operation to correct excessive sweating
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:11 am
by Rhonda Bird
A new patient. 19 y.o. had an operation last year to sever some nerves in
her underarm to stop her profuse underarm sweating. I had heard of removal
of sweat glands, but this was snipping the nerves. Can anybody provide me
with further information about this operation - and do I add into the mix
'nerve damage'?Interesting (and predictable I suppose), the sweating under
the arms stopped completely, patient says, and now sweats profusely on her
back and stomach since the operation(never before th operation). No odour,
and not related to weather being too hot, or humid. One peculiar thing:
her hands don't sweat any more, and are very dry.
Interesting case - she had some great 'peculiar' symptoms. I've used
rubrics: "Sweating, suppressed"; "Dryness of hands". Anything else?
Also, can anybody tell me where I can find rubrics about ovulation - this
girl has intense ovulation pain every month. I decided to repertorise with
Boeninghausen (needed the practice!).
Have realised I have a few more questions...here's the case...
P.C. Chronic tiredness; allergies (to cats, grasses, dust mites, clover);
and painful and heavy periods.
Menses: Period pain is mostly right sided, dark red flow, pain is
unbearable if exercising at all - simply walking is acceptable, but a short
run/jog is not, therefore avoids. Sharp stabbing pain, that comes on
quickly, but leaves slowly. Craves carbohydrates fiercely 1 week before
period. After her period finishes (7 day bleed), she loses appetite for
food in general. Ovulation pain every month. Sharp, on-going pain. Tends
to be right sided.
Moods: mostly feels 'snappish' all year round - yells at those who talk to
her. This snappiness builds up slowly, she suppresses it, then snaps. Not
Sleep: difficult to get to sleep - thinks about the day. She studies, is a
very high achiever by her own admission, and works part-time. Best time for
her is 2 a.m. when her energy is highest. If she didn't have to study or
work, she would prefer to lie in bed all the time, she is to tired.
Energy: non-existent. Has been chronically fatigued since Year 11(age 16).
Couldn't find any real cause, other than her desire to do really well and
study hard at school- she got distinctions for every subject. Now, despite
the extreme lethargy she feels, her marks are just below distinctions. She
is frustrated that although topping class in English, she now struggles to
find words to express herself, and can't remember things from 5 minutes
prior.
Vertigo: experiences rising from sitting. Low blood pressure is in the
family. Her mum is also a patient.
Diet: shocking...Adores white chocolate, which she eats in abundance. Gets
her own meals, as "her parents do their low fat, low carbohydrate thing".
Gets rash from tomatoes. Has a big appetite, and never ever feels full.
Toast and jam for breakfast. Sandwiches for lunch, similar dinner. Has 4
or 5 coffes a day, no alcohol, and doesn't drink water more that 1-2 glasses
a day as it makes her pee(I'll expand shortly). Said she is basically
thirstless, and drinks coffee for the energy.
Childhood: heaps of flu, frequent headaches, and migraines. Glandular
Fever when very young, although can't recall.
Respiratory: wakes every morning with a sore throat and a clogged nose -
recent months.
Headaches: gets migraines only about 3 times per year now. Always get a
sudden onset, and begins by not being able to see from 1 eye(she thought
right-=sided). Other headaches she gets every second day - these come from
her "problem neck". They start at the back of the head, and move to the top
of her head, both sided. She has had Chiropractic adjustments for the past
3 years, twice monthly, which > her neck pain.
Allergies: Uses Beconase for hayfever. Says she has had all her life.
Worse in cooler months, and worse in the mornings. Clear mucous, lots of
sneezing.
Urination: Frequent and a lot in volume. more at night. only recalls
having one Urinary Tract Infection. Has been tested negative for diabetes.
Did explain to her about coffee being a diuretic.
Teeth: wore braces for 2 years, removed age 14. Very sensitive teeth from
eating, and especially the bottom teeth now are very sensitive to touch.
Ear: new symptom current - has deafness in her right ear.
Mentals: mostly impatient, fears the dark away from her familiar
surroundings.
"Snappish" was a word she used frequently. Not a teary person.
Based on severemenstrual cramps, right sided, thirstless, vertigo on rising,
frequent & profuse urination, insatiable appetite, suppression of sweat,
weak memory (can't find the words),and <<< from motion(exercise) I've gone
with???
