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This remedy mostly affects CNS and gastro-intestinal
system inducing spasmodic affections.
Gastroenteritis is accompanied by cramping pains and
constant nausea and vomiting.
'Ineffectual retching with cramping pain in abdomen'.
'Convulsions with waving of arms'.
It is compared with Nux vomica.
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FIND THE REMEDY'S NAME (170)
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Ardavan Shahrdar
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Re: FIND THE REMEDY'S NAME (170)
FROM LINKS 1999
A case was narrated to me on 24.2.94 as follows:
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Female 1.9.94, presented with:
Inability to retain food. Vomits everything soon after eating. Can only retain water. For the last twelve days has not eaten. She is confined to an intensive care unit with a drip. Analyses show no pathology, but the situation is grave - her physician says that if the situation does not change she will soon die.
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Pain, burning; in stomach, chest (oesophagus); better not eating.
Painful headache from the occiput extending through head to over the eyes.
Pain, 'pressure' in temples. Feels as if eyes will be pushed out. The neck seems weak, stiff and painful. Frequent dizziness. Desires cold water.
Thirsty only when she feels ill, normally thirstless.
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Pain: lower back, extending down legs; in knees. Occasional loss of sensation in lower limbs. Numbness of hands.
Feels very cold; sweats and feels chilly all over. Previous to this illness, she was more on the warm side. Perspiration smells 'horrible'.
Insomnia; 'worries all the time'. Weeps frequently at night.
Bad dream: somebody pushes her under the bed and she is screaming.
Fears: of being under the bed; of being attacked; of the dark; of someone coming in.
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She and her husband lost their business and may lose their home. This worries her greatly. She is a hard worker and blames herself for everything. 'It's all my fault no one else's.' Remorse, regret. She keeps everything in, is too afraid to talk to business partners and confront them. They verbally abuse her. She had no say in the business decisions but they blamed her. There was no evidence that any of the business failure was because of her.
As the business situation worsened, she started to vomit. This increased to the point where everything was vomited. Little if any anxiety or restlessness was present; on the contrary, there seemed to be a resignation and hopelessness.
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Several remedies came to mind:
Phosphoricum acidum, Ignatia, Arsenicum album.
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Arsenicum was ruled out because of the total lack of anxiety about her condition.
Phosphoricum acidum and Ignatia seemed more appropriate, especially
Phosphoricum acidum because of the resignation and reproach. Yet neither seemed to satisfy this situation, one where such guilt and remorse could lead to such an acute situation of life or death.
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Then I remembered a 'little' remedy I had once read, because the physical symptoms and the general/mentals seemed to fit the situation well.
Quoting from Boericke's 'Materia Medica':
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'All parts of this shrub are poisonous, producing inflammation of stomach and intestines, with vomiting, diarrhoea, headache, paleness of face and cold skin. Widespread anaesthesia, and convulsions are some of the chief effects of this drug. Cerebrospinal meningitis. Great prostration, sense of prostration, sense of constriction in throat, stiffness of nape, tearing from nape into occiput, lustreless eyes.
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Head: Stupefaction: indifference. (Phos-ac.) Unequally dilated pupils; giddiness; twitching of facial muscles. (Agar.) Hydrocephalus. Constant vertigo, intense sleepiness.
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Stomach: Excessive thirst. Constant nausea, vomiting; burning pain in epigastrium. Tenesmus and erections. Grass-green urine.
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Extremities: Numbness and pain in hands. Difficulty in moving them.'
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From Clarke's 'Materia Medica' are confirmed these additional symptoms:
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'Head: Giddy, wheeled perfectly round before and during vomiting.
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Eyes: dull, lustreless; surrounded by livid zone; sunken. Pupils much dilated but react to strong light; unequally dilated; slightly contracted; sluggish.
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Face: pale, cold, of dull expression.
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Throat: Burning in throat with great thirst.
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Stomach: Excessive thirst. Greedily thirsty, grasped at liquids with avidity, seizing the vessel with both hands and draining it.
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Fever: Surface of body pale, remarkably cold, almost like marble. Cold sweats, vomiting, vertigo, preceded by slight feeling of malaise, and followed by high fever.
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I was pleasantly surprised to see that Boericke gave Phosphoricum acidum as a related remedy.
I do not think a lumbar puncture was undertaken to determine whether meningitis was present, yet most of the symptoms pointed to a kind of slowly evolving meningitis.
Several other remedies (unknown) had been given without effect.
