Begonia cucullata

Begonia cucullata A 35-year-old woman has problems since giving birth nine months ago. During pregnancy she couldn't walk due to pelvic pain, and because of high blood sugar, she was admitted to the hospital, where labor was induced with oxytocin. She attributes her symptoms to the oxytocin, asking for ‘detoxification’. Dilation lasted 24 hours, with only 2 minutes of contractions. She lost a lot of blood. Since birth she experiences "cloudy spells," which are depressive episodes. She experiences pain in her hands and feet, vaginal pain, and a few months after giving birth, the pelvic pain returned: a nagging pain in her hips radiates to her ankles. The pain worsens with prolonged standing, and her feet feel sore laterally. Her hands feel swollen and tender. She also wants to lose weight, but exercise and dieting have had no effect. She experiences significant hair loss with bald patches. She has emotional outbursts, starting the moment she gets up. She barely sleeps, for no apparent reason; she's tired. The doctors' reactions bother her (‘wait and see’) and make her angry. Her abdomen is swollen and hard near the hypochondrium. She previously had pelvic pain, which was worse during her periods. She used to inject insulin. These months she grieves about her grandfather, who recently passed away. About her emotions: "I'm done with it, this hypersensitivity (as she mentions her irritability)." Irritability can be over something small; she can react very strongly, especially to grief, then "My life could end." Ever since she was a child, she'd always thought, "My life would end" if there was an argument. Being abandoned is even worse; she'd be done with it. She can lie flat on her bed for days, explode, and cry. Life is unfair, and she's often affected: she experiences everything intensely and extremely, while the people around her don't. She works as a social worker, and the clients' stories deeply affect her, she feels an urge to solve problems. Even as a child she did a lot of volunteer work; she wants to help: at the practice, solving problems, running errands.
She's been sleeping poorly since her previous children. She's always been a night owl, often going out with friends, and always bouncing around. Emotions can cause a lump in her stomach, which radiates to her back and throat, where it feels like ice cubes.AnalysisWhat is her focus? What is her consciousness occupied with? Giving practical help, being busy, which fits the Iron series. Blood sugar problems, weakened or painful connective tissue (pelvic complaints), ‘companionship, pleasure’ are known from the Fabidae, 3-644.00.00.
Phase 7 characteristics: she's fed up and wants out, tendencies towards depression, wanting out, "I've had it, then my life would end." So Cucurbitales, 3-644.70.00.
Life isn't fair fits Phase 6, but the problem is anger and frustration when she can’t help of solve things.
Phase 2: sensitive and hypersensitive to arguments, exploding, loss (compare Magnesium salts).
These characteristics already bring us to the Begoniaceae, 3-644.72.00.
Stage 3: fits with childbirth, doubt.
Begonia cucullata fits with "pain."
Prescription: Begonia cucullata C30.Follow-upAfter two weeks she tells: Now she can feel her body again; she can stand on her feet. Initially, it went very well; the pain in the feet was gone in the first days, after two weeks it returned slightly. In the second week, she had a heavy, painful menstrual period, feeling like childbirth. This two weeks she had chills down her back and arms, with profuse sweating, felt tired and hazy, exhausted. She thinks about things from the past that can no longer be changed, not repressing the memories now. Regarding her hypersensitivity and the grief, she's now grieving differently; it bubbles inside but doesn't go away (Stage 3 aspect). Her hands are still swollen. After two months, she is energetic and decisive; her feet problems are almost gone. they are still tender laterally. Her hips still radiate to her ankles due to menstruation. She is no longer as emotional; it no longer comes out as it did before. Before, she had an ‘allergic reaction to grief and loss,’ but that has passed. Her mind is clear now, and her dreams revolve around abandonment. It's not fair; if you don't keep your own name (when married), you're swallowed up (being ‘swallowed up’ a Beryllium quote, or a Phase 2 theme). She loses weight, which is noticeable in her waistline. Now she tells that she was beaten as a child, and abused until she was 11, and that she grew up with relatives (her parents worked abroad). The Phase 7 theme emerges, as does "continuing as the only option" of the Fabaceae, what can be extrapolated to the Fabidae, becomes clear. As a child, she was always anxious; she learned to cling; as a teenager, she fought her way free. She no longer sees herself as a victim. She doesn't understand the source of her anger; she even empathizes with the perpetrators. The following year, things continue to improve.
Comment: Often, after effective medication, you see the underlying story become more conscious or easier to tell. It teaches us what a theme is, appropriate for medicine. Possibly this consciousness about the past, about the reality, indicates that there is more awareness, more strength to face what has happened, to process, the possibility to place reality and the past. In her story we can recognize both Phases 2 and Phase 6, in the end she tells about her youth, she never came in, fear being absorbed or swallowed up, so Phase 2 fits better with her story, according Subphase 2 for the Begoniaceae family.