dear marie sorry to hear of your problem,(yes i also had an x that was this monster alcoholic besides a junkie)....never mind that.
I am a homeopath and sometimes use herbs for ailments ,i found that the Kudzu vine that growns in japan and tennesee usa deals with this problem verry well.
Go to google search; kudzu vine info.
Dont think it will grow in belgium it is way too cold there,I'm having a hard time growing it here........good luck

Gina Tyler

Dhiman,
I am interested in your experience - i have nothing to lose on this, plus it is the kind of thing i want to deal with once i become a fully fledged homeopath, so it is twice as interesting.
will you share your experience with me?
i gave him ledum p tonite 30CH. you say it takes 6 months.... how do you do it?
this patient is getting all the psycho support he can get from me (except when he is bingeing because then he gets really unpleasant).
He is also in with a shrink who is a really good friend of his by now, but no good at getting him off the booze, in fact he is really hopeless at that! but he gives him good psycho support.
After having given him 30CH tonite, what is the next step, and the following ones over 6 months?
would sure appreciate your help for someone who is very close to me.
marie

gina,
thanks for your moral support. i have to say i really appreciate being able to talk and get feedback from all of you, it is wonderful to get some support - been in this one on my own for too long - that is what has made me swear to become a specialist in this field!
marie

Braveheart,
I am sure it was because they chose the alcohol over the grub!
I definitely will go and read your 140 posts - the more you read, the more you learn, isn't that so?
thanks for the posts.
marie

MCT1,
thank you for sharing.
this one has been diagnosed by several qualified homeos as nux. ok, he probably was, but i am not sure he still is, like nux is no longer working.. he went up to 1M, it was not concluding. we were getting better results on 30c as long as it worked, but it no longer is to my mind. 5c is definitely more efficient on small things nowadays like stopping him from waking up at 4 in the morning, but the rest no longer seems to work!
which brings me around to the following point: they say that in weakened economies, you have to work with low potencies like 5C... i suppose chronic alcoholics are weakened economy (although this one is full of beans and stupid ideas), but i know the liver results are almost off limits, he is right on the tightrope, would that be the reason the nux 1M is less efficient than the 5C?

Any one ever read this one? i have been trying to get hold of it for ages, but never managed yet - apparently it is pretty difficult to get anyway this guy was a homeopath, and a very brilliant one at that apparently in the 1800's.

He claims he cured a patient once and for all with l dose of Sulph 1M - his patient was going for the beer and whisky. (Does anyone know anymore about it?)

So is my patient (and occasionally some wine). I have always had the feeling he was at least as much Sulph as he was Nux - this guy has always been alcoholic (started bingeing at 20 years old, maybe earlier), but his mentals are definitely sulph - he lost his job, and the world fell apart. he had important responsabilities, and since he lost his job 5 years ago, he has never stopped trying to find the same kind of job again (but at 60!? small hope). anyway all his language is sulph language - he wants to be someone important - the best at his job AND acknowledged for it - he says very clearly "if i got another job like the one i had, my depression would lift from one day to the next" - i am sure it would - he spends all his time contacting people who knew people who knew others who might be able to help.
he was brilliant at his job (although it didn't stop him boozing) - he says everything is stressful in life, that good times are at least as stressful as the bad times, that love is stress too... everything stresses him....

i got him onto calc carb until 1M and although that worked miracles on him (he would curl up in bed in the dark when things were not right, or after bad news) it was the same as for nux - 1M and over was not working as swiftly or as well even as the 30C!

our homeo put him onto calc carb XM and he is probably out of the calc carb cycle too by now - he looks fit and well, even when he is stone drunk, this guy will only start a quarrel (which can get pretty bad) if you start it. he never starts it - but a few unwelcome remarks, and you've got it!

this is a problem with teenagers who neither realize nor care about it, they just think he is a problem, and indeed with others too who don't always want to keep quiet and accept everything!

any suggestions anyone?

dear marie,hello
thanks for your post there is a sense of humor in your writing,being in your difficult situation is of course not funny (as i know from previous relationships like this ) but it sounds like your keeping your spirits up.
I do know about two sulphur constitutional men that took sulp and it did work with the substance (alcohol abuse). I dont know of the case you mentioned in your post but if the const. is a sulphur.....if the shoe fits! Put it on.........
Gina Tyler

hi gina!
well you have to keep the spirits up with a large family like mine, and per chance i seem to be pretty stress resistant, otherwise they would have had the last word in years ago!

sulphur does fit exceedingly well and has always helped out, it is just that as for the rest it does not work over 200C, but that, although it helps has not to date stopped the problem.

there is partial filth like with ledum too, but only partial: he hates washing, and will only do it during the week because he is out of the house and wants to keep up appearances - but on weekends or if he knows he is not going out of the house a few days, he just doesn't wash - there is a copious urine flow too obviously, so it is not always where it should be, but he doesn't see it - just walks straight thru the puddles on his socks and keeps them on afterwards - his clothes are typically sulph clothes: a good dresser, always very elegant, but in such a state! stains, crushed, walks on the bottom of his pants - well he is potbellied, so the pants hang down low, and he just walks on them. doesn't think of pulling them up from time to time, like he didn't care...chucks food all over himself - but you know when i was talking about choking with food, he obviously yucks it all up while choking, but if nobody cleans up after him, he definitely won't either- or else if he does it is so messy that you would rather do it yourself!

everything is untidy, he likes being clean on leaving the house, but by the time he comes back, he is sweating all over, and loves staying in bed under the covers while sweating!

the mentals are so sulph you wouldn't believe it, all these constant ideas going thru his mind full speed - very bright, but so desperately needs to be the best at what he does, and acknowledged for it - whatever he does, he always needs the acknowledgement. like sulph there are huge money problems sulph fashion - never pays the bills on time, not because he doesn't have it, more because he doesn't care and plans to do it at one point or other, so it just drags on and on. he doesn't hide his money, whatever he has is there on the table, in the bedroom in an overflowing pot on the ledge for all to see, family and others...

and yet, sulph only worked uptil 200c, no further, and all this is still there - all this stuff is constitutional, it does not only happen when he binges, he has always been like that - when he binges it is only a bit worse that's all!

Quote "this guy will only start a quarrel (which can get pretty bad) if you start it. He never starts it - but a few unwelcome remarks, and you've got it!" Unquote.

I was reading a homeopathic book last week that mentioned Nux-type people who will quarrel and become quite nasty and malicious will never apologise but add Staphysagria in conjunction and they will apologise!

Nux irritable people will fester i.e. 'bee in a bonnet' and be completely convinced of the righteousness of their anger and fail to have any insight/self-awareness re: their anger, but add Staphysagria (which is also for unprovoked, undeserved. unpredictable anger/irritability) to the mix and they become able to acknowledge and feel remorse for their actions.

As Nux is an excellent remedy for the nastiness inherent in alcoholic behaviour, I was interested to find out that Staphysagria can help them 'see' what chaos and trauma they have caused, thereby, hopefully, enabling them to do something about their disease and the hurt it causes their loved ones.

Just another thought regarding the disease and something to think about...

__________________
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost 1874 – 1963)

Marie
Jeremy Sherr taught me that when 200C has worked well, sometimes 1M does nothing because it's too similar in energy, and you have to skip to 10M. I've found this to be true many times over. Also if a remedy stops working at a certain potency when it's done really well previously I would also consider the following: an LM potency of the same remedy, a complementary remedy or a nosode. Of course, Nux-v and Sulph are stated to be complementary and to follow each other well. My dearest goes from one state to the other quite regularly.