CASES

CASE1

Medorrhinum

Man, 40 years old

A: Your problem is an adeno carcinoma of the prostate, dysuria, pollakiuria and all the symptoms which belong to this problem. You were in treatment with a colleague and in spite of the homeopathic treatment they had to insert a catheter, this means that the urine is carried off by a tube.

P: Yes.

A: I don't like this at all. You have an enlarged prostate and therefore you have difficulties in urinating. There is even retention of the urine. You can't urinate at all, can you?

P: No, almost nothing. I tried it yesterday. I closed the tube and I waited for two hours. I could urinate very little and had very much pain.

A: According to me this cannot occur just like that. Therefore I asked you whether you had difficulties urinating in the past. You answered that you had problems since you were a child. Can you tell me something about this?

This is something which we often forget to ask, namely, "When did it start?" Every patient is a thick book until we recognize the remedy. Often the problem starts at a certain moment, even an inflammation of the ear. The patient comes and says that he suffers from an inflammation of the ear. You ask for the modalities, he tells you that it is worse at night and so on and then you give the remedy. If you ask him when it started the patient says that it started after the death of his mother-in-law. This changes everything, no matter which modalities he has. The causation is always very important.

P: I was rather old and I was still wetting the bed.

A: You told me that you wet the bed even when you were 14 years old.

P: Yes. At home there was quite a lot of fuss about this. If you are older the parents don't like this bed-wetting. But in fact I could do very little about this. (The patient starts crying.)

If you are not detached enough at this point you are easily absorbed by this story. He says that he was wetting the bed as a child, his parents punished him and so on. As a homeopath you must take one step backward and ask yourself, "What kind of symptom does he give me at this moment, what can I observe in this patient?"

Everybody has a heart, but when you sympathize with the patient and get involved in his story emotionally you are not objective anymore and you can't recognize the symptom or take it into consideration.

A: Open up your heart and tell me what you have on your mind. First, let's stick to your childhood. I also asked you whether you are a sensitive person. Can you tell me again?

P: (Is swallowing, can hardly talk because of his tears) There were 9 children at home and in the religious education the life story of Jesus affected me most.

A: What affected you?

P: The life of Jesus Christ. I could not bear that the teacher paid more attention to the rich children than to the poor.

A: You felt disadvantaged?

P: Yes.

A: Did you develop an aversion to religion?

P: Yes.

A: An aversion to everything which has to do with religion?

P: Yes.

A: As a child did you wet the bed regularly?

P: Yes, regularly.

A: Were there periods you didn't wet the bed?

P: Very seldom.

A: Do you remember if you often had toothache as a child?

P: No.

If you hear this story, the bed-wetting, the punishment, the fact that he reacts to this in a very sensitive way, that the teacher treats rich children differently than the poor, of which remedy does this remind you?

Audience: Causticum.

A : Yes, Causticum and which remedy is complementary to Causticum?

Staphisagria. He is a very sensitive man and Staphisagria is a remedy in which enuresis is very strong.

Therefore I asked him about the tooth inflammations.

Staphisagria is not in the rubric on page 430:

TEETH, abscess of roots

But it is a capital addition.

On which side is the inflammation of Staphisagria?

The swelling of the cheek is on which side? Is it the upper or the lower cheek?

The tooth inflammations of Staphisagria are on the right lower side. It is a very strong, hard, long-standing swelling of the right lower cheek.

He never had this. This is a negative symptom.

A: Did you have teeth extracted?

P: Yes, four. This was between the age of 17 and 20 years old, not since.

A: You were a child among many other children. I also treat your brother. You felt disadvantaged, didn't you?

P: Actually, I wouldn't say "disadvantaged". I had the feeling that the priests really didn't mean what they pretend. The priests, the nuns they taught us something what they didn't live themselves. They didn't do what they taught us to do. They gave preference to rich children. We were always pushed to the background and this raised a kind of hate towards the teachers who are still in service. Maybe it is a kind of aversion, actually I can't really say it is hate.

Which rubric can we take for this symptom?

These are ailments from mortification, because they were suppressing him. Staphisagria is capital. But the question is whether it really started after mortification. Even before he was wetting the bed, before he was 14 years old, in a certain way he was ill.

This is a very dangerous point, "Is the causation for his disease really mortification or is this a constitutional problem?"

We don't know.

I looked at the rubric on page 68:

MIND, mortification, ailments after

Staphisagria is capital.

A: You were religious. As a child did you like to go to church?

P: Yes, my parents also went to church, but we didn't get a religious education at home.

A: What do you mean "religious"?

P: I mean the way the Catholic Church taught us.

A: What kind of feelings did you have as a child? Was it more a feeling of injustice or was it really a religious feeling which you already had inside as a child?

P: I think it was a religious feeling.

It has to be a remedy which is sensitive to injustice - we could think of Causticum - which is also religious. Even as a child he was religious in a certain way. Or was he? What do you think about this? Can you take this rubric?

I took the rubric on page 71:

MIND, religious affections

MIND, RELIGIOUS affections (See Anxiety, Despair, Fear) : Alum., am-c., arg-n., ars., aur., bar-c., bell., calc., camph., carb-s., carb-v., caust., cham., chel., cina., coff., con., croc., cycl., dig., ferr-ar., ferr., graph., hura., Hyos., ign., kali-br., kali-p., Lach., Lil-t., lyc., med., meli., merc., mez., nat-m., nux-v., plat., psor., puls., rhus-t., rob., ruta., sabad., sel., sep., sil., stann., stram., Sulph., thuj., Verat., Zinc.

It is a rather big rubric. Staphisagria is not there and Causticum is only one.

A: Did you also pray as a child?

P: I can't remember.

A: Did you like flowers as a child?

P: No.

Why this question?

Because we know of Staphisagria that these children pick flowers and give them to their mother.

A: You never liked flowers?

P: I'm not so enthusiastic about flowers as my wife, for example. Before the only thing I did was work.

A: This was your goal?

P: Yes, and it was also my relaxation.

A: You always want to work?

P: Yes. I never read before the age of 23. I was not interested. But since then I read a lot. I read regularly. When I don't work I read.

A: How did your parents react to the bed-wetting?

P: They were unfavorably disposed towards this. They had a lot of work with it. Therefore I was often angry and got spanked.

A: Did you often get a beating?

P: Not so often, but enough. I can't say that I suffered a lot from this, I suffered more from the humiliation.

A: What do you mean?

P: What my brothers did and so on.

A: You suffered more from the humiliation?

P: Yes.

Which symptom can you observe?

Audience: Weeping...

A : Yes, weeping telling his sickness. I never took this symptom, why? Because I was too much captured by his feelings. But we have to see the symptoms the way they are and he can't tell his story without weeping. It must be surely a remedy which has this symptom.

A: How was this as a child?

P: My brothers always teased me.

A: How were you as a young man on the sexual level?

P: Easily excited.

A:What do you mean? That you masturbated regularly, satisfied yourself?

P: Yes.

A: From what age?

P: From a very early age.

A: Already before puberty?

P: Yes.

He masturbated at a very young age and we also know this of Staphisagria, but also of other remedies.

Which is the strongest remedy for masturbation in children?

Audience: Origanum.

A : Yes, Origanum, and which other remedy?

Audience: Bufo.

A : Yes, Bufo. I supervised a case where a girl was sitting there with her eyes turned upward while sucking the dummy (pacifier)*. This was an oral masturbation. It doesn't always have to be the penis. Constantly and violently sucking the dummy expresses the same thing.

Which other remedy is masturbating at a very young age?

Audience: Platina.

A : Yes, Platina. Staphisagria we already mentioned and which other remedy?

Audience: Hyoscyamus.

Phosphorus.

A : Yes. And Medorrhinum? Is Medorrhinum not in the rubric "masturbation in children"?

Audience: No, only in the Synthetic Repertory.

A : Yes, Medorrhinum has to be added in quite a lot of rubrics, like Tuberculinum bovinum Kent. In the rubric "masturbation" Medorrhinum is an addition from Clarke and it is also a capital addition in the rubric "industrious".

A: You always had problems urinating.

P: Yes, even when I was a child. Whenever I noticed any pressure on the bladder I had to urinate immediately.

A: Did you ever have an inflammation of the bladder or something like that?

P: Not that I know of. Only in the last years.

A: The catheter doesn't go through the urethra?

P: It is in the bladder.

A: The catheter is in the bladder, is carried outwards through the abdominal wall and ends in a plastic bag. It doesn't go through the urethra?

P: No, no. This was so before, but since I am at home it is not like that anymore, so that I can go on working.

A: Tell me something about your youth. Probably there was a breaking point. You are a very sensitive person.

I have the impression that the sensitivity of this remedy corresponds to that of Staphisagria. In the next cases you will see that the emotional sensitivity and even more the sensuality of this remedy is very strong and therefore it is very difficult to differentiate from Staphisagria and maybe also from Pulsatilla.

P: (Is weeping) My father suffered a lot during the war and he has told us a lot about it. I got excited by these stories but I was also afraid. I was afraid of the war. I experienced the war and immediately after the war, in 1948, I went to the military service.

He had to do his military service and one day he met the Jehovah's witnesses. The whole story started then.

P: I couldn't bear this. I didn't have an aversion, but I couldn't bear this. (His voice chokes in his tears.)

A: You can say that you are very sensitive towards injustice. You can't bear any suppression. This is something which you can't tolerate at all.

P: And a really big feeling of responsibility.

A: You were also annoyed. You can become very angry.

P: But I won't let myself go.

A: Do you easily throw things?

P: No.

This is a Staphisagria symptom: throws things away because of suppressed anger. He doesn't do that.

A: But you can become very angry?

P: Yes, very much, but I only raise my voice.

A: So, an enormous sensitivity towards injustice.

The fact that you were not encouraged like the other children, only because you come from a family with many children, which was poor, this provoked a kind of hate, a negative feeling towards religion in general; at least towards the teachers.

Are you still anti-religious?

P: Yes. In the meantime I joined the Jehovah's witnesses. I got into contact with the Jehovah's witnesses through my brother later. I was very active there (is crying). I joined them for 27 years and I even sold my property, although I had to raise four children.

A: Because you believed what was written?

P: I also changed my way of living in this sense (is crying). Then I was treated unjustly by a group of elder members of the Jehovah's witnesses. They accused me of certain things which were not right and I couldn't resist. There were six people sitting across from me and I couldn't defend myself anymore.

This is a symptom of which remedy?

If somebody is accused of something and he can't say a word this is a Staphisagria symptom.

Staphisagria is very - not haughty, but rather self-confident, proud.

Look at the rubric on page 51:

MIND, haughty

MIND,HAUGHTY : Agar., alum., anac., arn., aur., cann-i., caust., chin., cic., con., cupr., dulc., ferr-ma., ferr., guai., ham., hyos., ign., ip., lach., Lyc., merc., nux-v., pall., par., phos., Plat., rob., sabad., sec., squil., staph., stram., stront., Sulph., thuj., Verat.

There you see Staphisagria. Staphisagria is very proud. When they are accused they can't say anything anymore. They can't react, the anger goes inside and then the problem starts. These are ailments from suppressed anger.

A: At the moment that you feel you are treated unjustly or judged wrongly you become angry or you start crying?

P: Yes. I couldn't say a word. I couldn't defend myself. Finally there was a big fight. It is easier to become a Jehovah's witness than to resign from the association. It has lasted for two years, and I have shed many, many tears.

A: Did you cry a lot?

P: Yes, day and night (can hardly speak because of his tears).

A: You could say that the sensitivity towards injustice and suppression which you already had as a child is still there, as well as the feeling of responsibility. As a child you probably needed a lot of affection. You searched for affection but didn't get it. Also not from your parents?

P: They gave me as much as they could. There were nine children at home and my parents had to work day and night. I think they did the best they could.

A: Actually your brothers humiliated you because of the bed-wetting?

P: Yes. This gave me one blow after the other. This was repeated every day. Hardly one week passed without humiliation. I was confronted with this every day.

A: It is a problem which actually started in your childhood. Do you understand this? As a child you already had the problem of bed-wetting, and now the prostate is swollen. This happened because you didn't get the homeopathic remedy which you needed for this problem. Then you got this catheter and it became even worse because you couldn't urinate at all after the first catheter. Then they inserted a tube. I will take care that everything will be all right, also that you can urinate normally. I hope it is not too late, but I don't think so. We still have time. But you have to stop all the medicines, everything they gave you, BACTRIM, cytostatics and so on, you have to stop everything. I hope there is still time.

Sometimes it is too late, it depends on the case. With tumors or cancer the destruction is often so far advanced that you cannot restore it. If you treat a patient with cancer it is important to start with the treatment in time.

We are afraid when it concerns cancer, but there is no reason to be afraid. It is a big name, like AIDS, but as homeopaths we don't have to be afraid, it concerns only the right remedy, as in any other case.

A: You remained a sensitive person, on the emotional level you still have the picture of the homeopathic remedy.

P: I feel strong. I don't feel ill.

A: It's all right.

I gave him Staphisagria and after Staphisagria he had a purulent discharge. It didn't stop at all and I saw him every week. All my colleagues said that it was a good reaction for him to have a lot of discharge, and indeed discharges are a good reaction. I repeated Sac-lac and after two or three months I repeated Staphisagria, but the discharge didn't stop. Then I gave him Pulsatilla, but it didn't change either. The whole story changed in the sense that he had a very, very strong inflammation of the bladder. He did not react to Staphisagria, nor to Pulsatilla nor to any other remedy, until a lot of other objective symptoms appeared which led me to the right remedy. He reacted wonderfully to this remedy, after a few days the inflammatory state disappeared.

FEEDBACK

P: When I push hard I still have stitches. I can't urinate yet. This morning I could only urinate a few drops. My back is much better. I don't have pain anymore. I still have stitches in the place where I have this cold spot.

He had a strange symptom. Every time he had an urge to urinate he felt a pain in the back on the left side. After urination the pain disappeared. It was a very strange symptom.

Look in the Repertory on page 898:

BACK, pain, urinating after, amel

amel. : Lyc., med.

There are two remedies: Lycopodium clavatum and Medorrhinum.

A: But you can't urinate yet?

P: No.

A: Is there still pus coming out of the penis?

P: No.

A: There is no purulent discharge anymore?

P: No, nothing. There is no pus in the tube anymore, only water is coming out.

A: Does it run properly?

P: Yes.

A: What about your hot feet?

P: They are a lot better. They are still hot, but not as hot as they used to be.

This was another symptom about which he complained all the time, namely, hot feet. He was working on roofs, he puts on roofs and he thought this was the reason for his hot feet. He always had to take off his shoes and socks, he wanted to uncover his feet.

Look in the rubric on page 1222:

EXTREMITIES, uncover, inclination to, feet: Agar,

Cham, cur, fl-ac, mag-c, Med, petr, Puls, sang,

sanic, sep, Sulph

There is another rubric on page 1005:

EXTREMITIES, fanned, wants hands and feet: Med

EXTREMETIES,FANNED, wants hands and feet : Med.

You know that Medorrhinum-people usually are very active. They like to drive a sports car with an open roof, so that they can feel the wind. Next to them there is always a certain kind of fruit, which? An orange. And they always like to drive barefoot.

A: Do you still uncover the feet?

P: No.

A: In what position do you sleep?

P: On the right side. Otherwise I always slept on the left side, but with this tube I had more complaints, therefore I prefer to lie on the right side.

A: Are the palms of the hands still hot?

P: No. It was very bad, but now it is better. Oh yes, it has peeled off. In between it has been worse, but now it is all right again.

You see that his hair has grown again. Maybe this is also because of the homeopathic remedy, but I don't think so. In between he has taken hormones for a very short time. This is probably the reason.

FEEDBACK

A: I saw you the last time in October/November 1987, this is more than one year ago. In the beginning of the treatment I was wrong and first I gave you another remedy. When you got a severe inflammation of the bladder in June 1987 I gave you another remedy.

Which remedy did I give?

Medorrhinum. In June 1987 I gave him Medorrhinum, because he was weeping all the time while telling his symptoms - this was a very strong symptom and I ignored it - then also because of the restlessness of the lower limbs, the pain in the back with urging to urinate, amelioration after urination and because of hot feet.

These were the symptoms which indicated Medorrhinum very strongly and he reacted wonderfully. He had very strong tenesmus of the bladder which was better after a short time. I don't know whether this remedy is in the rubric "bladder, tenesmus".

Look on page 651:

BLADDER, tenesmus: ... Medorrhinum.....

A: Since then it went very well. We will talk about this in a minute.

Your problem at that time was that you couldn't urinate, retention of urine because of a swelling of the prostate, a constant urge to urinate, thick purulent discharge which already existed quite a long time.

Look at this rubric, it is very important. Where do you find these discharges and so on?

You will find the discharges and the inflammations under "urethra".

Look on page 670:

gonorrhœal : Agn., aloe., alum., alumn., am-m., anag., ant-c., apis., arg-n., ars-s-f., ars., aur-m., bar-m., bism., bor., Calc-s., calc., cann-i., Cann-s., Canth., caps., caul., cedr., cham., chel., chim., cinnb., clem., cob., Coch., cub., cupr-ar., Dig., dor., erig., ery-a., eucal., ferr-i., Ferr-p., fl-ac., gels., hydr., Kali-chl., kali-i., kali-s., lac-c., lachn., led., Med., merc-c., Merc., mez., mill., nat-m., Nat-s., Nit-ac., pareir., petr., Petros., ph-ac., phos., phyt., plb., psor., Puls., rhod., sabad., sabin., sars., senec., Sep., sil., still., sulph., tarent., Ter., Thuj.

URETHRA, discharge, gonorrheal: ... Med ... Thuj

I don't see Causticum nor Staphisagria in this rubric.

Also look in the rubric on page 670:

URETHRA, discharge, profuse: ... med ... Thuj

Strangely enough Bufo is also in this rubric.

A: There were other symptoms, for example, an enormously hot feeling in the soles of the feet and also hot hands.

This indicates especially Medorrhinum. There are quite a lot of remedies with hot feet, but the two symptoms together, namely hot feet and hot palms of the hands indicate Medorrhinum very, very strongly.

Alternating hot hands and cold feet or hot feet and cold hands indicate which remedy?

Sepia officinalis.

A: You have restless feet in the evening in bed, but also when you sit down in the evening.

Look in the rubric on page 1188:

Feet : Agar., alum., arn., ars., bar-c., carb-s., carb-v., caust., cham., chin-a., chin., cimic., croc., ferr-i., fl-ac., glon., kali-p., lil-t., mag-m., Med., meph., nat-c., nat-m., nat-s., ox-ac., plat., prun-s., puls., Rhus-t., sil., still., stram., sulph., tarent., thuj.,Zinc

EXTREMITIES, restlessness, feet: ... Med ...

Medorrhinum has to be added in the following sub rubrics on page 1188:

EXTREMITIES, restlessness, feet, evening

EXTREMITIES, restlessness, feet, sitting, while

sitting, while : Alum., bar-c., puls., Zinc.

The additions are from Boericke and Clarke.

You also find Medorrhinum in the rubric on page 1188:

EXTREMITIES, restlessness, leg: ... Med ...

A: You were very restless before urination, had stitching pain with urging for urination. Where did you have the stitching pain?

P: In the penis, in the glans.

A: There was also a peeling of the skin of the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet.

P: Yes. I have had this for years.

A: You told me that you have hot soles of the feet, because you were a roofer and work a lot on roofs.

I gave you the remedy in 10M potency in June, and the bladder inflammation improved very quickly. I repeated the remedy three times afterwards. In the meantime the catheter was obstructed. I sent you to a specialist in your neighborhood and he inserted a new tube. It concerned a carcinoma of the prostate which couldn't be operated. If I read the report from the specialist I see that he proposed to inject ZYLADEX, although the inflammation of the bladder reacted very well to the remedy. He did it once and what did you get from that?

P: Stitching pain in the nipples and later on the breasts started to swell.

I think he was injected with female hormones. After the first injection he noticed how his breasts started to swell so he immediately stopped this. Then he took hormone tablets a few times - I think, female hormones - and he also stopped these immediately.

I don't know whether you have seen people who have been treated this way. The penis becomes very little and the breasts very big. It is terrible to see how much these people change because of the treatment. They become women, really women and they even develop a high voice.

He stopped every treatment of this type.

A: You had this injection only once?

P: Yes. Then he also gave me some tablets. When I took the tablets I could urinate a little bit more regularly.

A: You stopped taking these tablets?

P: Yes. I already stopped these two months ago. I reported to you that my breasts started to swell and you advised me to stop taking the tablets. I did this but I can't urinate yet, only a few drops. On the other hand I must tell you that I feel much better, especially I don't have inflammation in the bladder anymore. There is no pus coming out, also nothing next to the tube and the water is clear. There was still some blood and that's why I have this pain, but this is already quite a long time ago.

A: How is the urination at the moment?

P: I still can't urinate. Sometimes some drops are coming out once or twice a day. At the moment there is still some purulent discharge of the penis, not out of the tube anymore.

A: When did you take the remedy the last time?

P: Six weeks ago. You gave me two other tablets to take home, in case the pain would come back. I took the last remedy one month ago.

I gave him Medorrhinum 10M and a few other tablets to take home. When the pain and the inflammation appeared again he took a tablet and it became better immediately afterwards.

As far as I know this man was never sexually hyperactive and nevertheless he reacted very well to Medorrhinum. Medorrhinum is not only a remedy for sexually hyperactive people.

Question: Did you ask him whether he ever had gonorrhea?

A : I begged him to tell me everything of his life and I have three or four hours of consultation on the video, but he never ever said anything about gonorrhea or a gonorrheal discharge, he had a very serious life.

Question: Did he have any other symptoms, for example, warts?

A : No, he didn't have warts.

Remark: In the last video he had swelling under the eyes.

A : Yes. In the second video he didn't have swelling under the eyes, but now he has again. Of which remedy do you think?

Audience: Medorrhinum.

A : Yes, Medorrhinum has this.

