Author:
Maarten van der Meer
Book:
Evolution of analysis
Type:
Case
Chapter:
3-644.23.08
Hypericum perforatum
A 25-year-old woman with a three-month-old baby. She is articulate, ambitious, and strong-willed. The baby only wants to be breastfed and can only fall asleep at the breast; otherwise, he cries continuously. The baby is calm in the bath, but after changing, it starts screaming and cannot be quieted. It has eczema on its torso and face. The mother asks for Homeopathic Detox for oxytocine; she was induced due to tension, this would have disturbed the baby. During labor the dilation did not start; she often passed out, lay with her eyes closed, the breech was bruised due to the storm of contractions, and she now has a lot of pelvic and breech complaints. She feels flat, moody, and gloomy, sees a dark cloud, and has a short fuse. She does not recognize herself. She is tired, and she sleeps little. The pregnancy went well, but towards the end her blood pressure rose, she got headaches, her vision became blurry, and she saw stars.
Due to the bruising, she was unable to walk for the first month, she couldn't turn over in bed, she had stabbing and burning pain that radiated to her lower back and pelvis. Now sitting is impossible, with a special cushion it is possible but still painful, defecation is painful, her left leg still feels numb, and when falling asleep her foot often shoots up. She feels particularly gloomy in the evening when she has no distractions, and thoughts of the birth come to the surface. The change is too much for her. She no longer has contact with her parents and family. There was a lot of negativity for a long time, and she received no help during her pregnancy. She no longer felt she belonged, but she did feel at home with her in-laws. As a result, she decided to cut off contact. When she was still living at home, she was already being excluded. She often has neck and shoulder pain. Her hobby is drawing. Cistus canadenis brings a slight improvement in her mood; she worries less and smiles a little more, and the baby is calmer after a bath. The mother still has a lot of anger; she needs to express it to her husband before it subsides. After two weeks, the pain and numbness in her leg are the same, but her energy is improving in the second week. Her tongue has many small cracks across the base. She is working again. Her anger at home is mainly about practical matters, and why her husband cannot do more. Her lower back feels heavy, as does the area where the epidural was administered.
Analysis
Iron series: She has to ‘do’ so much. She received no support and had to do everything herself.
Fabidae: The bruising and pain indicate connective tissue, as tension in this area as base caused the bruising. Going on as only option.
Malpighiales: suppressed anger, restrained anger, better by expressing it. Theme of belonging to the family. Being rejected. Theme of Oxalic acidum.
Phase 2: start of the new situation, the new life, astonished by it, can’t handle it.
Stage 8: forcing labor.
Hypericum: pain in the coccyx when sitting, numbness in the limbs.
Prescription: Hypericum perforatum C30.
Follow-up
Within a week, the eczema on the baby's face had completely disappeared, and he is now much calmer. The mother experienced a burning pain at the site of the epidural for two days, after which it disappeared. The heaviness is gone after a week, and her mood is better. The pain in her leg is less sharp, but her ankle and knee are still sensitive when she gets up. After a month, both are doing very well.
Comment
Interference suppression or Homeopathic Detox is not necessary in a healthy body; if there are complaints, you can treat them, the ‘root’ or basis of the disturbance. The tension in the body, the disturbance, prevents the person from coping well with the stressful situation, such as childbirth or an epidural. A healthy body will be little affected by this, or will recover quickly. The bruise revealed a sensitivity; the emotional cause was probably decisive for the tension that became stuck in the tissue. Here we also see that the condition of the mother affects the child, either directly or through breastfeeding. The child was immediately relieved of the eczema and restlessness.