An, the ten-thousand-dollar question!! (Why she came to be this way.)
I doubt that her ancestors had syphilis, but who knows. :-) I've
followed the debates about whether Hahnemann's miasms are
disease-specific, or whether other agents can give rise to the same
miasm. Dunno, but personally I lean toward the latter. What would
cause a calf to be born this way... ??Toxic exposure of the mother??
Or just a genetic fluke, or... Ach, the other image is just too
unpleasant... :-) What do *you* think or others?
Shannon

On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Hennie Duits wrote:

> Feels good to read such things.
>
> And then: would you have any idea about why this calf came to be (from
> birth) as it was?
>
> Hennie
>
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> On 13-7-06 at 8:47 Robert & Shannon Nelson wrote:
>
>> A happy story from my house...
>> Although this is about a cow, it seems so easy to transpose this
>> picture onto a human, and since syphilinum is one of those "intense"
>> remedies that one doesn't read many cases of (at least *I* have not
>> read many cases of), I thought I would share it.
>>
>> Some of you might remember about a year ago I wrote about a calf that
>> had been given to us to see if we could pull her through, because she
>> needed too much special care for the farm she'd been born on--couldn't
>> stand without help due to turned-under hooves; milk would pour out of
>> her nose as she drank (cleft palate?); more or less constant oozing
>> from nose and eyes; severe and persistent diarrhea; and recurrent
>> pneumonia. And such a pathetic air... And an odd thing, despite her
>> "pathetic air", and despite being a "baby"--and the tiny calves are
>> usually so appealing!--this one was hard to be around; I kept having
>> to
>> fight off not just pity, but revulsion. But we didn't want to let her
>> down, and we had good help with the "nuts and bolts" of dealing with
>> her issues...
>>
>> Short version--After several failed remedies, I gave her syphilinum
>> 10M
>> (I think based mostly on pronounced asymmetry of her face, tho other
>> things seemed to support it too). She did just
>> beautifully--pneumonias
>> stopped, discharges stopped, and she became a happy, peaceful,
>> reasonably normal-looking heifer. When she got big enough she joined
>> the herd, and did very well for I'm thinking about eight months.
>>
>> Next chapter: I wasn't really surprised when, some months later, she
>> started to seem not-so-well again. A beginning like hers did not seem
>> likely to be a "one-dose miracle". But for "technical reasons" I
>> didn't follow thru with her at that time, just noticed the changes and
>> kept thinking I *needed* to get her another dose, and see if it would
>> help her again!
>> But in the meantime she changed very dramatically. She never did
>> hang
>> out with the herd--not just lack of interest, but definite aversion;
>> she avoided them, and they avoided her. She became a huge, dark,
>> hulking shape, stalking the far reaches of the field--yet with a
>> strange craving for human attention. When I (and presumably my
>> husband) were in the pen, she would come straight over, with an air
>> that I first found touching--poor thing really needs some
>> attention!--but soon found *very* unnerving, very weird. *Way* too
>> intrusive, too intense, really made me nervous. (All of our
>> half-dozen
>> cows are very friendly, and all of them come over for pats, but none
>> in
>> an even remotely similar way to hers.) And my husband remarked she
>> one
>> had to be careful around her, because her "friendliness" sometimes
>> turned to aggression (score one for my "instinct"...).
>> The other two notable things have been: more-or-less ongoing really
>> horrible green discharge from her nose (chewed up grass or green snot?
>> Don't know.), and a just awesomely horrible smell. Cows are not
>> sweet-smelling, but this one smelled like... well, maybe like horribly
>> moldy socks mixed in with general filth. Don't know how to describe,
>> but again, not even remotely like what any of our others ever smelled
>> like, and a very strong smell!
>>
>> Last week I got a chance to try again to re-dose. I dissolved a few
>> pillules and sprinkled the liquid onto a scoop of grain--which they
>> normally do not get, but they *love*. At least the *other* ones love
>> it. She gave it a dismissive sniff, and walked away. (Dose? No
>> dose?
>> Hm...)
>>
>> But---The next morning, darned if she wasn't in with the group,
>> hanging
>> out, grazing and swishing her tail with the others, just like a
>> "normal" cow!! A few days ago I finally got close to her (not so
>> easy,
>> since she now prefers the herd over me!), and--no smell!!!!! Nothing
>> at all beyond normal ol' cow smell, and not even much of that. Casual
>> friendly interest in me, but nothing more--just like the others. This
>> time I'll try to follow her more closely, and not let so much time
>> lapse...
>>
>> That's it so far--I hope this was of interest to anyone, as it surely
>> has been to me!
>> Cheers,
>> Shannon
>>
>>