Audience: Apis.

A : Yes, Apis also, but swelling under the eyes is very particular for a certain remedy.

Audience: Kali carbonicum.

A : No, in Kali carbonicum it is above the eyes.

Look in the Repertory on page 355:

FACE, bloated, under the eyes: Apis, ars, aur, bry,

kali-c, merc, nux-v, olnd, phos, puls

Of course Kali carbonicum is there, but Kali carbonicum is more between the eyebrows and the lids.

Aurum metallicum and Arsenicum are both second degree.

Apis is also there, but in Apis the swelling is more around the eyes, everywhere.

There is also Bryonia alba, Phosphorus - do you remember the Phosphorus cases which we saw last year?

Nux vomica and Mercurius.

But for Aurum metallicum this is a very important symptom. If you see somebody with a chronic swelling under the eyes you must always think of Aurum metallicum.

Question: What is the prognosis in this case?

A : I don't know. Up to now he is doing well, he is still working as a roof maker.

What do you think - to which remedy will he develop?

The weeping has disappeared and when he went to the hospital for a new catheter I received a report from the urologist that the bladder was paralyzed. The bladder has become very little and sensitive, it cannot contain the urine anymore and doesn't have the force to push out the urine. It is a kind of paralysis. Which is the remedy?

Audience: Causticum.

A : Yes, Causticum, and this is also the last remedy I gave him. I think he hasn't needed any other remedy but Causticum for about one year. Already from the beginning you could notice a very strong sensitivity to injustice. But at that time, in the acute state the weeping was a very clear symptom, then the hot feet and hands, the pain in the back which ameliorated after urination and so on and he reacted very well to Medorrhinum.

I can't say anything else about the prognosis. Now, he is in treatment for about three years and I can't do anything but wait and see whether he will develop new symptoms.

Remark: Before you said that the treatment of cancer is not a problem, that the diagnosis is irrelevant for homeopaths.

A : Yes, I've said this, but don't misunderstand me. For the prognosis it is important to know that it is cancer, but it is of no importance for the choice of a remedy.

Question: Have you had the experience that well-chosen remedies don't work when it concerns cancer?

A : No. Well-chosen remedies work very well in cancer.

The problem is that somebody starts trembling if you have a patient with cancer and because of your anxiety you can't think logically anymore.

Remark: No, that's not the problem. I wanted to know if you can treat cancer.

A : Yes. We have some patients who are cured. Mostly it concerned breast and uterus carcinoma. These kinds of cancer respond very quickly to the treatment.

We should have the opportunity to treat cancer patients more often, but this is impossible, because first they have to follow the allopathic way. Only when they are incurable we are allowed to treat them.

Basically cancer can be treated, but there is a big difference between cancers. There are so many different types of cancer, as many as there are people. One cancer does not resemble another, it is only a common name.

Question: And what about leukemia?

A : I had a case of leukemia which I treated with China.

Question: ... (not understandable)

A : Yes, but AIDS is also only a name, a name like a big gun. The name itself doesn't say much, we don't need to worry about this. According to our common sense all this is a question of resistance, a question of the weakening of the immune system.

How many patients have we already treated in the last years who had AIDS, without our knowing it. Then, they found a virus and they called the disease AIDS and after two years they may find another virus and give it another name and after another two years they will find another virus which is much more aggressive and so on and so on. This is the problem with classical medicine. Our problem is to strengthen the resistance, because this is the basis of all, not the virus.

Remark: But my problem is that these people often receive METHADON because they were addicted to drugs in the past. But according to me there is a contradiction between METHADON and homeopathic treatment.

A : The patient has to make his own decision. They have to decide whether they want to be treated this or that way. It is none of our business the way somebody else has to go along with his life. If they come with their problems you as a homeopath have to try to find the remedy which gives them the energy to become healthy again.

CASE2

Anxieties, hydrocele

Medorrhinum

Man, 55 years old

This patient is a rich businessman and a patron of homeopathy.

If he wanted to ride his bicycle from one shop to another suddenly he couldn't go on anymore, and he had to turn around. He couldn't drive his car anywhere alone because he was so anxious. This man was very limited because of these anxieties.

Before he used to go to the pub because of women, but because of these anxieties he couldn't go to the pub anymore and he asked the women to come to his house. One woman was not enough, it had to be two or three women. After I heard this I thought it had to be this particular remedy.

During the consultation he was sitting in front of me and when he started to tell his story tears appeared in his eyes. On one hand he can be very sensitive, but on the other hand he can be very hard.

In the past he had a hydrocele on the right side and he was very afraid of an operation.

What did I have to do?

I had to perform a puncture regularly. After the puncture he did well for about two weeks and then I had to repeat the puncture.

One day he came two days after the puncture with a very severe inflammation with fever, chilliness and he had to sit in a warm bath. I gave him Calcarea carbonica 50M. A few days later the inflammation disappeared and since then he hasn't had any complaints with the hydrocele anymore.

A: You had a hydrocele. Since when?

P: I think it appeared slowly. I think it took about two years.

A: Regularly I performed a puncture and once you got an inflammation. You had very high fever. The strange thing was that the pain disappeared while sitting in a warm bath. It was good for you. You had cold shivering with fever. I treated this state. The inflammation disappeared and it has been fine ever since. Did the testicle become normal again?

P: Yes.

A: I cured this state with Calcarea carbonica 50M and it resolved.

In the meantime other things have changed. I repeated Calcarea carbonica and after the remedy you told me that something strange happened to your feet. Tell me the story about your feet.

P: Before they were always cold and now it is the other way round. Now they are glowing. Even when I'm working or after walking I have to put my feet in cold water for a few hours. I can't do otherwise.

A: The feet are so hot?

P: Yes, and also red. It's not because of the shoes, I sell shoes myself.

A: The feet are red and hot and you have to put them in cold water.

Does the whole foot or the sole of the foot become hot?

P: The sole of the foot and it extends to the instep.

A: Are they hot only during the day?

P: No, also at night.

A: And what do you do then?

P: I uncover the feet.

A: Strange, you didn't have this symptom in the past and now you have.

P: Yes, I have never had this.

Everybody knows this rubric on page 1013:

EXTREMITIES, heat, foot, burning, uncovers them:

Agar, cham, mag-c, Med, Puls, sang, sanic, Sulph

Don't forget Chamomilla in this rubric.

A: The second thing is that you bite your nails regularly.

P: Yes.

"Biting nails" is a very strong Medorrhinum symptom. They bite the nails unto the flesh, until it bleeds; it is exactly the same thing with itching. They scratch until they bleed.

P: If you have to tell something about yourself you easily start crying?

P: Yes, it happens sometimes. Probably when I have a bad day.

A: But it is a fact, a characteristic of you. Even now tears come easily into your eyes. It is not so easy to see on video. Before you didn't cry so easily.

P: No.

It is strange. I will tell you what I experienced with this man. When I talked to him he confided all his secrets. I know how much money he has, how much money his secretary and his wife receive and so on. He told me everything and he started crying. On one hand he can be so soft and sensitive if you talk to him and try to understand his problem. On the other hand he is very impulsive. If his employees don't do what he wants he will dismiss them immediately; or another time he took a computer and threw it in a corner.

On one hand he is very soft and sensitive, on the other hand he is very excitable and impulsive, very changeable. That's my idea about this man when I talked to him.

A: And notwithstanding you haven't become more sad?

P: No.

A: You are still irritable and can persevere very well.

P: Yes, surely.

A: Another thing is that regularly you have vesicles. Where do you have them?

P: Here (on the lips). There is a stitching feeling. From time to time they appear for two or three days and then they disappear again. Usually they appear when I'm tired.

A: First there is a stitching pain and then the vesicles appear?

P: Yes. I have the feeling that it is swollen. I also have it at the moment.

"Herpetic eruptions at the margins of the lips" is a very important symptom.

Do you know which remedies are in the rubric "face, eruptions, herpes"? Rhus toxicodendron, Natrum muriaticum and ?

Audience: Sepia officinalis.

A : Yes, Sepia officinalis.

Look at the rubric on page 369:

lips, about : Agar., anac., ars., asc-t., bor., brom., calc-f., canth., carb-v., caust., chel., crot-t., dulc., graph., hep., ip., kali-p., lac-c., lach., med., nat-a., nat-c., Nat-m., nicc., par., ph-ac., Rhus-t., sars., Sep., sil., spong., sulph., tub., urt-u.

FACE, eruptions, herpes, lips, about: ... med ...

Medorrhinum is also in the following rubrics on page 369:

FACE, eruptions, herpes, mouth, around: ... med ...

FACE, eruptions, herpes, mouth, around, corners:

... med ...

From time to time he has these eruptions also on the prepuce of the penis. These are small vesicles which appear and cause a stitching pain.

Question: Did he already have this before he received Calcarea carbonica?

A : I don't know. I gave him Calcarea carbonica for the acute inflammation after a puncture of the hydrocele and after this acute inflammation he developed a very strong Medorrhinum state with hot feet and so on. But already before the acute Calcarea state he had these relationships with many women and had these anxieties. Maybe he would have needed Medorrhinum much earlier, but only after he was cured from the inflammation could I see in which direction he was developing, only then he developed clear Medorrhinum symptoms.

This is also the answer to the question a colleague asked me, "How long should we wait?" We have to wait until the symptoms become clear. This is the right moment to give the remedy. Maybe he needed the remedy before, but it was not yet the right moment to give it, he was not yet susceptible.

I think this is also the reason why a patient does not clearly react to a remedy at a certain moment and if you repeat the remedy two months later he reacts wonderfully. Often they try to blame the pharmacist by saying that the remedy was not correctly potentized, but maybe it was not yet the right moment. The moment the symptoms appear clearly and strongly you have to give the remedy. But it is not easy to find the right moment.

A: Do you have vesicles otherwise?

P: Yes. You could say so.

A: You have also a slight herpes on the prepuce of the penis. Also on the glans itself?

P: No.

A: And it comes and goes away?

P: Yes.

A: For some time you have had a chronic cold. What do you mean exactly? Always mucus in the throat, or what do you mean?

P: Yes. I always had problems with this. The mucus is at the back of the throat. Before I came here I took something and afterwards it was rather good. Lately it has disappeared and now it starts again. Normally it starts in the morning. It also extends to the nose and further to the eyebrows. But in the morning it is more concentrated in the throat. It is below in the throat and I have difficulties in bringing it up.

A: Do you have expectoration?

P: Sometimes green expectoration is coming out.

You know that Medorrhinum is known for this dirty nose. In children who always have yellow or green discharge from the nose Medorrhinum is the first remedy you have to think of. Besides the mucus is hanging in strings down from the nostrils. In people who pull up the mucus through the nose and spit it out through the mouth very often Medorrhinum is indicated.

There are many other remedies which have this symptom, for example, Kali bichromicum and many others, but we often forget Medorrhinum.

A: In the forenoon?

P: Yes. Now it is a little bit better, but I have a scratchy feeling in my throat, even now. Sometimes it is gone, but then it comes back after two or three days.

A: This is also chronic.

On which side do you sleep usually?

P: On the right side.

A: You also have problems with your abdomen. Tell me about this.

P: In the morning it is rather good, also in the forenoon, but in the afternoon the abdomen starts to swell and then I have constipation. Therefore I drink tea regularly.

A: You have a tendency for constipation? If you don't drink this tea you can't go to the toilet?

P: No.

A: And you have a distended abdomen.

P: Yes. I also have swollen legs.

A: Do you think that the ankles are a little bit swollen?

P: No, I can't say so.

A: Your behavior has changed lately. I have known you for 5, 6 years. Before you always went to bed at half past 9.

P: Now I go to bed at 2, half past 2.

A: Has something changed in your way of life?

P: Yes. Before I always went to bed early, I couldn't otherwise. Maybe because of the medicines, I only wanted to sleep. Lately it has changed a little bit. Not so long ago, maybe two, three months ago. At the moment I feel like going out in the evenings and before I canceled all my appointments and just stayed at home.

A: And you went to bed early?

P: Yes.

This has also changed. Before he went to bed at half past 9:00, 10:00 o'clock in the evening; now he stays up until 1:00, 2:00 o'clock. He feels better in the evening.

Everybody knows the rubric on page 1342:

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

GENERALITIES, evening, amel

It is a very important symptom for Medorrhinum, Alumina, Sepia officinalis, Lycopodium clavatum and so on.

A: At the moment you are an evening person?

P: Yes. In the morning I have difficulties getting out of bed. Before I got up at 6:00 or 6:30 a.m. , and now I even have difficulties when I have to get up at 7:00 a.m.

A: Once I visited you at 8:00 a.m. and you were still in bed.

P: Yes, it happened once.

A: This is a sign that you have changed your way of life.

P: Yes.

A: I don't say it is good, but it is a fact.

A while ago you told me that you don't dare to drive anywhere. What kind of anxiety is this?

P: Yes, this anxiety has already existed for quite a while. Before this anxiety was even worse than now. For a while I got rid of it, but the anxiety came back lately. I have difficulties in walking down a long street or in a market, but when I have a fixed point to which I can walk it goes away.

A: How do you feel when you have to go to an appointment?

P: I'm already trembling two days before. It is different with girls, I don't mind, then I'm not nervous.

A: You have anticipating fear, this is a clear symptom.

Do you like to eat fruit?

P: No, I don't eat fruit a lot, only oranges, otherwise very little fruit.

A: Only oranges?

P: Yes.

Only oranges. This is also something you can observe when you go there. You see only oranges, everywhere oranges and sweets. These two things are very typical for Medorrhinum.

Once I was driving with him in his car and he had two oranges in the car. This is objective, you must see this.

A: How many oranges do you eat a day?

P: It depends, about four pieces.

A: Are there days you don't eat oranges?

P: Yes, also. But I start eating them again after two, three days.

A: Once I had to put you in plaster and I drove you home in your car and there were oranges in your car.

P: Yes, this is an old custom. When I have a breakdown, when I feel bad I have to put a piece of an orange in my mouth and then it goes away.

A: But you have the tendency to eat only oranges and no other fruit.

P: No, no other fruit.

A: You also like to eat sweets, I think.

P: Yes.

A: These are your complaints.

"I must put something in my mouth", like the children who put their thumb and sweets in their mouth. Basically this is the same.

A: If I try to describe your character I would say you are a good businessman, for example. You are a little bit hot-tempered. On the other hand you are often extremely soft. These are two poles.

P: Before, this was not so strongly indicated. Maybe this is because of the business and the misery, at home as well as otherwise.

A: I think this is very strange in your character, on the one hand you can be very hard where you have to be, and on the other hand you can be very sensitive.

P: Yes. On the first page of the newspaper they wrote the following about me, "The giant with the golden heart". There must be some truth in it.

This is also very typical in his relationships. Every year or every half a year he has a new girlfriend, and he gives this girlfriend everything: cars, coats, bags, very expensive things. He gives and gives and suddenly it is finished and he has a new girlfriend.

Another day he is sitting there, is very sad and starts crying. His mood and states are very changeable, but when he is in this emotional state then he is in a very deep emotional state, he weeps, is very sensitive and soft so that you are wondering how such a strong businessman can be so soft and sensitive.

This makes me think of Medorrhinum.

A: All right. This was some information about your character.

I give you a remedy and I want to see you again after one month to see the reaction concerning the hot feet, the vesicles and the anxieties and also your abdomen of course. This is one totality.

You still take half of a sleeping tablet?

P: Yes, in the evening I take half a tablet of HALCYON and three times a day I take half a tablet of DOMESTA.

Before he had syncope, fits of fainting where he had to be taken outside for fresh air. Medorrhinum is also one of the remedies in hyperventilation, not only Ignatia, Phosphorus, Lycopodium clavatum.

FEEDBACK

A: On June 25, 1987 you came with a problem which you didn't have before, namely, hot soles of the foot, so that you had to put your feet in cold water, and you had to uncover them at night. You were weeping easily, this had already lasted for quite a long time; regularly you had herpes on the lips, in the morning mucus in the throat with green expectoration and enormous anxieties if you had to go somewhere.

First of all how did you do with the anxieties?

P: I have been well for quite a long time, but it got worse 8 days ago.

A: How is it compared to before?

P: Much better, but the last few days the anxieties have come back.

A: Before you didn't dare to go away.

P: No. It is much better compared to before, but to some extent it is coming back.

Since then he has a second store in another town, 50 km away from his house. Two to three times a week he drives alone to this place. Before he could never do this, he always needed somebody to accompany him.

A: And what do you feel?

P: It is difficult to explain. It is a feeling that something happens. And afterwards I get a low point.

He says that he can drive alone, but there are some moments in which he feels this anxiety again, but it goes away. Now, he can drive alone in his car to Brussels.

A: Before you didn't dare to ride a bicycle?

P: No, not at all. Before I was afraid of that, but at the moment the anxiety is not so strong anymore.

A: But sometimes it comes back?

P: Yes.

A: The strong anticipating fears have become better.

How are your hot footsoles?

P: Gradually it disappeared. Before I always had cold feet, but I don't have this anymore.

A: At the moment you have warm feet, but when you were here the last time you were complaining about very hot feet.

P: This is not the case anymore.

A: I have also the impression that you weep easier lately.

P: It is better than before, but it has not been easy for me lately.

A: You are a businessman and of course you have very much on your mind, but nevertheless you had to weep on telling your symptoms, this was a clear symptom. This is much better. Did you feel better in general?

P: Yes.

A: What about the biting of the nails?

P: I still do.

A: Before you had herpes on the lips very regularly. These were vesicles which caused quite a lot of pain on appearance. How is it at the moment?

P: It is much better, but it still has the tendency to come back. Now and then I still feel a stitching pain.

A: Before you took the remedy you went to bed very early, at half past 9:00, 10:00 o'clock. I have known you for about 6 years and when you got this remedy you couldn't go to bed in the evening. You could stay up until 1:00 to 2:00 o'clock a.m. Afterwards again a period in which you had to go to bed earlier. Is this better?

P: Yes. I can't go to bed so early because I can't fall asleep.

A: You can't sleep?

P: Before I went to bed at 9:00 or 9:30 to bed and at the moment I can't fall asleep.

A: After June 25, this means in July, August, this is immediately after the remedy you made an important decision. Before you couldn't bear to be alone and after the remedy you made the decision to live alone.

P: It's still not easy for me but I haven't regretted my decision yet. Before I couldn't be alone for one hour.

The problem was that for a long time he had quarrels with his wife. His wife is a wonderful Sepia officinalis woman and as you know, Sepia officinalis has a very sharp tongue and can hit another one exactly in the most sensitive place.

For a long time he was thinking of leaving his wife and after Medorrhinum he made the decision.

Before he couldn't be alone in the evening. When he was watching television there had always to be somebody with him because of his anxiety.

He was always asking me whether he should divorce his wife or not, but I only told him that he had to decide himself. Now, after Medorrhinum he had the power to make the decision.

A: You have become more quiet?

P: Yes.

A: According to me this remedy caused a big change, also concerning your self-confidence. I think it has increased a lot.

P: I'm not in a hurry like before. At the moment I'm doing fine. I'm more quiet.

A: Now you have a more internal quietness whereas before you were always in a hurry.

P: Yes.

A: That's what you noticed yourself.

P: Yes.

A: I have also the impression that you are less hot-tempered than before.

P: Yes, it is possible.

A: Before you just could take something and throw it. It hasn't happened lately.

Before the remedy one day he threw the computer against the wall. A computer costs quite a lot of money. Now he is much more quiet.

A: Recently you complained that your potency has decreased.

P: I blame a certain Mr. Geukens for that who prescribed a remedy.

I think this is strange. Before I never had problems with that and the last two months the potency has strongly decreased.

This is a good reaction, because before he had too much sexual energy. It has decreased now. Now he can use his energy more for non-sycotic things.

A: Do you think this is a problem?

P: I don't think so, but before... How should I say? A few times a week.

Before I would have said in general, "Today I have to do this and tomorrow that", but now I just let things happen.

A: But apparently your sexual desires have decreased.

P: Yes.

A: Without feeling bad or worrying?

P: Yes.

A: We can say that it has become normal.

P: I don't think it was exaggerated before, but the potency has decreased. If this continues there won't be any potency anymore.

A: I can only repeat the remedy when you have a relapse. Maybe when the vesicles or the hot footsoles come back.

You have enlarged your business. Can you cope with this easily?

Before you had periods in which you had breakdowns.

P: It is better.

A: All right.

There has been a very big change in this man. If you saw the way he was before and the way he is now there is a very big difference.

Up to now (1989) I didn't have to give any other remedy, sometimes I had to repeat Medorrhinum.

To find the remedy in these people you have to know them very well, you have to see them in their environment. They will not tell you themselves that they throw things, that they need three women in one afternoon and so on. You hear these things from other people who know them very well.

There is another story which I would like to tell you. Kent as well as Clarke wrote about women with chronic pelvic disorders after they married a man who had suppressed gonorrhea. What does this mean?

Apparently you can get gonorrhea or come into a Medorrhinum state if you sleep with somebody who had gonorrhea and suppressed it. This miasm can go from man to woman and also vice versa, and I think even from the mother to the child.

In fact my opinion was that you cannot become sick if the resistance is strong enough, but now I've changed this idea since we know that AIDS is really contagious. I always thought that first you have to have an "AIDS-mind" to get AIDS, but now I doubt this. Maybe I don't need to doubt, but it is very strange that a woman who doesn't have a "Medorrhinum-mind" can get Medorrhinum problems when she sleeps with a man who had suppressed gonorrhea.

Remark: Kent says in his Lectures also that you .... need a constitution to be able to get this sycotic miasm.

Remark: I think it is not only because of intercourse, but because they are together all the time.

A : We can go on discussing this subject, but nobody can prove anything. I only want to show you that it is a question of prognosis. If somebody comes into a Medorrhinum state because of this constant changeable sexual contact with different women the problems disappear after you give Medorrhinum. When he continues having these frequent changeable sexual contacts he will always have a relapse. Every time you will have to repeat Medorrhinum unless he changes his way of life profoundly. Only then he can really be cured. I think you have to change this promiscuous behavior to become really healthy.

