Hi Emily,
on 7/23/06 8:45 AM, myirishenergy at
myirishenergy@yahoo.com wrote:
It all started with the death of our Nephew that he was close to, he
drank allot and was depressed for a year. Since then all this.
Thanks for all your help
Emily
((( What remedy is cardinal in NBWS grief or loss...
Ignatia is one of them:
IGN(Ruddock) --"... also some of the symptoms of Hypochondriasis in the male
sex..."
IGN(Mangialavori) -- MIND, ANXIETY, hypochondriacal
IGNComplete 2000:
AILMENTS FROM: DEATH: CHILD, OF A. {0> 1> 11} [54]
Ailments from: death: confrontation of, from, in children. {0> 7> 14} [186]
AILMENTS FROM: DEATH: PARENTS OR FRIENDS, OF. {0> 1> 14} [122]
Ah, for the sometimes interlocutory and "appendage" info on which may hinge
a case.
)
As you know, Emily, when a potentially significant trauma could be
overriding, we sometimes have what is akin to a lingering acute case -- or
"layer". This relates to a portion of the miasmatic disposition of the
case -- where for example, a grief -- has caused a breakdown in a portion
of the constitution. This area has already been weakened by burden of
foreign vital taint (inheritance of nonphysical miasm born of infectious
disease in the parental lineage) (cf Organon 148, sixth edition, the
Chronic Diseases). The hypochondriacal nervous weakness of your client may
point to a nervous system remedy, or an "ailments from loss" remedy despite
the underlying remedy for the whole functional case. Just as an example,
Ignatia creates a state which is similar to a nervous grief.
on 7/23/06 8:45 AM, myirishenergy at
myirishenergy@yahoo.com wrote:
Nerves are his worse enemy. Stomach twitches, nervous cough, I feel
the vertigo is caused from nerves.
VERTIGO; NERVOUS origin, of (29) : aeth., ambr., anil., arg-n., arn., bell.,
bism., bor., caj., calc., camph., cham., chin., chin-s., cina, coca, cocc.,
gels., hep., ign., kali-p., mosch., nux-v., phos., puls., rhus-t., ther.,
zinc., zinc-p.
Cross the above with
Grief/loss/death [3] ailments: acon., aeth., allox.231, alum.231, alum-p.,
am-m.54, ambr., aml-n., anac.54, ang., ant-c.54, apis, aq-mar.231, aq-tun.,
arg., arg-n.231, arn., ars.156, art-v., 2aur.8, aur-ar.231, aur-m.160,
aur-m-n.231, aur-s., bani-c., bar-s., bell., bry., cadm-s., cael., calc.56,
2calc-p.8, calc-s.231, calc-sil.231, camph.219, caps.231, carb-an.35,
carc.231, caust.8, cench.231, cham., chin.22, cimic.220, cist.1088, clem.54,
coca8, cocc.223, coff.187, colch.8, coloc., con.8, corv-c., crat.188,
crot-c., crot-h.231, cupr.2061, cycl.8, cypr., dig., dros., epip.231,
3Gels.54, graph.8, hell.35, hura231, hyos., 2ign.8, ip.231, kali-br.188,
kali-c., kali-fcy., kali-p., lac-c., lac-d.231, lac-h., lach.22, lact.231,
laur.231, lepi.231, lim-b-c., lob.231, lob-c.54, lob-s., lyc.156, lyss.231,
mag-c.231, mangi., med., meli.231, merc., mez., mur-ac., naja188, nat-c.,
nat-m.118, nit-ac., nuph.231, nux-m.8, nux-v.156, op.54, orni., ox-ac.231,
paull., peg-h., pers., petr., 3Ph-ac.8, phos.1101, phys.231, pic-ac.,
plat.188, plat-m.231, psor.139, puls.1101, pyrus, rat.231, rhod.2191,
rhus-t.231, rhus-v.231, rob.231, sac-alb.231, samb., sars., sep., seq-s.,
sil.223, sol-o., spig., stann., staph.187, stram.188, sulph., tab.231,
tarent.54, thuj., tub., uran-n.188, ust., verat.231, viol-o., zinc.188
Yields:
Elimination: aeth., ambr., arg-n., arn., bell., calc., camph., cham., chin.,
coca, cocc., Gels., ign., kali-p., nux-v., phos., puls., rhus-t., zinc.
Dorothy Shepherd:
Ignatia was proved in Hahnemann's days, and it was he who pointed out the
characteristics of this great nerve remedy. Long before psychology was
thought of, the mental peculiarity or psychology of each remedy, proved on
healthy persons, was studied and carefully docketed, and ''nerves'' were
treated successfully by Hahnemann and his followers long before the
psychologists retrieved the different types of nervous temperaments from the
rubbish heap of so - called imaginary ailments.
Nux-v is also a nervous system rx, also having strychnine as a contributing
component. Note also the other remedies in that elimination Ambr, Arg-n,
Gels, phos, zinc and zinc compounds and all the others.
