663.14.02 Selenicereus grandiflorus, Case
Case by Resie Moonen.
Woman, 60, chest spasms.
She often has a very sudden sharp pain in her chest, with a huge feeling of pressure like an elephant on her chest. The crushing pressure pulls through her chest and sometimes even to her throat and ears. The complaint always occurs at night, worse 5 and 6 am. Sometimes she has palpitations. She fears heart disease but the cardiologist diagnosed nothing wrong.
She did all kinds of breathing exercises to reduce the pressure of her chest: yoga, singing and abdominal breathing exercises but that does not help if the pain is strong. She always tries to breathe deeply but feels it should be stopped.
She feels very stuck, stopped, unfree, in conflict with her brothers and sisters. She wants to take her mother home and give her a beautiful deathbed. Her siblings want to leave her in the nursing home.
Her entire childhood she felt locked up, stuck, trapped, tied, forced into a role, not getting her own way in the parental home. She was a very creative child but was forced into a straitjacket of a neat daughter who did the housework.
Her parents had a busy business. The dirty laundry was not shown outside.
In recent years she has developed herself, reading about spirituality.
Her menses and ovulations have always been very painful, with very severe, untreatable cramps. In recent years she has increased joint pain, especially of her hands, which sometimes also become swollen.
Sleep: poorly, often awake whole nights; her husband calls her a night moth and she has been that her whole life.
Analysis
Carbon series: family problem.
Silicon series: conflict with siblings.
Lanthanides: developed herself, reading about spirituality; yoga; stuck, stopped, unfree.
Cactus: cramp; crushing pressure; straitjacket.
Follow up
She never had the oppressive pain in her chest after Cactus MK. Her chest feels much lighter and she can now breathe much deeper, literally a sense of relief.
She decided to put some distance between her and her family and now feels freer. She wants a lot more to do with her creativity: painting and singing.