CASE3

Anxieties, depression

Medorrhinum

Man, 50 years old

This is a case with exactly the same anxieties; anxiety while driving a car, anxiety crossing a big place. It's impossible for him to drive his car alone. He was depressed.

He is an architect and he has particular qualities which he cannot explain. He never studied to become an architect, but he designs all kinds of projects, for example, a very big amusement park in Holland.

I know him very well and I've searched quite a long time for the right remedy in this man. I gave him Arsenicum, Sulphur, Gelsemium - none of them was the right remedy until I recognized the picture of this remedy.

A: First, I will tell something about your history.

You were here on October 22 with complaints of the back and the shoulder, especially with wet weather. Your ankles were swollen.

"Swollen ankles" is a very important symptom.

You find this rubric on page 1201:

Ankle : Ant-s., Apis., apoc., arn., ars., asaf., aur-m., benz-ac., cact., calc., cench., chel., coloc., cop., dig., eup-per., ferr-ar., ferr., graph., hep., hydr., hyos., lac-c., lac-d., lach., led., lil-t., lyc., manc., mang., Med., merc-sul., merc., ol-j., onos., phos.,phyt., plb., podo., prun-s., psor., puls., rhus-t., rhus-v., ruta., sal-ac., samb., sep., sil., stann., stict., sulph., verat-v., xan., zinc., ziz.

EXTREMITIES, swelling, ankle: ... Apis ... Med ...

There are only two capital remedies in this rubric.

A: Another permanent problem was your anxiety; an anxiety that something could happen to you, you could hardly drive anywhere alone.

Is this a kind of anticipating fear or what is this?

P: I don't know. I have had this already since I was 22 years old.

A: And you don't know the reason for it?

P: I examined everything, but I can't find any reason for it.

A: We also saw that in fact you are a person who is a little bit too sensitive.

P: Yes, maybe that's why I chose this kind of job. For example, I'm sensitive to colors and forms. When I come into a place with a lot of lilac I become afraid. Then I don't know what is wrong with me. I get drops of perspiration under my nose, when the forms are not in balance.

A: Do you also have a kind of clairvoyance or anything like that?

P: I don't know. Before I thought that all the people saw things the way I see them. Then I found that this was not the case.

For example, when I come here and you want to change a building in an architectural way, first I will have a look at the building and see everything as a photograph, and the picture which comes first into my mind is usually the right one. Maybe it is not really like a picture, but, for example, if you think of your house of the past, immediately you get an image, you live a situation.

For example, when I go to people who have a task for me, I see this clearly in my mind the way it has to be. The only thing I do is to put it on paper. In fact that's all I do.

A: This is a kind of information about the future you have?

He is so sensitive that he becomes sick immediately when he comes here. He sees that the color or this placement is not the way it should be.

For example, when I ask him how the garden should be made, immediately he says that this belongs here and that there. The pictures are formed in his mind and he just draws them on paper. The sensitivity of this man is really incredible.

Also Boericke, Kent and Clarke write about the hypersensitivity towards the cosmos. These people are like open doors, they are hyperreceptive, hypersensitive towards many things. You can think about Phosphorus. Phosphorus also has this magnetic hypersensitivity with changes of weather and so on. But this is a higher grade of sensitivity, something more.

P: Yes, because up to one year ago I thought that everybody who designs or draws does it this way.

Because of my plans I often have quarrels. I just draw things and I think, "That's the way he wants it." And usually that's right. For example, when I saw something and I drew it and then other people come who influence the person, I stick to my opinion and I fight to get it through the way I saw it the first time. If this doesn't work out I quit.

If somebody asks him to make a plan of a house he gets a kind of picture in his mind which he puts on paper. He doesn't understand why, but it has to be the way it appears to him.

P: Sometimes people whose shops don't flourish come to me and I design something according to my first impression. After the renovation the shop flourishes.

A: It is something inexplicable.

P: They consider you a strange bird.

A: These are talents which you have and nobody else does.

P: That's one of the reasons for my misery, why my business fail Ledum palustre The others took advantage, they abused me.

A: You are extremely sensitive. I remember a few times you started crying when you were here.

P: I still do.

A: But it has been better for quite a long time?

P: It has been much better. Also the anxieties have improved the last three months.

A: You were much better after the last remedy.

P: Since then I haven't had swollen feet anymore.

About 5 or 6 months ago I gave him the remedy.

A: I never recognized the remedy in you before.

I remember you said two years ago, "If I could get rid of these anxieties!" Now I guarantee you that you will get rid of them in the future.

P: Now, I've become more independent. Before I always wanted to have my wife, or the children or my secretary around me. This is much better. Now, I can drive to Holland on my own.

A: You couldn't do this before?

P: No, until four months ago I couldn't.

A: This represents your remedy. I asked you to come because I'm sure now.

"Anxiety alone", this is not only Arsenicum and so on. Medorrhinum is also a very important remedy. It is not in the rubric yet, but I did not only see it in this patient.

A: I didn't know how the anxieties were, we didn't talk about this up to now, but I was sure that they had to be better. It can't be otherwise because the remedy is right.

P: Some days it is all right and some days when I get up in the morning it is not good at all.

A: It goes up and down. This is already an improvement.

A second strange thing is that you are a person who kisses the muse in the evening. Can you describe this?

P: During the day I put to work what I designed the evening before. At 11:00 p.m. I have so much energy and so many things come up in my mind that the time is too short for what I want to draw and to create. It is 4:00 o'clock before I stop.

A: This is very typical. Then you feel optimal in form?

The muse comes at 11:00 o'clock in the evening, then he draws and works until 4:00 o'clock in the morning. He sleeps until noon the next day and in the afternoon he puts his plans into practice. But he can make these drawings only at night, he has this particular energy only at night.

If somebody says it like that the rubric "evening amel." has a very particular meaning. There is not only Medorrhinum, but also Alumina, Argentum metallicum, Sepia officinalis, Lycopodium clavatum, Chelidonium, and Carcinosinum is an addition.

P: Yes, of course I also was thinking about how this can happen. I think it has something to do with the fact that the television rays and the electrical frequences in the air are less. This is my theory of course. I don't have another explanation for this.

There is a man who wrote a book with the title, "Ants show you the way". He is one of the most important persons in Belgium and he says that we are influenced by water veins. This patient feels it, he has the sensitivity to feel where the water runs. He has the energy to say whether this is a good or a bad place. This is exactly what Boericke means, "Intensity of all sensations."

Question: Is it possible that he will lose this quality during the treatment with Medorrhinum and then he won't be able to do his job anymore?

A : Yes, maybe. But our job as a therapist is to help the patient to feel well and to be in equilibrium. It is not normal that he only works at night, that his ankles are swollen, that he easily weeps and that he has such anxiety. That's why he needs this remedy. I don't know what else this remedy does. Maybe he will lose his special capacities, it might be. But up to now he still has them to the same extent as before.

P: I'm really hypersensitive. I go to the barber as little as possible, because there I get anxieties. I become nervous from cutting the hair and all the fumbling around. I want to go away as quickly as possible, but this is impossible of course, and then I get these anxieties. This happened to me last time when I went to the barber. It is quite a long time ago that I had such a crisis.

A: What do you mean "crisis"?

P: Everything starts tickling, I get a strange feeling. Other people see it also.

A: This is hyperventilation.

P: I can't talk then. My heart starts palpitating.

A: Because of anxiety?

P: Yes. I have to take care of my breath, otherwise I can't breathe either.

A: You already told me this. I found this symptom, but the remedy was not there. You told me that you often wake up at night with a feeling - can you describe it?

P: Suddenly I wake up and I startle. It is as if everything stands still, as if nothing functions anymore. I have to swallow and shortly afterwards my heart starts beating again. This state disappears slowly and I become completely warm.

A: As if your heart doesn't beat anymore?

P: Yes, as if everything stands still.

Do you know where you can find this? He wakes up at night and he can't breathe anymore.

Look at the rubric on page 763:

RESPIRATION, arrested, sleep, during

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

We talked about this when we talked about Opium.

But the remedy is not in this rubric.

Question: ... (not understandable)

A : No, it is too dangerous to add it. Maybe we understand this symptom wrongly, maybe it is an anxiety, I don't know.

A: Has this also improved?

P: Yes. During the last three months I have had it only once, last week, but to a lesser extent. I called you again, because I thought that I had to come back. Before it was more frequent, about three or four times a week.

I added Medorrhinum in the rubric on page 824:

CHEST, cease, sensation as if heart would

CEASE, sensation as if heart would : Aur., Lob., nux-m., onos

You don't have to add it, but I did.

A: It is strange. At that time I thought, "I have to see this man again", and you had the feeling you had to come back here.

At what time do you become creative? At what time do you really feel good?

P: Between 10:00 and 11:00 o'clock in the evening. I can be very tired at 7:00 o'clock in the evening when I work very hard. For example, when I draw a lot in the morning and I drive many kilometers a day I'm tired at 8:00 or 9:00 o'clock in the evening, but at 10:00 or 10:30 I'm fit again.

A: At what time do you get up?

P: A quarter to eight every morning. I have breakfast, whether I went to bed at 4:00 or 5:00 or 2:00 o'clock, it doesn't make any difference.

A: And during the weekend?

P: On Sunday I sleep a little bit longer, then I get up at 9:00 o'clock.

These are the night people. Why don't they live during the day?

The night is the best time for Medorrhinum, the time that they have most energy.

The best people I ever met are Medorrhinum people. I mean in the sense that they always keep their promise when they promise you something. You can rely on them. The reason for that is that they give things straight from their heart, not from their mind.

P: Then I have to get up and I go outside for a little while. I have some rest. But I also want to draw on Sunday.

A: You are really a "workaholic". Don't you think so?

P: No.

A: Wait, not an "alcoholic" but a "workaholic".

P: No, no, I don't know. On one hand I want to work sometimes, but on the other hand I don't work at all. I think of nothing, as if I'm not really there.

A: Absent?

P: Yes, absent. I don't care about anything, I don't answer the telephone, it's a kind of meditative state. Fortunately, otherwise I couldn't make it through the day.

Before I thought everybody could live from day to day, without thinking or doing anything. I can.

When you are sitting with these people you feel something warm coming up. There is something warm, soft in his way of speaking; yes, warm-heartedness is the right word.

A: But it is not in the evening?

P: In the evening I need my pencil and I need to draw. What comes out is the right thing.

A: This is a particular gift. Besides you are a little bit hypersensitive and also a little bit sentimental.

P: Yes, maybe I am. I do only things I like to do, I don't care about other things. That's why I love the things I make.

On the other hand they are very egoistical. They do what they want to do and what they feel they have to do.

P: For me in the first place a person is important. If the relationship doesn't fit the first time, I feel it and then it doesn't work out...

He does not live with his mind, but with his heart.

P: There are people who pretend to be more important than they really are, for example, they go to somebody and have money for everything. If you really get to know them better in fact they are only dreamers. I can't work for these kind of people. I just quit with them.

Because of these kind of people my finances weren't good anymore in my business. This was the reason for the bankruptcy.

He had a big furniture shop where he sold very particular furniture which he designed himself. This business was flourishing very well until the bank demanded its money. Then he went bankrupt. This was a very big disappointment from which he is still suffering.

P: When I trust somebody I give myself completely, I will even give my wallet. I shouldn't have done this.

A: So emotionality is predominant in you.

P: It is not rational.

Do you see the difference with Lycopodium clavatum?

Lycopodium clavatum is only theorizing, and the result of this theorizing are Bufo children. Lycopodium clavatum wants a child because the time is right, because they earn enough money, because they have the right age and so on.

Medorrhinum makes children out of love, with his feeling and very seldom they become Bufo children.

A: Your drafts come from your inspiration. This is a gift. You don't use your mind.

P: No, I don't.

A: You live in an emotional way.

P: Yes. Over the course of the years you learn that you have to be careful, that you have to make compromises and sometimes you have to make something which you know is not right concerning the quality. This is another case. But the most important thing for me is my inspiration. There are no alternatives. Basically this is clear. You can't fool your customers. My customers are sensitive and they see it a little bit the way I see it. People who are not on the same wavelength I don't take them as customers.

I had such a case in Limburg, 9 years ago. There was no rumor of shutting down the mines yet and one evening, about 11:00 o'clock , when I got this inspiration I made some plans. I worked two or three nights through and I drew a plan of Limburg in which the mines were closed. It was lying on my desk and when I thought about it I started working again. I have worked for four years, sometimes one evening a month, sometimes every three months only one evening, and after four years it was finished. I went to the governor and he said that this was utopia. Four years later he gave me the task of making such a plan and then it was ready.

This is clairvoyance. Three years ago he made a plan of this place where they shut down the mines. That was three years ago.

A: This is inexplicable, it is a kind of clairvoyance.

P: Yes. I can give you another example. In Oostende I have been a counselor for 14 years. I have tried to prevent the extension of the buildings for 4 years. One week ago I was there and they told me, "You should take some time because they start the extension." I answered I would have some time in April. But first they had to see whether they could buy a piece of land in the harbor. I was sure, I felt it. "This would be optimal, but this is impossible", he said. This was on Thursday and on Friday he called me and said, "You have to come. I found a piece of land in the harbor. It's incredible."

I drove there on Saturday and he already bought the piece of land for about 10 million B.F. , and in a neighborhood like this, it's incredible.

I said, "In fact the whole area in Oostende should become a holiday park, a vacation resort. There are only a few ships! Couldn't we talk about this with the governor?" They won't believe it, but next Monday they will present a plan of the harbor and the representatives of the university will be completely against it. They will say that they can't make a harbor, but rather a recreation park.

A: This is strange. This is really a kind of clairvoyance.

P: Yes, that's what I have, I think.

A: You also wrote a book. You are hypersensitive towards radiation. You can feel magnetism, I mean earth rays.

P: Yes, I feel this. I already said to people that they should not build their house there, it is not good. I have had this kind of feeling for years. I have been searching for 25 years and then I got into contact with the university. At that time I didn't know anything about the earth rays, but before I could feel it without a doodlebug (a dowsing rod). I felt that it is good here, it is not good over there. If I look back it is completely logical.

A: You just feel it, because you pay attention to your feelings. Do you want to say that?

P: Yes.

A: Your anxieties are much better and it will become even better. Now you can go away alone, this was impossible before.

P: Yes.

A: I have searched with my colleagues for the right remedy and now we have found it. This is no problem anymore.

Can you describe your anxieties. What are you afraid of?

P: I don't know. It is inexplicable; maybe I'm afraid of death, of the unexpected, because I can't say good-bye anymore.

Think about this remedy if somebody has an anxiety, but does not know about what. It seems as if there exists a kind of radiation or energy which provokes a kind of anxiety.

A: Are you afraid of dying?

P: Of course I'm afraid to die. I have so many things to do.

A: And when you go somewhere?

P: I always think something might happen to me. For example, I can't go to church where there are many people. Also not to a barber, and yet I have to go ...

For many years I have had the barber coming to my house. He is retired and so now I have to go to a barbershop.

This was the same in the previous patient. He had the barber come to his house, he never went to a barber shop. This is exactly the same in visiting a doctor. The last patient always wanted me to visit him at home to see how he was doing. I begged him to come at least once to the Center so that I could make a video of him. He did, but normally I had to visit him at home.

P: When I'm sitting in his salon there are only mirrors, one after the other and if you are not careful you see yourself about 200 times in the mirror. This gives me the feeling that I am among I don't know how many people. Besides they don't have time, they work in a hurry and then I explode. I only need to look into the mirror, I see how pale I become and I know what will happen to me.

A: I have another patient who needs the same remedy as you, he also had the barber come to his house. Strange.

P: I also don't like somebody fumbling with my hair.

A: This is also an anxiety to be among people?

P: Yes, people who are in a hurry, who excite me.

A: On the other hand you are a very hurried person yourself.

P: Yes, I do many things.

A: Are you in a hurry then?

P: No, I don't think so.

A: But when I observe you I notice that your secretary always has to run behind you.

P: Yes, of course she has to take care of everything. She knows that I don't dare to go anywhere alone. She has to take care of everything, postpone appointments, when it's impossible or when I can't go. She is very diplomatic. Of course when I want to draw something and I have an appointment I can't go then. If you accept work you are obliged to serve the people. This is not so easy and she has to solve all my problems then.

Sometimes these people are very soft, but when their internal need, their urge to draw or to have sex comes up they need it immediately, even when they hurt other people.

But other people have to do what he wants, what he feels is right. In this way they are very egoistical. They do only what they think is right.

A: Are you a quiet person?

P: Yes.

A: Are you hurried in your work?

P: No, I'm not, nobody can excite me. Sometimes I'm under pressure. If you have an appointment with a contractor you have to go there then I'm in a hurry. That's life.

A: Anyway you have an anxiety that something might happen to you, that you would fall suddenly, especially in closed rooms with many people.

P: Yes, I can't tolerate this. I can't be in a place with many people. In church or when I have to go somewhere, for example, to a party, I always keep myself in the back, close to the door, so that I can leave quickly.

You see that he has a very big fear of having a fit.

Look at the rubrics:

MIND, fear, fit, of having a (page 45)

MIND,FEAR, fit, of having a : Agar., alum., arg-n., cann-i., carb-an., nux-m., phos., puls.

MIND, fear, crowd, in a (page 43)

crowd, in a : Acon., aloe., am-m., arg-n., ars., aur., bar-c., bufo., calc., carb-an., caust., cic., con., dios., ferr-ar., ferr-p., ferr., graph., hep., hydr-ac., kali-ar., kali-bi., kali-c., kali-p., led., lyc., nat-a., nat-c., nat-m., nux-v., phos., plb., puls., rhus-t., sel., stann., sulph., tab., til.

Medorrhinum is not in these rubrics, so we give Argentum nitricum. But Argentum nitricum didn't do anything at all. If you take the symptoms the way they are and you repertorize you will never find the remedy. Only when you try to feel the patient with your feeling you could say, "Ah, this is Medorrhinum."

A: There is a kind of anxiety that something might happen to you suddenly, that you might fall down, especially among people. Do you also have anxiety in closed rooms?

P: I never go to the movie theater, also not to a football game or things like that; I can't tolerate this.

A: These are anxieties which this remedy is not known for. Do you often have the impression and wonder, "Is this real what I see or not?"

P: No, I haven't. But in Finland I often experienced - and also here - when I went somewhere for the first time I could describe it exactly, as if I had been there before. I have been in houses and said, "This is impossible!" I could describe every detail of the house just like that.

A: Again the aspect of clairvoyance or feeling something beforehand.

Do you know this deja-vu experience? As if you had experienced it before? Sulphur also has this, and Sulphur has dreams about events which haven't taken place yet.

P: Sometimes I wonder who's going to help me with this. When I have a problem without a solution the best thing to do is to wait and then it will become clear bit by bit.

A: If you have something in mind does it have to happen immediately?

P: Yes, I cannot wait.

A: That's what I want to underline. It has to happen immediately. You are impatient.

P : Yes. When I feel that it has to be this way it has to be this way. That is strange.

This is the impatience for trifles. Every trifle has to be done immediately.

You find this rubric on page 54:

MIND, impatience, trifles, about: Kali-p, med, merc,

nat-m, sulph, sul-ac

trifles, about : Kali-p., med., merc., nat-m., sul-ac., sulph.

Sulphuricum acidum is one of the most important cancer remedies, uterine cancer and so on.

P: Once I had the task of building a ski-lift. I drove there extra. To save money I made a bow in the trace of the plan. This made a difference of 50.000 cubic meters of sand which had to be moved. I know another ski teacher who also owns a ski lift and to be sure I asked his advice because this costs a lot of money. He said that it was impossible to make the lift in bows and the employer said that the lift had to be made in the middle of the mountain. I answered him, "This lift can't climb up in the middle of the mountain, because it is not a good atmosphere. I have my reasons for this plan." I even advised him to level the incline. They worked the whole day with the bulldozer to enlarge the road. Yesterday I went to him and he said, "You can't put the lift there, it has to be put in the middle." When we arrived yesterday a miracle happened, because of the adjustment of the inclination there was a straight line on the left side, just the way I imagined from the beginning. The other also said, "I don't understand. On Saturday it was impossible for everybody, only you wanted it, and then we worked a little bit with the bulldozer and now it is possible."

A: You are a hurried person, impatient about trifles. It has to be done this way and then it has to be done that way.

P: Yes, because I don't have time for details.

A: You have also absent moments, I mean, moments when you don't know what you are saying.

P: Yes, when I'm in a meeting of colleagues, there are some moments I don't think, don't hear, but I just live for myself. Then I don't know anything about that part of the meeting.

A: Do you think you are religious in the broadest sense?

P: No. I believe in my own way, but I don't believe in what happens in the catholic church.

A: Yes, it's politics. By religious I mean a higher form.

P: Yes, I believe we are an instrument of something which is higher.

A: You are very religious.

P: I believe in the entirety; totality.

A: Something on the physical level. You always want to uncover your feet.

P: Not anymore. It's over.

A: Why did you always have to uncover them?

P: Because they were so warm.

A: Where were they warm?

P: In fact the calves, not the foot itself. Before they were so clammy.

A: So your calves were hot?

P: Yes, and in the evening they were really tense.

A: You always slept half on the abdomen. Have you slept on your abdomen for a long time?

P: Yes.

A: Since when? Did you do this as a child?

P: I don't know anymore. I know that I have slept on my side for quite a long time. Now I almost lie on my abdomen.

A: Something else: sometimes you got tears in your eyes while talking. You couldn't talk with me about your health without almost crying.

P: Yes, that's right. I still have this whenever I think about the bankruptcy of my business.

A: Do you eat fruit?

P: Yes, I like to eat pears.

A: Is that all?

P: I also like apples.

A: What kind of apples?

P: Sweet apples, I don't like bitter ones.

A: And sour?

P: This is very strange, but the last three months I have changed my eating habits completely.

A: What do you mean?

