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| Hpathy Ezine - November, 2007 | ||||
Revisiting "Has Anybody Seen Kelly?"- Elaine Lewis, CHom |
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| OK! Who remembers last month's exciting quiz? Allow me to refresh your memory; also, I'll underline the symptoms that led to the remedy: Will someone please put out an All Points Bulletin on Kelly? You can't get good help these days, apparently. She must be traveling around with her daughter's soccer team; well fine! Who needs Kelly when I have my own spectacular cases? Let's see, what do we have here.... There's the kid with the bad complexion.... no, I don't think so.... Oh! Here's one! Tonsilitis! Who doesn't like tonsilitis? It's a very popular disease that I think we can all get behind. Okay, so this is the case of Samantha's daughter whom we shall call.... hmm... you have to get the name right, you know. How about, Maria? No, too ethnic. What about... Inez! Yeah, that's the ticket!
Okay, so, Samantha wrote to me about her 4 year old daughter, Inez, and here's what she said:
### She was better for Cold, she enjoyed a popsicle. She was restless pacing before the popsicle, now she is lying down happily. She is warmly dressed but not covered and is always kicking covers off. Mostly she is a bit sallow, pale. Yes the big issue is tonsils.She says only that the pain is dull and bruise-y. the tonsils are very swollen so her voice is thick and she grimaces slightly when swallowing. she is clearing her throat and coughing frequently. So, I would say, slight difficulty swallowing. Her glands are not swollen and she has not complained with her ears at all. She is turning her head normally. No shooting pains. No pain on swallowing she "just has to gulp". Her tonsils are swollen, touching each other, with the right one having a dark red streak through it. No other colors, no ulcers or white spots. Yes, she is peeing less than you'd expect, now that you ask. she really has not had much to drink today considering the fever, only little sips. so there is not much intake, still she has only peed twice that I know of since she got up this morning. When does she take sips? Only when we remind her so I guess she is really NOT thirsty, she only asked for water when she heard me ask her dad if she looked dehydrated since I realized she has not drunk much all day. What's her energy? She was more stuporous right after her nap, now very present. She does not currently have a fever. I just caught her eating butter off the stick, if that helps. Dave has just reminded me that the last time she had strep we didn't know it for a while because she was "cheerful" a word he has not seen me type, so that is a good clue. Yes, please use Inez for the quiz, I will finally know an answer! ____________________________________________________________ ____
Well, I must say I am shocked! Totally shocked! I said to myself, "As soon as people see that she's eating butter off the stick, EVERYBODY'S gonna know the answer!" Boy, was I wrong! Well, this being the case, it's really good that we're doing this because it teaches an important lesson about the value we ascribe to symptoms. When someone comes to me or posts on the Discussion forum that they have some illness like eczema or sore throat or whatever, and they give loads of detail about their diagnosis, they actually think they're helping us find their remedy, and I always say, "You STILL have to fill out the Questionnaire," because, I don't know! And what more proof do you need than this case where eating butter off the stick is the key that unlocks the case? Geez, you'd think "Strep Throat" would be enough information, wouldn't you? How many remedies for strep throat can there possibly be? Well, we don't have remedies for "strep throat", we have remedies for People! As soon as Samantha said, "She's eating butter off the stick," I said, "Pulsatilla!" It's really amazing how we prescribe in homeopathy, isn't it? Who would believe it if you told them! The point is, there aren't too many remedies that eat butter off the stick. Mercury and Pulsatilla are the only two I'm aware of, and it was easy to discount Mercury when it couldn't be supported by bad odors, bad breath, excessive salivation...and there was no sweating and no swollen glands, so, that put me right off Mercury, leaving Pulsatilla standing alone, so, all that was left to do was confirm Pulsatilla; can we confirm Pulsatilla? We sure can! The fact that not only was the throat better from the popsicle but she was actually better from the ice cold popsicle IN GENERAL, it calmed her down, remember? Stopped the restlessness, which makes this a very important symptom! She's better cold! That's a big indication for Pulsatilla. What else? "Kicks off the covers!" There's only a few remedies that do that and Pulsatilla is one of them! It's a 3 for Generals: covers, kicks off covers". Oh, and here's another one--Thirstless! Pulsatilla is famous for that. Then we have a possible etiology of changeable weather and her sister going away and leaving her (Pulsatilla--the remedy that feels abandoned). So, we've got an amazingly solid case for Pulsatilla. The remedies our audience picked were mostly Gelsemium for the droopiness and Rhus tox for the restlessness (but Rhus tox is not better for cold). Someone picked Ignatia for the etiology--the older sister going away. Well, you know, these are all nice ideas but, if you've got a great big peculiar symptom in the case? You've got to go with that! A "super keynote", it's called, and then you look back in the case and see if there are any confirmatory symptoms to back up your choice. Are you familiar with paragraph 153 of The Organon? It's known as "The Strange, Rare and Peculiar Clause." In it, Hahnemann says:
This is why I say to people, "No, I don't know what your remedy is, you haven't told me anything except that you have a fever, strep throat, tiredness, low energy, trouble swallowing...I've got nothing, nothing!" Now, wait 'til you see our quiz this month! Same child, same diagnosis, the mother gives Pulsatilla, it doesn't work! Why not? What will you do now? It certainly makes homeopathy interesting and challenging, doesn't it? Dr. B, it looks like Samantha was the only one who knew the remedy! ---------------------------------------------------- This month's winners will get a special 30% discount on one order of books from Hpathy Mall. Click Here for Prize Guidelines I also request our previous prize winners, Alyona and Sujatha to please write to Dr. B at webmaster@hpathy.com and give him your addresses so he can mail your prizes to you.
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