666.44.08 Arnica montana, CaseWoman, 25, headache.
She has headaches especially in periods of examinations. She is too tense, wants to do it very well. With the headache she is irritated, snappy, emotional from trifles and obstacles. The headache is above the eyes, it is constant with periods of stitching as from a needle from temple to temple. It is better from sports and relaxation. The weather, food and menstruation do not have any influence.
She easily bruises when she hurts herself.
At 5 she fell from a bicycle on her right temple. She was unconscious for an hour, blind for two weeks and for a long time had a lump on her right forehead.
After that she had recurrent bronchitis which was better when she was near a warm sea.
In puberty she was constipated with spastic colon, which was terrible because it made her feel unfree.
She is very ambitious, persistent and so very nervous before examinations. She has to catch up with her study as she did not study well at the start. She wants to be seen as nice by everyone. She is not easily angry but when she is then she is really angry.
Dream: falling in holes; falling out of her bed through all the floors of a hotel.
Sensation.Weather: chilly, cold hands and feet; -> fresh air, sea and mountain air.
Sweat: < exertion.
Desire: warm food, rice, spicy, sweets.
Aversion: bread, sour.
Food: trembling < coffee.
AnalysisThe fall at 5 is a big issue; she was even blind for 2 weeks. Arnica is the traditional remedy for such a trauma. But we see more indications like the easily bruising and dreams of falling.
Lanthanides: feeling unfree.
Asteraceae: feeling unfree.
We see
Stage 8 in her persistence and irritation from obstacles. Having to catch up is
Stage 4-9.
Follow upAfter Arnica MK the headaches disappear. Her concentration and energy are better. Her abdominal pains are gone.
As a reaction she had a kind of influenza for a few days.