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I hope you don't mind me sending you a follow up I did yesterday with a woman who I had only seen the week before. She originally came with a lot of sinus and catarrh which was affecting her asthma and breathing and Kali Bi seemed to sort it but she did take 30C for a couple of weeks. I would be interested with anyone's thoughts on the case if you have time.

Regards,
Rochelle
6th May 2003

It is only a week since I last saw this patient and prescribed Lyco 30 in a split dose as a constitutional prescription.
"I felt good after taking Lycopodium. Then the next day I got a headache at school, I thought from my hot classroom. The next morning I couldn't get up in the morning. I had a pounding headache and I felt sick in my stomach. I felt weak and aching. I had a stiff neck on Thursday and then this was Ok. On Saturday my ears started up. I also had acid coming up from my stomach. The amazing thing with this is that I have not needed the Ventalin. My chest has been clear. I am still taking the Lobelia MT."
"I have a dark green discharge from my nose which is lumpy and later a lighter colour. It hurts my ears to blow my nose. My glands under my neck are up and my teeth hurt. In the night my nose drips forming crusts in the morning. The left side of my face feels dead but a hot water bottle on it helps me feel better. Sometimes there is a stabbing just under my ear."
The discharge from her nose maybe excoriating but she is not sure. Her ear cracks when blowing her nose and also when swallowing.
There is no fever.
Pain > warmth. She sat holding a scarf up to her left ear.
"The left nostril is stopped up. Both ears take turns of hurting. The pain extends to the neck." It appears the pain isn't really IN the ear but underneath to the front. She is a bit deaf from al this and says that she can hear her pulse beating. The ear problem is also upsetting her balance.
She was burping continually and her stomach was rumbling. She says that her stomach has been very distended.
Analysis

The question is whether this is a virus she was going to get anyway or a reaction to the Lycopodium.
On Repping I decided on Puls. as it seemed to cover the symptoms best and is also an antidote to Lycopodium. Maybe I gave her the Lycopodium at to low a potency but I did this because of her asthma which I didn't wish to upset. I told her to stop taking the Lobelia MT at the moment just in case it has caused the nausea. It does seem to have had a good effect on the lungs though.
Prescription

Puls. 30 - 3 doses and let me know
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

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If the client cannot support or endure whatever the remedy helps throw out,
then it is worth prescribing on (possibly/probably an acute - we don't know
but time would have told you) and keeping the potency quite low. If they can
cope with it then it is best to wait and see what happens.

Has she had any of these sx before? What sort of acutes does she normally
have? Is this a virus that is going around?

Lycopodium is so well known for the aggravations it can stir up and I
personally wouldn't have given a remedy that comes close to antidoting it.

You gave her 2 doses of Lycopodium, one would have been enough, I think.

Best, Joy
on 5/7/03 1:03 PM, Rochelle Marsden at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:

I hope you don't mind me sending you a follow up I did yesterday with a
woman who I had only seen the week before. She originally came with a lot of
sinus and catarrh which was affecting her asthma and breathing and Kali Bi
seemed to sort it but she did take 30C for a couple of weeks. I would be
interested with anyone's thoughts on the case if you have time.

Regards,
Rochelle
6th May 2003

It is only a week since I last saw this patient and prescribed Lyco 30 in a
split dose as a constitutional prescription.

"I felt good after taking Lycopodium. Then the next day I got a headache at
school, I thought from my hot classroom. The next morning I couldn't get up
in the morning. I had a pounding headache and I felt sick in my stomach. I
felt weak and aching. I had a stiff neck on Thursday and then this was Ok.
On Saturday my ears started up. I also had acid coming up from my stomach.
The amazing thing with this is that I have not needed the Ventalin. My chest
has been clear. I am still taking the Lobelia MT."

"I have a dark green discharge from my nose which is lumpy and later a
lighter colour. It hurts my ears to blow my nose. My glands under my neck
are up and my teeth hurt. In the night my nose drips forming crusts in the
morning. The left side of my face feels dead but a hot water bottle on it
helps me feel better. Sometimes there is a stabbing just under my ear."
The discharge from her nose maybe excoriating but she is not sure. Her ear
cracks when blowing her nose and also when swallowing.

There is no fever.

Pain > warmth. She sat holding a scarf up to her left ear.

"The left nostril is stopped up. Both ears take turns of hurting. The pain
extends to the neck." It appears the pain isn't really IN the ear but
underneath to the front. She is a bit deaf from al this and says that she
can hear her pulse beating. The ear problem is also upsetting her balance.

She was burping continually and her stomach was rumbling. She says that her
stomach has been very distended.
Analysis

The question is whether this is a virus she was going to get anyway or a
reaction to the Lycopodium.

On Repping I decided on Puls. as it seemed to cover the symptoms best and is
also an antidote to Lycopodium. Maybe I gave her the Lycopodium at to low a
potency but I did this because of her asthma which I didn't wish to upset. I
told her to stop taking the Lobelia MT at the moment just in case it has
caused the nausea. It does seem to have had a good effect on the lungs
though.

Prescription

Puls. 30 - 3 doses and let me know
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I really had to prescribe as she wasn't coping with whatever this was. I even made her out a medical sick note to stay off work until Monday.
Her acute are usually of the sinus variety so yes it could be an old symptom but also there are similar viruses around at the moment. The dose of Lyco was given as a split dose with instructions that if anything happens good or bad not to take the subsequent dose. As you probably realise I am usually a high prescriber when it comes to constitutional prescribing but in her case I stayed low because of the asthma in her case which she has on a regular basis despite having taken the usual preventative medication since 1981 at a high dose!!!!! Since she has been seeing me (a couple of months) she has had 2 mild attacks, both staved off with Ars. 30. Now I know that there seems to be no connection between Lyco and Ars but Lyco does seem to be best for all of her symptoms. I will have to review this and decide whether it is an agg or a virus that she was harbouring before she saw me.

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

I really had to prescribe as she wasn't coping with whatever this was. I even made her out a medical sick note to stay off work until Monday.
Her acute are usually of the sinus variety so yes it could be an old symptom but also there are similar viruses around at the moment. The dose of Lyco was given as a split dose with instructions that if anything happens good or bad not to take the subsequent dose. As you probably realise I am usually a high prescriber when it comes to constitutional prescribing but in her case I stayed low because of the asthma in her case which she has on a regular basis despite having taken the usual preventative medication since 1981 at a high dose!!!!! Since she has been seeing me (a couple of months) she has had 2 mild attacks, both staved off with Ars. 30. Now I know that there seems to be no connection between Lyco and Ars but Lyco does seem to be best for all of her symptoms. I will have to review this and decide whether it is an agg or a virus that she was harbouring before she saw me.

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

on 5/7/03 7:03 AM, Rochelle Marsden at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:

I have just spoken to the patient and her ear pain has gone now and also the indigestion and flatulence since last night!! Her ear is still blocked though and although she managed a walk around the garden is still feeling too weak to go back to work. I have told her to continue to take the Puls 30 today. So really I am not much the wiser!!

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

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