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Treatment
Prescription: 30C, single dose
The following report came directly from the student practitioner:
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'The day after she took the remedy she started to eat. This is after fifteen days of vomiting all and any food eaten. The headache shifted from the whole head to just the temples and the pain in the neck reduced.'
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When I went in to see her she'd tied her hair back and her eyes were alive, with enough energy to walk around. She'd been talking to other patients in the ward. The second day after taking the remedy she was moved from the 'Death room' as it is known to the general ward. She was sent home on the third day and has been getting better since.
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Follow-up March 1995
During the course of a year she had 30C three times. During a renewed period of stress she began to relapse, whereupon a dose of 200C was given. A day or so later she was again admitted to hospital for two to three days for similar complaints as she had the first time, although in a much milder form. Then the nausea, dizziness, vomiting and headaches disappeared. Her general health took a marked turn for the better. She now only suffers minor troubles from eating foods which upset her: milk, eggs, cheese and chocolate. From what I know during the second hospital stay, no
different treatments were given than the first, just bed rest and observation.
Some time after this, I ceased the general supervision of this case, and cannot see whether the remedy is still indicated or if her symptoms showed movement towards any new state. It was made known to me that the practitioner responsible for her recently gave Ignatia as a complementary prescription. As a caution I would question whether this is a remedy for her 'chronic state' especially from the apparent aggravation from the 200C potency. On the other hand, I have seen sensitives get aggravations from the next potency; or the visit may have been arranged too soon, before
the remedy was allowed to act. There is always the possibility that a more similar remedy exists which covers both the acute and chronic situation.
Nevertheless the remedy had enough similarity for one dose of 30C to relieve the entire condition for three to four months and subsequent doses have up till now, permanently improved her general state. To the best of my knowledge, as of June, 1996, she remains relatively well.
From this response I feel that those symptoms cured in the case and the same which appear in the proving literature can safely be used to prescribe on. The mental symptoms in this case should be noted clinically.
Dying with resignation and indifference seems to be a noteworthy feature of this remedy. Animals poisoned by the shrub lie relatively motionless and die without apparent struggle. Sometimes there are convulsions but for the most part it is a passive state, death ensuing from respiratory paralysis. On a mental level, extreme guilt and self reproach would correspond to such a state of resignation.
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I am collecting information on poisonings and hope to do a decent proving(alas it is difficult to find provers who meet the criteria necessary for a good proving) in the future.
A case was narrated to me on 24.2.94 as follows:
-
Female 1.9.94, presented with:
Inability to retain food. Vomits everything soon after eating. Can only retain water. For the last twelve days has not eaten. She is confined to an intensive care unit with a drip. Analyses show no pathology, but the situation is grave - her physician says that if the situation does not change she will soon die.
-
Pain, burning; in stomach, chest (oesophagus); better not eating.
Painful headache from the occiput extending through head to over the eyes.
Pain, 'pressure' in temples. Feels as if eyes will be pushed out. The neck seems weak, stiff and painful. Frequent dizziness. Desires cold water.
Thirsty only when she feels ill, normally thirstless.
-
Pain: lower back, extending down legs; in knees. Occasional loss of sensation in lower limbs. Numbness of hands.
Feels very cold; sweats and feels chilly all over. Previous to this illness, she was more on the warm side. Perspiration smells 'horrible'.
Insomnia; 'worries all the time'. Weeps frequently at night.
Bad dream: somebody pushes her under the bed and she is screaming.
Fears: of being under the bed; of being attacked; of the dark; of someone coming in.
-
She and her husband lost their business and may lose their home. This worries her greatly. She is a hard worker and blames herself for everything. 'It's all my fault no one else's.' Remorse, regret. She keeps everything in, is too afraid to talk to business partners and confront them. They verbally abuse her. She had no say in the business decisions but they blamed her. There was no evidence that any of the business failure was because of her.
As the business situation worsened, she started to vomit. This increased to the point where everything was vomited. Little if any anxiety or restlessness was present; on the contrary, there seemed to be a resignation and hopelessness.
-
Several remedies came to mind:
Phosphoricum acidum, Ignatia, Arsenicum album.
-
Arsenicum was ruled out because of the total lack of anxiety about her condition.
Phosphoricum acidum and Ignatia seemed more appropriate, especially
Phosphoricum acidum because of the resignation and reproach. Yet neither seemed to satisfy this situation, one where such guilt and remorse could lead to such an acute situation of life or death.
-
Then I remembered a 'little' remedy I had once read, because the physical symptoms and the general/mentals seemed to fit the situation well.
