Author:
Mari Trini Ramos
Book:
Wadstories 1
Type:
Case 1
Chapter:
Magnesium phosphoricum
Case 3
Female, 25 years
She comes complaining of chronic weariness. She is very tired and also has bone pain in the arms and legs. Another symptom is a nauseous, strange feeling in the abdomen. Sometimes cramping pain in the abdomen often followed by diarrhoea. Sometimes vertigo on rising from bed or after sitting for a while. Blood pressure is slightly low. Due to this tiredness, she has no social life. She can hardly keep up with her job and as soon as she gets home she goes to bed. She also had to abandon a study she was following because of lack of energy. Always being weak since her 5th year when she suffered from mononucleosis. This was the time when her parents divorced. At age 20 she went to Australia and although she was very happy there she feared/fantasised that her father would injure her mother although they were divorced. Because of this fear she came back to the Netherlands but from that time on her weariness and pains started. Desires: sweet/sour (Chinese food), potato chips (salt), roasted meat. Aversion: egg yolk, bitter, alcohol, and coffee. Aggravates: milk (skin rash) Used to have eczema on elbow fold and behind the knees as a child.
She has vivid dreams:
- Was at MacDonald’s and got into a quarrel with one of the staff because she was asked to pay an
amount that was not agreed upon. The feeling was anger and indignation.
- I was working as an au pair and the baby I was taking care of was injured. I panicked. • I worked as staff of Bill Clinton. He had to resign. I was upset and sad.
Doesn’t want to eat meat out of sympathy for animals. Menses: used to be very profuse and feel very sick. Even anaemia. Now takes the pill to suppress it. Fears: examinations, conflicts, aggression, quarrels, being judged., injuring others.
Although we might confirm the remedy just by regular repertorisation, these were her answers to my questions:
The most happy event of her life: Once she sensed very strongly how much her brother loves her. He gave her a kiss on the hand. When she was in Australia and felt very loved by all her friends.
The most distressful event of her life: The death of a girlfriend last year. She felt that it was not fair that she could enjoy life and that for her friend life ended. She felt very sad too, when her boyfriend ended their relationship. She felt forsaken and angry. At age 13 a boyfriend abused her sexually. She felt angered and sad.
Analysis
The happy event gave me the themes of friendship and brother, which we could relate to Phosphorus. The unhappy event gave me her feelings of forsaken and angered and sensitive to injustice, all the emotions especially belonging to Magnesium.
On this basis and the rest of the symptoms of the anamnese I gave this young woman Magnesium phosphoricum. C30 twice. Within 6 weeks she recovered enormously and she only repeated the remedy a few months later. Of course within the symptoms we already see a lot of indications for Phosphorus. and Magnesium., but what is remarkable to me is that she could resume the totality in just a few sentences.