666.44.15 Ambrosia artemisiifolia, CaseWoman, 50, fatigue.
She has abdominal pains, cramping, with much bloating, better from pressure.
She has a tearing backache, extending to her thigh and knee.
She has had tuberculosis as a child and an appendectomy.
At 23 she had influenza with coryza, high fever, shivering alternating heat, throat pain and swelling, headache, abdominal pain, stomach pain from fat and meat, muscle ache in her back and legs. It became chronic for a long time, worse in the afternoon.
She has been married to a manic depressive man who died in a car accident that might have been a suicide. She tried to do what she could for him. She tries to keep up the image of a successful and happy mother, especially for her child who has a genetic disease.
She is a free spirit, does not want to do things that others demand from her.
She is not content with her body or herself.
She feels an outsider, misunderstood because she thinks differently and because she is from abroad. She never got the same possibilities at her job as others, being a foreigner. This felt as an injustice, a discrimination but she is too exhausted to fight it.
Weather: < cold, grey weather.
Time: < November.
Desire: fish, vegetables, fruit.
Aversion: organ meat.
AnalysisSilicon series: lost husband, love
Iron series: lost job.
Lanthanides: free spirit; misunderstood, thinks differently.
Asteraceae: influenza, high fever, shivering alternating heat, muscle ache in her back and legs; aversion organ meat; < grey weather.
Stage 15: lost love, husband, job; outsider.
Follow upAfter Ambrosia she feels more united with her body. She has processed her problems with her husband and her job, left them behind. She feels more peaceful, content even with her limitations.
Four months later she is doing fine. She has more energy and is much more cheerful and optimistic.