Lobaria pulmonaria
Case: woman with a Baker’s cyst
By Anton Kramer, homeopathic physician in Utrecht.
A strong and very set woman (49 years old) comes because of fibromyalgia: pain and stiffness especially in the arms, shoulders and back. She is very busy with her symptoms, wants to know a lot and talks fast, jumps from heel to branch. On the one hand she is always complaining, but at the same time she can also talk very cheerful and sociable.
She has had stomach flu 3 months earlier and still has problems with eating: stomach ache, fast thin stools etc. Also vaginal irritation due to an antibiotic treatment.
She has very cold buttocks and legs (especially at the back). It feels like ice cubes in those places. Especially during two hours after the bowel movement it is very cold. Also the groin feels cold, as if she is on a trip.
She has always been very busy. Her father and mother live opposite her and her mother has constantly controlled her life. Her mother is very dominant and comes in every now and then and comments on the upbringing and housework. She still has a key to the house; it is the parental home. Mother abused the patient emotionally and used her for everything. She pretended to be unable to do all sorts of things anymore and demanded that the patient should be able to do all kinds of things by day.
night was ready for her, so it had to be her way. Her father had had an accident with brain damage 15 years earlier. Her mother also passed on that care. The patient sometimes had the feeling that her parents were treating her as if she had not been their child but had been hired.
Her mother always let it be known that she felt underfunded. So she started to complain if it wasn't her but the patient who first saw the children's reports. Patient made sure that she always stood between her father and her mother or between her mother and the children in order to keep the sweet peace. The patient goes crazy and says: Actually, I would never want to see a mother again. Her parents will soon be able to go to an old people's home, but her mother plays very much on the patient's feelings: she claims her because she doesn't really want to and she takes all the stress out on the patient. She feels very guilty and can be completely wrapped up. She has the feeling that her mother not only enters her house, but also penetrates into herself and sees and determines everything about her.
Nutrition is not very conspicuous (calorie restricted); later she tells us that she can't stand lettuce and mushrooms. She also doesn't seem to tolerate sugar too well (in the past it even made her hot and hyper). She is chilly and sensitive to rain, wind and draughts.
I give her (1)... (viewed by her mother on her motherhood).
She is clearly feeling better. She is much less chilly, the cold buttocks and legs disturb much less, the digestion problems are over, the fibromyalgia also makes her less troubled. She is losing weight (!); she had a low energy diet for a long time, now it suddenly strikes.
I repeat the drug and she feels further improved. She is more energetic and the most important thing: she lets her mother claim much less. Her parents went to an old people's home and her mother blackmailed the patient in many ways. But she can stay with herself much better than before. In fact, she still runs badly for her parents, but does reserve time for herself and she feels freer.
However, an old sciatica is playing on. She has very severe pain on the outside of her left leg, it's like a stripe. It feels like ice in the leg.
The striped pain was reminiscent of (2)....... With this medicine I read: very cheerful, tormenting pains, rheumatic pains on the left side, big cold, a.o. of the thighs. And she has the feeling that her mother did not treat her like her own child but hired her. She has also often thought of moving because her mother made her crazy (mi. as if thrown out of the nest). This matches the image of the cuckoo boy (Jan Scholten).
A month later she says that the sciatica improved quickly and that she no longer feels lonely. I have become stronger; the desolate feeling I had from my childhood is gone! She stands up for herself much more, lets herself happen much less.
She has Baker's cysts in both hollows of the knees. She has always had them, but now they are interfering more and more. I repeat the previous drug but that doesn't work on the cysts.
Then I give the drug (3)... for bursae, partly because of the experience we have in the Homeopathic Centre that it suits the kitchen maid, the house split. And the patient feels like her mother's house divider.
Further we read at the waist: rheumatic disorders, patient has to talk about everything (very correct), lively (also very fitting), cold limbs. In the next consultation she says: I'm doing very well, I'm developing myself psychologically at a fast pace. I take a lot of initiatives both at home and at work, I go my own way, I decide for myself if I do something and like it, even though I used to have everything determined by others. I enjoy so many things now and I am so much calmer. I used to want to be or be nice to be liked; with my mother it was never enough. So the positive is unleashed...!. She sees her mother
Once a week, what her mother really can't do helps and she has told her mother very clearly that she has to behave because otherwise the patient won't come. I won't let them play with me anymore.
Physically she is doing well; the cysts, the fibromyalgia and the cold don't really play on her anymore and she has lost 15 kilos in the meantime.
In the last consultations the patient talks about the youth of her parents. Her mother was abused by her parents; for example, she had been thrown down the stairs several times. In the past, the patient always wanted to comfort her mother, but she knocked her arm away. Her father is very nervous; he was taken out of the family when he was three years old because of tuberculosis of family. He was raised elsewhere and later his family wouldn't accept him anymore.