whenever I open my door I feel my dog will come."

"Anything else you want to ask ? I am tired. I woke up very early as I had to come here. I didn’t sleep again as I thought that I won’t be able to go to sleep again."

C: You have a nice name, what does it mean?
"It means “sugar”. I love to eat sugar and potatoes. I can take pungent and a lot of green chillies."


Individualization:

Here was a serious, sad lady feeling like an “outsider” with her son because of the possessive daughter-in-law and also with her very nice and caring son-in-law. This “outsider” feeling made her feel lonely and so she tries to indulge in some outside company by being sociable at kitty parties and playing cards and gifting sweaters to others which she knitted in her loneliness. Living her outsider feeling she indulges into lonely activities like knitting and tending to plants. Although she would like to have a dog as company, as a family member she does not want to leave the animal alone as she is knows how much it hurts to feel lonely.

Her speech was precise. Although I could with enough prodding get quite a bit of emotional information, there was a lot of self restrain.

Her main cause of worry was her children and not her self, but although so attached to them it was with them that she felt like an outsider.

The individualizing symptoms from her story of her self can be…
1. Seriousness
2. Sadness
3. Sociability
4. Cravings: Sweets, potatoes, and pungent
5. Estranged feeling (outsider)
6. Anxiety about the health of her children

The quintessence of Natrium’s is being an “outsider”. This is from the fact that Na+2 ion is an extra cellular ion, it is the principal ion that is outside the cell. The disposition of our patient to feel like an “outsider” guided me to Natrium. Was it justified to make such a synthetic prescription?

What about the Anxiety as to the health of her children as she put it in her words…
“When my children are not happy and healthy! Whenever anything happens to them I pray to God and keep a vow for them, or fast for them. I went through all this (sickness), but I didn’t ask anything at all from God, I ask only for my kids, that nothing should happen to them. My only worry is for my children.”

The sweets and potatoes did point towards Natrium phos, but this anxiety about children?
I decided to read all the Natrium’s (un fragmented picture, non repertory picture) and I found this in “The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica” by T.F. Allen I read under Natrum-Phos thus…
“Awakens; fears his child, who has a trifling ailment, is dead; he goes to her room to relieve the otherwise ineffaceable impression”
(This is not present in most repertories!)

And later everything fell into place, the craving for potatoes, the strong taste of pungent food, the indulging in sweets and the state of the mind and the disposition!

What helped me was the study into the proving symptoms of the remedy, although none of the other books mention this symptom for Nat-Phos.

The choice of the remedy was clear, Nat- Phos in the 200 C, single dose to start.


Follow Up:
Within a month her stitch in the chest disappeared and the sleep got better. She started gaining weight and her energies started to get happier. In the July of 99, I asked for a repeat X-ray and it was reported to be clear of the Interstitial Fibrosis picture.

Meanwhile her daughter delivered another child and she stayed with her comfortably caring for her. She still thinks of her children, but also cares for herself. The son still does not care for her, it pains her, but she accepts.

As she put it…
“If he does not call me up from Dubai, I call him up and speak to him whenever I feel like talking to him.”

After she started to live with her daughter, she needed a dose of 1000 C to help her with the feeling of her missing the affection of her son (although the son in law was a gem, as she liked to put it). She would visit me once in two months free of any complaints, her weight steady at 62 kg, smoking two cigarettes a day, having two pegs of wine a day in the evening and living a full life with her daughter and her grand children.

As she puts it…
“I don’t feel the deep sadness from the inside anymore. But I still worry about my children, they are my only family. It is too much work to care for my grand children; it keeps me so busy that I don’t get time to myself."


Bibliography:
1. Organon of medicine By Samuel Hahnemann 6th Edition Translated By William Boericke, by B. Jain Publishers 1997.
2. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by T.F.Allen, B Jain publishers, 1992


Dr.Chetna N.Shukla
Add: 1, Thelma Apt, Vakola Market Road, Santacruz east, Mumbai 400 055, India
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Psoriasis of face and head. Teacher – mother. What path shall I follow.?


A 32 year old woman, with two children of one year and three years of age, who suffered from scabby eruptions and flaking of the skin around the face and the head margins. The eruptions are intense, very flaking and very itchy; she also had painful and bleeding hemorrhoids.
She was doubtful if she could hold on for a year to take care of her one year old daughter. She is a teacher and likes her job, but she feels the necessity, the need and the obligation to care for her child as well as possible. She was doubtful if she could do it. It´s a torture. She is very conscientious and wants to control everything.


She always had doubts, either black or white. There wasn´t any solution:
   "If I have to take care of my daughter all day or work and leave her in care. I cannot stand leaving my children....I don´t want to ask for time off, but I am thinking about it all day and I don´t know what to do...... (she cries). It frightens me that I have to leave her for ten hours, I am frightened to go against my feelings. I am desperate to be with my daughter and to enjoy her, to see her growing and enjoying herself.”
   "But I think; I have to be strong and not let myself do it. I don’t think I can condition myself. I stand it for a few days and then the fear that it won´t be possible comes back. It´s reason against emotion. I like the work I do, I enjoy it, I think I am lucky to have this job, but I can´t escape; I can´t go backward or forward. I am afraid that I will end up crazy. Nobody can care for my daughter better than me and I want to control everything so she is alright."


Themes:
• Doubt between one option and another (State 5 in the periodic table).
• Doubt about positioning her skills (Ferrous Series), as teacher (work – Ferrous Series) or as mother (caring theme – Muriaticums).


State 5 Ferrous Series
Prepares well Task, Duty, Profession.
Proposal, Doubts. Use,craft.
Postponing Skills, perfectionist
Avoids confrontation Routine, Order, Rules.
Hard on herself, creates mountains. Control, Exams.
Alternating Observed, Criticized
Tantalizing – tortured Failure, Guilt, Crime.
Pre..prepare oneself, precede… Persecuted,
Break the relationship – gain a relationship
Mother- child
Careful food nutrition.
Sympathetic attention as if oneself.
Sadness, Loneliness, Antisocial.

Remedy: VANADIUM MURIATICUM 200c

Doubt over her abilities to service her profession or to care for her children. The doubts convert themselves into torture due to her high demands and her perfectionism. Vanadium has four electrons in it´s outer orbit and can give four or can receive four. That is if you have doubt. To give? To receive?


