Pulmonaria officinalis

A woman of 62 years, her posture is slightly slumped, talking and looking carefully, uncertain about how she comes across. She is strikingly searching for contact with her surroundings, and she has a visible tremor of the head. Her husband, who has come along, seems businesslike, distant to the point of unemotional, and an anchor point for her (he has made a little list and holds the paper for checking, does not otherwise get involved in the conversation, can on rare occasions impose himself, he clearly has a fixed opinion).
Two years ago she got rheumatoid arthritis, that was a shock and she got methotrexate, which did not work, and after a year she got a course of Humira. At the same time she has other complaints, which she herself does not link to the rheuma: she wants to have fun again, and energy, she has tension on the muscles, and always pain somewhere. For a year already she has suffered a lot from a tickly cough and colds. She goes to lie down in bed at 8 pm already. The pain complaints: especially the left wrist, the knees, the left hip, the right shoulder and right elbow. She has neck pain from the coughing, and can sleep badly because of the coughing.
Over the past two years: had coughing, bronchitis and pneumonia. The throat is still sensitive, everything tickles, a sweet helps a bit. It tickles at the navel and from there upward, the cough is to the point of vomiting. She is not short of breath. Antibiotics do nothing. The tongue is red, with 'crackle' grooves everywhere, indented. Every time she makes a little plan, there is something again, the muscles are stuck, or she has to cough etc. She reacts convulsively to everything, her husband has been fixing up the house for a month. The grandchildren staying over: she finds it very enjoyable, but cannot lift, which gives a lot of stress. Not knowing what is coming, no control. Two years ago it started suddenly, it was a quiet time, she was enjoying herself. She was a teacher, gave trainings and lectures, it is pleasant; you can put a lot of creativity into it, writing programs yourself. After Guaiacum officinale the deep tickle goes away, but she starts to cough very much, with thick green mucus, for a week she loses her voice, and hoarse for weeks more. She keeps coughing after eating, she has the feeling that it is muck of years, because: “I have dreams, thoughts, I think you also clean up mentally. For a very long time I swallowed everything, did not do what I really wanted, I now had days when I was really angry. Before I never said anything, as long as you were found likeable”. The anger is towards her parents, old colleagues (those 'cockerels'), dominant people, the feeling was 'it is never enough'. It also played years ago: that they are not amenable to reason, they had no agreements then, being 'green and yellow with annoyance'. 'Never enough', that has played her whole life, at home with the parents already. As a child she was already aware of it, she knows that she always adapted. Through her study she left home, that made a lot of things good. She adapted at home too; saying nothing, a conversation is not possible. She is always very careful.
She now sleeps extremely soundly. A dream: she was in a whirlpool, was finally pulled out of it by someone, she was very startled but was not in panic, there was after all still help.
Half a year ago she stopped working, the year before that both their mothers died, houses had to be emptied. In her feeling she had stored up a lot of tensions, a few times she had been very angry at her husband, 'just leave me alone, I want this or that'. She uses paracetamol to get through the day.
The teaching: “I could do it, but in the beginning it wasn't so that I enjoyed it, it was years of building up. She gave all sorts of subjects without training, 'You can do that'. Two years ago there were all sorts of changes at work that were not nice. That you get shoved around, without influence, she herself thinks 'surely you discuss that'. That was a great disappointment, is this how you treat me? In the end she just made something of it.
The cough: tickly cough after eating, in the morning, after drinking, sometimes from the pit of the stomach and sometimes the throat. She is sensitive: super-sensitive to sitting with people, afterwards she can feel a lot of what they feel, has to 'cleanse herself with light'. She has done a lot with mandalas and meditations. Rheuma factor in the blood is very high, but she wants no medication.AnalysisSilver series, Series 5: teaching, own plan, appreciation, sensitive, atmosphere.
Gold series, Series 6: independent, control, wanting to choose oneself, not accepting medicine. Rheuma.
3-665.00.00: Lamiidae: making a plan, holding on, belonging to the group. Tics, tremor.
3-665.30.00 Boraginales, Phase 3: Careful, adapting, no appreciation, dependence as a theme.
Stage 13: Irritation, withdrawing, building up tension, resentment. Pulmonaria is known in phytotherapy as lungwort, sensitive lungs, prolonged irritation after infections.
See comment below, after the reaction it becomes more clear.
Prescription: Pulmonaria officinalis C200.Follow upfour weeks: the cough that had been there for two years already, and became less after Guaiacum officinale and Myosotis arvensis, is now completely gone. Rheuma complaints are now completely gone. The hip is still stiff after exertion. She has no more limitations, energy is back and she can take on all sorts of things again.
Dreams: still much about letting go, it gives her insight, 'oh, you can see it that way too'. Things that bothered her, she had put in drawers, injustice, for example that her father was angry. In the dreams she relives a lot, in the dreams she feels just like back then.
What came back after this remedy, a complaint of twelve years ago when she started working there: a stomach pain after lunch, a dip, gnawing and nagging, a lot of belching. Old memories. She has also made an appointment again with family, they had not seen each other for years, the contact had got stuck and they had withdrawn. What she has also had for a very long time: after bumping, the skin quickly hurts, lies open, she quickly gets little pinpoint bleedings. After three months: with eating an unpleasant feeling to the right of the hypochondrium, burning and painful. She briefly had a period of more trouble with the left hip. Three months ago she stopped methotrexate, and last week had blood taken: the values have never been so good!
She does still always have muscle pain in the shoulders, but can now make all movements normally, which she couldn't before. After sport the shoulder can hurt terribly, an ice-pack on it and then it is over. Sometimes when she takes a sip of water, it doesn't go down, she keeps feeling it at the esophagus. The dreams are still about old things, on waking she then thinks 'that I was so caught up in that back then'. She clearly feels better.CommentThe burdening factor now becomes clearer: disappointment, withdrawing, the reaction resentment (stage 13), adapting (Phase 3) in order to be found likeable (Lamiidae). Reaction to Guaiacum officinale gives us clearer symptoms of the throat, voice, mucus, Series 5 aspects.
Boraginaceae: fitting with the atmosphere of Rothko. Compare the pain also with Symphytum officinale: trauma remedy, deep pain, periosteum, intense, fractures. Myosotis arvensis: pneumonia, neck complaints, sensitive.