Case by Maarten van der Meer.
Remedy code: 3-655.73.01.
A woman aged 37, she has two young children and is an IT teacher. Previously she suffered from eczema, a feeling of emptiness, being disoriented, hay fever all summer long, and allergy to soap and fragrances. She was always shy as a child, her older brothers did not like her because her mother was bedridden for months after her birth due to a PND, and they "lost her. She spent her whole childhood adapting and going to pleasing, but she could not and could not find her place. She is cheerful, and often felt floating. She snapped up after Convolvulus stans. After two years she comes again, because of her hand palms. She has terrible itching, on two hands, and all kinds of small red spots. First, there is itching, then she starts scratching, and the open spots remain as wounds. It flares, in the morning when she wakes up, in the evening when she sits down. It gets worse when she fusses, when she argues. It's been there since last year, it started when there was a lot of drama with the family. Her partner is from a different culture, both are not accepted. She stays well in her body now, but is still a “bouncing ball,” when she calms down after work she is a ping-pong ball inside. When she does breathing exercises she notices it too, like it's moving in the chest and belly, before that feeling was in her head! She has since finished her studies, therefore she has more time for six months. Because of the overwork, her back was troubled, she had to cry a lot, and she was exhausted. Now she has to learn to take it easy, she suddenly had 30 more hours in a week but continued at a high pace. She went completely over limits. The back pain and the old herniated disc passed, but the hands remained. In recent weeks, she has had severe nightmares: during this part of the conversation, she has both children on her lap like a shield and gets agitated. Dream: she is always seeing people and attackers, in all sorts of guises, or a whirlwind, she then starts moving stuff against the burglars. The quarrel at home had to do with her not being there with her thoughts, she is in a dreamland, that says different things than she does. She wants so much to be well in her body. With the family she is like she was, I don't want that anymore. Her husband is on her back when she is 'not there'. She is often still in dreamland. On the one hand, she wants to determine herself, and experience autonomy, on the other hand, she feels the problem of letting go, is so difficult.
AnalysisSilver
Series: teacher, IT worker.
Silver series: culture difference.
Phase 7: not belonging, ‘losing’ own culture, depression mother and brother, because of her they ‘lost’ their mother, going over limits, ‘I don't want this anymore’. Letting go.
Stage 3: adapting, pleasing, and searching for her place.
Stage 1: idealism, the spontaneous, getting caught up in everything, flaming skin, fatigue. Viscum: anxiety dreams.
Prescription:
Viscum album C200.
Follow upAfter three weeks she came to tell me: 'That was magic' After the first day she was already calm, she was just herself, all day like 'zen' in herself, and her hands were clean. That lasted for two weeks. The hands were bad again for two days, then it decreased again. Inside, she remains calm. Last week there were four appointments with both families, and something happened, as always, and it exploded again: what was special was that now she was aware of it, that this time she saw it happening herself, that she was trying her best again to be in the spotlight, to be seen and acknowledged. Before, she only thought afterward "How could it have happened? In the classroom, she now notices that when she receives a compliment she becomes very big. There is no more restlessness inside, nor that ping-pong feeling to stay with and within herself. She is now just tired at the end of the day, instead of going on and on. The outburst on hands was intense but much shorter.
Dreams the first few days were still intense, now she dreams nothing. She used to wake up every hour with a nightmare, seeing people, burglars, an axe passing by. She has a few pimples near the nose crease. She is still very concerned with herself, mirroring herself to the children, "Who am I, what are my needs? At work she now notices that she works quickly and efficiently, she can now take the lead and is no longer dependent on others. She starts doing more, she is not part of others and their ideas. There is now more room for development again. After I explain that mistletoe is in Panoramix's magic potion, she tells me that as a child she indeed always thought she was going to blow away, but she did want to be Superman, to have the power to fly. After this, things go well for years. We see more of
Silver series, the development, the philosophical, the theme of “having your ideas,” creating.