Cannot think straight and any form of agitation makes them feel awkward and brings them out in a rash
seeing as it's quiet and you are all gagging for another one - good luck
How did I solve this puzzle?
As we all know, in homeopathy we pay a lot of attention to words, because they are almost the only tool we have. A very powerful tool, because: 'In the beginning was the Word'.
Our clients express their problems, symptoms, sensations, etc. in different ways, ie. in different words. It depends on many factors: way of thinking, level of education, milieu in which they live and many other conditions/reasons. All of this may or may not be important in determining the remedy, but we certainly need to keep that in mind. Our job is to discern what the client is saying, because they are actually always telling us what their remedy is.
The great William Osler often repeated to his students and probably colleagues: "Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis." He is considered the father of modern medicine. It is a great pity that many generations of medical students do not even know who W. Osler was. I love reading his lectures and I learned a lot from him. Here, I am someone who (thank God) did not formally study medicine. Joking aside, he also said the following: "No individual has done more good to the medical profession than Samuel Hahnemann."
So, one of our first tasks when we take the anamnesis is to translate the client's vocabulary into the language of the repertory. Without interpretations! How to do it? Of course, difficult. I love my job. Here I will join William Osler my Madam Teacher, who taught me to always return the client to the main/presenting complaint during the consultation and to focus on it myself.
Well, this is a slightly longer explanation, but I'll hope it's generally helpful, which should be clear below.
First thing which should be done was to rank the key symptoms. We had three.
- The first one given was: 'cannot think straight'.
More interesting/important were second and third, but I decided that the main is the second one:
- 'any form of agitation makes them feel awkward'.
- The third one was less important than second, but more than first: '... agitation brings them out in a rash'.
Now we have to deal with words.
Agitation. I didn't even try with 'anxiety/anxious', because it seemed too easy and I knew that Joy certainly had it in mind. I tried with restlessness, but didn't like that way, and at the same time I had to think about what she packed in 'awkward'.
I decided for 'excitement', but I put off briefly awkwardness and tried to combine it with 'rash', which I translated in 'eruptions'.
So I found:
- Mind; excitement, excitable; eruptions, with:
anac astac bov cath-a COFF dys-co elaps eur-p ign kali-br med puls rheum urt-u.
- Skin; eruptions; excitement, emotional, agg.:
anac astac bell bov calc-s cath-a dys-co elaps eur-p ign kali-br neod-p petr puls rheum thuj urt-u.
Then I still tried to find a connection with the rash, so I came to:
- Skin; eruptions; urticaria, nettle-rash; excitement, emotional, agg.:
anac astac bov dys-co ign kali-br puls rheum urt-u.
'Cannot think straight' can mean a lot of things – there are too many rubrics with too many remedies, but I've already cast an eye on Bovista. So I left it for last and tried (with very little hope of finding it) to find the rubrics with awkwardness, although I was still not sure what exactly the symptoms Joy meant. Bovista is very famous for that, much more than Kali-br and Rheum, Anacardium is somewhere in the middle
but I didn't have a feeling it was Anac.
And then I got lucky, because I though searched (and found) this together:
- Mind; awkwardness; urticaria, in:
BOV.
I looked at the source as always: Knerr C B, Repertory of Hering's Guiding Symptoms, 1896.
It remained to confirm the first symptom.
But there are also (some of them too large):
- Mind; thoughts; vanishing, unable to think: bov. (+248 Rx)
- Mind; psychological themes; perception, reasoning, cognition; confusion, weak concentration: BOV(3). - (+796 Rx)
- Mind; confusion of mind; location, about; loses his way in well known streets: BOV(3). (+69 Rx)
- Mind; dullness; understands; questions only after repetition: bov. (+14 Rx)
Bovista
by C. Hering
Puffball. Fungi.
Hartlaub, Sen., proved in 1828 the spores of this fungus, following the example of Hahnemann, with Lycopodium. He published it in 1831 as an antipsoric ; 640 symptoms. It belongs to the most important remedies for the treatment of chronic diseases. agidi’s case of urticaria, Knerr’s translation of which was published in the May number of the North Amer. Journal, 1880, is a model cure, and the symptoms are decidedly corroborative, particularly those of the mind. The symptoms are included in our collection.
MIND.
Absence of mind and difficulty in fixing his attention. θ Urticaria.
Misapplies words in speaking or writing.
Awkwardness, which makes him drop things from his hands. θ Urticaria.
Slowness of understanding and comprehension ; does not hear well.
Vacant, thoughtless staring. θ Urticaria.
Sad, depressed and desponding when alone.
Doleful ; restless ; distressed.
Sensitiveness ; great irritability ; takes everything amiss. θ Urticaria.
Moroseness ; ill humor ; aversion to all things. θ Urticaria.
Quarrelsome and contentious. θ Urticaria.
Weak memory.
SENSORIUM.
Absence of mind, abstraction.
Mental dulness.
Stupefying giddiness, with vanishing of senses.
Stares vacantly into space.
Vertigo early in morning, falls over to one side, loses his senses for awhile.
Sudden attacks of vertigo and feeling of stupidity in head while standing ; she loses consciousness for a moment ; preceding and following a headache in morning.
Thanks for reading, hope it was useful.