A friend thinks she is pulsatilla.

l. worse time of day is 3-6,
2. likes moving air
3. feet and hands are colder sometimes on the right side of body, moreso on feet
4. prefers cooler weather
5. likes butter, chocolate, dill pickles,
spicy food, brown rice, vegetables and
tofu, onions
6. Doesn't like meat, sushi, oysters, clams--
ishy slimy things.
7. usually prefers consolation
8. likes deep pressure massages
9. hates injustice, pisses her off, deals with it by theorizing, philosophizing.(injustice in larger world and to herself.)
l0.If someone lashes out at her, inconsideration, child not giving her a birthday card...makes her sad.

She is diabetus type I, insulin dependent. She was given Pull by homeopath years ago and never took it because she was afraid of what it might do. She was in high crisis at the time and didn't want to go through anything more. And she was addicted to coffee, 2 to 3 cups per morning, and didn't want to give it up.

Now she has many brown and or pale moles on her stomach that have come out recently. A few on back. Says her mother has them, too. And a spot on right side, about an inch from the tip of her eyebrow. She thinks they mean that she is getting old and ugly. She is 50, and very pretty for 50. If you are old and ugly "I'm no longer worth anything". She knows that beauty is only skin deep but she also knows that in this society people base their views of people on first impressions.

So to get rid of the moles she is now willing to give up coffee.

She is loquacious.

She wants to know what potency she should take. She also wants to know if after her moles disappear can she go back to drinking coffee. She feel she doesn't have a lot of pleasures in life, eating, sleeping, and drinking that coffee. She used to be a dancer and got great pleasure from that. Also making beautiful jewelry. She feels her creative energy is depressed. Used to love to listen to live music. Used to love to meditate but now its more a solitary activity than a previous meeting of like minded souls.

Maybe she isn't pull. I don't know. She seems that way to me. Sweet little voice, but also not afraid of confrontation.

Anyone answer her questions?

Investigate the materia medica of the following remedies:

Thuja
Causticum
Carcinosin

These seem to be more indicated than Pulsatilla.

Are you and she doing reading and research? I, too, can suggest remedies to read and study, but please know that this is NOT prescription advice.

Study in your materia medicas the followig:

Sepia
Calc carb
Causticum
Lachesis
China

Compare these to Puls.
There is not enough info provided yet to determine her constitutional remedy; however, one of your observations made a STRONG impression: you say she "usually prefers consolation". I would say that Puls ALWAYS prefers consolation, so weigh this point in as you read and study and compare.

Feel free to ask more questions and discuss this here, too!! Let us know how it goes!!

[This message has been edited by kevin seymour (edited 07 October 1999).]

Look in detail at Carsinosin - especially re the moles.

1Sulphur, 2 lycopodium, 3 causticum.

Greetings in the Name of Survival:

Before I would even look at a medicinal
remedy in such a case, I would take a good
hard look at this diet! We have heard of
"simple nutritious foods," in many places,
none of that garbage is! A Good rounded diet
of herbs in the morning, in the afternoon,
and in the evening is where I would start!
Gradually eliminating all that poisonous
flesh being devoured. I think this poor
unfortunate should read the sixth edition
Organon of Hahnemann at least six times, and
then use it for reference again every day!
I see any attempt to remedy such a one with
potencies as a cruel joke! She must get some
kind of a sensible constitution incorporated
into her life in a holistic way before seeking to just palliate such insanity with
Homeopathic potencies! "It is wrong to use
complex means, when simple ones will do!!"
See Leviticus 11:1-47 in the Bible to start
putting some order into this economy, I would
only suggest!
Not with diktat! nativeson....

Its not as if she eats butter chocolate sandwiches everyday with a side of pickles. She is a vegetarian and one of the best vegetarian cooks I know.

She would like to know what dose sulfer, and she still needs to know how long before she can drink coffee again. After the moles disappear? Or will coffee not harm sulfer.

[This message has been edited by carolorr (edited 09 October 1999).]