P: Now, I don't eat cheese anymore, before I liked it very much. Also everything which is sour, for example, I liked herring very much until three months ago. This is remarkable.

A: What about oranges?

P: Not the real oranges, but the mandarins. They are much easier to peel and they are sweeter. But I like to drink orange juice. I eat clearly less than three months ago, but I smoke more.

A: Have you bitten your nails?

P: No.

Biting nails is one of the most important symptoms of Medorrhinum.

You find this in the rubric on page 9:

MIND, biting

MIND,BITING : Acon., ant-t., anthr., aster., Bell., bufo., calc., camph., cann-i., canth., carb-s., carb-v., cic., croc., cub., cupr., cur., hura., hydr-ac., hyos., lach., lyss., op., phos., phyt., plb., sec., Stram., verat.

There is a new sub rubric on page 9:

MIND, biting, nails: Acon, ambr, ant-t, ars, arum-t,

bar-c, brom, bufo, cina, hyos, lyc, mag-c, med, nat-m,

sanic, senec, stram, sulph, verat

P: Another problem is hair falling. I hear and see badly. It is strange. Some days I can read with these glasses very well. But sometimes I read very badly with my reading glasses.

A: All right we will repeat the remedy. I only wanted you to come to show your sensitivity, your hypersensitivity and your abnormal gifts. These belong to the remedy which you need.

We may be sure that your anxieties have become much better.

P: It doesn't make sense to state it if it is not true.

A: It is very important.

P: My lips won't produce anything which I didn't experience or which isn't true.

A few years ago I discussed the case of this patient with some other doctors: fear in a crowd, anxiety something might happen and so on, but we didn't recognize Medorrhinum until I remarked about the enormous sensitivity of this man.

Because of the anticipating fear in this remedy we often mix it up with Argentum nitricum and Lycopodium clavatum. If you can't decide between Lycopodium clavatum and Argentum nitricum, forget both remedies and give Medorrhinum.

CASE4

Condylomata

Medorrhinum

Man, 44 years old

A: We have to go through your history. Your biggest problem was warts on the penis. They are gone, aren't they?

P: Yes.

A: You are a rather hot-tempered person. Anyway, you were when you came here in treatment. Maybe this has changed in the meantime.

P: I can become angry, before even more than now. But otherwise I feel very well.

A: At the moment you're feeling well, but I want to describe your state at that time. I wrote down that you were hot-tempered.

P: Yes.

A: You are independent. You have a hotel and you are very industrious.

P: I have a lot of stress, I have to take many risks and also deal with misfortunes.

A: You are a very enthusiastic person.

P: I'm a very enterprising man. Sometimes it becomes black before my eyes, I don't sleep for two days and then it is over. I always say, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. This is normal."

A: You have much more energy than most people. You are a very enterprising person and I see that you can do many more things than other people.

P: It has always been this way. Things always have to progress for me. You have to take precautionary measures. In some way you have to go on, but it might fail. If you have such a business the motto has to be, "Where there is a will, there is a way", and then you have to work with a certain goal in mind. I took the initiative in many different businesses, but when the others don't take the same initiative as you, it often won't work.

You see that he is very restless, very active, he cannot sit still; he is like a burning candle, maybe one which is burning on both ends, like Tuberculinum bovinum Kent; very active, very enthusiastic, somebody who works very hard and excessively.

A: I think you are a kind of adventurer?

P: A real adventurer. Well yes, I'm not afraid of becoming active. I have to take initiatives and to have a goal in mind and then start. I've done things with very good results.

A: I mean an adventurer in the sense of hunting.

He went to Poland with a group of people who all need this remedy. During the day they hunted running things and at night lying things. They took this girl to Belgium and after three months they sent her back to Poland because her visa was expired.

What you feel here is: too much, everything is too much. He has a kind of sycotic way of living.

He tells everything, he is like an open book, like Phosphorus.

P: I have the intention to go hunting again. Sometimes people cancel like the previous year, then I can't go either. Ten months later I traveled somewhere else. Sometimes it costs so much money that it isn't interesting anymore.

A: You experienced quite a lot of things in your life?

P: Yes, of course. I like to travel a lot. I earn quite a lot of money with my business, but sometimes I don't have the time. You have to spend your money as well.

A: You are a very engaging person, everything goes the way you want it. Can you also be a hard person?

P: Yes.

A: Also towards animals?

P: Towards animals I'm rather soft. A dog has to listen to me, otherwise I can react violently. When he listens to me I easily forget about this. Sometimes I'm very energetic, short-tempered.

A: Are you attached to dogs?

P:Yes, I'm rather attached to animals, but in fact I have too little time for them. According to me I pay too little attention to them.

A: But when a dog doesn't listen to you you can educate him?

P: Yes, surely; but I wouldn't beat him to death. I couldn't.

A: Do you have to withhold yourself at certain moments so that you don't beat the dog to death?

P: Yes, I have to withhold myself.

A: On the other hand you have a strong relationship with your dog.

P: If he doesn't listen I could shoot him, but of course I wouldn't.

A: You know the song, "We are the men of the night?"

P: Yes.

A: Are you a person who becomes alive at night?

P: Yes, we have a night life. When other people go to bed at 11:00 p.m. then I become awake.

A: But not always, do you?

Do you know the song, "We are the men of the night?" No? It is a Dutch song. You should listen to this song and you will understand the remedy.

P: No, not always. Sometimes I work until morning, sometimes I'm finished at 11:00 or 12:00 p.m.

Now I have to be careful with sugar and drinking. When I drink heavy wine then I don't feel well. I notice it myself.

A: Do you start talking looser after drinking beer?

P: Yes. My wife says so.

This is one of the symptoms we also see in Natrum muriaticum. When they have had enough to drink they start talking, they open up. We find the same thing in Medorrhinum.

I remember a case of a patient with anxieties and so on, I could smell the beer when he was in my consultation room. There is also this Medorrhinum type who is very closed and needs alcohol to open up.

If you smell alcohol on a patient's breath, you have to think of Natrum muriaticum and Medorrhinum.

P: When I drink I risk getting a swollen lip, then I show my bad side.

On Saturday I was at a party and I was a little bit drunk. I was holding a bottle of wine in one hand, I already finished two bottles and there was also a very nice woman who asked me for some wine which she also got. Then we were having a discussion, "You don't get a glass of wine, you are drunk already" and so on, we were discussing for about a quarter of an hour, not with bad intentions, but only for fun. My wife became very angry, but we didn't have any bad intentions.

A: Do you think a lot about sex?

P: Rather a lot, really. I want - well yes, you're young only once.

A: You want to experience a lot in quite a short time?

P: Of course. Why not? I always have another woman in my life. I don't have to deny this, that's right. I have a lot of desires and in the course of time I have a woman here, then there. When I really want it, I can. I mean not a prostitute, I'm against this. I go there only sporadically.

Once I had a woman with whom it was very intense, sometimes I had sexual intercourse with her three times a day.

A: Could you continue this?

P: Yes, yes.

A: Are you a real free-liver?

P: Yes, surely. She was not a real free-liver, somebody who could persevere for hours at a time. I suffered a lot from the separation, but I couldn't show it. I couldn't go on with this relationship, otherwise I had to say good-bye to my business and my children and I didn't want this. Gradually I put an end to this relationship. It hurt me a lot.

A: How often is your maximum at night?

P: Twice a night maximum. Many friends tell me, "I can do it 4, 5 times." I don't believe them. Of course, it might be true, but I can't do it. Twice in one hour is impossible.

A: But you can with another woman?

P: Yes, I could. When I go to bed at 9:00 o'clock p.m. and I wake up at 8:00 o'clock a.m. and if I want to do it again, I can.

I can withhold myself for quite a long time. Whether this is good or bad I don't know. I can satisfy a woman very well, but as often as the other men say, I can't.

A: Do you have anxieties? I mean, in general, do you have certain anxieties?

P: When I don't have anything on my mind which troubles me then I don't have anxieties.

A: You seemed to be a hurried person.

P: Yes, that's right.

A: You are also a person who can hate?

P: But I can also forget.

A: Do you hate anybody?

P: Well yes, there is somebody I hate. I saw him afterwards and then everything comes up again. I can't easily forget this, but I can't cope with this for hours and hours. I think we should reconcile.

A: Did you ever have homosexual feelings?

P: No. Anyway I didn't know it. Maybe unconsciously. Once I went out with a friend when I was in the army. I suffered from this, I can't. I'm against this.

A: Do you have a fear of becoming insane or mad sometimes?

P: No, I haven't.

A: If somebody is walking behind you what do you feel?

P: Nothing in particular.

A: Then you also told me, "I sleep on the abdomen." You still do?

P: Not always. I paid attention to this since you asked me. Now I try to sleep on my abdomen as little as possible, but I still tend to sleep on my side or on my abdomen. Before I surely did. At the moment I seldom sleep on my abdomen.

A: I only wanted to know this as a kind of information. But this is also a characteristic of you that you liked to sleep on your abdomen?

P: Yes.

A: You also told me that you like to eat fat, gravy and things like that?

P: Yes.

A: Also pork meat?

P: Yes.

A: You want it piquant (spicy) in life, but also in your food?

P: Yes, certainly.

A: You also like to eat?

P: Yes, very much and quite a lot.

A: Sometimes your feet are too warm in bed. You put them out of the covers.

P: Also last night. It depends under which circumstances I go to bed, but it happens from time to time. I haven't had it for quite a while and now it comes up again. There was a period I didn't suffer so much from it and now it comes back again. I don't know why. It seems as if everything comes back. That's the way I see it. I haven't had so much purulent discharge as during the treatment here.

A: The symptoms of the past have come back.

P: Yes, I had this when I was 25 years old.

A: How old are you now?

P: 44 years.

A: In a few months time I have brought you back to the age of 25?

P: Yes.

A: Do you feel the same now as you felt at that time?

P: Almost.

This is strange. After one dose of the remedy he says that he feels as if he were 26 years old, so 18 years younger.

A: When you came here your problem was warts on the penis, condylomata. I asked you about this and that and you told me that you live together with this or that woman and that you had a gonorrhea before. Has this been proved?

P: I don't know exactly. I saw the doctor and he said everything was negative.

A: You had the sugar level controlled and you had yourself checked to see whether you have had gonorrhea.

P: It hasn't been proved, but there was a purulent discharge.

About 1980 a few of his friends came to the Center and begged me to give them Penicillin because they had purulent discharge from the penis. I had to do it, although I knew it was wrong. If I didn't do this they would have gone somewhere else.

Anyhow if you give them Penicillin for a purulent discharge from the penis and the discharge stops, this is a suppressed gonorrhea, even if it isn't proved that this is a real gonorrhea. This happens more often than we know.

Whether it is gonorrhea or not, or whether there are streptococci in the pus with a disease or I don't know what, this is not important for us. The most important thing is that the discharge from the penis is suppressed by Penicillin and then we have to take the rubric on page 1365:

GENERALITIES, gonorrhoea, suppressed

P: I was in Poland and I did some bad things. The doctor gave me Penicillin injections. You told me that this was suppressed.

A: You have been treated by antibiotics. The pus has disappeared and shortly afterwards warts appeared; but this was only the second time.

P: I got something else when I came back. You had to give me another treatment and then I got rid of it.

A: But after the first time there were still some little warts, weren't there?

P: No, nothing. The warts appeared after the second treatment. On the prepuce as I see it right. Now I also have cracks. I have been in treatment with a specialist and he treated it with Podophyllin.

A: We noticed that you had a discharge from the penis twice and then you got warts.

After the suppression of the gonorrhea warts, condylomata appeared and therefore he had to see a specialist. It was a female doctor and when she wanted to put Podophyllin on the warts he had problems, he got an erection and things like that.

Afterwards the condylomata disappeared and he got cracks on the prepuce. That's the way everything developed.

When he came to me he still had condylomata and also cracks on the prepuce.

A: I gave you the remedy on April 2, the remedy which cured everything. The warts fell off, didn't they?

P: Yes. This lasted quite a long time for me, but according to you it went away quickly.

A: How long did it last?

P: I examined it regularly. First a few warts disappeared and then some more. It was very annoying during coition. It lasted six weeks to two months.

A: You received the remedy on April 2 and two months later the condylomata were almost gone.

P: Finally there were some cracks on the prepuce. In the course of the treatment there was quite a lot of discharge, regularly I had to put paper in my pants. I paid very much attention to cleanliness, I washed it regularly and so on. The cracks hurt.

A: You came here completely in a panic and asked me whether you could do anything for this purulent discharge and I said to you that you couldn't do anything for it.

P: I didn't take anything else but what you gave me.

A: Did the discharge stop by itself?

P: Yes.

After the remedy he had a very strong discharge. He called me and was very anxious. I told him to wait. After some time the discharge became better and after the discharge stopped the warts disappeared.

This is the classical development after a suppression of gonorrhea: You give the remedy and the discharge comes back. You have to wait until it stops spontaneously.

Question: How long will this last and is it infectious?

A : I don't know, whether it is infectious, nobody knows.

Question: How long?

A : It depends on the case. It might last 2, 1 or 1/2 month.

Remark: I had a patient from whom I made a culture to see whether it is infectious or not and nothing could be found.

A : Yes, but very often no gonococci are found at all, even without homeopathic treatment. Before, this patient was examined and no gonococci were found.

Question: How long ago can this be?

A : I don't know. We have talked quite a long time about this, but these are all theories.

Suppose you give somebody with an inflammation of the bladder the right homeopathic remedy. You examine the urine and you find leukocytes and bacteria. After the remedy the pain disappeared, indeed there is still quite a lot of pus, this is called leukocytes and bacteria, but the patient himself is cured, he doesn't feel anything at all. The pus is a discharge and discharges are reactions of the body and this is a good reaction. But whether this is infectious or not, I don't know.

A: Then you told me that you felt again the way you felt before. What did you mean by this? Did you feel young again, or what did you mean?

P: Yes. You made me 20 years younger. I went to the military service, I went to Zaire, as a volunteer, I joined the sea forces, was here and there on an adventure, worked enormously hard, drank a lot, everything which contained alcohol, beer, whiskey, everything, Dutch gin.

I had a very hard life, I worked very hard, 16 hours a day, always lived under stress, but I couldn't tolerate this well. I had a very difficult youth. At the age of 14 I had a girl-friend, one year later I had two. Then I committed a youth sin and was in prison. I had to start from the very beginning on the social ladder.

This was a classical Medorrhinum case. These are people who have traveled around the whole world, who had all the women on earth, who drank a lot, who lived at night and slept during the day, people who lived excessively. They are sensitive to gonorrhea. In such a case it is easy to find the remedy.

Question: Can we add Medorrhinum in the rubric, "desire to travel"?

A : They don't travel for travel.

Calcarea phosphorica wants to travel, he wants to go from one place to the other like Tuberculinum bovinum Kent and Carcinosinum, but Medorrhinum wants adventure, excitement, he wants to live. That's why you really can't add it.

Question: Can you add Medorrhinum in the rubric "restlessness while sitting"?

A : Yes, surely. You can add Medorrhinum in the rubric "restlessness while sitting", this is no problem.

I have all the additions of Medorrhinum and Tuberculinum bovinum Kent of Boericke and Clarke and I'm sure there are even more additions from clinical experience. I don't want to give them yet, because they have to be proved by documented cases.

It is not good to make additions easily which are groundless.

If you do this you will easily have every remedy in every rubric.

It is important to grasp the remedy.

Question: Couldn't this be Fluoricum acidum?

A : Fluoricum acidum in this case? Why?

Audience: Because of the condylomata and the strong sexual desire, this is Fluoricum acidum.

A : No, this is a clear Medorrhinum case. You feel the sycotic way of living, the strong sexual desire, the night life, a man who likes to live well and the classical symptom is the suppressed gonorrhea. You give Medorrhinum, the discharge comes back and then you are on the right track.

CASE5

Depression, kidney stones

Medorrhinum

Man, 60 years old

This is another important man. It seems that many important persons need this remedy. When he came the first time he was crying for half an hour. I didn't realize this was a symptom. You should write down this symptom immediately. If a patient starts weeping immediately from the moment he enters your consultation room you should write this symptom down, "is weeping on telling his symptoms". If you start talking immediately about his problem and you try to help him and to understand his story, but you don't keep a distance you won't observe the most important thing, namely that he is weeping all the time.

He came because he was very depressed, he has had a kind of heart attack and also recurrent kidney stones. During the kidney colic he couldn't urinate. Because of this symptom I gave him Mercurius at that time, without any result.

You can find this rubric on page 663:

KIDNEYS, pain, urging to urinate, during

urging to urinate, during : Ars-h., canth., coc-c., ferr., graph., hep., kreos., merc-c., ruta.

There are a lot of remedies which have kidney stones and it is better to find the constitutional remedy, unless there are very particular key symptoms for a small remedy. In kidney colic very often the acute remedy is the same as the constitutional. It was like that in this case. As we already said Medorrhinum is one of the most important remedies and you find a very important Medorrhinum symptom on page 663:

KIDNEYS, pain, urination, after amel.: Lyc, med, tarent

After Medorrhinum he didn't have any more problems with kidney stones, not at all.

He is a very sensitive person and a very well-known leader of a choir and he also composes.

Here also you see, as in many other cases, a swelling under the eyes.

A: You have been in treatment here for many years. It is remarkable that you weep easily. You have been to Manila with your choir, came back and said, "The palms of my hands are peeling."

P: It is very strange. In the past I have had this also, but then it was not so bad. Sometimes it is completely gone.

This is a symptom which I have seen often in my practice.

Look at the rubric on page 995:

EXTREMITIES, eruption, hand, desquamation of

desquamation of : Am-c., arn., chin-s., hydr., sabad., sep., sulph.

Medorrhinum is not in this rubric, but we already saw this symptom in the patient with the prostate carcinoma and I have seen this a few times in Medorrhinum patients.

A: Do you also have this on the soles of your feet?

P: No.

A: In fact you never have problems with your feet?

P: No, only with my hands.

A: You don't have problems with your feet, neither when you have directed for a long time?

P: I have to think about that. When I have to sit for quite a long time, for example, in an airplane I get swollen feet. After a long flight my shoes don't fit anymore.

A: After a long distance flight?

P: Yes.

A: Which part is swollen?

P: I think the ankles. I haven't examined it profoundly. I only detected that I can't put on my shoes anymore.

I discovered this remedy very late, namely when he told me that his feet were swollen on the flight back from Manila. This was the first clear physical Medorrhinum symptom which he gave me. Before I only had this mental picture which didn't make me think of Medorrhinum at all.

A: Do you have problems with your feet while standing for a long time?

P: I don't know whether this was a coincidence, but recently I have driven the car for quite a long time and because of stepping on the gas pedal I had a kind of cramp in my right leg. I had the feeling that there was no circulation of blood anymore and I had to rub my leg.

A: Are your feet too hot when you stand for a long time?

P: No.

A: Neither the soles?

P: No.

A: Neither in bed?

P: No.

A: You arrange many pieces for the choir, especially songs, don't you?

P: Yes.

A: When do you have the inspiration to do things like that?

P: It's difficult to say. It depends more on the exertions of my normal job than on the inspiration itself. I think the ideas appear in the afternoon. Of course according to my feelings it is not afternoon, because I only get up at 10:00 a.m. , anyway three days a week.

A: When do you go to bed?

P: About 12:00 midnight.

A: Not later?

P: Very seldom.

A: Do you work until 12:00 o'clock?

P: Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. After my heart attack I forced myself to work less.

A: And before?

P: Before I worked much longer and much more.

A: Which was the best time for you to work?

P: Late in the evening. In fact still now. I can still do it when I get up at 10:00 a.m. and start working.

He had a myocardial infarct. Medorrhinum is also a heart remedy, because they work with their heart. The remedy is not in the rubric "angina pectoris", but you should not forget Medorrhinum in myocardial infarct and angina pectoris.

A: Do you think the evening is the best time for you to work?

P: Yes.

A: Because you can concentrate much better?

P: Probably.

A: In general do you feel better in the evening?

P: Mentally, yes.

A: Is this a general characteristic of yours?

P: I suppose so, yes.

A: In which position do you sleep?

P: I don't know. Usually I wake up on the left side.

A: And to fall asleep?

P: I don't know.

A: You never sleep on the abdomen?

P: No.

A: Can you sleep on your abdomen?

P: No.

A: You couldn't?

P: No, in fact not.

A: Do you still have this general sadness?

P: Now and then. I felt this after a few days in Manila. I had the same feeling as before.

A: The tendency to weep?

P: Yes.

When they are depressed they are very, very melancholic. A very deep, heavy, weepy melancholy.

A: What about the vesicles on the lips?

P: They have appeared again the last week.

A: Do you think that this causes a stitching pain sometimes?

P: Yes.

Just like the businessman he has stitching pain before the vesicles appear and this stitching pain disappears as soon as the vesicles appear.

A: We could say that essentially you are a real workaholic, a little bit addicted to work?

P: Yes, that's right. It is not a nice word, but it is right.

A: You are a person who pushes on, at least on the professional level. Do people say that you are a hurried person?

P: Yes, that's right.

A: Can you describe this?

P: It is not easy. I think that I have very little patience, although I can be patient for many things. Maybe it depends on the situation. At work it has to go on of course. I like to see results very quickly. For many people certain things can be done slowly, but not for me.

A: Are you also in a hurry when you go somewhere?

P: Yes, but usually because of the circumstances, because I don't have so much time.

A: Were you frightened before you flew to Manila?

P: Yes.

A: Did you have an anxious feeling with it?

P: Yes. Of course it was not so easy and the circumstances were more difficult. One week before we took off there was a strike and then you don't know beforehand whether you will fly or not.

A: You are excessively sensitive, hypersensitive. That's a fact.

P: Yes.

A: Is there another side of your character besides this being stone hard on the professional level?

P: I don't know. I don't think this is so strong in me. I know people who are much harder than me on the professional level. I will give you an example: If somebody from the choir doesn't come to the rehearsal, although I need him badly, I won't throw him out immediately, I'm not stone hard. Other people could do this easily.