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On the other hand, the remedy for the functional "whole case" may apply
and this may or may not be Ignatia or a layer. To keep in mind is that
Ignatia (cardinal remedy for loss of loved one to end of marriage, death,
etc) is often the "acute" of Nat-m. Since you have introduced a possible
etiological angle of this case -- one should attempt to rule out or confirm
Nat-m, if ign seems apparent as acute, and Phos has been "grokked" as
possible chronic to the point of having been given. If the real situation
is one of nat-m, Ign may provide some relief but not encompass what must be
cured. On the other hand, we could give ignatia first, and it might
destroy a portion of the disease, and then we follow based on the remaining
symptom complex, and/or with a remedy like nat-m that follows well. Or, if
Ign is not sufficiently matching any portion of the miasmatic load so as to
attain destructive resonance of it -- it may do nothing in the case.
Among many other rx, Nat-m is a commonly seen complement of Phos, as another
important tidbit for of looking at the case via etiology as a peculiar. You
have posited the wholistic functional "picture" of Phos a la
Tyler/Kent/Gestalt/Essence. A well known "complementary remedy" can
sometimes become a leg of a stool of a prescrip.
In the same associative manner, sometimes using a groupings system will
afford us the chair we are seeking. For example, furniture can sometimes
be constructed from (Sankaran method) a triangulation of clear Kingdom,
miasm, and vital issue associated with a taxonomic group (when case is
clearly of animal, plant, fungi, pathogen (nosode)). Or (Scholten method)
Series, stage crosshairs of the periodic chart (when rx is clearly an
element or compound). Such associative methods extend the materia medica,
with the added benefit of adding to materia medica of remedies without
provings (most of even the classical materia medica) via cured symptoms of
clinical cases.
These other aids in "fine carpentry" are variables by association that may
not relate directly to specific manifestations of the client. Stepping back
a bit from the details, one can sometimes elucidate a pattern or connection
to a known pattern by alternate means. There are many pathways to a remedy
(Remedy Relationships, Sankaran system, Scholten system, Organ remedies, and
a dozen others) -- when the kitchen sink of case symptoms doesn't reveal a
gestalt well known in the classical literature in terms of one-to-one
matching of peculiars. Etiology or NBWS is one of those dozen or so other
methods.
One usually takes care in evaluating such a "large" remedy as nat-m, which
can have almost any sx under the sun (Nat-m as a wholism is also worse
under that sun). However, Nat-m is well represented in these rubrics of
symptoms of your case which are reasonably peculiar:
VERTIGO; CHRONIC (4) : nat-m., nux-v., Phos., sec.
MIND; ANXIETY; hypochondriacal (60) : acon., Agar., agn., aloe, alum.,
am-c., anac., arg-n., arn., ars., asaf., asar., bar-c., bell., bry., calad.,
calc., calc-sil., cann-i., canth., caust., cham., con., cupr., dros.,
ferr-p., graph., grat., hyos., ign., iod., kali-ar., kali-c., kali-chl.,
kali-p., lach., lob., lyc., m-arct., med., mosch., nat-c., Nat-m., nit-ac.,
nux-v., ol-an., ox-ac., ph-ac., Phos., plat., psor., puls., raph., rhus-t.,
sep., squil., staph., sulph., Syph., valer.
(Bold type in Complete 2000 are Agar (twitching), Nat-m, Phos, Syph)
These plus "ailments from grief" (a "genius" of Nat-m as a remedy); and
Nat-m as a frequent complement of Phos -- could provide a serviceable stool
for nat-m -- if Ign is not the rx first, or another nervous system rx with
hypochondriasis is not indicated and confirmable.
If he has suppressed his grief as nat-m will invariably do instead of being
able to process it -- the symptoms of the nervous system represent that
somatization to his miasmatically-burdened weakest link. The nonphysical
"quantum electrodynamic organizing field" or "etheric double" of his nervous
system containing inimical foreign "cells" of such "spirit" with
incompatible programming -- in theory are influencing the physical nervous
cells and subsystem of the body (brain, spinal trunk, abdominal plexus).
This bodily subsystem has gone "haywire" with the hypochondriasis and
vertigo of your client's chief complaints.
We could say that the energetic parasites with favorite target of nerve
cells, fibers, plexi, and synaptic connections have weakened that subsystem
in your client. This weak link is susceptible to emotional trauma in the
pattern wholism we know of as Ignatia, nat-m, and dozens of other remedies
in the rubric Ailments from .. Grief/Loss/Death of others, etc. When that
trauma comes, it further stresses that weak link, causing first functional
derangement, and sooner or later, breakdown of physical cells, (organic
pathology).
Nat-m and Ignatia are the classical stalwarts of situations of unexpressed
grief.
MIND; GRIEF; general; silent (26) : am-m., anthr., apis, aq-mar., aur-ar.,
carc., coff., coloc., corv-c., crot-c., cycl., gels., Ign., indg., ip.,
kali-fcy., lach., lap-gr-m., lyc., NAT-M., nux-v., peti., ph-ac., puls.,
sac-l., sal-ac.
