663.66.12 Polygonum punctatum, CaseWoman, 65, headache.
She has cramping headaches for many years, starting in her neck and extending to the left temple, forehead and eye. It is worse from lying on her side, better lying on her back, worse 3 am, < inside, > outside, > eating, < hard cushion, > stooping. Her eyes feel heavy, are difficult to open, as if full of tears left sided. It started after the adultery of her husband.
Her husband is very egocentric, does not give her attention, is hard and often quarreling, snarling. She is always caring for him, doing everything for him. In the beginning of her marriage she took everything in. This was due to her experience: she always did what her mother told her. Later she learned to fight him against her own feeling but she had to do it in order not to be overthrown completely.
She has pain in her legs and feet, stitching, cutting, cramping, pulsating, as if walking on eggs, as if no grip on the ground, > changing position of feet, > taking shoes off, < walking. Her toes feel numb, < cold. Her right leg is swollen, red from walking too long, > lying with her legs high. She has pain in her arms, as if knots in it. She has cramps in her legs, < stretching !. She has pain in her side, stitching in her left hip, her knee feels swollen.
She has problems with her veins, blocked, obstructed, as if bubbles in it; she has had an inflamed vein in her left foot, with vesicles, scaling and redness. She often has ecchymosis.
She had abdomen pains with a lot of rumbling and flatulence, < night, < pork, < cheese, < fish, < egg, < cheese, with sour diarrhoea in the morning.
She has hypoglycaemia with sudden trembling and fatigue, > eating.
Her hair is falling, very thin, with bald spots.
She has stomach pain, < meat, < cheese, < fat, < sour.
Her pregnancies give sour stomach, < stooping and weight gain.
She is full of worries, working hard, always serious. She is being misused often by others and especially her husband. She asks herself how they manage to succeed in using her.
Her mother was anxious, full of worries.
Her father died when she was young. Her mother had to take care of the 6 children.
As a child she was very timid, doubting herself easily, thinking she did wrong and believing others instead of herself. She is very caring, taking the burden of the world on her shoulders. She tries to be very honest.
Bronchitis, recurrent, with bloody cough, < lying on back, < warm room, > outside, < winter, liquorice.
Colour preference: 3B.
Weather: -> fresh open air, -> fan, < inside, -> sea.Time: < 3 am.
Desire: meat, bacon !, chocolate, sweets !.
Aversion: olives, fish.
Food: < meat, < cheese, < fat.
Female: menses irregular !, too late, long, with abdomen pain.
Sleep: waking from pains, < 3 am.
AnalysisThe theme of being abused can point to the Oxydatums but also the
Oxalicums. The
Oxalicums have the theme of abuse often in relation to children but in this case it is her husband. The
Polygonaceae the same theme, containing a lot oxalic acid.
The symptom of knots in her arm, expressed in the 28th consultation led to the idea of Polygonum. 10 years later I began to understand the prescription.
Follow upAs a reaction after Polygonum punctatum MK she got her old bronchitis back for a week. Then she started feeling really better. The complaints of head, feet, abdomen, stomach become much less.
She looks more lightly to the world, feels better in her body.
A year after Polygonum her complaints are gone for 75%, her hair is much thicker.
Remedies she got with no or only temporary relief are: kali-br, carb-v, ign, stict, cupr-s, narc, vip, jasm, myric, plb, cupr, cupr-n, still, carb-ox, laur, sulph, vip, grin, ptel, ger-r, ruta, brach, sumb, iber, lam-a.