CASES

CASE1

Bufo rana

BOY, 7 YEARS OLD

The father of this boy is a doctor and the mother is a doctor as well. The father is a general doctor and a acupuncturist and the mother is Lycopodium. They say the problem is eczema, but I see another problem

MP: He has eczema. Previously, he didn't have complaints with that. He has it a little bit since his first year. It went up- and downwards, but lately it has really exploded. He didn't have it so easy in his first school-year. I don't know whether it has something to do with it, but at the moment it itches very much. That is the problem.

A: Did you use ointments?

MP: I used a Cortisone ointment, but not much, the last weeks a little.

A: Sit still, boy. He has eczema on his eyelids, on his ears. It is bleeding. Is there moisture coming out?

MP: Yes, serous moisture.

A: Which colour does it have when it is on his pillow?

MP: He scratches it open. Usually, it is bloody.

A: Is it yellow sometimes?

MP: Yes, pink, yellow.

A: Does it stick?

MP: Yes.

A: Are you anxious?

P: No.

MP: He is not an anxious type.

A: Yes, he is a little bit anxious.

MP: In fact, that is a problem of the last years. Especially, fear to fail. Fear, that plays an important role. Last year, I went with him to a children's psychologist because he had such a fear of failing.

A: Aha. He also has cracks in the corners of his eyes.

MP: Yes. That arose within a short time.

A: And the feet?

MP: Do you want me to take off his clothes?

A: Yes.

Ah, on the elbow, on the back and in the folds of the knee. It is especially expressed in cracks.

MP: Yes. And he scratches and scratches, unbelievable - if he sits still.

A: He appears to me as a very quiet boy. Is that right?

MP: He has a closed character.

He is closed, but not quiet. He is restless and closed. When the mother says that is closed we think of which remedy? Of Natrum muriaticum. Indeed, this remedy has very strong the closeness of Natrum muriaticum. Second, we can see, that he lives in his own world, that he is mentally absent

MP: He is not very quiet. He has a brother and with him he always does something. I have three children. He is the eldest. His brother is one year younger. He is hyper-sensitive, he always gets bronchitis, asthma from cats, dogs, dust, but he doesn't have problems with the skin.

The remedy for cracks in the eyes and ears with oozing yellow discharge is Graphites. But if you prescribe Graphites for this boy, it would terribly start itching, so that he will nearly go crazy. That is why you have to be careful with psoric remedies. If you prescribe a remedy for eczema you have to be completely sure that the remedy is right, otherwise the patient will suffer a lot

A: His stool is normal?

MP: Yes, that is no problem.

Do you see he is boring in his nose. Which remedy bores in his nose? Arum triphyllum and Cina. Cina bores in the nose and in the rectum because of worms, but only boring in the nose Arum triphyllum is the first remedy. Arum triphyllum has this redness, the nose is running the whole time and there is excoriation under the nose. Then the very high voice, coming from low to high uncontrollable, changeable voice. Arum triphyllum is the remedy for coryzas

A: Is he so closed from character?

MP: Yes, he likes to read. But he also has aggressive fits. It has improved lately.

A: Aggressive fits. In what sense?

MP: Yes, weeping, weeping and he doesn't stop anymore. Also when something went wrong. He can come home from school, throw away something and afterwards crying for it.

It has improved quite a lot with the anger and especially with the weeping. Lately, he sleeps bad, because of the itching. He comes at night to us and says that it itches very much. Often, he also needs my attention. I am also very busy. I am a doctor. In the evening he often calls in my practice to say that it itches. Then we talk a little and then it is better. The other always asks attention. But he doesn't. He draws himself back and asks for it in this way.

A: Somehow, he has a strange appearance. He is sitting like that...

MP: As if he is dreaming. My husband and I have the impression as if he is constant living in another world. He is always with his thoughts somewhere else.

Which disease seems as if they are constant living in their own world

With autism. You have to use your eyes, your feeling in seeing your patients, then you notice immediately there is something strange. Which remedy does it remind me of

MP: It is very difficult for him to sitstill. He is a kind of person who likes to be outside. Playing alone, or with his animals. He likes animals very much. I think it is a technique of him to dream in order to redo the year. He is a real dreamer. You often have the impression he doesn't listen. But if you ask him something he is interested in he heard it.

A: Don't you think, characteristically, it is a great problem?

MP: Well, yes. Characteristically?

A: It is a bad expression. I mean that there is a problem of relation between him and the outside world.

MP: Yes. That is right. It is difficult for him to express himself. If he could tell what he feels, I think it would be much more easier. I have the impression that he is not happy in school lately.

A: Now, he is seven years old. The way he sits here seems as if it doesn't interest him at all. Or is it anxiety?

MP: I don't know. Put on your pullover again. He was anxious to come here. "What will they do there, what will happen there?"

A: Let him do. He often puts his tongue out.

MP: Yes, he has a little prognathism, a protruding chin. Yes, he often does.

She says he has a prognathism. You have the impression that his chin is a little bit forward, besides he has thick lipsand he is sitting there and is always putting his tongue out.

A: He also has thick lips.

MP: Yes, his father also.

A: Yes, the picture of the child is not...

So, we can say that he is a child that is more or less... Yes, what about his mental capacity?

MP: Yes, last year I thought it was appropriate to send him to school. Then I have let him do an intelligence test. He did it very well. Therefore, I don't understand he has such problems in the first school-year. I think, probably, it was too much.

The monitor is standing on the left side, the same place where it well be the next consultation. Do you see how indifferent the child is here? You have to compare this indifference now with the feedback, also his expression

MP: I went to a centre, to an orthopedist who has a very good access to children. He said he had to go on his toes. He has a slight laterization. Indeed, he is right handed, he has difficulties, it takes a little bit longer, he knows it, but he has to think a little bit longer. The intensive attention is a problem for him.

Do you hear all this theorizing? Incredible. She talks, and talks and tries to explain everything

A: I also remark that he is restless.

MP: Oh yes.

A: He is not quiet.

MP: He can not sit still.

The remedy is one of the most important in restless children

A: Does he go to bed early?

MP: No, he doesn't like to go to bed early. I wanted him to go to bed earlier, but he wants to utilize his little hour, because the other two children are already in bed.

Can this be Sulphur? No. And why can this not be Sulphur

In Sulphur you have or symptoms on the level of the skin or on the level of the lungs or maybe the bones or on the level of the mind, the nervous system. If you suppress the skin symptoms in Sulphur, the asthma or the neurologic symptoms will appear.But this is a remedy that has skin symptoms and neurologic symptoms at the same time. The restlessness, this behaviour is not a consequence of suppressed eruptions. This behaviour, together with the skin symptoms is an indication for this remedy

MP: Then he wants the utmost. But when he goes to bed at half past seven, then he says that he cannot sleep and he is doing some things until half past eight. At half past 8, 9 it is time for him to sleep.

A: Does he often has a tendency to bite?

MP: Grinding teeth, no, he doesn't.

A: I mean, really biting.

MP: Yes, a few minutes ago. In the waiting-room he has bitten in his thumb. He doesn't suck his thumb, but he bites on it. I noticed it when we were waiting. Do you also mean biting of other children?

A: Biting in general.

This remedy also bites nails

Which is the first remedy that bites nails to the flesh? Medorrhinum. In this remedy the biting of nails is an expression of nervosity. If you look in the rubric "biting" (p. 9; General p. 8) in "mind" the remedy is there; not in the rubric "biting nails", there it has to be added

MP: He has also bitten his nails.

A: Does he bear music?

MP: Yes, he likes music, not particularly, but he bears it.

I asked him if he goes to bed early. Does anyone know why I asked this question? It has a certain reason. You will know it later.

And there is a reason why I asked if he likes music. In books they write about this remedy that it does not bear music, that music aggravates. I think I have six or seven such cases, but until now I have not seen an aggravation by music yet in any of these cases. All of them were indifferent or liked music

A: Did he ever have epileptic fits?

MP: No. In fact, he has been ill very little. Only the first year he regularly had otitis. He didn't have antibiotics.

I can give you this on paper: if you suppress or try to treat him with tranquilizers or Cortisone in this case he will get epilepsy. If you suppress the skin symptoms or the neurologic symptoms in this child you push this child to a real grand-mal epilepsy

A: Is he impatient?

MP: Yes. He can't wait very well.

Impatience, that is very important for this remedy

A: Does he easily perspire?

MP: No.

A: Does he play with his penis?

MP: Yes, but not exaggerated. Yesterday, he scratched because it itches there as well.

With the picture on the video I would like to give you an impression of the remedy. How is his appearance? How could you describe him? Foolish, a kind of foolish appearance

Second, he is sitting there and his tongue is always coming out - "mouth, motion of the tongue, lapping" (p. 407)

Then I asked him if he goes to bed early. Why? Because he wants to be alone. And why does he want to be alone

Because he wants to practice masturbation. These people want to be alone. They go to bed, naked so that they can touch their genitals easily. Handling genitals is not only Hyoscyamus, but also this remedy - "handles genitalia" (p. 698; General p. 597)

A long time ago I visited a man in psychiatry who was walking up and down the whole day, in one hand he had his penis, in the other a piece of bread, always up and down, completely restless. That is this remedy.They walk the whole day, are restless, can not wait, are nervous and impatient

Also in the rubric "handles genitalia" this remedy is important beside Medorrhinum and Hyoscyamus

In a child that has an inflammation of the penis without phimosis you have to think of this remedy, because the inflammation often occurs because they play too much with their penis. This remedy often has furuncles and other skin symptoms

A: You haven't noticed it.

MP: No. He had a phimosis. He has been operated on when he was three years old. There were really recidivistic inflammations, therefore he has been operated on.

He had a phimosis. The remedy is not there, but it has to be added

A: I think that the big problem is not the eczema, it has to disappear of course, but I think that his development has been disturbed somehow. Somehow too little interest, too little concentration capacity. You say yourself that he lives in his own world.

I said that I have the feeling that this child is disturbed in his development, feeble-minded is. What does this mean? It does not mean that intellectually he is not able to understand this or that, but that in general he is not developed in accordance with his age. He behaves like a child of three years old. Also very intelligent mathematicians can be behind in their development concerning their behaviour

MP: Yes, we have tried to excite his interest about animals. He will never read anything out of his own. At the moment we do a kind of behaviour therapy. He gets a point from me when he does something good. When he has 50 points he may choose an animal. And now he is asking. At the moment he has interests.

A: That is not closeness, that is something else. His behaviour is childish, behind for his age.

MP: Yes. But he is tall for his age.

A: Tall for his age, that is right.

MP: Yes. That's why they take him older and is expected more of him...

A: ... than corresponding his behaviour. Yes, that's right.

Do you see the difference? Physically, he is the tallest in class, his intelligence is normal, but he is behind in his development

A: It is good that you have come. It is easy for us, but not for the classical medicine. Did he ever have inflammation of the nail rim?

MP: No. Maybe as a very little baby, in the first weeks, but I don't know. I think, probably, it is a failure of attention, the other two don't have it.

A: It has nothing to do with education, it is a constitutional problem.

MP: He is not like this the whole time. Only when he comes somewhere for the first time.

A: Also a kind of timidity?

MP: Yes.

A: Did he get antibiotics?

MP: Maybe two bottles in his whole life.

A: How was he as a little child?

MP: He has cried a lot, had a lot of cramps. Only he didn't get breast-feeding, the other two did.

A: Only he has this appearance, the other children not.

MP: Yes. The other two are both vivid and unsophisticated. If you punish them they easily forget. He doesn't.

A: Does he react this way to punishments?

MP: Yes, with weeping as if he has been imprisoned.

A: Now, we give him a remedy. Take care that he doesn't drink coffee anymore, nor peppermint.

MP: Have you heard it? He drinks coffee very little, but he often asks for it. And when he doesn't get it...

May he drink milk?

A: Of course.

MP: Also goat milk?

A: Yes.

MP: Everything else?

A: Yes.

FEEDBACK (26.2.88)

Now, do you see the difference! Now, he is interested in the monitor. Do you see how he has changed? Also his hair is better

A: You were here in January. Then, we talked about the boy and I gave him a remedy. Tell me what the reaction is to the remedy.

MP: We came home and it was already better.

A: How long after the remedy?

MP: Immediately.

FP: They came home and he had changed completely. He had a completely different appearance.

You do not believe that? But indeed, the father said that he had changed after four hours, he had another appearance. That is a miracle, a homoeopathic miracle

A: You are acupuncturist and doctor. You don't suck it out of your finger.

FP: No, no.

A: How long after the remedy?

MP: I gave it in the car. We were still driving, so a few hours later. You couldn't do anything with him the last week.

A: Yes, I know.

MP: I noticed that he took his school-books spontaneously and wanted to read. This hasn't happened lately. Because he refused everything that has to do with school. So, in the evening he started to read himself.

A: After the remedy.

MP: Yes.

FP: And he was nice, he was cheerful, everything. At once.

MP: Only that night. At night he wanted to lie between us. That hasn't happened either the last time. Everything had aggravated. When I called it was already very bad. Then I had to wait a few weeks before I could get an appointment, at that moment it was hopeless with him. The same evening we already noticed a change in his behaviour. He wanted to go to sleep, otherwise he didn't want to go to bed. I had to force him. But the next morning he was just the opposite. He got up and wanted to drink coffee. He knew he was not allowed.

Do you see how he puts his tongue out. Now, he puts his tongue out in a normal way - that is a big difference to previously

A: Sit on the lap of your father, my boy, then you see yourself on television. (The child is sitting on the lap) He couldn't do that before. He lay on the chaise-longue.

FP: Yes.

A: Go on.

MP: He was very aggressive, everything had to be destroyed. On Thursday he had a lot of eruptions and itching.

He had an aggravation and the father called me for the skin. I said that it was a very good reaction. Do you see the skin now, it is beautiful. These children can come in jail because of the masturbation, the passion for destruction and things like that. Not only Stramonium, Tuberculinum and other remedies destroy things, also this remedy can be very angry and destructive. "Destructiveness" (p. 36)

DESTRUCTIVENESS : Agar., anan., apis., bell., bufo., calc., camph., canth., carb-s., cupr., cur., hura., hyos., lach., laur., merc-i-f., mosch., op., phos., plat., plb., sol-t-ae., staph., stram., stront., sulph., tarent., tub., verat.

MP: When he came home from school at noon he wanted to tell us about the school.

FP: Otherwise he wouldn't do.

MP: But he was very sad, he was weeping for the slightest thing. It came out in a different way. The last weeks he was very bad, with the eruptions and the itching...

A: Before you came here.

MP: Yes. Then I noticed that he slept the night through, that he didn't wake up anymore. His behaviour already changed the first week, but his eczema...

A: You called that the eczema was very bad.

MP: Yes, terrible. Also the reactions from school: "It is very bad that he has such terrible eruptions." On Wednesday, a week later he had a very bad day. He dramatized all the problems he got in school. Everything was negative. Then, the eruptions ameliorated gradually. Until now it is rather good.

A: The eczema has improved clearly.

MP: Spectacular.

A: About a week later you called me and said that it was all right. But now it is very well compared to previously. Fantastic.

The condition of the skin has changed. It looks completely different, it is as soft as the skin of a baby

MP: But it was difficult for him that week.

A: Well yes.

FP: Psychically, he is satisfied.

MP: Now, he was happy he could come.

A: That is incredible.

MP: Otherwise he wouldn't do this.

A: He would never have sat on the lap previously. It is incredible.

FP: Oh no, impossible.

MP: He can laugh again. A few weeks ago we went out on an evening and when we came home he was again aggressive. Everything had to be destroyed. Now, I don't know whether there is a relation.

FP: He was enormously negative. That is different now.

MP: He was opposite to everything you proposed. That lasted quite a long time. A month after the remedy I thought I have to go back. Then, the eczema was better, but his behaviour was so contrary for a few days.

A: That is incredible.

MP: Is it normal that he still has this now and then?

A: Yes, that he shows such reactions. He has to work out his emotions. That is fantastic. You also realize that the eczema was not the problem, but it was a much deeper problem.

MP: Yes, that is clear for us. In fact, we had come for that reason. In the beginning you try everything but you know that it has less sense. So, we haven't put anything on it. At the moment he brushes his teeth without toothpaste.

A: Does he bite his nails, is he hungry?

MP: A little. It was much stronger before.

A: There is a clear change.

FP: He has also lost some weight. Yes, he has changed.

A: Fine.

MP: In school he is also better.

A: Now, we will wait, we let the remedy work. It might be that we have to wait for half a year. Maybe, he has to take the remedy earlier. Fortunately, he could take the remedy. Behind the ears the eczema is much better. Also at other places.

MP: If he is bored he still rubs his eyes a little.

FEEDBACK (29.4.1988)

MP: He is doing very well at the moment, isn't he?

A: Is the eczema better?

MP: Here and there still a little, behind the ears, in the neck and on his arms. It has nearly disappeared on his back and in the folds of the knees. Maybe, it is because of his shorts.

It is three months after the remedy. I have given Bufo M only once and afterwards only Sac-lac

A: Tell us, how is his behaviour?

MP: It has improved further, especially the last two weeks. With regard to his other brother and sister he has improved very much. It is also better in school. If he comes home he says cheerfully: "Good noon," and he tells us about school. He didn't do that previously.

A: He didn't do that previously.

MP: No, he didn't say anything. Now and then he still has a period when he can be angry, when it doesn't fit him, but it is clearly less.

A: Look here. How do you feel?

P: Good.

A: Now, he in the first school-year.

MP: Yes. Now, he receives Holy Christ for the first time. In the beginning he had big difficulties. It was everything together. Now, he follows a therapy because he has difficulties with learning. Every day he has one hour assistance, because he is behind especially on the speech level and now he has retrieved it.

A: All right.

MP: Now, I don't know, it is everything together, the therapy, the assistance, in fact it is everything together.

A: Well yes, assistance can not give such changes.

MP: Now, he likes to come. Last time, he didn't want to come. Now, we have come for his sister.

A: All right, then we will have a look at his sister.

They do not need to come again, we will wait and probably see him in one or two years and when we all have grown old, we may see the result of this Bufo prescription. Yesterday, there was the question about the differential diagnosis between Bufo and Baryta carbonica. If you read Bufo in Boericke you see that Bufo is a very restless child, a very impatient child and with Baryta carbonica the essence is the slowness, the feeble-mindedness, inactivity, anxiety. That is a complete different picture than we see in Bufo. Also the target organs of the remedies are important. In Baryta carbonica we always have to do with the glands, swollen glands of the occiput, swollen tonsils, you do not find this in Bufo. Bufo children do not learn to walk late, they are quick in learning, but there is a special kind of anomalous learning. We will see this later

CASE2

Bufo rana

WOMAN, 28 YEARS OLD

One of the most difficult diseases is acne. Acne is a very frequent problem

Which is the remedy number one? Personally, I think that over 50% of the cases with strong acne with thick pustules Hepar sulphuris is the most important remedy. The worst acne with inflammation and subcutaneous greasy accumulations, subcutaneous cysts, where white fat comes out if you open them, that is Hepar sulphuris. In Hepar the smell of this subcutaneous tallow is very typical. If you cut in such a cyst there is a terrible smell, a smell of rotten fish, that is the typical Hepar smell

I have seen this patient already a month ago and I gave her a wrong remedy. Why, I will tell you later

P: At the beginning I had a strong burning in the neck, even when I was ironing. I rubbed it very thickly with udder ointment a few times. It went away of itself. Now, after the last menstruation until this week, it was very bad. You still see it here in the face.

A: Turn your head. All right.

P: It appeared at once. It is also on the other side.

A: You can not say that the acne is better.

P: No, it hasn't improved. At the beginning it has dried out a little, but then it appeared again very strongly and suddenly. It is the same on the back, but in the face and in the neck it is worse.

A: So no clear improvement. Has your skin still be so greasy?

P: Yes, this week it has been very greasy.

Where can we find this in the Repertory? "Face, greasy" (p. 375; General p. 316)

FACE,GREASY: Agar., arg-n., aur., bar-c., bry., bufo., calc., caust., chin., mag-c., med., merc., nat-m., plb., psor., rhus-t., sel., stram., thuj., tub

P: Shall I bring the shampoo I use at home? I think it is a very good one, it is a herb shampoo. My skin becomes better of it. But when I take another it is immediately worse.

A: Are your lips often swollen?

P: No, but I have quite a lot of saliva on the lips.

A: Have you ever had eczema?

P: Yes, eczema? I think, that is what I have now.

A: No. What you have now is rather acne.

P: Eczema at my foot, but it went away. It was during the pregnancy of the second. Then, I got it at my ankle.

A: How are your children?

P: Good.

A: No one is ill?

P: No.

She is born in 1960, so now she is 28 years old, this means that she got her children early. That is the first remarkable thing in this case

I must say something about the last case, about the Sulphur woman whose son and husband have died. Vithoulkas added Sulphur in the rubric "ailments after death of a child", from his own experiences

A: How old were you when you got the epileptic fits?

P: 7 or 8 years. That was only when I saw someone fall down, then I fell afterwards. I didn't feel it before.

As a child she already had epileptic fits. Now, she does not have them anymore, but you must try to take all the symptoms into consideration, also those of the past

A: During the mass.

P: Yes, during the mass. In school I didn't have it, nor on the playground at school. Once, I saw someone fainting and someone said to me that she had "epilepsy", and afterwards I also got it every time. Then, I have been in treatment with Dr. X in Y for 2 1/2 years.

A: You do not take any medicines at the moment?

P: Quite a long time. I stopped them when I was 12 years old.

She has taken anti-epileptic drugs for 3 years, until she was 12 years old

A: Did you have inflammation of the the nail rim?

P: No.

A: Do you perspire easily in the the face?

P: Yes, all over the the face, and also very strongly on the back.

A: Do you bite your nails?

P: Never.

A: You have ground your teeth. Do you still do that or not?

P: I don't know.

A: You told me at that time.

P: My husband said so.

A: Well yes. On which side do you sleep?

P: Alternating. I prefer the right side. In the morning I lie on the left side.

A: How is it sexually?

P: Fine.

A: No problem?

P: No.

A: Were you early mature on the sexual level?

P: Yes, I was.

A: Why do you think that you were early mature?

P: When I was 10 years old, I already bought sex-books. When my mother came in we hid them. I put them under the pillow.

A: You were then years old then? You were early mature on that level.

P: Yes.

A: And you masturbated early?

P: I never liked to be at home. At home we suffered quite a lot. One of my brothers and sisters died at the age of 14. My husband had to work very hard, otherwise he wouldn't be master of himself.

I asked her about masturbation and she starts talking about her father. She does not answer my question. The first point was the epilepsy and the second, that she was very early sexually interested. Until now, she has not told anything about masturbation, but she will do. When she came the first time her husband was there, so that I could not ask this question and therefor I could not decide between two remedies

A: What do you mean?

P: He could not control himself when he was angry.

A: Couldn't behave himself?

P: He was hot-tempered, internally under stress, he could not let it come out. In reality, he could not work off his emotions. But when he was angry everything came out. In fact, he was a retired person.

Suddenly, her voice goes up. This is exactly what is described in books as a howling voice. They can not control themselves and suddenly they start talking very loudly. I have seen this in several of these cases

A: Why did you buy sex-books at the age of 10?

P: I don't know.

A: Did you watch television? Or did other persons teach you that or did it come naturally, spontaneously?

P: Spontaneously. At that time it was nothing, we all have grown up decently.

A: Well yes, that is only an ascertainment. Some are early developed on this level, some late. You were early developed.

P: Yes.

A: Did you also have sexual feelings early?

P: Feelings, no. I discovered them late, when I was 18 years old. I had contact with an acquaintance.

A: Yes.

P: He took me in the car and wanted to see me naked, and then I said: "Stop, I don't want this", and then I forced myself to behave. Then I said, now, I have gone too far. I said I want to experience it once, but when the boy came nearer to me, in fact, that was enough.

A: But why did the sex-books interest you? The pictures?

P: Yes, the pictures.

A: Not the reading.

P: No.

A: You don't like to read?

P: Yes, I like to read books. Previously, I have read books for quite a long time. Beautiful books like, for example, "Father Brown". I like the books of "Konsalik". I can't remember the titles. I read a book about the treatment of people who had a nervous breakdown, and who have been cured.

A: Wit sexual feelings I rather mean that you noticed sexual passions, because you looked in sexual books at the age of 10.

P: I didn't have passions. I looked at the pictures. There were girls in my school who already had sexual experiences...

A: With 10 years?

P: Well yes, experiences... Accidentally, I came in a shop and why I bought such a book, I don't know, it just happened.

A: Did you masturbate early?

P: Yes.

A: At what age?

P: When I lay in bed at night, I had to turn around the whole time, because I had the feeling that something was missing. I covered myself up and then I went with my hands between my legs and hop, I started to become warm. I put the cover away, felt the cold again and I could sleep.

Do you understand? She says that she puts her fingers between her legs but she has put them in her vagina and she could fall asleep

Now, she also says that she masturbated very early, maybe already when she was 8 years old

A: You were very young?

P: Yes, very young.

A: Before you were 10 years old?

P: Yes, before I was 10 years old. I always knew that I had such a tendency. I always slept with my sister. Suddenly, it changed, then we slept apart.

A: Until which age did you sleep with your sister?

P: Until I was 8 or 9 years old.

A: What did your sister say when you were masturbating?

P: She didn't react.

You clearly see her lips. There is something special about her lips, it is as if she let her lips go. These are full lips, I call them erotic lips, and they miss the character of life. I mean, in other people, who do not need this remedy you recognize the strength of life, the fights they have been through, you do not see it with her, she let them hang down

A: What kind of music do you like?

P: Classic, modern.

A: Also classic. Do you have musical talent?

P: We are a musical family. And I have sung many years in the choir.

A: Do you have a good musical hearing? Do you hear when something is sung false?

P: Yes, very well.

A: Did you have a piano training?

P: No. At home they think I am not intelligent enough.

A: They might be wrong.

P: They did not allow me to get a musical training. At home, we had a mouth-organ. I could play it very well. My youngest sister and my elder brother could play the recorder very well. Everything you could think of, without learning notes.

A: Repeat it again.

P: They play without notes. They have a very good musical hearing.

A: Do you also have this?

P: Yes. I can sing songs very well. At work they always say: "You would be a very good singer."

Does every one see we are dealing with a feeble-minded woman? The way she answers is the way of a not highly developed person

A: Last time I didn't dare to ask you about this because your husband was with you. Therefor, I ask you this question now to make clear the remedy. So, on certain levels you are very talented. That is on the musical level. Also on the literal level?

P: No.

A: Can you appreciate really classical music?

P: Yes. I like Mozart, Bach.

A: Seriously?

P: I like to listen to those disks.

A: That is strange.

That is very strange. Mentally, she is not especially highly developed, but she likes Mozart and Bach

Question: "What about her teeth?" (Some incisors are missing

A: I don't know, but for me it is an expression of the same stupid, foolish appearance she gives

P: I have a very highly intelligent family. I prefer classic to modern. But I like modern furniture, interior decoration.

A: Pardon? Repeat it again.

P: So, decoration. I like that the way it is often done in catalogues. When I see something classic, I also like that.

A: Have you ever had ulcers?

P: Not really. Once, a thick ulcer at the inside of my mouth. I rinsed my mouth once with soda and it was over. It went away of itself. My mouth was full with these things. I dissolved soda, rinsed my mouth and then it was all right. Rice is good for drying out, isn't it?

A: Do you like rice?

P: Yes.

A: Do you also like highly seasoned food?

P: Yes.

A: What about your menstruation?

P: That is something else. At the very beginning it was all right. The last months there is no flow during the day, but by the evening they come through. I thought it is over, and in the evening we went out and then... late in the afternoon, half past four, they came through again. Irregularly.

A: Do you remember that you bit as a child when you were angry?

P: No. My father did.

A: He bites?

P: Yes. The little one also.

A: When he is angry or when?

P: When they want to defend themselves.

Of this remedy it is written that it rises the lowest passions. The lowest passions does not only mean sexual passions, but also beating and destructiveness and this howling voice, all these kind of things. Maybe, her father also needs this remedy

A: Aha. Did you have nose bleedings?

P: No, never. A little bit itching when I have my menstruation. Is it good to wash yourself always with cold water? With icy cold water?

A: Why?

Suddenly, she asks if it is good to eat so much rice. That is strange. It has nothing to do with the conversation. And then, suddenly, she asks if it is good to wash with cold water. Very strange.

P: Previously, I always did so. Then my skin was drier than now. I also used a bath addition, but it is difficult to dry. How is it called?

Pay attention to her face. Remember it when you see the feedback

A: Do you have easily blisters at your foot-soles or hands?

P: Yes, when I shovel snow. I had to do this for quite a long time. Then, I always get blisters. Once, I even got a blood blister.

A: Did everyone who had to do it have blisters?

P: Yes.

A: Everyone had blisters, that is because of the working.

This remedy has blisters on the palm of the hand and the foot-soles. In the Repertory it is only in the rubric "blisters on the palm of the hand". "Extremities, eruptions, hand, palm, blisters" (p. 995; General p. 831): it has to be added in the rubric "blisters at the foot-soles". "Extremities, eruption, foot-soles, blisters" (p. 1003). There are only two remedies, Arsenicum and Calcarea carbonica. Bufo has to be added

A: I would like to see you again within six weeks.

This is one of the cases I mean when I talk about the first impression of a patient in Homoeopathy. She gives a certain expression, then there is the epilepsy and the skin problem. This means that we are dealing with someone who has problems on the neurologic and the skin level; besides she has masturbated very early. Again, Bufo is the right remedy. First, I gave her Calcarea carbonica, because I could not talk about her sexuality when her husband was there

Question: "Anxiety about health in Bufo?

