5.6 Praseodymium oxydatum caseWidth 6, Depth 4,
Cure 6, Duration 6
A woman of about 55 years of age has arthritis. The arthritis is mostly in her fingers, but also her knees. It is worse in wet weather. She has psoriasis on her elbows, the top of her head, her right buttock and on places where she has had wounds.
She used to be a teacher. She stopped at the age of 40. She was bored with being a teacher, felt often very irritated by the children and couldn't go along with the head of the school. She let the school buy her out, so that she could put her attention onto her hobby of music. Stopping work led to conflicts with her parents, but they respected her choice. Her mother was worried about her income. She started living on social welfare. Lately this has given rise to more and more problems, because they want her to start another job. She has tried a few jobs working with sounds. But she clashed with the tyranny of the director of the institute. She has to “eat” her house as a compensation for the social welfare. That is very difficult because her house is her foundation.
She plays the piano and has started a foundation for developing projects with music and sounds. She composes a kind of minimalist music. They are like fragmented thoughts, little sounds. She has an aversion to Beethoven and Wagner. Her musical work is going up and down and she has many doubts, especially after criticism of the audience. She is a listener and likes to record all kinds of sounds. It feels good, but unfortunately doesn't produce an income.
Her parents were very intellectual. She couldn't talk with them about emotions. Her mother was tense and was startled easily. Her parents were very socially involved. She always feels tense with her parents.
She feels sad about the world. She has the sensation of falling into a well, in an emptiness, saying “If you live ideologically, then you walk with your nose against a wall and you will fall deep”.
She gives courses in self-defence and Tai-chi. She does Zen meditation.
She’s allergic to hierarchy. She is anti-authoritarian and can even be provocative.
She speaks slowly, with long pauses for reflection. She’s very philosophical and socially involved, but at a distance
As a child she was timid and anxious, with big anxious eyes. She was dreamy and absent-minded, intuitive and enjoying her piano playing. She could just do at school what she had to do.
Her vision is deteriorating.
She has tension in her shoulders, a restless headache and tics around her mouth.
She has salivation on talking.
Past historyAsthmatic bronchitis.
Birth: lack of oxygen and blue after birth due to a strangulation of the umbilical cord.
Once fell into the water, was almost drowned, everything went green.
Dream: falling from a staircase.
Color preference: 15D (dark blue).
GeneralsWeather: chilly, -> summer, heat, < wet weather, > sunlight.
Desire: vegetables, rice, onion, leek, garlic, herbs, salad.
Aversion: meat, milk.
Menses: abdominal cramp and headache like a band around her forehead the first day of the menses.
AnalysisThe aversion to authorities and tyranny is typical of the
Lanthanides. She wants to go her own way (
Lanthanides) but is too doubtful and hesitant to do that, as in her music. This indicates
Stage 5.
She’s very much limited by lack of money and has to ask for money from society. The asking is typical of Oxygen and other elements of
Stage 16. She asks for money for a living, which indicates Oxygen. Together this brings us to
Praseodymium oxydatum.
ConfirmationsLanthanides: averse mental terror, allergic to hierarchy, clashed with the tyranny, antiauthoritarian, tense, Tai-chi, Zen, long reflections, big eyes, arthritis, psoriasis, vision, > sunlight.
Stage 5: falling and rising, many doubts, timid and anxious, walking with your nose against a wall.
Praseodymium: everything green.
Carbon series: -> footing
Oxygen: social welfare, income, birth with lack of oxygen and blue, almost drowned.
Follow upAfter
Praseodymium oxydatum MK she starts feeling better gradually. The tension in her shoulders, the headache and tics around her mouth are less. Emotionally she feels much more in balance. She feels more relaxed and at ease, also with her parents. Striking was the change in her attitude about income, social welfare and her house. She accepted the attitude of the government: “Why should society pay for my house?”.
The psoriasis has disappeared on her back and abdomen. The arthritis has stopped going further.