My questions: loss of appetite after menses - where do I find the rubric?
It's always specific - one week after period finishes. Also, the ovulation
rubrics are where?? Was trying to stick to Boeninghausen for this one -
does anybody use this a lot?
Thanks, Rhonda
Re: operation to correct excessive sweating
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:10 am
by andyh
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Perspiration in the same sentence as suppressed in the same remedy as pain in the same sentence as ovulation in the same remedy as dryness in the same sentence as hands: 3Sac-alb., apis, arg-n., arn., ars., bell., calc., carb-v., cham., ign., kali-c., lach., lyc., nat-m., nux-v., op., phos., puls., sec., sep., staph., sulph., thuj.
did not find the appetite wanting after menses rubric-seems not to be one
Just off the top ideas on quick read of case:
Saccharum album interesting idea, given the sweets preponderance, carbohydrate craving-similar to Lyc but diet seems off the charts in this case
Lyc R-sided, desire for achievement, might go to the length of having nerves cut for sake of image? probably too voracious for Lyc?
Sepia-snappiness
Secale-desire sweets; feels like leper (because of underarm odor)
Saccharum album MM (I think this is Smits)
- When I prescribed Saccharum officinale for the first time about one year ago, I didn't realize that this prescription would be the starting point for the discovery of a remedy that has now taken a very important place in my practice. It was the case of a seven-year-old boy with hay fever and problems with aggression. (See Case Number 1 later in the presentation.) The picture of this case was not at all clear for me.
- I had just read about Saccharum in Clarke. My thought was that there must be Saccharum patients in our culture because we consume so much sugar each day, just as there must be Coffea and Thea patients created from our consumption of those substances. In Clarke, you will find that children are said to be very aggressive after eating sugar. So, I decided to prescribe Saccharum officinale because of his great desire for and striking aggravation from eating chocolate and sugar. And the remedy had a marvelous effect!
- My second Saccharum case was really a beautiful one. (See Case Number 2 later in the presentation.) It helped me to understand the deeper mechanisms of the Saccharum patient. The patient was a 3H-year-old boy with eczema and an insatiable desire for chocolate and sweets. Within two weeks after giving him Saccharum officinale his desire had disappeared; within three months his eczema had disappeared. Most notable was the boy's reaction three days after the remedy. He woke in the middle of the night, weeping and wanting to be held tightly by his mother. This behavior
continued for two nights.
- I thought a lot about this second case. This boy obviously needed so much sugar and sucked his fingers because there was a strong suppressed need for affection. This real need for affection came up after the Saccharum, was satisfied, and then everything was all right. He didn't need sugar anymore after that. Sucking expresses the need for affection. The first thing we do when we are born is to suck the mother's breast. When that is not possible or when there are problems with nursing, then a Saccharum patient can easily be created.
Through my study of Saccharum officinale as a new "arrow" on the homeopathic "bow" I have become impressed by the influence of sugar on our health. Today, everyone is convinced of the adverse effects of smoking and of alcohol and drug abuse. But sugar is rarely suspected as a toxic agent, except for its relationship to obesity. Nevertheless, the great Dr. Hering warned us a century ago that a large proportion of chronic diseases in women and children are caused by the use of too much sugar (WB). Leg ulcers and myocardial degeneration were known to be caused by the use of
sugar (WB).
- At that time, sugar was already known for a number of uses:
• As an antiseptic, combating infection and putrifaction (WB).
• As a solvent, acting on fibrin, stimulating secretion by the intense osmotic changes induced, and thus rinsing out the wound with serum from within and favoring healing (WB).
• As a nutrient and tonic in wasting disorders, anemia, neurasthenia, and so forth, increasing weight and power (WB).
- I have found Saccharum officinale to be an important remedy for all kinds of infections with foul, purulent discharges, such as sinusitis, chronic rhinitis, and otitis. Probably the excessive use of sugar in our modern society (about 130 pounds and 100 pounds per person each year in the United States and Europe, respectively) is responsible for a number of chronic infections and chronic diseases. Dr. Hering said that sugar provokes a degeneration of blood vessels resulting in bad circulation and arteriosclerosis.
