665.33.04 Borago officinalis, CaseWoman, 50, fibromyalgia.
Her limbs are stiff and have a sore pain especially when she is too busy and exercises too much. She is tired and depressed with the complaints, sometimes on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She regularly has headaches, a pressing pain in her forehead as from a band. She has vertigo, as if the world is turning around her. She has it especially in the night when she turns in her bed and in the morning on rising. She has stomach pain, a heavy feeling and nausea. She has a feeling as if electrical currents are going through her body, especially her legs.
In the past she has many illnesses, especially as a child of 5 with fever and coryza. At 9 she had whooping cough. She had headaches as a teenager; almost every day after her father had died.
The death of her father was a major event in her life. She missed him very much because he had been very caring, but no one ever spoke about him after he died, she had no emotional outlet. As the second of 6 girls she helped her mother a lot in the household, doing the cooking, shopping and washing. She was the mate of her mother and they kept the family together. A few years later her mother had another relationship, but she did not have a good connection with her stepfather. He held her from her mother; he saw her as a disturbing factor in the family. He created a lot of quarrelling and disharmony in the family. Later when her mother was seriously ill he often did not allow her to visit her mother in the hospital. She felt lonely and not understood. When her mother died she was not allowed to be with her mother because of her stepfather and two of her sisters. She did not feel that she was allowed to be present, no one told her that she did things right.
She is invisible. She likes to say “Hello, I am also here”. People do not listen to her, to what she has to say. She likes when people would ask her “how are you doing”. When she wanted to talk to her mother about her grief from the death of her father, her mother stopped her by saying that she also felt grief. She desires to be heard, to be allowed to be there. Since childhood she has had the feeling of not being heard, not belonging to the family. She feels that people deny her expressions, her shouting. They hear it, but behave as if it slides off them. She fears that when she doesn’t do a lot she will not be seen at all anymore.
She is happily married and has 2 children. Her 2 pregnancies and labours went very well; she had too little to breast feed well.
She likes to work and play sports and exercise.

Weather: < grey weather, > outside.Time: < 8 to 9 am.
Desire: French cheese, eggs, fish.
Aversion: beans, peas.
Sleep: falling asleep is difficult, waking frequently; she sleeps with fists, her left fist in her right hand.
Physical: < exercise, being too busy.

AnalysisThe idea of not being seen and heard is central for the Boraginaceae. The stage is 3 beacuse she doesn’t know how to handle not being heard.
Together this leads to Borago officinalis.

Follow upA month after Borago officinalis MK she feels much better. Her complaints have diminished in general by 50%. Her vertigo and electrical current sensation are gone. She feels less hurried and more relaxed. She is less depressed and less sensitive to criticism.
After three months and three doses of Borago officinalis MK, she does very well. She feels much more stable, sleeps well and is more at ease. She has learned to say no when things are too much for her. Her headaches and stomach aches are gone.