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This is a case of a young lady aged 27 years, married with one
daughter aged 22 months. She complained of sore throat with hoarseness
of voice since the past 5 months. She had a high pitch voice,
so talking a lot or having cold drinks would aggravate her complaints.
The hoarseness would be more in the morning, on waking up. She had
various courses of antibiotics which would temporarily lessen the
severity of her complaints. A visit to the throat specialist had
shown bilateral vocal cord thickening with nodules. Her husband
is a computer engineer. He was in US and she was supposed to be
joining him very soon along with her daughter. She seemed to have
stayed back in India in order to attend her brothers wedding
and her pregnant sister-in-laws delivery.
It appeared that she was very duty conscious and was liked for
her caring and jovial nature. She had a tendency to develop headaches
and sinusitis in a closed air- conditioned room. As she was due
to travel by air with her daughter, this was one more anxiety as
she was prone to headache and nausea during air travel. She said
she needed fresh air. She is very sensitive to a tense atmosphere
at home, "if people are troubled or sad I feel it too".
She generally feels sorry for people. She does not like it when
there is no communication between the household members. If she
is the cause of disharmony, she generally makes the first move to
make up and apologize. She said everything is affected in a tense
household. Till the atmosphere does not lighten up there is no incentive
for people to cook new food items, or to invite people over or to
go for outings and obviously all this would affect her adversely.
She is very outspoken, cannot keep secrets and finds it difficult
to be manipulative.
She expects the same sort of behaviour from others too. When this
is not reciprocated she feels very offended and hurt. She tries
her best not to be bad with anyone. She is very sensitive to what
people have said to her. There was one episode where there was an
untrue accusation from some family members. This affected her so
badly that she cried for days and felt better only once the matter
was clarified.
On further probing about the exact time that she developed the
hoarseness; she put it down to a recent visit to her mothers
home which was a family reunion after a long lapse, and as she was
very excited there had been an overuse of voice, resulting as hoarseness.
She was also prone to acne, which would leave scars. There was a
history of a big pustule on the face, which had resulted in cellulitis
and had left a big scar by the time it got resolved.
She had a recurrent dream of a dark big ocean and she is drowning
in it. She did not know how to swim.
On trying to understand this young lady, and the situation she
is in, one gets the impression that she is very outspoken to
the point of being naive and this often gets her into trouble.
She also related to me very intimate happenings of her life and
household without holding anything back even though I was a stranger
to her. She was very expressive and elaborate while relating these
incidences. This is typical of her remedy which is Bovista
of which she was given a 200 potency on the following indications
and rubrics.
-- Truth, tell the plain
-- Loquacity, open hearted
-- Dreams, of drowning
-- History of acne
The response to the dose was instantaneous, and within two weeks
her sore throat and hoarseness cleared completely. She could even
tolerate the occasional ice cream without any discomfort.
She left for the US after two months along with her daughter, and
continues to do well since the last eight months. She was happy
to inform me that she did not have too much of discomfort during
her air travel.
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