Case: woman, 70, ulcerative colitis, or Crohn.
The diagnosis is unsure if it is ulcerative colitis, or Crohn. Her whole life she had belly problems, pain in her right upper abdomen. Her stool was thin as a pencil. She had defecation 10 times a day. Coffee ameliorated and Rennies. Her colon was partly removed.
In puberty her stomach problems started
She had eczema as a child. Her menses were always problematic, with pain, clotting of blood. She had to had to stay at home from the complaints. For 20 years she used oestrogens, but she had to stop due to complaint in her breasts. She developed an ovarian cyst, which was removed. After these operations she developed abdominal pains due to adhesions and her uterus was removed. Her conclusion is that she didn't get anything out of being a woman, only difficulties and she didn't even get children. She has high blood pressure and flushes of heat.
She felt lonely as a child, mostly being alone with her mother or grandmother. Her parents quarreled a lot. Her father did not like to spend money, but her mother did. Her mother came from a big family, and married to get out of poverty, though she didn’t like her husband very much. She had good contact with her mother, loved her mother very much. Her mother educated her with the saying “A good child controls herself". She had many friends and often stayed with them due to so many quarrels at home.
She had not very good contact with her father, due to the quarrels. But her father was sweet, caring man.
She did well at school. She likes to study, would have liked to study medicine. She met her husband at high school.
She feels bitterness about her female quality. She only had troubles and complaints of being a woman, and never got children because her husband turned out to be infertile due to mumps in his youth.
Around 40, she went into psychotherapy for her physical problems and missing children. Her therapist was member of Jehova's witnesses and introduced her there. They did Bible studies, but it made her crazy. It began with a short psychosis, lasting a day, which was treated with Haldol. Afterwards she developed insomnia and restlessness, and was depressed for 4 years. She talks about it as though it is funny.
She worked as a telephone receptionist until 27, and she was a hard worker. Now she is doing volunteer work. She is worried about the world, and thinks the solution must come from God, not from people.
She is obese and chilly.Sleepless; night sweats.
Dream: sitting unwashed and unkempt is an airplane; unable to find a toilet; searching for lost things, her bed, her car.
Desires: coffee, cracking potato chips.
Aversion: oysters.
Loves plants, wants to have flowers at home.
AnalysisPlant: very sensitive; loves plants, wants to have flowers
Lanthanides,
Asteranae: auto-immune disease; membership of Jehova's witnesses; worry about the world.
Silica series: many friends.
Phase 4: good contact with her mother.
Phase 6: colitis, Crohn; bad connect with her father.
Stage 8: working very hard.
Silene vulgaris 3-663.46.08
DD Phase 5: high blood pressure, flushes of heat.
Prescription: 3-663.46.08,
Silene vulgaris 1MK.
Follow-upAfter 6 weeks and 3 repetitions of
Silene vulgaris 1MK she feels very good. She still has some palpitations, but no fright anymore.
Her blood pressure went down and she has less flushes of heat.
She feels better about her mother: "I gave my life for my mother, but now I don’t think of it with anger anymore. Life has gone as it has gone. I regret not having children, but not such a big grief anymore". Her quality of life went from 50 to 80.
She repeated the remedy several times over 6 years.