Vipera berus
MAN, 70 YEARS OLD
You see, what happened. After Secale cornutum (case 30) the
pain in the toe disappeared, the toe is not blue anymore.
A: But your toe ?
P: When I knock against something, it still hurts very much,
but otherwise not. Maybe the nail has caused the pain.
A: The toe looks
well. It is still a little colder than the others. But the pain has completely disappeared ?
P: Normally, yes.
Do you see the difference ? The toe
is still blue, but the pain has disappeared. Only when he knocks against
something it hurts, otherwise he can sleep without pain at night.
A: Show me. Yes, it is a swelling of the right
ankle.
P: The left also a little.
Diagnosis: phlebothrombosis.
That happens after Secale.
After Secale he had to lie the whole time, because of
the toe. You clearly see the swelling.
I visited him the evening before I made this
video. I gave him the remedy for the disease; but you can
not know yet which remedy it was. He will tell the modalities now.
A: Yesterday evening we were here ... Show me
both legs. Yesterday, the swelling was stronger here below. Now it isn't so
tight anymore.
P: Yes, it has become weaker.
A: You had pain ...
P: Yes, here, it extended upwards and
especially when I let my foot hang down, also when I
was supporting on it.
He says he can not sit at the table, only when his foot is in this
position: he can not let him hang down. That is a
sign for phlebothrombosis.
A: Also when you bend your foot backwards, it
hurts.
P: Yes.
A: You rested because of your toe. That's the
reason why you got phlebitis at the right side. Yesterday, you took a few
spoonfuls of the dissolved remedy.
P: Also today.
A: How is the pain compared to yesterday ?
P: It has decreased very much, but it hasn't
disappeared completely yet. It has improved for 50 %.
A: Does it still hurt
when you let your leg hang down ?
P: Yes, I still feel something here.
A: Yesterday, you absolutely couldn't let your
leg hang down ?
P: No, I had to lay it upwards. I couldn't let
it rest like today.
A: Also while eating you had to lay your leg
upwards.
FEEDBACK
A: The pain in the toe has nearly disappeared.
P: Only, when I knock against something.
A: As we see, the swelling has completely
disappeared now. The pain in the calf has also disappeared ?
P: Yes, I still feel it a little, but ...
A: The swelling at the ankle has decreased.
I made the video inside the house and the
light is not so good, but you can see: no difference anymore between the two
legs. It is
a very important symptom, this bursting feeling, when this leg is hanging down
- this together with the symptoms of a phlebothrombosis
(a blood clot in a vein) or thrombophlebitis
(inflammation of the wall of a vein with associated thrombosis, often
occurring in the legs during pregnancy.)
- first you have to think of Vipera.
Here you have to be a doctor and be capable to make the diagnosis. Besides,
this helps you to think about Vipera. How many
remedies are there in the rubric "hanging down agg." ?
EXTREMETIES, HANG down, letting
limbs, agg. : Alum., am-c., berb., Calc., carb-v., caust., cina., dig., hep.,
ign., lyc., nat-m., nux-v., ox-ac., par., ph-ac., phos.,
phyt., plat., plb., puls., ran-s., ruta., sabin., stann., sul-ac., sulph., thuj., valer., vip.
How can you find the remedy,
if you don't know it concerns a thrombophlebitis or a
phlebothrombosis ?
Then, Vipera is especially the
remedy when the modality, a bursting feeling while hanging down exists.
He smokes, and he got a phlebothrombosis.
It was a very serious situation. Now he is paralysed
on one side. He also had a thrombosis in the brain and now a slight paralysing on the left side. The left arm was very heavy -
before the remedy which comes now.