665.34.08 Heliotropium europaeum, Case
Woman, 40, fibromyalgia, diabetes.
She has muscle pains, especially in her shoulders and arms, with knots. Her muscles are glowing and burning. It feels as if the muscles were enormously overstrained. She has pains in the joints of her feet, hands, knees, and hips. They feel stiff, tense, cramped, especially in the morning. She has had a frozen shoulder with neuralgic, shooting pains through her arms. Since puberty she has had joint problems like knee pain when she was too tired and stressed.
She feels like a stranger in her own body, many weird things are happening. It feels like an agitation in her body, as if a tuning-fork trembles on her skin, rages through her body.
She has diabetes for some years. It started in her pregnancies. It creates lability and vision disturbances.
Her father was very intelligent, always knew things better. He always had stories about how excellent he was. Her mother was emotionally absent and often like a stranger to her. She was there, but needed by her two older daughters. Her eldest sister is narcissistic, her second sister is manic-depressive. She herself had to survive, she was helping her sisters, adoring them too. She did a lot for them’ but was for herself she was nowhere. Later she stopped doing things for them, but then felt guilty about having abandoned them.
She had twin daughters, which was a big task. She was happy when she was not pregnant again.
In her work she was doing a lot and new tasks were added all the time. She was overworked, but they assessed that she had time left. She became a burned out, felt empty, could not think about solutions and was weeping a lot. Her mother consoled her by saying that the weather was good. She went into psycho-analysis which did her very well. She became a psychotherapist herself.
Plants: she likes plants, paeonia.
She likes cats and dogs.
Weather: < wet, < wet and cold or warm.
Time: < morning.
Desire: healthy food.
Aversion: salmon.
Food: < barbecue, < salad.
Analysis
She had to survive, for herself was nowhere. Everyone in the family was too busy with him or herself. Even her mother was a stranger. She was invisible. That is the theme of the Boraginales, Heliotropiaceae.
She was working very hard, new tasks were added all the time. She was overworked, first by her sisters and mother, then by her daughters and in her work. It was never enough. This indicates Stage 8. Heliotropium is Stage 8 of the Heliotropiaceae.
Follow up
One month after Heliotropium europeum MK she feels much better.