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| Hpathy Ezine - March, 2006 | |||||
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Joshua's Case:And the Nominations for Best Remedy in a Clinging Child are.... -- Elaine Lewis |
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| Do you remember Joshua's case from last month? Please click here if you don't: http://hpathy.com/casesnew/dym-joshua.asp. We asked our readers to try and come up with a remedy for this child. So far, the following suggestions have come in. Michael, Joshua's father, has seen most of our remedy recommendations. He says that making a choice is not going to be easy because he's not familiar with many of the remedy suggestions that have been made. I'm sure he'll let us know the minute he decides:
1. Hi Michael, Regarding your sons attachment issues: I am a classically trained Homoeopath and have been involved in homoeopathy for about the last 7 years. I have seen quite a lot of these difficult and complex cases which don't seem to respond to well-indicated remedies. They are extremely frustrating for both the families and practitioners alike (not to mention the actual patients). At times it seems hopeless and I am sure you have experienced these times, I know that I have. I do not believe however that any case is beyond solution and that the Good Lord gives us answers to everything. I have found with these types of cases that there is an underlying facet that inhibits any remedies from actually having their desired effect and until these are removed the remedies will aggravate, prove or have little noticable effect at all (which sounds like where you are at the moment). In my experience these cases do not respond to a single remedy from start to finish but will require a different remedy as the case unfolds and the symptoms change. Often the underlying factor has something to do with trauma, as you have identified, and can lock them into a certain stage of development that they will be restricted to until it is cleared. Jan Schoulten describes this in his study of the elements of the periodic table. He relates it to people not entering this world or incarnating properly. It is like they are not grounded and can not experience the world normally as the are not entirely "here". It results often in anxiety based problems as you can relate to. I know this sounds a bit "new-age-y"; however, as Homeopaths we are dealing in the persons energy and in cases like this their energy is not grounded properly and can't be realigned until it is grounded. I apologise for the lengthy explaination but I hope you find it interesting as I'm sure it will make some sense to you with the experiences you have had with your son and answer some of the unexplainable. If you are interested I am more than happy to help. I am not interested in any reward but would appreciate any treatment costs covered. Feel free to contact me c/o this magazine. All the best for you and your family. Eugene ----------------------------------------------
2. I have just moved house and can't lay my hands on the necessary books but two remedies came to mind... Medorrhinum and Hydrogen.. of course its just a guess...potency? I'd probably use Med. intercurrently, no more than 1M and Hydrogen, I've no experience with, but probably high for the extreme fear and clingyness.--Anonymous ----------------------------------------------
3. Hi, I just read the case of the clinging 8-year-old. I have a remedy suggestion. Stop spoiling the kid! Sarah ----------------------------------------------
4. Dear Elaine, Here I feel Nat Phos 6x will help him. I know many people with the same problem and the Nat has helped them immensely. Am i right?? Regards, Jayashree Kanoi ----------------------------------------------
5. Hi Michael and Elaine Here is my take on the case: I often use numerology to help pin down core issues, especially when dealing with children, and this is what the numbers describe: Joshua is conscientious about details, he is oversensitive, has lack of confidence and fears humiliation. Above all, he resists change. This issue showed up in several of the numbers. There is a definite fixed quality about him, fixed ideas, stubbornness, and a tendency to confront, especially if anyone tries to implement change. He also tends to procrastinate. Looking at the case description we see the same issues there: He seems very reserved and cautious, he is oversensitive and has a certain lack of confidence. He keeps to himself and tends to keep things inside (the numerology also shows issues of poor communication). He is passive, obstinate and resists change. In addition to this, there is the fear of separation, especially at night and after 3am, and fear of dogs and animals. I think the most unusual thing about his food habits is his desire for very spicy food, since most kids his age would probably avoid spicy food. From my experience with my own kids not sleeping at night, there are just too many remedies that cover separation anxiety, and fear of the dark, or fear at night, so I decided to use several physical and general symptoms in addition to the mentals to help narrow the options. The most characteristic mental symptom is his tendency to be reserved, so I started with this:
The three remedies that come up on top is Nat mur, Pulsatilla and China. Since he has already tried Nat mur and Pulsatilla, I decided to take a look at China. One of the things about China is that they have a very rich inner life, but very little to show for it on the outside. This could account for his tendency to be reserved, holding things in, and not expressing himself very well. Under generals we find: weak, oversensitive, nervous, aversion
to mental and physical effort or exercise, extreme sensitivity to
