rochelle's emergency case
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 6:55 pm
Dear Rochelle, I have been thinking about your emergency case (must be the
heat
) and have put some thought together regarding a rx.
As I wrote before Petroleum was one of my first choices for the case and I
feel it even stronger now.
Petroleum has an affinity with the skin and sub-cutaneous tissue, nutrition,
nervous and respiratory disorders.
Repetition, expansion and a sense of loss are the themes running through
this remedy. Repetition can be seen in the allergies, always coming every
summer as in Hay Fever, or returning at other times of the year (<<<
winter). And during delirium they have the tendency to repeat the same
subject over and over again. This was certainly the case for your client.
The vapours of petroleum are responsible for some strange delusions - that
she has three arms; that there are 2 babies in the bed; that one limb is
double; has three legs; fancies someone is lying near to them; sees thieves,
that the body is scattered about the bed; body divided in two (sense of
duality). This is all about errors of identity and there are some strange
sensations which pertain to these errors - sensation as if a veil before the
eyes, as if sand in the eyes - they cannot see things for what they really
are, which is a crucial aspect of your case as well. This creates a huge
amount of anxiety.
They also imagine themselves to be very sick as if about to die and so they
rush a round putting their affairs in order. They are also capable of losing
themselves in familiar places (this can be a metaphorical losing of the way
in life as well), forget the name of streets and where they are. This
combines the expansion and sense of loss together into errors of identity
(which is additive) and a fear that something will be taken from them (which
is subtractive) - their health, their life, their home (very homesick),
their memory, their sight, that something will be stolen from them (sees
thieves), loses hair and inevitably loses health. I think the peculiar over
reaction of this person to what started out as mere? eruptions on the feet
fits this picture very well.
So they often feel crowded out (very sensitive hearing and cannot listen to
a lot of people talking at once) and will be irritable, angry, discontented,
critical, greedy and hungry all the time and even abusive during the
additive times or confused, despairing, sad, depressed, fearful and
inconsolable when in the subtractive phase. You certainly witnessed this
when he presented to you.
Oscillating between these two states is difficult, creates a lot of motion
(emotion as well as physical motion) and Petroleum is one of the first
remedies one thinks about for travel sickness. I would be curious to know if
he suffers from travel sickness as well!!.
And also Petroleum covers the presenting complaint so well - the rubric
'small wounds ulcerate and spread'. Plus the general skin sx (lots of cracks
and fissures), ear sensations, warts, restless sleep with frightful dreams.
Just a thought in case the Carc doesn't complete a cure.
Best wishes, Joy. Have a good holiday.
heat
) and have put some thought together regarding a rx.As I wrote before Petroleum was one of my first choices for the case and I
feel it even stronger now.
Petroleum has an affinity with the skin and sub-cutaneous tissue, nutrition,
nervous and respiratory disorders.
Repetition, expansion and a sense of loss are the themes running through
this remedy. Repetition can be seen in the allergies, always coming every
summer as in Hay Fever, or returning at other times of the year (<<<
winter). And during delirium they have the tendency to repeat the same
subject over and over again. This was certainly the case for your client.
The vapours of petroleum are responsible for some strange delusions - that
she has three arms; that there are 2 babies in the bed; that one limb is
double; has three legs; fancies someone is lying near to them; sees thieves,
that the body is scattered about the bed; body divided in two (sense of
duality). This is all about errors of identity and there are some strange
sensations which pertain to these errors - sensation as if a veil before the
eyes, as if sand in the eyes - they cannot see things for what they really
are, which is a crucial aspect of your case as well. This creates a huge
amount of anxiety.
They also imagine themselves to be very sick as if about to die and so they
rush a round putting their affairs in order. They are also capable of losing
themselves in familiar places (this can be a metaphorical losing of the way
in life as well), forget the name of streets and where they are. This
combines the expansion and sense of loss together into errors of identity
(which is additive) and a fear that something will be taken from them (which
is subtractive) - their health, their life, their home (very homesick),
their memory, their sight, that something will be stolen from them (sees
thieves), loses hair and inevitably loses health. I think the peculiar over
reaction of this person to what started out as mere? eruptions on the feet
fits this picture very well.
So they often feel crowded out (very sensitive hearing and cannot listen to
a lot of people talking at once) and will be irritable, angry, discontented,
critical, greedy and hungry all the time and even abusive during the
additive times or confused, despairing, sad, depressed, fearful and
inconsolable when in the subtractive phase. You certainly witnessed this
when he presented to you.
Oscillating between these two states is difficult, creates a lot of motion
(emotion as well as physical motion) and Petroleum is one of the first
remedies one thinks about for travel sickness. I would be curious to know if
he suffers from travel sickness as well!!.
And also Petroleum covers the presenting complaint so well - the rubric
'small wounds ulcerate and spread'. Plus the general skin sx (lots of cracks
and fissures), ear sensations, warts, restless sleep with frightful dreams.
Just a thought in case the Carc doesn't complete a cure.
Best wishes, Joy. Have a good holiday.