666.43.01 Lactuca virosa, Case
Boy, 5, asthma.
He has wheezing, cough with slimy, yellow, thick, tenacious and thready expectoration, worse from wet, foggy weather and draught and at 1 am. He has coryza after swimming. He has croup attacks. Then he is very quiet with very high coughing, better from steaming.
He was born two months too early. When three months old, he was put into an orphanage; his mother was a prostitute who could not care for him and so she gave him away. He was beaten quite a lot. He often went to the hospital. He had to be fed with an infusion because because he had a lack of food, iron and calcium.
He came to his current mother at 12 months. He had scars all over his body from being beaten. He had diarrhoea which looked like cooked carrots.
He has paralysis of his right hand and arm and drags his right leg. He goes to a school for children with developmental difficulties. Speech is poor with slurring. He has speech therapy.
He is very restless, wild, loquacious, running around, cannot be controlled, especially with his mother. He does not watch what he is doing, so he easily has accidents and becomes wounded. He does not beat or kick. He is very fearful, so his mother has to stay with him. He does not want to play with other children if his mother is not with him. He will not go to play at a classmate’s house. He is calmer with strangers and is afraid of other children.
He is very sweet, caresses his mother. He likes to do wild games: Batman and toys of Japanese fighting.
He does not want to see clocks and watches anywhere and turns them around. He can read the clock.
He is defiant toward his mother. When shopping, he will hide behind the clothes so she cannot find him.
He feels as if he is warm but he says that he is cold, he throws blankets off in sleep.
Desire: lots of thirst; salt, spicy, fish, eggs.
Aversion: salads, especially lettuce and cucumber.
Food: < lettuce, leads to vomiting.
Analysis
Asteraceae: beaten; scars all over.
Subphase 3: very sweet, caresses.
Stage 1: restless, wild; uncontrollable.
Lactuca virosa: < lettuce; < 1 am.
Follow up
After Lactuca virosa MK he had a very bad asthma for four days and a fever of
39°. He wanted to lie down or snuggle on his mother’s lap.
Then he became much calmer, less demanding and easier to control. His bedwetting was gone for a whole month. His fear of other children was much less and he could play with other children without his mother being there. The problems with arms and legs were the same.
A few months later he has influenza with high fever of 40 degrees and had to lie down. The Lactuca was repeated. The asthma never came back.
Coccus cacti had no effect.