light touch (clothing?), which all fits the case. Sankaran: China has feeling of weakness and fear of persecution. There is lack of confidence and a feeling of not being good enough. Either acute fear and anxiety with a sense of danger, or a fixed mind set. Fear of dogs and animals. Lives in a fantasy, not interested in doing things. Physical weakness. As far as I can see, China fits the case very well, and might be worth trying. Mati Fuller Mati, for the sake of our readers who may not be familiar with numerology, can you explain how you use this method with regard to homeopathy and this case in particular? Thanks, Elaine Hi Elaine, sure I can try to do that. First of all, about myself, I was born and raised in Norway, but became a US citizen a few years ago. I live in Crestone Colorado, have 2 children and my homeopathy education is from the British Institute of Homeopathy. After I got my diplomas from British Institute I learned case taking from Karen Allen, and I am currently taking Dr. S.K. Banerjea’s postgraduate training course, and also writing a book about relationships from a homeopathic point of view. Crestone is a small place where people aren’t very open to homeopathy. It is definitely the "last thing on their list" in the process of healing, so I find myself mostly getting clients with extremely difficult cases. These clients had seen everyone else and tried everything before they come to see me, I being their "last straw" before they would just give up the chance of ever getting well. I wanted to help these people, but I felt like I was fumbling in the dark, trying to look at the case from many different angles, and feeling very frustrated. It was out of this frustration, or maybe divine inspiration, that I one day picked up a small numerology book that sat on my shelf, wondering if I could find any useful information in it. The book was called: "Identify Anyone’s Negative Behavior Patterns in Less Than a Minute" by Michael Brill. (I want to stress that my use of numerology has nothing to do with the British Institute, Karen Allen or Dr. S.K. Banerjea) Michael Brill has created a super easy system of numerology to help pinpoint anyone’s core issues or negative behavior patterns in only minutes! I tried the system first on family members, friends, and even on the local real estate agents, to get an idea of how accurate the system was, and I found it very accurate. I was also wondering, since the numbers only go from 1-9, if I was going to be able to identify more than 9 remedies, but I had no reason to worry. The combination of the numbers from the birthday information together with the name-numbers creates a very clear picture of someone’s core issues. What Michael Brill describes in his book is what I call "someone’s most negative potential", which is exactly what we need to know as homeopaths. These are all the things that nobody is ever going to tell you in a session! When did you last hear a person say: " I am a very controlling. I have to have everything my own way or I will argue with everyone and criticize everything. I hate people who offend me, I hold on to things forever, and I postpone everything to the next day!" Most people aren't that honest, and that is the main reason why our job as homeopaths is almost impossible! However, with this little numerology book, you can instantly see "the red line" going through the case, and you will know what is essential and what is not. However, case taking is still important. Repping numerology issues gives you a small list of possible remedies to look at, and a good idea of what someone’s core issues are, but to pinpoint the best remedy, it is essential to cross reference with specific physical and general symptoms from the case, as well as Strange, Rare and Peculiars and characteristic mental symptoms. The purpose of using numerology is just to help you pinpoint what the essence of the case is. In Joshua’s case his birthday information is 5/26/1998, and his full name is Joshua Adam Dym. The first thing we do is add up his birthday and month (not the year). 5+26 is 31. This gets further reduced like this: 3+1=4. This number is what Michael Brill calls the achievement number, or the person’s main life challenge. If someone can master their achievement number it can become their greatest strength. Under number 4 it says: Likes order, system and structure (interesting, since Joshua’s dad described him as not being orderly at all. However, it is possible that his like for order has to do with order in his environment, and not necessarily with keeping his things neat. This will become obvious when looking at the rest of the numbers). Further, it says: Very logical, analytical, tends to get stuck in details (Joshua likes doing video games and explains them to his father in great detail). Goes "by the book" (rigid, fixed ideas?) Can be confrontational with authority, may desire to be the boss (dictatorial?) Can procrastinate or be judgmental, stubborn or have preconceived ideas (definitely likes things his own way). First name, Joshua. We only use the first two letters of the name, J=1 and O=6. First we add the letters, 1+6=7. Then we subtract the smallest from the biggest, 6-1=5. Then we write them like this: 7/5. When we look this number up in the book we find: Issues of flexibility and moderation (we have already seen that he has a tendency to be rigid and have fixed ideas, so this issue is an important clue in the case). Concern over being embarrassed, humiliated or making a mistake - hesitant to change (again, he resists change). Middle name, Adam. A=1 D=4, 1+4=5, 4-1=3, final number: 5/3 Here we find issues of confidence and communication, also reflected in his achievement number above, as well as in the case details. Doesn’t like change - makes things unpleasant for anyone who will try to implement change (he argues, poor mom!). Last name, Dym. D=4 Y=7, 4+7=11, which reduces to 2. 