Remedy code: 3-633.55.11
A 40-year-old woman comes in for tension and insecurity. She is soft, has emotional eyes and an openness. Tension causes headaches in her forehead, diarrhea, significant weight gain, and fatigue. She feels insecure around people who talk to her or who act assertively. She quickly feels ignored, thinks she is being criticized and feels inferior. She dreads encountering people she would rather not see.
There are also family problems: her sister's divorce, arguments within her family, her children being bullied at school, and her husband's problems with his parents. She absorbs everything like a sponge, which causes her to gain weight. The tension in her family and household, so much has happened, continues to affect her (she refers to the people who ignore her or make her feel inferior). Making contact is so difficult these days, that she is afraid that it will cause tension again. She sees them watching her in the school yard, how she acts, and how she reacts (feeling uncomfortable or ignored by other parents and teachers, also because in the past she stood up for her children or discussed problems). She feels that they are talking about her. She is somewhat avoiding social situations and dreads attending a party. She does not feel well, experiences anxiety, has no energy during her menstrual cycle, becomes depressed, is unable to exercise, and wakes up at 3 a.m. wondering where she can find the energy to continue. She can no longer read, it takes more effort, never mind, what does it say anyway (she has a lot of dyslexia problems, which improved after
Malva sylvestris two years ago). Anger, having a heated conversation, and then it continues to haunt her. What keeps coming back: friendship on and off, it keeps coming back into her thoughts. She has to withdraw from that, she has to protect the children. She feels that she has no one around her, no friends, no social contact, that's not possible, either by email or by phone. If she eats too much, she gets diarrhea. In her childhood, she didn't belong anywhere either. She still has that feeling, in a group, she has trouble joining in. When there is a lot going on around her, she cannot focus (concentrate), nor can she 'tune in' to the TV. Gelsemium gives a brief improvement in energy.
AnalysisShe is a sensitive, complex: plant.
Silicon series: important in her life is the group around school, the children, and family, that is where the problem lies.
The theme of belonging somewhere, the group, is familiar from the
Lamiales, placed at
Phase 5-5.
Having high expectations, experiencing disappointment. Here, not within the independence of Class 6 and the self-presentation of Class 5, but within the
Liliidae theme, person-to-person contact, for herself, within the family, and for her children.
Phase 5: she feels it doesn't fit, and the unrest, turbulence, and weight gain.
Stage 11: protecting the children, holding on to the situation, holding on anger, tension.
Prescription”
Zingiber officinale C200.
Follow-upAfter six weeks, things are going well. She now feels she can handle everything again. Taking care of the children, saying everything she wants to say. Now, if something is bothering me, I talk about it and it goes away; before, it would linger. I notice that I process everything in my dreams. I can also get very angry when I feel like it. The physical complaints are now gone. My energy is good, I am exercising again, and I have lost four kilos. I sleep better, and still wake up sometimes, but not as often. The first week was up and down, but she already felt an improvement. She is no longer so insecure, she no longer needs to shield herself so much. She has not been ill, there was a lot going on. She no longer takes criticism to heart.
Reading and writing are also going very well now, she 'hears the letters again', just like after
Malvales. After this, things remain good for years, and she continues to exercise a lot.