A: Yes, in Boericke there is Bufo in anxiety about health. And she is asking questions about health. "Is this cold water good for my health? Is this rice good for my health?

Remark: "Here in the rubric 'handles genitalia' (p. 698) there is Bufo.

A: Yes, it is not only Hyoscyamus, also Bufo, Stramonium, Mercurius are there. Thuja is an addition

This rubric is in "male genitalia", but I think you can use this rubric for both sexes

FEEDBACK (3.5.1988)

Do you see how her expression has changed within the last 1 1/2 month? It is less feeble-minded, less stupid

We had a child of a very important man of the government or something, from Brussels. The parents were intelligent people, they were sitting there and they were theorizing about their child that lives in a centre for feeble-minded children. They said that you can not handle this child, that it is often very angry, that it is very impatient, sympathetic, they told all possible stories about the character of their child. I asked myself, which remedy can this be. A nervous, restless child

The doctor who did the anamnesis said that it was Phosphorus, but I did not agree. She had everything of Bufo: the nervosity, the restlessness, the impatience, the feeble-mindedness, she liked to hit other people and she was asking constantly whether I wanted to examine her.Every time when she went to a doctor she wanted to be examined. The father said that it was normal, because she often goes to doctors. I did not believe him, but I asked myself why she wanted to be examined. So, I examined her. I took the stethoscope and start to listen. You should have seen her eyes

Then, the remedy was clear.That was the reason why she wanted to be examined. She likes it when certain organs were touched. Yes, really, when you touched her breast, her passion was aroused. When I went to her to put on the microphone she already turned her eyes - "Will he touch me?" That is very important in feeble-minded children. The parents are usually very intellectual, like in the case where the father and the mother were doctor. It is the same in this case. The parents were so haughty, they would have need Lycopodium 100.000. The child gets so many other medicines, but they refuse to stop them. Besides, they give her the pill. I will tell you if you go to the houses where feeble-minded children are living there is sex. If you give them 5 minutes opportunity, they lie together in a corner. They are sexually active

You have to give these feeble-minded women the pill, because they are so easily pregnant. Also, this patient was pregnant very early. Now, she is 28 years old and she already has four children

So, do not forget Bufo in feeble-minded children, especially when the parents are intellectuals

Another thing is the love for Mozart and Bach

Now, the feedback. In this feedback I would like to show you the change of appearance. For the real cure you have to wait a few months.

A: Last time you were here on March, 23.

P: Yes, that's right.

A: What about your acne?

P: It is better.

A: How was it the last time?

P: I show you. On my back and in my face it is much better, and now it starts on my arms.

A: I think it is better in the face.

P: Yes, I also think so.

A: After the first remedy, which you got at the beginning it was not better.

P: At the beginning it was, in the face and the back.

A: Did you notice something after the tablet?

P: No.

A: No headache?

P: No.

A: Previously, there were small ulcers. Did you have them lately?

P: No.

A: You didn't have little ulcers anymore?

P: No. It started on my arms a fortnight ago. Previously, I had it constantly on my arms. Then, it went away and I got it in my face and on my body. I don't know how this happened. Maybe, it is because of the food. I regularly eat chocolate.

A: Do you eat a lot of chocolate?

P: Yes.

"Desire sweets", there is also Bufo; besides also in "desire delicacies"

A: When you came the second time you said that you still had a greasy skin. Do you still think you have a greasy skin?

P: Yes, I do, but less greasy. You can feel it yourself. A little bit softer, weaker. On this side it is still a little wet.

A: What did your husband say of the eruption?

P: I asked him if he thinks it is better now, but he only looked at me and didn't answer.

A: Has it completely disappeared on the breast?

Do you see? I did not ask to show it. I only asked if it has improved on the chest and immediately she opens her blouse

P: No. I will show it to you. It is still bad, but not so bad as previously. It has a little bit disappeared.

A: Did you eat much chocolate?

P: Yes, now and then, and once in the week an egg.

A: Eggs, that is no problem.

P: I think so. The liver is sensitive to chocolate and eggs, I know.

A: Anyhow, it is sure that there was no improvement after the first remedy.

P: No, not after the first remedy.

A: And now?

P: The last time it has improved.

A: Now, I will give you Foliata squalosa and I will see you again in the middle of July. Or are you on holidays?

P: I think, it is all right.

With the next feedback you will see, that she is much better and that her appearance in general has to be much better as you saw with the other child

Question: "With the therapy of acne, how long does it last...

A: In acne it is different from case to case. First, you have to take care that the patients do not eat to much chocolate, eggs and fat. These three things; at least you have to decrease it. Besides they may not drink too much alcohol. Generally, it depends on the case. With Hepar, for example, it might last some months and there might be relapses. In this case I think that the skin is all right within three or four months

But the question is to give the right remedy and then you can rather quickly see an amelioration. But in acne we often give the wrong remedy and then there are often aggravations.

There is another remedy for acne caused by cosmetics, that is which remedy

Bovista - and what is the most important symptom, the key-note of Bovista

That they drop all kinds of things.They say: "It is very strange, but when I wash up I always drop the plates."Then, there is the distension of the stomach, they can not bear clothes on their belly - like Lycopodium - and the menstruation is only at night, but the most important symptom of Bovista is that they drop everything

And Kali bromatum, at what time is the Kali bromatum acne in women worse

Before the menses

At the time that Voegeli was teaching he proposed a remedy when there are no other symptoms and that was Juglans regia. I tried it a few times, but I had never good results

CASE3

Bufo rana

MAN, 30 YEARS OLD

He came with a strongly inflamed finger, an inflammation around the nail.The finger was very strongly swollen and the pain was going from the finger upward. It was a beginning lymphangitis

I gave him a remedy and the next day he comes back and tells what happened after the remedy

A: How is the inflammation of the nail-bed? Show me. It was completely yellow yesterday, purulent, red inflamed and the pain extended to the arm.

P: Until here.

A: So, to the elbow. How long do you have this?

P: The pain extending upwards?

A: No, the inflammation.

P: Well, about one week. First, I thought it was a splinter, but there was nothing to see, and then it started.

A: With the inflammation?

P: Yes.

A: You are a baker?

P: Yes.

A: Do you have this often?

P: Yes, this is the third time.

"This is already the third nail", this means that probably we are dealing with a constitutional problem

A: Yesterday, the pain extended to the elbow. You didn't see a red line? You didn't notice it?

P: No, but I thought that the vein was thicker.

A: Then, you got a slight fever.

P: I think I had it for a few days. I had such red eyes, they have grew red. I felt paralyzed and tired. I didn't feel well.

A: That was the third time you got this.

P: Yes.

A: I gave you a remedy, you dissolved it in water and took three times a spoonful.

P: Yes.

A: That was yesterday in the afternoon.

P: Yes, at 3.00 p.m.

A: How was the reaction?

P: The pain was immediately gone.

A: How fast?

P: When I took it, the pain disappeared immediately. It has also bled, maybe that is the reason why it is less swollen. I also slept an hour.

A: After the remedy?

P: Yes. I laid myself on the couch, because I didn't feel 100%.

A: You didn't take anything here. You went outside and it has bled a little.

P: Yes, it has bled. I put a plaster on it.

A: But when you came home, you still had the pain?

P: Yes.

A: Although it has bled, the pain was still there?

P: It was still the same.

A: Yesterday evening when you took the remedy the pain in your arm was completely gone?

P: Yes, and in my finger also. Previously, I could not bend my finger. It was much thicker. When I knock myself it still hurts, but I can bend it at least.

A: Yesterday, you couldn't touch it?

P: No.

A: The finger isn't swollen anymore?

P: No, it was much thicker.

A: Here, there is an accumulation of pus. It has to break open.

P: When I push there, it hurts.

A: At the inside. In any case, the pain was quickly gone.

P: Yes, I thought so. At home I said, I got rather quickly rid of it.

That is hardly to believe: you give a remedy and immediately afterwards, a few hours later the pain and the swelling have gone. The next day he could work again and you only saw a small accumulation of pus that had disappeared the next day

A: Are you married?

P: No.

A: Why not?

P: I don't find anybody. I don't search.

A: Does it not interest you?

P: Pah.

A: No time?

P: No, there is no hurry.

A: How old are you now?

P: I am already 30 years old.

A: Do you have hobbies?

P: Very little. I have quite a lot of work.

A: Strange. Do you have eczema or things like that on other places?

P: I have a dry skin and cracks at the foot, always. On my hands it is a dry eczema. When I was little I had children eczema.

A: Yesterday, I noticed that you didn't have time. Are you always in such a hurry?

P: Yes. Always.

He is impatient, restless, hurried

A: You can not wait?

P: Not good, no. Especially not, when there is quite a lot of work at home. Next weekend, we are going away.

A: But you are always in a hurry?

P: Yes, always.

A: You can neither sit still?

P: That's right. In fact, I sit very little. I almost stand the whole time. I think that I sleep too little.

A: Why?

P: I don't have time. It was a quarter past eight and at 1.00 a.m. I have to get up. I sleep very little.

A: Did you never have fever previously?

P: No, but I think that I have easily inflammations.

A: Do you tolerate the cold well?

P: Better than the heat.

A: You do not tolerate the warmth?

P: Yes, but not when I have to work. A fortnight ago it was so warm, I didn't tolerate it very much. I rather prefer it chilly.

A: Chilly?

P: Yes.

A: Do you easily perspire?

P: Yes.

A: No problems with nosebleeds?

P: No, very seldom.

A: Well boy, you don't care about women?

P: I don't look for them, let's say it that way. What hasn't happened yet, can happen in the future. I think I wouldn't be such a good husband. I am too hot-tempered. That is very difficult in a relation. I think I am not mature yet.

A: Why not?

P: I don't feel like a person of 30. I think I am not so adult.

That is very important. He feels as if he is not adult enough yet.

When you look very well, you can recognize a slight prognathism of the mandible

A: You don't think you are an adult.

P: Yes. Everything goes to quickly. I can not believe that I am already 30 years old.

A: Your sexual development is no problem?

P: No.

A: Really no problem? Because you say that you don't feel an adult at all.

P: Oh no. But I think a relation is more than sex.

A: Does sex mean something to you?

P: Pah. I am not married, so I don't have anything. It is failing.

A: You have only yourself?

P: Well yes.

A: Or?

P: I have very little sex, let's say zero point zero. I am always too tired.

A: But you masturbate?

P: Very seldom. Previously, but not now anymore.

A: You did previously?

P: That might be the cause, that I am too tired when I have to work the whole day.

A: Yes, but because you said that you do not feel like a person of 30 years old.

P: I have the impression that someone of 30 years old is more developed than I am. That's what I mean.

A: Well yes. Now, do you have cracks in the handballs? Do you often have blisters?

P: No, or I must have burnt myself.

A: So we can say that the slightest wound you have inflames easily, before it is cured. You have easily ulcers.

P: Yes, I don't know.

A: With tooth inflammations?

P: Normally, they last long.

This remedy is not mentioned in abscesses of teeth, but it has abscesses everywhere. Not only Sulphur has an unhealthy skin, also this remedy is very important

He is a baker and he works, and works, and works, because he likes to do it, because he is so restless. He goes from house to house and sells the bread, so he has the work he needs, a work by which you can be restless and impatient

A: So, we will take care that the tendency to inflammation will become better. You can also become very angry, can't you?

P: Yes, that's right.

A: Very angry.

P: Yes, but fortunately it is quickly over.

A: What do you do then?

P: Raging.

A: What?

P: That is only verbal. I don't like beats and row.

A: First, I will take care of the finger. Then, I will give you a tablet in a tube, but you don't have to take it, only when it aggravates.

P: So, when it becomes thicker or with pain?

A: Yes, then you dissolve it in water and you take three spoonfuls. Normally, it has to go open and the pus has to come out, this is what will happen with this remedy. If you get somewhere something else you dissolve it in water immediately and you take it.

P: But usually, it only occurs once a year. Two years ago the thumb was inflamed, this finger last year and now the pink. Always about this time of the year.

A: But it is true, that you react spectacularly to this remedy. Previously, it lasted quite a long time, didn't it?

P: Previously, I haven't been here for that.

Which remedy? Bufo. I gave him Bufo M and because of the beautiful reaction and because I noticed something else about him I thought that Bufo might be his constitutional remedy

Question: "Could you explain again why this is Bufo?

A: Look under "extremities, inflammation, lymphatics of arm" (p. 1018; General p. 850) EXTREMETIES,INFLAMATION,Lymphatics of arm : Bufo.

and "extremities, felon, lymphatic inflamed" (p. 1005; General p. 839)

EXTREMETIES,FELON,lymphatic inflamed : All-c., bufo., hep., lach., rhus-t.

He had a beginning lymphangitis. With some panaritium there is no lymphangitis, with other panaritium very quickly, because some people are sensitive to this kind of inflammation

I gave the remedy not only because of the panaritium alone, but because it was a panaritium with lymphangitis and because the pains were extended upwards

Do you see what Boericke describes: "Skin - Panaritium; pain runs up arm.

The remedies in the rubric "felon, lymphatic inflamed" are Allium cepa, Bufo, Hepar sulphuris, Lachesis and Rhus toxicodendron. We can not give him Hepar, because he is warm-blooded.Previously, a colleague prescribed him Hepar, because of a teeth-abscess and the teeth-abscess also disappeared, but probably not because of the homoeopathic remedy

Lachesis also has the inflammation of lymphatics, but normally on the left side

Rhus toxicodendron is very, very restless, they have to be busy constantly, but they are not impatient.He is also not impatient, he has to be busy the whole time, a kind of nervous impatience. The differential diagnosis between Bufo and Rhus toxicodendron was indeed not so easy, but because of the lymphangitis, a dangerous situation, I gave him Bufo

He says that he does not masturbate, maybe because he is impotent. Bufo also has impotency after too much masturbation, exactly like Agnus castus, but in Agnus castus the anxiety is much more prominent than in Bufo

Another important symptom is the prognathism and the fact that he has constantly cracks and inflammations in the skin. Every time when he hurts himself there is an inflammation and it cures only very slowly

In the child with the eczema (case 21) the prognathism and the feeble-mindedness was very clear, but with every remedy there are different degrees, as well as in Bufo as in Sulphur and all the other remedies. If you go walking in the Oxford street in London, you see the classical Sulphur types who are discussing the whole time with tumbled hair, untidy and dirty, who feel well in their dirtiness, but there are also refined Sulphur types, by whom the symptoms are not so prominent. So, there are also refined (subtile) Bufo types and we have to learn to reach a level of refinement in seeing the remedy

Question: "Is this prognathism a sign for feeble-mindedness or not?

A: No, I never take a symptom alone, but if someone comes with different symptoms which makes you think of Bufo and besides he has a prognathism, then this is also an important symptom, only in this situation, nothing more. Not every person with a prognathism needs Bufo

Question: "Is there a rubric in Kent?

A: No, it is not there. That is something you see in different cases in practice. In the same way we have discovered that Tuberculinum likes bananas very much. In the Netherlands, I showed ten or twelve Tuberculinum cases and six of them liked bananas.Now, we can add Tuberculinum in the rubric "desire bananas". These are observations of the practice, which we have to bring together so that we can extend our knowledge

Question: "Where is the rubric for lymphangitis of the legs?

A: This rubric does not exist

Question: "Can you take the rubric 'lymphangitis, arm' also for the rubric 'lymphangitis, leg'?"

A: Yes, you can do so. For any lymphangitis you can take this rubric

Question: "Can you say something about the question of antidote of the treatment of teeth?

A: If you or your patients go to the dentist, without having pain anywhere, only for an examination to see if the teeth are all right and then the dentist gives an injection because he has to fill a tooth, then it is no problem. If you go to the dentist because of an abscess or because of pain and he gives you an injection, then this is a suppression - because this happens during a homoeopathic treatment. If you get toothache, it has to do with the whole body, this means, when your patients have toothache, you have to find the right remedy for their toothache, and only when it has disappeared with the homoeopathic remedy you can send them to the dentist to have this tooth filled

CASE4

Recidivistic ulcers

Bufo rana

BOY, 17 YEARS OLD

This boy often has ulcers and furuncles on the skin, on changing places

A: You are a neighbour. I was at your home to settle a few things. And so we start talking about your child.

MP: Yes, about the medicines he is taking in X.

The way his hair looks, you think of which remedy? (His hair looks as if has used wet-gel) Sulphur

A: He is in a special home in X.

MP: Yes, he goes to a special home. He has always been at a boarding-school. He has been at X for four years. He was inconstant and difficult to handle. Not like my son. I thought, there is something wrong with him.

His mother died and his father married again. This woman, his stepmother tells us that he is not so normal as her own son

A: Look here. You can behave yourself in a normal way. There is nothing special here.

MP: I talked with the teachers in X. They thought that he was a little restless and moody. They should give him medicines.

A: The problem why he went to the special school is that he couldn't follow in a normal school?

MP: I don't know. I have only been there for four years. The other two sons also have been to a special school. I really don't know.

A: But he has difficulties to follow in school, doesn't he?

MP: He had problems with counting and writing, and I also think in manual work. Normally, his father should have gone to the school.

A: Yes, because you are his second wife. His mother died. She was a little feeble-minded and had epilepsy.

MP: I don't know.

A: I have known her, that's why I know it. Some of her children also are a little feeble-minded.

MP: Three of the four children. He was always eating and didn't put on weight. I thought that there must be something wrong. He is very nervous, you can not let him do fine works.

A: But coarse works.

MP: Yes, but he can't do fine works.Then, I went to the directress. She said that she is satisfied about him. I said that I am also satisfied about him. But there was a period where you could go nowhere with him. When we went with him on a family visit everything is going awry. I am not used to that. Because I thought maybe it is the school I sent him to another school. He learns better as in the previous school. I had to go with him to the doctor regularly. Last time he said: "There is only one remedy, he has to take medicines." I really don't like that.

A: First, he is very restless.

MP: Yes. When I am, for example, angry with him during the day, then he tosses about at night.

A: What do you mean?

MP: What do you do then?

P: I don't know.

MP: He is shaking his head and is making noises so that I wake up, although there are two doors in between. Often, I think he is knocking with his head against the wall, but there are no bruises.

She says that it appears as if he is knocking against the wall, that is what she hears. But he has no ecchymosis

A: Always when you have scolded him?

MP: Yes.

A: How does he lie in bed to sleep?

MP: He does not lie extended like we do, but more rolled up.

A: Does he sleep on his side?

MP: Also on his knees.

P: Oh no.

MP: That is right, isn't it? Now, you have to tell everything.

There is another remedy that sleeps on his knees and has no pain in situations which are usually painful.

Answer: "Medorrhinum.

A: No. A remedy that has no pain when other people normally have pain. If they beat against something they do not feel anything

Answer: "Stramonium.

A: Yes. And where do we find this? In "generalities", "painlessness of complaints usually painful" (p. 1390; General p. 1146): Helleborus, Opium and Stramonium. Antimonium crudum is an addition of Boger

A: Have you seen this already?

MP: Yes. I think he doesn't know it himself. If he is shaking his head then he lies on the side, with his head on the knees.

A: Have you seen that he has put his knees under his abdomen?

MP: No.

A: But you just told me that he sleeps on his knees. On his knees?

MP: Yes, how should I explain this?

A: Does he sleep on his knees, the elbow and the head pressed in the cushion?

MP: Usually, he has his hands under the cushion.

A: But on his knees?

MP: Yes, then I shake him and say: "Lie down properly."

A: And then he rolls with his head.

MP: Yes, to and fro.

Do you know the rubric "bores head into the pillow"? He bores his head in the cushion and then he rolls to and fro. That is typical for which remedy? Medorrhinum and Tuberculinum, they have these head movements the whole time. Tuberculinum, Medorrhinum and also Stramonium bore their head in the cushion

MP: But he also did in X. The educator also said so. Indeed, not after scolds.

A: Is he sexual developed according to you?

MP: No.

A: No. What do you mean? Does he play with his penis?

MP: No.

A: How old is he now?

MP: He will be 17 in July.

A: What? 17?

MP: Yes. But I haven't noticed it yet.

Do you see, he will be 17. Because he looks so much younger, you have to think of something

And do you see his fingernails? His nails are bitten to the flesh. The differential diagnosis with two other remedies is not so easy. To Medorrhinum and to Sulphur

MP: I still have to wash him. I never noticed anything. I have a boy of that age of my own, since two years you are not allowed to come into the bathroom when he is washing himself. Nor with the two others. Last year, I had to have him injected. One testicle wasn't down yet.

A: Another important symptom is his nails.

MP: Yes, I know.

A: Show me your nails.

Do you see, his tongue is coming out

A: He is biting his nail completely.

MP: Yes.

A: Does he have inflammations of the nail rim?

MP: Yes.

Now, it becomes very interesting. A panaritium, that is a very important symptom

MP: Also his toes.

A: Does he also bite his nails there?

MP: I hope he doesn't.

P: No.

MP: No.

A: There are people who do that.

MP: Not that I know.

A: He doesn't do so, and yet regularly he has an inflammation of the nail rim.

MP: When he is sitting behind the television he is fumbling. Now, I say: "Keep on your shoes." That is the only solution.

A: What does he like to eat?

MP: Frites and minced meat-ball. And spaghetti.

A: Does he like fruit?

MP: He has to eat oranges.

A: But he doesn't eat fruit of himself.

MP: No.

A: He doesn't like fruit?

P: Yes, wine-grapes.

A: You told me that he is often absent.

MP: Yes. When I say, for example: "Look at the chicken." Then I have to say this two, three times. I ask him: "Aren't you paying attention again?" Then he says: "Yes." And then it is all right. That is only in the period when he just comes home from the boarding-school for the weekend. Now, I have him at home for a fortnight and now it is all right.

A: There are no periods where he is sitting and is absent?

MP: Staring, he does so.

A: Regularly?

MP: Yes. Previously, he had situations of absence.

A: How was this?

MP: I don't know. I also asked him if he has fallen. He didn't. He just slipped. In fact, he should know it himself, he has been there for an examination.

A: Didn't they say that he had jerks in his arms and legs?

MP: The school told us to go for an examination. I didn't receive the results yet.

A: They did an EEG, wrote down his brain-current?

MP: Yes.

He is very restless

A: Does he also have inflammation of the nail rim at the finger?

MP: No, not at the finger.

P: No.

A: Does he like music?

MP: I don't think so.

P: A little bit.

A: Does he never have skin eruptions?

MP: No.

A: But he is very restless?

MP: Yes.

A: Does he often bite when he is angry?

MP: Yes, then he often bites in his hand.

A: Does he bite other?

MP: No.

A: He is very nervous. Also impatient?

MP: Yes. He has no patience.

A: At what time does he go to sleep?

MP: He needs much sleep. About 9, half past 9.

A: Does he like to go sleeping?

MP: We have a boy of 15 years old who hardly needs sleep. But he never stays up until 10.00 p.m.

A: Does he sleep long in the morning?

MP: No.

A: Does he agree that he has to go to bed so early?

MP: Sometimes there is some murmur: "Why I and not the other?", but when I say: "Go to bed," then he goes to bed.

A: When does he have to go to bed?

MP: About 9, half past 9.

A: Is he easily too warm in bed so that he takes off something?

MP: No. He is rather too cold.

A: Does he perspire easily?

MP: No.

A: Does he also have ulcers at other places now and then?

MP: Yes.

A: What kind?

MP: These are inflammations.

A: Where does he have them?

MP: At the penis.

A: Why?

MP: The doctor thinks it is because he doesn't wash his hands when he has been to the toilet. Therefore, I have been to the doctor three times.

A: Where is it inflamed?

MP: At the front.

A: On the skin?

MP: Then it is so white.

A: Also really purulent?

MP: Yes, really.

P: That is not right.

MP: It is. You have to tell the truth. I get ointment for it.

A: All right, that is clear. Is it not right what she is telling, my boy?

P: No.

A: You don't have to worry about that.

MP: It is painful.

A: We will give a remedy that will accelerate your development. Do you still give the tranquillizers?

MP: No.

A: You stopped everything?

MP: You know, I don't like that.

A: Of course. I only wanted to make sure.

MP: Then I rather prefer it this ways. When I see "Soul sister"... Maybe he needs something, I don't know.

A: I give you a remedy and I would like to see you again. Can he be very angry?

MP: Yes.

A: What does he do then?

MP: Everything. He even kicked a hole in the door.

A: Didn't you hurt your toes?

MP: He is always wearing strong shoes. The children failed quite a lot. You notice it more clearly with the two younger boys. I only hope that he doesn't get epilepsy.

A: Previously, he had absences, moments that he was gone.

MP: Yes. And that would be the worst.

A: I give you a remedy and you observe his behaviour. Regularly, he had ulcers. Maybe, he will bite his nails less. Then, I see you on Friday, June, 3. Is that all right?

MP: Yes. If necessary, I get him out of school.

A: All right. I will also tell the receptionist. You don't have to pay. You have enough difficulties in your family.

MP: He has to take the tranquillizers in school. How should I explain them?

A: If you say that he may not take any medicines he doesn't get them.

MP: But when he becomes remarkable? Does I have to bring him here?

A: For how long does he not take any medicines?

MP: Since he is at home.

A: Then, you tell them that you had him at home for a fortnight without any medicines and that you had less troubles with him.

MP: All right.

A: We will try without medicines. These are strong medicines, there was HALDOL, as far as I could see. Tell them in school that they may not give him tranquillizers and things like that.

MP: All right.

This was the first consultation during my teaching in Hechtel. I have never seen this patient before. Most of the doctors said it was Sulphur, but I did not agree. Which remedy did we give? Bufo, yes

FEEDBACK (3.6.1988

Do you see, how his appearance has changed? Even his hair looks differently. But it is important what the mother tells us now

A: You are his stepmother and you have an objective view. Now, about two months ago you were here with him. What do you think of the development?

MP: It was much better, but now, I think, he needs another tablet.

A: Why?

MP: He is wobbling to and fro.

P: No.

MP: Yes, you are.

A: Tell me, how it developed. Did he still take tablets?

MP: No. But he has drunk coffee in school a few times, surely also coke.

A: A few times, that is not so bad.

MP: He also had eruptions, but it didn't get through so clearly.

A: The eruption has gone now?

MP: Yes.

A: Regularly, he had inflammations?

MP: Yes, I think it is also better with the biting of the nails.

A: He bites his nails less?

MP: Yes.

A: They don't give you any medicines in school anymore?

P: No.

A: Nevertheless you thought that he was more quiet when he was at home during the weekend?

MP: Yes.

A: Clearly better?

MP: Yes. Until last week and now also. Now, he is so restless again. In the second week it was already better. You could also go with him somewhere. Maybe, it is also because of the season.

A: Did he still have inflammations of the penis?

MP: No. It is gone. The nail rims haven't inflamed either.

A: Now, he has a relapse, that is possible. You think that his behaviour was more adult than previously?

MP: Yes.

A: He is almost 17 years old and you have the impression that he is 12, 13 years old.

MP: Yes. Often, they also say that he is 9, 10 years old. In school they say that he has a behaviour of a 9, 10 year old boy.

A: Did he still stare?

MP: Less. Also in school. I asked it. If he wants to explain something, it goes better. He is not so absent anymore.

A: I think there have been enormous changes.

MP: I think so. In school they don't quite understand it. They think it is because of their own medicines. That's why I doubt whether they give him something. At home he doesn't get anything. You have to say it honestly.

P: No.

A: If he would get those medicines his concentration would decrease, because these are sleeping remedies. You become more quiet, but your concentration will not improve. You don't take any medicines in school, do you?

P: No.

A: So, we have to believe it. And in school they believe it is because of their medicines.

MP: I told them that it is rather because of the homoeopathic treatment that he is better. But every one has its own opinion.

A: That doesn't play a role, as long as he is feeling better.

MP: Yes, even if I had to go to China.

Do you see what happened? I stopped the tranquillizers, gave Bufo and now they say that he is much better, because of their medicines. But for how long did he get those medicines

A: You think that he is restless again since one week?

MP: Yes.

You see that he is nevertheless less quiet as the first consultation

MP: And also his hair. Now, it is indeed greasy, but my mother also asked: "Do you take another shampoo?" His hair is really shining when it is washed. Previously, it was dead, completely dead.

A: Do you think that his hair is better?

MP: Yes, also his eyes. I don't know what else could have changed him. In any case he is better than previously.

A: In general?

MP: Yes. Also people who haven't seen him for quite a long time, they notice it, for example, his uncle.

A: We will make an adult of him.

MP: Yes.

A: But you think that he has a relapse now?

MP: Yes, but it is not so bad as previously. Maybe it is because of the warmth, who knows. He has been taking medicines for quite a long time.

A: Show me your nails.

MP: I think they are better.

A: But he is still biting his nails.

MP: Yes, but previously he did it constantly. That is a disease of the whole family.

A: Do they all bite their nails?

MP: Yes.

A: I will discuss this with the other doctors and then I will give you a remedy.

MP: May he drink coffee now?

A: No.

P: But now and then a coke?

A: Yes, now and then. But do me a favour, never take a tablet of someone else. Otherwise, this treatment has no sense. If there is something wrong with you you come to me, but you must do what I tell you.

MP: Now, I give him cacao. He can put it in his milk. With the coffee, that is quite a problem in school.

A: They have to understand this.

MP: Don't you know another school? Or can I keep him at home?

A: Wait until the end of the holidays. I will see you again in the middle of August. Then, he might be so good that he can go to a school where he can learn a trade.

