Arum dracunculus
Remedy code: 3-632.11.10
A 65-year-old man comes with allergy complaints, ENT. He is a large man, calm, extremely friendly, courteous, reliable, gives you space, uses few words, and shows a lot of understanding. His tension improved after Gadolinium-nitricum. Gadolinium lowered the tension, the headache disappeared, the skin complaints improved significantly, and the allergy only slightly. After six months, he reports: I feel like I haven't made any progress. The nasal congestion and snoring were gone. But now the nose is more blocked than ever (it's also hay fever season now), and he is picking his nose all day long.
A lot comes loose under the shower. The eyes keep tearing, there's moisture all day long, and for a few weeks now he has been seeing worse. The nose gradually closed up again, and for quite some time now he's been coughing, clearing his throat, for example in the car, until something comes loose. Snoring very loudly for weeks now. When blowing his nose: clots, sometimes congealed blood, this has been going on for years. As a child, he often had colds and frequently had pneumonia. The itching remains almost gone, the bowels are calm, there are no leg cramps anymore that he had to get out of bed for, and tension is now 145/90.
Sleep is good, around half past two he has to pee, and then turns on the radio for a moment.
The tongue is red, there are grooves, 'cracks', transversely.
Analysis
This man is very involved with family, and with loved ones: both the people in the street, the church community, and his clients, he is a representative. He is very concerned with values and is religious. He always helps everyone, he is polite, not so much out of 'duty' or obligation, but more from a life perspective. Traditions. The family is central, the children and grandchildren. He calls his complaints 'not shocking', actually he has nothing to complain about. His own body and experience are important, the starting point. No rest, always busy, always involved, no rest until everything is tidied up.
His complaints: there is only his body, emotionally or psychologically everything is always ‘fine’, everything is in order, nothing to complain about.
Many aspects for Silicon series and Carbon series.
Rubric picking nose mentions arum-triphylum, the Araceae family has many points of recognition regarding the theme. However, his type does not fit stage 4 (arum-triphylum), so arum-draconicum (at stage 10) was chosen. The good effect of Gadolinium (also a stage 10 medicine) also argues for this stage. The desire to 'have everything under control', independence, 'shadow theme', and the aspects of the Lanthanides, do not affect this complaint. The complaint already existed in his childhood. Unity, directness, idealism, and spontaneity all fit, stage 1 or Phase 1
Stage 10: central in family, confident in himself and choices, naturalness, firm in convictions without doubt. Prescription Arum-dracunculus C9.
Follow-up
Two months later: the first night he had a lot of headache and sweating.
After taking it, the nose opened completely within 10 minutes and has not returned in these eight weeks. No dirty eyes from the second day onwards, but wet eyes for three days, the discharge is no longer as dirty yellow as before. In the night, the left eye is stuck shut. In the first week, he often had bowel movements.
It has been a very busy time, there was stress at work, not real stress of course, ‘I don't feel it like that, but a lot was coming at me, and the finish is approaching. I feel good. If everything goes according to the pattern I expected, what I hoped for, then I feel the most comfortable. I have been clearing my throat all my life. Reactions to things or medicines are always very direct, so the headache that lasted for 10 years also disappeared all of a sudden. That fits my impatience.’ That impatience is now more, his wife has been saying 'calm down' lately, she has never said that before. 'You're impatient', he's also very active. In the years to come, everything continues to go well. Helping the sick, al lot of responsibilities and organising for the church. Our life is good arranged. He became very active for the homeless, and asylum seekers, and devoted much care to his parents. Here we see the oxalicum theme again, characteristic of many Arales.
Discussion
Tension, headache, and leg cramps are gone, ENT has been much calmer and is now flaring up again in hay fever season. Because an ideal response like after gadolinium-nitricum is, in my experience, permanent, and because this man, who gives very reliable information, has a good awareness of his body and now reports himself: I haven't made any progress, it is worthwhile to look at another medicine. This involves searching for and considering whether there are still Lanthanide characteristics, where the focus of the complaint is now, and where the person's attention lies.
The mucosal complaint has been around for much longer, it could be an old pattern that remains. Or it is a standalone complaint that has an affinity with the aspects (as in the keywords in the Clades) of how he 'experiences' the world, how he experiences life, where his attention lies, and where the focus of his life experience lies. Through this analysis, you arrive at a different Class.
WP helps with these points of recognition and leads to the respective Class, family, or species.
Later, information emerged about his childhood, which is consistent with the development of an Arum- dracunculus picture when he was very young. The old pattern. His mother was bitchie, had never time for him. This was after his sister died in an accident. She was crying for a long time, and then the turning point came: 'I had to fight against my grief’and hardened. She was loud, had high standards, and she was always disapproved of me, sexuality was 'dirty'. I always felt like I had to prove myself to be loved, I made an extreme effort to not let it bother me too much. As the oldest, much was expected of me.’
We see here the theme of 'insecurity' in childhood, parents were 'emotionally absent', as a child, adult behavior was expected, also from oneself, the theme of family and standards, but also stage 10 as action: I can handle this.