Case of a remedy from Acanthaceae
Woman, 60, bronchitis.
With few real symptoms of illness I suddenly started coughing and after 24 hours I was a bit shivery, had only a little fever, 38 at the most, and sweating. I had muscle aches and a lot of headaches, also cold full sinuses. I took two remedies. My headache subsided, and bone and muscle pain subsided. But the coughing increased enormously. I had a rattling cough, one could hear it from the outside. There was tough, dirty slime, sliding back and forth. It seemed to be very local, the top left side of my chest. I was very tired, deadly tired, which I never am. Sleeping, eating and talking were no possible anymore. The CRP-test showed it to be viral. I was prescribed codeine, but that made me very sick. It almost looked like morphine poisoning. And I kept coughing.
The X-ray of the chest showed a white spot, poorly bordered, in the upper right lung just where I felt the rattling. For the rest the lungs were clean. It felt scary. I was prescribed antibiotics. After 3 days the coughing did decrease, for 20%, and sputum became cleaner, and I slept a bit longer. But I kept coughing, sleeping badly, couldn't talk, eat or sing for long. I could not work either.
A month earlier I had an acute vestibulitis with terrible vertigo. It was fixed very quickly, within 1,5 days, using a remedy form Menispermaceae. Two days later I worked and cycled again. The remedy form Menispermaceae didn't do anything now.
Cause?
I had felt a justified attack by a homeopath whose protocol I had partly quoted her in my article in homeopathic magazine. I had not consulted her, and she had already a new protocol, which I did not mention, and she felt abused. I understood her attitude quite well.
The handling of her protest was slow. A colleague who had also written in the article did nothing, did not act. It is a general theme for me. I often suffered from the laxity of colleagues who promised something but don't do it. I was excited, annoyed about my colleague's laxity too. I felt jealous that he could say easily: "oh I will not go in between” when I asked him to think about it.
The publisher wanted to handle it herself, convinced me to do nothing. I felt powerless, but responsible. I felt between me and the publisher, not reacting as I would.
There was also a feeling of: someone asked to write the article and I decided to do it once: 'well then let's get on with it'. It was not really my own choice to do this?!
I didn't have enough time for it, and therefore did not really finish it well, in respect to mentioning sources and the like. And then I will get all the trouble, whereas I am looking out for "no more bullshit!"
I always had two poles. At one hand I am hyper-serious and at the other hyper-casual. Both I am and do.
I need to be free and unhindered by tasks. It is like my mother, she took no real responsibility, except for our nutrition and health.
At the other hand I m too serious and responsible like my father: very nervous, could do a lot, was smart, studied and worked all the way up from high school. He had to work as a 16 year old boy because his father disappeared into a psychiatric institution with schizophrenia.
Even as a small child, I was very serious, my parents were worried about it. And I was very empathetic, felt a lot of atmospheres and moods. I could hardly find the lightness of being. But I really need it!
Analysis
The problem started after being attacked by a colleague homeopath, for an article (Silver series) about homeopathy (Lanthanides), who felt abused (Phase 6). She forced herself to do it (Stage 6) out of responsibility. Then later she is in between the publisher and the colleague (Phase 3).* The vestibulitis with terrible vertigo is a strong confirmation for Phase 3.
Plant: sensitive, empathic.
Lanthanide: free; homeopath.
Phase 6: annoyed; others do nothing./accused while I did my best.
Phase 3: empathetic, feels a lot of atmospheres and moods.
Stage 6: responsible, forcing herself to write the article.
Prescription: 3-665.63.06, remedy form Acanthaceae 200K
Follow up
After two days I had already much less coughing, but still a lot more expectoration, dirty and clean. I could sleep again. After a week I had already much more energy and felt not sick anymore. I had no real dreams.
But later on, I also suddenly suffered an acute drop in blood pressure as if from a hyperventilation attack. I had to lie down, with my legs high. My heart rate was 240 or something, with cold sweat. I've had something like this before in my life, when I was about 23 years and doing internship for doctor. Then all of a sudden my eldest sister was in a coma, she was juvenile diabetic and hadn't injected insulin. I saw her lying there, totally yellow. I felt the fear of my parents. And also, very strange, that I had to do something about it. It is the saviour's syndrome: I know I have lost my twin in the uterus at 3 month pregnancy. It was born two days after me. When I was back in the car I got that hyperventilation.
I took the remedy form Acanthaceae 3 times with a few weeks in between. The lightness is increasing. I find it more in myself, it depends less on the circumstances! And I could clearly feel how I relive the patterns of my parents. That was really new.
Comment
This case shows that Splitting off Andrographoideae from Acanthaceae and placing them in Subphase 3 is confirmed.