MP: At the moment he is training to become a gardener. I would like that he could live at our home.

A: We will decide in the middle of August. If his behaviour is all right, why shouldn't he live at home?

MP: I think so.

His mother had epilepsy. She was a prostitute and died alone in a room in a big town. She also would have needed this remedy, but at that time, 1881, 1982, I did not recognize the remedy in her. She had four children, and all of them needed this remedy

He began to have epileptic attacks. Staring is the beginning of epileptic attacks. Then, you also saw the symptom "rage when alone". When he was alone, he was beating against the wall

Question: "Is there a rubric that he looks so young?

A: He looks young, but you have to take everything together, do not hang on to one rubric. You have to see the staring, the neurologic symptoms and the inflammations together; then the restlessness, the impatience, that he can be very, very angry, going toward rage. And also the fact that they take him maybe 9 years old, although he is 16 or 17 years old. Everything together as a whole is important

CASE5

Bufo rana

BOY, 11 YEARS OLD

APRIL 198

This is a patient with epilepsy and you will see that not only Bufo will cure epilepsy, but there are also other remedies

There is a remedy with increased appetite after convulsions, that is not in the Repertory. Which is the remedy

Hyoscyamus. You have to add this in the Repertory. Hyoscyamus is one of the most important remedies in epilepsy

A: You haven't been here yet. Tell me, what is your problem?

P: Headache.

MP: Say what you feel.

A: What is the main problem lately? Why have you come?

MP: Because he got attacks regularly. The last time it took two days before he was really good again.

A: Attacks?

MP: Yes, petit mal seizures. Also with absences and it held on. But he gets attacks regularly, with unconsciousness.

A: But he also has grand mal seizures.

MP: Yes, absolutely. It starts in the morning. Then, we already know. He always get up very early. When he gets those seizures he gets up late. We don't know if he has already had a seizure at night. Then, he sleeps the night through, and when he wakes up, he has a certain typical colour. He also has headache. Usually, there will be a grand mal seizure during the day. In fact, you can recognize it by his colour, his behaviour. It is announced when he gets a seizure.

Do you see his hair (it is very tumbled) and his lips (very red lips). Which remedy do you think of? Of Sulphur

A: Has he been ill previously?

MP: Do you mean as a child?

A: Yes.

MP: Not particularly. After his birth he has had an increased bilirubin. Afterwards, he didn't get anything.

This was an icterus neonatorum. Which the most most important remedy? And where can we find this in the Repertory? "Skin, discoloration, yellow, new born children" (p. 1307). There is Aconitum, Aconitum because of the cause, a fright, a fright of birth. When the children are born, first they get a smack on their bottom when they do not breathe immediately, or they are stuck with a needle. Besides, the noise in the delivery rooms can also be a reason for the fright

The children should be born in a quiet, agreeable atmosphere, not in hospitals, which are rather birth factories. All the noise, the instruments and so on, the whole atmosphere, that is the reason why nearly 50% of the new born need Aconitum. Maybe, only those Sulphur children need Aconitum, I don't know exactly

In the rubric there are still other important remedies for newborn icterus: China, Bovista, Natrum sulphuricum and Sepia. For the icterus of Bovista there is a certain reason, namely an inhaling-anesthesia of the mother. You know, that Bovista is a remedy for CO (carbon monoxide)-poisons. In mask-anesthesia laughing-gas (NO2), oxygen and CO2 is used and a certain quantity of carbon monoxide can be the reason for an icterus in new born children. Therefore, in a ceasarion section you always have to ask for the kind of anesthesia and if it was a inhaling-anesthesia and the new born had an icterus, Bovista is the first remedy which you have to think of. Another problem in new born children is the constipation. Who can tell the most frequent reason of constipation with very, very hard stool in new born children immediately after birth? Which is the remedy

Opium, because of the painkilling remedies which have been given during delivery

I have seen such a case. A woman - she was a pharmacist, her husband was a dentist - came because she could not get pregnant anymore. She had a deep grief, because her second child died of an asphyxia. Therefore, I gave her Natrum muriaticum and Sepia and she got pregnant again.The second child also died because of an asphyxia, the respiration omitted. You all know the Opium respiration: very slow, then quicker, then again deeper and then it stops, and that is repeated.Where can we find this in the Repertory? "Respiration, arrested, during sleep" (p. 763): Grindelia, Cenchris contortrix, Lachesis and Opium

Yes, that is Opium. These children stop breathing during their sleep and then the trouble starts. They go to the hospital and there all kinds of examinations are done, because of the sudden infant death and there is one theory after the other, because of missing hormones and so on

I will tell you the real reason: if the children die within the first three months after birth the reason is the DOLANTIN during delivery. DOLANTIN is a morphine derivation. I found it out

This woman has become pregnant again and the delivery was without complications, but again she got DOLANTIN. Two to three weeks after birth this child also stopped breathing. She went with him to the university hospital and there the child has been put in an upstanding bed and a monitor has been fixed to the bed. As soon as it stopped breathing, the monitor started peeping

Then, I gave this child Opium 200 and it became healthy. Later, he got a cold with fever, coughing and coryza. He was very cheerful and laughed the whole time, notwithstanding the fever; that was very strange. I looked in the Repertory under "mind, cheerful during heat" (p. 11) and what did I see? Aconitum and Opium, and I repeated Opium.Three days later the child was cured, everything was over, the cough, the coryza and the fever

Tell this everywhere, in the whole world. It is very important, that this DOLANTIN and all the other morphine derivations are not administered anymore

Opium is a very important remedy. I already told you of the trembling after a fright in Opium

We had another child in the centre that came because of absences. They were real absences, no convulsions. Besides, she had a convergent strabismus, perspired on the head during sleep and had other symptoms. With these three symptoms we gave which remedy? Cicuta virosa. Convergent strabismus and perspiration of the head that is Cicuta. After Cicuta she was better and then she developed a grand mal epilepsy and she was obstructed. Do you see which remedy are complementary to Cicuta: Carbo vegetabilis, Ferrum, Kali carbonicum, Sulphur, and which remedies follow well: Belladonna, Hepar, Opium, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia

At the beginning we had good symptoms for Cicuta and now, after Cicuta, a new picture with new symptoms is developed. Previously, she did not have constipation, she only had it now, also the grand mal seizures. Which remedy do we have to give now

Besides, every time when the parents brought her to the children garden she got convulsions, because she did not want to go there and got excited. Look under "convulsions from excitement" (p. 1353). Hyoscyamus is capital, but also Opium is capital. Together with the constipation the next remedy was Opium. You see, at the beginning there were clear indications for a certain remedy. We gave it. Then, a new situation developed and now you have to give the remedy that follows and she will cure

You could not have cured this case with Opium as a first remedy; first, Cicuta was necessary as a first remedy, there is no doubt about that. These cases are the so-called complicated cases

So, do not forget that Opium situations are often caused by gynecologists and obstetricians.

The constipation in children who have artificial food (this means no breast-feeding) is which remedy

Alumina.Alumina is t h e remedy in constipation of children who do not have breast-feeding, with little hard balls like in Opium. In this constipation together with respiration problems you have to think of Opium.

All right, this child had an icterus neonatorum

FP: Many inflammations of the middle ear.

A: Since his birth many otitis media?

MP: In fact, yes. He got many tubes in his ears. We have been in treatment. They talked about allergy.

A: Did he have other complaints, for example, pain in the throat?

MP: No. Usually, it was a cold and then the tubes were obstructed.

A: Recurrent colds.

MP: Yes, usually it started with a cold.

A: He didn't have other diseases?

MP: Once, he has had tuberculosis.

A: Did someone of the family have tuberculosis?

MP: No. Or...?

A: How do you think of the word? You mean tuberculosis? Or was it preventive?

MP: I don't know. Or didn't he have it all?

A: Did it ever happen that someone reacted positive to a skin test?

MP: No... We are both in the medical attendance.

A: You are both in the medical attendance. Do you teach?

MP: No.

FP: I work in the hospital.

MP: At the moment I work in a home for aged persons.

A: But you know the medicines and so on?

MP: Yes.

A: When was the first epileptic attack?

MP: With his ear inflammation.

FP: He had high fever and then he got it.

A: Was it a fever cramp or was he also unconscious?

Where can we find this

"Convulsions during heat" (p. 1354; General p. 1117).But you have to be careful with this rubric. I know from experience that a lot of other remedies should be here, this rubric is absolutely not complete

MP: It was a grand mal seizure. Then, the doctor came and he was hospitalized.

If you give Belladonna in such convulsions with central congestion, heat, redness and so on, and it does nothing, which remedy can save you then

Stramonium, yes. It is very difficult to differentiate between Belladonna and Stramonium in acute, high fever situations. The only difference is that in Belladonna the fever comes suddenly and goes down again, goes up again suddenly, but in practice it is hardly to differentiate.Therefore, take this as a practical advice, think of Stramonium in dangerous high fever situations with beginning convulsions

A: The first seizure was because of high fever?

MP: Yes.

FP: He was six or seven years old. Before the holidays, when he had to go to the first class.

A: He didn't have other diseases?

MP: No.

A: How old was he when he started to walk?

MP: About twelve, fourteen months, when he really could walk.

A: At the age of fourteen months?

Twelve until fourteen months, that is normal.

Of which remedy can you think in this boy

Answer: "Graphites.

A: Graphites, well yes. The symptoms of Graphites are normally skin diseases, very early skin diseases. If they develop further and are suppressed, cancer and stomach problems can arise

But of which remedy could you think in this case

Of Calcarea carbonica. Not every Calcarea child has to learn to walk late, there are also Calcarea situations which only occur after two, three years and those children learn to walk normally

Do you know the history of my chicken? We will publish this and this will help homoeopathy further

In summer, in June I bought chicken to make them fat, because I don't like those chicken of the chicken factories which get all kinds of bad food. I bought 50 chicken. (Laughing

No, these are not only for me, also for other people. In summer, July, August I am always at home and besides my work I looked at the chicken two, three times a day and I watched them very closely. All these chicken were white, all meat chicken are white; among the chicken for production of meat you do not find brown chicken. I asked myself why they are white, - this means, they are blond. All right. I looked very closely at them and it was rather warm outside, but nevertheless the chicken were all sitting together in a corner. Then, I asked myself why these chicken are so chilly. Strange. And when they have eaten they were not lying like a chicken, but like a pork, this means with their feet far away. Then, I asked myself whether they are so easily tired or why they do this. It was strange

When I gave them their food, it was a special mixing with milk-powder and other things, so that they become fat very quickly - they were fighting to eat and fought for every corn, although there was more than enough for everyone. When I saw this, I thought that these chicken must be very egoistic. These chicken have to be fat within six weeks so that they can be slaughtered, they put on weight so easily. A normal brown chicken or an English chicken maybe needs six months before they are so fat. This means, that these chicken easily put on weight, obesity

All together, these chicken have all the peculiarities to give a lot of meat within a short time. I was sitting like that and I was watching these chicken and suddenly I saw one that couldn't stand on its legs. It was walking like, for a human being we would say walking on his elbow. I gave this chicken three tablets of a remedy. Which was the remedy? Calcarea carbonica. Three days later I sat there again and watched the chicken again, but I could not find the paralyzed chicken anymore - no, it was not a paralysis, but rather a weakness. First, I thought that this chicken was walked over by another chicken and was paralyzed because of that. Then, it would have needed which remedy

Hypericum. But it was only the lower part of the legs, which were apparently paralyzed, therefore it could not be a real paralysis, but only a weakness

Anyway, two days later I did not see the chicken anymore that was walking so strange. Then, I counted the chicken and they still were fifty, this means, that this weak chicken has become healthy again. Because they all look the same I did not know which was the chicken. I thought that these were all Calcarea chicken.

Two weeks later I met a poultry-farmer in a cafe. We started to discuss and I asked him whether he was interested to make his chicken quicker fat. He asked me if I could do this and said that I would be the richest man in the world if I could save him 3% in time that they have to grow until they are ready to be slaughtered. I told him that the money did not interest me, but that it concerns Homoeopathy and that he should call me again when he had chicken again. We could make them fat in 2 houses, in each about 20 000, and then we will do a prooving

This poultry-farmer did not call me, but the owner of the cafe knew another one who called me and asked me if I was the doctor of the chicken. He was talking, and talking and then he told me his problem, namely that the bones of the chicken were very soft and therefore he had to give muscle-chalk. That is the reason why those chicken could not walk properly anymore. I went to him, saw the chicken and gave the farmer some tablets of Calcarea carbonica C30. He should dissolve one in some water every day and put it in the drinking water of one of his many chicken houses. We decided that the chicken from the first house would get the tablet in the drinking water, those of the second house not. He also said that the chicken from the first house got a cheaper food than those from the second house, but it did not interest me. At that time the chicken were six days old. One week later I went back and it was clear that the chicken from the first house were doing much better than those of the second house, but there were as much chicken dying of a heart attack in the first houseas in the second house. That was for me a problem. I was thinking the whole time: "What is going on there? H O W did they die? Suddenly, they flew up, fell down and then they were very blue.Maybe it is... - but why did they die? Was it because of the noise? Did they flew up because of one or other noise?" The poultry-farmer said: "No, they just die." While driving home I kept thinking about it: "Carbo vegetabilis? Aconitum? But Aconitum complementary to Calcarea? Yes, it occurs, but not so often." However, I did not understand it

At the end of the sixth week he has in the first house 1% more meat, and brought in 27 000 BF, and that with a cheaper food. Now, afterwards he said: "Probably, the cheaper food is better than the expansive.

What have I done wrong in the whole story? I gave them Calcarea carbonica the sixth day and the heart attacks usually occur between the 5th and 10th day of their life. Many chicken die of that and it means a loss of the total weight. Who can tell me what you have to do to prevent these heart attacks

Later, we will publish this story, but before we have to do some proovings. Now, I gave them Calcarea C30, later I will try this again with C200, M, 10M. We will see if the effect of the different potencies are indeed different. This will last for quite a long time, maybe one year, 1 1/2 year

Do you know why these chicken died of a heart attack? I mean, what you have to do to prevent this? A heart attack does not happen just like this. It comes suddenly, at a certain period, but it is the result of a bad evolution before. In a human being the heart attack is the consequence of many years of bad life, in chicken it is a consequence of some days of bad evolution. The consequence for the next attempt of the chicken is to give Calcarea not from the 6th day, but already from the first day of their life. First, many of these chicken that have been treated homoeopathically will remain less little. Normally, in 20 OOO chicken there are a lot of chicken that stay small under the weight, they can not be calculated in the total weight, they can not be sold

Second, there will be less heart attacks, because those chicken already got Calcarea from the beginning

You will hear from this experiment and you will see that it will cause a lot of sensation. We will do this very carefully, everything will be weighed by computer, also the food. With the first trial the poultry-farmer needed 0,9% less food in the first house than in the second house. He did not count how much money he saved with it, but anyway he needed less food and produced more meat

Do you see what you can do with animals. Well alright, this patient walked at the age of 12 months

MP: Yes, he was not one of the fast walking children.

A: And with the dentition?

MP: That was not abnormal. I can't say it anymore.

A: Lift up your hand. Turn it around. You also have little warts on your hand.

P: Yes, and here still a large one.

Of which remedy do I think now? I asked for warts and he has relatively short fingers. I think of Baryta carbonica. Baryta carbonica is known for warts at the hands, especially the right hand is full of warts

A: Before I forget, which medicines does he take at the moment?

FP: BACHBLÜTEN. In fact, we tried everything. It always came through.

A: That is a combination of five remedies?

MP: Yes, that is thought out.

A: So, at the moment he doesn't take any allopathic medicines?

MP: No, no. Only when he gets a severe seizure we give him one ampoule VALIUM rectally.

A: That is very good. When you give anti-epileptics it has an influence on the mental ability.

MP: That's the reason. We try to educate him as normal as possible.

A: How often does he have seizures?

FP: I think that it has increased the last years. Previously, it was two times a year. The last time it already was every two, three months.

MP: Yes.

A: Every two, three months. So, it is four times a year?

MP: It is not constantly. But often you get in touch with neurologists and you hear that every attack harms the brain. Then, you ask yourself what you have to do.

A: If we can give him the homoeopathic remedy he needs, then he will be cured. But we have to wait two, three months to say something about the result.

Are there other complaints or problems about which we can ascertain that our remedy is right? For example, the wart, that is one case. When it goes away... How long does he have it?

MP: Already quite a long time.

A: Does he have colds regularly?

P: Coughing and so on.

FP: Slight colds.

A: So, he still has slight colds?

FP: Yes, but at the moment it does not extend to the ears.

There are at least 100 remedies for warts, this remedy also. Not only Causticum, Nitricum acidum, Thuja, Calcarea carbonica, Baryta carbonica indicate warts, also all other possible remedies. Therefore, forget this symptom and look for the constitutional remedy

A: It is only important to have a criterion so that you can say: "My remedy is correct." You have to see that something has improved.

MP: Yes, I understand.

FP: About his character I think, he is so...

MP: He is hyperactive, especially in the morning.

A: So, when he becomes more quiet, this is also something you can observe.

MP: Yes.

A: Tell me something about his character.

MP: How shall I start? He is easily tread on his toes, easily angry, easily thinks he is laughed at.

Which is the remedy? "Mind, delusions, imagines she is laughed at" (p. 28), only one remedy: Baryta carbonica. This is the reason why I think of Baryta carbonica

MP: On the other hand, he is also very helpful, to do something good.

A: Do you think, that he is easily...

MP: He needs a lot of affection.

That is a Phosphorus element. In this remedy you nearly always see Phosphorus symptoms, a kind of sympathy.

A: Is he easily timid?

MP: No, I can not say.

Why this question for timidity? Because of Baryta carbonica. But he says that he is not timid, that is the reason why I go away from Baryta carbonica

FP: He easily makes contact. He knows everyone...

MP: And everyone knows him. That is typical for him.

FP: But remaining contacts, really friends, that is difficult. By his character...

A: But the anger is quickly gone.

MP: Yes.

A: He is hot-tempered and afterwards it is all right again.

MP: Yes, for example, when he is playing with friends, usually, there is easily a thing that does not fit him and he says: "I will never play with him again", and the next day they are the closest friends again.

FP: He can be very, very angry. Then, you notice that he has to withhold himself. He could hurt someone, so choleric he is.

A: Say it again, how is he?

FP: He can be really very angry. You see it at him: the colour of his face changes...

MP: Then he gets a red head.

A: And what else? That he could hurt someone?

FP: He withholds himself, he doesn't do it, but...

You see that he can be very angry with a red head. Then, he is very sympathetic and likes to sit on the lap of his mother - desire to be magnetized - maybe it is also Phosphorus

A: Do you often have the impulse to kill someone when you are so angry? Can you get so angry?

P: No, not like that.

A: I mean internally?

MP: Do you think about that?

P: Yes, I do. When I am very angry, then I have the impulse to do so.

A: To do what?

P: To make him a smaller.

A: How would you do this?

P: Fight with him.

A: And when you see a knife, do you have the impulse to stab with it?

P: No.

Which remedy has this

Mercurius is the first remedy in impulses to kill. At the sight of a knife it is Alumina. Also Nux vomica and Arsenicum have impulses to kill

FP: He uses all his force.

A: Are there certain things you are afraid of? The fact is that he thinks that he is easily laughed at.

MP: Yes.

FP: It has something to do with his weight. The children laugh at him. I heard it yesterday. What did the child say?

P: Well, phh.

FP: He cares a lot about it. How the children are and so .

P: R. always calls me a "10-tonner".

A: And you can not tolerate that?

P: Well yes. At the moment it goes better in school. When they say something to me then I say: "Look at yourself first." But previously, it was very bad.

A: Do you have other anxieties?

MP: A few years ago the parents of his friend divorced. Then, he thought, that we would also divorce when we had differences of opinions. Now, it is not so strong anymore, but he does not like that. That was a problem for him for quite a long time.

A: Other anxieties?

MP: I don't know.

FP: In school, anxiety to fail. Now, he has to redo a year. He has additional lessons in reading.

A: He has difficulties with reading?

FP: Yes.

P: Spelling.

MP: The eldest was already in treatment for legasthenia. When he was in the first class he changed the letters. He had enough notes, but he got them from calculating. The speech was difficult. Now, they are in the speech centre in X, and there they advised us to redo the year.

FP: With dictations he is anxious that he can't do it. We know that he can't but nevertheless he is still anxious. Now, it is better. He has less anxiety to fail, but nevertheless.

A: It is still there. Are there other anxieties? Fear of dark?

P: No.

MP: I always said he is braver than the other two together.

He is undertaking more than the other two together. Now, it is completely clear that it can not be Baryta carbonica

A: Fear of height?

MP: No.

A: Fear of mice, spiders or so?

MP: No, rather too little.

FP: In fact, he doesn't know any dangers.

MP: No, I can't name such a fear. In fact, he has always been a Jack Pudding.

P: Well yes.

A: His tonsils were never swollen?

MP: No.

A: They haven't been removed?

MP: No. The eldest has, but he not. He didn't have really problems with that.

Why this question? Again because of Baryta carbonica. Large tonsils, swollen, also enlarged glands in the neck, that is Baryta carbonica

A: He only quickly thinks that he is being laughed at. And he is anxious for that. But how do you explain his fear that you will divorce when you have a fight? This means that he has a kind of worry?

MP: I think so.

A: Is he easily concerned?

MP: Yes.

A: About what?

MP: When there is something wrong, for example, last week the eldest had a concussion of the brain, then he is ... He can fight with him constantly, but at that moment he would do everything for him. If he sees there is something wrong with someone, immediately he is prepared to help. I think he has taken it to heart, that they have separated. Especially, he missed his friend.

Do you see the Phosphorus element again. He is very sympathetic

A: Did he learn to speak late?

MP: Not so early, but not abnormally late. With the first child I wrote much more down as with the second.

A: That is not so important. But slower as the other children?

MP: Anyway, he was not one of the first.

A: Can he see every film?

MP: "Startrak", space travel films.

A: Can he also see horror films?

P: I think so.

A: Do you watch horror films?

FP: He already goes to bed at half past seven.

MP: That's true.

A: You go to bed at half past seven?

MP: He goes to bed early.

P: Not at half past seven!

MP: The last time it is a little bit better, but previously you often went to bed at half past six.

P: Previously.

A: Why?

MP: Because he was so tired.

FP: In the morning he got up at 6.00 o'clock. Since the hour has been put back it is a little bit different.

A: Does he bite his nails?

P: No.

A: Those warts, they are only on the right hand or also on the left hand?

P: On both.

A: Only on the inside of the hand?

P: No, on my finger. Now, there appear two little ones.

A: Does he sleep well?

MP: Yes.

FP: Except when he has those seizures.

MP: Normally, he sleeps well. He goes to bed early, but gets up very early in the morning.

A: When he gets those seizures, then he sleeps very much and long?

MP: Yes.

A: Did he bite on his tongue?

P: Yes.

MP: When he has those severe seizures.

FP: That's how we knew it in fact.

During the convulsions he has bitten his tongue, but first you have to put your tongue out before you can bite on it

P: Or I have bitten on my cheek.

A: He had a long deep sleep after the seizure.

FP: That might be because of the VALIUM.

MP: Yes. Bed-wetting only occurred with these seizures, otherwise not.

A: Tell me, why you go to bed so early. Is it really because you are tired?

P: If there is nothing on television I go to bed and read a book.

MP: But you are only interested in books the last time. Previously not, then he couldn't read very well.

A: Is it really because you are tired?

P: Yes.

A: How old are you now?

P: Eleven.

That is very strange. He is eleven years old and he goes to bed at 7.00 p.m. And why? I want to try to find out why

A: Is he often sitting there with his mouth open?

MP: No, I haven't noticed it yet.

A: Put your tongue out.

P: (Patient puts his tongue out)

A: How is it with his sexual development? Now, he is eleven years old. Tell me something about that.

MP: I think, that he is very well... How shall I say this... I don't think that he already has seminal discharges. I haven't noticed anything yet.

A: But why do you think it is good?

MP: Well, regularly he plays with his penis.

P: Hmm.

A: That is not a blame, but a symptom.

MP: That is only an ascertainment.

A: It is important to know.

MP: It is so, isn't it?

P: Yes.

A: He plays with it regularly, but you do not know, if...

MP: If he has seminal discharges, I don't know.

A: But he has erections.

MP: Yes, he has.

A: Do you think that he masturbates?

MP: Yes.

A: Can this be the reason why he goes to bed so early?

MP: Partly, this can be the reason. I don't know it exactly.

A: Well yes. But it could be.

MP: Yes, it could be. But it also often occurred that he fell asleep on the couch downstairs.

A: Then, we don't have to go further into the matter, that was only in between. According to you he often has seizures during his sleep.

MP: Yes. It already happened. We don't know if this was every time so when he sleeps long.

A: Did you notice that when he was very angry that he has bitten someone.

MP: It might happen that he bites someone when he is fighting. But I don't know, whether this is because of anger.

FP: We also did a family training with Dr. X. Regularly, there is a fight. In fact, I saw it there.

MP: Dr. X used him to make some women angry, because he can let him go.

A: You can also say that he is very impatient.

MP: Yes, when he wants something, then it has to happen immediately.

He is very, very impatient. If he has something in mind, it has to be done immediately

A: So impatient. Does he perspire easily?

MP: Yes. I have that impression.

A: Where?

MP: In the face. But before he gets those convulsions under the nose. And also while playing football he is wet through.

A: He does not perspire at the back of his head while sleeping?

MP: I haven't noticed yet that his cushion was wet.

A: Can he easily tolerate music?

MP: Do you mean music or noise, so that bass music?

A: Yes.

MP: He hasn't complained about it yet. But when he listens to music, it is very loud.

P: But I don't listen to pop music.

A: You don't listen to pop music?

P: Only a few songs.

A: You never had pain in the limbs, cramps or things like that?

P: No.

A: Did he have inflammation of the nail-bed?

MP: No.

A: No skin complaints?

MP: So a few pimples because of the perspiration. No eczema.

A: No ulcers?

MP: No.

A: What does he like to eat?

MP: Say it yourself.

P: Sweets.

Sweets, that is very important for this remedy. It is in that rubric

MP: And chips, coke.

P: These are also sweets.

A: What else?

MP: Say it.

P: It is so much.

VP: Chocolate.

A: What about eggs?

FP: He likes to eat it very much. Regularly, he fries one of himself.

A: Would he eat an egg every day?

P: No.

MP: Not every day, but regularly.

A: Does he prefer it soft boiled or fried?

P: Fried. I don't like it soft boiled.

A: Does he like cheese?

P: Not normal cheese.

MP: Curds and cheese spread.

P: I am not so fond of that.

A: Are there things you don't eat?

P: Liver and so on.

A: Intestines, slimy things.

MP: He doesn't like soup very much and neither rice.

A: What about milk and meat? Does he like that?

MP: Yes.

VP: When he was little he didn't tolerate milk.

MP: Yes, in fact he was fed with soja milk.

A: He didn't tolerate cow's milk?

A: No cow proteins.

A: How does he react to that?

FP: With eruptions on his head. At that time they supposed that it was an allergy.

MP: Yes, Dr. Y was easy at hand at that time. In fact, I always doubted whether the eczema was caused by the proteins. It was also very warm at that time and he had a little eruption. Then, he said: "Change to sheep, goat or soja milk." He got that for quite a long time.

FP: I also said this to the neurologist. It is as if he has a kind of eruption.

A: What do you mean with that?

MP: He had a special colour.

FP: I saw that he got a kind of eruption during the convulsions. I have the impression that it is a kind of allergy.

The father noticed that he has a kind of eruption during the convulsions - very strange

MP: As a psychiatric nurse he has seen many seizures.

FP: The colour then. He has a complete red head.

MP: And here it is white.

A: So white around the mouth.

MP: And blue, the lips are blue.

A: That is before the seizure.

FP: Yes, you see it the day before.

A: Pale around the mouth?

FP: Yes, and around the nose. The rest of the head is completely red. We already discussed whether it could come from nuts.

MP: Or from chemical additions or colouring-matter.

FP: The fact that he reacts to that in one or another way.

A: How does he lie in bed?

MP: This morning he lay on his back. You always see him lying in another position. You have to know it yourself, how you wake up and how you fall asleep. How do you lie to fall asleep?

P: On the abdomen.

A: Are there other peculiarities you noticed?

MP: Not particularly.

A: Did he have an appetite for eggs when he was a child?

MP: Well yes, there was a time, that he asked for eggs every day. But at the moment, it is only a few eggs a week. But anyway, he likes eggs.

A: Show me your lips. He never had ulcers?

MP: No, I haven't noticed it yet.

Did he say that he slept naked? No? Then it is not on the video, but he sleeps without clothes

He got a remedy. We have repeated it a few times, in 10M and once in 50M

FEEDBACK (4.1.1988

He looks more adult. The feedback is recorded about two years after the first consultation

A: It concerned epilepsy. Also anxieties, anxiety to fail, little self-confidence.

MP: Yes.

A: Since April, 1986 I have treated him. When did he have his last attack?

MP: We talked about it while we were driving to the centre. That is a long time ago. We can not say it exactly. Do you still know it?

P: Last year during the holidays.

A: Was it 1987 or 1986?

MP: 1986.

P: Yes, yes.

MP: Now, it is 1988.

A: No seizures since then?

P: No.

Previously, he had about four times a year epileptic seizures. Now, it is January 1988 and the last seizure was in August 1986, since then no seizure

A: You were here in April, 1986 and in June 1986 you still had a seizure.

MP: Yes, it was a very severe seizure.

