Dirca palustris
Remedy code: 3-655.16.13.
A 59-year-old woman, she has short hair, a boyish build, and is timid in moving and talking. She appears practical, with telling, with responding, she is aloof. She has had gastrointestinal problems for four years, along with unregulated heart palpitations. She feels nervous, is that from herself or the medication, she wonders. It goes against her feelings, to take medication. Burping all day, farting, but pain. The feeling of a stone on the stomach, that's where it starts, it lasts a few hours or all day. Before this complaint started, she had spastic bowel symptoms. The palpitations scare her and make her anxious. Herself, she is a “nervous person,” and she has often been under treatment, because of “things from the past” (she tells a lot with only a small impetus, probing what she says, not the whole story, and so keeping distance both to me and the story, or memories). Four years back: that was a tumultuous period, her neighbor died and she caught her family's attention. Since then she has been more anxious and has high blood pressure. From statins she gets very bothered, so she stopped taking them herself. When she was 12 years old, her mother died before her eyes; that's why she gets shocked when there is something with her heart. Her heart now: like it's bubbling up, like standing in an elevator, it makes a jump, often several times in a row. Fear bothers her the most. She comes from a big family, with five brothers, after her mother died she left school and took care of the family. She was abused by a brother, when she was 20, her father died, and she went to live on her own. She was on her own, sought help, she struggled for years. Later she also developed physical symptoms, a major surgery lumbar, because of a slipped vertebra. In her leg she had a malignant tumor, “lipo-carcinoma,” suddenly she had a one-pound lump, 10 years ago. She was rejected and now she does volunteer work. After her father died she was forced to live alone, which was quite exciting from then on and she slept badly for years. Hobby: walking, cycling, making music, that was always the outlet, but even there now she can have this tension she tells emotionally, she can't stop it. It makes her confused because now she has just peace in her life and has processed the past. Haste and busyness worsen. The panic feeling is there sometimes for a while, sometimes for days. She is very down-to-earth, but can also react panicky to others, sensing their tension and being there herself. She can get very involved, even with something emotional from TV. She hates it when people live alongside each other. She always had this sensitivity, anticipating what was going to happen, but her self-esteem was not high, and others talked her out of it.
Analysis
Silver series: Malvaceae sensitivity. Music, she talks very philosophically about herself and what was happening.
Malvales: there was not so much place to talk about feelings.
Silver series: not so much organic complaints, but the nervous system.
Phase 1: Panic. Sudden explosive tumor. After the death of her mother, she felt alone, emotionally she was different, and was never heard.
Phase 6: the period of incest (rape refers often to Phase 7, abuse within family to Phase 6).
Repertorium, empty eructations mention Daphne indica and Daphne mezereum, which is already a clue to consider the Thymelaceae family.
Stage 4: symptoms began soon after moving in on herself, doubt, hiding, very uncertain about the situation.
Keeping distance, resting, and protecting oneself in own area is well known in Dirca palustris. From own casuistry was placed on Stage 04, because of the “doubt if,” doubt what to do.
Prescription: Dirca palustris MK.
Follow up
The very first week she had no additional symptoms despite busyness and tension, after this week the gastrointestinal symptoms and palpitations disappeared. With telling, she looks diagonally upwards, to the right, at a distance of about 30 cm, as if describing the story or image that can be seen (you see this often in a Malvales indication). She keeps philosophizing and thinking, regarding the cause and effect of her symptoms. She continues to ask about what the medications are doing now. The unrest is also over; she can now enjoy music again. What she often has is a first feeling when someone says something or promises something, then she knows if it is true. Others make her uncertain when she expresses this, but it is always right. Insecure because others talk her out of it, they see it differently. If someone stands or walks behind her, she feels it and suffers. After three months she is doing very well, she feels fine. Never had stomach upset again, and heart palpitations only for a few days when she was worried about grief from friends, to her relief it stopped after a few days.