666.44.08 Arnica montana, CaseWoman, 50, apoplexy.
She had a brain infarct five years previously. It was in a period where she was stressed from travelling too much. She was hospitalised but for a long time said that nothing was wrong with her. After the apoplexy she was so tired that she did not want to leave her bed. She has double vision with the feeling that her left eye is looking upward and to the left, especially when she is tired. She worked hard on her rehabilitation. Talking is the main problem: she says things differently from what she wants. She is still very tired. Her hearing is so acute that she cannot listen to music anymore.
She is angry that it happened to her. She has done so much for others; her whole life she has been busy to please all her family members. In her youth she had to care for her younger brothers and sisters after her mother died from cancer. Her mother made her promise that she would keep the family together. Later she did everything for her children and her extended family. The year before she got the apoplexy her father committed suicide; it was a shock for her. Her brothers and sisters did not do anything for her and took everything from her father’s house.
She has arthritis, with pains in her knees, feet, back, shoulders and arms. It is better in warm weather and worse from exertion and in the morning. Her backache is better from lying and worse from sitting and standing. It started after an influenza with throat inflammation, swollen tonsils with white spots, coryza, frontal sinusitis and an irritating cough. The complaints were better from warm drinks and worse in the morning on rising, worse in the night at 3 am and better in the open air.
As a child she had recurrent throat infections.
She has a high sense of responsibility.
She is a musician. She perfected herself in music as that was the only thing she was better at than her sister.
Dream: being persecuted, by men, as in the war; hiding.
Weather: chilly.
Sweat: flushes with much perpiration.
Time: < morning, < 3 am.
Desire: egg, spicy, raw food, scampi; drinks.
Aversion: meat, milk.
AnalysisAsteraceae: apoplexy; influenza, frontal sinusitis.
Stage 8: worked hard; did everything.
Arnica: < 3 am.
Follow upAfter Arnica MK she gradually starts doing better. Her headache disappears in a month. After 3 months the double vision is almost gone, then she starts speaking much better. Her anger diminishes.
After 4 months her energy is much better and her eyes are good. She only has headaches when she does too much. Sounds are less irritating. She starts thinking that life is okay, she has done enough in life, has made the best of it. Friends tell her that she is much more friendly, less resentful.
After half a year she does not have the fear to talk anymore. She is less forgetful. Her husband tells her she is becoming dexterous and asks if he can have at the same remedy.
Peculiar in this case is that even after 5 years a lot can be healed.