A: Here, it is written down: On June, 17 a severe seizure. Immediately after the remedy he stayed up a longer. He didn't go to bed so early. And in August I wrote: After the last remedy he didn't have a seizure.

MP: No.

A: So, after the remedy in 50M I gave in July.

MP: This must have been during the holidays.

A: In the meantime the warts have disappeared as well.

MP: Oh, they have disappeared for quite a long time.

A: Also disappeared after the remedy?

MP: Yes.

A: Then, he still got a seizure once, in February 1987, a little attack. It was different from the others, less severe and at night.

MP: Oh yes.

A: Otherwise, nothing else, no problems anymore. When does he go to bed?

MP: That is very different.

A: Does he watch television?

MP: He still goes to bed early.

P: At 9.00 or half past 9.00. It is not that I have to go to bed.

A: Anyway, it is important that he didn't have a seizure for a whole year long, even not a little one. Only once, two months after the remedy, in June 1986 he had a severe seizure. Since then he didn't have a severe seizure anymore.

MP: No, not at all.

A: How many seizures did he have previously?

P: Every month.

MP: No, there were two, three months in between.

A: That he got those severe seizures.

MP: He usually had severe seizures which started at night. What exactly happened at night, you couldn't know.

A: That is all I have to know.

MP: In the meantime he has grown enormously. And so he has become thinner. He has developed to a man.

A: Also more adult?

MP: You could say it this way.

P: My voice has changed as well.

A: How do you mean?

P: Previously, my voice was much sharper.

MP: He will be 13 this years. He will be in his puberty.

A: Yes, yes.

MP: He is his contemporaries advanced.

A: Taller.

MP: Yes, compared to those whom we know.

A: Also concerning his stature.

MP: Yes, he is not abnormal.

A: No, he isn't.

You saw that there were many Phosphorus elements: sympathy, a kind of impatience and restlessness.And it could not be Baryta carbonica because of his character. Which remedy was it here? Bufo, again Bufo. Do you see the prognathism and the tongue that is coming out again.Convulsions during sleep, deep sleep after convulsions, biting tongue during convulsions, involuntary loss of urine, that is clear Bufo

They say that he is more active than the other two together and this has nothing to do with Baryta carbonica. Baryta carbonica is rather slow. He is not anxious, not at all. He can be very, very angry. Is impatient and restless. You see, in this remedy you can find Nux vomica and Phosphorus elements, also Calcarea carbonica and Baryta carbonica, but with none of them you feel good. It was not clear until they mentioned the symptom that he went to bed early. And why? To masturbate, that is the reason

What is very interesting: when Bufo has cured him then it was his constitutional remedy, because he had those convulsions since he was little

Eczema from milk, we do not know this symptom for Bufo yet. The Bufo children can look like Calcarea children, also the form of the fingers can be the same: at the basis large and at the top small, that is typical for Calcarea.Then the milk allergy, the flabbiness, everything Calcarea carbonica

Bufo is neither known for its warts, but they also disappeared after the remedy. Besides, we do not know Bufo in otitis media, but he has it and because Bufo is his constitutional remedy, he would have needed it with his otitis media. Bufo has no complementary remedy, only Salamandra, and there are no proovings of it

Who says that Calcarea is complementary to Bufo? I looked everywhere to see which remedy is complementary to Bufo and the only remedy I could find was Salamandra

Remark: "Phatak writes that Calcarea is complementary to Bufo."

A: Yes? Phatak writes this? Maybe they took it over from Phatak, but I don't understand. The Bufo state already exists since birth. It is a very, very deep disturbance. Therefore, I think it is not right that Calcarea is complementary to Bufo

Remark: "X also writes it.

A: Materia medicas are copies of other Materia medicas. It is easy to write a materia medica and to copy what others have written before. We have to write down what we experience clinically. That is the reason why I showed this case. I do not believe everything what is written. I tried to believe it and to confirm it in practice. When it is confirmed in practice, then it is all right. If not, if I do not have practical experiences about what is written in books, then I can not talk about the remedy at all

Remark: "In the book about the relation of the remedies there are three remedies which are related to Bufo: Baryta carbonica, Graphites and Tarentula.

A: Oh yes. Baryta carbonica, Graphites and Tarentula. I will explain you what happened. Baryta carbonica is feeble-minded, Bufo also. Tarentula is restless. Bufo also. Do you see what happened? Third, Graphites is a skin remedy and Bufo also. They did not really find Bufo, therefore you said that Bufo has a relation to Baryta carbonica, Graphites and Tarentula. But Bufo has all the three symptoms together; the restlessness, the skin symptoms and the feeble-mindedness

These additions are only theories, they are not based on real experiences. With the cases you saw here you have more experiences with Bufo than the rest of the world.

So, do not forget Bufo in warts, otitis media and eczema, eczema in new born children. Baby's do not handle their genitals, it is difficult to recognize the remedy by this symptom, but the aspect of new born children, new born children with eczema, who get convulsions when they have fever, then you have to think of Bufo

Question: "Have you seen sexual perversions or perverse ideas in Bufo?

A: No, I have not seen perverse ideas, but it is difficult to find out

Something else to the convulsions: do not suppress them, let them have those convulsions.If you immediately give VALIUM or things like that you suppress them again and other convulsions will follow. If you suppress convulsions every time there will be no cure. This means, if you are sure about the remedy you stop all the allopathic medicines and let them have the convulsions. You only have to take care that those patients do not get attacks while driving a car, while riding on a bike, or things like that. Often, it is very difficult, but if you suppress these convulsions every time, it is difficult to cure. This patient had a severe seizure after a remedy which has not been suppressed, then half a year later a little one and then everything was over

Question: "Why did you repeat the remedy?

A: The parents called me that he had a severe seizure and at that moment I repeated Bufo in a very high potency, 50M. Later, he had a little seizure and then I also told the parents that I would repeat the remedy again

Question: "What would you do with a man with daily grand mal seizures who takes quite a lot of allopathic medicines?

A: This means, that the allopathic medicines can not help him, because he has these seizures every day

Question: "Would you stop these medicines in such a case?

A: Yes, because those medicines can not suppress those attacks at all. This means that he has a very strong nature, a good condition for the homoeopathic treatment: then, we have to find the right remedy.

Question: "Can you say something about the X-rays during the homoeopathic treatment?

A: People who are sensitive to X-rays or to radiation will develop symptoms, as people who are sensitive to odors, odors of flowers, dust, fish and things like that. We had, for example, a patient with a breast tumor who had terrible pains after radiation. She had to move constantly, also at night she had to get out of bed because of the pain. She was cured with Radium bromatum. Radium bromatum has the same modalities of pain as Rhus toxicodendron: they have to move constantly in order to tolerate the pain

Another patient had a little tumor in the left lung, but he did not have complaints. The left lung was removed and a year later he had metastasis in the mediastinum. The mediastinum was irradiated and two weeks later all the metastasis have disappeared. This means, that he is sensible to the Cobalt-therapy. But after the last radiation he got pain in his back and he could not sit still anymore, he had to move the whole time. These are the typical modalities of Rhus toxicodendron and this together with the cause, the radiation are a clear Radium bromatum picture. If there are no visible or perceptible reactions after the radiation, if the patient does not notice anything at all, then this radiation does not do anything at all

I would like to draw your attention to Radium bromatum, because Radium bromatum has the complete picture of a radio-active infection after a atom bomb. The chronic skin diseases that develop very, very slowly and develop always further, with atrophies and so on, that is a clear Radium bromatum picture. But often persons who have been exposed to a radio-active radiation, only four people will get symptoms, the other six not. The sensitivity has to be present, without sensitivity there are no complaints

Question: "I would like to know something else. When I gave a patient a remedy and I send him to the radiation, does this disturb the remedy?

A: I don't know. If there are no new symptoms after the radiation, it might be that the radiation has disturbed your remedy, but I can not tell it exactly. You have to see whether the patient has a relapse, that is the same as after PROCAIN-injections at the dentist. After the radiation you have to see very carefully, if a relapse appears or if new symptoms appear. Also after too much radiation you are intoxicating him with X-rays and you can develop a picture of corresponding symptoms.

CASE6

Bufo rana

BOY, 9 YEARS OLD

This child comes with nervous tics. Besides, he has freckles on the nose that makes you think of some remedies: Calcarea carbonica, Phosphorus, Sulphur and so on

(The boy is sitting there, is reading and is constantly tossing his head)

A: He has an inflammation of the ear-lobe. It is swollen and a viscous moisture is coming out.

MP: Yes.

A: He is biting his nails. Have his nail-beds been inflamed once?

MP: Yes.

A: Do your two children have a separate bedroom?

MP: Yes, everyone has its own room.

A: Is your other son also often sitting alone in his bedroom?

MP: No, never. He can't be alone.

A: But he does.

MP: Yes, he likes to be alone.

When he came in, first I saw the tics, then the eczema, an eczema with cracks around the ears. Then, I saw something else and I asked myself if this is a child that prefers company or rather wants to be alone. The mother says that compared to his brother he rather wants to be alone to study or to work

A: Does he read books then?

MP: Yes.

A: Since when does he have those nervous tics?

MP: He has this nervous cough for quite a long time. It comes regularly. But he tosses his head since Good Friday.

A: For the nervous cough I gave Phosphorus for many reasons. Then, the nervous cough disappeared. Instead, the tossing of the head appeared.

MP: Yes.

I gave Phosphorus because of the cough, the freckles in the face and the desire for cold drinks. The nervous cough disappeared, but then the eczema appeared. Until now, you can say that it is a good reaction. But another thing was added, namely the tics and that is not a good reaction

A: Why on Good Friday?

MP: My husband wanted to bring the children to school. As soon as he drove off with the children he got a little accident.

A: Was he frightened?

MP: Yes, that's when he started to toss his head.

A: Does he do that the whole day long?

MP: Yes.

His father had an accident, so that we can think that everything started because of a fright

A: It never stops?

MP: No.

A: You told me that he often plays with his penis.

MP: Yes.

A: Has it never been inflamed?

MP: No. He often said that it itches. But when I looked at it I didn't see anything.

A: He plays with it unconsciously.

MP: Yes, in the morning when he has his pyjamas on.

A: Also in the evening?

MP: No.

A: At what time does he go to bed?

MP: They have to go to bed between 8 and half past 8, but he doesn't sleep yet at 10 o'clock.

P: I can't sleep very well.

MP: He often lies awake the whole night. Then he comes at 3, 4 o'clock to me, because he can't sleep.

A: That is strange for such a little child.

MP: Yes.

P: I do sleep, but I wake up.

A: The inflammation of the ear-lobe only appeared lately?

MP: Yes. Also his whole upper-lip was open and inflamed. It is cured in the meantime, but at the same time he had an inflammation of the ear-lobe.

A: What about the appetite?

MP: He eats everything, but just a little bit.

A: He is not dainty with food?

MP: No. When he was little, he had it very strongly, but not now anymore.

A: Can he often have rages?

MP: No. But he draws himself back, when he is angry. Then, he is obstinate and it can take hours until it is over. But no rages.

A: Can he sit still very quietly?

MP: No.

A: Is he restless?

MP: Yes.

A: Wobbling?

MP: He often tosses his whole upper-body, is biting his nails...

A: Very, very nervous.

MP: Yes.

A: Can he wait well, for example, in the waiting room?

MP: It is all right for the first quarter of an hour, but then he starts to stamp his feet.

A: He is a little bit impatient.

MP: Yes. He is always asking when we are driving somewhere with the car, "Does it still take long?" When it takes longer, it causes him a lot of difficulties.

A: Does he often have nose-bleedings?

MP: No.

A: Does he tolerate music?

MP: Yes. He likes to put on the music in his room.

A: Does he get nervous from noise? For example of ticking clocks or things like that?

MP: No.

A: Does he have difficulties with gymnastics?

MP: No. He likes to do sport. He is also a conscientious child. Everything has to be right. He has hardly got up in the morning or he is saying, "Hurry up, we are too late." It is his only concern in the morning that he doesn't get too late at school. That is a real concern for him.

A: He is also impatient when he has to be somewhere in time?

MP: Especially, when he has to go to school.

I gave him the remedy in M potency and now we will see the feedback

FEEDBACK (11.7.1988)

A: Did you have good marks?

P: 88 1/2 %.

A: That is good. I gave him a remedy five weeks ago.How was the reaction?

MP: It has improved. Now and then, he is still tossing his head. Sometimes, he has a coarser voice.

A: With the coarseness of the voice it goes up and down, while previously it was constantly.

MP: Yes. A time ago he was constantly coarse.

A: He tosses his head less?

MP: Yes.

A: How fast did it improve?

MP: It was already better a few days after the remedy.

A: He also had an inflammation of the right ear-lobe.

MP: Yes. It was very bad at both ears.

A: So, it has aggravated?

MP: Yes.

A: And now it has disappeared?

P: Not yet at this ear. (The left ear)

A: First, it has aggravated, then it was cured completely at the right side and now there is still a crack under the ear-lobe on the left side.

MP: Yes. Now, when we are talking about that, I remember that he has pulled for quite a long time at his ear. He still does now and then. During the school journey he has knock down his foot. There was nothing to see. He has limped a little bit, and now he is still walking on his toes. When he moves his foot, it does not hurt.

A: He is also still biting his nails. Has it improved?

MP: He always did a little bit.

A: In general, his nervosity has improved?

MP: Yes.

A: Was it already better before the holidays?

MP: Yes. Two days after the remedy the teacher said that she noticed that he has sat very quietly in the class for the whole day.

A: Afterwards, the skin symptoms have also improved.

MP: Yes.

A: You still see that he is tensed, but the strong tossing of the head is better?

MP: Yes.

A: Has the nervous cough disappeared?

MP: He still had it a few days, and then it disappeared suddenly.

A: He had the tendency to withdraw himself in his bedroom. Has there something changed? Do you think that he has become more social? Did you notice something?

MP: No. He often goes outside with his friends, but he also likes to sit in his room. In fact, it hasn't changed.

A: Did he still complained that his penis was itching?

MP: No.

A: What about the hurriedness? Of course, now it is holidays...

MP: Yes.

A: Anyway, we can say that he reacted very well; rather quickly on the neurologic level and then an aggravation of the skin with affiliated improvement. But we have to observe it further, because I think he is not yet quiet enough, unless you asks his attention. He is also wrinkling up his forehead. How did it developed the last fortnight? Has it aggravated again or is it still improving?

MP: I think that it is improving gradually.

A: Has he eaten chewing-gum?

P: No.

A: What is according to you the cause of the nervosity? Did he have it previously?

MP: A few years ago, but not so strong.

A: Can you give a reason for that?

MP: I don't know. Maybe, his hair was too long, so that he tosses it out of his face and that it remained now so. Also the pulling of his ear-lobe, because it was open. And now with his foot... Maybe, he gets customs back. But the tossing of the head only appeared after the accident.

A: I have to see him again before the school begins. When it aggravates you have to inform me. Are you in the first class?

P: No, in the second.

A: He had good results?

MP: Yes, he was the second of this class. During the year he has 90% and then he was the first.

A: It is not good when you are too clever.

MP: His brother goes to the first class now and he is worrying that he will get more notes than he does.

A: He can not tolerate that.

P: (Is laughing)

MP: No. He is worrying about it yet.

A: Is his brother learning so well?

MP: No. The teacher says that he has a very good mind and is very clever, but he doesn't worry about it.

A: He is more worried.

MP: Yes.

It is better, but I am not yet satisfied, therefore I repeated the remedy in 10M potency

FEEDBACK (14.9.1988)

A: In which class are you now?

P: In the third.

A: Do you have a good teacher?

P: Hm.

A: You don't know it yet. Is she beautiful at least?

P: No.

A: I repeated the remedy on August, 29 and your wife said, that she hasn't noticed anything of the tics yet.

FP: I neither. They have gone.

A: Has he become more quietly?

FP: No.

A: He also had itching of the penis and it was swollen. Has it disappeared yet?

FP: If it has completely disappeared...

A: Anyway it isn't red anymore?

FP: No.

A: What about the penis? Do you still have complaints?

P: No.

A: It is still itching?

P: No.

Have you seen one tic up to now? No, not one

A: Also the nervous cough has disappeared?

FP: Yes. It is completely all right now.

A: That is all I have to know. And now, do your best at school.

P: Yes, yes.

Every symptom has disappeared: the nervous cough, the tics and the skin symptoms

I repeated the remedy four times, first in M potency, then three times a 10 M, and I repeated it when he was already better. This repetition did not disturb. Maybe, it would have been better from itself, when I waited, I do not know, but it looked like a beginning relapse and therefore I repeated it

Everyone knows which remedy it was? Bufo. Neurologic symptoms and skin symptoms, that is Bufo.In the rubric "head, motions" (p. 131; General p. 109) Bufo is also there. He is a very intelligent child, in the school he has 88%. Besides, he does not look like Bufo, he is studying very much, but he also plays with his penis, and this means something. This means that he is very well developed on one hand, but on the other hand... Do you understand

But nobody would think of the remedy if you are not sensitive for the combination of neurologic symptoms and skin symptoms

Question: "What about too early or too often repetition in skin symptoms

A: I heard from South-American or Indian homoeopaths, who have repeated high potencies very often, three times a day during a certain period. They say that they have very good results with it. I do not know. I do not dare to do it myself, but if a serious homoeopath can show me on video that he has cured by repeating a high potency very often - all right. We have to see in practice what happens and then we can make our conclusion. Maybe, low potencies are good, or high, or maybe the LM-potencies, maybe it is good to repeat often - I do not know. Until now, we have seen, that it is a good method to repeat high potencies in a relapse.

CASE7

Bufo rana

WOMAN, 46 YEARS OLD

10.3.1986

A: You are here in treatment because of epilepsy.

P: Yes.

A: The first attack was 1978, when you were pregnant.

P: Yes, during the first pregnancy.

A: Afterwards, periodic attacks with biting of the tongue. Often also petitmal, little attacks.

P: Yes. That was good for quite a long time.

A: You felt it coming up in plexus solaris. Then I gave you a remedy and it has been good for quite a long time. I repeated the remedy on September, 7, 1987. Did you have attacks in between?

P: Yes, still three times. My husband wakes up then. What is this sucking noise? I don't bite with the tongue immediately, but internally, in the lips, I feel it.

A: Have the attacks been stronger?

P: Yes, that is clear.

A: We will go further. Did you still have absences?

P: No.

A: What is the matter now?

P: I had the last attack the night from Saturday to Sunday. My first idea was that I was stiff. I didn't know myself what was the matter, but I had a stiff feeling in my shoulder muscular. It hurt more when I moved my arm. We had a family party and I thought it was because I had to pour out so much coffee. So, this movement. Yesterday morning it was a little bit thicker (shows at the region of the clavicle). At the front you don't see it so well, but from the side.

Do you see this redness? It is a very, very deep inflammation

A: You see that it is red and a little bit swollen.

P: Yesterday morning I went working.

A: May I feel it? Does it hurt when I touch it?

P: Yes.

A: Also on this side?

P: No, not. Here a little bit deeper, on the bone of the breast, there I still feel it. But it is limited to this spot.

A: Does it hurt? (Moves the clavicle(collar bone) )

P: No.

A: It is surely not the articular joint. It is on it. Does it hurt if you touch it?

P: Yes. In all the movements where the clavicle is concerned the whole region hurts. The swelling only appeared yesterday in the afternoon. Since then it hasn't been become larger, neither smaller. The redness has extended. First, only a little spot was red. Today, I put something cold on it. It felt cold. That's all I have done.

Cold applications ameliorate. Which are the remedies?

Apis is the first remedy of which we have to think, besides it is on the right side

Also Lachesis has an amelioration by cold applications, and Belladonna. Belladonna inflammations are very hot, red, on the right side and the slowest motion aggravates

A: So, you got the attacks during your sleep at night.

P: Yes I don't know it myself. Afterwards, I have a severe headache. That is always so. Then, I know that I had those attacks. I always had this, as if my head is too small.

A: It is every time so?

P: Yes, that is something that is sure. But I must say that the first month after the remedy I felt excellent.

A: You felt the first month very well?

P: Yes, emotionally, physically.

A: Can you tolerate music very well?

P: No. Certainly not certain noises, so a loud drum. I prefer the silence. I don't like certain music. But when it is too loud I start feeling a kind of trembling. I did yoga exercises. Then, I can tolerate the noise better.

A: All right, this seems to become an ulcer, a carbuncle.

P: I have that impression.

A: An ulcer.

P: But the pulsating is not always there.

A: But it is a pain as if it is an ulcer.

P: At the moment yes. It is a real pulsating pain. But it is not always there.

A: No, now and then. The upper surface is rather large. There you can also take the rubric "boils". Did you ever had this before?

P: No. As a child I had something, but my mother said, it was

A: That is a skin disease, a kind of eczema, no inflammation. Does your mother said something about inflammations.

P: No, but she said something about an ulcer, not about inflammations. Every time after an operation I have an allergic reaction of the blood vessels, they are suppurating. But that is rather a reaction.

A: Do you have other complaints?

P: The last time I have a lot of flatulence. Often, it was difficult at work. I had cramps.

A: Still other complaints?

P: The last time you mean? I can't say.

A: May I see your nails?

P: Yes, the nails were never strong. Maybe, it has something to do with the fact that I am constantly with my hands in the water. But that is surely not the cause.

A: Do you have cramps?

P: Yes, cramps and then I have flatus.

A: Does the flatus improve?

P: When I had flatus the cramps are gone. Really, the last time I had quite a lot of complaints with that.

A: Other complaints?

P: No.

A: Then, we give you a remedy and I would like to see you again on Saturday. Do you have to work on Saturday?

P: I don't think so I can work. I can't lift. I can wash with the left hand, but...

A: All right, I write you ill from tomorrow until Sunday.

P: Does I have to dissolve the remedy?

A: Yes, in a glass of water. Today, still two times a spoonful and tomorrow and the next day three times a spoonful. On Saturday, I want to check it up.

P: All right.

Which remedy? Bufo, yes

With this case I wanted to show you the kind of inflammation and the the danger of the inflammation. You see how far this inflammation has been extended and if you do nothing there will be a lymphangitis

Someone asked me if Bufo has the lymphangitis only at the arm. No it can occur at all other possible places. You find this remedy in all deep inflammations, carbuncles and other dangerous inflammations in the Repertory. But in this case you could not find the remedy if she did not say that she had epileptic attacks previously

FEEDBACK (11.8.1987)

A: How did the phlegm, the inflammation develop since the day before yesterday? Show me. It is completely gone.

P: Yes. It still feels a little bit harder.

A: Tell me the development.

P: In the evening I dissolved the tablet and took two spoons. At night it hurt incredibly. But the next day the pain has become tolerable. That was on Wednesday. Thursday I still had little pain. Now, it only hurts when I move my head completely to the left side. Then, I still feel a little pulling.

A: Otherwise you feel well?

P: Yes.

A: That was a beautiful reaction.

P: Yes, I think so. I expected an ulcer or something like that. I already touched some ulcers. It felt very hard. To me, it didn't feel like an ulcer.

A: But the pain was strong.

P: Yes, it was. I asked my mother about the disease as a child. It was as you said an eruption, no ulcer.

A: All right. That was everything, I had to know.

Question: "Why do you let the remedy dissolve?

A: In acute cases we normally let the patient dissolve the remedy in a little bit water, so that they can take it more often

Question: "How often do they have to take it?

A: A few times a day, often two days

Question: "Which remedy did she get in September?

A: That was also Bufo. She always had sexual problems, she could not get an orgasm. Maybe, it was because she masturbated too much previously. I know that she has done, she told me at another consultation. For her it has been a great problem, because the sexuality plays an important role in her life. Her husband and she tried it again and again, so that she often had a relapse. But in general Bufo helped her

CASE8

Bufo rana

- Man, 44 years old

- October 24, 1988

- This man is about my age and his father was a schoolmate of my father.

- Now, his father came with this man to the consultation, but the patient came already many years ago, the first time in 1982, with a very severe inflammation of the tibia.

- At that time he was theorizing and he was studying mathematics at the university.

- He was a very intelligent man.

- Then he switched from mathematics to computers.

- I gave him Lycopodium, because the inflammation was on the right side, because he was a little bit bold and because he was theorizing very much.

- This had to be Lycopodium and I repeated it again and again.

- We know from Lycopodium that they often relapse and sometimes it has to be repeated and you can do this for many years and they do well.

- But in some cases you are not so satisfied with the choice of the remedy.

- Everything points to Lycopodium, but the reaction is not deep enough.

- Suddenly he had a stroke; a stroke at this age, that is strange.

- I think it was in 1987 and his wife called me, "My husband had a severe stroke and he is nearly dead.

- He is in a comatose state and he has snoring respiration.

- "You know the remedy; Opium."

- He went to the university hospital and they didn't believe that he would ever recover.

- He was completely paralysed on one side and they said that there was no hope.

- Any how, I asked his wife how he was doing, I asked about the position he was lying in, about his respiration and she told me about the way he was lying and about his respiration.

- You know this slow, deep respiration which stops suddenly and starts again.

- Many of you have certainly seen this in the hospital: they inspire deeply and then suddenly they stop and you think that they will die, but then they start breathing again.

- You find this in the rubric "arrested respiration" on page 763.

RESPIRATION,ARRESTED: Acet-ac., alum., anac., ang., apis., arn., ars., bar-c., bell., bor., Bry., cact., calc., camph., cann-s., caps., carb-an., carb-s., carb-v., cast., caust., chin., cic., cina., cocc., con., crot-c., Cupr., euphr., guai., hydr-ac., ign., iod., kali-c., kali-i., kalm., lach., lat-m., led., lyc., merc-c., merc., mosch., naja., nat-m., nat-s., nit-ac., nux-m., nux-v., oena., Op., phos., plat., plb., puls., ruta., Samb., sars., sep., sil., stann., stram., sulph., tab., tanac., ter., thea., ther., verat., verb.

- In this rubric you also see Grindelia, Lachesis and Cenchris contortrix, but these people jump up as if they have an obstruction.

- With these people the respiration stops suddenly, they jump up, "Oh my God, I was nearly dead."

- It is something different with Opium.

- Opium stops breathing suddenly and when you sit there you think that they will die but then they breathe deeply.

- I had a patient with hypertension, who fell suddenly at her house and she was lying with eyes wide open.

- We find this in the Repertory on page 247: only one remedy.

- She was lying there with eyes wide open, unconscious, no corneal reflex, no pupil reflex.

- You find the same states in Ignatia situations; they sit there as if they are unconscious, they don't feel or see anything.

- You open their eyes, touch the cornea- no reflex, you shine in the pupils, no reflex.

- You don't find any symptoms and you are wondering what this means; no symptoms of laterization, no symptoms of a brain haemorrhage, nothing, completely nothing.

- They are sitting like a mummy, they do not move at all and the respiration is normal, everything is normal.

- This is unconsciousness from emotions.

- They had a big grief, their son.

- I sent this patient to the hospital, but they couldn't find anything there.

- With Ignatia everything was all right.

- "Unconsciousness after emotions" this must be under "mind"-yes, on page 90.

MIND,UNCONSCIOUSNESS,emotion, after : Acon., am-c., camph., caust., cham., Coff., Ign., Lach., nux-m., op., ph-ac., verat.

- There is also Coffea, Coffea after too much joy.

- "I'm so happy!", and then they become unconscious.

- There is also Ignatia and Lachesis.

- Typical for Opium is this snoring, chill during", there is Opium, and also in the rubric "heat, during", and in the rubric: insensible, while".

- Lower you will find the rubric "respiration, stertorous, convulsions, after", "during sleep" and so on.

- You see Opium is one of the very important remedies.

- What did I do? I gave this man Opium, every day LM 6 and then a 10M.

- I gave many potencies, because I knew very well it was Opium.

- After this stroke he went to an institute for rehabilitation to learn to walk again and then he came back home.

- After the stroke he developed epilepsy.

- Do you think it is normal, epilepsy after a stroke?

- We are used to consider epilepsy after a stroke as normal, because many people who are paralyzed on one side after a stroke develop epilepsy.

- But let us listen to the story.

- (Conversation with the wife of the patient, because the patient is not able to articulate.

- His wife works in the health sector.)

- A: Your husband is in treatment since 1982.

- He is a university graduate in mathematics.

- P: (is laughing)

- A: In fact, he came with a problem with his leg; that was an inflammation.

- WP: Yes, that's right.

- A: First, he has been in the hospital in L.

- WP: No, first he went to the family doctor.

- A: What was his problem?

- WP: When he came her, he didn't have problems with his leg, he was just tired, in general.

- He had to lie down when he came back from school.

- We went to the family doctor, but he only said that he couldn't help him.

- Then he went to a homoeopath at our place.

- He prescribed medicines, but he also said that they didn't work deeply enough.

- Then he saw another doctor for one year and at the end he also said that he couldn't help him anymore.

- Then he went to the hospital for an examination of the blood, the result was negative, they didn't find anything

- Then he went to another doctor, it was another family doctor, who gave him vitamins.

- He became depressed.

- Once, on a Wednesday when he came home form school he couldn't get up from the couch anymore.

- It was just before the holidays started and the whole Easter holiday he tried to find out what was wrong himself.

- He wrote all the symptoms done.

- Then he examined everything: his nails, his teeth, his eyes, just everything and he thought that he needed Lachesis.

- He went to the chemist, got Lachesis and he thought that it worked but not deeply enough.

- He couldn't get high potencies at the chemist.

- Then I said to him, "go back to the family doctor", but he didn't go.

- He didn't want to go a family doctor.