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Examples of Typical Saccharum Patients
- In the following paragraphs, I'll describe a child and an adult who exemplify Saccharum characteristics. Clarke describes Saccharum children as overweight, resembling Calcarea, but I have found that most Saccharum children are thin and very pale. Adult Saccharum patients display much more obesity.
The Saccharum Child
Male
Age 3H
Chronic ear problems since he was ten months old.
Diminished hearing.
Chronic colds October through April with frequent epistaxis, recurrent otitis media, and an almost chronic ear discharge.
Gets tubes inserted in his eardrums every winter.
Perspires a lot, especially on his neck at night.
Profuse salivation day and night.
Mouth is always open.
Aggressive behavior; quick-tempered; spits on other children; throws things; kicks or bites other children.
Very changeable moods.
Afraid of nothing (but was afraid of water and screamed loudly when he was a baby).
Cuddles only with his mother.
Started walking when he was 1H and started to speak early.
Warm. Wears shorts in the winter and likes to walk in bare feet.
Enormous need for sweets; accepts only soft food; very thirsty for cold drinks; loves lemons and eggs; averse to warm food and cooked vegetables; loves raw vegetables.
Plan: First, I gave him Belladonna 1MK, with some good results. The most remarkable result was the disappearance of his bad temper after waking. But the Belladonna did not produce a real breakthrough:
He continues to have ear problems from time to time
He still has a big hole in his left eardrum, and the ear, nose, and throat specialist is considering a transplant.
His character has not really changed.
He is very restless.
He still perspires a lot on the head and the neck at night.
He has to eat frequently; when playing outside, he often comes back into the house to ask for candy. He has to eat immediately when he wakes in the morning.
He became aggressive after his grandmother had given him too much candy.
He is very sensitive to pain.
He never sucks his thumb and never puts anything in his mouth.
When he has to leave home to go to scouts, he complains of nausea and pain in the abdomen.
Plan: Then, I gave him Saccharum officinale 10MK, once a month for five months. This remedy produced a dramatic change on every level.
His ear problems have disappeared completely. His left eardrum closed totally in two months.
He salivates much less.
His mouth closed gradually.
He perspires normally now.
His behavior changed dramatically. He is less restless, his temper has stabilized, and he is not aggressive anymore. He still has an abnormal need for sweets and cuddling.
Plan: I am continuing Saccharum officinale 10MK, once every two months.
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The Saccharum Adult
Female
Age 55
Always hungry and has to eat every one or two hours; otherwise, trembles and feels weak.
Nauseated if eats sweets when hungry, even a little bit of chocolate is too much.
Aversion to sweets, even as a child.
Sucked her thumb until age seven, when she first got braces on her teeth.
Irritable after waking in the morning until after breakfast.
As a child, sudden fits of blind anger, very aggressive, hit and kicked others.
Sudden anger; barely able to control herself.
Homesick; difficulty in taking leave of persons and objects.
Cried last year when she exchanged her old car for a new one.
Helps others; pays too little attention to herself.
Plan: The other symptoms indicate Carcinosin without any doubt. I hesitated whether to first give Carcinosin and then Saccharum, but I decided to start immediately with Saccharum officinale 10MK.
Her feeling of hunger has changed completely.
She eats much less and doesn't feel the need to eat between meals anymore.
She is feeling much better.
She can eat sweets now without feeling nauseated.
Hypoglycemia: A Disturbed Sugar Metabolism
- In my practice I have found several indications for hypoglycemia or problems related to a disturbed sugar metabolism:
• Ravenous appetite soon after eating.
• Constant appetite; never satisfied.
• Sleeplessness, ameliorated by eating.
• Tendency to eat frequently between meals.
• Irresistible desire for sweets.
• Strong impulse to eat on waking, often because of a faint feeling or weakness.
• Trembling and irritability when hungry, especially on waking.
- The great material cause of hypoglycemia is without any doubt the excessive use of rapidly metabolized carbohydrates (sugar) in our modern diets.
- The other material causes are the use of caffeine, alcohol, and cigarettes. The caffeine in coffee, cola, tea, chocolate, and cocoa stimulates the suprarenal glands to release adrenaline, which in turn stimulates the release of sugar from the liver into the blood. About 70 percent of alcohol abusers suffer from hypoglycemia. And the amount of sugar in the blood increases after a cigarette.
