A Case of Chronic Reoccurring Coryza
Jun 18, 2021 22:22:12 GMT
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Post by brisbanehomoeopath on Jun 18, 2021 22:22:12 GMT
Presenting Symptoms:
I get a cold every time one comes around. A mucous thing, it is disgusting. Lots of mucous. Running down the back of my throat. Sometimes I can't breathe. As a kid my mother used to have to bend me over the bed. The main thing though is the colds, I always catch them. I think I catch them from commuting on the train. I never kiss people.
Sore throat, runny nose, headaches, fever, aching muscles, becomes a cough. Insomnia, difficulty exercising or walking. May go on for weeks. The cough is the worst of it, tickling. The mucous vibrates when I breathe, provoking the coughing. I may cough so much that my stomach muscles hurt. May wake the rest of the house with my coughing. < lying down at night. I can't stop coughing, I have to sit up, but it's hard to get anything up. When it does come up it is like grey-green custard. (Patient says 'yuk' a lot. Apologizes for talking about the mucous quite a bit). Revolting taste.
Describe the sensation in the throat.?
I can feel there is a coating over the throat. There is something there that shouldn't be there. Like something is stuck there. Stuff is running down there (hand slides down throat).
I am not a good 'sick person'. I feel sorry for myself. I catch a cold every 2 months. Maybe even more than that! When I am getting over one cold, I am susceptible to catching another. Lots of problems sleeping with this, that is the main issue. Lots of problems with sleeping. This is really the thing.
Tell me about the problems with sleep?
Sore throat, runny nose, headaches, fever, aching muscles, becomes a cough. Insomnia, difficulty exercising or walking. May go on for weeks. The cough is the worst of it, tickling. The mucous vibrates when I breathe, provoking the coughing. I may cough so much that my stomach muscles hurt. May wake the rest of the house with my coughing. < lying down at night. I can't stop coughing, I have to sit up, but it's hard to get anything up. When it does come up it is like grey-green custard. (Patient says 'yuk' a lot. Apologizes for talking about the mucous quite a bit). Revolting taste.
Describe the sensation in the throat.?
I can feel there is a coating over the throat. There is something there that shouldn't be there. Like something is stuck there. Stuff is running down there (hand slides down throat).
I am not a good 'sick person'. I feel sorry for myself. I catch a cold every 2 months. Maybe even more than that! When I am getting over one cold, I am susceptible to catching another. Lots of problems sleeping with this, that is the main issue. Lots of problems with sleeping. This is really the thing.
Tell me about the problems with sleep?
One is that my legs ache a lot. I can't sleep. I toss and turn constantly.
The other is that I have an amazing amount of dreams. Pretty full on. Dreams that go around in circles, and I can't sleep. They are never pleasant, then I half wake up.
They are always about me getting lost, trying to find my way back to something. Going down a tunnel and I would get stuck (old dream). Always trying to find someone or something. Before I take my chickens to a show, I have these dreams about frantically running and trying to find my chickens. I have lost mine. I feel panic. I can't find what I have lost. Panicking, wake up and then I can't sleep.
Last week I dreamed of big pools of blood. That was new. I was standing looking at them. That is bizarre. I am quite repulsed by blood, but in the dream I wasn't. I was fascinated.
Tell me about being repulsed by blood?
If I bleed, I faint. If I see someone bleeding, I feel like vomiting. I cannot look at it. Funnily enough I have become quite good at chopping chicken heads off. I don't look though. I have a friend who could pull the heads off with his hands, but I could not watch that. He breaks their necks.
Oh I have fingernails that are ridged. That is weird.
The other is that I have an amazing amount of dreams. Pretty full on. Dreams that go around in circles, and I can't sleep. They are never pleasant, then I half wake up.
They are always about me getting lost, trying to find my way back to something. Going down a tunnel and I would get stuck (old dream). Always trying to find someone or something. Before I take my chickens to a show, I have these dreams about frantically running and trying to find my chickens. I have lost mine. I feel panic. I can't find what I have lost. Panicking, wake up and then I can't sleep.
Last week I dreamed of big pools of blood. That was new. I was standing looking at them. That is bizarre. I am quite repulsed by blood, but in the dream I wasn't. I was fascinated.
Tell me about being repulsed by blood?
If I bleed, I faint. If I see someone bleeding, I feel like vomiting. I cannot look at it. Funnily enough I have become quite good at chopping chicken heads off. I don't look though. I have a friend who could pull the heads off with his hands, but I could not watch that. He breaks their necks.
