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Secale cornutum
Year 2021, Issue 71, Article 4CaseAuthor: Pavol Tibensky
Case by Pavol Tibensky.Patient 42 years old man, married, two children, owner of pub in small village.
Main complaint: hypacusis, probably he must use device for better hearing. His GP, friend of him, recommended him homeopathy.
- I was 5 months very busy. I work 16 – 18 hours daily. I have psychical complaints after this enormous exertion: when I go to sleep, my heart bellowed like an ox. I suffered with meningitis when I was 10 years old, I had high temperature about 42 degrees, I have impaired hearing from this time. I underwent many examination, nothings helped me. I have pub and I have troubles with hearing, eyes and memory. I have short hands, I do not see correctly, what I wrote, and I forget sometimes, if costumer paid or not. E. g. I am riding car, I am hearing music – Chopin, Beethoven etc. and suddenly I feel some click in ear and I hear perfectly from this moment during 5 or 10 minutes. Sometimes it is better after swallowing. With Valsalve manoeuvre it is the same.
- I lost 15 kilos during last 4 months. I slept badly, 4 hours only. I was exhausted – I reconstructed our house, with two persons only. I feel trembling of whole body sometimes, sometimes less, sometimes more. I stumbled a few times, from fatigue probably, I do not know, I am not expert. Trembling was like during hypoglycaemia. We have problems with our son –he avoided schooling, we must go to the school and later troubles with my wife: I am more jealous. I found SMS in her handy: “It was nice with you!”
- I said: I will leave my worries behind and I will go to Italy, I do not want to see them. I was totally frustrated, I was interesting in nothing. But my daughter convinced me to stay here.
- I was perfect organizer. Nothing made me angry, and if yes, it was not visible. I sorted out after short thinking. I have shelves; I put everything in those shelves. Some information in one shelf, another one in another one. If somebody said me some interesting information, I put it into shelf, if I am not convinced about usefulness of it, I put it into next shelf. I collect so sorted information during 20 years. Like computer files. If I need something, I pick out it.
- I am very optimistic. If somebody digs at me, I am trying to be quiet, make joke etc. But if it is too much, it is problem. If somebody dig into me, small impulse is good enough and I shoot out and it pout out.
- Digging? I have marked down people: serious, less serious, provocateurs, diggers, big diggers and extra diggers. I have alcoholics in totally separated shelf – I do not bother with alcoholics. Digger digs, digs and digs, he pick up more and more and if shelf is full, I shoot out everything, what I think and everybody is proper, solid, good whole week. They must be aware, it is dangerous provoke snake with bare foot. /his customers/
- I try to be maximally tolerant, obliging and grateful. I studied 3 years psychology. When I am angry, I take 5 kilogram hammer and I beat with it wood, stones etc. Once I mined wood for one man and he did not pay me. I could hit him with baseball club. My friends said me: “You could earn money elsewhere, let him!”
- I have vivid dream only 2 times per year. I feel some trembling in the evening in bed, some imaginations before falling asleep. I have restless sleep, sometimes I throw down my wife from bed. Once I dreamed about losing needle, I found it. Another dream: we had Chinese pig, its excrements flied everywhere. I cleaned it and I edged my wife. I had terrible dreams during drying out of nicotine. Then I kicked out every smoker from my pub.
- I feel pain in my tendon. I must stretch legs and it is better. I feel shortened tendons.
- I have no fear. When I concentrated for a while, you could cut my leg, I feel no pain. I have planed off finger tips/injured with jack plane/, I did not visit surgeon, and I helped myself. When I have fracture of little finger, I used key for fixing it and I continued in work.
- I have allergy for cereals, but not for cereals itself but cereal dust. When I was 15 years old, I worked on farm and you know. There was ergot, black goofiness. I devoured five or six pieces, I was curious, how it taste. I had skin eruptions like from needles in the evening, it terribly itched, and it lasted one week. I think I was allergic to dust and pieces of rye pricked into my organism. It is like glass wool – you must shower in cold water. If you use hot water, your pores opened: this is my theory.
- I suffer with sun allergy. When I undress in the sun, my body is itching immediately. It is terrible, everybody wears swimming suite, and I must be completely wrapped.
- I have vertigo after rising suddenly, my head is turning and I see stars around as if you catch glitters, spill out them and they falls down and scintillates.
- I have injury. I was pressed between tractor and trailer. I was connector, cushion between tractor and trailer. My chest was pressed and I feel as if blood was forced out to the limbs, I felt I could burst. It was like you catch spider and crush it.
- My grandmother had cancer probably. They had wart, after surgeon's intervention they kicked the bucket.
- If I will have possibility to be reborn, I could be some inventor, engineer. I am able to repair almost everything. When I am going to repair something, I take books, I select the best combinations, and I put them into separate drawers. I have friends from Japan and China, I have acupuncture books too. When I am drunk, I am very stubborn, like pit bull. Nobody stops me.
- I like collecting mushrooms, Chinese too. Judas's ear fungus is good for heart diseases. I like very, very spicy food. Onion and garlic are my love. I could eat 1 kilo of onion, with nothing. I like rice, bread, pasta, I do not like potatoes. My favourite cheese is Olomouc strong cheese./Czech delicacy/
- I feel very week sexually, ejaculation is too quick.
