663.25.10 Bougainvillea glabra, Case
Woman, 60, arthritis.
She has arthritis of her knees and hips. She has had an operation on her meniscus. She has an aversion to a proposed knee replacement. She has backaches in her sacral region extending to her legs and the upper side of her feet. In the past she had had a few operations on her back. Her knee is weakened. The problems are worse from cold weather weather and better on holidays and warm weather.
She has stomach pains from the painkillers, a burning feeling, worse from cauliflower, sometimes with vomiting. She has headaches starting in her neck and go together with shivering and nausea. The pains are worse from light and noise, better from lying. She has palpitations. She has hayfever, < lying, > with her head high. She had intestinal inflammation with diarrhoea and vomiting in spring; after that she was coughing for weeks the whole night. She wakes from coughing.
Her mother felt wronged and was angry with her father. The relationship with her mother was fluctuating, in a way symbiotic, sometimes very good but at other times very bad because they were so similar. Her mother was also exuberant and enjoying life. Her father was a very strict policeman and Orthodox Christian. This gave rise to a lot of guilt feelings and heaviness. He was a big strong man who dominated her mother. Her father loved her very much and was also proud of her because she could learn on very well. He was angry with her when she did something wrong, when she was not behaving like a good Christian girl.
In puberty she had a lot of boyfriends and experimented with everything. She needed the freedom to go her own way. When her engagement ended she had a lot of grief, fearing that she would not get another husband because she was not was not a virgin.
She has many friends and they are very important to her. She is very talkative and open but still she fears and thinks often that people and friends will not like her.
She likes plants very much. Her balcony is full of plants. She likes oleander, papaya and bougainvillea. She does not have a strong connection with animals.
Her menses was copious; she had headache during menses.
Weather: < cold, wet weather: > sun; > see.
Time: < 5 pm.
Desire: chocolate, warm food, meat, drinks.
Food: > chocolate which gives consolation; < cauliflower.
Sleep: very well, it is an escape.
Analysis
Lanthanides: freedom, go her own way; < domination.
Phase 2: adapting, behaving good.
Subphase 5: friends important; exuberant; enjoying life; experiment.
Follow up
After Bougainvillea glabra MK she did much better. She felt more at ease and in balance, with friends and family. Her arthritis reduced more than half.