CASES

 Calcarea carbonica

Case 1 V2

BOY, 13 YEARS OLD

This patient came because of recurrent bronchitis, coughing, recurrent otitis media and diarrhoea.

At the same time this is a case of osteogenesis imperfect (It is a genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily, ) but the mother did not come for this reason.

In 1983 the patient came for the first time, afterwards he came a few times until I made this video in 1986.

A: The patient is born with an osteogenesis imperfecta. In fact, the bones don't ossify. From birth on he has constantly broken his bones. How many times did this happen ?

MP: About fifty times.

A: He broke his bones when he made a very little movement, for example, when he turned over in his sleep. When was the last fracture ?

MP: In 1983.

A: The first time you were here on September 21, 1983. It is now September 21, 1986, three years later. Did he have broken bones during the last 3 years ?

MP: No, he didn't.

P: No.

A: What is his height ?

MP: 85 cm. Before I came here he was also often ill. Colds. He ate almost nothing. He didn't have appetite. He vomited very much and had very often diarrhoea.

A: Apparently, if you consider the whole system the problem of this osteogenesis imperfecta was his intestines.

MP: Yes, because he doesn't tolerate milk. He has vomited milk since his birth.

A: So, in fact it is an absorption problem. The problem to extract calcium from his intestines. That's the reason why he couldn't tolerate milk. And milk is necessary for the osteogenesis and the growth. He had a shortage of calcium that couldn't be cured by giving him calcium, because the problem was the mucosa of the intestines.

MP: They told us it had nothing to do with a shortage of calcium.

A: That's what they supposed, but it is a deficiency of absorption of the intestine. Indeed, that deficiency causes recurrent colds, bronchitis, vomiting and diarrhoea.

This is a child who did not have any broken bones when he was born. When he was a few months old he started to vomit, got diarrhoea and coryza. Until the first few months he did not break his bones. But they did not give him the energy that he needed. As a consequence of the vomiting and the diarrhoea he did not get what he needed; there was a lack of hard substance in the bones. He could not take it from his intestines to build it up in the bones and that is the reason why he always broke his bones.

On page 311 of his "Lectures" Kent writes that you can give those children large amounts of Calcarea, but they still remain ill. You should give Calcarea potentiated and the result of the energy of that potentiated Calcarea is, that the child can absorb Calcarea. That is the difference between material and energetic medicine.

He should have had this remedy when he was 2 months old. He came when he was 10 years old. Now, he is 13 years old, and in the meantime he has not broken his bones at all. After giving a few doses of this remedy everything would have been cured: the breaking of the bones, the diarrhoea, the coughing, the fever and the vomiting.

This means that the disease starts somewhere, and by the treatment of antibiotics, syrups against the cough and so a worse disease develops: an osteogenesis imperfecta. At the beginning they called it a malabsorption syndrome. But we do not have to take care about how it is called. We have to take care about which energy the child needs to be in balance, in order to take calcium from his intestines and will get no more colds, diarrhoea, vomiting or broken bones.

You see, there are indeed cases of osteogenesis imperfecta which have been caused by the wrong treatment, because we could not give him the remedy when he was 2 months old.

Osteogenesis imperfecta is not always a congenital disease. In this case it only arose later and became worse.

A: Did he also have otitis ?

MP: No, I can't remember that.

A: The peculiar thing was he had brittle bones. And it was as if his teeth were of glass. They were transparent. According to me they are normal now, aren't they ?

MP: Yes, they are.

A: Before you came here he had teeth as if they were of glass, and now they are beautiful and white. You could also clearly see an early tooth decay. It was also notable, even still now, that his head was proportionally too large.

Homoeopathically, the perspiration was an expression of weakness.

MP: That was troubling him very much. Especially on his head, and particularly on his forehead and in his neck.

Which homoeopathic remedy do we need to give here ?

First, he started to vomit when he was a few months old, this means he vomited the milk. Look in the Repertory "vomiting after milk" (p. 534). At "vomiting after milk" there are a lot of remedies: Aethusa, Antimonium crudum and so on.

Aethusa is a remedy for children. What is the appearance of the vomiting in Aethusa ? Like curdled milk. Each time they drink - the milk has already been digested in the stomach, it is curdled, only then they vomit the milk.

They have a very particular outlook. Those children are very thin and they always look downward with their eyes - "eyes turned downward" (p. 268). When you do not know this symptom you do not pay attention to it.

Normally, they also have diarrhoea with undigested food and cramps before stool. After vomiting they are hungry again and start eating. Often they are also very sleepy after vomiting - "sleepiness after vomiting" (p. 1251); the first remedy here is Ipecacuanha. Mostly, Ipecacuanha has vomiting during coughing and "one sided redness, cheek", and a second symptom is a clean tongue during vomiting - "tongue clean during vomiting". Because of the sickness and vomiting the digestion is disturbed, so normally the tongue is coated. There is another remedy that has a clean tongue during vomiting, that is Cina.

In Antimonium crudum you see immediately the white coated tongue. You also find Calcarea in the rubric, Iris, Sepia, Podophyllum, Silicea - Silicea is one of the most important remedies in this vomiting, but you recognize them, when they vomit mother's milk. It is the first remedy, when the mother is breastfeeding, and the child always vomits the mother's milk. But you have to differentiate with other remedies, which are in the rubric "vomiting after mother's milk" (p. 534): Antimonium crudum, Calcarea, Natrum carbonicum, Phosphoricum acidum, Sanicula, Silicea and Valeriana. Mostly, the Silicea children are premature children. They are very thin and white and also their head is enlarged, their hair is very fine, very fine and dry like hay; they are not weak children.

Until now we have one symptom, the vomiting after milk, but up to now we can not say anything about the remedy yet. The mother tells us another symptom, namely, that he perspires very much, on his head and particularly in the neck. Those children perspire very much, they perspire all over, but particularly on their head. So, perspiration on the scalp and especially during the sleep, "perspiration, scalp, night" (p. 222). There you find remedies like Bovista, Bryonia, Calcarea capital, there is also Silicea again, Silicea perspires also on the head during the sleep. The mother says that he mainly perspires in his neck. Where can we find this ? "Back, perspiration, cervical region, in sleep" (p. 944).

BACK,PERSPIRATION,Cervical region : Anac., ars., Calc., cann-s., chel., Chin., elaps., ferr., fl-ac., mag-c., mosch., nit-ac., nux-v., Ph-ac., phel., sep., sil., spig., stann., Sulph.

There are 3 remedies: Calcarea capital, Lachesis and Phosphoricum acidum.

This is the second symptom. Then I told you that observation is very important in Homoeopathy. Do not rely on the computer. At the moment there is a computer rage going on in Homoeopathy - and the only reason therefore is money. Do not start with a computer yet ! Later, when you have been practising Homoeopathy for a few years, and you want to do post-factum-studies and things like that, then you can use a computer. But at the moment, we have to observe with our eyes, ears, nose, feeling and heart. The first thing to do is to observe, then you see the peculiarities of a person. I see, for example, someone there: he has blue eyes, red hair, and when he laughs you can probably see his gums, because he opens his mouth very far. And I know of phosphorus that they have red hair and so on, that they are narrow, lean people. So, I think of Phosphorus.

But what do I see in this case ? I see someone with a large head. How can we find this in the Repertory ? "Head, large" (p. 129).

HEAD,LARGE (See Enlarged) : Caj., calc-p., calc., cor-r., merc., sil.

There we see remedies like Cajuputum, Calcarea, Calcarea phosphorica, Corallium, Mercurius and Silicea. We remark a large head. Here, Calcarea shows up again, but also Silicea, so we have to differentiate between Calcarea and Silicea.

When a child with a large head comes to our centre, who looks pale and perspires especially in the neck - when you have this triad and besides the fontanelles remain open too long, then you do not have to doubt about Calcarea. The differential diagnosis between Calcarea and Calcarea phosphorica is not easy. Calcarea children usually are thick and weak; when you take their hands, usually you can bend the fingers backwards. The hands are very soft, as if there are no bones. This is the same for adults. When you give someone a hand and he really is Calcarea, it feels as if he does not have any bones in his hands. That is very important - even when he is a great politician, he can be Calcarea when he has such hands.

Calcarea children usually are thick, and have a headstrong character. They want to push their own will - "obstinate" (p. 69).

Calcarea phosphorica children are rather tall, thin, small people; children who are not satisfied, who weep all the time and have especially - this is not mentioned in the Repertory - growing pains at night, "growing pains" (p. 1 o 75). Calcarea phosphorica should be added here. Guaiacum is a very important remedy for growing pains. Guaiacum has a very strong longing for apples and the growing pains are ameliorated by cold.

Another remedy is Phosphoricum acidum, children who grow too fast, who are very thirsty and like juicy things very much.

Calcarea phosphorica children sigh constantly, they do not feel very well - "sighing" (p. 8O).

Kent points out a possible line of evolution: Calcarea, Calcarea phosphorica, Phosphorus.

Calcarea phosphorica prefers "smoked meat" (p. 485).

Then the mother says that he has an early tooth decay. We look at "teeth, caries, premature in children" (p. 431): Calcarea, Calcarea fluorata, Calcarea phosphorica, Fluoricum acidum, Kreosotum, Staphisagria. There are two capital remedies: Kreosotum and Staphisagria. In Kreosotum the teeth are already decayed when they come out. They are very small, and are already breaking down.

Also this patient has already caries, but his teeth have not broken down yet, they were transparent. There is no white in his teeth, you could look through them as if you were looking through glass.

There is another capital remedy in the rubric: Staphisagria. How is the appearance of Staphisagria teeth ? They have black stripes, especially at the upper part. Staphisagria is also the first remedy for tooth abscesses in children. Do not forget to look at the teeth in children !

Last week I had a patient, whose doctor has been searching the appropriate remedy for a long time, but could not find it. She had headache, headache, headache. He knew that the husband of this patient had a love affair with another woman. I was sitting there, asked questions and tried to make jokes to see how she reacted; I tried to feel what the matter was with her - and suddenly she laughed, and then I saw those fine stripes on her teeth - "My God, that is Staphisagria !" Why did she have this headache ? Because of the grief. Look in the Repertory "headache from grief" (p. 14 o). Which remedies are capital ?

Because of the black stripes on the teeth, and because I knew about her matrimonial difficulties I could say that this is Staphisagria. Then I had to ask questions about masturbation and such things - Staphisagria is known as very, very sensitive. And when you - as a man - will not give a woman enough love she will become hysterical and will throw flowers and all kinds of things away. Look at "throws things away" (p. 88).

We know Staphisagria as very, very soft characters, people who constantly want to be touched and also like to touch other people. They always need somebody around. The children sit on their mother's lap, they are very sensitive. There is a problem when they do not get a response of love; they get headache and have that outburst of passion and throw things away. We call them hysterical, but we have to understand the background. Staphisagria is the most sensitive remedy we know in Homoeopathy. Mostly, they have black hair, but that is not so important. We confuse it often with Pulsatilla, because Pulsatilla is so sweet, so kind. But Staphisagria people are not only sensitive, they are also sensual, this means sensitive to bodily contact and the masturbation of Staphisagria. Now, you understand why there is so much masturbation in all these monasteries. Many priests who go into a monastery or people who study theology are very, very sensitive, very, very good, obedient people who do everything that their parents say. We see many nuns and priests, whose greatest problem is that they can not be free from their feelings, they may not do this or that. That is Staphisagria. And then comes the psoriasis ( skin disease ),

because of the suppression of their feelings - a very strong psoriasis in Staphisagria. And then sometimes this colic comes, this Colocynthis colic. You know, Colocynthis, Staphisagria and Causticum are complementary remedies.

Many homoeopaths are desperate, because they try to cure incurable cases. Concerning the osteogenesis imperfecta case this child is incurable, it is too late, the growing period has ended, but we can take care of the child, so that he is in balance, that he will not get any diarrhoea and so on. You have to know what you can expect of a remedy; you may not expect too much of a remedy. When, for example, a patient comes with metastases of a tumor, do not try to treat this. You can only try to reduce the pain, but it is too late for a healing.

You can cure breast tumors very well, when the patient lives in good circumstances, has support of the family and so on, but it is important to make clear what you can expect of such a case.

I treated, for example, someone who came with the diagnosis Ischias. On the radiographs you could see a kind of hernia. The pain extended to his leg. Besides, he had a Dupuytren's contracture. I gave him Plumbum - no reaction. Because I was sure, I did not believe it really was Ischias. He told me that he only had pain when he started to run. So, I have had him examined again and the conclusion was an occlusion of the femoral artery. This is a case for surgery.

Also with coronary heart diseases it is too late for a homoeopathic treatment when there is an occlusion. You can help very well when it concerns a functional disturbance, for example, when the patient only has pain while exerting.

A: If he had had this homoeopathic remedy immediately after his birth, there wouldn't have been any problems.

MP: That's bad enough.

A: Previously, he liked ice-cream very much ?

MP: Yes, but now he doesn't anymore.

In Homoeopathy it is important what someone says, because this is spontaneous.

Do not forget that patients can twist you round their fingers. They do not tell you what they like, but what they really eat. Because chocolate and sugar are unhealthy, they say that they do not eat sweets, but sour things.

In B. there was a patient - there I was supervising for the homoeopaths and a doctor came with this patient. Vithoulkas had already seen this patient for three times and Vithoulkas is really a good homoeopath. He is my master, because he has taught me, and has showed me the right way. A master who passes his knowledge is a very good teacher; when he only passes a small amount of his knowledge, so many important things disappear. The teacher passes only a small amount of his knowledge to his disciples and on his turn the disciple also passes only a small amount of his knowledge, he wants to keep a little bit for himself - and at the end where is all the knowledge ?

However, Vithoulkas is a very open man and he passes all his knowledge, but he was twisted round the finger by this

patient from B. This patient had a tumor of the parotid on the left side, and his doctor in B. is Phosphorus, very sensitive, very sympathetic - never be too sympathetic with your patients, keep distance ! The moment you use your feelings, you loose your mind. Try to examine, to feel, but keep distance. Only in this way you can see clearly. But this doctor came and said, "Oh dear, he is so tired, so terrible tired ! And he has only one desire and that is vinegar !" Until then, I have not yet seen the patient.

When the patient came I saw he was a little bald-headed. Look in the Repertory "baldness in the forehead" (p. 12 o), and he was very thin, "lean people" (p. 137 o). And he was sitting there like that (shows how). I asked him how this had begun. "Well, I was running." "Do you run ?" "Yes, yes, sometimes I run." "But your doctor told me you were very tired and you run ? Well, no, that is impossible. You aren't that tired, are you ?"

"Tired" means to me as an important symptom that he hangs around all the time. I am tired, you are tired, everybody is tired when he has worked the whole day or when he has been drinking beer until 5 a.m. and has to get up at 9 a.m. "To be tired" as a strong symptom means that someone is constantly tired, he has to lie down continually, he can not work and the slightest effort exhausts him.

Everything started a few years ago, when he has run, the pain began in his right Achilles tendon. "Why in the right Achilles tendon, why not in the left ?" "No, it was in the right. And then later on I got a distended abdomen, I couldn't tolerate any clothes on my stomach and when I had run in the afternoon I had to go into the bushes, because of flatulence."

Peculiarly, it started a few years ago, the pain began in the right Achilles tendon, then he got abdominal complaints attended with flatulence, a distended abdomen especially in the afternoon. I thought: that is Lycopodium ! But the swelling was on the left side and you could hardly see it. Previously, the doctor told me about a tumor and I thought I would see somebody with a big tumor. Then I proposed to have this parotid punctured and I was sure that they only would find normal parotid tissues - and indeed, they could not find differentiated cells, only parotid cells.

Probably, he would have it on the right side and went to the left side. Why not ? Then I asked him whether he liked vinegar so much. "Yes, I like vinegar." "But you don't like chocolate ?" "Yes, I do like chocolate." "But you said that you like sour things and now you say that you like chocolate." "Well yes, I like chocolate very much, but I don't eat it, because I can't tolerate it." When you look in your Repertory - "food, sweets agg." (p. 1364) - we know Argentum nitricum, but there is also Lycopodium. So I gave him Lycopodium and 3 days later the doctor from B. telephoned me and said that the patient was very well and he did not care about his tumor anymore.

Another time one of my younger doctors of the centre came to me and said, "This patient is Lycopodium, but he likes highly seasoned food." We know of Hepar, Sulphur, Lac caninum, Pulsatilla and others, that they like highly seasoned food. Besides the patient did not eat sweet food and normally Lycopodium likes sweet food. I went to see this patient and asked him what he has eaten at breakfast. "I've put honey on my bread." "Isn't that something sweet ?" "Yes, but that is special honey, from special bees." You see, patients often say they do not like sweet food, but they do like it and also eat it.

Be careful and try to ask what they have eaten at breakfast.

Two weeks ago I saw a student in Holland. When he came in he was eating an orange. I asked myself why he is eating this orange now. He told me his problem and he needed Medorrhinum. They like what they eat spontaneously, so believe what you see: do not let you twist round the finger, especially not by people who constantly theorize - "Well, I eat this and not that, because ..." But you can believe what you see: tall, lean people, baldness and so on.

He also likes ice-cream. Look at "desires ice-cream" (p. 485). There we see Calcarea as two, Eupatorium perfoliatum - mostly in influenza with the feeling as if the bones were broken, Phosphorus capital. Phosphorus is the remedy that eats ice-cream most. Tuberculinum is also in the rubric and often the differential diagnosis between Phosphorus and Tuberculinum is really difficult, because both remedies like cold milk. Look at "desire cold milk" (p. 485); there you see Phosphorus and Tuberculinum.

Remark: "I think Phosphorus needs especially the cold and does not need so much the sweetness when he eats ice-cream."

A: Yes, that is right, but when you look at "desire sweet food", there is also Phosphorus. From my experience I can tell you that often it is not easy to differentiate between Phosphorus and Tuberculinum. Also Veratrum album has a desire for ice-cream, but they prefer ice-cubes, they are very restless - very restless and very thirsty, they like juicy things; but also Phosphorus is very thirsty and can also be very restless. But you recognize Phosphorus people by their character, they are very sensitive and very quick, they explode and forget immediately; very sympathetic, but also very angry, they can even kill somebody.

A: He liked pudding, spinach, but didn't like meat. What about eggs ?

MP: Previously, he didn't like them either.

The desire for eggs is the strongest in Calcarea. Mostly, they like them soft-boiled, that is typical for Calcarea. Pulsatilla prefers them hard-boiled. And which remedy prefers them fried ? Natrum phosphoricum. Mostly, Calcarea likes only the white of an egg and not the yolk. How can we translate this into the language of the Repertory ? Delicate in eating, "I only like the white, I don't eat the yolk." "I only like the meat cut this way and not that way." "I want the mayonnaise here and a little ketchup there and I don't like chips, but fried potatoes." You find this at "desires delicacies" (p. 485).

STOMACH,DESIRE,delicacies : Aur., bufo., calc., Chin., cub., cupr., Ip., kali-c., mag-c., nat-c., petr., psor., rhus-t., sabad., sang., spong., Tub.

The most important remedy is Tuberculinum, but there is also Calcarea.

But do not forget that Calcarea often has an aversion to eggs. In Homoeopathy it is always so, that when they have a desire for something, they often have an aversion to it. I have already seen Phosphorus patients who have an aversion to ice-cream. Natrum muriaticum has desire and aversion to salt. You often see two extremes in the same remedy.

He has an aversion to eggs, but this does not mean, that he is not Calcarea.

When someone can lie in the sun, this does not mean, that he can not be Lachesis - there are Lachesis patients who can bear the sun very well.

Only the positive symptoms are important.

When you proceed in this way, you exclude some remedies from the beginning and you will never find the right remedy.

A: Then he was terribly afraid of thunder-storms ?

MP: He still is.

A: I can't remember other things he is afraid of.

MP: No, in fact he is not so scared. He is only afraid of storm and thunder-storms.

A: I noticed that he was and still is a very concerned child.

MP: Yes, very much. And also sensitive. When I am very sad he asks immediately what's wrong. Then he says all day long, "Hello, dear mummie !" He just can't bear that. It is the same with my sister or my husband. Also when someone else, for example, an aunt of the family is ill and I visit her, he asks immediately how she is, when he comes back from school.

A: Everything is all right with his mental and psychical development, isn't it ? There are no problems on that level ?

MP: No, there aren't.

This child is mentally well developed and then the prognosis is usually much better than in cases where you have a feeble-mindedness in these children.

He is very, very sensitive and this makes us think of which remedy ? That he is very much concerned about his mother ? Phosphorus. But here you can not give Phosphorus. Be careful ! Never give a remedy on the basis of the character. But give a remedy on the basis of the character and other, clear symptoms on which you can rely on. Many people can present themselves completely different as they really are, they try to put themselves in a favourable light. But we as homoeopaths, we do not have to judge. There are no good and no bad people, there are only people who need a certain homoeopathic remedy.

A: He got the remedy on September 21, 1983. Two months later you came back and the result was that he hasn't suffered from perspiration on the head and hasn't broken his bones anymore. Generally, he has improved. He didn't need injections either and little by little he got better with this remedy. He is seldom ill, only a little coughing.

MP: That is very seldom. Sometimes he has diarrhoea.

A: Last year he had diarrhoea, then I repeated the remedy. The first time I gave C 200, then I repeated M, and last year I give 10 M. I have also noted that he was a little afraid in the dark.

M: I can't remember very well. Oh yes, when he went to sleep, we left the light on. We still do at the moment.

A: Still afraid of thunder-storm, of the dark and very concerned.

MP: Yes, but always in a good mood.

A: Now, he is a boy who is in balance in spite of his handicap. Probably, he is much healthier than many athletes and so-called tall people.

This is a proof of what the remedy can do. It is very sad it couldn't have been given earlier.

MP: Yes, it is. But we are very satisfied at the moment.

A: You are satisfied, because you had many problems with breaking the bones.

MP: Yes, it was incredible. It was unbearable for the child as well as for us. He was ill all the time, always vomiting and diarrhoea. I always had to stay with him. It was also unbearable for him. One week he was better, then he ate a little again, but the next week he vomited everything again. Since we have come here we have a completely different life. We are very satisfied.

A: He also suffered from shortness of breath ?

MP: Yes, he was always obstructed.

A: Did he often get antibiotics ?

MP: Yes, very often.

A: At the moment he eats well, doesn't he ?

MP: Yes, for his way of living. A little food is enough for him. Even now, he eats meat. Now, they told us that it will become dangerous for the breaking of the bones during the puberty.

A: But he always had broken his bones until you came here in 1983.

MP: Yes, but they tell us it is normal that the breaking has stopped now, and that it can start again during the puberty. That's how they explain it.

A: It is peculiar, that he has broken his bones until September 1983. Then he gets the homoeopathic remedy and first he doesn't break his bones anymore, second he doesn't have colds anymore and third he doesn't have problems with vomiting and diarrhoea anymore. All his problems have disappeared. I guarantee those problems won't return during the puberty. When you let me know when he gets problems again, for example, diarrhoea, I give him the right remedy, that he needs at that moment.

You have to be logic, all the symptoms, complaints which he had, have disappeared: the perspiration on the head, bad eating, vomiting, diarrhoea, breaking of the bones. Probably, there were other complaints which I haven't noted, because the breaking of the bones was the most important. And according to me, he has been cured. And if all this disappears with one remedy I don't see why one of the symptoms will return and the other won't. That's all theorization, rationalization and I will prove you that this is not so. In the future people who have said this will have to take their words back. You don't have to be afraid of that.

MP: We are worried, because he is in his puberty.

A: He is thirteen years old now, and the development is normal. You see that he reacts to the remedy when he needs it.

MP: Yes, he reacts.

A: And it is always the same remedy that I repeat in a higher potency. I have him on video, because it is one of the spectacular cases. Although, we haven't changed this child into another child concerning his physique, we have taken away his complaints. It is true he hasn't grown, but therefore we should have given the remedy earlier. I have another child that couldn't walk and he was paralysed in his arms and legs, the illness of Guillain-Barré. That problem is solved too. He also had always colds and bronchitis.

How do you feel now ?

P: I feel fine.

A: Do you sleep well ?

P: Yes.

A: Are you satisfied, happy ?

P: Yes.

Question: "Did the patient have blue sclerae ?"

A: Most of these patients have blue sclerae, some more, some less. We know this from remedies like Tuberculinum and Carcinosinum. This is not in the Repertory, but it seems to be typical for osteogenesis imperfecta. But the symptom is not so strong as indicating a homoeopathic remedy.

I want to explain that, when you have several symptoms in one period of time, they all have to indicate the same base. When you have, for example, a tree, and a branch is the osteogenesis imperfecta, this means that the bones break easily - where can we find this in the Repertory, that the bones break easily ? "Brittle bones" (p. 1346). Then there is another rubric "softening bones" (p. 14 o 2) and "caries of bone" (p. 1346), but the most corresponding rubric is "brittle bones" (p. 1346), something that breaks easily is brittle.

In the rubric "softening bones" (p. 14 o 2) we have some more remedies like Mercurius, Calcarea is capital, Asafoetida - which bone is the softening bone in Asafoetida ? The tibia. Especially, when those people knock with the tibia against something, they have a lot of pain with a swelling and it takes a long time until it is better. Asafoetida is a hysterical remedy. What about the stomach, the intestines in Asafoetida ? They have an inverse peristaltic, the peristaltic goes upwards instead of downwards. Usually, they have a bluish, bluish-red appearance, they are pletoric bluish people.

At "softening bones" we also see Mercurius. Mercurius is a very important remedy for cancer, metastases in the bone. Mercurius is a syphilitic remedy, it eats the bones. Mercurius is the first remedy with metastatic bone pain, especially when they occur at night; when they not only occur at night, but also during the day and caused by metastases of a breast tumor, then Calcarea is capital. Especially, Calcarea in breast cancer and metastases in the bones, when the bones begin to break; Mercurius with prostate cancer with metastases in the bones. Another important remedy for prostate cancer is Medorrhinum.

There is also Silicea in "softening bones", but Calcarea is capital.

A few months ago there was a MS-patient in our centre who did not react to different remedies. Then he said he had fallen and had sustained broken bones three times. Incoordination, "awkwardness, stumbling when walking" (p. 953), you see, Calcarea is capital. Do not only think of Alumina or Argentum nitricum in MS-patients, but also of Calcarea. Too often we forget remedies, of which we think we know them.

This patient improves with Calcarea. Calcarea is the first remedy we have to think of in brittle bones.

First: I want to show you that when you have 3, 4, 5 different symptoms at a certain time, these symptoms indicate the same remedy. They all express the same need, the need of Calcarea.

The allopaths say that he will break his bones again during the puberty. That is impossible. Without having diarrhoea or vomiting, he can never break his bones again.

That was in 1986, now we are 1988, so 2 years later and up to now the child has not have any problems, from 1983 until 1988, for 5 years long he has not broken any bones and has been healthy. You see how they theorize, because they saw someone breaking their bones in the puberty again.

Second: Try to get the complete picture. We say, "All right, as a child he often had diarrhoea, vomited, at the age of twelve his tonsils have been taken away, at the age of sixteen he broke something and now at the age of thirty-two he is very anxious and is occupied with the idea of what other people think of him."

Not only the present symptoms are important, but also those of the past and you often see that a remedy is appropriate. The totality of symptoms does not only mean the totality of the present symptoms, but also the totality of the symptoms of his whole life. And then you will see that it concerns a particular remedy at a certain time, previously it was another. That is very important, most important for Tuberculinum, because Tuberculinum has changeable symptoms. First, they coughed, then it became a pneumonia, they were hospitalized, later they got pain in the back, then pain in the knee, then pain in the foot - wandering pain. Then they got a conjunctivitis, an inflammation of the right eye with redness, pus is coming out, and then another symptom, and another symptom. The changeability of the symptoms is typical for Tuberculinum and you will only recognize it when you consider it in its totality. It is the same in Pulsatilla.

Try to get all the symptoms he has, not only those of a certain period, but from his whole life. And then, sometimes you see one remedy going through all this and that means, this is his constitutional remedy that he needs.

The higher potentiated, the stronger the energy. The right chosen energy can never be bad, never, never ! Do not be afraid of high potencies at all.

I had a patient who had a very bad aggravation after Medorrhinum M. In that aggravation I gave Medorrhinum 10 M and everything was all right.

Forget these low potencies. You can use low potencies, you can also cure with C 9 or D 30 or D 200, but you must understand, that the energy of a remedy gives you the strength to come up. When you see that someone has an aggravation after a remedy, that he is not able to get over it, you give him some more energy, so that he is able to jump over the bridge. You see this often in acute cases, in very acute cases. Last Sunday I had my weekend-duty and there was a patient who had been seen the day before by a colleague for a left sided bronchopneumonia. He got Phosphorus, but he was worse as the day before. He had 38,5° C, stitching pain, crepitations on the left lung (Crackles, crepitations, or rales are the clicking, rattling, or crackling noises that may be made by one or both lungs of a human with a respiratory disease during ) , he could not lie on the left side - that is Phosphorus, but Phosphorus did not cure him.

If you use the Repertory in such cases, you will never find the remedy, because there are some remedies not put well in the Repertory, like, for example, Tuberculinum.

I asked him to take off his clothes. You could see his rips, he was very thin, very white. I do not know whether you have seen tuberculosis patients, they are very thin, they have prominent rips, like people who have not eaten for several days. I gave him Tuberculinum 50 M, 3 times 1 spoon and on Monday morning he came back and was cured - no more fever, no more pain, he was laughing, eating and drinking. He was cured in less than 24 hours - with the right remedy, but with a very high potency.

In acute cases you have to repeat the remedy, to give some more energy. Also Nash, Kent and other masters, all serious homoeopaths, repeat the remedy a few times in high potencies in acute cases.

Case 2 v2

Osteogenesis imperfecta

Calcarea carbonica

GIRL, 4.5 MONTHS OLD

This case concerns a child with the same disease as case one. Her bones were already broken in the uterus.

A: Tell us the story of the child.

MP: She's born with her legs upwards, near the body.

FP: First, they thought it was a breech presentation.

The gynecologist thought it was a breech presentation, because he felt the feet. But the feet were lying near the head. So, there was a dislocation of both hip-joints. Look at "extremities, dislocation hip" (p. 983).

DISLOCATION, spontaneous, hip : Bell., bry., calc., caust., coloc., lyc., puls., rhus-t., sulph., thuj., zinc.

FP: And the legs, the arms and the rips were broken.

MP: Then, they have laid her in an incubator and wrapped her up in cotton, because she had a lot of pain. After a few days her head has become very flat, it was squeezed flat. But it is better now. I can lay her on her side.

FP: We went to the hospital and they told us, that she wouldn't get older than one year. But we have seen other patients and they are still alive.

Be careful with prognosis. In the University Hospital they told the parents that probably the child would not survive the first year. With such a prognosis you can destroy a patient.

A: But they keep breaking their bones.

MP: They'll break their bones less when they are fourteen years old, but you still have to be careful.

A: But they can never walk. How old is the child now ?

MP: 4 1/2 months.

A: In Leuven they say it is a congenital disease, there is no calcium in the bones.

FP: No, they say, it is a shortage of bone tissues.

A: How often has she broken something ?

MP: Until now, three times her arm.

A: Does she have pain ? Is she crying ?

MP: Yes.

A: Has the child other complaints ? Vomiting, for example ?

MP: No.

A: Is she tolerant of milk ?

MP: Yes.

We are inclined to theorize; we think that we know something, but in fact we do not know anything, we do not know anything about it, what is going on on the energetic level. I have theorized in the previous case, because I said it was an absorption problem and therefore the bones could not absorb calcium. But I do not know what is behind this absorption problem. This child is tolerant of milk, and nevertheless she does not have calcium in her bones. The bones are broken. We say that this is an absorption problem, but that is not true; there is something behind it, something deeper. Please, accept this symptom, believe the Repertory and give the remedy without theorizing.

A: Has the child ever been ill ?

MP: No.

A: What about the stool ?

MP: I have to give her something for that, because otherwise it is too hard. She gets iron, and then the stool is very green.

A: Was the stool also green before she got iron ?

MP: She has always had iron.

You see how they theorize: the stool is green, because of the iron; but maybe the stool was green before she got iron. They try to explain why the stool is green, but in fact they do not know it. I do not know it either, but I do know that constipation is a very important symptom for Calcarea and they feel good with it. Where can we find this in the Repertory ? Calcarea feels good with constipation - "cheerful when constipated" (p. 11).

constipated, when : Calc., psor.

There is another remedy in this rubric: Psorinum. Psorinum can not give anything away, it is so avaricious, has such a fear of poverty, is always thinking of money, is afraid that it will not have enough coals to heat in wintertime. Psorinum is very holding, very avaricious, afraid for money, afraid for material needs.

Now, I will tell you something about constipation. Constipation in children is a very big problem. Which is the most capital remedy with constipation in children, when the stool is hard like little balls ? The two capital remedies are Alumina and Opium. When you look in the rubric "stool, hard like balls" (p. 635), you see a few remedies, but the most important remedy in new born children is Opium. Why ? Because the mother has been intoxicated with derivates of Opium during delivery, for example, with DOLANTIN because of the pain. That is the reason for constipation in children, and personally I think it is 50 % the reason for cradle death, because of arrested respiration. Look in the Repertory at "arrested respiration during sleep" (p. 763).

during : Am-c., cadm., carb-v., Cench., dig., Grin., guai., kali-c., lac-c., Lach., lyc., Op., samb., sulph.

The respiration stops during sleep, and when the child does not wake up, it dies. Opium is capital in this rubric - if you have this kind of stool and if the mother has had this derivate during delivery - I had such a case.

The mother of the child was pharmacist and the father was a dentist. The first child was in a good health, and the second child died - cradle death. Then the mother came to me. She was very depressed and could not get pregnant anymore. I gave her Natrum muriaticum and her husband Aurum. After a few months she got pregnant, and everything was all right. The child came, and two weeks later the child stopped breathing. The parents ran to the hospital, he was connected to the monitor and all kinds of examinations had been made. They came back to me, because they said they would kill the child with all their examinations. The child was always sleeping right up, the bed was standing upright. When the child stopped breathing, the monitor began to peep, and then the child started again. You know that Opium is very sensitive to the slightest noise. That is why people who are dying and are in an Opium state, hear so well. Maybe you heard it from other people or you experienced it yourself. Be careful with people who are dying, because they may recover and they tell you everything what you said. Be careful with people who are seemingly in coma; who are unconscious with open eyes. Look at "eyes, open during unconsciousness" (p. 297).

EYES, OPEN, unconsciousness, during : Op.

They are lying with open eyes in the hospital. They do not react at all, but they understand everything.

What did I do in this child ? I repertorized Opium on the basis of symptoms, but there should be another reason. Then, the mother told me that she got DOLANTIN during the delivery. I got a completely clear picture, and I gave the child Opium and the reaction was beautiful.

