CASES

 Lycopodium clavatum

Second: When you have Lycopodium patients with liver problems you have to forbid sugar and chocolate. They will be better after the remedy, but if you let them eat chocolate and sugar they will surely relapse. Also Lycopodium patients with skin diseases you have to forbid sugar and chocolate until they have been cured - or they will relapse.

CASE1 V2

WOMAN, 79 YEARS OLD

This is a case from the Netherlands. This patient has been seen by many homoeopaths. She got a lot of homoeopathic remedies one after another

This is the first consultation. While observing this woman and on account of her behaviour you could already say that this is a certain remedy. You know we do not have to be with our nose in our Repertory. A remedy is an appearance, a totality. And you must see it and say, "My God, this is the remedy." The Repertory helps us to find the remedy, therefore we have to look in our Repertory. There we see the different remedies. Then we can think maybe it is this or that remedy. Maybe, there are ten remedies and then we have to differentiate. So, it makes us think of the remedy and then the question is what else we know of the remedy. We do not have to write the whole time like scribes. The way is to see that this or that is peculiar and then to give the remedy

So, this is the case. It is difficult to translate. Observe her behaviour and the way she says things

The problem is a neuralgia after herpes zoster. Everybody knows that the pain after herpes zoster can be very painful and very troublesome

We can not look up every symptom in the Repertory, but every one knows where you can find: "Herpetic eruptions, herpes, zona.

P: Excuse me, I don't speak Dutch very well.

A: Why not?

P: My native language is French. I also speak it in the Netherlands.

A: So, your family doctor sent you to me. I read what he writes: "Extending postherpetic pain of the N. frontalis." So pain after herpes zoster.

P: Yes, until the neck and the arms.

What did she say that can be important? She said, "I have pain on the right side.

We have to be aware of the side

A: That is a problem.

P: Yes. I can not watch television, nor read a book. I can not sew a button at a coat. I can only think, think, think.

A: Besides, a sensitiveness to draft of air and an aggravation of the pain by 5.00 o'clock p.m.

P: Yes, at that time the pain is appearing.

A: Usually, the pain increases at that time.

FP: (Friend of the patient) At that time it also started.

That is a very important information. Where can we find this in the Repertory? In which rubric? We can see in the "generalities". From the beginning she gives symptoms that could be important. We look in "afternoon" (p. 1342), she says 5.00 p.m

We already know that it started in the afternoon, that it aggravates in the afternoon and it is on the right side

I continued this consultation because of the video for teaching purposes. With this behaviour and these two informations I could stop the consultation and prescribe the remedy

In this case observe the way she is talking - she says, "Excuse me, I do not speak Flemish very well. I live in the Netherlands, but before I was in Brussels." This means: Mr. Geukens, I am a very important person, I lived in Brussels and I speak French very well. She says that she does not speak Flemish very well - but she speaks Flemish very well! This means - which impression does she give? That she is haughty

Do you understand my way of thinking? She says that she does not speak Flemish very well, but she does speak Flemish very well - "because I spoke French the whole time. I lived in Brussels." Do you understand. It is a very big town

A: You also had recidivistic inflammations of the bladder.

P: Yes, I had it constantly, that was chronic. I have seen Dr. H. in Brussels for 40 years. Do you know him?

For chronic cystitis, but it is better the last time, but I took medicines the whole time and it helped a little bit. Cantharis, for example.

It is a pity that I can not show you the video in the original language, in Flemish. "The remedy is Cantharis" - really acting, playing comedy

P: But my madness was that the pain returned by the evening and in exertions when I am frightened. When I have to drive the car, for example, because according to the oculist, I may drive a car, but I don't understand; when I have to I do it. When I am under an enormous stress I think I have to go through it, then I don't have pain. Then, everything is dominated by the nerves, or I don't know what, by the will to go through it. But besides the will that is necessary to take the car and drive away, I don't have any will. I think: tomorrow I will do this or that, but the undertakings are zero.

A: Where was the herpes exactly?

P: On the forehead, the eyebrows, there it started.

FP: And it went until here.

P: And of course, it happened during the weekend, it always does.

I like to give you a differential diagnosis, even when I am not thinking of another remedy. Not in this case, this is a clear case

She says it is here, she shows it all this (with his finger)

Which is the remedy when someone says to you, "My pain is there." (pushes with his fingertip on the nose root) - where is the sinusitis of Kali bichromicum? In the maxillary sinusitis, Kali bichromicum is the first remedy. It can be frontal, but usually if Kali bichromicum has a frontal sinusitis, it is also a maxillary sinusitis

But there are people who indicate (with the finger) on one spot and then you find the remedy in the rubric "pain in small spots" (p. 1378). They really indicate with their fingertip

Where can we find a sinusitis in the Repertory? The remedy for pain at small spots are Kali bichromicum, Ignatia, Fluoricum acidum, Onosmodium, Thuja and so on. There is also Onosmodium. How is the way of walking of Onosmodium? Where is the problem of Onosmodium patients? In the accomodation; and he walks this way that he lifts his leg too high. But this remedy you do not often see, but the problem is the accomodation, so he does not really see how high the stones are. A sinusitis usually starts by which kind of disease? Coryza. Look in the Repertory: "Catarrh, extends to frontal sinuses" (p. 325). Compare these two rubrics ("pain at small spots" and "catarrh, extends to frontal sinuses"), which remedy is there in the two rubrics? Thuja. Thuja is a very important remedy for chronic frontal sinusitis and these patients indicate the pain with one finger. Do not forget Thuja, when the patients say, "My pain is sitting here, inside the bone." That is Thuja. We make mistakes in prescribing Thuja, because Thuja also has the scabs, but typical for Kali bichromicum is this (shows something). Thuja is more dry, they take the crusts out this way (shows how) - so you can miss Kali bichromicum and Thuja. Usually, there is a constipation in Thuja

Which symptom makes everything better

Answer: "At the beach.

A: No, the first remedy for that is Medorrhinum, not Thuja. Which symptom makes everything better? If the nose starts running, then everything becomes better. You also see this during stool. Thuja is often constipated and if the nose starts running, and if those people are sitting on the toilet, the stool is coming out. That is typical for Thuja. Thuja has also this very strong dryness inside the nose that is better in open air. All right, we were not talking about Thuja, but about another remedy

P: It was a little vesicle. My son came home from Nicaragua for holidays and then we went to the family doctor on that Sunday. He examined it and thought it was herpes. But on Sunday you can't go to the oculist. Then, we went on Monday, but he knew as much as the other doctor.

FP: She got "miseri".

"But he knew as little as the other doctor," this means that she is censorious. If the patients come to you and say that they have been to this doctor and to that doctor, be careful. It is not normal you go to a doctor and - a doctor is someone, whom you go to and whom we have respect for. You can not criticize behind the back of another doctor, but she does. That is a very important symptom: critical. Critical, haughty, right-sided, afternoon aggravation at 5.00 p.m

A: Mezereum, but it didn't help.

FP: Aconitum.

P: Miseri...

A: But that is something else than Mezereum.

She tries to appear as a woman who knows, but she calls the remedy Miseri - Miseri... It was Mezereum. We know it as a remedy in herpes, we know it for scabs with inflammations and so on. What is the typical symptom when Mezereum has herpes

The aggravation from slight touch. Mezereum can not tolerate clothes, even the rubbing of the clothes over the herpetic eruptions is painful. In the "generalities" there is a rubric "slight touch aggravates". Important remedies there are Lachesis and China, and China is better by hard pressure. Another remedy for "aggravation by slight touch" is Belladonna - very sensitive towards movement, but Belladonna has also a "slight amelioration from hard pressure". Also Nux vomica, Mezereum are in the rubric "aggravation by slight touch". Which is the remedy for impetigo, eczema on the head of little children? An acute remedy: Viola tricolor. Do not forget that

P: I also had nausea. Tubercles in the abdomen, that is Mezereum, isn't it?

A: Mezereum is a homoeopathic remedy. I thought, you got this.

P: Yes. I have swallowed it with heaps.

A: And it didn't help?

P: No, it didn't help. My whole head was full, the hair, completely full. And you could with a ruler...

A: It was on the right side.

P: And that is what I got back. I must say I always had problems with sinusitis. I got it from the World War...

A: Where especially?

P: Here. The herpes is always attended with sinusitis. And the pain, I have it before the sinusitis. But Dr. H, whom I went to in Brussels, and the family doctor knew that I have seen Dr. H. for 40 years long, and he begged him to do something about it. Yes, also the same, Mezereum. But before I got Hepar. I tolerated it very well, for years. And now my eyes start to water. I don't tolerate it anymore, I am allergic to it.

FP: But sir Doctor, may I interrupt you? The pre-herpes, has lasted for about 1 1/2 years. We didn't know what it was.

Another woman would have said that the time before she got herpes she was ill. But she said, "The pre-herpes." Many professors are Lycopodium. Yes, they teach at the university and they live under the umbrella of the university, but if you go immediately to them, they turn and they go away. Do you know this of Lycopodium? You often see that she does this. In the Repertory it means: "Motion of the head makes her dizzy", but it is not important

FP: ... swallowed medicines. Got many injections. We tried everything. We didn't know what it was. You should think that you nearly got a heart attack with such symptoms. Therefore, she swallowed many medicines. The physical state was bad when the herpes came.

A: All right. That is not so important. You also had recidivistic inflammations of the bladder, but also complaints of the back. What about that?

P: Yes, the pain in the back is much better at the moment. But I have complaints on this side. I have complaints with my liver because of all the medicines I swallowed - FURANDANTINE, yes FURANDANTINE.

She is always nodding the head from left to right, that is also a strong symptom for this remedy

A: What did you have at your liver?

P: Hepatitis.

A: Do you still have complaints with the liver?

P: At the moment yes.

A: When?

P: When I have eaten. I have to be very carefully. I don't tolerate meat very well, I don't drink coffee and tea.

A: Tell me, where do you have complaints and how do they feel?

P: I have pain here, and sometimes, not often, it extends until the rips. The rips are very painful, and here above also. Also last night. A pressure on it, oppressive.

A: And you don't have pain on the other side?

P: No... (tells something about her heart).

A: So the pain is really radiating to the left?

P: They radiate to the left. But sometimes I have complaints here also.

A: Also you often have complaints on the right side?

P: Yes, but little. A heavy feeling as if something heavy lies on my stomach.

A: And then it feels heavy on the right side, or heavy in the middle?

P: In the middle. And a slight, tolerable pain, left. But when it starts pulling here in the rips then it is very painful. That is an intercostal neuralgia.

Aha, Dr. H., un grand medicine à Bruxelles a dit: "C'est une neuralgie intercostale, madame." Instead of saying that it is a pain between the rips she says it is a "neuralgie intercostale". Do not forget her hair, grey hair. You could say that every one of this age has grey hair - yes, you could say, but this remedy often has grey hair very early

A: Do you have other complaints with the liver?

P: No. I am on a diet. I don't dare to eat everything. It is very strange when I eat raw chicory it tastes very well, but afterwards I have to burp because it is too hard.

A: What do you mean?

P: I don't digest it.

A: The stomach, the intestines, what about it?

P: Yes, that has always been a problem. I have always had complaints with constipation. I take something for it and I also get a neural therapy.

Many doctors, she has many doctors

A: Neural therapy? Can you stop it for the present, as long as you are in homoeopathic treatment?

P: I must say that is my greatest support. The doctor has the gift to give me courage and force. He gives me an oxygen injection, I begin to flourish. Yes, and even the doctor says if we would have been there in time something could be done. And I tell you, doctor, when I have a vesicle on my forehead, then I go to the doctor. I know this man for 25 years and then I say, "I have it again," and then he gives me an injection.

A: So, the intestines. You have constipation. Do you have other complaints?

P: No. It is a constipation and the neural therapist...

A: What kind of constipation?

P: Yes, very obstinate.

A: Is this a kind of constipation, hard at the beginning of the stool and then less thick?

P: No, I just can't go. I take this for that.

A: Still other complaints? You never have diarrhoea?

P: No, because the constipation is of that kind that it has to be sucked out. Then I take this purgative and get hemorroids. It was terrible. And since I take this... I decrease the dose. I started with nine a day, now I only take four. Regular stool is for me a great step.

A: Your eye is bad on the right side?

P: Yes.

A: Was this before or after the herpes?

P: No, it was my better eye and now it is about 50%.

A: And what about the pain in the back you just told us?

P: So previously it was arthrosis. I took BRUFEN for that. It went away with that. But then I got herpes. And I must tell you before the herpes I had an influenza and they were afraid to give me antibiotics. Then the family doctor came every day and injected antibiotics. And afterwards again a cure of 14 days antibiotics.

FP: Four times a day TETRACYCLINE.

P: I don't tolerate antibiotics anymore.

A: Do you have pain under the left carcass at the moment?

P: No, not at the moment.

A: If you have pain there what kind of movement is very painful?

P: So, I don't move because of the pain when it is really acute. I haven't had it for a long time anymore.

A: All right. On which side do you fall asleep?

P: On the right side.

Strange. Do not forget that she said that her better eye was the right eye, but now she sees less with the right eye. Herpes right, pain in the right eye, sleeps on the right side. That was a clear answer - no doubt, the right side

A: How old are you now?

P: From 1908.

A: 79 years old.

P: Oh yes, these are eye drops that I take for my cataract, but it helps especially for the pain.

A: The pain is stronger in the afternoon, at 5.00 o'clock it aggravates.

P: Yes.

A: Then you had a sinusitis. And a supra ventricular tachycardia. What do you mean with that? Your heart beats quickly. When?

P: Yes, that was my normal state at that time. At that time I saw the cardiologist. I had to come for the omitting of the heart, that is a characteristic of the family.

A: When does the pain come, about 5.00 o'clock or also earlier - it is a quarter to five, does the pain come back?

P: No. It is as if I have something in my eye. Then it starts watering. Now it starts, maybe, because we are talking about it. But anyway it comes then and when I want to see the news of 5.00 o'clock I can hardly see.

A: You mean that it becomes stronger in the afternoon, so about 4.00, 5.00 o'clock.

P: It increases until 8.00 o'clock.

A: And then after midnight it is better again?

P: About midnight I go to sleep. I try to read a little bit. That is a need before I sleep.

A: And how is the pain after midnight?

P: When I wake up I feel fine.

It is strange that it starts at 5.00 o'clock until 9.00, 10.00 p.m. After midnight she sleeps and then she has no more pain. Look in the Repertory "after midnight ameliorates" (p. 1343). How many remedies are there? One

GENERALITIES,MIDNIGHT,AFTER,amel. : Lyc.

That is an easy case, everyone knows which remedy it is. It is strange that so many homoeopaths have given the wrong remedies and you can be mislead by this woman if you are not sure of yourself. She will give you so many symptoms that you will loose your way. She is talking, talking, and talking

A: What about the appetite?

P: That is not so exaggerated. I eat enough.

A: Do you have appetite for something special?

P: Yes, for ice-cream, for example. I like it very much and I tolerate it as well.

FP: With whipped cream. But that is everything what she likes to eat. If she has to go out eating somewhere, then...

P: Yes, I have an aversion for warm meals. I don't like meat, but I like grapefruit and curds.

A: You like ice-cream.

A: Also everything that is sweet. But I don't eat white sugar.

A: You like sweet things very much.

P: But I don't eat them. I like them very much and I think that it is a kind of consolation I am looking for. The grief is so big.

There are a lot of remedies that have "desire sweets", but this remedy is the remedy number one. In the morning they eat bread with chocolate, chocolate in small pieces, or jam. But they will not eat bacon and eggs in the morning like Sulphur. And in the afternoon, after their meal they always like something sweet. That is the differential diagnosis with Sulphur, or other remedies that like sweets. They do never - "never" does not exist in Homoeopathy - but most of the time they do not like highly seasoned food. If someone says that he likes sweets and likes highly seasoned food, you can forget this remedy

Look at the eyes. There is something special in the eyes. Try to observe the eyes, the face

Remark: "Swelling under the eyes.

A: Yes, swelling under the eyes. Is the remedy not there? No? And "swelling around the eyes", is it not there? The remedy has to be there - if it is not there you can add it if you want. I can show you many patients with this remedy who have a swelling under the eyes

P: Because of the pain. That nothing can be done about it! I saw a very good, very well-known acupuncturist in Brussels. Probably he is the only one in the West who does eye-acupuncture. So, I would say that was a trauma with the herpes. But the treatment of the acupuncturist was also a trauma. And yet I went there with the thought: you will get rid of that.

A: Can you tolerate tight clothes?

P: Even the belt of the car disturbs me.

A: Not here?

P: Yes, it does.

A: You don't tolerate it especially in the waist, do you?

P: Here on my stomach and below.

A: You never had ischias?

P: No, you told me that I had rheumatic ischias, but I think, it was just arthrosis.

A: Do you think that you have a lot of flatulence?

P: Oh yes.

A: After certain food?

P: Yes, I think, it is because of this or because of that. For example, from onions. I like them very much, but...

A: What about beans and peas?

P: Not good. You should eat uncooked food, but I don't tolerate it. I drink expressed juice, fruit juice.

Another symptom. We know that the remedy in "onions aggravate" is there - but there are other remedies: Thuja, Nux vomica

I do not want to criticize, but it makes me angry - when the patient tells a symptom, he says, "Doctor, I have disorder of my stomach by fat" - and then you look in the Repertory and then you see there Pulsatilla, Carbo vegetabilis (as addition), Ptelea and other remedies, Sepia, Sulphur, and so on and some homoeopathic teachers say that everyone who has problems with the liver, does not tolerate fat and therefore they do not use this rubric. They are never able to prescribe Ptelea - never, because they are theorizing. We have to take the symptoms as the patient says. We do not have to theorize because we do not know anything about how we are working. We take the peculiarities and the "disorder from fat" is a peculiarity

She does not tolerate onions and we can take the rubric "onions aggravate" in the "generalities" - and the remedy is there. They say, "But everyone has flatulence after onions or many people have flatulence after onions." This means, that many people need this remedy, or Nux vomica or Thuja, why not

The same with children. When I was teaching in Celle there was a endocrinologist who said that every baby is perspiring on the head. I gave the remedy with the result that the perspiring on the head stopped. I asked her then what she would say to that - but she did not say anything, she was angry

This means that many children need Calcarea carbonica, because many children perspire so much on the head and at the back of the head while lying in bed

A: All right. There is no discussion about the remedy, it is as clear as glass. I give you a tablet. That is classical Homoeopathy and then I have to ask you not to use other therapies, because you will feel better in general and the pain will disappear slowly.

P: The pain disappears?

A: Yes. Your stool will be better. In general, you will feel better and will have less complaints.

Do not forget that this is a haughty remedy to hide their lack of self-confidence, therefore they are playing theatre. They do as if they are self-confident, but in fact this way of acting is to cover this lack of confidence

A: So don't drink coffee, no peppermint, no neural therapy, because these are narcotic substances you use. Let the Homoeopathy work, to get a hold on the case. It is not so difficult. I think it will go rather quickly because you are a strong person, because you have so strong pains. You have to be strong to have pain.

P: But I am terrible anxious, doctor.

A: You don't need to have anxieties. What for?

P: For everything.

FP: She is anxious that it comes back again. With the slightest pain she thinks that it comes back. Because the pain was terrible.

P: May I continue to take ELAX? Because otherwise...

A: For the stool? That's all right for me.

P: And I also take this... vitamins.

A: No problem.

P: And this also. I take this for the influenza. I am very sensitive and have weak lungs...

A: You rather do not take this.

FP: And she takes this also...

A: She can continue to take this as well. All vegetables in this concentration is no problem.

P: For the liver I had at that time...

FP: Six weeks ago she has her blood and the liver examined. And they discovered a little spot and recently a radiograph has to be made.

A: It is not important to know this. This might be a hardening, but it is not so important. Important is that you feel well. In this case it is not important to have this examined. You often get more complaints because of the examinations.

FP: The amylase was about 400, I think.

A: It is increased. This here is homoeopathic, you may not take that anymore.

P: I don't tolerate it anymore.

You are laughing now, but I will tell you one thing. You have to be completely sure, otherwise you can not help this woman. If she notices that you are doubting she will not come back. You have to be sure and that is what you have to show, "You can not take this, you can not take that" - dictatorial, the way she can be. She is dictatorial. She has a sick husband and a second man who accompanies her constantly. He drives with the car and does everything what she wants. She must have someone to whom she can say that he can do this and scratch her back and so on - dictatorial, really dictatorial

In children it is almost the only remedy who are in school very kind and at house a dictator. We say, "An angel in school and a naughty boy at home.

A: In the liver remedy are: Cinnabaris, Kali chloricum, Kreosotum, Luffa, Sinusitis Nosode D 12, Sulphur D 4, Thuja, Calcarea D 4, Kali iodatum, Hepar, Kali nitricum, Lemna minor, Marum verum, Mercurius iodatus ruber, Sanguinaria, Nitricum acidum, Alumina, Aurum, Graphites, Iodium, Kali bromatum, Mercurius solubilis, Silicea, Pulsatilla. Unfortunately, the remedy you need is not there.

Often a complex remedy helps indeed, it helps, even in low potency; it helps, if the right remedy is there. But here it is not there

FP: Also Hepar is there and she does not tolerate it. Let's repeat, "She may take the eye drops, the remedy for the constipation and the vitamins."

P: What I also have: I forget everything. I still have power of observation, but my mind is bad. Because of the pain I just give up. The spirit of enterprising has decreased. When I have to, I can do it.

A: We will see you again in August and I think that you will be another person.

FP: So stop the neural therapy.

A: No other therapy except what I permit expressively. In fact, nothing of that is necessary, but you will notice it yourself. The only thing that is necessary is energy and force.

P: Force, to tolerate the pain.

A: Well yes, that's right.

P: Often I try it and think that I must conquer the pain.

A: Yes, and you will conquer it if you are stronger and I will give you the strength. Trust me. It is no problem.

P: Good.

Which remedy? Everyone knows it. Lycopodium, I think M

If you consider the case from a distance everyone says that this case is not difficult, that it is Lycopodium; but if this woman is sitting before you you can prescribe a wrong remedy. We all try to understand and to give the right remedy, but I can understand that some people prescribe the wrong remedy

Besides, Lycopodium is a remedy - no, not a remedy, a person who can not accept that he is better. He will always try to say that it is not better. But, you have to write down all the symptoms and the degree of suffering of each symptom, so that you can be sure whether your remedy is correct or not. If you are prescribing too quickly in this kind of cases... - you prescribe the right remedy, but you will make mistakes the next consultation. If she comes back and says, "This is still here, and that is there, and there is also something", you have to go back to your first consultation and ask how the symptoms are and then you can make your conclusion and say that it is the right remedy

I had to go up to 50M and now she is good. I gave 50M on December, 1. The last time I heard about her from her doctor because he attends the seminar in the Netherlands and now he says that she is rather good. She is still complaining, but previously when she came she was complaining, complaining and complaining

Be careful. If the remedy is right and you are sure and you can indicate that the remedy has really worked, then you may never change your remedy in such a case. Lycopodium is a very deep acting remedy, a remedy that cures cancer, you can be sure - also like Calcarea cures cancer, Sulphur and other

FEEDBACK

A: We saw you on June, 2. Now, it is August, 10. It concerns pain after herpes.

P: At the moment I have pain.

A: Tell me, how did it go.

P: Can I tell you how it went from the beginning? In general, I can say what I read in a magazine, "The medicine hurts more than the disease."

A: What do you mean?

P: Yes, at the beginning... It started with the bladder. That must be a weak point. I had difficulties in urinating and at a certain time I couldn't at all. I let the water-tap running and then I could urinate. I have done this for a few days. I thought, that is because of the Opodium, and then it went away with patience.

A: I would like to ask you not to say the name of the remedy.

P: All right.

A: The first thing you noticed were difficulties in urinating.

P: Yes, I had difficulties with it. Then it went over. Afterwards, I had difficulties with the bile - no, that is gone, with the liver and the pancreas. With the liver at both sides I had such terrible pain. It lasted one week and then it extended to my back, so the same symptoms I had at the beginning of hepatitis.

A: These are symptoms you already had before?

P: Yes. Then you allowed me to take CYNERACIN. I used very little of it, because mostly I forgot to take it.

She forgot to take her medicine. That is a very important symptom, a very important reaction. She forgot to take CYNERACIN. Very good! And why? Because she does not feel anything, this means that the pain does not go to her mind that says to take something. That is very good

P: Because I put everything away, the complete medicines I was taking. In the third phase I had regular stool. Every morning when I woke up I felt that something happened in the abdomen, I did breathing exercises and could go to the toilet.

If you give a man or a woman a remedy who is constipated such a long time and the stool is better after the remedy then you may never go away from the remedy, unless you have strong, new symptoms from which the patient is suffering a lot. It is a very important symptom if the constipation turns to a normal stool

P: But I still take this ELAX, but only two a day, that is an improvement. Then I had quite a lot of grief that I couldn't digest.

