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Any ideas for a rubric for hair twisting? Six year old boy who is twisting his hair constantly until it is all knotted up. Also, singing involuntarily almost constantly. So would I look for specific rubrics for the compulsions or just a general compulsion rubric? He has done well on Agaricus and Thuja over the past 2 years. The singing is an old symptom but the hair twisting is new since starting the Thuja. Otherwise, he has improved greatly on the Thuja.
Thanks!
Truly,
Erica

From a Links, 1995 article by the late Ananda Zaren regarding Anhalonium:
Quiet disposition. Fragile people. Can be very paranoid (one patient had body guards with him and he looked out of the window the whole time). Spaces out. Fainting spells. Dissociates. Unconscious states. Trance states. Floats in and out. Visions, often worse on closing the eyes It is too painful for the Anhalonium to stay in their bodies. The pain of childhood was unbelievable, so they dissociate. One patient headbanged to the point of concussion. Some have symptoms of autism. Compulsive behaviour and they will often do just one thing like twist their hair. There can be a feeling like they are possessed. There is no contact. Their senses are greatly intensified. Most people cannot match their perceptive powers. Their sense of smell, touch and hearing are intense, yet they are void of knowing any of their emotions. Anhalonium lacks courage to a great degree. They are very frightened and have difficulty taking any risks. They lack courage. Inferiority complex. Duality, they are inferior yet have delusions of grandeur. Visions, especially during sleep, e.g. bizarre things, mutilation, and terrible images. Dizziness on closing the eyes. As soon as they close their eyes they will have bizarre visions or self-destructive thoughts. Hallucinations that are superimposed upon waking reality. Anhalonium people are both intuitive and clairvoyant.
Peace,

Dale
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Any ideas for a rubric for hair twisting? Six year old boy who is twisting his hair constantly until it is all knotted up. Also, singing involuntarily almost constantly. So would I look for specific rubrics for the compulsions or just a general compulsion rubric? He has done well on Agaricus and Thuja over the past 2 years. The singing is an old symptom but the hair twisting is new since starting the Thuja. Otherwise, he has improved greatly on the Thuja.
Thanks!

Truly,

Erica

Thanks Dale, that is a gem to look at for sure!
Thank you also for posting the HFCS studies - I knew it! I've been saying it for years but haven't been able to prove it. I'm sure it's one of the reasons anything with high fructose corn syrup was always the worst stim-inducer for my son when he had autism.
Truly,
Erica

Hi Erica,

There is no specific hair twisting rubric that I've been able to find, but if the patient twists it very tightly, it may be the same sort of compulsion as pulling the hair:

Mind; P; PULL, desires to; Hair, ones (p, 12, 3-11) (12) : Ars., BELL., CUPR., dig., germ., lach., Lil-t., med., mez., tarent., tub., xan.

This rubric is from the Complete Universal 2005.

I have a 12-year-old client who twists his hair compulsively and eventually admitted that the reason he did it was for the slight twinge of pain when the hair got really tight. He's doing well on the tubercular cousin of Lilium trigrinum, Agraphis nutans. His chief complaint is asthma with a tight cough, and bedwetting. The one case of Agraphis nutans I could find had prominent hair pulling.

Good luck,
Hart Matthews
Durham, NC
US
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
- Anton Chekov

what about using a rubric such as MIND GESTURES, hands, involuntary motions
or MIND GESTURES makes, stroke her hair, desire to
or MIND GESTURES makes, playing with the fingers

or simply MIND GESTURES

and then maybe explore the obsessive rubrics

tanya

Thank you Hart and Tanya, Good suggestions. I have put him on Med as I feel like there is a miasmatic block preventing the Thuja from working. We'll see...
in the meantime, I'm going to consider these rubrics/remedies as well. CUPR has always been a consideration for this case.
I'm actually kind of surprised hair twisting isn't a bigger rubric for anything as it seems a fairly common stress response. Maybe I'll follow Tanya's suggestion and look at fidgeting type gestures.
Thanks!
Erica

Hart,
I forgot to ask... do you have a resource for the Agraphic nutans' case?
I have an excellent case of Lilium Tigrinum in which the girl was pulling out her hair and eyebrows. She has responded beautifully to the remedy and has 2" of hair growth back.
I'd like to learn more about the Agraphic n.
Thanks!
Truly,
Erica

Hi Erica,

In my version of Reference Works (I don't have all the source materials available on that program), Agraphis is listed in several homeopathic sources, but they all seem to derive from Clarke's and Boericke's brief descriptions of the remedy.

The case, which was very interesting in light of my patient's long-standing asthma and long-term inhaler use, was a case from the 1995 IFH Case Conference.

Good luck,
Hart
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"... They live in and accept a society which incapable of knowing what a human life is worth. It cannot afford to. If it did, it would either have to dismiss this knowledge and with it dismiss all its pretences to democracy and so become totalitarian: or it would have to take account of this knowledge and revolutionize itself."

- John Berger, "A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor"

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There is no greater pain than restlessness.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Thanks so much - I actually have that case conference book so I can look it up!
He is not only twisting his hair, but also his mom's hair, the dog's hair, and string... and it's unconscious.
Truly,
Erica