663.41.03 Stellaria media, Case
Woman, 65, eczema.
She has eruptions on her face, her right cheek, upper arms and chest. They are mostly very itchy pimples. The problems were due to stress; she had to move but her old house was not sold yet. She had stress from the loss of contact with her daughter.
She has flushes of heat, with a bright red face and sweating all over her body. She has backaches in her lower back, sometimes extending to her right hip and thigh since a bicycle accident.
She has belching after heart pain. She is tired.
She is very nervous, panicky and starting, which is better with diversion and in nature. She panics when she sees disasters on television like the attack on the Twin Towers. She then fears a third world war. Her mother is just as nervous as she. She comes from a family with 8 children and they all have very good contact.
She is very caring, likes to mother over her two children. Others say she is too good. She has two adopted children and cares a lot about them but her daughter does not want to have contact with her because she thinks that she was neglected for her brother. Her daughter was dominating her and is accusing her of being a weakling. This eats at her.
She likes to do good, wants to be seen as nice and friendly. She cannot stand quarrels, so she has difficulties telling what’s annoying her. She keeps emotions inside to avoid quarrels or tries to talk about it in order to get relations harmonious again.
Her first marriage broke down after 10 years because her husband turned out to be a homosexual. She is working with pleasure as a secretary.
Her left breast was amputated 5 years ago. She had a nodule just above the nipple of her left breast, which was cancer.
Her uterus was removed 20 years before due to metrorrhagia.
She has had headaches, a feeling of a band from side to side, with nausea and vomiting and vertical hemiopia, worse inonthe weekends, worse from nervousness.
Weather: warm, fear storm and thunder !.
Time: < morning, < 7 am.
Desire: sweets, cake, chocolate.
Aversion: liver !, pork, meat, rabbit, lamb, blood sausage.
Female: menses with backache and uterus pain, it feels narrow.
Sleep: falling asleep is difficult; awake often till 3 am.
Dreams: being pregnant; standing in front of a big lake having to cross it but running back; being on the back of a bicycle and turning her head away from her father standing in the door.
Analysis
Silicon series: worrying about family and children.
Caryophyllaceae: worrying about family and children.
Plant kingdom: sensitive.
Stellaria: < morning, warm.
Follow up
After Stellaria media MK she feels gradually better, has more energy and feels more in her body. She has pleasure in life again. She puzzles much less about life and her daughter.
The complaints of belching, flushes, backache, headache, sleeplessness, pimples and warts have disappeared. After a year she can stop the treatment.