Euphrasia officinalis

Euphrasia officinalis Woman, 76, heart failure.A 76-year-old woman, she is small, frail, vulnerable, stooped, but the underlying tone is willpower and liveliness. “I persevere,” she says, that she is still full of life, but she recently ended up in the emergency room. She comes with a whole document describing her life, all the illnesses she has gone through, and important events. Her eyes are very expressive, her left eye is slightly turned inwards (which she is unaware of), and she has a sharp voice. In recent years, she has become increasingly short of breath, and two months ago, she ended up in the emergency room. The diagnosis was heart failure, with fluid behind the heart. She was given diuretics, which were followed by a TIA. The outer half of her left eye lost vision for three days. All medication “hurts her a lot,” and she has stopped taking everything. Side effects can include feeling like a “zombie” or inflammation. She also often has stomach pain, diarrhea, and dizziness to the point of fainting. All her complaints and pains are on the left side. In the past, she used a lot of prednisone because of sarcoidosis. Her lungs are damaged, she has less breath, but her resistance is good. This medication later caused her to have palpitations. A gluten-free diet alleviates this, but her intestines remain sensitive, and she is prone to bladder infections. She is losing a lot of weight, partly due to the strict elimination diet. The sarcoidosis developed when her child started school, at a time when life was very difficult: she married young and had problems; both had had a difficult childhood. They did not understand each other, which caused a lot of sadness; only now, after 40 years, are things going well. She heard a lot about the war at home; her father was very introverted, and her mother was not always able to respond. She was born prematurely and spent time in an incubator. As a toddler, she had many infections, and scrapes would become infected. She spent six months in the incubator and felt more like a foster child. Before she was born, a sister died after birth, which has always been a factor in the family. She had to make up for everything: “You are our only hope and comfort,” but she was unable to live up to that image. As a toddler, she was given penicillin for a long time because of a tetanus infection. In her childhood, she had jaundice, pancreatitis, and chronic constipation. Despite her age, she wants to keep going. She can't do without her work. She works with children whom she helps, and she can't do without them. Her work keeps her sharp. She can't stand sitting still, especially at home. She always wanted to do something with children and worked in education for a long time. Later, it became too busy for her, and she opened her practice, which is her passion. When their child was bullied at school, she studied psychology. She works with children who are traumatized. She is severely dyslexic. She was lonely in her youth. At a young age, her family moved to the forest, where she worked in the family business. Her parents were not very understanding; she always fell short in her parents’ eyes. She describes herself as highly sensitive because she is easily affected, through all her senses, by arguments, for example. She needs quiet, even though she is very busy. In the past, she used to throw things around; she always bottled things up and cried a lot. She always needs to be able to see green, nature. She doesn't dare to go for a walk alone, she has been through too much, and once met someone who had ‘wrong’ intentions. She sleeps well, dreams a lot, it is busy then, she can't get out of somewhere, out of a building. Often, a dream is about war. AnalysisSeries 6: seeking control, Lanthanides theme (alone, working independently, aware of the shadow in her life, helping those close to her), a lot of reflection and self-analysis, autoimmune disease: all of these point to Class 6. She presents herself with an overview, insight, and control.
Series 5: Education, lungs.
Lamiales: wanting to meet parents' expectations, need for contact, or sensitivity to contact.
Phase 5: wanting to move on, bottling up emotions, exploding, being overstimulated, wanting to comply.
Phase 7: end, loss, death, war, ‘foster child’, theme of farewell, threat.
The undertone is wanting to comply, wanting to move on, in line with Phase 5, on top of that, as in a split, is ‘not being able to achieve’, end, in line with Subphase 7.
These factors bring us to the Orobanchaceae. There are arguments for Stage 8, pushing through, forcing oneself, and for Stage 7, continuing to try, education, helping, the ‘puzzle’ cannot be solved.
Prescription: Euphrasia officinalis C30.Follow-upOn the first day, she is already able to walk outside without difficulty (for the first time in years). The irregular heartbeat has disappeared. She had been experiencing constant irritation in her eyes for two years after having artificial lenses fitted, but this has also disappeared immediately (explainable by disturbed liver energy that is now correcting itself, and the eyes are a known area of action for Euphrasia). One evening, she experienced severe pain in her left hypochondrium, a dull pain she had experienced more often in the past. After a few weeks, she had an MRI scan, during which she forced her ribs, causing severe and persistent pain in her ribs and attachments. Her chest was so painful that she could not lift anything. She remains clear-headed, her legs feel heavy, she can hardly climb stairs, but her lungs are no longer the limitation. Later, after an infection, she becomes more short of breath again and is given diuretics, which she can now tolerate. After three months, she is given Aeginetia indica, because of her placement at Stage 17, a terminal stage, given her weakness. After six months, she is still doing well.
Previous Euphrasia cases also showed sensitivity to light, sound, and energies, as well as anger and indignation. Running away or wanting to “escape the situation,” the Phase 7 element, and a drive, a need for more. Interest in art, psychology, and spirituality, and wanting to work with children.