- P: (is crying)

- WP: Then he wanted your address and telephone number.

- "If he is a homoeopath, I will go there."

- And when I called you here and asked you if you are a homoeopath, you said yes.

- He could come at 11.00 o'clock and when he came home he felt relieved, because he had the feeling it would be all right.

- P: (cries louder)

- WP: He also got Lachesis, a high potency.

- A: No, it was Lycopodium.

- What was the reason for these symptoms of tiredness?

- WP: They thought, it was a virus infection.

- He built the house himself, maybe that was also a reason for his tiredness, always working, without, having a rest.

- That was the reason for the tiredness.

- A: He also had an inflammation of the leg?

- WP: Yes, when he came here, he already had this a little bit.

- There were only spots, coloured spots.

- The colour changed, they were orange, brown, red, all kinds of colours.

- Sometimes they disappeared again.

- A: But it was a kind of inflammation of the leg.

- WP: Yes, how should I say?

- He couldn't lift up the legs properly.

- A: It was on the tibia, I remember very well.

- WP: The lower leg was inflamed.

- A: It was inflamed very severely.

- Did he go to the hospital?

- WP: No.

- He only came to you with this inflammation.

- A: If I remember well, it was a serious and also dangerous inflammation.

- WP: I thought it was a kind of erysipelas.

- It also affected his heart and the muscles.

- He couldn't lift up his arms anymore, he couldn't shave himself if and he couldn't walk properly.

- A: It was a very severe inflammation.

- It went away after one year, it went away very slowly.

- Here it also says that he was a very impatient person, already from the beginning.

- WP: That's right.

- The first problem he came with, was a serious inflammation.

- Therefore they thought of Lachesis.

- It was a serious inflammation of the bones and in such cases you can indeed think of Lachesis.

- There are a lot of other remedies for serious inflammations, for example, Apis.

- But this inflammation was on the right side and Lachesis is normally on the left side.

- Apis is right sided, but for what kind of people do we see this, people with which constitution?

- In Natrum muriaticum people.

- When you have on Apis inflammation, then you suspect that you have to do with a Natrum muriaticum person.

- Also Sepia, as I already said, but don't forget that Sepia, Natrum muriaticum, Ignatia and Nux vomica are close remedies.

- Sepia patients with a sudden grief need Ignatia and when the grief continues they develop to Natrum muriaticum state.

- In an inflammation, when they are stuck by a bone of a chicken or by something else, they will develop an Apis situation.

- When they have a throat inflammation extending to the ear, it's Ignatia Nux vomica.

- This is a group of remedies in which Sepia is turning, also Ignatia.

- But Ignatia, as a constitutional Ignatia will not develop to Sepia, also Natrum muriaticum, as a constitutional Natrum muriaticum state, but not the other way round.

- This inflammation was the first symptom.

- In the Repertory under "extremities" you see the rubric "paralysis, apoplexy, after" (p. 1176), there is again Opium, third degree.

- In the big rubric you see remedies like Aconitum, Agaricus, Alumina, Bufo, Causticum, Cocculus and so on.

- It is important to look at these remedies.

- What do you observe in this man?

- Sometimes he starts weeping and then he is laughing again.

- How could you describe this?

- What kind of feeling do you have here?

- How can you translate this to the language of the Repertory?

- Propositions?

- "Hysterical."

- "Weeping, laughing alternating."

- "Involuntary."

- A: I don't know whether this is involuntary.

- He hears the history of many years ago and he starts weeping.

- Afterwards he is laughing.

- But this expression, his way of being, what do you sense?

- Childish, he gives me a childish expression.

- There is Baryta carbonica, Cicuta virosa; and Cicuta also has this epilepsy.

- It is dangerous to start from the rubric "childish", but we have to take what we see, what we feel, we have to look at the rubric.

- That is a feeling that we have with this man, but let us listen to the rest of the story and try to understand the situation and try to find a remedy that maybe covers everything.

- There are three kinds of Homoeopaths: first the "quack" homoeopaths, who give three, four, five remedies in all kind of potencies.

- Then there is classical homoeopathy, but in this classical Homoeopathy there are again 2 kinds: one prescribes one remedy on the symptoms, the other prescribes one remedy for the person.

- Then you have to go deep and try to understand everything.

- If you prescribe a remedy for itching of the palate and itching of the eustachian tube, then you give Nux vomica and indeed the hay fever is better, but afterwards you see that it was not Nux vomica, but a completely different personality and if you give the right remedy because of this personality the hay fever disappears again, but also the trembling.

- You can make superficial prescriptions as we often do with Rhus toxicodendron or what I did here with Lycopodium; that was a superficial remedy, it was not deep enough.

- Or you prescribe Rhododendron because of a right sided pain of the joints when the weather changes.

- The pain disappears, later she develops a cough, a pneumonia and things like that and you wonder what this means.

- Then the pain comes back and you give Rhododendron again-nothing.

- And then you recognise that it is Tuberculinum.

- Tuberculinum also has the aggravation from change of weather, from approach of thunderstorm.

- Rhododendron was a superficial prescription.

- Here in this case I made a classical homeopathic student prescription: Lycopodium.

- Now, later, we will try to make a homoeopathic professional prescription.

- A: He couldn't wait, everything had to go quickly.

- WP: Yes, even very quickly.

- A: He could also become angry.

- WP: Yes, when things didn't go the way he wanted, then he could become very angry, but he easily forgot.

- P: (is laughing)

- A: Hot tempered and impatient.

- P: Yes.

- Impatient, he could not wait; besides he was easily offended.

- Which remedy will we prescribe?

- Nux vomica.

- He is a teacher, he is a mathematician, but we know from Nux vomica that there is a weakness in calculating.

- We are looking for a remedy that is impatient, and easily offended.

- You can give Nux vomica, but nothing will happen.

- A: Here is also says, that he is an anxious person, concerning his health he is very anxious.

- Anxiety about health.

- An impatient man, who is easily offended, who is anxious about his health and who had a stoke.

- Which remedy are we thinking of?

- A bleeding remedy with anxiety about health, an anxious remedy.

- Answer: "Phosphorus."

- A: Yes, Phosphorus.

- Phosphorus is a bleeding remedy, has paralysis on one side and so on, we could think of Phosphorus.

- Answer: "Nitricum acidum."

- A Nitricum acidum?

- If we want to prescribe Nitricum acidum, we need to have some physical symptoms; there have to be cracks or cracking of the joints, for example in the joints of the jaws while eating.

- The first symptom as a clinical symptom is the inflammation, the second important symptom is the fact that he is childish and a third symptom we could take the paralysis.

- By character he is impatient and easily offended.

- Up to now we could take another symptom, which one?

- Answer: "Anxiety about health?"

- A: Yes, good, anxiety about health.

- A: They had to examine him completely.

- He told them what they had to do and then he recognised Lachesis himself.

- He studied mathematics.

- So, he is a person who thoraxes very much, so a mathematician.

- Was he also a practical man?

- WP: Yes, very practical.

- A: He developed hypertension after he got Lycopodium several times.

- WP: That is a family matter, many people of his family have this, his father also.

- A: Then he started with computers, immediately after he became ill.

- He recovered a little bit and then he started with computers.

- Then it was a critical situation; he worked very much with the computer and he had to teach in school. Could you describe the situation exactly?

- That was the second step in his life.

- First, he was very intelligent, I mean, intellectually intelligent, but intelligence alone doesn't mean anything.

- The only thing that really means something is wisdom.

- He changed his profession as a mathematician to a specialist in computers.

- That is very important in the course of the development of his disease; the more ill you become the more ill things you do in life.

- WP: The information appeared and then the tensions appeared.

- In the meantime something else happened.

- He is known as a severe teacher, he thought that they had to know this and that and they had to know it.

- "A very severe teacher" this means that this man does not approach his pupils with his heart.

- Phosphorus would not be severe teacher, he would be very sympathetic, Lycopodium would be a very severe teacher.

- The way he behaves in school is certainly not Phosphorus, this way, acting without a heart.

- WP: There was a pupil, the son of the director of the secondary school, who in fact couldn't follow his lessons.

- In general, he couldn't follow he didn't succeed in mathematics, science and other subjects.

- Mainly, my husband was blamed for it.

- The father of the boy threatened him and in fact he was annoyed the whole school year.

- He wrote letters.

- Then, my husband had to hand in the curriculum of the past year to the ministry.

- Or was it no to the ministry?

- P: No.

- WP: No, no, he had to send it to the inspector of the school.

- He looked at it and he declared that my husband was right.

- There it was discovered that the subject for tuition were not too difficult, but that the pupil was not able to follow the subject matter.

- His father was annoyed the whole time and he talked about it with the other pupils, he set up the parents and he always tried to be right and he wanted to prove that his son unjustly failed.

- Someone here said "Aurum".

- All right, but where is the big point in Aurum?

- In which organ?

- The heart.

- He is a man who doesn't need his heart, he only used his brain.

- Aurum would have a heart attack instead of a brain haemorrhage.

- That is the big difference.

- You will see that he was only theorizing.

- He says that the children have to know this or that and if one doesn't know it, he has to redo the year.

- He will not understand the child, he can only say yes or no, like a computer; there is nothing else but black and white.

- For Aurum there is white, a little bit darker, green a little bit more green ...

-I mean feelings.

- Here there are no feelings.

- That is the idea.

- WP: The pupil didn't succeed in proving the opposite.

- A: He was very excited about that, very strongly.

- Do you think that he was very theoretical in his subject matter?

- He was a kind of narrow minded specialist?

- WP: Besides this subject matter nothing else existed.

- He couldn't talk about anything else, except about computers.

- That is very important: he could only talk about computers, about nothing else.

- You see how the narrow mindedness becomes worse and worse, while the intelligence increases more and more.

- These are narrow minded specialists, people who are developing to craziness.

- Also in Aurum patients there are narrow minded specialists, but they have heart.

- They feel that it is beautiful.

- They don't like this pure theorizing, because they feel.

- That's the difference.

- WP: He only worked in this direction.

- The whole family said that he would get something some day.

- A: Was this during the period when he started with computers, when he started not to be as nice as a person?

- WP: Yes, it was hard to get along with him.

- The only thing that was important was his computer, also at home.

- When he was at home, he was sitting in the living room.

- Often, the door was closed, because we were not allowed to approach him, we were not allowed to disturb him.

- I sat with the children in the kitchen.

- He couldn't even go swimming with the children and I had to ask him if it was possible to talk to him for three minutes.

- I had to formulate everything very quickly.

- He was really crazy about his computer.

- A: Was he the best?

- WP: Yes, he even got distinctions with congratulations from the jury.

- A: So, he was very intelligent, but on the other hand it was impossible to live with him as a human being.

- How is he concerning his feelings, I mean, to like someone and so on?

- WP: There was not much left, no.

- Maybe, he noticed his own feelings, but he didn't notice the feeling of other persons.

- If he wanted something, he would have bought it, but if I wanted something, I didn't get it at all.

- This man gives a childish impression.

- Do you think that people who are intelligent, but do not care about their children, their wife, their feelings, do you think that they are adults?

- No, they are childish.

- We are going to a childish society.

- Everything is very intelligent, mathematics, computers and so on, we have this, but we cut our heart away.

- The head and the sexuality are left.

- He is very intelligent, but not wise.

- We need wise people, old people are wise.

- And what do we so with them?

- We put them away in old people's homes, far away from us.

- We don't want the connection between us and our grandfather, the wise people, so we cut that part of feelings away.

- We don't want the feelings, we want money, money, money, without feeling.

- The children have to go to school and from studying they start having tics.

- When they come home in their room, they have to scream loudly to be able to get out their stress, because they had to study the whole time, they can't be a child anymore.

- I will explain which remedy it is, when children go in their room and scream loudly.

- A: You met your husband- this is very personal, I hope, you don't mind.

- Maybe we can ask your father-in-law to wait outside?

- WP: Maybe it is better.

- A: (To her father-in-law) We will call you in soon.

- I sent his father who is always with him outside, because I wanted to know about the relationship between his wife and the patient.

- His father is Sulphur, clear Sulphur and he has hypertension, they say, it is a familial hypertension.

- Therefore you could think that this patient needs Sulphur as well, but it is not the case.

- A: When you met your husband was he in love with your or not?

- WP: Yes.

- A: Like in a normal relationship?

- WP: Yes.

- A: How is that being in love, the emotional thing in his life?

- WP: The more he worked, the less important the emotional part became.

- A: It was not important anymore.

- WP: No, not much.

- A: How was he on the sexual level?

- WP: It became less.

- At last, he couldn't even do it anymore.

- Or he got an orgasm too early, or he couldn't do it at all.

- A: The interest in sexuality, was it sexually or emotionally?

- WP: It was not emotionally.

- The sexuality is without feelings.

- They are cut away.

- There is an erection and then brrr, sex.

- No sex with feeling.

- Again, what do we feel, when we walk outside and we see the movies, half naked people in all kinds of positions and even in the toilets of the highway you see the automates with condoms.

- If you only walk on the street, you see everywhere sex, sex, sex, and I asked myself, "My God, are they abnormal or am I not normal?"

- One of the two.

- Maybe, I'm not normal because I am too much involved with Homoeopathy, but I don't find it normal what you see in our society nowadays.

- Everything is sex.

- Also when you walk along the water in Amsterdam you hear this sexual moaning in the loudspeakers.

- These are expressions of hypersexuality.

- I found it very strange and then I thought, "That's the way to earn money."

- Strange enough, these people are usually, or often, hyperintellectual.

- The father is hyperintellectual, sometimes the mother also and then they make a child with their intellect.

- They say, "I have to work two years and then we will have a child, because I can stay at home for half a year and go back to work afterwards.

- We will calculate and we will have such an amount of money from there and so on.

- All right, now we will make a child- and then comes the child, a hyperintelligent child, in a certain way.

- A: There was only the impulse, nothing else.

- WP: Yes.

- I really waited for this course to be ended finally, so that we could have a family life again, because it was very difficult to live with him.

- A: You see that he developed form a normal person to a very intelligent person, by which the emotional part nearly disappeared.

- Also concerning his feelings towards his wife it is the same.

- The sexuality remains, but without an emotional background.

- There is only the impulse.

- Later it developed to a kind of impotency.

- WP: Yes, gradually it developed to impotency.

- A: Every time he got Lycopodium, because he was a very theoretical person, because he had such a hypochondriacal anxiety about his health, he was very impatient, hot tempered, dictatorial, he could excite himself very much, he could become very angry.

- Could you describe an event, what he did then?

- WP: Hm, one of these events?

- (thinks about it)

- Well, I remember one, I remember very well.

- Our daughter had problems with mathematics and I begged him to help us a little bit and to explain it to her.

- Often, a child of the first primary school hardly knows anything about mathematics.

- If she didn't understand it immediately he hit her and she had to run around the table 10 times.

- Things like that.

- P: (is laughing)

- WP: It was because she didn't know the subject matter.

- He became angry and I went back to the kitchen. I couldn't protect her, I just couldn't do anything for her.

- You can't tell it to anybody, that is not normal.

- At that time it went so far that I didn't ask him anything concerning the children.

- A: I would like to know if another particular characteristic about which I would like to talk now, always was there or whether it has increased in the course of time.

- I will give you an example which you told me about last time, when I gave you the last remedy.

- I asked you whether he can't speak so well anymore- indeed he can talk, but he can't explain in so well what he means.

- I asked you, " When does he become angry?"

- "He becomes angry when we don't understand him."

- It was especially concerning his pillow.

- If you didn't understand what he wanted, then he became angry.

- Previously, did he also become angry when he explained something and when you didn't understand him?

- WP: He became angry when we didn't understand it immediately.

- He didn't explain it anymore and became very angry about it, but he wouldn't have said much about it.

- The case was finished for him; he just left.

- A: It developed so that he got high blood pressure and this well know brain haemorrhage.

- That is strange.

- After the stroke he was paralysed, he couldn't talk, but when his wife didn't understand where she had to put the pillow when he tried to explain it to her, then he became very angry.

- That was also before he became ill.

- When he tried to explain something and the others didn't understand him he became very angry.

- A: On January 28,1987 he got a very severe brain haemorrhage and he was in coma.

- He had to be admitted to the neurosurgery department.

- They said that normally he wouldn't survive.

- He was paralysed on one side, he could breath with difficulties, and he had fever, a very complex situation.

- I treated him with Opium because he was in coma, he didn't react anymore, he had a snoring respiration, which was slow, deep and then quicker again, from January 1987 until May 1987.

- WP: Yes, that's right.

- A: And then, as by a miracle he survived.

- That is the irregular respiration, first slowly and then quicker.

- This is also called a Cheyne-stokes respiration.

- The Cheyne-stokes respiration is irregular.

- You find this on page 773 "irregular respiration".

- Below you see "respiration, jerking" and then "respiration long", a long, deep respiration that is exactly the right expression.

- That is very important.

- We only need the Repertory to make a picture.

- First you have all the separate elements and then you have a picture.

- If you know the picture and you recognize it immediately you don't need the picture anymore, but at the beginning you have to study the Repertory and to find all the separate elements of the picture, put them together and then you get the Opium picture.

- A: They told you he wouldn't survive.

- Gradually, he improved.

- First, he was in the intensive care and then he went to the orthopedic department in rehabilitation center.

- After the rehabilitation, in fact after the brain haemorrhage he got an inflammation of the right big toe.

- After the brain haemorrhage, after he has been in the rehabilitation center, he developed a chronic inflammation, a chronic panaritium.

- Very strange.

- Two weeks ago you told me that before the whole story started he often had purulent inflammations of the nails of the toes.

- At the time he has already been operated on there times.

- That's what you told me two weeks ago and this made the whole picture more complete.

- That was very strange.

- Second, after the brain haemorrhage he developed epilepsy.

- WP: They told me that he would get it.

- A: Third, he was paralysed on the right side and another symptom is that he often had the tendency to stretch his leg suddenly, as if he got a shock, when he was lying in bed.

- WP: Often it is so, but I don't know whether it is his leg.

- A: H e didn't have the tendency to stretch his leg?

- WP: Not that I know, anyway not during the day.

- A: He got very strong epileptic attacks with nosebleeds regularly.

- WP: Yes, he had it at that time.

- I still remember, also bleeding of the gums.

- A: Because of the aphasia, unable to speak, he developed a childish expression.

- Often he laughed in an uninhibited way.

- Therefore we gave Baryta carbonica.

- The panaritium remained there the whole time, it didn't change.

- Here we have an aphasia.

- Look in your Repertory.

- "Mouth, speech, wanting, apoplexy, after" (page 420): Baryta carbonica, Crotalus cascavella, Crotalus horridus, Ipecacuanha, Laurocerasus, Nux vomica.

- But there is another rubric on page 9: Bothrops lanceolatus, Chenopodium an thelminticum, Glonoin and Kali Bromatum.

- Bothrops is also a snake; it has also this aphasia with hemiplegia, with blindness form haemorrhage in the retina.

- These are remedies which you can prescribe when you don't see the total picture clearly.

- Then you give Bothrops, Baryta carbonica and -but you can see that he understands everything very well, but he can't express himself.

- And indeed, he has a childish behavior.

- Be cause of the epistaxis you could think of Crotalus horridus; Crotalus horridus is another very important remedy with apoplexy and it has its complaints on the right side, while Lachesis has its complaints on the left side.

- Don't forget Crotalus horridus with bleeding after extraction of the teeth after having given Phosphorus and the bleeding became worse.

- Then you have to think of Crotalus horridus.

- Also in AIDS patients we often see Crotalus horridus, in leukaemia Crotalus horridus and in black fever, also Crotalus horridus.

- They are dangerous cases, very dangerous cases in Crotalus horridus.

- A: Because of the aphasia, the right sided hemiplegia, the stertorous respiration and the hemiplegia with contractions I gave Chenopodium anthelminticum.

- He got Chenopodium anthelminticum because of the right sided paralysis and all the symptoms which I already mentioned.

- I tried to find a remedy which covers most of his symptoms, before I recognised the whole picture.

- A: The problems which remained were ingrowing toe nails and a panaritium of the toe.

- He reacted a little bit to Chenopodium anthelminticum, because of aphasia after apoplexy and because he got an epileptic attack after excitement- the attack was typical when he excited himself.

- He go convulsions.

- That was very typical.

- "Convulsions after excitement" (page 1353).

- Kali Bromatum is there, Cicuta is there, and there is a remedy which has to be added.

- We will add it later.

- A: Do you still remember whether the convulsions were preceeded by certain symptoms?

- WP: Yes, a kind of shaking, at night, and also during the day he was shaking.

- Then I knew he would get it.

- A; Did he become restless?

- WP; I don't know, I can't say.

- A: So, it started with a slight shaking.

- Was he a little bit absent?

- : Yes before he was.

- He already started shaking a long time before, but when he started to look absent, then the epileptic attack would come soon.

- A: The epileptic attack came after he started looking absent.

- WP: Yes, Also when he sits at the table- X they called it apraxia.

- . He takes his fork to eat soup, he is so absent

- A: His talking didn't improve after Chenopodium anthelminticum.

- There was an aphasia after apoplexy and epileptic attacks after excitement.

- Therefore I gave Crotalus horridus, with apparently slight improvement, which is not so clear.

- Afterwards Opium 10 M has been repeated.

- I always try to understand the case.

- There was a spastic hemiplegia on the right side because of bleeding in the capsula interna.

- When I considered the whole story, because the inflammation of the nails also remained the whole time after the brain haemorrhage, gradually I put together a picture.

- He got a serious inflammation of the leg, a lymphangitis, also the beginning of a septicemia.

- And strange enough- they say, because of the brain haemorrhage-he developed epilepsy.

- Let's talk about how he developed after the remedy which he got one month before, in September.

- How is he on the sexual level?

- Before I gave the last, correct remedy he got a pneumonia, a right sided pneumonia, form which he barely recovered after Lycopodium.

- Later on I had to give him Bryonia because of the stitching pains.

- After this pneumonia his general state became worse.

- He didn't have any interests, he just wanted to lie down and do nothing.

- For me it is not normal.

- If you give the right remedy in an acute case the patient must feel better.

- This means here that he overcame the pneumonia with superficial remedies, with Lycopodium and Bryonia, but afterwards I felt miserable.

- The pneumonia was cured, but then?

- He was worse, he lost quite a lot of energy because of the acute disease.

- WP: In fact nothing.

- In the morning he gets up at half past five, six o'clock, then the nurse comes to dress and wash him, then he goes to the hospital and afterwards he goes to bed again.

- In the evening he is always tired and goes to bed early.

- A: Does he still get erections?

- WP: No.

- A: I will call your father-in-law, so that the doesn't have to wait too long outside.

- The last time I gave a remedy because of the chronic nail inflammation.

- You also said that he becomes angry when you don't understand what he means.

- In the meantime he got pneumonia on the right side.

- Therefore we gave him Lycopodium, but since then - and that is the big problem- since then he remained tired.

- WP: Yes.

- A: After the last pneumonia he remained weak and tired, there was a big relapse.

- P: Yes, yes.

- A: That was the situation the last time.

- In fact, there was a relapse which remained, it didn't improve.

- The fever went away and everything, but he didn't have any energy.

- He was listless, he didn't want to do anything.

- That was the situation on September 27, 1989.

- Then I gave him a remedy in potency M and my first question is now: how is the inflammation of the nail?

- (WP: In fact, the inflammation is gone, but I think, when we don't take care of it, but just leave it, it will come back.

- I don't think it is really cured.

- A: Yes, but the inflammation is gone and the inflammation existed since the brain haemorrhage, it hasn't been away since and now it is gone.

- FP: Yes, previously, it was never gone.

- It always returned.

- A: Yes, but listen.

- Previously, you put all kinds of thing on it,

- Six or I don't know how many months you tried everything and I gave you a remedy, that's one month ago, and strange enough the inflammation is gone after the last remedy.

- He is impotent and he has an inflammation from an ingrowing toenail.

- Which is the remedy?

- Only these two symptoms, impotency and ingrowing toenails, that is Polus magnetis australis.

- WP: The inflammation is gone, but the toe is still sensitive.

- A: May I have a look at it?

- (Alfas looks at the toe)

- Yes, is completely cured, it is beautiful.

- The inflammation of the toenail is gone, completely gone.

- FP: There it is still a little bit inflamed, but maybe it is because of the shoe.

- A: Yes, but look here, the inflammation of the toenail is completely gone.

- It still remains sensitive, but previously pus was coming out and now it is completely gone.

- That is the first time since his brain haemorrhage that the nails are all right again.

- Tell me in which way he is doing well.

- He had a depression, was sad, didn't have any interests anymore.

- WP: When there is a letter he wants to know immediately what is written inside.

- He is much more interested than before.

- He wants to know everything immediately.

- When we are talking to each other and he doesn't understand so quickly, then he asks and wants to take part in the conversation.

- A: He is not so absent anymore.

- WP: No.

- A: I expected an epileptic attack after the remedy.

- He got three of them, the first time a big attack, the other times not so big.

- After the remedy he had a big epileptic attack.

- I told them to stop all the medicines, except the TENORMIN, a blocker for the hypertension.

- The blood pressure was always 160/170 mm Hg, before 190/200 mm Hg.

- Now, after the remedy it is 120/80 mm Hg.

- After the remedy I have all the medicines stopped and he got a big attack, then another less big and then another small attack.

- That was a very good reaction, immediately after the remedy an epileptic attack.

- You have to let epilepsy come out, you may not suppress it, but you have to be sure of the remedy.

- As long as you are not sure you have to suppress the attacks.

- But when the remedy is clear you can stop all the anti -epileptic medicines.

- You give the remedy and probably a strong attack will follow, then a small and then it is over.

- A: That was a good reaction.

- Three attacks, the first time a big, then less big.

- WP: It is astonishing that he knows it himself.

- Previously, he didn't.

- He knows that he will get it and he feels it coming himself.

- Normally, he didn't, he was lying in bed and he wanted to say something.

- We saw in his eyes that he didn't feel well and I wanted to take the spoon, but he already took it himself and put it between his teeth, because he noticed that the attack was coming.

- A: This means that...

- WP: Afterwards he also knew that he had the attack and previously he didn't.

- Previously, he didn't know anything of what happened at that moment and now he knows very well.

- A: His memory has improved.

- WP: Yes, he also starts saying what he wants.

- Previously, he just lay in bed, because we thought that he was tired, but now he says, "No, I'm not tired,I want to get up."

- He starts deciding himself what he wants to do and what he doesn't want to do

- A: But he is still impatient.

- WP: Yes, he still is.

- That is a family trait, isn't it?

- FP: Yes, it might be.

- WP: The impatience and the restlessness remain.

- A: Does he often use the wrong words?

- WP: No.

- Maybe he thinks something wrong, but then he doesn't say anything.

- A: Did he use wrong words previously?

- WP: No, no.

- A: When he is alone in his room - he wants to be alone, doesn't he?

- Is that still so?

- WP: Not anymore.

- FP: He is glad when someone visits him.

- If someone uses the wrong words after an epileptic attack, when he says " black" instead of "white" and the mental possibilities are very low, which remedy is this?

- Kali bromatum.

- They change words and they say the opposite of what they mean.

- Instead of " White" they say "black", instead of "open" they say "closed" and so on.

- You often see this after a brain stroke, but more in old people.

- You know that the cause of Kali bromatum is that they don't have anything to do anymore.

- They were very busy, very industrious, they stopped working, suddenly they didn't have nay thing to do and they got those restless hands.

- At the same time the mental capacities went down.

- You also see this after strokes and in old people's homes.

- There are a lot of Kali bromatum people, who are sitting there the whole day and moving their hands

- Anyhow, he didn't of that.

- A: He always wanted to be alone to study.

- Does he still want to be alone to study?

- Last time when you were here, you said that he wasn't interested at all.

- This has improved.

- Does he want to be alone in the room when he is occupied with something?

- WP: No, but when he is busy he can't tolerate noise.

- He can tolerate when someone is around, but no noise.

- P: (says something which is not understandable)

- A: He talks much better.

- FP: It has improved very much.

- A: Yes, indeed, he speaks much better.

- Last time when you were here you said that he lost everything which he gained.

- FP: But in general he is much better that before.

- A: Also with talking?

- FP: Yes, yes.

- A: He even starts saying sentences.

- Previously, he only could say a few words, now he's saying sentences.

- WP: Yes.

- A: But he is sensitive to noise.

- WP: Yes.

- Previously, he wasn't.

- When he was sitting there, he had his headphone on, in the corner the television was playing, the computer on one side, the books about homoeopathy on the other side and the monitor before him, it was always the same.

- You must get something of it.

- A: But he cries a lot.

- He cries for the slightest thing, doesn't he?

- WP: He's also salivating very much.

- A: We can notice it.

- Which remedies does he still take?

- WP: PERSANTIN, one three times a day, and TENORMIN, tablets for the blood pressure, one a day.

- He weeps for the slightest thing.

- "Weeping at trifles" on page 94, the most important remedy is Causticum, but there are some other important remedies in this rubric.

- The differential diagnosis between Causticum and Medorrhinum is very difficult.

- Medorrhinum comes and weeps and weeps and Causticum comes and weeps the whole time, can't say anything without weeping.

- We also change Medorrhinum and Pulsatilla, and we forget Causticum.

- But this is a longer story, we will talk about it later.

- He weeps for trifles, he weeps, without any cause.

- A: Has the blood pressure been checked?

- WP: Only when he comes here.

- At the moment he doesn't go to the hospital anymore.

- A: We checked it last time, I thought.

- We will check it again.

- We have to know whether he still needs some medicines or not.

- WP: He always worries about his blood pressure.