- The emotional causes of hypoglycemia include lack of affection, inability to handle affection, and stress.
- Hypoglycemia strongly influences our social behavior and emotional well-being. Dr. Michael Lesser stated that 67 percent of his psychiatric patients suffer from hypoglycemia. Several research studies show that our behavior becomes erratic, violent, and antisocial under the influence of hypoglycemia. And this is what I see in many of my patients with an unstable sugar metabolism, especially children. They exhibit violent fits of anger with striking, kicking, vandalism, aggression, and discontent.
- Researchers discovered that the behavior of juvenile delinquents ameliorates if they are put on a sugar-free diet. One study found that 82 percent of a group of 106 juvenile delinquents suffered from hypoglycemia. And, by simply changing their diet, the social behavior of the majority changed dramatically (Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet by Dr. Gabriel Cousens).
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Compensatory Mechanisms for lack of Attention, Affection, and Love
- To prescribe Saccharum officinale with success, we have to understand the two main reactions of someone who is profoundly frustrated in their need for love and affection. The person either tries to compensate for this lack or refuses any form of affection. This is the reason Saccharum has so many opposite symptoms:
• An insatiable appetite accompanied by bulimia, or no appetite at all accompanied by anorexia.
• A thirst for large quantities, or no thirst at all.
• A great need to cuddle, or refusing every contact.
• Exaggerated thumb sucking, or no thumb sucking at all.
• Sensitive to pain, or almost insensitive to pain.
• No appetite in the morning, or ravenous appetite on waking so that they have to eat immediately.
- We sometimes see these kinds of contradictory symptoms in the same person. For example, the person may alternate between gentle and very aggressive behavior. Or the person may have cold feet but may sometimes put them outside the covers at night because they feel so hot.
- The predilection for compensating for a lack of affection seems to be by far the most prevalent reason for the use of sweets of any kind. There is a definite link between love and sweets. That's why we talk of a "sweet" boy or girl and why we call our beloved "honey," "sweetheart," and so forth. In our twentieth-century culture, sweets play an enormous role in compensating for our deep and even superficial frustrations.
- That's why the Saccharum patient displays so many symptoms in relation to food desires and aversions, to appetite and eating. The most frequent symptom is the exaggerated desire for any kind of sweets, especially for chocolate, licorice, pastries, and biscuits. The increased desire for sweets or increased appetite before menses and the desire for sweets after dinner are also strong in Saccharum.
- An increase in appetite as the day progresses is typical. Frequently, we see no appetite at all in the morning after rising. The appetite increases by the afternoon and especially in the evening, with a tendency to eat candy in the evening while there is not such a need during the day.
- Another group, which is more or less subject to hypoglycemia, has a strong need to eat immediately on waking and a tendency to eat frequently between meals, not feeling well if the meal is postponed a little. They feel weak, trembling, empty in the stomach, dizzy, and headache-prone if they can't eat at regular hours. They feel weak and irritable in the morning, have difficulty activating themselves, and feel generally better after breakfast.
- Although Saccharum patients can exhibit a lack of appetite and thirst, an insatiable appetite and a great thirst are more common.
- In children, we can see the compensatory mechanisms more clearly. They have a great need for cuddling. They suck their thumb and bite their nails (transformed to an uncontrollable need to smoke in adults), putting everything in the mouth and touching everything. I have frequently seen the relation between sucking the thumb and smoking. Many patients admitted that they exchanged the first for the latter. I was amazed to find so many adults who were still sucking their thumb. Many people smoke to reduce or to control their weight because they experienced that stopping
smoking meant eating more, especially sweets.
- Another compensatory mechanism is loquacity. Most patients are not aware of their secret need for attention. Children have many means at their disposal for getting attention. They can do pranks, ask again and again for something, do things that are forbidden, ask constantly for attention when their parents are talking with someone else, act jealous of their brother or sister, act restless, shout, fight, cry, have pain, become ill.
