Case Schoenocaulon officinale
Jan Scholten
A man from 1954 comes with hay fever. The symptoms are enormous sneezing (3), snivelling (2), nasal congestion and burning and watering eyes (2). Furthermore, he often has some pain maxillary and frontal. The symptoms on the left are somewhat worse. Aggravations occur during weather changes (2), draughts (2), in winter (2), and with drought (2) such as sunny weather and inside with central heating. Alcohol (2) and fatigue (2) also give a clear aggravation. Humid weather does not affect him. There is no clear allergy in the game. He also does not suffer from coughing, hoarseness or itching. These complaints have existed for 7 years, without any apparent reason.
Further symptoms are a slight tightness in running.
Since 2 years he has had fever every few months: in the morning he has muscle aches and in the course of the day the fever rises to 38-39 degrees with shivers and alternating cold and heat feelings. He then has a popping foreheadache. When asked how he feels, he says he experiences the world as unreal. This has been the case for two years since his two children were born. Together with his education, this has taken up a lot of energy.
Furthermore, he often has a bloated abdomen with cramps in the left upper abdomen, especially after coffee, tension and between 18 and 20 hours. Food and faeces have no influence on this. However, there is a lot of flatulence. In general, the stool is very variable, either grizzly or normal.
Previous symptoms are: asthma until the age of 14. 2-3 times a year a period after a cold.
When he was 9 years old he had an ear infection on the left, followed by a brain abscess, in which he spoke 'gibberish'. He has failed for a long time afterwards.
Furthermore bedwetting and roses, and worms. He smelled strongly from the mouth.
Generals: He often has cold feet, but at night he often puts them out of bed. For snow it often has a headache. As a child he was afraid of thunderstorms. The sun makes him tired. Aversion draught. < winter, weather changes. Much need for fresh air.
He sometimes sweats at night on his back.
Preferences: sweet 2, salt 2, coffee 2, flour products 2, lots of thirst 2
Disgust: Fat 2, bitter.
Sleep is good, but he is not well rested in the morning. He sleeps on the side more left than right.
Psychic: he is a closed type, prefers something in the background, prefers to look the cat out of the tree. He looks a bit slow, slow in reactions and talking, so he is very relativistic. He is somewhat careless, but in his work he is very precise. He is somewhat alternative oriented socially and in his work, where he has done an acupuncture course. He is looking for his own way without immediately fighting for something. He doesn't really have fears, once in the mountains he does. In general, he has a restrained, rational attitude.
Case study 2, Jan Scholten, European examination, Utrecht 20-9-1990, page 2.
Dreams: as a child he had to leave things behind. That he was chased in a house with many corridors and rooms, then fled the roof and couldn't go any further and then woke up.
Work: He is a general practitioner, but has not yet been able to find a job. That's annoying, but because it's not that long, it's not that bad.
Relationship: He lives together, is not married and has two children. There are no real problems in this area, not even sexually.
Effect: When recording this case, the hay fever problem was of course initially noticeable, with sneezing being extra emphasized. Because of this my thoughts went to Sabadilla. When the fever conditions came to an end, I asked for more precise experiences during the fever to find out whether the symptom 'erroneus notions about his body' was present. However, the patient could only tell that he experienced the world as unreal, which in my opinion is somewhat related. If we look at the accompanying differentialogram, we see Sabadilla in third place. In this diffogram the clear symptoms are entered without selection. The other substances in the diffogram such as calc, pulse, alum, nit-ac, ars and sulph did not really qualify in my opinion as they lacked several characteristic symptoms of the known substances. Since sabadilla also in the Boericke and Clarke showed even more similarities with the image of the patient such as eye complaints, worms, fevers with deliruitive symptoms, I decided to give Sabadilla K 1000 at 21-3-1988.
Trend: On 20-4-88 the patient reported that he had had a severe fever attack after the drug, as he knew. After that, more than half of the symptoms had diminished. In general, he felt much more comfortable and also had much more energy. Policy: wait and see, because after a clear deterioration in the beginning there was a strong improvement.
On 20-7-88 the patient called to say that the 'hay fever symptoms are starting to recur. I decided to repeat Sabadilla K 1000.