Oh I have fingernails that are ridged. That is weird.
Go back to the 'lost' dreams again.
I am trying to get home, to my house, often not the house I actually live in. I cannot find my way. Lot of dreams, I don't remember them all.
Tell me about 'lost'?
It is a real panic. The longer it goes on the more I panic. I get to the morning and I feel like I haven't slept. I feel like I have been awake the whole time. Lost, panicking, hyperventilating, deep breathing. When I panic I tend to get hot. It is always really tiring, always running. I don't give up, I keep looking. They are always pretty physical, constant running. I have dreams of being chased as well, but I don't know what by. That doesn't happen often.
When I travel (in real life) I set out to get lost. I don't like to have a plan. In London I set out without maps, or a plan. I would just walk. Discover things that I didn't know were there. I would always end up somewhere I know. I don't mind the feeling, I enjoy it. I think that is a reaction to my father who had massive plans all about getting from A to B. I like having an A but not a B.
Describe to me the sensation of being lost?
Frustration. All about emotion. I just go so emotional.
It's like a movie, it builds, the panic and the intensity. The further along it goes the more intense it gets. Running along, not being able to breathe, panic. Running trying to find something. Like a movie where people are running from something, like the Day After Tomorrow. Always running from something, but quite controlled. Running to salvation, to safety, away from the monster or emergency. In the movie they get there, the happy end of the story. In my dreams, I never get there. Lots of effort, but I never get there. I feel exhausted.
Medical history?
Once had pneumonia at the end of a cold, but generally nothing. I am quite fit.
Cravings for food?
Everything bad. Roast pork, chips, gravy. Chips are my downfall, I do like them. I often don't drink enough. Unless I force myself, I may not drink for a day, even if the mouth is dry. Occasionally I may feel very dry, moments of great thirst and I cannot drink enough to quench it.
I am trying to get home, to my house, often not the house I actually live in. I cannot find my way. Lot of dreams, I don't remember them all.
Tell me about 'lost'?
It is a real panic. The longer it goes on the more I panic. I get to the morning and I feel like I haven't slept. I feel like I have been awake the whole time. Lost, panicking, hyperventilating, deep breathing. When I panic I tend to get hot. It is always really tiring, always running. I don't give up, I keep looking. They are always pretty physical, constant running. I have dreams of being chased as well, but I don't know what by. That doesn't happen often.
When I travel (in real life) I set out to get lost. I don't like to have a plan. In London I set out without maps, or a plan. I would just walk. Discover things that I didn't know were there. I would always end up somewhere I know. I don't mind the feeling, I enjoy it. I think that is a reaction to my father who had massive plans all about getting from A to B. I like having an A but not a B.
Describe to me the sensation of being lost?
Frustration. All about emotion. I just go so emotional.
It's like a movie, it builds, the panic and the intensity. The further along it goes the more intense it gets. Running along, not being able to breathe, panic. Running trying to find something. Like a movie where people are running from something, like the Day After Tomorrow. Always running from something, but quite controlled. Running to salvation, to safety, away from the monster or emergency. In the movie they get there, the happy end of the story. In my dreams, I never get there. Lots of effort, but I never get there. I feel exhausted.
Medical history?
Once had pneumonia at the end of a cold, but generally nothing. I am quite fit.
Cravings for food?
Everything bad. Roast pork, chips, gravy. Chips are my downfall, I do like them. I often don't drink enough. Unless I force myself, I may not drink for a day, even if the mouth is dry. Occasionally I may feel very dry, moments of great thirst and I cannot drink enough to quench it.
How do you manage a cold?
Go on as long as I can, as if nothing is happening, then I sit on the couch for a day. I force myself to rest. I am really bad at resting. I am grumpy and lethargic. I am thinking through the haze. I don't think quickly, I don't react quickly. I am a bit of a control freak, but I can't control being sick.
Just describe that state.
Drowsy, slow, heavy, sleepy. But then a lot of the time I can't sleep. Feel really tired and sleepy.
When it is hot and humid that heaviness and fogginess is worse.
Tell me about the legs at night.
Pain through the bone, the muscle. < if I haven't exercised enough. Restless. Hard to sleep.
Just describe that state.
Drowsy, slow, heavy, sleepy. But then a lot of the time I can't sleep. Feel really tired and sleepy.
When it is hot and humid that heaviness and fogginess is worse.
Tell me about the legs at night.
Pain through the bone, the muscle. < if I haven't exercised enough. Restless. Hard to sleep.
What is to be Treated?
Chronic pattern of respiratory illness, from childhood (Miasm).
