HI Luise,
I can see that what I posted completely "went above the head" .. as we say here in India.

So I"ll explain its relevance taking things from teh top:
JEnni states taht she is on consitutional treatment which has greatly helped a large number of problems. BUt the IBS "suddenly surfaced" while she continues to be well in other general aspects. BUt the consitutional remedy is not helping wiht the IBS.

NOW, I am ASSUMING that the constituional treatment ACCURATE and is proceeding in the right direction - which means that the IBS is an OLD symptom that has expressed itself.

Given that IBS is a PSYCHOSOMATIC problems - as in hyperacidity or labile hypertension are psychosomatic/funcitonal problems, the indicated remedy, has to cover the entire symptom picture AND be complementary to the constitutional remedy.

THis remedy MAY be a "specific" lik Asafoetida that is known to help IBS, or IT MAY BE ANY OTHER REMEDY that covers the symptoms picture. In all circumstances the characteristic of the symptoms picture is important if we're looking for CURE.

WHY?
Thre are any number of reaosns:
1. IF the remedy is a partial similimum or a non indicated "specific" then we will reverse teh good work a consitutional remedy has already done which emnas you can be SURE she will develop teh smae symptoms comples that has been cured by the consitutional remedy earlier.

2. One can certianly FORCE a change in symtpoms that appear like a "cure" when IBS symptoms disappear. BUt what is leftin its wake is a NEW symptomatoloty that is deeper even more difficult to cure - as in cirrhosis of the liver, Cancer of the gall bladder, or even cancer of the colon later in life.

What is a CURATIVE response?
After a remedy (interccurrent) during constitutional treatment. The old symptoms should not recur. NO NEW symptoms should develop - as in pathology expressed in another part of the body.
What is the point of being relieved of IBS with a "specific" or a protocol, and instead develop cardiac infarct or have the old cured symptoms recur in full blast?
So homeopathic treatment cannot be fixed without taking the individaul characteristic symptmatology into account. IN doing so we're ignorig one of the CARDINAL PRINCIPLES, that of similia similibus whicn CURES, everything else cna ony palliate for a time.
IBS is not something that cna be cured with a specific remedy becasue it is a consitutional expression and NOT a local expression of disease.
But then so are most diseases.


The only way to guaruntee this is to find a remedy that covers the presentingpicture clearly 0 it ay be asafoetida or any other "specific" for IBS, but it still have to cover the symptomatology clearly. OBviously this remedy should ahve a clear sphere of action on the GIT, but more importantly it should have the type of cramping and spasmodic expression with severe burning and sharp pains that she explains.

HEre are the cahractersitics of Asafoetida:
MODALITIES:
Worse: Night. In room. Rest. After eating. Suppression. Mercury. Noise. Sitting. Warm wraps. TOUCH. Cough.
Better: Motion in open air. Pressure.
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LEADING SYMPTOMS:
EXTREME NERVOUSNESS and OVERSENSITIVITY.
"Magnifies her symptoms" [Boger]. CRAVES SYMPATHY.
HYSTERICAL PATIENTS; faint easily in a closed room from excitement; globus hystericus.
BONES + PERIOSTEUM [pains, caries, swelling].
PRESSING pains - from within outward.
TOUCH worsens [3] or improves [3].
Internal sensation of TENSION.
PUFFED, venous, fat, flabby patients with a PURPLE face; purple when out in the cold, purple when excited; "they get no sympathy when sick because they look so well".
REVERSED PERISTALSIS. "Flatus does not pass downward but always upward." "Everything presses toward throat" [Boger]. "Enormous accumulation of flatulence all pressing upwards" [Mathur].
"Hysterical women: disposed to miscarriages, hemorrhages; breasts filled up with milk when not pregnant; deficiency of milk a few days after delivery" [Mathur].
Faintness in a closed room [2] - on excitement [2].
Pain and numbness.
Children with digestive troubles [loud rumbling and explosive belching, difficult stool] who are constantly CHEWING, as if ruminating.
Extremely offensive diarrhoea and meteorism and regurgitation of food.


Apart from other modalities, the PRINCIPLE expresison fo asafoetida sensation is REVERSE PERISTALSIS. DOes Jenni have this symptom expression in her IBS? think NOt.

I"ll be looking at another "Specific" remedy instead.
d.r leela

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