Grief [2] suppress/suppressed: acon.5, aloe221, alum.5, am-m., ant-c.223,
anthr.187, ars.5, aur.5, aur-ar., aur-s., bell.5, bry.5, caj., cham.5,
chin., cocc.5, coloc.5, con., cycl.22, gels.5, hura, hyos.5, 3Ign.5,
kali-caust., lach.161, lyc.5, nat-c.5, nat-m.5, nux-m., nux-v.5, op.15,
ph-ac.5, phos.5, plat.5, puls.5, rhus-t., seq-s.230, staph.5, thuj.233,
ust., verat.5, zinc.5
Suppressed grief is stored in the lungs (which can be noticed "overflowing"
in the short-of-breath "respiratory" sobbing of Ignatia).:
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Of course, there could be some other overarching simillimum which will
"bullseye" the situation -- and which may be some other gestalt which
depends on the peculiars of the *rest of the case* and may not be in these
specific rubrics per se:
Ailments [2] death [4]
child/friend/family/parent/nephew/brother/sister/loved: alum.231, ambr.,
arg-n.231, ars., aur.35, 2aur-m-n.231, calc., calc-s.231, 2calc-sil.231,
caust., cench.231, gels., ign., 2kali-br.231, lac-c., 2lac-d.231, lac-h.,
lach., 3Lact.231, 3Laur.231, 2lepi.231, lim-b-c., lob.231, lyc., nat-m.231,
nit-ac., nux-m.231, nux-v., 3Op.231, 3Ox-ac.231, ph-ac., phys.231, plat.,
2plat-m.231, 3Rat.231, rhod., rhus-t.231, 2sac-alb.231, staph.231,
stram.231, sulph., verat.231, viol-o.
Complete 2000
MIND; AILMENTS from; death; child, of a (12) : calc., caust., gels., Ign.,
kali-br., lach., nat-m., nux-v., ph-ac., plat., staph., sulph.
MIND; AILMENTS from; death; confrontation of, from, in children (21) :
acon., ambr., ars., calc., calc-sil., caps., carc., caust., gels., ign.,
kali-br., lach., nat-m., nit-ac., nux-v., op., ph-ac., plat., staph.,
sulph., verat.
MIND; AILMENTS from; death; husband, of (1) : lyc.
MIND; AILMENTS from; death; one death after another (1) : ambr.
MIND; AILMENTS from; death; parents or friends, of (15) : ambr., ars.,
calc., Caust., IGN., kali-br., lac-c., lac-h., lim-b-c., lyc., nit-ac.,
nux-v., plat., rhod., staph.
However, a clear etiological factor assumes cardinal position in the symptom
hierarchy in almost any case. When a case seems to be "all over the map"
or a well chosen rx does not act, an etiology, or some other key factor
could well be a good bellwether and anchoring sx in the case.
In such a situation, a complement (in this case of the apparent overarching
Phos if it does not act) is one way to turn. Phos is not a remedy as
*pointed* toward ailments from grief or the nervous system as some others --
when that etiology is overriding. You may well be right that Phos is
present in he case, but perhaps there is a translucent onion "layer" of
another pattern of miasm over it which involves the nervous system and
specifically the part of it which can process grief of loss of loved one.
While (perhaps) the phos is *visible*, the relevant area of miasmatic
burden --and thus susceptibility to breakdown from trauma emotional or
otherwise--may require another rx given at this time.
Ign and or Nat-m may be one place to look, based on the case given. But esp
if he is a hot pt or chilly worse heat; you may wish to differentiate nat-m
with Arg-n and Med, given the indications in your previous posts. It
should be pretty easy to rule these out using confirmatories given
previously, and you may have already done so.
Argentum nitricum
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Anxiety health. Fears heights, claustro, fainting.
Anticipation causes diarrhea. Impulsive.
Hot. > Cold, cold bathing, cold wind.
Desires sweets, salt. Belching, flatulence (no >).
Stitching pains. Palpitations binding (expanded feeling).
Green mucous stools, spluttery.
Vertigo w/ tinnitis, trembling, weakness.
Nitrate of Silver. Lunar Caustic. Ag NO3.
Medorrhinum
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Discharges prominent or > by them. Hurried.
Rhinnitis w/ profuse, thick catarrh. Asthma.
Biting nails. High sex drive, masturbation.
Fear alone at night, someone behind him.
Sleeps on abdomen; knee-chest position.
Scraping throat (difficult). Warts, polyps, etc.
Desires fat, green fruit, oranges, ice, sweet, salt.
Soles sensitive. Hot feet: uncovers in bed.
Genitourinary complaints (prostate)-since marriage.
Ankle swelling. Rheumatism feet & ankles.
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Are there other peculiars in the anamnesis which could point to other
remedies?
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Sorry so lengthy Emily. Writing mood and get carried away. Allows an
opportunity to weave in a demo of other ideas, using your case as an
example. Hope interesting and useful.
These are more ideas only for your case. Your next move depends on your
understanding of it. Have success.
Best,
A
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