666.46.02 Erechtites hieracifolia, CaseGirl, 10, otitis.
A girl of 10 years has earaches with deafness, pains in the ears from noise. These complaints began after a Rubella infection and are often often worse after swimming, She was treated with nose drops and tubes in the ears and antihistamines. The antihistamines made her so slow that she did not react enough and she had an accident with brain concussion. She has had a barking cough, with a lot of white mucus with a lot of threads and vomiting all her food since she was a year old.
When she was 3 years old she had high fever all night with weeping and coughing, was apathetic and wanted to lie down. During the treatment she gets influenza with fever of 40°C; everything was hurting. She was lying for two days and wanted to be with her mother; she was afraid to be alone. She has offensive breath, a mouldy odour from her mouth. She has had nosebleeds three times. It came from mucus in her throat from inhalation. She has earaches with itching, worse after swimming and provoked by wind. The complaints are worse at 9 pm. She has swelling under eyes with red cheeks and face, pain in forehead and vertex, worse from jarring. She wants to lie and sleep.
She has worms. Washing powder gives red spots on skin. She has a very flexible Body
She is very sensitive to stings of insects like mosquitoes. Her eyelids were swollen and her eyes closed from wasp sting.
Her pregnancy was not problematic; her mother had some nausea with vomiting and one episode of asthma. Her development was very fast. She was weeping a lot with dentition.
She always wanted to have company, was very easily startled, < noise, especially from a parade. She is afraid in the dark. She weeps easily from trifles. She is timid, does not want to be the centre of attention and is always stepping aside. She does not stand up for herself with her girlfriends. If pushed, she falls and screams as she cannot understand why they do it. She only wants to be nice and kind. She is very sensitive, feels everything very sharply. She worries a lot. A girlfriend had died on a vacation which worried her, then she did not want to eat anymore. She hesitates a lot, does not want to sleep alone. She is sucking on her thumb a lot. It is difficult to make choices for herself.
She is persistent when she wants to continue what she was doing. She says to her father that he cannot be angry and domineering with her, that he has to be sweet to her. She cannot stand her parents quarrelling or being angry at her, or being left alone. She worries that she is not good enough and does not do well enough. She fears she is too late to bring books back to the library. She fears no one likes her, so she is always concerned with everyone but herself. Girlfriends are domineering except for one timid one, also outside the group.
Weather: warm; fear of storms and wind -> could cry.
Sweat: a lot.
Desire: sweets and cookies; lasagna, pizza and fruit.
Aversion: sharp, peppery food; milk, cauliflower !, bacon and quiche.
Food: worse tomatoes: eczema when mother ate tomatoes when nursed.
Sleep: restless; talking and weeping in her sleep. She does not want to sleep alone as she sees ghosts.
AnalysisLanthanides: aversion domineering.
Asteraceae: influenza with high fever; nosebleeds; brain concussion.
Stage 2: timid, hesitating; does not take space, is easily overwhelmed and put aside.
Erechtites: < 9 pm; < June.
Follow upAfter Erechtites MK she has no more fevers. Ear pains are gone.
She is much more self reliant. She is doing very well.
Pulsatilla and
Calcium carbonicum had a palliative effect.