Remedy code: 3-543.15.11.
A 70-year-old woman, she has tanned skin and a sweet look. She has a stocky build, is slumped, and has remarkably bright and kind eyes, ruddy hair. She gets to the point quickly. Her daughter and husband died in an accident eight years ago. Since then she has been walking around like a zombie with chaos in her head. She has written everything down, but can't read it back yet. Every year she feels it in her body as the date approaches. Usually dips, but this time it has been going on for six months. She doesn't feel well, has no desire for vacation, an aversion to fun things. Nothing comes out of her hands. Since their death, she got very high blood pressure that didn't respond to medication, now it's up to par and she wants to keep it that way. From salt-less food she gets cramps. She also had high sugar but with diet, she is fine again. She can't cry anymore like it's blocked. She is very forgetful, and can't keep her attention on things. She withdraws, she prefers to be home alone. Sleeping: too much, when she has problems she sleeps, since the death of her daughter she sleeps day and night. Fatigue overwhelms her. In the beginning, she did everything on autopilot, but nothing got to her, occasionally she still has that. Others don't notice so much, her motto is “You have to go on, you just have to go on”. In the beginning, she noticed that her deceased daughter was standing behind her, saying “Hang in there Mom”; there is more between heaven and earth. The fatigue is very much around the eyes. In her younger years, she got fired in a very nasty way. They were going to break her down, she didn't get counseling and because of that, she got burned out and then also walked around like a zombie. She was 115 kg, and after a stomach reduction, she now weighs 65 kg. At home as a child they had the freedom to play outside, their mother was quite dominant. She is honest herself and very direct. Physically she is healthy. She is an animal lover, she likes her new dog. She doesn't call herself a talker but a listener. She has been alone before after a divorce. The marriage was very bad, she always felt the tension, and she had put up a wall.
AnalysisIt seems to be a reaction to survive: feeling is gone, apathy, her individuality is gone, her consciousness is at a low ebb.
Stage 11: Persistence, deference, “moving on.
Silicon series: family, children.
Iron series: work, survival (also a burnout situation in the past)
Phase 1: Unity, immediacy, alarm, this fits with
Stage 1 or with
Phase 1 (compare Aconitum).
Phase 5: Weight, tension, cheerfulness, having to go through, dominant mother. Repertory: need of sleep, Ephedra.
Prescription:
Ephedra distachya C 200
Follow upafter two months the first three days she had a constant headache on the forehead, then came the feeling of being a little lighter inside. She is so much calmer now. She is more alert, does a little more, still often falls back into the old when she does a lot in the garden or housework. She appears fitter and sits straight. She still sleeps 9 hours. She often plays games or works in the garden. She has no thoughts yet, it's an “emptiness,” like not being able to let the thoughts in. Journal writing: sometimes it's like her hand writes by itself, she doesn't know what she writes, and she doesn't even know what she feels. She was always a positive person, not afraid of anything, bullied as a child, because of red hair and freckles, but it it did anything to her. The fatigue she feel here under her eyes, tired and heavy, constant. Occasionally the neck creaks. She has started dieting again and is picking up social contacts. She is now also capable to meditate. After 4 months, memories things come up, which is the first time since it happened. Thinking about it gives her shaky hands, or getting hot, and sweating, she used to have that with tension. She is increasingly coming around to doing something during the day, she sees now that before she lived mostly in an in-between world. After Ephedra, the trauma comes more into consciousness, processing comes on more and requires energy, a specific strain, and a theme. Six months later she gets Loniceara caprifolia, which fits the theme of
Phase 6, fatigue,
Subphase 5 remains, and
Stage 13 fits 'retreat, withdraw, nostalgia'. Described with Lonicera is “lost love. After this comes more air or light in her head. She can be happy with the little dogs, enjoying them, and she hears herself laughing. She still does not always live consciously, sometimes she looks back and thinks 'Is that me'. Still, she feels the need to go to sleep, but she doesn't do it anymore. Thoughts run through her head now. It was the memorial day, she now went to the cemetery by herself. In previous years she was unable to do it. She always used to be very positive, perhaps too serious, she could not relax easily. With emotions, she notices that she clenches her molars together, but never grinds. Occasionally she will suddenly shake, the arms, or the whole body. She is still writing, whatever comes to mind, now she can read it back again.