psoriasis in child- Nuphar
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:10 pm
This is Case 1 - from Links
REMEDY NAME:Nuphar luteum
Riccardo Tomassini, Italy
Case 1
January 1997
This is a case of a thirty-year-old woman that I have known for years, as
we have some friends in common. She has a degree in natural science and up
to a short time before the visit she lived in a house with a garden where
she kept various animals: dogs, cats, rabbits, geese, etc.
I haven't seen her for a long time, but I remember her as a small woman, a
little overweight, polite, but rather unwilling to strike up a friendship
and stay with other people, and she is easily in a bad mood when one jokes
too much with her. She got married not long ago and now lives in a flat
without a garden.
She says:
'An eruption appeared on my face; it is red colour with subcutaneous itching
pimples and my skin became dry, and no one has understood them. The
eruptions
appear around my nose and my mouth, even under my chin. In a word, it's as
if
I had a beard. I have used 500 billion ointments, more or less, all of them
with cortisone, but after a short time they aren't effective anymore;
moreover I can't put on cortisone for the rest of my life. I have also taken
antihistamines which help, but I can't use them all my life either.'
Since when have you had the eruptions?
'It appeared two to three years ago in December and it went away with
lotion. Then, last winter it came back again. I felt better in March, after
my marriage, but in June it was horrible and it has gone in this way with
ups and downs until now and nobody knows why.
I feared an allergy to chocolate, but I have done research and I am not
allergic to anything; but I eat a lot of chocolate. I am not able to
restrain myself. I eat mountains of chocolate before my menstrual period.
Anyway, I always need to eat sweet things; without them I would die.'
'Among other things I suffer from atrocious headaches, especially during my
periods. When I have a headache I can't bear light or noises; it seems like
there are two hammering daggers here in my temples, and I can't bear the
light. I have to stay lying in the dark and immobile. Yes, two daggers. If
I sleep it usually goes away. It happens the day before or the day after my
period. When I was very young and up to the age of eighteen, I vomited,
fainted, suffered from stomach-aches and backaches with my periods. It was
a disaster. Then, I began taking the pill, because otherwise I was very
unwell, and so I felt definitely better. Now I have been using the pill for
four to five years uninterruptedly. I also feel swollen and in my opinion
this is due to the pill.'
Then?
'This has nothing to do with it, but I have terrible nightmares: I dream
about wars. I dream that I am being bombed - that everywhere there are
planes bombing. I am in my house, the one by the sea, and there is a group
of planes bombing, and I don't know where to run away to, while there are
some people who remain indifferent. I wake up very anxious. Other times I
dream about tortoises that are born in my garden, that come up from the
ground and I am worried about them. I often dream about tortoises, more than
other animals. I also dream of horses because having a horse is the dream of
my life. Then I dream that my dog has been left in my parents' house. I
haven't yet dreamt about the dog I have now. Then I have parrots, canaries
and many other animals. Another dream is that I still have them, but I have
to run away because there is a war and I have to leave. I fear
that they will die of hunger or might escape from the (aviary) greenhouse.'
How is your relationship with animals?
'I have always been very fond of them. I have had many. I speak to animals.
Some would considered me mad. An animal died and I cried like an
I-don't-know-what. I cry also for human being's death. I painfully live this
thing of death. Death is not a tragedy rationally, but if someone dies I cry
without being able to restrain myself.'
What do you think about death?
'I have lived another life. For me there must be something. I believe in
aliens, in ghosts. I am not afraid of them, but I believe in them.'
Do you feel for others?
'I share with everyone. I can't see suffering babies going hungry. These
wars, people killing each other - that's enough. I can't bear it anymore.'
What about your personality?
'I am quite calm. I was shy and perhaps I still am, but I mask it. It is
necessary to do the best one can. I like to stay in nature in quite places.
I go scuba diving and it is wonderful.
Before marrying I had a house with a garden and animals. Now, I live in a
flat and for me this has been a tragedy. There is no greenery and so I have
filled the house with plants and gotten a dog. Living here has been
upsetting; buildings are high here and they make me anxious. If I could I
would go to live in the countryside. The house has a northern exposure and
I need the sun. I am a little animal needing the sun, and not having it is
hard for me.'
Other problems?
'I don't sleep much. I am not able to fall asleep before 1 am.'
Fears?
'Claps of thunder. I can't bear them. Moreover, my teeth have always been
decayed. My milk molars broke into lots of little pieces. I have always had
nosebleeds too.'
Crying?
'I cry very often and I like being made a fuss over. I ask for it if I don't
receive it. As a child I didn't receive enough love, at least not enough for
me. I felt I was neglected and my father was never present. But I think it
was my idea that I was neglected and that my mother loved my brother more
than me.' (Actually, as I know her family, I believe her feelings are not
wrong.)