A: I don't know, I'm just asking you.

Can you become annoyed, very angry?

P: It doesn't happen so often, but it might happen sometimes.

A: You also complained about dandruff in your hair. Do you still have this?

P: I haven't noticed it lately. I still have some itching. I had a lot of eruptions, but this has gone.

Do you know the rubric "dandruff"? Medorrhinum is second degree.

A: Have you ever been so depressed that you had suicidal thoughts?

P: You have asked me this several times, but I never had.

Sometimes the depression goes so far that they have suicidal thoughts.

Look at the rubric on page 85:

MIND, suicidal disposition: ... med ...

The businessman said a few years ago that he was so depressed that he would like to shoot himself.

Medorrhinum is in the rubric on page 85:

MIND, suicidal disposition, shooting, by: ... med ...

A: How is your stool?

P: It is normal, but I have to take linseed every day, otherwise I have problems with it. A few weeks ago I had diarrhea, but it was not worth talking about.

What is typical for the constipation of Medorrhinum? How do they have to sit on the toilet?

Audience: They have to lean backward.

A: You also had kidney colic?

P: I think it was accompanied by bladder inflammation, but I don't know exactly. I think it was an inflammation. Anyway there was colic, and then the stones came out.

A: Do you have warts or things like that?

P: I have a big wart on my thigh, but I have had it for quite a long time.

A: The urine is normal. There is no problem on this level?

P: No.

A: Can you walk barefoot easily or do you have sensitive feet? Many people cannot walk on the stones at the beach.

P: I can, but nevertheless I think I have sensitive foot-soles.

Does everybody know this keynote, yes?

They have sensitive, sore, tender foot-soles and therefore they can't walk barefoot. They like to be near the sea, but they cannot walk barefoot through the sand.

P: I think you want me to confirm that I have sensitive foot-soles. Is this important?

A: Yes, this is important.

Where do you feel best when you go on holiday?

P: It is difficult, because I haven't been on holiday for 5, 6 years.

A: Do you like the mountains? Or where do you feel the best?

P: Surely not in the mountains. Maybe at the sea, the beach.

A: Is Manila close to the sea?

P: Yes. We have been at a completely isolated beach for two days and I felt very well there.

A: Do you think that the sea has a peaceful influence? That you feel better in general?

P: I think so, although I have had very few experiences.

When these people are looking at or describing the sea a very romantic feeling comes up. Also when they see flowers, "Oh, how beautiful!" Just like Antimonium crudum becomes very romantic in moonlight.

P: I think I'm too lazy to climb in the mountains.

A: Sometimes you can become very depressed when you think about your state?

P: Yes.

A: As you told me during the last consultation sometimes you can sit and think, and by thinking about your general state and your situation you become depressed?

P: Yes. Of course this is a very general expression.

A: You told me that you wept while thinking about the unpleasant things in your life.

P: Yes.

A: All right, but this is not so important. This doesn't come into play now.

How are you doing after your myocardial infarct, with the shortness of breath?

Do you still have problems since then?

P: No. Sometimes I have a kind of cramping feeling. I don't know whether it has something to do with it. I have a feeling of pressure on my breast. I also have pain. Sometimes I think the pain comes from the heart. I don't know exactly, whether it has something to do with the heart attack.

A: What do you prefer to eat?

P: This is a difficult question. In fact, I'm not so interested in food.

A: You are too creative to occupy yourself with food?

P: I think so.

A: Maybe bread, cheese and apples?

P: Yes, it might be.

A: Which apples, for example?

P: This is probably a coincidence, but lately I like pears a lot.

A: Do you eat other fruit?

P: When it is there by coincidence I eat it.

If you observe him very closely you see a kind of romantic view.

P: I don't know whether this is important, but I lost three kilos.

A: Here I wrote down that you eat two or three oranges at night. What do you mean?

P: This might date from the time I slept very badly. When I got out of bed and there were oranges I ate two or three oranges.

A: Do you still eat them at the moment?

P: I haven't eaten them the last four weeks, because I don't wake up at night anymore.

It might happen that the strong desire, for example, for oranges disappears after the remedy and comes back later.

A: Here it says, "Likes fruit a lot."

P: I mean that I pay much more attention to my food the last few years.

A: Do you also like to eat sweets?

P: Yes, sometimes I do. Before I didn't. I like pralines and so on.

A: This is an important symptom. The peeling of the hands, also the dandruff on the head. Since when do you have hair falling?

P: It started at the age of 26, 27, maybe earlier. Then I haven't had hair falling for quite a long time and now I have more hair falling the last few weeks.

A: Did your father also have hair falling at a young age?

P: Yes. It's a family trait, although both my brothers don't have it so strongly. One has it rather strongly, but the other less. I have it the strongest.

A: Do you have other complaints at the moment?

P: Not at the moment. Some pain in the back. It might be by coincidence.

A: What is important is the peeling and that you feel well in general.

The swelling of the ankles disappeared very quickly?

P: Yes.

A: Do you think that the ankles also swell while standing for quite a long time?

P: Yes, in the evening, but in fact I don't pay so much attention to it. I never observed this, although I stand the whole day.

A: All right.

According to his wife he is a very difficult man. All these people are usually very difficult at home, very egoistic. I don't know whether Medorrhinum is in the rubric "egotism". - Yes, it is there. It is very difficult to live with them, because they live by their passions. A woman who lives with this man has a wonderful time as long as they have sex, but at home she suffers from his character.

Up until the end of 1987 he was in the Center a few times because of kidney colic and since the beginning of 1988, after Medorrhinum, he hasn't had colic anymore.

We saw a few cases of patients with hair falling.

I forgot to tell you something about the appearance of young Medorrhinum patients. These are young patients, this means 20, 30 years old, they are lean people and they wear white socks. This is the classical appearance of young people who are in a sycotic state. They are very thin, pale and they always wear white socks, or white with red. I don't know why, but it is a kind of sycotic expression. And they walk like a woman, they behave in a very female way. Often they have long hair, usually they are not shaved and very often they wear white shoes. Often they wear very fine shoes, these Italian shoes. This is the classical appearance of Medorrhinum.

Question: Does this only apply for men?

A : I don't have so much experience with women and I think it occurs less often than in men. Or don't you believe this?

I can only tell you what I have seen.

Question: Do you have the experience that in the family history of Medorrhinum patients there are very early heart-attacks?

A : No, not that I know of.

I think Medorrhinum has to be added in many rubrics of the Repertory. Boericke describes the best Medorrhinum picture you can ever find. He describes: "Sensibility exhalted. Intensity of all sensations." He also describes the renal colic and the nocturnal enuresis. You know the falling out of the eyelashes. Restlessness in the legs is also an important Medorrhinum symptom. As well as in Tuberculinum bovinum Kent you find enlarged tonsils in Medorrhinum, together with the sycotic symptom of a dirty nose syndrome and the open mouth breathing.

Another particular symptom in women is the coldness of the mammae and further the menses are difficult to wash out.

Clarke gives the advice to use the nosodes exactly the same way as all the other remedies according to their indications and not mainly for manifestations of the disease from which they are derived. Don't use the name nosodes, but use the name Psorinum, Medorrhinum, Tuberculinum bovinum Kent and prescribe upon the modalities and the pictures and not because the patient has had gonorrhea once.

They are better in the evening, worse in the morning. These people are never refreshed in the morning, they like to stay in bed longer.

They also have the delusion somebody is behind them, as if in a dream and the fear of insanity and fear of dark is very strong in Medorrhinum.

Remark: It is not in the rubric "fear of insanity".

A : I think it is in the rubric on page 28

MIND, delusions, insane that she will become

insane, that she will become : Acon., calc., cann-i., chel., Cimic., lil-t., manc., med., merc., nat-m., tanac.

Indeed, it is not in the rubric "fear of insanity". I forgot to tell you this.

It is more difficult to recognize this remedy if there is no gonorrhea in the history of the patient. In none of the cases which we saw up to now has the patient had gonorrhea and notwithstanding this you see that they needed this remedy. The businessman never had a gonorrheal discharge or inflammation of the urethra although he has had a lot of sexual intercourse with many girls.

Remark: ...warts on the thigh, there is only one remedy: Medorrhinum.

A : Good. This is only Medorrhinum.

Question: ... (not understandable)

A : I didn't look for that.

The differential diagnosis with Natrum muriaticum is also not easy under certain circumstances; for example, in this case you could also observe a crack in the middle of the lower lip and often they have aphthae in the mouth, aphthae on the inside of the lips and the inside of the cheeks. Also because of the hypersensitivity you have the tendency to prescribe Natrum muriaticum and as you can see in this patient here, they have a reserved appearance. When they are well-educated they can give you an appearance of Natrum muriaticum. It is a very important differential diagnosis.

Very often I have missed Medorrhinum and instead I prescribed Nux vomica, Argentum nitricum, Lycopodium clavatum, Natrum muriaticum and Mercurius. I also made wrong prescriptions with Pulsatilla and Kali carbonicum and of course with Staphisagria, because they are so sensitive.

Remark: The sexual activity is not ... (not understandable)

A : The sexual activity and the sexual desire is usually very strong, but you can also find impotency.

Also Phosphorus can be a very difficult differential diagnosis, because Medorrhinum, like Phosphorus, can have red hair often and if you talk with them you feel good, there is good contact quickly. They are not so sympathetic, but when they notice that you are interested in them they can open up and you can feel their heart, their softness. Then you think of Phosphorus and you easily miss Medorrhinum.

Question: What about the familial occurrence? If a child needs Medorrhinum what about the others?

A : As we see in Sulphur, Phosphorus and all the other remedies it is the same with Medorrhinum. The apple never falls far from the tree. I'm sure you also had the experience, for example, when you know the remedy of the father and you look at the child you see that it needs the same remedy. This is so with every remedy and also with Medorrhinum.

Question: Is there anything particular for Medorrhinum in children?

A : Yes, typically the strongest symptom is the sleeping position, the knee-elbow position. A second strong symptom is the sycotic tendency with the nose and the eyes, discharges from nose and eyes, agglutinated eyes.

What is the most important symptom in newborn children?

The dermatitis about the nates. Boericke describes, "Fiery red rash about anus in babies". The first remedy in dermatitis about the anus is Medorrhinum, and when they are sleeping on their knees, it is surely Medorrhinum.

In eczema it is very important that they scratch until it is bleeding. If somebody does this you have to take that rubric and no other, like for example, "scratches until it is raw", but "scratches until it bleeds". There you see Medorrhinum and some other remedies like Ledum palustre, Chloralum, Psorinum, Arsenicum and some others, but it is very typical for Medorrhinum.

Another thing which is not in the Repertory is the open mouth breathing. They are breathing through the mouth and they always have thick lips. Because of the constant open mouth breathing, the lips became swollen.

Later on we will see another case where Medorrhinum cured the problem and afterwards the child developed towards Calcarea, became fat and changed to Tuberculinum bovinum Kent. This is the development you may find in children.

CASE6

Depression, sleeplessness

Medorrhinum

Man, 45 years old

P: Before I was in treatment with a psychiatrist.

A: When were you here the last time?

P: In August 1970. Before I came here I was still in treatment with the psychiatrist. He asked me where I had been in treatment and I said, "I have been in treatment for migraines with Dr. Geukens." But I didn't go on explaining, because I didn't want to tell all the details. I said, "Lately I can't sleep at night. I have depression. I can't work anymore." We didn't discuss the other things. I said, "I want to be honest, I also told Dr. Geukens. I also see Dr. F, and if you start asking me things about the past I must tell you that I'm here for that reason. In fact I go to the doctor to feel better." That's the way I tell him.

I also came here for the homosexuality, and probably I got a tablet for that.

In fact I don't trust doctors a lot. Immediately they give you tablets. But this time I think he was very, very sympathetic. He gave me such a human impression. Fortunately I wasn't ill.

He went to a psychiatrist for his depression and he also told him that he is in treatment with homeopathy. I wanted to know what the psychiatrist said about the Center so that I know whether he is positive or negative towards homeopathy.

P: I was here on December 1.

A: You received a tablet. But you didn't take it.

P: No. Not on Friday, but I think on Saturday, it was on December 6.

A: You left here and the next day you felt well without taking this tablet.

P: Yes. I can't describe it rationally, although I still feel it. It comes in periods.

I think you feel here a lot of - I don't know how I should call this. It is a very particular person sitting in front of you.

P: Lately I can sleep well. I go to bed at 10:30, 11:00 p.m. and I can get up in the morning very well. I sleep the night through. But it is still all over me. Sometimes I think quietly, "Hmm, I wish I didn't have to go to work anymore. When I'm retired I can do what I like to do." I think work is not good for me. I don't want to take this responsibility anymore.

A: Now we will try to be objective.

You came here and you said, "I've been depressed for 14 days. I don't dare to do anything, my self-confidence has gone." And you wept very easily.

P: I was very, very sensitive.

A: At the slightest thing you watched on television you started weeping. Also here you were very emotional.

P: Yes.

He was so sad and he was weeping during the consultation. It is very difficult to take Medorrhinum patients on video during the first consultation, it is inhuman, because they are so sensitive.

He came for depression, was very sad, weeping, his life didn't make sense anymore, he had anticipating fears, his self-confidence was gone and he couldn't sleep anymore. These were the main complaints for which he came.

The anticipating fears are very strong in Medorrhinum. Normally you should think of Lycopodium clavatum and Argentum nitricum, also Arsenicum and Gelsemium have this symptom, but Medorrhinum is a very important remedy in anticipating fears, also in fainting. The people are in such a hurry that they can't wait at the cashier in a shop. They are in such a hurry that they get the feeling they will faint. The fainting and the fear of fainting are very strong in Medorrhinum. But we will discuss this later.

Anyhow this was the situation in this patient. He expresses his feelings very intensely, and you should not forget that he is homosexual. This is also a symptom which makes me think of Medorrhinum.

A: How is the enormous insecurity and the hypersensitivity at the moment?

P: At the moment it is surely not worse, but I don't know whether it has improved, because at work I let things go their way. I think, "I have worked very hard for 25, 26 years." Sick leave is no solution, but I don't wear myself out anymore. Do you understand?

A: Yes, yes. But what about the deep depression?

P: Well, I think it is better. I tell myself automatically I have no reason to be depressed. When things are not good, well, they are not good for a while.

Yesterday I went with my niece to look at a house. She wants to marry and to buy a house of 2.000.000 B.F. She begged me to come with her. I told myself, "Well, in fact, it's not so difficult for me. If I would be in her situation then I would have a reason to be depressed."

A: You tell yourself that there is no reason to be depressed. You can influence yourself a little bit, can't you?

P: Yes, I can tell this myself.

A: There must be a clear step so that you could get out of this situation yourself.

Before you came here you couldn't sleep for 14 days?

P: No, I woke up at 3:00 a.m. and then I couldn't sleep anymore.

A: Now you have the energy to pick up.

P: Yes, yes, I can sleep. Last week I woke up earlier in the morning, but I could sleep through more frequently.

A: More nights?

P: Yes, really, I must admit.

A: What about the anxieties? You told me that you didn't dare to go to work and you are a department manager, aren't you?

P: I'm a social worker. I have an inferior job. There is a director and then two departments, a psychological and a social. I'm one of the ten employees. When I'm honest I must admit that in fact I've never been a social person. I never dared to do things and compensated in my life. I've become a social worker because I thought that I was too little engaged socially; so a kind of searching to solve my own problem, so the same way many people become a psychologist to solve their own problems. Then you can live a situation very well. It has its advantages, but also disadvantages, namely that you are not social or dynamic enough. I compensated my weakness in this way, I covered it up. People always told me, "You are such a social, active person." But in fact I'm not. Even the psychologist who has to treat me hasn't noticed it yet. In fact I should do it, but I never dared to engage myself on the social level and to appear in public. Now that I've become older I don't have the power to resist things. Before I also didn't like to do it, but maybe I would have gotten up my courage. Now I don't have the energy to do it. Now I already have fear beforehand.

A: Anticipating fears.

P: Yes, exactly. And this is not good. Does this have something to do with my age?

A: At that time I didn't take you on video, therefore we can't compare the pictures, but you told me, "God dammed I don't dare to do anything." That's what you said, didn't you?

P: Yes.

A: You also told me that you didn't dare to go to work. How is the intensity of those anxieties compared to before?

P: I think it is better at the moment. I think it has improved. I haven't experienced anything in that sense. If I had to hold a lecture at this moment I could compare this. I don't know how I would feel. In May it is my turn, but maybe somebody else will do it in my place. I tell myself, "Let things go. Every day has its own worries, why should I worry beforehand?"

A: You theorize and rationalize a lot, don't you?

P: Yes.

Do you see how difficult the differential diagnosis is with Lycopodium clavatum? From his appearance he could be Lycopodium clavatum, but you can't find real haughtiness in this man. Maybe he is also a little bit like Sulphur, a little bit like Phosphorus and you feel clearly a deep effort to be honest. This is not Lycopodium clavatum.

A: What about the emotionality? We know that you are a very sensitive person by character, in fact hypersensitive.

P: Yes, yes.

A: Is this a characteristic of yours?

P: Yes, absolutely.

A: From childhood on? Has this always been so?

P: Yes, hypersensitive, and I have always been a doubter. I thought that the ideas of other people were important. I always looked up to people, "They know better, these are studied people". Sensitive, inferior, doubting.

Which remedy is the biggest for "lack of self-confidence"?

Audience: Lycopodium clavatum.

Audience: Silicea

Audience: Pulsatilla

A : I think Baryta carbonica is the strongest remedy in lack of self-confidence.

On which level do we find this lack of self-confidence in Baryta carbonica?

On the mental level. The reason for everything we find in Baryta carbonica is the lack of mental capacities, of mental possibilities.

This patient talks and theorizes a lot, but you feel clearly a strong emotionality. Lycopodium clavatum is much more mental and not so much with the heart.

The strong emotionality and the anticipating fears let us swing between Lycopodium clavatum and Argentum nitricum. The first remedy in anticipating fears is Argentum nitricum, the second is Lycopodium clavatum and the third is Gelsemium. But usually Gelsemium is easier to recognize because of the weakness, the heaviness of the limbs and the trembling.

If you don't know which remedy to choose in strong anticipating fears, whether Lycopodium clavatum or Argentum nitricum is the right remedy, you have to think of Medorrhinum.

P: The problem with which I've been confronted was taboo, but it cost me a lot of energy. It is terrible. I experienced all this myself, but I can't really imagine how much I suffered from this. You always look back to the past and say, "Well yes, this misery is forgotten now", but when I consider this from an objective point of view I must have suffered a lot from it.

A: There are still people who suffer a lot from the fact that they are homosexual.

P: Yes, I do. This still worries me a lot. I haven't found anybody and things like that.

When I'm healthy I'm in perfect health. The migraine was always a low point and afterwards I felt as fit as a fiddle. I heard and saw much more intensely and I could argue and observe well. The doctor also told me, "Do you know that many geniuses suffered from migraine?" I said, "I don't want to be a genius, but I really have good ideas after a migraine."

When he feels healthy he is in perfect health. Everything is very intense, also his health, a very sycotic health.

P: Active and dynamic on all levels, also on the sexual level.

I asked him about his sexual feelings and he said, "Oh doctor! When I do it" - he means masturbating - "after 24 hours I feel like masturbating again. Where does this end?" That's why he suppresses it. His sexual desire is very strong, but different from Bufo. Bufo has not an emotional sexual desire, Bufo has a physical sexual desire, there is no connection with the heart. Here, in this patient it is different.

P: And there you are, because you don't have any other possibility. I don't say that this would be a solution; probably because I have the character and the temperament of my father. If I would indulge, the same desire would appear after 24 hours. Maybe it is better not to. Otherwise I would indulge more and more and I would occupy myself constantly with sexual thoughts.

I must tell you that I have fewer migraines lately, but it was also typical that the migraine was less at the time of the depression. From the end of December until now, so for two months, I haven't had any migraine, but also not these peak hours. Only last Saturday I had to vomit bile. I had to go to a workshop. I didn't sleep well the night before and then I had to hurry, because I got stuck in a traffic-jam and I wanted to talk to all of them. Lunch was very bad at noon. At home we eat very healthy. Everything is grown naturally. I have been in a hurry for some days.

A: More hurried than ever?

P: Yes, before I was more depressed. Now it is more in the region of the chest, so that I thought, "If I'm not careful now I will have a heart attack", I was so excited.

An internal hurriedness, this is typical for Medorrhinum.

Look at the rubric on page 52:

HURRY : Acon., aloe., alum., ambr., anan., apis., arg-n., ars-i., ars., aur., bar-c., bell., benz-ac., bov., bry., cact., calad., calc-s., calc., camph., cann-i., canth., caps., carb-an., carb-s., carb-v., cocc., coff., con., crot-c., dig., dulc., graph., grat., hep., hyos.,ign., iod., kali-ar., kali-c., kali-p., kali-s., lach., laur., Lil-t., lyc., Med., meny., Merc., merl., morph., mosch., nat-a., nat-c., Nat-m., nat-p., nux-v., op., ox-ac., ph-ac., phos., ptel., puls., sep., stram., Sul-ac., Sulph., sumb., Tarent., thuj., verat., viol-t.

MIND, hurry: ... Lil-t, ... Med, ... Merc, ... Nat-m, ...

Sulph, ... Sul-ac, ... Tarent

Also Argentum nitricum is in a hurry when he has an appointment. Together with the anticipating fears you have to consider this remedy as a differential diagnosis.

P: I remember that you told me that I had to receive new energy, but in fact I always thought that I had too much energy.

A: Exactly.

P: I have enough energy. Basically I'm more concerned about the fact that I'm so asocial, more about my personality than the physical symptoms. Maybe it is because of the tablet I received from you. Do you understand?

During the first days I felt good, but then I said ...

A: "... I wished I didn't take it."

