Tamarix germanica
Remedy code: 3-663.61.13
A 53-year-old woman, she is short, warm, friendly, modest, and speaks reflectively in a melodious voice. "It’s my body; it feels like the energy is gone." She has a lot of minor ailments, but mainly she often feels tired. Her muscles ache, and she has headaches and flu-like symptoms. For weeks, she’s been having flu attacks, with sensitivity on the left side of her head, hands, and throat. This has been going on for months. Last month, she stopped taking antidepressants, which she had been on for 12 years. She feels she has recovered enough to go without medication. Emotionally, she feels stable now and has learned to handle herself. She’s been depressed since the age of 13, with fatigue always playing a role. She sleeps poorly, only about 4 hours, and sometimes uses sleep medication. The lack of sleep worsened the depression, and she attempted suicide several times, she says with a sigh. It’s been very difficult. Falling asleep is fine, but she wakes up around
Remedy code: 3:30 AM. Her dreams are always nightmares, horrifying scenes—people being chopped into pieces, or being chased and unable to escape. She has restless legs that prevent her from reaching REM sleep. Her legs shake all evening. She often feels "electric shocks," with her legs jerking, especially while sleeping, even keeping her husband awake. This has been happening for over 10 years. "The dreams are in my body." In her youth, she often dreamed of crocodiles, which she fears. At 13, she felt very unsafe, afraid to go home, feeling unloved and like a failure. She had just moved here from overseas, living with an acquaintance who couldn’t keep ‘his hands to himself’, abused her sexual. After two years, she was placed in a family, but it wasn’t safe there either. Now, a lifelong later, is was the same in her own family: a cousin abused her daughter, leading to a family rift, “I’ve lost my daughter.” The feelings about her daughter led to a suicide attempt; she felt unimportant and always punished herself. Now, there is tension as the family wants to reconcile. This throws her off balance; she feels like that small girl again. Tension with her sisters is palpable and creates stress with her husband. She works in psychiatry, helping people, providing support, and teaching. She’s a people person and feels comfortable interacting with others. As for her outlook on life, she describes herself as an essentially positive person. She still sometimes struggles with a negative self- image. Otherwise, she is cheerful, joking, and lifts people’s spirits. But she’s very hard on herself: “It’s always my fault, and I mustn’t cry or be vulnerable, to avoid being taken advantage of.” Now that she’s stopped the medication, she’s experiencing emotions. It’s still a bit scary to give in to them. Her children used to say she reacted "as if she had no feelings." Recently, arthritis has flared up in the lower four vertebrae, which are severely worn down, causing a lot of pain in her hips. The back pain is so intense she can't even put on her underwear. She hasn’t had her period since the birth of her youngest daughter, 24 years ago, after a hysterectomy due to prolapse. She’s had menopausal symptoms for 10 years, sweating heavily. She’s divorced and, after that, lived with friends who were possessive, which she couldn’t handle. Her teeth also hurt. In the past, she had significant bowel issues, with hard stools, spastic colon, and tension affecting her intestines. Since stopping the antidepressants, she has to work hard to keep her head above water. The stress comes from family—the ties are broken. She feels disappointed at not being seen or heard. As always, she’s the little sister, letting others lead her life. But she now knows where she stands and what she wants: "I won’t drown; I’m proud." It’s the total denial of her "being," which began at 13. She struggles to bond with her family. She was disappointed so young, has no trust, and even lacks connection with her children.
Artemisia vulgaris has not affected her.
AnalysisGold series: Many characteristics of Serie 6, the
Lanthanides, corresponding to
Gold series in plants: autonomy, being alone, self-reliance, awareness of shadow, and vision. Pain, flu like, artrose, depressions.
Class
Remedy code: 3:
Family and connections play a major role, and they are associated with Serie
Remedy code: 3, the Silicon serie, which corresponds to Class
Remedy code: 3 in plants.
Gold series3: Her stress and outward focus is on family and relationships, her cheerfulness, and her upbeat behavior are characteristic of
Caryophyllales, which can be extrapolated to
Caryophyllidae.
Phase 6: Fatigue, "my fault," the story of abuse, relationships regarding a partner (known in
Stage 16 among minerals, with keywords overlapping
Phase 6), not belonging to.
Phase 1: Denial of being. She feels like the little girl again, with no place for her, never had one.
It could be 6 63 61 (
Tamaricaceae) or 6 63 1 6 (Portulaccaceae). Not being valued, being abused, broken bonds, and depression due to fatigue; the emphasis is on
Phase 6 as her foundation, with the undertone of
Phase 6 (Subphase is mostly more on ‘top’, a reaction or a specification on or in the Phase, it can give more color, or tension, friction or even a ‘splits’, this way of thinking helps to differentiate during the analysis).
Stage 13:
Family; distancing as both a theme and response (withdrawing). This stage suits her issues. Prescription: Tamarix germanica C200
Follow-upTo her surprise, the arthritic pain disappears in a week. The flu attacks stays away, she had no more pains, though she is still tired in the first few weeks. Now she sleeps from 10 PM to 6 AM, but still doesn’t feel rested. Her dreams are much calmer. Last week, she felt fatigued at 2 PM and had to lie down, sleeping deeply again ("she’s catching up on sleep; her ‘battery is recharging’"). She feels stable and can manage without medication. The restless legs occur only rarely now. She no longer has headaches or dental pain. Work is going well despite the tension. Because her joints are no longer painful, she is walking and cycling more and doing more household chores. She’s gradually becoming more aware of her emotions, handling them better, and talking about them. She still experiences hot flashes. Now she encounters a lot of stress regarding work and personal life, but it no longer feels burdensome; she talks around it without explicitly addressing anything. After two months, her energy is good.