- We don't have an apparatus to measure the blood pressure, otherwise we could have checked it.

- A: It is not necessary and in fact it is not so important, but now I expect that the blood pressure has come down.

- WP: A few weeks ago, before the epileptic attack he had a headache.

- I had an appointment with the children here in the Center.

- I had the feeling something was wrong and I said, "Your blood pressure is not good.

- You better see the doctor.

- "But he didn't want to, he didn't have time.

- A: How high was the blood pressure in the hospital?

- WP: When he came out of the hospital?

- I don't know anymore.

- A: Now it is 120/80 mm Hg and before it was about 150.

- Now, it is completely normal.

- How many tablets do you take for the blood pressure?

- WP: One in the morning.

- A: Now, you just take half a tablet.

- You have to go on working, trying to walk, so that you can walk independently.

- How are your movements? I have the impression that you walk easier than before.

- WP: Yes.

- He exercises more with his legs, he feels like exercising.

- Everyone knows which remedy it is?

- No?

- All right, let's take the whole story again: In 1982 he came the first time with this kind of lymphangitis.

- If you look in the Repertory under "extremities" "Inflammation, lymphatics"- there is only "of arm", but we found out that it does not only concern the arm, but also the legs and all the other inflammations which tend to become phlegmatic, very dangerous inflammations with lymphangitis, this is the first remedy which you have to think of.

- Look on page 1018, "inflammation, lymphatics of arm".

- The only remedy is Bufo.

- Then you take your Boericke and look in the rubric " childish", there your also see Bufo.

- If you look under "extremities, paralysis" (page 1176), there you see some capital remedies of which Bufo is one.

- Then we saw that he became very angry when they didn't understand him.

- Look under, "angry when they didn't understand him.

- Look under, "anger, misunderstood, when".

- He was teaching and when someone didn't understand him, he became angry immediately: " Don't you have the brains to understand..."

- I had another case where I didn't find the remedy until I found the rubric.

- He was a very closed boy, very nervous, he had hay fever an before asthma.

- When he came he was very nervous and often he had tics.

- His mother told me that he started to knock against the walls when he was alone in his room and to throw things.

- I was wondering what this means.

- He is closed and does things like that! First I gave him Natrum muriaticum, because he was so closed and because he had the appearance of Natrum muriaticum, Natrum muriaticum 50M; I gave him Sulphur, but the old symptoms always came back.

- He couldn't tolerate the slightest noise, when someone slammed the door he became angry immediately, when he was alone in his room he knocked against the walls and so on...

- There is something else you notice in these people.

- They behave themselves as long as there are other people, but as soon as they are alone they have uncontrolled twitches.

- For example, when you have a patient who easily makes twitches during the consultation, you could say that you have to leave the room while the video is going on.

- Then you can see that they make uncontrolled twitches, knock about.

- These outbursts of energy, these discharges, when they are alone...

- I studied this case more and more, until I found the rubric.

- He was angry, extremely angry.

- "Rage, alone, while" (page 70).

- So " rage, alone, while" and "anger, when misunderstood" and what Boericke writes, "Acts on nervous system and skin".

- The first remedy we have to think of when we have nervous and skin symptoms together is Bufo.

- Here it is easy to mistake it for Phosphorus.

- You may also not forget Natrum muriaticum, because both like to be alone and this excessive desire to be alone is an expression of a kind of autism.

- The withdrawal in their own world is different in Natrum muriaticum.

- Here it is based on an emotional hyper- sensitivity, a hyper- sensitivity towards touch on the emotional level.

- That is completely different, but it seems to be the same, therefore the differential diagnosis between Bufo an Natrum muriaticum is often not easy.

- Under "mind" you can read, "anxiety about health".

- In the Repertory Bufo in not mentioned in the rubric " anxiety about health", so we will add it because it is in Boericke.

- We have to add in the Repertory what Boericke writes, especially with small remedies.

- In our Repertory some information is missing which we find in Boericke and Clarke.

- Then there is the restlessness, the constant restlessness.

- I think of another story of a clergymen who was constantly in a hurry an later on the got epileptic attacks.

- One of the doctors who was studying here took the case and gave him Argentum nitricum.

- Argentum nitricum, because he was so impatient, because he couldn't wait.

- At home he was a tyrant for his children, very restless, very impatient, especially before the convulsions.

- Look on page 74, there are two remedies: Argentum nitricum and Bufo.

- And he got Argentum nitricum again, in all kinds of potencies, but the attacks remained.

- It was clear Bufo.

- Typical for Bufo is the tendency to bite, the impatience, they are nervous, mentally retarded and have a desire to be alone.

- Further impotency; it is in the English Kent under " erection, wanting" under "genitals male", Bufo is a two.

- Boericke also writes, " arouses the lowest passion".

- This means that they can be very angry, so angry that you could nearly speak of craziness; sexual desires is meant with it.

- And then the desire for intoxicating drinks, alcohol, whiskey.

- Do you recognize the world of prostitution, the pimps?

- You see the feeble mindedness, arouses the lowest passion and the anger, the rage.

- Which other profession do you recognize?

- Boxers.

- They have to get rid of the energy and therefore they exercise the whole day.

- Many boxers have the look of an idiot, and they behave like a child.

- Further: "Panaritium, inflammation".

- Look on page 1005 "felon, lymphatic inflamed".

- There you see Allium cepa, Allium cepa is usually after cutting a piece of your finger.

- You know the phantom pains of Allium cepa.

- Then Bufo, Hepar sulphuris and Lachesis.

- How could you distinguish Hepar and Lachesis in felon?

- By cold and warmth.

- In Hepar the pain becomes worse by cold on it it does good.

- Hepar wants warmth.

- If someone has burning pains and desires hot water, which is the remedy?

- Arsenicum.

- There is also Rhus toxicodendron in the rubric "felon, lymphatic inflamed".

- Then Boericke also writes: " Epistaxis".

- It is in the Repertory.

- We found out that Bufo is the first remedy for autistic children, children, who live in their own world, children who masturbate.

- In masturbation of children Bufo is one of the most important remedies.

- Bufo is one of the most deep action remedies.

- It goes back to the moment of the formation, not to the moment of birth, but to the moment of the formation, not to the moment of birth, but to the moment of coition, when they make this child.

- That's the cause of the disease, a sexuality without a heart of hyper-intelligent people.

- But there is another possibility.

- When we push our children to study, to study too much, we could make them Bufo children.

- When they live with their computer in their own world isn't that autistic?

- Autistic and hyper-intelligent.

- But there are this kind and that kind of autistic people.

- At one side the hyper-intelligent whom we admire, on the other side the hyper-sexuals, whom we put in asylum.

- These are the two sides of the same coin.

- Some masturbate and the others, the hyper- intelligent, what do they do?

- Like someone said: they masturbate intellectually.

- In fact, it is exactly the same.

- At the moment where you break the connection with reality the autism starts.

- And with these children it seems as if they don't look well, the eyes are always turned upwards.

- They can walk or sit on a small place, without falling down.

- They stand somewhere on a high place, don't see anything, don't have contact, but they don't fall.

- I mean, a certain degree of their brain is developed very strongly.

- In another kind of profession you find a lot of Bufos.

- Which one?

- Circus people, people, who are walking over a cord, who have an extremely developed equilibrium sense.

- They know it much better than we do.

- In this way they are abnormally intellectual.

- That is very strange.

- You see the hyper- intelligence, I mean an extreme development in a very narrow way.

- And no contact.

- Nothing here, and everything there.

- That's it.

- This means feeble minded.

- We saw the same in this patient.

- He didn't have contact with his children, with his wife, he didn't bother about it, he was only studying, studying.

- Studying.

- They don't have contact with reality and that is the consequence.

- This was a prescription where you felt that it was this remedy and then you can say: I feel good with it, now it is all right.

- Now I can promise him that he will walk later on and will recover.

- I am sure, because the remedy works so deeply.

- Now, I can give him courage, can stop all the medicines and he won't get any epileptic attacks and he will walk again.

- And when I see him again after one year you will see a big difference.

- That is the difference between a prescription when you understood the case and a prescription where you put the different symptoms in the computer and it gives you the remedy.

- That's a big difference and that is what I wanted to show you.

Feedback (december 6, 1988)

- A: You still take 3/4 of the tables (TENORMIN).

- P: (Tries to articulate) 1/2 and then 3/4.

- He starts talking himself! His wife says, that he takes 1/4 of a tablet TENORMIN 3 times a day, but he says, "No. no, 1 1/2 is better."

- A: You mean, alternating, one day 1/2, the next day 3/4.

- P: Yes, 3/4 is not good.

- A: Do you mean that it is still too much, that you want to take less?

- P: Yes.

- One day he takes 3/4 of a tablet of TENORMIN and the next day I 1/2 tablets.

- So he knows better than his wife what he takes.

- And look at the expression of his face!

- A: Now, he tries to speak in sentences, he couldn't do this before.

- WP: No.

- A: His memory has improved very much!

- WP: Yes, now he remembers when I ask him to tell something to his sister.

- When I come back he tells me that he said it to her.

- A: That's only since last week.

- WP: Yes.

- FP: Recently, we talked about hate.

- We told him that his sister doesn't hate him, but just the opposite.

- He said it himself.

- (to the patient) Tell us what is the opposite of hate?

- P: (is laughing) Love.

- A: That is something which you forgot before your brain stroke, love.

- P: (is laughing) Yes.

- A: There was only work for you.

- WP: Yes

- A: He has also less salivation.

- WP: He still has.

- A: Yes, but less.

- Before the salivation was running down to the ground.

- His eyes are also clear.

- They are flickering now.

- P: Yes?

- A: Not enough yet, but you can see it.

- He has more courage.

- WP: Yes, now he goes to a group.

- A: What kind of group is this?

- WP: These are people who have the same as he had.

- They help each other and they give advice.

- When he has been there he has more courage.

- A: But his talking, that's quite a change in his central nervous system.

- FP: These contacts help him a lot.

- A: Yes, everything together.

- You are not lazy?

- P: A little bit.

- A: Are you still very busy with the computer?

- P: No, I am trembling.

- WP: I let him try it, but he couldn't always do it.

- P: It was all right three days, but then it didn't work anymore.

- A: The computer is not good for you.

- But you like to do it? P: Yes.

- A: Does he exercise regularly?

- WP: Yes, with his arms and legs.

- A: Does he have courage enough to persist?

- WP: If my father-in-law encourages him, yes.

- A: What about his walking?

- P: I can't walk yet.

- A: What about his toenail?

- WP: There was still a little bit of pus coming out.

- A: Let me see.

- Have you been to L.

- For a check up?

- WP: No.

- They said that I could come when I wanted to.

- P: What?

- WP: I told them that it is better and that you don't have to go there for the time being.

- A: His toe looks well.

- WP: It has bled.

- A: But not inflamed?

- WP: No, it was only blood.

- P: Yes?

- A: The inflammation is completely gone now.

- FP: He has always cold feet.

- WP: He interferes in everything.

- A: He had it before as well.

- WP: Yes.

- FP: I went walking with him yesterday.

- His sister cleaned up and one sheet of paper wasn't lying in a proper place, it had to lie differently.

- He notices trivial things.

- A: He sees little details.

- FP: Yes very little details.

- WP: In the morning when the tip of his collar is not under his pullover, it has to be put in the right place.

- A: I will measure his blood pressure.

- Last time it was 130/90 mm Hg.

- P: No, 130/80 mm Hg.

- A: You have a good memory.

- Before it was always 150/... I am curious how high it is now, because he diminished the tablets to 1/2 or 3/4 a day.

- (measures the blood pressure)

- Fantastic, 130/85 mm Hg.

- I would take only 1/2 tablet of TENORMIN every day.

- P: And PERSANTIN?

- A: Well, yes.

- Is that all you still take?

- P: Yes.

- A: Then you take two tablets a day one week, the next week one a day and then you stop it.

- Because the blood pressure is not so high anymore, there is not so much danger for another brain haemorrhage.

- Therefore you could stop the PERSANTIN.

- It is only to prevent haemorrhages.

Feedback (february 7, 1989)

- A: How are you?

- P: Dragging.

- A: What does he mean?

- WP: His toe has been open again.

- A: Did you repeat the remedy?

- P: No, I only put ointment on it.

- The toe was purulent the whole time.

- A: It goes up and down.

- WP: But often it is very bad.

- A: When did you get the last remedy?

- WP: That is one month ago.

- P: No.

- A: Wait, he knows it better.

- I noticed that he has the best memory of all of us.

- (Laughter)

- WP: Don't you agree too much with him.

- At the moment he is proved right too much.

- FP: Yes, otherwise it is too difficult.

- A: In fact, he is often right.

- FP: Yes.

- A: The last remedy he took in October/November, since December nothing.

- P: But a month ago...

- A: Did you get a tablet then?

- P: No.

- WP: Did I have to get one?

- P: No.

- A: Did you get one to take home?

- P: Yes.

- A: What did you do with it?

- Take it?

- P: Yes.

- A: You see, that he knows it better?

- FP: One week before we came here the last time he took a tablet.

- A: Yes, here it says the last Thursday of January.

- Do you see? Did you still have attacks?

- P: No.

- WP: With his right eye he doesn't see very clearly.

- P: No, it pulls here and there.

- A: What?

- P: A spot.

- A: Very strong in the morning?

- WP: Yes.

- P: No.

- WP: But in the morning you complain the most about it.

- P: Yes, but the little spot is very concentrated.

- A: Do you hear, how he can express himself.

- WP: He expresses himself very correctly.

- A: Better than before.

- WP: While playing you have to find words and often he uses words which John doesn't know and he has to look them up in the dictionary.

- A: What colour do these spots have?

- P: Black.

- A: Before the right eye?

- P: Yes, here.

- A: At the outside.

- P: Yes.

- A: Now, it is already better, but it was very strong a month ago.

- WP: If he mentions it you see that the lid is a little bit violet.

- P: The colour is almost black.

- A: Anyway, his memory has improved very much and he came in alone.

- FP: I hold him at the back.

- A: Can he walk alone?

- WP: Yes, but he doesn't trust it.

- P: No.

- FP: He is still unsure.

- A: Anyway, he is much better mentally.

- WP: But everything has to be correct, otherwise he complains.

- He doesn't walk better.

- A: I said it last t time, but first the computer in his head has to be all right.

- WP: He remembers everything.

- A: His mood is also better and he has more courage.

- WP: Yes, his character is coming back, he is the old one again.

- He doesn't give in.

- FP: Rebellious, when you say something.

- He doesn't give in when he is right.

- A: All right.

- Concerning his character and the mental level the development is all right.

- The physical level will follow.

- Which medicines does he still take?

- WP: Only 1/4 TENORMIN a day.

- A: That is all?

- WP: Yes.

- A: Last time his blood pressure was 130/85 mm Hg.

- Then you still took 1/2 TENORMIN a day.

- Then we went back to 1/4.

- Let's check it now.

- Have you been in L.?

- WP: No.

- A: Let's wait until it is better.

- (measures the blood pressure)

- The blood pressure is still 130/85 mm Hg.

- For the time being you still take 1/4 a day, but in fact 1/4 is not worth mentioning.

- P: No, no.

- but the spots.

- WP: He believes that it goes together with the blood pressure.

- A: Then, for the time being you can continue taking 1/4 of the tablet.

- WP: He has bleeding of the gums.

- P: Yes.

- WP: Not while cleaning his teeth, but spontaneously.

- A: You didn't have any epileptic attacks anymore, although he doesn't take anti- epileptic medicines anymore?

- P: No.

- A: Then I will give you some tablets to take home.

- If there is an inflammation of the toe again, you can take one tablet.

- Now, he says whole sentences, not only words.

- A little bit later, I think in march, he had fever and related to that he got a kind of epileptic attack.

- I don't think that it was a real epileptic attack, but however, they didn't do anything for it, and since then he didn't have any attacks up to now.

CASE9

behavioral disturbance

Bufo rana

- Girl, 14 years old

- MP: The problem is aggressiveness.

- It's a big problem.

- She smashes everything to pieces.

- It's like a crisis.

- She is very impolite and rude.

- It's because of the school, the boarding school, but we have to live with it.

- But sometime there is no reason for it at all.

- You see the crack in the middle of the lower lip.

- That is a sign for Natrum muriaticum.

- Also Hepar sulphuris has this, Sepia and other remedies.

- A: And it became worse the last time?

- MP: Yes.

- (The child says something in between, " Stefan, Stefan doesn't want to go away.")

- A: Who doesn't want to go away?

- What does this mean?

- MP: Well, it is a story of her grandmother.

- The grandchild has to go back to his mother, as she understood.

- A: Does she behave like this since her birth?

- MP: Yes, she is a little bit feeble minded since her birth.

- A: What is your profession and that of your husband?

- MP: My husband is a farmer, he works on the land, and I am the secretary of a notary.

- I studied to be a secretary.

- A: What other diseases did she have?

- MP: She didn't have any other diseases, except the normal childhood diseases.

- She had damage to the base of the skull.

- They found it with the scanner.

- They think it has something to do with a viral disease, but they don't know which one.

- It is always the same.

- We try to find a reason, a physical reason, damage in the brain and we do not believe that behind all this there is an energetic problem with the mother.

- She is secretary of a notary, her husband is a farmer and he has a very big farm.

- These are rather rich people, but nevertheless she works with the notary, already many years.

- She met this farmer and she married him, but did not want to give up her work as a secretary.

- At home they have a woman who cooks for the husband and her child.

- Why doesn't she want to stay at home as a housewife?

- Why doesn't she want to give up her job in the city?

- What's going on there?

- No, she is not Sepia, although you often see feeble-minded children with Sepia mothers.

- Do you understand why sepia is a good possibility?

- Because of the aversion for sex.

- Maybe, yes probably she has a relationship with the notary.

- Or she wants to be independent.

- "My independence" -is that love?

- Is that a situation to have children?

- No, this is not a situation to have children, because love is missing.

- A: How is her behavior now?

- MP: She is very impatient.

- If she wants something and she desires something you have to do it immediately.

- A: Very impatient?

- MP: Yes, she is very impatient.

- A: What does she do, when you don't do it?

- MP: She has outbursts.

- She is very annoyed and becomes very angry.

- A: She asks many questions?

- MP: Yes, many, many questions, because she understands very, very much.

- A: What about her memory?

- MP: Her memory is excellent.

- She remembers quite a lot of things or everything that we say at home and she tells it to other people, more than we know.

- A: Does she have a particular interest?

- MP: I don't know.

- In fact, she is interested in everything.

- A: What about music?

- MP: Yes, she likes music.

- A: Does she know songs?

- MP: No, she's singing the whole time, but she changes constantly the melody.

- A: She is very restless.

- Did they ever use the word "hyperkinetic movement disorders" for her?

- MP: No, they never did.

- A: Can she sit at home without moving?

- MP: No, she has to move constantly.

- Which hyperkinetic remedy asks many questions?

- Veratrum album.

- Veratrum is very restless and asks many questions.

- "Why is this?

- Why is that?"

- They talk and talk and talk and want everything to be explained.

- We know this of Veratrum album children who are usually white and have blond hair.

- But they are soft, industrious and restless in a soft way, not so destructive as we see in Stramonium or Tuberculinum.

- A: What does she do during music?

- MP: In fact, she is dancing, she is moving the whole time.

- A: Did she ever have problems with the skin?

- MP: Yes, a few pimples in the face, a little bit acne.

- A: But never eczema?

- MP: Yes, as a small baby, behind her ears.

- A: Did she ever have cracks in the skin?

- MP: No, never.

- She doesn't tolerate synthetic products at all, then she gets an irritation of the skin.

- She can't tolerate wool either.

- A: Does she still have this reaction of the skin?

- MP: No.

- A: Does she have a room of her own?

- Do you have the impression that she often withdraws to her room?

- MP: At what time does she go to bed?

- MP: At 8p.m. and at 6a.m. she is refreshed.

- A: Is this an expression of her restlessness?

- MP: Yes, yes.

- A: She doesn't watch television ?

- M: No, she is not interested.

- A: In which position does she sleep?

- And where does she put her hands?

- MP: So, at the sides.

- A: How does she sleep, naked or with pjamas?

- MP: She sleeps with pjamas or with a night-gown.

- A; Is she too warm sometimes?

- MP: No, in fact not.

- She will never take off clothes.

- Do you know why I ask this?

- Because it is easier to masturbate without clothes.

- When they feel the need they can do it immediately.

- A: Did you notice anything concerning her sexuality?

- MP: No, until now, nothing at all.

- Yes, maybe that she prefers to go along with men than with women, but I haven't noticed anything else

- (The child is talking very much.)

- Suddenly she starts talking about something which doesn't have anything to do with the subject we are talking about.

- This means that she lives in her own world, she is not interested in what is going on.

- It takes too much time for her, she becomes impatient.

- I am talking the whole time to her mother and she has to withhold herself.

- Everything comes up and you will see what she will do.

- A: Does she perspire easily?

- MP: No.

- A: Does she have nosebleeds?

- MP: No.

- A: Does she have problems while walking?

- MP: No, not while walking.

- Only by descending the stairs.

- First she puts one foot and then she puts the other foot beside.

- A: So we could say that there is difficult coordination?

- MP: Yes.

- She also can't ride on a bicycle.

- A: Show me your finger.

- Turn it around.

- She doesn't bite her nails?

- MP: No.

- P: Can I come back tomorrow?

- A: If you want to.

- Did she ever have an ulcer or furuncle on the skin?

- MP: No, never.

- A: As a baby did she often have attacks during fever?

- MP: No.

- A: I think it is rather clear now.

- Does she like to eat everything.

- MP: Yes.

- She hardly eats meat, but further she likes to eat everything.

- She only eats ground meat.

- A: What does she prefer to eat?

- MP: In the morning she likes to eat bacon and egg.

- She would like to eat it every day.

- The longer it takes, the more restless she becomes.

- A: And at noon?

- MP: Then she eats what's on the table.

- She doesn't have a special preference.

- A: How does she behave?

- MP: She is very sympathetic.

- She can't tolerate at all when someone is suffering, then she gets excited.

- (The child gets excited even when the mother is talking about it.)

- A: Is she sensitive? Is she sympathetic with other people?

- MP: I can't tell precisely.

- When something happens to other people, she is very anxious.

- (The child becomes very restless at the moment and she pulls the microphone from her pullover and she says, " Stop it, stop it.")

- Now, she is pulling the microphone.

- MP: All right, calm down, calm down, we wont talk about it anymore.

- It's all right, it's all right.

- (The child becomes very restless.)

- Be nice, calm down, sit down again.

- (The child becomes more restless and she thrown the pencil box off the table.)

- I want to give her some sweets, but- she throws them over the table.

- A: Does she also hit very quickly?

- MP: Yes, she hits and kicks very quickly when she becomes restless or when she gets excited.

- At the moment she doesn't feel well either.

- A: We will give you something, so that you will feel better.

- Did she get any medicines for her behavior?

- MP: Yes, the psychiatrist gave her HALDOL, but afterwards she had to vomit.

- Now, we don't give it anymore.

- A: Did she become very sleepy on HALDOL?

- MP: Yes, very sleepy.

- She was very, very exhausted, she Evan didn't know anymore where she was.

- She had to lie down and she was completely exhausted because of the medicines.

- A: It makes you very tired?

- P: Yes, yes.

- What do we do tomorrow?

- A: Then we will give you something.

- A few minutes ago she could get rid of her energy and afterwards she calmed down.

- It goes to a certain point can then it has to come out, it just shoots out.

- Afterwards she is a little bit more quiet again.

- A: Does she drink coffee?

- MP: No.

- A: Does she eat peppermint in any form?

- MP: No.

- She only drinks water and orange juice.

- A: Try to give her this remedy.

- It is possible that she will spit it out again.

- These are very little tablets which she has to let melt in her mouth.

- Does she like sugar?

- MP: No, not particularly.

- A: Try to give her this remedy.

- It is possible that she will spit it out again.

- These are very little tablets which she has to let melt in her mouth.

- Does she like sugar.

- MP: No, not particularly.

- A: I noticed that her mood changes very quickly.

- Is that right?

- MP: She hovers between aggressiveness and wisdom, if you can say so.

- First, she tries being aggressive and then she tries in a softer way.

- Somehow, it's always working inside her.

- A: If you tell her something she wont forget it?

- MP; No.

- Also afterwards she often, she says something in relation to the conversation you had with her.

- Often, she didn't understand everything, but she refers to the conversation.

- For example, she knows she knows she comes here, and when she has to come.

- She remembers the date very well.

- For example, she knew we had to come here on Saturday.

- She remembers the date very, very well.

- In these people you often see that they turn their eyes upward.

- And they have a kind of sexual look as if they want to say, "How will I get him?"

- In the meantime everyone knows that this is Bufo.

- If you repertorize and you look in the rubric "striking" and "restlessness' Bufo is not there.

- You have to know the picture.

- In this case you see that Bufo patients cannot withhold themselves from a certain moment on, then they have to strike or do something so that the energy can came out.

- That's why you have this rage when they are alone.

- When she left I wanted to give her a hand but she only spit in my face and kicked against my leg.

- What is the differential diagnosis?

- Which other remedy is very violent and kicks?

- Answer: "Stramonium."

- A: Yes.

- And if you repertorize the whole story you find Stramonium.

- But Stramonium has not this stupid face expression.

- They are very decent and when they hit someone, they know exactly at what time.

- They hit their sister or pull at their hair at the moment the mother turns her back.

- With Bufo it is a sudden impulse which they cannot withhold.

- And in Stramonium there is another important symptom, which normally has to be present.

- Which symptom?

- Answer: "Fear of dark."

- A: Yes, fear of dark and they can't be alone.

- You know this shrieking at night and they have to cling to someone.

- In the Repertory you will find this on page 12 "cling".

- Suddenly there is an anxiety and they are not able to control it.

- In Bufo it is something else, it is anger which comes out suddenly and they are not able to control it.

- Stramonium cannot tolerate at all to be alone, and especially not in the dark.

- For Bufo it is no problem.

- She goes to bed, wakes up- no problem.

- And she never had nightmares.

- That is a very important differential diagnostics point.

- Usually, a Stramonium state does not exist from birth on, but is caused by an external event, like in Silicea, which have the terrified waking from a fright at night, and that fright is a noise.

- For Stramonium there must be an external reason after birth, or maybe during the pregnancy, but with a fright of the mother we would expect opium first.

- Convulsions from fright of the mother is Opium.

- The reasons for Stramonium are not so deep.

- It is a mental problem, but not a very deep, not a constitutional problem.

- Normally, with Stramonium you can expect a complete cure, but not with Bufo.

- You can never make a Bufo patient normal with the remedy, never, that is impossible, the damage is too big.

- Question: " Could you say something about Tarentula?"

- A: The essential problem is not the restlessness.

- She only needs some outbursts to get rid of her energy.

- Tarentula has to move constantly, has to run about uninterruptedly and becomes quiet with rhythmical music.

- The expression of the symptom is important and the restless in not the essential point here.

- In Tarentula the restlessness is very, very strong, it has to be underlined 15 times.

- Here it is, the primitive reactions, the impatience, the feeble mindedness, all this together give us the Bufo picture.

Feedback

- A: How was the reaction to the remedy?

- MP: Immediately at the beginning she destroyed her room at the boarding school completely, that was the first two weeks.

- A: It was a kind of aggravation?

- MP: Yes, absolutely.

- A: How did she develop from these two weeks until now?

- MP: Afterwards she became much calmer, for about 2 weeks.

- Then she became aggressive again.

- A: Since then she was always aggressive?

- MP: Yes.

- A: Is the aggressiveness now better than before?

- MP: No.

- (The child is rocking the whole time.)

- It was only better for two weeks.

- A: Did she drink coffee?

- MP: No.

- A: And she doesn't take medicines?

- MP: No.

- A: When she becomes aggressive again, you have to repeat the remedy.

- MP: I didn't dare to repeat the remedy, because she became so aggressive the first time.

- A: Only the first time there is such a big aggravation after the remedy, you don't have to worry about it now.

- But when she relapses you have to repeat the remedy.

- There are moments in which you clearly see that she relapses in the old state.

- Did you notice a big difference during these two weeks when she was different?

- MP: Yes, it was really a big difference, it was really easier to handle her, she was absolutely more quiet and not aggressive.

- A: And at the moment it is the same as before?

- MP: Yes, that's right.

- A: Did other people also notice something, for example, in school?

- MP: Yes, at the beginning they couldn't go along at all with her.

- After the first two weeks she become very quiet suddenly, she also suffered a lot.

- They were very happy and now it is the same as before; they say that she doesn't want to do anything at all and it is very difficult to handle her.

- A: According to you what is the reason for her relapse?

- MP: I don't know.

- I have the impression she doesn't feel well at home, she is never satisfied.

- A: Is there somewhere an external reason that explains why she relapses?

- You didn't give her any medicines in the meantime?

- MP: No, I don't know why she relapsed.

- A: Alright, I will give you some tablets to take home and you will see that see will be all right and intelligent.

- Maybe we have to repeat this remedy more often at the beginning.

- We don't know why she lost energy.

- But you agree that she never had such a quiet period in her life as during these two weeks?

- MP: Yes, I'm absolutely sure.

Feedback (december 10, 1989)

- MP: Her behaviour is much, much better.

- She doesn't run to other people to frighten them and she is not so restless anymore.

- I can talk to her and she can talk with me very well.

- A: How is she doing at school?

- P: Well, it is very good.

- MP: They say it is much, much better, also in the school bus, I mean the school bus that takes her to school.

- Previously, she was very, very difficult in the bus.

