Ignatia/ bloodpressure

[Nandana T. Pai]

Hi Group,

Read all the responses.Thanks for the response it did help me a lot.
Now may given a general background of the dispensary. I am a Intern will
complete in May, the dispensary where i go is in a town and it is a
free, govt dispensary. 90% of the pt are low income group working
class, who have so much of suffering and worries and grief through out
their life span.

This pt came here when she was under allopathic medication, she knew
that there is medicine i homoeopathy and it will be cheaper so will come
i her budget. She was diagnosed to have hight BP some 2 yrs back when
she fainted and had heavy bleeding from the scalp, ( that period she was
getting vertigo and used to faint due to Anemia, just 6 mnt before that
when she had vertigo she had checked BP and had no high BP) She earlier
had described this as accident - was not a accident but she had
fainted when she was sitting on her son's bike, she was blacked out for
some hrs during which she bleaded profusely and was diagnosed to have
high BP and was later found to have some small pathology change in the
heart. Since then she was taking allopathic medication she also had
sleeplessness for which also medicine was given . A few months back
when she came for the consultation she was having the sleeplessness even
after taking the pill, and she was was also having pain in achilles
tendon following the sleeplessness. So she thought of changing the
medicine. She was having some 190/ 100 mm of hg at that time. Last 16
yrs she is a widow. Before that for 13 yrs he husband was mentally ill
following some shock ( that history is not clear to her) after getting
well after so many many types of consultation and constant prayers. He
died in an accident. She has two sons, and had so suffer a lot to bring
them up now they are having small income so she does not have to work.
She used to work as a house maid in various housed for her income. - ie
it was a very very hard life, she also looked after her mother who was
suffering from BP and had passed away just a few 5-6 yrs back. She has a
reduced appetite had no any desires or aversion, thermally no any
affinity can be taken as more to ward's chilly as she does not feel much
hot. Workaholic - which she cannot avoid as she through out her life
never had time to rest. As her mother had BP she used to avoid excess
salts in her diet. Both deliverys where normal which no any gestational
complaints. She was given Sepia single dose, later which a gap of more
that two weeks, single does a time she had been given Thuja, Syphilinum,
Sulphur, Ignatia - Sepia - Nat mur. In various potency. Now she has
occasional leg pain, no presenting complaints, she gets sleep ( very
good sleep) has no any tensions in life. Has a reduced appetite. But
the BP is from a range 210/110, 210/120 , 190/100 etc in these
periods. She is not taking any allopathic medication. As the above
medication was not working in controlling the BP we had given her
spartium i potency, some time had given her Rauwlfia : Arnica etc with
out any effect.

Today when she came i took the BP it was 190/100 in rt arm , she had
work in home and later walked for half hr and just came and sat to take
the BP not even waiting to take the op ticket and so when i was taking
the BP of left had it came again down to 180/90 late she sat for some 20
minutes and when BP was taken it was again 210/120 ( rt) and 200/ 120(
lt) . As there was a rush of pts when i was examining her the second
time i did not get time to go more into her and to find my falls. -
This is a thing which offend happens. I my self was not able to relax
so how will i tell her to relax and take deep breath.

And probing more to individualis is often useless as most of them have
no any craving or particulars for them self as they live with what they
have (live for the children or relatives etc) . But the fact is, they
are happier than i myself or any high income person is. I have told her
to bring the scan report or any previous papers she is having with her.

I only wanted to know if the change( reduction ) in pressure is due to
failure of the herat to compensate the hard work done during the
walking. Any way it is not white collar syndrome ( i am happy to know
about this)

Nandana.