Ulmus campestris A 55-year-old woman is so tired, with irritation and neck pain. She is firm, bony, often looks burdensome and seriously. Things aren't going well now, and that has to do with a new job; she's finding other tasks difficult, she's working a lot of overtime, the organization isn't good, and everything is new. There's a lot of work pressure, and everyone is very annoyed. She works in youth care; her department is being closed, and a merger is on the way. No one could have foreseen or predicted how difficult it would be. For the first few weeks, she couldn't sleep at all until she decided not to take on the more serious cases. What weighs on her: people's problems are now much more serious, such as trauma and abuse, and she's not equipped or trained for that. Anything can go wrong, and the children suffer the consequences. She takes full responsibility, despite the flawed system; she takes it personally that she can't prevent things from going wrong. Very tired: a week's sleep on her vacancy seemed to help, but after the first phone calls, her shoulders and back are stiff again. She feels electric shocks in her neck. She has a headache, sleeps lightly, feels very stiff when she gets up, and has hot flashes again giving restlessness, and she has tingling in her upper chest and upper arms. She's angry, often grumpy; her fire is gone. Normally, she throws herself into something enthusiastically, and then it works out. Now she wants to lean back, but she can't do that in front of her colleagues; she's starting to doubt: Do I really want this? This week, she felt lightheaded once, with ringing and dizziness, but it went away again. She has no dreams; she can wake up thinking about work: this still needs to be done, did I forget something, will it be okay? I have no control over it; it's not a problem for my personal structure, but for the organization and the children. We are a self-managing team without leadership. We have to coach each other and respond to external demands; it all gets in each other's way.
AnalysisIron series,
Series 4: it revolves around work, tasks, as a stressful theme; there are no points of recognition for any other series. We think of a plant because the pattern (with a lot of feeling and emotion, experiencing more aspects, the involvement) is recognizable as a plant of the
Fabidae: work, control, function as an independent person, aware of boundaries, the basis from which actions and feelings are taken.
Fabidae: consciousness is internal, the reference is external, in terms of what she can do and what she achieves.
Phase 6: Enthusiasm is causing her to falter; fatigue, the holding up of her department, and no appreciation.
Rosales are known of ‘enthusiasm’, touched by heart, problems in chest (her tinglings), sleeping problems. So we have 3-644.60.00.
Phase 4: She feels responsible, takes initiative; despite everything being new and unorganized, it is her job.
This brings us to the
Ulmaceae, 3-644.64.00.
Stage 5: Doubt 'how' (to go on).
Prescription: Ulmus campestris MK.
Follow-upAfter two weeks, she's less stiff, and she's sleeping better (she can now sleep through the night and fall asleep more easily). During the first few days, she had more hot flashes (now in her shoulder girdle and chest), and she feels calmer and more level-headed. She's still very tired, and over the first weekend she developed a headache (a band of pain, occiputal; the second weekend it was there too but less severe). In a dream, she mentioned something about colleagues: "We're not going to let ourselves get carried away." After six weeks, she's feeling good; she can now view the problem from a distance and no longer gets emotionally involved. She sleeps well, has no headaches, and no shoulder pain. Now she wants to find balance: how can I still be enthusiastic about work? (Here we see theme 3-644, work, (Sub)phase 4 with the theme balance, the "how to find" of
Stage 5.) Two months later, things are busy, and her husband suddenly has back pain. She gets a cold sore, but otherwise everything remains fine for years.