Case Cochlearea 3
This 5 year old woman suffered from hyper ventilation: face feels strange, tingling in the hands, "cotton-wool feeling" in the legs. A second complaint is diverticulosis with constipation, painful urging < 9 hrs, < after meals, < pregnancy. She also has a slight hiatus in the diaphragm.
She gets tired very quickly. Her heart isn’t very good, she has arteriosclerosis and one of the valves is not perfect. Sometimes she gets a horrible weak, dizzy, feeling, with pains in the chest, radiating to the back via both sides. She has often had cystitis in the past.
Desires: warm food, traditional Dutch food, raw food, fish, eggs. Aversion: cheese, too sweet, too spicy.
< sprouts (2). Time < 7 a.m. and pm
Weather:> fresh air, wind.
Mind: She is a very caring person. Sometimes it all gets too much, she feels that she can’t cope with everything. The contact with her children is a bit difficult. Her daughter in law doesn’t like seeing her too often, prefers to visit her own parents. Her own daugh- ter lives far away so she doesn’t see her very often. Apart from all that her husband has a problem with the children. He is constant- ly afraid that he will kill them (>>>thea), so this has hindered the contact with children and grandchildren. She wants to be a good wife to her husband and a good mother to her children.
Comment: Here we don’t see the theme of bitterness all that strongly, but we do see the theme of taking care. Also the typical cochlearia feeling of it all being too much, not being able to cope. The keynote of pain in the stomach has moved to pain in the chest in this case, but it is radiating to sides and back.
Cochlearia made the hyperventilation disappear, it increased her energy and she was able to cope much better. Other remedies which have helped her were: uva ursi, calcarea sulphurica and naja.