- I perspire terribly on my legs, mostly on left one. I use light slippers, but my socks are hard and badly smells. I could peel away skin from my foot. It is like mud. I have terrible pain in left calf in the evening. I must stretch leg, move around and it is better.AnalysisThis man was very conscious about explaining his problems. He used offensive language, like customers in his pub. He is deceived by his wife, his son ignored him too. Many features of this case points to remedy Secale cornutum. This remedy is known for treatment of gangrene, but he visited me earlier then this pathology could be developed. When I read my remarks about this patient, I was surprised: he described his feelings like description of life of ergot.
1. Ascomycetes – sac fungi have sacs – he has shelves or drawers for selections of people, for information too.
2. Ergot is parasite on rye, one of cereals. He like cereals – rye, pasta, bread. He does not like potatoes. It is good confirmation of this remedy, because Solanum tuberosum aegrotans, which belongs to mushrooms, is parasite on potatoes
3. Ergot is parasite of rye, it does not metabolize alcohol, it is job of Sacharomycetales –he does not bother with alcoholics - alcoholics does not belong to any drawer
4. Ergot needs humidity for their life – he does not tolerate sun.
5. Ergot burst a shoots out spores – he want to throw his troubles behind head, he has vertigo with seeing scintillating objects.
stars, glitters.
6. He is sensitive to ergot – he was curious, how it tastes and
swallowed it. He is sensitive to cereal dust containing spores of ergot.Connections with mushrooms:1. He love mushrooms collecting
2. He likes strong cheese
From Sankaran point of view it is clear too:
The main sensation in the Fungi family is burrowing, invading, digging, boring, excoriating, corroding, eroding, gnawing, penetrating and spreading. Another common theme we find here is robbers, danger, and sensation of being possessed by super human power. The active reaction to this is one becomes courageous and increases his strength.
Leprous miasm lies between tubercular and syphilitic miasm. Like tubercular miasm, it has feeling of oppression and intense activity to get out of this oppressed state. There is also intense feeling of isolation with no hope of recovery as in syphilis. Thus the main feeling of leprous miasm is intense hopelessness and sense of isolation.
If the main feeling of Fungi is combined with the leprous miasm, the feeling could be:
"Invaded and penetrated to the point of disgust and isolation."
I prescribed Secale C 200. After one month he felt better, he has less perspiration of legs and his hearing was improved. He tuned TV noise from 14 to 12 lines. He continues with same potency for 6 months. According to his GP, he did not visit her for 2 years as a patient.
Main complaint: hypacusis, probably he must use device for better hearing. His GP, friend of him, recommended him homeopathy.
- I was 5 months very busy. I work 16 – 18 hours daily. I have psychical complaints after this enormous exertion: when I go to sleep, my heart bellowed like an ox. I suffered with meningitis when I was 10 years old, I had high temperature about 42 degrees, I have impaired hearing from this time. I underwent many examination, nothings helped me. I have pub and I have troubles with hearing, eyes and memory. I have short hands, I do not see correctly, what I wrote, and I forget sometimes, if costumer paid or not. E. g. I am riding car, I am hearing music – Chopin, Beethoven etc. and suddenly I feel some click in ear and I hear perfectly from this moment during 5 or 10 minutes. Sometimes it is better after swallowing. With Valsalve manoeuvre it is the same.
- I lost 15 kilos during last 4 months. I slept badly, 4 hours only. I was exhausted – I reconstructed our house, with two persons only. I feel trembling of whole body sometimes, sometimes less, sometimes more. I stumbled a few times, from fatigue probably, I do not know, I am not expert. Trembling was like during hypoglycaemia. We have problems with our son –he avoided schooling, we must go to the school and later troubles with my wife: I am more jealous. I found SMS in her handy: “It was nice with you!”
- I said: I will leave my worries behind and I will go to Italy, I do not want to see them. I was totally frustrated, I was interesting in nothing. But my daughter convinced me to stay here.
- I was perfect organizer. Nothing made me angry, and if yes, it was not visible. I sorted out after short thinking. I have shelves; I put everything in those shelves. Some information in one shelf, another one in another one. If somebody said me some interesting information, I put it into shelf, if I am not convinced about usefulness of it, I put it into next shelf. I collect so sorted information during 20 years. Like computer files. If I need something, I pick out it.
- I am very optimistic. If somebody digs at me, I am trying to be quiet, make joke etc. But if it is too much, it is problem. If somebody dig into me, small impulse is good enough and I shoot out and it pout out.
- Digging? I have marked down people: serious, less serious, provocateurs, diggers, big diggers and extra diggers. I have alcoholics in totally separated shelf – I do not bother with alcoholics. Digger digs, digs and digs, he pick up more and more and if shelf is full, I shoot out everything, what I think and everybody is proper, solid, good whole week. They must be aware, it is dangerous provoke snake with bare foot. /his customers/
- I try to be maximally tolerant, obliging and grateful. I studied 3 years psychology. When I am angry, I take 5 kilogram hammer and I beat with it wood, stones etc. Once I mined wood for one man and he did not pay me. I could hit him with baseball club. My friends said me: “You could earn money elsewhere, let him!”
