Scleranthus annuus

A seventy-three-year-old man comes to the practice because of pain in the abdomen and in his back. The urologist suspects that the pain comes from a prostate enlargement, the orthopaedist has detected a degeneration in the lumbar spine. During the day he has no complaints only at night. The onset of pain is two hours after he goes to bed. The pain is then also in the bladder and he has to be standing up hourly for urination. The pain in the abdomen and the back is better while standing and worse lying, he must get up through the pain.He thinks he has a serious disease and therefore he worries about the future of his family (responsibility phase 4, family silicon series). He suffers from depression, he has nothing at all what does a pleasure to him, he is listless, wants not to do anything and could just stay in bed all day. He already has an antidepressant at home. The Depression is from the constant pain and the lack of sleep, he thinks. He has hot flashes, with a red face, the whole body is then hot. He often has a stabbing pain at the heart and in this time the blood pressure is 200 to 170. Sometimes he worries that he could get a heart attack. The examination at the heart was inconspicuous.The children encapsulate themselves, he was always used to support them in the school and elsewhere (adjust, support = Phase 2). He has a feeling of worthlessness, especially when his wife criticizes him, (phase 2) when he has neglected for example the household affairs. She goes to work and he is already in retirement and supplies the children. He has inherited an old house from his mother and has been rebuilt and renovated it all his life, there was always something what has to be done. He did it all after work and at the weekends. Nowadays he wakes up in the morning with the thought that he has not renovated and rebuilt the house well enough. He believes that he has made the division for the different rooms wrong. Than he thinks that he could have used his time more meaningfully and thinks that he did not do it well and how dingy the house is actually. (Inadequate= Phase 2)He says it has become harder for him since his wife goes back to work full time, the household and cooking he do not like, he has no joy with that work. His children do need his support less and less in school, also in other activities, they do not need him anymore. He did not want to contradict his wife (phase 2) in her desire to go back to work full time. When the children were younger, his day was filled with the children. (Family silicon series) His son has told him that he has no friends or other contacts. He never has had real friends.Before he married he had taken care of his mother. (responsible = phase 4) She and he lived together in this house. She always conducts him, did not let him go, he was responsible for her. (adapting Phase 2) His father died in the war, when he was 6 years old. They lived together with the dominant grandmother and his two older sisters.He was eight years old when he was given to a boarding school run by priests. His mother want´s him to become a priest. He did not have a good remembrance of his years at the boarding school, he has homesickness and felt unhappy, but there was no place at home for him. (no determined place, DD. stage 2, DD Mag.) His mother had little money and she was happy to have a place for him at the church. With his dominant grandmother, the mother and the two older sisters, only woman where around him - a difficult situation.He has been mocked and laughed at by the women at home (stage 2, DD stage 2), lots of jokes were made at his expense. He has distanced himself more and more and has drawn a protective shield (stage 6?) to protect his vulnerability (hiding phase 2 / stage 2) that did not allow others access. The mother was very strict and he was raised to be obedient. (Adapt = Phase 2). She forced him to attend every event in church, the other boys were playing football and he was in the church. He was a ministrant, a well behaved, quiet boy. (Phase 2)He got married late, a twenty-year younger woman, his aim was that he wanted to have children, otherwise he would have missed something in his life. (Aim of life = class, 663 Caryophyllidae / 633Lilliane) He cared much about the children, especially with the school, which he thinks is very important, because that is the basis for the future life of his children. He never had had this support as a child. (Phase 2) Now the children come from school and the food should be ready, he has the feeling that he cannot do the things he wants to do. Prior to that, when his wife worked less, he could spend one or two days doing what was important to him. (Caryophyllidae 663, autonomy); (But he has the feeling he should adapt to his wife/family = Subphase 2, because of his responsibility Phase 4, the situation how it is)Analysis660.00 Asteranae: He is a refined, reflective man, his independence is important for him.663.00 Caryophyllidae: His aim of live is to have a family and at the same time to keep freedom to do things on his own.663.40 Caryophyllales: His situation, how it is for him (= phase), he is responsible (phase 4) for his family and for his mother. He cares, is responsible first for his mother and then for his family. It is self-evident, without question that he does so. (Phase 4)663.42 Sclerantheae: The feeling in the situation is (= subphase) his feeling is that he has to adapt to the needs of his family, or before to the needs of his mother. He supports his children with that support, he never has received. He did not contradict to his wife. He was laughed. (Subphase 2)663.42.08: Scleranthus annuus: He persevered (Stage 8)
with being responsible (Phase 4) for his family (Silicium Serie) by adapting (Subphase 2) to their needs more than sixty-five years.
Prescription: Scleranthus annuus C200 later 1MK.Follow Up after 5 months:He is no longer depressed and his quality of life has risen from 10/20% to 70/80%. He had to get up to go to toilet in the night between three to six times. He has almost no more back pain, but he says he takes a painkiller every evening. He was a few time skiing, it was no problem. No more pain in his heart. The blood pressure is normal, the cholesterol value has decreased. All his values are good. The household matters do not bother him anymore, he does it with ease. Her spent more time now in what he wants to do. He is calmer and he has become aware that he is not twenty years anymore and that he can do much for his age, he accepts it now as it is - that is what has changed for him.