Follow Up
After a few days of taking Vanadium mur 200c, (6/06/1999), the patient makes the decision to ask for a years maternal leave and stopped doubting and torturing herself The eczema improves leaving some small signs and there is relief from pain and bleeding of the hemorrhoids. “It was terrific. The doubts ceased completely and suddenly I saw clearly; if I like doing it, why don´t I do it? The causes of no disappear. Well. I know I am in my place where I should be and where I like to be. I am very busy with the children, but inside I am very well. “


The doses are repeated in 1999 - 200C because the itching started again (not very intense) and the symptoms disappeared completely until February 2000 when she started to question whether to return to work or not. "I want to present myself for exams in order to change my job and to obtain government employment; you have security, rights and you ask for things that you can´t in the private sector. I would be free-er as a professional person."


Repeats VANADIUM mur 200C. and (she) starts to improve.


Later received two more doses. Took the exam and obtained the post which satisfies her.


Manuel Mateu Ratera
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A 59 year old woman with Parkinson´s disease since the age of 51. Intended suicide when she was 53 years old.
When she was 50, the death of her mother from a rapid form of cancer profoundly affected her, although she couldn´t express it. After some months, symptoms of sadness began to appear along with rigidity of the cervical muscles and arms; speech difficulties. She used to cycle and because of her difficulty in turning and maneuvering she had to abandon it. Initially she was treated with anti-depressives and this aggravated the rigidity and pain situation.


Diagnosis of Parkinson´s disease at the age of 51 years.

At 53 years old she attempted suicide by an overdose of anti-depressives. She had an arm immobilized with pain, the divorce of one daughter and matrimonial problems with the other daughter. "I had always been very quiet, I was tired, everything was going badly. I felt impotent at not being able to resolve things. I liked to put things right when they had problems. Worse, to stop me from feeling useful. My eldest daughter left home, I felt sad and I kept it to myself. I am always introverted.... I didn´t want to be a problem… If I cannot do things for myself then fine, but if not then I will do something about it.....” A sweet character, quiet, cries easily and doesn´t complain about her illnesses because she doesn´t want to worry others. She cried when she was describing her illnesses.


First visit: 27. Aug. 1998 ( 59 years)

Chief Complaint: Parkinson´s disease that developed even under treatment with Sinemet Plus (1.1.1) and Tasmar (1.1.1) in high doses. Depressive state. Rigid, trembling and with very swollen hands.

Treatments: Pulsatilla 6-9 LM, partial relief of the rigidity, pain and involuntary movements. Sleeps better. Doses of Sinemet and Tasmar reduced to 1c/d. Moves more slowly, but feels better. Sign of the jagged wheel ++.


Follow Up
After about 9 months a depressive period, she is closed within herself, doesn’t say anything, crying, feels that the rigidity is worsening, “I don´t want them to see to me as I was… I don´t want to be ashamed to be so much work....I want to be able to take the pills because like this I tire myself and tire everyone else.” She always took care of everybody of the house. “I have to take care of everything, the house, my children, as if my children´s problems were mine, and the bills. I have brought up two children and done everything. A lot of things, a lot of suffering I have kept quiet about. My husband is very jealous and very possessive. Sad, alone, quiet, responsible for taking care of the others:

Treatment: Aurum muriaticum 7LM. No improvement.


Follow Up

Natrum muriaticum 7LM. No improvement.


Follow Up: 25 Feb.2000

Bismuthum muriaticum:
Scholten, during a course in Bilbao (1999), explained various properties of Bismuthum metallicum, muriaticum and phosphorus, in which the common denominator is the tendency to suicide for the impotence of being useless in a situation that is lived as if a ruin, an absolute failure. In contrast with Aurum, in which one feels responsible for the failure. Bismuthum feels the sensation of impotence, of failure, of ruin. Positioned in the gold series – power and responsibility, suicide, and in stage 15 of the periodic table where the theme is the lost, ruin, failure and the sensation of total impotence with a high suicidal tendency, in a state very much syphilitic from the miasmic point of view.

BISMUTHUM MURIATICUM 1000 K
A spectacular and rapid reduction in rigidity in about 4 hours! In about a week she is less rigid, much less. She doesn´t have pain, the swelling of her hands is reduced, better mobility. She goes to help in the kitchen, she feeds herself. She goes into the street alone and she dresses herself.


Repeat Bism-m M. in March.

In May a small regression and she takes Bism-m 7LM (Boiron), but the improvement is very slight (lower potency in comparison with the MK?).

Repeat doses of MK in dilution, one spoonful per day for 5 days and she starts to improve rapidly. One day the lift is out of order and she climbs the seven floors of her house without any problem on two consecutive days. "She has decided to go to Andalusia by train with her husband – 9 hours travel – she must be feeling well!”, commented her daughter. "The only thing is that I can´t put my stockings on."

In January 2002 her condition is stable with very low doses of anti-parkinson’s and she can do things for herself.


Commentary:

• A patient gravely ill with Parkinson´s disease and with suicidal tendencies that partially improve with Pulsatilla and Aurum muriaticum. A similar affect, but without “similimum”.
• Spectacular improvement with a remedy that isn´t in the repertory nor in Scholten´s book (Homeopathy and Elements), nor in any Materia Médica. Explained by Scholten in a Seminar.
• The complementary use of the analysis by themes method: a sensation of failure and impotence with ideas of suicide ( Gold Series/ Lost State = Bism), not being able to care for or to resolve the children´s problems.


Manuel Mateu Ratera
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M.Z. woman 62 years.


Diagnosis: Fibromyalgia since she was forty.
Complaints: Very tired, myalgia in the beginning in the back lumbar region; later mainly hips and the lateral side of her thighs.
Rising from sitting is dreadful.
Also cramps in the toes every now and then.
A few times a year she has oppression of the chest; very severe.
She was epileptic since 11 years and used Tegretol. Later Carbozepine.
Her epilepsy was explained by a fall from her mother when she was pregnant.


Since 52 years she was put on L-Thyroxine 1dd. 50 mg because of the tiredness.
After this the tiredness diminished a little.


Recently, pain in the basic joint of the thumbs and she feels cramped all over and tense. Busy in the head and a constrictive feeling.
Former periods: Dysmenorrhoea since 11 years old. Lots of cramping pain in the lower abdomen extending to the back.


Family: Her father came home drunk very often. By this she felt very estranged and alienated. Her first husband was also drunk very often.
Now she lives with a man with his two children and two of her own.


Personal: She is always busy with another person. She is afraid to forget another’s birthday and sends cards to let then know that she thinks of them. She wants very much to please others; to give joy.
Her new husband is choir master and she loves to sing. She sang in the choir and that is how they met. She also loves to look at birds nests and loves to see blackbirds in their nests.

