1.2 Helium, Case 1
A 10 year old girl with Downs syndrome, who is more disabled than is usually the case in these children. She is autistic and it is very difficult to make contact with her. She does make some sounds, but only her mother can understand some of these. When she sits she lets her head hang down and she rocks backwards and forwards. She prefers lying on the floor with her arms and legs stretched out. She likes pressing her head to the ground and to cold and hard surfaces. She crawls over chairs and sofas and also likes to hang on people whom she likes, but she hardly reacts to what they do or say. She often puts her shoe in her mouth. She is a little bit like ‘Houdini’, she can get out of anything that constrains her.
Her eyesight is very poor, only 5-10%, the pressure in her left eye is raised and she has cataracts on both sides. She also has a squint.
Generals
Weather: cold, -> wind, -> sea.
Time: > at night.
Desires: coffee (3), alcohol (3), coca cola (3), chocolate (3).
Aversion: sweet.
Food: > alcohol.
Sleep: sleeplessness, can play all night; sleeps on stomach with her face pressed into the pillow.
Analysis
The most obvious characteristic in this case is the autism. I have treated Downs syndrome in the past for colds and snuffles and other complaints, but no remedy ever seemed to touch their autistic tendencies. When I was studying the periodic table I thought at first that we could exclude the rare gases from my list of potentially useful remedies because they don’t react with any other element. Until It suddenly struck me that the fact that ‘they don’t react to anything’ is the very property of these gases that typifies their behaviour, and that would therefore typify the cases where they could be usefully applied, such as cases of autism. That is why I gave this little girl Helium.
Reaction
After Helium 1M there is a gradual but very definite improvement. She begins to talk more clearly, she is no longer afraid of other children, instead she’ll join them in their games. She doesn’t lie on the floor so much anymore, she will often sit quietly in a chair. She lets herself be put to bed without fuss. After 6 months and a few doses of Helium she is still developing and improving. The teacher at school is lyrical about her progress.