Boy, 3, anger.
When he got sick he was always in a crazy state. Moaning and crying a lot. He wanted to be held up, sometimes for hours. Somehow it gave him some comfort and he fell asleep. But if I would put him down then he would wake and start to cry again. Sometimes he would also get very angry, moaning and tossing around in the bed and very hard to be calmed down. When I think about it now, it feels like when he got sick sometimes there was no communication possible, he didn't really react to comforting. Just this upright position made him feel better somehow.
Another aspect which I always felt funny with and didn't know how to deal with, was that when he got sick, he didn't want to take medicine. No globuli, no flower essences, nothing. Sometimes I had to force it in his mouth even it made me feel very bad. But I knew it would help him and then many times it did and he would calm down and relax and sleep.
In general he could get very angry. Even when he was 6 months old I remember him throwing his drinking bottle over the table at lunch because he got angry. He would make his face into a grimace and grumble and make noise and throw things. He always wanted to get what he wanted and he wanted to get it right now.
He still gets these moods but now he's 3 years old so it fits more in the age picture. And he doesn't throw things so much again. But when he was smaller it really surprised me, the intensity of his anger.
I remember when I brought him by our homeopath for the first time when he was about 6 weeks old because he had digesting problems. She said: "I know it's nothing nice to say about a little baby but he looks pretty angry and miserable to me". At that time he was very constipated with stomach pain and also throwing up milk a lot. She gave him Colocynthis but that helped him only partially. When he was 5 months and we started to give him food the problems got worse and then we brought him to a Chinese Chi Gong master who was visiting and treating people in the neighbourhood at that time and he healed this problem.
To me it seems like
Brassavola nodosa helped him to overcome his angriness and special the urge to throw things and helped him to show more of his positive character traits which are the concern for those around him, he wants to make them laugh and also to help them and share with them. He also started to talk at a very early age, communication is very important to him. He talks without to stop almost the whole day long.
There's one more thing what is remarkable about him, but it never changed even with
Brassavola nodosa. He always likes to hold on to somebody's ear. When you hold him up or you're sitting next to him, he always likes to hold one or even both of your ears. He doesn't like to hold his own ears. When I ask him why he says my ears are colder and that's what he likes!
He doesn't like to be covered at night.
Reading all these things again what I just wrote it seems to me that somehow the core of this state has to do with communication. To be part of a group, have people around oneself and communicate with them. Then he seems to be ok. Maybe he was angry when he was a baby because he couldn't talk yet.. And when he gets sick somehow the communication is disturbed. That's my impression of it.
Right now when he gets sick I would describe him as something between Pulsatilla and Cina. Sometimes comforting and soothing down is possible by being there and caring for him but sometimes I can't reach him and he starts to kick around and doesn't want even to be looked at. I don't remember so good how it was before we gave him the
Brassavola nodosa but my husband just told me that it's always been so and he feels that it's easier now to calm him down sometimes.
Over the last 1,5 years I gave him
Brassavola nodosa first in C200 and then in C1000 few times.