Case by Maarten van der Meer.
Remedy code: 3-643.16.10.
A young man of 25, he comes with his wife and their six-week-old baby, as a close-knit family that exudes stability and confidence, his personality is slightly expectant and with a slightly troubled face as if he has yet to get used to the family or is unsure of his adult independence. He looks at his girlfriend when I ask something, to which she often speaks up. He comes for painfull blisters in the mouth every time, sometimes a few at a time, it takes a few days, and new comes up at the same time, and this has been going on for months. The blisters are painful and are throughout the mouth, most on the inside of the lower lip. The tongue tip is red, indicating an inflamed throat area with lymphatic activity. He also has a ‘weird tongue’: it hurts in the back, like muscle pain, and it feels sore. He never had this. During the period of these symptoms, his wife says, he was less comfortable at work, and there was more trouble with a co-worker. He works with a man who is a good teacher but uses him as an errand boy, and he keeps him down. That causes frustration; he talks about it at home. He would like to throw it out. The work itself is nice, it's a big construction company, and everyone has tremendous trouble with that colleague, the young man is the only one who can work with that troublesome man. That colleague does everything in his way and is very derogatory to everyone else. So he gets annoyed, and comes home with “it was another day,” then he doesn't say anything. If he is not careful he would go on a rant, and that would clash. He doesn't want to say it directly, he doesn't want to have that feeling of annoyance either, once they drive to or from the job the feeling will be gone. It works its way into his character, it makes him insecure, and yet he has a desire to prove himself, he is not happy, not proud of himself. He just sits in his head and can go and do the same thing at home, just in the wrong way, so insistent. Sleeping is fine, and eating is fine. This week he had a rash, red bumps itching all over his torso, arms, and head. He sometimes has diarrhea and had had blood in his stools for a while, with hemorrhoids. Other than that, he has no complaints. He is the youngest of a very large family. He can hide tensions or thoughts very deeply, and they can suddenly come out. Then he starts thinking about it constantly, he wants to make himself heard. Now work is not fun although it is going well. He dreams a lot, sometimes about work. He is very social, can chat with anyone, and makes others feel comfortable. He is very insecure about himself, at work he keeps measuring whether it fits. His hobbies are odd jobs, maintaining the vintage car, and touring. School and his study: yes, you had to choose something and there was work in this, what do you know when you are (only) sixteen? He first wanted to do a driver's training program, but that didn't work out well with his peers.
AnalysisIron series,
Iron series: focus on “practical,” tackling, work in the sense of being functional, meaning something in the world.
Silicon series,
Silicon series: problem with colleagues, social, friends, family, and relatives. The interaction of these two is already a possibility for looking to the
Proteales.
Silicon series-643.
Phase 1: In his work, the choice is rather involuntary, spontaneous, fledgling,
Phase 6: feeling lesser, being treated as lesser, which seems to give rise to the complaint.
Stage 10: his attitude, body language, striving to be uncomplicated, and being able and willing to stick to it fits, the theme of balance versus imbalance, rigid (his work environment). Stage can be used as a theme. Within the
Vitaceae, you can look at the “available” stages that are yet known. The theme you see described in
Qjure at Vitis is present here ‘passively’ or as a burdensome theme. Its ‘action’ or stage is fixing, the theme is balance and self-assurance fitting the descriptions of
Stage 10.
Prescription:
Vitis vinifera C200.
Follow-upThe first week after taking it almost all the aphthous ulcers disappeared, the following week they came back all over after which they disappeared. One still comes up now and then but it is gone quickly. He no longer suffers from anything. He had a conversation at work after two weeks, which relieved him, he spoke out and he said he wanted more independence. His partner says that his head is calmer now, and he experiences less stress. He also used to suffer from his self-image: all his life he has heard ‘you can't do anything’, this is a result of the character of his father, who did not see the value of the children, he was negative towards the whole family. You can still see from his father that his face says something different from what he says, this all emphasizes the
Phase 6 aspect. The year after this, he is fine.