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Lophophora williamsii
Year 2022, Issue 9, Article 5CaseAuthor: Pavol Tibensky
Case of by Paovo, Tibensky: Anhalonium
Man, 24 years old, single, examined after 3 days lasting drinking tour.Case- I am ashamed; give me, please, some remedies for stopping drinking. I like drinking, but not for taste, but for drunkenness. I must feel it in my head. I have another world after fifth beer: so relaxed one. So simple, it is difficult to describe.
- Opposite feeling? Stressed, I must do something, something, what I do not want. I do not know enjoy life. It could be a primitive reason, but everything is easier with alcohol.
- I need something for stopping me, something, what do not allow me drink. I forget everything, absolutely without eating, drinking only. I am trying to live, but I have no stable point. I scold to my relatives without reason.
- I did not urinate from yesterday and I drank 4 liters of water.
- Music is a problem. It produce similar state like alcohol: uplifted, exhilarated feeling. I do not hear for relaxation, but for entering into world of my illusions.
- My girlfriend knows, about my two worlds. She likes my normal world, but when I enter into my illusion world, she does not stop me. Then we have lot of quarrels again and again.
- I tried marijuana, if I could compare it with alcohol, alcohol is much better.
- I have physical complaints after delirium only. I have kidney disease probably due to drinking-bouts. I don’t eat during drinking, it is shock for my body.
- I am shouting in dreams and I cannot. As if I am pressed by somebody, I want to release from this pressing and I am not able to say something, like speechless. As if pressed by something. I am helpless. It was 7 to 8 times in my life. Opposite feeling is freedom. I must relax from this troublesome pressing, constricting.
- I have bubbles, amazing feeling since early childhood. Bubble which grows and grows. Growing bubbles and I am between them, they pressed me, and they are airy, soft. I feel them in head.
- I am very soft. It is another man in my, it is not me, it is somebody totally different. I feel best and biggest, I feel week afterwards.
- I have hallucinations from cashew nuts, bad feeling – jerks, twitching, vertigo.Information from his mother:- My father and husbands are alcoholics, son is an extremist. Son as a small boy saw some bubbles. We visited neurologist, he said:” I know, how I relax.” When we were enrolling him to the school, he disappeared and after a few minutes, he returned and said:” I am enrolled, we could go home!”
- We have uncle, total extremist, like our son. He behaves like superhuman and I see our Milan as he leads everybody, as he shares with cleverness. Who selected you? He selected himself, he will save the world.
- Milan defends me, when my husband drank a lot. He said, he wanted leave our house, but he will stay at home for defending me.I took those rubrics:MIND – ALCOHOLISM
MIND - ANTAGONISM with herself
MIND – CLAIRVOYANCE
MIND - CONFIDENCE - want of self-confidence
MIND – CURSING
MIND - EXPRESSING oneself - desire to express oneself
MIND - FANCIES - exaltation of
MIND – FASTIDIOUS
MIND - FEAR - people; of
MIND – INCONSTANCY
MIND - REALITY - flight from reality
MIND - RENUNCIATION - world; of the external
MIND - SENSITIVE - music, to
MIND – SIGHING
DREAMS – CLAIRVOYANT
MIND - SUICIDAL disposition
MIND - WITHDRAWAL from realityI must decide between two remedies:ANACARDIUM v. ANHALONIUM
Drug symptoms lead us to the prescription of Anhalonium, but this remedy does not cover alcoholism. Sankaran method could be useful here. Cancer miasm is clear in this case: patient perceives situation as a chaotic, he needs to put things in order. It requires superhuman effort. Sensitivity in one particular sensation and opposite of it points to the plant remedy. Both remedies are plants remedies, and both belong to cancer miasm. Differentiation is possible through comparison of vital sensations of those remedies.
Anacardium: Caught in a tight spot and a superhuman effort is needed to come out of it.
Anhalonium: Has to keep total control in a situation of being shrunken and constricted.
Feelings of patient are pressing, constricting, shrinking. Active reaction is expansion. He expands during drunkenness mainly: he then does not feel pressing, constricting, he feel free, best, biggest etc.
His drinking habit is strange: he drinks in fits, not constantly. One could compare this to the camel drinking. He does not urinate and drinks a lot of water after drinking tour: he collects water. Metaphorically he is defending against shrinking, exsiccating. This habit is similar to the cactuses: saving fluids and controlling their intake, is necessary take advantage of every intake of water. It could not be very often. Cactuses are succulents, and their ecosystem is desert. Follow upAfter Anhalonium C 200 he stopped drinking, his confidence is higher, he feels free. He still has some feeling of shame for his previous behaviour.
