642.17.08 Sanguinaria canadensis, Case
Woman, 25, obesity.
She has been carrying too much weight since birth. As a child she was forbidden to drink milk by her general practitioner because of recurrent bronchitis.
She eats chips and cakes when she is alone on her room. It makes her sad. It feels as if she cannot direct it, as if it goes its own way, as if it is not her. She resists it, fights it with diets. She is anxious when she gets hungry. But eating is also a form of grounding when she is floating too much.
Her mother is obese and her grandmother even more. She was a hysterical woman, beaten by her father.
Desire: milk.
Aversion: milk, as a child.
Analysis
Carbon series: anxious; < alone.
Papaveraceae: cannot direct her bulimia, as a slave
Stage 8: fight.
Follow up
One month after Sanguinaria MK she has lost 5 kilos with ease. She feels she is the director of her life again. A year later she is doing fine.