Analysis:
Because of the singing and preference of birds I can not avoid thinking of a bird remedy, but even more striking is the pain around the hips and lateral side of the thighs which reminds me of the typical functional anatomy of the locomotory system when the bird hops forward. Birds hop forward with those muscles in their ‘hips’ which are an analogue in function to the muscles which humans use to rise out of a chair.
Also the cramp in the toes is a feature that can point to birds, the way they grab branches. (Info passed on by Anton Kramer.)
So she was given Turdula merula 30C, 2 granules once every ten days.
Also I prescribe Biothion, an anti-oxidant supplement together with Ca//Mg/ Zinc supplement.


Follow-up:
After two months her tiredness subsided, the stitching pain in the thumb joints minimized and the pain in the thighs also diminished remarkably.
She halved the epileptic medication and the Thyroxine as well.
After 4 months she feels reborn. She stopped the Thyroxine and went on with half the Carbozepine. This with the GP’s consent.
She can climb the stairs and has by far more the philosophy of letting go. (Laissez fair, laissez passer).


Frank Beijering 

Amsterdam NL

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This issue of Interhomeopathy we start with a new kind of article or rubric: Short Cases. It is what it says, short cases. In the presentation of these cases only the core is presented, the essence of the story of the patient. The periphery, like all kinds of generals, past history, family history is left out. At least in so far as it doesn’t belong to the core of the case. The goal of these cases is to give a very direct impression of what a remedy can do. It gives an idea of what is essential in a case and remedy. One doesn’t get distracted by details.
We came to this idea by the way we exchange cases often, which is that of the above. It is what one remembers of a case when telling a colleague, without having to refer to the written text. I have had that very often with Ulrich Welte, of whom you will see the first "Short Case". They are like jewels that convey the idea of the remedy directly, without distraction.
Another advantage is that these case can be written down very easily. SO we hope you will do that with your own cases that you are enthusiastic about. We have heard many times of beautiful cases. But when asked to write the case down it often didn’t work out. It was too much work and all kinds of doubts settled in. We hope that you as a homeopath can send your great cases as short cases when the long story is too much for you.

We like to hear your feedback on the Short Cases.
Enjoy this issue,
Jan Scholten

MG
Male age 6 3/4, born in July 1992.


First consultation April 1999.

Physical: Repeated Ear infections with fevers of 102F (38,9C). History of pin worms.
Popping sound in his ears driving him to tears.
Always has a lot of mucus in his head, sticky and thick. Having a cold for months.
He snores loudly at night. His mom is concerned he will be one of those men nobody wants to sleep with.

Mental/Emotional:
When sick he wants to have someone with him and he is afraid he will never get better. Fear of the dark and being alone, wild animals, owls, crickets and night sounds.
His mom describes him as fragile. He has no margin/no tolerance. He has an older brother. At night he asks his mom if she can cuddle with him first, she says yes, he goes to the bathroom and when he comes back he sees his mother sitting with his brother and the night is ruined. “He is very sensitive and fragile and I do not deal with him well.” If things do not go exactly the way he wants them to he cannot handle it and cannot control his temper. He screams cries, throws things around and after a while of carrying on he says that he hates himself, that he wish he was never born. Always remorseful afterward. He snaps or falls apart every couple of days.

Sometimes if mom tells him that he has gone too far and she will have to discipline him, he snaps out of it.

He does not want to try anything new for fear that he cannot do it. Once he does it, he is great.

Sleepwalking about two months ago. Also he gets up to go to the bathroom, maybe he is not fully awake and he would go anywhere.

When angry he makes animal noises, shows his teeth and kind of hisses, he contracts his hands in a claw-like gesture. His mother says he reminds her of a weasel, fierce noises and teeth. He can go from horrible to great within an hour.

Now being tested in school because they see inconsistencies in his performance. His fine motor skills are undeveloped.

He plays with his poop since about a year ago. His anus was itching a lot then and he talks about the worms and he checks himself looking for worms.
After he goes to the bathroom there is poop on the walls. His mom says “I have never seen a kid that is so messy with it.” The used toilet paper ends up on the floor or in the trash can, he makes a mess.
He is easily offended, withdraws, and sensitive of people making fun of him or his things.

If he wants something and mom says no, “he will insist, and insist, and insist, and insist until you want to strangle him.”

“He drives his brother crazy. He bugs the heck out of him. He does all this annoying things. He does not get ‘NO’ and boundaries. His brother comes to me and says you better do something because if not I am going to kill him. Then MG cries.”

He has taken Lyssin April 99, Mercury (for acute) Aug 99, and Hyoscyamus Jan 2000


Follow Up: 10/24/00

He is more coordinated and is also more willing to do new things.

He is 8 now and his brother is 11. He fits in his brother’s clothes.
His temper is worse, he explodes, it is as if his nerves do not have any cover, he snaps and he is out.

He has a lot of thick mucus in his mouth and drools a lot.
The saliva in his mouth is thick and foamy and his face is always dirty from food.
Even when he brushes his teeth, the teeth have a very thick film on them that is fluorescent orange and the stuff out of his ears is also fluorescent orange.

He wants to be a wrestler, he likes to fight. His mother says: "I am terrified because he is not in control. He loses it. He does not think about what he is saying and doing and how he is affecting others. He is hurtful: “I hate you, I wish you were not my brother” He is easily offended and hard to win him back. He flips out easily.

He is the most persistent creature on the face of the earth. Will repeat what he wants over and over, and over, until he drives you crazy and he gets what he wants.

He worries about everything and wants to know the what the plan is for the day. If he does not know in advance he will be upset. If I forget to tell him he has a haircut appointment and pick him up at school to take him there he cannot handle it, he will not get out of the car, screaming ‘I am not getting my hair cut’

He has dreams that his body can fly.

He was given Drosera 200c.
He seemed to have done well with Drosera. His mother reported he was more reasonable.


Follow Up: 11/15/01

He says that it bothers him that people treat him like a baby.
According to his mother he acts like a baby, talks like a baby, sleeps with his baby blankets. Screams when going to bed for someone to tuck him in. In the morning he is bugging his mother to pick out his clothes, he does not know what to wear. He does not want to grow up and does not want to do for himself. He wants his mother to do everything for him.

He has a rattling cough, his throat hurts when coughing.

When he wakes up in the morning his breath smells putrid “like a vase of flowers that has been sitting there for a week.” He has diarrhea sometimes, or constipated only passing tiny little amounts.

He has lots of headaches and has them in school. He is biting his nails.

He has a lot of pimples on his arms, head and shoulders.

Biggest fear: heights, of looking down.

Fear of his brother injuring himself by falling from his dirt bike.

He wants to own a pet store. He likes driving his dirt bike with his brother in the woods.

