A 73-year-old woman, small, with a hunched, reserved posture, she has a fragile build, and searching eyes. She is literally and figuratively colorless, a "grey mouse," and speaks quickly and animatedly. Two years ago, she fell forward, breaking her left upper arm and right hand. She still has pain along her left side; her shoulder, neck, and throat are warm and painful. Lying down increases the pain; everything feels burning hot, her face looks red, and cooling with ice helps. Heat makes it worse. She sleeps poorly because of this, often has headaches, and since the fall, she has had high blood pressure.
Amitriptyline made her dizzy and gave her palpitations. She no longer feels like herself. She's nervous when she goes somewhere, wondering if "it'll be okay," but (surprisingly) her biggest concern is "am I going to look silly with my red face?" She also gets nervous when the children call with problems, or when there are a lot of people around. The tension makes her feel short of breath, flushed, and the pain then intensifies. Her ears turn red, and her nose turns red as she has when drinking alcohol. The pain feels like she's on fire, starting in her face, the corners of her eyes, and the corners of her mouth, followed by a headache. Lying down feels like her head is filling up. Her hands are cold and her head is hot.
Everything is difficult for her; she dreads everything. When she lies awake, she starts thinking all sorts of things, and her mind becomes tense. She's very insecure, afraid she'll blush in public. Reading a book to distract herself isn't possible, and the pain persists. Her bowels are sensitive, and she frequently goes to the toilet. She can't lie on her left side because it gives her an earache and toothache, and her mandibular condyles have osteoarthritis. In the evening, her ear becomes red, and her jaw and molars ache. Sitting forward or bending over makes it worse. She wants to calm down again, be more herself, but the complaint is becoming more frequent. She reacts strongly to mosquito bites.
Kalium cyanatum, chosen for "pain, neuralgic," gives her a headache (a feeling of pressure inward) and pain in her upper right back for two days.
AnalysisSeries 6,
Lanthanides: overreaction to medication. She used to have her own business, now she's still active. Pain:
Asterales, we can extrapolate that to
Series 6.
Silver
Series,
Series 5: how do I present myself (she considers her red face the biggest problem, which overlaps with
Stage 2, but here it's purely her appearance that she's insecure about; "how do I look" plays a bigger role than "how do I feel").
Q-search using the search term "trauma" within
Series 65 suggests Thunbergia grandiflores.
Confirmation is found in
Phase 6: fatigue, bad luck, being out of action.
Phase 1: severe pain, restlessness.
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Verbenales: her body language, her posture, "bad luck," and being exhausted by pain, neuralgia.
Stage 15: congestion, over the top. Think of Nitrogen, the blood vessels.
Prescription:
Thunbergia grandiflora C30.
Follow-upthree weeks: From the first day, she has had no more daytime pain. When she lies down the first weeks, she still "fills up," but after getting up, it disappears within an hour. She now feels balanced again. She feels noticeably better and is eager to do things again. The headaches are mostly gone, and she no longer takes paracetamol. On a stressful day, she can still turn red, as if she's about to "explode." She still tenses up when she goes somewhere, afraid she'll turn red and look foolish. When lifting heavy objects, she can still feel the fracture site. After a few months the redness is gone, in the morning there is still pain in the shoulder for an hour. She is calm, her voice is warm now and she is happy again.