666.44.09 Smallanthus uvedalia, Case
Woman, 40, hayfever.
She has hayfever for the last 2 years like in her youth. Her eye itches and becomes painful when she rubs it. Her nose runs, first watery then mucus. The itch goes from her nose to her throat and she has to sneeze frequently. She has to cough and in the past had asthma. As a child she had frequent bronchitis with coughing, asthma and high fever.
She has headaches on her forehead and left side, better from pressure and warm applications. In the past she was desperate with the inclination to bang her head against the wall.
Her father was choleric and had outbursts of violent aggression, beating her mother and sister. She held herself back, fearing to be killed. Her mother carried the family and worked very hard.
She gets angry when others want to impose things on her but she does not express it. She feels that she has to defend herself and can have anger attacks.
She wants to do things on her own, cannot accept help. She is very self-willed. She is in the background but knows and does exactly what she wants and what she thinks is needed.
She wants to understand things, why she has the complaints.
She is a homeopath.
She helps in her husband’s business doing the bookkeeping.
Fear: being beaten.
Desire: meat.
Aversion: fruit, banana, lemon.
Food: < pork, produces gas in abdomen; < lemon, gives throat pain.
She likes hot water and hot showers. She has cramping pain at the start of her menses, better from heat, how water bottles.
Analysis
Lanthanides: do things on her own, cannot accept help; self-willed; anger < imposed; homeopath.
Carbon series: father.
Asteraceae: hayfever; fear being beaten.
Stage 9: wants to understand.
Follow up
After Smallanthus uvedalia MK she feels much better. She gets more energy and starts clearing up things. She can think more clearly. She does not have to defend herself anymore. Her hayfever disappears.
After a few years she reports that her hayfever is almost cured, she even has a cat.