A: What do you mean?

As a therapist you can not feel the way, the depth of the emotional pain in Lycopodium. I mean, it is as if it is very theoretical. The same with Sulphur, they have it also. They are complaining and you feel they are playing a kind of comedy. If Ignatia comes or Natrum muriaticum or Causticum, it is another kind of thing. You feel how the patient is suffering, but you do not feel the suffering in those patients. It does not touch the real emotions as you feel, for example, in Natrum muriaticum

P: I have a son who is a diplomat in Nicaragua, who was seriously ill. When I met him from the airport in Brussels, he told me that he had another operation in New York. I had always have to fight for my son. It affected me terribly. I had to hold myself strong...so that it didn't disquiet me. Now, we have been fantastic. Previously, we have hidden our feelings. Now, I conquered them very well. And also other things that I couldn't tolerate. Because a herpes is an extra-ordinary trauma. The pain is still there.

A: Wait.

That is the point where you can make mistakes. She says, "The pain is still there." But why does she tell about her son and about this and about that and not about her pain at the beginning of this consultation? She says, "My pain is the same." If the pain would be the same she should talk about it from the beginning, but she does not. The stool was better, she had some problems with urinating, and now afterwards, when I am asking for the pain she says that the pain is the same. If you let a stone fall on your toe and you scream, then I know that you need Hypericum, but if you only distort your face and say that it is painful in a very soft way, that is not painful

Question: "What about the complaints while urinating?"

A: Yes, there are a few remedies that can only urinate when they see or hear water running. Lyssin is capital, but the most important is Sulphur. Sulphur is indeed only one and Lyssin is capital, but Sulphur is the most important

A: In which intensity are the pains still there compared to before?

P: I would say, it is so as if it is concentrated on a spot. Previously, it was completely crusted, the eye was closed. A crust that was stitching in the eye, you had to take it out. But the pain is still there. I have it during the day and in the evening. Terrible pain.

A: And compared to before?

P: Even stronger.

A: Always?

P: Not always. But when I have it it doesn't leave me alone. When I lie down and rest a little bit, it goes better again. But when I have to exert myself or in company where I have to listen constantly to the same face the pain is coming back. And then I think, it is time to leave, because I am bored to death.

Before, she said that the pain disappears when she is very occupied. Lycopodium is there: "amelioration from occupation." Now, she says that the pain goes away when she lies down a little bit. It has changed. Only when she is very much busy with people she feels the pain and there are moments that the pain is there and moments that she has no pain. That is very important. This means that she reacts, she goes up and down

Also do not forget, in children it is very beautiful to do Homoeopathy, in adults it is sometimes a problem because they often live in difficult circumstances. She has a sick husband and other problems. Homoeopathy is energy, we are energy, we are dynamic, this means that if our energy is decreasing because of this or that circumstance we can have a relapse. Therefore you give in children a remedy and it lasts two or three years, but in adults some of them, especially in complicated people who live in a town and things like that, highly placed people relapse easier

I can not say that she will have a relapse now, but I mean, do not go away from the remedy. You can repeat it or give a higher potency, but you should not give another remedy

P: I have one eye that hurts terribly.

A: Is the pain coming as much as before?

P: Maybe a little bit less seldom, spread over the day. But then so intensively, that I beg the family doctor to have a check up. I can not tolerate the pain. You surely know that I have been here again.

A: Yes, because of your ear. On July, 17 you had pain in the ear on the right side and a colleague gave you a remedy dissolved in water. Has the pain in the ear disappeared?

P: Gradually, they become a little bit better. But I wanted to know, because I have to go back to the hospital... - I went there immediately because I had a kind of eruption everywhere.

FP: Then they gave you a new medicine. She had an acute otitis externa. They gave her a medicine to which she is allergic.

A: Do you speak about before?

P: No, that is new.

FP: So, they gave her a medicine where there was cortisone in it and she got eruption because of that. Then, she preferred to call you. You were on holidays and a colleague helped us. He said, "Your ear is a little bit damaged inside. Take this and nothing else." A week after we had been here, it was rather good.

What did the colleague give her

Normally he should have given her Placebo, but he gave her Lycopodium M dissolved in water

It is my opinion and I do not agree with my master Vithoulkas, but maybe we mean the same thing that if your remedy is a correct remedy and if you repeat you can never do damage. That is my opinion and it is no problem to repeat the remedy if the patient has no complaints or if he does not need the remedy anymore. If the patient has been cured with Sepia and she has a problem - you will see this case later - and she comes back with pain in the ear. It is strange, she hears better in the ear where she has the pain. This is which remedy

Right, Ignatia. I repeated Sepia, because Sepia cured a tumor of the ovary. Therefore, I gave Sepia and she had a very big aggravation of problems she had before, they disappeared again and then she stayed with the same problem of before, namely pain in the ear - and then after Ignatia everything was cured after three days

It means that Sepia had cured this woman but now she needed Ignatia and if you give the same remedy than before, you will cause a terrible aggravation without an amelioration of the symptoms she came for. But if this is Lycopodium - right-sided, that is a symptom of Lycopodium - there are two possibilities: or it is a reaction to the remedy or it can be that she needs again Lycopodium. Who will know this

If they live far away it is better to say: "Yes, that is clear Lycopodium, I repeat Lycopodium." Why not? In these cases you could also wait. You could say: "Take this remedy home in a tube or take now Sac-lac. and within two days if it is not better or if the pain increases you can take the remedy." Here, in this case you can make the choice yourself. But by giving the same remedy for a problem that is still in the same sense of the remedy you can never do damage

But the biggest problem with beginners is giving a remedy for this, a remedy for that, every time they are changing the remedy. On the other side you can not let the patient suffer the whole time. You give a remedy: "Oh, this is an aggravation" - and wait, and wait, and wait, you let the patient wait for one year. Do you remember the case of Argentum nitricum? That was Calcarea afterwards? I said this has to be Argentum nitricum and I repeated Argentum nitricum - nothing. And then I found the remedy. You can say, "I will never change the remedy." - but sometimes you have to change. But mostly we see that we jump from one remedy to another - why? Because we are not sure about our prescriptions. That is the only reason

P: You can examine it.

A: The tympanic membrane looks well, that is very good. The other side as well. You haven't reacted bad.

P: At the moment I still have a problem.

A: Let me finish this first. You also had pain in the back. What about it?

P: It is strange, I was in America in 1981 and there I got postmenopausal complaints, very strong, with fever, very strange. There was a doctor, an acquaintance, who said it was nothing serious and now I have the same thing again.

A: But what does this have to do with your back?

P: In my back I have arthrosis.

A: The postmenopausal complaints...

P: That is over. But that is a circle of everything I had. I was wandering and thinking now I have to get this as well.

A: A good reaction.

I had a woman - do you remember the Calcarea case? Hypericum-Rhus toxicodendron- Calcarea? This woman, whom we cured from the chronic inflammation and so on? Do you remember this case? First, I gave her Hypericum because of the accident and then she got Rhus toxicodendron pain, with weeping and then she had to get out of the bed and clean the house. Do you remember? And later she had problems with the ear. Every three months she had to go to the specialist

She had a hysterectomy and the ovaries have been removed, many years ago, without having flushing problems afterwards, without climacteric complaints. And now she comes with climacteric complaints, 20 years after the removal of the ovaries

What are we with all our theorizing when we say that the ovaries had been taken away? It can be right, but not in this woman. They took the ovaries and the uterus away and she had no climacteric problems; and now, 20 years later she develops a Lachesis state

P: When my son was there I had been on the legs for 13 hours and it went very well, notwithstanding the grief. Playing comedy, cooking, going out, everything was all right, because it had to be.

A: So the back.

P: I felt arthrosis at the whole left side. The doctor said that is a little bit wear and tear of the hips, but I couldn't believe him, because these are arthritic pains I had before. Three years ago, before I had herpes I had a lot of complaints with arthrosis. It returned. At that time they took radiographs of the back and said that it was wear and tear. In fact, I had a damage of the , but it has grown together again. Before, I had been riding and at the age of 14 . That was in Russia where I was born, there were no doctors and it has grown together again. Now it is a block. You saw it on the radiographs. "Leave it there, you can't do anything about it." But later it turned to arthritic pain and now it pulls in the hips.

The doctor didn't know what it was and I wanted to ask you, because my leg was still hurting. The rest is cured, except the eye.

A : Has the pain in the back stronger than before? Can you say that you could go and stand without pain for a certain period?

P: I have complaints with the leg for a fortnight and it does not easy go away. I rub TRAUMEEL on it.

Before, she did not suffer from her leg, now she has pain in the right leg - right-sided

A: You also had pain on the left side of your carcass.

P: Sometimes, it comes again, but now I don't have it anymore.

A: You had complaints with the liver and a heavy feeling after eating.

P: I am still careful with eating. I am still taking care of the food. But recently, I have eaten a dinner with four courses. There you know what you ate.

A: You also had problems with the frontal sinus on the right side above your eye.

P: It still hurts. When I want to watch television - if you live outside, that is all what you have - I have a special light behind me and then I still have a piece of paper to avoid the light. It hurts above the eye, under the eye it is less.

A: So the pain is maxillary better and frontal it is still there.

P: Yes.

A: A concrete question: if you put the intensity of the pain with which you came here the first time at 100%, how is it now compared to before?

P: Yes, the pain has increased, more concentrated on the eye. And the skull has also suffered a lot here. There, I also got pain, and now and then stitches in the head. It is constant typical, on the eye...

I got the doctor and he said if you want I will come twice a week to conduct you to help you to go through. Because I couldn't take anything and there wasn't anything to take.

FP: May I interrupt? Last time we got a remedy from the doctor and afterwards a pain attack appeared.

P: Yes, an attack.

A: And then it became less again?

P: No, it has remained strong. By resting it goes over of course, but I am not the person who can rest a lot.

A: In general, we can say that you got the complaints you had before back.

P: Yes.

A: There are complaints, like the sinusitis maxillary, the stool, the liver complaints, pain in the back that improved. But the last fortnight you had more complaints in the right leg.

P: And the back, irradiating from back to the neck. I forgot that. Everything on the right side.

A: Last time you also said that you had abdominal rumbling, especially after onions, beans, peas.

P: Yes, I can tolerate onions better. I nearly tolerate everything. I can tolerate meat better, but I am not a meat-eater.

A: Still desires for sweets?

P: Yes, yes, a kind of consolation.

FP: She does not have a sweet tooth, but she likes ice-cream with whipped cream very much. She doesn't eat other sweets.

A: Neither chocolate?

P: Seldom a piece of Belgian chocolate.

A: Jam?

P: Yes, I have jam without sugar.

If a remedy has to be added, first it depends on the kind of the remedy, and second on the kind of person. Sometimes, we see that Lycopodium has to be repeated more often than Mercurius and more often than Alumina or Silicea

We are still dealing with a patient and even if this patient needs Lycopodium, and this one, and that one, there is still a difference between every patient because every one lives in another situation and maybe in one case it has to be repeated earlier than in another case

But then there is also a difference between the repetition of the remedy between Lycopodium and, for example, Mercurius. Mercurius is a remedy, for example, that we only need to repeat after a few years in some cases. And I can show you Lycopodium cases where we have to repeat and repeat, and then the problem is gone

We have to be flexible, we have to adapt ourselves to the patient. There is no law, there is only a theoretical rule not to repeat the remedy before the problems have returned. Every one will agree that this is so, but we live in the "Einstein"-period, we have to be flexible and dynamic

CASE2v2

Lycopodium clavatum

GIRL, 7 YEARS OLD

A: The child has an acute attack of asthma. Previously, it never had asthma. Yesterday evening it started. As a child, you also had asthma?

MP: Yes, about the same age.

A: It is not so clear to see on video, but if you observe very closely you see the movement of the wings of the nose. Besides, I remarked the way she was sitting outside in the waiting room.

Which rubric should we take here? The asthma rubric? Why should we take here the asthma rubric? There are 250 remedies. The peculiar thing here is the movement of the wings of the nose: "Nose, motion of wings fan-like" (p. 340)

Do not forget Sulphur in pneumonia. We forget Sulphur too often. If we start with Homoeopathy we prescribe Sulphur for everyone, because Sulphur is in every rubric. Afterwards everyone says: "What, Sulphur? It does not work." Then we go away from Sulphur. The first one or two years you prescribe Sulphur very much, then you leave Sulphur and then you detect it again and you prescribe it very often with wonderful results

A: How does she lie in bed?

MP: She was lying on the side.

A: On which side?

MP: Before I came here, she was lying on the right side.

A: Last night she had difficulties with the sleep.

MP: She also vomited.

A: Did she sleep on her abdomen last night?

MP: Yes, I think so, that she was lying on her abdomen now and then.

Which remedy lies on the abdomen, with the knees under the abdomen in asthma? Medorrhinum. Now, we have a very great case, a man, who had a gonorrhea, chronic cough and it was strange, but when he was asthmatic he had to sit on his knees and elbows. Therefore we gave him Medorrhinum and after Medorrhinum M he had an aggravation that made us tremble. I was scared and another doctor went to the patient at night to give him oxygen. But further we did not do anything and three days later he started coughing and had a lot of expectoration. We had to give him EUPHYLLIN. If you are treating such patients, you make sure that you have EUPHYLLIN in suppositories at home

So on the knees in asthma, that is Medorrhinum, but also this remedy sleeps on the abdomen in asthma

A: You didn't have to sit down?

MP: Now and then she stood up and sat on the edge of the bed.

A: Did the windows have to be open?

MP: I didn't open them.

A: I didn't ask you that, did I ?

MP: No. But she couldn't tolerate anything.

A: She couldn't tolerate cloths. Everything had to be loose?

MP: Yes, also no covers and things like that.

A: Is she very thirsty?

MP: She only drank little.

A: So not very thirsty. What kind of character does she have? Here she is a little bit shy, I mean, now she is a good girl. Was it the same this morning, or was she difficult?

MP: I would say rather difficult.

A: I mean difficult in the sense of in a bad mood.

MP: She is often... she weeps a lot. Then she hangs at my skirt and starts weeping at once.

A: Is she a little bit grumbling?

MP: Yes.

A: If she wants to have something she asks for it in a commanding way or she says (complaining), "Mama, may I do this or that?"

MP: Now, she doesn't ask anything in fact.

A: All right, let's listen to the lungs.

You always have to do the auscultation to hear what is the matter, to know your prognosis. What do I hope to find here that can help me? Yes, the side; I hope I will find some crepitation, rattling and wheezing more on the right than on the left side

A: That is bilateral, although I notice that the right lung is more affected than the left. On the left side, I only here rattling noises above, on the right side more below. So, the right lung is more affected than the left. Let me have a look in your throat.

And then I look in her mouth. Why? I hope that the right tonsil is more swollen than the left one

A: Let me see how you sit on the lap of your mama.

Do you see, that is the way how Lycopodium is sitting when they are asthmatic. That is typical. They would sit like a horse. I have seen it several times

That is the typical attitude of the homoeopathic remedy. Very remarkable. Only on that symptom you can prescribe the remedy

She is sitting straddle-legged on the lap of her mother with the arms around the neck and the head on the shoulder

A: I will give you a remedy now. You have to take a few spoons. Tomorrow, I would like to see you back.

FEEDBACK

A: Now it is two days ago. Yesterday, I saw that you were better. The first time I gave you the remedy in 200 potency and yesterday in M potency.

If someone is breathing asthmatic and starts coughing after the remedy, it is good. Expectoration is good, this means that he has the energy to push it out. To produce expectoration you need force

P: (Is coughing)

A: Alright, a loose cough.

... M potency, to give a little push. We see that she is much vivid compared to yesterday. The cough is loose now. Did she sleep well?

MP: Slept very well.

A: Is she eating well?

MP: Yes, normal.

A: All right. I will listen to the lungs again. The heart beat is also more quiet than before. That improved very quickly. I still here crepitations on the right lung. On the left side it is gone. She is a complete different child than last time.

So the first attack of asthma cured in two days.

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: Yes, I like to give high potencies. She was better after the C200, but I wanted to cure it quickly, therefore I gave her the M potency

MP: Will she get it back again?

A: Well, she might get it back again, but then we know what we have to do. From the first time we gave the right remedy. You don't need to worry about it. If there are problems you call again and come back. But I think if we can cure it this way she will get rid of it very quickly.

MP: But there is the possibility that it will come back?

A: Yes, but that is not so bad. You know that you can reach someone day and night. The other doctors also know which remedy she got and they only need to repeat the remedy and everything is all right in a short time.

MP: Because she is allergic to certain substances.

A: It is not important to what you are allergic. There are people who are allergic to 100 substances. Important is the way you react to the substance, the way of the unnatural reaction to the substance. This gives us the possibility to find a remedy that will improve her resistance so that she does not react allergic anymore.

MP: (Is talking to herself...)

Question: "...?" (Not understandable

A: Yes, in acute cases we repeat the remedy. We dissolve it in water and we repeat

I have another acute case, for example, a Tuberculinum case, an abscess of the lung with tuber breathing, acute, with fever - Tuberculinum 10M and after two days Tuberculinum 50 M and the patient was cured. A chronic remedy in an acute case. There is no acute remedy, there is no chronic remedy, if we consider it exactly

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: I do not believe that you can kill a person with a very high potency. Why? Because the patient can only react if he has a possibility to react. If he is too feeble, he can not react. I consider a homoeopathic remedy, a high potency as an energy, that is never negative, but always positive - if your remedy is right. If you give a wrong remedy the patient can die, but it has nothing to do with your remedy, because this disease develops further and you are not doing anything, because your remedy is wrong

A second possibility is, for example: you give Graphites and after Graphitis there is an elimination. The kidneys can not do all the elimination and they develop an Apis state with swellings and difficult respiration. Then you give Apis, if you do not give Apis your patient will die. There is one case in Germany where the patient died in an Apis state. In such a case the original picture has changed. If the patient comes with some symptoms, for example, cough with asthma, he gets a remedy and if your remedy is wrong he continues to be bad. If you do not give him the right remedy, he may die. But this has nothing to do with your homoeopathic remedy. If you give a remedy and the symptoms changes then you have to give the remedy that he needs for the new symptoms

It might be that someone needs Sulphur immediately after Lycopodium, that is possible, then you have to give the right remedy. I had a patient, who was blowing up completely after Graphites. He had a chronic eczema, he got cortisone for a very long time. Immediately after Graphites M he was blowing up. I gave Apis and everything disappeared

Another Graphites case with a chronic ulceration (at the leg): people with thick nails, a farmer, people near to the earth, with a chronic ulceration that was itching, an eczema. He got Graphites. Three weeks later he was in an Apis state. He could no more urinate - got Apis and everything was over

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: No. These were new symptoms, they had nothing to do with asthma or with the ulceration. These were symptoms of a blockage of the kidneys. Before, he never had this swelling of the eyes, swelling everywhere, difficulties with breathing

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: Yes, he gets Graphites every three months, he was an old man. He had an ulceration to the bone. It is cured now and the other side is also almost cured. This is maybe five or six years ago, I do not know, how long ago

And the other man with eczema, he was a younger man of about 40 years old, he also was cured with Graphites; but I do not know if the reaction would be so big if I had given Graphites in C 30. You could say that I brought him in an Apis state by giving Graphites in a high potency. I do not know; if I had given Graphites in C30 potency, maybe he also would have come into the Apis state

Remark: "I think that by giving Graphites he developed new, very serious symptoms and normally this means that the remedy is wrong.

A: No. That is an elimination. You have to give the right remedy. When the eczema comes back you have to repeat Graphites. Then it is all right without repeating Apis

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: If a patient needs Arsenicum - you know, that Arsenicum often is a near death situation, as Carbo vegetabilis or Antimonium tartaricum or Opium, these remedies, everybody goes through these remedies. If you have a patient in an Arsenicum state and you give him Arsenicum and he dies, maybe, it was time to die. Who says that he died because of Arsenicum

I have a patient with a cancer, with a total blockage of the intestines with metastasis of the liver. I gave this woman Arsenicum 50M and the pain disappeared and the woman became clear in the mind and she became quiet. Before she was very restless, anxious to die, very restless and very chilly, with burning pains - everything Arsenicum. I gave her Arsenicum and she reacted beautifully. No pain anymore. She died quietly. But can you say that she died of Arsenicum 50M? She had cancer and nobody could do anything, there was a block in the intestines. Only to give the remedy that was indicated at that moment, but she died, she had to die

Now, we have more than 18,000 patients in our centre. Every time we treat homoeopathically. Yes, we give Theophyllin, we have to do in aggravation in children, but we never give antibiotics

If there is an old patient who has hypertension, you can say, "I give nothing for that hypertension, because he is so arteriosclerotic, but he has had a brainstroke, therefore there is a danger." If I do not give him antihypertensives the allopathic doctors will say that I kill my patients. Therefore I send him to the cardiologist, let him do a check up and ask him because of the ß-blocks who he is taking now four times a day. That is too much, the heart is slow, that is not good. I sent him to the specialist and asked him that he should ask other medicines to decrease the blood pressure. But you have to give antihypertensives because he is arteriosclerotic, this has developed too far, that is irreversible. You can not change him anymore, but his diabetes has been cured. He took 50 or 70 I.E. INSULIN a day. First, he got Sulphur, he cured, afterwards he got pain in the knee, he did not come back. A specialist gave him ASPIRIN or things like that. The pain went away, the diabetes came back. Then he comes back and he was telling the story and also because the specialist was laughing behind my back. The diabetes came back because they suppressed the pain in his knee. I said: "All right, you stop all the medicines, except the antihypertensives, you can go on taking them, because it has nothing to do with your diabetes." He got Sulphur again and it worked. Then I sent him back to the specialist in the hospital who was laughing

Normally, you can not cure diabetes. We have to see the prognosis to see whether this case is reversible or not. Someone with multiple sclerosis who is sitting in a wheel chair, you can not cure, it is impossible, it is too late. That is a degenerative disease, we have given him the time to develop it so far

If you take these patients from the beginning, when it starts with numbness and awkwardness, then you can treat and cure - with Alumina, Argentum nitricum or what else

Everyone can say what he wants: until now I have no experience with patients who died from a homoeopathic remedy. If there are people who can say it, they should tell me the story. I heard it form a story in London, it was a case from Germany, but this was a development to an Apis state and Apis has not been given and therefore he died

And what else happens: someone comes in an Apis state. They go to the hospital and there they give cortisone, they do a tracheotomy and later there are complications with this and that and then they can die

Do not be afraid to give the right remedy in a high potency and be able to react immediately to give the next remedy if necessary. But the question is: if you work alone, today you give Graphites and on Sunday night when you are drinking beer with your wife, this patient develops an Apis state, then he dies and you will go to jail. Yes, that is because we are working alone.

CASE3v2

Pain in the stomach

Lycopodium clavatum

WOMAN, 40 YEARS OLD

I would like you to observe the patient in this case. It is not good to begin as follows: a man comes in and you ask immediately, "What is the problem?" "Oh, I have pain in the stomach." That is not good. We have to sit down and look at the patient very quietly, without our personal problems; family problems are not good for homoeopaths. We have to be clean to accept the patient with his problem. So, do not look immediately in your Repertory, but try to lean in your seat and ask, "What is particular, what is peculiar and try to feel." Homoeopathy is not like a computer, we need our feeling. There are some people who will never learn Homoeopathy, never. I do not know why but we have to use our feelings and wander, "What is this and what is that and then take the Repertory and look for it." Only if you feel internally good, agrees with what the Repertory says, then you feel good with the remedy. It is important to see this behaviour. This is a woman who is suffering for five years with pain in the stomach. Look at the woman and pay attention to the way she is behaving from the beginning of the consultation..

Can this be Pulsatilla? No, Pulsatilla would say, "Yes, Sir Doctor." (Very diligent, friendly

Can this be Natrum muriaticum? Natrum muriaticum is very polite. This can not be Natrum muriaticum

Can this be Phosphorus? No

You have to have a first impression from the beginning. Look this... grrrr..., do you feel? There must be a grief, the remedy must be a grief remedy; a kind of, "I don't trust this man," suspicious

A: Tell me, what is the problem?

P: I have serious problems with my stomach for five years. It doesn't seem to improve, it always comes back.

A: Five years ago the complaints with the stomach started. Tell me how it started.

P: I can hardly say. It was more a kind of nausea after eating, a little bit pain while eating, but not so bad, it went over. It became worse. I got tablets from the family doctor. It was better for a while. Afterwards it started again. Always the same, since five years.

A: What is always the same?

P: That miserable feeling while eating.

A: Tendency to vomit?

P: No, I haven't.

A: What do you mean with "miserable feeling"?

P: Becoming sick while eating. I can't continue eating.

