Chlorum

Chlorum CaseA man, aged 60, comes with bronchial asthma. Apart from the continuous attacks of dyspnoea, he often has bronchitis, coughing up much mucus. He is extremely sensitive to everything. Every chemical smell goes to his lungs. As a child he couldn’t stand the Chlorine in the swimming pool. When his wife uses a different washing powder he smells it from downstairs and feels suffocated. A new perfume does the same thing. He lets his complaints be known to his wife and children: 'You know I am allergic to that', 'Why are you using that again?' He doesn’t like reacting in this way to his family, but he can’t help himself. His mucus often tastes of Chlorine.AnalysisThe taste in the mouth or the taste of the mucus, if it is specific enough, is in itself enough to prescribe upon. The Chlorine taste of the mucus gave me therefore enough indication to consider Chlorum. If we also look at the attention-seeking behaviour, we could fit this very well into the Chlorum picture too. According to the group analysis, the theme of Chlorum is an 'all or nothing' reaction as far as nurturing and attention concerned. In this case we see an unbridled attentionseeking behaviour. Even though the behaviour takes the form of allergic reactions, it is still attentionseeking, a need to be taken into consideration.ReactionAfter Chlorum 200 the recurring bronchitis disappeared and he needed no more antibiotics. The strong allergy diminished. But also his complaining and attention-seeking behaviour has largely disappeared, and it became easier for him to take distance from events that were troubling him. The dyspnoea did not clear up with Chlorum; another problem was the cause of that, as we discovered later.