P: Yes. Do you understand this? It is not against you, but it is because I always think so much. I think that I'm like my father. He is 76 years old and has a lot of energy. In fact I have the temperament and the force and the physical constitution of my father. I was thinking, "By nature I'm strong enough on the physical level, and if I would feel happy and have good relationships with other people... but I think I have too much. Do you understand?

A: Yes. You think that this feeling of internal hurriedness is an aggravation on this level.

P: You asked me whether I had warm footsoles, but I didn't know then. Now, at certain moments the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands are really warm. I only noticed this after you asked me. I even have hot feet. I thought, "Maybe I have too much energy." I don' t know.

A: Your energy is what we call "sycotic". The energy is not in balance. It might be that you are too excessive, that you have a lack of energy in the sense that you can't calm down.

So this is the way of case-taking. The patient comes with anticipating fears. He has an anxiety to go to work. We are looking for the rubric and look at the remedies: Argentum nitricum. Is this an Argentum nitricum personality with the typical suddenness, the impulses? No.

Is this Lycopodium clavatum? Is this somebody who's talking a lot, tries to explain everything and theorizes? Yes, it could be; only his feelings are too strong to fit a Lycopodium clavatum picture.

Or is this Gelsemium? Or Baryta carbonica? Baryta carbonica does not only have anticipating fears, they have anxiety, like Calcarea carbonica, and we don't find this strong emotionality in Baryta carbonica.

You see how we can differentiate personalities and conclude that it is Medorrhinum: anticipating fears, hurry and then these very intense feelings. These are very sensitive, very refined people on the emotional and sexual level.

A: In fact we call this an "overreaction". In our professional terminology we call it "sycotic". This means that they are too active and it's difficult for them to calm down.

Do you see the reflection of the light in his face?

This means that he has a greasy face. If you see something like that you look in the rubric on page 375:

FACE, greasy

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

This is a very important rubric.

A: In fact a hyperkinetic child can't calm down. The child is not in balance. You could say, "This child has too much energy, but it is not strong enough to come into balance."

P: It was the same at work. I always occupied myself with this and that. For example, I always find something interesting to read. Then I say to myself, "Leave it, you can do this at home, now you have to work." Always this stupid work. If I could tell myself that when I read technical things it is also working. But to me it seems to be prohibited. I can't.

A: You are almost a slave to your work.

P: Yes, yes, exactly, and I must always have concrete results. In fact this is not healthy. I want to put everything on paper, to make plans and so on. On the contrary other people read for two hours at work and then they say, "Today I have very little to do." I become angry about this. Sometimes I don't have anything to do, but I cannot sit quietly and study.

A: You haven't answered the question yet whether you are still so hyperemotional.

P: Do you mean that I weep easily?

No, I don't think it is as bad as before. It still was during the first days. In the evening when I entered my bedroom I told myself, "Please cry!" And then I started crying. I thought, "Surely it is not bad when you let yourself go." The first minutes after crying I feel relieved.

A: Do you cry less now?

P: Yes, a lot less.

He says that he feels better the first minutes after he has cried, this means that weeping ameliorates.

On page 93 you see the remedies which have the symptom weeping ameliorates.

MIND, weeping, ameliorates symptoms: ... lyc, med, ...

ameliorates symptoms : Anac., colch., cycl., dig., graph., ign., lyc., med., merc., nit-ac., phos., plat., sep., tab.

A: You also told me that you are religious.

P: Yes.

A: Can you tell me something about this?

P: Regularly I go to church, I pray regularly. Lately I pray a lot, I must say. Two years ago they removed one breast of my sister-in-law, my brother has three children, the mine was closed down, it was not easy financially. Before, my sister-in-law had worked a few hours a day, now she can't anymore. I know that the first five years after an amputation of the breast are very critical. I prayed for that and did my duty. I never told anybody, but I firmly resolved to pray a chaplet every day for half a year, and I still do, every evening, even when I'm as tired as can be. I always pray the same prayers, every day a chaplet for half an hour, personal prayers, Our Father. I pray for certain persons or certain problems. When I see something on television then I start praying. I would like the world to be better. God helps the people who die suddenly, so that the family will be all right. I don't pray just like that, but I have a certain goal. I wish that my brother and his wife have a good future.

I think you can feel the way his feelings come to the surface, loaded with emotions. It is not the loquaciousness of Lachesis or Cimicifuga, it is a very emotional loquaciousness.

The background for the frequent masturbation in these people is the excessive energy, the sycotic energy. If we would do what they do we would be groggy for one week. They have the capacity to do it because they have a special energy for it, even though it is unhealthy.

P: I know the Magnificat, the Te Deum by heart. I say prayers of thanks and some other prayers and every time I have other ideas. Maybe the children didn't succeed in their examinations, maybe it is good, but in fact you don't know what is good in life.

I pray a lot. I think about everything, I have a lot of scruples. Now I'm also a little bit engaged in politics, before I occupied myself with politics for quite a long time. Now I'm engaged again and I thought, "I can't bear this showing off, I have to take my responsibility concerning politics." For some people it is a kind of hobby, but not for me. When I just go to a meeting and I can't contribute anything, can't say anything then it doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't mean anything to me. I have to take up a position and political responsibility. Now I'm in the local council, but I don't know whether this is of any use for the society. I'm too sensitive and I made the decision that I won't make any compromises in politics anymore. I'm honest, I tell my opinion and the others protect themselves. In fact I'm not a social person. When I want to do something for other people I dedicate myself to nursing the sick, I visit sick people or things like that. Socially I'm not so social, but I can get along very well with individual persons whom I know, for example, my aunts, my uncles and so on. I can appreciate that. I can sympathize very well with individuals. I would also put one's affairs in order, talk with them and so on. Individually I'm very well on the social level, but then this conflict appears again that I have to do something on a broader, political social level. Then I say, "You are not good for that, why do you do this again?" This is a kind of feeling, a kind of duty, but when this is not your personality, it is not right, then it becomes too much. This would be exactly the same if I would marry. In fact I should say I can do this and that and I want to engage myself for it and further nothing else. Then I feel differently about this, then I'm chosen again and I got stuck to it, but in fact that does not square with my character.

Maybe I'm talking too much?

A: It is good. You express your way of life very well. You are also sympathetic. This sympathy towards an old lady is no comedy.

P: No, this is really true. I feel happy, for example, when I can fill out the papers for the taxes. I'm satisfied when I can do something for people. I have the need to do this. I think, "Well, I'm not a superman so that people have to carry me on their hands." This is absolutely no comedy. I wouldn't do anything to have more votes. Before I was so conscientious that I even quit my job as a teacher in my own village, so that they cannot reproach me that I had this job to get more votes. No, I can really say that I earned these votes. I have always separated work from politics. I have always said, "I'm sorry, now I'm at work, if you want something you have to call me at home." Maybe this is not modern, but partly it would become absurd. In fact it is ridiculous when somebody calls me at work concerning politics and by coincidence I have five spare minutes to talk and when I say, "No, it has to be separated." In fact I act out of principle. On the other hand I also think that I am too self critical for certain things.

A: You always reproach yourself.

P: Yes, exactly. Oh dear, you took all this on video.

A: This is only for doctors.

P: O.K. , then it is all right.

A: This will only be shown to doctors and then we will discuss which homeopathic remedy you need.

I don't know whether he ever had sexual contact, I don't think so, but he has a very strong desire to masturbate. It is a completely different kind of person we would expect when we think of Medorrhinum. In Medorrhinum we think of people with a very strong sycotic energy, who live at night and so on. He also has a very strong sycotic energy, but in a positive, moral way. He is always wondering whether he did enough good things, whether he can help other people and so on. This doesn't correspond to the Medorrhinum picture at all, in no way.

A: You just told me that you have the impression that you feel very much in a hurry after the remedy.

P: Yes.

A: What do you mean? In which sense?

P: I think it is the way you said, that I excite myself because of anticipating fears. Excited concerning what is going to happen and of what am I afraid.

A: Are you also in a hurry at work?

P: Yes, in fact I am.

A: Can you do something in peace?

P: No, in fact I can't. Sometimes when I know that I don't have worries. I just worry too much. How should I explain this? I can be quiet when the thing which is going to happen doesn't give any problems. I would say it this way. Then I can sit quietly. In fact I should live from day to day, without having fear of something beforehand. But when I have to do something which I don't like to do then I'm anxious beforehand. The picture of the unpleasant thing which is going to happen appears before my eyes and I become excited because of this.

The internal hurriedness seems to be connected with the anticipation fears. If he has to do something which he is afraid of then he gets the internal feeling to be in a hurry.

P: But normally I can work quietly; hard and quietly, just go on and on. For example, I would postpone making coffee, and do this or that first, but I'm not in a hurry. It is only related to work. This kind of work really is a burden upon my shoulders and I don't see how it will work. I have too much work. I often said that you have to make clear arrangements, what one would do. Recently I talked about this with the inspector and he also said that at the moment everybody does something else in the social therapeutic institution. In one department they do this and in the other they do that. In fact you don't know which directions you have to follow. So many things are done, but there is not a real thread.

I think there should be minimal plans which express a certain picture. But one person does this, the other that, and in fact you don't know what happens. I would like to make plans, but I can't make priorities. I can't say, "I will do this and then nothing." The last two, three, four years I haven't been able to make priorities, I was bungling here and there. I just didn't know what was important and what was unimportant.

A: Did you sleep on your abdomen?

P: No, on my back.

A: Here it says, "abdomen".

P: No, usually on my back. Lately, now and then, if couldn't sleep I turned to this or that side, sometimes on my abdomen; but mostly on my back.

Here I underlined that he slept on his abdomen.

A: To fall asleep?

P: Yes. I remain on my back and when I don't fall asleep immediately, I turn to my side, but normally I can sleep very well on my back. That's the way I did it lately. Maybe this is a habit or because of my scoliosis, because they say that it is best to lie on the back. Or I lie on one or the other side and I put my arm under the side, so that my back won't be pushed further.

I'm always rationalizing. On one hand I'm very emotional, on the other hand I'm constant rationalizing. That's a duality in me. Then I lay this way and I am theorizing, "Because of the scoliosis it is better to lie in this or that position, so that my back won't be pushed further." In fact I'm constantly thinking and on the other hand I'm emotional. I think I live a situation too intensely. There are people who just live senseless and shiftless, just ordinary, normal people. I think I make myself ill.

A: You can't change anything about the fact that you are this way.

P: I don't know whether anything can be done about this.

A: So, usually you sleep on your back?

P: Yes.

A: And often you lie on your abdomen?

P: Seldom, very seldom.

A: Can you sleep on your abdomen?

P: No, in fact not. Then I don't know where I have to put my head. I have a double scoliosis and I imagine that it will be more curved when I lie on the abdomen, then I prefer to lie on my back.

A: What about the feet?

P: I make sure I have nice warm feet before I go to bed.

When I had this migraine I had icy cold feet. Then I had to get up two to three times. But usually I make sure I have warm feet in the evening. My father always said - and I'm convinced - that you can sleep well then.

A: But your feet are not too warm?

P: No, no.

A: You only got hot feet and hands after the remedy.

P: Yes. Maybe I paid too much attention to this, but I had the feeling that it was this way.

A: And what about your appetite? Do you like chocolate?

P: Very little. Fourteen days ago I ate a very little piece of chocolate, but in fact I don't eat chocolate. The last few weeks I ate a little bit of chocolate sometimes.

Does this have something to do with the tablet? Sometimes I had a desire for chocolate.

A: What about fruit?

P: I like to eat apples.

A: Do you eat apples regularly?

P: I like them very much.

A: What kind of apples?

P: At home we had these natural apples. Now I eat Jona Gold. In the evening I regularly eat an apple, I prefer an apple to a pear. I learned this from my aunt. She also likes to eat an apple in the evening. She is my father's sister, she lives near the sea. She is over 80 years old.

A: Do you drive there regularly?

P: Yes, before I regularly drove there, but not the last two years. Now and then two, three times a year together with my parents during the weekend or the holidays. I really feel good there! Oh, the sea air, walking on the beach, all alone against the wind. This is superb! I haven't been there for 1 1/2 years. How should I say. I don't have the opportunity now. But I like the sea air, the whole nature.

A: And what about the mountains?

P: I also like them a lot. But in the past a few times I got migraine in the mountains, high above in the mountains where the air is much thinner. Maybe because there is less oxygen. I have had a severe migraine in Tyrol once or twice.

A: Did you ever have migraine at the sea?

P: It might have happened once or twice, but I don't think so. I think it was less there. At the sea there is more oxygen, isn't there?

A: It is very nice that you are so open and that you can tell something about yourself. This is very important for our job. Now you will receive your tablet in a tube to take home.

P: Do I have to take it now?

A: No. You told me that you felt better at the moment and especially you sleep well. That is the most important thing. If somebody sleeps better, this is a fundamental improvement.

P: Oh yes, I was worried about this as well. This was the biggest problem.

A: Before you couldn't sleep. Now you will get the tablet in a tube to take home. I guarantee you, when you become depressed again the remedy will cure this I'm completely sure. Don't take it now. You put the tube in a cupboard. I think you will be all right for quite a long time. In case you become depressed again, and this lasts for more than one week, you take the remedy.

P: So I will take it only then. Don't we have to make another appointment?

A: No, it doesn't make any sense. This remedy must give you more power, more energy so that you can help yourself.

P: So the first tablet you gave me, is this still working?

A: Of course. This will work for months, but it has to improve very slowly. If you see clearly a relapse you have to take the remedy again.

P: Also when I can't sleep anymore?

A: Yes, then you can take it as well.

P: All right.

I hope you felt what I wanted to show you. Many of these people have a very, very sensitive, positive attitude towards the world and only want the best thing for the world. That's what I wanted to show with this case.

CASE7

Anticipating fears, acne

Medorrhinum

Man, 40 years old

This man has come to the Center since 1983 and as stupid as I was I gave him Lycopodium clavatum because he had anticipating fears. He also had severe acne and he reacted relatively well to Lycopodium clavatum. The fears were better. I gave him Lycopodium clavatum only up to 50M and afterwards it didn't work anymore. That's what we see more often: we give a remedy and it works, but the higher the potency, the less it works. This means it was a superficial prescription. It was not a real deep acting remedy.

Besides I wasn't happy that the acne didn't improve much. Sometimes it was a little bit better and then it became worse again, but it was never the correct remedy. If a remedy works really deeply everything has to be better, the mental as well as the physical symptoms - at least after two years. Therefore I never felt happy with this patient. All right, he was doing better after Lycopodium clavatum, but I never really believed in this remedy, until he told me a little story through which I found the correct remedy.

He received the remedy some time ago and the acne has improved a lot. Before he had very thick, red pimples on the forehead.

A: You were anxious. You had to teach. Was this a kind of stage fright?

P: Yes. I still have these kind of anxieties with things which I don't know.

A: Can you describe this?

P: Well, it is a kind of stage fright.

A: An anxiety whenever you have to do something. Also while teaching?

P: Yes, for things which I can't plan beforehand, when I don't know what the result will be, I was anxious in these kind of situations.

A: Your wife can describe this a lot better. Can you describe when he was anxious?

WP: At that time it was bad, but I can't remember precisely when.

P: Let's suppose I have a problem and I have to start with it and I don't know beforehand how this will develop.

WP: Because he is a perfectionist. He doesn't want to do things half way. Then he becomes excited.

A: You couldn't teach in the school for quite a long time, you even had to stay at home. You couldn't work anymore.

P: I have worked in Germany for three weeks and I needed one week to recover at home. I took Valium and all kinds of medicines, but it didn't help at all. I even have had injections for a while.

A: This was the biggest problem.

P: Indeed. It was always accompanied with an urge for stool and urination. When I had this urge I became even more nervous.

A: What do you mean?

P: Because I was in a situation where I didn't feel well, then I had to urinate. I was wondering whether there were toilets nearby and then I became even more nervous. Finally, I was in a kind of panic situation.

A: What did you feel then?

P: Something had to happen or I had an outburst, as if I had to explode.

A: The anxiety, to undertake something, the anticipating fear, this was really the point, wasn't it?

P: Yes.

A: The second problem was the acne. The pimples were inflaMedorrhinum Since when did you have this?

P: Since I was 12 years old. It hasn't cleared up yet.

A: On the face you have acne with yellow pus, the pimples are inflamed and they become ulcers, especially behind the ear. This was a second problem which always reappeared.

P: The ulcers diminished. Also on the face they went away rather well. At the moment you can still see a little bit behind my ears, but even there they have gone for 1 1/2 weeks. Now, they have appeared again a little bit.

A: There was a third point. I asked you the question whether you had the tendency to take off your shoes.

P: Yes, I always did.

A: You always walk on your socks.

P: Yes.

A: You also have had this for quite a long time?

P: I always did.

A: And then this being in a hurry.

P: When I start something I'm afraid I can't finish things.

A: Is this still so?

P: I have worked in Germany for three weeks, I had an independent job. I had to fulfill certain tasks which they imposed, but nobody could control me because nobody knew what I did. Nevertheless I was excited and when I came home in the evening I had this breakdown. I had worn myself out so that I had to go to bed very early in the evening and in the morning I slept through.

I can't control myself. When I start working I just keep on working. When I feel like working, for example, like now, I can move mountains. In a few hours I can do as much as another person can do in a few days.

A: You also cried very easily. During the consultation I noticed it a few times.

P: Yes, I have the tendency to, but I like really crying in my own corner. I'm sad, but it is better lately. It has improved a lot. At the moment I'm so far that I can say, "Stay calm, there are so many things changing." At the moment I can't estimate what kind of problems I have. Besides, there is also the financial burden of the house. I don't know how my life situation will be in the near future. I had to teach here and there and I don't know where I will have a steady job and where I can stay. At the moment I'm not worried about this.

When they told me that I didn't get a steady class I told myself, "All right, I'll just teach and I won't be mad." Besides my teaching hasn't become worse. On the contrary, it is much easier for me to teach. Of course, it is a problem to get a grip on the pupils. Further I have the desire to do everything as well as possible, even better. Now I don't have this feeling anymore and I don't have the anxiety that the children don't learn enough with me.

I can perform my job easily. Yesterday they came with the request, "You have to be ready on March 31; there is a party and you have to be there." I have anxieties for these kind of things. Probably I have to dance with somebody and I'm not a good dancer. The fact that they will ask me to dance, these are critical situations. It still hinders me.

WP: And he always has to go alone.

P: Before, the teaching was a problem, but because I've always done this it has become almost a job. This is nothing special anymore. When I remember the day standing before class the first time, I needed a sheet of paper to hold onto badly. Now, this doesn't disturb me anymore.

Two or three years ago I had to hold a lecture for the parent's association.

A: For how many people?

P: 150 persons. If you stand before 150 persons suddenly, this might worry you. But because I've done this often, it doesn't disturb me so much.

A: I gave you a remedy a few times and you were doing rather well.

P: Yes, it was all right.

From 1984 until 1987 he was relatively good on Lycopodium clavatum, but as I already told you I was not satisfied with the remedy.

A: But this time I have the impression that it is working deeper on the mental level, because in fact you don't have difficulties anymore.

P: I think that the situations also play a role. If you know the situation of the past you have a different point of view of the whole situation. There are still the situations - for example, what I've just told you - when they ask me to come to the party, I still have an anxiety for what might happen. It is still so. It is still inside, but it isn't expressed so strongly anymore.

A: Which is the most sensitive part of your body?

P: My footsoles. There are other parts which are sensitive, but the footsoles are the worst. I can't bear anything at all there. I start trembling if you only touch them.

Where do you find this rubric?

On page 1189, the most sensitive parts are the soles of the foot.

EXTREMITIES, sensitive, foot, sole: ... Kali-c ... Lyc ...

Med ...

sole : Aloe., alum., ant-c., carb-v., Kali-c., Lyc., Med., mez., sabad., staph., zinc.

Don't forget Kali carbonicum. Kali carbonicum is capital in this rubric.

You know the soreness of the footsoles in Medorrhinum, so that they can't put their feet flat on the ground while walking. They have to walk on the edges of their feet.

Question: What do you mean with sensitive? Pain or tickling or what?

A : Pain. They are sensitive to everything, to touch. There is the rubric "sensitive" in the generalities and "sensitive to cold". The rubric "sensitive" in the generalities means, for example, sensitive to touch or can't stand tickling, but also a sore pain together with a swelling of the footsoles. They can't walk barefoot on the beach.

They do not only have hot feet, but also very sensitive footsoles. But be careful, if somebody tells you that he always has hot feet, because - at least in Belgium - many people have floor heat and then you may not use this as a symptom of course.

A: Are any parts of the foot painful?

P: Yes. I've read something about nerves in a book. Normally, there are nerve centers in the foot in a particular place, a plexus, and with me it is very hard.

A: Does this give you as many complaints as before?

P: Normally it doesn't cause me any complaints. Sometimes I have stitches for one or two days. Then I cut the part which is opened. I didn't have complaints with it this year.

A: Here it says that you like sweets.

P: This desire has diminished. I can control this much better. The last few days I let myself go. Maybe that's the reason I have more acne. But compared to before it has diminished. There couldn't be a bar of chocolate in the house or I would eat it. At the moment my daughters eat it, but I eat it moderately.

A: Was there one particular kind of fruit which you liked a lot?

P: Yes, at the moment mandarins.

A: Otherwise you liked oranges, didn't you?

P: Yes, but at the moment less. This desire comes from time to time.

A: How much do you eat when you are in such a period?

P: Mandarins? Until they are all gone. Instead of chocolate. Before it was chocolate. I don't have it in the house anymore. Now I eat mandarins. I can eat oranges, but only when somebody peels them for me. If my wife peels me one I eat one, but I won't peel one myself. Now and then I do it myself, but this happens very seldom. It's easier when I received it peeLedum palustre

A: I think you are on the right track at the moment.

P: I feel fine. I have good prospects. Probably I will get a job in the neighborhood. I hope I will have an independent job with the mechanics. I will keep my leading job, but at least I don't have to stand before uninteresting people and explain something to them. If you have to teach somebody who is uninterested all the time!