"I don't feel well", a kind of "I don't know what". You can not find this symptom in the Repertory. The rubric "I don't know what", does not exist. There are other ways to find this remedy. There is not a clear symptom

P: Indeed, I have always been a bad eater, but since five years I eat very, very little. It became worse. I have seen another family doctor. He said it was because of the nerves. He has radiographs taken, but nothing could be found. So, it were the nerves. I don't know what I had to take for that.

Even when she is talking she wants the agreement of her husband. You will see it. And you also will see that she is moving her head. Do you remember the case of yesterday, the old woman of yesterday (case 1), you see the same way of behaving as with this woman. You have to see this, feel this, you have to let it come

A: So, you can not describe the complaints of the stomach? In fact, you didn't have pain?

P: Previously, more than two years ago I didn't have pain in the stomach. I felt only miserable like an aversion for food.

A: When? If you started to eat?

P: When I had to start. When I was preparing it I was already anxious to eat it.

A: It became worse the last years?

P: Yes. Two years ago during the holidays I had my first stomach ulcer at the exit of the stomach.

The first rubric we can look at is "stomach ulcer". "Stomach, ulcers" (p. 531).

STOMACH,ULCERS : Arg-n., ars., calc-ar., calc., caust., cur., Hydr., Kali-bi., kali-c., kreos., Lyc., merc-c., mez., nat-p., nit-ac., nux-v., Phos., sil., sul-ac., syph., uran.

That is a clinical rubric, but for me personally this is also important. The modalities are important, but also the clinical rubric. You can start with this rubric, but to start with a clinical rubric can be dangerous. It is better to start with a peculiarity, where you are sure that the remedy is there

If you have the rubric where you start with, you see which remedies are there and then you ask: Can this be Phosphorus? No. It could be Nux vomica, why not? She is a little bit so - but I do not know..

And Nitricum acidum? It could be, it could be Nitricum acidum, because she has a feeling of hate, an expression of hate in the eyes. Nitricum acidum is the man or the woman who never laughs: the most complaining remedy, self-pity

Here, we could start from the rubric "stomach ulcer". And do not forget, Uranium nitricum is there also - a remedy in diabetes with strong emaciation. Do no forget Natrum phosphoricum in diabetes. We have some remedies for Dupuytren, which are these remedies? Causticum, Lycopodium - but which is the first remedy? Plumbum is the first. Additions are Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur, Causticum, Ruta: but Natrum phosphoricum is one of the most important remedies for Dupuytren and you see this in diabetes patients. We know from Natrum phosphoricum with too much acidity in the blood. In Boericke there is a wonderful description of those who need Natrum phosphoricum. We had such a case and I suffered for two years and tried to solve the problem. At the end I found Natrum phosphoricum: for Dupuytren, diabetes, drawing pains - it is this character of N a t r u m, this kind - do you know the tension in Natrum muriaticum, the drawing, the tension in the knee? This kind of tension, drawing pain as if the tendons are too short, this kind is a Natrum element

P: And then during the last holidays I went there back because I thought I had again a stomach ulcer, because I had the same symptoms, except that I didn't have to vomit this time.

A: So they determined a stomach ulcer with certainty?

P: Yes, by an endoscopy. Apparently, it cured completely. During the holidays I had again a severe inflammation. I suffered very much, has taken TAGAMET for four weeks long until I couldn't tolerate it anymore, until I couldn't eat anymore, with terrible pain and a miserable feeling. I was really ill after each meal.

A: What is your profession?

P: I am an instructor for teachers.

A: Do you teach?

P: No, I instruct other teachers (A teacher for practical training).

She is in a school and she is the "big boss" of the teachers, who are teaching, she is the organiser. This remedy is one of the most important remedies for people who are teaching. If someone says that he is professor or teacher I think automatically of this remedy. Put it in your mind; because professors have to be able to play comedy, to show them in a way different from who they really are. They have to make a show - and strange, this kind of people like to be a teacher, because there is a kind of lack of self-confidence. When they are teaching they are standing there and they can hide this kind of feeling of lack of self-confidence. From the beginning, as a child, most of those people like to become a teacher

A: You understand that it will not happen just like that.

That is always very important in taking a case. A disease does not come like this, never, unless you have children, little, new-born children. These are hereditary problems, maybe gonorrhea, maybe syphilis or tuberculosis. Then, immediately from birth on you have problems

One of the most important skin problems in new born children is which? The wrapping dermatitis. Everyone knows. There is a lot of advertisements, those pampers that are so good. It is a kind of redness, an intensive redness of the perineum and the nates without real eczema, but very shiny. The urine is excoriating. That is why they take these pampers where the urine is immediately absorbed - that is Medorrhinum. If you give Medorrhinum everything is cured, in 99,9% of all the cases

But here it is something different. You always have to ask since when do you have this problem, because she was good for a very long time and one day she starts having problems. It is impossible, that it comes without reason. So try to find out since when the complaints exist: because she fell in an accident, or is it because of a grief or things like that? And often this information will shorten your consultation for two hours. Otherwise you could ask and ask and ask and take one symptom after the other, if you do not ask since when. If you ask this immediately at the beginning you immediately have the direction. If someone says, "Yes, that is since my mother died", immediately you think this can be a big grief, this can be Natrum muriaticum. So do not forget to ask every time since when the problems exist

P: Yes. There must be a reason. I also think so.

A: Why did the complaints of the stomach appear five years ago?

P: In fact, it started in 1980 with my healthy problems. In 1980 I had a conflict with the director, very heavy. I examined it extra in my personal card. It was surely 1980, I can't remember the month exactly. Since that time I have never been all right again.

A: What happened? How did you feel it? What did it do to you?

P: It has destroyed me.

A: Well yes, all right. Tell me what happened at that time. How did it affect you? What did you feel? Describe the conflict situation. How did it start?

P: I will make it short. In fact, it is a very long story. So, there is the director, he is my boss, and his wife. She is responsible for the bills. It always went all right with my work until a fusion of our technical school with another school where the director is also director. Immediately, he called in the help of his wife. I sat together with her in the same office for one year. But it started from the moment that this woman sat next to her husband in the office. He wanted to protect his wife. She shifted all her obligations on to another, so that his wife could go walking, or stay at home, and didn't have to do anything. The other persons were the victim.

HP: Doing nothing is exaggerated.

A: It is not important how it was exactly, neither in which school, only that I can feel how she experienced it, that I know what was going on in her.

P: It was all right for some months, until she asked me to come to her office and said to me that I had to collect money. For certain performances that have been achieved by the school, money has to be collected. I said, "Is this re-introduced?" The moment she was responsible for that it had been abolished. Indeed it is law, but the Madam doesn't like to work, so it didn't have to be. I told her at that time that it was legal. And so she ordered me in her office unexpectedly and said, "You must collect the money."

The woman of the director says to her, "You must..." - You must, and that is the clou - "You must make bills and collect money for this or that thing." Someone has pushed her and said, "You must do this and do that", and it seems that she is very sensitive if someone says that she must do this or that

It is a remedy that can not tolerate that someone is above him or that someone says you do this or that or you have to do this. It is a remedy that is dictatorial himself, but does not tolerate dictators above him

P: I said in a short-tempered mood - not suspicious that I could say something wrong with it: "I don't think that I have to do this, because it is not my task." In a panic she ran to her husband and didn't want to do it. He comes back and starts raging. I can't repeat it here, because that was inhuman. He was really humiliating me. Then, I was also in a panic.

A: Wait, this humiliation...

P: Yes, it was a humiliation.

A: Did everything start with it?

P: Yes, everything started with that.

A: Were there other people there?

P: Yes, there were other people there, who heard this and this hurt me. And that what he said was pure nonsense. Where he got this from I don't know.

A: Tell me.

P: That he knew that I did not do this and that, from hearing of other people. I defended myself, "If you have so much critic - I have never seen you controlling my work." He never comes, you never see him. If he has so much critic, first he should check it with me, before he gives all the critic.

A: You felt really humiliated, because other persons were there. Do you become angry or not?

P: Terribly angry.

A: How do you mean?

P: I was out of sense. I started crying and was not able to leave his office. Then he had to calm me down. He talked to me alone in his office. I told him everything what I had on my liver. Everything, all the injustice things that happened, what I didn't like, all the misunderstandings I told this man quietly, surely more than two hours.

She has been mortified. This is the point. Where is the rubric? "Mind, mortification" (p. 68).

MIND,MORTIFICATION, ailments after : Arg-n., aur-m., aur., bell., bry., cham., Coloc., Ign., Lyc., lyss., merc., Nat-m., nux-v., op., Pall., Ph-ac., plat., puls., rhus-t., seneg., sep., Staph., stram., sulph., verat.

We have to work with the Repertory and I would like to warn you that you do not do this and only prescribe on mental pictures

My teacher, George Vithoulkas, gives pictures, mental pictures of the remedy. I tell you, "Be careful!" These pictures are true, but if we have the feeling, "Ah, that is Staphisagria" and then we prescribe Staphisagria without taking a real symptom - you can not only prescribe a remedy only according to your feeling. If your feeling is the same as the remedy that comes out from the repertorization, it is all right. If you have the feeling of, "Oh, that is such a kind man and he is so sweet." The most sweet remedy is Staphisagria, and you give Staphisagria - nothing happens

I had this experience. Nothing happens. Is this true what Vithoulkas writes? Yes, it is true, that Staphisagria is sensitive but there are other remedies that have the same kind of sensitivity. I have missed a prescription for one year because he was so sensitive. As a child he had been suppressed and wet his bed at night. They suppressed him the whole time, he was weeping and weeping. But I, stupid man, I did not observe that he was weeping during the consultation, that is an important symptom. I gave him Staphisagria because of the total picture. Indeed, he got discharges from the penis. And I thought, "That is a good reaction, a discharge." All my colleagues whom I showed the case, said, "Yes, that is a good prescription." I said, "Yes, but he has to be cured." He had a lot of other problems, in the joints, excoriating of the hands, restlessness of the feet and so on. But all this I forgot, only this beautiful mental picture. I did not see the symptom that he was crying the whole time - that is a Medorrhinum picture

But on the other side of Medorrhinum there is a mental picture of living day and night, amelioration in the night and sex and what else. We think to be Medorrhinum we need someone who drives 200 km/h with the car. Yes, people, who drive 200 km/h with the car can be Medorrhinum; people who have an amelioration at night can be Medorrhinum and so on and so on. But there was not such a sensitive picture of Medorrhinum and I can tell you that we make mistakes there

We do not know all the mental pictures of one remedy. That is why I try to give several patients who are cured with the same remedy and then you see something general in it

From Phosphorus they say that it is so open - but look in the Repertory: indifference, indifference to the family: Phosphorus; sadness, does not want to talk: Phosphorus. You see how large the remedy is and if you read the picture of Phosphorus given by Vithoulkas, it is open , they come and sit on your lap. But one day you will have a patient who is very irritated before menses, who is very angry with her husband, who does not care for her children anymore, she hits the children. Then they say, "It is Sepia, because she is so hated." You give Sepia, because she has freckles in the face and Sepia has freckles and so on. Then you say, "It is not good, a higher potency." But it is not good and still a higher potency - my God that is Sepia! But she does not react. It is not Sepia

Yesterday a colleague came and said, "My wife is Lycopodium. She has a tumor, a fibroma and this fibroma (are benign tumors that are composed of fibrous or connective tissue ) is growing further." I said, "Then, it is not Lycopodium, it can not be Lycopodium. If it would be Lycopodium, the tumor has to decrease, or at least has to stay, but it may not grow.

I only want to warn you. It is good to have these mental pictures, but do not hang on to those mental pictures. Do not loose the connection with what is written in the Repertory - but both together, that is very interesting, that is very good. At the end I found the remedy for this man: Medorrhinum instead of Staphisagria and it worked beautifully

Besides, his wife had ovaritis and leucorrhea for many years, for 30, 40 years - Medorrhinum cured it. Medorrhinum also cured the problem with his son

Back to the case. Here someone says, "Mortification from stomach complaints." I would be careful. Be careful, if you go directly to one rubric with only one remedy. All right, if this picture could be Nux vomica in general, but start from a more general rubric "mortification". I should start there, to be sure.

Question: "And what about 'consequences from anger, complaints of the stomach after anger'?"

A: Yes, but I do not know if she was angry. She said, "He was blaming me the whole time, I was standing there and I couldn't do anything. She was not so angry at that moment. People who say, "I could not react", this makes us think of Staphisagria. "I can not react, I am so easy suppressed." But what she said that is indeed mortification

(anger with same and humiliation ). In the rubric there is also Colocynthis. It is complementary to Staphisagria. Causticum - Staphisagria - Colocynthis, that is the same line. Then we have Ignatia, Aurum, Argentum nitricum, Lyssin, Natrum muriaticum, Opium. Also Opium, but Opium should start trembling. If Opium is mortified, it starts trembling, all over.

After an accident, so after a shock Aconitum reacts so... (speechless from fright). But if they come in and they are terribly trembling then you have to give Opium, that is not Aconitum. In Aconitum you have the element anxiety, in Opium the paralysis, a little bit like Gelsemium, trembling and weakness, but in Opium it is more trembling

So Palladium, Phosphoricum acidum, Staphisagria are there and other remedies

Mortification, this is the clou. It has to be a remedy that is sensitive to mortification

She says, "I told him everything that was on my liver." So that is a liver remedy. You do not believe that? That is true, it is important. People who say "All that I had on my liver," they really feel the problems in the liver

Other people say: "Everything I have on my heart." That is another remedy, a heart remedy. Here she says that she told him everything what she had on her liver, for two hours

P: He collapsed more and more in his seat. Everything was true what I told him, but in fact he didn't understand. He let me go and make me promise to collect the money. I turned around and said, "All right, I will do it, but I will see justice done."

And now something starts: the cowardice. Now, she goes to the government, the minister of education and shoots the director in his back. This way of reacting is not possible for Nux vomica. Nux vomica is not reacting in this way, they shoot immediately. She comes from behind and shoots the director of the school in the back. That is what the Repertory means with "coward". "Cowardice" (p. 17).

MIND,COWARDICE : Acon., agar., agn., alum., anac., ang., aur., bar-c., bar-m., bell., bry., calc-s., calc., camph., canth., carb-an., carb-v., caust., chin., cocc., coloc., con., cupr., dig., dros., Gels., graph., ign., iod., ip., kali-c., kali-n., kali-p., laur., led., Lyc., merc., mur-ac., nat-ac., nat-m., op., ph-ac., phos., plat., plb., puls., ran-b., ruta., sabin., sec., sep., sil., spig., stann., sul-ac., sulph., tab., thuj., verat., verb., viol-t.

Do not forget that there is no good and no bad in Homoeopathy. If someone is coward, therefore he is not a bad person, that is only a symptom. You can not judge about your patients. You must love every patient, because he needs energy. It is not his fault that he is like he is and you are a therapist you can not say that this is a good person and that is a bad person, there is only a remedy and energy, coming from a certain origin, that is all. You have a description of Phosphorus, so a positive, good remedy, Natrum muriaticum, so a good remedy - but you know that Natrum muriaticium can kill? That Phosphorus can kill? And the description of Nux vomica, angry, grumbling, excited - but Nux vomica is sensitive, is sympathetic; and then Lycopodium, everything negative, but that is not true. It has nothing to do with positive and negative or good or bad

P: Then, I lodged a complaint against him.

A: So, you accused him.

P: Officially, I made a charge by the trade union and the inspection at the Ministry. He , that was during the crisis of the government.

She really went to the cabinet, to the minister of education, and to the trade union, to all the organisations that have power. Power, power game, this remedy wants to have power and every way, equally whether it is good or not, if they can have this power that is important.

P: Then it was a little bit more quiet. I have been ill for six weeks long, overstrained. Afterwards, I went back to work completely anxious, still one week before the holidays. Immediately, he gave me the task to make the accounts of which I didn't get the duplicate. So I couldn't perform this task. There were other tasks which I performed immediately. I worked to the point I could and ... then I stood there again completely in a panic, "What do you want me to do now?" It was urgent. Therefore I called the financial service in Brussels and cleared the case. The director has taken a firm line with the responsible person and said, "I hear that you are very excited, but will you inform me on paper so that we can settle things." The last day of the school year I mailed the letter.

Then, two months it was very quiet. In the meantime the complaint has arrived. It had some consequences, because afterwards he had to go Brussels. Then, there was a little reorganization in the school management.

The first day I had to come into his office and listen to a sermon, what I had in mind, such things won't happen twice... and again there was anger. Maybe, I forgot some details.

A: That is not so important.

P: At last we talked to each other a few times. We had to try to work together in a normal way. I apologized for the charge I made against him and further we agreed that we started from a new line. I started full of courage, because I thought, that he had become a little bit more human, because he was really a inhuman person. We wanted to start the new school year with a lot of courage, call meetings where things should be talked about, for example, financial things that happened in the past. At the beginning of the meeting he started immediately to blame. Everyone was to be blamed, except he. The main cause was of course he, because he is the leader of the institution and he has to decide what has to be collected and what not. Then, practical things were arranged. I wrote the report of the meeting and made a copy for every present person.

These people need an umbrella. They write everything down to defend themselves. So, they are looking for every possibility to prove that they are right

Therefore they write down everything, so that nobody can blame her and say to her that she did not do this or that

P: All the people agreed with the report, except he critized that I wrote about the financial cases in the report, that doesn't belong there he said. I said, "Everything what is said at the meeting should be in the report." For me it was a prove that he had to hide something.

At last, all the practical things we decided together have been cancelled during the week. At the end nothing remained of the use of the meeting. We met in vain.

It went on that way: meetings, decisions, which weren't performed.

Those lines you see here in her you often see in Nux vomica. You can miss here and prescribe Nux vomica. It could also be Lachesis, but the way of talking is not a Lachesis way of talking. They talk uninterrupted and jump from one subject to another

Question: "Will she become Lachesis after Lycopodium?

A: No, I do not think so. Maybe she needs Lachesis when she comes in the climacteric - maybe, but Lycopodium is a very, very deep acting remedy and here it is a very deep problem, this can be the origin of a cancer if you do not give the right remedy.

And there is a big difference between Lachesis and Lycopodium. Lachesis is so direct and she is so behind one's back

Remark: "..." (not understandable

A: Yes, but be careful. The fact, that she goes to the court, to the judges and so is not only Lycopodium, many remedies do that. That is only one symptom

P: I wrote down everything very clearly and fine. At last, I am the one who has been made a fool of. I don't call any person. In urgent cases I only call a few persons together, but without him, because it has no sense. Everything I do is denied. I am the fifth wheel at a car and can do nothing right. And the way I was treated...

Now I know, now I feel what is going on in this woman, what kind of character this woman has, but up to now I can not give a remedy. I have to be sure, I need other symptoms to be sure of the remedy. Only on these symptoms it is not good to give a remedy

There are very, very strong mental, emotional symptoms: cowardice, haughtiness, ailments from mortification and so on, but we still need other symptoms, to be sure that it is really this constitution

A: All right. Now, I know, how you react to such situations. First, I have to make clear that I can not change anything about the situation. I can only take care that your energy increases, that your stomach pain disappears. Because your stomach pain is an expression of your emotional problems that you can not control, above which you can't stand, therefore it expresses it in a physical problem, stomach pain and at last a stomach ulcer. We have to take care that the stomach ulcers don't appear again. The human being is not a machine, but something dynamic. You can get complaints again if the pressure comes back again. Then you might need the remedy more often. By external conflicts your energy might decrease.

P: At the moment I don't have force at all to work. I don't like to work. Why should I do something?

A: All right, then we will take care that you will feel better again. Tell me, on which side do you lie in bed to fall asleep?

P: In all possible positions, but really to fall asleep I usually lie on the right side.

A: Do you often have a distended abdomen?

P: About my periods. I have them at the moment. Then I have more complaints with the stomach.

A: Do you also have complaints with flatulence, if the abdomen is distended?

P: A little bit.

A: At what time of the day do you have the most complaints with flatulence?

P: Sometimes, it can last the whole day, from the morning until the evening. The next day it is over again.

A: Do you think that the region of the stomach-intestines, that the stool is disturbed?

P: It was not disturbed, but now, the last weeks I have problems with it, notwithstanding purgatives.

A: Constipation?

P: Yes.

A: What kind of constipation is it? You can't absolutely go or is it the first part that is hard?

P: Especially, the first part. I have to exert myself so strong that I am afraid to get hemorrhoids.

A: But when the first part is out then...

P: Then it goes better.

A: You can't tolerate narrow tight clothes on your abdomen, or can you?

P: It doesn't matter, unless if the abdomen is really distended. Otherwise I always have narrow clothes.

A: But not when the abdomen is distended?

P: No. I take care that I only wear loose skirts about my periods.

Does every one know this rubric? "Stool, hard, first, then fluid". That is one of the key-notes of this remedy

STOOL,HARD,first, then fluid : Agar., aloe., Bov., calc-f., calc-p., Calc., carb-s., lact., Lyc., nat-c., nat-m., nat-s., sul-ac., tarent.

First, we have a stomach ulcer, sleeps on the right side, has this stool and has troubles in the abdomen from flatulence, so four physical symptoms. Then: loosing the clothes, does not tolerate clothes on the abdomen, fifth symptom

A: Now, I don't want to know what you eat, but what you really like.

P: At the moment I don't like anything.

A: What desires do you have?

HP: Nothing at the moment.

A: Nothing at all?

P: Eating sweets, at best a delicious piece of cake.

A: And chocolate?

P: I don't like that.

A: What else of sweets?

P: Jam on the slice of bread, but at the moment I can't eat bread.

A: You spoke of sweets. What do you mean with it?

FP: Biscuits.

P: Or cakes.

A: Sweet has always been a desire?

P: It tastes.

HP: Not always. That was not the case previously.

P: Normal food.

HP: Previously, she weighed 65 kg.

P: That was shortly after our marriage. After the birth of our child I lost weight. I weighed 57 kg at that time and now I only weigh 47 kg.

HP: She never liked curds.

P: No, I don't like that.

HP: But she likes holland cheese.

A: Neither milk?

P: No. Milk without anything I can't drink that.

A: Did you like to drink?

P: No.

HP: And she has a great aversion to meat. Also for some vegetables?

P: Normally I eat all vegetables. Everything, except meat...

A: At what time of the day do you feel worst?

P: In the morning when I get up.

A: Do you have a depth as well during the day?

P: In the afternoon I lie down for a while.

A: At what time?

P: About 3.00 p.m. , 4.00 p.m.

A: What about the evening?

P: At the moment it is all right, although I always fall asleep. I sleep very much.

A: And if you go out and it is after midnight, can you do that?

P: I can't very well. It may not become too late.

A: In general, are you too warm or rather too cold?

P: I am rather too cold.

HP: She is easily cold. That is right. She likes to sit warm.

A: Do you tolerate the sun very well?

P: Yes.

A: Except the complaints with the stomach and the obstruction do you have other complaints?

Do not forget to ask if there are other problems. In every first consultation you have to ask if there are other problems. People think that they do not have to talk about that problem because it has nothing to do with the problem with which I come now. So, always ask if there are other problems. "Yes, sir doctor, but it has nothing to do with it." - you must know every problem., because the remedy can solve 55 problems; you only know two of them and the other 53 they do not tell you about. If you know more problems you have more information for the remedy that covers

A: What about your menstruation?

P: I never had problems with that, only now with the complaints of the stomach. Especially, one week before the menstruation. Last month it was very bad. And although I take medicines, I had very strong pains yesterday.

A: Although you take medicines?

P: Yes. I think that it has to do with the menstruation. And also pain in the abdomen. This morning I got up with very strong pain in the abdomen.

A: Do you have leucorrhea?

P: No.

A: Which remedy do you take?

P: There is TAGAMET on it.

A: Now you stop all those medicines, TAGAMET, PAH, SERENASE, because it doesn't help anymore.

P: It helps, I think, but it needs time.

In such a case you have to stop all the medicines. If you let them take those medicines and you give the right remedy and then she says that she is better because of the allopathic remedy, no, that is impossible. Stop all those medicines, because the remedy here is clear and give it in a high potency

A: But you say that you got your complaints back under TAGAMET.

P: Yes, yesterday.

A: Also the previous period?

P: No. When I had the last stomach ulcer I was very good with ZANTAC... it lasted very long. After two, three weeks I noticed an improvement. I thought, "It lasts quite a long time before I am better." I took it until it was empty, went back and they checked it up and it was very well cured. So it helped.

That is very interesting. They gave her ZANTAC or TAGAMET. The pains are still there, but after they did a gastroscopy they said that the ulcer had disappeared. The medicines cured but she says that she still has pain. What does this mean? The cosmos - I don't know the name - gave us all the security lights. If there is something wrong a light is switched on and we all have this inside of us. We are the cosmos, the microcosmos

We have eyes and we do not see and we have ears and we do not hear. If we like to see to ourselves, if we like to feel, then we notice if there is something wrong, I am sure

But so many people live and live and never come to rest to feel what is going on inside them. But we all have our security system inside us. If you are suffering, you must have symptoms. If you do not have symptoms and you feel good, there is no reason to go to the doctor. Then you better go to a pub and drink or eat something. It is better than spending the money to a doctor

A: But important is: How did you feel yourself?

