Yes, she likes cold drinks with ice. No, she isn't especially better from company. She likes being alone sometimes, but looks forward to times when she has company. She sleeps mostly on her right side now due to her injury...but before she did not favor one side over the other.

She says she is easily reassured..for the most part.

Her home is like a work of art. And extremely clean. She collects glassware and little boxes and probably other things.She is an avid reader. She is very animated at social gatherings. She had cancer of the tongue a few years ago. I noticed that had phos. in the list of rubrics. She is not flamboyant...but traditionally in style. She used to be a buyer of clothes for business woman too busy to shop. She would get to know their tastes and buy all their clothes for them.

I asked her if she bled alot...like when she had a cut or something...and she said, moreso now, not when she was younger.

Carol,

It's looking very good for phosphorus. I thought of carcinosin but, she's never been constipated,
which carc. is famous for. So, I think phosphorus is a good bet here.

Snoopy

Snoopy..do you think she should have a dose of rhus tox first for her injury...and would you suggest a 30c of phosp.?

How about salt, ice cream and chocolate?

Ask if she has or had an issue around thunderstorms?

Animated at social gatherings and desiring ice cold drinks are good confirmatories.

Snoopy

[ 23. April 2003, 00:23: Message edited by: Snoopy ]

She likes salt. She loves icecream. She likes chocolate, doesn't love it. And she has never been constipated. She loves thunderstorms.

Dear Members

here it is--
Feet: BB Page:843
Numbness: -Deadness, sens of-891
pressure external < Bb page 1135.
So-- run the three rubrics against each other and see where you come out.

Anyway-- before messing --hit- and- miss remedy-guessing, with the gradual introduction of more case-information-- around, I would suggest for the person --in need of treatment-- to consult a professional homeopath, and have the case taken in full, prescribed and followed up properly.

__________________
Hans Weitbrecht
Consultant Homeopath

Carol,

I just reread your first post, and I realized something! We have remedies to prevent scar tissue from forming! The doctors would know nothing about that! We have calendula in potency, we have silica, we have thiosin....

I'll have to assume that there's some reason why they can't do a needle aspiration.

Uhm....should you give rhus tox first....It depends on which is the most recent and which is causing the most suffering; you have to ask yourself, "What's the worst thing? Which is causing the most suffering, the most limitation?"

I have to tell you, she doesn't appear to be in a rhus tox state at the moment. Ice cold drinks would aggravate. It looks more like a phos. case at the moment. Desire for milk is a keynote for rhus tox, they are, of course, very restless, can't get comfortable....You could check the materia medica and see if she's in more of a rhus or phos state. If you believe that she's phosphorus, it might clear the whole case; or she may be left with just rhus tox particulars which will then respond to rhus tox.

Snoopy

I was looking at Boger's book...the pages that Heir Hans pointed out..the pressure on spine one only refers to external pressure...I don't know if that makes a difference. Phos was a 3 in all three rubrics but Sil came out big 5 in two of them. And some others...Lyc..

Anyway...Heir Hans is totally right about information coming in bits by bits and I've got a lot of bits from talking to my daughter-in-law...the daughter of this woman.

She grew up in a very wealthy family with live-in servants and her mother was not a nice person, nor was the father who went along with the mother. She never felt that she was good enough. She didn't feel loved by her mother. Her mother wouldn't come to her wedding because she disapproved that she was marrying a poor catholic boy. Consequently...she has expended a lot of energy working with charities and voluntering with disadvantaged kids--trying to make others feel loved and cared for.

She hates controversy. She would never confront anyone. She is afraid of water, escalators and heights. She has many many of the same friends she had as a child or in college.

It sounds to me like phos from what I read in sankeran. Snoopy...is this a go?

I would hate to be the one to disagree with Rajan Sankaran. But, let me think about it for a minute.

Snoopy

I wonder if she felt a loss of social status when she married the poor boy. And would that make a difference. I know she loves her husband to die for..and when she thought he was going to maybe die...heart attack...he didn't..but thats when she got fibromyalgia. Oh, geez...did I forget to say that she had that?