Analysis
This is the repertorisation of the case.
MIND; LOVE; animals, for (and)
MIND; LOVE; animals, for; suffering (as) sympathetic for animals (in a
combined rubric)
MIND; SYMPATHETIC
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; General
FACE; ERUPTIONS; General; mouth; around
FACE; ERUPTIONS; itching
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; itching
HEAD PAIN; LOCALIZATION; Temples
MIND; DREAMS; battles (and)
MIND; DREAMS; war (and)
MIND; DREAMS; air; attacks (in a combined rubric)
MIND; WEEPING, tearful mood; tendency
GENERALITIES; FOOD and drinks; chocolate; desires (not included)
MIND; FEAR; thunderstorm, of (not included)
I noted Natrum muriaticum and Natrum sulphuricum, but they fail in many
aspects that I consider essential in order to prescribe them. So my
attention was captured by Nuphar luteum and I chose it with expectation.
Nuphar 30 CH in drops, morning and evening for at least ten days. Later on,
I spoke with her by telephone and I told her to continue taking the remedy
in cycles for just a little more than three months. (By cycles I mean -
give the remedy for a few days, then wait and then give it again for a few
days and then wait. I don't use this method because I prefer to give the
remedy until the appearance of reactions and then wait the amelioration
without prescription until the reappearance of symptoms.) When she came for
the visit she had stopped the therapy after about twenty days.
Follow-up after three months
I see the patient again in April. She tells me:
'I feel good. Everything has gone away on my face; I don't have pimples
anymore, just some normal small boils. I haven't taken the pill for three
months and my period still goes well. I lost three kilos. And I am
cheerful. I haven't even eaten chocolate anymore. I like it, but I don't
crave it like before when I couldn't do without it. Now, let's talk about
what isn't doing well. The skin on my face is dry and also on my hands.
It's very dry and I put cream on continuously. The skin on my face is
always drawn too, so I have to use cream.'
Since when?
Ten to fifteen days, since I stopped the treatment. I forgot about
cellulitis
and that my hands and feet swell especially in the evening because of fluid
retention. It bothers me. Sometimes certain shoes don't fit. Then I easily
feel pins and needles in my arms and legs. If I cross them, they tingle.'
Since when have you been suffering from retention and tingling?
'Always. The retention was much worse when I took the pill, but it is
genetic
because my mother suffers from it too.'
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk
REMEDY NAME:Nuphar luteum
Riccardo Tomassini, Italy
Case 1
January 1997
This is a case of a thirty-year-old woman that I have known for years, as
we have some friends in common. She has a degree in natural science and up
to a short time before the visit she lived in a house with a garden where
she kept various animals: dogs, cats, rabbits, geese, etc.
I haven't seen her for a long time, but I remember her as a small woman, a
little overweight, polite, but rather unwilling to strike up a friendship
and stay with other people, and she is easily in a bad mood when one jokes
too much with her. She got married not long ago and now lives in a flat
without a garden.
She says:
'An eruption appeared on my face; it is red colour with subcutaneous itching
pimples and my skin became dry, and no one has understood them. The
eruptions
appear around my nose and my mouth, even under my chin. In a word, it's as
if
I had a beard. I have used 500 billion ointments, more or less, all of them
with cortisone, but after a short time they aren't effective anymore;
moreover I can't put on cortisone for the rest of my life. I have also taken
antihistamines which help, but I can't use them all my life either.'
Since when have you had the eruptions?
'It appeared two to three years ago in December and it went away with
lotion. Then, last winter it came back again. I felt better in March, after
my marriage, but in June it was horrible and it has gone in this way with
ups and downs until now and nobody knows why.
I feared an allergy to chocolate, but I have done research and I am not
allergic to anything; but I eat a lot of chocolate. I am not able to
restrain myself. I eat mountains of chocolate before my menstrual period.
Anyway, I always need to eat sweet things; without them I would die.'
'Among other things I suffer from atrocious headaches, especially during my
periods. When I have a headache I can't bear light or noises; it seems like
there are two hammering daggers here in my temples, and I can't bear the
light. I have to stay lying in the dark and immobile. Yes, two daggers. If
I sleep it usually goes away. It happens the day before or the day after my
period. When I was very young and up to the age of eighteen, I vomited,
fainted, suffered from stomach-aches and backaches with my periods. It was
a disaster. Then, I began taking the pill, because otherwise I was very
unwell, and so I felt definitely better. Now I have been using the pill for
four to five years uninterruptedly. I also feel swollen and in my opinion
this is due to the pill.'
Then?