- In adults, these mechanisms can persist or change into more adult-like forms, such as the exaggerated need to possess objects or to have new things, with a constant feeling of dissatisfaction. Also the incapacity to have a deep and lasting relationship with someone, looking again and again for a new love affair but never finding what they are really seeking. They are like a perforated bucket. You can put all the water you want in it, but the bucket will empty itself constantly. There is a fundamental and profound frustration from early life that cannot be satisfied. (See
Case Number 2.) Only a deep transformation and cure can help such a person, and homeopathy can be a very effective tool for this.
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Obesity and Weight Loss
- Obesity is linked to a lack of affection. Most obese people spend their lifetime trying desperately to lose weight. The problem is that there is a profound frustration underneath the exaggerated need to eat. The body holds a deep fear of lack of affection in the future, so it transforms every ounce to fat and retains this fat. This is the way the body assures its reserves.
- When obese people follow a starvation diet and lose 10 or 20 pounds they start to compensate for the frustrating diet and regain their initial weight in some months or even quicker. Only a person with a very strong will can succeed in such an enterprise. With Saccharum we can often help this type of patient more efficiently and profoundly by treating the underlying problem.
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Differential Diagnosis
- To me, Saccharum officinale most resembles Belladonna, Calcarea carbonica, Carcinosin, Chamomilla, Cuprum metallicum, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Opium, Stramonium, and Tuberculinum bovinum.
- First, let's discuss the group of restless children with behavior problems. For this group, Saccharum officinale most resembles Belladonna, Carcinosin, Chamomilla, Cuprum metallicum, Stramonium, and Tuberculinum bovinum. In the new Repertorium Homeopathicum Syntheticum, edited by Dr. Frederik Schroyens, the important rubric of restless children is, in my experience, still lacking some important remedies such as Belladonna, Cuprum metallicum, Stramonium, and, probably the most important of all, Saccharum officinale.
- Belladonna shares the following symptoms with Saccharum officinale: congestion of the head; flushing; restlessness; aversion to warm food, vegetables, and milk; aggressiveness with striking and kicking; waking from fright; bed-wetting; maliciousness; irritability on waking; impulse to touch everything; changeable mood; and defiance. Both are important remedies for flushes during menopause.
- The resemblance with Calcarea carbonica is logical, because sugar is interacting with the calcium metabolism. The common symptoms are as follows: obesity; tiredness; obstinacy; aversion to warm food; desire for sweets, ice cream, and milk; complaints before menses, including sadness, irritability, pain in mammae, swelling of mammae; head congestion; cold feet, becoming too warm in bed; perspiration of the head, especially at night; and constipation.
- Chamomilla can be difficult to differentiate because of the following symptoms: violence; violent anger; kicking and striking; irritability; sensitivity to pain; extreme thirst; desire to be carried; restlessness; and profuse perspiration at night.
- The differential diagnosis with Stramonium also can be very difficult because Saccharum officinale has almost the same forsaken feeling with the enormous anxiety at night and the fear of being alone at night, obliging the parents to stay with the child until the child falls asleep again. Other common symptoms are as follows: clinging to the mother; ceaseless talking; extreme thirst; violence and violent rage; painlessness of usually painful complaints; jealousy; restlessness; and running about.
- Another important differential diagnosis to make is with Lachesis, which shares the following symptoms with Saccharum: loquacity; jealousy; homesickness; depression in the morning and excitement in the evening; aversion to being touched; flashes of heat during menopause; and sensitivity to pain. You can see enough common symptoms that making a choice is difficult.
- The Saccharum patient can be very tense sometimes, with cramps. This can make it difficult to differentiate from Cuprum metallicum. The common symptoms are as follows: aversion to being touched; lassitude; sensitivity to pain; restlessness; cold feet; timidity; dictatorial behavior; amelioration from being carried about; irritability; destructiveness; night terrors; and loquacity. (See my article on Cuprum metallicum published in the February 1992 edition of Homeopathic Links.)
- Lycopodium can greatly resemble Saccharum. When you are sure that you have a Lycopodium patient and the remedy doesn't work, you have a good chance that the remedy is Saccharum. I had several such cases that proved to be Saccharum. The resemblance is striking: dictatorial behavior; want of self-confidence; need of approbation; fear of undertaking new things; oversensitivity to pain; irritability and sadness in the morning on waking; desire for sweets; insatiable appetite; defiance; disobedience; insolence; unrefreshed sleep; and restlessness while sitting.