Three, four months later they came back, because the child was coughing, had running eyes, bronchitis and fever, but it was very strange that the child was constantly laughing. I looked in my Repertory at "cheerful during heat" (p. 11): Aconitum, Opium. He got Opium M and two days later he was cured.

heat, during : Acon., op.

The second very important remedy for constipation in children is Alumina. In which cases do you need it ? In children who are fed by the breast ? No, children with constipation who get mother's milk, need Calcarea or Silicea. But the children of modern mothers, who do not have time anymore to give their children breast feeding, but give them artificial milk, those children need Alumina when they are constipated. Alumina is the first remedy with constipation in new born children who get artificial milk.

If the children get breast feeding, it is Calcarea, Silicea or maybe other remedies, but Calcarea is very strong.

A: What kind of remedies does she get now ?

MP: She only gets iron, AD-vitamines, and something for the stool.

Who knows the most bleeding, hemorrhagic remedy in metrorrhagia (Bleeding from the uterus between menstrual periods is called metrorrhagia.) ? After Phosphorus, Sabina and other remedies the bleeding has not stopped yet, the iron is up to 0 - Kali ferrocyanicum, this is number one. In cases where you have given Phosphorus, Sabina and other remedies and you are fighting, fighting, fighting, and it does not help, it is Kali ferrocyanicum. This remedy is often complementary to Sepia. The women have the same appearance as Sepia, but we will study it later.

Remark: "I saw such a case cured by Belladonna."

A: Yes, with clots, with black clots, that is Belladonna. But fighting in a case means that you give one remedy after the other: Belladonna - nothing; you give Rhus toxicodendron, one of the greatest remedies in metrorrhagia; you give Phosphorus, bleeding without clots; you give Sabina, Sepia and so on, but there is no response. This is your last save. And strange enough, the iron in the blood is very, very low.

But, in fact, I did not want to tell you this, but something else. What happens when you give so much iron ? The opposite. Which remedy do you have to give ? How can you find the remedy in the Repertory that you have to give, when you have given too much iron ? Look in the "generalities" at "iron, abuse of iron" (p. 1369).

IRON, after abuse of : Ars., puls., sulph., zinc.

You can make them bleed by giving them iron. You can make them weep by giving them iron. Which remedy do you have to give ? Pulsatilla.

"After abuse of iron" (p. 1369): Arsenicum, Pulsatilla, Sulphur and Zincum. Which is the most important symptom of Zincum ? Restlessness of the feet.

A: Apart from the fact of breaking the bones are there any other peculiarities ?

MP: No.

A: They haven't told you anything else ?

FP: She will remain small. We have met somebody who was 35 years old and measured 1,50 m, and was also deformed. Her thighs have been broken angularly.

A: Have they become straight ?

FP: No, nothing can be done about it to make them straight.

A: No, the problem is not the placing, but that she must get consolidated material in her bones. She doesn't form it. You can compare it with a gutter where the cement has to be formed in. The gutter is there.

MP: But she doesn't have the irons inside, that's what they told us. She doesn't make any albumen.

A: Yes, that's theory.

All right, we have to take care of that what hardens the bones. According to me, there is not such a thing that hardens the bones. On the radiographs you don't see the skeleton either, there is no calcium in it, otherwise this would hold the radiations. There is the shape, but there is no ossification. It is also marked that the head of the child is too large in proportion to the body. Second, the head is wet.

MP: Yes, she perspires very much.

A: Where does she perspire most ?

MP: The side on which she lies.

A: Is there a part of the body where she perspires very much ?

MP: On her head.

A: The perspiration is very profuse at the back of her head. There she perspires very much.

This child perspires very much, so that she is wet all over. Her mother has to put her other clothes on. Especially, she perspires at the head and in the neck - "back, perspiration, cervical region" (p. 944).

Cervical region : Anac., ars., Calc., cann-s., chel., Chin., elaps., ferr., fl-ac., mag-c., mosch., nit-ac., nux-v., Ph-ac., phel., sep., sil., spig., stann., Sulph.

When you take off her clothes you feel that her hair is wet, because of the perspiration.

A colleague said that every child perspires on the head. That is not true. When 80 % of the children are perspiring on the head, this means that 80 % of the children need Calcarea.

In the feedback I asked the mother, and the child does not perspire on the head anymore.

A: How does it smell ?

MP: Well, it has a certain smell, but ...

FP: It's a kind of ... a sweet smell.

A: It is marked that the child is very lively. For its age it is very intelligent. It is very typical for that kind of children. Intelligent in the way of very reactive. It is also an easy child.

MP: Yes, very easy.

A: She doesn't have teeth yet ?

FP: Those children get glassy teeth.

A: The problem is that they often wait too long with the homoeopathical treatment.

MP: Yes, we didn't know that either.

A: Concerning your daughter, I think they can put the legs straight. If the ossification takes place, they can put the legs straight afterwards.

FP: They have never put her in plaster, because it has no sense.

A: Are there other complaints ? Does she sleep well ?

MP: Yes, very well.

FP: At night she cries when she wakes up.

A: But she doesn't vomit ?

MP: When she has eaten she brings up small amounts, but she doesn't now anymore.

A: Was the stool hard before she got iron ?

FP: Yes, in fact she didn't move.

MP: At that time she lay very quietly, now she moves a little.

A: How many times has she broken her bones ?

MP: About 5 times.

A: When was the last time ?

MP: About a fortnight ago.

A: Now, we'll give the child a remedy and I would like to see the child again. When she has complaints like vomiting, diarrhoea, fever or whatever, call me. The child has to be treated homoeopathically. Do you agree ? Because, when you give the child antibiotics - I can give you the name of parents to ask them what happened to their child after antibiotics.

MP: She got antibiotics only once. She was coughing, and then she got CLAMOXYL.

A: You can ask those parents. Since I have given the remedy in 1983, this child hasn't been ill.

There is nothing else to say ? All right.

See how intelligent the child looks.

I want to make a good video of the proportion of the head and the rest of the body.

You see a large head and large fontanelles. Where do we find this in the Repertory ? "Open fontanelles" (p. 132).

OPEN fontanelles : Apis., Calc-p., Calc., ip., merc., sep., Sil., sulph., syph.

You see there Calcarea, Calcarea phosphorica and Silicea. There is also Apis. When the head is very, very large you can also take the rubric "hydrocephalus" (p. 128): Apis, Silicea and Calcarea.

HYDROCEPHALUS : Acon., am-c., Apis., apoc., ars., aur., bell., bry., calc-p., Calc., carb-ac., con., dig., ferr-i., ferr., hell., hyos., indg., iod., kali-i., kali-p., lach., lyc., mag-m., merc., nat-m., op., ph-ac., phos., plat., puls., samb., Sil., stram., sulph.,tub., zinc.

In Apis these children are suddenly shrieking, they call it "cri encephalique" (brain cry) (p. 80).

brain cry : Apis., arn., ars., bell., carb-ac., cic., cupr., dig., dulc., glon., hell., hyos., kali-i., lyc., merc-c., phos., rhus-t., sol-n., stram., sulph., zinc.

These children have a brain edema, this is usually the case after difficult delivery. You know that Apis is an edema remedy.

FEEDBACK (April 16, 1987)

A: The first time I saw you on February 16, 1987. Now, we are April 16, 1987. At that time the fontanelle was completely open, the head was really soft, the bones weren't hard. I gave her two times the same remedy in M potency.

How did she react to the colds ?

MP: They have gone.

A: They have gone very fast without antibiotics.

What has changed in the child ?

MP: The perspiration has gone. She eats well, the previous fortnight she ate twice as much. And she moves very much. She tramples with her legs and grasps with her two arms.

A: At that time she was lying in a shell. You were afraid of taking her out of her carry-cot for fear she would break something. Now, she doesn't lie in her shell anymore, you take her on your lap. There has been changing quite a lot. In the meantime, the head has become spectacularly round, hard and the fontanelle is nearly closed. That is wonderful, don't you think so ?

MP: Yes, and that in two months time.

A: She puts her soother in her mouth herself, she couldn't do this previously ?

MP : No, and she can also transfer an object from one hand to the other.

A: Has she broken anything yet ?

MP: No, she can sit in a baby-sit.

A: Can she lift her head up ?

MP: When I hold her with her belly against me, her back has become more strengthened. I can also lay her flat on her belly.

A: And previously, she couldn't move. She lay very quietly. Terrific. Also, the head is in proportion to her body less large.

That is typical for Calcarea, also in adults (short, superficial fits of coughing, more like concussive clearing your throat. When an old man works in the garden and he constantly coughs like this, it is Calcarea. You do not find this in the Repertory.

MP: Her legs are still angular.

A: What are your intentions concerning her legs ? Do you want to have them put straight ? Are the arms all right ?

FP: The fractures are good, but they aren't straight.

A: But functionally, they are good. Are there other fractures accompanied with displacements, where the bones are really wry.

MP: Her thighs. Her legs are completely angular and the lower part also.

A: I am really afraid to have this child anesthetized. At the moment, I think that we have to take care of the child and make sure that everything is all right, and put the bones straight when the child is older.

FP: They (in the hospital) told us that they would start with it when she is one year old.

A: When did you have your last check up ?

MP: I wanted to wait until we had been here.

A: Yes, we have to cooperate with the surgeons, but I am sure that your child can walk as any other child. Of course, a little bit later, because those legs have to be put straight. But you don't have to worry, this will be all right. I have seen what has happened during these two months.

MP: It is incredible.

A: It has to be sawed open. But first, we have to give nature a free run, especially concerning the arms. If you notice that it becomes straight spontaneously, then of course you don't have to have her operated.

FP: Yes, but those arms have grown crooked.

A: Give nature a free run, it might go into the right direction, although we have to see about the thighs. We may not interfere too soon. Does she sleep well ?

MP: Yes, very well.

A: She's quiet.

MP: Yes.

A: What about the dentition ?

MP: She doesn't have any teeth yet.

A: Before you came here she had antibiotics only once, and she hasn't had any ever since. When she had a cold I repeated the remedy in 10 M and afterwards there hasn't been any problems. Are there other problems that keep you busy ?

MP: This navel rupture won't cure.

Where can we find this in the Repertory ? "Hernia umbilicalis" (p. 552).

Umbilical : Calc., lach., nux-m., Nux-v., op.

There is Calcarea, there is also Opium, do not forget it; also Nux vomica, Nux moschata and Lachesis. Do not forget Nux vomica in children ! We always think it is a remedy for people who drink beer, but it is also a remedy for women and children.

I had a child with a hernia inguinalis on the left side, it was a big hernia. I gave Nux vomica C 30, and after one month the hernia had disappeared. The parents went to the doctor and he said, "Yes, yes, the hernia has disappeared, but it still has to be operated," but the mother did not want it, and the child was not operated.

Question: "What other symptoms did the child have ?"

A: I did not have other symptoms. In general, Nux vomica is the remedy for intoxication, and I could not find other symptoms. You can not say whether a child of 1 or 1 1/2 years old is fastidious or easily angry. It is difficult to get a clear picture of Nux vomica in such small babies. You know, the snuffles of new born babies is Nux vomica, Lycopodium, Ammonium carbonicum and so on. There you can make a differential diagnosis between Nux vomica and Lycopodium, because Lycopodium always has these delayed nostrils and the head is flat.

It is very difficult to recognize constitutional symptoms for Nux vomica in children. You often see them with the urging for stool - they push, push, push, but there is no stool coming and then they are crying. Or maybe, there is a little stool, the typical Nux vomica stool, a little bit and then they have this pressing down again, this bearing down, but they are exhausted; and after a while another piece of stool is coming out. This can indicate Nux vomica, but it is difficult to differentiate in the appearance.

In this case we had a clear symptom and that indicates only one remedy. Sometimes you find a remedy on the basis of one symptom, a key note, and it has spectacular reactions.

A: It will cure spontaneously. I'm sure it will cure with this remedy. I said I will treat this child for free to prove that she can be cured. I hope you will telephone me if there is something wrong, and that I can treat her until she is healthy.

Until then Calcarea has been given 2 times in 10 M. You have to be flexible and dynamic. Nobody says that only one dose of a remedy can cure. Until now the child has been given Calcarea 20 times.

Do not forget - and this has also been written by the old masters: Calcarea in children has to be repeated often. Do not go away from the remedy, as long as the perspiration returns; repeat it after a fortnight, after 1 month, after 1 week, after 3 days, as many times as necessary. Repeat always Calcarea in young children. In elder people, old people one dose is sufficient, maybe you need to repeat another dose after one year, but in young children you always have to repeat it.

You only have to repeat the remedy when there are symptoms. Never give a remedy when there are no symptoms. You can not cut a tree, if there is no tree. That is also true for Homoeopathy. Only repeat the remedy when there are symptoms again; when he starts eating less, perspiring more, and weeping easier, then you repeat the remedy. But do not give a remedy and say, "From now on until 1992 you have to take Calcarea every week." No, that is stupid, then you will have proovings.

Question: "Why did you repeat the remedy here ?"

A: The child has relapses, for example, coughing or diarrhoea. What do you do in such a case ? Do you say, "No, I gave the remedy, and it has to keep this way ?"

No, here you have to help. Only when there are strong symptoms for another remedy you give the appropriate remedy.

When this child has, for example, chicken pox which are very itching, and it scratches all night - which remedy can you give ? Not Calcarea, you have to give a complementary remedy.

Proposal: "Pulsatilla."

A: Why Pulsatilla ? Does Pulsatilla have great restlessness, vesicular eruptions, sleeplessness, turning around in bed ? Which is the remedy ? Rhus toxicodendron.

But now, when the child has fever, high fever, it means that the child is improving. Someone with a less vitality can not produce high fever.

Besides, I am not afraid of fever. It is no problem when someone has 40° C fever, the fever is not the problem, but the patient, this means that when a patient feels well and gets 40° C fever, that is not a problem at all. When he has central congestion, cold feet and hands, and phantasies a little, then you give which remedy ?

Belladonna, that is also complementary to Calcarea.

But when the child has 40° C fever without Belladonna symptoms, I can repeat Calcarea or give anything at all.

This child has always been coughing. I repeated Calcarea 50 M. Nobody can say how often you have to repeat a remedy. That is individual. There is no rule saying that you may give a remedy only once. Maybe I have to repeat Calcarea 50 times. Why not ? It depends on the circumstances.

Now, I gave the mother 5 tablets Calcarea 50 M. Each time the child reacted well. I have her returned regularly, and I observe whether she has changed. Maybe it goes into the direction of Calcarea phosphorica or Phosphorus or Tuberculinum or something else. I can not give another remedy as long as there are no other strong symptoms that point to another remedy.

Until now, we have a very thick, obstinate child - "obstinate children, inclined to grow fat" (p. 69): there is only one remedy: Calcarea.

inclined to grow fat : Calc.

FEEDBACK (December 4, 1987)

A: How is she doing ?

MP: She hasn't had pain since All Saints.

A: No pain for a whole month. What about the physical development ? She can do several things now. What can she do ?

MP: She sits alone.

A: Without help.

MP: Yes.

A: Can you put her over there ?

MP: Of course.

A: She has gained a lot of strength. What about turning around ?

MP: She doesn't want to do it.

A: But you told me she did it once ?

FP: She can, but she won't.

A: She's teething now. She has already 2 teeth. How old was she when she has cut her first tooth ?

MP: 11 months, but the two together.

The dentition is late. Look in the Repertory "dentition slow" (p. 431).

slow : Calc-p., Calc., fl-ac., mag-c., mag-m., Sil.

You see, the remedy is there again: Calcarea, Calcarea phosphorica and Silicea, these 3 remedies are the most important. That is a very important symptom, also when children are late in learning to walk, this is a very important symptom. Look in the Repertory (p. 1223). There are also Causticum and Natrum muriaticum, but we will discuss these remedies later.

When you are doing the anamnesis it is important to ask at what age they learned walking and at what age they cut their teeth to see whether it is Calcarea phosphorica, Natrum muriaticum, Calcarea or Causticum.

You see that this child can sit now. The other child, 13 years old, can not lift up its head yet. This case is worse, because she already broke her bones in the uterus, and the other child got the OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA, because of the diarrhoea and the vomiting.

A: What about standing ?

MP: She doesn't want to do it yet.

T: (therapist) At the moment we are occupied with the turning, then crawling and then sitting.

MP: In fact she is too early in sitting.

A: She can keep her head up. That is no problem anymore.

MP: Her arms have become more forwards.

A: First, they were drawn backwards. That is also typical for Calcarea. They always want to draw their arms backwards, because of the respiration.

You see, that is typical for Calcarea. When they do not get air, they draw their shoulders backwards. Look in the Repertory on p. 771, "respiration, difficult, retraction of shoulders amel." –

retraction of shoulders amel. : Am-c., ars., calc.

or on p. 839, "chest, oppression, drawing shoulders back amel.".

Do you hear ? (These short, superficial coughs)) This child has problems everywhere, in the whole body. The heart is feeble, the lungs, everything is feeble.

"Chest, oppression, drawing shoulders back amel." (p. 839), there is only one remedy: Calcarea capital. When you see a person sitting like that, the shoulders backwards and the arms over the chair-back like, for example, in asthma patients, it is Calcarea.

A: She is still coughing. She can also stretch out her arms to grasp your hand.

T: First, she cried a lot when the mother wasn't there. Now, it is all right. How is the prognosis ? When can she crawl or walk ?

A: You know the prognosis as given by Leuven. At the moment we are more advanced. So, I can't give any prognosis, but the child must walk. I don't care when, but she must walk. That's what I promised at the beginning. I would also like to see this child walking.

T: I don't have problems with turning. I'm afraid to turn her around on her shoulders.

A: But she hasn't broken her bones anymore for a long time.

MP: No.

A: She doesn't want to repel with her feet yet ?

MP: No, she pulls them upwards, even when she's lying. She never extends her legs.

T: When you push against the toes, she should get an extending reflex, but she doesn't have it.

A: She doesn't do it yet ?

T: But we are only practising this since yesterday.

A: How often do you exercise with her ?

T: Once a week, and the mother is also instructed, to exercise as much as possible.

I discuss with the therapist. We try to have a good understanding.

Now, the child is walking in a "hang-chair". I will wait to make a next video, when she is standing alone and when she is walking. That was my promise, that she would walk.

This is what Calcarea can do. I gave her at least 20 times Calcarea. Each time when she relapsed I repeated Calcarea.

Question: "What happened to the fractures ?"

A: Later on she will tell that everything came right spontaneously. I asked her to put away the bedclothes and to let her sleep naked, so that she can extend the lower limbs. That is all we have done, besides the exercises. I hope that she can walk at the end of the year.

Question: "Do you see more patients with OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA ?"

A: Yes, at least 10.

Question: "And did they get other remedies ?"

A: Yes, constitutionally, all of them were Calcarea - if we can use this word "constitutional" - but there are others who needed Lycopodium or Tuberculinum, because of inflammations of the lungs, or asthma and so on, after the breaking of the bones had been cured. But up to now all of them needed Calcarea, they were clear Calcarea cases.

I think, we have 8 cases of OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA in our centre, because they have a self-helping group and they tell it to each other. At the end you have all these patients.

Question: "Is it possible that symptoms return even when you give such high potencies ?"

A: There is no law that says how often you have to give a remedy. That is different. In some cases you have to give it often, in other cases you only have to give it once. Who will decide ? Only the patient himself decides.

Normally, we are very strict in repeating the remedy. We do not repeat too often, we wait, and when we see amelioration all the time and no relapses, they do not get a remedy at all, only Sac-lac., all the time Sac-lac.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years long Sac-lac.

I have cured a Multiple-Sclerose patient with Argentum nitricum. In three years time he only got 2 times Argentum nitricum, nothing else, the other remedies were Sac-lac.

Sac-lac. is a very good remedy, but when there is a relapse you have to repeat a remedy. Do not accept if someone says that it works a long time - well, in some cases - but not always. That's why I say you have to be flexible and it also depends on your patient. There is no rule that says how often we have to repeat. When you have an Ignatia patient and she reacts well to the remedy, but lives in the same circumstances which have caused the Ignatia situation, then she will relapse. When two people are living together and they are fighting, you can give Natrum muriaticum for the migraine, but when they keep on fighting, you have to give Natrum muriaticum again. This is the husband-syndrome, it is a blockade, because the circumstances are bad; the energy gets lost and there is a relapse. We give energy and when the circumstances are good, the energy will hold on for a long time; when the circumstances are bad, there are relapses. That is normal.

A: Up to now the child has had Calcarea 50 M for about 20 times and has always reacted well, whatever she has, coughing, fever and so on. You see, you have to repeat. She's still coughing.

T: Yes, also while weeping, she coughs after weeping.

A: Yes, because of the effort. I discussed this with the mother already. We have to be careful and may not overburden the child.

But she is happy and satisfied.

MP: Yes.

A: She is very obstinate.

CASE 3 V2

Osteogenesis imperfecta

Calcarea carbonica

BOY, 5 YEARS OLD

A: Until now I haven't seen this child. What is the problem ?

MP: Quite a lot of broken bones, until now thirteen.

A: Since when ?

MP: Since he is one year old. A fortnight ago they took off the last plaster, that was the thirteenth time.

A: The diagnosis is OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA.

MP: Yes.

A: At that time he was one year old. Now he is 5 years old.

What has he broken up to now ?

MP: Six times the left lower leg, three times the right one and once injured and three times the upper leg, his arm also once. But his left leg is worst. Now he wears supports to support the lower legs. But now he breaks his upper leg.

A: It doesn't improve ?

MP: No. He has worn those supports for almost one year. But now he breaks his upper leg.

A: Let's have a look at those supports.

MP: He can't stand well.

A: It is peculiar that he breaks his legs after the first year. What's the reason ?

MP: Well, when he was born you couldn't notice anything, except the blue sclerae. When he was four months old he wrenched his leg and cried. The children's doctor thought that the bones couldn't easily break in such a little child and said to let him rest for a week. Then it was better.

A: He had blue sclerae.

Carcinosinum and Tuberculinum are two remedies of which we know that they have blue sclerae. And you often find blue sclerae in OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA children.

A: At that time he wasn't ill, didn't have diarrhoea or colds ?

MP: No, he was never ill.

A: Until the bones began to break spontaneously.

MP: Yes.

A: No milk allergy or so ?

MP: No, nothing.

FP: He drinks milk very much.

A: He likes milk ?

MP: Yes, very much.

A: There is no indication why he got this disease ? There hasn't been any disease of this kind in your family ?

MP: No, nothing of this kind. When he was one year old he fell three times after each other, broke his bones and then we noticed it.

A: Did he get a lot of antibiotics ?

MP: In fact, no. But I noticed that he became weaker when he took antibiotics.

A: How did you notice this ?

MP: It seemed as if he became supple.

FP: Then he broke his bones easier.

A: So, when he took antibiotics he broke his bones easier. Why did he get antibiotics ?

MP: If he had a severe sore throat he had to take antibiotics, because it couldn't be cured without.

A: Did he have antibiotics regularly ?

MP: When there was no other solution, with sore throats and coughs. He's not so often ill.

I asked her whether the child has often colds. She said, no, but now I found out that he got antibiotics very often. She thinks that this is not important. Every time the child was weak after the antibiotics. As the name says "anti - bios" antibiotics are against the life. We should not take antibiotics at all. Then of course, we have to give the right remedy. When you do not find the right remedy, you have to give antibiotics. In Germany they wrote that you have to give gamma globulins when you give antibiotics, because the body defence has become weak after the antibiotics - in order to sell their gamma globulin and indeed, in the laboratory they proved that the gamma globulins decrease by antibiotics.

Indeed, antibiotics kill the bacteria, but also the patient if he always gets antibiotics.

In this case the child became weaker and started to break his bones as a consequence of the antibiotics. I can not say that this child has OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA since his birth, but the symptoms of the OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA arise, because he became weaker after the antibiotics.

A: What do you notice in this child ? Do you have other children ?

MP: No.

A: Did you notice any other symptoms ?

MP: No.

A: Does he perspire easily ?

MP: Yes, very much. On his head.

A: Where exactly ?

MP: In his hair.

A: Is there a particular place where he perspires most when he lies in bed ?

MP: When he lies in bed his hair is wet at the sides.

A: Also on the back, in his neck ?

MP: I haven't noticed it yet.

A: You haven't noticed it yet.

MP: No.

A: But you noticed his wet hair ?

MP: Yes.

A: Do you think that his head was rather large when he was a baby ?

MP: I haven't noticed anything of that kind. But the fontanelle was closed very late.

A: If you look at his neck, it is notable that it is very thin.

At which symptom do I look ? "Back, emaciation, cervical region" (p. 887).

Cervical region : Calc., iod., lyc., Nat-m., sanic., sars.

A: Even the neck and the back of his head are a little wet.

MP: Yes, that's right.

A: When did he cut his first tooth ?

MP: When he was six months old.

A: Rather early. Let's have a look at the teeth. They are white, not transparent. He is a very vivid child. All these children have open eyes, are very clever, and follow everything exactly. Is he anxious ?

MP: Yes, I must say that he has become anxious, because of the many broken bones and the treatments.

A: Of what is he anxious ?

MP: Of hurting him.

A: Of what else ?

MP: He is anxious of sleeping in the dark. He can't bear a lot of noise.

FP: He is anxious of the doctors, that they hurt him.

A: I won't. I'll only feel his head. Is he very anxious ?

MP: Yes, I also.

The mother is very concerned, maybe she also needs Calcarea. Calcarea has the most anxieties, they can have 50 different anxieties.

A: Like the mother. Is he anxious of animals ?

MP: He doesn't come much into contact with them.

A: Of mice, dogs ?

Calcarea, but especially Tuberculinum, is anxious of dogs. We may not forget this, because the child has blue sclerae. But a Tuberculinum child would never sit so quietly. Even during sleep he rolls his head - "motion of head, rolling head" (p. 131).

rolling head : Agar., apis., arn., ars., Bell., bry., caust., cic., cina., clem., colch., cor-r., crot-t., cupr., dig., hell., hyos., kali-br., kali-i., lyc., med., merc., naja., nux-m., oena., op., ph-ac., phos., podo., pyrog., sec., sil., spong., stram., sulph., tarent.,Tub., verat-v., verat., zinc.

MP: Not of dogs, but of spiders, he is startled.

A: Does he have fear of height ?

FP: I don't think so. Not when I hold him in the air.

A: But you have never been with him in a high building ?

FP: Once we went up with an elevator, he wasn't afraid then.

A: Does he sleep well ?

MP: Yes.

A: Does he dream ?

MP: I can't say.

A: Does he watch T.V. ?

MP: Yes.

A: Is he afraid of certain programmes ?

MP: Yes, when there are masks or so, or horrible faces.

A: What happens then ?

MP: Then he asks me to switch off the T.V.

A: Does he wake up at night when he has seen something like that ?

MP: Not that I know.

"Horrible things affect profoundly" (p. 52).

HORRIBLE things, sad stories, affect her profoundly : Calc., Cic., cocc., gels., ign., lach., nat-c., nux-v., teucr., zinc.

A: His fine hands are very particular. They are very soft.

MP: He can easily bend them.

A: What about his appetite ?

MP: That's very difficult. At the moment I have to give him vitamins.

A: What does he like to eat ?

MP: Chips and hamburger. He likes that very much. But he has been very difficult in eating since he was a little boy.

A: Sweets ?

MP: No, not much.

A: Does he like eggs ?

MP: Yes, he likes them.

A: So, chips, hamburger and eggs.

MP: Yes, but in fact he eats everything. When he is ill and he doesn't want to eat then he still eats chips.

A: Could you say that he is fond of eggs ?

MP: Yes.

P: And bacon.

A: How does he eat eggs ?

MP: Soft boiled.

A: May the white of the egg be slimy ?

MP: No.

A: It has to be right. And the yolk has to be soft to sop the bread in it.

MP: Exactly.

"Aversion to slimy", that is Calcarea and Natrum muriaticum. When Calcarea eats eggs, they are mostly boiled or fried; seldom scrambled eggs, and he sops his bread, fried potatoes or chips in the yolk.

A: On which side does he sleep ?

MP: Always on this side, usually left.

A: Do you agree that I treat the child completely ? I mean, when the child becomes acute ill it has to be treated here, and may not get antibiotics. My prognosis is that after the remedy the child won't break his bones anymore, unless it gets an accident, but not just by falling. In fact, vitamins aren't necessary anymore, they are sufficient in food. When he doesn't get acute ill I see you in August again.

MP: At the moment he's coughing.

A: I heard it. It becomes also better after the remedy. On the radiographs you see that the cortex of the bones is very thin. We have radiographs of 1982 and 1986. The thickness of the cortex has changed very little. Maybe, after a few years you can take other radiographs and compare. But the main thing is that he doesn't break his bones anymore.

MP: I'm very satisfied if he wouldn't break his bone during one year.

FEEDBACK

A: He came with OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA. It was notable that he perspired very much on his head and was very anxious. His appetite was moderate. You called me, because he had diarrhoea and I repeated the same remedy.

The next day the child got diarrhoea. I consider this as a secretion process. If he has this diarrhoea for six days I repeat the remedy. Maybe that is something new: when there is an aggravation after the remedy you can help by repeating the remedy and so giving more energy to overcome the aggravation. If the child is strong enough to bring something outwards then you have to consider this as a secretion, for example, perspiration, diarrhoea. If you repeat the remedy you give some more energy and the aggravation period is smaller.

That is what we do on our centre: in severe aggravations we repeat the same remedy in the same potency. There is no rule concerning the frequency of the remedy and the height of the potency.

MP: On Thursday after the first tablet he was very difficult.

A: How was the appearance of the stool ?

MP: Yellow. After two or three days nearly watery and stank.

A: So, yellow, watery, and stinking.

You were here on June, 4 and on June, 12 you got the second tablet.

MP: The next day it was much better.

A: That's peculiar.

MP: Is that a normal reaction ?

A: A very good reaction.

MP: I heard you get fever of the remedy. He didn't.

A: The fact is that he reacted, because the next day he got a different stool and the same remedy, repeated after 8 days, stopped the stool. How is the appearance of the stool now ?

MP: Now, it is good.

A: The most important symptom was the perspiration on the head. How is it now ?

MP: Much better, but he's still perspiring.

P: When the sun is shining.

A: In what sense is the perspiration less ?

MP: Now it is changing. Sometimes much, sometimes less.

A: Previously, he perspired constantly.

MP: Yes.

A: So, we can say that he perspires less ?

MP: Yes.

A: All right. Has there something changed in his behaviour ?

MP: In that way, he is the same.

A: And his appetite ?

MP: Changing. But he drinks very much. He is always thirsty.

The mother says that his appetite changes. She is very concerned about the child. Previously, she said that he was a very bad eater, this means that now he eats better than previously.

A: Previously, he was less thirsty ?

MP: I noticed it immediately, that he is constantly thirsty. Much drinking doesn't harm, does it ?

A: No, what does he drink ?

MP: Always the same: water, chocolate milk, lemonade, milk. Sometimes he asks for coffee, but he isn't allowed to drink coffee, is he ?

A: Does he prefer cold or warm drinks ?

MP: Cold.

A: Has his appetite changed ? Previously, he was very difficult.

MP: He likes dinner. He's not so fond of soup, but he likes potatoes, vegetables and meat.

A: He also liked eggs. What about them ?

MP: He still likes them. He gets one every day. Also hamburger and chips.

P: And mayonnaise.

There are still quite a lot of Calcarea symptoms. But up to now, there are no problems with the bones anymore. The mother is afraid to put the supports away.

A: Have you informed whether there has been tuberculosis in your family ? Has someone died of lung diseases ?

MP: No, but of heart diseases. My father and his 4 brothers.

A: You told me he is anxious of noise, dark, spider and dogs.

MP: He has never borne noise very well. He is still afraid in the dark.

P: But I don't cry anymore.

A: He sleeps well ?

P: Yes.

A: He doesn't wake up at night ?

MP: No.

A: He doesn't like horrible programmes on T.V. ?

MP: He still doesn't like them.

A: What about his walking ?

MP: He walks much better. Besides, we started with physical therapy.

A: Previously, his upper leg was broken. When ?

MP: On April 19, of this year.

A: And plaster.

MP: Until May, 28.

A: Before April, how long ago was the last fracture ?

MP: There were nearly 9 months in between.

A: He's still walking with supports, why ?

MP: I'm afraid without them. Not when I can hold him.

A: You are afraid that he is falling ?

MP: When he breaks something he has to go back into the hospital.

A: We have to take care that he doesn't break anything.

MP: He won't break them anymore, will he ?

A: According to me not, because he has reacted very well to the remedy. You told me, for example, that he perspires less. I can compare the walking with difficulty.

MP: Yes, he has been in plaster for two months.

A: Previously, he had a cold regularly. And now ?

MP: No, I noticed that he has become stronger.

A: Now, I gave Foliata squalosa. When there is something wrong, for example, a cold or so, you call me and get a remedy. He can go on with the physical therapy; massage isn't necessary.

MP: There, he does all kinds of exercises. Is that another remedy ?

A: No, we stick to the same remedy.

MP: What does it contain ?

A: That's energy that he needs. The remedy comes from a sea mussel. It is energy, nothing material. Probably, it is an absorption problem. When he took the remedy he got diarrhoea. Probably, that is a reaction of the kind of a secretion process, a healing process of the intestines. The energy, that comes from a mussel as in this case, accomplishes the good Calcarea absorption in the intestines. It is not a problem of the bones, but of the malabsorption of the intestines ... (discussion about the homoeopathical way of working) For you it is important that the child becomes healthy.

MP: Sometimes, he also has inflammations of the penis.

A: Phimosis. There is also this remedy. You don't need to put ointment on it, only keep it clean. When he gets a strong inflammation, call me. Does he walk about much ?

MP: Yes, one leg is shorter.

A: He's still growing.

MP: Lately, he has grown quite a lot.

A: Now we will wait three months until you come back.

He was coughing and I gave him Calcarea M, because the cough would not stop. What would you do ?

Proposal: "Wait, wait a week !"

A: No, no. I repeated the remedy. You can not do any harm when you give the right remedy. How can you do any harm when you give energy ? In fact, we may not say remedy, but we give energy. How can you do any harm with the right energy ?

Remark: "But with a high potency there can be an aggravation."

A: With the right remedy ? Give me a clear example where this happened. I have never seen this with the right remedy and we have up to now 16,OOO patients in our centre. I do not believe that. He has so called aggravations after the omitting of allopathic medicines.

Remark: "But there are aggravations after high potencies."

A: No, when I am sure of my remedy - I had a Phosphorus patient with eczema and I gave Phosphorus 50 M, afterwards the itching was much better. If I had given Sulphur, there could have been an enormous aggravation, but a high potency of the right remedy is no problem, but it is with a wrong remedy, a close remedy, that is dangerous. When the child needs Phosphorus and you give Sulphur, Lycopodium or Calcarea, you can provoke, for example, asthma. Patients with skin diseases, who need a so called psoric remedy, they are all sensitive to Sulphur, Psorinum, Lycopodium and Calcarea.

