Hi-Ho Barbarino!

Under "Mind, fear, blood" there's: alum(2), nux m,
and plat. It should be very easy, with such a small rubric, to confirm or rule out one of these three. So, I'd go to Alumina first in Morrison's and I'd look to see what the keynotes are, and I'd see that Alumina is very well known for constipation, confusion, mental dullness, vague replies, slow answering, dry mucus membranes, craving for dry foods, and so forth.

All three of these remedies have very distinct pictures which you can't miss. If the patient looks like one of these 3, your work is done!

If not, then you have to say that this isn't really about blood, per se, it's about contamination, or dying, or disease, or being obsessive...now you've got your work cut out for you!

You could say, "What does blood mean to you? If I say 'blood', you say what?"

You could say, "In your past, where has blood been an issue for you?"

You can say, "When you see blood, what is your reaction, what do you do?"

You can say, "Was there ever a time when you weren't obsessed this way? What happened to change that?"

You can say, "Are you obsessive about anything else?"

Then you can move away from that issue and see if you can approach her case from another angle-- food desires or aversions, dreams, other fears...you could say, "What's the worst thing that could happen?" This might give you her delusion--that she'll be abandoned, or murdered, etc.

You can ask what her childhood was like.

Don't forget to ask for aggravation times.

Ask if she's ever been in an accident or had a head injury.

Well, that oughta lead you somewhere.

Snoopy