Ratanhia peruviana
WOMAN, 36 YEARS OLD
This patient already comes to the centre for
many years, maybe three years. The first consultation was in 1984 and she only
had one remedy. She got the remedy on April, 16, 1984, then again at the end of
May 1984, then in August 1984 and then in October 1984 and then she was cured.
She came back in September 1987 and got the remedy in 10M potency, then in
October Sac-lac. and in November the remedy has been repeated in 10M. Since
then she is still good, but she may relapse. The problem is nervousness, a lot
of problems. We will try to indicate the remedy
P: Yes, it doesn't go anymore. I think I also
have it at my heart. Sometimes, I can't get air. The cup is full. It doesn't go
anymore. I always have to sigh. It is not because of problems at home, but the
problem is myself.
A: So, at home everything is all right. There
are no problems with the children or the husband?
P: No, there have never been. I don't know,
otherwise I am very satisfied. But now, it is completely gone. Some days I can
only talk with difficulties at home. I have been on holidays and they asked me
how it was. They mean it well but I thought, I just can't talk! And if my
husband asks, "Do you need the car?", then I couldn't give an answer.
It is as if it doesn't want to come out, and in fact it is easy to say,
"Yes", or "No".
A : What can't you bring out? What do you
mean?
The slightest thing they ask...
P: ... that is too much, also at work. I go to
work every day. I had this once, but at the moment I have it much stronger than
at that time. When I am in the shop sometimes I have to go out quickly. I can't
talk with those people anymore.
A: What do you mean?
You see she is very loquacious: I am working and I can not
talk to these people and when I am working in the shop - she is a cleaning
woman - I have to go out in the open air and I can not tolerate the people
around me and so on. Which remedy? Lachesis, that is one
possibility. Another? Cimicifuga. That is also a possibility. And Podophyllum?
Yes, Podophyllum is also loquacious, but only during heat. Another?
Loquaciousness and wandering from one subject to another. Helonias? Maybe, but
not especially. What is a special symptom of Helonias? They are conscious about their uterus and you
miss prescriptions of Helonias because it is also a bearing down sensation like
Sepia. The differential diagnosis is not easy between Sepia and Helonias
But there is still another remedy, Paris
quadrifolia - this is not a Paris case - and Agaricus, these are loquacious
remedies and jumping from one subject to another. Lycopodium is also there.
Until now this patient makes us think of loquacious remedies
P: If you do this for quite a long time you
know the people and then you think: I must ask how he or she is doing; and then
I think immediately: well, leave it. But the people expect that you ask this. I
just can't get it out, nothing anymore. I can't go away either. It doesn't mean
anything to me. Only working and being anxious.
She
is sighing constantly
A: What do you mean with working and being
anxious?
P: Always being occupied and always looking for work, to be
busy. That is my fault.
"And I try to be occupied all the
time." Which rubric can we take here? "Busy" (p. 10)
MIND,
BUSY (See Occupied, Delirium) : Apis., Bar-c, bry., calad., calc., caps., cocc., ign., lach, nux-m, rhus-t.,
sep, stram., sulph., verat.
and "occupation
amel." (p. 69) .
MIND, OCCUPATION, amel. : Agar., alum., aur.,
bar-c., calc., chin., con., croc., cupr., ferr., hell., helon., ign., iod., kali-br., lil-t., lyc., merc-i-f., mez., nat-c., nux-v.,pip-m., Sep., sil., stram., thuj., verat.
She has to be busy all the time. Which
remedy is very important here? Ignatia. Another symptom for Ignatia is the
sighing
The second important remedy in sighing is which one? Calcarea
phosphoricum. There is still another remedy that is very loquacious and that is
sighing: Cimicifuga. When they come and you think of Ranunculus bulbosus, but
they are sighing, it is Cimicifuga - in acute cases
P: When I have my day off like today, then I
am looking for some work, so that I don't have to watch television. Also when I
have to go somewhere when I have to meet someone I am looking for reasons for
not going there.
A: Why?
