Case 3.6: Anhalonium
By Jan Scholten
A woman of 35 years age has hyperthyreosis. Her report:
I feel “dead tired”, my eyes feel heavy, I can hardly keep them open, they are dry, as if sand in them, but also produce a white, burning mucus all the time.
My whole body became itchy, burning and bright red spots came on my skin, that felt warm, fiery and my joints started aching (knees, ankles, hips, fingers) and became oedematous, warm and red too.
The hyperthyreosis came back after I got a flue two times. The first time I got the hyperthyreosis after the loss of a very important friend.
15 years ago I had a severe car accident. I experienced clinical death with beautiful warm feelings of “going home”, being above my body, the certainty that we are much more than we seem. I saw my life, my purpose, my plan for this incarnation, the whole mystical spiritual journey of the soul. I felt beautiful intense, overwhelming cosmic love, that not any word can describe and I choose to live finally.
Before that accident I was already very sensitive and intuitive, with a deep wish to love and to be loved as a core of my being. Being about twenty I was quite depressed even with a thought of suicide, because I felt that I couldn’t share that love I have inside. But the accident “took me home” and remind me of my true mission” and task for this lifetime. I came back with a great treasure in my heart and I started to see peoples energy fields, their thoughts, feelings, their past wounds, the deep essence of their souls that wanted to be expressed through life. My service started then. I had clients from that time all along. I always had love and understanding for people, but since that time I learned how to express and share that cosmic eternal love, that I received
I had mononucleosis 4 years ago from the medical study at the university with their focus only on the physical. I got very sick suddenly with a terrible headache, retching, vomiting, almost fainting for 15 months every day. I felt like loosing my identity, worthless and stuck. I felt so weak that I couldn’t walk 100 meters.
When I finished the study I felt free and lighter, starting a medical clinic with a few friends. I was working day and night, seeing patients, leading meditation groups. I’ve overused my energies. Since a year I became claustrophobic. I have a fear that if I get sick, I can’t run out, cannot escape. So I don’t like being in a crowd, in the cinema I prefer to sit next to the door etcetera.
I’ve two big fears. One is the claustrophobia. The other is the fear of loss, which is even deeper. Sometimes I realise that somewhere deep inside I feel very lonely abandoned, and I eagerly long for love, unity. All my relations have been very deep. I’m interested in the depth, the mysterious essence of people. I express my love easily, I like to touch and embrace gently. I think I’m here to teach how to be sincere, true and open in our emotions. Unfortunately I can’t cope with the loss of anyone I love. It can even make me wishing for death. As if my life is worth only when I can share my love. I overcompensate that by serving people extremely, just to become important in their lives, so they won’t leave me. My last memory of that is when I was about 4, I had strong panic attacks when my mother went away in the evening. I was so scared that something would happen to her. The warm tender relation with her was very important for me. And my care for people is quite motherly, unconditional love. I like to share my ideas, spiritual views, emotions. But when I’m really hurt I become numb and prefer to solve it alone. It’s very hard for me to ask for help and it’s much easier to give than receive. I think communication is very important. I never like to leave conflicts unresolved. I feel very bad and sick in a disharmonious or aggressive atmosphere
Relationships are very important. She desires romantic sharing loving relations. But people leave her and she even helps them to get away from her. They return after 2 years but then she cannot give them their place back.
She wants to give, feels her worth only when giving. She has the idea that people will only like her when she gives.
I’m no one when I’m not needed.
Solar plexus is weak, discomfort << eating. Rumbling and flatulence with cramp in intestines, unbearable from lying after eating.<<
Stomach pain, cramping, grasping, crushing, < not eating, > motion, + dyspnoea. Nausea and retching, < having no exit.
Heart pain, cramping, grasping, crushing.
Desire: water, swimming, dolphins, nature.
Aversion: cities, crowds, narrow places
General
Location: right.
Weather: <- wet cold, -> sea.
Time: < 5 pm.
Desire: cheese; thirsty (3) < night.
Aversion: onion, garlic, drugs, alcohol, strong coffee.
Food: < onion (2), garlic (2).
Menses: strong violent tearing pain in abdomen < menses, < ovulation.
Analysis
The main theme is love: spiritual, cosmic, romantic and unconditional. This reminds of the Silicaseries, but of course also of families with the same theme. In this case especially the Cactaceae where there’s the love with the duality of being very open and very closed and restricted.
We see the theme of restriction of the Cactaceae in: cramping, grasping, crushing, claustrophobia.
In this case Anhalonium is the most indicated, for the limitless qualities of Stage 17. Symptoms that confirm Anhalonium are: out of body, seeing aura’s, unconditional cosmic love.
Hydrogenium is similar in many aspects such as the “cosmic” and “out of body”, but doesn’t have the theme of love and restriction.
Nitrogenium has also many symptoms in common like the claustrophobia, but doesn’t have this cosmic idealism.
Reaction
She had tried Opium 200, Hydrogenium 200, Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Cocculus, Aconitum. Cuprum, Colocynthis, Phosphorus, Acidum phosphoricum, Iris versicolor, Natrium muriaticum. They helped her but the main themes kept coming back. In the list one can recognise the remedies for cramp, weakness, anxiety and being spacey.
After Anhalonium MK she did very well. The hyperthyreosis, stomach and bowel problems all went away. She felt very good and could handle relationship well.
A year later Muriaticum acidum helped her further in her development.