They live in the woods and he does not like the darkness outside.

Repeated Drosera 200c.

Follow Up: 4/11/02

Pimples in his buttocks and has a rash on his face.
Sleepwalks and peeing into things like his father’s dresser’s drawer or the lego box.
His moods are better.

Follow Up: 11/29/04
He is 12.

They moved to NH a couple of years ago and he started to have a hard time. He was confrontational, no fuse, and not sleeping well. He was doing poorly in school and was put on ADD medication: Adderall. He did great, but recently reverting to the ugly personality thing. Contradicting everybody and everything, disrespectful, rude, horrible.
“I forgot he used to be like this” It has been going on since last March.

He does well in school with the medication. He is immature for his age. He still enjoys talking and acting like a baby, needing a lot of direction and attention; it is not appropriate for his age. On the other hand he is trying and working hard.

“When he was not on the medication things were not clicking for him and he was behind at the social, intellectual and emotional level, and he did not care. He never got the months of the year, even his address. Now he wants to get it and he is trying and realizing that he needs to work.”

“He is relentless, he will not let go and one can be driven crazy”.

He gets a lot of migraine headaches when he is off the Adderall.

He talks a lot in his sleep.
He is particular about having to have everything dark and quiet when he goes to sleep.
He gets driven crazy by noises. In the summer he does not want the windows open, he cannot stand the nature sounds outside.

Anxious, hyper alert.......... do we have enough gas, do we have enough money?

Remedy: Musca Domestica 200c.


musca_domestica

Follow Up: February 7/05

From mom:
"Did not notice an immediate effect, but at this point he is doing better. He is leveling out. His rages are less. He still bugs everybody intentionally or unintentionally. It takes so much to keep going in life as it is and nobody in the family has a lot of reserves for his foolishness. He is still taking the medication. On the weekend he is off the medication and he seems to need to be making all these noises. It bugs us.”

He has not been getting migraines since the remedy (was getting them when off the Adderall).

No remedy.

Follow Up: May 18/05

He is doing very well. Thinking back to 4 years ago it is like night and day.

He is lazy and does not want to work.

At times now he will take responsibility and helps out in the house.

He gets tired very easily. Does not want to do the martial art class in school.
He has gotten headaches when the Adderall wears out.

He has a bad cold and a clicking noise in the ear when he swallows.

Repeated the remedy.

Follow Up: September 18/06

Had a cold beginning of August that would not go away. Gave a dose of the remedy and made a huge difference. Doing well otherwise. This remedy seems to be working great for him. His moods are better. He wanted to get off the Adderall and I let him. So this year he will do school without the medication.

Follow Up: August 10/07

He has done very well. I have to say he is starting to come into his own. He has his first job and he is responsible and doing well in his job.

He is not combative as he used to be and I can reason with him now. He is definitely not such a pest as he used to be.

Mother gave him a dose of his remedy a couple of months ago. “The whole family was very stressed out. His father’s mother died and left a lot of things unclear. K, the father was the only son, but there is a step father and million of dollars are at stake. There was a lot of disruption traveling back and forth from NH to MA and the kids were stressed”

“I am so proud of him. He organized and coordinates his own paint ball team. In school he is doing well enough. Still shows some obsessive compulsive tendencies, but he is so much better, that is ok. This year he is going into 9th grade and as he wants to get his license and drive, he will have to keep his grades up to get that. The difference here is that I know he can do it now, where before we all were wondering what would be come of him."

He has not had any major headaches in over a year and all the coughs and mucus are gone.


musca_domestica dead




Analysis:
As with some cases, it took several follow-ups to be able to see the whole picture.
They live far from my office, so the follow-ups were also very sporadic.

What got me to the remedy was:

- The persistence and insistence--Coming around again, with another twist…! And people’s reaction to want to kill him—swat that fly!
- The image of his face: always dirty from food.
- The poop on the walls, dirty toilet paper everywhere. Peeing everywhere while sleepwalking.
- Mucus thick, foamy, and thick fluorescent yellow film over the teeth. And stuff coming out of the ears being the same color.
- His breath smells putrid “like a vase of flowers that has been sitting there for a week.”

The dreams and desires of flying “with his body”

In the proving there were other things that confirmed the remedy:

Delusions; younger and dreams of babies.
Extreme sensitivity to noises.
Loathing of self.
Frothy mucus in mouth on waking.
Delusions he is an animal; he hisses, shows teeth, makes animal noises and claws his hands.
Fear for others.
Indolence and irresolution.

However, what is not in the proving, maybe because the provings are not done in children and that was very strong in this case:

Learning disabilities.
Such out of control tantrums and rage.
Fear of owls is something rather curious and I wonder what this relates to.
Wanted every thing dark and quiet going to sleep, - flies are not active at night.
Contradicting, disrespectful, rude, hateful.
Somnambulism and peeing in drawers or boxes. – In the proving, delusion talking as if asleep.


Matilde Flores
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Matilde lives and practices in Maynard, MA, USA. 
She has been in practice since 1983 and is a Board Member of the New England Homeopathic Academy. 
She is Certified by the Council of Homeopathic Certification since 1995.

MALE AGE 35 FIRST VISIT 7/19/00


Complaint:  loss of the high range of my singing voice and loss of vocal agility, folk/ rock 70s ish music, feels soreness after singing
loss of voice,


Q:  what was going on when it happened?
A:  Voice bad for 10 months. I’ve been overtired, rehearsing a lot, I was screaming and yelling, then not able to sing at all. 3 weeks later, I went into studio, diagnosed - acid reflux and granuloma, - worse for 3 months. 2nd doctor gave Asthma Cort and advised voice rest, 18 weeks, 6 week intervals. Follow ups: I lost a lot of work because of it, really frustrated and depressed, eating smaller better meals, less coffee and alcohol, all, low sparse voice, feels like I swallowed a golf ball, I also reverse numbers in writing them and words in conversation, unremembered dreams, though I know I do dream. 

Q:  Fears?
A: looking bad, not being liked,

Q:  Do you have siblings? 
A: one younger sister, I’m the middle one, and one older brother. Both back east, we talk every few months (brother), sister and I are closer. In childhood - Dad and Mom divorced when I was 2, I grew up in a small town with stepfather, I loved him to death, he died 10 years ago, the smallness of town got to me and at at age 11/12, I got into trouble with peer pressure stuff, stealing, smoking, drinking. Then I found this love for music, my biological father offered for me to live in Los Angeles. I spent summers here in L.A.  In late 70s, then moved out here permanently with Dad and step mom, I immersed myself in music, step mom - was like mom number two, Dad was well- known music industry company executive and he travelled a lot. I was with (step?) Mom more of the time, she started a local Arts Council in 1978, they’re the model couple, still together.  I wish I had a relationship like that.