P: I don't know. Also with my girl-friend who
called recently. Then I shuffle that I don't have to go out with her. I know
that I am sorry in the evening or the next day.
She starts having anthropophobia (pathological form of shyness and timidity). What is
the real reason
A: What hinders you to go there?
P: I don't know. It became worse gradually. I
don't know what it is.
A: I mean what is it in yourself that hinders
you to go there?
P: Because I don't have time, I have to be
with my children, I have to do this work.
I
must, I must - what is this? A kind of fixed idea. "There is something that does not tolerate that
I will go on holiday or walk with another woman or go shopping with a
girl-friend. Something tells me I have to do this." Which remedy has these strong fixed ideas?
Argentum nitricum? No. Argentum nitricum has this kind of impulses. But these
continuous fixed ideas: Thuja. Also people who always have to wash
their hands. We had all these cases, you are fighting with those cases, and you
prescribe Arsenicum, because they have to be clean and things like that, and in
the Repertory there is the rubric "washing hands": Syphilinum and an
addition of Sulphur, but the first remedy you have to think of is Thuja. She
also has some fixed ideas and we will try to find out what there is in reality,
what she feels and why
P: I am afraid for an impendent disease, that
something will happen to my children.
Anxiety about others, anxiety about the
children. We have to see: "Anxiety about others, then fear that something
will happen.
There is an addition that I can not give you
now. Mancinella is an addition, Plumbum and there is a third remedy, but that
comes later
Yes, you can take the rubric "persistent
thoughts" (p. 87),
MIND, THOUGHT, persistent (See Delusions) : Acon., aeth., alum., am-c., ambr., anac., arg-n., ars-i., ars., benz-ac., calc-s., calc., Cann-i.,
canth., carb-s., carb-v., caust., cham., chel., chin-a., chin., graph., hell., hyos., ign., iod., kali-ar., kali-c., kali-i., lam., laur.,
meli., merc., mez., mur-ac., Nat-m., nit-ac., nux-m., nux-v., olnd., op., osm., petr., ph-ac., phos., phys., plat., psor., puls., rhus-t., sec., sep., stann., staph., stram., sulph., tab., tarent., thea., thuj., tub., verb., viol-o.
but here it is something else: something urges
her to do something without thoughts. You can use the rubric "persistent
thoughts", but she has something in her that urges her, that pushes her to
wash her hands or to do something and you do not know why, but she has to do
it. It is not in the Repertory, that is a problem. There are people who say,
"I have to touch this twice and then I can go away; I have to move three
steps forward and one backward and then I can go forward again." The first remedy
you have to think of in this kind of obligatory actions is Thuja
P: My husband has been operated on because of
a hernia and I think that I have a relapse since then (last year).
She came in 1985 and now in 1987 she comes
back. She has been good in between, but last year her husband has been operated
on for hernia and she thinks that she has a relapse since then
P: I recovered very well from that. I said,
"What has to be, has to be." It was very serious at that time. I
could surmount this very well and he stayed at home for half a year.
A: You still have the anxiety that something
will happen to your children.
P: Yes, also. I don't know it anymore, really.
Previously, I knew everything, at the moment I don't know anymore. And our
children are very independent, that is the worst. They don't care about that.
When I don't do anything, they do it themselves.
A: But you don't like that, do you?
P: Yes, I do. When they do it themselves I can
do something else in the meantime. I always find something to work.
A: What forces you to do so?
P: I don't know. I can't sleep at night
anymore. I found a remedy for that. Because I went to the family doctor and I
do not allow sleeping tablets in my house. Now, I drink two schnaps every day
or milk with rum. With the consequence that I put on five or six kilos at once.
Now, I don't do it anymore, but then I don't sleep anymore. At half past three
I wake up and then I get such a head at night. There are 20 things running
through my head.
A: Especially at night?
P: Yes, but also during the day. I don't understand it
anymore. I already said that I feel as if I have a head of an elephant. I think
it is so. So many thoughts are going inside the head!
A: Don't you get headache of that?
P: No, I don't have pain.
