case:warts/larynx (SOLUTION)

[andyh]

Case:
11 yr old male, dark hair. Chief complaint: inability to speak due to
warts on larynx. Hoarseness started at 5 yrs old after a cold. (Father

also left the home at age 5). Warts came on a few years later, same
year was in a car accident, suffering subluxations in cervical spine..
Warts got progressively worse until 7 months before case-taking when he

began to have breathing problems, excessive mucus, enlarged tonsils. At

that point, the throat was operated on and warts were stripped off one
side of larynx, but they came back quickly, and all concerned wanted to

avoid more surgery.

The boy was a somewhat soft, flabby kid, nice person, did not seem
like he was any problem to his mother or others. His hoarseness was
painless, worse in AM, and generally prevented speech (pt mother was
relaying answers, and pt nodded and gave hoarse answers). He has
vertigo when at heights, after excitement, and after rising from chair.
Has pain in the heels with Rhus-t modalities. He bites his nails. His
legs feel weak on getting out of a car. He has a nasal catarrh with
white mucous.

He weeps sometimes; when spoken to, when remonstrated, and sometimes
without provocation. He has anger about the injustice in school
sports. He is untidy. He gets restless when it rains, because cannot
go outside. He gets sad , which is worse at night. He fears poverty
and spiders.

Sleep position mostly on R, tired in AM on waking; lethargic,
lackadaisical. Generally. < heat, appetite good, desires pizza, cold
milk, spicy, sweets; averse to onions, fat.

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SOLUTION:
This case taken in 1987. This case write-up was a little tricky in that
it contained much information which eventually turned out to be of no
use in determining the remedy. Presentation of the case was thought to
be beneficial because the latter type of situation can sometimes lead to
the remedy that was eventually successful.

My first step paralleled suggestions from Joy and others. I gave Calc
on the

LARYNX & TRACHEA; CONDYLOMATA, larynx (K746, G635): arg-n., calc., hep.,
merc-c., nit-ac., thuj.
MIND; FEAR; general; poverty (K46, SRI-518, G37): adam., ambr., ars.,
Bry., calc., calc-f., calc-s., calc-sil., cand-a., chlor., falco-p.,
graph., hydrog., kali-c., med., meli., nux-v., psor., puls., sep.,
stann., staph., sulph.

in a flabby, sincere boy. No result after 1 month assessment. Next
gave Caust, for the warts with feeling of injustice. Caust is not in
the warts on larynx rubric, but is in:

LARYNX & TRACHEA; TUMORS, benign, larynx: beryl., calc-f., caust.,
kali-bi., sang., thuj.

And is a warty remedy. This was not necessarily a well-reasoned idea,
don’t know if had any other confirms for Caust (not in my notes). In
any case, after 6 weeks, there was no change.

At that point, used this symptom:

GENERALITIES; FOOD and drinks; onions; aversion (K482, SRII-259, G412):
asar., brom., lyc., med., nit-ac., op., phos., prot., sabad., sep.,
thuj.

This along with the sycotic nature of the boy, the plethora of symptoms
which did not point to a remedy, and the key symptom:

LARYNX & TRACHEA; CONDYLOMATA, larynx (K746, G635): arg-n., calc., hep.,
merc-c., nit-ac., thuj.

pointed to thuja. After a few weeks the client was speaking freely, and
the problem had not recurred after 12 weeks on Thuja 6C twice daily
(eventually ramped up the potency).
I hope this case was interesting and useful.

AndyH.

[Shannon Nelson]

Hi Andy,

Finally got my rep program running just in time for the "post mortem" -- um,
I mean "the answer".

Yes, very interesting... In my quick attempt at repping, thuja appeared in
*none* of the rubrics I chose (dang...). (Except the condylomata one, of
course!) Do you know what happened to him in the years after, or whether
the thuja touched his case in other ways -- e.g. fears, vertigo, weeping,
etc.???

Shannon
on 10/31/02 9:19 PM, andyh@mcn.org at andyh@mcn.org wrote: