Santalum album
Case by Maarten van der Meer.
Remedy code: 3- 655.74.10.
A large, strong woman, 43 years old, has a nerve inflammation in the right shoulder. She sits upright, talks quietly, and has lively eyes. She uses the trunk and arms to support her story and often seeks answers high in the air, looking to the left, her eyes receiving and turning more inward. She has a striking hairstyle, shaved high on one side. The pain arose suddenly, ibuprofen and naproxen did nothing. Diagnosis is exclusionary, the doctor gave prednisone and morphine. She does not like medication, but she was woozy with pain. She sees it as an emotional process. She meditates, which allows her to cry which relieves the pain. The pain is intense at night now, and after a few hours, she can only doze off. Lying on the back with the arm up relieves slightly. The pain starts at a point on the shoulder blade, the pain radiates to the arm, which is a severe constant pulling pain to the upper arm. A crying spell takes another “layer” off. The emotions have to do with a piece of shame. She has partly denied herself, hiding herself by smoking and blowing. She calls it an addiction, for any explanation for it is bullshit. She does not want to hide from smoking anymore, without smoking she is brighter than she is at her best. The complaint arose just after a wonderful vacation, with the family, ‘just the four of us’, it was wonderful, all each other and no other holds barred. She is doing a course in intuitive development with energy. She enjoys nature, she is never sick. Sometimes she suffers from a stiff shoulder and neck. The past few years have been a roller coaster, the death of her father with whom she had an intense relationship, the training: running into yourself, sometimes fierce and sometimes beautiful. She always had the experience of not being able to meditate, but after a session with a shaman, she learned to shut herself off. Previously she was diagnosed with ADHD, the trigger was fatigue, a self over-shouting, and always on. She is in a kind of fight mode, she is very expressive, always reacting primly. Is is often open, overenthusiastic, got reactions to that or anger toward her. In her work, she was erratic and unpredictable. With sighs, she discharges during the conversation. She works with young people, she says busily gesticulating, driven, she works with homeless people. Even as a little girl, she was mediating at school with problem children, she felt involved and had a sense of responsibility. She herself came from a safe family. The pain now is part of a process: 'I'm going to do things differently, I'm going to get some closure, everything is at a tipping point now. The shame she mentioned is: that she wants to get out, she wants to distance herself from it. For a long time she denied things about herself: loving herself, being a rock, showing herself without shame. Hobbies are making music, meditative dancing, reading walking, and working with herbs. Sleep is good. In her childhood she moved six times, in a new class it was then “what are you doing here?”. She was independent, and in adolescence she was fierce, she took care of an addicted boyfriend, whose parents asked her to take care of him. It happened more than once that people asked her for help in a non-healthy way, in all age stages, this continued until she met her current partner.
Analysis
Salient features are prominent is Phase 7 and Phase 4. Phase 7: goodbye, being done with it, homeless derailed youth, drugs, outsider, pain over the edge. Phase 4: accountability, surrendering to the pain, making a strong case, and showing herself, stable family. Silver series: her hobbies and mediating fits the Silver Series, working with energy, neck shoulders as location, expressive, holding in emotions aggravates.. Santalum: being done with it, wanting a different situation. Feeling strong, radiating this fits Stage 10.
Prescription: Santalum album C200?
Follow up
Just after taking it, she felt the pain “shift” to the forearm near the elbow. She went to sleep measuring better. She only wakes up once now from the arm, not pain, but a pulling sensation. As if there is a big bruise where someone is squeezing it. She can now regulate her emotions better. She is less tired, before this she had to lie down after half an hour on the phone. She still suffers most in the morning until 11 a.m., then it subsides. The pain is now bearable. Her voice is darker, fuller. She is smiling and lively. With telling, she still seeks the eye in an abstract space, she stays in her head with her consciousness, she looks at it understandingly, sternly in a thin line. A dream: we drove past a sleeping bear, it woke up and ran after us, and we had to hide. She used to dream about a bear more often, but then it was very friendly. After two more weeks, the pain is gone, but sometimes there is still tension in the shoulder when the stretches. The energy is even less than before, she is quickly tired after a day. Then the body feels heavy and she nods off. She otherwise feels sharp and bright. On the left side, a muscle also started to hurt after an emotional session. Previously she was often overstimulated, and has learned to filter. When she doesn't do that she can be a bombshell, and there is a lot of anger. In the weeks after this, the energy snapped up, and she feels good.