She has no headache. If she would have
headache of which remedy should we think? Cimicifuga
She also says, "I don't know it
anymore." We could think that she will be crazy, delusion that she will
become insane - and there is Cimicifuga, and do not forget Medorrhinum. She is
talking and talking the whole time: Cimicifuga. She is sighing all the time:
Cimicifuga. And how does Cimicifuga feel in the brain? As if they are in the
clouds, the feeling as if the head is in a cloud, and together there is a kind
of pain. But she does not say anything about pain, she only says, so many
thoughts are coming in her mind and she has to do this, she has to work, but
why, she does not know
A: You don't sleep very well. You wake up with
all kinds of thoughts. What do you do then?
P: Oh, I get up. In the morning I am dead-beat,
but I get up at six o'clock in the morning and then I have such a pain in my
legs. I stand too long on my legs. I take a shower at 10.00, half past 10.00 in
the evening, and then I go to bed. It is for me normal that I get up at 6.00
o'clock in the morning. But now, I get pain everywhere, in the fingers and in
the hands and so on. I am anxious to get rheumatism.
Cimicifuga also has pain in the small joints.
What is the prescription? Normally, we should prescribe Cimicifuga with this
information. Maybe you can also prescribe Ignatia - maybe, because occupation
ameliorates
Proposal: "I think that Cimicifuga is
more crazy.
A: I do not believe that Cimicifuga is more
crazy than she is. She is rather crazy. Normally, you could give Ignatia
because of several reasons and you could give Cimicifuga because of several
reasons. If someone would give Cimicifuga I would say that is a good
prescription, and if someone prescribes Ignatia, I would say that is also a
good prescription. Why not
A: Tell me, at night you get up to work?
P: Yes, or I am sitting and continue
crocheting at my bed-spread or I take off the curtains so that I can wash them
the next day.
A: There is something in you that urges you to
take off the curtains and to do this or that?
P: No, it is not an urge, I can just as well
sit at the table and read a book. I can do it as well. But get up, an urge, to
get up.
A: At what time? Is that early in the morning?
P: That might be at 20 past 12 at night. Last
week I had a fight with my husband that he shouldn't drink so much, because he
becomes too fat, then I woke up at 20 past 12 and was fresh. Then I am awake
and very active.
She was drinking alcohol in the evening before
going to bed. She stopped drinking because she was anxious to become an
"alcoholic". It is better to be workoholic" than to be an
"alcoholic". She stopped drinking and could no more sleep. She had to
get out of the bed, 20 minutes after midnight to work. Something in her urges
her to work
A: Very active. That is a characteristic of
you, that you are hyperactive.
P: Yes, I think so.
A: And you always have to be busy?
P: I always have to do something. And I always
have the energy. I don't understand it. Other people have finished their work
at Saturday evening; I haven't, it is unbelievable. But that is because I
always find something else. It is my own fault.
A: What do you mean?
P: When I cleaned my house then I start
emptying the cupboards. Recently, I prayed to God that the family should go
away on the Sunday afternoon so that I could do something. Otherwise I would
have been occupied with the family, but then I didn't have time to do something
else. Now I thought, I hope they are going and they went. But then the joy of
the household is gone.
She was praying to the Lord that the children
would go away on Sunday afternoon, so that she could clean her furniture. She
emptied everything, cleaned it and put everything again in it.
It is the same story as she told me in 1985,
exactly the same
Sulphur? Why Sulphur? Because Sulphur is in
many rubrics of this case. What about Rhus toxicodendron? That is a very good
proposition. We forget Rhus toxicodendron in situations like these. Nearly
insanity situations. Clarke writes: "Anxious sadness and excessive
anguish, especially in the evening and at night, with wish for solitude and
inclination to weep." She does not want to be alone. "Restlessness
which will not suffer the patient to remain seated and compels him to throw
himself about in bed, and also to drive him out of bed. Anguish with fear of
death and sighs. Fear of being poisoned. Suicidal mania (desire to throw
himself into the water). Irritability and ill-humour, with repugnance to
labour. Moral dejection with anthropophobia. Helplessness and profound
despondency. Uneasiness respecting one's children, affairs, and the future,
with want of self-confidence." Anxious about the children. Anxiety about
the future, what will happen? "Weakness of memory and forgetfulness
(cannot remember the most recent events). Want of ideas and of mental energy.
