644.55.16 Saraca asoca, Case
Case by Maria Klompé.
Woman, 29, headache.
Headache, bursting, pulsating, stitching, with total exhaustion and dullness, weekly, pain in the eye, < light, with a feeling of falling out, to the front, tingling legs, lose from her body, not knowing how to live, since mononucleosis. Journeys to other countries provoke the headaches together with feeling absent. She feels two streams in her, one does not want to be a woman, the other wants to be a female god, like in India.
She had diarrhoea from a Giardia infection in India. She experienced India as an absurd world but felt at home.
Problems with the world, anger that she was born but better travelling. She has always felt strange in this world, with all its duties, at school and later in life. She always wanted to live without duties.
Type: retiring.
Fear: spiders, ghosts.
Hobbies: mysticism, singing, poetry.
Weather: warm; < sun, heat.
Desire: fish, fat, egg.
Aversion: chocolate, onion, paprika, raisins.
Analysis
Iron series: work, duties.
Stage 16: strange in this world; wants to live without duties.
Papillonoidae: duties, work in contrast to enjoying life.
Baptisia: diarrhoea in travelling; felt at home in an absurd world, which can be translated as a simple, poor but happy life in contrast to hard work of western civilisation.