Cardiospermum halicacabum
Remedy code: 3- 655.52.02
A 57-year-old woman, with thyroid complaints, high blood pressure for which she is on medication, painful joints, tinnitus after severe Meniere's attacks in the past. She is gentle and attentive, has a compact build and usually very cheerful. She radiates calmness and she is inspiring confidence. The joint pain subsided after Liminitis Bredowii, the headaches disappeared, but the tinnitus got worse. She is sensitive to other people's energy, did art school and now works as an aroma therapist. She is interested in gemstones, horoscopes, reincarnation, spirituality. She suffers from tension, fears: afraid of doing something wrong, in her creativity and in caring for her family, it literally makes her sick. It is also a hardness toward herself, from upbringing. She feels empty spots of energy in the back, regular strong pressure on the bladder, a stabbing pain above the pubic bone, hot flashes from which she “succumbs”. A psychologist diagnosed PTSD from her childhood, father was dominant, he could explode, was aggressive where he hit and often gone for months for work. Mother was scared and dependent on her. She developed a sense to sense the aggression, she always had to navigate between them, the feeling at the time was helplessness. She walked on tiptoe. She was always criticized, she couldn't do anything right, as a child she always thought “I'm wrong’. Still she has dreams that nothing works out, no matter how hard she tries. She gets a lot of trouble with a heel spur, often feeling like someone is grabbing her by the throat, her nerves feel like strained strings. She now has much care for her parents who are frail, and live far away. After Piper angustifolia she gets crying fits and often feels anger, she no longer has control and she was always the “fixer. The heel spur now hurts a lot even at rest, an old complaint of the shoulder comes back. With talking she has a twitching eye.
Analysis
Joints and pain refer to Series 6, but her personality didn’t fit this.
Her sensitivity, thyroid (throat area), shoulder, interests refer to Series 5.
Phase 5: father's aggression, her drive to care, thrust in her body.
Phase 2: the frightened mother, her sense of awkwardness.
Stage 2: helplessness.
Prescription: Cardiospermum halicacabum C30.
follow up
after the drug she experiences a very subtle effect, she is relaxed and calm, she can let go of tears for the first time which she experiences as a cleansing. She feels an urge to change, she can now get up very early and she goes for walks. She feels the need to connect with her inner voice, her wisdom, which also works well. Her pulling eye is gone. Shoulder, bladder and back problems are gone. She now has peaceful dreams, the heel spur is less painful after a month and then gradually disappears. She no longer feels weak, and feels like she can do it. The hot flashes are gone. After four months she notices that she is so much nicer to herself, she is getting closer and closer to her “true self,” which she never had. when things get worse with her parents, restlessness and restless dreams come again, and her mood drops again. She has sharp eyes. She tells now that in the past she was always watched, she always lived with the idea “what does the other person think of me,” she wanted to be successful in front of the audience. She held back her own emotion, the turbulence out of fear. She names more affirmation for Class 5, Phase 5 and Phase 2, she is more self understanding. The year after this she continues to do well.