Ligustrum vulgare Remedy code: 3-665.46.14
A 15-year-old boy has a sensitive face, is pale, and has long hair that frames his face. He speaks softly but clearly and exudes intense focus and confidence. He is calm, sits symmetrically, and slumped, looking straight ahead or slightly to the left when searching for answers. He has remarkably full lips and translucent blue eyes. He has been feeling uncomfortable for some time, he is gloomy and has many absences from school. He has acne on his forehead, but his parents made the appointment because of his gloominess and suicidal thoughts. Since starting at this school, he has had a lot of things on his mind; groups of friends had already formed, and he didn't belong anywhere. Some of the class started bullying him. It took him three years to make a group of friends, but suddenly they told him they didn't want anything to do with him anymore. He then realized that he had never had many friends; even as a child, he liked to play with adults. He kept this to himself for a long time, but it was too much for him to handle. He also has autism, and there are moments when his mood swings very quickly. He felt bad about many things more and more often, and there were always uncertainties: about whether he was doing things right, and about how he looked. He feels worse and worse, has no motivation to make music anymore, and thinks he is too bad. He is sure he wants to be an artist and listens to old jazz, which makes him feel very good. He reads fantasy books and plays some video games. He did poorly in school; the whole system is flawed, of course, which makes him angry, because it is geared toward the average brain, not him. He had made a whole list of this, which the teachers happened to see. He can still get angry when they say something he was bullied with at the time. Because of all this, he no longer has any desire to live, but he carries on so as not to burden his parents. He is tired in the afternoon and then lies down on his bed and becomes grumpy. He regularly has headaches, then he feels weak, sees spots, and feels nauseous. He sees shadows moving to the side, and once this continues in the dark, he feels like he is going crazy. The headaches often occur at school, mostly at the back of his head. Occasionally, he is often ill, overstimulated, when there is too much going on, too many impulses from noise, or messages on the phone. Then he also becomes tired and grumpy and wants to be alone. He can tell how people are feeling just by looking at them. He would prefer not to go to school at all, which would help, but then he would just loaf around all day.
AnalysisLamiidae: the theme of friends, wanting to belong to, not fitting in.
Lanthanides: self, alone, suicidal.
Silver: appearance as item, as them, artist, music.
Silver series: sensing or reading people.
Phase 4: Responsibility, to continue (for his parents), he is sure of what he wants.
Phase 6: Not belonging to the group, tiredness, wanting to leave, the system is flawed, tired, and weakness.
Rubiales suit very cerebral people, who think a lot, bottle up their irritation, are sensitive and independent in their thinking, and seek their future in this. Often artistic. The most visible characteristics are his dullness, gloominess, and not wanting to go any further, which indicates that
Phase 6 is the Subphase. All this brings us to the
Oleaceae.
Q-search gives
Indium as a possibility under the search terms humiliation and
Silver series, fitting with the old memories that are still stuck, but no other suitable medications.
Searching within the
Oleaceae family: in WP,
Ligustrum vulgare is at
Stage 14, fitting with his passive attitude, gloominess, and pretending to parents that everything is still fine.
Stage 14: compare the facade of
Plumbum, the powerlessness, the melancholy (‘doom’) of Erbium, the powerlessness of
Stannum, and the feeling of alienation or being alienated from Germanium.
Prescription:
Ligustrum vulgare C30.
Follow-up 3 after weeks: his attitude is now more active, he sometimes even talks fiercely, businesslike, and more distant than the first time. His face is no longer ‘soft’, but it is gentle. In general, things are better: he noticed it after two days, he felt better, and he was able to sleep well in the afternoon and at night. No more sadness or thoughts about suicide. Previously, people made him mentally tired, but now they make him sleepy. Now he often takes an hour's nap in the afternoon, after which he feels good and the rest of the day goes better. He still feels bad in the evenings, but things are improving this weeks. He can eat well again, whereas before he couldn't keep anything down. His mood is still variable, with peaks and troughs, either spontaneous or triggered. At school, he can still be grumpy, but if he find something interesting, he can concentrate. Otherwise, he think: never mind. Before, he had a ‘never mind’ attitude to everything. (Here we see the self-selection of
Gold series, based on ‘interesting’
Silver series).
He doesn't have much attention to his acne anymore, as he always did when he felt good. He had an interesting dream: a favorite artist listened to him playing guitar and came to his house to talk about it. It was a valuable conversation about the things in life. It felt good. His motivation to study music has increased considerably; he can now play for a long time. What he is thinking about now: the future. The headaches are gone. At school, he continues to feel different, he continues to observe the group as an outsider, he does not want to belong, and he is not willing to adapt. In the coming months, things will often go well during the day, school is still boring, and he does not like to grow up. What remains the following year is not feeling at home with his peers. The acne disappears. His energy levels remain better.