655.66.16 Raphanus sativus, Case
Woman, 50, ankylosing spondilitis.
She has headache, backache, fatigue, cannot open her mouth easily, feels as if encased in an armour. She is telling her symptoms rather emotionally. She feels depressed. She cannot sleep well due to her backache.
She feels stopped and her opportunities taken away. It feels like a resistance that she wants to break through. It feels like wanting to go out into the fields and go over all the blockages. She is obstructed in her work where they want to take away her job. In the past she felt horrible living together with a man for some time. It felt like a prison. The same feeling she gets when thinking of having children, it would be like being stuck in a spider’s web, limited by all the threads of responsibility. It would feel like a caterpillar woven into all threads of commitment till you cannot move at all anymore. That would feel like a black hole, from which no escape is possible. She has had several relationships but all with huge problems. She was completely exploited. Another became crazy, threatening to kill her, attempting suicide. It felt like a black hole from which no escape is possible. These experiences left her totally disappointed and disillusioned with guilt feelings.
She is working as a music teacher, she loves it.
Dream: ex-husband persecuting her.
Desire: sweet.
Sleep: sleepless.
Dupuytren’s contracture of her hand.
Analysis
Silver series: music teacher.
Brassicaceae: stuck, hindered, blocked; limited by responsibilities of husband and children; contraction, cicatrices.
Stage 16: avoiding; outside a family, husband or children.
Stage 16 of the Brassicaceae is Raphanus sativus.
Follow up
One month after Raphanus sativus MK she feels much better. The feeling of a black hole is gone, although she still feels hindered. But things have become clearer to her, she got an insight into the structure of her life. She feels fortunate even when there are hindrances in life.
But in facct she has fewer hindrances and has been offered opportunities at her work. So she is feeling freer.