Remark: "Until now I thought that the first remedy would disturb the second as long as it is working."

A: As long as you do not have an amelioration after the remedy and you give the second remedy too early, indeed, you can have an aggravation.

Question: " ... ?" (not understandable)

A: When the patient gets the remedy the first time and previously, the disease has been suppressed and you give a 10 M potency, you give him energy, he is stronger and can bring out the symptoms which have been suppressed previously, that is normal.

But you have to be careful when you give a child Graphites. When he can not urinate or is not thirsty anymore afterwards, it can be an Apis situation. It can get a fit of toxic materials which the kidneys can not secrete. Then you have to give Apis.

Question: "Why did you treat the diarrhoea ?"

A: When the aggravation takes too long, it means that the patient is not strong enough. I do not want to theorize, but I only want to show that we think in practice it is necessary to repeat the remedy in this kind of aggravation and to stop the aggravation in this way. I do not know what is all behind this.

Question: " ... ?" (not understandable)

A: We give the same potency and usually dissolved in water and let our patients take a few times a spoon of that solution.

Question: "... ?" (not understandable)

A: What we see in these circumstances in which we live - maybe we have less defence than those people of Kent's time - today we have to repeat the remedy individually. In one case we have to repeat it often, in another case one dose is sufficient. It depends on the circumstances in which the patient lives. And therefore I say: be flexible, individualize. …

CASE 3 v2

Allergic asthma

Calcarea carbonica

BOY, 6 YEARS OLD

A: What is the problem ?

MP: Matthias is suffering from allergic asthma. In the hospital they called it "extrinsic asthma". When he has been running, he starts coughing. According to the tests he is allergic to house dust.

Do you see what I am doing here. The hands are very flexible. In every Calcarea child you can do dorsal flexion, because they are very soft. Also when you take their hand, it is as if you have a mollusc, a very soft thing in your hand, as if there are no bones, very soft.

Then I felt there (at the back of his neck). Usually, you have to feel there and you will feel the wet in the cervical region. When you do this, it gives you a few points and this child gives you a certain impression and immediately after 3 or 5 minutes you know the remedy.

A: He's wheezing after coughing ?

MP: He starts coughing and then wheezing.

A: Especially after efforts, this seems to play an important role.

MP: When he was little he had more problems with that. Now, he gets medicines.

A: What kind of medicines ?

MP: BEROTEC drops, LOMIDAL and LOMISOL as nose-spray.

A: I notice that he is rather a nice, easy child. He perspires a little at his hands.

P: I am too warm.

MP: Normally, he is easily cold.

Be careful. Everybody says that Calcarea is a chilly remedy, that they are easily cold. Up to 10 years old they are often, but also sometimes, warm.

But be careful in your consultation; for example, when you ask the mother, "Is your child a chilly child ?" And she says, "No, he perspires easily." But there is a difference between chilliness and perspiring. Be careful.

Remark: "Children to the age of 4 years are not at all chilly, but warm and they can become chilly when they are 6 years old."

A: Yes, right - but when you are dealing with an Arsenicum child who is warm - I do not know. But up to the age of 10 years Calcarea children can be warm-blooded. Do not rely too much on the sensitivity to cold or warm. If you have a very chilly man, 99 % of the homoeopaths will not prescribe Sulphur, never, if you are dealing with a very chilly man. But I can tell you that 30 to 40 % of my Sulphur prescription is for cold, chilly people, they react very well to Sulphur. So, do not forget, Sulphur is in 40 % chilly, not warm-blooded, as it is written in the books.

The same in Calcarea. Mostly, adult Calcareas are chilly, but we have had patients, who tell us that they are warm-blooded. And then the differential diagnosis is difficult to which remedy ? The Calcarea appearance in an adult is rather fat, blue eyes and blond hair, that is often Calcarea. If they are warm-blooded to which remedy do they remind us of ? Pulsatilla. That is the difficulty in the differential diagnosis between Pulsatilla and Calcarea.

Remark: "Pulsatilla can also be chilly."

A: Yes, Pulsatilla is chilly, but does not tolerate warm rooms nor the sun. Sometimes, you have a difficult differential diagnosis. And then you have to go to the character and disorder stomach from fat and so on.

Anyhow, this child, she says, is a chilly child, easily cold, but perspiring easily.

Where am I looking at now ? At the neck. There is an emaciation, this is an observation. When you see an emaciated neck, a Cleopatra neck - Cleopatra's neck was very narrow - look at the Repertory, where can we find this ? "Emaciation of the cervical region" (p. 887).

BACK, EMACIATION, Cervical region : Calc., iod., lyc., Nat-m., sanic., sars.

There you find Calcarea, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum. Natrum muriaticum is the most important remedy in emaciated necks. That is observation, that is very important !

FP: Yes, he is easily cold.

A: He has a very narrow neck. He is easily cold, but perspires easily, like the father.

That is peculiar: he is chilly, but perspires easily. That is peculiar; it is strange that they are chilly and perspire easily. That is also the case in Silicea.

Besides: do you know how Calcarea women sleep ? Like a spoon nestled close to their partner, because they have cold thighs. In the Repertory you find the rubrics "coldness thighs" (p. 961)

Thigh : Aloe., arn., ars., bar-c., berb., bry., calc., camph., chin., cimic., coc-c., cop., hura., ign., kali-bi., lyc., merc., nit-ac., nux-v., op., phos., puls., ran-b., rhod., sabad., sars.,Spong., sulph., tax., tep., thuj.

gluteal region ( BUTTOCK ) : Agar., calc.

and "coldness gluteal region". Phosphorus sleeps with his knees pressed to the stomach of the partner, because Phosphorus has cold knees.

A: Where does the child perspire most ?

MP: When he is sleeping his hair is often wet.

A: So, not all over his body, but at particular parts of the body.

FP: Also in the face.

A: Where especially does he perspire at the head ?

MP: At the forehead, the hair implantation.

FP: You can easily see this.

A: Have you noticed that he perspires at the back of his head ?

MP: No, I haven't paid attention to that.

A: He looks rather pale.

MP: Yes, rims around the eyes.

A: When has he learned walking ?

Calcarea children are late in learning to walk. I will tell you the rubrics, because many of you do not know them: "Extremities, late learning walk to" (p. 1223)

EXTREMETIES, WALK, late learning to : Agar., bar-c., bell., Calc-p., Calc., Caust., Nat-m., nux-v., sanic., sil., sulph.

and "weakness, child late learning to walk" (p. 1228).

EXTREMETIES, WEAKNESS, LOWERLIMB, child late learning to walk : Calc.

In Natrum muriaticum children it is not because of the weakness, but because they do not know how.

MP: At 12 months.

A: When did he cut his first tooth ?

MP: At 7 months.

The first problems arose between the first and the second year. Previously, we didn't notice anything. As a baby there was a rattle on his chest.

Be careful. Sometimes they have a very good development until they are walking and then the Calcarea state starts. If they walk early, on 12 months, do not go away from Calcarea. It is not because they walk early that this cannot be a Calcarea case. If the disease starts later, after when they are 1 year old, then the Calcarea problem starts. Only the positive symptoms count, the negative symptoms are not important. You can not say that this is not a Phosphorus case, because he does not like ice-cream or sleeps on the left side. You know, mostly Phosphorus can not sleep on the left side, but in our cases we have 50 % of the Phosphorus patients who sleep on the right side and 50 % on the left side. But if they can not sleep on the left side, this is a strong symptom for Phosphorus and for Lachesis. But if they can sleep on the left side it does not mean anything against Phosphorus, nothing. The same in this case, if they can walk on 12 months, it still is not against Calcarea.

You see, the first problems arose between the first and the second year. So they started later than his walking. If they would have started on 6 months, he would have walked late.

A: Is he an anxious child ?

FP: When, for example, someone dies, he is very concerned about that.

A: He is dealing with that. Is he anxious for something particular ? For example, has the light in his bedroom to be switched on while he's sleeping ?

MP: No.

A: Does he watch TV ?

MP: Yes.

A: Is he anxious for certain things shown on TV ?

MP: Yes, lately there was a programme about the middle life, where they had been fighting and there was also a dragon. We had to switch off the TV, because he didn't like that.

"Anxious for dragons" - where can we find this ?

"Horrible things affect profoundly" (p. 52). When Calcarea children see such things on TV or in a movie, and go to bed afterwards, they see those horrible monsters again on closing their eyes. We will talk about these rubrics later with another case.

There is another rubric, that indicates this horror in the mind.

"Excitement after hearing horrible things" (p. 40).

horrible things, after hearing : Calc., Chin, Cic., cocc., gels., ign., lach., nat-c., nux-v., teucr., zinc.

There is Calcarea again, also Cicuta.

The child can not see horrible things or monsters on TV.

A: Also anxious of dragons. Did you notice he has fear of high places ? For instance when you hold him in the air ?

MP: No.

A: Are there other things he's anxious of ?

MP: No.

A: What about his appetite ?

MP: He eats very much. Except milk products, he likes them less. He eats milk only in pudding or rice-milk. But he does not eat cheese, yoghurt, or curd.

P: I don't like that.

MP: Meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, he eats everything.

A: He doesn't eat cheese.

MP: Only when it has been melted, for example, in Croque Monsieur, there is also cheese in between, but melted. Then he'll eat it.

You see ? Delicacies, he only wants cheese when it is in Croque Monsieur. It is also cheese, but he only likes cheese in this way. He is dainty in the choice of his food.

A: This means, that he is very dainty in the choice of his food. So he doesn't like eggs either, when he doesn't like milk products.

MP: He eats eggs. He likes them rather very well.

A: How does he like his eggs ?

MP: Fried.

A: Why fried eggs ?

P: To sop my bread in the yolk.

When you see children eating - they have 2 (fried) eggs and they put their bread in the yolk, put it in their mouth and when one egg is finished they start the other one. Also in soft-boiled eggs; they cut the head and then they put pieces of bread in it and eat them. That is the way of eating of Calcarea carbonica. Do not forget that !

A: That is very typical. How do the eggs have to be when they are boiled ?

MP: We seldom eat boiled eggs. But he likes soft boiled eggs, but we eat it too seldom if I may specify it.

A: Also an aversion to milk ? Is he afraid of certain animals ?

MP: I have to think. We don't have domestic pets. I think, in fact no.

FP: No.

A: What kind of meat does he like ?

I make a differential diagnosis to which remedy ? Fear of dogs, what kind of meat does he like ? Tuberculinum. You must be very careful in mixing up Calcarea and Tuberculinum. I know, Tuberculinum is a more difficult child. If you have a difficult child, the first remedy you have to think about is Tuberculinum. But he is calm, he is sitting there. We have to prescribe so often Tuberculinum and so often this Tuberculinum picture is the same as this Calcarea, about the same, so that we must be careful. We also have to see, if there is a Tuberculinum picture behind this Calcarea. That is why I ask about fears of animals. The fear of dogs is very strong for Tuberculinum and the kind of meat he likes - they say Tuberculinum does not like meat, but there is one kind of meat they like. Which ? They like sausages and minced meat, so that they do not have to bite. Especially this kind of meat they like: hamburger, all this rotten meat, all these things, which consists of 50 % meat and 50 % all other kinds of things. They like these kind of things - but in general they do not like meat.

That is only for me to know, maybe in the future, and we have seen this often, that the reaction to Calcarea was very good, after a time they relapse and there is no reaction and then we learn that there has been tuberculosis in the family, fear of dogs, and grinding teeth at night - that is Tuberculinum, and then you have to give Tuberculinum.

You often will see this in your practice, that you have right, good indications for the remedy, for example, to give Calcarea. First, you see that the patient reacts well, but relapses afterwards. He gets Calcarea again, there is again a good reaction and relapses again. And then you ask yourself why he relapses and then suddenly you see Tuberculinum.

That is why Tuberculinum is the remedy when a well-chosen remedy does not act or acts too short. But you have to have indications to give Tuberculinum.

I ask those questions only for later.

MP: Minced meat, chicken.

P: Sausages.

MP: Beefsteak less.

FP: He doesn't like liver.

A: Tell me something about the history of the family. Were there any particular diseases in the family ? Has someone of your grandparents been in a sanatorium ?

MP: No.

A: Was there tuberculosis in your family ?

MP: No.

A: Or has someone been positive in a tuberculosis test ?

MP: Not that I know.

A: You have to inform you exactly for the further treatment.

FP: Yes.

Which is the first examination you have to do, when you want to prescribe Tuberculinum ? Where do you have to feel ? You have to feel here, both sides of the neck. Tuberculinum children have always 99 % chronical glands here, sometimes thick, sometimes thin, but you can always feel glands. In Tuberculinum you always have to look at the back, they have very much hair on their back, and when they take off their clothes, you see a narrow chest, they have a very narrow chest - and you see the rips.

A: Does he sleep well ?

MP: Yes.

A: Does he grind teeth ?

FP: When he was little.

MP: I think, he doesn't do it now anymore.

A: So, grinding teeth when he was little.

That is a very strong symptom for Tuberculinum - "grinding teeth during sleep" (p. 432),

sleep, during : Acon., agar., ant-c., Ars., asaf., Bell., bry., calc., Cann-i., caust., Cina., coff., colch., con., crot-h., hell., hyos., ign., kali-br., kali-c., kali-p., lac-d., merc., mygal.,nat-p., plan., plb., podo., psor., sant., sep., stram., thuj., Tub., verat., zinc.

"motions of head while sleeping"; in children also the desire for cold milk, which you also find in Staphisagria and Sanicula.

What do you expect ? I think, in this case I would give Calcarea and after Calcarea, maybe after 1 year, there will be relapses and then I will have to give Tuberculinum. That is what I expect.

But the character does not indicate Tuberculinum now, not at all. This is a slow, obedient Calcarea boy.

A: Tell me something about his character. What kind of boy is he ?

MP: He likes to tease someone. He is Mr. Particular. He doesn't like to make mistakes; in colouring he will never go outside the brims of the drawing; everything must be exactly. He can also be very obstinate.

FP: And sensitive.

A: In what sense ?

MP: When someone has had an accident, when something has happened, or someone has died.

FP: When he sees that someone has died on TV he is very concerned about it.

A: What does he do in his spare time ?

MP: He's always playing.

A: With what ?

P: Lego, puzzles, drawing.

A: He's not a physically active child. He can play quiet games.

MP: Yes.

That is very important. He plays with Lego, not active playing. That is a very big differential diagnosis between Calcarea and Tuberculinum. Tuberculinum is restless, running from here to there, jumping here, throwing things away, always busy, running. And Calcarea ? No ! He sits down, making designs, making all these things, where he does not have to use energy. Because when he is riding a bicycle or when he is running, he has oppressions - in "physical exertion agg." Calcarea is the most important remedy. Then they have this pumping respiration when they walk upstairs, or when they ride a bicycle. That is why Calcarea people are no good bicyclers. Calcarea can be a good sprinter for 100 Meter, but is never good in doing long distances. Marathon is nothing for Calcarea. The opposite is Sepia, running will, for example, ameliorate - "difficult respiration, running does not agg., slow motion agg.".

A: All right, that is obvious. Does he take BEROTEC every day ?

MP: Yes, every day. In winter he has to take 3 times 10 drops. In summer we may decrease, if he is all right. Then he gets 10 drops in the mornings. Then he became worse and I give him 10 drops in the mornings and evenings.

A: So, when he was better, he got less drops.

MP: Yes.

A: And LOMIDAL ?

MP: 3 times a day. We had to give him this all the time.

A: And LOMISOL ?

MP: Also 3 times a day.

A: The child is only cured when he has no complaints without medicines. When he has no complaints while taking medicines, he is not cured yet. Do you agree that when he has less complaints after the remedy to decrease BEROTEC, to omit LOMIDOL and LOMISOL at noon and later on in the evening ? So, you have to decrease the medicines yourself when you see that your child feels better. It has no sense to give him the medicines when he doesn't need them or to stop the medicines if he needs them.

MP: Yes.

A: He gets a tablet. It is a clear picture. I see that he has an early tooth decay ?

MP: Yes. Has this something to do with it ?

A: No, that also points to the remedy. Don't let him have dark fillings with quicksilver. Later on, he will have symptoms of poisoning. These are only milk teeth. When it is necessary it is much better to have his teeth extracted instead of to have them filled. Well, now you get a remedy that he will have melt under his tongue. This child may not get any antibiotics at all. When there are problems you call me. In the meantime I have to see you once again. So, call me when he has fever. I think it will improve rather fast, so I will see you again within 6 weeks. I don't think, there will be any problems. I hope he doesn't need other medicines after 6 weeks.

FP: With this little tablet ?

A: Yes, that is classical homoeopathy.

FEEDBACK (October 24, 1987)

A: You were here on September 12, 1987. I gave him a remedy. Tell me, how did it go ?

MP: In fact, everything went all right. Slowly we omitted the medicines. Since last weekend he doesn't take any medicines.

A: So, you omitted BEROTEC, LOMIDAL and LOMISOL.

MP: Yes, he has a cold since a few days, he's coughing.

A: But he has no shortage of breath ?

MP: No, not the way he had previously.

That is very interesting. Now, his cough is loose, you hear, but it is not asthma. You see, when you treat asthma and you change the asthma into a loose cough, so that they can expectorate, that is very good, that is a very good reaction. You only have to repeat the remedy.

FP: Today is the first day he coughs so much.

A: But the problem was his wheezing, that he was short of breath and was wheezing.

MP: I haven't told you the last time, but when he has a cold, he's still wheezing.

A: Has he been ill of the remedy ?

MP: No.

A: Previously, he had problems with shortage of breath regularly.

MP: Yes, for example, when he has played football outside.

A: Now, you have omitted the medicines and the shortage of breath hasn't increased ?

MP: No.

A: He has improved.

FP: Yes.

MP: In school they haven't said anything about his shortage of breath anymore.

A: He perspired easily. What about that ?

MP: We have paid attention to this. Indeed, he perspires especially at the back of his head.

A: So, that's right. Does he perspire less now ?

FP: Yes, much less, but it hasn't completely disappeared yet.

A: He's coughing at the moment. Probably, he needs the remedy again. I'm glad you came. Then he can conquer it by taking the remedy.

A: Has the child changed in some other way ?

MP: Not that I know.

A: Now, he has been healthy for 1 1/2 month. Previously, has he also been healthy for such a long time ?

MP: He couldn't live without medicines.

FP: And even with medicines, when he was riding a bicycle or going up a mountain.

MP: Previously, I couldn't have let him go to school by bike. Because, when he arrived at school ... Now we have been to school by bike a few times and everything went well.

A: All right. He gets the remedy once more in solution.

He does not take medicines anymore and can go to school by bike. Now, he has a relapse, but without a shortage of breath, without asthma, this means the relapse is not so bad. Previously, he had an asthmatic respiration with every cough. Now, he gets the remedy again for this cough, 3 spoonful of the same potency, 10 M.

Question: "Is Calcarea typical for asthma in children ? It is not in the rubric ?"

A: You find it in "difficult respiration, children" (p. 768).

RESPIRATION, DIFFICULT, children : Ambr., calc-p., calc., lyc., Nat-s., puls.

The clinical rubric, which disease he has, is not so important. He needs the energy of Calcarea.

That is what I mean with reflexibility. In 80 % of the cases I know the remedy as soon as I see the patient or the mother. Then I try to prove my impression by facts. When a child comes in and starts running, I will never think of Calcarea.

Reflexibility - then you will become sure and trust your feeling.

In the OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA child I have postponed the vaccinations.

Concerning the vaccinations of children we take into account the distance of the patients, the control of the disease and the cooperation of the parents. Our centre is 24 hours assured, with night- and weekend services. When the patients live a long distance away from the centre, there might be difficulties, but when it concerns patients who come when there is something wrong, you can advise them to have their children not vaccinated.

In teeth fillings we have seen rheumatic cases where the symptoms disappear by removing the fillings. They all had Mercurius symptoms. If you are sensitive to quicksilver, you get Mercurius symptoms because of the fillings.

A 50 old year doctor with a metastatic testes-tumor came with nightly bone pain in our centre. The testicles were removed and the bone pain disappeared. He said, "Probably, I have only one year to live, but maybe you can help me anyway." When he was speaking I heard the trembling in his voice. He spoke with a kind of a full mouth and had a weak tongue, but he perspired at night. I looked at his teeth and nearly every tooth got an amalgam filling. Every filling had to be removed and when there was any doubt, every inflamed tooth should have been extracted. He did so and took Mercurius afterwards. The nightly bone pain returned and disappeared with Mercurius. That is why we are sure that the amalgam filling in patients who are sensitive to this can do great harm. I advise those patients to have all those teeth extracted.

CASE4 V2

Guillain-barre syndrome

Calcarea carbonica

BOY, 4 YEARS OLD

You know, the disease of Guillain-Barré is a paralytic disease and in the allopathic world the differential diagnosis is difficult from neuritis, polyneuritis, other kinds of paralyses, and even multiple sclerosis. This is a feedback and I like to show you this case to understand the evolution, where it started and the evolution of the allopathic treatment.

A: He was born on August 20, 1982 and it was a normal delivery ?

MP: Yes, very normal.

A: At the age of about four months you noticed that he became ill, when you changed from breast feeding to bottle feeding. Tell me about it.

MP: According to the family doctor he had otitis and got antibiotics. He couldn't tolerate them well. He became more ill and the fever wouldn't go down. He constantly vomited the antibiotics. Probably, they didn't digest.

The first disease was otitis media and he was 4 months old. Up to 4 months the child was in a good health, and the mother changed from breast feeding to artificial food and then the first disease started.

MP: Then we went to the hospital and the doctor said he had tonsilitis. He prescribed other medicines. He vomited constantly, but not so much as previously. Then we had to go back to the hospital and according to the doctor the inflammation had become worse. At that time he had even more white blood corpuscles as previously. They kept him there for observation, also because he had a very severe stridor; he was wheezing very much. The doctor thought he might have a small tumor at the trachea. Then they have lanced his ears, because they didn't know where the inflammation came from. For two, three days they have administered to him intra-muscular antibiotics and then he was allowed to go home.

This means, that first he had an otitis media, got antibiotics, came in the hospital, got antibiotics again, and then he got a more strong disease, a lung inflammation with stridor and difficult respiration. Why does this happen ? Because they tried to help someone ? No, someone has been made more ill by antibiotics.

A: PENBRITIN and NEOMYCIN.

MP: Yes, I have written everything down, that's why I still know it. He got eruptions, probably because of the antibiotics. At home he got injections for another two or three days and he has taken antibiotics for about a week; and then he was very weak.

They gave him antibiotics and he became weak. Here starts the so-called Guillain-Barré syndrome. You see what happened ? An otitis media becomes a neurological disease.

A: Everything started on December 15, 1982 ? The first disease ?

MP: Yes.

A: And after the treatment of his otitis media with antibiotics you noticed that he became weak in his arms. Was that also previously ?

MP: No, no, he was a very normal, healthy baby. After the hospitalisation he was weak. In fact, we noticed that not only his arms were supple, he was weak, he was also ill. He gained strength, but he remained such a weak baby.

A: On January 12, 1983 he got tonsilitis again and a spastic bronchitis.

MP: Yes, he got antibiotics again. He was wheezing very much and had much expectoration.

A: First, he got an otitis media, a rather high infection and that infection was coming down. He had less resistance and got a much deeper infection, a spastic bronchitis.

MP: After the antibiotics he got tonsilitis again - again antibiotics. In the meantime, he was still suffering from expectoration; it didn't improve much. And with the treatment of antibiotics he was better for a while, he gained strength again, but after 3 or 4 weeks he got an inflammation again. It was a bronchitis or a tonsilitis, always something to get antibiotics.

A: And so you plodded on. Here, it says, for example, that in September 1983 he doesn't like his milk bottle anymore.

MP: Yes, he never liked milk very much. That was a plodding.

A: In the meantime, he cut his first tooth when he was 8 months old, and in September 1983 he couldn't sit alone yet, then he was 13 months old. In fact, that's very late. Did he remain weak the whole period from end '82 until September '83 ?

MP: I have been here in the meantime.

A: No, you were here in December '83.

MP: That's right. In the meantime he was hospitalized once, in May '83.

A: In May '83 he cut two teeth, had very much expectoration and was very weak, especially in the right arm. In May 1983 he was hospitalized in the University Children's Hospital.

MP: First, it was meant as an observation of two or three days, but then he got pneumonia.

A: He had an infusion with antibiotics: GENTAMICIN, TAPOTAGE, and when he came home he has had EUSAPRIM for another three weeks. The mucus had gone. He wasn't allowed to drink cow's milk, but had to drink nutrisoya.

MP: He preferred that.

A: I didn't receive a report of that hospitalization, did I ?

MP: We haven't been here by that time.

A: The probable diagnosis was Guillain-Barré, because of his weakness.

That was the syndrome of Guillain-Barré or a congenital neuropathy. How can this be congenital ? The child has been good up to 4 months; how can they say that this a congenital neuropathy ? They say that it is congenital, because if they can not cure it, it is not their problem, because it was already hereditary or congenital. But the paralysis of the child has been caused by the treatment, he got the weakness because of the antibiotics. I do not say that antibiotics are always harmful. But in some cases, if you give antibiotics, you kill the bacteria, but you do nothing about the resistance and then the disease goes on - and so we make the child more ill, because we do not give him resistance.

In some cases we have seen that, indeed, patients have been made more ill by antibiotics; they have a suppressive influence. And in this case it is the same: by giving him so much antibiotics the child got a neurologic disease. You see what you can do with antibiotics. If you are lucky, nothing will happen, but if you are not lucky, you will get troubles.

MP: In fact, they didn't know exactly what it was.

A: Then you came here in December 1983. In October he had tonsilitis again, in November he had an inflammation of the throat and got antibiotics again.

On December 14, 1983 you came here the first time.

I wrote down that your child had recidivistic inflammations, bronchitis, inflammations of the tonsils, and also the question of Guillain-Barré. I examined him from a homoeopathic point of view. Previously, he perspired very much on his head, especially the back of his head, in bed. The dentition was very late. He could sit alone when he was 9 months old. At the age of fifteen months he started to walk a little.

MP: We had to hold him very tight. He was very anxious.

A: He was a plump child - the perspiration, being blond, being plump, that was very characteristic. At that time he was rather fat. He was fond of cold drinks and had an aversion to milk. Further, there wasn't anything particular to say.

The differential diagnosis between Silicea and Calcarea is that Calcarea is flabby, pale and rather slow; that is why they also call it leucophlegmatic, white like lime and slow, a little leucophlegmatic and flabby.

A: His appearance, the fact that he perspired so much and didn't tolerate cow's milk, lead us very quickly to the remedy.

On December 14, 1983 I gave him a tablet in C 200 potency.

On December 31, 1983 he got an inflammation of the throat and you came back.

MP: He had very high fever. You gave him something for the fever and the convulsions.

A: I gave him the remedy that follows after his constitutional remedy.

This means, on New Year's Eve, 2 weeks after Calcarea, he had an inflammation again, but with high fever and congestion of the head and I gave him Belladonna.

A: For me that was a very good reaction. He was central red, glowing red and had cold feet. I don't know whether his hands were cold, but he had a typical fever for which I gave him an acute remedy that follows after his constitutional remedy. And the fever disappeared quickly, I thought ?

MP: His face became cooler and his arms and hands were glowing. That happened the same night. In no time the thermometer in the arm-pit pointed to 40° C. The next day we had to come back to get another remedy and so little by little the fever decreased. He hasn't had tonsilitis ever since.

He got Sac-lac. But do not be afraid, when a child has very high fever. We have to throw the thermometer away. It is not important to know, how high the fever is. Someone who has a lot of resistance, has a good reaction, will have a high fever. That is why you often see very high fever in children, this means that the child reacts well, produces antibodies - I am theorizing. It is good that they make high fever. You only have to give the right remedy depending on the symptoms and you will have beautiful reactions.

If there is a low state fever, like we see in Baptisia or Tuberculinum, it is not so interesting. I mean, it is better to have a serious, high fever. Do not be afraid, do not give any fever killing remedies. It is not necessary, let it. And ask the mother to put the thermometer away, to sell it. We have to observe and not use these instruments, it is not necessary. Our Repertory says nothing about fever of 38° or 39° C or so. The thermometer frightens the mothers, and certainly the Phosphorus or Calcarea mother. They are very afraid and say, "Oh my God, this fever is so high," and they get sick themselves and go to the allopaths. He will say, "Fortunately, you come in time. If you had come 2 days later your child would be dead." Do not forget: give a remedy and give the right remedy ! If you do nothing, indeed the child will get problems. You have to give the right remedy. We can not talk against the allopathy if there is nothing that replaces it.

You can say: no vaccinations. Yes, no vaccinations, you can give this advice. We know that it is bad to vaccinate, but you have to put something else in the place.

I mean, when a child is ill, you take care that the child can come immediately to your centre. When you work alone, you can not do this, because you can not work day and night, Sunday and all other days. So first, build a centre that is attainable for your patients, day and night, Sunday and every other day. And then you can ask the patients who do not live to far away from the centre, "Do not have you vaccinated." But first take something in place and then you go on.

A: I saw you on February 16, 1984. The result was that he had tonsilitis only once, a few days after his constitutional remedy. It was solved with an acute remedy. Here, it says that he has felt very well for quite a long period, except for that tonsilitis.

MP: Yes.

A: He didn't have bronchitis or difficult respiration. He started coughing very heavily a few days before you came here. It was notable that he was stronger in his legs. He ate well, in fact, he always did. His fontanelle, originally very large open, had more closed. A clear change. He was still fond of cold drinks. There was a general improvement, but he had a very heavy cough. At that time I gave him the remedy in M potency, and that is the last remedy I gave him.

I saw him again on December 7, 1984. Here, it says that he hasn't had inflammations for a year. He had no problems anymore. This was the result of two times his constitutional remedy and once an acute remedy. Gradually, he started to walk, and on January 29, 1985 you went to the Children's Hospital for a check up.

I read the letter, "Problem Ig-E mediated allergy for dogs and protein. Differential diagnosis: Guillain-Barré or congenital neuropathy."

The child has improved. Now they fear that it is probably a neuropathy. Do you understand how this can be ? There is no reason to be concerned, the child is not ill anymore.

A: At this moment we have to determine that the child hasn't had complaints concerning inflammations, fever and so on for about a year. He can move his arm better now.

MP: But he has had physiotherapy.

A: Yes, and he started to walk.

Report of the hospital of January 25, 1985, "The child walks in a hyperlordotic way. The Gowers test is clearly pathologic. The movements are uncertain, there is a complete areflexia, little muscle strength, weak muscle bulk. Mentally, rather good.

Anamnesis: Walks independently since he is 24 months old. Intellectually, a clever boy.

Progress: Between his 9th and 29th month he only had a moderate motor recovery. Still muscle weakness. That tells against Guillain-Barré, so that we fear a congenital neuropathy, which has clearly a worse prognosis.

A hospitalization for a technical examination had been proposed, but to our regret, the parents wanted to delay it for another six months."

I advised that, because I think that the child does not have to suffer for that examination. He might suffer in order to cure, but as he has evolved rather well, we did see no point in doing that.

Further with the letter: "You are both invited for new information on May 20, 1985.

Conclusion: Clear polyneuropathy, in spite of an homoeopathical treatment."

A: You went on May 28, 1985 for a check up.

"Problem: Guillain-Barré or congenital polyneuropathy." They don't say anything about allergy for dogs and milk anymore.

MP: In the meantime he drinks milk very well and plays with dogs and cats.

A: The letter, "The Gowers test is better, but still clearly deviant. The areflexia remains.

Indeed, he has improved. He is in the first nursery class, has no problem with the fine motor.

But he is slow. He can go up- and downstairs holding on. His language is good.

There is also a better coordination of the upper limbs.

Conclusion: The lower limbs are still weak.

The complete areflexia remains. Further follow-up is recommended. We consider a supplementary examination within six months."

They don't say a word about homoeopathy.

Check up on February 4, 1986:

"Problem: Follow-up neuropathy, DD Guillain-Barré or congenital neuropathy.

There is a further progression perceptible. At school he plays with his friends (in spite of the worse prognosis !)."

MP: In the meantime, we let him have the muscle tests.

A: We will return to that in a minute.

"He can ride a bicycle (further in the letter), in going up- and downstairs he puts one foot near the other. He does not suffer from recidivistic inflammations anymore. He is a sharp, cooperative boy.

While walking the knees are extended too far; Gowers also with extended knees, but rather fast. There is a clear hyperlordosis, and there are no tendon reflexes perceptible yet.

Neurologically: Slowed motor conduction.

Conclusion: At the moment the clinical picture and the supplementary neurophysiologic examinations rather point to the direction of congenital neuropathy. Although, further follow-up will bring more clearness in the picture of the disease."

So, this is the last report I received from the hospital.

You see, how they are interested in the diagnosis, trying to get a diagnosis - not trying to cure the patient. That is the problem. That is the problem in our present medicine. We do not have to fight against that, but we must try to forget what they say and only treat in a homoeopathic way.

All those names are not important, the names of all the diseases nor the names of the doctors who discovered the diseases. The important thing is that this child is a flabby child, perspires on the head, is late in walking and late in dentition, that is important. And that it concerns a child who is slow, slow in motions. Look at the Repertory, "slowness in motion" (p. 81).

MIND, SLOWNESS, motion, in : Anac., calc., con., Phos., sep.

You see remedies like: Anacardium, Calcarea, Conium, Phosphorus - Phosphorus is capital. Phosphorus is slow in motion, that is very important for Phosphorus.

A: They can not put a clear diagnosis, but in spite of the bad prognosis of that eventual bad diagnosis the child evolves well. The child has been subjected to an EMG.

MP: Yes, to an EEG and an EMG. That was very painful. They told us it wouldn't be painful. I think that the results are mentioned in the letter.

A: So, slowed motor conductions. Now, I'll try to record him while he's walking. He walks well, doesn't he ?

MP: Sometimes a little on his toes, but when I say he shouldn't do that, he goes better. He rides a bicycle alone, up hill, down dale, and especially where it isn't flat.

You see the evolution. Two times Calcarea carbonica, one C 200 and then 2 months later M, because he started coughing again. And this child did not have otitis, bronchitis or such things and has been cured. Last week I saw the mother and they have to go back to the University Hospital and we will see what they will say about the case now.

Question: "Why did you give C 200 ?"

A: That was in 1983 and at that time I was still under the influence of Voegeli, who said that C 200 is a good potency. And you see, C 200 did work well. Now, I am under my own influence and I give high potencies from the beginning, because - we do supervisions, we have students, doctors and often you do not see a good reaction after C 200, you are doubting and I like my students to see a very good reaction of the remedy. I have seen, that the reaction to the remedy is better when we start with 10 M or M. When you give C 200, sometimes you are doubting and say, "My God, this is not correct, I will change the remedy." And after one year you see that the best reaction was on the first remedy. When you give high potencies you see a better reaction of the patient - mostly, not always. You can cure with a C 200, but also with a C 30, that is no problem. Personally, I see very good reactions, clear reactions with very high potencies. And nothing is more difficult when a patient comes back, especially when you are not so sure of your prescription, and says, "Doctor, I don't know." That is a difficult situation, and you ask yourself whether this remedy is right or wrong. That is the point where many homoeopaths make mistakes. They think that the remedy was wrong and give another remedy and then they are walking through the wood of homoeopathic remedies and after 5 years they say - if they are still homoeopath - then they say, if they know a little bit more about Homoeopathy or much more, "But this is Calcarea. I will give now 10 M." And then they give 10 M and see a beautiful reaction. That happened to me in a Sepia case. It was 1980/1981, I gave Sepia C 200 and didn't see any reaction. One year ago, it was 6 years after the first Sepia, I gave everything for depression, constipation, she was so irritated against her husband and so on - so a year ago I gave Sepia 10 M and she reacted wonderfully.

You see, if you give the right remedy and you give a bad interpretation of the reaction to the remedy, you think that it is not Sepia and you will forget Sepia. Then you will run through the whole homoeopathic world to find the remedy and you have given the right remedy. Because you have given the remedy already, you will never give it again, and then you are lost and we call this "a spoiled case" or we say, that certain people are not curable with Homoeopathy. It happened to me and that is why I advise: give high potencies !

Remark: "The mother looks very depressed and ill. I think that a child needs a healthy mother for a good development."

A: No, no, she is very good. She is working at home. She has two children, I think, but she also does the administration in a school. Maybe you are right, but be careful, because you also see that the child was not so happy anymore, the second child with OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA. I think, it was not because of the mother, that the child was ill. She is very sympathetic, she is Phosphorus.

But you see that in September when the children go back to school, the parents are teachers, they put their children in a "children garden", then you see that many diseases come back, because the children loose the contact with the mother. This is a loss of energy, that is sure. Not only the changing of the weather in September, but also the need of love of the children causes relapses.

CASE 4 V2

Asthma

Calcarea carbonica

BOY, 12 YEARS OLD

A: It is about a year ago that he came here. He came for his asthma. He has had this disease for quite a long time. How old is he now ?

M: 12 years old.

A: He was 11 years old when he came here and has had asthma since he was 2 or 3 years old. When he came here he took: POLARAMINE, VENTOLIN syrup, VENTOLIN spray and THEODUR LA 250.

Since his birth he has had eczema, especially behind the ears and in the arm- and knee folds.

MP: When he had eczema he never suffered from shortage of breath.

A: You went to the dermatologist and you got ointment. Then he got bronchitis with allergic rhinitis, a kind of hay fever, and with a kind of asthma, although not a real asthma. It was always a kind of bronchitis accompanied by shortness of breath. After a cold he always suffered from shortness of breath.

From which rubric can we start ? "Asthma from suppressed eruptions" (p. 765). We differentiate the remedies of this rubric to see, whether one of these remedies is indicated, unless there appear other important, strong symptoms which indicate another remedy that is not indicated in this rubric. We have to start from this rubric, stick to this rubric, and differentiate all the remedies from here, because he had eruptions that have been suppressed and therefore an asthmatic bronchitis has been developed: Apis, Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, the first remedy is Pulsatilla. There is also Psorinum, and Ipecacuanha; Ipecacuanha is a remedy for which disease in children ? Bronchitis with loathing and nausea, all the time nausea. But how can you recognize the remedy in the aspect of the tongue ? They are nauseous all the time, but the tongue is very clean. There is another remedy which has a clean tongue with nausea, that is Cina. Why is Cina nauseous ? Because of the worms.

Do you know which remedy is constantly picking the nose ?

Answer: "Cina."

A: No, no, I only asked for picking the nose. It is Arum triphyllum. Cina picks the nose and behind.

Have you seen this child ? Before he was doing this ... (shows something) - eating indigestible things: that is Calcarea, do not forget this ! Calcarea picks the nose, takes the crusts out of the nose, puts them in his mouth and eats them. There is another remedy that does the same thing; it is not in the Materia Medica, that is why nobody knows it, it is Bufo.

Here, we have the remedies for "asthma from suppressed eruptions" and we will have to make a choice between those remedies.

Remark: "Calcarea is not in this rubric."

A: Calcarea is not there, right - but who says that this is a Calcarea case ? I showed you Calcarea cases, but we can not show the same remedy all the time, we have to change.

A: He walked when he was 13 months old. He was late in talking. If he has seen a horror film, afterwards he would see it again before his eyes, wouldn't he ?

MP: Yes.

When he has seen a movie, a little bit horrible, he could not sleep. How can we translate this in terms of the Repertory ? He can not sleep, because he sees the same things before his eyes.

In the evening when you go to bed and close your eyes, you see this horrible movie again, and then you open your eyes and want the light on. Where do we find the corresponding rubric ?

Answer: "Horrible things affect profoundly" (p. 52).

MIND,HORRIBLE things, sad stories, affect her profoundly : Calc., Cic., cocc., gels., ign., lach., nat-c., nux-v., teucr., zinc.

A: Yes, but we are looking for the rubric indicating when he lies in bed, and on closing his eyes in the dark, he sees those things again and is afraid. "Delusions, images on closing the eyes" (p. 27)

MIND,DELUSION,IMAGES,closing the eyes, on : Arg-n., bell., Calc., caust., graph., puls., samb., sep., sil., sulph., tarent., thuj.

or "delusions, visions on closing the eyes" (p. 34).

MIND,DELUSION,VISION,closing the eyes, on : Apis., arg-n., ars., bell., bry., Calc., camph., caust., chin., cocc., cupr., graph., hell., ign., lach., led., lyc., nat-m., plb., puls., samb., sec., sep., spong., stram., sulph., tarent., thuj.

You see, Calcarea is there, but also Sulphur and Pulsatilla. They have both asthma after suppressed eruptions.

Question: "Do you think that this is pathological ?

A: I think of only one remedy. - That is pathological, yes.

Remark: "I don't think it is pathological in little children."

A: It means ... again theorizing !

Do you remember ? Last year there was an endocrinologist here and after the first video of this OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA case she said that every child perspires in sleep. I said, "Wait !" We saw the feedback and the perspiration had stopped.

What does it mean: Does every child perspire in sleep ? Calcarea children perspire in sleep, but not every child. This means only that many children need Calcarea carbonica. After this remedy the perspiration disappears. I warn you, for too much theorizing !

In Belgium I have taught 12 people who are teachers in Homoeopathy themselves. I showed a video of someone who had liver and stomach problems after eating fat. They said that everybody with liver problems does not tolerate fat. I said, "Why ? How can you say this ?" In the Repertory there is a rubric "disorder stomach after fat". Which is the most capital remedy ? Pulsatilla. And then ? Ignatia, maybe China, Carbo vegetabilis is an addition, there is also Ptelea.

So, this woman, when she had this problem, had to eat sour, lemons and things like that, so sour things ameliorate. There is only one remedy that has those both symptoms together - "disorder stomach from fat" and "eating sour, amel." - that is Ptelea. I gave her Ptelea and she has been cured wonderfully.

You see, by theorizing, you go away from the remedy. You have to take the symptoms as they are. Do not theorize and say, "I do not take this symptom, that is normal" - nothing is normal.

If the patient gives you a symptom, please be happy that you have a symptom. We all intend to theorize, not only you, but I also, everyone of us; but try to put it away, try to forget that you are doctors, try to be a human being like the patient.

So, back to the case: delusion.

"Horrible things affect them." You can take this rubric, there is Zincum, all kinds of remedies are there. But now it becomes difficult, "asthma from suppressed eruptions" - there is not Calcarea; then "horrible things affect profoundly" - very strong Calcarea; "delusions at night, sees things, frightful delusions", again Calcarea.

A: It was also clear that he had fear of high places. Have you ever felt dizzy standing on high places ?

P: Yes.

"Fear high places" and "vertigo high places". We take the rubric "vertigo high places" (p. 100). There we see Argentum nitricum, Aurum, Calcarea, Sulphur is capital, by which Sulphur has vertigo on standing on a bridge and looking into the water underneath, like Ferrum; further there is Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, and Zincum. There is also Aurum. Do you know Aurum ? They tend to jump when they stand on high places, they like to jump, have the impulse to jump. Also Argentum nitricum has that.

And Sulphur - Sulphur has also "asthma from suppressed eruptions". Is there Zincum in the rubric "asthma from suppressed eruptions" ? No, Zincum has neurological symptoms from suppressed eruptions, Zincum has chorea - like which other remedy ? "Convulsions from suppressed eruptions", there are 3 remedies: Causticum, Sulphur, Zincum.

Up to now we do not know the remedy yet.

A: He is also afraid in the dark ?

MP: Yes.

MIND,FEAR,dark : Acon., am-m., bapt., brom., calc-p., calc-s., calc., camph., Cann-i., carb-an., carb-v., caust., cupr., lyc., med., phos., puls., rhus-t., sanic., Stram., stront., valer.

"Fear of dark", I forgot. "Fear of dark" (p. 43). Which remedies have this rubric ? Calcarea, Camphora officinarum, Cannabis indica, Carbo animalis, Carbo vegetabilis, Cuprum, Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Stramonium capital, Rhus toxicodendron, but there is not Sulphur, strange.

A: And a very worried, anxious child, when he didn't have good marks on his report.

MP: Yes, indeed.

A: He had an aversion to fat. He likes beef, chips, macaroni, he also likes milk, pizza. He liked fried eggs, but how did they have to be fried ?

MP: Scrambled.

A: No fried eggs, or boiled eggs ?

MP: Boiled eggs, but hard boiled.

Which remedy likes hard boiled eggs ? Pulsatilla likes hard boiled eggs, Natrum phosphoricum likes scrambled eggs.

A: He sleeps on his back and on the left side. He is not quickly angry, and is a very obedient child. The nails are splitting up a little. Previously, he had a bloody nose sometimes. He used to take a hot water-bottle to his bed to warm his feet. He had cold feet in bed.

You know Silicea for splitting of the nails, but for soft nails there are remedies as Calcarea, Calcarea phosphorica, many remedies have soft nails.

Now, he says, "When I go to bed I take a hot water-bottle."

MP: He still has.

A: Does the hot water-bottle lie at your feet the whole night ?

P: No, just half an hour or so.

A: What do you do then ?

P: I put it away.

A: Because your feet have become warm ?

P: Yes.

"Coldness, foot, evening or night in bed", look on p. 963. Which remedies do you find there ? Calcarea capital, there is also Sulphur.

But strange, after 1/2 or 1 hour, he has to put the hot water-bottle away, because his feet are too warm in bed. "Heat foot, night in bed" (p. 1012): Sulphur is there, you see Silicea, Sepia, Calcarea; and in the rubric "heat, foot in bed" (p. 1013) you see Calcarea and Fagopyrum - who knows Fagopyrum ? For what is Fagopyrum ? Prurigo in old women - further "heat foot, night in bed": Hepar, Hura, Mercurius, Mezereum, Sanguinaria, Silicea, Strontium carbonicum and Sulphur. There is also Sulphur, but normally Sulphur has cold feet and once in bed it ameliorates, you see the rubric "coldness, foot, evening in bed amel." (p. 963). Sulphur can have very cold feet, but when they are in bed, they immediately warm up.

Calcarea has cold feet, when he goes to bed he has to take a hot water-bottle and after 1/2 hour he has to put it away, that is typical for Calcarea.

But we still can not make a prescription.

A: So, I gave the remedy in 10 M.

She says that he is a soft, easy child. Which remedy can we give him ?

Proposal: "Pulsatilla pratensis"

A: Pulsatilla ? Pulsatilla ?

We did not talk about the sun, we did not say anything about the symptoms of Pulsatilla. This is a feedback consultation and with this information you can not talk about Pulsatilla at all, because we did not underline aversion to fat, he eats everything.

Remark: "He has an aversion to fat."

A: "Aversion fat" (p. 480), do you see which remedies there are; there is Calcarea, also Sulphur and Sulphur is even stronger than Calcarea.

In the rubric "horrible things affect profoundly" there is not Pulsatilla; in the rubric "fear high places" there is Pulsatilla, and also in the rubric "vertigo high places".

But we do not find a real intolerance of the sun, and strange, a Pulsatilla who takes a hot water-bottle to bed ? Mostly, Pulsatilla has warm feet in bed and puts them out of the covers. Which is the strongest remedy that puts the feet out of bed ? Sulphur. And the second ? Medorrhinum. And then we have Pulsatilla. But this boy takes a hot water-bottle to bed.

I gave him which remedy ? Calcarea. Why not Sulphur ? You see, Calcarea is not in the rubric "asthma from suppressed eruptions. This is a clinical rubric, not a homoeopathic one. In homoeopathic rubrics, especially in key-notes, you may accept that there are no other remedies with the same symptom, but when you are dealing with a clinical rubric, there are certainly much more remedies. I added Calcarea in the rubric "asthma from suppressed eruptions".

Most rubrics are based upon proofs, but the clinical rubric come from the clinical experiences. That is why Tuberculinum has chest symptoms. Tuberculinum has to be added in a lot of rubrics, because at that time the clinical experience was not developed enough to take all the Tuberculinum symptoms in the Repertory.

Be careful, clinical rubrics are dangerous !

We have to start from particular, peculiar symptoms. In this case "horrible things" is peculiar, also "vertigo high places".

A: Two months later he came back. There wasn't an aggravation. The mother says that he seems to have gained strength. That was in May 1986. The shortage of breath has disappeared. Then you got Foliata squalosa.

For people who do not know: Foliata squalosa is not a remedy. It is a name of a plant and we use it for Sac-lac. We give Pleurotis ostriarum, Foliata squalosa, we have 4 names for Sac-lac. If you write Saccharinum lactosum the patients will notice that it does not contain energy.

A: In August you came back, because he was suffering from shortness of breath again. You were really concerned.

MP: Yes, if you have been through so many things, you are always anxious.

A: In September you saw a colleague, again a little allergy with sneezing, some yellow rhinorrhea ( RUNNY NOSE ).

He has given Calcarea 10 M in solution.

In October '86 once again Foliata squalosa.

I saw you again in March, a month and a half ago, and you told me that he has felt well the whole winter, he hasn't suffered from shortness of breath. He has never gone through the winter so well. He had a sore throat, an obstructed nose and he was coughing. I repeated the remedy in 10 M. How did he react ?

MP: Very well. And he was immediately cured. He has been at home for only two days. He went back to school and it is peculiar, he was feeling very well.

A: This means that we have repeated the remedy in 10 M four times in a period of one year. What is your general impression about your child ? He doesn't take medicines anymore ?

MP: No, nothing, absolutely nothing. I think he has changed completely. His constitution, everything has changed.

A: In what way ?

MP: He eats better. At night, he isn't afraid anymore. He doesn't walk in his sleep, and doesn't come to us at night anymore.

The fear has gone since the remedy.

A: Previously, he was anxious and came to you ?

MP: Oh my God, that was terrible. At night, he was screaming, and was really seized by panic. It is the first time I pass the winter through this way. Previously, I was always scared. One week he was healthy and then the other week he needed the little pump and all the other medicines. That was incredible. Now, he goes to school by bicycle, every day 14 km on the bicycle to school. He goes swimming and returns home with wet hair. Everything is all right. And previously, he was a real problem child. I was always very concerned about him.

A: When the mother is concerned as well ...

MP: Previously, I went to see several specialists and had to clean everything, every day for the house dust and all that rubbish. And now I don't have those problems anymore.

A: You went with him to see a specialist ?

MP: Yes, several. They sent you from pillar to post. You try everything with your child, don't you ? For several months he has slept on the sofa, he couldn't get air. He was like a fish. And if someone came on a visit they told us, "How bad looks this child. Like a coal miner !" That was very sad to see. You wanted to help your child, but you couldn't. And because of all those medicines the child became worse instead of better. He didn't want to eat anymore, and sometimes he vomited. That was incredible.

A: Did you have to make your house dust-free ?

MP: Yes, allergy for house dust, dust mites and so on.

Does everybody know the history ? I had a patient who came from the University Hospital and was allergic to 3,000 things. You have to shoot those people to the moon, but maybe they are also allergic to the moon.

3 or 4 days ago I had a patient with hay fever, a very beautiful case. His mother said, that he was allergic to 12 to 15 different things, dust and all kinds of trees. The doctor said that he needed a treatment with injections of 12 months to cure the allergy against one thing. I said, "12 times 15, this means you need several years, maybe 50 years." If it was so, she would rather try with Homoeopathy, but she has not believed in it at all. She was Sepia, and when Sepia comes and is not in a good balance, you are suffering very much as a homoeopath. At the end the case became clear, but she still does not believe that Homoeopathy works. It was a beautiful Sabadilla case, this child. It had a Sepia appearance and Sabadilla is complementary to Sepia. Anyhow, these allergies does not exist because of the flowers or the trees, but because of us. We have to be cured, not the trees have to disappear. We have too much "hygiene", we wash ourselves too much, we have too little resistance.

MP: Once, we went to see a specialist, our doctor had sent us to him, he did several tests; riding on a bicycle and we have sat there at least for 3 hours, and he said that nothing could be done about that. He has to be injected for three years. Every week he would get a little of that substance. We can not do anything else for him, because he is in a very bad condition. Then he also had to do the respiratory test, always with the computer. And then he said, "Well madam, your child is one fourth beneath the normal lung volume, that is very low. Normal it is 90, but he has 75. "

They do respiratory test, and he only had 50 or 60 % of the normal rate and they say, "He is incurable, he will never have healthy lungs again." And then you go home, believe all this and you are worried the rest of your life.

A: A diminished lung volume. He said that nothing could be done about it, and that the child is in a very bad way. You better go to the doctor every week for three years long and then he gets an injection.

MP: Then I went to see my doctor. He received the results. I went there and he said, "Well, there is something wrong. The specialist has sent all the injections to me. But if it was my child, he didn't get those injections. Try with Dr. Geukens." And I am very satisfied and I can let him go everywhere. Previously, he couldn't do anything; you will get a cold, or this or that. He couldn't run, because he would perspire so much.

A: Did he easily perspire when he was running ?

MP: No, now he perspires more than previously.

FP: Because of playing football.

A: Didn't he play football before ?

MP: Yes, he also pursued sport. He has played football for quite a long time, but he could hold it no longer. He was easily tired. Now, he is doing very well. He can run and pursue sport. Previously, you saw that he had to breathe deeply while exerting himself. Before, he was easily tired, but he isn't now anymore.

Which remedy ? Calcarea carbonica.

Remark: "In the rubric 'asthma from suppressed eruptions' there is not Calcarea."

A: Of course, you can add it there. But you have to start from the total picture of the child. This is a calm child, who sits there quietly, quickly exhausted, can not tolerate exertions; this together with the anxiety "broad spectrum anxiety" ! This child is also anxious in school. He wants to do his best. He is anxious of other children. He would do everything, so that the others would say, "You are a sweet boy." Sulphur would not be worried about what other people would say about him; Sulphur is strong-minded and what somebody else says about him is not important. For Calcarea it is important what other people think about him. You feel that it can not be Sulphur. That is Calcarea.

Question: "Did he still get eruptions ?"

A: He did not get eruptions anymore. We see this often. There is an amelioration after suppressed eruptions, if you give the right remedy, and the eruptions will not come back. Sometimes they appear very little, but disappear afterwards.

Question: " ... aggravation ?" (not understandable)

A: It depends. If the aggravation is expectoration, it is all right. You see this often in asthma cases, that the patients start to cough and bring up a lot of expectoration, this means that they are capable to produce expectoration and bring it up, this means that they are stronger than before.

So in an asthma case the loose coughing with expectoration means an amelioration. But if the asthma occurs after the remedy, then the remedy is wrong ! High fever, eruptions, colds, every reaction with secretion means that the patient has become stronger.

This patient got 4 times Calcarea 10 M.

CASE 5 V2

Calcarea carbonica

WOMAN, 18 YEARS OLD

This is my daughter and first I want to tell you that you should not treat your children yourself when you have problems with them. Try to find another homoeopath. But when the difficulties are too big, so that you do not find a homoeopath who is able to treat them you have to do it yourself.

In this case I had to make a choice: I could send her to the hospital where she would have died or I could let her stay at home and try to get her alive again. Also in this case there is a certain constitution and at the end you always come to the constitution in a good treatment. If you give the right remedy in an acute case, afterwards you will see that the symptoms of the constitutional remedy show up.

Acute cases are often caused by external influences. If someone knocks on his thumb with a hammer you do not need to ask what kind of fears they have, whether they sleep well, on which side they sleep and so on, you can forget about that. You only have to ask why he has this pain and if he says, "I knocked on my finger", which remedy do you give then ? Hypericum. Hypericum, not Arnica, Hypericum for injuries of small nerves. When someone goes to the dentist to have his teeth cleaned or have a filling inserted in his teeth - when someone goes without pain to the dentist and afterwards gets a terrible pain, you do not have to ask about the relationship with her husband, nor about her dreams. You only have to know since when the pain exists. And if she says that she has the pain since the visit to the dentist, which remedy do you give her ? Hypericum.

In this case it concerns somebody who was in a rather good situation, but she already had symptoms before the accident. It was a deadly accident. She was walking with a girl-friend along the street and a car of someone who was drunk ran into them from behind. Her girl-friend was flung away for 60 m and was dead; my daughter was also flung away for about 20 m. It was 11. OO p.m. and a few minutes after the accident they phoned me, they came to my house and they said that she had an accident. I went immediately with the car of my neighbour who had seen the accident to the place where she was lying. There I knew immediately the first remedy I had to give. She had broken everything, but we will tell you this in the video.

Now, we will try to get through this acute state, until we arrive at the constitutional complaints - anxieties.

A: I want to put you on video for several reasons. Because of philosophically- homoeopathic reasons. The day before yesterday you came to me with a very touching complaint, which I don't want to deal with yet. First, I want to treat your case history. Until the age of 18 years you didn't have any problems with your health, did you ?

P: No.

A: As a child your tonsils have been removed, because regularly you had tonsilitis. Then, you were very anxious. But you had a very bad accident, how old were you then ?

P: 14 years. On February 5, 1983.

A: You were run into by a car when you returned with your girl-friend from a party of the youth-movement at 11.00 p.m. The car ran into you from behind. The driver was drunk. Your girl-friend was killed and you were flung away, by which you sustained a fracture of the pelvis. The acetabulum in your right hip was broken and there was a diastasis of the pubis. There was a fracture of the tibia and the fibula left. There was a deep wound in the inguinalis. I was called and you were in coma at that moment. There comes the homoeopathic remedy number 1, which I gave you in a very high potency, because you were in coma. This remedy has awaken you from coma within 48 hours.

I am talking about the second remedy, but immediately after the accident I gave a first remedy to which she reacted very well. She was comatose and had a snoring respiration - "respiration, snoring, while insensible" (p. 776).

RESPIRATION, SNORING, insensible, while : Op.

You see in that rubric only one remedy. You can touch them, they do not react and the respiration is very, very slow and snoring - very, very deep and very slow; suddenly it stops and then they start respiring again, as I told you of the child whose mother had been injected with DOLANTIN. This is the first remedy you always have to take with in cases of accidents, or in cases of cerebral hemorrhages.

A year ago they came to me and said that a neighbour, a single woman, she was divorced and she was living on the first floor, it was on old house, the old house where I was practising in 1982 or 1983; the first floor was an apartment where this woman was living; she was about 45 years old - they came and said, "She is almost dead." She had fallen, because she had a hypertension. Immediately, I put Aconitum and Opium in my pocket and went to her. She was lying there and had a very deep, snoring respiration - I waited and waited, almost 30, 35 seconds, I thought, "Oh my God !" and then she had a very long expiration, stopped, again a very, very long deep inspiration and stopped again. She was lying with open eyes, and there was blood coming out of the nose and the mouth. She did not have a corneal reflex (The corneal reflex, also known as the blink reflex, is an involuntary blinking of the eyelids elicited by stimulation of the cornea (such as by touching or by a foreign body),). Where do we find this ? "Eyes insensible" (p. 244).

INSENSIBILITY : Carb-o., carb-s., crot-h., hyos., kali-br., op., stram.

Another peculiar thing for Opium is painlessness of complaints usually painful - "painlessness of complaints usually painful" (p. 1390): Opium and Stramonium. "Slow respiration during sleep" (p. 775).

RESPIRATION, SLOW, INSPIRATION, sleep, during : Acon., chin., Op.

It is typical for Opium that they are completely insensitive, this means that they are in coma. Together with this kind of deep, slow, snoring respiration you have to give Opium.

Another patient whom I cured with Opium had been hospitalized for an apoplexy. They thought, he was dying. His family came to the centre and I gave the woman a tube Opium LM 6 without the knowing of the doctors. Why LM 6 ? Because of the convulsions in high fever - he was comatose the whole time and got cortisone and antibiotics. That is why I gave Opium LM 6 continuously. In the meantime he is at home. He can walk with supports, but can not talk yet. He had an aphasia (Aphasia : It is a condition that robs you of the ability to communicate. Aphasia can affect your ability to express and understand language, both verbal and written. ) after an apoplexy. Which is the most important remedy ? Baryta carbonica, there is also Nux vomica. (Baryta carbonica is an addition)

So, do not forget: the first remedy in these cases is Opium, you can save lives. Here, you are dealing with several things together. We know from Hahnemann, that in chronic diseases - he wrote in his "Organon" - you need only one remedy at a certain moment in a certain situation. That is important, but the situation can change from minute to minute, in this minute you need a certain remedy, in another minute you need another remedy and so on. That is possible. In a big accident there are so many aspects: first anxiety - this can be Opium because of anxiety, ailments from fright: a car comes and suddenly he drives into you from behind. That is a fright. And if you look at "unconsciousness from fright", for example, "unconsciousness", I do not know whether this is in the Repertory or not. No, it is not; then we look, for example, at "trembling from fright" or "faintness after fright" (p. 1360).

GENERALITIES, FAINTNESS,fright, after : Acon., gels., ign., lach., Op., verat.

A fright, that is something suddenly. Do you know what "fright" is ? That is a very sudden anxiety, very sudden. You see on page 1360 "faintness after fright". Then on page 1408 "trembling from fright";

GENERALITIES, TREMBLING, fright, from : Arg-n., aur., coff., glon., hura., ign., mag-c., merc., nicc., op., puls., rat., rhus-t., sep.

then you also see that someone has stool in his pants after a fright. Where can you find this ? In Belgium there is an expression: ... So, "rectum, involuntary stool after fright" (p. 621).

RECTUM, INVOLUNTARY STOOL, fright, after : Op., phos., verat.

You see: the most near dead remedy because of accidents is Opium, because an accident has always to do with a fright, a sudden anxiety, an accident happens suddenly.

First, she got Opium and then the remedy that we have to give in an accident, which is this remedy ? Arnica. Afterwards, I gave her Arnica in a very high potency, I think Opium 10 M and Arnica M. Then she came out of coma and after 3 hours she aggravated again. I gave her Arnica again, she improved - for 6 hours, then 12 hours, 24 hours and then she came totally out of coma. But then she came into another state.

A: A second point was that during the night of the accident you were paralysed in both your lower limbs, as I noticed then. The hamstring reflex and the pain reflex were totally absent in both legs. Then you got a second remedy, taking into account the cause and the cause of the symptomatology at that moment.

That was the third remedy. Which remedy ? At 3.00 a.m. I saw suddenly - the accident happened at 11.00 p.m. - that she did not move her legs, they were paralysed. She did not feel anything and the reflexes were absent. Which remedy is this ? Hypericum. Hypericum because of the injury of the spine. Look at "back, injury of the spine" (p. 892).

You know that Hypericum acts, where there are a lot of nerves. And do you know, where are the most nerves ? In the spine, and in the cervical region, because all the nerves go to the head. That is why the most nerves are at this place. I am only theorizing, but that is important. This is the most dangerous place for injury. You know that Hypericum is the first remedy for whiplash injury. Hypericum is also the first remedy after a blow in the back with broken vertebraes. Hypericum is the remedy for neurologists. If all the University Hospitals would know Hypericum, they would save more patients with medulla oblongata contusions. Before I started my medical studies I was a nurse and in Haiti, I had a lot of clinical experience and during my studies of medical doctor I worked in the University Hospital on the neurologic department and there I saw so many people who had an accident with a motorcycle. They were lying there with their feet turned inwards and were jerking. They said, "They will die, forget it." The reason was a bleeding of the medulla oblongata, because of the injury. Look at the rubric "injuries of the spine", underneath "lies on back, jerking head backward" (p. 892).

after, lies on back, jerking head backward : Hyper.

You see how important it is to have seen things in clinical training, in experience in clinics, so that you remember this state and you will never forget. It is very important to have clinical experience in Homoeopathy, because every picture relates to a homoeopathical remedy.

Hypericum is a very important remedy in elongations of the nerves. And it acts very, very quickly. We had a stove with coals and inside there was something broken. I had to take the broken thing out and put a new one in it. It fell upon my two small fingers and it was very painful and blue. Immediately, I went downstairs, took Hypericum 10 M and 5 minutes later the pain had gone. Another time I knocked a nail in the wall and I knocked on my finger, I took immediately Hypericum and everything was all right. Do not forget Hypericum in very dangerous, serious cases. Also when someone has been lying this way (...) with an operation, so that the nerves are elongated and afterwards he is complaining of numbness and pain, that is Hypericum. Also when a joint has been displaced and after the displacement there is numbness, paresthesia, that is Hypericum.

Question: "Is this also possible in chronic diseases with a carpal tunnel syndrome ?"

A: No, usually, that is constitutional. In general, the cause of Hypericum is an accident. If this stays very long, it is not Hypericum anymore, but constitutional. In the rubric "injuries of the spine" there is also Calcarea, Natrum sulphuricum, Fagopyrum - that is not constitutional under certain circumstances - Nitricum acidum, Thuja, Silicea. If you have given Hypericum in such a case and it does not act, this means, that you have to give the constitutional remedy and this will solve the problem.

That night I gave her Hypericum in a very high potency, because she was paralysed, and I can tell you that she was cured after 1/2 hour. She felt again.

Afterwards my colleague, who is an orthopedist, said that this happens often, and called it a transient medullar ischemia. It passed away with Hypericum, it was transient. Everything - the coma also - was transient.

A: In 1 or 2 hours' time the sensitiveness and the hamstring reflex were present again. That was the homoeopathic remedy number 3.

In the meantime there was also a deep wound in your inguinalis with quasi black blood. I didn't stitch the wound the night of the accident, but the day after. I also gave a remedy for that, after which the bleeding stopped soon.

Which remedy ? (It was black, stinging blood, oozing, passive) Elaps is a good proposal, but we do not know Elaps in these cases. Elaps has internal bleedings, for example, the lungs. The blood of Elaps is really black, even without a bandage.

Question: "Crotalus ?"

A: Crotalus is one of the important remedies for oozing blood, but not for coagulation. It is a very, very important remedy for oozing blood from the nose, from the mouth. But for oozing black blood from injuries, it is Hamamelis. Hamamelis is not well indicated in the Repertory. It is good for venous bleeding, bleeding from varicose veins and hemorrhoids. In Boericke there is a very good description of the remedy. I gave Hamamelis for this bleeding. You see in this case you can give Opium, Arnica, Hypericum, Hamamelis, one after each other, because of the many different external influences. But even then the most important and life dangerous state has to be treated first. What is the first remedy in near dead situations ? That is Opium and then you have to give Arnica, and then, after 3 hours you detect Hypericum and then comes the bleeding: Hamamelis. The most important symptom has to be treated first, and then the next one and so on. You may not mix it up, that is not good, afterwards you do not know anymore what you are doing.

A: I have let you be taken care of at home and let an orthopedist come. I have taken radiographs myself of your pelvis and legs. My colleague told me you should go to the hospital for safety to take radiographs of your spinal column. And so they did.

When they came to take her for the radiographs there were 3 nurses and a driver. When I took her home, I had to sign, that I took the responsibility and they only sent the driver, no nurses. The doctors did not want let her go. I had to say, "That is my daughter and I decide what is going on here."

At 3.00 a.m. they asked me to come to insert a catheter. They could not insert a catheter because of the swelling. Then it was better to let her be taken care of at home. I have nothing against hospitals - but three of my older patients, who could not be taken care of at home, had been hospitalized and they all have broken the head of the thigh-bone.

A: Because there was a diastasis of the pubis, there was a peripubic bleeding, which has increased in the meantime. There was a strong swelling of the vulvar soft parts. It was very difficult for you to urinate. At night they called me, because the nursing couldn't catheterize you. I did it then and I inserted a delay-catheter. Two days later I have let you be taken home. On the radiographs there were no other fractures present. Then you got a bladder inflammation, because of the catheterization and the 4th remedy followed.

Because of the catheterization she had an inflammation of the bladder and pain while urinating. Which remedy is this ? Staphisagria. Look at the Repertory. That is very important. You have to know this. Give me the rubrics where you can find difficulties while urinating, "pain in the bladder" and "inflammation of the bladder after injury of the urethra". This is a remedy for what kind of women ? For newly married women, because there is also a kind of dilatation at the beginning, the first night. Where do you find this rubric ? On page 646 "bladder, pain after lithotomy".

BLADDER, PAIN, lithotomy, after : Staph.

Lithotomy means that they go with a catheter into the bladder, and take the stone out. There is another rubric on page 646, "bladder, inflammation after injury":

BLADDER, INFLAMMATION, injuries, after : Arn., staph.

Arnica, Staphisagria. Arnica injuries are mostly injuries after a blow. For pain with bleeding after a blow in the hypogastrium you can give Arnica; after a blow in the abdomen, a very deep blow: Bellis perennis. Bellis perennis is a remedy for injuries of the abdomen. Our cleaning woman has been in a Bellis perennis state. You know there are garages which are going downstairs. The car was standing uphill, she drove the care backwards, got out and closed the door. The car was coming down and she tried to withhold it with her hands. She had to go to the hospital and afterwards I gave her Bellis perennis and the pain disappeared. Very deep contusions of the abdomen, also after abdominal operations, very deep abdominal operations where the pain remains, you have to think about Bellis perennis.

She has an inflammation of the bladder, pain in the bladder and in the urethra. Look at "bladder, urination, dysuria, in newly married women" (p. 656).

married women, newly : Cann-s., ery-a., Staph.

If you marry and you want to do your woman a favour, you take Staphisagria with you. This was Staphisagria, now you know Staphisagria with the discoloration of the teeth, and the hypersensitivity. You have to handle Staphisagria women with gloves, you have to be very careful with them during coition.

A: The homoeopathic remedy number 5. Following the catheterization you had a burning pain while urinating. I gave you the remedy and it disappeared very quickly. Then we have laid you in traction, in a hammock, the orthopedist recommended it. We have treated you at home. You had a very low blood pressure. First, 7.4 then 7.2 and I gave you two times half a litre blood.

Following that anemic condition I came to the fifth homoeopathic remedy.

We can not give a homoeopathic remedy, because of this or that, but we can give a remedy, because of this or that AND homoeopathic indications.

She had lost quite a lot of blood, here, in the inguinal region and also the subcutaneous bleeding means a hemorrhage. The bleeding inside, under the skin is also a bleeding and then the broken hip and the broken tibia and fibula are bleedings as well. She had so much pain here, so that we could not lift her up while cleaning the bed, she could not even tolerate the slightest touch. But when she had so much pain she wanted somebody to press her hand, very hard. That is strange, very strange, that she is so sensitive to touch and at the same time so tolerant of pain, when I took her hand and pressed it very hard. That did her good. Which remedy is this ? ...

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Question: " ... ?" (not understandable)

A: Oh yes, I understand the problem. But I can not press at a broken place, do you understand ? But the general sense of China is sense, also psychologically, I do not know whether you have read "The Essence" of Vithoulkas - psychologically China is hypersensitive and very difficult to approach; only with a very deep psychological pressure, that is good for China. We have a lot of experiences in China cases, in malaria cases, in neuralgia cases, stomach pain, headache, they are so painful, and then you press very hard and the pain disappears. Also psychologically, this is important for this remedy.

The most important indication was that she had lost a lot of fluid. "Lost of fluids": China is capital. That is also the reason why China is so important in malaria - because you have hemolysis - a lot of blood is lost.

So China was the next remedy.

A: Everything turned out rather well. In the meantime, you heard that your girl-friend had died. At that moment it gave you a rather severe shock. Then I gave you the homoeopathic remedy number 7.

When she knew - a few days or a week later - that her girl-friend had died, she had a break down, psychologically. Which remedy is this ? Ignatia.

Almost every one in this world looses his wife or his child or someone who was very near, and when this comes suddenly, he gets into an Ignatia state. The external influence is so typical for Ignatia, that almost everyone needs it at that time. We can replace Valium by Ignatia and in very high potencies you have wonderful reactions. All these remedies have been given, because of the cause AND certain homoeopathic indications - and the cause is very important: fright, injury, cutting, injury of the bladder, lost of fluids, grief. These are all indications for the homoeopathic remedy, but we still need modalities, clear modalities.

A: You reacted rather fast. In the meantime, you have been put in plaster, the wounds have been stitched. Peripubarly, there was an incision of that accumulated blood. A litre and a half blood and purulent came out of there. Everything turned out all right slowly.

There is one thing I forgot to tell you and I did not give the remedy. I discovered the remedy later. That was, when she was lying in the hospital, she started to talk English. She speaks Flemish and I am sure she said words she never learned before. At this moment she would have needed another remedy, because of the interstitial bleeding in the brain, oedema of the brain. She was talking in a foreign language. Which remedy is this ? Stramonium. Look in the Repertory. She was - how do you call this state of being away ? Delirium. "Delirium, talks in a foreign language" (p. 19).

language, talks in a : Stram.

There is another rubric "speech in a foreign tongue" (p. 81): there are Stramonium and Lachesis.

foreign tongue, in a : Lach., stram.

I did not give her a remedy. I did not look in the Repertory, I did not know it at that moment.

Question: " ... ?" (not understandable)

A: I do not think so. She was not so loquacious, but Stramonium - it is difficult. Stramonium is one of the most important remedies in psychiatry, together with Hyoscyamus, Veratrum album and so on. Every remedy has psychiatric cases, but ...

A: And then in August 1983, six months later, you took examinations of your school year and passed them. Everybody took it ill of me, that I took care of you at home, but I had my reasons. You were able to take your exams. That was in the third year, and you finished the next years without problems. Now you follow the first year of higher education for social assistance.

After this history one injury has remained, a paralysing of the femoral n. left. The fracture on tibia and fibula consisted of different little pieces and by which you got a shortened leg. Consequently, we were obliged to lengthen it and put it straight. There was a slight angle and this has been put straight and then a sheet of iron has been put on it so that the leg is straight and equal. You can lift and bend your leg with your muscles. You are in rehabilitation for the only reason that you can not bend your knee hundred per cent. You can ride on a bicycle and run, but you have to do some exercises for a while before you are completely recovered. After the accident you arrived in a situation in which I was obliged to give you the homoeopathic remedy number 8.

You are someone who is a little artistically-minded, especially in writing.

When I read this poem that was tacked to the wall in your room together with a photograph of your dead girl-friend and a suicide attempt I decided to give you a remedy.

Once I loved the life

Everything was beautiful

The fluting birds

The rustling trees

A person came and went

Everything seemed so logically

I was young and without knowing

Everything seemed understandable

To realize was a strange word

How was it possible

Never anything happened to me

Friends stayed

Everything went smoothly

Then I payed the debt, as a bursting bomb

Pain took possession of me and a friend has been taken away

My leg did not work anymore, everything went wrong

And a great disillusion always showed up

Now I am older and I have learned to understand

The realization has entered, of course

Besides, I have seen both sides

And there is one thing I may not forget:

Life is a way full of disappointments and dangers,

And yet one has to go on

Waiting for what will be next.

A: You wrote this poem in a very depressive period, in which you painted your room purple.

P: At that time a boy had just been killed in an accident.

A: But you still were under the influence of the loss of your girl-friend, by which you felt alone in the world.

But anyway, you were wearing purple clothes, dark clothes. You saw everything very dark. In your room there were only dark photographs, purple bed-spread and sheets. It was very melancholic. Then I gave you the remedy number 8.

Which remedy ? Aurum. I gave her Aurum, because everything was so black in her life. When she was not at home I went to her room and switched on the music. I noticed that it was very, very heavy music. I felt this very heavy situation. I felt Aurum. She became better, but I doubted, I am still doubting, whether the remedy was correct, whether I should have given her constitutional remedy, until now I do not know. But anyhow, she reacted very well, and I want to say: do not forget Aurum. Do not forget Aurum in suicidal dispositions. Aurum is the first remedy. If you do not clearly see the remedy and there is a very, very deep sadness, when they feel good while thinking of being dead and things like that - the deepest sadness is Aurum; that is a very, very dangerous situation. So first, even when your remedy is wrong and you are doubting, first you have to give Aurum.

It was about 1985, I worked very hard and suddenly in February I became hoarse, I could not speak anymore. And progressively I became very irritated, I did not want to talk to anyone, I was studying the whole time, but I could not remember anything. I was praying all the time, "My God, help me !" I was so depressed and I was very difficult towards my wife, my children, the doctors, to everybody. I was very, very depressed and I thought if this would continue like this I would rather be dead. And the doctors told me that I should take Nux vomica. I took it - nothing. I took Sulphur - nothing. I do not know what they all prescribed me, and I took and I took - no reaction. I could not stay in the centre and I decided to go to Spain, alone. There I was walking at the seaside the whole time. I took a newspaper and my Boericke behind it so that nobody could see, that I was studying. And I was thinking, thinking, thinking and my life meant really nothing to me. I wanted to die, I did see no light. In the hotel where I was staying I had a room on the 4th floor and I was looking out of the window and suddenly I noticed that I wanted to jump. "My God, that is Aurum !" and I studied all my symptoms, I studied all the symptoms of the mind - and really: praying and so on, 150 symptoms of Aurum. I had my box with remedies there, I went and looked - but there was not Aurum. But 2 days later I went back home and even on the night I arrived I took Aurum 10 M. The next day I felt better, 2 days later everything was gone. I went from the rain into the sunshine, within two days, my life had completely changed, the hoarseness had completely gone.

That was for me a situation near to death, I woke up with the idea, "If I had a gun, I would kill myself." Why, I do not know. And I have prayed the whole night, the whole time, constantly praying. Now, I know that when I am not praying I feel well. Now, I am creative, working, studying and things like that and I feel well. But when I start praying at night I say, "Alf be careful, do not go to sleep too late, do not waist too much energy, do not drink too much beer, because you will start praying and that is not good." That is what a homoeopathic remedy can do and nobody else. You can go to psychotherapy and all other kinds of therapies - nothing can be better than what happened to me after Aurum. That was a miracle; within 2 days I changed from the most negative to a normal, positive man.

That is why my daughter also got Aurum and Aurum really cheered her up.

Until now I did not know that she tried to kill herself with a knife. My wife told me that later. "Suicidal disposition with knife" (p. 85).

knife, with : Alum., ars., bell., calc., merc., stram.

There you see Alumina, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Calcarea, Mercurius, Stramonium. Do you remember the Stramonium state ? Here also, in suicidal disposition with a knife, there is Stramonium again. You see, in suicidal disposition there are 3 capital remedies: Aurum, Aurum muriaticum and Natrum sulphuricum. There is also Psorinum in the rubric, Ignatia, Rhus toxicodendron; do not forget Rhus toxicodendron in suicidal disposition, it is very important. In her poem she wishes to go away from the life and that is typical. Aurum feels well at these thoughts, all the sufferings are over - "cheerful while thinking of the death" (p. 11).

thinking of death, while : Aur.

Aurum is anxious of death, but he feels happy, because he thinks that everything goes better. The tendency to jump means to jump into freedom.

A: Then you got a more positive look of the world. Until the day before yesterday. And now we arrive to where we wanted to come.

Until now we are not dealing with the real history yet. She told me this history a few days ago in the living room. After all these remedies - Opium, Arnica, and so on her real picture shows up, so that I think it is her constitutional remedy. So many wonderful symptoms. Now I understand why she does not show her eyes, I did not notice it previously.

A: Philosophically-homoeopathically, I only want to say that until now the eight remedies you had were only remedies of layers. Layers which have been spread over you by different circumstances, causations. Now, your real nature showed up, as you were as a child.

That is very important. Because of certain circumstances we can come into different situations, we call that layers, which are put upon because of certain causations. After a death you probably need Ignatia, no matter whether you are constitutional Calcarea or Natrum muriaticum. When you have an accident and you show Hypericum symptoms, you need Hypericum. That is what I mean with flexibility. You have to follow the evolution of the patient, give the remedy which he needs at a certain time.

A: As a young child you had the same characteristics. Also your look, your way of living, the fact you had inflammations of the tonsils pointed to the remedy you needed the day before yesterday. As a child and a young girl you were regularly depressed.

We can start from the rubric "sadness, children" (p. 76).

MIND, SADNESS, children: Ars., calc., caust., lach., rhus-t., sulph.

Also when somebody says that the tonsils have been removed is a very important remedy. Which is the most important remedy for swollen tonsils ? Baryta carbonica.

A: Do you remember you were easily depressed when you were very young ?

P: Well, I always thought they laughed at me.

A: I won't tell your appearance as a young child, otherwise I betray the remedy.

A: You thought they were laughing at you. You thought you were making a fool of yourself.

As a child she was thick, a real "little ball", and very obstinate. Also today she still is obstinate. She does not listen to us. The day before yesterday she came home at 4.00 a.m. , on her socks upstairs. There is another rubric "delusions, laughed at, imagines she is" (p. 28): Baryta carbonica.

MIND, DELUSIONS, laughed at, imagines she is : Bar-c, Ign, nux-v, Ph-ac, Sep.

P: Yes.

A: Because they told you you had Chinese eyes. Put that hair away, then we can see whether this is really so. It's far from that. You became shy and you always covered your eyes with your hair.

Yes, but before, when she was a young child, they said that she had Chinese eyes. That is the reason why she puts her hair before her eyes, so that nobody can see her Chinese eyes. Which remedy is this ? And where can you find it in the Repertory ? You have to understand. You have to go deep into the understanding. Why does she put her hair before the eyes ? Because she does not want that people see her Chinese eyes. She has fear that people will see - "fear her condition will be observed" - how she really is. You see, "fear, observed of her condition being" (p. 46).

observed, of her condition being : Atro., calc., chel.

All the time she said - she limped a little, because her leg has become shorter because of the multiple fractures ... all the time she was discussing with me that she would like to have been operated on her leg, so that her leg got the same length. She wanted strongly that nobody could see that she had an accident, that she had a kind of invalidity. And so she had her operation. And that was also her constitutional nucleus.

A: The evening before yesterday you told me spontaneously your complaints in a panic. That was a beautiful story. At that moment I didn't want to put it on video. Tell us how long this is going on and what are the complaints ?

P: It started with Joke and all these problems.

A: Joke is a friend of yours ?

P: Yes, she had problems with her boy-friend, that was very annoying, she couldn't take it anymore and became ill. I was very worried about her.

A: You were concerned about your girl-friend ?

P: Yes. At night I couldn't sleep anymore. That was not so bad.

A: Why couldn't you sleep ?

P: I dreamt about spiders.

A: You dreamt about spiders. Did they have a particular colour ?

P: Yes, black.

She says she could not sleep and dreamt about spiders. What does it mean ? She could not sleep and nevertheless she dreamt. That is what we mean with "delusion". "Dream" means "during the sleep", "delusion" means "images while being awake", - "delusions of animals" (p. 20).

animals, of : Absin., aeth., ars., aur., bell., calc., cham., cimic., cina., colch., con., crot-h., hyos., lac-c., lyss., med., Op., puls., sant., sec., stram.,sulph., tarent., thuj., valer.

P: It became better for a while, but afterwards I dreamt about our cat, that it was dying, that I had to loose her.

A: You saw your cat, which one ?

P: The black cat.

A: Did you dream about it or did you see it before your eyes ?

P: I saw it in a dream.

A: And what happened to it ?

P: It got accidents and was torn to pieces. And then those spiders that want to kill me.

"Delusion, sees cats" (p. 22).

cats, sees : Absin., aeth., arn., bell., calc., daph., hyos., op, puls., stram.

"Fancies at night, frightful" (p. 42).

frightful : Calc., caust., hydr-ac., hydr., lac-c., merc., op., sil., Stram.

P: And I dreamt about my friend that he had to be hanged.

"Delusion, sees someone murdered" (p. 29).

sees some one : Calc.

Here there is a development of a very beautiful mental picture of Calcarea, which goes in the direction of delusion; also the anxiety.

P: I couldn't do anything. And also the fact that I was rejected. That he was going out with other girls and that I wasn't important anymore.

A: The evening before yesterday you told me, "I dreamt that he was murdered". Was that only by hanging or also in another way ?

P: By hanging.

A: Was that only once ?

P: Yes, but the fact that he rejected me happened many times. And I saw it clearly before my eyes.

A: You saw it very clearly before your eyes, you saw everything clearly happening before your eyes.

P: Yes, very clearly.

A: Was that only while you were dreaming or while you were lying with your eyes closed ?

P: At the beginning, while I was lying in bed, I started to think. But I had those fancies while I was sleeping.

A: When you went to bed and you closed your eyes, there were no fancies.

P: No, I was thinking for a long time.

A: Always ?

P: Yes, always thinking.

She saw it clearly before her eyes, vividly - "delusion vivid" (p. 34), also persistent, anxious thoughts - "persistent thoughts" (p. 87), "frightful thoughts" (p. 87).

A: Does the darkness play a role ?

P: I don't think so.

A: Did you ever wish that the light was on ?

P: Yes, with those spiders. I thought I heard them buzzing in my room.

A: Where did the noise come from ?

P: From a corner behind the bed.

"Delusion, hears noise, knocking under bed": Calcarea, Cantharis. Then there is that fear of dark, at that moment she had to put on the light. And we can say the same thing as yesterday: "Delusions, frightful".

All this is Calcarea.

A: You had persistent thoughts, especially when you went to bed, your mind was constantly busy. It didn't leave you in peace. Were there other complaints ?

P: Well, at school, while walking, I'm anxious that it won't improve much and what they will think about me. I'm anxious that they will reject me.

A: Anxious to be renounced.

P: Also when I talk to someone, afterwards I ask myself whether I didn't say anything wrong. I'm also anxious that I have done something wrong. I'm immediately angry or suspicious about everything.

What is behind this ? She says that she is anxious of saying something wrong, she is afraid that people will get a bad impression about her - she is very concerned about what other people think of her (her eyes, her leg). Where can you find this in the Repertory ? After having talked to someone she is wandering whether she has not said anything stupid, whether this person thinks she is a little crazy. You see, "delusion, that people think her a little bit insane" (p. 28).

that people think her : Calc.

This is the real, very deep nucleus of Calcarea. What other people think about them is very important. When someone has told her that her legs are too thin she will never wear a skirt again, but pants, so that nobody can see her legs. She covers her eyes, she tries to walk correctly.

When they drive a car, the car of a married Calcarea woman with a few children is very well cleaned. "What would other people think about me ? That we are dirty people ?" When they have a garden before the house, the husband has to clean everything on Saturday evening, because on Sunday people will pass the garden and look at it when they go to church. That is Calcarea. On Saturday they have to clean the whole house, because somebody might come in and what will they think about this mess here. These are Calcarea people, very catholic, religious people. And you rather find them in the north, in very catholic areas ... (changing of cassette).

Which remedy is complementary to Calcarea ? Rhus toxicodendron. Calcarea goes into a Rhus toxicodendron state, because of the mind. They are working, working, and working; they get wet and come into a Rhus toxicodendron state. Rhus toxicodendron is complementary to Calcarea.

A: Were there other complaints, at night for instance ? At last you couldn't sleep anymore, you were afraid to go to bed ?

P: At last I was. I was afraid, because I was lying there, and those dreams ... And I kept thinking about it and I doubted whether those dreams have effect. Whether this is real, or this wants to say something to you.

A: Whether those dreams mean something ?

P: Yes.

A: So, you became afraid ?

P: Yes, also in the car, that was terrible.

A: What else did you feel ? In general.

P: Anxious about everything. Anxious that you don't have any future.

Calcarea is a - in the allopathy there is "broad spectrum antibiotics" - and Calcarea is a broad spectrum anxiolyticum. If you have somebody who is afraid of everything, first you have to think of Calcarea. She said, "I have fear of everything, of everything, when I'm driving a car, when I'm walking, what other people will think about me and fear of dark." All kinds of fears: fear of high places, fear in narrow places, fear of birds, fear of animals, fear of spiders, fear of the future, all kinds of fears. That is Calcarea.

A: You were very anxious concerning your future. Your problem is still that people can see that you limp while walking, because you can't bend your knee hundred percent. Objectively, you are very well, but you have the impression that you can't walk properly. The least thing that people notice at you, you can't bear that thought. That is what keeps you busy most.

P: Yes.

A: Are there other things ?

P: Generally, it seems as if I lost my pride. That I react differently.

A: What do you mean ?

P: Well, that I am not normal anymore, that I talk at random.

Very important "fear of insanity" (S. 46), "delusion that she will become insane" (p. 28) and typical for Calcarea "delusion, insane, that people think her" (p. 28).

Then, she also has fear she looses her mind - "fear of loosing senses" (p. 46).

A: Anxious you will become insane.

P: Yes. I don't feel the same as when I am normal. I reacted very differently. As if I can't control it anymore.

A: No control over your feelings, what do you mean ?

P: For instance, offended easily, and admitting fast, I'm not like that.

A: You were offended easily, and easily indulgent ? What was the reason for that indulgence, why were you easily indulgent ?

P: For fear maybe they would say other things.

A: Gradually, you were afraid of being yourself. You didn't dare to sustain your obstinacy, which you have by nature. You are a person, who is by nature very obstinate, very headstrong, extremely sensitive.

She is very obstinate. Calcarea is very, very obstinate, but in Calcarea you can feel an internal softness, like boiled eggs.

On the outside Calcarea can be hard like an egg, but when you approach him, you feel a softness in him. Calcarea is like a nucleus of a soft boiled egg and the outer part is hard like the shell of an egg. You get this feeling with Calcarea, and that is very close to Pulsatilla, but Calcarea has a strong will and that is her problem. She feels that her inner force, her haughtiness - it is not haughtiness, but her strength and force of being independent of everyone, is going away. She has the feeling as if she is loosing her strength and is becoming crazy.

A: We can say that as a child you were very sensitive. And also sensitive in the sense of feeling something easily. Further, you have characteristics of a kind of a sixth sense, or how do you call it ?

P: I'm interested in parapsychology.

A: But you also have another characteristic, another knowledge ?

P: Yes, those dreams that come true, not always, but ...

I went to school and that night I dreamt I would meet my teacher. And I did. I asked the questions in his place and answered them.

How do you call that ? Clairvoyence. Look at "clairvoyance" (p. 11). Do you see Calcarea there ? There is also Medorrhinum, that is very important when we talk about Medorrhinum, besides there is Cannabis indica and Phosphorus. Carcinosinum and Ptelea are additions.

A: Are there other things you were troubled with lately ?

P: Easily tired, while walking a certain distance, I start panting and so on.

When she goes upstairs, she has a panting respiration. Look in the Repertory "respiration, panting, ascending stairs" (p. 774).

ascending stairs : Calc., plan.

We have also seen this in the child, "panting respiration".

A: What else ? That is the main thing. What about your appetite ?

P: At the moment I have a good appetite.

A: What do you prefer to eat ?

P: Chicken in puff pastry. And cutlets and eggs.

A: How do you prefer eggs ?

P: Fried eggs.

When we eat meat, she is frying 2 eggs and puts the fried potatoes in the yolk. That is the way she eats fried potatoes and fried eggs. She eats eggs every day, every day ! We have 10 chicken, especially for her !

P: I also eat boiled eggs, but I don't like them very much when they are slimy.

Calcarea does not like slimy food. The eggs have to be boiled to the point - "aversion slimy food", like Natrum muriaticum.

P: I like to dip my chips in the yolk of the fried egg.

A: What else ?

P: Croquettes.

A: What about sweet things ?

P: I don't like them very much. It makes me feel faint. Sometimes I want some, but when I have to eat much of that I feel faint. Like cream too.

A: And fat, does it make you feel faint as well ?

P: No.

A: Are there other things which you can not tolerate easily ?

P: Ice-cream, I'm not fond of ice-cream either. Sometimes I am, but sometimes I am not.

A: Do you like beer ?

P: Yes.

I have had troubles with her; drinking, drinking and discussing. She has to be careful not to drink too much. Look in your Repertory "dipsomania" (p. 36). Not only Sulphur is a drinker, but also other remedies can be drinkers. And do not forget Bufo. There is also Bufo, Calcarea is two, Lachesis, Nux vomica, every one knows - and Sulphur; and drinking secretly means that they drink and nobody knows it. They go away from home, take a bottle of whisky or brandy somewhere to, and in an eating-place or so, behind the grilled chicken they drink ... they put the bottle away, go back home, and continue their work. Or the real Sulphurs in the Oxford street in London, with long hair and rather dirty, they have a small bottle of whisky in their pocket, and they are talking the whole night while standing around a small fire. Then they go a little bit further, take a pull at their bottle, come back and go on discussing. That is the kind of Sulphur, they drink secretly. They will never admit they are alcoholic. You ask them, "Do you drink alcohol?" - "No, I don't drink alcohol." And even when you smell his alcohol breath he will say that he doesn't drink alcohol.

A: And do you smoke a cigarette anytime ?

P: Yes.

A: Why do you think you smoke ?

P: I don't know.

A: Because of the same reasons you do everything.

There is one reason why Calcarea smokes: she does not want to be an exception. Young people in a group wear the same kind of pants: these jeans. If one wears jeans, everyone wears jeans; if one smokes, everyone smokes.

Because she does not want that the other people think that she is not normal, she wears the same jeans. Now she is wearing jeans, new jeans, where she has cut out a piece and has sewed another piece of an old jeans on it. It has nothing to do with being untidy or dirty, but she wants to be dressed like the others, she does not want to be someone else.

A: The evening before yesterday you got Calcarea 10 M. Tell me what happened afterwards.

P: Previously, I had the feeling as if I had been awake the whole night. And now I slept well. I woke up earlier, but not at night.

That is what they say when they have delusions. They have the impression as if they were awake the whole night, as if they did not sleep the whole night. When they express it that way, you have to take the rubric "delusion".

A: The first night you slept earlier, didn't you ?

P: Yes, I have been awake only for a while. The next day I felt as if I had to vomit and I had headache. This has lasted for about three hours. It was better in the afternoon.

A: The tendency to vomit had gone ?

P: I only had a little headache.

A: How did you sleep the night before yesterday ?

P: Very well.

A: Did you still dream ?

P: No.

A: Did you have headache today ?

P: Yes, in the forenoon.

A: How is your anxiety in the car, if you compare it to last week ?

P: Much better, sometimes I was a little afraid, but it is much better. Otherwise I would hold myself to the belt and went completely with the car, I hoped that the car would hit nothing, but that is better now.

A: Although you went to a party last night, you feel well.

P: I have slept only for four hours, but I feel well.

A: You look less depressed and that is your remedy number 9, which is your constitutional remedy.

I also remarked that she was very, very anxious when she was telling her problems that night. It was as if she was going through these anxieties again, when she was telling her story. Where can you find this in the Repertory ? When they are telling their symptoms, it aggravates, - "narrating her symptoms agg." (p. 68).

MIND, NARRATING her symptoms agg. : Calc., cic., ign., puls., teucr.

After I have given her a wrong remedy for 3 years long, at last I found the right remedy. Before, she did not tell me this way. Maybe it was also my fault, because I did not ask for it.

Many people think that you should not ask many questions, but let the patient tell his symptoms. That is not right, you always have to ask questions. Why, for example, someone is anxious in this or that situation, what is behind this. So you can find out the cause of mental problems ...

It should not concern an aggravation, it can deal with the question to the right remedy. When it concerns an aggravation, the symptoms have to be covered by the prescribed remedy. You always have to control whether the appeared symptoms, for example, after Lachesis, really are Lachesis symptoms or whether the prescription was wrong.

Then there is another thing. You know that this muscle was paralysed, the muscle extensor of the thigh. Two tendon flexors have been put to the tuberosities tibiae, so that she is able to lift the lower limb. In an EMG examination there were no potentials in the muscle extensors of the thigh, and after the remedy, a few months later, you could notice potentials in the muscle. So this muscle starts to live again. Look in the Repertory "paralysis, thigh extensors" (p. 1180); only one remedy: Calcarea.

After Calcarea 10 M she could sleep better the same night. You see, if your remedy is correct you see a clear reaction, even in very heavy diseases, in heavy mental pathology, anxieties and psychosis.

And that is something I am personally fighting with. I am fighting with the fact that I see immediately a reaction in very heavy pathology, when the remedy is right. The other cases where you give a remedy and the reaction is very slow make Homoeopathy so difficult. It is very important to be sure of your remedy.

If you have, for example, a Mercurius case with trembling and paralysis and so on you have to wait at least one year before you see the real improvement of the neurological symptoms. But mentally he is already better and the salivation also has already gone. Or when you have an Alumina case with paralyses or multiple scleroses, everything goes very, very slowly, but there is one symptom in Alumina that disappears very quickly, and that is constipation. I want to tell you that you have to find one symptom that is not so deep, and disappears if the remedy is correct, so that it makes you sure of your prescription. If nothing changes how can you know that your remedy is correct ? I always try to find one symptom of which I think that it is not so deep and therefore has to improve relatively fast. If this has clearly improved and the patient feels well in general, then I can say that the remedy is correct and it can go on working. That is a very great difficulty in Homoeopathy and therefore I say, "Please give high potencies, so that you have a clear reaction. The more you doubt about your prescription, the easier you give another remedy. If you are sure you can say, "All right, I gave Phosphorus", I do not know if I have already told you the story. I gave a boy Phosphorus M for his involuntary stool, and it did nothing. But in his character something has changed. I was absolutely sure about my prescription, that Phosphorus was the right remedy and I gave a 10 M and one day later he was cured. Yes, there were already changes and if I had waited longer, maybe he would have been cured without.

But now there is something else. There are people who say that you may not repeat the remedy too soon. In this Phosphorus child with the involuntary stool there was a clear amelioration on the mental level. In this amelioration I gave Phosphorus 10 M and he was cured. What does it mean ? It is no problem to repeat the remedy if the remedy is still indicated. I told you about Medorrhinum, I gave Medorrhinum, there was a big aggravation, then I gave Medorrhinum 10 M and everything became better, because Medorrhinum was still indicated and I gave the higher potencies to help him a little bit. That is the reason why I say that it is no problem to repeat the remedy if it is still indicated. If the remedy is not indicated anymore, there is an aggravation and then the original complaints appear again.

People come and say that they have been better, but at the moment they are worse again. You wait, and give Sac-lac. Month after month you let your patients suffer, because you do not dare to repeat the remedy. That is stupid. Who will tell us when a patient relapses or not ? That is not up to us, but to the patient who relapses. When he relapses and the remedy is correct, you repeat the remedy and he is cured. You have to be careful in repeating, but if the symptoms appear again, you can repeat the remedy, that is no problem. Up to now, maybe in 10 years I will change my mind, I told you the story of Phosphorus, and I have seen this in Medorrhinum and Sulphur.

Question: "We have learned that there is no reason to repeat the remedy, when there is an improvement, especially on the internal levels, but only when they get symptoms that indicate that it is worse. If you repeat the remedy in an amelioration can you stop the process of healing ?"

A: Who can tell us that the remedy which has been given up to now is correct ? The fact that he had an aggravation, means that the remedy was wrong at that moment. How can a correct remedy be wrong ? Do you understand what I mean ? How can a correct remedy be wrong ?

Remark: "But you know that it can be wrong to repeat the remedy too often."

A: Yes, when you repeat the remedy too often you will have a proving. I have seen this in a wrong remedy, when I took Nux vomica. I took Nux vomica because I had vertigo when I drank a few beers. But after Nux vomica I could drink only one beer; then I got already this vertigo the next morning. Then I took Nux vomica once again and then I even could not smell beer anymore, or I would get this vertigo. I was sitting at my desk and suddenly I had this vertigo and said that I had done a proving of Nux vomica. Then I did not take Nux vomica anymore, until I discovered Aurum and up to now I have taken Aurum about 10 times, and until now it has not made me ill yet, not once. So I am really doubting whether our theory is correct, also because of the story of the Phosphorus child. What I tell you here is practice, and I do not say that it is the same for every one. How often did I repeat the remedy in Lycopodium cases ! Maybe 10 times and each time he was very well. Even when they relapse I repeat the remedy and everything is all right. How often did I repeat the remedy in the Calcarea child ! 20 times. That is why I doubt about those theories. If you give someone the right remedy, the right energy, the energy he needs, how can this remedy be wrong ?

Let us not talk too much about it, that is philosophy, but when you see that your patients feel well, why should you give them a remedy ? And when you see that they relapse, you repeat the remedy. Also when you see that your patient does not react too fast, you can repeat the remedy and you will see that it acts.

If I can repeat a remedy 3, 4 or 6 times in 2 days in acute cases, why should I not repeat a few times in chronic cases, if I see that the patient is not doing well enough ?

CASE 5 v2

Hyperventilation

(Hyperventilation is rapid or deep breathing that can occur with anxiety or panic. It is also called overbreathing, and it may leave you feeling breathless.)

Calcarea carbonica

WOMAN, 36 YEARS OLD

Sometimes you can be sure of your remedy and you prescribe it and say, "But the patient has to react" - but he does not. And when you are very haughty you say that the patient antidotes the remedy, that you are right, that your prescription is right and it is because of the patient that the remedy does not react. Yes, in allopathy they do not believe the symptoms of the patient, they say that he is crazy; but we know that peculiar symptoms are very important.

There are also homoeopaths who do not believe their patients when they say that they are n o t better. I was one of those. I said, "This is the right remedy !" and I repeated it, but then, maybe after one year, I admitted that the remedy was wrong and that I had to find out why the remedy was wrong.

A: You were here the first time in June 1984. For three years long I have been mistaken, because I was so sure. I say it, because it was not so easy. You came for hyperventilation. It started 6 years after the birth of your child. That's what you told me at that time.

P: That's not right. I think it started when I was 8 months pregnant. I think, I had already a kind of hyperventilation at that time.

A: When you were 8 months pregnant ?

P: Yes.

A: I wrote it down wrong. Did the delivery take place under hypnosis ?

P: Yes.

A: "I am afraid to walk on the street, especially when I am alone, when someone is with me it is all right." That's what you told me the first time.

What kind of fear does she have ? Fear to go on the road.

How can we translate this in the language of the Repertory ?

Proposal: "Fear of public places."

A: No, it means the same as "fear in a crowd" and a subrubric is "on public places". Which are the remedies? Argentum nitricum, Gelsemium, Arnica, Aconitum. So she says, "My problem is that I am afraid when I walk alone on the street."

A: "When I have to wait, I have no patience. Then I become nervous."

When she has to wait, she has no patience. Which rubric is this ? "Impatience." Argentum nitricum and Graphites have to be added here. You can also take the rubric "hurriedness".

A: "Then I have the inclination to faint." You are afraid to faint, to get a fit.

Fear of what ? Having a fit. Look at "fear of having a fit" (p. 45): Argentum nitricum is capital.

A: "I don't see well and become aggressive because of the anxiety."

P: Yes.

A: "But I'm not afraid of dying." You are not afraid of that.

P: No.

A: But you are afraid of having a fit, of fainting. "I'm very hurried." Even while walking very hurried.

P: Yes.

She is a very hurried woman and when she walks, she is very hurried (p. 54): Argentum nitricum is capital.

A: You can't walk slowly. "I have a fear of the dark, an enormous fear of height."

"Fear of dark": there is not Argentum nitricum, but it is the most important remedy in the rubric "fear of high places".

A: "I'm always cold."

She is chilly, but Argentum nitricum is very warm-blooded - but wait !

A: "But when I have a fit of hyperventilation, then I am warm. I can't do anything peacefully.

When she has those attacks, she is too warm. But I tell you: forget the warm-bloodedness of Argentum nitricum, forget it with the mental symptomatology !

A: "I never have attacks when I drive the car." And there is a reason for. Then I understood. That is very peculiar.

That is very strange. She has fear of having a fit when she walks on the street, then she is hurried, she walks in a hurry, but there is no problem when she drives the car. I gave her Argentum nitricum 10 M, 50 M. Her reaction was "so la, la", a little bit better, but not really, not into the deepness.

A: I will tell you the reason in a minute. Someone who is inclined to faint and has fear of having fits, normally he also gets this in the car. But strange enough, you didn't have it in the car. All right, your desires were fat, sweets, biscuits, soft boiled eggs; but not sour things.

"Desire sweets", Argentum nitricum is capital. Besides "desire soft boiled eggs, cookies, cakes ... "

A: "Sometimes I am sad."

"A kind of a ribbon around the chest." Dizziness on high places. Not only fear while standing on high places, but also dizziness. And then again fear of having a fit. The fear of fainting has also Lac caninum, but she has no fear for snakes.

There is an aversion to sex.

Impulsive concerning the children.

Very impulsive, Argentum nitricum is capital.

A: Sleeps on the left side.

During the menstruation there is nothing special.

Because of the hurriedness, the fear of having a fit, the fear of high places, the dizziness of high places and because she is warm during the fits, I gave you Argentum nitricum, in M potency.

A fortnight after the remedy: muscle pain, headache, feeling of anxiety like influenza. Got pimples everywhere, you didn't have them previously. One day better, the other day worse. A week ago you got headache with anxieties and so on, tired. Then you got Foliata squalosa. And I wrote down, probably there has been an amelioration. And you say, "When I have to wait, I am afraid. I can't wait in a shop." But you still feel that you are nervous. While walking you have the impression to sway to the left.

P: Yes.

Where do we find this in the Repertory ? "Vertigo, swaying toward left" (p. 100). There is Argentum nitricum, but there are other remedies like Aurum, Sulphur, Zincum and others.

A: Then I saw you again in October and still impatient, still fear while waiting, still fear in a crowd. "When I have to talk I have a peculiar feeling in my head. It is all right when I ride on a bike or drive a car." Very peculiar.

Do you understand ? When she is riding on a bicycle there is no problem; when she is driving a car, there is no problem. We know from Argentum nitricum that they have fear in a crowd, and when they are driving a car they are pushing on the accelerator to be there in time. When she drives a car, she has no problems - very strange.

If you repertorize this with a computer, you get Argentum nitricum. In 1984 I still was a computer. Now, I try to be a human being.

A: And then still the inclination to sway toward left and persistent thoughts. Thoughts which don't leave you at peace. Always thoughts concerning yourself ?

P: Yes, always occupied with the fears. You think: all those fits again, those faints and so on. Fear of people. I didn't know that, but they told me. Because I didn't know that I had fear of people. I couldn't imagine it.

What happened ? The consultation where this came out was a real homoeopathic height for me. I had everything on video, but afterwards I noticed that I forgot to switch on the microphone. This consultation was so beautiful, the development, where she realized that in fact she has fear for people. But why did she have fear for people ? She will explain it.

A: It is not important what I said, but what you feel.

P: Yes.

A: What were your recurrent thoughts dealing with ? Always occupied with yourself ?

P: Yes, with the faints. I feel dizzy, I don't feel well. Always the same.

Here, you surely prescribe Argentum nitricum, so 10 M. But always the same: hurried, always cold.

A: "I want to go outside, to get fresh air, when I get the attack."

P: Yes, in the garden. When nobody is around, or when I see nobody, then I feel sure.

A: Do you have a large garden ?

P: No, 300 sq m.

A: Tell me, you feel well when nobody is around, do you also mean outside in the nature ?

P: Yes, of course. I would rather die outside in the nature than with people.

A: Do you feel well, when you walk alone in your garden ?

P: Yes, I don't feel bad.

A: You told this previously, but you live in a small city. There aren't so many fields. Have you already been walking alone ?

P: At the moment I dare to walk a little distance alone. Previously ? No, not at all.

A: Not even walking alone through the fields ?

P: No.

A: All right. We don't have to pull out what's not there. But you prefer fresh air, or isn't that right ? Is it because of the fresh air, or because you are alone then and don't see people ?

P: Yes, when I am inside the house I am also alone. That also plays a role. Or maybe the idea that fresh air is good when I faint. They told me that it might help.

A: So, it is not really the fresh air ?

P: No. Maybe rather the idea - if someone fainted in church, they carried him outside.

A: All right, that is not so bad, that is a detail. "I have very often colds and I am sneezing when I wake up." And obstinate as I was, I still gave Argentum nitricum, 50 M. So, the same symptoms always returned.

P: Yes.

A: You were also hoarse once. At that time you didn't smoke anymore. Very changing mood. Then angry, then glad. And then an enormous increased appetite - "appetite increased", "appetite insatiable". There we also see Argentum nitricum.

Then something else: "I feel lazy, I am sad, I feel alone. I have fear of everything."

"I want to stand on my own legs. I am going crazy." That was the first time that you used this expression.

"I smoke very much. I am very hot-tempered. I could often bite the children whom I take care of. I am very impulsive."

"Impulsive", Argentum nitricum is capital.

A: Then: You theorize, you like to discuss. I will let you talk afterwards, then it will turn out that you can talk well.

"Theorizing": Argentum nitricum.

A: "When I have something in my mind, it has to happen."

P: Yes.

A: Anxious about your health. You had an uterus bleeding. I gave you Phosphorus and it stopped quickly.

P: Yes.

A: At that time I made a video of you, but there was no sound on it.

Then you came back on September 15, and you said, "I still have so much complaints concerning dizziness and anxieties." Everything started during or after the birth of your child. "At the moment I am anxious, dizzy, forgetful and confused four days before my menstruation. Before the menses I also stare quite a lot", you told me. "And I feel so weak before my menstruation" -"weakness before menses". Then you are also nervous, excited - "nervous excitement", "excitement while talking". And there is a nervous excitement. The fear of dark is very strong. When you pass for instance a cornfield - tell me, what happens then ?

P: When I was little ? Yes, when I passed a cornfield I was pulled in it and I thought that somebody was in the field. I was afraid of that. I still feel it at this moment.

A: You still feel it at this moment ? That there was someone in the cornfield or that you saw someone in the dark ?

P: No, I mean during the day. I thought that someone was in the field, but I have never seen him. During the day I have never seen something imaginary.

A: But in the evening ?

P: Yes, in the evening.

Do you understand ? When she goes walking in the evening and there is a tree or a cornfield she imagines that there is somebody. How can you find this ? "Delusions, inanimate objects are persons" (p. 28). When she walks in the darkness, it seems as if there are persons. Is there another rubric that indicates the same thing ? "Delusion, that something hanging over chair is a person, sitting there" (p. 30).

P: When I go downstairs, for example, I have a peep-hole in the front door - and when I look through it someone is standing in front of me.

She has the delusion that someone is standing before the door, that she sees someone standing through the glass of the door.

A: As a child you were in an orphanage. Once a man with his pants down was standing behind you.

P: Yes.

A: That struck you very much ?

P: As a child it is terrible. You don't know, what you will do. Then you are anxious. I got quite a lot of symptoms, also as a child at that time; a frog in the neck, whatever you want, everything at the same time. In fact, these are previous symptoms which I get back at the moment. I feel it; in fact I experience my youth again.

A: At this moment ?

P: Yes.

A: Since the last remedy ?

P: No, not now anymore. That is much better.

A: You also told me then, that you faint from hunger - "fainting from hunger".

P: Yes.

A: So a kind of fear of anticipation. You sleep on the left side. And now we arrive at the most important thing: when you go somewhere, you become anxious. You told me this yourself at that time.

P: Yes.

A: What kind of fear is or was that ?

P: I can't say that I have fear of people. But still, when I see people, then I feel a kind of dizziness.

When she is telling this you see how the anxiety comes again; you see it in her eyes.

P: As if people see it, notice it.

A: People must have seen it. Where was the essence of the case ? That you couldn't bear that other people could see it.

P: I didn't want that someone else sees that I have something like that, that I faint, that I am dizzy and ill the whole time. I didn't want that other people saw it.

You see, this is what happens there !

P: People could think that I am insane.

Now, we are at the point !

A: Do you understand why you don't get it in the car ?

P: There I don't have to be afraid that other people could see me.

A: Do you also know why you don't get it on the bicycle ?

P: That goes too fast. I knew this already. I thought about that when I was driving to the centre. I asked myself, "Why do I sit so quietly in the car, why can I do this ? That is so deep."

A: You also said, that you thought that people were laughing at you.

P: Yes, of course.

Do you understand why she does not have those fits when she is driving a car ? Because people can not see her there. Also while riding on a bicycle she is too quick, people can not observe her. That is the nucleus of the story that I found out - and I have not seen it for so many years !

A: So that was the nucleus and it explains the whole problem. Then I gave you a remedy in 10 M on September 15. Tell me, how did you react ?

P: I took the remedy and already the second day I had good results. I was much more quiet. I could go swimming, I could go walking and leave the car and the bicycle; I was much lively. And before the menses I was not sitting there and staring. I was still a little afraid, but not so much. And until now it is all right. Neither do I have thoughts like, "Well, she is drunk, or what else people could think about me."

A: Have these thoughts disappeared ?

P: Yes, partly, it has gone.

A: You even put the doctor in his proper place.

P: Yes, but that is not sufficient. I take care of a child of a doctor. That is from half past 8 until midday 1.00 p.m. and therefore he gives me 3,5 £. I told him that I wanted 1 £. more or that he has to pay the assurance for 1 year. He said he wouldn't do that and I had to assure myself behind his back. I told him, "I will do it !" And yesterday he paid me and it still isn't there. He put the money in an envelope, and I wasn't so sly to count it in his presence. And apparently, he hasn't paid it yet. So, on Monday there is a fight again.

A: Where is the doctor from ?

P: He is a Dutchman.

You see, how she has changed: "Yes, you are the doctor, but I don't care. You have to pay more for what I do for your child."

A: So, he pays you 1 £. a hour.

P: Yes, but I also have to buy food, a banana, an apple, an orange, curd, and something to drink.

A: So, you lose a great deal of money over it.

P: Yes, but I don't agree anymore.

A: Previously, you didn't dare to do things like that.

P: No.

A: But you do since I have given you the remedy !

P: Yes, now I do. I must say I am concerned about that. I have to work it out. But I notice that it goes better slowly. I also tell my husband everything when it is necessary.

A: When it is necessary ? Such a good husband ?

P: Yes, but he is also much ... At the moment I am more or less active. I do all kinds of things, which I couldn't do previously.

A: Are you very active ?

P: At the moment, yes. I like to do something else beside my household.

A: So, you also had a little fever after the remedy ?

P: Yes. When I took the second remedy. I forgot to tell you.

A: Wait, I repeated the remedy. I gave it in 10 M on September 15, and repeated it on October 13.

P: Yes. I took it and 3 days later I got a terrible cold and cough and was ill again. And then you told me, "Yes, that is because of the remedy." Now, it has disappeared.

A: It has completely disappeared ?

P: Yes.

So this is what happened. Two times Calcarea within 1 month and she has reacted wonderfully to it. You see that you often have to fight to discover Calcarea. Everyone says that he knows Calcarea, but often it is difficult to find the remedy.

Question: "What was the first symptom you got for Calcarea ?"

A: I also showed Calcarea in the Netherlands and in this course and in the case of my daughter I understood the symptom "what other people think about me" correctly. That is why I am very sensitive to this symptom. Previously, I was not.

When she came back and said that she did not have problems while driving a car or while riding on a bicycle, I asked myself why she exactly did not have problems with that. And then - when you compare her appearance and that of my daughter, it is about the same: dark hair; these are Calcarea people, whom you can confound with Sepia. A year later I learned this kind of Calcarea people. They usually have a small neck, but they are dark and have also dark eyes. They bear a great resemblance to Sepia and you often confound them. Because of the appearance and the sensitiveness to what other people think about them, I asked myself, "Couldn't that be Calcarea ? Why is she afraid ? And why doesn't she have this fear when she drives a car or rides on a bicycle ?" That is why I thought that it could be Calcarea and then I kept asking until it came out. It was very difficult, but it was beautiful how she told this !

Question: "According to your experience is it peculiar for Calcarea that they are concerned about what other people think about them ?"

A: Yes, that is very specific, but I think, everyone has this symptom more or less. But it has to be strong for Calcarea, like my daughter who has constantly her hair before her eyes, all the time. And this means that she is occupied with that all the time, that people will not see her eyes. And when this is very, very strong, you can forget all the other remedies and give Calcarea - this together with the symptom "fear of dark". This is a mental picture, but I also had the desire for eggs, fear of dark, very strong fear; so I had something else to base my prescription upon. This together with the mental picture I got a complete picture.

CASE6 v2

Phobia

Calcarea carbonica

WOMAN, 55 YEARS OLD

In this case I had a real fight with a gynecologist. We were fighting on the telephone and he tried to summon me, because I did not push the patient to let her treat with chemotherapy.

In 1979 I treated this patient for the first time for an acute influenza. This influenza came very suddenly, she was very chilly, had stitching headache, was very anxious and feared she would die. This influenza came very suddenly, in the afternoon, about 6 o'clock. She had been outside and suddenly she got very high fever, 39° C, bursting, stitching headache, very anxious - and then I gave her which remedy ? Aconitum. At that time I gave her the remedy in C 12, a few drops in her mouth and after 5 or 6 minutes she started to perspire all over her body. And she had very big breasts. That is typical for a certain remedy, big breasts and thin legs, which remedy ? Calcarea. So at that time I gave her Aconitum and after 6 minutes she started to perspire, the perspiration was running between the big breasts and within 6 minutes the fever decreased to 37,5° C. That was a real miracle for me. I studied Homoeopathy the whole time, but I was to scared to use it - I used it the first time in this woman and I have seen a real miracle. I knew, when you inject NOVALGIN in high fever you have to wait at least half an hour before the fever goes down, and often there is no reaction at all to NOVALGIN. Previously, I worked in surgery and had quite a lot of experience with high fever, so that I could really say that this fever came down very quickly. This was for me a reason to say that homoeopathy really works.

This woman had been taken TRYPTISOL for about 20 years, an antidepressant. She had been in a psychiatric centre, and I could not stop this TRYPTISOL, because the anxieties would return immediately. That is why I was scared to treat her homoeopathically. A long time ago her doctor told her that she could never stop TRYPTISOL, because otherwise she would end up in an asylum.

I often treated her acute. One day she came with bleedings; she got Phosphorus and another time Arsenicum and every time she reacted well. Suddenly, she came and said that her abdomen was so thick. I did not want to treat her homoeopathically, because she had been taken TRYPTISOL for quite a long time and it works suppressively. If you suppress something for such a long time, you may be sure that something will happen later. You can expect with people who take such medicines for a long time they will get cancer in the future. I have seen people who took antibiotics for an inflammation of the bladder, then for a teeth abscess, then for something else and so on and at the end you may be sure they get cancer, because of all the suppressions.

Anyhow, I sent her to a gynecologist and I called him, "My friend" - at that time he still was my friend - "be careful with this woman, she is very anxious. Try to approach her in a diplomatic way." He said, "All right, that is no problem." So I sent her to him. He examined her and felt a big cyst; this cyst exploded during the examination and he had to operate immediately.

It was a very serious operation and during the histological examination they found cancer cells in the ovary, but nowhere metastases. It was a cyst with adhesions to the uterus, the intestines and the omentum. It was a very big operation to separate everything. The liquid in the cyst was normal, only in the ovary cells of an adenoid carcinoma were found. Nothing was found in the glands, everything was negative, only the ovary was positive.

She had a very bad time, she will tell it later on video, the way they treated her in the hospital - it was terrible.

Afterwards she came back from the hospital and still took sleeping tablets. She was completely exhausted, near dead and had headache and flushes of heat. I looked at the medicines and I noticed that it was a medicine against migraine. First, she did not have headache, but flushes of heat; she only got headache after this remedy. Why all this ? So, I stopped everything. Afterwards, they tried to cure her with chemotherapy and there starts the big problem.

She left the hospital, because she is not that stupid; she did not want this therapy. She asked me and the cancer-specialist what will happen to her in this therapy, and he said that her hair will fall out. "If my hair will fall out, I would rather die. I can not tolerate this." I was between the patient and the specialist. He said that this was a good case for chemotherapy and he blamed me for not sending her to the hospital. But I said that I told her to go back to the hospital. Then the gynecologist called me and said that I had to push her to go to the chemotherapy in the hospital, and even threatened to summon me. "I have to write a letter to the medical board, so that I will not be responsible if she dies afterwards. That is the responsibility of I don't know who, but surely not mine." "So, that is the reason why you want to write to the board. And when I send her to the chemotherapy and she dies afterwards, whose responsibility is it then ? He could not answer. Then I asked him what he would do when her hair falls out after chemotherapy. "I will give her tranquilizer". "And where do you send her then ?" "To the psychiatrist." "And that is your responsibility ? You treat her with chemotherapy and then after this therapy she becomes insane and you send her to the psychiatrist. Then you are released from your responsibility. What's all this ? Do you take the responsibility if she dies or kills herself, because her hair falls out ?"

Since then this gynecologist was very small, he did not dare to speak anymore. I was in a very difficult situation. This therapy would be her death, I knew it before, but on the other hand it was necessary to know the homoeopathic remedy to cure her. Without a clear picture of the remedy I could do nothing at all. When someone comes with metastases and the remedy is clear, there is no problem; but when the remedy is not clear, it is a very big problem. One day after the operation we sat there and she talked and talked and I let her talk. Suddenly, I recognized the remedy. I gave it her and she reacted beautifully. Because this or that she relapsed- but now we will hear the complete story.

This patient came for anxieties and got a remedy on November 23, 1987. This is a feedback with a description of the previous anxieties.

FEEDBACK (December 17, 1987)

P: I could sit nowhere, I couldn't sit in the waiting room, I had to go.

So she says that she had to go, that she could not wait. When she phoned me the first time after her operation I told her that she should come to my office. I do not like to do home visits, only in very acute cases, we have too much work to do. I told her to come, but she said, "No, I can't, I can't wait." And the reason why she could not wait ...

P: The whole time I thought that people would see it.

A: See what ?

P: That I have all kinds of things. When I went somewhere and people looked at me from head to foot, I thought, "I must be ill." Or when they said, "You lost a lot of weight." I couldn't talk to anyone. Then I had to go, just go away, as if I am shy. I don't know what it is. Maybe it has to do with the nerves.

A: It is strange that you ...

P: And that little pill has helped me. I can't say what I can not do at the moment. You see yourself, that I sit here much more quietly.

A: Yes, of course. You couldn't wait previously ?

P: No, and now I sit here very quietly. And I don't care whether there are people here or at my home. Now, I can tolerate that.

A: You couldn't previously ?

P: No. How do I look ?

A: You look very well.

P: I cut my hair myself.

A: Oh, did you ?

P: And I don't have this fat abdomen anymore, do I ?

A: According to me it is much better.

P: Yes, better as previously.

A: Yes. It is also less fat.

P: Will it become fat again ?

A: I don't think so. What about your clothes, skirts and so on.

P: Well, I bought a skirt. One size smaller as before.

A: Well, a smaller size.

P: First, I had size 50, now 48, and size 50 is too large. When I came back from the hospital, I lost quite a lot of weight. Then I was a real invalid.

A: Yes, that's right, an invalid.

P: And now ?

A: Well, I think you look very well. And what does other people say when they see you ?

P: Oh, nothing to see. You can't see anything. "And how are you doing ?" "Well, operated", I say. What shall I say ?

A: Yes, that's right.

P: "You can't see anything."

A: But you also took ...

P: TRYPTISOL. I don't take it anymore.

A: TRYPTISOL. Since when ?

P: Oh, since quite a long time. Well, since when ?

A: Since a month.

P: More than a month. Well, at least 2 months, it might also be 3 months.

A: That you don't take TRYPTISOL ?

P: No.

A: And previously ...

P: But sometimes I take TEMESTA in the evening. And you know I also take it in the morning. But you feel it yourself. Now I can work much better, I can even work very much. Previously, I was a little lazy in the mornings. I just couldn't start.

A: Previously not, in the mornings not.

P: Before, when I got up, I had to sit at the table for a little while. A little lazy. But not now anymore. I get up immediately. And I am ready with my household in a minute.

A: You are much fresher in the mornings. You feel well.

P: Well, sometimes. Then I'm thinking about the gossip of ... (whispering).

A: About what ?

P: About what the doctor told me. Then I often think, "Will I die now ?"

A: Yes, what doctors can do to someone ?

P: But, wouldn't you ...

A: Yes, you can tell that in a minute. First, I want to tell your history. I sent you to the hospital, because your abdomen became fat. That was a cyst in the ovary. During the gynecological examination the cyst exploded and you were operated immediately.

P: Yes.

A: It concerned a cyst with adhesions to the omentum, that is the skin that lies over the intestines. Here it says, "Histologically, it concerns a macroscopic normal omentum and an ovarian cyst of about 340 g and a section of 13 cm."

P: So big.

A: Yes. And attached to that an oviduct of 7 cm. The cyst is multilocular, partly containing a clear, colourless, watery, partly bloody liquid. A normal uterus, a little increased in size to 7,5; 3,5; 5 cm. A leiomyoma has been noticed, so a muscle tumor.

P: A cyst ?

A: Yes, a cyst.

P: Or what ? Is that right ?

A: Yes. A leiomyoma of O,8 cm. A small leiomyoma. The endometrium is normal and so on. Histologically, the omentum is normal.

P: I don't know anything about that. That's the first time you tell me.

A: The cystic tumor seems to be an infiltrated papillary serum cystadenocarcinoma. Quite a lot of mitoses. The nucleus is prominent.

P: What does this mean ?

A: Local (tumor)necrosis. I say this for the doctors. Further in the text, "The examination of the tissues was benign. And the report of the operation says that it concerns a papillary serum cystadenocarcinoma of the right ovary, stage 1 B, so very limited, no ascites."

I read this for the future. I put this on video for the future. You will live for 20 years and so I have a proof.

P: That's quite a lot, I think.

A: Yes, but of course it describes the complete operation. All right. Then, they proposed you to follow a therapy with chemotherapy, and they told you that your hair would fall out and so on.

P: That I would be very ill.

A: Yes, very ill. You asked me what you should do. And what did I say ?

A: "I can't say, you have to do what you think it will be best."

A: That's what I answered.

P: Yes, "What you think it is best."

I gave the responsibility back to the patient. You can not take the responsibility of the patient on your shoulders. You have to tell the patients that they have to do what they think it is best for them. That is the only thing you can do.

A: What you think it is best for you. I can't say anything against it. And then you went to the hospital and they persuaded you to do this therapy. What happened then ?

P: I went to the hospital and thought, "I want to know what is going on here." When I arrived there a nurse told me to lie down on the bed to take blood.

A: Yes, to take blood.

P: I said, "I will not lie down on the bed." "Yes, but it is necessary", the nurse said. I said, "I will not go in bed. Then you have to take blood this way." And then she started. Then I had to wait for the specialist. It was morning, and the specialist only came at 4.00 p.m. I had to wait quite a long time. Then he arrived and said, "We will start immediately with the treatment." I said, "Yes, and what do you mean with that ?" He said, "I told you already, very heavy medicines, you will be ill for a few days." I asked him, "And will my hair fall out ?" "Yes, of course. But they will grow within a few months." I said, "And how often do I have to ... " "Well, then you have to come back for about 4 times." I said, "That is a five-year plan."

A: A five-year plan.

P: "And besides," I said, "I can't tolerate it. I can't tolerate those bottles with red label. And besides, I always have to vomit. I will not do it." He said, "Well, if you don't want to, then we can't start." I said, "I just won't do it. I take my suitcase and go !" "Well, then we don't do it." He already tried when I was just operated, when I couldn't defend myself. If I had started at that moment, I would still be in the hospital now. And thanks to God, I came out of there.

A: Then you went home ?

P: Then I went home and called you.

A: I came to you and said that I let you decide yourself. You are satisfied that you took this decision, aren't you ?

P: Yes.

A: Although I didn't influence you.

P: No.

A: Well, all right. But the most logic solution was not to start with this treatment. Especially, because you say, "I couldn't tolerate that my hair would fall out."

P: Oh no, I would get crazy. And then always lying ill on the sofa. I would have died, without any other complaints. Morally.

A: You couldn't tolerate that.

P: I couldn't. Wearing a wig during the day, a wig at night, oh my God, no. I already get crazy when I feel something. It is different from person to person !

A: From person to person.

P: There are people who can tolerate it.

A: Why do you think that you can't tolerate that your hair falls out ?

P: Well, I don't know. That you can't go outside anymore.

A: You can't go outside anymore ?

P: If somebody would come in, then I run upstairs and don't dare to show me anymore.

A: You don't dare to show you anymore ?

P: I like to do my hair and so on.

A: Oh yes, you had to come this afternoon and you told me, all right, but I need some time to get ready.

P: First, I have to do my hair, or I won't go outside.

A: You won't go outside ?

P: I can't.

A: You can't.

P: No, I don't feel well. I can't go anywhere without being washed. Other people only put on their jacket, or a scarf and go into a shop. But I can't. I rather stay at home and go nowhere. That is a habit. In the mornings I can walk around with my hair as they are. But when I have to get, for example, a beefsteak, first, I have to comb my hair. I always did.

A: You can't tolerate that.

P: I have always combed my hair, since I was a child. I always had to.

A: And you couldn't go to other people without your hair combed ?

P: No.

A: All right.

P: It is a sign that I am really ill. I mean, that you don't take care of yourself. When I returned from the hospital in such a condition, like an invalid. I was really exhausted, I couldn't even comb my hair, because I lost 6 kilo in 12 days. That was quite a lot.

A: All right. Then the specialist insisted on the treatment. He didn't write to me (although I received a report of the operation), but called another doctor, the family doctor and now tell us, what happened.

After the operation she came home, went back to the cancer-specialist in the hospital, refused the chemotherapy treatment and went back home. Then the gynecologist called another doctor and asked him to go to her and tell her that she has to be treated with chemotherapy. Now you hear what this doctor told her.

P: Suddenly, the telephone rang and my husband answered it - no, I did and with a priestly voice he said, "You have to go back to the hospital, or it will be fatal ! Why didn't you go back ?" I said, "I didn't want to." "Yes, but you definitely have to go. It is necessary," he said. I said, "Can you explain it here, because I don't understand." I was a little bit astonished, because he called so suddenly. I said again, "You can come and explain it to me here, because I don't understand that." And ten minutes later Sir Doctor came in and was sitting next to me. "I have bad news", that is the way he said it when he came in. "You have to start immediately with chemotherapy", he said. "When I don't go there, will it be fatal ?" I asked him. "Indeed," he said, "or it will be fatal."

Can you imagine that ? A doctor, a young doctor, without any experience, says such things - like a priest ! He came to her and said (with a priestly voice), "You urgently have to go back to the hospital, or it will be fatal !" Imagine what this means to such a woman ! He came and said, "You have cancer. You have to go to the hospital immediately. If you don't, you will die. This is the way how trained medical doctors behave after 7 years. They are no human beings, they are machines.

P: "So, I have to go," I said, "nothing can't be done about that." And he said, "Yes, indeed." I said, "That's rather rude." But then I became weak in my legs.

A: Then you were seized by panic ?

P: Not in his presence. I thought, I won't panic now. I said, "That's rather rude." "I come to tell you that you have to start with the treatment, because you are ... " he said. And I said, "But you become very ill of that." "Yes, very ill, but afterwards you will be better," he said. "Four, or five years later, maybe. That is a five-year plan. I saw quite a lot of people who went to the hospital and every time they were worse. And every time they were thinner and more miserable." I said, "I won't do that." And he insisted that I should do it. My husband was sitting next to him, pale as death. He said, that he had to tell me. I said, "How much do I have to pay ? Double tariff and there is the door."

A: How much did you pay ?

P: Well, how much was it ? 700 BF. I showed you. Double tariff and he went. I called you immediately and asked you to come, because I couldn't put one foot before the other. For that reason, I have been ill for quite a long time.

A: Because of the fact that he told you this.

P: Afterwards I was eating something in a coffee shop and then Sir Doctor came in. I left my plate and ran immediately outside. I left everything ! I really couldn't sit on my chair anymore. I also told you that. And then you gave me a little pill.

A: Just a moment. I talked to you and it was obvious that you are a person who is ...

P: Did you record all this on the video ?

A: That is necessary to show people the reality.

Then I have talked to you for quite a long time and it was obvious, that previously you were a very anxious person, the whole family was anxious. Your father couldn't see ...

P: A funeral car.

A: A funeral car.

P: Then he ran off.

A: Into the garden. Your brother is very anxious when he sees something horrible, he can't tolerate that, a very small heart, and also your sister, well, in fact the whole family. And you also, you were very restless, got up at night, out of bed, in bed again, you couldn't sleep.

P: Every night I was downstairs sitting at the stove.

A: Every night. But it was peculiar that you said you were scared to go outside when they started the treatment, what would other people say ?

P: I couldn't tolerate that.

A: You couldn't tolerate that people saw that you were ill.

P: No I couldn't tolerate. I must be deadly ill, so that I can't defend myself. Then I couldn't hide it anymore.

A: But that was a very important symptom, the nucleus of your character.

P: Oh no, I couldn't tolerate that.

A: That is the most important reason, so that I said, "Well damned, that is the remedy she needs."

P: I reacted very well to that remedy.

A: I gave you that little pill in M potency.

P: I have been ill for two days.

A: For two days.

P: And very ill.

A: What did you feel then ?

P: I had to sit down on the couch, and I just couldn't do anything, not even take off the dust. I only had to lie down and thought, "Now I am really ill." And I perspired very much.

A: Perspired. Where ?

P: All over. I perspired very much. And had headache, but I could tolerate it. And I was also very tired, as if I had worked in the garden the whole day. And the next day I felt better. The third day I didn't feel anything. And now I'm not so anxious anymore.

A: At the beginning you said you couldn't sit anywhere. Now you have been waiting for one hour.

P: Yes, I don't care about that.

A: I thought I should pick you up.

P: Yes. At three o'clock I called and your secretary said that I had to come on my own.

A: Well yes, I was too late. You have been waiting here for one hour. I came in and saw you sitting very quietly there. Previously, you couldn't.

P: No, I would have run away. I couldn't previously.

A: All right. Then we gave you a remedy and you got an aggravation. But now you feel well.

P: Yes.

A: It is much better with your anxieties. What about your sleep ?

P: That is also better. This morning I got up at seven o'clock. That is normal. And yesterday I got up at half past six. But that is already quite a long time for me, from 11.00 o'clock until 6.00 o'clock. I couldn't previously.

A: You couldn't sleep.

P: Oh no. I had to get up. A few times at night, walking around, annoying oneself. It is very annoying when you can't stay in bed. You have to get up.

A: Yes. It was also notable that you were very anxious, especially when something was wrong with your family ?

This is a very important differential diagnosis to which remedy ? Phosphorus. When she hears someone moaning or sees someone sitting there, pale and with a cancer appearance, she is gone. There are different reasons why people can not go into the hospital; one can not because of the smell, the other because of the horrible things. It is the same with her. To see someone who looks pale, very thin and cachectic, that is horrible. That is why she ran away.

P: Then I am very anxious, when I hear someone moaning. I ran away a few times.

A: Ran away.

P: Yes, yes, then I run away. When I hear someone moaning at home, I run away. It was the same in the hospital. I lost weight just because of the anxiety.

A: Yes, that is possible.

P: Yes, but in the hospital it was something awkward.

A: The hospital ?

P: There is quite a lot of misery.

A: You can't tolerate that ? It is not the hospital, but the misery that you can't see ?

P: I can't see the misery.

A: So the thin people, who look like invalids.

P: They are always moaning, and then I think about that. All of them are sitting together.

A: And you can't see that ?

P: If I had to stay there for another 8 days, I would have run away. I can't help it.

A: Can you see something horrible on television ?

P: I don't care. Everything happens behind the screen.

A: But a horror film ?

P: No, I don't like that. Then I switch off the television.

A: Can you sleep when you have seen something like that ?

P: Yes. A film is not real life, but when you see a person, that is real life. I think, the film takes place behind the screen. I can't identify myself with it.

A: You are anxious of quite a lot of things ? Of the dark, for example.

P: No, I'm anxious in the car.

A: You are anxious in the car ?

P: Yes, when I sit in the front, not behind. When I sit in the front, everything comes towards me.

A: But you are not afraid of the dark ?

P: No.

A: Thunder-storm, lightning ?

P: Neither.

A: Fear of height ?

P: Yes. I can't tolerate going on high places; when it is a little bit high, I already get dizzy.

A: Then you already get dizzy ?

P: Yes, that's the anxiety. I can't tolerate it. I don't dare go on this roof. Previously, neither. That was a very big roof, and when I was standing in the middle of the roof, I didn't dare to go at the sides.

"Even when I was standing in the middle of a roof, I was scared to do one step." That is what she says - a very, very, very big fear of high places. That is a very important symptom.

A: You have this fear of height since you were a little girl.

P: Yes, I was scared to stand at the sides of a roof. We had a flat roof at our house. When I was standing in the middle of it, I was scared to go to the sides. My brother wasn't, but I was.

A: And your other brother ?

P: Also a bit slow, but he wasn't scared either.

A: He dared to do it ?

P: He is violent.

A: You are very anxious, we know, but on the other hand are you easily angry ?

P: No, I think it is stupid.

A: Are you hot-tempered ?

P: No, I always wait very long.

You see the differential diagnosis to Phosphorus again. With her anxiety seeing someone suffering you can think of "anxiety about others". "Anxiety about others": Arsenicum, Phosphorus, Baryta carbonica, Cocculus and Sulphur.

Mind, anxiety, others, for : Ars., bar-c., cocc., phos., sulph.

You could also think about Phosphorus, because of her previous bleedings. But her way of reacting is not Phosphorus. Phosphorus reacts suddenly, is suddenly angry, expresses his feelings in a sudden way, but she does not. She is almost never angry and in general she also reacts rather slowly, not so suddenly as Phosphorus.

P: I seldom get angry. And when I get angry - it only happens once in one or two years - then I smash things up.

A: So you are not hot-tempered ?

P: No, I only want to say, then I am so angry, only once, ... No.

A: Mild-tempered. Do you like to drink beer ? Do you like to enjoy yourself ?

P: I don't make it too difficult for other people. Why look for trouble ? That is not necessary. Many difficulties are blamed to yourself. I don't want that. I try to avoid this.

A: All right. Do you dream at night ?

P: No.

A: You dream seldom.

P: No.

A: Are you easily chilly ?

P: That's all right.

A: Are you easily warm ?

P: Well ...

A: Rather.

P : Sometimes I have, you know, ...

A: Flushes of heat.

P: It has improved now.

A: So after the operation you had quite a lot of flushes of heat. I have stopped all your medicines. I don't understand. Those medicines were meant for ...

P: I had nearly gone crazy. And I got headache, because of those medicines.

A: But no. Those medicines were meant for ...

P: For those flushes of heat.

A: For those flushes of heat and for migraine. That's right.

P: I got quite a lot of headache from those medicines. One morning I called my sister, because I couldn't anymore. I held my head this way. You were also at my home at that time. I couldn't hold it any longer.

A: Yes, and I stopped those medicines.

P: I ran my head against the wall, because of the pain.

A: All right. In the meantime those flushes of heat have improved.

P: Yes, they have improved. I think it's not so bad to have flushes of heat now and then.

A: Yes.

P: I mean, when those flushes of heat ...

A: You think it is good to have them.

P: I think it is good. Only now and then. These are nerves, aren't they ?

A: Yes.

P: Much more.

A: Do you think everything came from the nerves ? Now, you have them less ?

P: Yes. Now it is normal, isn't it ? In the hospital I have been lying with wet hands and knees for 12 days.

A: Did you perspire much ?

P: Yes, I was lying this way, I couldn't turn around, not to the right nor to the left, only on my back.

A: And you were wet all over your back ?

P: My back. Here I have two spots, like eczema. Now, they have gone. But I had to lie on my back.

A: At which place did you feel the perspiration most ?

P: At my neck.

A: Yes. All right.

P: And here (shows on her breast). But that is normal. The perspiration ran between my breasts. Especially, here in my neck. And then I always had to vomit.

A: Apparently, you haven't slept there for a fortnight ?

P: Nothing. My eyes open. The whole night. Then they controlled it, they opened the door and I said, "You don't have to come in, I'm awake." They didn't have to come in, they didn't believe me, I was always awake.

A: How is your appetite ?

P: I can eat very well. I have to eat less, because I become too fat.

A: Otherwise you become too fat. You put on weight easily.

P: Yes, in fact I have to eat less. But if I had stayed another month in the hospital, I wouldn't sit here. Nowhere. Maybe in my couch, and I wouldn't have come out.

A: Yes, all right. What do you like to eat ? What do you prefer to eat ?

P: I eat everything, but great dinners. Do you know what I prefer to eat ? One shouldn't say. Carrots and cabbages mixed with potatoes.

Forward on this video she says that a physiotherapist came to her when she was still lying in her bed after the operation. He asked her to stand near the bed and then she stood there, naked. In this situation he said to her, "Now you see where you are with all your smoking, eating and drinking ! Full of cancer !" That is the way of approaching a sick human being ! First, I wanted to write to the director of the hospital, so that this man was immediately released, but then I didn't; it is not my business, I don't have to judge.

But you see, hospitals often are like big factories, a gigantic machinery. Those people work like assembly line production, one person does this grip, another person something else, but they never think of the patients. The patient is an instrument to make money, that is the greatest problem in the hospitals. Everyone gets the same treatment and when he dies, it is all right, when he does not die, there is no difference. Now she is doing well. The question you can ask is whether you can be sure that you can cure this ovary cancer. I am quite sure about this question. It does not matter what a patient has, when he does not have symptoms, he is healthy even when you find cancer cells.

Before I worked on a department where I had to make sternal punctures and so on. We were so happy every time we found a cell with 2 nuclei or when we saw vacuoles or things like that. With every abnormal cell we said, "Well, that is the cancer." We were happy when we found an aplastic anemia, a chronic-lymphatic or a myeloid leukemia.

In this patient they found some abnormal cells, without metastases, that was the first point. I am not afraid of such things, unless I can not find the homoeopathic remedy.

The second point is that a patient who needs a certain energy, also produces symptoms. She has very clear Calcarea symptoms and reacts beautifully to Calcarea. She has changed completely. Previously, she could not wait in the waiting room, was anxious, could not sleep and so on. Now, everything is better. The flushes of heat have disappeared or have diminished at least. Afterwards she said that the little flushes of heat which she still had, are good for her, that she feels well. Everything is better, just everything !

If every symptom is better, then the cancer is cured as well, that is sure. And I am also sure, because she needs Calcarea and Calcarea is one of the remedies that cures cancer. She is in equilibrium, because of the homoeopathic remedy and will be so for 10 or 20 years if she does not relapse.

Cancer is not a problem. You have to give people enough energy, so that they remain in equilibrium, so that they are more resistant and the cancer will not eat them.

A: Old-fashioned food, but that is healthy.

P: Carrots mixed with potatoes. Just everything.

A: Do you like eggs ?

P: I don't eat much eggs.

A: Why not ?

P: Previously, I ate more eggs than now. Not now anymore.

A: How do you eat them ?

P: Scrambled in a bowl.

A: And then fried.

P: And then I put pieces of bacon in between.

A: You never eat boiled eggs ?

P: Yes, sometimes in the mornings. But not often.

A: And how are they boiled ?

P: Soft.

A: Soft boiled. Do you sop your bread in the egg ?

P: No. I put a little salt on it and then I pour it.

A: Salt and then you pour it.

P: I never sop my bread in it.

A: Did you also like eggs as a child ?

P: Yes.

A: Always ? Also biscuits and so on ?

P: No, I don't like that. Nothing sweet.

A: Nothing sweet.

P: Neither custard. Well yes, sometimes I eat a little piece when it is on the table, just like everybody else. But I prefer something hearty.

A: On which side do you sleep ?

P: Wait. I have to think. On both sides. But I turn around. On this side. On the right side.

A: The right side to fall asleep.

P: No, the other side. Then I turn around and then on the right side. That's the way I sleep (shows that she sleeps on the left side).

A: On the left side to fall asleep.

P: Yes. And then I turn around. And then I sleep. Normally, I sleep on this side (right).

A: But you can even sleep on the other side.

P: Yes, but normally, I do not remain on this side.

A: All right. That is everything I wanted to know. And the doctor said that you shouldn't live long ?

P: Oh yes, that it was fatal.

A: That is was fatal.

P: I wouldn't ...it had to, had to, had to happen.

A: All right. I have you on video, and I especially put the datum on it, December 17, 1987. We will make another video of you in December 1997. After 10 years.

P: Yes, then we will see this again.

A: We will see this again.

P: When I am still alive then.

A: I will take care of that, that you are still sitting here, unless you get a car accident.

P: Yes, a car accident.

A: But I told you that you wouldn't die because of this disease.

P: Yes.

A: I told you. We will take care of that. Because it is very clear which remedy you need and this remedy can cure everything.

P: Can this remedy cure everything ?

A: Yes, this remedy can cure everything.

P: Well ...

A: Except a car accident.

P: Yes, yes. An accident with the car.

A: An accident, that is something else, but this remedy, you even feel yourself that your anxieties ...

P: Yes, that is much better. But I just think about it that I have to go to a party in Eindhoven tomorrow. There they drink tea. On Sunday I have to go to another party, and I will drink coffee without thinking.

A: Yes, but I want you not to drink any coffee.

P: I shouldn't, and I don't care about it.

A: You have to do what I say and I take care of that, you told me that I should keep an eye on you.

P: Yes.

A: Yes, I will. But you must do, what I tell you. This means that you may not drink coffee.

P: But it is dangerous with ...

A: Then you drink for instance tea or something like that.

P: May I drink tea ?

A: Yes, you may drink tea.

P: How long does this little pill work ?

A: It depends on you. This little pill gives you energy. As long as you feel well you don't get another pill. The moment you feel worse ...

P: And how should I know ?

A: You feel it.

P: At this moment I feel very well. At this moment I could dig a complete street.

A: So, you feel well. But you are also much more quiet. That is important.

P: I'm anxious I will relapse.

A: All right. They can say what they want. But I will prove that it is not true.

P: That I will not relapse.

A: That you will not relapse. I will prove that. But therefore I need time, I need about 20 years. Do you understand ? You can only prove something after 10 or 20 years.

P: Well yes.

A: It has no sense, next year, or within two years. No, we have to wait long enough. That's why I make a video, as a proof. After 10 years I make another video and then we can see how you look then ?

P: That would be nice if you could make another video after 10 years.

A: That's why I had let you come, because I ...

P: Tell me, I have improved since I returned from the hospital.

A: Yes, of course. It is much better. Are there other complaints ?

P: No, you have to prescribe TEMESTA. And my husband, THENEROTIK or something like that.

A: THENEROTIK ?

P: He asked me.

A: Anyhow, you must try to stop this TEMESTA ...

P: Yes, I should stop this.

A: You must try. You only take TEMESTA when it is absolutely necessary. You must believe me, you do not need it.

P: Yes, I should try without TEMESTA.

A: You don't need it. And I advice you only to take one when you are nervous.

P: You know, I have problems to fall asleep. Well yes, you often think about that. For instance when the priest came in, well, I call him so. I often think about what he said. At this moment not so much, because it is already quite a long time ago.

A: I forgot to say something. When I was at your home and put you at your ease ...

P: Then it is much better.

A: Yes.

P: Then I feel well.

A: Then you feel well.

P: Yes, when he comes in and says, "I have bad news." Try to imagine it.

A: Yes, you feel as if nailed to the ground.

P: But I couldn't put one foot before the other. I was nailed to the ground.

A: You can be very ill after an operation.

P: I was scared to go outside. At home I have mirrors everywhere. And I looked into the mirror for at least thousand times a day.

A: To see how you look.

P: Yes, and every time worse, because he told me that. I felt all over, everything was flabby, the muscles, they were so ... Is that because of the operation ?

A: No, no.

P: It only hangs there.

A: But it will become flesh. That is no problem.

P: Because I lost weight. Now, I have been put on weight.

A: Yes, that is because you lost weight. And now you have been put on weight ?

P: Yes, 3 kilo. But now, I may not grow fatter.

A: Well, may not. It is better to keep your weight.

P: Now, it is all right.

A: Well, looking often in the mirror and when I visited you at home you were easily put at your ease, but I had to talk to you.

P: Then I feel well. Then I feel ten times better. And then I think, I was really scared for the doctors. They do not take account of people. Only of the disease, but not of the people. They treat all alike. Then you could be better a horse of 20 million.

A: They consider a human being only as a machine, not as a human being.

P: No, that doesn't count anymore. They only take account of the disease, give this or that injection, but the human being doesn't count anymore. They don't know him anymore.

A: The disease doesn't exist for me, only the human being who is ill.

P: It has to be like that. Then the concerned person will feel as a human being. But when you eliminate the people, I don't know how they can work. Then I would rather be a horse of 20 million, and then I have myself operated in Gent. I think, that is better.

A: Yes, you are right.

P: Don't you agree that they do everything for a horse of 20 million. And the horse can't even talk. But according to me, in the hospital you are better off to be a horse of 20 million. It is a scandal.

A: Yes, all right.

P: And then that nurse who gave me a blow.

A: The nurse, oh no, it was a physiotherapist, tell me.

P: He gave me a real blow.

A: Yes, tell me.

P: I was operated, very bad, and then someone came to me and said, "I'm the physiotherapist, the doctor has sent me to you to do some exercises." I said, "But I didn't ask anybody." And I really didn't ask anybody. "Yes, but the doctor has sent me to exercise. Then you will get a beautiful shape and your husband will like you very much. Do you want to get out of bed." I got up, stood near the bed, he looked at me like a farmer and said, "Now you see where you are with all your drinking, eating and smoking ! Full of cancer." I was nailed to the ground. And he said, "Do you want to come to the corridor ?" I said, "I will do nothing, nothing." But I couldn't. I didn't have to say, I do nothing, but I just couldn't, but I was to scared to say that. "So you do nothing." "No, nothing," I said, "and please go away, so that I won't see you here anymore."

A: He talked this way.

P: "I do nothing." But I couldn't anymore. I was nailed to the ground.

A: Yes, he looked at me this way (looks from top to toe).

P: "Well, now you see where you are with all your drinking, eating and smoking. Full of cancer." It is impossible to cure this way. I'm sure they want my death. Try to imagine this. And when I was back home the other evangelist came. He also wanted my death.

A: The doctor belongs to an evangelistic organisation.

P: I don't know, what it is. And when I am not dead yet, I could come to you. I was glad, that I was dismissed from the hospital. When I started this treatment I was still there. In fact, it is not justified.

A: It is not that bad. You have survived it.

P: But, there shouldn't be many people like those, they can kill someone, whether they want it or not.

I told my husband I would rather be a horse of 20 million. Then I had myself operated in Gent. Switch off the video. How do I look ?

A: Your hand is all right, the little fingers also.

P: Yes, what did I do today ? Oh yes, yesterday I made a long journey with the car, I shouldn't do it. Then I tremble so.

A: You tremble.

P: For the rest I feel well. Yes, very well. You can see it yourself. And it depends on the things I do. In that ramshackle car, I wish I had another.

A: All right. Another short story. Previously, that was in 1979, or 1980. At that time I gave you drops, a teaspoon. At that time you had 39° C fever, in how many time did the fever disappear?

P: Oh, that influenza. The next day, fresh and healthy.

A: But in how many time did the fever disappear ?

P: A quarter of an hour. Just a quarter of an hour.

A: Then it had disappeared ?

P: I came home, I had been away with the car, and said that I got influenza. I got it suddenly.

A: Suddenly.

P: I had high fever. A teaspoon with drops and after a quarter of an hour the fever had disappeared. In the evening I went to bed, perspired at night, the hair pell-mell because of the perspiration, and in the morning fresh and healthy.

A: But in ...

P: Oh, after a quarter of an hour the fever had disappeared.

A: But after 5 minutes you started to perspire. You had stitching headache.

P: Immediately.

A: Anxious and so on. Then I gave you a teaspoon of ...

P: Disappeared immediately. Then I started to perspire. And a quarter of an hour later I didn't have fever anymore. Nothing, and I had high fever ...

A: 39° C. I still know it very well.

P: I drove home with the car from X. I said, "I must go immediately, because I have influenza." "Is it true ?" said the man. You can feel it.

A: Appeared suddenly.

P: Suddenly.

A: All right. After 10 years we make another video of you. All right.

FEEDBACK (March 13, 1988)

A: Just tell me.

P: I lie in bed and want to sleep, I close my eyes and then I see - it is because I have been too long in the hospital. That's the reason, because previously I didn't have it. Well, those thin people and below they have so swollen feet, you know, those cancer patients. I was on that department the whole time. And then I think, one of these days ... then I examine whether I already have swollen feet.

A: So you lie in bed, close your eyes and at that moment those pictures appear.

P: Then I see those cancer-patients before my eyes, with their thick feet.

A: And everything was caused, because previously you also had anxieties, I gave you a remedy for that and you reacted very well to that.

P: Very well.

A: And everything was caused ...

P: By this event. Doctor X told my sister in a shop that I should follow the treatment, or I would get problems or something like that. I didn't want to hear the rest, because I was completely lost, I was nailed to the ground. And then I couldn't put one foot before the other.

The doctor, who went to her the first time, told her sister in a shop that she urgently had to go back into the hospital, or she would get big problems. Her sister told her that and she had a break down again. Do you see what happens here ? The medical confidentiality ...

A: And what did your sister say ?

P: She said that she had nothing to do with it, that he should tell me himself. I heard how she said it. Well, that gossip, then I ran away. I was glad when I got outside. Or I would have cried. But I didn't want to. I was too scared. I went home, and has cried the whole day. Then I felt very bad. But my husband was not at home, I couldn't find him; I didn't know where he was. In the evening he immediately took the telephone ...

A: And called Doctor X ?

P: Yes, probably I had incited him very much: Did Doctor X want my death ? I said that I had enough of it, I couldn't take it no more. Yesterday I visited a baby in our neighbour, with difficulty. Now, I am scared to go somewhere else and things like that. I think it is a scandal. But he doesn't know with what kind of a person he is dealing with.

A: Yes, that is not serious. That is a violation of the medical confidentiality. Something has to be done against that. If it didn't have consequences for you, if you weren't so sensitive, then it was no problem, but you are too sensitive. This gives you other symptoms.

P: I just can't take it anymore.

A: But it is typical that you see those pictures of ill people on closing your eyes in bed at night.

P: Previously, I didn't have that.

A: Before not anymore ?

P: Oh no ! And now it starts again, those pictures of the hospital before my eyes. It has returned again. I had just survived it. I will conquer it, but not in this way.

A: I will help you to survive. You wait and see.

P: I can't. I will never call you. I am scared to call you, I imagine that you are angry with me.

A: No, no you have to understand that. Yesterday I had so much work to do, and a consultation with you only lasts 2 minutes. Then, I need time to talk to you and talk quietly with you.

P: I know, but then I hope that you are not angry with me.

A: Do you think that I am angry with you ?

P: Yes, I think so. I was so shocked.

A: Do you think that everybody is angry with you ?

P: Yes.

Here you see that she relapses, because of external circumstances and the cause was a Calcarea cause. Then she saw all those pictures again, those frightful pictures of the hospital, those emaciated people with their swollen feet. She saw it when she closed her eyes, she did not have it before, she had other mental symptoms of Calcarea, but now she has those delusions, those anxious delusions.

Question: "Did you repeat the remedy ?"

A: Yes, I repeated Calcarea 10 M.

A: Well.

P: Have you ever experienced this in your life ?

A: No, I haven't.

P: If I hadn't been in the shop with my sister, I didn't know. Probably, I looked very pale and terrible, and so it started again. Then they sent my sister to my home. She has to inspect whether I'm doing something and she says to my husband, "She's busy the whole time and does something." And my husband answers, "But leave her alone." They thought that I was lying on my bed the whole time, but I think that my sister lies more on her bed than I do. In the meantime I am very bad.

A: Did you stop TEMESTA in the meantime ?

P: Yes. Only now and then I took one. I had some at home. I still had your prescription at home. I thought I wouldn't need this dirtiness. But then I couldn't start with my work, you understand. It begins ...

A: Then those pictures arise again. Do you have other pictures except for those cancer pictures ?

P: I also have dreams.

A: What do you mean ?

P: When I dream and remember those dreams. Everything is so insane. There is no sense, incoherent. Lets say I dreamt about a donkey or a mountain, but I can't find any sense in it. Everything is so muddle ...

A: Confused ?

P: Yes, that's right. I can't differ the pictures. Then I wake up and last week I wet the bed. I got up. I couldn't hold it any longer. I don't know how it happened. Is something pushing against my bladder ?

A: No. It might be from exertion, from anxiety.

P: That's the reason.

A: These are anxious dreams, those incoherent dreams. What about your anxieties, are these anxious dreams ?

P: No, just dreams. And then I think, "Am I insane, are those strange things ?"

A: Confused. Confused dreams.

P: Rubbish ! How shall I tell you ?

A: Mixed up.

P: You can't find a sense.

A: Confused.

P: Do confused dreams exist ?

A: Yes, yes.

P: So a muddle. Then I don't know what I have dreamt. I can't say it. I don't know.

A: Do you watch television presently ?

P: Yes, often. But no films ... Neither the programme "Higher, Lower". I don't watch such stupid programmes. But something about the world.

A: Yes, such things.

P: I like documentaries.

A: But no horror films ?

P: No, neither films. Computer programmes, what's his name, the man from Maastricht, I like such programmes.

A: You don't watch films neither horror films, do you ?

P: I'm not interested in such things. The man with his beard from Maastricht, what's his name again, the one with his computer, do you know him ?

A: No, I don't.

P: "Wonderworld", or so.

A: Are you easily chilly presently ?

P: I was this week. So feverish shivers.

A: Feverish shivers ?

P: Yes, then warm, then cold. Now, I have taken off my under bodice, because I perspire so easily.

A: Are you anxious while talking about those things now ?

P: No, not at all. It is over. But I have to shut up the whole time.

A: You have to shut up the whole time ? Because you are scared of telling it ?

P: I will tell nobody.

A: Nobody needs to know it.

P: No, that's nobody's business. When I tell it to someone, he says this and the other says that. And you know then there is gossip, and usually it is very senseless.

A: Yes.

P: You can't tell it to anybody. I can to you. You understand. But you don't have to tell it to a normal person. He says immediately you have to go to the hospital in Leuven. I know it, so ...

A: Between brackets: your last blood examination was perfect: sediment rate 5.

P: Is that all right ?

A: The liver rates are perfect. The CA 125 and the alpha-foeto-proteins are normal. Everything is all right. I will prove that I am right at last, that you at last ...; but yes, we need some years to prove that.

P: But I don't want to be reminded to the case constantly. It must stop now. What is your life worth ? Yes, now it was a little bit over with this talk. Only now and then, but everybody has such periods. But as bad as I am now ...

A: All right. We take care that everything comes all right. Tell me, in the meantime you could do your work and so on ?

P: But yes. And I do it with pleasure. And you know, my neighbour has been separated from his wife.

A: They are divorced ?

P: No, not yet, but it takes quite a long time.

A: He lived next to you ?

P: He still is. Now, I take care of his daughter the whole time. Do you know her ? She keeps me busy the whole time. But now, the school starts again. I said to my neighbour, "You don't have to do the household. I can clean the windows and do your washings." On Sunday I make a casserole soup. Previously, I was with my aunt the whole day. I was scolded the whole day, but I was busy. And now I work for my neighbour, he is working the whole day. So he is also alone the whole time. His mother already said that I should do the household. But he doesn't want to. I told him that I don't want money for it. Yesterday, I made another casserole soup for him. On Saturday evening he goes dancing. I told him, "I will cook for you and your daughter."

A: So, his wife isn't there anymore ?

P: No, she lives in X. With an Italian or so. There is nothing to do.

A: Well no, that's their business.

P: Did you put all this on video ?

A: That is no problem. It is only shown to doctors. But this is a proof. That's why I put it all on video. It is a proof, and that they dare ...

P: And there are no cancer cells in my blood ?

A: No, nothing. Don't worry. I will give you a remedy, and I want to see you again. When is the next consultation ?

P: That's in April.

A: Now, it is March. Then I make another video and you will notice immediately the difference concerning the sleep. Call me next week again.

P: Will I be more quiet ?

A: Yes, you will be more quiet. Those pictures will disappear and you can sleep again. You will see. I experienced it.

P: Do I have something in my abdomen ?

A: No, there was another examination of the abdomen and everything was normal.

P: I don't have anything. And did I wet the bed because of the anxiety ?

A: Most probably, because of an anxious dream. It happened only once.

P: Two times. It happened again, I think, three weeks ago. And you know, I was also coughing and had a cold. But I'm not now anymore.

A: You will get rid of those anxious dreams ! Don't worry.

FEEDBACK (April 18, 1988)

A: Here it says March 13, 1988.

P: At least 2 months ago.

A: 5 weeks ago.

P: Oh yes.

A: At that time you came here with confused dreams. Frightful pictures before the eyes, when you closed your eyes and so on. How did it go ?

P: I didn't have them anymore.

A: You haven't seen anything ?

P: I don't fall asleep immediately, but those strange pictures have disappeared.

A: Very good. So, you didn't have those anxieties and confused dreams anymore ?

P: Have disappeared.

A: The last time you were very sad.

P: Yes.

A: What about it now ?

P: It goes up and down. Sometimes it is all right, sometimes it is less. I think everybody has such periods.

A: Do you still have the feeling that everyone is angry with you ?

P: No. That is also much better.

Who can explain why Calcarea can not tolerate the idea that someone else is angry with them ?

Remark: "It is very important for them what other people think about them."

A: Yes, that they can not tolerate that someone else is angry with them and that it is very important what other people think about them, those two symptoms have the same origin, the same reason. Calcarea people are the most peaceful people in the world.

Personally I think - but maybe within 10 years I think differently - that we all will develop to Calcarea people and then we will be peaceful, mild people, who do not tolerate fights.

Magnesia muriatica also wants peace, but they are fighters, they fight for their rights. Calcarea is also a fighter, but they fight for a better future. They work very hard, but internal they are very mild, they are very peaceful people. I hope that one day we all come in a Calcarea situation and become peaceful people.

A: You also had feverish shivers.

P: Not at the moment. I had this previously, but now less.

The fact that this woman could stop TRYPTISOL and those sleeping tablets after 20 years and that her anxieties also have disappeared, means that this remedy works very, very deep, much deeper than the cancer was. The cancer is a more peripheral problem than the anxieties. You know that in the triangle of health the most important thing is the mental symptomatology and then the emotional and then the physical. When you suppress the disease on the level of the skin, it goes inside, to the lungs, then they become depressive and then crazy. When someone is crazy, gets a remedy and develops a skin disease, it is all right, then the direction is all right.

(Drawing) This is the dermatologist, this is the pneumologist and here is the psychiatrist. The dermatologist cures the eczema and sends the patients to the pneumologist, because he got asthma in the meantime. The pneumologist cures the asthma and sends the patient to the psychiatrist and he sends him to God. He can not do anything else. The psychiatrist is the most difficult job, because he gets the most difficult cases, all the suppressed ones. That's why we need so many psychiatrist, that is the reason.

A: All right, this has been solved. It was because of the event at X, oh no, because of doctor X.

P: Yes.

A: All right. That is a good reaction to the remedy.

P: So, last week I was on the market in X, then I ran over the market, nobody could follow me. Then I am very quick, and sometimes I have troubles to reach the pathway at the other side of the street. I have to exert myself to reach it, I have no force anymore; then I am worse.

A: Yes, when you went to Scherpenheuvel you couldn't go up the mountain.

P: No, I could go up a little mountain. But when I only saw the mountain, I was anxious that I couldn't go up that mountain. I think that I can't do it. Then I went up the mountain and had to stay and gasp for air.

A: To gasp for air when you went up the mountain.

P: Not always.

A: Sometimes.

P: Some days I can't go up a mountain. Then I can't do anything at all.

A: Some days.

P: I think I has to do with this (points to her head).

A: Panting respiration. And then you are excited.

P: I can't do anything.

A: You are anxious again and you think, damned ...

P: Then I don't have any force.

A: "I can't go up this mountain, so there must be something wrong with me."

P: Yes. I can't go up. Then I can't do anything. At the moment I can drive a car very well. I left, and wham, I thought, "If I had to go to Brussels, I would be there in no time."

A: Don't you agree that it goes up and down very strongly. You have periods in which you feel well and periods in which you feel less well. The periods in which you feel less well are bad for you, because other people have something to say about you and therefore you come into a situation which gives you the opportunity to say, "Damned, I can't go up the mountain, what's the matter with me ?" Isn't that right ? You are anxious, because you can't anymore.

P: Yes, and then I think I must have something.

A: (Points to his head)

P: (Laughs) Would it be that again ?

A: It is in your head, you understand. There are days you feel well and days you feel less well. But because of the reasons I told you before.

P: But then I think I don't have any force. I don't know, what's all this.

A: But at what time did you got up this morning ?

P: Well, I took the curtains off. But then it is just the opposite, then I sit there this way (thickset), or it is this way, hop ...

A: Or sad or active. But haven't you been this way all your life ?

P: Always a little anxious.

A: Yes, anxious, but that you have moments where you ...

P: Well, previously, it was as if someone was behind me. It has always been. When I see someone else doing something then I think, "They can do it so quietly, it is a pleasure to watch them. But I don't even have to try it, I can't. When I take off the dust, the duster is flying in a way of speaking. The other people can do it more quietly. I can't.

A: All right. Concerning ...

P: But I can't stop TEMESTA.

A: No, you can't. Do you take TEMESTA every day ?

P: Yes, with me it has the opposite effect. Another person becomes quietly, I become active.

A: Because you are less nervous.

P: It might be. When I take TEMESTA, I don't take it at night, because I prefer to be active during the day, when I am not so active at night, it bothers nobody.

A: But you can't come the day through without TEMESTA ?

P: But yes. Now and then. I want to. But when I want to go with my husband ...

A: Then you have to be quiet.

P: Then I feel fine. Or I couldn't go with my husband.

A: But when you were here the last time, did the anxieties disappear because of TEMESTA, you took TEMESTA at that time ?

P: No, they didn't. Then I had strange dreams.

A: Yes, they disappeared because of the remedy.

P: But don't you think I'm thin ? I have lost about 3 kg.

A: But isn't that good ? Do you prefer to be fat ?

P: Am I still ?

A: Don't you agree that you are too fat ?

P: Well. Still ?

A: Are you trying to convince me that you are not too fat ?

P: Still now ?

A: Yes, still now.

P: At the moment I'm only a handle with a head on it.

A: And what is this (points to her chin).

P: It only hangs there.

A: What is it ?

P: It's not fat.

A: What is it then ?

P: It is skin hanging there.

A: What do you mean with skin hanging there ? What's underneath ?

P: That is only loose skin.

A: (Goes to the patient and feels under the chin) What is this ?

P: Loose skin.

(A gets a report) Are the results negative again ?

A: At that time you were anxious, at night lost of urine. You were anxious and I have you taken an echography of your bladder. The result was normal, no pathological deviations. We wrote everything on your medical card.

P: But I should smoke a little less, those dirty cigarettes. Do you think it is because of those cigarettes that I can't go up the mountain.

A: According to me you never could go up a mountain.

P: But I could previously.

A: When ?

P: Before I was operated. At the sea, in the dunes.

A: There are no mountains at the sea.

P: But as the word says, "Duinbergen" (dune mountains).

A: How high are they ?

P: Aren't there mountains at the sea where you stay ?

A: But how high are they ?

P: Not mountains, but it goes always up and down (shows with her hand in the air). The whole day so, "Duinbergen".

A: Well, a few dunes.

P: No. The streets are a little steep. Then a valley and then they are steep again. And this the whole day. But I can't do it now anymore. At Whitsuntide I go back. I noticed it in Monschau, that I couldn't do it anymore.

A: In Monschau there are indeed mountains.

P: But previously, I could go up the mountains without any trouble.

A: Yes, but in the meantime you grew a few years older. When was the last time you were in Monschau ?

P: Well, when was it ?

A: The time before the last time ? That's already a few years ago. How many years ?

P: About 2, 3 years ago. But at that time I could easily go up the mountain. But I had to gasp for air.

A: Everything points to the remedy you need.

P: Worn out.

A: No, no, you only had to breath hard. That is not so bad.

P: But it is annoying.

A: Well, yes, further. You eat well ?

P: Yes, but I become a little thin. So thin arms.

A: They are not thin.

P: No ? But everything is so flabby (points to her face).

A: But now.

P: Sometimes I have it here.

A: According to me you are too fat.

P: Yesterday they said I must have lost about 10 kilo.

A: I would be satisfied if they say it to me.

P: But then I become anxious. Then I remember the old village policeman. Then I think I will be like the old village police man in no time.

A: The fact that your anxieties disappear so fast with the homoeopathic remedy means that the rest of your body also reacts well to the remedy. It concerns the whole person. Then it is logic that you loose some weight. Besides, I told you that you would loose some weight.

P: Yes, but now it should stop.

A: But here, the double chin must disappear.

P: It doesn't go away.

A: What do you mean, "It doesn't go away." ?

P: My brother laughed at my chin. He said that he hoped that he would not get such a chin. I said, "Maybe much worse than I have." First, it was round, but now - I don't know. I can't recognize it. But that double chin will not go away.

A: It will. When it pulls together, then it will go away.

P: Yes, but what kind of figure will I get then ? The fat will not only disappear here, but everywhere.

A: Yes, yes, of course, it will. You don't have to worry.

P: Then I know how it will go.

A: No, no, absolutely not.

P: Then slowly it goes downhill.

A: That's not right. We took blood. We will examine it. What about your sleep ?

P: Tonight I slept very little, because I had to be here at half past seven. No, no, then I can't sleep. When I have to be here at half past seven, I can't sleep at night.

EXTRA

MIND,HOME, desires to go : Bell., Bry., calc-p., calc., chlol., cic., cupr., hyos., lach., op., plan., rhus-t., verat., vip.

MIND, FEAR, suffering, of : Bry., calc., cor-r., der., eup-per., lil-t., pip-m.

MIND, FEAR, poverty : Ambr., Bry., calc-f., calc., chlor., meli., nux-v., psor., puls., sep., sulph.

MIND, FEAR, heart, disease of : Aur., bapt., cact., calc., lac-c., lach., lil-t., spong.

MIND, FANCIES, lascivious : Am-c., ambr., anac., arund., aur., bell., calc., carb-v., chin., dig., graph., hipp., ign., lil-t., lyc., op., sang., thuj., verb.

MIND, EXERCISE, mental symptoms amel., by physical : Calc.

onida neighbours envy owners pride

MIND, ENVY : Ars., bry., calc., cub., cur., hell., lach., lil-t., lyc., nat-c., puls., sarr., sep., staph.

MIND, EGOTISM : Calc., lach., med., merc., pall., Plat., sil., sulph.

MIND, DIPSOMANIA : Ars., bufo., calc., caust., con., hep., lach., mag-c., merc., nux-v., op., petr., puls., staph., sulph.

BLADDER, URINATION, FREQUENT, DAYTIME, and night : Alum., apis., cahin., calc., canth., caust., colch., lact-ac., mag-m., Merc., nat-a., nat-m., nux-j., plan., rhus-t., sars.

PROSTATE GLAND, ENLARGEMENT : Aloe., alum., am-m., apis., asar., aspar., aur-m., Bar-c., benz-ac., berb., cact., Calc., cann-s., canth., chim., cic., clem., Con., cop., Dig., ferr-m.,hyos., iod., kali-i., kali-p., lith., lyc., med., merc., nat-c., nat-p., nat-s., nit-ac., nux-v., pareir., phos., psor., Puls., sec., sel., senec., sil., spong., staph., sulph., thuj.,uva.

ERUCTATION, LOUD, eating, after : Calc., tab.

EXTREMETIES, COLDNESS, headache, during : Arg-n., ars., aur., bell., bufo., cact., calc., camph., carb-s., carb-v., chin., chr-ac., coca., dirc., ferr-p., ferr., Gels., lac-d., lach., laur.,Meli., meny., naja., nat-m., phos., plat., psor., sars., Sep., stram., sulph., verat-v.

Do you see the differential diagnosis with Calcarea, and on the other side with Sulphur

Sulphur: he wants to be the best

Calcarea: what will people think of me. But this only happens when he can not control himself anymore, when he has drunk too much. After drinking, again a kind of anxiety: now, I have done this or that, because I could not withhold myself. That is something different as with Calcarea. This is because his excitement let him go. Calcarea thinks when he is walking on the street what the other people will think about his thin legs, or about the shoes, or when they drive with the car: "What will other people say if the car is not washed, or in a family who have a small garden before their house, the grass has to be cut every Saturday, because on Sunday all the people who are going to the church pass. What would they say if the grass is not cut? Besides, every Sunday, the whole house has to be cleaned, because if someone comes in by accident what would he say about this mess? That is Calcarea

A: Can you run long?

P: Yes. I can not give up.

EXTRA

That is never Calcarea. Someone who can run a long time is never Calcarea. Calcarea is very easy out of breath, already after a short distance they do not have any breath anymore. Phosphorus can run a long distance, Sepia can run very long, Lycopodium also, but never Calcarea

At the beginning she had Calcarea symptoms, clear Calcarea symptoms, fear of heights, vertigo in high places, fear of mice, desire for sweets, desire for tarts and so on, but Calcarea didn't do anything.

In church there are a lot of Calcarea people. In the North of Belgium you often see that people go to church, because they think, "What will other people say about me, when I don't go to church ?" And the houses of the Calcarea people are completely clean and tidy, inside and outside - "What will other people think when it is not tidy ?" Calcarea women are constantly cleaning and therefore they are working, working, and working, so that other people will say that she works very hard and is a tidy woman. And what are the consequences of this hard working ? Rhus toxicodendron complaints. Therefore Calcarea and Rhus toxicodendron are complementary remedies. Calcarea works and works and works because she likes to be a good woman in the eyes of other women - because they work too hard and live in the North, they get Rhus toxicodendron symptoms. Therefore they are complementary. What I have just said, does not count for the constitutional Rhus toxicodendron.

"Anxiety about the future" (p. 7). That is very important in children. Children who are talking the whole time about what there will be in the future. You know the song, "When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, What will I be ?" This is a Calcarea song - "will I be happy, will I be rich ?" - anxiety about the future.

Not only Rhus toxicodendron is sensitive to change of weather, Calcarea also is sensitive to change of weather and draft of air.

OTHER CASE >

Then I did a consultation for 1 1/2 hour and then the Calcarea nucleus appeared. When she was in the house she closed the door, not because she was anxious, but because she did not want that other people saw the disorder in her house. So, I discovered Calcarea. She got Calcarea 10 M and since then everything is all right. It took 2 or 3 years before I discovered Calcarea.

Another case difference between calc and baryta carb

- You see, sometimes he is absent-minded; he doesn't follow the consultation.

- If it would be a Calcarea child he would pay extreme attention, 'What do they say about me? I hope they don't say anything wrong or bad about me."

- He would listen very carefully.

- But this boy here, he is sitting there and he looks absent-minded ( baryta carb child ).

Another case

- In children who perspire on the neck during sleep the first remedy you have to think of is Calcarea carbonica, and this is the differential diagnosis.

ANOTHER CASE

- The perspiration on the neck you nearly always find in Calcarea children.

- This perspiration is an indication for me to repeat the remedy.

ANOTHER CASE

- Do you see this Calcarea child? He is sitting there with a book and is reading, while his Tuberculinum brother is running about.

Cases of Jonathan shore

CASE7

Dorian P. age 11 months

3/30/89

Recurrent otitis (2) four times in past four months. Treated with antibiotics.

Begins with cold, coryza. Never gets a fever.

Ameliorated by vigorous motion (2), hard patting (2).

(Small, wiry, active child.)

Currently has serous otitis.

Very bored, needed to be held and carried a lot before he could crawl.

Desires butter (2), salt (2), sweets (2), spices (1), eggs (1).

Putrid stool (3), yellow.

Perspiration on head (2).

Medicinal odour to breath when ill.

Sleeps on abdomen (2), knee-chest (1).

Ameliorated from music (2).

Ameliorated from open air (2).

Chews ice.

Remedy?

3/31/89

Next day after remedy, developed a fever of 102 F. Improved over a few days without treatment.

4/9/89

Fever again, sudden onset to 104 F.

Remedy Belladonna C 30 as needed.

3/10/90

Has not been ill in past year.

EVALUATION

JS: So now you are getting the idea of what I want from you; let's try it again. What can we say about this case? That is why when we started on Friday night I made the point that it is easy for me to look so good, because I prepared it and I have studied it. And I don't expect you to have the answer. These are very difficult cases for me; for most of you they will be difficult cases, but I want you to try and think in the right way. That is what I am looking for, for thought, not for remedies. You see, if we think in the right way, we come to the remedy; we bump up against it, despite ourselves.

JS: So here is an eleven month-old child, who has recurrent otitis. Four times in four months, lots of antibiotics, never gets a cold, never gets a fever, he is better from vigorous motion and hard patting. He is a small, wiry, active child, he currently has serous otitis. So you see even though he has had lots of antibiotics they haven't actually in any way removed the underlying pathology. He is very bored; he needed to be held and carried a lot before he could crawl. He is restless. He desires butter and salt and sweets and spices and eggs. He has a putrid stool (3), quite strong, the stool smells very bad and is yellow. Sweats on his head, he has a medicinal smell to his breath, he sleeps on the abdomen in the knee-chest position, he is better from music. It is true, his mother is a musician. He is much better in the open air and he chews ice. So now, how are you thinking about this case?

AD: He needs company all the time.

JS: Before that, I want to know what is important about this case? You see, I should have taken it a little differently. When I say: "How are you thinking?” I mean after you read the case there are certain things which you have to recognize. Not the specifics; there are certain principles which you have to recognize, before you can begin to think in an ordered fashion.

AD: The child can't make a fever.

JS: And this means to you what?

AD: ... defence mechanism.

JS: Right, this is one thing. We see this child has a poor vitality. The ability to react appropriately to a stimulus is quite low. This is very important, you will see, because this information then has to colour your evaluation of the case, from many different points of view. This is the idea. More information of this nature I need.

AD: Another indication that the vitality is low, is that the child in the past four months has an otitis every month.

JS: Yes, a lot of problems, without much response in a quite young child. What else can we think about this case?

AD: There is much suppression in the case.

JS: Lots of antibiotics, the case has been suppressed and there is low vitality. Or maybe there is low vitality because the case has been so suppressed, but one way or the other, we see this kid is in trouble. This is how you have to put these facts together. This child is in trouble, actually. Other things about this case?

AD: That he is bored, seems an odd thing.

JS: That he is bored. Well, he is very restless. It is not odd, it is significant, but it is not that odd.

AD: He needs a lot of stimulation: hard patting, ameliorated by vigorous motion ...

JS: But at the same time, he himself is small and wiry and active. So now we have an idea, do we see an essence here? What would you say, do you understand what is going on with this child? Not really.

AD: Overactivity.

JS: He is restless, yes. Can we prescribe on that? No. I mean, many remedies, restlessness: maybe five hundred remedies. So that is the first thing: essence, not really. Totality? What is the totality? Is there a totality? Can we see a coherent picture which covers all the main aspects of the case? Not really.

AD: Many food cravings for such a small child.

AD: She is very active according to the vitality.

JS: The kid need stimulants, I agree, the child is sort of restless and active. Yet you see, we can't really see a totality. The presenting complaint ... There is no real otitis without a fever, we can't prescribe on that really. You understand why I am reasoning like this; I am saying we are getting to a point where we understand that this is a difficult case. That is all, actually. When I say: "What do you think?" you say: "This is a difficult case, because of this reason, and this reason ...” That is all I want; it is very simple. However, unless you think like this, you start off in the wrong direction. You have to understand that this is a difficult case, and it is a difficult case for these reasons. It is a difficult case, because not only is there not a good pattern, but this child is easily suppressed. So we have to give the right remedy here; if we just toss out any remedy at this child, we are going to do more harm than the allopaths. Our remedies are going to suppress this kid more than the antibiotics. So how are we going to look, then, for a remedy in this case? Now we can come down and we can start to look at some symptoms.

JS: So the first remedy which comes to our mind is Medorrhinum. And why?

AD: Sleeps knee-chest.

JS: Yes, but you have to have ...

AD: Desires salt and desires sweets.

JS: Yes, but even more reason than that?

AD: Chews ice.

JS: Even better reason than that?

AD: At an early age.

JS: At an early age. Discharges, infections at an early age. So here is a child of eleven months old and from the age of six or seven months, this child is getting discharges. No matter that it is in the ear, it is still a discharge. If it had not been treated with antibiotics, it would be discharging. Then, you see, the kid likes ice and then the kid sleeps in the knee-chest position and the kid is restless.

AD: It is a weak child.

JS: But that is good enough. Bored, restless, yes.

AD: Salt and sweets.

JS: All very good for Medorrhinum. What is the problem here with Medorrhinum? What is the argument against?

AD: Never gets a fever.

JS: No, that is not really an argument against.

AD: Small, wiry, active.

JS: Well, I would say that is pretty good for Medorrhinum. How old was the child when the child first got sick? Six months old. Is this ailments from birth? No, it is not ailments from birth. Six months old, now the child is young, it is true, but still it is not ... We can't say this is a strong thing for Medorrhinum. If we have to say a nosode, you see a nosode in ailments from birth. If this child was getting the trouble right away, we could say: "Right, we can make our case: ailments from birth.” Here, six months, it is getting soft (IB: soft evidence). If you hang your case on this, maybe it will collapse. It is not strong enough, but it is there. The other thing: sleeps knee-chest. Now, sleeps in the knee-chest position. Is this a helpful symptom for us in this case, or not?

AD: Lots of babies do that.

JS: Right; it is a little young to take this symptom; lots of babies sleep in the knee-chest position. So the child started to get sick a little too old for Medorrhinum and is a little bit young to take the knee-chest position as a solid, reliable thing where we can say: "Yes, we can hang our case on this.” The other thing is, what will happen if we give this child Medorrhinum? How have we reasoned about this case; what is this case? Has low vitality, has been suppressed. Is Medorrhinum going to have an action on this case? Yes, for sure Medorrhinum is going to have an action, but whether it will be a curative action or not, we can't say. So for us to give this case Medorrhinum is a big risk. This is why you have to reason about the case. If you don't reason that this case has low vitality, has been suppressed, is weak, you look at the case and you say: "Medorrhinum!” And you give Medorrhinum and a week later the mother is bringing the child back and what does the child have now? It has terrible diaper rash and you say: "Hurrah!” And it goes a week, it goes two weeks, three weeks, four weeks and the skin is oozing: the rash is not going away. You have made a beautiful proving of Medorrhinum. Maybe this happens, you see? Or you give Medorrhinum and the mother comes back and for one month the child doesn't have any trouble, and then the trouble comes again, and the mother brings the child back and you say: "How is it now?" and she says: "Oh now the child sleeps on the back like this (...)."

AD: Pulsatilla.

JS: Even like Psorinum, maybe. And now, no longer ice and now the child is eating the fat of the ... You have changed things around and the case is even more difficult. So I say, even though for me Medorrhinum is obvious here and I know it is going to have an effect, I am very afraid to give Medorrhinum to this child, because I know it is going to have an action. So I don't really want to give Medorrhinum.

JS: Where do I turn now?

AD: Better from music.

JS: How will that help me? What sort of remedy will it point me towards?

AD: It is a keynote for Tarentula.

JS: For Tarentula. Well, yes, I never really thought of Tarentula. I would say, the thing with Tarentula here, is that the child is not restless enough. If you want Tarentula here, the child would have to be ... It says: small, wiry and active. Needed to be held and carried (not underlined). Oh no, if this was Tarentula the mother would be chasing the child around. The child is crawling, this sort of thing, is more aggressive, more destructive. And also the mother is a musician. So ameliorated from music is not so significant. It is there, but not so significant.

AD: Chamomilla.

JS: Yes, the putrid stool and the perspiration on the head. But if this were Chamomilla, what would you think, how would the child be? What do you want for Chamomilla? What must you have for Chamomilla?

AD: Anger.

JS: Very, very irritable, very angry. It is bored. It doesn't make it. Here there is not enough evidence, the Chamomilla child is screaming and shouting and kicking and hitting and you can't keep them quiet, no. This child is just bored.

AD: A small child, who is moving, restlessness.

JS: Yes, and you think of?

AD: Arsenicum.

JS: Right. The child is very restless, wiry, thin, has to be carried fast, you think of Arsenicum.

AD: Sepia.

JS: Or Sepia, sure. The vigorous motion. So it could be Arsenicum, it could be Sepia. Chews ice, Arsenicum is there for liking ice.

AD: I have found a remedy which has all the desires the child has and it fits the general state.

JS: And that is?

AD: Carcinosinum.

JS: Even worse than Medorrhinum. If it is dangerous to give Medorrhinum, it is even more dangerous to give Carcinosinum.

AD: Calcarea phosphorica.

JS: Yes, thin and wiry and restless. True; however the main thing with Calcarea phosphorica is really what in children? Discontent. Now it is true the kid gets bored and he is sort of active, but you don't get the feeling here that the discontent is really coming out as the centre of the case so that you can hang a real prescription on it, and also there is not much Phosphorus here.

AD: Calcarea carbonica.

JS: But there is Calcarea carbonica. And the remedy is CALCAREA CARBONICA.

AD: But Calcarea has a good vitality.

JS: So why is it Calcarea carbonica? How can we look at the case? If I say to you: "Desires salt, sweets and eggs and sweats on the head," what remedy would you say?

AD: Calcarea carbonica.

JS: Now there is another reason for giving Calcarea carbonica.

AD: If such a weak child is vaccinated, will it produce a Calcarea picture?

JS: From the vaccination?

AD: Normally you say Calcarea has a strong vitality. And now you have a child who has a low vitality and who has been vaccinated.

JS: So what I try to say here, is that we have to be flexible. And we get one idea in our mind and we say: "Calcarea carbonica is strong. And therefore, since it is not strong, we can't give it.” No, the essence of Calcarea carbonica is not health and strength. No; it is a general rule, but we have to be flexible. Now the other reason for giving Calcarea here; what is the difference in this case between giving Medorrhinum and giving Calcarea? I feel that if Calcarea is not right in this case, it is not going to do anything. Everything goes against Calcarea, everything. I mean, the child is thin and small and restless and is better from vigorous motion and is chewing on ice ... So can we say definitely that Calcarea carbonica is going to act in this case? No. We cannot say definitely. So if it is the wrong remedy, it is not going to do too much, and this is my justification for giving Calcarea carbonica in this case. This is because, I will tell you, this child is in a dangerous position. Has been suppressed, is weak and if I do the wrong thing, I am going to make it much worse and much more difficult for myself later.

AD: Why wouldn't you lower the potency of Medorrhinum?

JS: Mother tincture? How low would you go? What is the difference between high potency and low potency?

AD: The confrontation with the vital force.

JS: I can't say absolutely. So my sort of visualisation of it, is that high potency is like the point of the sword. I mean, I have to go into your heart; if I go into your shoulder, it is only your shoulder I get. However, if I take a sledgehammer, and I swing it like that: Banggg! against your chest, I am going to hit something. So if you want to be sure that you hit something, you give low potency. Now in this case, the worst fear of mine is that I will hit something, which is not the right thing. So it would be even worse if I gave low potency. This is my reasoning in this case. So after struggling with it in this way, we give Calcarea carbonica and what happens?

AD: Medorrhinum, has a night aggravation.

JS: No, in fact Medorrhinum must have amelioration in the evening. If the case does not have evening amelioration, be very careful; probably it is not a Medorrhinum case. Never say never. Probably not. I don't think I have given Medorrhinum to a case that did not have evening amelioration. So maybe you can give it and it will work, I don't know. But why do I say that the case has to have evening amelioration? Why do I take some peripheral symptom and say: "The remedy must have this peripheral symptom.” Why do I say to her that she reasons from the outside, because she takes some physical symptom and why do I now take some similar sort of physical symptom and say: "You have got to have it!"

AD: It is part of the essence.

JS: Right, it is part of the essence. Medorrhinum are people of the night, of the dark, of the shady. So this idea, that they improve in the evening, that their vitality comes up in the evening is not just any symptom, it is an intimate reflection of the nature of the remedy. You understand, it is not capricious that I say: "In this case throw it out and in this case you have to have it.” You have to reason from principles.

JS: So anyway, the child has a fever. The mother calls the next day and says: "Oh my God, now the kid is really sick.” What do you say?

AD: Wonderful.

JS: Wonderful, fantastic, great, every word you can think of. Don't give aspirin. Let the kid have the fever. And what happens: a few days later the kid is better. And then, a week after that, what happens? Another fever. And now, how is the fever now?

AD: Higher.

JS: Higher, yes. What has happened in this case: the remedy has acted well, the vital force is strong, the child is now responding appropriately and it is responding in what sort of fashion? What is the remedy, sudden high fever?

AD: Belladonna.

JS: Belladonna. Which of course is the sort of complaint that Calcarea children should get. So you see how this case has come into order now. You see how lucky we were we did not give Medorrhinum or Carcinosinum or something like that.

AD: I read this case conference book and they gave Penicillin (IB: homoeopathic) to a case. And I wonder if this could be appropriate.

JS: No. He says that he read a book and in the book there was a case in which they gave Penicillin in homoeopathic potency, because the case had been treated very much in the past with penicillin (IB: allopathic). However, I don't remember the whole case, but I know for sure that the reason that Penicillin was given was what? This picture of the symptoms fit the picture of the symptoms of Penicillin (IB: homoeopathic).

AD: Where do you find that?

JS: You read in the books, maybe in this book of Julian. There is no justification here. We don't know; he was probably treated with Amoxicillin ... or some other thing. This is just: the kid has been suppressed, no reason to give Penicillin. Now you give Calcarea, it doesn't work. You give another remedy, it doesn't work. You give another remedy, it doesn't work. You are down on your hands and knees and you are praying and you hear a voice which says: "Penicillin.” Then you get up and you give Penicillin. But that is the stage you have to reach. You go and read that case again in the case conference book and you will see, not only was there a history of specifically a lot of penicillin use, but there was a symptom in the case which fit with a known proving symptom of Penicillin. And then you can give with some confidence. It is not just by accident that you fall into it.

JS: I tell you, the second miracle is always much harder than the first one. Those of you who had some experience; someone comes and they come to you and their arm is paralysed. And you are lucky, you get the right remedy and their arm is better and two weeks later their cousin comes. And their cousin has hemiplegia. The whole half of the body is paralysed. And again you are lucky and you get the right remedy and in month's time there they come on a stretcher; their neck is broken, the whole body is paralysed. I mean, this is how it goes, and if you are just guessing and you have a lucky guess with the first remedy, there is no hope for the other cases. Those of you who have some experience, you know this is how it goes. You make one small miracle and then a hundred-year-old comes ... and, you know: "Can you make me twenty, you did it to my cousin?"

AD: What harm could Cina have done?

JS: I don't know what harm Cina could have done here. But I think we have to assume that Calcarea was the right remedy. So if Cina would do anything, it would do some harm.

AD: Not so much as Medorrhinum?

JS: Not so much as Medorrhinum, no. Not so much as the obvious remedy.

AD: You pick two or three points and say it has to be Calcarea. You chose for that on two or three points. Why isn't it possible to say: "I take two or three others from the case and ...?"

JS: So he asks me, what is it about these two or three points which I have chosen, which gives me the right to base the remedy on this, rather than on another two or three points. Well, the first question is, what other two or three points would you take?

AD: The amelioration from the motion and patting; and perhaps some of the desires.

JS: What desires? Not some. Two or three you want, we must be specific now.

AD: The salt and the sweets.

JS: Better from motion, desires salt and sweets. What is the remedy? You understand? Desires salt, sweets and eggs and sweats on the head; what is the remedy?

AD: Calcarea.

JS: Right, this is my justification. I tell you, salt and sweets and eggs and sweats on the head, what is the remedy? No question about it. Not: "Well, it could be this or it could be that.” This little picture which I have abstracted is one remedy. It is number six of the scheme of case-analysis, combination of symptoms. And I am not at all sure.

JS: The reason for this is because I felt that if it weren't right, it wouldn't do harm. And at the same time, there is enough justification for it. Yes, number six, combination of symptoms. That, in the end, after we have gone through this whole rigmarole, for an hour, forty-five minutes long. It took me no shorter than it has taken us here really; I came up with this set of symptoms.

AD: What potency did you give?

JS: Probably a C 200. Standard prescription.

AD: Why did the child need Belladonna?

JS: Actually, I don't know if the child needed Belladonna; my wife made the prescription. Probably I would not have prescribed, but the thing is I don't know and in fact the child got very well and has been well ever since.

AD: And lived long and happily ever after.

JS: At least for the next year or so. So I put it in there, because you can see justification for Belladonna. But I don't know whether I would have actually given it. Probably I myself would have waited.

AD: Would you consider giving Sacch. lac. instead of Calcarea carbonica, because it is safer.

JS: Yes, it is true. After all I could have stayed at home and not come here, then I might not have got killed in an aeroplane accident.

AD: And there are very bad aggravations from Sacch. lac. ...

JS: Yes, so there is a risk for Sacch. lac. But the point is here, I feel in this child: "I have to do something.” This is not a case: "Well, we will wait and see.” The child is sick, is getting lots of otitis, the mother is very anxious, lots of antibiotics. I don't feel here that I want to take a chance on Sacch. lac.

AD: When you give Sacch. lac. you don't give the antibiotic and you give a chance for the picture to become clearer.

JS: Yes, but I would say here that in this case and of course now we are dealing with aspects of the case which are not on the paper, the mother is very anxious. If the child gets sick, it will get antibiotics. If I give Sacch. lac., probably the same old thing will continue to happen. The child will get more sick and she will go to the pediatrician and the pediatrician will say: "There is an ear infection" and what can I say: "No, this is a good response to the remedy?"

AD: "I just gave a great remedy."

JS: The mother says: "All right, I will wait.” Six weeks, two months go by, and still it is the same story. And the mother says: "Homoeopathy, bullshit.” I feel that in this case, just on my impression, it is not going to help to give Sacch. lac.

AD: Did I understand you well that Calcarea carbonica is in fact a low risk remedy for little children?

JS: No, you misunderstood me completely. I did not say Calcarea carbonica is a low risk remedy. I did not say it has anything to do with little children. I said in this particular case, that the picture of the case in general is so far away from Calcarea carbonica that it is very unlikely to act in this case. So if it is not exactly the right remedy, it is not going to do a damned thing. And therefore it is a low risk.

AD: Question (...).

JS: No, actually I will tell you Calcarea carbonica is a fairly unusual prescription for me in children. Mostly the sort of Calcarea carbonica that I have seen in kids are children who are fat and they have big heads and you look at the child and you say: "Hah, it is Calcarea carbonica.” That is why I gave you this case, because I am trying to teach you how to think. If I give you a case like the first one, which even a child can spot, then there is nothing in it. That is what I am trying to say to you, that these are cases which are difficult cases, difficult cases for me. Don't think that I look at this case and say: "This is a Calcarea carbonica.” I must have sat for an hour, going through and around and around before I made my decision.

AD: Do you still remember what remedies or what thoughts went through your mind?

JS: Exactly the thoughts that I have been discussing with you now. Exactly the same.

AD: So you also stumbled into the nosodes and ...

JS: Oh, I mean, what do you think, you see water over here? (IB: joke, to walk over the water).

AD: No.

JS: The thinking that we went through was exactly my thinking. Anyone who looks at this case must look at this case and say: "Medorrhinum.” If you don't look at this case and say: "Medorrhinum" you are really a bad homoeopath. You know nothing! But if you are a good homoeopath, you don't give Medorrhinum. You know more; this is the difference.

AD: But the only thing which kept you away from Medorrhinum was the knowledge that it should have been ailments from birth?

JS: Not right. What kept me away from Medorrhinum?

AD: No night amelioration.

JS: No. The harm it might have done. Here we went through it carefully. You take this symptom and you weigh this symptom: how reliable is it. You take the next symptom, you weigh it: how reliable is it. And you see that the case for Medorrhinum is not strong enough to say for sure: "This is the right remedy.” And because I can't say for sure it is the right remedy and the vitality is very weak, then it becomes the dangerous remedy, for these other reasons, not just for one reason. That is why I wanted you to look at this case and to understand in the beginning that this is a weak child. Never mind this symptom or that symptom. If you don't understand the position of the child's vitality, you go quickly and make a big mistake.

CASE8

Sunday

Calcarea carbonica

Video 8

M.: seven years old.

JS: You watch carefully and then you will just tell me about this little girl after a few minutes.

MP: She has bronchitis.

JV: How old is she?

MP: She is seven.

JV: And she was not sick before that?

MP: She has been sick before that, but this is the first time that she really had a bad attack. And she had bronchitis and then ever since then she never has got rid of it.

JV: So you took her for a check-up?

MP: Yes.

JV: Just look at the ear.

MP: Yes.

JV: And what did she say?

MP: She said that she has an ear infection and then she has asthma and she started coughing and that is what wakes her up.

JV: To the child: Can you remember? If you remember something you say so.

MP: ... when you start coughing?

PT: No, I think it was yesterday ... and I couldn't go to sleep.

JV: So you lie down to go to sleep and then you start to cough.

PT: Yes.

JV: And then it is hard to go to sleep, because you are coughing.

JS: So these are people from the Philippines, which we can take into account, but it doesn't actually matter that much. So what can we say about this little girl? Start first, you describe her for me. If I am going to meet this kid in a train station and I have never seen her, I want you to describe for me, so that when I go to the train station, I will recognize her. Not: she has anxious eyes. I mean, how many people in a train station have anxious eyes? So that I can recognize her standing there. So you train your power of observation, of course. Who can say?

AD: She has dark hair.

AD: She is small and squat.

AD: Black hair with a fringe.

JS: And she is sort of on the round side. Squat, yes, but squat is not quite a correct word. For me squat means it is kind of close to the ground. She is like that, but she is only seven years old, so she can't be so big.

AD: Plump.

JS: Yes, plump is a better word than squat. So she is not very big and she is plump and she has dark hair with a little fringe. And what about her manner, how would you say? If she is standing there in the train station how will she be sort of looking?

AD: Shy.

JS: Shy, yes definitely. This child is not an aggressive, outgoing person. Her mother is doing most of the talking, and then even when we ask her, she can speak, but she is rather timid. Do you agree? She is not stepping out and saying: "Oh I feel this, I feel that.” Remember the Sulphur kids: "You see my rash?” Not this child. She is not going to do that. She is not going to say: "I put water in the vacuum cleaner.” Never. Highly unlikely that she is going to tell us that sort of story.

JV: And then she actually gets up, and walks around, or she will sit up in bed?

FP: Sometimes she has ... slime going up the stairs ... bad, I think she is running out of breath.

MP: Yes, she runs out of breath.

JV: Did you actually hear her wheezing?

MP: She is wheezing.

JS: Did you hear that? It is not so clear on the sound.

MP: She is easy to get along with. She gets along with, I think, all the kids in school.

JS: What he said was, there is this bit about the cough, but then they say that she actually has some shortness of breath. And he says the shortness of breath especially comes when she is walking up the stairs in the house.

MP: Generally I think she plays fairly well, she is most of the time happy, seven in the morning she is not ... She doesn't like to wake up in the morning.

JV: She is not irritable, she doesn't shout at you or like that? She is very sweet.

JV: And if you have to discipline her, you get upset, shout at her or something, how does that affect her?

JS: So you see I must just test this. The mother says she doesn't wake up well in the morning. Now the main remedy especially in children for this, can be what?

AD: Lycopodium.

JS: Lycopodium, irritable on waking. Now maybe this child is Lycopodium: fearful, sort of cowardly - that is why she is not answering, so I must just ask. Here you can ask a direct question. It doesn't matter. Just to test. I say: "You mean she is really irritable?” They say: "No, no, she is not irritable, it is not like that.” Actually she is a very sweet child. We can see she is a sweet child, but it is just to confirm it for myself. Because when the mother says: "Oh she is so irritable when she wakes up in the morning," then I have to change my whole thinking about the case.

JS: I ask: "If you shout at her, how does that affect her?"

FP: She cries. She is sensitive.

JV: She is sensitive?

MP: Very sensitive.

JV: What does that mean, sensitive?

JS: So what are the possibilities that I am thinking of here? Just quickly. What would you say? We look at this child; she has a roundish face and is a bit shy and quite sweet and she has some chest troubles. Her parents don't really have to discipline her much, because she just cries if they shout at her. So we are thinking of?

AD: Pulsatilla.

JS: Pulsatilla. And also of course, here is the little child and she is on the fat and flabby side and she has chest trouble walking up the stairs.

AD: Calcarea.

JS: Ailments in ascending, a very good confirmation for Calcarea. Of course the child has some asthma, so it is not surprising that she has shortness of breath walking up the stairs, but still, it is an example that they bring up spontaneously, and this is always something which you pay attention to. You see, the kid's asthma is not so bad. She has a bit of bronchitis, she has some asthma, the cough is worse at night, that is the usual thing, but they say she is especially getting short of breath when she walks up the stairs in the house. So we can't make our whole prescription on that, but it fits with the idea you have about the child.

JV: Is there anything that you are afraid of? What things are you afraid of?

MP: She is afraid of bugs.

PT: I am not afraid of ants any more.

MP: She was afraid of ants. She is afraid of going in her room by herself.

JS: I ask her: "What are you afraid of?” And she says: "I am not afraid of ants any more.” So we see of course fear of?

AD: Animals.

JS: Fear of insects. Not animals; an ant is not really an animal. It is not a sentient being. It is an insect. You know what I mean: if you call someone and you say: "You animal!" or you say: "You insect!" it has quite a different meaning.

MP: ... or going upstairs, because we have our bedrooms upstairs on the second floor.

JV: Even if the lights are on, it doesn't matter?

MP: ... she doesn't want to.

FP: She is little on the dark side (IB: ?).

JV: When it is dark.

MP: She does not like to watch violent movies, or anything that has any violence in it.

JS: Now you see, there is one observation and it is a soft observation, but nonetheless. How is she sitting there? What is her relationship to her parents?

AD: Close.

JS: Yes, but who is giving the affection?

AD: Her father.

JS: Her father. If this were Pulsatilla, how would she be?

AD: Maybe in the lap.

JS: In the lap, yes. The father is probably Pulsatilla. He is always putting his arm around her, it is not that she doesn't like that, but if she were Pulsatilla, she would be sitting in his lap. This is not quite right for Pulsatilla, actually. It is not in any way going against it, but at this age, if they are shy like this and they come to see the doctor for the first time, they will be sitting closer to the parent. And so now she is afraid of insects and the dark, and she does not like to watch the horror things on the t.v. Can it be Phosphorus?

AD: Could be.

AD: Yes.

JS: Not really Phosphorus here. You have to ask why Phosphorus has these fears. Why does Phosphorus have these fears; they don't like to watch the violence on the t.v. ; they are afraid of the dark. What is it in Phosphorus that has these fears?

AD: The imagination.

JS: The imagination, yes. You see, it is a quality of the imagination. They are open and everything comes in and then they think: "Oh my God, now it is going to happen to me and ...” The fears of Phosphorus; there is more exchange of energy around this remedy. There is more coming out.

JS: The Calcarea, it is an interesting thing, but it is a big confirmation for CALCAREA; how does it say in the repertory?

AD: Horrible things affect her profoundly (3).

JS: Right, fear of seeing horrible things. They can't stand to see cruelty. I think there is another rubric there; it says: cruelty. This (IB: Calcarea) is the sort who if they are driving along the highway and there is an accident, they have to look the other way. They even feel, these are people who feel responsible, and they want to help. They can't see the sight of blood, or the brain smashed in. It is an interesting thing. Now, what does this mean also in Calcarea? How can we understand this symptom? What is the rubric which will lead us to this symptom? The rubric is in the generalities, it says: magnetism ameliorates, page 1373 (IB: Calcarea, 2). What does it mean: magnetism ameliorates?

AD: Stroked.

JS: No, that is rubbing.

AD: From a distance.

JS: Right. But what is magnetism?

AD: Influence.

JS: Someone who is ameliorated by the energetic influence has to be someone who is quite sensitive and open. Calcarea has this sort of sensitivity, but they do not have so much of that vivid imagination. They have imagination, because they have lots of fears: bugs and insects and dogs and I am sure it is there for ghosts (IB: Calcarea, 1) and many things ... It is not the same quality of imagination, but there is this sensitivity. So when they go and see this cruelty, it goes right to their heart. This is why you can confuse them; but you can't really confuse them; do you understand what I am trying to say? If you look at the data, you will say: "Gee, insects and the dark and can't watch the horrible things on t.v. : this is Phosphorus.” Yet if you look at the person, there is no way you can confuse them.

AD: Remark (...).

JS: He says: "Calcarea has it because of the experience and Phosphorus has it because of the imagination.” Yes, you see the Phosphorus type is like this: I don't know how the newspapers are here, but in America, you know, the president has a haemorrhoid and immediately it is in the newspaper: "President has haemorrhoids, maybe it is cancer!!!” And then the next day the proctologists', the gastro-enterologists' offices are filled with people, with Phosphoruses who say: "You know, the other week I had this little pain here, do you think I have cancer, will you have a look?” This is Phosphorus.

AD: They stop eating broccoli now (IB: because the president of the United States told in an interview that he didn't eat broccoli).

JS: I mean the whole thing goes like that. Calcarea doesn't have this vividness. They have to see the violence; it is the act, it is the event of it. Although of course Calcarea can have fear of natural disasters, of earthquakes, that something is going to happen, but it is not the same as Phosphorus.

JS: Sulphur also has this great anxiety about health and is very similar to Phosphorus, except with Sulphur they only have the anxiety when they have the symptom. Sulphur also has a very active imagination, but is does not have the suggestibility of Phosphorus. You see Sulphur is probably not there for magnetized, or if it is, it must just be a one (IB: Sulphur, 1), because Sulphur is everywhere in the repertory. And if you remember the first night Ilse told you that I saw this case (IB: see introduction), the kid had asthma and I used the repertory for the first time and I got it right. What she omitted to tell you was that the remedy came up Sulphur. And if you repertorize any case, more or less it will come up Sulphur. So the point here is that Sulphur has this anxiety, but they must first have this symptom. So Sulphur gets the pain in the chest and then they think: "Jesus, what is this pain, now maybe I have this sort of tuberculosis, because there is pain and I have this cough.” And then they start to worry: "I am going to die from tuberculosis. And what is going to happen to my family ..." and then they see the funeral and there are no arrangements for the money and they ... "My great-grandchild ..." and how they are going to suffer, and so on and so on. And then when the pain goes away, they come to you and you say: "Ah no, you take this" and you give them some aspirin or something and the pain goes away: no more anxiety. They don't think about it. No matter that they read in the paper that the president has tuberculosis or this or that, it doesn't bother them. The Sulphur fears are grounded in an actual event. The Phosphorus fears are grounded in suggestion and the Calcarea comes closer here to the Sulphur, but with more sensitivity and less imagination. In Calcarea I feel that they can't stand the violence, not because their mind takes off, but because they actually feel it in their gut, I would say. I can't say that absolutely for sure, but I think that it is probably that way.

JV: What did she have every day?

FP: She used to have egg almost every day.

JV: She likes eggs.

MP: She likes eggs, something that she can have on a daily basis.

JV: She asks for eggs. And it is any kind, or especially hard or soft or scrambled?

MP: She likes soft-boiled eggs and she likes scrambled eggs.

PT: Not that much.

JV: Soft-boiled.

FP: Ice-cream.

JV: More ice-cream than eggs?

PT: More ice-cream.

JV: Do you eat ice-cream every day?

PT: No.

MP: She used to have ice-cream every day.

JV: She likes the fat on meat?

FP: No.

JV: You don't give it or she doesn't want it?

MP: She doesn't want it. With a barbecue or something she will remove, strip off the fat.

JV: Every trace of it, or just most of it?

MP: Well, most of it. She doesn't like to see it.

JS: Mostly, Calcarea do not like the fat of meat.

JS: I think that is enough; it is a fairly obvious case, but I just wanted to give you the idea. The idea, you see, the Calcarea is there, this kind of round and somewhat timid, hesitant, not closed, not open. Not even so shy; it is just a little timid and then of course she has the fears. And I don't know whether she sweats on the head, but she has many other things, so it doesn't really matter so much if she sweats on the head.

MP: She has a hard time going to the bathroom.

JV: She is occasionally constipated.

MP: Yes.

JV: Is it a big problem?

FP: Sometimes it is a big problem.

JV: She has had an actual rectal fissure?

JV: Her hair can be damp?

MP: Yes, it becomes damp when she is sleeping. She sweats too when she does a lot of physical ... When she runs around too much.

JV: And does that smell bad, or just sweat?

FP: Smell bad.

JV: What does it smell like?

MP: Like vinegar.

JV: You mean sour?

MP: Yes, like vinegar.

We have to believe what the patient says, and he says that he likes eggs. Which remedy do we think of ? Calcarea. I know this boy very well, I saw him playing on a roof, he did not have fear of high places at all. Therefore I doubted at Calcarea.

MIND, SENSITIVE, NOISE, shrill sounds : Calc., nit-ac.

SHRILL -high-pitched and piercing.

This is a very important differential diagnostic point. Calcarea already becomes tired when he sees other people running. This is not the case with him. He likes to run and he can even run long distances.

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