If I llok at this case, I see indeed Lycopodium, who also likes toi be outside, whose time modality, although apparently a hour out, is seen often enough in Lyc. Furthermore, the food likes and dislikes point very strong to this remedy, especially because they include sweets - otherwise one could think of Natrum mur. Then there is a right sided coldness of the limbs, also found in Lyc. The mentality seems more like nat.m. or causticum, especially in regards to issues of injustice. Yet although Lyc. is known as the bully or the victim, there are quite a few who come up for the underdog - they like to be magnanemous. So I would like to know a few more details, like whether she takes her time with food, or not. What are the amounts eaten and is there a regular hunger pattern or are there exceptions. If the latter, what food is preferred. How is the sleep? does she ever get any colds? And how are/were her periods? Pains, type of blood, mood, and concomitants please?

I'm afraid I don't have very interesting inf. regarding your questions:

Relatively slow eater, doesn't eat a lot at a time, 3 meals a day, Sleeps okay once she gets to sleep.

She had cancer of cervic about l5 years ago. They radiated her which ruined the ovaries, never got another period. Never had any pain associ. with her periods, maybe a little more sensitive in the crying area before the period.

When I ask her any questions, she is very particular that I understand her correctly, that I get it right. She is always giving me the impression, right or wrong, that she is not too much this way or too much that way.

She hardly ever is sick except a month ago and that is on the BB somewhere. Apparent stomach poisoning or flu. She was very grateful that I came over to give her remedies but didn't need me to spend the night. SHe send me a beautiful chosen card later thanking me. When her husband left her 5 years ago I spent a couple of days with her. I don't remember this but she just told me how she couldn't have functioned if I hadn't been there. That she was in a state of shock, a daze.

She is a very dutiful mother and loves her children. Will go home to feed her l8 year old daughter saying "I haven't spent much time with her in the last few days".

She is creatively well dressed all the time, never goes out without makeup.

Worrying about her daughter when she was younger she would read her diary. She is not above doing stuff like this. She recently went to work outside of the home at a temp agency(she lost a home based job painting clothes) and she was so bored filing things that after someone who worked there told her they didn't know why theykept all those files because they never used them, she surreptiously SHREDDED the remaining files. I found this shocking when she told me. She was kind of laughing about it. She was so bored and wanted to go home early, thats why she did it. It doesn't fit in with most of her personality, believe me.I kind of admired her for it but nonetheless it was shocking.

When I have a personal problem and I share it with her she will ask so many questions that sometimes I consider it an invasion. "why did you do that, what are you getting out of it, what are you going to do next..you should do this and you should do that. She budgets money well, I don't. She wants to "fix" my problem. She is almost masculine in her attitude compared with her very feminine voice and manner; however, if I am emotionally upset, she is right there, a real dear, very sympathetic.

In her home she doesn't consider herself obessive-compulsive but if I don't cover the cake back up after having a bite, she will give me a little lecture. I soaked her iron pan once after using it and she got very upset. "This is iron and it should never be in water. It ruins it. Don't you know that. These pans have to be seasoned, etc, etc."

She seems sometimes to be a cross between self-centeredness and generosity and kindness of feelings.

Once I won a lot of money at a casino and I gave her 400. While waiting for the money I asked her if she could lend me 20. After I gave her the 400., she said, "what about the 20". Shes funny like that. Keeps everything separate.

She was in the middle of a "love" affair about 7 years ago with a married man. She was willing to give up her marriage for this man. He couldn't leave his wife because his wifewas ill. My friend got an infection in both her legs and had to be hospitalized. She went to many "psychics" trying to find the answers and ended being disppointed in all of them.

I don't know if I'm too close to her to be objective but she always seems to want to give the impression that everything in her life is under control...and that noone can tell her anything.

She used to talk about how her mother never told her she loved her. She cried about that but that was several years ago.

She would like to be "in love". Just loving someone or having things in common or a good sex life isn't enough. She prefers and values her freedom and independence, but would give it up to be in love. Thats what I think.

I think GM suggested NM from her illness a month ago. Everyones first impression of her is pullsatilla. But sometimes she seems to want to be only in situations where she has some control.,

When her soon to be x husband comes over to fix something at the house, she gets very upset and may cry or get angry...though she knows that she could never live with him again, that she doesn't even like him anymore.

I'll stop now as I have little objectivity about her symptoms and could go on writing forever.

If the ovaries is destroid its cimicifuga thats the remedy, cimicifuga resembles pulsatilla, sulp, lachesis, etc.try cimicifuga c200 one dose instead.