looking for rubric: fainting after injections

[Vera Resnick]

Px faints after injections, blood tests. She says she's not fearful. Any ideas for rubrics?

Tks,
Vera

[Lisa Livingston]

Hi Vera:
Was she innoculated or did she give blood? Do you think she felt 'injured by her surroundings'? Or was she weak from fluids being drawn?
Best,
L

[Vera Resnick]

It's happened on several occasions, after blood tests and vaccinations. She insists that she's not scared before.
I was thinking of going the "loss of fluids" route, but it's not only then.

Thanks
Vera

[Joy Lucas]

Would be a good idea to ask why she thinks she faints - could be that people don't admit to their fear but could also be because of the sight of blood and if you definitely can rule out fear maybe

'fainting at the sight of blood'

If it more of a clinical issue such as severe anaemia and even the slightest loss of blood causes the fainting then you need to explore that before you even use the relevant rubric

Sometimes the cause can't ever be known - maybe an underlying heart condition. I once stabbed myself with a long spike of a cactus and within seconds could hardly breath and my hand and wrist went completely weak and heart was racing - this before homeopathy but that's what Cactus can do - so you need to investigate further methinks.

Joy

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[Vera Resnick]

It's not the sight of blood, she says she doesn't know why she faints. The doctor told them it's a defence mechanism - although not clear for what. She's very slight, small for her age (early teens), and very opinionated. I think it could be a control thing.

[Joy Lucas]

If a control issue then possibly 'Faintness, fainting, hysterical' - although I dislike the use of that word hysterical it could cover someone who is reacting to such an action as taking blood etc. There is an interesting mix of rx in that rubric.

Joy

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[d_rona2000]

I believe at one point 'hysterical' was used to describe any symptom for which a physical cause was not obvious (as we might currently use the term psychosomatic) . Of course 'hysterical' was also used to describe almost any symptom in women. Now is is associated with psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions - or behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess. It would be interesting to learn in terms of the era of each writing or entry into our literature and rubrics, just where we were in terms of use of that term.
Interesging side note about the origin of the word hysteria: New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus.
Donna

D C Rona, PhD ND DHM
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[Liz Brynin]

Hi Donna
But even more interesting than the origin of the word hysteria is that in women, the womb holds the emotions (according to my cranial osteopath). And I know that's true because of the feeling he picked up and commented on while treating me one day - something I had forgotten about, but which had caused a surge of anger at the time. So those Greeks knew a thing or two about emotions and the womb.
It makes you wonder what exactly are the effects of a hysterectomy. Where do the emotions go?
Liz

[Dave Hartley]

> It makes you wonder what exactly are the effects of a hysterectomy. Where do

Other tissues. This is why surgery alone seldom cures cancer, as
cancer is a combination of susceptibility and a sustained etiology
which generally includes self negating emotions.

In any event, I suppose you've discovered why men have no emotions

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