State of disposition/case presentation 2, Digest Number 305

[Cl.Mennel]

Dear Mintusists,
dear Farbod,

I would have acted like you, if it had been my patient, and I think it
is the correct method in this case. With information given the logical
conclusion is Ignatia. Mind that the decisive symptom to find the pt's
similimum occurred only after being treated with Ignatia in C30 and
C200.
Thus my
theory would be that as Kent states Ignatia can be an acute: Acute in
this lady was the shock she suffered when seeing her daughter die, and
the grief following it. By the way I don't see any disappointment in
this case, it is grief according to my understanding. She can't get over
the death of her loved one, she has been still mourning over the
tragedy. It was that tragedy, that shock that triggered off her
unhealthy
state of mind, to some extent hysterical - she even doesn't remember the
physical pain in her knee.

Thus I think Ignatia led you to the similimum. Only after
having taken Ignatia she can tell of symptoms to find the similimum.
Maybe Ignatia
made her sufficiently clear and ready for the similimum.

find with the
help of that similar remedy the similimum.

Of course a human being consists of body, mind and soul, therefore both
the "Leibes- und Seeelenbeschaffenheit" as Hn says have to be taken into
consideration. If a pt., however, is unable to tell any bodily symptoms,
any modalities, any preferences what else can you do but to rely on the
mental symptoms, which are covering in their totality any other
perception of the self and the body.

Therefore Ignatia seems to have been only the outer layer, whereas
Digitalis was the layer near to the core of the pt.'s personality.

All the best
Claudia

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I checked her pulse rate and found it 48/min. I gave her DIG.
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[Farbod Rahnama]

Dear Claudia
Thanks for your attention.
1_You told: "Leibes- und Seeelenbeschaffenheit" May I ask you what it means?

2_ Ign. and Nat-m. was useless in this case. The palpitation and anxiety were not untold symptoms. They were accessory symptoms.
Suppose that these symptoms were apparent from the beggining. If a patient with these symptoms(weeping anxiety and palpitation) and so called history of grief, came to me and if I only emphasise on mental symptoms, I would miss the simillimum.
We need a system to categorize rubrics. For example rubrics based on proving are more important than clinical ones or etc. etc.
Here in the so called case the rubric wich led to simillimum is"palpitation with anxiety". It is 1-a proving based rubric 2-psoric symptom.
There is systems to evaluate symptoms. For example mind and general symptoms are more reliable than particulars. Or peculiar are most important than commons. So we know how to evaluate natural diseases symptoms. But I have found only a little about how to evaluate artificial diseases symptoms (rubrics).
Whats your idea?
Best
Farbod