Boerhavia diffusa

663.25.13 Boerhavia diffusa, CaseWoman, 50, cystitis.
The cystitis often starts witha backache, she has burning pains and drinks a lot. She has pain after urination, frequent urination and pains in her sides. She is nauseous and tired. Often Escherichia coli can be detected in her urine. It is especially worse from wet weather and rain but also worse from cold weather, draughts and stress. Her pelvis feels contracted. She has involuntary urination and atrophy of her mucous membranes. The first time she had cystitis was at 12 after a fight with her father. She was the eldest child out of 8 and was the only one who dared to oppose her father.
She has pains in her bones and head, especially her fingers and hip, worse from wet weather. Her energy is low and she is anxious.
In childhood her hands were full of warts and they were treated with radiation. She had anaemia and was sent to a holiday home. There she felt terrible, unsafe between street fighters. She had homesickness.
She comes from a very decent, protestant farmer family. Her father was a simple, hardworking, closed man. He was very impulsive and choleric, beating easily, in a way autistic. He was beaten also by his mother, who was nice but also choleric. There were a lot of quarrels at home over who was the boss. She always had the impression that her father hated her. He only held her back, telling her she was unable to do things. Her mother was easier, she had a kind of symbiotic relationship with her. She felt stronger than her father, gave her father a feeling of powerlessness. She hated her father. She was blamed by her mother about her big mouth against her father.
In puberty her mother told her that there must always be someone who is the scapegoat.
She has worked in a psychiatric hospital. She had little schooling but was very good and rose to a high position, although she was not paid at the level she was working. She was very much respected. After a reorganisation she was fired in contradiction with all former promises. She felt as if she was sitting in a snake pit full of hate and envy. She felt abused.
She has a lot of problems with her sisters about inheritances and being acknowledged. They got presents from her father and she got nothing. She is the only one who has studied and her sisters envy her. They do not invite her anymore to celebrations. She feels neglected, as the only one who does not have a meaning in the family. Maybe it also has to do with that fact that she as the eldest and knew the best in their youth. She was a kind of second mother for her sisters, an angry mother.
She is perfectionistic and chaotic; she feels stiff, blocked; she is sour and critical.
She has had several relationships where the same themes of symbiosis and rejection turned up.
Fears: snakes, mice, narrow places, poverty, imprisoned, being rejected.
Dream: father or monsters or trains approaching her, she cannot stop them.
Dream: conflicts with her sisters; she is doing the household chores, she comes in the kitchen when dinner is already half finished and they have not called her to join.
Plants: likes roses, anemone, lupine, gladiolus, lavender, violets.
Animals: likes cats.Weather: chilly, < wet !!.Time: < 3 pm.
Desire: chocolate, wine, vegetables, fish.
Aversion: porridge, fat meat, pork.
Food: < pork, milk products.
Female: menses dysmenorrhoea, premenstrual sadness, acne, abdominal pain.
Sleep; bad, < 3 am.AnalysisCarbon series: father hated; monsters approaching.
Silicon series: second mother for her sisters, an angry mother
Iron series: work hospital.
Silver series: rose to a high position; very much respected; studied.
Lanthanides: psychiatry work.
Subphase 5: desire many friends.
Stage 13: fired in contradiction with all former promises.Follow upAfter Boerhavia diffusa MK she starts doing better. She feels better in her body, has more space in her pelvis. Her critical, sour state is much less.
After 3 more months and repetitions she has much less anxiety, makes more contacts and invites friends. She still holds her family a little bit at a distance but it feels good. She does not feel lonely.
After 8 months she is more alive, has thrown a lot of stuff away. She feels less stiff and blocked. It is a big change. The jealousy towards her sisters is gone. She has better relationships with friends.