- Tuberculinum bovinum has the following symptoms in common with Saccharum: alternating moods; maliciousness; aggressive and destructive behavior; irritability in the morning on waking; dissatisfaction; profuse perspiration during sleep; chronic colds; desire for sweets, salt, and milk; thirst for large quantities; ravenous appetite; restlessness, with an impulse to run; capriciousness; striking; obstinacy; anxiety at night; and bed-wetting.
- It was rather surprising to me to find Opium as a remedy close to Saccharum. The most striking common symptoms are as follows: insensitivity to pain; irresolution; open mouth; and constipation with hard balls.
- I purposely kept Carcinosin for the end, because it has its own history. When the picture of Saccharum became more and more clear to me I was struck by its likeness with Carcinosin. I had several cases with an almost complete picture for both Carcinosin and Saccharum. I decided not to take up the specific symptoms of Carcinosin in the picture of Saccharum, fearing that I would not be able to distinguish them later. And that was a lucky choice. Much later I understood that these remedies follow one after another, first Carcinosin and then Saccharum. This gave me the
option to continue the treatment of a lot of Carcinosin patients when their case was no longer progressing.
- I am still working out the relationship between Saccharum and Carcinosin, but I need more information over a longer period of time before I publish my findings. In my opinion, the main difference is that Saccharum patients compensate rather well for their need for love and affection; Carcinosin patients are much less able to do so and are much more liable to victimize themselves. But there still are a lot of questions to answer.
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Finding the Optimal Dosage: Unresolved Problems
- Often, after a patient takes Saccharum, rather serious aggravations appear, especially acute infections but also pain and mental disturbances. One patient said to me, "I'll never take this horrible medicine again," after I had given her Saccharum officinale 200K. She felt very depressed and had a strong desire to commit suicide. I reconsidered her case carefully and was certain that Saccharum was her remedy. So I convinced her to take Saccharum officinale LM6 every day until she felt any aggravation. Two weeks later she telephoned. She enthusiastically told me that her
depression was completely gone and that she never felt better.
- Other patients get infections such as otitis, sinusitis (often), angina, bronchitis, bursitis, and panaritium. It has been difficult to resolve these problems with lower potencies of Saccharum in a solution or with more specific remedies, and sometimes I have not been able to avoid using antibiotics. I am trying to find out whether Saccharum album (rather than officinale) is a better choice in these cases.
- I am still working out optimal potencies in order to avoid too severe or too long-lasting aggravations. Nevertheless, one thing is absolutely certain. Saccharum officinale is a very deep-acting remedy that touches profound mechanisms in the human being, and it can be hazardous to give the high potencies that classical homeopaths use. For adults, I often start with 30 or 200K. For children in relatively good health and with behavioral problems, I often give 10MK without any problem. I repeat the 30K every week, the 200K every two weeks, the 1MK every three weeks, and so
on.
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Synthesis of Saccharum Officinale
Adults and Children
1. Type: pale, death-like face (Cl); dry skin; obesity with compulsive eating, especially sweets, cakes and pastries, potato chips — anything. Very aggressive children, often emaciated.
2. FAMILY history of DIABETES and cancer.
3. AILMENTS from lack of affection; lack of physical contact in early childhood — especially babies who didn't get breast-feeding — combined with a lack of contact with the mother; lack of attention; lack of love; behavior rewarded by sweets.
4. A desperate search for love and affection because of a fundamental frustration in affection in the past, mostly in early childhood.
5. Great need to CUDDLE, to be caressed and touched, or difficulty in admitting this need and refusing every contact.
6. SUCKING THE FINGERS OR THUMB almost the whole day and during the night, or having never sucked the thumb at all. Putting everything in the mouth, or never putting anything in the mouth. Sucking the thumb until an advanced age. [I have been surprised to discover how many adults suck their thumb or fingers. If you ask them, they will say, "Yes, sometimes when I am in bed or alone in front of the TV, I put my thumb in my mouth."]
7. BITING NAILS, up to the quick; biting toenails. [Smoking is the same thing. It is another oral expression, a more adult expression, of the need for love. I have often observed that heavy smokers stopped biting their nails or sucking their fingers after beginning to smoke. When they stop smoking they start to bite their nails again or they eat sweets, but it is the same. Often people smoke to control their weight, so you can see all of this is the same problem.]
