As I see it, small amounts encourage the leaching out but large amounts seem
to find a balance but in the long term this is/could be exacerbating the
overall dysfunctioning parathyroids.
I would encourage you to learn as much as possible about the condition, not
so you can choose the characteristic sx - her whole case will you give you
those - but more so that it is knowledge about how specific organs work. I
personally think we have a duty to know as much about pathology as possible.
Inevitably the simillimum will have an affinity to the parathyroid glands
(assuming this is truly what is dysfunctional) but must also cover all
aspects of what needs to be cured.
Maybe, if you can be objective enough, try taking the case without any
reference to disease names and see what evolves. For example the
'collecting' issues - how do you sort this out? Is it the subject matter,
i.e. 'health'; is it the hoarding and all that it entails; is it the
sorting; is it a designed distraction from other things, is there some
confusion which she is trying to resolve; etc etc. You need to know the
driving force behind this. Certainly my clients both had a painful anxiety
about their health that drove them to utter despair at times and just like
when the thyroid gland is hyperactive a similar kind of
nervousness/irritability and anxiety emerges. So I think you might find that
it is linked but it is only relevant here because she is showing this as a
symptom. But she will have her own personal and individual/characteristic
explanation of this.
I would definitely include the sx of the scoliosis, even though it is common
in hyperparathyroidism - lots of joint problems are common as are Marfan
like appearances, but within these 'common to the disease sx' you will find
her own characteristic ones. Do you see what I mean by this?
Try and take the case as objectively as possible and remember - location,
sensation, extension, causation and modalities for each presenting sx and
try to block out all preconceptions.
If, as part of your studying, you are gathering together remedies that have
an affinity to the parathyroid glands I would include O A Julian's
parathyroid hormone.
Best wishes, Joy
www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 25/8/04 2:54 PM, Bob&Shannon at
shannonnelson@tds.net wrote:
Oops, I hope I didn't say that her cramps subsided when she took Vitamin D
-- that had no effect whatever on them, tho she has been taking Vitamin D
for many years and her blood levels of that are normal. But when she takes
2,000 mg daily of *calcium* she has no cramps, altho small amounts aggravate
the cramps. I am trying to understand that part...
Another question -- do I need to be familiar with anything about
hyperparathyroidism in order to choose my characterizing symptoms? I
realize there are sort of "two schools of thought" re casetaking, with some
folks saying you can forget diagnosis, just go with the symptom picture; and
others saying that symptoms which are common to the disease are not so
useful for prescribing. And others saying that symptoms "of the disease"
are the only ones we should prescribe on at all, sigh... I would try that
approach if I could recognize a characterizing picture within the disease
symptoms (aka basis for choosing a remedy!).
A specific example: One of her presently huge symptoms is a sort of
obsessiveness about certain things (and there are other ars-like aspects
too, but ars does not seem to have helped so far) -- she subscribes to (gag)
about 20 health newsletters, and also gets *enormous* quantities of
advertising and catalogues, such that (according to her) a huge proportion
of her time goes to dealing with it (sorting, bagging, and reading some of
the advertising and catalogs). She does not have time to actually *read*
much of it (to the point that social calls have become a harrassment,
instead of the pleasure she used to take in them), so we've begged her to
unsubscribe from most of the newsletters and request to be taken off most of
the mailing lists, but she flatly, adamantly and sometimes furiously
refuses. I'm being told (or at least it's being suggested/implied?) that
this could be part of the hyparparathyroid/ hyhpercalcemia symptom picture,
tho I haven't read this anywhere. Do you know? Have either of your
patients had any similar symptoms?
She is also I would say full of "fixed ideas".
She has extreme scoliosis -- but since this is (at least mostly?) from the
spinal effects of the osteoporosis, maybe this isn't a prescribing symptom
either?
Thankyou!
Shannon
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