CASE 1.1
In May 1997 a female patient, 44 years old consulted me because of her psoriasis. She had had this skin disease for at least 10 years, probably starting when her husband began his studies and she had to work as a geriatric helper to ensure their living.
The psoriasis was mainly located on the scalp and somewhat on the elbows. She had some eczema in the bends of the elbows and in the hollow of the knees, but much less then in earlier years.
She also complained of hypoglycaemia: weakness and trembling when eating too late, symptoms aggravated by warmth. She had a pressing pain behind the sternum especially when eating fruit or drinking tea due to a hernia diafragmatica. And last but not least she had premenstrual complaints of sleeplessness (waking at 2 or 3 in the morning), pain in the back and the mammae and head pain originating in the neck and extending to the ears (pressing pain) 7 to 9 days before the menses appeared. She had a feeling of being strangled. The overall feeling then was of a thin wall between her and the world.
Mind
It touok her some time to open up, and she remained stand offish, remote. She has to know people before she starts talking. She talks fast. Her parents tought her to "act normally", that is to say to be a conformist and not to think too much. She always had the feeling of being adopted or a foundling because she had different interests then her brother and sister and children in the neighbourhood. She liked to express herself creatively, drawing and clay modelling. She would have liked to go to artschool. Her creative talent was oppressed and she was now scared to show it, to show herself to the outer world. She had done some eurythmia and creative therapy in the past few years. But overall she felt that her family didn't understand what was going on in her.
Generals
Temperature: warm, aggravated by warmth
Perspiration: normal
Aversion: beer
Desire: sweets (2) and salty (cheese yand sausages)
Thirst: large quantities
Sleep: waking 2 à 3 pm
Dreams: dreams of not being able to talk (mouth full of chewing gum), not being able to get away and of
children
Skin: wounds heal slowly. Sometimes cracks in fingers.
Naevi.
Hair: silvergrey
Throat: aversion to clothing
Follow up
After the remedy the patient experienced a headache during two days followed by eruptions: a moist skin eruption behind the right ear and spots in the inguinal region and under the mammae (elimination). The premenstrual complaints and the feeling of being strangled were undoubtly less after six weeks, but the energy and the psoriasis had not yet altered.
The remedy was repeated after seven weeks when she felt more closed again. An emotional reaction was the result: the patient cried a lot and thoughts of events in the past, especially of not being able to express her creativity, came back. Again an eruption in the right ear appeared. It was only five months later that I saw the patient again and a changed person appeared before me.
She beams when she talks about how she has started sculpting and has enroled for the academy of arts. Her psoriasis is much less although it has not totally disapeared on her head. Her bloodsugar levels are better and her premenstrual complaints are not gone but are not disturbing her any longer. She still has some heartburn and the feeling of a wall between her and the world has not vanished totally, but she does not complain anymore.
She still can cry about things in the past, but it is not as explosive as three months ago. She can see now that her parents must have had a problem with her being different from her siblings. She sees her own role in closing up.