Man, 24 years old, single, examined after 3 days lasting drinking tour.Case- I am ashamed; give me, please, some remedies for stopping drinking. I like drinking, but not for taste, but for drunkenness. I must feel it in my head. I have another world after fifth beer: so relaxed one. So simple, it is difficult to describe.
- Opposite feeling? Stressed, I must do something, something, what I do not want. I do not know enjoy life. It could be a primitive reason, but everything is easier with alcohol.
- I need something for stopping me, something, what do not allow me drink. I forget everything, absolutely without eating, drinking only. I am trying to live, but I have no stable point. I scold to my relatives without reason.
- I did not urinate from yesterday and I drank 4 liters of water.
- Music is a problem. It produce similar state like alcohol: uplifted, exhilarated feeling. I do not hear for relaxation, but for entering into world of my illusions.
- My girlfriend knows, about my two worlds. She likes my normal world, but when I enter into my illusion world, she does not stop me. Then we have lot of quarrels again and again.
- I tried marijuana, if I could compare it with alcohol, alcohol is much better.
- I have physical complaints after delirium only. I have kidney disease probably due to drinking-bouts. I don’t eat during drinking, it is shock for my body.
- I am shouting in dreams and I cannot. As if I am pressed by somebody, I want to release from this pressing and I am not able to say something, like speechless. As if pressed by something. I am helpless. It was 7 to 8 times in my life. Opposite feeling is freedom. I must relax from this troublesome pressing, constricting.
- I have bubbles, amazing feeling since early childhood. Bubble which grows and grows. Growing bubbles and I am between them, they pressed me, and they are airy, soft. I feel them in head.
- I am very soft. It is another man in my, it is not me, it is somebody totally different. I feel best and biggest, I feel week afterwards.
- I have hallucinations from cashew nuts, bad feeling – jerks, twitching, vertigo.Information from his mother:- My father and husbands are alcoholics, son is an extremist. Son as a small boy saw some bubbles. We visited neurologist, he said:” I know, how I relax.” When we were enrolling him to the school, he disappeared and after a few minutes, he returned and said:” I am enrolled, we could go home!”
- We have uncle, total extremist, like our son. He behaves like superhuman and I see our Milan as he leads everybody, as he shares with cleverness. Who selected you? He selected himself, he will save the world.
- Milan defends me, when my husband drank a lot. He said, he wanted leave our house, but he will stay at home for defending me.I took those rubrics:MIND – ALCOHOLISM
MIND - ANTAGONISM with herself
MIND – CLAIRVOYANCE
MIND - CONFIDENCE - want of self-confidence
MIND – CURSING
MIND - EXPRESSING oneself - desire to express oneself
MIND - FANCIES - exaltation of
MIND – FASTIDIOUS
MIND - FEAR - people; of
MIND – INCONSTANCY
MIND - REALITY - flight from reality
MIND - RENUNCIATION - world; of the external
MIND - SENSITIVE - music, to
MIND – SIGHING
DREAMS – CLAIRVOYANT
MIND - SUICIDAL disposition
MIND - WITHDRAWAL from realityI must decide between two remedies:ANACARDIUM v. ANHALONIUM
Drug symptoms lead us to the prescription of Anhalonium, but this remedy does not cover alcoholism. Sankaran method could be useful here. Cancer miasm is clear in this case: patient perceives situation as a chaotic, he needs to put things in order. It requires superhuman effort. Sensitivity in one particular sensation and opposite of it points to the plant remedy. Both remedies are plants remedies, and both belong to cancer miasm. Differentiation is possible through comparison of vital sensations of those remedies.
Anacardium: Caught in a tight spot and a superhuman effort is needed to come out of it.
Anhalonium: Has to keep total control in a situation of being shrunken and constricted.
Feelings of patient are pressing, constricting, shrinking. Active reaction is expansion. He expands during drunkenness mainly: he then does not feel pressing, constricting, he feel free, best, biggest etc.
His drinking habit is strange: he drinks in fits, not constantly. One could compare this to the camel drinking. He does not urinate and drinks a lot of water after drinking tour: he collects water. Metaphorically he is defending against shrinking, exsiccating. This habit is similar to the cactuses: saving fluids and controlling their intake, is necessary take advantage of every intake of water. It could not be very often. Cactuses are succulents, and their ecosystem is desert. Follow upAfter Anhalonium C 200 he stopped drinking, his confidence is higher, he feels free. He still has some feeling of shame for his previous behaviour.