Chronic reoccurring dreams (Uncompensated or natural state).
Interplay between the dreaming state and the waking state (Sensation).
The Chronic Pattern of Illness.
What is the pattern?
- Symptoms come, intense, must rest, lasts several weeks eventually diminish and resolves
How does he manage the situation?
Passive – Lethargy, grumpiness, let go of control or go on through it
Active - Force myself to rest.
What is he reacting to?
- Drowsiness, sleepiness, thinking through a haze, react slowly, heaviness, want to sleep but cannot sleep
- Symptoms come, intense, must rest, lasts several weeks eventually diminish and resolves
How does he manage the situation?
Passive – Lethargy, grumpiness, let go of control or go on through it
Active - Force myself to rest.
What is he reacting to?
- Drowsiness, sleepiness, thinking through a haze, react slowly, heaviness, want to sleep but cannot sleep
A Miasm in-between.
The Typhoid Miasm.
- Panic and suddenness which requires effort to come back to a place of rest and safety
- Losing the struggle results in collapse and a feeling of sinking down
- Success results in reaching a position where the situation is resolved
- Critical life threatening situation that is short-lived and can be managed if one tries hard enough
- Situation is as if your house being on fire.
- Panic and suddenness which requires effort to come back to a place of rest and safety
- Losing the struggle results in collapse and a feeling of sinking down
- Success results in reaching a position where the situation is resolved
- Critical life threatening situation that is short-lived and can be managed if one tries hard enough
- Situation is as if your house being on fire.
What do the dreams tell us?
Frantic. Running. Trying. Panic. Always running. I don't give up.
The longer it goes the more I panic. The further along it goes the more intense it gets.
It builds, the panic and intensity.
Running to salvation, to safety.
Never get to safety, lots of effort, I feel exhausted.
The Day After Tomorrow (movie of the end of the world with a theme of constant racing to stay ahead of disaster)
The longer it goes the more I panic. The further along it goes the more intense it gets.
It builds, the panic and intensity.
Running to salvation, to safety.
Never get to safety, lots of effort, I feel exhausted.
The Day After Tomorrow (movie of the end of the world with a theme of constant racing to stay ahead of disaster)
What in the dreams is he reacting to?
Getting lost, trying to find my way back.
Always trying to find someone or something.
I can't find what I have lost.
I am trying to get home but I cannot find my way.
Always trying to find someone or something.
I can't find what I have lost.
I am trying to get home but I cannot find my way.
The concept of being Lost.
When I travel I set out to get lost.
I don't like to have a plan. I set out without a map.
I don't mind the feeling, I enjoy it.
I like having an A but not a B.
All about emotion.
I don't like to have a plan. I set out without a map.
I don't mind the feeling, I enjoy it.
I like having an A but not a B.
All about emotion.
Something else the dream reveals?
Something new. Pools of blood.
Repulsed by blood in real life, fascinated in the dream.
Waking experience of blood is to faint, to vomit, not be able to look at it.
I have become quite good at chopping chickens' heads off.
Repulsed seeing a friend do something similar.
Repulsed by blood in real life, fascinated in the dream.
Waking experience of blood is to faint, to vomit, not be able to look at it.
I have become quite good at chopping chickens' heads off.
Repulsed seeing a friend do something similar.
PRIMARY RUBRICS:
Confusion of mind, knows not where he is
Confusion of mind, loses his way in well-known streets
Weakness of memory, for familiar streets (cann-i, dulc, Glon, lach, nux-m, Ruta, sal-fr)
Forgetful of which side of the street his house was on (GLON, nux-m, nux-v, Petr)
Recognizing, does not recognize well known streets
Blood, cannot look at
Fear when looking at blood (alum, nux-m, phos, plat)
Confusion of mind, loses his way in well-known streets
Weakness of memory, for familiar streets (cann-i, dulc, Glon, lach, nux-m, Ruta, sal-fr)
Forgetful of which side of the street his house was on (GLON, nux-m, nux-v, Petr)
Recognizing, does not recognize well known streets
Blood, cannot look at
Fear when looking at blood (alum, nux-m, phos, plat)
Faintness at sight of blood (aloe, ALUM, nux-m, nux-v, verat)
Cannot look at a knife (ALUM, nux-m, plat, staph)
Cannot look at a knife (ALUM, nux-m, plat, staph)
SECONDARY RUBRICS:
Answering slowly
Confusion of mind as if in a dream
Hurry, everybody must hurry
Sleep disturbed by dreams
Confusion of mind as if in a dream
Hurry, everybody must hurry
Sleep disturbed by dreams
PHYSICAL RUBRICS:
Mouth, dryness, thirstless
Generals, tendency to take a cold
Sleeplessness from restlessness of body
Sleepless from pain
Expectoration difficult
Throat, mucous, thick
Throat, membrane
Extremities, cramps, legs, calves, evening, on going to sleep
Throat, hawk, disposition to
Nux-m 17/17, Alumina 11/17, Phos 11/17, Nux-v 11/17, Thuja 11/17.
