Case Stellaria
A woman of 65 years age has eruptions on her face, her right cheek, upper arms and chest. It are mostly very itchy pimples, an excision from her right arm was diagnosed as lichen ruber planus. Two lipomes are excised, one above her left eye, the other on her lower lip. The problems were due to stress; she had to move but her old house wasn’t sold yet and 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. This started after she was hit on her side, riding her bicycle, by a uncareful boy
She has eructations after heart pain. She’s tired
Mind
She’s very nervous, panicky and startling, 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’s too good She has two adopted children and cares a lot about them. But her daughter doesn’t 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 on 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 in order to get relations harmonious again.
Her first marriage broke down after 10 years, because her husband turned out to be homosexual. She’s working with pleasure as a secretary.
Past history
Her left breast has been 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 form side to side, with nausea and vomiting and vertical hemiopia, worse in the weekends, worse from nervousness.
General
Weather: warm, fear storm and thunder (3).
Time: < morning, < 7 am.
Desire: sweets, cake, chocolate.
Aversion: liver (3), pork, meat, rabbit, lamb, blood sausage.
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
Her overall attitude of worrying about family and children is pointing to Silicaseries. The Caryophyllaceae have this aspect too and even more so the softness and worrying, together with the sensitiveness of the plant kingdom.
In this case we see confirmation for Stellaria in: < morning, warm.
Reaction
After Stellaria media MK she feels gradually better, has more energy and feels more in her body. She got pleasure in life again. She puzzles much less about life and her daughter.
The complaints of eructations, flushes, backache, headache, sleeplessness, pimples, warts disappear. After a year she can stop the treatment.