Difficult comprehension. Slowness of conception and mental dulness. Delusions
of the imagination and visions. Mild delirium; with insensibility."
This is a clear picture of what she says here.
This kind of things with its restlessness has to be busy, that is clear Rhus
toxicodendron. But I gave another remedy
Rhus toxicodendron is a very beautiful
prescription. You have to give Rhus toxicodendron in this case, unless you have
other information of peculiar symptoms that gives you the remedy.
A: Yes, of course, because you don't find any
rest. What about the anxiety about the children?
P: Yes, I still have it.
A: Anxiety that something will happen to them?
P: Yes, also. When they go to school. But at
the moment I don't let someone come to take care of them. Previously, I often
did so. Now, I don't bring them somewhere.
A: Why?
P: They are grown up.
A: Yes, yes, and you were too anxious.
P: Yes, and yet nothing happened.
A: Do you think that you feel better when you
are alone?
P: Yes. When I am alone I am the happiest person on the
world. I think one day I will buy a small house in the middle of the
wood. I also said so to my husband, but I didn't tell him where. Then I don't
come back. I can be alone very well. That's the reason why I got all this,
because my husband was at home for half a year, although he never said what I
had to do.
And I always have a lot of people around me in
the house. I am never alone. That is a misfortune. The children get up at 6.00
o'clock in the morning and I go working in the shop. And then the talking of
the people about the bad and the good weather and so on. When I come home, I am
also not alone. Also not in the evening, then he or she is coming, oh dear.
Maybe that is the reason why I get up at night so that I am a little bit alone.
A: But you like company?
P: Sometimes I do, but sometimes I can't see
any person. I can not renounce them because at the end of the week I miss them
when they have not been here. And then suddenly I can get the idea at 11.00
o'clock in the evening that I have to see her, and then I jump on my bicycle
and ride to her house.
A: Sometimes you have inclinations to which
you can't resist.
P: Yes.
A: And you have to go there to see these
people?
P: Yes. Then I go there. If they are not there
I was unlucky. Then I leave a note behind.
A: Do you have other inclinations?
She has inclinations to do something and she
has to do it, but she does not know why she has this tendency. Something urges
her to do certain things
P: Well, this happens daily.
A: And then you have to do this, you can't
resist.
P: Sometimes there is no other choice, when
the weather is so bad, then there is no other choice.
A: What do you mean?
P: I have only one day off. When it is raining
that day and I can't clean the windows, yes, then I clean them the next day. It
doesn't play a role. I do this at noon or early in the morning, or the next
day. It has to be beautiful weather. I am not completely insane.
There is one day in the week that she has to
clean the windows. It has to be done: if she did not have the time to do it
that day, she will do it at night, or between the soup and the potatoes or I do
not know when - but it has to be done
Sepia? Yes, that is right. Why? Because she was too long with
her husband, aversion husband, too long time with the husband makes Sepia
crazy, occupation ameliorates, aversion company, wants to be alone, wants to be
busy all the time, the cleaning woman, the washing woman with the big belly, as
Nash says. Yes, that is a possibility
We
already have given Ignatia, after two months no reaction. We have given
Cimicifuga, no reaction. We gave Rhus toxicodendron, no reaction. We gave
Sepia, no reaction. We are treating her for nearly one year
A: And when you have cleaned your windows, do
you feel well?
P: Yes, it is good, but it has to be done. I
think, I have two lives, an internal and an external life.
Which remedy is this?