P: Not good, as bad.

A: So you didn't feel good. Your stomach ulcer was gone, but you yourself...

P: I have never recovered.

A: Everything hasn't gone completely.

P: For a while, but not for a long time.

A: I propose to stop the medicines. This evening you take this ablet and then I see you back between Christmas and New Year. Then you may not have any pain in the stomach. Do you agree?

P: I also have to take SERENASE.

A: You don't take that either.

P: I have a strange experience. Last Friday I started again with TAGAMET and also took SERENASE. On Saturday, I was completely gone, I didn't know anymore what I was doing. I can't remember anything of that day. That was because of the SERENASE.

HP: I went to the family doctor and she had to stop it immediately.

P: I prepared dinner and eat something, but I can't remember anything.

Retrograde amnesia after SERENASE, not after an accident

HP: We didn't make dinner on Saturday.

P: I don't know anymore.

HP: She doesn't take the SERENASE anymore.

P: Now, I can't sleep at night.

A: We will bring you back into equilibrium. Don't worry about that.

FEEDBACK (12.29.1987)

What do you see? She has put on weight. Sometimes it is a good symptom, but if they are too fat, it is often dangerous

A: You were here five weeks ago with complaints of the stomach.

That was a very serious moment. I had the case the first time on the video and I switched on the video and said, "Tell me, what happened in the meantime." Internally, I was trembling. You can be sure 100% - but maybe it was wrong. Only the patient can tell if it was right. If he says that nothing happens and the remedy was right then we start doubting if there was really Lycopodium energy in that tablet

A: Two days after the remedy you called me in a kind of panic state.

P: I didn't know what I had to do. Before I came here, I didn't have pain in fact. Then I got the same pain again. I took the tablets again and my husband said, "You may not take those tablets again!"

A: At the beginning there were still a few days that you had pain.

P: On Sunday I was here. On Monday the pain started gradually again. On Tuesday they were rather bad, on Wednesday they were worst and on Thursday they were gone.

A: So you had an aggravation that lasted two days and the third day the pains were gone.

This man has to do everything for his wife, that is normal. The second day he called and said, "Doctor, you gave a remedy and now she has more pain. Before she came to you the pains were gone and now you gave her a remedy and she has more pain." I said, "That is very good. You have to wait.

An aggravation for three days and then..

A: And then?

P: Afterwards I didn't feel as good as at the moment, but it improved every day. Now, in fact it is all right, although I often have complaints after the food. But it doesn't last long, then it is away again.

A: How many kilo have you put on?

P: Three kilo.

Before she hardly could eat anything and now she put on three kilos in one month

A: I see it, you have become more full.

P: The most complaints I had before the holidays, then I still had to work one week. The Sunday before I had exactly the same after my lunch and dinner.

The day before - she had to go back to work on Monday - on Sunday she had more complaints again

That is which rubric? "Anticipation".

MIND,ANTICIPATION, complaints from : Arg-n., ars., gels., lyc., med., ph-ac.

MIND,FEAR,GHOST,night : Acon., ars., carb-v., chin., lyc., puls., ran-b., sulph.

Which remedies are there? There is a remedy that we always forget. We never forget Argentum nitricum in "complaints from anticipation". We always remember because of the diarrhoea. Nux vomica is there, Lycopodium, Gelsemium and Medorrhinum is there. Silicea is an addition. Medorrhinum is in the rubric "anticipating fear". That is very important, do not forget this. If someone has anticipation fear and he is biting the nails to the flesh, until it is bleeding then it is Medorrhinum, only Medorrhinum

I had a case of a woman who came with her mother. The mother was probably 82 years old. They came from Russia. The mother came with one or other pain and the daughter - she was not married - was sitting there and was weeping and weeping. I thought that she would rather need a remedy than her mother. She was eating her nails to the flesh; she had an eczema

I gave her Medorrhinum and three days later she called and said, "Doctor, it is impossible? I have eaten my nails since I was a little child and within 3 days the desire to eat my nails is gone." - Medorrhinum

She never had a sexual relation, she has never been married and was constantly working in a hurry. Many people who have big stores, who work in international multinationals, many of them are Medorrhinum - very well organized, very hurried, biting nails - do not forget Medorrhinum in biting nails and anticipation fear

A: But if you went back to work, it was all right.

P: Then it was better.

A: A kind of anticipation fear. You have been written ill and the week before the holidays you had to go back to work.

P: Yes.

A: Before you had complaints, but if you were at work, it was all right.

P: In some way, yes.

A: So you felt that your resistance was bigger. At the moment you have little complaints?

P: Yes. It depends a little bit on what I eat. I got complaints of many things. Everything that is fried is not good for me. In fact, it is not pain in the stomach, it is more the intestines which start working.

A: Do you also have a little bit more internal peace?

P: I have become more quiet.

The problem of every disease is a lack of inner peace. Inner peace is what we need and that is what we should get with a homoeopathic remedy

A: Because your problem was that there was especially an internal...

P: ... everything is much better, but ... I have to be careful, it comes back easily.

A: It still comes back...

P: Often I have to control myself.

"I have to control myself," but therefore you need energy, to control yourself. There are moments in which you can not control yourself, but you have to be able to control yourself

A: But you see that the relation between the emotions and the complaints of the stomach is a little bit interrupted.

P: It is much better. Now, slowly I get more appetite and it tastes again. I eat also more. Already years ago it was like that.

A: You also look better. A little bit fatter, of course also a little bit make-up.

P: Yes.

A: But you look much better.

HP: Yes, absolutely.

A: And what about the stool?

P: It is also better. I had a lot of problems with it when I was here. That was very bad for one week.

A: The first part was often too hard. Now, it is all right?

P: Yes.

A: Then, the treatment is closed here. Of course I will give you some tablets to take home. If the external, negative influences become too strong there might be a relapse. But only if there is a clear relapse, you take the remedy again. It contains energy you need to become stronger. The external influences control this. This is your constitutional remedy. If you get problems again it will solve this. Do you have new complaints? Skin eruption or things like that?

P: No, no other complaints. But I would like to say that I have complaints with my ear for years (shows the right ear). I already saw the specialist a few times. It is always itching and I clean it with a cotton stick. Then, regularly I get an inflammation.

A: It concerns the right ear.

P: Yes. It is always the same. That is already so for years.

A: That is also a complaint that your remedy will cure. It can be that if you get a remedy the old complaints where you came for disappear and an old complaint returns again. But also this old complaint can disappear spontaneously. If it becomes clearly worse and you would go to the specialist you take one of the tablets instead. Is that all right?

P: Yes.

A: Do you have other complaints that lasted for years?

P: My biggest problem at the moment is that I feel sick 1 1/2 week before the menstruations. That exists already since one year, before I didn't have that. Then I get stitching pain in my abdomen. The food doesn't taste anymore. I can't eat anything. The last time it is a little bit less.

A: That is also better.

P: Better, but still a lot of pain.

A: It is better than before?

P: Yes, absolutely.

A: In general, it is better. Still other complaints?

P: No.

Here, you have to let the remedy work and I will doubt very much before I would give another remedy, unless later she has very, very strong symptoms for another remedy, or Sulphur or or Pulsatilla for example. But that does not happen so often in such a deep acting psoric remedy. Everything comes back to psora. You can give Mancinella and Mancinella will cure the anxiety to become insane, but at the end another remedy will be needed

HP: She has become much agreeable for the persons she is living with. That is also very important.

A: What do you mean?

HP: Well yes, for the people who live with her, for my son and I. That is much agreeable compared to before.

A: You understand each other now?

HP: Well yes! It was not so bad, but now it has become more agreeable.

A: Yes, also because of the fact that she is better now, that is normal. We always intend to criticize a person, "You better do this, or that." But it is not your fault that you are not in equilibrium and then you are in a bad mood or what so ever.

HP: Yes, yes.

A: If you feel good then you are better in the association with other people.

HP: Yes, that is right.

CASE4 v2

Lycopodium clavatum

MAN, 60 YEARS OLD

A: I haven't seen you before. Tell me what is your problem?

P: I have an intimate problem.

A: What do you mean?

P: To be intimate in bed, as to say while having sex.

A: You can't?

P: I can, but not the way it has to be.

A: What do you mean?

P: It has always been good, but since a while it is less good. I can't always do it.

A: You don't have erections anymore?

P: The erection goes away.

Do you understand? "The erection goes away" - the way he is talking, the way he is sitting, he is a little bit ashamed

A: What is your profession?

P: Retired coal-miner.

This is totally different from the Sarsaparilla man. The Sarsaparilla man was sitting like this, maybe like Pulsatilla, maybe a little bit like Phosphorus, but anyhow more attached to the doctor. Here, it is a big difference

A: So, during the coition?

P: Yes.

A: The erection doesn't last long enough?

P: Yes. That is since about one year.

You can observe that he is looking to me and then he turns his head immediately away. The remedy that is sitting in front of you and is looking into your eyes and is turning his eyes immediately away is which remedy? Natrum muriaticum. And Natrum muriaticum is complementary to Lycopodium. But the reason why Lycopodium turns his eyes away is a lack of self-confidence, in Natrum muriaticum it is a lack of openness. They can not let other people look in their heart, because they are so closed. They have fear that their feelings are touched. There are many reasons why they do not look a person into the eyes. You also see that he is very nervous and is turning to this side and to that side. Natrum muriaticum leans back and crosses his arms

A: Do you have other complaints?

P: I have a little bit pain in my back, but well yes.

A: Where?

P: Above the waist.

A: On which side?

P: Everywhere.

A: When do you feel it especially?

P: When I have worked outside for quite a long time, and when I have to get up again. Otherwise I don't feel anything.

He has pain in the back and indicates the right side, but says also on the left side and after sitting, at the beginning of a motion. There are a lot of remedies, but which is the capital remedy for aggravation at the beginning of motion? Rhus toxicodendron

A: Do you have other complaints?

P: No.

A: Do you smoke?

P: Yes, a lot, at least one packet a day.

He smokes very much and he is impotent. Of which remedy do we have to think of? Caladium. The remedy in impotency with smoking very much is Caladium

A: Do you drink alcohol?

P: Yes.

A: How much?

P: It depends. So five, six pints three to four times a week while playing cards.

A: Do you sleep well?

P: No, not so good.

A: What do you mean?

P: I always have to take sleeping tablets.

A: What do you take then?

P: TEMESTA, 2 1/2 mg.

A: In the evening?

P: Yes, before going to sleep.

A: Not during the day?

P: No.

A: Do you often wake up?

P: Yes, often.

A: Do you often dream?

P: Yes.

A: About what?

P: About the past, about the work in the mine.

A: How do you lie in bed to fall asleep?

P: On the right side.

A: You never sleep on the left side?

P: No.

A: What about your appetite?

P: I can not eat much, I have never been a great eater.

A: What do you like very much and what don't you like?

P: That is difficult. I eat everything, but many things I like less.

A: What do you like less?

P: White cabbages.

A: Why?

P: I don't like it.

A: You don't tolerate it?

P: Yes, I do.

A: What don't you like?

P: Pine-apple and things like that.

A: You don't like fruit?

P: Yes, oranges, but no pine-apple.

A: Is there a certain food that gives you complaints?

P: No.

A: Also nothing that gives you flatulence?

P: No.

A: You never have complaints with flatulence?

P: Yes, often my abdomen is distended, as they call it.

A: And if you can make winds is it better or not?

P: Yes.

Now, you can say that I am pulling out the symptoms, but something makes you think of the remedy. The way he is sitting, the way he is talking and if he does not tell other symptoms, what should you do? Should you let him sit there for three hours? No. If you think of a remedy and if you can trust your feeling because you learned to observe - and at the end, after many cases you can start trusting your feeling when you see a patient, the whole picture, his complete behaviour. Then, when you start trusting yourself you can say, "All right, now I will try to get direct symptoms, to affirm my impression, to be sure of my prescription." That is what I am doing here

A: What do you eat on your slice of bread in the morning?

P: In the morning I don't have appetite.

A: You don't eat anything in the morning?

P: A slice of bread.

A: You don't eat anything in the morning?

P: Yes, a slice of bread and a cup of coffee.

A: How does your food have to be? Does it have to be highly seasoned, does it have to be fat, does it have to be salty?

P: Surely not highly seasoned.

A: Do you often eat desert?

P: Very seldom. I have to prepare everything alone.

A: You are alone?

P: Yes. My wife died 11 years ago. My son is still at home and he is a difficult eater.

There is a remedy we have to think of first, when his wife died a long time ago and is living together with another woman and now the impotency problems are there. Of which remedy do we first have to think of? Conium. But for Conium we need at least one other symptom. For which symptom do we have to look in Conium

Vertigo when turning in bed, also when rising, but especially when turning in bed. He does not have problems with that

A: Are you dizzy sometimes?

P: No, never.

A: Do you eat between the meals?

P: Very seldom.

A: What do you eat then?

P: Biscuits or things like that. But really very seldom. Often a piece of chocolate.

A: Can you tolerate a tight belt?

P: I can tolerate it, but often I have problems with it.

A: Do you discuss regularly with your son?

P: Yes.

A: About what?

P: The youth has a completely different idea of life than I have. It is a different generation.

A: Can you tolerate it if he contradicts you?

P: I have to. I have to tolerate that he contradicts me.

A: But you don't feel well with it. You get angry?

P: Yes. I am hot-tempered from character.

His character becomes clear. He does not tolerate contradiction and is excited if someone contradicts him. The capital remedy is Lycopodium

MIND,CONTRADICTION, is intolerant of : Acon., aloe., alum., am-c., anac., ars., aster., Aur., bry., cact., calc-p., cann-i., cocc., con., echi., ferr., grat., helon., hura., Ign., Lyc., merc., nat-c., nicc., nux-v., olnd., op., petr., plan., Sep., sil., stram., tarent., thuj., til.

has to restrain himself to keep from violence : Aloe., sil.

Again this is a case where you could give Nux vomica, because he does not tolerate contradiction, offended easily, everyone gives Nux vomica, but there are a lot of remedies. He does not tolerate contradiction:Lycopodium, Aurum, Ignatia, Nux vomica. This tendency to contradict - maybe his son needs the same remedy as he does

A: Do you have salivation at night?

P: No.

A: No perspiration at night?

P: No.

Why do I ask this? Because Mercurius is also someone who likes order: "I am the father, you are my children, you have to listen to me. I will tell what has to be done. I am the boss." That is Mercurius. Mercurius wants order. He says, "This generation is different" - and when he told this, I thought immediately, "Be careful, you have to see and look if this could be Mercurius." Therefore I asked for the salivation at night

A: Are you easily cold or are you one of those who are rather too warm?

P: I often have cold feet, but otherwise I am not too easily cold. Sometimes, I have cold feet in the winter.

A: If you eat onions, beans or peas do you notice something?

P: No, I don't notice anything.

A: You don't get flatulence of that?

P: I think I have flatulence. But I eat onions very little. My son doesn't want to eat them.

"Aversion onions", which remedy? Thuja. Sabadilla has desire and aversion to onions, Pulsatilla also

A: How old is your son?

P: 30 years and I am 62 years.

The son is not married yet! That is very interesting. Maybe the son needs Lycopodium. You often see in Lycopodium that there is a kind of lack of self-confidence. They remain bachelors. How many professors are bachelors

A: Are you very precise in everything?

P: Yes.

A: Very precise?

P: Yes. You don't see at our home that there is no woman.

A: You clean the house?

P: Yes.

A: What else do you do? You are retired.

P: Nothing. Only the household so as to say; cooking, washing, everything.

A: You don't have complaints with the stomach?

P: No.

A: What about the stool?

P: It is very good.

A: No complaints with obstruction, hemorrhoids?

P: No.

A: Do you often have the impression that the first part is hard and the rest is less thick?

P: No.

Yes, that is not good, but I need no other symptoms anymore. I know enough: he sleeps on the right side, he likes sweets, he is dictatorial and does not tolerate contradiction, clothing aggravates - there is no reason to give another remedy, so he gets Lycopodium. And he has flatulence from onions and from cabbages and from beans and so on - there is no reason to give another remedy

GENITALIA MALE,SEMINAL DISCHARGE,quick, too : Aloe., bar-c., berb., bor., brom., bufo., calad., calc., carb-s., carb-v., con., eug., gels., Graph., Ind., Lyc., nat-c., nat-m., onos., ph-ac., phos., pic-ac., plat., sel., sep., sulph., Zinc.

I did not ask whether it was an early seminal discharge or things like that. If they can give you a clear description, it is good. But there is a kind of erection wanting during coition. Important is the picture as a whole. Here we needs a deep constitutional remedy and because we have no arguments to give Conium we have to give the remedy that fits with his personality. This remedy fits with his personality. Besides, we know the impotency of Lycopodium. In Lycopodium it has to go quickly and then finished, without taking responsibility. Lycopodium is afraid to take responsibility. If a woman can be pregnant he will not do it, if he is sure that she can not get pregnant, then it is all right, why not? That is his way of thinking

A: Do you have the impression that you are sure of yourself?

P: Little self-confident. Previously, I was, but the last years I am not so self-confident.

A: We want to try to solve the problems. I would like to see you once again.

P: Yes, and what do I have to leave?

A: Coffee, peppermint...

P: And beer?

A: You can drink moderately.

P: I am already drunk after 10 bears.

A: I think three times six beers is too much.

P: Well yes, and no coffee.

A: No.

FEEDBACK (12.15.1987)

A: You were here on November, 3, so five weeks ago.

P: Yes.

A: Tell me, what did you feel after the remedy?

P: I didn't feel a big improvement.

A: You didn't feel anything?

P: Not much. Anyway, it is not better than before.

A: Have you been ill of the remedy?

P: No.

A: How do you know that the potency is as bad as before?

P: Because I tried it.

A: And there is no improvement at all?

P: Sometimes it is all right, sometimes less.

A: But you don't see a difference compared to the time before you were here?

P: No, I can't say it.

A: But often it is all right, often less?

P: Yes.

A: But there are times that it is all right?

P: Yes.

A: What about your complaints with the back?

P: Often I still feel them, so at the height of the waist and often I don't have complaints.

A: But how is it compared with the time before the treatment? Has it improved?

P: No, I can't say it.

A: But you only have complaints now and then.

P: Yes, when I have to bend quite a lot.

A: You also had quite a lot of flatulence?

P: That has improved. I don't know if it is good but I take a kind of garlic tablet for the stool.

A: Since when do you take these tablets?

P: I took them already before I came here. But not regularly.

Before he came here he already took these pills. And now since he took Lycopodium he continues taking the remedies for his abdomen, for his intestines. But now this flatulence is much better and he did not take other remedies

A: But you had a lot of flatulence?

P: Yes, that is better, but I think it is because of the herbal medicines.

A: But you also took these tablets before?

P: Yes.

These people say, "Yes, but this is because I am taking these pills." "But you already took them before you came." He continues taking these pills and he says it is because of these tablets

A: Before, the flatulence did not improve notwithstanding the pills and it improved only now?

P: Yes.

A: You were also very restless.

P: I still am. Often there are problems with my son. This person doesn't like going to work. I am alone, because my wife died. And my son and I could never get on together.

A: Do you have salivation at night?

P: No.

A: You still sleep on the right side?

P: Yes.

A: The only thing that is better is the flatulence.

P: Yes, but I think it has to do with the herbal medicines. A green packet. I don't remember the name.

A: It doesn't matter. But that is the only improvement, since you have been here?

P: Yes.

A: Is this remarkably better?

P: Yes.

Now, I am sure that the remedy is right, because his flatulence is clearly better

In Lycopodium you have to be careful, they often do not accept the amelioration

A: I have the impression that it was worse with your impotency the last time you were here than at the moment.

P: I still have it.

A: How many times often can you do it?

P: About 5 times.

A: For 50% it is all right.

P: Yes.

A: Did you drink coffee?

P: No.

A: And how much beer?

P: A few times in the week while playing cards, five to six beers.

A: Every day?

P: No, no. Only while playing cards. I always drank tea, no coffee.

A: Then, you held very well to your word.

P: Yes.

A: I am 100% sure that the tablets you got will help you. I don't think that the flatulence has improved by the herbal medicines, because you also took them before.

P: Yes, I did, but I didn't take them regularly.

A: And now you take them regularly?

P: No, I don't.

A: So, before you took them irregularly and now also and the flatulence is better now. With the potency it can improve only gradually. It is only five weeks ago.

P: That is clear. And I am not one of the youngest.

A: But I expect 70% improvement instead of 50%. At least if you leave the coffee.

P: Yes, I did. But I drink tea. Is coffee much worse than tea?

So, what do I do now? Now, I give him Foliata squalosa. I told him that I give him a remedy to hurry up the whole thing and I will see him again after one month

A: Yes, yes, because the coffee antidotes.

I give you Foliata squalosa and I would like to see you again after four weeks. I expect an improvement. But you have to be honest.

Yes, yes, with Lycopodium-people... I have to be honest and they also have to be honest. There are people who maybe like to have an erection seven times a day - you are laughing - yes, but they are retired and they have nothing to do, that is reality. I want to know if the potency is really better after the remedy, but I do not want him to have an erection so many times a day

P: Yes, surely. It surely has to do with the tension at home.

A: Yes, this might hinder the acting of the remedy, because you are very much excited at home.

P: Yes, I excite myself very much.

A: But the remedy must give you the energy to get on with it. I understand that you are angry that someone hangs about the whole day.

P: Yes. He is unemployed and is playing the radio the whole day.

We try to rationalize that he is not better because of his son and things like that. You can say what you want, but when the remedy is correct your remedy has to help you, has to solve the problem to a certain degree

A: Let us agree that you come for a check up after four weeks. Later we can give you the remedy to take home and you can take it if it is necessary.

P: Yes, surely.

That is a situation you often see in homoeopathic practice. They come after three or four weeks and say that they are not better and I say, "He must be better," but he is not better. Then, we look at all the points and he says, "Yes, the flatulence is better." I think that this is the remedy and I let the remedy work; and one month later he says that he is all right. Now, most of us would change the remedy, would give I do not know which remedy, because they are doubting. There is no reason to doubt at all. His way of behaviour, his being is Lycopodium. This is a situation that you often see in homoeopathic treatment. You give the right remedy and at your second consultation you were not looking clearly or you are doubting about yourself and then you go to someone of whom you think he is a great master and you ask him to solve this impotency problem. Then, he looks and sees which remedy the patient had and tries to find another remedy and these patients are incurable, these are spoiled cases, because the consultation after the first remedy has not been made properly

But now this is done properly. We have seen there is an amelioration. But we have to believe that what we see is real. That is a big problem in Homoeopathy, that we do not trust ourselves

Question: "Is there a relation between the height of potency and the time that you are waiting?

A: It does not depend on the potency I give, but on the reaction of the patient, and his reaction was an amelioration of his flatulence. I also know that he has reacted and that I have to wait

Who is doubting? You? Yes, why not? You have reasons enough to doubt. No, it is surely not Natrum carbonicum. For Natrum carbonicum there are other important points. There are the aversion fat, very strong aversion milk, the intolerance of the sun, these are very chilly, very kind, friendly people. You can miss Natrum carbonicum with Pulsatilla. Pulsatilla is also sensitive to the sun and in fact Pulsatilla is chilly, but does not tolerate warm rooms, no closed, warm rooms, but in fact they are chilly, but do not tolerate the sun. And there we miss Natrum carbonicum and Pulsatilla. They have nearly the same character and the same modalities, but Natrum carbonicum is more chilly than Pulsatilla

FEEDBACK (1.13.1988)

A: You were here on November, 3, 1987 and on December, 15, 1987. How are you now?

P: Better. After New Year it started improving. ( AFTER TWO MONTHS )

A: What started improving?

P: In bed.

A: The potency.

P: Yes.

A: First, I gave you the remedy, the second time Foliata squalosa. In what sense has it improved?

P: It is better.

A: Before, the flatulence improved.

P: Yes, but I do not drink coffee anymore, only tea.

A: Do you think it has something to do with it?

P: Yes, maybe. I don't know. Before I still drank a Holland gin or whisky; but I don't do it anymore.

A: Do you drink much?

P: No, not much anymore. Previously, I did it regularly, at the moment now and then. Can this do damage?

A: I think that a little schnaps now and then can not do damage? Before the potency was good for 50%. And now?

P: After New Year it was rather good.

A: Should you go to the doctor with the complaints you have at the moment? Would you have come here?

P: Yes. I made an appointment.

A: No, I don't mean it this way. If at that time you were in the same state as you are at the moment would you have come back to here?

P: I don't know. I don't know how it is after two weeks.

