666.47.09 Leucanthemum vulgare, CaseWoman, 20, headaches.
The headaches start in the forehead and extend to the ears. With it she has pain and stiffness in her shoulder, neck and arm. The pains are worse from exertion and lifting things. The shoulder feels burning and pinched, the shoulder blade is stiff. The complaints are worse after a party, after stress from study, worse from cold and sleeping in a cold room, worse from red wine, worse from lack of sleep and worse before menses.
The last three years she has frequent inflammations and is frequently ill. She had serious influenza with high fever of almost 40°, nausea and vomiting everything, heat alternating cold and was dehydrated and dazed. Another time she had appendicitis and her appendix was removed. The week after that she had a throat infection with tonsillitis which needed hospitalisation. After three months she was still very weak and had a bad taste in her mouth and bad breath so her tonsils were removed.
She has pain in the medial side of the right elbow. She has pain in her ankle worse from pressure, feeling sore from touch.
A teacher at a high school liked her very much. But she did not want to be treated specially and said so to him. He became jealous and nasty and turned her classmates against her. She felt unaccepted as she was. Since then she has an uneasy feeling with new people, she first has to gain trust in them.
She is ambitious and studies architecture. She also likes to do things outside of her study. She likes to read, go to the museum with friends, to do dance acts. She is very perfectionistic and can worry about how to finish a study.
Dream: a teacher trying to isolate her from her classmates, she is addressing them.
Dream: she is asking friends all kinds of things, it feels good that she can do that but she is disappointed that they do not ask anything.
She likes flowers, especially white lilies, sunflower and amaryllis. She has an aversion to chrysanthemums.
Sensation.Weather: chilly, < cold, -> warmth, -> sun.
Sweat: < exertion, < night.
Time: < 5 pm.
Desire: paste, tahini, lentils.
Aversion: cabbage, fish, meat.
Food: < fat, unknown food.
Sleep: waking 3 am.
AnalysisThe starting point is that she is liked very much and then everyone is against her: it goes from
Phase 4 to 7.
Lanthanides: aversion to be treated specially; not how she was.
Phase 4: liked very much.
Asteraceae: high fever.
Subphase 7: turned classmates against her; not accepted; no trust.
Leucanthemum vulgare: aversion to chrysanthemums.
Follow upAfter Chrysanthemum MK she started to feel better. She has less pain in her muscles and shoulder and when she has it, it passes faster. Her mood is better and she works with more pleasure. She is calmer and has confidence that she will succeed with her study. She did not have acutes. She sleeps better.
Three months and three repetitions of the remedy later she is doing very well. Her complaints are 75% better, the muscle pain, headache and the stiffness. She is mentally much stronger and can work at the computer for a long time with pleasure. She is calmer and has more confidence. She sleeps much better. She feels her resistance against infections is much higher and she has more trust in her body.
The last few weeks she got some pimples on her lower arms and thighs, which are itching.