Thuja. "I think I have two lives, an internal and an external", a
kind of dissociation - Anacardium. Yes, very good, but do you feel that she has
been suppressed? No, there is no reason for her to be Anacardium. To be
Anacardium there has to be a reason. Anacardium has to be suppressed with
enormous lack of self-confidence and a very strong hatred feeling. They have no
heart, but a heart of stone
Here you can never prescribe Anacardium,
because she does not have this hatred we expect in Anacardium. Another
possibility was Thuja, but we need other symptoms for Thuja. We need symptoms
to be sure. Dreams about falling, nightmares while sleeping on the left side,
these would be indications for Thuja
Until now we can give this or that remedy,
only on the mental picture, but we need a symptom in the Repertory that
indicates the remedy, or a peculiar symptom, or a very strong symptom that
indicates the remedy that has this kind of mind.
A: There is something in you that urges you to
do so. That is also at night. What do you do when you get up?
P: Yes, everything in silence, cleaning the
bathroom. Or when we go on a holiday, I prepare everything, looking for the
maps and so on. Everything at full speed.
A: A kind of hurriedness?
P: Yes, my husband always says this. When he
gets a bottle of milk, then I already took and brought it back twice. Then I
start abusing and say, "What will become of you! " With the children
I am always behind them, although they do not have difficulties in school.
A: You stimulate them very much.
P: Yes.
When other people do not work quickly enough she starts abusing
that everything has to go more quickly? Which remedy is this? Tarantula. What
can Tarantula not see? Red and black, yes, but what can they not see? People
who are in trouble. They can not see people who are in trouble, they must
always help. When they see someone in trouble they immediately go to him to
help him. You know Tarentula is a remedy in multiple sceloris. And here we make
the differential diagnosis between Argentum nitricum: Tarentula is so in a
hurry and also all the other people have to hurry, also Argentum nitricum is
impulsive and in a hurry
Another prescription is Tarentula without
reaction after two months
A: When you are alone do you
think that you are more anxious?
P: No. In fact, I am not an anxious type. I'm
not afraid of the dark. When I am at home on Saturday evening I never switch on
the television or the radio, it depends, I must be in a very good mood for
that, when I know what is on, otherwise not. I like it to be quiet when I am
alone.
Very strange. Can this be Tarentula? "I
can listen to the silence." Can this be Tarentula
P: I can even listen to the silence. I can do
very well.
A: You told me that you have put on weight?
P: Yes, surely ten to twelve kilos.
A: Where do you put on weight?
P: Everywhere. Look at my thick fingers. They
also hurt. And my hips become very thick.
A: Are there periods in which your abdomen is
more swollen?
P: Always before the periods.
She has a distension
abdomen before menses, so "abdomen, distension before menses" (p.
545). We see there is Lycopodium
A: Does the menstruation come regularly?
P: No. Sometimes it comes, sometimes it
doesn't.
A: Do you have the impression it is irregular?
P: Yes.
A: If
the bleeding is coming through, then you feel better?
P: When it is coming through then I am a new
person.
"When the menses comes then I am a new
person." Lilium tigrinum is a possibility. And Lachesis is a possibility. But now we give
Lachesis - but after two months no reaction. That is the way it happens in
practice and then you say, "Oh, I found it." And then there is
another remedy when everything is better when the menses appear: Zincum. All right, Lachesis
and Zincum are two remedies who feel much better when the menses appear
A: Do you think that your general problem, the
hurriedness...
P: It might have something to do with it.
A: Do you think it is better when the bleeding
of the menses comes through?
P: Yes, then I can say, "Let's do this or
that."
This means that when
the menses is there that she feels better in general. The hurriedness is much
better, the sadness is much better and so on
A: How many time is there between two periods?
P: That might be four weeks until three
months.
A: When did you have your periods the last
time?
P: A fortnight ago.
A: And before?
P: In July. Now it is September. In July,
during the holidays, as usually.
A: You don't take the pill?
P: No.
A: What about the stool?
P: When I am in a hurry it is better. When I
am quiet, ... sometimes I can't eat anything, then I don't care about that.
A: But do you have complaints with the stool
itself?
P: Yes, regularly I drink a special kind of
tea for that. Then it is all right. When I don't drink it I can't go to the
toilet for two to three days.
A: And when you go then?
P: Pain at my behind, also in my abdomen.