A: Well yes. All right. Then I give you a tablet. At the moment you don't need to make another appointment. I give you a few tablets.

P: Then I get again one of these.

A: Yes, Foliata squalosa and I give you a few to take home and at the moment that there is a clear relapse you can take one of these.

P: After one month are so?

A: Or after two, three, four months; it depends.

P: Then I don't need to come back for it?

P: No, because I know what you need, I will give you some tablets home.

At the moment he is good, he enjoys his life. In this case you see that everything depends on the fact whether you are sure of your prescription or not; you have to wait

One month after Lycopodium M I gave him Sac-lac. and now you see the result; after two months he can really accept that he is better. After one month it was already clear that his flatulence was better, so you could be sure that the remedy was right. But often they antidote, they take ointment, especially Sulphur patients, they continue to take ointments without saying anything and you only discover it one or two years later, because they do not react very well, because there must be something. And then they tell you that they used an ointment for the skin here and the skin there the whole time. But the patient here did not antidote

CASE5 v2

Lycopodium clavatum

MAN, 47 YEARS OLD

A: How did it start? Since when do you have this? What happened?

P: On Friday, eight days ago I painted with varnish on the basis of cellulose.

... it was stitching, here on the cheek, a little bit more on the right side than on the left side. The first days I didn't notice anything. Then I put something on it a few days, something I still got from the specialist. It remained this way until Sunday. On Sunday we sat by the open fire. It is on the height of the table and then it started again to become more red. First, I thought it is because of the warmth. It increased the whole Sunday and it became very red. On Monday it was a little bit worse and on Tuesday I called here.

The first observation: a very strong swelling on the right side more than on the left, very oedematous, and there is a very strong reaction to the heat of the fire as he says. This kind of appearance and the fact that he does not tolerate the heat makes us think of which remedy? Apis

In this case you have to give Apis, even if it is wrong, because Apis is a remedy that prevents deadly situations. If you remember: in acute meningitis it can be Apis, in acute blockage of the kidney, in acute glottis spasm. Do not forget Apis, it is a very important remedy

Even if you are doubting here between Apis and another remedy you have to give Apis, even if it is wrong, because if it is an Apis state the patient will develop new, maybe dangerous situations. If it is not an Apis case we have the time to see which remedy we have to give. But here we have strong indications, we know, Apis is more on the right side and has the strong symptoms of aggravation from heat

A: Does it hurt when you touch it?

P: No, it is only tensed.

A: What does the heat do?

P: I can't say. Yes, when I sit by the fire I felt that it was stitching.

A: What kind of feeling is it at the moment?

P: I feel it. Yesterday, I said that I became thick, a kind of swollen feeling.

A: What do you feel at that place?

P: Yesterday it was exactly the same feeling as if needles were stinging.

A: Fine needles?

P: Yes.

"Stinging pain" is which remedy? Apis

Other stinging remedies? Argentum nitricum, Nitricum acidum. Do you know the difference between "stitching" and "stinging"? "Stinging" is more fine, like from a bee, "stitching" is more like metallic needles, sewing needles; there is a difference in the feeling

Another reason for Apis

Do you see what he is doing with his handkerchief? He is dabbing, this means there is an oozing, there is something coming out. Have you ever seen this in Apis? No. There is a liquid coming out and I have never seen it in Apis

P: At the moment, it is not so bad. It is rather tensed. The slightest thing I do it is tensed and it pulls.

A: The swelling has increased?

P: Yes, I think, it is still increasing and it also becomes red.

Look in the Repertory. There is a swelling, that is one element, but also an eruption, and it is a discharging eruption, moist (p. 1311). Is Apis there? No

SKIN,ERUPTION,discharging, moist : Alum., anac., anag., ant-c., ars-i., ars., bar-c., bell., bov., bry., bufo., cact., cadm., calc-s., calc., canth., caps., carb-an., Carb-s., Carb-v., caust., cham., cic., cist., clem., con., crot-h., crot-t., cupr., Dulc., Graph., hell., hep., hydr., iod., jug-c., kali-ar., kali-br., kali-c., kali-p., kali-s., kreos., lach., led., Lyc., manc., merc., Mez., mur-ac., nat-a., nat-c., Nat-m., nat-p., nat-s., nit-ac., olnd., petr., ph-ac., phos., phyt., psor., ran-b., Rhus-t., rhus-v., ruta., sabin., sars., sel., Sep., Sil., Sol-n., squil., staph., still., sul-ac., sul-i., sulph., tarax., tell., thuj., vinc., viol-t., zinc.

A: So, this morning it was not swollen above?

P: Yes, it was, here on the right side a little bit.

I am differentiating between two remedies

A: How do the lips feel? Stiff or swollen?

P: No.

Why did I ask this? Stiffness of the lips, the first remedy is Apis. Swelling, stiffness of the lips. But he does not have that

A: You come back for a check up tomorrow.

Prescription: Apis M

In these cases you have to let your patients come back the next day, every day to follow the case

A: I have to observe this until it is completely gone.

P: Tell me honestly, what kind of risks are there?

A: There is no risk, it will be all right.

He is anxious.

P: Will it become worse?

A: No, it has to improve immediately after the remedy.

P: After the remedy of yesterday?

A: No, after the remedy of today. Yesterday you have been seen by a colleague. But you don't really have an improvement after the remedy of yesterday. The swelling has increased. By the remedy of yesterday, apparently, the symptoms came more forward and ask for the remedy that you will need now. According to me, that is an allergic reaction that is caused after the varnish, and by the heat of the fire it is pushed outwards and it has increased.

P: It could slumber for one week.

He is asking, so he is theorizing about this disease. That is another symptom. He is a man who theorizes easily

A: Yes, that is a poison state, but don't worry. Call me this evening and inform me about your state. Then I will decide what I will do further. I will follow this immediately, don't worry.

P: Yes, because I do not show off. Because in such a case you are easily inclined to call the family doctor... In general, there are people who are in a panic, if you don't do something immediately.

A: Of course you can go to the family doctor.

P: But then you are easily in another direction.

A: I would like to say that the situation is very acute... if it concerns a skin eruption it is not an acute situation. Whether it still lasts six hours or not, it is not bad.

P: Let's suppose that it is really an acute danger.

A: If it is really a danger you can come immediately. When you call, you tell your problem and if the doctor thinks that it is acute you can come immediately. If you have sawn off your finger, of course you have to come immediately. It depends what the doctor on duty decides, whether it has to be treated urgently or not. I think that this is a problem.

The problem is that he called and he could only come in the afternoon; he had to wait and now he is critical. He said, "If I have something I have to come for, then I have to come immediately.

That is a symptom of his character, he is critical. Our centre is not working quickly enough. He says if a patient has something at a certain moment we have to be able to come immediately. He was a little bit critical and that is another symptom of his character

FEEDBACK (1.15.1988)

What do we see now? There is a swelling but also on the left side now. What does this means? "From right to left" (p. 1401).

This swelling goes from the right to the left side. And there is Belladonna; therefore I asked if he is sensitive to touch.

A: Yesterday you took three times a spoon. The swelling is not better compared to yesterday.

P: Yesterday evening I made a wet bandage, then it seems to be a little bit less.

A: If you put cold water on it it seems to be better. If you go outside in the cold, what about it?

P: This morning I went outside.

A: And then it is better?

P: It started running and then I went inside and then only the nose was running.

A: You also said that you urinated less - still now?

P: ... less than usually. Normally, I have to go urgently in the morning.

Yesterday, he said that he urinated less - another symptom for Apis. Apis has a diminution of urination and is thirstless. Apis is mostly thirstless, does not want to drink, notwithstanding that he is swollen and is not urinating

A: Your feet are not swollen anymore?

P: No.

A: The swelling started especially under the right eye and went a little bit to the left. Do you still have that feeling of stinging needles?

P: Rather less, but this night I had it very strong from time to time. And when I pushed on it it seems to be gone immediately afterwards. Then I didn't feel anything.

A: The touch does not hurt anymore?

P: No...

But I can not lie on that side, then it remained. I had to lie on the back. I think it has something to do with the warmth.

A: Local warmth aggravates. Now to the thirst: yesterday you weren't thirsty at all, you were clearly less thirsty than normally, but no dry mouth?

P: No.

A: Did you sleep well last night?

P: From time to time I slept, but I have been awake very often.

A: Did you dream?

P: Yes, I dreamt that it became worse.

A: At the moment you easily get tears in your eyes?

P: Not tears, but I have a kind of liquid in my eyes. Tears are something else. This morning I had to wash my eyes, they were so turbid.

A: Were your eyes closed this morning? By what?

P: Yes, closed, glued up.

A: ... was it yellow? And glued?

P: Yes, I really had to wash them.

A: And the eyelashes were glued? Do you mean that you are more sensitive at the moment, that you weep easier? Do you have water in your eyes or is this emotionally affected?

P: Not emotionally.

A: (To his wife) How is his behaviour at home at the moment? Is he more irritated, grumbling?

WP: Silent.

A: Are there other changes in the mood?

WP: He is angry very much. For example, he curses suddenly.

P: Well, that is because of inability.

He is cursing and then he says why. So he is cursing (p. 17). The other strongest cursing remedies are Anacardium and Nitricum acidum

MIND,CURSING : Aloe., am-c., Anac., ars., bell., bor., bov., cann-i., canth., cor-r., gall-ac., hyos., ip., lact-ac., lil-t., lyc., lyss., nat-m., Nit-ac., nux-v., oena., op., pall., petr., plb., puls., stram., tub., verat.

WP: That was at the beginning, when everything started.

A: That was very difficult.

Another remedy that goes from right to left is Sulphur

P: At the moment I am a little bit more quiet. According to me it has not aggravated. It didn't develop further. I was anxious for that. Now I am a little bit more quiet.

A: Are there other complaints? What else do you feel?

P: I would say that I am a little bit numb in the arms, in the region of the elbows. I just noticed it in the car.

A: At both sides or at one side?

P: Maybe a little bit more on the right side.

A: On which side do you sleep?

P: On the right side. I can sleep on the left side or on the back, but mostly on the right side.

A: At several places you still have a little bit eczema. Where is this?

P: On the left groin.

A: Do you also have cracks between the toes?

P: Yes, these are completely yellow.

A: Not at the moment?

P: No, since a fortnight not.

A: Is the eczema in the groin gone?

P: Yes, it has lowered downwards.

That is interesting. Before, he had a chronic eczema between the toes and in the inguinal region and we know from our Organon that when an acute disease comes up the chronical complaints disappear. But this does not mean that there has to be a difference between the chronic and the acute remedy. It is not written there. It is written that the chronic symptoms go away if the acute symptoms come up, but it does not mean that the chronic remedy has to be different from the acute remedy

Second, when a patient becomes worse, then you see that the symptoms in the lower region are disappearing and the symptoms in the higher region are coming up. If there is an amelioration the above symptoms are better and downward you have more symptoms

Here the symptoms come from downward, then they disappear and new symptoms appear upwards; but nobody can say that there is a difference in this state and his chronic state

We see the homoeopathic law, the Hering law: the symptoms wander from upwards to downwards, from inside to outside - but nobody said that there is a difference in the remedy, that there are two different remedies

I asked on which side he sleeps, because I thought... I had some symptoms. It goes from the right to the left, he is cursing, he is a little bit irritated, from the first consultation I know that he is critical, so I wanted to ask a few chronic, constitutional symptoms and I will go away from my thinking that this is an acute intoxication that has nothing to do with his constitution. If he would not react in this way, maybe he would have a swelling on both sides. But it started on the right side

Now, you see that there is no difference between acute and chronic prescribing. Therefore this case is interesting. But I gave Apis first and that was wrong, but to be more secure I said to myself Apis may not work, but if it would be Apis then it would be a great mistake not to give it

A: It is a chronic matter.

That was my decision that it is an acute exacerbation of a chronic situation, the top of the iceberg, evoked by some painting materials, some irritating substances

A: So, you can not say that it is itching?

P: Yes, I feel a kind of tickling. Is that also itching?

A: So, fine stinging of needles?

P: And it oozes on the nose. I pressed my handkerchief on my nose the whole time.

The oozing is a very strong symptom

Question: "What about Graphites?"

A: Where does Graphites start in acute cases?

Not on the eyes, not around the eyes, not at all, in the left ear. The Graphites eczema usually starts in the left ear together with a left otitis media

Oozing is a characteristic of this remedy. Look in "extremities, oozing from oedematous legs" (p. 1043). Here it is not the leg, but it is an oozing, only the rubric is interesting. There are Graphites, Lycopodium, Tarentula cubensis - Tarentula cubensis with the ulcerations, with the burning, nightly pains, very strong burning pain at night, they have to get out of bed. And there is one addition: Thyroidinum. Thyroidinum: exophthalmus, together with constipation and oedema, that is Thyroidinum. In this case I did not think of Graphites. Thyroidinum is not in the Repertory. First, it is exophthalmus together with a slight or big goitre, together with oedema, obesity and constipation, and it is very chilly

With those four or five symptoms you must strongly think of Thyroidinum. You find this in Clarke and Boericke

A: Did you take the temperature?

WP: Not today. And I forgot to tell you, last night he was very warm.

P: Yes, I was a little bit warm last night.

A: It really feels hot?

P: Yes.

Now, I gave him the remedy. Which? Lycopodium, Lycopodium M and I saw him again the next day

FEEDBACK (1.16.1988)

P: I felt that the pressure on the eyes is a little bit less.

A: How quickly after the remedy?

P: In the afternoon. Although it didn't seem to be thinner, but the pressure was less.

Subjectively, he has the feeling that the pressure has decreased

A: Compared to yesterday the swelling under the eyes has clearly decreased.

P: Surely not, yesterday evening. I think that the eyes are also sleeping.

A: The previous remedy you took on 14, and now it is 16. The remedy has worked a whole day.

P: I started with it at noon and was here the next morning.

A: But now it improved more than with the previous remedy. Do you have other complaints?

P: Yes, yesterday I had a scratching of the eyes. I had a look at it...

A: Do you have the feeling that there is sand in the eyes?

P: Yes, but only in this corner.

"Eye, pain, sand, as from" (p. 257).

A: Did you notice something else?

P: I feel better, in general.

A: You felt immediately better yesterday?

P: Yes.

That is important if the patient says, "I feel better.

A: Urinating?

P: Yes, this morning it was all right.

A: Other things you noticed?

P: Yes, I don't know. I have the impression that it is over. But around it is still so knobby, I feel it. It is as if the suffering is still there. It has to break open and the liquid has to come out.

Do you see, at the beginning there was nothing at my nose and now the skin is breaking open and is oozing. I have the impression that everything has to break open, before it can cure.

What do we do with this case

Yesterday we gave Lycopodium M. Immediately afterwards he felt better and..

P : I slept very well, six hours and I didn't wake up.

That is very important after a remedy. They have to sleep well. Now, we have to wait. We gave him Lycopodium, he has reacted very well and now we have to give him Sac-lac., or nothing

A: I think this is an expression of a chronic problem that is coming up now.

P: That might be.

I explain him that it is an acute exacerbation of a chronic disease. He is theorizing, he tries to talk with me about the disease

FEEDBACK

A: The swelling is completely gone now, isn't it?

P: Still a little bit on the cheeks.

A: Still a little bit, yes?

And since when is this so much better?

P: Yesterday it was very clear to see. I thought if this continues to improve this night, in the morning I will look very well.

A: Is there still liquid coming out?

P: No. But it was yesterday evening. There was a spot that was itching very much, on the knob. Then, there was liquid coming out and then the itching was over. And here on my nose, it is more because of the motion.

A: Further you don't feel any pressure on it?

P: It has decreased. Here, I still had a few knobs.

A: Did you urinate more often?

P: Yes.

That is also very important for Lycopodium, that they have an amelioration after urinating. Lycopodium is also indicated in general oedema. Yes, this thick beard, you also see it in Sulphur

A: Is it still itching a lot?

P: Yes, itching. Now, it is peeling. It has become very worse last night. I woke up and I had to control myself in order not to explode, it was itching so much. There is very much skin underneath.

A: Still two, three days. Do you have problems at other places of the body?

P: I have a spot on my back, that is a dry spot. It was itching this morning. Otherwise it doesn't itch. I didn't know, that I had this.

A: At the moment we don't do anything. We let the remedy work and you call me again on Tuesday. I want to see you again when it is completely all right. Further there are no problems?

P: Yesterday we talked about it how it started. You were right. It really started after the varnish, but yesterday we were still discussing and a few weeks ago my wife noticed that my face was thicker, it was also a little bit red.

FEEDBACK (1.22.1988)

That was on January, 15, 1988. Now it is March 1988 and since then he did not have any problems, with one dose Lycopodium

In people who are asking to explain everything the whole time, you must think of Lycopodium. He wants me to explain the whole time, what happened and why and things like that - theorizing, the whole time

A: Now, it is twelve days later. As you see, you don't look bad. Everything is clear. You still have a little wrinkled face, but this is because there was an oedema.

P: It is dry.

A: It has become soft. Is the nose all right?

P: Yes. That cured last...

Three, four days ago I still had a kind of spot on my forehead. I still feel it now. Where those spots were, it is still a little bit rough.

He had three other little spots where he had a dry eczema. You see, an acute case - you can not separate acute from chronic. Sometimes, yes, if for example, someone is driving a car with an open window and he gets a paralysis from a cold wind. This is which remedy? Aconitum

There you have a strong relation between the causation and the symptoms and maybe you can say, "Immediately after the driving in the cold wind this acute symptom appeared, so Aconitum.

Complementary to Aconitum is which remedy? Sulphur. And Calcarea also

Here maybe you can speak of an acute case, but be careful to say something like that.

CASE5 V2

Lycopodium clavatum

MAN, 56 YEARS OLD

Here, it concerns a polyposis of the bladder, a precancerosis

You will recognize the remedy immediately, but it is very interesting that I had to repeat this remedy several times and every time the complaints went away. The last time I saw him 1 1/2 years ago. He already comes a long time to the centre, since 1985.

A: In may 1985 you came with the problem of polyps of the bladder. I don't have a report of the hospital. They didn't send me one.

P: No, it is at my home.

A: I would like to see it. Would you bring it next time? You had blood in the urine. Then you have been operated on at your bladder. The second symptom was an enormous pain. Where exactly?

P: Here, in the right groin, but now it is here, in the hip. It has wandered upwards.

A: It was above the groin, in the right fossa iliac. It was a very strong pain.

P: Yes, unbearable. Now, I can tolerate it. I still feel it a little bit, no real pain anymore, I know that there is still something, but anyway.

A: After the operation you took antibiotics for quite a long time. Another problem was that you had a cold constantly.

P: Constantly.

A: What did they exactly say about the polyps?

P: That it was nothing malignant.

A: You always had pain in your right shoulder. The pain was always there.

P: Yes, almost always. But now, it is gone.

A: On which side did you sleep?

P: On the right side.

A: What do you like to eat?

P: Chocolate and things like that.

A: So, you like sweet things very much.

On May, 27, 1985 I gave you a remedy. You got a very strong headache from that remedy.

P: Yes, I could run my head against the wall. One day later. It remained the same the second day, without stopping.

A: Then the headache and also the other pain became less. And after a few months you informed me that there was no blood in the urine anymore.

P: I had it checked up by the family doctor and there was no blood anymore.

A: Before, there always was blood in the urine.

P: Always.

A: The right shoulder was good. There was still a kind of pressing pain and it became better gradually. But in this case it was remarkable that the remedy had to be repeated again and again. I started with C200 and I had to repeat so often that I gave 50M the last time. How long does such a dose work?

P: About three weeks. Then, I hardly felt anything and then gradually it started again.

A: And then at a certain point you have to get your remedy again?

P: The next day the complaints were less again.

A: On August, 24, you got your remedy the last time.

P: I didn't use all the tablets yet.

A: You got three tablets, in 50M. How often did you have to take one?

P: Twice. The second tablet three weeks after the first.

A: And now?

P: Now it is not bad. I feel it a little bit.

A: What about the stool?

P: All right.

A: Previously it was...

P: Oh yes, that was a problem.

A: A lump. And when this came out?

P: Yes, then it was all right.

A: Too good?

P: No, normal.

A: I have let you come because of the fact that you needed the remedy again and again and there is no indication for another remedy, and because the remedy helps you. You are still working?

P: Yes. Next year in August I am retired.

A: You are doing well with the remedy for three years. You don't have to take any antibiotics or things like that. How many times have you been seen by doctors before you came here?

P: Two to three years, always pain. You saw the complete boxes and tablets.

A: Now, you still have a tablet in reserve.

His way of looking, his behaviour, that is a Lycopodium behaviour, that is the appearance of Lycopodium. This case indicates that sometimes you have to repeat the remedy. It depends on the patient if you have to repeat. But you see that all his problems he had before have disappeared with Lycopodium - but they came back and I had to repeat Lycopodium

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: Yes, that might be, Kent says this. It might be incurable, but one case is different from another. I expect that when he is retired he will be cured. I think when he finished his work, then he will do much longer with one dose of Lycopodium. That is what I expect, so I will wait, maybe we see this after five years

But if the remedy is right and the patient has a relapse you have to repeat it, do not give another remedy. You think 50M every five weeks is very much? That is not more than C30 every five weeks. It is energy. We do not have to be afraid of 10M or 50M, it is no problem. We have to look from another point of view, the point of view in homoeopathy is energy, positive energy and this never does damage - with the right correct remedy at the right moment. I am sure, it can not be negative, it is impossible

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: The question was: "He had Lycopodium C200 with a very big aggravation, two days headache. When he receives 50M, there is no aggravation, directly an amelioration. What does this mean?

A good potency, that is all

Then the question is: "First, I gave C200 and there was a big aggravation. If I had given 50M, would the aggravation be more or less? Who knows?" I can not do two things at the same time. If I give C200, I never have the opportunity to give him 50M the first time. It is too late. It is completely individual; this is meant when we say that we have to be flexible. There are no rules concerning the potencies, there is no law at all. We can not discuss about potencies. You can say that the LM potencies are beautiful. Why not? I have no experience with LM potencies. I heard from L. that he gives it every day and when he stops it the problem comes back. In Holland I heard that there are very big aggravations in LM6. I have given Bryonia in C30 for headache and I thought that the patient would die

You see it is very individual. But we have good experiences with high potencies. This Belladonna in the last case was a 10M and the fever was cured. If I would have given a C30 the result would have been the same, I do not know. You can not try it in the same case. That is the reason why you can not make comparisons. A human being is an individual and I can not make a comparison between you as a Lycopodium and he as a Lycopodium. You have other problems than he has, and you are a totally other man than he is, only you need Lycopodium. The common thing of those two is the fact that they both need this energy, but that is all

We can continue to discuss, but every homoeopath has his special experiences with certain remedies. But we are not afraid of any remedy in Homoeopathy, but your remedy has to be correct and if your remedy gives you an aggravation which leads you to another remedy, then you must give the remedy. If necessary - as in this Apis-Lycopodium case - he came back the same day to see if Apis worked and if not then you have to give Lycopodium. The next day you check up again, so that you have a control over your patient and nothing will happen

I also heard the question from some homoeopaths who have a lot of experience, "Can Homoeopathy really cure?" What means "curing"? "Curing" means to give someone an energy so that he feels good. But who says that after one year he will relapse because of this or that reason? We are a dynamic being in relationship with our soul, with ourselves, our surrounding, our jobs, our family and everything else. There are so many reasons why we could relapse. We are not a furniture, not a car, where you put another motor in. We are living, we are dynamic; why do we not have the right to relapse

The question of curing is a dynamic question, it is not a static question. It is a question if you react good on a remedy, if you feel good, then it is all right; but if you continue smoking, we will see what happens, if you continue going out with other women, we will see what happens. This remedy gives the possibility to change your life that you feel good inside, that you get the peace inside

The remedy is only a stimulus to make you more a human being. If you do it, it is all right, if you do not do it you will relapse. That is Homoeopathy and nothing else. So, Homoeopathy can cure.

CASE6 V2

Bronchitis

Lycopodium clavatum

BOY, 13 YEARS OLD

P: Now, it is three weeks ago. In the evening I suddenly got headache. My father took me to school and in the car I always got headache and I became sick. I had a cold, because I had to blow my nose and cough.

A: So, in the car you got headache.

P: And nausea. Then the headache went away, about last week.

We have to pay attention to everything he says, "When I had headache and was sitting in the car I had nausea." Immediately, we have to look in the rubric and see if the remedy we can expect is there. From the beginning this is a pulmonary disease, bronchitis, and we see this wrinkled face. In two minutes the remedy is clear; and then he says another symptom, "Nausea riding in a car" - is the remedy there? If the remedy is there we can prescribe in three minutes

What can we see here? Wrinkles, yes. And how can we find this in the Repertory? With which disease does he come? With a disease of the lungs, and we see this wrinkled face. So "face, wrinkled, forehead, chest symptoms, with" (p. 396).

