eating hair

[Liz Lalor]

Does anyone know a rubric for eating hair. I have a patient who pulls her own hair out to eat it. She obviously also suffers from hairballs which periodically block her bowel. There are rubrics for hair pulling etc. hair eating anyone? Liz Lalor

[Gail A]

In Complete - sorry can't cut and paste them here- there are:

Desires - inedible things, strange things, unpalatable things....

I guess you're not talking about your cat, but I wonder if someone who
does vet homoeopathy would have experience of remedies for cats who are
more prone to problems from hairballs - Phos works for mine, but that
seems to be her constitutional type - so maybe try the Vethom group.

Gail
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her own hair out to eat it. She obviously also suffers from hairballs
which periodically block her bowel. There are rubrics for hair pulling
etc. hair eating anyone? Liz Lalor

[eternalhealth]

Liz,
Would calc fit?
regards
Beverly

[Kerry]

I don't know about a rubric but Silicea has the following:

"the child may eat hair or sand or chew nails."

Kerry

[Shannon Nelson]

Who's the patient--human or otherwise, age, etc.? I think the meaning could be different ?

[Tanya Marquette]

you will probably have to try and enlarge the print, but what about

MIND - STRANGE - things; impulse to do strange

arg-n.k2,mrr1,mtf33,ptk1 cact.k,ptk1 iod.ptk lac-leo.hrn2 sep.ptk1

[Tanya Marquette]

that's what i was thinking--that it is a form of pica.
tanya

[Joy Lucas]

trichotillomania - better to locate the cause then find the rubrics for that

Joy

Does anyone know a rubric for eating hair. I have a patient who pulls her own hair out to eat it. She obviously also suffers from hairballs which periodically block her bowel. There are rubrics for hair pulling etc. hair eating anyone? Liz Lalor

[Joy]

meant to say also that if you cannot find the cause, she doesn't want to tell you then you could use the rubric 'tendency to mutilate his body' - CD has agar; ars; bell; cimic; clad-r; herin; hyos; lat-h; lyc; med; naja; nat mur; posit; sarr; stram.

Joy
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[elizacarson]

Just to add to this (and I never found the mutilate rubric, thanks, Joy) I have (or had) trichotillomania, in my case it was pulling out eyelashes, from roughly ages 13 to 60. Believe me, it's an almost impossible to resist compulsion. As a student, I took a dose of Nat Mur 30C for some other reason. Before the pills were dissolved in my mouth (didn't know about Organon 6 then) the compulsion disappeared - after 47 years, you know when the monkey gets off your back - and never returned. Blew me away.

Trich includes a big shame component; many people with it will deny it in spite of all evidence to the contrary, so it makes sense that the person would not want to talk about it. I've also read about the eating hair thing (ugh!) which can can lead to incredibly horrible health problems. Glad I missed that part.

Eliza

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