Quoting from Boericke's 'Materia Medica':
-
'All parts of this shrub are poisonous, producing inflammation of stomach and intestines, with vomiting, diarrhoea, headache, paleness of face and cold skin. Widespread anaesthesia, and convulsions are some of the chief effects of this drug. Cerebrospinal meningitis. Great prostration, sense of prostration, sense of constriction in throat, stiffness of nape, tearing from nape into occiput, lustreless eyes.
-
Head: Stupefaction: indifference. (Phos-ac.) Unequally dilated pupils; giddiness; twitching of facial muscles. (Agar.) Hydrocephalus. Constant vertigo, intense sleepiness.
-
Stomach: Excessive thirst. Constant nausea, vomiting; burning pain in epigastrium. Tenesmus and erections. Grass-green urine.
-
Extremities: Numbness and pain in hands. Difficulty in moving them.'
-
-
From Clarke's 'Materia Medica' are confirmed these additional symptoms:
-
'Head: Giddy, wheeled perfectly round before and during vomiting.
-
Eyes: dull, lustreless; surrounded by livid zone; sunken. Pupils much dilated but react to strong light; unequally dilated; slightly contracted; sluggish.
-
Face: pale, cold, of dull expression.
-
Throat: Burning in throat with great thirst.
-
Stomach: Excessive thirst. Greedily thirsty, grasped at liquids with avidity, seizing the vessel with both hands and draining it.
-
Fever: Surface of body pale, remarkably cold, almost like marble. Cold sweats, vomiting, vertigo, preceded by slight feeling of malaise, and followed by high fever.
-
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Boericke gave Phosphoricum acidum as a related remedy.
I do not think a lumbar puncture was undertaken to determine whether meningitis was present, yet most of the symptoms pointed to a kind of slowly evolving meningitis.
Several other remedies (unknown) had been given without effect.
-
Treatment
Prescription: 30C, single dose
The following report came directly from the student practitioner:
-
'The day after she took the remedy she started to eat. This is after fifteen days of vomiting all and any food eaten. The headache shifted from the whole head to just the temples and the pain in the neck reduced.'
-
When I went in to see her she'd tied her hair back and her eyes were alive, with enough energy to walk around. She'd been talking to other patients in the ward. The second day after taking the remedy she was moved from the 'Death room' as it is known to the general ward. She was sent home on the third day and has been getting better since.
-
Follow-up March 1995
During the course of a year she had 30C three times. During a renewed period of stress she began to relapse, whereupon a dose of 200C was given. A day or so later she was again admitted to hospital for two to three days for similar complaints as she had the first time, although in a much milder form. Then the nausea, dizziness, vomiting and headaches disappeared. Her general health took a marked turn for the better. She now only suffers minor troubles from eating foods which upset her: milk, eggs, cheese and chocolate. From what I know during the second hospital stay, no
different treatments were given than the first, just bed rest and observation.
Some time after this, I ceased the general supervision of this case, and cannot see whether the remedy is still indicated or if her symptoms showed movement towards any new state. It was made known to me that the practitioner responsible for her recently gave Ignatia as a complementary prescription. As a caution I would question whether this is a remedy for her 'chronic state' especially from the apparent aggravation from the 200C potency. On the other hand, I have seen sensitives get aggravations from the next potency; or the visit may have been arranged too soon, before
the remedy was allowed to act. There is always the possibility that a more similar remedy exists which covers both the acute and chronic situation.
Nevertheless the remedy had enough similarity for one dose of 30C to relieve the entire condition for three to four months and subsequent doses have up till now, permanently improved her general state. To the best of my knowledge, as of June, 1996, she remains relatively well.
From this response I feel that those symptoms cured in the case and the same which appear in the proving literature can safely be used to prescribe on. The mental symptoms in this case should be noted clinically.
Dying with resignation and indifference seems to be a noteworthy feature of this remedy. Animals poisoned by the shrub lie relatively motionless and die without apparent struggle. Sometimes there are convulsions but for the most part it is a passive state, death ensuing from respiratory paralysis. On a mental level, extreme guilt and self reproach would correspond to such a state of resignation.
-
I am collecting information on poisonings and hope to do a decent proving(alas it is difficult to find provers who meet the criteria necessary for a good proving) in the future.
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Re: FIND THE REMEDY'S NAME (170)
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Re: FIND THE REMEDY'S NAME (170)
From Julian:
Generalities
Action on the central and sympathetic nervous systems causing cramping
spasmodic conditions .