FACE,WRINKLED,FOREHEAD,chest symptoms, with : Lyc.

Then he says, "Nausea riding in a car" (p. 509).

STOMACH,NAUSEA,riding in a carriage or on the cars, while : Bor., calc-p., calc., Cocc., cycl., hep., iris., lyc., mag-c., naja., nux-m., nux-v., Petr., sel., Sep., sulph., tab., ther., zinc.

He also had headache while riding a car, yes, that is right, but if we have the remedy we do not have to waist time. We can give the remedy and see the next patient

P: Then I only had to cough and my head was aching while coughing.

Which remedy is coughing like this? The cough seems to come from his stomach - holds his stomach while coughing, and the head. Bryonia

P: And then the headache was over and I only had to sniff and cough.

A: Your problem only exist recently?

FP: He is so weak and so slow. That is already quite a long time. And in school they also noticed that he was so slow, especially in the morning. And the problem with the headache is risen as follows: during the holidays he stepped on something, after one week we saw the family doctor for that, because it was so swollen, so that the toe was twice as big.

A: Which toe was it?

P: The big toe of the right foot.

FP: The doctor thought that there might be something in it, because he also had inflamed glands of the groin on the right side. He got BACTRIM forte and two days after the medicines he had strong headache. I think that he reacted in an allergic way. My other son had the same thing. The toes were also swollen, but it cured from itself. It disappeared much quicker. But his problem is especially the unimaginable loss of energy, it is also remarkable in school. He can't concentrate on an occupation. And now, with the headache and the vomiting, a doctor must solve this urgently.

A: Yes, we will take care of that.

The toe is all right in the meantime, isn't it?

P: Yes, we still had to bath it.

FP: We had to bath the feet in a disinfectant.

A: So, he is slow in the morning. What do you mean?

FP: While eating, for example, we nearly have to put the food in his mouth. We have to make everything ready. But it goes on in class. I teach there myself, and my colleagues tell me that everybody has taken his books while he is still looking around to see what is going on.

Now, you know why I immediately knew which remedy he needs? All right, but his mother had a chronic hepatitis and she also is teaching and which remedy does she need? The father is Lycopodium, he is a teacher and his son also needs Lycopodium. The mother is also a teacher and she had a hepatitis, an icterus. She could not tolerate fat at all. When she had this stomach disorder from fat and when she eat some lemons or sour things, everything was much better. She was cured with Ptelea - since a few years - and not only the liver, but also her tennis elbow was cured with Ptelea. But you have to be careful; when the father is Lycopodium, it is not necessary that the son also needs Lycopodium. There have to be symptoms for it

FP: But especially much worse in the morning than in the evening. If he had to learn, for example, has to concentrate, he can't do this. He is not stupid, not at all, but at the moment he can not concentrate.

A: Does he feel better in the evening? I mean, you notice that he is slow in the morning, but when the day goes on, how does he feel?

P: Well, sometimes it is all right, sometimes it isn't. Once, I came home with the car and I felt bad and I had to vomit at home, then everything was all right in the evening. But sometimes it remains so; slight headache, the cough and so on.

FP: He complains very much about headache.

A: Wait - you are still coughing, aren't you? There is something that I notice, when you are talking - that is now for the students - but in general, do you think, that you are in the evening...

P: Sometimes it is better, it is different from time to time.

A: We notice that he is wrinkling his forehead when he is telling or coughing.

FP: In case it is important: in the evening he has difficulties in falling asleep. If he goes to bed at 10.00 p.m. , sometimes he is still awake at 12.00 p.m. ; especially when he knows that he has to go to school the next day. After a holiday, after a weekend he has difficulties in falling asleep. He can follow in school, there are no special problems.

A: Not only a tendency to vomit when riding in a car, but also headache. And also coughing, is that right? Are there other things that you notice as a father?

FP: In general he lacks devotion. We have to stimulate him. For example, playing football, he is not bad, but if we do not stimulate him, he lets it go. It is difficult for him to dedicate himself to something.

A: How is his character in school and how is it at home? According to me there is a difference in the way of behaving. Or isn't there?

FP: In school they all say that he reacts little, that he does little, although he is the third or fourth of his class. At home he often let him go, is not very active, does not want to do anything. If we really tell him that he has to do this or that then he does it, that is no problem; but I can not really say, what the difference is.

A: Do you think that he contradicts sometimes?

FP: Yes, I think so. Especially with my wife, he can react short-tempered and he does not tolerate critic. He does not tolerate it.

A: So, if your wife thinks the opposite of what he thinks, he does not tolerate this?

FP: Yes, or when you have a remark about something that is bad, he can not tolerate this. He can not tolerate it very well. He is very stubborn and haughty. I had some serious discussions about that. He is too stubborn, that is absurd. "I have to wear this, I have to wear that" - exaggerated.

A: A little bit haughty?

FP: Yes, I think so. A teacher also said this once.

A: There is the symptom of difficulties-in-falling-asleep, when he has to go to school the next day. He does not have this on Saturday night.

FP: No, I can't say. But in fact he does not want to go to bed.

When we say that he has to go to bed, and half past nine is not an abnormal hour, then he tries to postpone it to the utmost. After he has tried everything he goes and comes back again to ask something and so on. Then he really has difficulties in falling asleep. Seldom, he lies in bed and sleeps after a quarter of an hour. In the morning he gets up at a quarter past seven. He pursues a lot of sport.

A: Apparently, he is better in form in the evening than in the morning.

FP: Indeed, he has this from his mother; in fact we are not surprised.

Evening ameliorates, that is a very important rubric, if the symptom is strong, because there is a remedy in it, we often forget (p. 1342).

GERALITIES,EVENING,amel. : Alum., arg-m., arn., asaf., Aur., chel., lyc., med., sep.

There are the remedies for the night people, people who live at night. Which is the remedy for people who live at night? Medorrhinum. They wake up at 6.00 o'clock in the evening, then they take a shower, they put on their clothes and they start living until 5.00 o'clock the next morning and then they go back home. Medorrhinum is also creative at night. There are people who are painting, and who can not paint during the day, but only when the muse comes at night

One of my patients is an architect and he told me - he was so depressive and was weeping the whole time when he came at the consultation. I thought, this is Pulsatilla - but how is it possible that a man like this can be Pulsatilla? I gave him Pulsatilla - nothing. Such a sensitive man, strange. Then he came back and said, that he was not better, and then I understood: he was eating his nails the whole time, and he had an enormous apprehension fear. He could go nowhere alone, he had a big car and a secretary. He needed two women. His secretary was not married and she accompanied him everywhere, because he is afraid to drive the car and to go somewhere, a very strong anticipation fear. And he was constantly weeping, a very sensitive man. On Medorrhinum he reacted beautifully

This man told me that he could only start drawing lines after midnight, then he feels good, then he had the muse. Do not forget this in Medorrhinum! There is also Sepia and Aurum. Aurum feels good at night, but not so late as Medorrhinum. The good hours of Medorrhinum are very late, those of Aurum are at night, but not especially after midnight, but at night, from 9.00 p.m. to 12.00 p.m

Then, there is also Alumina. In Alumina there is a real confusion in the morning, hours and hours, until they develop to a real human being, until the evening. Alumina is very, very confused. They are asking the mirror if this is really themselves. "Is this me?" That is a confusion about his own identity. They are very, very slow and confused

That is the difference to Aurum. Aurum is never confused. He is very quickly acting and does not feel bad in the morning. He jumps out of bed, because his task is calling him

And then there is Sepia, who likes to go dancing in the evening. The dancing of Sepia is about the same dancing of Tarentula, but Tarentula likes much more active dancing, in Sepia it is more a stasis, they like this waving dance, for example, the aerobic dances. You know that Sepia feels good on exertion, "exertion ameliorates", the first remedy is Sepia, that is also with asthma. When Sepia starts running this asthma disappears

He also, Lycopodium feels better in the evening. That is the reason why he does not want to go to sleep

A: I still have the impression that he is rather unsure.

FP: I think so. With him, it is because he can not concentrate on something. And therefore he makes mistakes, but not because of other things; not because he does not know it or things like that. In fact, he can not put himself behind a thing.

A: Is it a problem if he has to go alone somewhere?

FP: No. Even on the camping place in France he could be on the road the whole evening.

A: What about the appetite?

FP: Little. Only bread with choco and jam.

P: Very much sweet, honey.

FP : For the rest he eats very little.

P: And carrots.

FP: Yes, he likes that, that's right.

A: How do you lie in bed?

P: On the left side, but when I can not sleep I turn around.

A: So there is no certain position?

FP: No, it is not always the same.

A: Do you also lie on your abdomen?

P: Yes, I do, and then with my head...

A: Now, we give you a remedy. It is clear, everything corresponds. Then I will listen to the lungs. There is a clear wheezing to hear.

FP: Yes, I didn't go to the family doctor, because I had an appointment here. Otherwise I would have called the family doctor.

A: Yes, he has a diffuse, serious bronchitis.

FP: He is nearly never ill. I think he got it because of the diminution of his resistance, in relation with the BACTRIM and the inflammation.

A: That's right.

FP: Because he is never ill.

A: You hear it bilateral, on the right side and the left side. A serious case in the sense that we can not yet speak of an inflammation of the lungs, but of a bronchiolitis, this means, that the little bronchial tubes are affected.

FP: Yes, we also worried, but we knew that if we called the family doctor that he should give antibiotics again.

A: I will see you soon again. I hear crepitations and rattles. I give a high potency, because it is acute, 10M. I propose to take three times a spoonful and in the morning also three times, and I will see you again after four or five days. After one week it has to be gone, he gets his constitutional remedy. And if there are problems afterwards, then you just call me. You don't need to make an appointment.

FEEDBACK

A: You were here on December, 16, now it is September, 23, one week later. I will listen to the lungs. Here and there a little rattling. That is not completely all right yet, but very much better, at least according to the examination. How did he react?

FP: The next day he coughed more and then his nose became loose.

P: Yes, suddenly I had to blow my nose very much.

FP: But after a few days it was obstructed again and then I called you.

A: Then I let him take one spoon again and he became better. What came out of the nose?

P: I think, very much mucus, green-yellow.

A: You also had headache while coughing and blowing the nose. What about it now?

P: It is completely over.

A: The right toe was also a problem?

FP: Was one.

A: Yes, that was before. You also had headache when riding in a car. Do you still have this?

P: No, not when we came to this consultation. Also not last week.

FP: It was especially a problem during the week, on the way to school. You didn't complain about that.

P: No, also not on the way to the centre.

A: In the meantime you go back to school?

FP: Yes, he went back on Monday.

A: The coughing is loose now?

P: Yes, in the morning it is often obstructed, but then immediately it is loose again.

A: So we do not need to doubt about that. That is the situation after one week. It will improve very quickly. Are there other complaints?

FP: The sleep. On Monday it was the first day that he had to go back to school. It was half past eleven until he slept.

A: The fear to go to school is still there.

FP: That was only an additional problem, because Thursday and Friday he was not in school. On Monday it was again something new.

CASE7

Lycopodium clavatum

MAN, 35 YEARS OLD

P: This is a long story. In 1974 I had an accident, in June, with a concussion of the brain. First, they said that I didn't have anything and then I had to go back to the hospital.

A: Have you been unconscious?

P: Yes, the whole night. And then they made an EEG in the hospital, but there was nothing to see and they sent me back home.

He says that he had a concussion of the brain. Of which remedy do we think if someone says that everything started when he had a concussion of the brain? Of Natrum sulphuricum. Natrum sulphuricum is the first remedy we have to think of in the story of a concussion of the brain

P: Then, I was at home for a few days and I couldn't tolerate light nor noise. Then I went to the hospital in H. and they said that it was a concussion of the brain. There everything started. I also had complaints with my intestines.

A: What do you mean?

P: I became dizzy especially in the evening and then my intestines started working. At the beginning it was not so bad. Compared to that time it is worse now.

A: After the concussion of the brain you got vertigo, especially in the evening. Still now?

P: Still now. Now, always in the evening, when I go to sleep. At that time they also told me that I had to learn to live with it. That's the way it goes with a bad treated concussion of the brain. It occurs especially when I had a very heavy day. I am employed in the field organization, so I work quite a lot of hours a day. I am a little bit nervous from character. Of course, that plays a role.

A: Do you also think that the weather has an influence on the vertigo?

P: I haven't noticed it.

Why did I ask this? If the weather plays a role? For Natrum sulphuricum. Wet weather aggravates in Natrum sulphuricum

A: It is typical that the vertigo appears especially in the evening, also when you haven't worked during the day?

P: No. The last time when I got it very seriously, was during the holidays at sea. I went walking very much, otherwise I don't do it. I was much more in motion than normally, but for the rest only relaxation.

A: Did you have vertigo before the accident?

P: No, never.

A: Did you have complaints with the abdomen before the accident?

P: Maybe yes. For example, before the examination in school. I remarked it.

A: So, since the accident you have vertigo and after the accident the complaints with the abdomen increased, but you had them also before the accident.

P: Yes, in fact I didn't have much problems with it, but when I had to take examinations I had to go to the toilet regularly. Well yes, I didn't care much about it.

A: A little bit diarrhoea?

P: Yes.

What is the problem here? The problem here is if this accident is really the causation for his nervousness. He already had the nervousness before the accident; he said that he had this kind of nervousness in the abdomen when taking examinations, the flatulence and things like that. Therefore I went away from this causation. This causation is not the reason why he is suffering now. He was already suffering before. Maybe, he lost energy by this accident and since then he had more problems, but it was not the reason for his nervousness. Therefore I went away from Natrum sulphuricum and tried to find a remedy that is more constitutional

A: Do you have other problems since the accident which you didn't have before?

P: That is difficult. At the beginning I had headache, I didn't have it the last years.

A: Describe this vertigo more exactly. At what time does it start?

P: Usually before midnight.

A: About midnight. You said that you had vertigo in the evening.

P: I mean when I go to sleep. Usually, I go to bed late, because I am on the road in the evening. In fact, I mean at night, but for me this is evening.

A: Is it stronger after mental exertion? When you worked very hard? For example, you say that you are on the road in the evening. But on Sunday evening, for example, then you are not on the road, do you also have complaints?

P: Then, I also have it. It is strange, then I often have it. And at the seashore. I said I was there one week, beautiful weather, very relaxed and then it started again. And sometimes there are periods that it does not occur for months.

A: The vertigo?

P: Yes.

A: What about the stool?

P: Good question. Normally, I don't have difficulties, but all kinds of compositions, sometimes very well formed, sometimes little pieces.

At the beginning he said that his concussion of the brain has been treated badly, this means that he is critical about the small hospital he has been. And now he tells me that this is a good question I asked him. That is surely not a humble remedy

A: How is the first part usually?

P: Mostly hard. And often my food is badly digested. Often, I can see from the stool what I have eaten.

How is this symptom called? "Lienteric stool.

A: Do you think that you have much flatulence?

P: Yes, also that my intestines are working. Also when I lie in bed on my back I hear the intestines working.

When he is lying on his back he hears the intestines working. Where can we find this rubric? In "abdomen, flatulence". Besides there is a rubric "flatulence" in "rectum". "Flatulence in rectum" means passing flatus, "flatulence in abdomen" means, that the wind is going in this abdomen

ABDOMEN, FLATULENCE (See Rumbling) : Aesc., aeth., agar., agn., all-c., Aloe., alum., alumn., am-c., Am-m., ambr., ammc., ant-c., ant-t., apis., apoc., Arg-n., arn., ars-i., Ars., asaf., asar., aur., bapt., bar-c., bar-i., bar-m., bell., bor., bov., brom., bufo., cahin., calc-f., calc-p., Calc-s., Calc., caps., carb-ac., Carb-an., Carb-s., Carb-v., caust., Cham., chel., chin-a., chin-s., Chin., cic., cinnb., clem., coca., cocc., coff., Colch., coll., coloc., con., cop., crot-c., crot-t., cycl., dig., dios., dirc., elaps., eup-per., eupho., fago., ferr-ar., ferr-i., ferr-p., ferr., fl-ac., form., gels., gins., glon., gran., Graph., guai., hell., helon., hep., Hydr., hyper., ign., indg., iod., jug-r., kali-bi., kali-c., kali-chl., kali-i., kali-n., kali-p., kali-s., kalm., lac-c., lac-d., lach., lil-t., Lyc., Mag-c., mag-m., mag-p., mang., meny., meph., merc., mez., mosch., mur-ac., myric., naja., nat-a., nat-c., nat-m., nat-p., Nat-s., Nit-ac., Nux-m., nux-v., Olnd., Op., ox-ac., ph-ac., phel., phos., Pic-ac., plat., plb., podo., prun-s., psor., puls., raph., rheum., rhod., rhus-t., rumx., sabad., sang., sel., seneg., senn., sep., Sil., squil., stann., staph., stront., Sulph., syph., tab., Tarent., teucr., thuj., til., verat-v., Verat., vesp., vinc., xan., zinc., zing.

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: Yes, rumbling, gurgling and the flatus in the abdomen, so flatus in the abdomen, evening, on lying. Do you understand the difference? "Abdomen, flatulence, evening" (p. 548)

ABDOMEN,FLATULANCE,evening : Aloe., alum., am-c., apoc., calc-f., cist., glon., ham., hyper., lyc., merc., nat-m., nit-ac., nux-v., pic-ac., plan., puls., sang., sep., sol-t-ae., verat., zinc.

and "abdomen, gurgling" (p. 550)

ABDOMEN,GURGLING,evening : Lyc.

He has flatulence. But I only want to indicate you the difference between "rectum, flatus passing" and the flatulence here in this case. We have to look in the rubric "gurgling, evening" (p. 550). You see if you read all these rubrics how strong this abdominal flatulence in Lycopodium is. You see this flatulence before stool and so on; a lot of rubrics are there. This is a very strong, general symptom in Lycopodium, that they produce wind, and mostly in nervous situations

Question: "...?" (not understandable

A: Yes, diarrhoea in anticipation. Usually, in Lycopodium it is the abdomen, it is the target organ; like in Kali carbonicum the target organ is the kidney. Every remedy has its important place where it acts more

"Diarrhoea from excitement", where do we find this? In "rectum, diarrhoea from excitement" (p. 612).

RECTUM,DIAHHREA,excitement : Arg-n., cina., gels., hyos., kali-p., lyc., petr., ph-ac., thuj

This rubric is very interesting, because there is a remedy we always forget. We always think of Argentum nitricum, but there is still another remedy, we often forget, that is Thuja. We forget that Thuja is a nervous remedy; also Kali phosphoricum, but that comes later. So he was suffering from a lot of flatulence and anticipation fear

A: You work long in the evening? Can you work better in the evening than in the morning?

P: I can't say. I work in the evening because my job compels me.

A: At what time of the day can you work best? When do you feel most capable?

P: I think in the morning, in the forenoon, yes.

A: When do you have your lowest point?

P: In fact, I haven't paid attention to it, but I can say when I am most tired: that is in the afternoon. But at noon I am at home, then I am free. Like yesterday, I worked from 8.00 o'clock in the morning until half past 10.00 in the evening. That is 14 1/2 hours, but that is the consequence of the job.

If people say, "I feel worse in the afternoon, but that is because of this or that," then you have to take the rubric "theorizing". He tries to explain why, and this remedy, you know, always try to explain why

MIND,THEORIZING (See Plans) : Ang., arg-n., ars., aur., Cann-i., chin., coff., lach., lyc., sel., sep., sil., sulph.

MIND, PLANS, making many : Anac., ang., arg-n., chin-s., chin., coff., nux-v., olnd., op., sep., sulph.

A: Can you eat well?

P: Yes.

A: Is there a kind of food of which you get complaints?

P: No, not at the moment.

A: Of which you get flatulence?

P: No, in fact I didn't pay attention to it.

A: Tell me, you are an intellectual, these are dangerous people. Dangerous in the sense...

P: I am someone who reads quite a lot. I must tell you I have all the examinations made, because I am nervous. I have had an examination of the stomach with the probe. I had an examination of the intestines and several examinations of the blood in the course of the week. In April I went in G. and everything is normal, there is nothing abnormal. Then, I got tranquilizers.

A: You don't take anything at the moment?

P: When I am dizzy, I take a DOGMATIL.

A: But nothing else?

P: No, nothing else.

A: I propose to stop all the medicines. But my question is concrete, "What do you like to eat? Your spontaneous desire.

P: You see, I eat in the morning - there are customs that have changed lately, but I like to eat something delicious.

A: What do you think is delicious?

P: At work I go out eating a few times a month. My favourite dishes are meat dishes, main dishes without heavy gravy. I don't tolerate it very well. But in fact, I like everything, I have no special desire.

A: Desert?

P: I like ice-cream very much and also fresh fruit. Regularly, my wife makes fruit salad, I like it very much, but also very much ice-cream or "dame blanche". That is, for example, one of my favourite dishes.

A: There is chocolate on it?

P: Yes. I don't say I snoop too much, but now and then I like to snoop a little bit, because I don't have to watch my figure. I don't become fat.

A: So, you like to eat sweet things?

P: Yes, also cakes, biscuits and things like that.

A: On which side do you sleep?

P: I fall asleep on the left side. And I don't know on which side I wake up.

A: Is this always on the left side?

P: I know this when I come in bed. Mostly, I turn around a few times, but when I fall asleep, it is mostly in that position. I am turned away from my wife. When we sleep in a hotel, usually, I take this side of the bed. Probably, it is a custom.

A: Can you tolerate tight, narrow clothes?

P: I don't know, I haven't paid attention to that.

A: A tight belt?

P: I never wear it.

A: I have the impression that if we take everything together, first, your complaints are nervously affected.

P: That is nothing new for me.

A: They are expressed in the region of the abdomen. That is your main problem. And probably, the vertigo is a consequence of the nervousness, is that right?

P: Yes. I wanted to say something. When I have it very strong, then I also have pain in the lower carcass, for example, at the moment also. When I press on the lower rips at the moment, I have slight pain. Otherwise I have seldom pain.

A: But you are anxious concerning your health. All right. I will give you the remedy now and it is important to leave the coffee.

P: I don't drink it.

A: Then we will see that your intestines will quiet down, because that is an expression of the nervousness, of uncertainty. You are very uncertain, although you don't show it.

P: That is so. I am in the sales department, I am head of the department, at work it is very well. In my job I never feel uncertain.

A: You proved that you can achieve something. But essentially, concerning your character you are uncertain.

P: Yes, that's right.

A: Therefore when you have to do something, for example, taking an examination or things like that, then you have diarrhoea.

P: Previously, it was so, but in the meantime I am rather quiet. It has improved the last time. But previously, when I had to do something I was really trembling. Often, that is very difficult.

A: In fact, the vertigo is not the only problem. The basis, the nervousness, is expressed in a few physical levels. So, we have to start from the essence and then everything will disappear for the greatest part. You will feel much more quiet - provided that you don't drink coffee.

P: But I don't drink coffee at all, normally I drink milk. And what about the food?

A: You don't have to worry about it. Eat what you like to eat. You feel yourself where you feel less good with. According to me, inflated food like onions, peas and beans must cause difficulties.

P: That might be. I don't eat much beans.

A: I see you back in two months and then you have to be much more quiet. Then, you only need to come back when you have a relapse. A person is not a machine, he is in relation with his surrounding. Depending on the emotional pressure you will get complaints.

Do you understand? We have to try to bring you in equilibrium. That is what we do with this remedy. But I can tell you beforehand, that the kind of person you are will get a relapse a few times a year. But then you just call and you can get your remedy and then you are back in equilibrium.

As I already said you have to be a little bit dictatorial towards these people to control them. Everyone knows which remedy it is? Lycopodium. But I show you the case so that you see how young Lycopodium people are behaving. In all of them you find a kind of same way of talking, of doing, of behaving.

FEEDBACK

A: I saw you two months ago, on July, 24. At the beginning you called me that it wasn't good. How did it develop at last? What did you feel after the remedy or have you forgotten?

P: Not forgotten. A while ago I had a high hypertension. Ten yeas ago I also had it. It was 140/90 mm Hg, now it was again that high. Normally, I have 120/70 mmHg and now 140/90 mm Hg. Maybe, it is not high, but at that moment it feels high.

A symptom in Lycopodium is that they are anxious about their health. Where do we find the anxiety that makes them sad, anxiety about their health and this anxiety makes them sad? Which rubric is this? "Hypochondrical anxiety."

MIND, ANXIETY, hypochondriacal : Am-c., anac., arn., ars., asaf., calad., canth., cham., dros., ferr-p., grat., kali-chl., kali-p., mosch., Nat-m., nit-ac., ph-ac., Phos., valer.

