3.2.1 Magnesium lacticum, Case 1A 2 year old girl is brought in by her mother because she has eczema. It started behind the ear and later appeared on the back of her hand, mainly on the right, and also in the bend of knees and elbows. Sometimes she gets it on her buttocks and on the chin. They are red spots which itch a lot. It all started when she was about 6 months old and was being weaned. The vaccinations she received around that time aggravated the problem. The eczema is < sea (2), < winter, > summer.
She used to have nappy rash during teething.
Her mother had been very sad during the pregnancy because her parents were getting divorced and she had to be strong to support them. She suppressed her own sadness, although she felt extremely upset that her base, her parental home was being taken away from her.
The mother felt sick and vomited a lot during the first 3 months of the pregnancy. She desired sour (3), rhubarb (2), buttermilk, fruit, oranges and apples. The birth was 17 days overdue.
The little girl can be very demanding. When she can’t fall asleep she forces her parents to stay with her. She wants a lot of attention, especially from her mother, and she always wants it ‘now’, immediately. The dependency on her mother also shows in the sort of things she says: for instance when she sees a dog she’ll ask ’Where is his mummy?’ The worst thing that can happen to her is that the people she is used to having around aren’t there.
She is very enterprising and bossy, and other children have to do as she says. She can get incredibly angry: she’ll scream and thrash around on the floor and throw earth from the garden into the kitchen. She gets quite beside herself and can’t seem to stop, as she admits herself afterwards: ‘Mummy, I don’t know how to stop myself’.
An hour after such an outburst her eczema will start to play up again. Her moods tend to be worse before dinner, around 5 pm. She herself hates bossy children and is likely to slap them suddenly.
She can also get very angry when you call her a little girl: ’I am not little anymore, I am big!’ These moods alternate with quiet spells when she plays quite happily with her dolls. She gets absorbed in her fantasies, whereby her doll plays the role of her own mother who has to take care of her all the time.
GeneralsWeather: < heat, -> and > outside.
Desires: fresh and crunchy food, cucumber, tomato, carrots, sour (2), gherkins, buttermilk, spices, sweet, vegetables, fruit.
Aversion: mustard, milk.
Sleep: on her back with her hands beneath her head.
AnalysisThe hypoglycemia symptoms are typical of the
Lacticums. The aggravation around 5 pm confirms this. Her reaction to the hypoglycemia is aggression, which indicates
Magnesium. Very typical is her anger when you call her a little girl. When we use the group analysis to combine these symptoms we get
Magnesium Lacticum: the anger (
Magnesium) is provoked when you call her a little girl (Lacticum). The pregnancy gives a few more confirming symptoms: her mother’s parents were getting divorced (
Magnesium) and this made her feel very sad about the loss of the family home, which could be interpreted as the feeling of no longer being able to be a little girl, dependent on the support of the family.
Magnesium symptoms: -> sour, -> fruit.
Lacticum: << stopping breast feeding, <- milk, -> buttermilk, > outside, < heat.
ReactionOne month after
Magnesium Lacticum 1M the eczema had almost disappeared. She was emotionally much more stable. The improvement continued and she was completely better within 3 months.