622.72.08 Aristolochia serpentaria, Case
Woman, 50, melanoma.
A naevus on her sternum developed into a melanoma and was surgically removed, in a complete way. It affected her deeply, giving the feeling of going on in an unreal way. She looked back on her life, the grief of not being able to reach her mother. Her mother was frequently hospitalised in a psychiatric hospital for psychosis. The parents had a lot of quarrels, they did not fit together. Her mother always denied her own problems, did not have an insight into her own disease. Her father said that he did not have any contact with her mother, as her mother was inaccessible. Her mother had a kind of autism, always talking about herself, never reacting when she tried to discuss things. Her mother never reacted to what she said. Everything she tried to tell her mother did not get through to her, she always was closed to advice and opinions. This gave her a kind of tension as if living in a straight jacket. It produced a fear and deadly tiredness.
Her sister became chronically psychotic after her husband had left her. She attracts all the attention and does not have any insight in her disease. It gives her a kind of disgust to see her sister like that.
She was always the one to support everyone, her mother, father, sister and her children. She felt lonely, excluded in the family. With other people she is also the giving one, relationships are often one-sided. She feels different, more worldly than her family. Both parents are from a very strict orthodox religion. She is freer thinking, interested in spirituality.
Her respiration feels blocked, as if she is suffocating, which is worse when she thinks of her mother, father, sister and her children.
She does not have children. She had the feeling that children are hindrances. She had a feeling that she could not raise children alone. For a long time had problems with men, had many relationships before she could really choose and stay with one.
Analysis
She comes from an unhealthy family. Her mother was not really there nor was her father. She had to survive on her own. This is the theme of the Magnoliidae.
The mothering theme is very prominent here. She did not have a real mother. And shared a fear of having children, being unable to care of them by herself, in her own opinion. The mothering theme is very strong in the family.
Chlorine: children; children are hindrances; mother psychotic.
Carbon series: fear death.
Phase 7: psychosis.
Follow up
After Aristolochia serpentaria MK her mood ameliorates dramatically. She is changing relationships and stopping the ones where she is only giving. It feels as if her skin is peeling, as a snake losing his old skin, as if she is losing a cocoon. She is becoming more and more herself, emerging. The fog is gone.