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Post by becksnyc on Aug 30, 2021 22:32:44 GMT
I thought it might be interesting to discuss possible remedies for the princess below: "I have hardly closed my eyes the whole night! Heavens knows what was in the bed. I seemed to be lying upon some hard thing, and my whole body is black and blue this morning. It is terrible!" The Real Princess Frontispiece of Stories from Hans Andersen, illustration by Edmund Dulac. I have not begun to take her case yet, but will do so soon.
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Post by becksnyc on Aug 31, 2021 1:59:56 GMT
The link to the story: hca.gilead.org.il/princess.htmlWorking my way through the story: What was she doing out in a storm, at night? Did getting wet agg.? Patient's words: "I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!" (Pain implied, sore/bruised, I assume but cannot confirm, princess sequestered in the palace under guard, queen already seething over being usurped in son's affections and refused to participate in homeopathic interview) "Heaven only knows what was in the bed," I considered, but discarded: Mind; looking; bed, about, as if to find something: IGN(3) OR (Hering does not give context of this symptom in IGN, so insufficient information in MM & from patient) Mind; delusions, imaginations; bed; something drives him out: rhus-t. (MM description of this symptom does not match our princess' situation) Insomnia from hard bed. Now, we indulge in some imaginative suppositions (which a good homeopath wouldn't do with a real patient---would we? ever?) Our poor princess, was forced by the queen to lie on the bed with the offending pea all night! What a long night it must have been! Did the imposition of the queen's will upon her add emotional trauma to her pain? We can but imagine the indignation of a princess at such treatment! (Staph? Or, perhaps she was a humble & obedient princess, a rare breed, indeed) Did she feel imprisoned? What is strange, rare or peculiar about our patient? A single pea under 20 mattresses AND 20 eider-down beds causing insomnia and body-wide bruising? Methinks this is the crux of the case, thus the most important rubric: Mind; sensitive, oversensitive; complaints, to the most trifling: eryth(2) NUX-V(3). If we look closely at the illustration, we see the princess has dark hair and looks a tad thin (Nux-v? Would you have added rubrics relating to her appearance? ). Obviously her nervous system is under great strain! It's not easy being a princess!!! So, as a student, I am asking, how would you make the DD between the top remedies? What observations or further information from our princess would lead you to one remedy or another, please? Thanks for playing along. (Feel free to critique my rep.) Full disclosure: I have the print by Edmund Dulac of our dear princess on my bedroom wall. But I sleep well, thanks to homeopathy!
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Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Aug 31, 2021 6:00:00 GMT
I shall play along with this one, later, it’s a great idea, thanks
Certainly the profound sensitivity is the core key unless of course she imagined it
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Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Aug 31, 2021 9:56:25 GMT
as always you have choices here - you can either go with the obvious or choose to be a bit more imaginative the obvious would be, sensitive, bruised, uncomfortable in bed causing bad sleep the more imaginative would also be taking the obvious but via a different point of view - such as, here you have a ridiculous situation - someone who couldn't even check to see if there was something under the mattress, possible there wasn't and it was all a delusion - someone who goes to a crazy length to be 20 mattresses high up, aloft, lofty and looking down on people and she's a princess or maybe she just thinks she is but there did appear to be excessive bruising, so I came up with these as a start and as a haemorrhagic remedy for the bruising I would choose Phosphorous
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Post by becksnyc on Aug 31, 2021 14:38:40 GMT
Loving this! Ah, but she is, verily, a princess, and it was not she, but the Queen who made her bed! But I will keep your comments in mind for any wanna-be-princesses I may meet! (IMHO the concept of royalty itself is a delusion, for we are all but "grasshoppers" (Isaiah 40:22) from a higher vantage point). PHOS "feels" much more princess-y to me than Arn or Nux-v. Oh, how I'd love to get her thoughts on that dreadful night! Hope the Prince was worth it, and that the pea became porridge for the poor. But I digress, as I am wont to do.
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Post by Admin - Joy Lucas on Aug 31, 2021 15:08:17 GMT
How innocent is the princess. She came looking for the Prince to marry? There are some good ‘marriage’ rubrics. A gold digger? Marriage and sex? Anderson was a tad weird in this way! The mother might not have trusted her, hence the pea test, so a nasty queen maybe
I would add ‘submissive’ as a rubric then, because she braved the dreadful night weather and was servile to the queen.
Pulsatilla maybe and Puls is in the hard bed rubric
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