Which is the capital remedy there? Natrum muriaticum and Phosphorus, and Lycopodium has to be added

This anxiety makes them sad, hypochondrical anxiety. He had a hypertension of 140/90 mm Hg and normally he has 120/70. What is the difference? There is not a big difference. He is anxious because now he has a higher hypertension, but that is not important at all

P: The first week it was not good with the intestines. Several times I had vertigo in the evening. I also said so the first time. And that I, maybe this is another reason, that I am easily angry, I am easily concerned. That's why I also called at night, then a female doctor was on duty. I was trembling in my legs and had a tickling feeling in my hands. She has reassured me and then it was over after a quarter of an hour. Crazy, isn't it? Since one month it is better. But I haven't been at work for two days, because of the high blood pressure.

A: So, you feel more quiet?

P: Not always.

A: But the panic at that time is away?

P: Yes, that's right. I also lost a few kilos, about three kilos.

A: Why?

P: I don't know, in the meantime I have put those three kilos on again.

A: Did you do something for it?

P: To loose weight? No.

A: The vertigo in the evening is also gone?

P: Since one month it is gone, yes.

I remark that in Lycopodium often the amelioration only comes after three to four weeks. You remember this impotency case? The feedback was three weeks later - too early. In Lycopodium cases with constitutional problems, nervousness and all those problems let the patient not come back too early - except when it is acute, then it works quickly. Wait about 1 1/2 month to see back a Lycopodium man with chronic diseases. If not, your feedback will mislead you and maybe you will prescribe another remedy. It is two months after the first consultation, after Lycopodium M or 10M, I do not know, and he says, that he is better since one month. This means that he is not better the first month, but the second month he notices that he really is better. Do not be too quick

A: What about the diarrhoea, the diarrhoea from excitement?

P: Yes, in general it is better, but my stool is not normal yet, but it hasn't been for years.

A: What do you mean with it? That the first part is still a little bit hard?

P: Yes.

A: The flatulence in the afternoon was a very strong symptom. What about it?

P: I still have it sometimes, but maybe because of the food. I don't know. And also the rumbling of the intestines, I still have it sometimes, but it has become less.

A: Do you see that you have to give the remedy the time to work.

P: Do you know why I was so restless?

I asked you if it would last a long time before the remedy will work. And then you said that I would feel it soon, but a few days later it was worse...

A: I meant that you would feel that it is working, but not...

P: Well then I understood it wrong.

Now, the treatment is finished. It is not necessary to let him come back, otherwise you will have too much work. You are sure this is the remedy and you give him a few tablets in a tube to take home and if he relapses he can take a tablet. We have seen this man two times. That is good Homoeopathy.

CASE8 V2

Dd con., led.,lyc., mez.

Man, 45 years old

I don't have a video of the first consultation, but I will tell you the story.

This patient is a referee for the Belgian National Division. One day he rode home on his bicycle and he fell. He developed a very severe swelling of the right upper thigh. There was internal bleeding with a very severe, hard swelling as a consequence of the bleeding in the muscle.

What is the remedy?

Audience: Arnica.

Audience: Ledum palustre.

Audience: Bellis perennis.

A : This is all wrong and also the doctor on duty at the Center gave the wrong remedy.

The patient telephoned and said that he had an accident. The doctor on duty gave him Arnica. In such a case normally everybody would give Arnica because of the fall, I would have given it also. After Arnica the swelling became so bad that he had to go to the hospital because he was afraid of an occlusion of the veines from the enormous pressure. After he came home from the hospital he telephoned me and said that he had the impression that it aggravated with the remedy. After Arnica the swelling aggravated, the pain aggravated and it was hardened. Which remedy did I give him?

Audience: Conium maculatum.

A : Yes, exactly, Conium maculatum. Look in the Repertory on page 1369:

GENERALITIES,INJURIES,Soft parts, of : Arn., cham., Con., dulc., euphr., lach., puls., samb., sul-ac., sulph.

GENERALITIES, injuries, soft parts of: Arn ... Con ...

It was severely swollen and it was very hard. This is typical for Conium maculatum. Arnica doesn't have this severe swelling. In an Arnica case the most important symptom is the sensitivity to touch. It hurts by putting something on it, on touch and so on, which is not so strong in Conium maculatum.

Be careful to give Arnica in an accident with internal hemorrhage, because when Arnica is not indicated everything aggravates. Try to act homoeopathically and not in a routine way.

Well all right, this patient got Conium maculatum two days later and he reacted very well. The swelling diminished and the pain improved. After a while he came back and said that there still was a kind of nodule. At the place where there was bleeding you could feel a hardening and it also hurt while walking.

Which homoeopathic examination is now indicated in this situation? There is still a nodule, a local swelling and at night he automatically puts his leg out of the covers?

If somebody with internal bleeding caused by an accident comes to you always think of comparing the temperature of both sides. Put the back of your hand on the place of the injury and then on the corresponding uninjured place on the other side and try to find out whether there is a difference in temperature. And why?

Audience: What ameliorates and what aggravates?

A : No, no, you cannot find this out.

Audience: ... (not understandable)

A : And what do you feel in an inflammation?

Warmth. And which side is warm? The injured or the not injured? Do you mean the injured side?

No, in 90% of all cases the injured part is cold, colder than the healthy part. Also in this case I could clearly feel coldness of the injured side.

If you look in the Repertory, where can we find this?

Look on page 957:

EXTREMITIES, coldness, painful parts: Led, mez, sil

There is another rubric on page 1305:

SKIN, coldness, injured parts: Led

To feel the temperature of the injured part in an injury must be a reflex just like the examination of the glands in the throat when you are thinking of Tuberculinum bovinum Kent. And when the injured part is cold, the remedy is Ledum palustre.

Ledum palustre is also a remedy in constitutional effects from injuries.

Look on page 1422:

GENERALITIES,WOUNDS,constitutional effects of : Arn., carb-v., con., hep., iod., lach., Led., nat-m., nit-ac., phos., puls., rhus-t., staph., sul-ac., zinc.

GENERALITIES, wounds, constitutional effects of:

Constitutional effects means that the symptoms after an injury, after an accident indicate a certain remedy and after the remedy constitutional symptoms appear. Or the remedy ameliorates the worst symptoms, but some symptoms always remain.

That is what happened in this case.

After Ledum palustre the patient got Conium maculatum and a few days later the small nodule disappeared. Such hardening you find as fibrotic reaction to hemorrhage and you can cure this with Ledum palustre.

So the patient got Ledum palustre and he reacted very well to that and now we will see him again.

A: The hard swelling on the leg disappeared with Conium maculatum but still a hard nodule remained. Strangely enough this part of the leg felt cold to touch. You started putting your legs out of the covers.

Then you came back, the hard swelling disappeared, but you had pain somewhere else. Where?

P: In the right arm.

After Ledum palustre he had pain in the right arm and in the right knee.

The injury was to the right thigh.

What is the constitutional remedy of this man?

Audience: Lycopodium clavatum.

A: Yes, right, and he always reacted very well to Lycopodium clavatum.

The only thing which didn't improve was itching on his behind.

A: Only in the right arm?

P: As far as I remember it was only the right arm, especially in the right arm. Also in the knee, possibly, I don't argue with that.

A: It seemed to indicate your constitutional remedy that we gave.

Do you see, after Ledum palustre the constitutional symptoms appear clearly.

P: This was quite a while ago, about three weeks ago.

A: I gave you the remedy and how did it go with the pain?

P: Since then I haven't had any problems.

A: And how did it go with your leg?

P: According to me all the problems with the leg seem to be gone.

A: Did you start training again?

P: Yes, I play as much sport as I did before. I recovered very quickly. I already refereed two football games.

A: Was everything all right with your respiration?

P: Yes, everything.

I asked about that because one day he came to me and said that he couldn't tolerate this terrible itching anymore. I couldn't give him a remedy, I didn't have enough symptoms to give another remedy and so he went to the dermatologist, who prescribed Cortisone ointment. Then he developed severe asthma and came back to me. First I gave him SulphurC 30 and then Lycopodium clavatum, and the asthma disappeared again.

Nevertheless, this itching had always been a problem, it never disappeared completely. Now, after Ledum palustre because of the accident, first the pain appeared on the right side, disappeared with Lycopodium clavatum and after Lycopodium clavatum the itching and some other skin symptoms appeared.

A: Now it starts becoming interesting. Put on this microphone. Now you have itching on the head?

P: Yes.

A: Strong itching?

P: Yes. It is very, very annoying. I have the tendency to scratch it constantly. If you look on my head you can see it. Here, apparently there is a big crust, a white crust, which is glued to the head and sometimes pieces come off.

A: Indeed these are very hard crusts. Very hard, not thick. But you take care of them a lot, don't you?

P: Yes, I put something on it which I think is good.

Up to now he had this itching on the head, but not these hard crusts. He always had itching in his rectum, but there are a lot of remedies and it is difficult to find the right remedy.

A: Does it hurt when you pull off the crusts?

P: Well yes, because you also pull of some of the skin.

A: And the hair?

You are laughing, but this is a very important symptom for this remedy. This remedy has very sensitive skin, so sensitive, that they often can't even tolerate the friction of their clothes. And when you touch these scabs, when you try to pull them off, it hurts.

P: The hair is glued to it.

What does it mean when the hair is matted together?

Plica polonica. When the hair mats together with crusts or discharges it is called plica polonica.

P: You know that I have a lot of anxiety because before I had this treated by a family doctor and the consequences were terrible. I had enormous problems with my respiration. And therefore I'm very anxious.

A: Tell me something more about the crusts.

P: It has been worse than now.

A: Did you put something on it?

P: Yes, a certain remedy so that it became a little bit less annoying.

A: You had shortness of breath after you saw the family doctor, it was very serious.

When did you have problems with the skin for the first time in your life?

P: It must have been about the age of 15 years.

A: Did you also have crusts then?

P: I think so. But of course this is quite a long time ago. I remember a time - at that time I was in school - I really had complaints with this kind of eczema, which was situated especially in the rectum. I put some Mulkosan on it.

A: When do you have this itching in the rectum?

P: With the slightest change of temperature, while undressing, when I take a bath, when I go to bed. Indeed I have problems with it. Also when it is very warm or when I am warm in bed.

For a few days I have had a kind of eczema on the upper arm and also in my ear. When I had this eczema so strongly it was not on the arm. This was almost one year ago, that I had it on my arm.

A: It is itching on the upper eyelids?

P: Yes, here especially on the right side. In other words, at the moment I don't feel well in my skin.

A: What about your psychological state at the moment?

P: In fact I have the impression that I'm rather stable.

A: Do you notice that you are angry, that you easily become angry?

P: I don't think so. I think that I'm rather quiet at the moment.

A: Are you sure that you never had eczema before the age of 16?

P: I'm not sure, I assume so.

A: As a child you never had complaints?

P: At least I don't remember. I might have, but not that I know of. I remember the time about which we are talking now, because I was away from home at that time. I was in a boarding school and I didn't dare talk about this problem. I mean the way you can talk about this normally at the time. That's why I remember.

A: You were in a boarding school?

P: Yes. Who could you go to when you had eczema in a delicate place? Finally I went to a teacher, who was a friar. I have very bad memories of this. I had to go to this man in his room and undress myself completely. I don't have good memories about this time. That's why I know it was at the time I changed schools and not when I was at home with my parents.

A: Did your mother ever tell you that you had skin eruptions as a child or something like that?

P: No, but I know that in the family on father's side there is a predisposition for eczema.

A: I have the impression that you are a hot-tempered person.

P: They tell me that I'm very quiet, but I think that in fact this is not right. I think indeed sometimes I can be very hot-tempered. For example, while playing football, I notice that I often get excited. But often my mind controlls it. He says, "You don't do that and remains quiet." But if I would follow my impulse I would be very hot-tempered.

A: How long do you stay angry?

P: A short time.

A: What do you feel internally, when the anger has gone?

I have seen you referee at a football game and I notice that you can whistles very impulsively.

P: Many times I can.

Which mental symptom am I trying to get out?

He is easily angry, but what comes immediately after anger?

The remorse. This is typical for this remedy, the anger with immediate remorse (sincere regret or remorse. ) . You see the corresponding rubric on page 2:

MIND, ANGER, ALTERNATING, quick repentance : Croc., mez., sulph.

MIND, anger, alternating with quick repentance:

Croc, mez, sulph.

anantherum also belongs to this rubric.

A: What do you feel after anger?

P: These are different questions you are asking now. I blame myself that I let myself go. It comes too quickly.

A: You have repentance very quickly afterwards?

P: Yes.

Do all these questions you are asking me now mean anything?

A: I have to ask them, otherwise the remedy doesn' t fit.

P: Now you are asking a lot of psychological things.

A: You should not forget that there is a connection.

P: That's right.

A: On the symptom of the itching I cannot prescribe a remedy. Unless the itching is confirmed by psychological symptoms.

P: I looked myself in the direction of food, clothing and so on.

A: It doesn't have anything to do with it. I mean, this is not the cause.

P: Oh no, of course this is not the real cause.

A: Every homoeopathic remedy is a picture, which consists of psychological and sometimes also of mental symptoms. All this together gives the picture of a remedy.

P: Oh yes?

A: The cause is not the psychological, but something different, which we cannot understand. The real causes are not amenable.

P: Besides when I look at my face in the morning it doesn't look healthy. I know this myself. I think it looks dry.

A: A slight peeling?

P: Yes, indeed.

A: Over the whole body?

P: Yes, but especially on the face I have dry, scabby skin. It is remarkable especially there, because I see this in the mirror.

A: How often have you been vaccinated in your life?

P: I think the usual vaccinations a child gets and the vaccinations given during military service, further nothing in particular.

Vaccinations can have such a big influence that a completely new layer appears which you first have to cure with a remedy before you can cure the patient with a constitutional remedy. Maybe you remember the face of the fat nurse who received Tuberculinum bovinum Kent first because of the rheumatic complaints. After Tuberculinum bovinum Kent Thuja symptoms appeared: Headache, condylomata, dreams of falling. After Thuja this layer disappeared and Tuberculinum bovinum Kent appeared again and then it was possible to cure her definitely. Here you see the same: immediately after the accident Conium maculatum, then Ledum palustre, then Lycopodium clavatum takes away his pain and then the problems which were caused by the vaccinations appeared. Now you have to give the remedy which has these ailments from vaccination and this is Mezereum. It will cure these symptoms and later maybe he will need Lycopodium clavatum again.

P: The normal vaccinations which we had before in school. They were given every two years and I have had all of them. But I don't think they give them anymore.

A: It was also remarkable that you had anticipating fear. When you had to do something you were excited beforehand.

P: It depends on what I have to do. I don't think that you can generalize that it occurred every time.

A: No, I mean, that you feel this before things which are important.

P: Indeed.

A: Where do you feel this? In which part of the body do you feel this?

What am I trying to get out now? That he feels the anxiety where?

In his stomach.

Look on page 480:

STOMACH, apprehension in: ... Mez ...

Mezereum is capital, but he doesn't express it clearly.

P: Only in the trachea.

And don't forget the symptom on page 764:

RESPIRATION, asthmatic, alternating with eruptions:

... mez ...

Here you also see the remedy.

With this symptom you always have to think of Hepar sulphuris. Everybody thinks of Sulphur, but most of us forget Hepar in these cases.

A: Otherwise you don't feel this anticipating fear in any other part of your body?

P: I don't know whether I am giving the right answer at the moment, because it is a difficult question. In the future I will pay attention to this. I assume that this goes straight to my legs.

A: You never had complaints in the stomach?

P: I almost never had complaints with the stomach.

A: It doesn't contract?

P: No, I don't think so. I sense that after a competition I can eat very badly. Maybe this is connected with my stomach.

A: We can also say that it is painful, when we pull off the crusts.

P: Yes, it is painful. Sometimes I do it myself, but it hurts.

A: You have the tendency to pull at it?

P: Yes.

Do you remember that Mezereum together with Lachesis, Mercurius, Nux vomica and Belladonna is sensitive to slight touch? It is the first remedy in herpetic eruptions, in herpes zoster. They complain that the touch of clothes on the skin while undressing is very painful. This is the particular symptom which indicates Mezereum. In 80% of all cases of herpes zoster, in which there is sensitivity to touch Mezereum is the right remedy.

A: And it hurts?

P: Yes.

A: And undressing causes itching?

P: Indeed.

A: Why exactly?

When you cover it up you have less itching.

When you undress, or with change of temperature, then you have more itching.

P: Yes, that's right.

Itching from undressing. Look in the rubric under the section of "skin". The sensitivity to cold air is a characteristic of Mezereum, and particularly above the ears. We will hear about this later.

A: What does the warmth do?

P: With the itching?

A: Yes.

P: Warmth doesn't do any good.

A: What does a bath do?

P: A bath? In fact I always take a shower. It is more the water in general, but also warm water hurts.

A: Your skin is sensitive when you touch it.

Are you sensitive also on the psychological level? A person who easily feels disturbed?

In the sensitivity to slight touch I forgot another remedy, and this is China, but China is ameliorated by hard pressure.

P: Yes, I think so.

A: That's the way I see you, for example, when they blame you for something on the football field.

P: When I think of this I think I'm sensitive to it.

A: As far as the itching in the rectum is concerned: does it give you a good feeling when you rub it?

P: Yes, but afterwards it is worse.

A: You also had itching in your ears?

P: Yes, but it is less at this moment. It goes up and down.

A: Do you have another feeling in your ear?

P: In my ear very often I have itching, also when the eczema is not there. I have the tendency to put a cotton stick twice or three times in my ear, maybe, because it is very agreeable.

He has the tendency to bore with his finger in his ear and this ameliorates.

Look on page 285,

EAR, BORING fingers in : Agar., chel., mez., mill., phys., ruta., sal-ac., sil., thuj.

EAR, boring, fingers in: ... sil ...

There is only one second degree remedy.

P: Sometimes I have a feeling of pressure in my ears.

A: Do you have a cold feeling?

P: No.

A: When you are driving in the wind you never have to put cotton in your ear?

P: Yes, I have to. I like to put my hand on my ears while riding on a bicycle or put some cotton in my ear.

A: Why?

P: Because it is unpleasant to feel the cold wind.

On the same page you see the following rubric:

EAR, air, open, sensitive to, about ears: Caust, Cham,

Lach, mez

When he rides a bicycle he is sensitive to cold air.

There is another peculiar symptom in Mezereum, namely that the meatus is open and the cold air is coming right into the ear.

Look on page 303:

EAR, open, meatus seems open: Aur-m, mez

morning: Mez

They have the same feeling in the eyes, "as from cold wind blowing in the eye". It is not in the Repertory, but Clarke describes it and it has to be added in the Repertory.

You have to add a new rubric:

EYE, wind, cold, as, if blowing in the eye: Med, Mezereum

A: This is an unpleasant feeling?

P: Yes, when the wind is blowing.

A: This means that the external meatus is sensitive to wind.

P: Yes, you could say so.

A: Are there other parts of the body which are sensitive to the wind?

P: My eyes also, they are very sensitive to coldness. They easily start lacrimating.

EYES,LACHRINATION,cold air, in : Cob., dig., echi., euphr., kreos., lyc., phos., Puls., sep., sil., thuj.

EYE,LACHRYNATION,wind, in : Euphr., lyc., nat-m., phos., Puls., rhus-t., sanic., sil., sulph., thuj.

You see how suspicious he is, and also Mezereum is suspicious.

A: So you cannot tolerate cold air well?

P: That's it.

A: You have more itching at night. Does it begin when you become warm in bed?

P: Yes.

A: Touching aggravates. Outside in the fresh air you feel well?

P: Yes. It seems that you are examining something very complex. Doesn't it?

A: No, don't worry.

P: I don't mean that, but this is a case which you are keeping up for a while, you have to admit that, don't you?

A: Is there a certain insecurity in making decisions?

P: That's right, doctor, but I thought that I became somewhat more stable in the last few years.

A: You never had a prolapse?

P: No.

A: A prolapse of the rectum?

P: Yes.

A: You never told me this before.

P: I didn't I you this before? Yes, maybe because I never thought of it or it wasn't so important to me.

A: But you had this?

P: Yes.

Prolapse during stool, Mezereum is there.

A: You never had herpes zoster?

P: I don't think so.

A: Inflammation of the teeth?

P: Very little.

A: When do you have pain?

P: I don't know. I think, although I have the impression that it diminished the last few years, that it is because of becoming older.

The caries of Mezereum is especially on the margins of the teeth, between the teeth.

Look on page 431:

TEETH, caries, sides of teeth: Mez, staph, thuj

I'm thinking of another important symptom of Mezereum.

A good friend of mine told me that he gave a child the wrong remedy because he interpreted a symptom wrongly. Mezereum has, in children, the peculiar symptom that they start coughing as soon as they eat something and that they cough until they vomit. You find this on page 790:

COUGH, eating, until he vomits: Mez

My friend understood this symptom wrongly in the sense that the child was allergic to certain food, until he noticed the strong caries on the sides of the teeth. At that moment he saw the remedy and he recognized that the vomiting after eating didn't have an allergic cause, but that the child started to cough, as soon as it ate something and that this is a very important symptom of Mezereum.

I'm sure that the pediatricians have seen children with these symptoms and that usually this starts after a vaccination.

A: When you have itching do you also have cold shiverings?

P: No.

A: Headache?

P: Seldom or never.

A: Do you have hemorrhoids sometimes?

P: Sometimes I had the impression, but the dermatologist who examined me at that time, said that this was not so. I suspect this, because I had the impression that there were little cracks around the anus, but apparently this was not true.

A: I will give you the remedy and want to see you again.

You also know the desire of Mezereum for ham and fat bacon maculatum

FEEDBACK

A: On March 15, so four weeks ago, you were here. Now it is April 15. You came for crusts on the head with itching, itching in the rectum, eczema on the upper eyelids. How was the reaction to the remedy?

P: Already after 4 or 5 days I noticed a very strong amelioration, especially as far as the crusts on the head are concerned. The eczema on the upper eyelids has completely gone, I have less itching, but that is not gone completely. The crusts on the skin of the head return regularly when I wash my hair, especially when I use shampoo. It is not because of the shampoo, because I have used many different shampoos. When I wash my hair, a few hours later I have these scabs again. The hard crusts diminished again. You can feel it yourself.

A: (Looks at his head) So there are still scabs, but more small scabs. It has become very beautiful.

P: Yes, in fact the crusts have disappeared. Many thanks. It has ameliorated very clearly.

A: In fact you never got rid of the itching in your rectum?

P: This is very annoying and it returns every time. The intensity of the itching has diminished now. It appears especially when I go to bed and when it becomes warm, while undressing and with change of temperature.

A: But we may be sure that the reaction is good. This was never so before.

P: The itching in the anus lasted almost the whole day. It disturbed me all day long. I haven't gotten rid of it yet.

A: It is not such a long time ago that you received the remedy. Now, we will wait and see how the reaction will be. But you sense that it worked because the itching was already better after 4 or 5 days. Let the remedy do its work. When it becomes worse, you inform me.

You see, the remedies were Conium maculatum, Ledum palustre, Lycopodium clavatum, Mezereum and in the future he will need Lycopodium clavatum again. Also in this patient layers appeared because of certain events which didn't disappear with the constitutional remedy.

Why are there children who do well until they have vaccinations and after the vaccination they start coughing and they have eczema? Why didn't they have this before vaccination? In the allopathic medicine there are strong agents which influence us, maybe a layer appears because of taking penicillin often; anyway we see very clearly many symptoms which are caused by vaccinations.

Question: Is there a particular vaccination which a Mezereum state follows?

A : No, in fact not, but you cannot tell for sure, because they always give a complex of three vaccinations at once.

I agree completely with Masi concerning the point that you can keep a person healthy maybe his whole life long only with his constitutional remedy when he is not vaccinated or treated in this way. In South Africa and in Zaire there are still places where there are no vaccinations, but in modern western society it is not the case anymore.

Remark: But there is so much AIDS in Zaire!

A : Yes, in Zaire there is AIDS, but as I already told you, merchants sell penicillin and so gonorrhea is suppressed in this way. This is the reason for AIDS. I'm sure that it didn't exist before Zaire was a colony of Belgium. When the Belgian army arrived people went to town, there was poverty and unlimited sex. That's the reason why gonorrhea expanded there, it was suppressed and there came a new disease: AIDS.

EXTRA

The child was irritable, breathing badly, was thirsty for small quantities and had this motion of the nose during asthma. These were all symptoms indicating Lycopodium

Now she starts talking about this colleague behind his back. When you are working with several doctors together, never allow patients to talk behind the back of your colleagues. Prevent this immediately. They are trying to seperate you, especially critical people like Sulphur, Lycopodium and Nux vomica. They try to talk about other doctors. Never accept this !

She was cured with Bryonia. Later she came, and said that she had pain in the left breast and cracks in the nipple. The pain had wandered from the right to the left side. She got Lycopodium and afterwards the breast-symptoms disappeared

A: You say that you become angry easily towards people who are very close.

P: Yes, for example, to my wife.

A: Not towards other people?

