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Litsea cubeba

Year 2020, Issue 5, Article 2CaseAuthor: Jan Scholten
Case by Jan Scholten
Woman, 55, parodontitis.She has all kinds of problems with her teeth: parodontosis, abscess, granuloma, bone decay. Her parents also had weak teeth and dental problems. As a child she had already caries and had fears for the dentist.
She also has nodules in her left breast.
She feels stressed, especially since the disease and death of her husband. Her pulse is too fast. As a child she could feel weak and flabby, which brought her to start drinking coffee early.
At 17 she developed cystitis and vaginitis after her first love affair with an elderly man, who was married.
At 22 she got acquainted with her later husband, who was 17 years older. She never got children as she had the experience of past lives where she died from getting too many children. Her husband was big and powerful, vital. It was her big love and he was her best friend. It was a big grief when he got sick and died after being treated wrongly and as a guinea pig. She tried to defend him, but in vain. She has good contact with his 2 children from a former marriage.
After he died she does not look for a new relationship. She realises that she is always looking for a father figure. Her husband gave her protection, a feeling of safety as he was big and strong. She would have liked to have such a father. After his death there was uncertainty and fears about how she should master this life alone, without a paternal protector.
She is a homeopath. But she does not want to work too much, to be under stress. Then she would not have enough time for her patients and that would make her sick. But she can work hard and has much energy.
She has many friends and is very open, social. But is a problematic when others have demands on her, want to force her to do something she does not want. She has a fear to be weak and be ridiculed.
In her youth she always felt pressure. She and her elder sister always had to accompany my mother to her activities. For five years her parents were building a house and were working all days till late in the night. They were overloaded which led to a lot of quarrels.
Her parents were basically good people. But her mother and was domineering, hyperactive and very decisive. She was cheerful, powerful, hyperactive and working a lot. She always needed action, always something had to happen, going for swimming on going to the theatre. The children had to be brave and not burden their parents.
Her father was more nervous and sick. He was stressed by all the work and building their house. He became the weaker one of her parents. She still can feel as child that wants her father to come and help her. She always had a strong connection with her father. Others could sat " your father is more married with you than with your mother". That was difficult for her mother. It was difficult for her to become independent.
As a teenager she felt as if not having arrived in life. She feared not being able to achieve things.
AnalysisPlant: sensitive, adapting
Carbon series: problems with parents; need for safety, protection; looking for a further figure; teeth problems.
Phase 5: pressured; social, many friends.
Phase 4: good parents; good connection with father.
Stage 6: brave.
Prescription: 3-622.54.06, Litsea cubeba C30.
Follow upAfter the remedy she got better, got already more energy after four days. She felt as if her living spirit had come back and that has stayed basically. She can work much better. Her feeling of being unprotected has gone. After 8 weeks she feels that she has become adult. Her need for an elderly partner is gone. In the past she felt like a little child who has lost her father. She feels good with herself.
Half a year later she writes: "I am doing very well, both physically, emotionally and spiritually as in my has probably never before in my life. The whole Corona time brings me even more in my power. I don't let my energy level being diminished, even the opposite I'm doing the best I can everyday to raise my energy level and the people around me. I motivate myself and others to take responsibility for their own life, especially in this corona time. The Litsea has helped me very well to become adult."
Her periodontitis only really got better. The treatments of the dentist went very well and without any problems. Everything has turned out pretty well.
In the past Angustura vera helped her also: the parondotitis became less and the nodules in her breast disappeared, but she became tired. Phygelius equalis gave her more energy. But then she got abdominal pain, which reminded her of her youth.
CommentThis case indicates that an elderly partner is an expression of Carbon series. And that is fitting the theme of the Carbon series. It is the need for a parent that is transferred to the partner.
The case also confirms the idea that I have already for about a year, that dental problems are connected to the Carbon series. Teeth are a basic need for survival, without teeth one cannot eat. Teeth emerge in childhood.