Mind
Psychological
Depressive, irritable condition.
Intense uneasiness, anguish.
Irritable mood.
Oppression.
Comatose condition.
Sleepiness, to the point of being in a stuporous state.
Face pale.
Nervous
Neuralgic pains in the head, of a migraine type.
Vertigo and absent feeling.
Pulsating headaches.
Pressing frontal pain .
Prickling pain in the left temple .
Drawing pains starting at the nape of the neck , spreading towards the
occiput .
Insomnia with delirium.
Worrying dreams.
Hyperaesthesia of the peripheral nerves.
Digestive system
Mouth, tongue, pharynx
Dryness of the mouth , tongue, and back of the throat.
Burning in the mouth and pharynx.
Nausea with vertigo and vomiting.
Stomach, intestines, abdomen
Gastric heaviness, burning, and pains in the stomach.
Diarrhoea with painful abdominal colic , intestinal rumbling , and anal
tenesmus .
Cholera-type diarrhoea.
Mesenteric irritation.
Circulatory system
Hypersensitive thrust, with state of collapse, pale, livid face, and cold
sweating.
Palpitations, with accelerated pulse.
Arterial pulsation in all limbs.
Thermal regulation
Discomfort, accompanied by a feeling of coldness.
Respiratory system
Throat
Feeling of constriction in the throat.
Tickling sensation in the throat, with the need to clear it.
Lungs, pleurae
Feeling of tightness in the chest.
Respiration rapid at first, then slower and difficult.
Wheezing respiration.
Sense organs
Nose
Epistaxis.
Eyes
Pupils dilated.
Urinary and genital organs
Male
Strong erections.
Female
Copious leucorrhoea.
Locomotor
Weakness and numbness of the limbs .
Sensation of breaking in all the limbs.
Stiffness and drawing pains in the limbs.
Muscular cramps .
Skin
Skin cold, cold sweating.
Cyanosis.
Pruritus.
Vesicular eruption around the cheek.
Modalities
Aggravation
From the cold.
In the afternoon.
In the evening.
Amelioration
After passing wind.
After going to stool.
Locality
Predominantly on the left side.
Dosage
Potencies
3x, 6x.
For complaints of the nervous and endocrine systems : 7c, 9c, 15c, 30c.
Principal symptoms
Nervous conditions of the spasmodic, cramping type.
Nausea, pallor, cold sweating, vertigo.
Dryness of the mouth, tongue and throat.
Related remedies
Tabacum
Prostration, nausea, vomiting, general coldness, and cold sweating; vertigo
and pallor.
Veratrum album
State of discomfort, collapse, coldness of the extremities, cyanosis,
prostration, vomiting, cold sweating and tiring diarrhoea.
Baptisia
Intense nervous depression, extreme agitation, impression that the body is
double; sensation of breaking in the bones; putrid breath, foetid diarrhoea.
Clinical diagnosis
Generalities
Influenza.
Typhoid.
Abdominal typhus.
Mind
Migraines.
Sunstroke.
Heatstroke.
Cerebral shock.
Travel sickness (air, sea and car).
Epidemic cerebral and spinal meningitis.
Insomnia.
Maniacal depressive conditions.
Cramp.
Writer's cramp.
Dysthyroidism (O. A. Julian).
Spasmophilia.
Vomiting of pregnancy.
Digestive system
Acrid dyspepsia
Chronic gastro-duodenitis.
Spasmodic colon afflictions.
Choleriform diarrhoea.
Circulatory system
Arterial hypertension.
Angina pectoris.
Rhythmic anomalies.
Raynaud's disease.
Respiratory system
Whooping cough.
Urinary and genital organs
Menopausal complaints.
Dysmenorrhoea.
Jim Gregorich
Generalities
Action on the central and sympathetic nervous systems causing cramping
spasmodic conditions .
Mind
Psychological
Depressive, irritable condition.
Intense uneasiness, anguish.
Irritable mood.
Oppression.
Comatose condition.
Sleepiness, to the point of being in a stuporous state.
Face pale.
Nervous
Neuralgic pains in the head, of a migraine type.
Vertigo and absent feeling.
Pulsating headaches.
Pressing frontal pain .
Prickling pain in the left temple .
Drawing pains starting at the nape of the neck , spreading towards the
occiput .
Insomnia with delirium.
Worrying dreams.
Hyperaesthesia of the peripheral nerves.
Digestive system
Mouth, tongue, pharynx
Dryness of the mouth , tongue, and back of the throat.
