Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Case 1
Chapter:
666.74.05
666.74.05 Ferula moschata, Case
Girl, 15, epilepsy.
She has had an attack where she fell backwards on her head and fractured her skull but she does not remember anything of that, others told her what had happened. In the past she had periods of vertigo. Shortly before the attack she had had a vaccination for hepatitis B.
She has hypotension with vertigo when rising too fast. In the morning she is pale, with dark circles under her eyes. She has a headache from the cold, sharp, biting, pinching feeling since she fractured her head. She feels every change of weather. She has cramps in her abdomen during menses. The pains are better from warmth, a warm blanket around her abdomen and are worse in the morning around 10 am.
As a baby she once fell on her head. When she was six she once fell from the staircase and got a brain concussion. She can faint from the cold.
She feels stress at school. She wants to do very well because she wants to study medicine and wants to become a surgeon. She has that idea already since the age of five; she wants to help people and is very interested in anatomy. She is doing well at school but doubts if she can do the medicine study. She has a fear that she will not succeed and that becomes worse when she hears about the stresses and failures of medicine students. Then she can be discontented for days. But she feels better when students have good results.
Her hobby is flying. She likes it, it is meditating, quite concentrated. Flying fast gives adrenaline. She likes smells, like the odour of exhaust gases of airplanes. She likes the sea, the wild sea, rough storms and fresh wind, it makes her feel awake and healthy. She likes animals especially whales.
She can have headaches when it is too cold or too hot.
Analysis
The problem is her fear and that she will not succeed in her medicine study. This is a mental problem. It points to the Apiaceae and the epilepsy fits very well with this family. Typical is that the epileptic attack came unexpectedly, she does not remember anything of it; this is a typical for the Apiaceae. The recurrent head trauma fit very well.
She is in stage five with this problem. She is past making the decision for the medicine study, which is Stage 4 and now she thinks that that study could be something far too difficult for her. This is typical for stage five.
Combined this brings us to Sumbul, Ferula moschata.
Follow up
After Ferula moschata MK she comes back and feeling fine. She says that she probably does not have epilepsy, it was a misunderstanding. She has no menstrual cramps anymore. The vertigo in the morning is gone. As a reaction she had a fever for five days. She had a sore throat, headache all over her head, a bad cough and was very sleepy. She has had similar things sometimes in her life. She feels less fussy, less nervous and has no bad moods anymore. She has very good grades at school and isn’t tense anymore about the results.
She gets some repetitions of the remedy for further support. After 2 years she has none of the previoussymptoms anymore. She is not stressed at school and feels confident that she will do just fine with the medical study.