17-month-old girl. It started on vacation, and since then she had changeable symptoms. First intestinal complaints, she had herbal drops of Tormentilla tomentosa for that, and it was immediately better. Relief is getting better now, but still stool is sticky, but no longer the squirting diapers. Vomiting is now a permanent problem, during the first months she had a kind of reflux. Now she has very severe itching again, red spots scratching them open. The back and neck, behind the ears, the red spots were already there some weeks before the bowel problems started. The skin of arms and legs is like sandpaper. She sometimes picks up an infection and fever. Then she does get more irritable, grumbles more, and eats less. She had never had infections. They use vaseline creme, she is intolerant to milk and egg. After eating egg she gets cramps and a rash on cheeks within half an hour. She reacted strongly to breastfeeding, it didn't work out, she kept crying a lot, since then pepti. Blood values are good.
After a few hours of sleep she gets abdominal cramps, and she can only sleep with her parents in bed. After a few big farts, the cramp is over. We have been to osteopath several times, but symptoms remain.
Development is good. Pregnancy was IVF, the mother felt very good, and the first months were exciting, before we have been busy for six years after ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages. Mother has prolactinoma and hypothyroidism after iodine. Delivery was fine. Her tongue is clean. She is an open, easy child. She decides when to sleep herself, and wants to explore everything. Like father: when she is hungry she must eat immediately, otherwise she will fall.
AnalysisRepertorium was consulted, the rubric 'pain, flatus ameliorates'. From a selected symptom that covers the load, you can search for a drug in which you recognize
Series, Phase, or Stage, as Q-search nowadays also does. When working with a repertory, the advantage is that you start thinking about ‘what and why’ you are considering for a
Series or Phase, and hold the case 'against the light' as we say. It helps realize what you have seen and heard, and can place the image or abstraction into concrete terms. This rubric mentions 105 possibilities, knowledge of medicine is required in this method. In this consideration, you can "skip" a lot of possibilities from recognition of experience or from theory (you skip a possibility when
Series, Phase, or Stage does not match the case). Excellent training to internalise this analysis system.
Here was recognizable from Cornus:
Phase 1: pregnancy, uncertain, have no place yet, cannot count on it, tension. The aspect of 'outsider, not a
part of the group' (as still a baby, for her a problem or a burden, she can’t be alone, even the problems with conception is a
Phase 1 item).
Phase 6 the intestinal symptoms, and in the mother: fatigue, her thyroid 'partially' ceases.
Series 6 aspects of
Lanthanides, autonomy, growing to an independent person, some indication to allergy, within this
Series as ‘living world, a mark’, Phase 1is a defining fact, starting point. Often when complaints start from birth on, it fits a
Lanthanides prescription (as the
Magnoliidae does).
Series 5, Silver aspects: being special, appreciation does not come up, though with the mother: thyroid is the area of throat and shoulders, known from
Malvidae,
Series 5.
Stage 8: persistence (the getting pregnant, becoming an independent person for the child as a result of persistence).
In a case analysis of a toddler, it is advisable to look at the "whole picture", especially the pregnancy,
childbirth, and the mother, even the family and home situation with numerous feelings, emotions, and
certainties that come with it, all of which are very telling and defining for the child. The symptoms that are "prominent" characterize the child or situation.
Prescription:
Cornus rugosa MK.
Follow upIt went very well, in the week before taking the remedy it was still a drama with vomiting, but four days after
the remedy it was over. Now there is comfortable behavior, she is happy, made a jump in development, has started to eat and drink a lot, and she says 'more' all day long. Stool is now formed, and firm (digestion is better now). No more overstretching. Skin a lot less rough and not red anymore, noticeable is that after two days she got eczema behind the ears and a crack behind the right ear (indicates lymphatic activity in the area), rash on the left ear at a location of the intestine according to auriculogy. This means something is changing, in lymphatic activity and in bowels or the digestion, with the result no more pain. The upcoming symptoms indicate a new equilibrium. She now eats yogurt and cheese again with no problems. Flatulence is still there. She had remarkably frequent hiccups, but now no longer daily. One day a week it comes back throughout the day, during the reflux period it was very frequent. The years after is everything is well.