curious symptom

[Vera Resnick]

Does anyone have any ideas for repping this? The patient is very stressed, and when the stress increases she constantly licks her fingers while she's talking. The licking is like licking a finger before turning a page. Sometimes she brings fingers of both hands to the mouth. Occasionally she licks the fingers and smooths down her eyebrows or face. When stressed and talking she is doing this every two or three words.

She's totally unaware of doing this - even after it is pointed out to her.

Any ideas? Also suggestions? This px has done well on Caust in the past, and is going through menopause.

Vera
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Vera Resnick
Classical Homeopath
054-4640736
e-mail: vera.homeopath@gmail.com
www.jerusalemhomeopath.com
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[Rochelle Marsden]

Mouth; licking; hands: (1) sulph,

Mind; gestures, makes; fingers in mouth, puts; children, in: (22) CALC, calc-ox, calc-p, cean, CHAM, hell, IP, kali-p, lac-h, lyc, med, merc, NAT-M, nat-s, sac-alb, SIL, sulph, tarent, tax, ther, verat, zinc,

Howabout these?

Rochelle

Registered Homeopath with The Society of Homeopaths
EFT (Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Vera Resnick]

don't know - this is an adult, and she doesn't actually put things in her mouth.
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Vera Resnick
Classical Homeopath
054-4640736
e-mail: vera.homeopath@gmail.com
www.jerusalemhomeopath.com
www.materiamedicastudymethods.wordpress.com

[Rochelle Marsden]

It was the nearest I could get . The first rubric looks OK. Is she at all Sulphur?
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath with The Society of Homeopaths
EFT (Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Shannon Nelson]

Mind; GESTURES, MAKES; AUTOMATIC (p, 13, 1-1) (13) : anac., bacch-a., calc., cann-i., hell., hydr-ac., hyos., mobil-ph., nux-m., phos., sol-t., tab., zinc.
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[Joy Lucas]

I would opt for the 'fixed ideas' route and explore that.

Joy

http://www.joylucashomeopathy.com
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[Shannon Nelson]

Why "ideas" rather than "gestures"?

[Tanya Marquette]

aside from rubrics already suggested, there are quite a few others.
under MIND, Gestures there is
hands, involuntary motions of
playing with the fingers
then there is EXTREMITIES, Hands- automatic, or
--playing with
sorry i can't copy the rubrics--computer is not working properly
tanya

[Joy Lucas]

Mainly because a lot of the rx in the 'gestures' rubric pertain to convulsions, and gestures that are performed during and have a very particular expression. Even the Sulphur reference could be this = 'involuntary contraction of hands as if to grasp something' and the licking of fingers could be an extension of this.

But also because a compulsion is a fixation, it is a stage where the client is literally fixed and stuck at and is more likely to evolve out of emotional problems rather than whatever might be causing convulsions and the cause was listed as stress. I prefer the rx in that rubric - more open ended.

It needs to be explored - it could literally relate to the washing of hands and even this rubric could be used.

Joy

http://www.joylucashomeopathy.com
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/homeopathystudy/

[d_barbara_hamilton]

Hi Vera,

Hope Wiki helps you to differentiate here, as OCD seems worth looking at too ...

Regards, Barbara

From Wikipedia
A tic is a sudden, repetitive, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization involving discrete muscle groups.[1][2] Tics can be invisible to the observer, such as abdominal tensing or toe crunching. Common motor and phonic tics are, respectively, eye blinking and throat clearing.[3] Movements of other movement disorders (for example, chorea, dystonia, myoclonus) must be distinguished from tics. Other conditions, such as autism and stereotypic movement disorder, also include movements which may be confused with tics. Tics must also be distinguished from the compulsions of OCD and from seizure activity.

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