Sepia also has the fishy smell and weeps when thinking of her problems. To me this looks more like Sepia than Nat.m. Does she get worse from fats and milk? Does she like fish? If so, read up on Nat.m.

Thanks, all. My daughter is 19 years old. She is in love with someone, but they both have goals that will take some years to reach, and they want to put their time and attention on those goals. So they stay apart alot. She is also concerned that his and her goals will not wind up harmonizing. She wants to do missionary work and he is training for a career in this area. She is also afraid that her health will not permit her to follow her hopes. She cannot concentrate.

Someone convinced her to take a dose of Aconite yesterday. I do not know what potency it was and she is asleep now. (Daytime.) She took Phos 30c in September. Maybe August.

Thank you, GM and Ben, I will look into these things when she wakes up.

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Kescah

Dear Kescah,

Thank you for your answers

Let me analyze the case of your daughter for you in as simple a manner as possible

With the available information let me illustrate the case to you

Let us think that your daughter is a normal healthy happy child – as days went by

She fell in love- this is an oddity of mind Tendency to misbehave – a mental symptom which should have been successfully treated with Tuberculinum

Falling in love - If your daughter think that she live in US and this is normal there This is an oddity of mind -Being impressed by the environment and getting exited this should have been treated successfully treated with Ignatia

Frustrated love and disappointment- Shock or injury to the mind - This at the early days should have been treated with Staphisagria

As days went by

She lost interest in doing her natural activity, not able to sleep and the rest – breathing difficulty – fishy smelling discharge etc., Long standing grief
( this is the most important symptom – give impotence to the mentals first and you can happily ignore the other symptoms which followed ) -This can be successfully treated with a dose of Phosphoric Acid 10 M

First her sleep will be restored
Aconite and all the other drugs suggested are no way in the picture of the case – I don’t see them


This is what I can visualize with the available information

This is how the case is to be studied – in Orthodox Homeopathy – we are not interested in effects we are only interested in the causes – We are interested in restoring health – we will not fight the disease

Please keep me posted


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paty

Thanks. Since taking Nat m about 40 hours ago, she reports that her anxiety is gone and that her back feels about 40% better. However, her sleep, which improved some the first night is back to being a problem. The second night she didn't sleep till 4:00 AM. She did say that her feet get hot in bed. She also has a bit too much mustache, and has a hard time keeping her room clean. Perhaps the sulphur? During the day, however, she is chilly. She has a normal amount of energy for the first 7 hours after waking, but by 9:00 PM she is weak and unable to do anything. Today she has a pustule on her chin. Her behavior is always impeccable- she never gives us any kind of problem.

On reading Phos Ac she says it sounds more like her than any other. The mental debility, listlessness, impaired memory, difficult comprehension. Thirst for cold milk. Difficult respiration. Pain in back as if beaten (says she told a friend it felt as though she were hit with a baseball bat.)

I guess we should give the Nat m some more time since there was some reaction, what do you all think? She is very frustrated by her incapacity and needs to sleep.

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Kescah

Dear kescah,

Please inform about the potency of the drug adminestered to your daughter as it healps us to estimate the case and the progress of the case Plese remember this

Advise - please don't allow your daughter to read about drugs - Tell her that i can give her a list of remidies which are similar to her set-up if she wants now to confuse her. We have a principle at our place we never decide our own drugs we alwase consult the other doc. to finalize for us.

Please inform the latest position so as to give you further advise.


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paty

Well, you are right, she shouldn't have done any reading. She was so sure Phos ac was right and so took it. Her improvement stopped and now she is sick with a sore throat, nausea, and headache. She has better concentration and less agitation. Her back has not gotten worse again, but her breathing was difficult yesterday- about 24 hours after the Phos ac 30c. The Nat-m she took 48 hours before that was a 30c also.

I would welcome help on straightening this out.

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Kescah


[This message has been edited by Kescah (edited 29 October 1999).]

Dear Kescah,

As you put it " she never gives us any kind of problems " and " her hope of doing some missonarty work" - this implies that your child is very caring and very soft natured - these kind of people will usually take things to heart and in turn strain theit nerves system thus becoming weak

options

1. Give her Phosphoric acid 10M

( Don't use lesser potency then that specified - it will agravate the problem )

Mag. Phos. 6X ( tissue remidies ) three times daily

2. In all probability she must be having dark longitudinal ridges developing on her finger nails - check bothe the hands and in perticular thumbs
If these ridges are present and if still she is "crying when coached and feels better by crying" and feals "frustrated by her incapacity to work" - My advise is give her Ignatis - 1M

Along with this you can give her Ipecauc. 6c two or three times

Mag. Phos. 6X ( tissue remidies ) three times daily

( Don't use lesser potency then that specified - it will agravate the problem - it is enough if any one of the above symptoms are present )


3.If she is developing a dejected feeling - thinks she is incapable of work - feels she is inferior - mixed with suicidal tendencies then give her Auram metalicum 200c one dose

Along with this you can give her Ipecauc. 6c two or three times

Mag. Phos. 6X ( tissue remidies ) three times daily

4. If you are not able to deside any of the options above ask for help - in the mean time give her Cocculos Indicus 200c ( Sore throat, nauseas, headache - causation - lack of sleep )

Advise on Work and hope:

Work is devine - It purifies the person who does work - The more you work the more will be the supply of energy and more capable you will be to work

It is only the problem of our attitude that makes us sick and weak

Be cool about your work - do what you have to do at any given time - enjoy what you are doin - forget all the rest - be happy - get more and more healthy

If you are exited over your work - you exite the mind and the nerves system - lot of energy is lost

If you hate your work - you produce more friction in your mind ) - lot of energy is lost

If you hope to do missionary work - it is work for others and for the lord - This will purify your body and mind - It is then not your problem ( As long as you do service it is the duty of the lord to look after you )

Want to know any thing more ?

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paty

When you dont got insight in yourself, you dont got insigth in others either.
Jfr with Hahnemanns claims,as necesseties for a homeopat, on prooving of remedies on your self, and to observations.
Natr m c30 is to low, go up to c200. It should do the trick.

And, dont take remedies so close, let them act till they are through, dont mix, homeopathy is no mixotheraphy!
Difficult breading is a symptome found in ac phos, and it looks like a prooving symptome to me.