- She attacked all the other children, now she only attacks the bus driver.

- A: And the reaction as in the beginning, like staining the walls with feces, that is over?

- MP: Yes, yes, it is over.

- She reacted very strongly to the first dose of Bufo.

- Two days later she stained the walls with feces, the whole room.

- And then she started to wet her bed at night.

- It lasted for a few days and then it was over.

- A: What about the wetting of her bed at night?

- MP: It is completely over.

- A: You see that the remedy needs its time.

- The first time it worked well for 14 days and then she got a relapse, and now we repeated the remedy and it works very well.

- A: Life is much more agreeable for you?

- MP: Yes, absolutely.

- A: When did you give her the remedy the last time?

- MP: Oh, it must be three weeks ago.

- A: Yes.

- In fact, that's all I had to know.

- You see that it is really necessary with her to repeat the remedy when she gets a relapse.

- Do you know the reason she relapses so often?

- MP: No.

- She is not at home during the week, she stays at the boarding school, therefore we don't know.

- And in the boarding school there are a lot of children, I think 14 in a group.

- A: Do you drink coffee?

- P: No, never.

- A: Doesn't she like chocolate or something sweet?

- MP: No.

- She doesn't eat desserts, she only eats fruit soufflé.

- A: Does she still have outbursts?

- MP: Yes.

- She still has, but absolutely less.

- A: What about her acne?

- MP: The acne is much better.

- She still has a little bit acne, it will not improve.

- A: Does she have eczema?

- MP: No, she scratches on the margin of her head very much, or at the forehead.

- I think she gets a tic again.

- All children have a peculiarity.

- A: How does she behave in her room?

- MP: Oh, she behaves very well.

- She doesn't destroy anything.

- A: When does she go to sleep?

- MP: At seven o'clock in the evening.

- A: That is very early.

- MP: Yes, seven o'clock, half past seven, that's her time.

- She gets up at six o'clock in the morning.

- A: Why does she go to bed so early?

- What does she do?

- MP: I don't know either, we can't stop her.

- A: We noticed it very often that these children want to go to bed early.

- MP: She doesn't sleep then.

- She is just rocking in her bed and singing.

- A: I will give you some tablets to take home.

- You don't need to come back.

- You repeat the remedy when she relapses.

- If you have questions you just call.

- MP: Don't we have to give it less?

- A: We don't know, sometimes you have to give it more often, sometimes the symptoms change or the picture of the disease changes and then you have to give another remedy.

- Sometimes they get an eruption, for example.

- Then you have to call me, because she will relapse if you put ointment on it.

- I think you will have more problems with her skin instead of with her behaviour.

- I think it will develop in this direction.

- MP: Yes, I have to tell the people at the boarding school that they may not treat her and may not use ointment.

- A: Also no tranquilizers.

- (Alfons gets up and says, "Give me a hand."

- The child is spitting.

- And when she wants to give her hand she kicks him.

- "It's all right, she's only playing," Alfons says.)

- Now, I expect an eruption of the skin with terrible itching.

- I will tell you of which remedy I think.

- Question: " Is there a rubric for these constant movements?"

- A: Restlessness, there is not a specific rubric.

- I think it is important to look it up in Boericke, because everything that is written there is true.

- If you read it you can recognise the whole picture.

- The Repertory is only a way to find the remedy, but when you know the remedy well you don't need the Repertory anymore.

- Also think about the fact that she lives in a situation which is not good for her.

- If she would live in our region, the Kali bichromicum priest would go there and try to bring the child back home.

- She lives in an environment in which most of the other children are not normal as well.

- And I can assure you when you as a psychiatrist work very much with many psychologically ill people you start doing funny things.

- Therefore we have to try to live in a normal situation.

- The environment of the boarding school is not good for the child.

- She stays there the whole week and she is only at home during the week-ends.

- There is no love, no positive feelings, there they say, " Do this, do that.

- And if you don't do what we tell you will get HALDOL."

- That is the reason why she always relapses.

CASE10

Bufo rana

- Boy, 15 years old

- This child has been seen by another doctor who gave him Cicuta virosa.

- Indeed, Cicuta is also a remedy which has epileptic attacks, but gets its complaints from injuries, injuries of the brain in children or it is indicated in old people with arteriosclerosis and arterial obstructions in the brain when they become childish again.

- Then Cicuta comes into play, Cicuta with its convergent strabismus.

- If you look under " strabismus, convergent" you see that Cicuta is capital, also in "childish" Cicuta is a capital.

- Then you can also look under "delusions", "delusion, she wants to go home."

- That is something which you can often see in old people.

- They want to go home and they feel as if they are a child again.

- That is the essence of Cicuta.

- "Delusions, thinks he is again a child" on page 22 and then they start talking about their father, their mother and the siblings.

- That is Cicuta.

- Cicuta in epilepsy of children after an accident.

- The delusion to become a child again is only related to old people when they become childish again.

- A: (to the father) You are a teacher.

- FP: Yes, in the primary school.

- A: The mother is a housewife.

- It is very important to ask for the profession.

- He is a teacher and is theorizing very much.

- A: You were in treatment with a colleague and the problem of Dany is that he has epilepsy.

- That's the reason you came here.

- Look here, Dany.

- It is remarkable that he is squinting.

- Especially his left eye looks inward.

- And a slight nystagmus.

- Do you know the rubric for nystagmus?

- " Eye, movement, pendulum like, from side to side" on page 246.

- A little bit lower you find the rubric "eye, movement, rolling", there are a lot of remedies.

- Then you see on page 266 the rubric "strabismus".

- This rubric is dangerous in the sense that the subdivisions are too small.

- There are a lot of remedies which have strabismus, but there are only few remedies in convergent strabismus (convergent strabismus - strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose convergent strabismus ).

- So, it is dangerous to take the subdivisions.

- A: Another reports from the therapy Centre: He is short in stature, but healthy.

- His vision is limited, also the coordination of the hands.

- The coordination of the movements is difficult.

- He behaves freely in a well- known surrounding, he can ride on a bicycle, walk or run without knocking against something, and yet something could be seen while walking.

- His gait is not soft, not fluent, it is a little bit angular.

- One leg is a little bit shorter.

- FP: Maybe he has grown a little bit too quickly, I don't know.

- It is about I centimeter shorter.

- A: Could this be this explanation why his gait is a little bit angular?

- FP: No, I don't think so.

- A: So an angular gait.

- In Boericke we can read, " staggering gait".

- In the Repertory you will find this under "extremities, awkwardness" on page 953 and " extremities, incoordination" on page 1017.

- It is very important to add this remedy here.

- A: Further it says: Multiple.

- With the intelligent test an I.Q. of 52.

- He can count well, but his way of thinking is not fluent.

- The transition from one thought to another is a little bit limited.

- He has difficulties in understanding and motivating.

- FP: The mental level corresponds to that of someone of the first class.

- A: The fine motor system is all right, isn't it?

- I mean drawing and things like that?

- By character he is proud and ambitious.

- He wants to be the best.

- FP: Yes, he doesn't like to lose.

- Also not in sports.

- You see that he doesn't look at me.

- It is the same as in Natrum muriaticum.

- Natrum muriaticum patients look here and there, they don't dare to look into your eyes.

- Here it is the same.

- He is always looking downwards.

- A: There is no other particular information.

- So, a colleague treated you for epilepsy.

- Did you know it when he was born or did you only find out when he was two years old?

- FP: They told us very late, we asked ourselves whether this was epilepsy.

- At that time they told us it was a kind of epilepsy.

- A: The last three years he hasn't had any attacks.

- The last time he had an attack was on July 7, 1986, before that in 1984 and 1985, previously, he had more attacks.

- When he was born the umbilical cord was too thin.

- He was born too early, first with the feet and as they say he had a shortage of oxygen during birth.

- This could be the reason for Cicuta, a child which didn't get enough oxygen and afterwards develops a convergent strabismus and epilepsy.

- It is like an accident.

- It could be...

- A: That's how the epilepsy was caused.

- He was in the incubator for three week.

- The attacks started in the toes, with spasm in the toes.

- No, he was walking on his toes, that is what is meant.

- MP: While walking.

- A: Didn't the attacks start in the toes?

- FP: No.

- As a child he vomited very much and at the end we noticed that there was something wrong.

- He often vomited.

- A: He has been operated on because of an inguinal hernia and he had hypospadias (Hypospadias :it is a birth defect of the urethra in males and females that involves an abnormally placed urinary hole (the opening, or male external urethral orifice).s ).

- Hypospadias cannot be because he had the umbilical cord around his neck.

- There must have been a problem earlier in the uterus, and therefore it can't be Cicuta.

- You have to take all the symptoms together and prescribe a remedy on account of the totality of symptoms.

- Hypospadias means that the damage must have been caused much earlier and not during delivery.

- Therefore it can't be Cicuta.

- A: Does he still have it?

- FP: Yes.

- It has been corrected, but the opening was more on the lower side.

- A: It can't be caused by a lack of oxygen.

- MP: No.

- A: It happened before.

- MP: Yes.

- A: The cause for hypospadias has to be found before birth.

- I say so because they try to see that the epilepsy is due to a lack of oxygen.

- But that is still the question.

- A little fear of heights, likes the door open while sleeping, is nice and decent, but can also be hot tempered, even rude, as it says here.

- In the morning he is in a good mood.

- Because he has a childish appearance and a convergent strabismus he got Cicuta virosa.

- Beside the childish appearance he has something else, a stupid, foolish appearance.

- That is little difference with Cicuta.

- A: He took TEGRETAL and we have reduced it gradually.

- FP: Before, he took other medicines, but at the end he took TEGRETAL.

- A: When he took TEGRETAL has appetite was not good.

- MP: No, it was during the first remedy.

- A: So, in January or about the t period he had an epileptic attack, a big attack.

- FP: He never had such a big attack.

- It was while eating and we were anxious the something might get stuch in his trachea.

- A: So, he didn't have the convulsions because something got stuck in his throat?

- FP; No, no.

- It could be that he swallowed something, it got stuck in his throat and then had convulsions.

- Which is this remedy?

- Cicuta virosa.

- " Convulsions, bone in the throat, from" on page 1352.

- Someone eats something and suddenly a hard piece of meat or bone gets stuck in the throat, they get a cramp and they die.

- That is Cicuta.

- You always have to have Cicuta in your pocket.

- A friend of mine called me two weeks ago and said that one of his colleagues had an attack.

- He ate something and suddenly it got stuck in his throat.

- They brought him outside and did all kinds of things and finally it came out.

- But now he has such an anxiety about his health, he is anxious to go here or there, very anxious.

- Which remedy is this?

- Aconitum.

- He nearly died, had a very big fright, it was like an earthquake.

- Now, he has this anxiety from fright.

- That is Aconitum.

- I didn't tell him; he has to come to the consultation, otherwise we can't make any money.

- MP: No, his mouth was empty.

- He was ready to eat.

- The last pieces remained on his dish.

- A: And it was in the right arm, on the right side, yes?

- He also stammers and the eyes often turn upwards.

- Was this also during the attack or when?

- Here, it is says that he turns his eyes upwards.

- During the attack?

- MP: I don't know.

- A: Well all right, this is not so important.

- So, he had an attack and his face was very red during the attack.

- MP: Nearly blue.

- A: He was lying there unconscious, with open eyes.

- " Face, discoloration, red, convulsion, during" on page 362: Bufo, Glonoin, Oena and Opium.

- In epilepsy it is good to take all the symptoms precisely, like biting of the tongue, convulsions during sleep and in the morning in bed.

- All this is Bufo.

- In Clarke someone writes, "If is a remedy that helped me most of all in epileptic cases.

- "Bufo is the most important remedy in epilepsy, it is the number one remedy.

- FP: Yes, he doesn't react when we talk to him.

- A: He is really unconscious?

- FP: Yes.

- A: That was the reason for you to say...

- FP: We started doubting.

- We had a lot of visitors and they scared us.

- Normally, we always wait before we do something, but this was a very strong attack.

- A: So, this was on January 3 to 4, on a Sunday evening.

- FP: We laid him down on the floor and he got a VALIUM tablet and reacted immediately and became conscious again.

- A: That was in January, a very serious attack.

- I gave him a remedy in July, so two months ago, because of several reason, especially because of his character.

- It seems that he is rather impatient.

- He can't wait very well.

- MP: Yes, that's right.

- that's something he can't do.

- If he has to wait a long time in the waiting room, its too much for him.

- He can't do anything there.

- He has to be busy the whole time.

- At home he never sits still either.

- Impatience.

- You see on page 53, Bufo is there, Cicuta is not.

- A: He is always busy.

- FP: He has stereotypic movements, to the radio and then back to the door.

- But he always has to walk about.

- He can stand still by the radio, but he can't sit still on a chair.

- A: A little bit hyperkinetic.

- FP: Yes.

- A: So, a strong tendency to motion and impatience.

- Then, we talked about the fact that he is easily excited, he can become very angry.

- FP: Yes, sometimes.

- At some moments he can become really angry.

- A: Could you describe this?

- : Then he looks very angry and he is turning his hands and he always says bad things.

- " Go away", " Get out", "You are not the boss.".

- A: So, sometimes he is very, very angry.

- FP: Yes.

- A: Does he cry then?

- Yes, he doesn't give in.

- FP: It lasts until he wins.

- He wants to be seen as right.

- He can't digest it.

- A: but that is only sometimes.

- MP: Yes.

- A: It is not constant.

- You see: When he answers he turns his eyes upward.

- It is an expression of autism.

- He is on his own.

- You can observe this in all these children.

- I am sure that every one of us has children like that, who need this remedy.

- They turn their eyes upward constantly, they live in their own world and dance and hit, hit other people and themselves.

- That is Bufo.

- A: Look.

- Observe the eyes, how they turn upwards, when he starts thinking.

- FP: Yes, that is always so.

- A: He also likes music.

- MP: Yes.

- P: From the morning until the evening.

- A: It does him good.

- MP: Yes.

- A: The whole day long.

- This is also an expression of being busy.

- If we don't understand the remedy correctly, we could confuse it with Tarentula.

- They like music very much.

- Boericke describes: "Aversion music", but in all liked music.

- Tarentula is a differential diagnosis, but Tarentula is a completely different personality.

- A: The radio is in the kitchen.

- He doesn't have music in his room?

- P: There is a radio, but he doesn't listen to it.

- A: Does he never go to his room?

- MP: No.

- Only when I am not there by coincidence.

- FP: He will never go alone to his room?

- FP: In the summer he is outside with the radio.

- A: Then I asked you a question- and your wife affirmed it, but it was not sure- how it was with his sexual development.

- Do you have an answer in the meantime?

- According to you he already masturbated.

- FP: Well yes.

- A: Is that so?

- MP: Yes, that's right.

- FP: I doubt it.

- A: But the mother notices it.

- MP: Yes.

- In the morning I see it in his pajama pants.

- A: Does he play with his penis?

- P: No.

- A: You don't have time for it when you are listening to music?

- P: No.

- A: Then there is something particular, it is very remarkable so in between- did he ever have a skin eruption?

- MP: No.

- A: Eczema?

- MP: No.

- He only had a few pimples on his back.

- P: Now it is much better.

- A: Better after the remedy?

- MP: Yes.

- And it itches less.

- A: And the itching is also better.

- P: I had it only once.

- A: I will ask you a few questions.

- (To the parents) only he can answer these questions, not you.

- It is remarkable, but the boy has an enormous memory, don't you, Dany?

- P: Yes.

- A: Which football club are you interested in?

- P: In club X.

- A: And what did they do on Sunday?

- P: They played last Wednesday.

- A: Against whom?

- P: Against Y.

- A: And how did they play?

- P: They won.

- A: How much?

- P: 2/0.

- Today they play in Leuven, at 6 o'clock.

- A: Who made the goal?

- P: Oh- (is thinking).

- Something I know, but sometimes I forget.

- A: Is he a little bit nervous?

- Is that the reason?

- MP: Yes.

- A: Who is playing in the club X?

- P: Player A.

- A: Where does the play?

- In the front, behind?

- P: He is a forward player.

- And also B.

- A: And who stands in the goal?

- P: C, and in fact he comes from W., from another club.

- A: Last season he played with W., but no anymore.

- Don't you remember who made the goal?

- When was it?

- In the first or the second half?

- P: In the second half.

- After the first half it was 0/0.

- A: Did you watch the football game?

- P: Yes.

- A: On television?

- P: No, I was on the football field myself.

- A: With whom did you watch the football game?

- P: I only see well when I am very close to it, otherwise I don't see.

- A: When you are too far away you don't see well?

- P: No.

- FP: He is always standing in the same place.

- P; Yes, at the side where the club has to make goals.

- A: Do you also watch other football clubs playing?

- P: Yes.

- Yesterday there was game with the National football club on television, but I didn't see it, because we were shopping.

- A: How did they play?

- P: Club M played against club T, 5:1.

- A: Did you see this on television?

- P: No, because we came home late.

- A: All right.

- Anyway it is peculiar that he has a very good memory on that level.

- FP: Also while playing cards.

- Than he also has the habit, when he goes to my father, to see whether the calendar saying has been ripped off.

- My father has to pay 5 Bf for every piece of paper which is not ripped off.

- How much does your grandfather owe you?

- P: He owes me 395 Bf already.

- A: Then he often doesn't rip off the papers from the calendar?

- P: Sometimes he doesn't do it for 8 days.

- This sudden howling you can observe in all of them.

- They talk completely normally and suddenly they talk very loud.

- They lose control over their voice and become very loud.

- That is what is meant with howling.

- They can also become extremely anger and they shout.

- That is lack of control in these moments.

- A: And you remember, you write it down?

- P: No, I don't write it down, I know it by heart how much money he owes, how much he has to pay.

- At the end of the year he has to pay.

- A: On New Year's eve?

- P: It depends.

- This year the last day of the year is on a Saturday.

- I checked it, that's why I know that January 1 is on a Sunday.

- A: So all right.

- What about his nails?

- FP: I don't know.

- A: They were good, there were no problems with them.

- He still has the acne on his back, but he never had inflammation of his nails.

- MP: No.

- A: No inflammation of his penis?

- MP: No.

- A: Also no ulcers?

- MP: No.

- A: After the remedy the only thing which improved was the eruption on the back.

- You are with him every day...

- FP: Yes.

- MP: He goes to school.

- A: Yes, but now during the holidays you are with him the whole time

- MP: Yes.

- A: Do you think that his character, his behaviour has changed lately?

- Does he still run about so much?

- To the radio and back to the door?

- FP: Yes, I think so.

- It has not improved so much.

- A: Is he still so restless?

- FP: Not so much.

- Sometimes he is very nervous, but sometimes he does very well.

- Only when many people are there and he has to sit down, then he is floating away.

- A: When he is not involved he will withdraw himself his own world.

- MP: I already asked, "What are you thinking of?"

- He said, " I hear what you say."

- A: But he was not there with his mind.

- MP: No.

- A: He lives in his own world, a little bit autistic.

- FP: Yes.

- Recently, he went to a new school.

- He was very nervous, he was nauseous.

- Then the tears come.

- A: But that was because of the reorganisation, wasn't it?

- How do you feel at the moment, Dany?

- P: All right.

- After one month it is difficult for the parents to see something.

- I have another feedback where you can see clearly that he is doing well.

- He didn't have attacks of anger anymore.

- The disappearance of the acne on the back was an indication for me that the remedy was correct.

- Bufo is an important remedy in acne, like Bovista and other remedies.

- It was the first time after the remedy that the acne was better.

- Feeble- minded children with acne, neurologic problems together with skin problems, that is the idea of the remedy.

- This patient was the other extreme, the other side of the coin: feeble minded.

- The previous on was hyperintelligent, but as soon as hyperintelligent people lose contact with the world, they also become feeble-minded.

- We have many children with Down's syndrome in our society.

- This disease is due to a change of chromosomes, a material change, but every material change is preceeded by an energetic change.

- And that is exactly what happens with this remedy, why the importance of the remedy always increases.

- The heart, the feelings have disappeared, only sex is important.

- Wherever you go, everywhere sex, sex, sex, but everything on the animal level, not on the level where it should be, sex without feelings.

- And why is there sex everywhere?

- Because of the money.

- And where are we as human beings?

- We are nothing.

- Why can people come from the GDR in the Federal Republic of Germany when they retire?

- Because they don't need them anymore to work, to earn money.

- When we are 65 years old they put us on the track, they put us in old people's homes, because they don't need us anymore.

- Everything turns around money.

- That is serious, and we will see the consequences.

- The percentage of feeble- minded people will increase further in the future.

- Most children with Down's syndrome are Bufo- children and also with this damage the expression is different and so the possibilities to change something are different.

- You will never cure these children, I mean, that you will never make a normal child of them, but you can, for example, treat the eczema, and change his character so much that they can make more contact with the outside world or don't get attacks of anger anymore and so on.

CASE11

Bufo rana

Case

Man, 24 years old

June 23, 1989

This is another case of headache and acne. I don't know whether you can see it, but he has a greasy face.

You can also see he has blue eyes and dark hair.

P : I have blotches on my face and eruptions. I have boils which I push out, but which always keep coming back. They give me quite a lot of trouble.

A : How long have you had this?

P : It started when I was 17 or 18 years old. Sometimes I also have a migraine.

A : Migraine, hm. What do you mean?

P : Actually I have had this since birth. When I become nervous, when it is too warm, when I excite myself, then I have this.

A : Also in the sun?

P : Yes. Before I always wore sunglasses. I can't tolerate the sunlight.

A : How often do you have an attack of migraine?

P : About one every two months. When I have migraine then I can't be of any use. The only thing I can do is to go to bed and rest.

A : Did you also have this as a child?

P : Yes, I think, I have had it since birth.

A : How do you know? From your mother?

P : Yes, my mother told me. When I was born the first two hours I was completely blue. My mother said that it was caused by the delivery.

A : I mean, when did you have a headache the first time in your life?

P : From childhood on. There were seven brothers and sisters at home. We went bicycling together a lot and I couldn't keep my balance when I had this headache.

If somebody says he has had a headache since his childhood which rubric can we take?

"Headache in school boys or girls"?

P : I can't see 100% when I have this headache.

A : What can't you see?

P : I'm a little bit dizzy and nauseous.

He has dim vision during his headache. Everybody knows this rubric in the meantime.

P : Therefore I can't ride on a bicycle because I can't keep my balance.

A : Do you bite your fingernails?

P : Yes. Actually I bite them constantly.

A :What kind of job do you have?

P : I control videocassettes.

A : Do you become angry?

P : Yes.

A : Tell me something about it.

P : How shall I say? Probably it is my character. I'm hot-tempered, that's my character, but not so much angry.

A : Have you had other diseases besides the migraine?

P : In the past I wasn't allowed to eat chocolate because of my liver, or drink cacao or eat eggs. When I eat too much of these things I get a headache. That's how they explained it to me anyway.

A : Can you tell me something more about becoming angry? How is it with you?

P : I am rather hot-tempered, when I'm excited.

A : When do you become angry? In which circumstances?

P : When it is not my day, sometimes it is just not my day, when I sleep badly or something like that.

A : Then you become angry?

P : Yes.

A : When you bite your fingernails do you have complaints with your fingers?

P : Yesterday I bit my fingers.

A : To the flesh. Was it inflamed?

P : No. It hurts because I bit too far.

A : Do you get ulcers?

P : On the thumb. Then it becomes thick here.

A : You work in a sheltered workshop.

P : Yes.

A : Your thumb becomes inflamed because you are biting your thumb.

P : Yes.

A : How long does the inflammation last?

P : About two days.

A : Does it suppurate?

P : No.

A : What happens?

P : It only becomes thick.

A : Can you become very angry?

P : No. Before I could, but not now anymore.

A : What do you mean?

P : I think it is because of nerves.

A : Are you nervous?

P : Yes. If somebody is picking at me or says the same thing two or three times, I become angry.

A : When were you last angry?

P : Yesterday and the day before yesterday I was really sour.

A : About what?

P : I was charged.

A : Why?

P : Because I drove too fast. My mother was angry with me, she was constantly picking at me, and then it became too much for me.

A : Why do you work in a sheltered workshop?

P : They organized it in school. They sent me to this place because I couldn't follow so well at school.

A : You didn't like to learn?

P : Yes. But how shall I say? The mental work was too difficult for me. I couldn't learn. Painting was easier. I was always the last in class work.

A : What about sex? Are you also the last?

P : No, no. I don't know, do you want me to be honest? It is all right.

A : I mean are you a person who is sexually very active?

P : When I haven't done it for two or three weeks I am.

A : But you don't need it every day?

P : I couldn't do it every day.

A : Why not?

P : We don't live together. We are not married.

A : (to his girlfriend) Would you please go outside for a moment. This is a personal question.

GF : All right, I understand.

(His girlfriend goes outside)

A : Do you have a strong sexual urge?

P : I think every man has.

A : You think so.

P : A man always longs for a woman.

A : Do you always have a desire?

P : Some days I haven't. When it is not my day I don't have any desire. When you're tired of course you don't have any desire either, but normally yes. On Friday and Saturday we are alone at home.

A : How old were you when you began having sexual urges?

P : The desire to make love? I don't know.

A : Did you ever masturbate? Self-gratification?

P : I don't understand.

A : You can gratify yourself without having any coition?

P : I did.

A : How often? Once or regularly?

P : Since I have a girlfriend I don't do it anymore, but when I was 16 or 17 years old, I did.

A : Not before?

P : No.

A : Do you look at sex books?

P : No.

A : You don't like this?

P : I did before, but now I don't do it anymore. At the age of 15 you have to learn quite a lot of things, but now I got rid of them. Why do you want to know all these things?

A : I'm just asking.

P : Do you ask all men about this matter?

A : It is only to know the right homeopathic remedy. Therefore we have to know everything. Some people are sexually very active and some people are less active. Do you understand? Did you have problems with your tonsils in the past?

P : I still have.

A : Do you have other complaints besides the acne on the face and the migraine?

P : Yes, I also have complaints with my back. I was at a feast and I fell. Afterwards I had pain at work when I had to carry something heavy. They didn't give me this kind of work because of the complaints with my back. My vertebra is twisted and one leg is shorter than the other, 9 mm. It was not from birth. When I was 15 or 16 years old I grew too fast and one leg grew faster than the other one. Therefore I have a twisted back and I stand crooked.

A : How is your appetite?

P : Not so good.

A : What do you mean?

P : When I go home to eat I'm not so hungry. I also smoke and if you smoke you're less hungry. If you don't smoke, you have more appetite.

A : What do you like or dislike?

P : I prefer French fries, croquettes, beefsteak, all kinds of meat; but not tomatoes, no Belgian endive and no beans; peas are all right. I eat salads, but I'm not fond of them.

A : And what do you put on French fries?

P : Mayonnaise.

A : And salt?

P : Yes.

A : Can you eat without salt?

P : No. I never tried, but I think it doesn't taste good.

A : Did you ever have pain?

P : Yes, when I was here I said that I had back pain again. It depends on the way I'm sitting. When I sit for 1 1/2 hours I get back pain.

A : On which side do you sleep?

P : On the right side. I also turn to the left side, and when I wake up I lie on my right side again. Usually I lie bent like a banana.

A : Do you have dandruff?

P : No, I never had.

A : Why do you bite your nails?

P : I'm a real footballfan and when there is a game I bite my nails because I'm nervous; and also with a good film I bite my nails, and with exertion.

A : Can you remember who played? So your hobby is tennis and football.

P : Before I played football, now less. Now I don't do it anymore.

A : Of which team are you a supporter?

P : Of XF.

A : Can you remember when they played and when they won?

P : Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't.

A : Do you have a good memory for certain things?

P : Sometimes I have a good memory and sometimes I forget easily. If somebody says, "Remember this", I remember.

A : Do you also remember results?

P : It depends.

A : Are there other things you can do very well in sports?

P : I play Ping-Pong at home.

A : Ping-Pong?

P : Yes, I can play Ping-Pong very well.

A : Do you like the fat of meat?

P : I can eat it.

A : Do you get cold easily?

P : No, I'm always too warm.

A : Do you put covers on?

P : Yes. Yes, I always wear underpants and in winter I wear pajamas.

A : How much are you covered up?

P : I put four blankets on my bed.

A : What? Four blankets?

P : Yes.

A : And how far are you covered up?

P : Up to here. (He points to the height of his chest)

A : Do you put your arms out of the covers?

P : No, I put them under the covers.

A : But you said you are never too cold.

P : I mean during the day. I only have cold feet.

A : Can you tolerate the strong warmth of the sun, like last week?

P : No, I can't tolerate it. Then I have to pant.

(Silence)

A : You have migraine once every two months.

P : Sometimes it appears more often. Before I had it very often, every week, when I was still a child. Now it is once every two months. It depends on the weather.

A : Do you express yourself when you have something on your mind? Do you easily say what you think when you don't agree?

P : No.

A : When somebody irritates you do you express this?

P : No.

A : What do you mean?

P : If there is something on my mind I won't easily talk about it.

A : What do you mean?

P : You mean when I have problems?

A : If somebody does something you don't like how do you react?

P : You mean do I become angry? It depends - hm, how shall I say?

If somebody does something to my car I become really angry.

A : What kind of car do you have?

P : A Fiat Uno. If something happens to my car I become angry, but otherwise not. And when it is too much for me, when they irritate me.

A : Did you often become angry as a child?

P : I know I wasn't an easy child, I didn't listen. I was obstinate and sometimes I still am.

A : Did you ever hit anybody?

P : I fought a little bit, but I didn't hit anybody.

