652.15.16 Umbilicus rupestris, CaseWoman, 60, kidney stone.
It caused colic with a terrible pain in her right lumbar region, extending over her hip to her groin. It felt like having labour pains without being able to push. It started around 6 pm, after working in the garden, was better with walking, better in a warm bath, better from lying on her back with her legs drawn up.
A big problem in her life is her daughter. In puberty she started to become angry, with severe attacks of rage and screaming. A few years later it turned into a deep depression and she has attempted suicide a few times. This was the worst thing in her life. It felt like losing a child without being able to mourn.
She is a soft person, cannot stand aggression. Seeing war on television is very difficult. She cannot look at pictures of concentration camps of the Second World War. The worst thing she can imagine is people being taken out of their houses by soldiers. Even worse is a mother losing her child this way.
She also has a tooth abscess.
She likes her house and has no need to go on holiday.
Her abdomen gets distended from beans and wine.
Time: < 1 pm.Desire: fish, meat.
Aversion: Swedish turnip.
Food: < beans, < wine.
Menses with pain in ovaries and abdomen.
Sleep: sleepless << full moon.
Dreams: fleeing.
AnalysisThe theme of having lost a child and not being able to mourn is a theme for Cotyledon. This is expressed in the symptoms:
Delusions, imaginations: body, body parts: feet: separated from body, are.
Delusions, imaginations: body, body parts: parts: absent.
The child is felt as part of their body.
The loss is so terrible that it feels like becoming insane.
Delusions, imaginations: headless, that she is.
Delusions, imaginations: lost.
Delusions, imaginations: mind: going out of his, he is.
Follow upAfter a first prescription she loses a kidney stone but her energy goes down. After Cotyledon her energy rises quickly and strongly. She feels much calmer about her daughter. She got a picture of a swimming pool, her daughter was making big waves, reflected on her by the pool-edge; she herself had only to be careful not to be swept away by those waves caused by her daughter. On holiday she visited a concentration camp and was very surprised how well she could handle it.