Q:  Any personal relationships? 
A: No, dry for 4 years, I got immersed in my music.

Q: What happened with last relationship?
A:  we were together a year, I had a close girlfriend that all friends were jealous of - so that’s how that broke up. I chose the friends. I used to live with someone on east coast of USA for 6 years, we went on different paths - we had that core love, but our lives took us so differently, she opened a shop in on the east coast - I’m in L.A., she didn’t feel like “the one”, friend said (around time this occured) “you are not saying something that needs to be said - or thru your music”. I started looking at people around me, I’m not willing to get real with people around me. I had an unrequited love situation, lot of emotional stuff, it was killing me, we’re close, it’s incomplete, same girl friend I mentioned earlier, things weren’t said that we should have, she was scared of it, she’s a recovering alcoholic and lots of family stuff. It looked like the real thing friends and honestly worked out, she was scared about the rest of her life, she shut down. I met it with anger, so I shut down and our friendship really changed, our familiar like how we know one another, she hurt me!  I was prevented from moving on, there’s a lot of blame there about why I haven’t had a successful relationship, so I decided to shut it off, I spend less time with her, it’s more guarded, that could have a lot to do with it. I have incomplete stuff on mother’s side of family, my MGM (grandmother on mother’s side) died of alcoholism, her son and my elder brother are very visible alcoholics, my mom is alcoholic too but nobody talks about it. My MGM is dying, so Mom’s taking care of her, there’s unspoken stuff there, my girl friend says I have a fear of success, at the point of recording my 2nd album, there’s a problem with my voice, I don’t think I fear it, I think there’s laziness and unwillingness, I’m all over the map, had some substantial success with 1st album which opened doors that I didn’t take, she remarked on that. I had all kinds of reasons not to go there, I also didn’t want to stay on the road. Stress doesn’t bother me, I’m busy person, I have a stomach of iron, no problems with constipation/ stool/ urine, though western medicine I took in past made me constipated. I get jealous of other people’s success because I can’t sing right now, and I love to sleep. 

Q: Who are the known musicians you aspire to? 
A:  Daniel Lenoit, Dave Alvin, I admire the longevity of their careers, also Jackson Browne. Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, I’m easily distracted, concentration poor, I feel useless, I’m not good enough when creative flow stops,


Prescription Rx - This artist has to be silver series. So I felt in this stage one I gave RUBIDIUM 30C 3 pellets once daily for 2 weeks,
NOTE: calls next day - asking me to hold his check, so handling money is a problem, hopefully this is a good indicator of the remedy RUBIDIUM!


Follow Up 2/4/02
I took Rubidium for 3 weeks, at time I recorded my music, I never gained back my full range, but the middle range of my voice healed,
Q: Dreams
A: #1 remembering them better, my brother is in my dreams pretty often, they are positive, included girlfriend and I very happy, dream
#2 had bad dream, violent and fist fighting with somebody, I woke up,

Q: Fears? 
A: Ongoing financial fear/ stress with being freelance, doing a lot of theatre work now, with new people I’m initially shy, it’s sound design for theatre. I get to compose original work. Another physical problem I’ve been having is sciatica. Last spring I re-injured my back, left side, made me really immobile. I went to chiropractor, pain shoots down to ankle, worse sitting, > bending backwards and stretching like cobra helps, its daily, bad at night, < standing after sitting,

Q: Appetite? 
A: into poultry, craving chicken and turkey.

Q: How is your creative flow? 
A:  On and off, not songwriting now, but writing more instrumental work for theatre, I eat well, but not exercising, I’ve gained weight, 20 lbs. in a year.

Q: Stools?
A: not solid, soft and have been drinking coffee 2-3 16 ounce cups a day. Not drinking as much coffee now, about once a week, and 1-2 beers or wine a week.

Analysis
The problem with the voice, the loss of it is typical for the Silver series.
The “rehearsing” provoked the problem and that is an indication of Stage 7.
Stage 7 in the Silver series is Technetium.
Prescription Rx - TECHNETIUM 200C one single dose


Technetium

Follow Up 2/28/02 email:
Saturday will be 3 weeks since I took my 200C dose of TECHNETIUM.  Just following up. Been getting a lot more work, learning extra skills within the business, consulting with others. Getting good feedback from peers. I have been feeling pretty good physically but still no improvement with sciatica. Its pretty much the same: lot of pain after I have been sittting for a while. I have had to use Ibuprofen (painkiller) about every other day during this period (I don’t know if it has an adverse effect on the remedy). Also been drinking less coffee, down to about 1 cup a day (16 oz).  Let me know if you think I should dose again or otherwise.  Thanks so much,


Prescription replied:
ok, let’s do one dose of TECHNETIUM 200C once a week


Technetium


Follow Up 5/6/02email:
Yes, the increased dosage with TECHNETIUM 200C once a week also seemed to handle the sciatica problem just fine. I noticed improvement about a week after my second dose. It has been great for about a month now. My voice is fine in all ranges and my work is expanding and I’m 97% pain free, thanks to you!


Follow Up @ April 2003
No voice problems.  sciatica gone, no relapses!


Technetium man-made


LAST NOTE; I felt Rubidium had done well as a first remedy because of his original ideas in music, but just rehearsing and working alone at the introduction part of his work, but losing work beause of being held back by losing his voice: after Rubidium, his middle range of voice returned.  Giving him more confidence in his work, but sciatica became a problem. Though this was not in your book, Jan, Technetium also cured the sciatica! 


Wendy Hewland
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Introduction
On August 9, 1945 the plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. This meant an end to the Second World War. The city was largely utterly destroyed and a high percentage of its population was killed. Close to the epicentre a tree survived: the Kaki tree (Diospyros kaki). It was able to withstand the inferno, the radiation and the fire. Its ability to survive makes this Kaki tree the World Tree.
In the aftermath of the explosion, death reigned all around the tree. Survivors were subject to horrible diseases on account of the radiation—cancer, including leukaemia, swollen scar tissue, internal haemorrhages, loss of hair and hereditary aberrations.


The remedies
In 2000, two homeopathic remedies were developed from the Nagasaki Kaki tree, viz., Diospyros kaki Creveld and Radix Diospyros kaki Creveld. In the meanwhile I have gained a lot of positive experience using these remedies in my own practice. Many others have benefited from them as well.