A: Also at the rectum? How is the pain then?
P: Stitching and
burning. When I have been to the toilet then it is burning inside.
A: How long does it last until the pain is
over?
P: That can be over very quickly, but it can
last a long time, half an hour, it decreases gradually.
A: Does this burn from outside to inside?
P: Yes, very slowly upwards. I think that my
intestines have been shortened for 25 cm, they have been burned away.
A: Do you have other complaints?
P: No, only pain in the thigh. I am anxious I
will get rheumatism or arthrosis. Often pain in the hip, from left to right;
that is different.
Now, you know two things: we know that when
the menses does not appear and stay out too long a strong symptom, namely the distension
of the abdomen, appears. Look in the Repertory "abdomen, distension during
suppressed menses" (p. 545)
ABDOMEN, DISTENSON, MENSES, suppressed,
during : Rat.
Then she is anxious that something will happen and she does not say that it is
better when talking about it; but to indicate the idea of the remedy, look on
page 45, "fear that something will happen when alone relieved by
conversation". Here, there is an addition: Ratanhia and Mancinella
MIND, happen, something, will, when alone relieved by conversation : Rat.
I do not know why suppressed. When the menses
does not come, they are suppressed, but we do not know why
Do you know why I found the remedy in 1985?
Because Vithoulkas said about this remedy that they have to do certain things. For example,
when they pass a church, they have to make a cross, they can not pass a church,
without making a cross. They have to do certain things, they just
can not do otherwise. These are mental symptoms of Ratanhia that they have to
do certain things, that they are anxious, that they are hurried. You can give
this picture and say, "All right, that is Ratanhia, but you can never
prescribe unless you have peculiar symptoms: distended
abdomen from suppressed menses and this enormous burning pain a long time after
stool. These two key-notes of Ratanhia makes a case of Ratanhia,
together with these mental symptoms. We have treated her for one year and now
we give Ratanhia
A: What about the pain in the rectum, the
stitches?
P: Burning, really
burning. As if you have burned yourself?
A: But this stitches also. How does it stitch?
P: As if they are stitching with an injection,
it can hurt that much. Not every time, but very often.
A: Do you have discharge?
P: No.
A: Beside the pain in the
hips do you have other complaints?
P: Pain in the back. I had this once and it
hasn't been cured. I can't. I don't go to the family doctor, that is a
characteristic of me. I am such an obstinate plant. I always start rubbing with
warm clothes on it. I can't tolerate when my mother says that I have to take a
sleeping tablet. If she wants to compel me to do such things, then I could put
my mother with the sleeping tablets at the door. I am not angry, but they don't
have to urge other people. They have to leave me in peace. Everyone is
different.
A: Does it also itch at the rectum?
P: Very strong, but then I always take sterile
clothes.
A: How often do you have this?
P: Very often, but that is very different.
A: Sometimes you don't like that they tell you
what you have to do.
P: No, absolutely not.
Phatak writes: "Better from exercises" and we
have seen in this case that the woman is very busy. I think that this is a kind
of exercises
We have to make an addition in our Kent. You know that
also Helonias has exercise ameliorates, exertion ameliorates. We have to add
Ratanhia
You see how close the remedies are sometimes,
if you compare, for example, Rhus toxicodendron. But the peculiar thing in this
case was the kind of pain in the rectum after stool, so burning, so strong. And
then the distension of the abdomen in the suppression of the menses, we do not
find this in Rhus toxicodendron
FEEDBACK (1 MONTH LATER)
She got Ratanhia 10M. Now she comes back and
she gets Sac-lac.
A: On September, 14 you were here and I gave
you the remedy. How did it develop afterwards?
P: Until Thursday I had enormous headache. I had three
tablets, in the morning, at noon and one at the next day.
Sometimes, I give three tablets, one for the
morning, one for the noon and one for the evening. Normally, it is not
necessary, but when I have the feeling that this is the remedy and you want to
be sure that the remedy has been taken at the right moment - sometimes it seems
that it depends on the moment the remedy has been taken. It seems so, I am not sure.
