Thunbergia grandiflores
A 70-year-old woman was treated with Cornus circinatus two years ago due to fatigue. She has recovered well and is now able to do everything she wants to do again. She gets out of bed, does the housework, gardens, and does handicrafts. What remains is stomach discomfort, which is related to stress. During the treatment of her jaw clenching, the diagnosis was trauma processing. When she is under pressure, it gets worse, especially time pressure, and that has to do with the feeling of being rejected. That comes from the past. If a friend doesn't call her back, she panics, and she also gets stomach pain and jaw clenching. She has a fear of failure; when she does volunteer work, she always thinks beforehand, âCan I do it?â âAm I doing it right?â A reproach affects her enormously, âI feel suffocated insideâ, then she goes outside into the rain. It brings back feelings from the past, when her mother turned the other family members against her in the same way. She is still furious about the repetition of these kinds of events. She responds well to Ornithogallum umbellatum (theme: family, lack of appreciation, struggle, the âumbilical cordâ). She feels less tension, her jaw is more relaxed, and she is less sensitive to criticism. She exercises twice a week. After a few weeks, she develops very painful bladder problems. After two months, she develops some eczema patches on her shins, which are rough and itchy. After three months, her energy levels have dropped again, following a very busy period. She also got very angry with her family once. Previously, she would swallow everything, freeze up, without anyone noticing. She used to freeze up like that before, literally unable to move for a moment, it was horrible. She kept everything inside because if she showed that she liked something, she would be âdestroyed.â At home, they were always negative, she never received any recognition. She never felt like she belonged to the family, and she was bullied at school. After that argument, she cried for the first time in 25 years, which did her good. She could only get angry to protect animals, which enabled her to fight very hard for a very long time. For the first time in 50 years, she recently had another conversation with her family. Because she was âher mother's daughterâ who was not appreciated, no one ever wanted anything to do with her. She is going on vacation in three months, and the preparations are causing her a lot of stress. Due to the stress beforehand and having to try very hard, she is now given Ornithogallum candidans, placed at Stage 9. This causes a relapse in all her symptoms. After repeating Ornithogallum umbellatum, things are âmessyâ for a few weeks and only then do they return to normal. Occasionally, she still has stomach problems when something exciting is on the agenda, but a glass of milk is enough to make it go away. The eczema returns. She is still impulsive when talking, starting a sentence or a topic and only then thinking, 'Why am I saying that?
Analysis
Ornithogallum umbellatum is working well, but she still suffers from her emotions when she is tense, and it is not stable. Another medicineâalthough from the same plant familyâcauses a relapse in everything (except energy), and repeating the medicine does not produce an ideal response (a good prescription produces a quick response without many problems, especially if it had already âput things in orderâ before). There are all kinds of explanatory models for this, but it is advisable to find a better medicine that works for a long time, does not need to be repeated, and also provides stability in the event of new tension or another medicine that may cause disruption.
Both effective prescriptions have a Phase 6 component. We see this in her childhood, her family, but also now. Later, she talks more about ânot feeling acceptedâ, her idealism and desire for unity, familiar from the Acidums and Stage 1, which indicates Phase 1, making rejection even stronger. This is a dichotomy, a tension that can be described as Phase 1, Subphase 6. Following on from Cornus circinata, reversing the Phase and Subphase brings you to the Verbenales and, in Phase 1, to the Thunbergioideae.
Phase 6: partner, reproach, not accepted.
Phase 1: impulsive, panic.
Stage 15: stress from time-pressue, furious about grudges, fear being destroyed by her anger, not forgiving (her family), the intense one, throughout her story. Later she provides confirmation of this (read follow-up).
Prescription: Thunbergia grandiflora C30
Follow-up
Things are going very well in the coming months. Despite two falls and a concussion, she is making progress and remains stable. The eczema quickly disappears. She is doing strength training. She always had low blood pressure, 90/55 in her youth, now it is 115/60. The unsteadiness and slight dizziness she always had and was used to having disappeared. When she had no activities or felt under pressure, she always felt unhappy, but now she can take it easy, wait and see, and pamper herself a little.
She has had to fight for so long, âit gets to you.â She has never hidden her past and traumas; she has always worked through them. She is no longer bothered by other people's emotions or turbulent changes. She notices that she still tends to stockpile food, and memories of the time after experiencing a hurricane play a role in this. As is often the case after a medication works well, relevant information comes to light later. In her previous marriage, she was abused (Phase 6), and after 20 years, she still suffers from trauma. The entire village was wiped out in a tropical storm, there was a lot of panic (Phase 1), and her whole life was turned upside down (Stage 15). The theme of forgiveness has also played a burdensome role for years. She had never talked about this before, and after taking the medication, memories came back. Now she was able to calmly face all of this and come to terms with it. After this, she continues to do well and is stable.