Author:
Maarten van der Meer
Book:
Evolution of analysis
Type:
Case
Chapter:
3-643.16.10
Drosera rotundifolia
Remedy code: 3-663.74.15.
A woman of 57, she is tall, and broad but elegant in movement and dress and expressive in facial expression. The home situation has been worrisome for years, her oldest child has a partner who is suicidal and drug- addicted, and her other child who still lives at home is alcohol addicted and difficult to deal with, with aggression and lethargy. She finds she is on her last legs, going on and on and on and on. She sleeps on valerian or oxazepam, but already in the morning she looks up to everything. At home is messy now, the children keep asking for money, she is the only one working, and her husband has been on sick leave for years. We support the children in everything, she now works hard for two families. The child at home is aggressive, recently returned to alcohol, and he threatened with a knife, the police had to come, and now they are working on the help circuit and out-of-home placement. 'I would like to close the door behind me, it’s enough, that's the feeling I have now'. She already had an extra workload, then this was the straw that broke the camel's back. It causes irritation, everything mounts, She can't have anything anymore, and she has crying fits with waking up. But then she puts on a mask and goes to work. Physically there are no complaints now. She is walking on her last legs. She doesn't know herself anymore. You are constantly harassed, they call every day for money. How long do we have to go? There is tension in the chest, as with hyperventilation. Looking up to everything, she would like to blow it out of her body. After Ustilago maydis C200, the oppressive feeling in the chest is quick, but after two weeks the bowels are completely stuck, enemas are necessary, she continues to cry a lot, burp a lot, and has frequent highs. She can have very little, she feels that there is stress in her body, and she has had it at home, she is not herself like this, “soon I will go under, you never do it right. She has even called in sick for the first time in her life. She feels the tension at home, she sees right through the children, they ask for money and it goes to the drugs. They also have to take care of it themselves. She has muscle pain, at the shoulders, and the throat, she is tired but doesn't sleep. She has many headaches and fever with ice-cold hands.
Analysis
Gold series: justification, addictions.
Series 6: Lanthanides theme, being alone, the shadow.
Silicon series: the children and the family are the focus, and is her environment, and the burdening factor (Silicon series theme).
Phase 7: addictions, drugs, alcohol. Being fed up, wanting out, enough is enough.
Stage 4: taking responsibility, within the theme of Gold series.
Stage 15: over the top, overreactions, discharges, keywords decay, and refusal.
Heading: fever with cold hands was reviewed, recognizing the Phase and theme in Drosera.
Prescription: Drosera rotundifolia C30.
Follow up
She immediately becomes calmer in the head, goes to sleep well. After two weeks the sleeping is less again, regularly lies awake for an hour and then takes oxazepam again. She wants to get rid of it. The bowels are good again, the shoulders are fine, and she no longer has headaches. She is still bothered by the noise at home, and after work she wants to rest, she now lies on the couch instead of doing chores. It's okay, let it be,” is her feeling. 'That alcohol, let it go, you can't do anything about it anyway.' She no longer broods and she starts exercising again, and soon has her usual cheerfulness back.