A Sanicula Experience

[Dale Moss]

I had to share this one with you! For nearly two years I've been treating a woman with multiple chemical sensitivities. She's housebound as a result; if she ventures out, it's only with an oxygen tank. Lots of homeopathic and other alternative treatments over the years. I won't recap her history because the case is complex and was hopelessly muddled. Lots of issues from childhood (abuse, neglect), including inability to crawl because her feet were nailed to a board for her first year to straighten her crooked legs.

Each remedy helped a bit, especially Silica, but nothing seemed really to touch her core complaints. A few of the constant symptoms were chronic sinus infections and recurrent respiratory problems, digestive problems, chronic fatigue, extreme sensitivity to odors, noise, vibration, difficulty sleeping, lots of aches and pains, fever when the menses were due, aggravations in winter, spring, and fall, sores and scabs on her face, thin and falling hair, etc. She has been very patient, but we were both getting frustrated by the lack of progress.

I decided to treat her more aggressively, and when I saw her in September I gave her Sanicula aqua 200c to take once every two weeks for two months. Dr. Ramakrishnan uses this remedy a fair amount for M.S. and believes it deserves more attention. He also has found it particularly useful for clarifying confused cases. As Joy pointed out in an e-mail last year, it contains over a dozen different minerals, so it covers a multitude of bases.

Why Sanicula in this particular case? Because it's a good remedy for failure to thrive -- and this woman carried failure to thrive over into adulthood with numerous food allergies, difficulty digesting, extreme bloating ("pot-bellied children"). When I saw her in September, she also had a dry cough that was < talking and, more remarkably, she would have a strong urging for stool, but nothing would come out until she ate; then she'd defecate as soon as she ate a bite (RECTUM, urging, eating, during - Sanic. is the only remedy listed).

When we had follow-up a few days ago, she told me that she was starting to recover memories from her childhood and infancy. She'd also had a remarkable dream of being at a creative gathering with people of all ages where everyone was having a great time sharing their writing, making art, etc. The host was a movie star, and as she sat together on a hammock with him, talking long and deep of mutual interests, she realized he was dressed in her clothing and glasses. She also realized that she and the movie star were one and the same. There are various ways to interpret the dream, but to her it felt as if the star was a warm, loving presence that she was incorporating into herself.

Even better, the remedy made her believe "for the first time that there is some innate healthy state I can work for and that my body is responding and trying to do something rather than randomly reacting."

Best of all, from my point of view at least, the case had clarified, as if all the pieces of the puzzle fell neatly into place. She's now an obvious Nux-vomica.

'Twas beautiful to see a substance so seemingly innocuous have such a profound effect.

Peace,
Cinnabar
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[Eleana Needham]

What an inspiring and moving account! Thank you for sharing this Cinnabar -
it is times like this when I know why I pursued homoeopathy as a calling:
deeply moving, life-changing accounts which come and catch us unawares:
true, divine elegance at work!

As I sometimes say: why go paragliding? I get all my thrills from my
armchair treating patients!

Thank you again for the inspiration.
Eleana

[Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D.]

Thanks for sharing that one -- fascinating use of a remedy we wouldn't think
of to "clarify a case."

Rosemary

[Rochelle]

Dr R gives Sanic for lots of things, especially when there is a lot of Calc , Sil, and Nat Mur in the case. He gives his remedies nearly exclusively in a 200 qd fortnightly or maybe monthly. I have to say that I have given rx qd of late and they don't seem to agg like I would have expected. I don't go with the fortnightly bit though. I know I have put a child on Sanic 30 recently and that she is doing fine much to my pleasure,. In fact I couldn't believe how different she looked.
Thanks for the case Cinnabar.

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

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[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Cinnabar,

That is a beautiful story!
Can you say more about what made you decide to use sanicula for your "more
aggressive" treatment, and do you think it was the "more aggressive" that
turned things around, or the fact that sanicula was the needed remedy, or
??? I've only tried to use it a few times, but it didn't do anything in
those cases, even tho each of the two kids I have in mind did later react
well to silica (which I believe is one of the minerals in sanicula?), and
each fit the sanicula picture reasonably. So I would very much like to
understand better when to use it.

I'd love to hear anything more you can say about it!
Thanks!
Shannon

on 12/10/03 2:15 PM, Eleana Needham at eleanan@hotmail.com wrote:

[Nanga Pir]

I doubt if the Sanicula Aqua is the one proved by homeopaths or that German mixed with different chemicals. Ottawa Springs in Illinois are gone for some time and Sanicula Aqua was replaced by chemicals constituents.
Nanga Pir
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[Julian Winston]

At 9:52 PM -0800 12/10/03, Nanga Pir wrote:

Not if you have access to older remedies. Many of the higher
potencies were made from the original and B&T was still using them
into the 1980s-- so I wouldn't be surprised if Ainsworths' in the UK
(who had many of the B&T remedies) still has the stock. I know I have
both 6X and 12X trit tablets that came from B&T. In theory I could
use the 6X to make a liquid 8X (4C), and we'd be off and running with
original source material.

I know that Washington Homeopathic in the USA has original material.

JW

[Janice Hughlett]

Hi Rochelle,

May I ask you for a translation of "qd fortnightly" ?

Thank you,
Janice in Baltimore
Lay person - Wildlife rehabilitator
State Licensed - Opossums

[Rochelle]

You may!! qd = 4x a day , and he gives it once a fortnight.

Which is fine until you get what I had in today - someone taking 3 of them in 1 day (Td, tds or tid!!)) and then the other one 3 days later and got a couple of weird possible proving symptoms emerge. I told that they will go away soon!!!

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

[Dale Moss]

Hi, Shannon,

By "more aggressive" I meant giving the dose more frequently that I'm used
to doing (i.e., once every two weeks) for two months instead of one. I did
not, however, follow Dr. Ramakrishnan's habit of giving a "split dose"
(i.e., four doses in a single day = one dose). Haven't gotten my nerve up
for that yet.

As far as what led me to the remedy, it was largely intuition. Imagine one
of those malnourished kids with scabby skin, dull hair, and a big
potbelly -- well, this patient looks like a grown-up version. She's weary,
has to lie down all the time, can't tolerate tight clothes, is irritated by
everything, and has a decided stubborn or obstinate streak. Very much like
Silica, but Silica had helped only partially. Sanicula is also prone to
misconstruing things, esp. things other people do for them. I haven't seen
this in my dealings with her, but I've inferred it from some of her dealings
with others.

Does this help?

Peace,
Cinnabar