Santalum album
Case by Maarten van der Meer.
Remedy code: 3-655.74.10.
A man of 63, he looks fit, calm, and confident. He sits with his arms firmly crossed, making himself compact, as if retreating into himself. He suffers from fungi and infections. Ointment did not help, got medication, which gave him side effects, pressure in the head. Fungi has always been under the feet, for as long as he has known, that is gone now with those pills, but it is now in the groin, and also red spots on the legs. The feet are now clean with medicine for fungus, before he had sheets, with moisture, and bumps, all over the sole. There is something else with the legs: around freezing point, it starts itching enormously at the calf, with bumps and rashes. It is unbearable then. But in winter sports it doesn't bother him. The groin has been red for a few months now, with a bumpy edge on the outside. Other than that, he never has anything. When he was a little boy at the farmer's, he used to get milk straight from the cow. Since then, from the age of two, he often has bowel problems, it takes at least a week before he has a stool. This causes pain, that it doesn't come out, with hemorrhoids, he has to take it out himself. He then sits on the toilet screaming. Other than that he has no abdominal complaints, and he has no prostate complaints. Alcohol, he used to use a lot and now a little, it was way too much; he got such a fat belly, but could stand it. Blood test: liver values are slightly elevated, and sugar is in a “gray” area. His tongue has a red mark on the right side. He is active day and night, he cannot sit still and starts moving every time. He has his own business, that goes on day and night, and he can handle it all. Sometimes his back hurts, after overexertion. The family is healthy. He worked at his father's place, day and night, it didn't matter to him, they were big jobs. The others always came to work later, which gave him the motivation to start for himself, but he still had to learn everything. He was overworked once, he had to do everything alone. It was too much for him, he thought it is was normal for everyone: if there were too many people around him, he heard everyone, and he felt the negative thoughts of all of them. Very far it went (he does not tell about this further, this avoidance behavior in a person so certain points to an important theme. He became overwrought, and it “went very far,” negative things). He feels people, as can his daughter. He then looks at colors, then keeps yawning. He used to have that to often, sensing the negative things. It could also be feeling things beforehand, for example, he saw a building and knew they had to work there, and later they called him about it. Abroad, there he felt too much, “that doesn't make you happy. He started to shut it off consciously, by not taking an interest in it. Sleep is good. Dreams very sometimes, about being attacked, and then waking up screaming. He used to go to a natural healer for his bowels and a cold that just wouldn't go away, now he is sent by my wife.
Analysis
Fungal and bowel have been there since toddlerhood, the spots at the groin and leg are often lymph load from the lower abdomen. Chances are the rash he is coming up with now belongs to predisposition. One complaint that stands out, a notable pattern, is being overworked, and the sensitivity that had to do with that. His daughter is also “sentient” and picks up a lot from people (this passed after Daphne indica). I often see this trait or characteristic in Silver series indicates. This man also has it strongly, “it went very far” and he does not want to talk about it further, indications of Phase 7. Cutting oneself off from it, shut of, also fits Phase 7, distancing oneself from it to deal with it. Bowel pain is extreme, Phase 7 (compare Solanales). Confident, calm, Phase 4 as a layer on top as a clue for the Subphase. Malvidae, Silver series: Feeling, atmosphere, sensing energy. Phase 7 and Subphase 4 bring us to the Santalaceae, of these two medicines are known, Stages 5 and 10. The calmness it exudes, stability, and self-confidence fit Stage 10.
Prescription: Santalum album C200 (?).
Follow up
As of taking it, the bowel is good, stools have been perfect since then. Three weeks alter the fungi are not gone, after stopping the antifungal medicine the feet are shedding slightly again. The legs were less red for a while at first, but now back again. He now shows his foot and leg: the sole is peeling, the knees are red and moist, and over the whole leg to calf red round spots. He now explains that these spots only came there after the fungal medicine (just like the pressure in the head). He feels good now, no longer tense. The rash may be a side effect of the medication, in is therefore “clinically” treated with Chloralum C30 after three months, the day after the fungus is permanently gone. Patches on the legs and groin remain for another month. His attitude of 'I want nothing more to do with this, I want to get away from this' fits with Phase 7, you encounter this more often with for example a Solanales indication, being fed up with the sensitivity or ferocity.