Nash, for example, writes that you have to take certain remedies when the moon
is growing, or when the moon is decreasing, or better in the evening. I do not
know. But in
this case I gave 10M three times a day
Do not give one tablet today, the next week
another, the next week another that is not good, because you
repeat during the working of the first tablet and
then you have an aggravation. But when you do it in a short time, within one
day or half a day, it is no problem. She had strong headache after the remedy.
P: I turned from one side to the other. And
then I was dangerously ill and then it became better. I had pain at my heart,
in the stomach, headache, at the skull. Then it started becoming better. Last
week it was very bad. I didn't like coming back today. I thought, "Dammed,
do I have to get it back so soon?"
A: Last week you had a relapse?
P: More or less. Yes, it has been worse.
A: In what way?
P: I didn't have the heavy feeling inside
anymore. I still have this often, but it is away very quickly. It doesn't heap
anymore, previously, I had a kind of feeling of a heap inside. That is less.
Also the burning at the rectum is very much better. The pain has become less.
A: What about the emotional state?
P: All right, much better. It is improving, I
feel it.
A: Have you become more quiet?
P: Yes, much more quiet than before.
A: Do you still have to get up at night?
P: Last week I had to get up two or three
times. And I didn't have to for quite a long time.
A: I will give you a few tablets in a tube to
take home in case you have a relapse that lasts longer than one week. You only
take this when you have more complaints at the rectum and when you feel worse
emotionally. When you feel a little bit less emotionally, but physically there
is no aggravation, then you wait, it will improve spontaneously. If the rectal as well as the emotional complaints last
longer than five days, then you take it.
I would like to see you again after two months.
P: I would like to come back after one month.
The last time I also came back after two months and then it was over again. Do
you know what I have, the voices in my head, I don't have a quiet head: I
always hear what someone said. And also that drone in my head. I also have this
very much at night.
A: But less than before?
P: It is already better, yes.
A: You would like that I follow your case
until you are completely all right. Good.
First, you see very well the aggravation, then
the improvement and in general she feels better at the moment. The abdomen is
better, the stool is better, the rectum, and also mentally she is better. She
can have a slight relapse and then she recovers from herself. One week before
this consultation there was a kind of relapse and then again she felt better
From 1984 up to now I did not give her another
remedy, only this remedy, Ratanhia, and she did very good on it. It means that
in this case Ratanhia can be a very deep acting remedy. You see that there are
more than 10 important remedies in Homoeopathy. There are people who work with
ten constitutional remedies. I do not like to blame, but with those ten you can
indeed solve 70 or 80% of the problems of the population, but the problem is
the other 30%. When you solve the problem of 20% or 25% more, you have 90% or
95% - but you are suffering with the other 5%
You can say that we all together cure 90% in
the centre, but if you have 20,000 people, how many people are not cured?
2,000. 2,000 persons you can not cure is a problem, a very big problem. Our
task is to work to be able to cure this small percentage and then you think of
remedies like Ptelea, Ratanhia, Helonias, Fagopyrum and so on, small remedies;
they are there and they have to be used, but maybe once in your life or once in
five years. I had a case and I could not find the remedy. It was a case of
chronic diarrhoea with distension of the abdomen and oedemas. Which is the
remedy? Chronic diarrhoea, the whole time, that is the
disease of M. Crohn, with Rectal perineal fistula, with oedema, swelling,
chronic diarrhoea, oedema also of the abdomen - which remedy
Apocynum cannabinum. We have to know. I gave
Apocynum cannabinum and there was a beautiful reaction. But afterwards, she got
a phlebitis, but I did not give Vipera (it would be necessary). She went to the
hospital, but they could not do anything
You often see that if you are treating a
person and an acute state is coming up you have to give the acute remedy.
Graphites and Apis, or Graphites and Vipera; but you have to be able to do this
step. That is the reason why we often need these small remedies
Does everyone know this rubric? "Dropsy
of the abdomen" (p. 546)
Apocynum cannabinum is a very important remedy
in the first cases.