- I have vivid dream only 2 times per year. I feel some trembling in the evening in bed, some imaginations before falling asleep. I have restless sleep, sometimes I throw down my wife from bed. Once I dreamed about losing needle, I found it. Another dream: we had Chinese pig, its excrements flied everywhere. I cleaned it and I edged my wife. I had terrible dreams during drying out of nicotine. Then I kicked out every smoker from my pub.
- I feel pain in my tendon. I must stretch legs and it is better. I feel shortened tendons.
- I have no fear. When I concentrated for a while, you could cut my leg, I feel no pain. I have planed off finger tips/injured with jack plane/, I did not visit surgeon, and I helped myself. When I have fracture of little finger, I used key for fixing it and I continued in work.
- I have allergy for cereals, but not for cereals itself but cereal dust. When I was 15 years old, I worked on farm and you know. There was ergot, black goofiness. I devoured five or six pieces, I was curious, how it taste. I had skin eruptions like from needles in the evening, it terribly itched, and it lasted one week. I think I was allergic to dust and pieces of rye pricked into my organism. It is like glass wool – you must shower in cold water. If you use hot water, your pores opened: this is my theory.
- I suffer with sun allergy. When I undress in the sun, my body is itching immediately. It is terrible, everybody wears swimming suite, and I must be completely wrapped.
- I have vertigo after rising suddenly, my head is turning and I see stars around as if you catch glitters, spill out them and they falls down and scintillates.
- I have injury. I was pressed between tractor and trailer. I was connector, cushion between tractor and trailer. My chest was pressed and I feel as if blood was forced out to the limbs, I felt I could burst. It was like you catch spider and crush it.
- My grandmother had cancer probably. They had wart, after surgeon's intervention they kicked the bucket.
- If I will have possibility to be reborn, I could be some inventor, engineer. I am able to repair almost everything. When I am going to repair something, I take books, I select the best combinations, and I put them into separate drawers. I have friends from Japan and China, I have acupuncture books too. When I am drunk, I am very stubborn, like pit bull. Nobody stops me.
- I like collecting mushrooms, Chinese too. Judas's ear fungus is good for heart diseases. I like very, very spicy food. Onion and garlic are my love. I could eat 1 kilo of onion, with nothing. I like rice, bread, pasta, I do not like potatoes. My favourite cheese is Olomouc strong cheese./Czech delicacy/
- I feel very week sexually, ejaculation is too quick.
- I perspire terribly on my legs, mostly on left one. I use light slippers, but my socks are hard and badly smells. I could peel away skin from my foot. It is like mud. I have terrible pain in left calf in the evening. I must stretch leg, move around and it is better.AnalysisThis man was very conscious about explaining his problems. He used offensive language, like customers in his pub. He is deceived by his wife, his son ignored him too. Many features of this case points to remedy Secale cornutum. This remedy is known for treatment of gangrene, but he visited me earlier then this pathology could be developed. When I read my remarks about this patient, I was surprised: he described his feelings like description of life of ergot.
1. Ascomycetes – sac fungi have sacs – he has shelves or drawers for selections of people, for information too.
2. Ergot is parasite on rye, one of cereals. He like cereals – rye, pasta, bread. He does not like potatoes. It is good confirmation of this remedy, because Solanum tuberosum aegrotans, which belongs to mushrooms, is parasite on potatoes
3. Ergot is parasite of rye, it does not metabolize alcohol, it is job of Sacharomycetales –he does not bother with alcoholics - alcoholics does not belong to any drawer
4. Ergot needs humidity for their life – he does not tolerate sun.
5. Ergot burst a shoots out spores – he want to throw his troubles behind head, he has vertigo with seeing scintillating objects.
stars, glitters.
6. He is sensitive to ergot – he was curious, how it tastes and
swallowed it. He is sensitive to cereal dust containing spores of ergot.Connections with mushrooms:1. He love mushrooms collecting
2. He likes strong cheese
From Sankaran point of view it is clear too:
The main sensation in the Fungi family is burrowing, invading, digging, boring, excoriating, corroding, eroding, gnawing, penetrating and spreading. Another common theme we find here is robbers, danger, and sensation of being possessed by super human power. The active reaction to this is one becomes courageous and increases his strength.
Leprous miasm lies between tubercular and syphilitic miasm. Like tubercular miasm, it has feeling of oppression and intense activity to get out of this oppressed state. There is also intense feeling of isolation with no hope of recovery as in syphilis. Thus the main feeling of leprous miasm is intense hopelessness and sense of isolation.
If the main feeling of Fungi is combined with the leprous miasm, the feeling could be:
"Invaded and penetrated to the point of disgust and isolation."
I prescribed Secale C 200. After one month he felt better, he has less perspiration of legs and his hearing was improved. He tuned TV noise from 14 to 12 lines. He continues with same potency for 6 months. According to his GP, he did not visit her for 2 years as a patient.