Case, Bismuthum phosphoricum
She has complaints of moaning. She feels a kind of dyspnoea and as if there’s something inside her that has to go out, but can’t go out. It was only when she was alone, in company she could control it, fortunately. It’s also a moaning and pain psychologically. The moaning was hindering her very much, for example in singing in the open air.
Sciatica, extending from the sacral region to the front side of the thigh and to the knee with a feeling of a band around the knee. It is more right than left sided. It is > massage, acupressure, >> pregnancies, > lying down, < lifting too much, < stooping, < turning her body.
Hemorrhoids. Varicose veins.
She is a very religious woman, straight in her religion with a desire to help people. She works as a volunteer for other people. She is very sympathetic, feels much when She has 7 children and during the pregnancy of her fourth child her younger brother became suicidal. Her mother couldn’t handle at home and asked her to take care of him. She took him in his house, but it was very heavy for her, having him hanging around and saying: “I’m going to end my life”. She felt responsible for preventing him doing it. At the same time she had to take care for her 3 children, do the household and was pregnant. After the pregnancy she was very tired. And it became worse due to the fact that her daughter turned out to be very difficult to handle, always discontent. She did not tell her daughter about the suicidal brother. She told her that she had had a difficult pregnancy with a lot of illnesses in the family.
Weather: chilly, < too cold, < too hot, < wet weather, < draft.
Time: < 9 pm
Food desire: salt herring !!, sour !!.
Food aversion: kidney
Food: < sour.
Dream: walking downward on moving staircase, which suddenly ends in nowhere.
Dream: trying to walk away, but her feet are stuck.
Analysis
The cause was that she had to take of her suicidal brother. This leads to Bismuthum (suicide) phosphoricum (brother). We also see the responsibility and heaviness of the Goldseries. Her sympathy fits the Phosphor. As a keynote for the Bismuthums we also see the aversion salt herring. The walking downward fits Bismuthum as downward motion, although it’s not a falling.
Reaction
After Bismuthum phosphoricum 200 K she feels much better. She says the remedy is a “hit”. The moaning was gone after a day and after 2 weeks it returned a little bit, some 10%, for a few days. A second dose did not change that.
She got a strong urge to talk about the situation of her suicidal brother, how she felt during that pregnancy and about her daughter. And she did with people that she felt she could trust. She wanted to tell about how good she felt after the remedy. She feels that the problems are solved; she doesn’t need to tell it anymore. After 3 months she also told the story to her daughter. The daughter reacted quite relaxed.
She feels much more happy, can sing again.
In general she has more energy, has more desire to do things in the evening, visit friends
She got old complaints back. At first she had a heat, glowing in her right knee and thigh. She had that complaint during her pregnancies and when she had sciatica.
Secondly she got a tingling in her left foot for a few days. Then she got a trembling of her left under eyelid.
She had a kind of nodule in the proximal interphalangeal joint of her right ring finger. In the past she had that under the sole of her foot, so that she couldn’t walk. Especially the first hour of walking was very difficult, but when she forced herself it became better after an hour. She had ice cold feet back. She got her old hemorrhoids back for a few days. For these complaints she had taken in the past Calcium fluoratum with success. Of these complaints only the heat in the thigh is sometimes still there after a month.