Themes of the remedies
In case of several themes the remedies can be helpful, which has been shown in provings and through symbolism. The major themes are: war, death, fire, changes in DNA, waste excretion and white-and-black. The proving and symbolism of Diospyros kaki Creveld have been described in a paper (Creveld 2001) as well as in my book (Creveld 2001-2008) on Kaki.
The remedies have been prescribed with positive results in case of patients suffering severe physical and mental complaints due to posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSS) on account of war (first and second generation), imprisonment with collateral torture, rape, incest and other trauma (Creveld 2008). People suffering of complaints following a fire react well to this remedy as well. This holds true for both treatment soon after the event (e.g., following the Volendam fire in 2001) and many years after it (Creveld 2003 and Creveld 2001-2008).


Radiation
Over recent years, radiation is substantially on the increase. After 1986 radiation has emanated from Chernobyl and moreover the sun is recently in a period of a high count of sunspots which is linked to higher radioactivity received on Earth. The number of wireless and television broadcasting masts and those for mobile and dect-phones, wireless internet, and other sources of electro-magnetic radiation has risen exponentially over the last few years.
The remedies produced from the Nagasaki Kaki tree help treat complaints caused by radiation. In particular, homeopathy remedies have been prescribed much in case of complaints caused by radioactivity, including radiotherapy and radiation due to the causes mentioned above, and overhead power cables.

In recent years, many sensitive people have suffered complaints on account of radiation. Some of them can hear it, others feel it. They show symptoms such as extreme fatigue, sleeplessness, headache, vertigo, and nausea, overload of their immune system, allergies, intestine distempers and tight chest. Following ingestion of Diospyros I always see an improvement. In some cases it is rapid; in others more time is needed. Sleeping nearly always improves much; after that, the system has to recuperate, allowing the other complaints to be reduced as well.


Prescription in case of radiation
I always start by giving these sensitive people Radix Diospyros kaki Creveld in combination with Silicea. I prescribe Radix 30K and indicate that it is to be taken every two days along with Silicea, preferably in the guise of white clay (Argiletz); it’s also possible to combine with Silicea D6). After that, I propose to regularly repeat to take Diospyros Kaki Creveld 30K and Radix 30K in turns, initially once every two days and later on, twice every week. After some months I often add the 200K of both these remedies to be taken in turns.
However, in many cases the potency of 30K is too strong for them. Therefore, starting July 1, 2008, a 12K potency will be available. It is a good idea for these sensitive people to start using the 12K potency instead of the 30K, and to raise the potency to 30K or even more, later on. Do not dissolve these remedies in water.


Radiotherapy and chemotherapy
Diospyros Kaki has been prescribed to be taken during as well as following radiotherapy and chemotherapy. I have treated several patients who suffered from complaints, even six to seven years after these treatments. Using the remedies has a positive affect in all cases. The patients were significantly less subject to the side effects of the therapies they underwent. They suffered less fatigue, less feeling generally unwell, less hair loss and less skin complaints following radiation. Another striking effect was that they felt better mentally. Anxiety complaints soon vanished, their balance improved and they felt more at ease. Cases are known in which the tumour and/ or the metastases were reduced in size sooner than expected and/ or disappeared. Metastases can disappear (breast cancer followed by metastases (e-mail from MD, 2004)). In some cases traditional physicians are surprised by how rapidly the cancer spots decrease in size. Ulrich Welte writes that Diospyros affects the ‘cancer myth’ (e-mail 2007).
A child suffering leukaemia underwent chemotherapy for eight months. He used the Kaki remedy during his therapy and was able to eat and go about his way. Hair loss occurred only after seven and a half months of chemotherapy. One year after the end of therapy the child is still doing well (e-mail from therapist, 2002). 
Patients who suffer severe trauma (PTSS) alongside cancer or radiotherapy and/ or chemotherapy show an even more direct reaction to the remedies produced from the Kaki tree.


Case studies related to radiotherapy and chemotherapy
In my book on Diospyros kaki (Creveld 2001 – 2008) I have given two case studies pertaining to the period during and after radiotherapy and chemotherapy. One of these case studies is presented here.

A woman was diagnosed with ovary cyst 40 years ago, and with breast cancer 8 years ago. She had breast sparing surgery. One year after she was diagnosed with metastases on both sides. She underwent radiotherapy for six weeks, after which mastectomy on both sides followed, including removal of the armpit metastases. All this was followed by experimental chemotherapy lasting several months.
Seven years after her surgery, radiation and chemotherapy she still feels very tired. She does not sleep well, looks yellow and still carries an odour of the chemotherapy/ of cancer. Her hair is thin, she cannot hear high pitched sounds and her feet feel dulled. She often has vertigo because of damage to her balance organs. For years she has refused to wear white sox, because she had to wear these going into the surgery room (note the Kaki white-and-black theme) She is very empathic to others and does not allow herself due rest. She visits the sick and finds there is always so much to do for other people.

She was born during the war in a house next to a railway line. The pram she was in was hit by German fire and in between the volleys she was rescued from it. Her parents were sheltering Jewish people in their home (which was strictly illegal, of course).

Prescription: six doses of Diospyros kaki Creveld 10M, once every week. In view of my present knowledge I would prescribe Radix Diospyros kaki Creveld 12 or 30K to be taken once every two days, for six weeks.

Follow up: Six weeks later her yellow skin colour is much reduced. She has more energy, able to take things with a grain of salt and gets rid of tasks. She feels less anxious and is sleeping far better. Her deafness and vertigo are unchanged.
Prescription: Thirty doses of Diospyros kaki Creveld 30K to be taken once every two days

Follow up: Four months later, the yellow colour and odour have disappeared. She shows much more energy. Sleeping has improved much. Her anxiety is very much reduced. She undertakes activities along with her husband.
Prescription: twelve doses of Diospyros MK, once every month. Seven months later she has improved even more. Others regularly tell her how well she is looking lately. Two years after this, she is still doing well. Vertigo and deafness remain unchanged.

Prescription in case of radiotherapy and chemotherapy
People who see me for treatment of the effects during, and following, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are usually prescribed Diospyros kaki Creveld in a potency of 30K. During the therapy I prescribe taking a grain every day or every two days. After some time I will prescribe the 200K potency which is to be taken alongside the 30K, in turns. Following the end of therapy I usually prescribe 1 grain to be taken every other day, which is diminished after some time.

In case of a patient who has suffered trauma as well, or who is sensitive, or who suffers of a thyroid condition, I always start with Radix Diospyros kaki Creveld (one granule) which I prescribe in a potency that depends on the vitality and sensitivity of the patient. The Radix remedies are to be taken along with Silicea, preferably as white clay (Argiletz). It can also be taken along with Silicea D6/ 12 (if possible Silicea terra). After a few days I propose to take Diospyros kaki Creveld as described above.

