665.24.13 Spigelia anthelmia, CaseWoman, 20, headaches.
She has headaches with the feeling as if her eyeball is pulled back by a string. It feels cramped around her eyes. She has stitching in her eyebrows and a tendency to rub her temples with her hands and fingers. The complaints are worse in the daytime and better in the evening; better from rest and worse from exertion; worse from stress and doing too much and worse from cold. They are worse from turning her head and better when it’s quiet. She feels tired like being burned out due to tensions at her job. She weeps easily.
The headaches have to do with her perfectionism and competition with her father. She resists her father and wants to make her own choices. She can deliberate with him and make a choice, but then afterwards she just chooses the opposite because otherwise it is his choice.
She is very busy, always wants to be useful and cannot sit still. She is very ambitious and wants to do things very well. She is stubborn. She is studying law, but at the same time has a full-time job as a secretary in a small company.
She can have palpitations with the feeling it shoots into her throat which is worse from studying.
GeneralWeather: < warm, < heating; > son, > summer; < short days, fog, wet weather; > mountains, > sea.
Time: < daytime.
Desire: spicy, salt, meat, fruit.
Aversion: sour, olives, buttermilk, Brussels sprouts.
Food: < heavy food which gives fullness.
Female: emotional and irritable before menses.
Sleep: not good.
AnalysisSpigelia anthelmintica: neuralgia; studying law; choosing the opposite; palpitation.
Follow upAfter Spigelia anthelmintica MK the first time she was whistling from cheerfulness. The second day she had a severe headache. The third day the headache suddenly disappeared and since then has not returned. Her energy and mood are a much better since then.
Two years later she came back with a little recurrence of the headache, worse from stress and irritation and better with rest. She takes a few repetitions of the Spigelia.