'This has nothing to do with it, but I have terrible nightmares: I dream
about wars. I dream that I am being bombed - that everywhere there are
planes bombing. I am in my house, the one by the sea, and there is a group
of planes bombing, and I don't know where to run away to, while there are
some people who remain indifferent. I wake up very anxious. Other times I
dream about tortoises that are born in my garden, that come up from the
ground and I am worried about them. I often dream about tortoises, more than
other animals. I also dream of horses because having a horse is the dream of
my life. Then I dream that my dog has been left in my parents' house. I
haven't yet dreamt about the dog I have now. Then I have parrots, canaries
and many other animals. Another dream is that I still have them, but I have
to run away because there is a war and I have to leave. I fear
that they will die of hunger or might escape from the (aviary) greenhouse.'
How is your relationship with animals?
'I have always been very fond of them. I have had many. I speak to animals.
Some would considered me mad. An animal died and I cried like an
I-don't-know-what. I cry also for human being's death. I painfully live this
thing of death. Death is not a tragedy rationally, but if someone dies I cry
without being able to restrain myself.'
What do you think about death?
'I have lived another life. For me there must be something. I believe in
aliens, in ghosts. I am not afraid of them, but I believe in them.'
Do you feel for others?
'I share with everyone. I can't see suffering babies going hungry. These
wars, people killing each other - that's enough. I can't bear it anymore.'
What about your personality?
'I am quite calm. I was shy and perhaps I still am, but I mask it. It is
necessary to do the best one can. I like to stay in nature in quite places.
I go scuba diving and it is wonderful.
Before marrying I had a house with a garden and animals. Now, I live in a
flat and for me this has been a tragedy. There is no greenery and so I have
filled the house with plants and gotten a dog. Living here has been
upsetting; buildings are high here and they make me anxious. If I could I
would go to live in the countryside. The house has a northern exposure and
I need the sun. I am a little animal needing the sun, and not having it is
hard for me.'
Other problems?
'I don't sleep much. I am not able to fall asleep before 1 am.'
Fears?
'Claps of thunder. I can't bear them. Moreover, my teeth have always been
decayed. My milk molars broke into lots of little pieces. I have always had
nosebleeds too.'
Crying?
'I cry very often and I like being made a fuss over. I ask for it if I don't
receive it. As a child I didn't receive enough love, at least not enough for
me. I felt I was neglected and my father was never present. But I think it
was my idea that I was neglected and that my mother loved my brother more
than me.' (Actually, as I know her family, I believe her feelings are not
wrong.)
Analysis
This is the repertorisation of the case.
MIND; LOVE; animals, for (and)
MIND; LOVE; animals, for; suffering (as) sympathetic for animals (in a
combined rubric)
MIND; SYMPATHETIC
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; General
FACE; ERUPTIONS; General; mouth; around
FACE; ERUPTIONS; itching
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; itching
HEAD PAIN; LOCALIZATION; Temples
MIND; DREAMS; battles (and)
MIND; DREAMS; war (and)
MIND; DREAMS; air; attacks (in a combined rubric)
MIND; WEEPING, tearful mood; tendency
GENERALITIES; FOOD and drinks; chocolate; desires (not included)
MIND; FEAR; thunderstorm, of (not included)
I noted Natrum muriaticum and Natrum sulphuricum, but they fail in many
aspects that I consider essential in order to prescribe them. So my
attention was captured by Nuphar luteum and I chose it with expectation.
Nuphar 30 CH in drops, morning and evening for at least ten days. Later on,
I spoke with her by telephone and I told her to continue taking the remedy
in cycles for just a little more than three months. (By cycles I mean -
give the remedy for a few days, then wait and then give it again for a few
days and then wait. I don't use this method because I prefer to give the
remedy until the appearance of reactions and then wait the amelioration
without prescription until the reappearance of symptoms.) When she came for
the visit she had stopped the therapy after about twenty days.
Follow-up after three months
I see the patient again in April. She tells me:
'I feel good. Everything has gone away on my face; I don't have pimples
anymore, just some normal small boils. I haven't taken the pill for three
months and my period still goes well. I lost three kilos. And I am
cheerful. I haven't even eaten chocolate anymore. I like it, but I don't
crave it like before when I couldn't do without it. Now, let's talk about
what isn't doing well. The skin on my face is dry and also on my hands.
It's very dry and I put cream on continuously. The skin on my face is
always drawn too, so I have to use cream.'
Since when?
Ten to fifteen days, since I stopped the treatment. I forgot about
cellulitis
and that my hands and feet swell especially in the evening because of fluid
retention. It bothers me. Sometimes certain shoes don't fit. Then I easily
feel pins and needles in my arms and legs. If I cross them, they tingle.'
Since when have you been suffering from retention and tingling?
'Always. The retention was much worse when I took the pill, but it is
genetic
because my mother suffers from it too.'
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk