Kalium bromatum
- Man, 60 years old
- A: Something happened in December, but you don't know what.
- P: No.
- Well yes, a kidney crisis.
- A: Yes.
- Your blood
pressure is very high.
- P: Yes.
- Very high.
- A: You take CAPOTEN for it.
- But you have suffered from your blood pressure for quite a long time, even before December.
- P: I don't know.
- A: Did they only find out then?
- P: Yes.
- A: You also take HALDOL drops.
- You already took them today.
- P: Yes.
- A: You suffer from disturbances in concentration.
- It is difficult for you to concentrate, isn't it?
- P: Precisely.
- A: Did you suffer from it, even before you took HALDOL Drops?
- P: No.
- CP (Companion of the patient): It happened in the hospital, because he didn't have it before he went to the hospital.
- He could...
- A: Does he know you now?
- CP: Yes, yes.
- Even better than a few months before.
- A: The restlessness of the hands...
- CP: I only noticed it on Saturday when I visited him.
- A: You didn't notice it at the hospital?
- BP: No.
- Someone else whom I cured a swell came with this patient and he got him out of the hospital.
- He was in the psychiatric department and he was doing worse and worse from day to day, so that at the end he didn't even recognize his friend anymore.
- We are dealing with someone who almost lost his mental powers.
- He doesn't
recognize other people anymore, he doesn't know what he says and he is wringing his
hands all the time.
- This is the picture you have to have in your mind when someone comes and is sitting there completely absent, even worse than in Alumina.
- Alumina starts
talking with you and then suddenly they forget what they want to say, but they
realize it.
- This patient doesn't realize it at all.
- His mental powers have diminished to a very great extent.
- That's what you also see in old people when they go to a home.
- Here you meet exactly the same cases.
- They are sitting at the table, they have been put there and they sit there, and they sit and sit.
- Or a woman is
knitting the whole time, knitting and knitting.
- Another one is
sitting there and is wringing his hands the whole time.
- It is just terrible if you see this.
- This is exactly the picture of this remedy, a picture of mental decay.
- After what accident can you see this?
- After an apoplexy.
- They have an
apoplexy and afterwards they go down.
- This is often this remedy.
- You also see how he is wringing his hands.
- A: What do you think?
- Why are you in this kind of state?
- P: I don't know.
- I wanted to ask you.
- A: All right, but what do you think?
- P: I think it is because of the medicines.
- Becoming in sane.
- A: That you become insane?
- P: Yes.
- A: But before you took medicines you also had...
- P: No, nothing was wrong with me.
- A: What did you feel before you took the medicines?
- P: Nothing.
- A: And yet they had reasons to give you medicines.
- P: Yes, when I was hospitalized.
- A: Why were you hospitalized?
- P: The doctor said so.
- In fact, there was no way out anymore.
- But at that time I was in a very bad state.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: I was no human being at all.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: Because I was too much taken up with it.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: In the whole being.
- A: In what?
- P: In the being.
- A: In what being?
- P: In the hospital, isn't it?
- Everything he answers I don't understand.
- His answers are not logical, not right.
- It is completely
incomprehensible.
- A: I don't understand.
- Explain to me.
- What were you too much taken up with?
- P: In what they said about me.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: In what they told about me.
- A: You were too much taken up with it?
- P: Yes, I thought so.
- A: What did they say?
- P: That I have been attacked.
- A: What do you mean by being attacked?
- P: Attacked, as was say by a wasp.
- A: Where?
- P: In the kidneys.
- And because of that I don't have good blood pressure.
- Do you understand?
- A wasp in the
kidney.
- He is really crazy.
- A: Why do think that you live the way you live?
- P: It is especially because of all the medicines.
- At the beginning when he came, even before I took the video he told me why he was suffering and he told me the reason for it.
- At that moment I knew the remedy.
- I took it on video and now I try once again to let him tell himself why he is suffering.
- I know this remedy for the beginning and now I have to confirm if this is really the remedy.
- Therefore I have to ask him the correspondent questions and I want him to say the cause of his disease on the video.
- A: Do you think it has something to do with God?
- P: Yes.
- God wants it they was I am...
- A: Why does he want that?
- P: He wants s it, otherwise I would be normal.
- A: But why do you think that God want s it this way?
- P: Because he just wants it, it is simple.
- A: Maybe, because he wants to hurt you or things like that?
- P: No, I don't think so.
- Only because I sold my business, this was murder.
- A: You sold you business two years ago.
- Why was this murder?
- Or who?
- P: Of myself.
- A: And now you think that god wants to revenge himself or things like that?
- P: Yes, I think so.
- This was the essence.
- Because of the influence of this wife he sold his business.
- His wife is a beautiful Lachesis women.
- When she came with him the second time I was really angry.
- I thought, " Oh my God, you snake.
- She will kill this
man."
- She went on holiday alone and during that time she put her husband in a psychiatric institute.
- But we aren't allowed to have negative feelings.
- We have to understand that she is acting like this because she is Lachesis.
- All right, so
this man sold his business, he had nothing to do anymore his life had no sense
anymore and this is the essence of the reedy if you see this in old people.
- The old people are sitting at home, the children are married, they live in a big city, they are working, they have children of their own which they have to take to some institute.
- They live at a distance from their parents who have become old and who are sitting at home.
- If one of them dies, the other person goes to a home and suddenly they don't have anything to do anymore life has no sense anymore, there is no aim in their life, and then they start moving their hands constantly.
- They don't have anything to do and they try to have something to do, but there is nothing.
- The wringing of he hands in old people is an expression of what they need, and then there is also a loss of mental power.
- The business is gone, the family is gone, they have nothing to do anymore and then suddenly comes the big breakdown and they sit in their houses and they are waiting for their death.
- This is exactly what happens here he sold
everything and then comes the delusion, " I sold my business and because I
did so, God is punishing me with my disease."
- Where can we find this in the Repertory?
- Under Mind, " delusions, vengeance, thinks he is singled out for Divine" on page 34 and " delusions, God, is the object of God's vengeance" on page 26.
- If someone comes in and tell s me about this kind of delusion the first two minutes, I can immediately tell you - like Phosphorus- which remedy it is.
- But then we have to try to understand the remedy, to understand what is behind this remedy.
- It does not appear just like this.
- It is important to understand why something like this happens.
- And then the restlessness of the hands; this was the first symptom.
- Look on page
1187, " restlessness hands", there are two capital remedies: Kali
bromatum and Tarentula.
- Don't forget all the other remedies in this rubric; Alumina, Natrum muriaticum, also Arsenicum, they give all together a completely different picture.
- Look how often he is wringing his hands during the first consultation, so that you can compare it afterwards.
- Remark: "There is still another rubric under 'mind: gestures, wringing the hands' on page 50",
- A: Oh yes, on page
50 " gestures, wringing the hands", it is also there.
- Aurum, Kali
bromatum, Kali phosphoricum are there also.
- If you see Kali phosphoricum in one or other rubric compare it.
- If you see a remedy in a rubric in a rubric and you don't know it, you will forget that it is in this rubric.
- It is important that you know something about all the remedies which appear in a rubric.
- That's how you have to do your anamnesis.
- A: If you don't take HALDOL what happens?
- P: I would almost be dead.
- A: Nevertheless, I would advise you not to take HALDOL anymore.
- P: Not at all?
- A: Not at all, no.
- We will talk about it.
- P: What is HALDOL?
- A: The drops- HALDOL drops, which you take.
- CP: Yes.
- A: You take care that he doesn't take them anymore.
- I don't care about CAPOTEN and ADALAT, but stop HALDOL.
- P: Stop it.
- A: What kind of thoughts do you have?
- P: None.
- A: And when you are sitting you are moving your hands.
- P: Yes, that's right.
- A: And if you can do something?
- P: Then I don't have it.
- They must have something to do, they must take care about the children, of the partner, of everything possible in the house.
- Instead of this they are thrown out of their houses in a small village and they are put together with other people where they have nothing to do.
- Then this symptom appears, the restlessness of the hands, an expression that they have nothing to do anymore in their life.
- On the physical level it is expressed as the restlessness of the hands; on the mental level as a decrease in mental power.
- " My life is senseless, why do I still need my brains?"
- P: Look, my eyes are swollen.
- Yes, indeed, they are really swollen.
- I didn't know that they were swollen.
- He sees himself in the monitor.
- A: How are you doing at night?
- P: Very well, doctor.
- A: Do you sleep well?
- P: Yes, extremely well.
- CP: Maybe he gets medicines.
- A: No, if this is everything he takes, ADALAT, CAPOTEN HALDOL, then he doesn't take a sleeping tablet.
- " Yes, doctor", No, doctor", "Why are my eyes swollen?"
- He is a little bit childish.
- If you look on page 11, you see all the remedies.
- Baryta carbonica is also capital, it is a remedy for old people, and also Cicuta virosa.
- Which is the most important symptom of Cicuta in old people?
- Answer: " Ophistotonus."
- A: That is an important symptom of Cicuta, but in acute states, after an accident.
- And in this Ophistotonus there is a very clear symptom of the eyes.
- Answer: "Divergent strabismus."
- A: No!
- Convergent strabismus.
- They are
squinting and they look to their nose.
- That is a very important symptom that you can notice in old people, the eye is wandering inside.
- They go to the neurologist and he says that it is a thrombosis in the temporal/occipital region.
- I had such a patient which I send to the neurologist.
- He said it was a thrombosis and therefore it was probably incurable and he gave him PERSANTIN and ASPIRIN.
- I said to the
daughter that she was not allowed to give him PERSANTIN or ASPIRIN, I gave the
remedy and the
eye went back to the original position.
- These old people feel as if they are children again they start talking about their mother and about their parents.
- Look under "
delusions, thinks he is a child again" on page 22.
- That is the idea of
the childishness in Cicuta virosa.
- They have childish behaviour and they talk with their mother without anyone being there and they feel as if they are experiencing childhood again.
- Therefore Cicuta is one of the most important remedies in old people.
- You cannot cure these old people with one dose, you have to repeat the remedy often.
- I had a wonderful Cicuta case.
- First, they sent the woman to the psychiatric institute, but there she became completely insane.
- Her daughter told me that her mother would die if she had to stay there.
- This is four years ago.
- She took her mother out of the psychiatric institute, stopped HALDOL and all the other remedies and I gave her Cicuta 50 M.
- I had to repeat it often.
- Two times a week, once a week, once in two weeks.
- In such a case the LM potencies are good maybe, I don't know, I have good experience with high potencies.
- You also see Cicuta
in children, for example, when they eat too much and then suddenly the child
has difficulty breathing.
- They are lying there, the eyes are turned inwards and they don't get any air.
- If you see such
children with convergent strabismus which comes up suddenly after eating, then
you have to give Cicuta.
- I had such a case.
- The parents came with the child.
- It was nearly dead and I gave him Cicuta immediately, because this symptom was in my head.
- Three minutes later the child was vomiting, the eye returned to the normal position and the convulsion was over.
- These are very, very acute situations in which children can die.
- You also see in the generalities "convulsions from a fish bone".
- It doesn't have to be a fish bone, it can also be a piece of meat which sticks in the throat.
- If someone is swallowing, something is stuck
in the throat, he is choking, goes into convulsions, turns back, the eyes turn
in- and then they die.
- This is a Cicuta
situation.
- Don't forget Cicuta after accidents, when the patients become insane.
- And always the
convergent strabismus is there.
- Another important remedy for convergent
strabismus is which?
- Calcarea
carbonica, carbonica, one eye turns in.
- And?
- Answer: "Cyclamen."
- A: Cyclamen, yes, with ear problems.
- But there is another remedy, that is Nux vomica.
- You won't believe how often you need Nux vomica in children!
- Children with inguinal hernia, newborn
children with inguinal hernia, and if you look closely at them you see a slight
convergent strabismus.
- That is Nux
vomica.
- And the results are beautiful.
- The hernia disappears in three, four weeks and the eye comes to the right position.
- P: Doctor, do you think that I am nervous because of the high blood pressure?
- A: The blood pressure is a consequence of the fact that you sold your business and that you don't have anything to do anymore.
- P: That is true.
- A: That is the reason.
- P: It might be.
- A: Is his memory bad?
- P: Yes.
- CP: If have to drive him somewhere he know everything, the road, everything.
- Better than I do.
- A: Are you mad, depressed?
- P: Yes.
- CP: He doesn't do anything.
- A: Does he weep easily?
- P: No.
- CP: I don't know.
- A: What about your walking?
- He can walk well, doesn't he?
- P: No, I cant.
- CP: But maybe I must say something else, the reasons why I cancelled all my appointments to bring him here.
- Last Saturday I took him out of the hospital and I brought him back at 11 o'clock, but it was a big problem.
- His wife is on holiday.
- He has three sons.
- One is in America, one is working in the discotheque and the third one is studying.
- They don't have
time for him.
- Because mama went on holiday, she was also depressed, she had to go tout, then he had to go to the hospital again.
- I talked to the other two sons, who stayed at home, because he begged me not to go back.
- This is exactly what is happening in our society.
- We have to talk about what we do with our parents, our grandparents, our children.
- CP: We also went to eat together and then he was completely relaxed.
- I took him back at a certain time.
- I went back the next day, because I talked to the sons so that he didn't have to go back to the hospital, but his suitcases were still there.
- He begged them to get the suitcases, but the boys refused.
- "Yes, we will see how you are doing, father.
- But we have to see what our mother will say about this.
- You know what kind of problems you will have if our mother hears about this."
- That's the way it goes.
- He becomes really nervous about this.
- We sat there for half an hour, but they didn't decide.
- Then I broke the circle and said that I would get the suitcases.
- It was all right.
- Then, he was at ease, because he didn't want to go back at all.
- I went to the hospital, but his room was closed.
- I saw a nurse and she said that it was not so easy and that he had to come back.
- They can't give me the suitcase like that.
- We waited for the head nurse and in the meantime we had a little conversation.
- She said, "It is very bad, but he had to be here, because his family doesn't want him to be there.
- I don't know what people think about his disease, it is none of my business, but I noticed that something was wrong.
- And in fact, his state became worse by the medicines and the artificial situation.
- " Today, I had a little conversation with the son who is staying abroad, and apparently it is none of his concern.
- His mother was also there and she said, " I have taken care of him for 26 years.
- You don't know what kind of problems such a man causes.
- A real stressful situation."
- A: But now we have to take care of him, with such a situation.
- I give him the remedy in his mouth and don't give him HALDOL today.
- Will you take care of this?
- CP: I will take care of this.
- A: He can take the rest of the medicines.
- I would like to see
him again on September 6the, after nine days.
- He got Kali
bromatum M.
- Remark: " But he took HALDOL and HALDOL is known for such movements of the hands.
- If you stop HALDOL the restlessness will disappear also.
- I don't think this is Kali bromatum.
- A: yes, but you have to be able to react in this specific way on HALDOL.
- Not everyone reacts to HALDOL the way he does.
- For example, some people are sleepy.
- Besides, he shows a very clear mental picture of the remedy.
- Does everyone who takes HALDOL believe that God will take revenge?
- I am sure that HALDOL produces a particular symptom in one man and another symptom in another man and so on, because HALDOL suppresses and with a suppression the defense mechanism has to go back and produce deeper symptoms.
- You can’t say that HALDOL causes this symptom, no.
- HALDOL causes a suppression of the entire being and everyone reacts in a certain and particular way.
- The way someone reacts to HALDOL depends on his constitution.
- Some people start bleeding after ASPIRIN,
other people die and some others don't notice anything at all.
- It depends on the constitution.
- Therefore all the allopathic medicines have to disappear form the market, one after the other.
- For example, take BUTAZOLIDIN: it is produced and it is a good remedy, 10 people are taking it, 1000 people are taking it, 100,000 are taking it, 1 million people are taking it, and the result is that 5 people died and therefore it is a dangerous remedy.
- But why?
- Because of the sensitivity of someone to this remedy.
- It will give them such a strong suppression that they produce very dangerous symptoms, let's say death.
- Therefore, all the time new remedies appear on the market, that is the only reason and the money.
- Take for example chloramphenicol, BUTAZOLIDIN, ASPIRIN, in England five children died from ASPIRIN.
- I have seen a case of my own who got cardiac arrhythmias from ASPIRIN.
- Anyway a specific way of reacting must indicate a homoeopathic remedy.
- And this is the same for that reaction to allopathic remedies.
- If you give penicillin for an inflammation of the throat, it suppresses and the child might get asthma, for example.
- You can’t say that the asthma is there because of the penicillin, no.
- It is there because in a child with a certain constitution the inflammation of the tonsils has been suppressed and therefore it has to produce deeper and more dangerous symptoms.
- This is what will happen in one child, but not in another child.
- Some children,
Apis, Psorinum, Sulphur, Pulsatilla and so on will react with asthma if you put
ointment on the eczema, others don't Maybe they will get diarrhea, headache or
what else, it depends on their constitution.
Feedback (october 23, 1987, 2 months later)
- A: What kind of medicines does he still take?
- P: One.
- A: Which one?
- P: How do they call it?
- Tell me.
- WP: CAPOTEN.
- A: That is for the blood pressure.
- You still take these.
- How high is the blood pressure?
- P: I don't know.
- It should be checked.
- A: We will do it in a minute.
- How is he doing in general?
- CP: I think he is doing much better.
- But I don't know how he is at home.
- His wife knows this.
- WP: He is better for quite a long time.
- Now, for me he remained the same.
- Do you see, he is wringing his hands less.
- Previously, he did it the whole time, now he is wringing his hands only now and then.
- A: It is better since he is here.
- Or since when do you mean?
- WP: No, in fact, since that beginning, this is eleven months ago.
- But if you have to live with him every day you don't notice it anymore.
- Do you see the distended veins in her face?
- And her sharpness?
- WP: But people say that he looks better.
- Anyway, he is not worse.
- P: No, not at all.
- A: But does he still wring his hands often?
- WP: Yes, maybe it is even worse than before.
- A: Do you think it is worse, or...
- WP: Yes, it is shorter, but it appears more often.
- A: So, he wrings his hands for a shorter period.
- But previously he was doing this the whole time, while now he is wringing them only for a short time and stops again.
- That is the difference I notice compared to the last time.
- Did you notice it yourself?
- WP: Yes, yes.
- He is wringing less.
- He is wringing a shorter period, but the periods in between you can't count until ten.
- Now he is holding his arms like that.
- A: The first time he came here he was wringing his hands constantly.
- How is he doing mentally?
- Do you think that he is a normal human being?
- What do you think?
- P: I feel better, much better.
- A: And the anxieties?
- P: I got rid of them.
- Did you notice how long he didn't wring his hands anymore?
- It was almost two, three minutes.
- A: Your wife is constantly with you.
- You cant expect that this changes from one day to the next... but you notice the change less than someone who didn't see him, for example 14 days.
- What do you think?
- CP: Once I took him on a journey and it was very well.
- A: Very well?
- CP: Not so well as a healthy person.
- If he is somewhere, he wants to go away immediately.
- The homeopathic remedy gives him energy, but if someone has a headache from walking in the rain you give him Rhus toxicodendron and you send him back into the rain, how can he get cured?
- We also have to try to created good circumstances and that is the difficulty.
- The reason someone becomes ill is his responsibility, but I think often it is because of the circumstances in which he is living.
- The woman with whom a man is living can kill him, but also a man can kill a woman, we have to try to get them out of this environment.
- His companion, this man dressed in black clothes, is a very sympathetic person, he tries to help other people and he took him to Holland where he is working.
- There the patient was doing well, he didn't notice anything particular, but then he had to go back home, back to his wife.
- A: But now there is a problem, you are going on holiday, or didn't I hear well?
- P: Yes, she is going on holiday.
- A: Then he is taken to an institute?
- WP: Yes.
- Already three times...
- P: ... done.
- WP: Done.
- Now, he is already at home for six months.
- A: It is necessary?
- Why?
- WP: Because he is such a burden for me.
- He is with me the whole time.
- It is not a reproach.
- A: He is always running about with you?
- AP: Unless something happens like yesterday afternoon.
- Then he went to play cards in a company.
- They came to fetch him from home.
- I begged for i.
- This happens now and then.
- But otherwise he is always with me.
- A: So he is really running about with you the whole time?
- WP: Yes.
- Last week when the cleaning woman was at our home and when she was cleaning upstairs he put himself on our son's bed.
- I was not at home.
- I heard it from.
- I heard it from the boy, because I tried to go away on my own.
- A: What is against this?
- WP: Nothing.
- He doesn't do anything, but he runs after other people.
- This remedy also
has a strong sexual desire.
- In Boericke you can
read, " exaggerated sexual desire".
- It is bold typed.
- A: In this man the problem is the following: everything is caused because he didn't have anything to do anymore.
- That is the cause of the problem.
- And emptiness, which is caused after he started working.
- I think the problem started then.
- Do you agree?
- WP: No.
- A: Is it caused earlier?
- WP: Yes.
- A: When?
- WP: I think it started quite a long time ago, maybe 15 years ago.
- A: And what happened according to you?
- Why doe she constantly ...
- The wringing of the hands, does he do this already for 15 years?
- CP: Maybe it is better that I got out.
- A: I don't know.
- Do you prefer to be alone when talking about this subject?
- What do you prefer?
- WP: Well, maybe you ask other questions.
- I don't know what else you want to ask me.
- A: You don't come here for you, but for your husband.
- I'm sure that he is doing better since he got the remedy and he will become even more better.
- But we have to analyze very precisely when this started and how it developed, why it occurred.
- Because this does not come so easily.
- Can we say that he was healthy 15 years before?
- WP: Yes.
- A: So he was healthy?
- WP: In the meantime I am wondering whether this was the same 15 year ago.
- Besides he said is himself.
- Do you still remember?
- A: And second, difficult.
- What do you mean?
- AP: Can't you explain this yourself?
- P: No.
- You tell it yourself.
- You feel his anger, " Grrr, tell it yourself!"
- Here also you see the swelling around the
eyes like in all Kali's, in Kali carbonicum a swell as in Kali bichromicum,
Kali bromatum and Kali phosphoricum.
- In general the Kali's often have a swelling around the eyes.
- He also has it.
- A: Often you don't realize yourself that you are a nuisance for other people, but the other person notices it.
- But what do you mean by it?
- What did he do? Curse or scold at someone?
- WP: Always a nuisance, saying "no" to everything.
- Everything was too much for him.
- It already started in the morning when he got up.
- She said that he always only said "no".
- Look in the Repertory, "answers 'no' to all the questions" on page 3, there are there remedies Crotalus cascavella, Hyoscyamus and Kali bromatum.
ANSWERE, monosyllable, "no" to all questions : Crot-c., hyos., kali-br.
- A: And this is already going on for 15 years?
- WP: Yes.
- A: He was already in a bad mood the last 15 years, before he got the restlessness of the hands?
- WP: Yes.
- He was very difficult.
- We have very nice boys, I regret it
- but what my sons suffered from their father!
- We may be glad that they got such a good education.
- A: What do you mean?
- WP: I'm sorry, but he was a bad father.
- A: In what sense?
- WP: He never did anything for them.
- Nothing.
- They have grown up like the plants outside.
- Do you see how she reproaches him at this consultation.
- I would like to know how she behaves at home towards him.
- It must be terrible.
- A: First, I think that the word "a bad father" is a judgement...
- WP: He never hit them or things like that.
- A: All right.
- It is not our job to judge.
- Our job is just to observe: this or that is a symptom and he needs this or that remedy.
- You say: a bad father, he didn't bother about his children.
- What was his job at that time?
- WP: He always had his own business.
- A: His father died 15 years ago?
- Then he had to take over the business alone.
- What kind of business was it?
- P: Artificial leather.
- A: He had quite a lot of work.
- He had to run his business alone?
- Or not?
- WP: Yes, yes.
- A: Probably he had very little time to worry about this children.
- WP: No.
- A: What do you mean?
- He was very busy with his business?
- Did you have employees?
- P: Yes, ten.
- A: Is that right?
- WP: Yes.
- A: Well, if you have ten employees I think you have quite a lot of work to do.
- Or isn't this do?
- Did someone else do the accountancy?
- P: Yes, other people did.
- A: It was a very god business?
- WP: Yes, yes.
- A: If you have to keep your business running with ten employees, I think the boss has no time to laugh.
- There is no discussion about it.
- Do you agree?
- I about the expression, "he didn't worry about his children".
- It might be the way you say, but probably it was because of the fact that he had too many things on his mind concerning the business.
- Therefore we can understand.
- P: That is not illogical.
-
Here you see the difference: for Kali bichromicum the family is the most
important, for Kali carbonicum the duties, the family and the business and for
Kali bromatum only the business.
- If this business is finished it is a blow.
- A; But for how long do you know him, Francs?
- CP: For 15 years, I think.
- A: What do you think until one year ago?
- Before he became ill?
- CP: I had regular contact with him.
- He came to us because we were in business with each other, and as time passed we became friends.
- And four years ago, when we had big problems he was a real support for me.
- After he sold his business he helped us financially in an incredible way.
- She starts weeping, do you see?
- CP: After he sold his business he gave us money as quickly as possible.
- He showed quite a lot of feeling, anyway, to me personally.
- A: You think he was normal?
- CP: Yes, he was normal.
- Now and then he drank his " little" beer, but well yes, what do you do in society?
- P: It was a big piece.
- A: What?
- P: Drinking.
- A: Were you a real alcoholic?
- P: No.
- WP; No,
- A: I see that you are embittered.
- WP: Well yes.
- A: There is a big problem between both of you.
- You are very embittered.
- You don't want to
hear anything about him anymore.
- WP: No, I didn't say, but I experienced so much and I still do (starts weeping).
- It's difficult for me to accept.
- I'm alone with it.
- I have three sons who I had to raise all by myself, didn't I?
- P: Yes.
- A: But everybody has his task within the family.
- WP: ...(not understandable).
- A: You do what you can.
- We don't have to judge this, nobody has to.
- WP: Anyway...It is bad.
- I can't understand.
- If I said something he reacted in only one way: in the car and he was gone.
- I have never known him another way.
- "In the car and he was gone", this means that he worked the whole time and didn't worry about the family or the children.
- Remark: " Maybe it also mean that he wanted to be away from home."
- A: Yes, it might be but I think that he was concerned about his business the whole time.
- Remark: " There is a rubric 'mania-a-potu', on page 64 and there is Kali bromatum."
- A: Yes, good, I looked under abuse of alcohol.
- Alcohol can be a reason for a Kali bromatum situation, but I think you have to be sensitive to it.
- The combination of
the loss of his business together with an abundant use of alcohol in the past
can be the cause for a Kali bromatum situation.
- WP: He never sat at the table to solve the problems.
- I was left alone with my problems.
- And for 13 years I had... but he went to play cards and drink beer.
- You have to experience all this yourself!
- We are married already for quite a long time and now this!
-
She is a Lachesis wife, very critical.
- If my wife were Lachesis she would say that I was worse as a father than he is.
- A: I understand.
- But it is good if there is peace.
- WP: But there is peace now.
- Many people told me already: how can you live with this man?
- I say: past is past.
- Previously, there were problems.
- Finally, it is worse at the moment.
- Then, I try to look it from the bright side.
- We try to make the best out of it... (not understandable).. because he was always gone.
- He never did anything at home.
- Last year he drove 40,000 kilometres, this is much for somebody who doesn't work anymore.
- He was always on the road.
- But now, he is always following me.
- When I go to the kitchen he is there also.
- A: Yes, very restless.
- WP: And this is a suppressing feeling.
- P: Yes, I'm restless.
- WP: Yes, anxious and nervous.
- A: But don't you think that the psychological breakdown was caused after...
- WP: No, not for me.
- A: But concerning the hands and so on?
- WP: Yes, that is since the beginning of this year.
- A: How long ago did he stop working?
- WP: On New Year he is at home for three years.
- At the beginning I had contact with a psychologist.
- I said, " There is a problem with my man."
- That was during the month that we were at home.
- Do you still remember?
- You couldn't get into contact with the man.
- I was wondering the whole time how it is possible that he is so.
- A: That he is like what?
- WP: It is difficult for me to explain.
- Maybe, we have to go back 45 years and look...
- I said to my boys the last days...
- A: You are healthy?
- WP: I dont know.
- A: You are going on a holiday to the South?
- WP: No, a little bit further.
- A: To Tenerife or so?
- P: California.
- A: Do you lie in the sun there?
- WP: ... (not understandable)
- A: You can't tolerate it very well, do you?
- WP: I don't know.
- A: Do you get a headache in the sun?
- Do you tolerate the sun
- WP: I tolerate everything.
- A: Can you sleep on your left side?
- WP: No, I can't fall
asleep.
- A: You thought you could do everything, but you can’t
- WP: No. (is laughing)
- I was angry with her and I couldn't hold back my anger.
- That is not good.
- A: You can't tolerate a tight collar either, can you?
- P: A tight collar!
- WP: I never wear it.
- A: I think he is the problem, but I think he is the problem, but I think that you have an influence.
- Because I don't think that he will be cured if you put him into an institute while you are on holiday.
- I think there must be another possibility where he has more freedom than in the hospital, where they don't inject him with HALDOL.
- That is degrading and I would like to see him somewhere where he has more freedom and where you are sure that he is taken care of well yes.
- P: Supervision.
- A: ... that there is supervision.
- P: I can go for a week to him.
- A: Yes, but in the evening, to stay at night.
- Maybe, in a home.
- Do you, have financial problems?
- P: No.
- WP: Well yes.
- Now it is so.
- Now we cant complain.
- A: I think when I talk to them he would get a room for that period, if he can't sleep at your place.
- WP: We are looking for a solution.
- A: He doesn't always have to go there, but only during the time that you are on holiday.
- For how long will you be gone?
- P: Two weeks.
- WP: Yes, but he can go to one of his sons for days.
- Then he will be taken care of for one week and then the five days, in fact it concerns the last five days.
- A: But that is a practical problem which you can solve.
- (To his companion) I think that you are the most objective person.
- CP: Yes, but I don't see him everyday like his wife.
- I've known him very well previously when he was so ill.
- But compared to three months ago, it is a big difference.
- WP: Yes, but even the most elementary things you have to tell him, otherwise he wouldn't clean his teeth anymore.
- He had an entire treatment for it, also with tablets.
- P: ...but you don't give anyone the chance to take them.
- WP: Oh no?
- P: No, I cant take them before the meals.
- A: Why not?
- P: I don't know.
- A: Ha, ha, ha.
- Now, he can laugh again.
- He is also changed concerning the anxiety.
- P: Yes.
- A: You have less anxieties, I think.
- P: Yes.
- CP: There is a change.
- Indeed, he still has a long way to go, but he has changed.
- P: Avery long way.
- WP: But why is it that he...?
- A: But the cause for all this is that he has nothing to do anymore, he doesn't have his job anymore.
- By this he had a blow on the mental level.
- That is the reason.
- Second, of course because of the HALDOL drops.
- This will shake a person completely after some time.
- You will live, but you won’t understand anything if you take HALDOL.
- But that is gone now.
- P: Yes, I stopped it.
- A: I think if the circumstances are favorable, if he has something to do again and they don't criticize him too much, because this will not solve the case- then slowly he will be all right again with the help of the remedy, like before.
- P: I took one tablet.
- Do I have to take it further?
- A: I took the blood pressure.
- P: It is all right.
- But the cause of all this is the loss of
the business.
- Boericke writes,
"Like all Potash Salts, this weakens the heart and lowers temperature.
- Brominism is caused by it.
- General failure of mental power, loss of memory, melancholy, anesthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis.
- Leading remedy in psoriasis.
- Nodular form of chronic gout.
- Symptoms of apoplectic attacks,..."
- We have to be careful with aphasia after apoplexy.
- Further: "Epilepsy (with salt -free diet).
- Mind: Profound, melancholic delusion; feeling of moral deficiency; religious depression; delusions of conspiracies against him.
- Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath.
- Loss of memory.
- Must do something- move about; gets fidgety... can pronounce any word told, but cannot speak otherwise."
- This means, that if you say "tomorrow" he can say "tomorrow", but he can t say it by himself.
- And it is very particular for Kali; bromatum if you look under mind" mistakes, wrong words, using, opposite, hot for cold" on page 67.
- They drink a tea, a very hot tea and say, "oh, it is very cold."
- They say the "Stomach: " Vomiting with intense thirst, after each meal.
- Persistent hiccough."
- Very important in cholera infantum with retraction of the abdomen.
- "Urinary: ... Urine profuse, with thirst.
- Diabetes."
- Don't forget this remedy in diabetes!
- "Extremities: Fidgety hands."
- We know this.
- Then: " Skin: Acne... Psoriasis."
-
The acne is in the face, on the chest and the back; acne on these three places
together indicate Kali bromatum.
- Then there is a certain Kali bromatum situation, I would like to describe it: A28 year old girl comes into the centre.
- She is sitting like a mummy in the corner,
she doesn't move at all since her husband left her, since she is divorced.
- He took the children with him.
- Since then she behaves like that.
- She lies in bed the whole day, she doesn't get up.
- She is sitting
there and doesn't do anything at all, no restlessness, nothing at all.
- The parents call it
laziness.
- She is very melancholic and her mental capacities are much lower than before.
- If the mother was outside, she said to me, "Doctor, I think they want to poison me."
- That was the only symptom.
- That is Kali
bromatum.
- "Fear, poisoned, of being" on page 46.
poisoned, of being : All-s., apis., ars-m., bapt, bell., bry., cimic., glon., hyos., ign, kali-br., lach., nat-m, phos., ph-ac, plb., Rrhus-t., verat-v.
- She is sure that she will be poisoned, but without restlessness, in a very deep melancholy.
- So it happen that the restlessness fails.
- Her husband has gone, the children are
gone, she doesn't have anybody anymore to worry about.
- That is Kali bromatum.
- Sleeplessness from grief, there are three remedies: Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum and Kali bromatum.
- The grief is so bad, that the mental capacities fail and it always has home, the husband left, took the children with him and then she had nothing to do anymore.
- These are the main points of Kali bromatum, don't forget them.
- I'm sure that you will see a Kali bromatum case in the course of the year.
- It also occurs in children, children who
are sitting there and playing with their fingers, restless children, children,
with problems at school, who can’t follow in school, who can’t remember things.
- This might be Kali bromatum as well.
- Question: "How did the women react to the remedy?"
- A: The delusions went away and she was doing better.
- Her behaviour in the family improved.
- She is living with her mother and she is a little bit childish, I mean, she was not very normal before.
- Then, she was also a little bit childish and that was the reason why the husband left her.
- He reproached her that she didn't care enough for the children and so on.
- Here you see the childishness again.
Feedback (december 12, 1987)
- A: He had high blood pressure.
- The tablets have been reduced.
- WP: He had 230/140 mm HG.
- There was also blood in the urine.
- That was on November 11, when we called.
- He has been hospitalized for a check up.
- They didn't find anything.
- A: Also no kidney stones?
- P: No.
- WP: No, nothing.
- Maybe it has something to do with the bad kidney.
- He has to stay for a check up.
- A: How is the blood pressure at the moment?
- What do you take for it at the moment?
- P: I don't know anything about high blood pressure.
- A: No.
- I mean, what kind of medicines do you take for it?
- P: Nothing.
- A: You still take tablets for the high blood pressures?
- P: One kind, how do they call?
- WP: Say it.
- P: You can say it.
- WP: CAPOTEN.
- Then we reduced them to two tablets a day and when we called you you told us to take half a tablet more.
- A: Now he takes 2 1/2 CAPOTEN a day?
- P: 3 1/2.
- WP: Three times half a tablet.
- A: I will check the blood pressure.
- That's what he took at that time, 3 times 1/2 a tablet.
- But then we reduced it to 2 1/2 and the blood pressure went up again.
- I think it would be good to have a hospital to get them out of their surroundings.
- It is very difficult to treat them in these surroundings.
- A: Otherwise he doesn't take any sleeping tablets or tranquilizers?
- P: Nothing.
- A: So 150/90 mm Hg.
- P: That's all right, isn't it?
- A: Did he have high blood pressure in certain cases, when he excited himself or so?
- P: Just like that.
- It was just like that.
- A: Suddenly.
- P: Yes, just like that.
- Suddenly.
- A: Did you get headache from it?
- P: Nothing.
- A: You stop the CAPOTEN anyway.
- WP: He already did.
- A: 150/90 is not a
bad blood pressure.
- We will see later.
- Further, how do you feel?
- P: Fantastic.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: Good.
- There is still one more thing, I don't understand when there is a conversation.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: I can express myself with difficulty.
- I have quite a lot of problems in expressing myself.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: In general, concerning the whole situation.
- Now, he realises that his memory is not the way it should be.
- At the moment that someone notices, his general state is better.
- Many people don't notice it at all.
- A: What about your sleep?
- P: Rather good.
- A: At what time do you usually go to bed?
- P: At 10, 11 o'clock.
- A: How long do you sleep then?
- P: Until half past 9,9 o'clock.
- A: That long?
- Without medicines?
- P: Yes, yes.
- WP: Yes, but often he comes downstairs because he can't fall asleep.
- A: At what time do you fall asleep?
- P: About 11 o'clock.
- A: What about your appetite?
- P: Rather good, less lost a little bit of weight.
- A: What do you mean?
- Is there something that you don't like?
- P: I don't like cold food.
- A: Then there was also a kind of instability while walking and when you hold something.
- What about this?
- P: It is still the same.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: I still have it.
- A: What?
- P: The instability.
- I can't seize very well.
- A: What about your memory?
- P: Rather good.
- It depends on the subject... (not understandable).
- It is all right, but it is difficult for me to express myself.
- A: What do you mean?
- P: I can't find the words.
- A: When you are
talking like this, it is all right.
- P: Yes, it is.
- Sure.
- "Memory, weakness of, words, for" on page 65.
- He realizes it himself.
- A: Let's compare, what do you think about the first half year until August and now the second half year?
- What do you think about his behavior for the last 3/4 of a month?
- WP: It is better than before.
- It is better.
- But the difficult points remain, the speaking, if someone telephoned he doesn't know any more who called.
- Yesterday evening had to go away and someone called, a friend of one the sons.
- In the afternoon he goes to play cards, but he doesn't know who he is playing with.
- A: So the memory is better, but...
- P: For names, to remember things and to do something.
- WP: And this remains so, it hasn't improved.
- A: His memory is weak.
- WP: And his talking.
- He shuts up the whole day.
- A: But when I ask him something, he answers.
- P: Yes, as long as it doesn't concern particular things, it is all right.
- If it concerns something particular I have difficulties.
- A: What do you mean?
- When it concerns a certain subject?
- P: Yes, then I have difficulties.
- Question: "How does he feel now?"
- A: This patient?
- He was better until I saw him the last time, until 1/2 year ago.
- I don't expect to cure him.
- If he could live in very good circumstances the prognosis would be better.
- Also people who live in homes will not be cured; the situation will be better, but you can’t cure them.
- The most important thing is that I'm sure that this is the right remedy.
- It will do what it can do and I can be sure; this is the right remedy, it will not cure him, but I don't have to look for another remedy.
- An entire cure is impossible.
- If you want him to be cured completely and doubt about the remedy, you start to try one remedy after the other, but the remedy which will cure him completely does not exist in these cases.
- You must know that you can help them up to a certain level and if the circumstances are beautiful- all right, maybe they might get better and they might go back to work again.
- Children can be cured completely, young
women also, it is something else with old people.
- You can ameliorate their situation, make their complaints tolerable, but for example, to give an 85 year old woman back her memory like when she was 20 years old, that is impossible.
- Or if it is impossible to live together
with them, it is possible after the remedy, their behavior becomes normal.
- Question; " When did you repeat the remedy?"
- A: I repeat it every month, every month Kali
bromatum 10M.
- Question: "What was the reason for repetition?"
- A: It is difficult.
- I think, it is better so, because I'm sure he would relapse.
-
He is in such a bad situation and when the remedy is right you could even
repeat the remedy every day.
- You can't know it.
- I heard from an Indian homoeopath who gives high potencies every day, with good results.
- I don't know.
-
In this Cicuta case very often I have repeated the remedy in 50 M potency,
always when the woman was doing bad.
- The daughter is living with her in the same house and she lives with her every day.
- If she sees that she is not doing so well
anymore she repeats the 50 M potency and
then she is better again.
- She decides herself when she repeats the
remedy, sometimes once a week, sometimes twice, it depends.
- Why is it impossible to give a high potency day?
- I don't know.
- But if the patient is well with one dose of a remedy, why should we repeat it?
- If the disease seems to be very chronic and if you don't recognize a clear development maybe you could give LM - potencies every day.
- Other South American homeopaths say that daily low potencies in cancer patients would be good.
- I have a patient with pancreatic cancer who is doing very well with Conium 10M.
- Someone has this experience, another on has another experience.
- Low potencies surely act, but we have good results with high potencies, as a single dose or some small doses.
- We can’t discus about this, we have to find out.
- Question: "Do you know something about the healthy kali bromatum situation?
- Do they work hard?
- A: Yes, they have their business and because they lose their business they get into a Kali bromatum situation.
- A healthy situation for a remedy doesn't exist.
- You recognize a remedy by the complaints.
- Someone develops certain symptoms certain circumstances and then he needs a certain remedy.
- Therefore we cannot say; it is Causticum, it is Kali carbonicum, another one is Phosphorus or Lycopodium.
- It is wrong.
- Only the complaints indicate a certain remedy.
- But it is possible that there are so called Kali bromatum constitutions.
- Why not?
- People who always want to be busy and so
on.
- But I don't know, maybe after three years.
- Question: " Did you have problems with patients in whom you stopped HALDOL?"
- A: Yes, I had a case, a Hyoscyamus case, you will see it later, where I regret very much that I stopped the medicines.
- The woman was sitting there and she was talking and talking and she was behaving as if she wanted to excite me sexually, for example, she was constantly kicking my legs under the table.
- We were so enthusiastic, because it was such a beautiful Hyoscyamus case and we decided to stop all the medicines.
- She got IMAP, then LARGACTIL and some other medicines, under which was also HALDOL, we stopped everything and she became completely crazy.
- I'm sure she would be all right if we could control her, but this was impossible in the family.
- These were friends of my professor of pharmacy in Leuven at that time.
- They reproached us that we stopped the medicines and they gave them to her.
- Then, after 2 years I think she came back and now she is in treatment for about I 1/2 or 2 years.
- In the meantime she is doing very well, But this time we reduced the drug gradually and still you can recognize Hyoscyamus.
- At that time we acted wrongly.
- You can do things like that if you can put them in a hospital where there is constant control.
- The family of this
woman has a brewery, her brother is bishop, they are socially very highly placed people who have to
converse, be polite and things like that, so you have to suppress such behavior
as she had.
- I had another case where I stopped VALIUM
- She had an accident, fell down, and got into the hospital where she had to be operated on.
- For me, it was a clear Ignatia or Natrum muriaticum case, I don't know it anymore, one if the two.
- She took 10 mg VALIUM six times a day and wanted to stop it by herself.
- I agreed with her.
- One day after she took the remedy she got a very bad attack of convulsions so that I had to give VALIUM intravenous.
- I sent her to the hospital and the neurologist told me that they knew that she would get epileptic attacks if she stopped VALIUM suddenly.
- I didn't know.
- We have to be careful if we treat such difficult cases.