P: No. I would like to, but I withhold myself.

The information which he just told us makes us think of which remedy? Answer: Lycopodium clavatum.

A: Yes, that's right. Lycopodium clavatum, because he becomes angry at home and somewhere else he is rather timid.

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.

Then, there is the distension of the stomach, they can not bear clothes on their belly - like Lycopodium

MIND,ENNUI (BORED) : Alum., alumn., aur., bar-c., bor., cahin., camph., chin., con., cupr., cur., elaps., ferr., hura., hydr., hydrc., ign., kali-bi., kali-n., lach., laur., lyc., mag-m., manc., mez., nat-c., nux-v., petr., pip-m., plat., plb., rhus-t., tarent., zinc.

Generalities,side,right : Abies-c., acon., aesc., agn., alum., am-c., Apis., Arg-m., arn., ars-i., Ars., Aur., Bapt., Bell., bism., Bor., brom., Bry., calc-p., Calc., cann-i., cann-s., Canth., caps., caust., cedr., cham., Chel., chin., cocc., colch., Coloc., Con., Crot-c., Crot-h., dros., dulc., euphr., form., guai., hep., ign., ip., iris., kalm., kreos., lil-t., lith., Lyc., Lyss., mag-m., mang., meny., merc-i-f., merc., mez., mosch., mur-ac., nat-a., nat-c., nit-ac., nux-m., Nux-v., op., pall., par., petr., phyt., plb., podo., prun-s., Puls., ran-b., Ran-s., Rat., rhod., sabad., sabin., sang., Sars., Sec., sil., spig., staph., stront., Sul-ac., sulph., tarax., tell., teucr., thuj., viol-o., viol-t., zinc.

GENERALITIES,SIDE,left : Acon., all-c., aloe., am-br., anac., ant-c., ant-t., apis., arg-m., Arg-n., arn., arum-t., Asaf., Asar., asc-t., aster., aur-m-n., bar-m., berb., bism., brom., bry., calc., cann-s., canth., Caps., caust., cham., chel., chin., cimic., Cina., Clem., cocc., colch., coloc., Croc., crot-t., cupr., dulc., Eupho., euphr., ferr-p., ferr., gels., Graph., guai., hep., ign., ip., iris., kali-chl., Kreos., Lach., lith., mag-m., mang., meny., merc-c., merc-i-r., merc., Mez., mosch., mur-ac., naja., nat-s., nit-ac., nux-m., Olnd., onos., osm., ox-ac., par., Phos., phys., plb., ran-b., ran-s., rhod., sabin., sal-ac., Sel., Sep., sil., spig., Squil., Stann., staph., stront., sul-ac., Sulph., tab., tarax., teucr., ther., thuj., ust., vesp., viol-o., viol-t., xan.

Not common only right side : acon , ., aesc., agn., alum., am-c., Ars., Aur., Bapt., Bell., calc-p., caust., Con., Lyc., nat-c., Nux-v., Puls., zinc.

MIND,FEAR,GHOST,OF,night : Acon., ars., carb-v., chin., lyc., puls., ran-b., sulph.

Case9 ( Not Alfons case )

A four year old girl comes with her mother to consult with me about her asthma. Every cold she gets turns into asthma and always ends in a trip to Emergency. Her very experienced pulmonologist says that the young girl is one of the most difficult cases she has seen in her long career.

The first thing I notice about her is her beauty, her radiant and somewhat timid smile and her thick hair. She is petite and not a bit affected, even though she likes to play princess. Everyone always tell her how beautiful she is. In spite of that, she often asks her father if she is pretty. Is that a need for admiration, with an underlying insecurity? Beauty seems to be a major concern in her daily life. She always tries to look pretty and she stubbornly refuses help from anyone else in choosing what she will wear.

She is very thin. Her muscles are not well-developed. However, she has lots of energy and is very physical. She loves to dance and to do gymnastics. While her mum and I are talking, she is busily going through her moves. She seems able to amuse herself without needing my attention. Or is that a ploy?

Her mother says that she concentrates well. She is clearly precocious and intelligent, and was able to solve a 100-piece puzzle when she was 3 years old. She loves learning and enjoys intellectual exercises. Ironically, her speech is delayed. She mumbles and has trouble forming complete sentences.

Seeing her kind, and somewhat luminous, qualities, I immediately thought of Phosphorus. There is, however, another side to her personality, one that drowned out this first intuition pretty quickly. When children at her daycare try to take her toys, she hits them. She ignores her teachers when they ask her to stop. At home, she is also very hard on her little brother and she fights quite a lot with him.

Faced with a new challenge, she says “I can’t”. She also takes care to observe a lot before she gets involved in any new situation.

She has difficulty getting to sleep at night. She gets up, whining, saying she has a stomachache, wants to watch television, etc. She also often needs to eat in the night. When she gets up in the morning, she is in a good mood.

She has little appetite, likes to snack, loves sugar, and drinks a lot of juice. At mealtime, she is a picky eater.

Other symptoms to note:

- smelly foot sweat
- bad breath (according to her mother)
- chronic runny nose
- eczema in the folds of her elbows; very dry skin
- marked constipation
- very sensitive to having her mother brush her hair

Analysis

What strikes me, in retrospect, is that I was so blinded by her presentation as “princess” that I overlooked the fact that she was also a bully who does not hesitate to hit and push others around. On the other hand, I perceived both her stubbornness and her hesitation to engage in new activities. These two key elements, and her big craving for sugar, led me to explore Lycopodium. In Jacques Lamothe’sPediatric Materia Medica, I found several indications that this could be the right remedy. These were the most notable:

- whininess
- need for admiration
- hard on younger children
- precocious, active, an achiever
- language delays
- problems in physical development; underweight; undeveloped muscles

These symptoms seemed to confirm the picture of this child. I still worried away at some loose ends, mainly because she had central features that seemed completely contradictory to the remedy, as I understood it. For instance, she is very physical and is most often in a good mood, especially in the morning, two major elements that really do not belong to this remedy, as I saw it.

Accordingly, it was with some reservations that I prescribedLycopodium. I chose a 15 CH, to play it safe. Liquid dosage, every two weeks, to be spaced as soon as improvements are witnessed.

Follow-ups

May and July 2011

No asthma attacks at all, for the first four months of treatment, despite her having had fevers twice, one of which was very high and was accompanied by a cough. She has never expressed a fever before, so I saw this as positive. The vital force was recovering some stamina.

There were great improvements in her behaviour. At daycare, she now does what the teachers tell her to; she is able to wait and she is less rude with other children. At home, she is nicer to her little brother and even hugs him. She is also less whiney and less of a “princess”.

Other improvements: her chronic rhinitis disappeared; her appetite is better and less finicky; getting her to sleep is easier; constipation is improved; no more bad breath (and no coated tongue); and her smelly foot sweat has gone. Also, she is less sensitive to having her hair brushed. Her eczema comes and goes, but overall her skin is much less dry.

However, her mother felt that her daughter’s symptoms were beginning to return when I saw her in July.  She is becoming impatient, she is refusing to put away her toys, and she is pickier at mealtimes.

Since she has responded well to the remedy at this potency, and there are still improvements in the picture, I recommended Lycopodium 15C to be repeated as needed.

November 2011

She and her mother visited the pulmonologist 2 weeks ago. The tests showed that the child’s ‘pulmonary resistance’ had improved and so the doctor will no longer need to see her every 6 months. The doctor is amazed at this improvement and cannot understand how she could possibly be doing so well.

For a month, now, she has been coughing. Repeating the remedy more frequently has not helped.

She has improved in several other areas, including a clear improvement in her speech.

Several physical symptoms have recently returned, including her foot odour, and on a behavioural level she wants to be number one, and at daycare is pushing when in line.

This time, she mentions her fear of skeletons.

Analysis

The Lycopodium 15C has worn out its action. One option is to raise it to a 30C.

Some approaches favour waiting for signs of miasmatic blockage before prescribing a nosode. Others prescribe during treatment, when there is some clear expression of the miasm involved. At this point in my practice, I usually opt for the latter. So, I gave her a dose of Psorinum (thinness, foot odour, asthma, eczema, fear of skeletons).

Lycopodium 30C, followed two weeks later by Psorinum30C one dose.

Informal Follow-up (early January 2012)

There have been major family upsets in the last month. Her father has left to do military training and her mother and the children have returned to live with the mother’s parents in another city. The little girl says she wants her whole family together, living in their own home. She is having nightmares and a bit of constipation. On the other hand, she has had no coughs.

Lycopodium 30C, to be repeated, if needed.

Observation: In the 4 to 6 weeks preceding this informal follow-up, corresponding to the time period where she took the Lycopodium 30c and the Psorinum, I would have thought she might suffer major setbacks with all she has gone through. I thought, especially, that her asthma might return or at the least that the recurrent cough would not subside. However, there has been nothing of this nature. The little girl is working through the imbalances in her life - both verbally, by expressing her unhappiness, and through dreams.

Conclusion

I have to say, in the beginning, that I felt the picture of this child was miles away from the difficult, combative, unhappy child that we associate – maybe complacently - with Lycopodium.

If we consider, though, that inside this remedy lurks the feeling of being small, then it follows that it would work for children who are upset about being little, and who are seeking ways and means to mask their vulnerability. Does it not make sense, then, that Lycopodium, in pursuit of such stature, might climb into the shoes of a princess?

Paul Labrèche pratices in Montreal, Canada and on Skype. Website: www.facebook.com/PaulLabrecheHomeo

Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The stag's horn clubmoss, Lycopodium clavatum; Christian Fisher

Categories: Cases
Keywords: asthma, timidity, princess, insecurity, precocity, language delays, underdeveloped muscles
Remedies: Lycopodium, Psorinum

Case 1 LYCOPODIUM:
A boy of 12 years old is unable to leave the house and go to school. He does sports and he goes there on his own, but to go to school is impossible. When he is brought to school, he has no problem. His mother is not able to bring him to school all the time and it happened many times he did not go to school for this reason.
He is a good student. When he has to do a presentation he feels nervous, but once he starts he likes to do it.
These problems started when he was in the last class of primary school. The teacher started his lessons by telling the pupils that they had to start immediately with studying because this was the last year before high school and so it put a lot of pressure on them. He was very strict and talked about punishing as well.
In the morning when he wakes up there is no problem. During breakfast it starts: he has a strange sensation in his abdomen and he has to visit the toilet for 6 times.
He does not show off and is not concerned about children that show off. He feels embarrassed about his anxiety, but he is just unable to control it.
He likes sweets, he prefers warm food and his thirst is normal.

He is the 3rd child. After the 1st and 2nd delivery the mother lost a lot of blood and she had an out of body sensation. During the 2nd pregnancy the mother lost her father. The 3rd pregnancy was unexpected and she was still mourning. She was afraid for the loss of blood again and had the feeling: will I reach the end?

I gave Lycopodium C30: only the 1st dose had some effect, Lycopodium D12 with the same result, than Lycopodium C6. This was a good remedy in the right potency: he was able to go to school without any problem.
Some months later he started to visit the high school. He was going to school by bike with some mates. The boys started to tease him and then he decided to go to school all alone. He felt firm and no longer needed any support.

Explanation :
In this case the mother has the idea ‘not to reach her destination’ during the pregnancy of the child. The child takes over this idea within his cells. When he is confronted with the pressure that the teacher puts on him, he literally shows to have the feeling "not to reach his destination": it is simply the transfer from home to school that he is not able to perform.
C 6 is the potency that is needed when the structure of the inner feeling is the core of the case.

CASE10 ( NOT ALFONS CASE )

A case for Club Moss

One of the many astonishing, delightful and almost incredible things about homeopathy, writes John Hughes-Games, is the fact that unlikely and sometimes completely inert substances, when prepared homeopathically, are transformed into powerful and deep acting medicines

I have an historic oak medicine chest, which belonged to relative, a Dr Clover who was a pioneer anaesthetist who devised the apparatus, which was used to give chloroform to Queen Victoria during the birth of some of her children. Inside the cabinet are rows of beautifully made glass bottles with ground glass tops and in one of them are four or five hand-rolled pills with traces of a powder. The powder almost certainly consists of the spores of Lycopodium (club moss) that was used to dust pills to stop them from sticking together.

Lycopodium is an excellent example of an unreactive substance within which are extraordinary healing properties. Although normally inert, if a powder of Lycopodium is thrown into a naked flame it explodes. The Lycopodium patient, although normally retiring and outwardly calm, is capable of sudden bursts of violent temper when things become “just too much” for him.

Reading the homeopathic textbooks, there seems to be an implication that it is almost always possible to “fit” your patient into a “constitutional” type. Unfortunately this is not true and very often one has to give the preparation which most nearly meets the case. Fortunately, this will often help a great deal but it is necessary to reassess the patient after a few weeks when quite a different medicine may now become indicated. I would like to tell you briefly about someone whom I saw at the homeopathic clinic at Sidmouth.

The patient 
Mr S, a 60 year-old male (he looks considerably younger), consulted me because of headaches which started three years ago for no particular reason; there was no change in his life and he had no illnesses or stresses. He describes the headache as bursting. They would occur whenever he bent down and might last for a minute or two. They were worse if he coughed or sneezed and straining would increase the pain. Cigarette smoke, which he detested as it made him feel sick, seemed to make the pain worse. The headaches were bilateral and all the investigations were negative (including an MRI scan).

He sleeps poorly and often wakes at about four o’clock in the morning when his brain is very active. Sometimes he will drop into an uneasy sleep just before its time to get up. He is a very self-disciplined person and always makes himself get up at 7.30am. Occasionally in the night he gets very hot and he likes to throw off the bedclothes and uncover himself.

On examination 
The patient is well dressed and a very good historian; he communicates well and seems quite at ease during the interview. He is articulate and co-operative.

Past history 
He has always been a very healthy person but for the last few years he has suffered from time to time from attacks of labrynthitis, sometimes associated with vomiting, which were diagnosed as being due to inner ear viral infections. He had a slightly raised cholesterol (but normal blood pressure) that has responded successfully to diet. He does not suffer from indigestion.

Family history 
His mother is still alive at 78 but little is known of her parents. Nothing is known of his natural father. He has a sister who is alive and well and two children, a son and a daughter, both alive and well plus two healthy grandchildren. There are no severe or recurrent illnesses in the family.

Food 
He has a moderately sweet tooth and quite enjoys well-salted dishes. He prefers his food hot rather than cold.

Weather and temperature reactions 
Although he quite likes the heat, he is a warm person and is much better for cool weather. He likes being by the sea but hates to be on it as he is always seasick.

Social history
He had a very stressful and unhappy childhood. His natural father and mother were divorced when he was two years old and he had a bad time with his stepfather. He had a younger stepbrother who was always favoured and spoilt, whereas our patient was treated with severity and almost dislike. His stepfather died when Mr S was about 11 years old but our patient has never got on well with his mother even after his stepfather’s death. He disliked school intensely and didn’t do very well. He left home as soon as he could at 17 or 18 and enlisted with the RAF.

Mentally 
Although he denies being a worrier, in fact I think deep down there is a very real element of worry and insecurity. He is good at planning and he anticipates events. Although much involved in committees etc, he really prefers small numbers of people and is very happy with his own company. He says he is intolerant of stupidity although he very rarely loses his temper, however when he does he may blow up. He is tidy and neat and a very good planner. He quite likes speaking in public so long as he has the subject well prepared – which he always has!

(I am always interested in patients who say that they have no apprehension at all before speaking in public and that they enjoy it; it often transpires on questioning that initially they were terrified but by sheer determination, or demands made on them, overcame their fears and now rather delight in doing what used to frighten them!)

Leisure 
So far as his hobbies are concerned he is good at a number of ball games – all of which he has taught himself by determination rather than by a natural aptitude. He likes travel and is computer literate. He is not an animal lover. Collecting is not among his hobbies.

Treatment 
Although, far from having in any way a “closed personality”, I decided to give him Nat mur as I thought that the early traumas in his life might well have had an important part in the aetiology of his headaches. I also gave him Belladonna 6c to take at the first twinge of pain in the hope of aborting the attacks.

A month later 
There was no improvement so I reconsidered the history.

Mr S told me that he had had occasional difficulties on the telephone when he would find it very difficult to choose the right words. He said moreover that when he was at school, which he hated, he became very easily confused by numbers and words particularly in stressful conditions; quite often he became inarticulate because of this confusion. His teachers interpreted this as stupidity. After he left home and joined the RAF he found difficulty in finding the right words when he was under pressure or stress; for instance, if addressing a senior officer. This anxiety-motivated confusion suggested Lycopodium to me. I gave him three powders of Lycopodium 30c.

I saw him a month later when there had been a slight improvement in the headaches just after taking the medication, but it only lasted a few days.

On 7 June last year, I gave him three powders of Lycopodium 1M, since when he has had no headaches even though he continues to play a number of different sports involving some bending and stooping. He feels very well.

Discussion 
There is a type of Lycopodium personality who forced by pressures or stresses or even by expectations of other people, learns sometimes at an early age, to surmount and cope with the sensitivities, fears and apprehensions, which are so typical of this remedy. Such people however, although able to overcome them, retain the Lycopodium anxieties and misgivings, particularly about things like public speaking and responsibilities, all their lives. These people, toughened by experiences, show great determination and often achieve eminence in many walks of life, including the arts, medicine and the forces. They are almost always basically gentle, retiring, sensitive patients who are thrust into public life by their considerable achievements and abilities.

I think that Mr S is an example of somebody who, because of the severe stresses put upon him in early childhood, was forced to overcome his natural apprehensions and fears to a very large degree and who has coped with them and almost completely subdued them. In fact he turns them to good account in that he is very sensitive to other people, good at conducting meetings and so on.

Our patient had none of the Lycopodium features, which are usually so evident. His brow was unfurrowed, he is athletic and forthcoming and is involved a number of societies and at meetings he is a good chairman (I think that the overcoming of his natural fears and anxieties makes him more inclined to undertake things than he would otherwise have done). He is not a collector (the Lycopodium personality often finds some degree of reassurance in surrounding himself with attractive, beautiful and valuable objects and Lycopodium patients are often connoisseurs of these things). He certainly isn’t in any way miserly. He doesn’t have any of the unpleasant attributes that according to some authorities are a tendency to whistle tunelessly between the teeth and to dribble a great deal in their sleep!

Lycopodium suggested itself very strongly in his mental confusion in times of stress, in his four o’clock aggravation, particularly at night when he would wake up and worry, in his becoming over-heated at night and wanting to uncover himself and in his preference for warm food. The headaches were worse for bending or stooping.

Of these things, of course, the mentals are the most important and this rather peculiar mental of confusion over words and figures, which I have found more than once in Lycopodium patients, is particularly significant. It is also most interesting that he hardly responded at all to the 30c of Lycopodium but 1M completely cured him. The Nat mur, often so useful for mitigating, lessening or undoing the ill effects of past mental trauma, may have prepared the way for the Lycopodium.

There are, I think, two interesting observations here; one is that the mentals are, as we all know, by far the most important in selecting a remedy and if one has a strong or peculiar mental, it carries a great deal of weight in deciding the prescription. The second is that potency can be extremely important.

Mr S is now thoroughly well and enjoying life without the headaches. As you might imagine, he is now a keen PR man for the homeopathic method.

A Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy and a past president, John Hughes-Games FFHom MBChB, was taught homeopathy by Margery Blackie and used it in general practice for nearly 30 years. He now lectures and examines for the Faculty as well as working privately in Bristol. 

CAE12 BIDWELL

Mrs. C. F., 35 years, record contains the following symptoms :

Mind.-Thinks of nothing but death.

Homesick and worries about home whenever away.

Cross and irritable

Memory very poor. Forgetful, which is very troublesome.

Company makes her nervous; does not want to stay and visit with friend when they come to call or spend the evening.

Imagines there are persons in the room.

Difficult to concentrate her thoughts on any one thing long enough to complete it.

Head.-Headache most of the time, severe pressure at base of skull.

Pain in right side of head extending down to neck.

Aggravation from warmth of bed; from mental exertion.

Amelioration from lying.

Itching of scalp with much dandruff, with falling of hair.

Vertigo in hot room and when rising from seat.

Stomach-Hungry all the time, but a little satisfies.

Much belching of tasteless gas.

Desires sweets which disagree.

Abdomen-Sensitive to pressure of clothing.

Much rumbling of flatus with pressure both up and down.

Urination.-Profuse, pale and alkaline.

Sometimes burning in bladder after urination.

Menses-Profuse.

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Irregular.

Dark, with dark clots.

Very much depressed and inclined to be tearful before menses.

Leucorrhoea profuse for few days after menses-excoriates.

Sleep-Good but unrefreshing. Wakens tired and exhausted.

Very sleepy after dinner (at night).

Dreams frightful, usually of drowning.

General Aggravations and Amelioration.-Better in open air.

Worse from pressure of clothes about abdomen and throat.

Very sensitive to noise.

Repertory Analysis.

Mentals-Imagines Phantoms, etc. (page 27

MIND,DELUSION,images, phantoms, sees (See Faces, Figures, Men, Spectres, Visions) : Acon., ambr., apis., arg-n., ars., bar-c., Bell., berb., brom., calc-s., calc., camph., canth., carb-an., carb-v., caust., cham., chin-a., chin., cic., coca., crot-h., cupr., dros., dulc., graph., hell., hep., hyos., ign., kali-ar., kali-br., kali-c., kali-p., Lach., led., lyc.,merc., nat-c., nat-m., nat-p., nit-ac., nux-v., op., ph-ac., phos., plat., puls., rhus-t., samb., sep., sil., spong., stram., sulph., tab., tarent., thuj., verat., zinc.

Sensitive to Noise (page 79).-Apis, Ars., Bell., Carbo v., Caust., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nat. m.. Op., Phos., Zinc.

Aversion to Company (page 12).-Bell., Lach., Lyc., Nat. m.

Physical Generals.-Amelioration From Open Air (page 1344).-Lach., Lyc., Nat. m.

Menses Dark (page 725).-Lach., Lyc.

Menses Irregular (page 726).-Lach., Lyc.

Menses Dark Clotted (page 725).-Lycopodium.

Therefore, if our analysis has been correct Lycopodium should cover this case in its entirety, and consulting our Materia Medica we find not only the general symptoms of the case that we have used in our analysis but all the others which are recorded in the record of the case. Therefore, we know that this remedy is the simillimum to the case, and if administered carefully, will cure.

Another case

If something goes from right to left it indicates Lycopodium clavatum. This is almost in every acute disease. In a parotitis which was first on the right side and then goes to the left side it is Lycopodium clavatum, in 90% of the cases it is Lycopodium clavatum.

Another case

Very often we wrongly give Lycopodium clavatum in such cases, because they like sweets and everything is on the right side.

JS: Yes of course, Lycopodium. She wakes up ... I mean, so strong, underlined three times; every time she wakes up she is so irritable. What is the main remedy for that?

AD: Lycopodium.

JS: Lycopodium. And then what else is there for Lycopodium?

AD: Wants the mother in the next room.

JS: Yes, a keynote for Lycopodium. And then she has desire for sweets very strong, so Lycopodium is a serious consideration.

Also, against Lycopodium is thirst for cold drinks. Against, be careful. I am not saying: "Someone has thirst for cold drinks, you cannot give them Lycopodium.” But especially for Lycopodium it is a bad sign. In other words, if you think you have Lycopodium, and you ask them: "What do you like?" and they say: "I like cold drinks," something goes: "Oh, oh," and you start to look again. And maybe you can't find anything better, you have to give Lycopodium, but it is bad for Lycopodium.

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The child was irritable, breathing badly, was thirsty for small quantities and had this motion of the nose during asthma. These were all symptoms indicating Lycopodium. He got Lycopodium and afterwards he was relatively better, and then the whole story started. When I had night duty, they came back and I started perspiring.

In one of the months after the patient begins treatment you will give Lycopodium clavatum, because all the symptoms are on the right side: herpes on the right side and so on. They give Lycopodium clavatum, but it is wrong

- What is the difference between Chelidonium and Lycopodium?

- Motion ameliorates and in Chelidonium motion aggravates.

- The wrinkling forehead in chest symptoms in Lycopodium everybody knows, but it is not known very well that Tuberculinum also wrinkles the forehead.

- Bryonia has desire warm drinks.

- It is the most important remedy in this desire, and also Lycopodium has this.

- Before I wrote down : sometimes has complaints of varicose veins, desires chocolate, complaints at the right kidney, the swollen eyelids and a lack of selfconfidence, excessive flatulence and you slept on the right side.

- Which is the remedy?

- Lycopodium.

- And which remedy is complementary to Lycopodium? Pulsatilla.

Lycopodium likes to be with older people, Lycopodium children like to play with older children

I don't say anything and he doesn't say anything. Does this indicate Lycopodium clavatum? No, as Lycopodium clavatum he wouldn't shut up. He would talk and talk and try to explain everything.

CASES