UNDERSTANDING THE STATE:
In this case the dream was very helpful in determining what was important. The Sensation or Feeling in the dream was one of being Lost, trying to Find something, Find the way to somewhere. Interestingly, in his waking life he COMPENSATES for this feeling by setting out to become Lost, going out in a strange city with no map or plan. So he reacts in an opposite way to the internal feeling.
This is a known sensation for the Magnoliaceae group of plants (Lost, Confused, Hazy, Sleepy, Groggy, Unable to find their way)
In a dream, very often you will not only see the main issue or problem, displayed in its raw form, but you will see the miasm as well – as a Response or Reaction to this basic issue. In this case, he feels panic, and urgency, and great hurry to get to a place of rest, to the end of it. It is a critical situation (like the end of the world!) that has to be handled properly and quickly, in order to come to a point of safety. This is the TYPHOID miasm
I actually felt the Miasm was very highly represented in the symptoms and expressions of the patient, and this was clear to me much sooner than the underlying sensation.
Another interesting dream he has are the ones with pools of blood. It’s interesting because if you simply repertorize it, you will find Sol-t-ae as the remedy.
He can look at the blood and not be repulsed by it. But in real life he Faints at the sight of blood, it makes him sick. And yet, he Compensates again for this feeling by being able to chop off the heads of chickens without feeling anything.
This is a known sensation for the Magnoliaceae group of plants (Lost, Confused, Hazy, Sleepy, Groggy, Unable to find their way)
In a dream, very often you will not only see the main issue or problem, displayed in its raw form, but you will see the miasm as well – as a Response or Reaction to this basic issue. In this case, he feels panic, and urgency, and great hurry to get to a place of rest, to the end of it. It is a critical situation (like the end of the world!) that has to be handled properly and quickly, in order to come to a point of safety. This is the TYPHOID miasm
I actually felt the Miasm was very highly represented in the symptoms and expressions of the patient, and this was clear to me much sooner than the underlying sensation.
Another interesting dream he has are the ones with pools of blood. It’s interesting because if you simply repertorize it, you will find Sol-t-ae as the remedy.
He can look at the blood and not be repulsed by it. But in real life he Faints at the sight of blood, it makes him sick. And yet, he Compensates again for this feeling by being able to chop off the heads of chickens without feeling anything.
NUX MOSCHATA (NUTMEG)
Absent-minded, does not know where he is or what to answer on (SS)
Delusion of being double, his real conscious self seems to be watching his other self playing (SS)
Delusion his head would fall off (SS)
Loss of memory about his past life (SS)
Stupefaction, remains fixed in one spot (SS)
Talking to himself loudly (SS)
Annoying rush of thoughts (SS)
Unconsciousness at the sight of blood (SS)
Delusion of being double, his real conscious self seems to be watching his other self playing (SS)
Delusion his head would fall off (SS)
Loss of memory about his past life (SS)
Stupefaction, remains fixed in one spot (SS)
Talking to himself loudly (SS)
Annoying rush of thoughts (SS)
Unconsciousness at the sight of blood (SS)
THE MAGNOLIANAE FAMILY
Includes Camphor, Cinnamon, Wild Ginger, Sweet Magnolia, the Laurel trees.
The common sensation is Confused, Bewildered, Strange, Beclouded.
The outside is so Bewildering and Puzzling that the patient withdraws into themselves, into their own little world.
Collapse, Stupefied, Fainting, Sleepy, Withdrawn.
Shut things out, let me live in my own world.
Compensate by easily adapting to strange new things.
Nux-moschata - "A feeling of being lost like a child and wanting to be found".
The common sensation is Confused, Bewildered, Strange, Beclouded.
The outside is so Bewildering and Puzzling that the patient withdraws into themselves, into their own little world.
Collapse, Stupefied, Fainting, Sleepy, Withdrawn.
Shut things out, let me live in my own world.
Compensate by easily adapting to strange new things.
Nux-moschata - "A feeling of being lost like a child and wanting to be found".
Nux-m is the TYPHOID member of this plant family.