A 47-year-old woman with two children. She has a tanned, dark complexion and black hair, with a restless and somewhat haggard expression on her face. Five years ago, she experienced anxiety attacks and fatigue; this was followed by thyroid surgery as a preventive measure due to glomus tumors. She was prescribed Thyrax and felt better for a while. The symptoms have returned over the past six months; she now calls it “hyperventilation,” a nervous feeling, over the top. Restlessness, bordering on panic. She then walks around the house in circles. She can function with oxazepam; otherwise, she lies around all day waiting for it to pass. Driving a car causes panic. “The misery now started again,” with tension in her stomach as soon as she got up, and tightness in her throat. It’s worst in the morning; it subsides as the day goes on. She sleeps very well. Her periods stopped a year ago. During an attack, she gets hot, she starts sweating, she wants to go outside; lying in bed at home helps. Talking about it during consultation makes it worse, and after 20 minutes, she has to flee outside. At home, she often has to go out. Coffee makes it worse.
Daphne mezereum provides some relief for a few weeks, but then the symptoms return.
Based on the “leave home” symptom, she is given Oxytropis arvense (
Fabaceae: she wants everything to be fun and pleasant, uncomplicated. Impatient, “I’ll keep going, but I just want it to be over.” Working hard and surviving the situation, focused on her own experience, carefree, down-to-earth). The pressure was less; she finds everything easier, and she can tolerate coffee again.
She was well for a long time, but after a year, the complaints return and build up again over a number of months. It started on vacation; she was nervous in the car, not feeling well. She started again taking oxazepam. Most days, she feels restless; when she goes somewhere, it gets worse. She feels like having to take an exam. She has a new job, which is positive, but after a few weeks, she had to call in sick. With oxazepam, she manages. She wanted to try it, “as long as I can function.” It felt again as if she might collapse. She tried everything—a psychiatrist, the family doctor, and now homeopathy. It can come on suddenly and last a few hours; sometimes it’s as if she’s living under a veil, just like in the past. She has a constricting feeling throughout her whole body, anxious, a “now things are really going wrong” feeling. Nerves. Sometimes she still has a numb sensation in her left leg. She is experiencing menopausal symptoms; she uses Ymea (a cimicifuga preparation, phytotherapy) for this.
AnalysisSeries 44: We still see indications for the
Fabidae family: the theme of work, being busy, and carrying on as a solution; work as a triggering factor; working as a resolving factor; energy. In the event of a relapse, it is advisable to make a differential diagnosis and not simply repeat the previous remedy.
Aragallis (synonym for Oxytropis arvense) worked well; so the starting point was “keep looking within the
Fabales.”
Phase 5: building tension, release, wanting to flee. Wanting to move on, different work is a solution.
This brings us to 3-644.55.00, the
Mimosoideae.
Stage 4: She often lives in a haze, similar to the detachment of
Cerium. Anticipation, doubt.
Prescription:
Mimosa pudica.
Follow-upThings improved fairly quickly afterward; for the first two weeks, she had no issues. Then she felt tension in a busy shopping mall. Since then, it has been mildly present on workdays, just before leaving home. As soon as she does something different, leaves her familiar surroundings, the nervous feeling in her stomach returns, but it no longer dominates. It doesn’t bother her anymore. She now sits quietly, with her legs and arms crossed, and regularly holds her finger to her mouth. Last week, she was exhausted, but she no longer has hot flashes. After this weeks, things continued to go well for years.