Burning in the mouth and pharynx.
Nausea with vertigo and vomiting.
Stomach, intestines, abdomen
Gastric heaviness, burning, and pains in the stomach.
Diarrhoea with painful abdominal colic , intestinal rumbling , and anal
tenesmus .
Cholera-type diarrhoea.
Mesenteric irritation.
Circulatory system
Hypersensitive thrust, with state of collapse, pale, livid face, and cold
sweating.
Palpitations, with accelerated pulse.
Arterial pulsation in all limbs.
Thermal regulation
Discomfort, accompanied by a feeling of coldness.
Respiratory system
Throat
Feeling of constriction in the throat.
Tickling sensation in the throat, with the need to clear it.
Lungs, pleurae
Feeling of tightness in the chest.
Respiration rapid at first, then slower and difficult.
Wheezing respiration.
Sense organs
Nose
Epistaxis.
Eyes
Pupils dilated.
Urinary and genital organs
Male
Strong erections.
Female
Copious leucorrhoea.
Locomotor
Weakness and numbness of the limbs .
Sensation of breaking in all the limbs.
Stiffness and drawing pains in the limbs.
Muscular cramps .
Skin
Skin cold, cold sweating.
Cyanosis.
Pruritus.
Vesicular eruption around the cheek.
Modalities
Aggravation
From the cold.
In the afternoon.
In the evening.
Amelioration
After passing wind.
After going to stool.
Locality
Predominantly on the left side.
Dosage
Potencies
3x, 6x.
For complaints of the nervous and endocrine systems : 7c, 9c, 15c, 30c.
Principal symptoms
Nervous conditions of the spasmodic, cramping type.
Nausea, pallor, cold sweating, vertigo.
Dryness of the mouth, tongue and throat.
Related remedies
Tabacum
Prostration, nausea, vomiting, general coldness, and cold sweating; vertigo
and pallor.
Veratrum album
State of discomfort, collapse, coldness of the extremities, cyanosis,
prostration, vomiting, cold sweating and tiring diarrhoea.
Baptisia
Intense nervous depression, extreme agitation, impression that the body is
double; sensation of breaking in the bones; putrid breath, foetid diarrhoea.
Clinical diagnosis
Generalities
Influenza.
Typhoid.
Abdominal typhus.
Mind
Migraines.
Sunstroke.
Heatstroke.
Cerebral shock.
Travel sickness (air, sea and car).
Epidemic cerebral and spinal meningitis.
Insomnia.
Maniacal depressive conditions.
Cramp.
Writer's cramp.
Dysthyroidism (O. A. Julian).
Spasmophilia.
Vomiting of pregnancy.
Digestive system
Acrid dyspepsia
Chronic gastro-duodenitis.
Spasmodic colon afflictions.
Choleriform diarrhoea.
Circulatory system
Arterial hypertension.
Angina pectoris.
Rhythmic anomalies.
Raynaud's disease.
Respiratory system
Whooping cough.
Urinary and genital organs
Menopausal complaints.
Dysmenorrhoea.
Jim Gregorich
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Dr M Ramachandra
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Re: FIND THE REMEDY'S NAME (170)
"remedy"'primary action is to stimulate the motor cenres and reflex action
of the spinal cord.Homoeopathic to spasms of muscles ,cramps from an undue
reflex excitability of the cord ,spasms of bladder." " stimulates the
CNS,mental activities,special senses rendered more acute.TITANUS.
Modalities are pains and sensations come suddenly and return at
intervals.Worse -morning s,touch ,noise,,motion,after meals.better lying on
back.
concommitants -- obstinate constipation ,Faeces dischargd during spasms
Ramachandra,
Hyderabad ,India
At 06:21 AM 9/22/03 +0100, you wrote:
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of the spinal cord.Homoeopathic to spasms of muscles ,cramps from an undue
reflex excitability of the cord ,spasms of bladder." " stimulates the
CNS,mental activities,special senses rendered more acute.TITANUS.
Modalities are pains and sensations come suddenly and return at
intervals.Worse -morning s,touch ,noise,,motion,after meals.better lying on
back.
concommitants -- obstinate constipation ,Faeces dischargd during spasms
Ramachandra,
Hyderabad ,India
At 06:21 AM 9/22/03 +0100, you wrote:
and educational benefit of its members. It makes no representations
regarding the individual suitability of the information contained in any
document read or advice or recommendation offered which appears on this
website and/or email postings for any purpose. The entire risk arising out
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or its individual members be liable for any direct, consequential,
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