Sorry to keep you waiting, Carol.

Well, the description of her house--spotless and a work of art, and loving thunderstorms, and not being able to confront other people...these three alone, plus the history of childhood oppression, all combine to make a convincing case for carc. Plus, you have the fibromyalgia which is more suited to carc. than phos, in my opinion.

I once had a case of allergic asthma, which, again, was a difficult decision between carc and phos. The patient said he hated clutter! We gave him carc. 9C twice a day and he improved. Then he got a cold. The cold was an easy phos. case so we gave him phos 30C and he said he felt great! Fantastic! So, after the cold we switched him to phos. daily--I don't remember the potency right off, but he did great after that.

So, you might call them complementary remedies, you might say that if you start with one the other will finish the case, but, these are the 2 remedies I see; obviously, carc. is a deeper remedy, has deeper pathology, and they say you have to aim your remedy at the worst thing.

The etiology for carc. is: long-term childhood oppression, emotional shocks, grief, sleep loss from nursing loved ones, overwork, humiliation, insomnia.

Her perfectionism and sympathy for others are confirmatories as well.

Still, as I said before, surgical removal of the cyst with the addition of calendula 200C after the surgery, which would require repetition, I'm sure, along with hypericum and arnica, phos. for the nausea from the anesthesia...and I think she'd do well, assuming we can't get a constitutional remedy to address the problem of the cyst.

Snoopy

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