7-4=3, so the final number is: 2/3 More issues of confidence/communication. Difficulty in relationships from a combination of oversensitivity (also reflected throughout the case in different areas), poor communication skills and feelings of inadequacy. (This confirms his father’s observations about him being reserved and somewhat withdrawn, and not expressing himself or his feelings to anyone, possibly from a lack of confidence.) Summary: Here we see a child who has low confidence and is afraid to make mistakes for fear of humiliation. He has poor communication skills, and prefers to keep his feelings to himself. He is intelligent and analytical and tends to get almost too conscientious about details. His mindset is rigid, fixed. He has preconceived ideas of what he wants. He wants things to be a certain way, he resists or argues against any kind of change, and he feels safe when there is a certain order, system or structure in his environment that he can count on (he doesn‘t like change in his environment, either). He tends to postpone anything that he doesn’t want to do. This is basically the essence of the case. Looking at this, it also occurred to me that his speech issue might not have been a developmental issue at all. Reserved, withdrawn, lack of confidence, poor communication skills, likes to keep his feelings to himself … Is it possible that he knew how to speak long before he actually started expressing himself? Maybe he just didn’t feel like it, since that totally goes with his personality? Anyway, you get the idea of how the use of numerology helped me in this case. The book that I am referring to can be found on Michael Brill’s website www.awakener.com . It is very user friendly and can be used by people who have no knowledge of numerology whatsoever. I hope this helps clarify how I used numerology in this case. (With Michael’s book anyone can do it!) Mati H Fuller, DI Hom (pract) matifuller@hotmail.com http://www.homeopathyonline.biz ----------------------------------------------
6. I think the remedy that will give him the best support is Saccharum. give it in a 200c potency for 4 evenings in a row. Rational: - need for cuddling - fears, dark, losing beloved person - want ot self confidence - biting nails - oversenstive to reprimand - averse, veg., milk Paula Alto ----------------------------------------------
7. Dear Elaine, Based on the email sent to me by the father responding to futher info on the case, I would like to change the prescription for Joshua from Causticum to GELSEMIUM and i suggest the ascending potencies (Kent) as i was horrified at the high potencies prescribed before for the child, so Gels. 30c +200C + 1M; one dose of each at 2 hrs interval, and to go higher depending on the followup after one month. Thank you. Tony. Tony, can you explain how you came up with Gels.? Dear Elaine; The chief complaint of Gelsemium is weakness on all levels-mental/emotioal/physical. This weakness could develop into paralysis ...(lax weak hypotonic muscles ...remember his early-intervention physical therapy). On the mental level there is a cowardice and Joshua is unable to face any challenge. Also Gels. is one of main remedies for anxiety and fright, plus forgetfulness and dullness of thoughts, aversion to mental work, signs of weakness and weariness...The father said he is timid, quiet, reserved...fear of the crowd ...anticipation ...Fear of falling (Joshua stays away from rides..) Fright bordering on terror ...Overpowering fear...Nervous dread of appearing in public...in the crowds ...stra ngers. (he is only happy in the presence of mom and dad and cries in the presence of grandfather and grandmother and close relatives) Gelsemium does not want to talk or speak or have anyone near him. He clings to the parents only and mainly the mother (child starts and grasps the nurse). Gels has dread of ordeals, death, any anticipatory or unusual ordeal...also anxiety about the present and future. Gels thinks himself at the grave. Upon reading the case the father says that the child hardly drinks water and is not thirsty ...also the digestive system tells the course of his general state, the child does not deviate from eating the simplest food ...and that is in keeping with his general state. Although i do not have a homeopathic software i found his case to comprise some nonsense symptoms and that is due to the fact that the child had received some very high potencies to start with, and maybe this has contributed to the imprinting of some unwanted desires or aversions. I must confess that upon reading and rereading the case i was compelled to tilt toward Causticum, because of the strong fear to be alone at night, and because the child came to the parents bedroom...crying upon waking at night when the mother is not in bed with the child. But the father answered me saying that the child desires salty things, chocolate and sweets and is not keen on smoked meat except for smoked turkey. I asked about enuresis, but the father said it is not there...also biting the inside cheeks while chewing or eating is not there...The suppression of the diaper rash and tenia capitis are both in favour of Caust. The rethinking of the whole case...the thirstlessness...the pathology centers on the nervous system causing muscular disturbences, lack of muscular co-ordination ...muscles will not obey the will ...dullnes (late learning to talk)and especially the mental apathy made me decide on Gelsemium. But having said all that i would remain with an open mind about Causticum, should we fail with the Gelsemium. I am in favour of the ascending potency in this case (kent): Gels 30C, 200C, 1M, at 2 hrs interval. Elaine thank you for giving me the oportunity to discuss the case. Tony You're welcome, Tony. I'm not sure that I understand the dosing schedule exactly, but, I think remedy ideas may be more important to Michael right now. Thanks again for your hard work. I think we've all learned a lot about Gelsemium today! ----------------------------------------------
8. Dear Elaine, My suggestion for treatment of Joshua is Arsenicum album. I am attaching an analysis [my computer was unable to open the analysis--Elaine], but confirmation of the remedy was by reading in Hering's Guiding Symptoms which details most of the symptoms that he shows. It does not appear that he has received this remedy to date. As for potency, I would start with a single dose of 10M though I think there would be some response from 200c and up. Regards, Rebecca Anticles Homeopathic practitioner |
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