Saponaria officinalis
Remedy code: 3-663.44.05
A 45-year-old woman with hay fever and menstrual issues.
This year, her hay fever causes blood crusts in her nose, and she has a slight tightness high in her chest. Climbing stairs makes it worse. She is very tired and needs to distribute her energy carefully throughout the day. The symptoms appear a few months later in the year than before. After taking Arundo, she has slightly less itching but feels much more tired. Her period was a week late, and she was notably exhausted. With the warm weather, there’s a new explosion of symptoms. She starts consultation by talking extensively about her children, their teenage issues, school, and friendships. There's a lot going on at school, and she worries about it, managing everything for her children and her own parents. Although she has always been realistic, caring, and proactive, she now has a more passive approach. She describes what is happening, trying to balance her own rules (what she thinks) with how other people at school, or the neighbors and friends' parents, handle things. She wakes up between 1-2 AM due to itching under her nose, also her palate, and her eyes are slightly irritated. Her airways are not much irritated. She stays indoors with pollen in the air, and her energy has been low for weeks. Adjusting to nice weather also takes energy. If she’s been outside, she has to wash her hands before touching her face, otherwise, it itches. Everything at home is going well now. Children do good at school, but they are teenagers, very strong-willed, constantly arguing, which is new and makes her tired. She remains reasonable and only slightly guiding, holding back, otherwise, it costs her too much energy. What should you say or not say?
Analysis
We look for distinctive characteristics, the situation, the complaint, and the person.
A very characteristic aspect was the atmosphere of the conversation, typical for the Caryophyllales: chatty, almost cozy but with a keen eye for what is happening. Allergy fits Gold series, and being very involved with family fits Gold series3. Gold series: having one’s own ideas, making one’s own decisions, being aware of the world, and applying this in the family or friends group, the theme of Silicon series brings you to Gold series3.
Silicon series: the reference and living environment is the group, the surroundings, and the family.
Her responses show her characteristically pausing, slightly turning to the right as if taking a stance, searching for a formulation, and then giving a detailed answer. She seeks solutions with the children, in this phase everything is new, no longer mothering as before. She remains very focused on the family but also very aware of the outside world, reflecting on her own thinking. Being aware of the rules of other parents. The teenage phase is new for her, she is still figuring out ‘how to deal with it’, fitting Stage 5.
An analysis through another route, which is useful for comparison, yields the same result or the same indications: Weakness during menses is an interesting rubric, this symptom appears after a given remedy, often making the remedy picture clearer. Is there anything here that fits the conversation's picture? Saponin is a constituent of Saponaria, belonging to Gold series 63 40
Stable, committed, family as priority fits Phase 4, feeling and taking responsibility.
Prescription: Saponaria officinalis MK
Follow up
Hay fever is immediately gone the fatigue only after two weeks. After that, she has good energy. Periods on time, no fatigue, and no extreme pain as she always had. She still talks a lot about her children, elaborates, chats, engrossed in her own story, but now she can be quickly brought out of it. The first week, she had irritation towards her youngest child: 'Stay out of my space', as if she got angry whenever they came within a certain distance. She has no complaints. She is working on rules for the children, her own rules, and what they do in the neighborhood. Once she starts talking about the children, she rambles on, a waterfall of words. Characteristic of Caryophylaceae: Family as a response to or tension with the stress of the world, the shadow, and autonomy. Saponaria, Soapwort, its phytotherapeutic applications are diuretic, laxative, expectorant, and liver-stimulating. Applicable for gout and skin diseases, bronchial issues, and jaundice (J. Bown).