8. HOMESICKNESS (TA, TS). Difficulty in taking leave of people or objects. Difficultly in accepting losses. [This is logical. When you feel a lack of love and affection, it is mainly with the mother. Saccharum expresses more the mother principle. Carcinosin is more the father principle — the ego, the self-confidence. Often my Carcinosin patients tell me they feel much more after taking the remedy and they no longer try to constantly please others, which is a big change. Saccharum is working much more on the mother principle — love, affection, and attention. Homesickness is
a very important symptom in the Saccharum picture. There is also a tendency to have many objects around them, hence the difficulty in taking leave of people and letting go of objects. It is an attachment, an insecurity.]
9. JEALOUSY, from fear of losing the beloved. VERY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE LOVE OF PARTNER OR PARENTS.
10. LOQUACITY, MOSTLY TO HAVE ATTENTION.
11. IRRESOLUTION.
12. IRRITABLE (Cl), morning, until breakfast; when one or two hours without taking any food; irritable when hungry, ameliorated by eating.
13. Slow to wake up and revive after rising in the morning.
14. ALTERNATING MOODS, gentleness alternating with aggression.
15. SENSITIVE TO PAIN or NOT SENSITIVE TO PAIN AT ALL. FAINTING FROM PAIN. Fear of fainting. Fear of seeing blood. Fainting on seeing blood. Fainting from a blood puncture.
16. RESTLESS; restless legs.
17. AGGRAVATION: sweets; chocolate; warm weather; in early morning (Cl), with difficulty in starting the day.
18. AMELIORATION: evening; sweets (Cl); eating (Cl); after breakfast.
19. AVERSION: (cooked) vegetables; warm food; anything except sweets (Cl); sweets; warm milk; fat; butter.
20. DESIRES: chocolate, licorice, sweets, pastries and cakes; sweets after dinner and before menses; raw vegetables; tea; COLD DRINKS, especially water; (warm) milk; fat; salt; butter; bread and butter; sour; lemons; mustard. [In my experience, 80 percent of Saccharum patients say they desire licorice.]
21. THIRST for large quantities. Desires water. Or absence of thirst.
22. Ravenous appetite soon after eating with feeling of emptiness in stomach and general weakness. Tendency to eat frequently between meals. Has to eat at the normal hour, otherwise weak, dizzy, trembling, headache. Ravenous appetite, morning, after waking, has to eat first. Insatiable appetite not ameliorated by eating.
23. Little or no appetite in the morning, but insatiable appetite in the evening, especially for sweets. No feeling of hunger at all at any time; no desire to eat.
24. COMPULSIVE EATING. Bulimia with obesity.
25. WEAKNESS, lack of energy. Sudden weakness, ameliorated by eating. Weakness after sweets.
26. Extremely AGGRESSIVE, quarrelsome (Cl), violent (TA), malicious and defiant, especially after eating chocolate or sweets. Kicks and hits.
27. FITS OF ANGER, unapproachable.
28. SADNESS, aggravated after sweets. Lack of joy in life, feeling that life is not worth living. No real feeling of relationship with other people and with life in general. Feeling that everybody in the world is against him. Hypochondriacal mood (Cl).
29. Sensation of LONELINESS. FORSAKEN FEELING.
30. DISCONTENTED with himself and with everything. Hard to please.
31. TIMIDITY. FEAR OF FAILURE (Carcinosin). Sensitive to criticism; great need of approbation.
32. FEAR OF DARK. FEAR OF LOSING BELOVED PERSONS AND PARENTS.
33. FEAR OF FAILURE. WANT OF SELF-CONFIDENCE.
34. PHYSICAL TENSION.
35. WAKING VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING.
36. Instability of body temperature. Extreme chilliness alternating with heat, especially at night. Hot feet, sticks them out of bed, often only one foot. Sticks one or two arms out of bed or sleeps with the upper half of body uncovered.
37. Extreme DRYNESS: dryness of skin, hair, nails, hands, feet, inside of nose, eyes, mouth, throat, vagina, stool.
38. Painful ovulation and menses. Complaints before menses including sadness, irritability, swelling and painful breasts (Sepia, Carcinosin). Brown bloody discharge preceding menses.
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