Here as well, I suggest that sensitive people start by taking the 12K potency which is available from July 1, 2008. Do not dilute either remedy with water.

Case study connected to Chernobyl and radioactivity:
Late in 2004 a woman from Germany came to see me over strange complaints she suffered following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986:

This woman told me she was working in her garden when she suddenly noticed her face being all bloody. Blood was coming from the region of her heart. There were deep holes in her face as well the region of her heart. Her hands and feet showed large blisters. She said, ‘like Jesus on the cross’.  Within ten days she had gained ten kilograms in weight and her thyroid was swollen. She felt changed up to her deepest core. She said she was living like a Geiger counter; she was able to tell if food was good for her, or not. If it wasn’t good and she still ate it, she had blisters in her mouth. She was able to wear black clothes only (white-and-black theme).
In 2004 her complaints were: much scar tissue, in her face in particular. Blisters on her feet – those on her hands had gone away. Anaemia and a low iron count in the blood that physicians are unable to explain. She sleeps little. She is prone to infections, such as those of the adenoids, and she often has colds and nosebleeds (on the left side). She has little energy. She is unable to transform her emotions any more. She absorbs things happening around her to too large an extent. Astrologically, she has many aspects of Pluto. ‘I make unnecessary sacrifices. I have been nailed to the cross. In Tibet, a Lama told me I exist to work with the suffering in the world. I make myself the lamb of the world. I have to fight for everything and have known much struggle and crises.’
Prescription: Diospyros kaki Creveld 30K (one dose); after one month 200K (one dose) and again, after one month 200K (one dose). (Currently, I would start by prescribing Radix Diospyros kaki Creveld, followed by Diospyros kaki Creveld.)


Follow up: Three months later, i.e. one month after taking the last dose of 200K. Things are going well. First ingestion coincided with the Boxing Day, 2004, Tsunami. “I woke up, it felt like Chernobyl but this time I did not feel overwhelmed. I felt unaffected, which was a great surprise to me. I have regained my sensitivity and feel more earthed, I am coming home.”
She has not been ill for three months. Over the last few years she always had a cold, she had to cough and suffered of tonsillitis. Now, all the others were ill while she was not. Evidence of whooping-cough was found in her blood but she did not cough. Physicians wanted her to take antibiotics which she refused without making an argument over it. She is surprised that her physique has improved so rapidly. She cleared out the garden and her basement, things she was previously unable to do because of her fatigue. She has ended her friendship and feels like new connexions. She has many new ideas. She used to be blocked. She said, ‘Now I have less empathy with others, I don’t lose myself anymore.’

Her skin is better. All wounds have been healed for some time; over the first two months she has not had any infections, but now she has a few. The blisters under her feet have gone. They went away immediately after taking the remedy and have not returned.
Her crises are different now. She does not approach others with her need for help because she knows she can handle it on her own. She is still not sleeping much, but quality of sleep is better. Her blood and iron content have improved. She has had few nosebleeds.
Prescription: Diospyros kaki Creveld 10M 3doses (once every month).

After some month she rang me. Things are again much better. Her skin has improved much.


Depleted uranium
One application in which Diospyros kaki could be very useful is treating complaints following contamination with depleted uranium. Soldiers in conflict areas run a high contact risk, e.g. when handling bullets containing depleted uranium. In my practice, I have not yet treated anyone suffering complaints due to this cause.


Plants and radiation
During 2007 tests have been done using plants – chestnut trees suffering bleeding disease and a banana. The underlying theory was that the plants and trees are subject to radiation which undermines their stamina.

The banana plant test: A banana plant is in a room holding a dect-telephone and close to a tower holding masts for wireless telephone communication. Prior to the test the banana looked bad. The old leaves were brown but the young leaves soon turned brown, too and shriveled. After giving water containing some Diospyros kaki Creveld 200K dissolved in it, within some weeks the plant developed beautiful, healthy leaves that stayed well.

Many diseases are afflicting a variety of trees recently. The chestnut, for example, suffers bleeding disease and fungi. A test was done using afflicted chestnut trees (with bleeding disease) nearby communication masts. Following treatment with Diospyros kaki Creveld 200K they were soon unaffected by the radiation (measured with a Lech antenna). Regrettably the bleeding disease did not immediately improve (e-mail from H. Tuitert, 2007).


kaki fruit

In an independent test using some afflicted chestnut trees, the trees were found to develop recuperating phloem strips below the strips of exfoliating bark when they were given Diospyros. Their vitality also improved in a general sense. We need to continue monitoring them in 2008 to ascertain developments in connexion with bleeding disease and other afflictions
It is my hypothesis that Diospyros kaki helps to solve the problems related to radiation that cause the trees to lose their vitality. However, the infections will probably have to be fought using other means – which certainly merits a scientific investigation.


Prescription for trees
Put a single grain of Diospyros kaki Creveld 200K in a clean three pint bottle filled with clean water. By this I mean water that has been boiled and allowed to cool; or mineral water; or filtered water. Dissolve the grain and shake well. Give the tree three pints of this solution every two weeks for six months and after that, once every month. Pour the solution around the tree, splashing it against the base of the tree and its immediate vicinity to enable the roots to ingest the water containing the kaki remedy.
 

Animals and radiation
During the winter of 2006/ 2007, bees all over the world were suffering of a disease named Colony Collapse Disorder. Many bees failed to return to their hives. In Germany, a research working group of Landau University studied this disease and they investigated the possibility of radiation-induced effects. Their study has shown that bees are hampered by mobile phones. They don’t grow well and their ability to find the way back to the hive is impeded.
In case of several bird species it was noted that they lose their way during migration, probably due to changes in the earth’s electromagnetic field on account of wireless communication masts. Birds depend on the earth’s magnetic field for following their proper migration routes.
At Lund University, Sweden, Rats were subject to long-term exposure to mobile phone radiation. After fifty days the shape of their brain was changed and their brains showed many tumours. Animals afflicted by radiation will benefit from the Kaki remedy as well.


Literature:
Creveld, M. 2001. Diospyros kaki, de Wereldboom; droomproving o.l.v. M. Creveld.  Dynamis 2001: 25 (This appeared in English in LINKS 3/02).
Creveld, M.; 2001-2008. Diospyros kaki Creveld, helpt ons te overleven bij veel trauma’s van deze tijd: Radioactiviteit, Elektromagnetische Straling, Oorlog, Rampen, Vuur. 185 (Dutch and English edition).
Creveld, M. 2003. Overleven na brand en borstkanker, casuïstiek van Diospyros kaki. Creveld. Dynamis 2003:  30 (This appeared in English in LINKS 1/04).
Creveld, M. 2005 Diospyros kaki Creveld, informatie over repertoriumrubrieken. Dynamis 2005: (This appeared in English in LINKS 06).
Creveld, M. 2008 Diospyros kaki Creveld and Trauma. Unpublished report, available from the author.
Stever, H., und all. 2006. Verhaltensänderung der Honigbiene Apis mellifera unter elektromagnetischer Exposition. Uni-Landau.