A : Did you ever light something on fire or did you play with fire?

P : No. What do I have on the face?

A : Acne. It will become better.

P : Are these boils?

A : Yes.

P : But normally such an acne has to disappear.

A : It will become better.

Dim vision during headache, greasy face, acne, cannot eat without salt, and he is closed. First, let's see the Feedback.

FEEDBACK (August 25, 1989)

A : At that time you had migraine every two months when you were nervous or excited.

P : I have had it twice.

A : But not as bad as before?

P : No, not so strong. When I had migraine in the past it was as if I was drunk. I haven't had this anymore.

A : The second thing was that your thumb was always inflamed.

P : I haven't had it.

A : But you are still biting your fingernails.

P : Yes. I still do, but before the thumb was always inflamed on the side.

A : Do you bite your nails less?

P : I think it is as bad.

A : Are the nails shorter or longer than usual? Let's see.

P : (shows the nails)

A : I thought that before you bit your nails to the flesh; now they are a little bit longer. It is not so bad anymore. You had back pain. How is it now?

P : I still have. I think it is because of the way I sit. It starts at about 2:00, 3:00 p.m. When I sit too long a time my back hurts.

A : Do you have other complaints?

P : No.

A : And how is your acne? According to me it has improved.

P : Yes, I also think it is a lot better.

A : That's why you came here.

P : Yes, and also for the migraine.

A : Don't you think the eruption is better?

P : Yes, it has really improved a lot.

GF : He still has some spots.

P : I get spots when I push out the boils.

A : If it was like this before you wouldn't have gone to the doctor?

P : No. It looks well.

A : What about your character?

GF : It is good, now and then he is hot-tempered.

A : Now he is less hot-tempered?

GF : I think so.

A : He was hot-tempered now and then?

GF : When he has problems with his mother then he becomes angry, otherwise not, not with me.

A : I also asked for your hobby. Do you have a special hobby?

P : No, since I have a girlfriend I haven't.

A : This is your hobby now.

P : Yes, this is my hobby. When I didn't have a girlfriend I played tennis and Ping-Pong and I rode my bicycle. Since I have a girlfriend I don't have so much time.

A : I also asked for particular capacities.

P : Yes, about the memory.

A : This is something in which you are better than anybody else (to his girlfriend) Did you notice that he has abnormal capacities?

GF : Do you mean when I'm cleaning whether he can do it better than I?

P : No, I mean, some people can count very quickly in their head and some have a good memory, they even remember who made the goal 5 years ago.

P : Yes, when it is about sports, all right, but I can't count in my head.

A : But concerning sports you have a good memory?

P : I think so. Football is my favorite sport.

A : What do you prefer, tennis or football?

P : When I have the choice, tennis.

A : Do you watch the games on television?

P : During the World Cup I watched everything on television.

A : Who won Wimbledon last year?

P : Boris won this year and Edberg last year.

A : What was the result?

P : There were three games. On Sunday it was canceled because of rain and on Monday it was 7:6, 6:3 and the third game was I think 6:4.

A : That's what I mean. You have a very good memory concerning a certain thing. The last time you didn't understand me well. I will give you a remedy to take home. I'm satisfied with the result on the remedy. If the acne comes back, you can take the remedy, also when the migraine becomes very strong.

FEEDBACK (November 24, 1989)

A : You came for migraine?

P : Yes, migraine.

A : You took the last tablet in August.

P : Afterwards I took another one! You gave me three tablets in a tube to take home and I took one of them.

A : When was it? In September?

P : Yes.

A : I see that your face has become very beautiful. It looks very good. Or is this just a coincidence?

P : Sometimes I still have some boils.

A : But the acne is good. And how is your migraine?

P : I think the migraine cured very well. Before it always came through, but now it starts and it doesn't come through anymore. It stays in the background, it goes away spontaneously. I feel something and I am wondering whether it will come or not, but it doesn't begin.

A : Did you still have dim vision before headache?

P : No, and also no vertigo. When I become dizzy I know that I'll get a migraine.

A : You haven't had vertigo and there have been no real migraines anymore?

P : No.

A : Fine. Have you become more calm in the meantime?

GF : Yes, he is not so hot-tempered.

A : Do you also think so?

P : Yes, yes. Of course they may not irritate me.

GF : It is not the same as it used to be, not at all.

A : All right, that's all I want to know.

Which remedy?

Answer: Bufo.

A : Yes, Bufo 10M. I can't say why, but after he had been with me for a few minutes I had the feeling that he was not normal, the feeling of a primitive energy. I felt a strong primitiveness in this man, then I saw his bitten, slightly inflamed fingers and immediately I thought of Bufo.

Another reason was because he was working in a sheltered workshop, it is a workshop where people are working who can't work independantly.

You see that you don't find this remedy only by repertorizing.

The nail biting is better than before. He doesn't have inflammations anymore, this means that he doesn't bite the nails to the flesh anymore. You know that biting the nails to the flesh is also Medorrhinum, but it is very strongly Bufo, and also Bufo has the tendency to inflame.

It is also typical that the speech is unclear. It is very difficult to understand them and if you don't understand them they become very angry.

Remark: He was biting his lips the whole time.

A : Yes, he was very nervous. Up to now I haven't seen this in other patients and I don't know what it means. There was also a slight prognathism of the chin, but not clearly. This prognathism is typical for Bufo.

Question: ... (not understandable)

A : No, no, forget it. There are so many symptoms and if you want to add them all to the Repertory ... You cannot find this remedy by repertorizing. You have to try to understand his personality and develop a feeling for the remedy.

Remark: But ... (not understandable)

A : Yes, Stramonium also has this and also Medorrhinum. The dim vision was during the headache, not before.

But I think the longer we go on in this process of trying to understand the personality of a remedy, the less we will use our Repertory.

Question: ... (not understandable)

A : Yes, Bufo is capital in biting nails. But the most peculiar thing in this person is the primitiviness. They are primitive in sex and also when they are irritated. They cannot control their anger. I hope everybody understood why I asked for the winners of the tennis games.

These people have very high intelligence in a very narrow range. For example, they can tell you how much 3576x24 is. My theory is that many very intellectual people, for example, computer specialists need Bufo because of this intellectual masturbation.

Question: ... (not understandable)

A : Yes, it is the first remedy for autistic children who are busy with themselves all the time and their eyes are turned upwards. Often you find a capacity which is very well developed, for example, the equilibrium in circus dancers. This is typical for Bufo, autistic children with their eyes turned upwards, who are very restless and who can stand or dance on a very small surface on a very high place without falling.

CASE12

Bufo rana

Case

Boy, 3 years old

The woman before on the video was Lachesis, clear Lachesis. One year after she received Lachesis she had a herpetic eruption on the left side which was very painful. The modalities clearly indicated Lachesis, but she didn't react. What is the remedy?

If in herpes zoster the well indicated remedy doesn't work it means that the herpes had a very big impact on her, it disturbed her totally. What is the remedy?

Variolinum. I have fought with such cases and after I showed two cases like this at a seminar in Holland three doctors said they had had the same experience. When in herpes zoster Ranunculus bulbosus or Rhus toxicodendron or Lachesis or whatever remedy is indicated doesn't work, it is Variolinum.

(The child is sitting moaning and weeping on his mother's lap. The left side of his face is red and swollen with a black, necrotic eruption. There are scabs and crusts in the region of the chest and on the left side of the head.

A : You should not touch the eruption. These are vesicles. It is not herpes zoster, but varicella.

MP : He also has vesicles in his hair. It started with red spots, then yellow liquid was coming out and finally a blue spot remained.

A : Do you want to open his shirt?

MP : It is too warm in here. Let's open your shirt.

P : No.

MP : (opens his shirt)

A : That's all right, that's far enough.

MP : It is especially on the left side. It started with a small spot on the front and on the face and then it spread.

A : But you can clearly see that he also has vesicles on his head. So it is not herpes zoster.

They have been seen before by another homeopath. He said it was herpes zoster and gave Rhus toxicodendron. Because it was not better the next day he gave antiviral medicines. The father of this boy was with me in Zaire and so afterwards he came to Hechtel.

You see that it is a very serious case, a kind of herpetic eruption, also on the head. The vesicles become confluent and then they become black, gangrenous and there are crusts.

How can we repertorize? We have to start from one or another rubric.

Audience: ... herpes zoster.

A : I don't know if we can take this. Herpes zoster is a clinical rubric and I think it is better to use what we see. How did it start?

With herpes.

And a herpetic eruption is what?

It means vesicles. Right, vesicles, that's what we see. And what else do we see?

Audience: They are confluent.

A : Yes, right, but unfortunately there is no rubric.

Audience: Gangrene.

A : Yes, I think everybody agrees that these vesicles are gangrenous.

Question: ... in the Repertory ...

A : On page 1322 under skin, eruption.

Remark: ... (not understandable)

A : Ah, you looked under "face", but he also has it on his chest. Therefore we have to take the general rubric.

Remark: Vesicles, black.

A : Hmm. But there are also vesicles which are not black; they were not black from the beginning. First of all it is a vesicle, but it becomes gangrenous.

Secale is an important remedy in gangrene, in what kind of people? In old people with decubitus and thick, hard gangrene on the heels and on the sacrum.

The eruption in this boy is on the left side and it seems that it hasn't spread to the right side. Of what other remedy can we think?

Answer: Of Lachesis.

A : Yes, Lachesis is capital there. We can also see swelling of the lymph glands on the left side. The whole left side is swollen. If such a patient comes to you do not start trembling. It is a dangerous situation and therefore you must try to put every emotion aside, not develop anxiety, listen well and find an appropriate remedy.

A : He doesn't have it on the right side?

MP : No.

A : It goes to the middle of the head, but not further.

MP : No. (to her son) Keep your head still.

P : (is crying)

A : What about his mouth? (to the patient) Open your mouth.

MP : He also has a slight fever. He feels sick. He is thirsty.

A : Is he very thirsty?

MP : Not particularly. He always wants to be lifted up. He slept in the car all the way here.

You can also see a redness around the vesicles. This is a Belladonna symptom. An inflammation with a red area, which is hot and very sensitive to touch, together with general Belladonna symptoms indicates Belladonna very strongly - at least in children.

Now we will try to differentiate the remedies in the rubric "vesicles, gangrenous". We are not sure whether we can really start from this rubric.

These states can lead to septicemia.

A : Does he eat?

MP : He eats very little, drinks very little milk, but he doesn't eat anything at all during meals.

A : Does he yawn a lot?

MP : Yes.

A : Did he sleep well last night?

MP : Yes, until 4:00 o'clock. At 4:00 o'clock he woke up, had to urinate and drink something. Then he lay in our bed. He always has to lie on one side, otherwise he wakes up.

He does not want to be touched. You find this rubric on page 89:

MIND, Touched, aversion to being

We can also take this symptom. If you combine this rubric with "vesicles, gangrenous" the following remedies are left: Arsenicum, Belladonna, Lachesis and Silicea.

A : Did he perspire last night?

MP : No. Sometimes he has drops of perspiration on his nose because in general he gets warm easily. He doesn't tolerate thick pullovers very well and he can't tolerate the sun. When he goes into the sun immediately he becomes bright-red. He has few protection factors. He is also a child who constantly runs behind me. He is always near me. I don't think he likes to be alone.

(Pause)

I haven't touched it yet (the eruption).

A : Can you touch it?

MP : I wanted to put some Hypericum oil on it, but the moment I touch it he pushes me away.

The child doesn't tolerate even the slightest touch and here Lachesis is capital. If you take this into consideration Lachesis is the only remedy which comes out.

Other remedies which have aggravation from touch during inflammation are Belladonna, Mercurius and Mezereum. Mezereum also has crusts with pus underneath and itching.

MP : He doesn't scratch. I don't think it itches. At home they all have had chicken pox, he did also, but only slightly. Also at school there was an epidemic. Fourteen days ago he had fever blisters on the corner of his mouth, on his lip. He is also moaning a lot and is in a bad mood. He becomes angry when things don't turn out the way he wants. Otherwise he is a very enthusiastic child and in a good mood.

A : What about the fever? How much fever does he have?

MP : About 38.5° C. Yesterday it was 38.5° C, it might have increased in the afternoon. He doesn't allow me to take his temperature. This morning he didn't have fever. He was much colder and he was in a better mood after having slept. By noon he started moaning again. Today in the afternoon he slept since he went to bed. Also in the car he slept for one hour. He likes to drink milk a lot, also likes meat, really a lot. He has ingrown toenails.

Remark: ... mouth open.

A : Yes, Lachesis also has open mouth. Would you give Lachesis in this case?

Audience: No.

A : Why not? Because you know the case or why?

Audience: ... (not understandable)

A : Belladonna, all right, but on which side does Belladonna especially have its complaints?

Audience: On the right side.

A : Not always, but usually. Think about the goat with the breast inflammation. It was on the left side, and so I gave Lachesis at that time, but it was Belladonna.

Remark: Fear alone.

A : Yes, also. Up to now there are a lot of symptoms indicating Belladonna. Belladonna has aggravation from slight touch, doesn't tolerate the sun ...

Question: What is against Lachesis?

A : Nothing, only my feeling. I feel this is a very dangerous situation which can lead to pemphigus or something like that.

In 1984 I had a patient who was covered with vesicles all over, they were inflamed and had pus in them. We couldn't find the remedy and he almost died.

In such dangerous situations you must think of dangerous remedies. The most dangerous state is a Crotalus horridus state, but also Lachesis states can be very dangerous, with inflammations and septicemia.

A : He also received Rhus toxicodendron, LM6 three times a day. Did it help?

MP : No.

From a colleague he received Rhus toxicodendron, but what is missing for this to be Rhus toxicodendron?

Answer: The restlessness.

A : Yes, and the itching and the causation. The causation for Rhus toxicodendron states is usually a draft of air, a sudden cooling after having perspired. That is usually the causation in Rhus toxicodendron, also in serious states. Besides they are mostly very restless, more at night, cannot lie still and it itches.

The mother hasn't said it yet, but the itching is absent in him. In the beginning of a Rhus toxicodendron state there is no itching. Initially it is only pain and afterwards comes the itching.

A : Does he have itching?

MP : No, but I cannot touch it. And he keeps his head very stiff. He won't allow me to put anything on it, he cannot tolerate it.

A : Are his feet cold?

MP : I think they are warm. His feet are perspiring.

A : (feels his feet) They are warm. Does he also have warm hands?

MP : Yes. They are very warm.

He has warm feet. Which remedy does this exclude?

Audience: Lachesis.

A : Look in the rubric on page 963:

EXTREMITIES, Coldness, foot, fever, during: ... bell ... lach ...

In Lachesis states with high fever patients mostly have cold feet, but warm feet do not exclude Lachesis, although it is more improbable.

MP : He has an ingrown toenail on his big toe.

He has an ingrown toenail. You see which remedies are there, and there is also one addition.

A : He can't be alone.

MP : No, he is always running behind me. But he also does otherwise. Especially now he wants to be carried. He always says, "Carry me, carry me!" He hasn't received any injections, except the Polio vaccination.

A : Is he very thirsty or not?

MP : Well yes, very, hm. Now and then he wants to drink something, but not the whole day, because he sleeps a lot. But he is more thirsty than otherwise, that's true.

A : He wants to be carried?

MP : Yes.

(Son is moaning.)

MP : (to her son) What's wrong? Do you have pain?

P : Yes.

A : Does he have salivation from the mouth?

(to the patient) Show me your tongue.

(to the mother) Does he have aphthae?

MP : Show me your tongue!

P : No.

A : Because he said he has pain in his mouth.

MP : Open your mouth! Show me your tongue!

P : (opens his mouth a little bit)

MP : A little bit further.

A : Show me!

MP : Look, there is a light!

(The mother tries to have his mouth opened, but even a bonbon doesn't tempt him to do so.)

MP : Does your mouth hurt? Let the doctor have a look at it.

P : No.

A : He doesn't have aphthae?

MP : I'm not sure. I can't see everything.

When I ask about salivation at night and vesicles in the mouth, to see the tongue and to know whether there is a bad odor from the mouth, this indicates which remedy?

Mercurius. In acute Mercurius states you almost always find profuse perspiration, salivation and bad odor from the mouth. In chronic states, like in Parkinson's, these symptoms may be lacking. Do you know the rubric for Parkinson's? Look on page 1390:

GENERALITIES, Paralysis agitans

Mercurius is not in the rubric "gangrenous eruptions", but it is a clinical rubric and you have to be careful with clinical rubrics.

Remark: Bufo is in the rubric gangrenous eruptions. Maybe ...

A : Aha, Bufo is also there. And why do you think of Bufo?

Audience: Because of the vesicles, the ingrown toenail and the inflammation of the lymph glands.

A : Why do you say that the lymph glands are inflamed?

Audience: ... (not understandable)

A : They are very much swollen, that's right, and therefore you think that they are inflamed. That's an idea you might get when you see him. Yes, that's possible.

A : Does he have a bad odor?

MP : Not now, but sometimes he does, especially in the morning.

A : Usually he does, but not now.

MP : (to her son) Open your mouth!

P : No.

A : Does he easily get too warm?

MP : At the moment it is all right, but otherwise he is a child who gets warm easily.

A : And he always wants to be carried?

MP : Yes. He has also slept.

A : Did he kick the bedclothes off?

MP : He crawls upwards.

A : Also last night?

MP : Yes. I'm sure because he slept with us. But he is a child who is often too warm and who doesn't tolerate the sun at all.

This is another element for Lachesis. His eruptions are left sided, touch aggravates and it is black, gangrenous.

MP : He has a few liver spots.

A : Warm feet and hands. I have the impression that he is a child who let's other children have their way.

MP : Maybe. But he starts crying and expresses himself.

A : Has he been beaten sometimes?

MP : Yes, and then he cries very loudly.

A : Is he jealous if somebody else sits on your lap?

MP : Yes. He also wants to have his turn.

A : Does he have a coated tongue?

MP : Show me your tongue!

P : No.

Treating doctor: The tongue is not coated.

A : What does he like to eat?

MP : He likes meat and cheese a lot.

A : Can there be fat in or around the meat?

MP : I think so. He also likes a piece of sausage and Holland cheese, and also sweets.

He is thirsty, likes meat, fat and his symptoms are left-sided, so we must also think of Tuberculinum.

MP : And bananas, especially bananas, he eats a lot of bananas. He might eat seven or eight bananas in a row.

Desire for bananas: Theridion and Tuberculinum. Do you want to prescribe Tuberculinum?

It must be a remedy for severe, acute states, like Lachesis, but the morning amelioration doesn't fit Lachesis.

MP : And he also drinks a lot of milk.

A : He also drinks milk?

MP : Yes. If he has to choose between milk and water he would drink milk. And chocolate.

P : (is weeping)

MP : What hurts? Your mouth?

P : Yes.

MP : The tongue?

P : No.

MP : What?

P : My mouth.

MP : This is the first time he complains about pain in his mouth.

A : Is he cold at the moment?

MP : No. His hands are much warmer than mine. Probably he has fever.

There was a proposition for Arsenicum, but he has warm hands, is not restless at night and not anxious.

Remark: ... Nitricum acidum ...

A : Are you sure?

They live 120 or 150 km from here, and if this was a clear Nitricum acidum case the mother would have said that he had very severe pains which went away while riding in the car. That's what you would expect in Nitricum acidum, but he doesn't have those symptoms.

A : And he doesn't tolerate the sun at all?

MP : No. I don't think he has the pigments for tanning, he doesn't get brown, only red.

A : Today you had to stay with him all the time, you couldn't leave him alone.

MP : No. This forenoon he was really doing well. He was sitting on the sofa and when he saw me working it was all right, but by noon he again said, "Take me, take me on your arm!" In the afternoon he slept and afterwards he wanted to be carried again.

Sometimes he doesn't want to be interrupted at all. This morning he became angry immediately when I didn't understand him. He ran about and said, "You don't understand me!"He doesn't speak clearly, and if you don't understand him right away he becomes furious. Then he kicks the bed and says, "You don't understand me!" He doesn't want to be interrupted. Then he becomes angry immediately.Maybe he is anxious that I might touch his head.

Did you understand everything?

Audience: Yes, he is angry when misunderstood.

A : Yes. When he says something and his mother doesn't understand him he becomes angry. This is a mental symptom of?

Remark: Bufo.

A : Right, Bufo. Everybody knows the rubric on page 2:

MIND, Anger, misunderstood, when: Bufo

There is only one remedy. I agree with the colleague who expressed the idea about the lymphangitis. You see the swelling of the lymph glands, the redness, this is Bufo.

You find lymphangitis under extremities, but it must also be in the generalities. If you look on page 1018:

EXTREMITIES, Inflammation, Lymphatics of arm: Bufo

There is only one capital remedy: Bufo.

If you look on page 1019:

EXTREMITIES, Inflammation, Leg, erysipelatous: ... bufo ...

In every lymphangitis, no matter where, think of Bufo.

Also in a breast abscess with redness and swelling, especially when the redness extends to the neck, this is lymphangitis, and the first remedy you have to think of is Bufo.

FEEDBACK (October 7, 1989)

The first thing that disappeared is the swelling, the inflammatory reaction.

A : Take him on your lap.

MP : Yes. We will open your shirt a little bit because it is so warm in here.

A : Yes, it is all right. (to the patient) Look here.

That's fine now.

Also the inflammatory reaction around the eruption on the chest is better.

A : Tell me, how did it go?

MP : He received a tablet on Wednesday evening and then again one spoonful of the solution. He slept very well.

A : When you went upstairs to visit my wife she said that he started playing immediately after the remedy.

MP : Yes, he was in a very good mood and didn't resist playing. This was remarkable.

That was after a few minutes. He received the remedy, went upstairs to our house - these are friends of ours - and he started playing. Indeed, when you give the right remedy it acts immediately.

A : Before he didn't.

MP : No, he always became angry and said, "No, no, no."

A : This was within a few minutes. I gave him the tablet and you went upstairs ...

MP : Yes, he was in a very good mood.

A : How did it develop afterwards?

MP : We drove home, he slept very well in the car and at home I gave him another spoonful of the solution. He slept very well that night and he woke up at 6:00 a.m. to drink something. The next morning, on Thursday he didn't have any fever, the fever was gone.

A : Already the next day?

MP : Yes. We were here on Wednesday and on Thursday he didn't have any fever. He did rather well. Up until the afternoon he didn't want to sleep and he didn't fall asleep. He was awake the whole day, now and then he drank warm milk, but he didn't want to eat anything. Later he started eating a lot of bananas. I have the impression that it didn't develop further, anyway not during that day. He fell asleep and on Friday, yesterday, he became red here (in the face) and there (under the eyes). It disappeared again and this morning there were red spots on the right side. He is still not in a good mood yet. He is angry and says no to everything. But now he eats a little bit.

A : And the cheek is not swollen anymore. The inflammatory reaction is gone, the redness is gone. It has improved a lot. And the vesicles on his head?

MP : They have become crusts and now they are drying up. Initially there was liquid in the vesicles, but after I was here, they became thick, yellow pus, not so liquid anymore. I also have the impression that some crusts have fallen off. There was yellow-green pus underneath. The other spots might last a little bit longer, but it has improved very quickly.

A : Yes, it improved very quickly, but it was a very serious case. You said that he had an ingrown toenail. What do you mean?

MP : The nails of the big toes are slightly ingrowing.

A : Does he suffer from that? Has it ever been inflamed?

MP : No, no.

I added Bufo in ingrown toenails. The other remedy for ingrown toenails is Magnetis polis australis, with which other symptom?

With impotency. Ingrown toenails together with impotency.

A : How does he develop as a child?

MP : He can be very enthusiastic, but before his illness he was really angry. He came home from kindergarten and without any reason he was in a bad mood. Otherwise he plays, but at the moment he kicks and beats things, probably because he is ill.

FP : He is ill, but he started eating again.

MP : Yes, he ate a few bananas, apple sauce, a slice of bread with chocolate spread, and of course dainties. He is a child who always runs behind me, he always has to be with me. He doesn't like to be alone.

A : Does he like to play with his penis, in a way that you have noticed this?

MP : No.

A : You haven't noticed it?

MP : No. He can't dress or undress alone.

A : But he doesn't have the tendency?

MP : No.

A : Does he still become angry when you don't understand him? Have you noticed that?

MP : Yes, I think so.

A : Did he always have this?

MP : He went to kindergarten in September and when he comes home I think he gets angry because they don't understand him well. He cannot speak very well, he has problems with his speech, but he is only three years old.

A : But he plays now?

MP : Yes, yes, he does.

Don't forget this remedy when children don't articulate well. They learn to talk late and you don't understand them very well, because they speak unclearly.

How is violent anger expressed in the Repertory?

Audience: Rage.

A : Yes, he can become very, very angry when he is alone and in the rubric "rage, when alone" there is only one remedy: Bufo.

Don't forget that anxiety about health is very prominent in Bufo, like in Nitricum acidum and Phosphorus. Bufo has strong anxiety about AIDS.

MP : Shall we wait now?

A : All right. Call me on Tuesday. I will give you a remedy in a tube to take home.

FEEDBACK (October 10, 1989)

A : Keep your head this way.

(looks at his face)

The inflammatory reaction has completely disappeared and the thick crusts have fallen off.

MP : Yes, last night.

A : Here on the chest it is still a little bit swollen, but it is not inflamed anymore. The swellings have disappeared. There are still crusts on the head, but they are not inflamed anymore. Everything is nice and dry. Beautiful.

(to the patient) I will give you a bonbon for that. You know this, don't you.

Desire sweets, Bufo.

MP : Say "thank you".

P : No.

All right, the next follow-up. In acute cases you have to have your patients coming back very often to repeat the remedy whenever it is necessary.

FEEDBACK (October 15, 1989)

A : How is his chest?

MP : (to her son) If you show this you certainly will get a bonbon.

(takes off his shirt)

P : (looks friendly and vivid on the screen and is sucking his bonbon)

He likes sweets, Bufo is in desire for sweets and desire for delicacies.

A : It has completely gone. The crusts have fallen off.

MP : Yes.

A : Look upwards, Stefan.

P : (looks upwards)

A : The neck is all right.

All right, that's it.

Question: I don't understand how you gave the remedy, only once or many times?

A : He took a few spoonful of the solution every day.

Question: Always M or XM?

A : Yes, in such cases I always give high potencies. The best thing to do is to give the remedy once and to repeat whenever there is a relapse. Borland also prescribed acutely and he said that you should repeat. Nash also said this, and many others.

For example, in Tuberculinum cases there are relapses easily. I don't know if you have seen the AIDS-patient who received Tuberculinum. Later he had a relapse, he had a severe pneumonia. First I gave him Tuberculinum M, then 10M and then 50M, and after 50M he got pain in his ears at night, which he already had once before. Pain in the ear at night, this is also a Tuberculinum symptom and I knew that this was sufficient.

You see that you have to repeat the remedy in very severe cases, and you have to give higher potencies when you are sure of the remedy.

I supervised another case where we first thought of Phosphorus because of the anxiety about health, but it was a somewhat stupid child. This was at the time when I didn't know Bufo so well and first I had to read Boericke in order to find the anxiety about health as a Bufo symptom. In the Repertory Bufo is not in this rubric.

Remark: But there is a rubric "fear of impending disease".

A : Yes, and Bufo is there. Anyhow, the anxiety about health in Bufo is as strong as in Phosphorus.

Remark: I haven't found Bufo in the rubric, desire for meat.

A : This was an acute state and I don't know if this child needs Bufo constitutionally.

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A : Yes, Bufo 10M. I can't say why, but after he had been with me for a few minutes I had the feeling that he was not normal, the feeling of a primitive energy. I felt a strong primitiveness in this man, then I saw his bitten, slightly inflamed fingers and immediately I thought of Bufo.

Another reason was because he was working in a sheltered workshop, it is a workshop where people are working who can't work independantly.

You see that you don't find this remedy only by repertorizing.

The nail biting is better than before. He doesn't have inflammations anymore, this means that he doesn't bite the nails to the flesh anymore. You know that biting the nails to the flesh is also Medorrhinum, but it is very strongly Bufo, and also Bufo has the tendency to inflame.

It is also typical that the speech is unclear. It is very difficult to understand them and if you don't understand them they become very angry.

Remark: He was biting his lips the whole time.

A : Yes, Bufo is capital in biting nails. But the most peculiar thing in this person is the primitiviness. They are primitive in sex and also when they are irritated. They cannot control their anger. I hope everybody understood why I asked for the winners of the tennis games.

These people have very high intelligence in a very narrow range. For example, they can tell you how much 3576x24 is. My theory is that many very intellectual people, for example, computer specialists need Bufo because of this intellectual masturbation.

A : Yes, it is the first remedy for autistic children who are busy with themselves all the time and their eyes are turned upwards. Often you find a capacity which is very well developed, for example, the equilibrium in circus dancers. This is typical for Bufo, autistic children with their eyes turned upwards, who are very restless and who can stand or dance on a very small surface on a very high place without falling.

Another case

- Skin symptoms together with neurologic symptoms is Bufo.

Another case

- Then there is another hyperkinetic remedy which is moving constantly, but completely directed to themselves, autistic, and this is?

- Bufo.

- Bufo children are the most hyperkinetic children but they don't communicate with the surrounding.

- Mostly, it concerns cancer of the glands.

- Which remedy?

- Conium.

- We know that a lack of love, a lack of understanding with the husband is behind all this.

- That is the reason for the hardening.

- Don't forget Bufo in breast cancer.

- Cancer with ulceration and lymphangitis, very painful, with high fever.

- An inflammatory cancer which pushes outward.

- That is Bufo.

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