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| Hpathy Ezine - May, 2004 | |||||
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Shirley A. Reischman<-- Interviewed by Elaine Lewis |
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OK, ladies and gentlemen, what remedy is this? Send your votes to me and the winners will be honored as future Homeopaths in the Hot Seat! Shirley, as well as being taught by Kent Smith, you've been to NCH Summer School, as well as many conferences and seminars, correct? Yes, I’ve taken the Advance Practice class at the NCH summer school. I can barely keep the various conferences straight in my mind. When I lived in California, the California State Homeopathic Society put on some awesome conferences each year. Now in Ohio, the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society has a conference each autumn that is attended by people in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio, along with a number of other states. We recently had Andre Saine as the keynote speaker. I also go to the NCH (National Center for Homeopathy) spring conference fairly regularly. I didn’t get to go this year, but last year, it was in Philadelphia (where I met the famous Elaine Lewis and her even more famous husband! And her daughter Shana who let me sleep with her stuffed cats so I wouldn’t miss my own fur kids) and the year before it was in Phoenix (I can’t remember who the keynote speakers were, but if you can fill in the blanks, I’d much appreciate it!). I also did a wonderful workshop in Toronto with Rajan Sankaran about four years ago. So Shirley, what do you do when you get to work? Every new client has to be checked into the clinic before I can
see them. Dr. Jim Smith (not related to Dr. Kent Smith) is a licensed
osteopathic physician, board certified in family practice. When
someone calls to make their first appointment with me, he does a
medical history and physical exam with me observing. This is where
he tells me of any medical issues he thinks I should be aware of.
If he thinks they need immediate medical attention, he defers delegating
them to me. Over 90% of the clients can then immediately see me,
but occasionally, there is a delay. One person was sent to the emergency
room with a severe pneumonia and another who had shortness of breath
and chest pains was referred to a cardiologist for testing before
seeing me. In the latter case, the fellow was given a clean bill
of health by the cardiologist, aka ’It’s all in your head’ and offered
Prozac! I usually take about three hours with each new adult client.
With children, I like to spend an hour or so with their parents
and then an hour or so with them. There’s a park near the office
with a playground and we often go there to do a juvenile case study.
Once I’ve completed the case study, I review it with Dr. Jim and
give him my reasons for choosing a particular remedy. He has to
sign off on it before the remedy is administered. I usually do a
first follow up 4-6 weeks afterward and after that the frequency
is quite variable. Shirley, is there a case you're most proud of? I guess it’s the fellow who had been to two other homeopaths, one
of whom was quite famous, without relief and I found the similimum
right away. Of course, if he hadn’t already tried two other homeopaths
first, I might have picked the same remedy they did. He seemed like
either a Nux-v or a Lyc. Depending on what I emphasised in the case,
he could have been either. He was controlling and angry. Very competent,
but kept losing jobs due to punching people out when he didn’t like
what they said to him – didn’t matter if it was his boss or someone
under his supervision. He had a lot of insecurities and suffered
from panic attacks. He would get down on himself and was occasionally
suicidal. He felt wiped out from about 4pm – 7pm and then felt better.
He withdrew from relationships, but didn’t want to come home to
an empty house. His father was an alcoholic and abusive to his mother.
Environmental sensitivities to perfumes and tobacco smoke. Very
critical of himself and others. Had an ulcer. Very impatient. Ate
too fast, very offensive gas and perspiration. Copious underarm
perspiration. I too would have thought of Nux Vomica. I'm very impressed that you thought of Thuja! How the heck did you know? I’m not sure what made me think of it, but I think it was something Dr. Kent Smith said about Thuja being something to think of if Nux or Lyc don’t hold. And when I looked at the provings, it had all his symptoms. I didn't know Thuja's could be so aggressive! Aren't they usually trying to be as inconspicuous as possible? Oh, by the way, when he punched out his uncle, was that an aggravation? Yes, he had an aggravation, followed a few days later by amelioration. There’s no way to tell at the time – just in retrospect when doing the follow up. You can of course hope at the time that that’s what it was, but you can’t actually know for sure. When he got punched back, some people would say, "Oh, that's homeopathy! He got a taste of his own medicine!" How much of a possibility is that? In other words, can you be sure it was the remedy? I can be sure it’s the remedy because the amelioration held for a long time and when it was repeated, he went through the same aggravation followed by amelioration. Also, at the one month follow up, his symptom progression followed Hering’s direction of cure. What then does this case tell us about Thuja because I think this is fascinating. I've only had one Thuja case, and it's a remedy I've been struggling with. What I've learned about it is--they're secretive. They feel there's something fundamentally wrong with them, that they don't fit in, they're alienated, separate, they feel tainted, and because of this they put on an act to try to fit in. When you talk to them, you get the feeling they're not being genuine. Their basic feeling is, If people really knew me, they wouldn't like me. Also, we know that they have warts, growths of all kinds, discharges, worse damp weather, oily skin, ailments from vaccinations, and it's basically one of the main remedies when you suspect the sycotic miasm--and for our readers who don't know, the sycotic miasm is the sequel to gonorrhea suppressed with drugs, which is to say, the tendency to develop warts and other growths plus a lot of mucus after gonorrhea or even if there's gonorrhea in the family history. So, what I don't see in this picture is how I would get from this starting point to the client that you described. So....tell me what I'm missing in my understanding of Thuja. All of what you say about Thuja is true; and I, too, have a hard time with it as a remedy. I don’t think I really recognize it easily. I think it just popped up in my mind when I was working on the case. Sometimes, I hear Dr. Smith’s voice in my head.... (Shirley hears voices, what is her remedy?) Were there any Thuja keynotes in this case? Post nasal drip? Sinusitis? Warts? Tumors? History of gonorrhea? Aversion to onions and garlic? Left sided symptoms? Worse cold/damp? Dreams of falling? Anything? He had a few moles and he had had gonorrhea.... Gonorrhea??? Aaaaaah!!!!! Say good night, Shirley! Good night, Shirley. Shirley A. Reischman |
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