Information are available from: Marijke Creveld Ph.D.. Tel. + 31 384542687 or
; http://www.diospyroskaki.nl

The homeopathic remedies Diospyros kaki Creveld and Radix Diospyros kaki Creveld can be ordered by chemists from: -Heel Belgium (Homeoden). Phone +32 92659565 (Gent) or in the K-potencies: 12, 30, 200, M, 10M, 50M

The book ‘Diospyros kaki Creveld’ including the complete proving, ten case studies and additions for the repertory can be obtained by contacting Rene Otters: Phone +31 402521311 or

6.1 Molybdenum metallicum, Brom

The mother of the 6-year-old boy first comes to the consultation on her own and reports what he should not hear: he has Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), he is inattentive, hectic and so aggressive to other children. He wants to dominate his classmates and shuts them in or holds them against their will. He closes right up when one of his weaknesses is exposed. She did not actually want a child and the entire pregnancy was one long challenge because she and her husband each wanted to go their own way. The boy screamed all through the first year. She also pursued this screening strategy in the succeeding appointments, only relating the unpleasant things when he was absent. Only then is he allowed to come in. He is withdrawn, uncommunicative, and looks grim as if in a cross-examination. His hair hangs down like a curtain deep over his forehead into his eyebrows. At the same time he smiles silently with a facial expression that is defiant and sneeringly stubborn, so that he seems precocious. Sometimes he pulls his headband down to just over his mouth so that he looks like an aggressive, half-masked bank robber. He shows himself in the first consultation to be an intelligent boy who, even as a young child, played every piano he came across and also now plays piano for at least an hour a day. Despite being so withdrawn, he still takes himself rather seriously. When he gets warmed up, he can talk pretty cockily. Then he shows that he has something to say. Once he is 18 he wants to drive a Smart Car or a Mini Cooper. He may be small but he’ll show the big guys what’s what. The mother adds that for a long time now he has had frequent headaches when he is physically active.


Analysis, Choice of Remedy and Progress:
What stands out to begin with is the defiant attitude which silently covers up a weakness with particular bravery. That’s stage 6. The screening strategy of the mother is also a reaction to this stage: she knows how sensitively he’ll react when one of his weaknesses is exposed. The pregnancy was a challenge - stage 6. Once he is 18, he’ll show them all. He is not as confident as he’d like to be, but shows no weakness. Watch out if you show him up because he’ll fly into a rage - all stage 6. The silver series is indicated by his artistic streak: he is a passionate piano player. Plus his somewhat condescending manner indicates the silver series. That he shuts in other children could indicate the gold series: he actively exercises power. This behaviour could indicate Brom, even piano playing can be an indication for Brom; the agitation is expressed in the fingers, as we’ll see later.


We decided on the silver series and gave Molybdenum 1M. For over a year we heard nothing more of him, but he seems to have been particularly well because he was never ill during the year. Unfortunately we could not get any more information. The remedy is repeated. In the first few days after taking the remedy he becomes even more aggressive and gets a rash on the right side of the body. Then he becomes more sociable, even a bit weepy. Contrary to our agreement, the mother repeats the remedy after a few days. It does nothing, but good. Without further reaction he becomes calmer after 3-4 days, he is not so fidgety, in fact he is like a different boy. This lasts for about 4 weeks until his old aggressiveness gradually returns. Then the remedy is repeated, again with the same positive effect, this time lasting longer. After 6 months he is really good and calm, and the mother is very happy with him. He has not had any more headaches.


Two more years pass and he is now 11 years old. He has headaches again, pulsating in the forehead. It comes mostly at the weekend and is better when lying. Since changing to a more demanding school he is biting his nails. His hands are unsettled and he continually plays with his fingers. He twists his sleeves and chews his pullover. His stamina has also declined and he is easily distracted. He only sticks to it when playing the piano. He dreams of being attacked by talking werewolves with golden eyes that bite his tongue off. The dream is so upsetting that it takes a long time to calm him down. Following repertorization (headache forehead pulsating, > lying, sharp-tongued when provoked), Spigelia is given, without effect. His old aggression is coming out again and he is becoming extremely agitated and fidgety. When questioned he says that before the change of school he was repudiated by his old classmates. They only wanted to play football, but he had other interests. This is the main theme of Brom (Stage 17, Ferrum series): the class repudiates him. The agitation in the hands (positively compensated by his dexterity in piano playing) and the nail-biting are also typical for Brom. If you like, you can also add the old thing that he shut in his classmates. It’s just that the tables have been turned so that now they are shutting him out.


Molybdenum


He receives Brom 1M. After just a few days everything gets better, he stops the nail-biting, he no longer drums and picks with his fingers. He becomes calm and is better able to concentrate. He does not flare up so much. After a week he has one more headache, weaker than usual, and then they stop completely. He feels really good. It is strange that he suddenly plays piano less. This was otherwise his only reliable source of pleasure since childhood. Instead of playing at least an hour a day, he only plays when he feels like it, every few days or so. In the meantime, another 4 years have passed.


Commentary:
On working through the case again, one also thinks of Molybdenum muriaticum when reading the old anamnesis. The bit about the mother is very important for his life. The whole pregnancy was for the mother a Molybdenum situation. The Brom given later on is still working well. If another remedy were needed, Molybdenum bromatum would surely be the first choice.


Ulrich Welte
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A boy of 12 is mobbed by friends. His “friend” is the leader of a gang and alternatingly teases him, puts him down and befriends him, i.e. he plays a power game with him. Since his liaison with this “friend” (4 years now) he sleeps badly, is awake till midnight. He dreams of being punished at school. He doesn’t thrive, he is too small and too thin. After Lanthanum phosphoricum, in the course of 4 weeks he changes his attitude, refuses an invitation to the birthday party of the leader, quits his connection with the gang, and builds a new circle of friends to his own choice. He sleeps better and gains weight. It all solved without a quarrel, just by change of attitude and new determination. He says, "Now I determine myself who are my friends". In a short span of time he was a changed boy. Suddenly his trousers didn’t fit him any more, he gained weight. In the last 4 years Tarentula and Bacillinum did also a little, bu