I tried to make something good out of it, but when the people are not interested it is just frustrating.

A: In what position do you sleep?

P: If I don't have any complaints I sleep on my back. I try to relax completely. Shortly after I was here, there were a few nights where I was thinking a lot. I had to sell the house, I didn't sell it yet. I have to start something new here.

Many questions and problems come to me, especially in the evening when I lie in bed. If everything is quiet the problems and the thoughts come up. Many nights I lay awake until two, three o'clock. First, I was anxious to go to the school director and ask him about the planning of the jobs, but after I lay awake many nights I decided to change something, otherwise I would have a break down. I went to the commandant and he gave me a positive answer. Now I'm like exchanged. (P. is laughing).

A: Do you still have to urinate from exertion?

P: Very seldom. There are still some delicate situations for me, for example, I still can't travel by bus. I can't conquer this matter. Recently my wife needed the car. I would rather take a holiday from work than go by bus. In the meantime this has become a fixed idea. If you would say, "Tomorrow you have to go by bus", I wouldn't do it.

Nevertheless, I had a pleasant trip. This was a professional obligation and I had to go by bus.

A: And you could?

P: I was not at ease, I was tense. This was before I came here the last time. Now, I can't judge it. When I think about this I am in a panic. Then I think that I have to be careful, that I have to avoid certain things. We will see about the rest.

A: But the acne is better for the first time?

P: Absolutely. The acne was terrible.

A: Your whole face was full of pimples and ulcers.

P: Now it feels much softer. There are still some things, but before it was completely swollen, especially on the forehead. It was intolerable.

A: The feet are cold now?

WP: After coition he has warm feet.

P: When I have had coition I have warm feet.

A: Do they ever become too warm?

P: For me they feel warm. At the moment it has changed. Before I was always the little stove. You could feel the warmth of my body at a few centimeters distance. Since I stopped smoking and I have gained a few kilos of weight, sometimes I think that my central heating doesn't work anymore. I put another jacket or a second pullover on very quickly. Maybe it has something to do with my age. I'm cold easier. Before when I was cold I knew that I would become ill. Now, I'm cold. I didn't have this before.

A: But when you came home you took off your shoes because your feet were too hot, weren't they?

P: No, I prefer to walk about barefoot.

A: Do you have floor heating or do you like to walk on a cold floor?

P: My sister has floor heating. If you walk about in your socks and you want to put on shoes afterwards I notice that my feet are swollen because of the floor heating. I prefer no floor heating.

So swollen feet because of the heat.

In swelling of the feet and especially the ankles Medorrhinum is capital.

A: If you fly or go by bus a long distance do you have swollen feet?

P: When we were young and when it was warm in the summer we always walked barefoot in the city. Once my sister and I went away with the boat. The floor of the boat was constructed of iron and it was very hot, and when we were on the lower or upper deck we sat down with our feet on a bank. That's what you do when you are young.

A: How is your sex drive?

P: At the moment quiet.

A: Before you were rather active?

P: Before she may not say no two days in a row, otherwise it was impossible the third day. Now, one week may pass without having sexual contact, but this wasn't the case at all before.

A: Before you thought it was very bad?

P: Yes, in the beginning of the homeopathic treatment the treatment kept me upright. She has noticed that I've changed. She is like any woman who just got married. Then most women are reserved. If the man withholds most women they would come into their own. Women reach their climax at the age of 30, 35 years old. Many men become more quiet on the sexual level at this age. Six or seven years ago I could run 100m. Now I want to go 100m and not run anymore. This says enough. In some ways you are not so loose anymore on the physical level.

A: Before you also exchanged partners?

Before they changed partners with a few other couples. He was together with the wife of another man and the other man with his wife. When I heard this I asked him who took the initiative, who needed this.

P: It came from both sides. Especially the men took the initiative, not so much the women. No, the women were not so interested.

I did it only once. I have had some experiences and said, "No. This was an important experience, but you have to learn from your mistakes." In fact, it was a mistake, my wife also, but it was worth trying.

A: I just mean that some people have a stronger sexual urge than others, and it was not low in you.

P: Absolutely not.

A: We have to agree that this is a characteristic of yours as a human being. You need this to live it up.

P: I'm somebody who out of principle tries everything that is forbidden. I have to know why you are not allowed to do things. When they say to me, "You may not do this", then I have to try it. I have to test it. I'm not anxious to try it out.

A: Did you have a severe childhood?

P: Yes. I was the champion. It was a lot easier for my youngest brother. I had to fight for freedom. My eldest brother just had rules made for him. We had a farm, my grandfather had a big piece of land. If there are two boys in the house you take the ball and if you kick the ball 5 meters away it is already in the potato field and immediately grandfather was behind us.

Our mother didn't allow us to play on the streets, but from a certain time on we did it. I convinced my father to sell his motorbike to me. As children we were always sitting on the roof and concerning work we had a system. When my younger brother worked, then I didn't feel like helping my father, and when I had a desire to help my father, my brother didn't feel like helping him. It happened very seldom that both of us together helped our father. On a certain day I wanted to help my father. I was sitting on the roof and through the roof I could see a motorbike in the stable. I said to my father, "I want to buy your motorbike for 4 dollars." At that time 4 dollars was not so much money. But then I received his motorbike.

A: Did you drive at a high speed?

P: I have it worked up so that I could drive faster. It went faster than 70 km/hour.

A: Do you like to drive fast with the car?

P: If you don't betray me to the police: yes, I like to drive about 150 km/h.

A: Do you have a convertible?

P: No, but the air-conditioning is always on. Sometimes I drive along with a friend whose air-conditioning is not working so well and then I always say, "I need air, otherwise I get such an oppressed feeling of being closed in."

FEEDBACK

I think you can see the difference concerning the acne, this is two or three months after Medorrhinum.

P: The claustrophobia has come back very strongly. I drove my car myself. When I have to ride in a bus I still have this oppressed feeling.

A: It comes back but the intensity is lower?

P: Yes, the strength of the outburst is lower. In fact, I don't let it come to outbursts. Until now it hasn't come so far, but I still had anxieties.

A: You took the remedy the last time on January 7. This is quite a long time ago. Now the acne is a lot better for the first time.

P: Yes, it is almost gone.

A: Has it ever been better than this?

P: After the Lycopodium clavatum the acne was also better for a while.

A: In fact I never saw you with such a big improvement.

P: Yes, yes I had it less on the face, before it was more on the chest. It has never been so good on the face. My face has become smoother.

I think that the acne will disappear in the course of the next 1/2 year.

Don't be in a hurry when you treat acne. If you have the right remedy, you can wait.

Question: How long have you waited?

A : I've waited now for four months. In January I gave him Medorrhinum and now Sac-lac because the anxieties appeared again, but not as strong as before. And as long as the acne is better there is no reason to repeat the remedy.

With this case I wanted to show you that Medorrhinum is also a very important remedy in acne, and for anticipating fears.

Question: Can you tell something more about the feet? Is this pain or swelling or both?

A : Yes, pain and swelling, soreness, redness.

Question: And itching?

A : Yes, also itching. Itching with eruption, oozing eruptions, and they scratch until it bleeds. pain in the footsoles is a symptom which indicates Medorrhinum very strongly.

Question: Why do you think that Lycopodium clavatum didn't work well enough?... and now he has ...

A : I repeated Lycopodium clavatum up to CM and he didn't react anymore.

Remark: Good, but in the beginning he reacted well.

A : In the beginning he reacted well to Lycopodium clavatum, he said that he felt better, but the acne didn't improve, and if Lycopodium clavatum would have fitted the totality of the symptoms, the acne would have become better.

Remark: But acne is a superficial symptom.

A : Now you start theorizing. If the remedy is right everything has to improve, everything. Indeed you can say that the anticipating fears are the deepest problem. It might be in this case, but I can show you that sometimes itching is a deeper problem than anticipating fears. I mean that somebody can suffer much more from itching than from anticipating fears.

Remark: You told us that you can change the remedy, if the patient ... (not understandable)

A : Yes, you can change the remedy, if the symptoms change, but his symptoms haven't changed. His old symptoms came back and Lycopodium clavatum hasn't changed anything. That's exactly what happens if you give a wrong remedy, for example, when you give Calcarea for a certain problem, it works, then the problems appears again, you repeat Calcarea and it doesn't work anymore, then this was a suppression. If Calcarea would have worked and then new symptoms appeared again you could say that Calcarea was right and new symptoms were produced.

Remark: I don't think it was a suppression, because he didn't suffer strongly enough.

A : The patient got rid of his problem, his fears disappeared, but he didn't feel better in general. The acne had to be better as well if the remedy was correct, otherwise it is only a partial prescription and this is a suppression, or if you like this better a palliative prescription. To me it is the same as an allopathic remedy, the effect is the same.

Question: Do you think Sulphur can also have these anxieties?

I was thinking of Sulphur because of the theorizing, because it is very close to Lycopodium clavatum and I didn't see the sensibility.

A : No. Be careful, Medorrhinum is a very big remedy, this means there are a lot of different personalities. If I would show you another man you wouldn't see a trace of the sensitivity. He is a seaman, who sails from city to city and who has a girl here and there. In this man you won't see one trace of the sensitivity.

There are very fine Medorrhinum people and real brutes. This is the same as, for example, in Phosphorus. But in Sulphur we don't have these strong anticipating fears, this is not known in Sulphur.

CASE8

Medorrhinum

Boy, 6 months old

February 26, 1988

Now we will deal with a case with the diagnosis of a dirty nose syndrome. These are children who always have a dirty nose. Often there is yellow, green mucus hanging down from their nose. If they don't get the right remedy they can suffer from this for years.

A: His problem is that he has been coughing for quite a long time, always a cold, always has a dirty nose. He has had this for 3 or 4 months.

MP: It might be better for a few days and then he has it again. I hardly go out with him. On Saturday we were outside for a little while and when we came home he started coughing.

A: When he was born you came immediately here. He had a diaper dermatitis and infantile eczema. I gave him a remedy and it disappeared completely afterwards.

Immediately after birth she came for consultation. It was a clear case. The infantile eczema and the diaper dermatitis, it was clear. I gave him the remedy and then everything was all right.

A: In the meantime you have seen some colleagues and the cough didn't want to go away.

MP: Now, he is hungry.

A: You can nurse him.

Kent writes, "Children who always want to eat." I mean they constantly want to suck at the nipples. Maybe it is a coincidence, but that is what Kent describes and he was a very good observer.

A: So on his behind he has ...

MP: There were little ulcers.

A: A little bit peeled off, sore.

MP: Yes, yes.

A: So on his behind and also on the thighs. The skin was fiery red.

Do you understand what I mean by fiery red?

It is as if the epidermis is gone and there are no cells on the dermis. It is very glistening, fiery red.

A: In what position does he sleep?

MP: On his abdomen.

A: How on his abdomen?

MP: The knees drawn up, the arms upwards and he is always scratching his head.

A: Does he lie with the knees under the abdomen?

MP: Yes, and he puts his arms upwards.

A: Does he lie with his head in his pillow?

MP: Yes.

A: Does he drill his head into his pillow?

MP: Yes.

This is the first important symptom, the knee-elbow-position. Many people say that it is normal in children, but nothing is normal. Every position indicates a personality.

A few years ago they put the children on their abdomen, to prevent choking when they vomit during sleep. Now in Holland they say you have to put the children on their back, because sudden infant death seemed to be influenced by the position.

This is all rubbish. If the child sleeps clearly in a certain position this is an important symptom.

The above described position of the child and the position on the back with the arms above the head, these are two typical Medorrhinum positions.

The position on the abdomen with the head in the pillow you will also see in acute Medorrhinum cases, for example, also in asthma. They feel better this way, and this is strange. This is a Medorrhinum asthma and nothing else.

MP: Of course he can't tolerate this for a long time, because it is very difficult to get air, and when he sleeps then he is turned a little bit to the side.

A: Does he roll his head before he falls asleep?

MP: Yes, before he falls asleep he turns from one side to the other.

A: Really?

Often these children have itching everywhere and then they lie on the pillow and are rubbing their face in the pillow all the time, as if the nose is itching. That's exactly what he does.

MP: Yes. When he wakes up he is constantly rolling his head. Then he is lying there and he turns his head.

FP: Then I have to give him something, his dummy (pacifier) or things like that. When I put something in his mouth he becomes more quiet; otherwise he is constantly turning his head.

You find this in the rubric on page 131:

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

HEAD, motions, rolling head: ... Bell ... med ... Tub ...

The two capital remedies are Belladonna and Tuberculinum bovinum Kent, but there is also Medorrhinum.

In the rubric on page 131 Medorrhinum is second degree:

HEAD, motions, sideways, rocks head from side to side

to relieve pain: ... med ...

A: He drinks very well. Do you still have so much milk?

MP: Yes, but he only drinks from one breast, not the other. He only wants to drink from the left breast.

A: This is strange.

He prefers to drink only from the left breast. Ananda Zaren says that Lycopodium clavatum children only like the right breast. It is strange when a child only likes one breast, but I don't know whether we can add it in the Repertory. We will see whether this occurs more often.

A: He is still coughing. Tell me something more about this. Especially when?

MP: During the day a few times, but it is worse during the night.

A: Is this a loose or a dry cough?

MP: It seems as if mucus gets stuck in his throat, as if it has to loosen.

A: This has already lasted for 5 weeks?

MP: He has had a bronchitis and therefore we came to the Center. It started one week before. A lot of mucus, which cannot come loose. He is also rattling.

A: Other complaints? He is wheezing, he gets asthmatic breathing very easily.

MP: Yes. Very often he wakes up at night and then he always wants to drink. When he has drunk something he becomes more quiet. This is the only thing which helps, then he goes on sleeping. He doesn't want his dummy (pacifier), he spits it out immediately.

A: Does he put his finger in his mouth?

MP: Now and then his thumb.

A: Does he suck his thumb?

MP: Now and then, when he feels like it.

This is also a very important symptom, namely that he always wants something in his mouth, the breast or the thumb.

Do you know the rubric for this symptom?

You find this rubric on page 405:

FINGERS in the mouth, children put : Calc., cham., Ip.

MOUTH, fingers in the mouth, children put: Calc,

cham, Ip

This is a very important rubric for the observation.

The additions to this rubric are: Lycopodium clavatum, Tarentula, Calcarea phosphorica, Silicea, Medorrhinum, Natrum muriaticum and Zincum, and Medorrhinum is underlined.

Question: Does it mean the same if a child wants his dummy (pacifier) constantly?

A : I don't know, but for example, this child always spits out his dummy (pacifier). He only wants his thumb or the breast, no dummy (pacifier).

A: Have the crusts on his head disappeared completely?

MP: They still appear now and then. I always put oil on it. You can still see that he has it to some extent.

A: Now, he is in a good mood again.

MP: Yes, he is laughing again. He is satisfied.

A: I will give him a remedy now and I want to see him again after 10 days. You can dissolve the remedy in his bottle and give him a drink now and then.

MP: Can I also give it with a spoon?

A: Yes; yes, you may. But he can't let it melt under his tongue yet.

He has a rather vivid character.

MP: Yes, he is rather vivid, but he can also be quiet.

A: He is very active and very vivid, he has a perseverant character.

Good, this was easy, you only have to know it.

The three symptoms: infantile eczema, fiery red diaper dermatitis and knee-elbow-position indicate Medorrhinum very strongly.

I still have to show you the rubric for diaper dermatitis.

Look on page 616:

RECTUM, eruption about anus

ERUPTION about anus : Agar., am-c., am-m., ant-c., ars., berb., calc., carb-an., carb-s., carb-v., caust., graph., hep., ign., kali-c., lyc., med., merc., Nat-m., nat-s., Nit-ac., Petr., sep., staph., sulph., thuj.

I made a new sub rubric myself:

RECTUM, eruption about anus, in newborn children

I added Medorrhinum in the sub rubric on page 616:

RECTUM, eruption about anus, Perineum

In this sub rubric I made a new sub rubric:

RECTUM, eruption about anus, Perineum,

in newborn children

In this sub- sub rubric I also added Medorrhinum.

Further I added Medorrhinum in the rubrics on page 616 and 617:

RECTUM, excoriation

RECTUM, excoriation, must rub anus until raw

RECTUM, excoriation, Nates, between

RECTUM, excoriation, Perineum, of

Question: Do you know the differential diagnosis between Sulphur and this remedy from the appearance?

A : A differential diagnosis only on local appearance is dangerous in homeopathy. You have to take everything into consideration, because it is very difficult to differentiate in skin diseases only by the appearance of the separate remedies.

FEEDBACK (March 16, 1988)

I repeated Medorrhinum again, because there was no reason to change the remedy and Medorrhinum also has this dry cough at night. You can hear the mucus rattling, but they can't bring it up. You don't find this clearly in the Repertory, all the rubrics are too big, to find Medorrhinum in this kind of cough.

Which other remedy also has a dry mouth and apparently doesn't have the force to bring up the mucus?

Audience: Causticum

A : Yes, Causticum.

MP: One day after we were here he had high fever and a skin eruption on the neck and on the hands. The fever stayed high, 38.5° and the cough was loose, but it was still there.

A: We said that this was a good reaction to the remedy. How did it develop?

MP: I noticed that the fever went down, but there was an eruption all over his body, on his abdomen and on the back, except the arms and the legs.

A: He had a skin eruption all over his body and the fever went down very quickly?

MP: Yes, rather quickly. The next day it was already less.

A: How did the skin eruption develop? How long did it last?

MP: We didn't call for the doctor. Maybe two, three days, I think.

A: And then it went away?

MP: Yes.

A: How did he do?

MP: Now it is better. The cough is already loose, but of course he is too small to bring up the mucus. Can't you give him anything so that he can bring up the mucus?

A: That is not a problem.

I don't know whether you have had the experience, but Medorrhinum children often give the impression of Phosphorus children. Sometimes they also have red hair and they are very vivid.

A: Has the eruption on the head gone?

MP: Yes. Sometimes it still itches, and then he rubs it. He is always rubbing his head.

The itching is very strong in Medorrhinum and they scratch until it bleeds.

If you have AIDS-patients, in almost 80% of all cases you will see - also if you don't give Medorrhinum - that one day they will get an eruption on the feet, usually on the footsoles. This eruption is very bad, an inflamed eruption with swelling of the footsoles and they scratch until it bleeds and they put the feet out of the covers.

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. Then there is eruption on the feet and you find Medorrhinum.

The rubric "scratches until it bleeds" is a very important rubric. Besides Medorrhinum you will find other remedies like Alumina, Alumina with very dry skin. They also scratch until it bleeds.

You find another important rubric on page 1328:

SKIN, itching, eruption, without

SKIN, itching, scratch until it bleeds: Agar, ... Ars ...

bar-c ... bov ...

Don't forget Bovista in newborn children in which disease?

Audience: In Icterus neonates.

A : Yes, in Icterus neonates (Newborn jaundice is a common condition in newborns and presents as a yellowing of the skin and eyes. ) after a narcosis of laughing gas of the mother.

Further ChlorAlumina Don't mix Chloralum with Chlorum. Chlorum is Chlorum and we need it in which disease of children?

In Laryngitis stridulosa, but in a particular laryngitis.

Look in the Repertory on page 750:

LARYNX AND TRACHEA, laryngismus, stridulus

There are the sub rubrics:

... night

... midnight, waking out of sound sleep: Samb

(Sambucus with the perspiration and so on)

... to 7 a.m. : Chlor

... sleep, during: Chlor ...

... expiration, on: Chel, chlor

The inspiration is normal, this is very important.

Don't mix Chlorum with ChlorAlumina Chloralum scratches until it bleeds and it is very interesting in ecchymosis in children. This rubric has many remedies, but Chloralum is colorblind.

We had a patient with hemophilia which has been diagnosed in an university hospital. On taking the case we detected that the child had color blindness.

Look in the Repertory on page 272:

VISION, colors, blindness, color: Bell, carb-s, chlol,

cina, sant

The child was cured and the doctor who treated the child sent it later to another university hospital and they couldn't find anything.

Don't forget the terrible itching of Medorrhinum. They have to take off their shoes and socks and they want to have fresh air, they want to be fanned.

Pulsatilla also has this itching and what does he want?

Cold water or cold air.

Also Ledum palustre has this. And what does Ledum palustre do?

He goes to the refrigerator, takes a cold bottle of coca cola, puts it on it and when it has become warm he takes another cold bottle.

A: Does he still sleep on his knees, his abdomen?

MP: Yes, he is still sleeping on his abdomen. Sometimes he has wheezing respiration in the evening.

A: But not really asthmatic?

MP: No, it has been worse.

A: So the cough is loose and the fever disappeared spontaneously?

MP: Yes.

A: Do you see the difference between both children!

(the other child is blond and pale, flabby and is chewing bread)

She has two children. Do you see the difference?

This is a Medorrhinum child and the other is what kind of child?

Calcarea carbonica.

A: Put him next to your daughter. Put him on the lap of his grandmother.

So, now we can make a beautiful picture. Smile.

These are two completely different children. His sister is much more plump, fatter and slower than he is.

The thick lips are also typical. The children always sit with a slightly open mouth, but not with their tongue outside as you see in Bufo, only the mouth is a little bit open.

These thick lips are often characterized as erotic lips, but I don't know whether this is right. I think it is because of sucking, not like Kent describes, from the mouth breathing.

MP: The little one is crawling everywhere in the house, he is a lot quicker. His sister always perspires on the neck. She is plump and perspires a lot. And the little one is always laughing.

A: The boy is more vivid. He is much quicker in everything.

Question: Did you ask the parents whether they had gonorrhea?

A : No, I didn't dare to ask about it. Sometimes it is difficult, especially when both parents are there. Even for us it is difficult not to judge, not to indicate it as good or wrong. We have the tendency to moralize. Our task is to cure and not to judge whether something is good or right. If we judge this will only lead us to wrong prescriptions. We have to take the symptoms the way they are and try to understand the personality.

