A 77 year old active woman has this problem, just diagnosed with it. Had a pnuemonia on a trip to portugal in Feb. Had had a bad cold since the fall. Doctors say they don't know what the cause is..and that its incurable. She has trouble breathing and they are trying to help her with inhalers and steroids.

She has good boundaries with all her children except the youngest who has had drug problems , manic depression, etc. all his life. She has given him money all his life to live on and pay his drug debts and gambling debts. Last fall he was especially needy and was needy up to this day. She is basically a conservative person..but has this soft spot for the son...enabling him because she always felt guilty and responsible for his problems which started in his youth.

When he found out she was sick he sobbed and sobbed that when she was gone noone would love him. She began crying too after this.

Though she has lots of money and a husband who has lots of money she is a very frugal person except for the thousands she has given this son;.

Her chest hurts all the time since November, aches is her word. She has trouble swallowing. Her appetite has gone down. Has lost weight. Can't tolerate certain foods anymore.

Her mother died when she was four and she was brought up with an aunt.

I'll find out more tommorow.

Looks like Bryonia or Phosphorus so far. Let us have some more details.

I was thinking about Arsenicum here!

Think we are looking at ac phos here.
Ars is not so bad a idea, nor phos, cause of the steroids, but the mentals fits phosp, before steroids, that gives now ac phos.

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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no
http://www.homeopati.no

In my opinion, the remedy can be chelidoneum having a case of this type possibility of tubicular miasm is not ruled out. Im sure, chelidoneum can pave the way for more deep acting remedy like baryata group, calc group or carcinocin (if a stron history of cancer in the family)

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A.K. Seth
(Secretary General AHML)

Opinions again, not based on facts!
Or on homeopathys laws, or on organon!

Akseth did say "In my opinion". This is a free speech Board where we as professional practioners should be allowed to state our own opinions without another slating him or her. It is up to the patient to take up what he/she wishes or ask questions.

Welcome Akseth to this BB and please post again.

Well , why do you keep doing that then, Ricky?
And about your integrety as a"professional", well, i have my doubts, but that is slating in your opinion, isnt it? And opninons are allowed you did say? What about my opinion then, not allowed, heh?
Freedom of the BB, of speech is not for me, what? IS IT THAT YOU TRY TO SAY?
As it was with the posting a while ago, you put forth plain lies about me.
Practitioner of what ? is that behaviour entiteld to be called? You answer cause you seem to be so thruthfull, and so rigtheous!

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Ricky, you can see how it must be frustrating for GM when he sees questionners being badly advised, especially after he has given his expert opinion on a matter.

There's years of study in what he knows and to find his sharing of that hard-won knowledge challenged by a homoeopath fresh out of college or by anyone with less knowledge, is bound to be annoying.

GM re-established my belief that homoeopathy can be an exact, dependable and reliable form of healing. Not some kind of wishy-washy hit-and-miss procedure bordering on psychology made into an art form.

He defends not only his opinion but the accurate prescription he has offered to the patient. So it's for the patient's sake too that the defence is so robust.

I have some more information though it might not add a lot to what I've already written. I got this info from the daughter.

She says her mother has always been a meticulous housekeeper and had her daughters cleaning everything when they were teenagers. She was sick a lot during her first marriage..and was always saying as the daughters remember, "I can't handle this stress, I'm sick." One daughter suggests that she used to get sick to avoid facing problems; for example, when her daughter got pregnant with her fiance before they were married she couldn't sleep the night she found out..so she got up to do laundry and fell down the stairs and broke two vertebrea...leaving her husband to take care of all the details of the daughter and boyfriend getting married.

One daughter has always seen her mother as extremely frugal, but the other daughter thinks she IS frugal but moreso around the first daughter to set an example because she thinks the first daughter can't handle money properly. She'll also point out things to daughter about recycling, etc.

She lives in the country and organic farms, food and flowers, and enters them in local fairs. She also cans. Things she did growing up and has gone back to that.

Until this illness, she has been healthy for the last 20 years, after her first husband died. Both she and her husband are wealthy..and she never helps the first daughter when she has money problems...only the bi=polar, alcoholic son. She did recently become aware just how much lying the son had been doing in order to get money from her. When he attacked his sister a couple of years ago she didn't want her to call the police..said, this is a family matter. Lately, as he was terrorizing the sister and knocking holes in her door...the mother finally said, "call the police". This is about the time she got ill.

I can still get more info directly from mother tommorow as she will be in town, if this isn't enough.

Does any of this change the phos ac. And if not, what dosage....