666.45.05 Gnaphalium polycephalum, Case
Woman, 35, backache.
She started to have a backache and scoliosis in puberty. She was put in a plaster cast which was horrible. She had operations on her hernia with sciatica and later spondylodesis, which she found very severe and heavy. She had to lie on her back for six weeks and was bound to the bed. She had a hallucination that she was lying in a coffin and everyone walked over her. She was so afraid that she sat up with all the bindings. The nurses came and fought her back down. It all felt humiliating. She has pains everywhere in muscles and joints, worse from exertion and at the end of menses. Her backache was with sciatica, a deep neuralgic pain and numbness extending to her toes, worse lying on her back, sitting, better from warmth. She could have a high fever of 40°C, feeling very hot. She has bone pains, like needles inside her.
She had other operations: removal of appendix, cyst on the right ovary, diverticulum; dysplasia of the uterus; benign cyst from left breast; exostosis from left side of head.
She had a miscarriage and two Caesarian sections.
She had severe migraines in puberty, especially after parties, < chocolate.
She has trouble with bladder and intestines after surgery. She has vomiting, >> sleep, saw everything green and yellow.
She has a vaginal infection twice a year.
Her birth was problematic: born a month early, three pounds, in fleece and unexpectedly as the second of the twins; already then she was walked all over.
Her husband was not very loving and protecting. Once when she was very ill with severe vertigo and could not even walk, he did not care for her or even the children.
She is very sensitive and refined. She works as a therapist for children.
She is obedient but goes her own way quietly. She avoids conflict and gets what she wants in other ways.
Weather: chilly; likes the sun; aversion winter, foggy wet weather; better hot shower.
Time: < 5 pm.
Desire: cheese, farinaceous, fruit.
Aversion: fat, eggs !, Brussels sprouts, meat, milk, fish.
Colour preference: 16B, 2AB.
Analysis
Lanthanides: individuality, therapist.
Asteraceae: high fever; bone pains; goes her own way.
Stage 5: avoids conflicts; obedient; quietly goes her own way.
Gnaphalium polycephalum: sciatica with numbness; being walked over.
Follow up
She is been on the remedy for six years.
She is increasingly able to stand up for herself and towards her husband.
She was hit by a ball on the beach and had vertigo again.
After that, she divorced her husband.
Her backaches are also improving, though she thought they never could change.
Ten years later she takes Gnaphalium from time to time and it continues to help her. Homeopathy, orthomolecular support, meditation and Buddhism certainly have helped her. Gnaphalium helps her a strong to feel strong in herself.