Hi Sunny,

Sounds like what might have happened is that second dose of Ars 30c interrupted...a severe aggravation resulted which the 200c didn't help. Is she still in the same state as she was when you first took the case? There's a good possibility that she may be, but you have to follow up and see if there have been any changes. Also, see if there are any mental/emotional symptoms lingering from that really angry, mad at the world state she was in after the 200c. I don't know what self-antidoting means, but suspect that the severe aggravation passed. It's not a good sign that the mental/emotional state was so affected by that 200c dose, though. I'd be glad if I saw that had abated.

Time to take the case again and look for differences in the patient's state after all this time. Is the fear of vomiting still so pronounced? Does she still feel it should be outlawed? (that's truly arsenicum-like, IMHO!)

Can't find a rubric for fear of vomiting, but did find in the Complete, MIND, anxiety, vomiting, on: includes ant-c, ars, ars-h, crot-h, cupr-acet, dulc, germ, gran, ip, nit-ac, nux-v, samb, seneg, tab, tong, vip.

You may want to think about dosing with water (split dosing) or by LMs with this patient, too. Sounds extremely sensitive...

You know what else comes to mind? Maybe the fear is not so much of vomiting as it is of illness--perhaps a huge anxiety about her health. There is a remedy which feels all anxiety in the gut...possibly Kali-arsenicum, which gets a big 4 rating in the Complete rep under the rubric "anxiety about health"...but I have to look as I'm just pulling rems out of my head at this point. Gonna go look it up...what do you think?

Divina