Case: Anacardium
Woman, S.K. 52 year.
Anton Kramer
Has been treated by a homeopathic colleague for several years; effect was rather good. But then she read about Hepar sulphuris her self and reacted very well on it. When she asked her homeopath he said that he had not recognised it for her. “I was startled! Do you recognise your other remedies anyhow?!” So she did not dare to stay in treatment. When talking about this, at the very start of the first consultation, I see how this seemingly gentle woman becomes fiery and has a fighting spirit.
After Hepar several symptoms improved but now the are back. “Every homeopathic remedy gives an aggravation; milk allergy worse from Phosphorus, weepy moods worse from Thuja, Chelidonium turned the color of her face to pale white; moles worse after Calc-f. So I understood that I am hypersensitive and I turned to Bach remedies. And I am very good in it. I have advised many people but they often do not realise how much they improve; they almost never thank you for what you have done. I take Sweet chestnut to be able to see things as they really are. I am struck easily be the behaviour of others, I think many people are so blunt. Sweet chestnut helps me to feel threatened less easily.
As a child she was very frightened. Her mother was very dominant, wanted everything her way, dragging our screaming patient everywhere. This had to do with her handicap. She had/has bad eye function because of rubella; her mother made her visit so many specialists and therapies. Her father had nothing to say in all this.
And her mother felt guilty about her handicap; so she wanted to prove that her daughter could do anything. “So she made me study for librarian; completely nuts for someone with loss of vision of 75%..”. Her mother meant well but did not listen to the patient, only to her self.
She got staring mad of her mother for the first time when she was about 18 year. No the least privacy, no breath of her own. “Well, such are children; they accept their parents for such a long time”.
She may be a bit angry when stopped/obstructed in what she wants to do. Or when her husband is postponing things, like he usually does. Or when she needs things to be done by others on the office and the give zero response. She sys she is not angry, but in her speech she frequently uses the word ‘fight’.
Her job as librarian was at stake some years ago because of reorganisation. No body was informed by the chef and patient was afraid and ill at easy. Still she felt that because she was good that they could not go without her. So she made her demands in spite of being afraid (when telling about this she shows her fighting spirit again). She felt the same as in her youth: she just did not know what she wanted herself, but was forced in a position where she had to make the best. After a few years she felt better and wanted to study something out of curiosity; she thought of psychology “But psychologist looks for the wrongs in others without mirroring themselves. And they are as a voyeur, having fun about the mistakes of their clients”. So she decided to study cultural sciences “Because it helps you to function as human being and that is what it should be all about in the society”.
Physically. Menses is profuse and long lasting (12 days, in the past 7 days), dark, thick blood worse rising in the morning, better 13.30 - 17.00. All improved considerably from Naproxen. Inflammation of a root of a molar. Vertigo worse walking; would fall sideways in a broad lane. Ear as ball in it that obstructs the ear and rolls about a little bit; same as when she was 20 years. Often cathing cold with squeaking noise in the tear tube when blowing the nose. Moles. Eczema right thigh (many complaints right side).
Generals
Food. Desires vegetables 3, cheese 2, fruit, black chocolate 2.
Temperature. She feels warm, is better cool weather and worse warm weather.
R/ Anacardium (plug sensation ears now and 30 years ago. Rather aggressive attitude with niceness. Had to study and perform.
Sleep. Bad temper in the evening, quarrelling about things her husband does.
Aggravation. Pain right thigh as she used to have during menses. Menses was about to begin; when taking Anacardium it stopped, restarted but at the second dose after a week it stopped again. After 10 days more menses restarted and lasted only two days with little blood.
“After the first Anacardium I became much nicer, especially in the evening. After the second dose after a week I was less nice, more assertive”. Thereupon she became more balanced and quiet. She searched internet and found for Anacardium the picture of the devil and the angel; her husband stated that she has a sweet character but sometimes may be a witch.
She notices that a colleague tries to keep their child dependant and small, as her mother used to do before. “My mother needed to be needed because of my handicap. She did not help me to become self-supportive”.
Third consultation. She is well, is milder and has more rest in side herself. “I thought that I had digested it all in the past but now it is much better”.