FEEDBACK (September 16, 1988)

A: On April 28, he had 37.7° fever and since then he hasn't been ill anymore. Has the skin eruption disappeared completely?

MP: Yes.

A: In fact you don't see anything.

Does he eat and drink well?

MP: Yes.

A: Fine. Now he has a little cold.

MP: Yes.

A: Since when?

MP: Since yesterday. He is coughing again at night and is rather restless while sleeping.

A: What comes out of his nose?

MP: It is a white and watery discharge.

A: Does he still sleep on his abdomen?

MP: Yes, he does.

You may only change the remedy when the sleeping position changes or when clear symptoms of another remedy appear which has the same sleeping position.

Sometimes it is strange what we experience in Homeopathy. For example, somebody has a disorder of the stomach after eating fat. They give Ptelea, because it is clearly Ptelea. You know this key-note that the complaints of the stomach become better by sour things, for example lemons. The reaction to Ptelea is wonderful and later Sepia officinalis symptoms appear. You will also find Sepia officinalis in the rubric

STOMACH, disordered, fat food, after

fat food, after : Caust., nat-p., ptel., Puls., sep., sulph.

Two years later other complaints appear which will disappear with Sulphur and Sulphur is also in the rubric "stomach, disordered, fat food, after".

You see that there is a development from one remedy to another one which is also in the same rubric.

MP: Now he eats everything.

A: And he doesn't have diaper dermatitis anymore. His behind is all right. His eyes aren't purulent anymore.

You know the agglutinated eyes in the morning. They are agglutinated because of the pus. Medorrhinum is capital.

MP: He hasn't had antibiotics at all since then. It is amazing. Otherwise he would have had it ten times. I'm really proud of that.

Question: How often can you repeat Medorrhinum?

A : First we give it in a high potency, Kent and Boericke also advise this and if the symptoms come back you can repeat.

Remark: Yes, but they say that you may not repeat nosodes often.

A : This is different individually. If it is not necessary you don't need to repeat, just like you don't eat when you are not hungry.

FEEDBACK (March 13, 1989)

A: I saw him the last time one month ago, on February 15. He had a lot of thick green mucus in his nose and he was very restless.

MP: Yes.

A: In the meantime he has gained weight and he has 5 teeth. He is perspiring on the head, has a dry cough at night and a loose cough in the morning and during the day. He is doing so well and he has gained weight. Therefore we gave him Calcarea carbonica. He has reacted well for two weeks, but then he didn't anymore. Then he became restless again and was very thirsty for cold drinks, milk.

MP: It is still the same. He still drinks a lot.

A: I know that his grandfather had tuberculosis of the kidney, so your husband's father and I gave him a remedy on February 15.

MP: He reacted very quickly. After some days the cold was gone. In between I gave him Chamomilla because of dentition and he also reacted very quickly.

A: But the cold didn't improve on this remedy?

MP: No, but his whining during dentition improved a lot.

This was the development. With this case I wanted to show you that you don't have to think that you have to stick only to Medorrhinum.

About one year after Medorrhinum he started perspiring more. He received Calcarea and the cough improved. Two weeks later again coughing, you give Medorrhinum, no reaction. Then you start doubting. The sleeping position is like before - still the same, but now comes new information, namely he is very thirsty and he prefers to drink cold milk. You ask about the family history and you see that his grandfather has had tuberculosis. You give Tuberculinum bovinum Kent and everything is all right.

You see that this child first needed Medorrhinum, then one or two years later Tuberculinum bovinum Kent and maybe Calcarea later on.

I saw the same thing in Tuberculinum bovinum Kent and Carcinosinum. I had a patient with very severe asthma. There was Tuberculosis in the family and he reacted very well to Tuberculinum bovinum Kent. After a relapse Tuberculinum bovinum Kent didn't work at all and with Carcinosinum he has been doing very well for three years.

Question: In which potency did he receive Chamomilla?

A : Also in a high potency. This is not a problem. If your remedy is right this is exactly the energy which he needs. Why should you give a low potency?

Maybe a low potency is also good, but I don't have experience with low potencies.

CASE9

Bronchitis, asthma

Medorrhinum

Girl, 1 1/2 years old

September 17, 1988

This is an adopted child from Haiti. If such a child comes in, a dark skinned child, which puts its finger in his mouth constantly and comes from Haiti this is certainly very important information. When they come from Haiti it is Medorrhinum, when they come from India it is Tuberculinum bovinum Kent.

A: Where does she come from?

MP: From Port au Prince.

Port au Prince is the capital of Haiti. I don't know whether some of you have been there, but it is terrible. It is a city of concrete and when you want to drink a beer in the evening and afterwards go home alone, at least two, three women want to take you. I had this experience.

Before I studied medicine, I think it was in 1966, 1967 I was in the harbor of Port au Prince and I was drinking a beer with a dentist who was in the marines. We talked a very long time and finally it was later than I thought. On my way home suddenly two girls came to me and said, "Come with me, come!" At that time I was very young and I was afraid of these two girls. After some time one girl gave up because I didn't want to go with her, but the second one held on strongly, she insisted I go with her. So I went with her and we came to a very small house, a very, very small one. When I entered I saw three young children lying on the floor and the grandmother was there also. Then I saw a curtain and behind this curtain there was a waterbed. At that moment I felt that this was impossible. They had to prostitute themselves because of the poverty. I gave her the money I still had left and then she let me go.

You know that these people have to sell themselves to stay alive. They sell their blood to the Americans and they get 12 dollars for 1/2 liter of blood. That is the reason there was an explosion of AIDS and why it came to America. AIDS has already existed for 200, 300 years, it has never been a problem, but now it is. 90% of the poor - and also the rich - people in Port au Prince had gonorrhea at least once. Penicillin is sold in the streets, on the market, and it comes from the metropolis. When it has reached the expiration date it is exported to the countries of the Third World and is sold there.

Haiti is a beautiful country to study Medorrhinum, but at that time I didn't know anything about Homeopathy. I worked from 7 a.m. until the evening and I have seen terrible cases of gonorrhea, with discharge dripping to the floor and so on.

If you see such a child who puts its finger in the mouth constantly and his eyes are lacrimating, whose eyes are full of tears, this is very typical for Medorrhinum.

A: At what age did you receive her?

MP: At the age of 7 months.

A: What was the problem then?

MP: Under nourishment of course.

A: What kind of complaints did she have?

MP: She had motor complaints. She couldn't crawl, she couldn't sit, but now she has caught up.

Somebody accused me of adding Medorrhinum wrongfully in the rubric "late learning to walk", because he couldn't find it in any Materia Medica. There is an addition for dwarfish children who are retarded and one of the symptoms is that they are late in learning to walk and that is also Medorrhinum. There is no particular addition for late learning to walk, but only as an expression of retarded development, as we see in Baryta carbonica.

MP: It started with a constant cold.

A: Is there water coming out of the nose?

MP: Yes, always.

A: Nothing else?

MP: Often when she has a real cold the discharge is thick and yellow.

In Medorrhinum you will always find the tendency to yellow green, sycotic discharges.

A: Not yellow-green?

MP: Seldom, only when she has a real cold, but usually the discharge is like this, watery.

A: Sometimes yellow-green?

MP: Yes, sometimes.

A: Then she developed a recurrent bronchitis and a shortness of breath.

MP: Yes, twice she had cortisone and then she did well very quickly, but it is always so when you give Cortisone.

They had to give her cortisone twice because of her asthma.

Her mother is a nurse. She has worked in Haiti and adopted the child.

MP: I have another child who also has a constant cold. This is already 5 years ago and she also comes from Haiti.

I would like to underline the damage of Penicillin. In Haiti live about 7 or 8 million people, and 70 to 80% of them have had suppressed gonorrhea with Penicillin. Isn't it expected we have such an immense problem like AIDS? AIDS is a normal reaction to the suppression of gonorrhea all over the world.

Everybody knows that AIDS is a venereal disease (sexual disease) and it exists only when you suppress another sexual disease, when genital discharges are suppressed. What appears after this suppression must be a disease which is more serious, which goes deeper and that is AIDS.

Who can tell me where we can find the rubric for AIDS?

In an AIDS patient you will always find the same stories in the past. If we hear these stories we have to look in our Repertory to find a particular rubric and we can start from this rubric and try to find the remedy.

Audience: Ailments from suppression.

A : From what?

Audience: From gonorrhea.

A : All right. Look in the Repertory on page 1365:

GONORRHŒA, suppressed (See Sycosis) : Agn., aur., benz-ac., brom., calc., clem., crot-h., daph., kalm., Med., merc., mez., nit-ac., puls., sars., staph., Thuj., verat., zinc.

GENERALITIES, gonorrhea, suppressed

There are a lot of remedies in this rubric and two of them are capital.

If you ask an AIDS patient about his past and he trusts you well enough he will tell you that he has had gonorrhea 5, 6, 7, 8 times which has been treated with penicillin.

Medorrhinum is also a remedy of which you have to think in a child who comes with congenital problems, problems from birth on, especially eczema since birth, eruption on the head or asthma, and this together with a fiery red eruption about the anus and on his behind.

If you watch television you see quite a lot of advertisements for diapers because of the simple reason that so many children suffer from this diaper dermatitis. If this appears immediately after birth you have to think of this remedy and give it. Herewith you can avoid a lot of problems. This does not mean that you can cure the patient for the rest of his life, but immediately after birth there is a kind of congenital weakness which you can remove if you give the right remedy immediately. Later on the patient can develop towards Calcarea, Tuberculinum bovinum Kent or something else, but immediately after birth this remedy is very important.

A: Why have you adopted these children?

MP: We always intended to adopt a few children.

A: For what reason?

MP: To serve, to share our abundance.

A: Do you have another, a deeper motive?

MP: Because I was already 31 years old before I got married. Out of principle I said that I didn't dare to have any children after I am 35 years old.

A: Now we will discuss the history of these children. The child appears to be a little weasel?

MP: Yes, she is always cheerful.

A: You don't call this "excessively active"?

MP: No.

A: But yet active?

MP: Yes.

A: She always puts her finger in her mouth?

MP: Yes, always.

A: In what position does she sleep?

MP: On the abdomen.

A: But always with her finger in her mouth.

MP: Yes, also when she lies on her abdomen.

A: How does she lie on her abdomen?

MP: With her behind lifted up.

A: And what about her legs?

MP: She sleeps in a sleeping bag, therefore I don't know how she puts her legs.

A: Does she pull up her legs?

MP: When she lies on her abdomen she lifts her behind upwards and puts her legs under her abdomen, I think.

A: What about her appetite?

MP: Fine, it's very good.

A: Does she eat everything?

MP: Yes, yes, and she eats a lot. She eats too much. We always have to say, "Now, it's enough." She always has the feeling she wants some more.

A: Does she eat fruit?

MP: Yes, everything. The other child not, but she eats everything.

A: Does she have a desire for a certain kind of fruit?

MP: Peaches. She likes stone fruit a lot and also bananas.

A: And what about oranges?

MP: Not so much.

A: Does she like milk?

MP: A lot.

A: Warm or cold?

MP: Not warm. Lukewarm.

A: Did she ever have a skin eruption?

MP: Yes, always on her behind.

A: Can you describe this?

MP: It was red and with small vesicles.

A: How red?

MP: Fiery red.

A: Can you call this a diaper dermatitis?

MP: Yes. She doesn't wear any diapers anymore, but that's what it is called

A: Do you think she goes to bed on time, or does she want to stay up late?

MP: She sleeps a lot. When I put her to bed she sleeps. She never weeps.

A: Does she like to go to bed?

MP: Yes, a lot.

A: Does she often have discharge besides the dermatitis?

MP: Yes, sometimes she has.

In the rubric "leucorrhea in little girls" you don't find Medorrhinum, but it has to be added. The first person who said this was P. Schmidt and we have seen this more often. Two other remedies which have to be added here are Carbolicum acidum and Syphilinum.

And don't forget Cubeba in discharge in little girls. How can you find Cubeba?

They desire nuts.

A: She sleeps in a sleeping bag. Can she uncover herself?

MP: No, she cannot get out of it.

A: Where do you go on holiday?

MP: This year we went to the sea.

A: How is she doing there?

MP: Good.

A: What about her cold at the sea?

MP: Good.

A: Is it better then?

MP: Well, we had bad weather. Once she had fever over 40° in the middle of the night, I couldn't get it down. But in general she does fine at the sea.

Everyone knows the amelioration near the sea. This is a very strong modality of Medorrhinum. Sometimes Tuberculinum bovinum Kent also has an amelioration at the sea.

A: You came here because this child has to be treated here. This means that you will always call me whenever she has problems. We will take care of this problem only homeopathically.

MP: Can I reach a doctor any time?

A: Yes, also at night.

MP: Isn't this a problem because I come from Hasselt?

A: No.

MP: But then I don't have to wait for three weeks?

A: No. When you are in treatment here, you are in treatment and whenever there is an acute problem you can come immediately. But of course, first you have to call.

MP: When there is something wrong with her my husband is anxious.

And what about the medicines she takes, ERYTHROCYN and ZATIDEN?

A: You have to stop these medicines.

Because this child had bronchitis and asthma constantly she gave her antibiotics.

A: Give her this tablet.

MP: In fact she doesn't eat sweets, but she will take this tablet.

Does it taste badly?

A: No, sweet. I will give you three tablets. You give her one now, another one in the afternoon and one in the evening.

MP: Does it matter when she eats all three of them?

A: No. She can eat them all.

This was the first consultation and you see that it doesn't have to take such a long time at all. It is a clear case: she puts her finger in the mouth, the sleeping position, the diaper dermatitis, amelioration near the sea and she comes from Haiti.

The biggest problem is the asthma. For me the case is cured when the recurrent bronchitis which ends in a spastic asthma is better. Later on she will need another remedy, but we will need other symptoms.

FEEDBACK (October 10, 1988)

A: How did this develop?

MP: She didn't relapse. She had a very severe cold and you could hear her wheezing very clearly, but she didn't have a real relapse. Otherwise she always had shortness of breath, but she didn't have problems with her respiration this time. I can still hear so many gurgling noises and her nose is still running.

The last few weeks she is very difficult.

A: But the asthmatic bronchitis is better?

MP: Yes, I haven't noticed anything anymore. But in general she is not well. I don't know what's going on.

A: But the lungs are all right?

MP: Yes, only her nose is still running.

A: Green-yellow discharge?

MP: No. This was so the first few weeks, but there is still some watery discharge.

A: Since when is she so difficult?

MP: Since one week she is not doing so well. She doesn't eat as well as before, but it doesn't have to be the way it was before. In the past she ate excessively.

But now she vomits her supper at about 12:00, 12:30 at night.

A: When does she have supper?

MP: She eats at 6:00 p.m. and up to now she has vomited four times at night.

A: So vomiting at about 12:00 at night.

MP: Yes, when we go to bed she already vomited.

A: Does she continue sleeping?

MP: Yes, she vomits during sleep.

She sleeps a lot, a lot. I always thought that you gave her something to sleep, because you thought this child was hyperactive.

A: Do you think that she is a lot calmer now?

MP: She is a lot calmer, especially the last few weeks. But she is more difficult, really difficult.

A: Does she vomit the food?

MP: Yes.

A: Is it digested?

MP: No. And she doesn't have fever, always 35°C. This is also with the other child, she will never have a fever.

A: This is even below normal temperature.

MP: In the last few weeks I thought that she had fever and when I measured it it was only 35°C.

A: How is she during the day?

MP: Either she sleeps or she is difficult. This was not so before. She was never so unbearable.

A: When did you give her the remedy?

MP: I gave it to her twice, at noon and in the evening. She didn't receive anything else.

If there is something wrong I'm not so easily anxious. Two weeks ago when she had a severe cold my husband said that I had to go to the doctor, but I told him that it would go away by itself.

A: Does she have other complaints besides the vomiting at night?

MP: No.

A: How is the sleeping position at the moment? Still on the abdomen?

MP: Yes, still on the abdomen.

A: She still puts her finger in her mouth as I can see.

How is her appetite?

MP: It is not so good. Although she doesn't eat anything in between, also no biscuits.

A: Does she still have vaginal discharge?

MP: No, but I think she smells sour. The discharge which she had has gone.

A: Does she go to kindergarten?

MP: No. She is only 1 1/2 years old.

A: But she is tall.

MP: No, in fact she is not so tall.

A: For how long has the shortness of breath been gone?

MP: The last few weeks it has been very well, but then she took antibiotics. This was before also, shortly afterwards she was doing fine but then there was a relapse.

A: But you didn't notice shortness of breath anymore?

MP: No, it didn't come back. I don't know, but there is something else with this child. She is much more quiet and difficult, and she sleeps a lot, a lot. In the morning she sleeps also and she stays in bed for three to four hours and she likes to stay in bed. I always have to wake her up. She goes to bed at 7:00 p.m. and at 7:30 a.m. I have to wake her up.

A: Then we have to wait. If you notice something, if there are clear symptoms you have to come back. She is a lot more quiet.

MP: May I ask you what kind of remedy she got?

A: Medorrhinum. This has something to do with the diseases of the ancestors who might have had gonorrhea.

The asthmatic bronchitis is better, now she only has the running nose. Now it is difficult to decide what I should do. Do I have to repeat Medorrhinum or not?

She is still in a Medorrhinum state because of the sleeping position, she still puts her fingers in her mouth and her nose is still running, but it is only a watery discharge, not this thick, yellow-green discharge.

I didn't repeat Medorrhinum, because it was not a real relapse.

FEEDBACK (May 1, 1989)

The next Feedback is 7 months later and we see that the child is still putting her fingers in her mouth.

A: I saw you on October 10.

Then we gave Foliata squalosea and you came back on December 2 because of the bronchitis. The remedy was repeated in 10M potency and afterwards she didn't have any bronchitis, but she had a cold regularly.

Then you came back, because she had fever, with coughing, but she didn't have shortness of breath. She never had afterwards.

After the first dose of Medorrhinum she never had asthma again. Within 2 months she had the remedy twice, and this is something which you see more often in children, namely that you have to repeat the remedy more often than in adults, whether it is Medorrhinum or Tuberculinum bovinum Kent or Calcarea carbonica. If you give an adult Calcarea carbonica and he has frequent relapses then the remedy is wrong. In a real Calcarea patient you solve the problem with one dose of Calcarea. They rarely relapse.

A: The last time you were here on December 30. How did it develop further?

MP: The shortness of breath hasn't come back since the first time I came here. She still has this cold, but the discharge is not yellow anymore. She is coughing regularly, but this goes away by itself. She hasn't had fever anymore, but a constant cold, and she sleeps a lot.

A: But it was not so bad that you had to see a doctor?

MP: No. It goes away when I give her a syrup for the cough in the morning and the evening, but without syrup it doesn't go away. So I have to give her the syrup almost every 14 days. Is this harmful?

A: It is no problem for the cough.

P: She had high fever a few times. Now she has such a strange eruption which apparently seems to itch. She scratches a lot.

A: Does she scratch until it is open?

MP: Yes. It comes and goes. Last time I put something on it, but it doesn't go away.

A: Does she scratch until it bleeds?

MP: Yes.

A: You received the last remedy in December. You can repeat the remedy if the strong itching and the scratching of the skin remains.

Has the shortness of breath really gone?

MP: The shortness of breath hasn't come back, but the cough remains.

A: Is this a loose cough?

MP: Yes.

A: Then I will give you a tablet to take home.

You see how difficult it is. The child is better, but there is still something missing so that she is really doing better.

Now a new Medorrhinum symptom appeared, scratching until it bleeds. Therefore I have to stay with Medorrhinum and wait until she doesn't put her finger in her mouth and so on. Later on she probably will need Tuberculinum bovinum Kent.

Question: ...about changing of the mind after Medorrhinum?

A : You think that she has changed mentally.

Audience: Yes, the mother said so.

A : And in which sense?

Audience: She is much more difficult.

A : She is more quiet.

Audience: But also much more difficult.

A : Yes, more difficult.

Remark: She sleeps more.

A : She eats less, but the sleepiness was also there before. The mother already complained during the first consultation that she sleeps too much. This symptom was already there before and is still there, but this is not the reason to give another remedy, but maybe a reason to repeat Medorrhinum more often. Who can tell me if you give today three tablets 10M and tomorrow 3 tablets 50M whether you cannot conquer this? I don't know, it might be. But we may not be in a hurry, the body itself has to show us what it needs.

Question: Might the cough have disappeared if she only gave the syrup for the cough?

A : I don't think so. This was not antibiotics, this was only a vegetable juice and this has not enough power.

Don't forget the green-yellow discharge from the nose in Medorrhinum; and another very important symptom is the postnasal mucus which runs down the throat. You see this very often in AIDS patients and they also tell you that yellow-green discharge is running from the nose through the throat.

Question: Are there other remedies which have this symptom?

A : Yes, many remedies have, but it is very strong in Medorrhinum.

You find this in the rubric on page 457:

THROAT, mucus, drawn from posterior nares

drawn from posterior nares : Alum., alumn., anac., ant-c., arg-n., bry., calc-s., calc., canth., carb-ac., carb-v., caust., chin., cinnb., Cor-r., elaps., eupho., euphr., gran., hep., hydr., kali-bi., kali-chl., merc-c., merc-i-f., merc-i-r., merc., mez., nat-a., Nat-c., Nat-m., nat-p., nit-ac., onos., osm., paeon., ph-ac., phyt., plb., psor., rhus-t., rumx., sin-n., Spig., stict., sulph., tell., thuj., zinc., zing.

Here you must make a capital addition of Medorrhinum.

There is also the rubric on page 457:

hanging down : Carb-an., lach., merc-c., phos., thuj.

THROAT, mucus, hanging down: Carb-an ... thuj

In this rubric you also have to add Medorrhinum.

The swelling of the eyes in Medorrhinum is usually under the eyes, in Syphilinum usually the upperlid is swollen.

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

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

EXTRA

He didn't react and later, because he likes oranges very much, he got Medorrhinum. He reacted very well and the eczema disappeared.

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

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