Wadstories

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Title : Wadstories
Authors: Brink, Ed – Dam, Kees – Davits, Maria – Ellinger, Liesbeth – Kuiper, Pieter – Maan, Frans – Pelt, Marguerite- Peters, Rob – Ramos, Mari Trini – Scholten, Jan – Stallinga, Enna – Struik, Nel – Wirtz, Anne
ISBN: 90-74817-10-6
Lay-out: Huurdeman Art Design, Baarn
Cover design: Kuiper, Pieter
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition, February 2001
Dimensions: 240 * 160 * 10 mm.
Pages: 112 .
Soft cover, bound.
Price: 20 Euro

Example Ferrum nitricum

The words of Ferrum nitricum
An Example of an Analysis-strategy for “Dummies” or can Homeopathy be so simple?
By Rob Peters

We are used to access a case in our own way. Based on our education, our personal attitude, our mood, our level of energy, we learned ourselves a way of working with the case, that brings us to a hypothesis, for the remedy to choose. The more experienced homeopath will often choose a direction already in the first minutes of the consultation (intuitively) to get to the core of the case and of course to the remedy to find. How this process goes, depends on many factors and is very different in the individual homeopath. I will not extensively talk about this process in the context of this presentation, because it needs a much more in depth- approach.

In an educational point of view, for the starting homeopath it is important to have a standard for himself to analyse the case, which is not very easy, because there are many ways of looking at a case (prescription on essence, keynotes, understanding the causation, Jan Scholten analysis etc ). Being flexible in your analysis strategy is something that should also be taught during the education of homeopaths.

The case I want to show is an example of Jan Scholten’s analysis method in a very simple way.

I presented the case more than once to a different level of homeopaths. The problem of the woman in the case below doesn’t seem very deep at first, but in studying her way of handling situations (also in the past), makes clear that her present physical complaints are based on a deeper state, which is already there for a long time. Finding the remedy in a blank start was very difficult for most homeopaths, even the more experienced ones. The more I was astonished that beginning homeopaths would find the remedy quite easily when I asked them to access the case in a special way.

Normally spoken we access a case by collecting symptoms, symptoms we hope to repertorize in such a way, that we come to a remedy that is likely to fit. The luck to be offered one or two keynotes is not always there, and when you have to ask for them, the trustworthiness is much less.To get the essence in the complaints of the patient by recognising the main theme of the remedy requires a lot of materia medica knowledge and a lot of experience. I have seen Russian and other East-Europeans do this without ever using a repertory.

Jan Scholten’s merit in both his books about the Elements and their combinations is that he bases the choice for the remedies on specific themes, words and concepts belonging to these elements. (As with the themes of elements, you can do this also with families of plants, as for instance the word “shame” fits into the family of the Scrophulariaceae). Even more interesting is Jan’s connotation, that it doesn’t matter in what connection the words and themes are used. For example the element “muriaticum” is (amongst others) connected to the theme of the “mother”.

Also in combination with other elements this may stand for the idea of too much and too less “mother”. The bare idea of “mother” is important, not the connection or the deeper understanding in which the theme is used. It might be that the patient talks about her own motherly tasks, or about the fact that her mother does not take her responsibilities. Or for example, as in Cadmium-muriaticum, one can be a powerless mother or also be powerless towards one’s own mother. When we consider the content there is a big difference, but for the analysis in Jan’s system this is less important. This means to me, that many of the words and expressions used by the patient, without the context, collected in order of importance and impressionability, can lead to the choice of a remedy, as I will give an example of, in the video-case I show. The choice of words of the patient is also an expression of the state the patient. The importance of the words used by the patient increases with the frequency of the used words and the way the words are expressed.

It was surprising to me, that by just registering the words used by the patient, students were quite easily able to recognize the most important elements that led to the remedy (a remedy not to be recognized by repertorisation and not known in the normal materia medica).

I am aware that not every case can be solved like this, but it may help to find a lesser known remedy by just looking simply at the words. So, another way of analyzing may be added to the ones we already have. It would be interesting to look at difficult cases with a (computerised)word-analysis applied to the words the patient has used during the consultation. The knowledge we have of the proving connotations, and the words the provers literally used, could be used as a starting point for a word-analysis-program to be developed. Translation problems can be solved. However, these technical ideas are promising, because the most important thing is to bring your patient close to his problem during the consultation, so that he will use the words corresponding to this state. This is the art of the homeopath that will never be equaled by any computer to my opinion.

Video case: women 33 years old, schoolteacher

She has complaints for about 3 months and was sent to me by her general practitioner. She suffers from headache, cough, sinusitis with a lot of discharge, loss of voice and weakness. X-ray thorax: bronchopathy, x-sinuses OK. Lab: anemia. From her G.P. she got antibiotics twice, prednison during one week, without any amelioration. Becotide, atrovent and rhinocort didn’t help either. In the homeopathic interview was clear the surmenage, in her work. There were conflicts with colleagues and parents about one of her pupils. Talking in depth about her present situation and situations similar in the past, revealed a picture that could explain the background from where her complaints developed. The most striking words and expressions she uses during the interview are arranged in such way that the remedy according to the analysis of Jan Scholten is quite clear.

Ferrum words: Tired, anticipating, going on, hard, difficult, pushing, hard, must succeed, exaggerating, going too far, hit, strike, forced cough, breaking through, what I have to do now, work pressure, running hard, heavy, to do your best, against it, doing a lot, fighting, exhausting, against me, going on too far, joy for work, dizziness, heavy, tomato, anemia, epistaxis, red, blowing the nose.

Iron-series: criticism, being perfect (metal), irritation, explaining, organising, club. Left part iron-series: am I doing enough, reaching.

Nitricum words: fun, conflict, competitor, holding inside, blaming, not fitting, absolutely not, not enjoyable, constricting, chased, pursued, choking, dull, sparkling, enthusiasm, enjoyment, having fun, joy for work, warm upper part, fat, herring, fish, loves to eat, enjoying dinner, lard. relaxation.

Carbon-series: humiliated, bad pedagogue, underestimated, insecurity, anxious situations, proving oneself, too fast. General: no energy, powerless

Putting the main themes together of the left and right column, brings us to FERRUM-NITRICUM, which she received in a MK potency once.

In the follow up after about 3 weeks she tells, she had an increase of the discharge from the nose for about 2 days, her coughing stopped right away the next day and in spite of a lot of more work (the end of the school semester) she was not tired at all. She got a remark from her colleagues that her eyes were different and that she looked more relaxed. Her bad dreams of choking and being purchased stopped, she felt no irritability anymore and she was more at ease with the children. Last but not least she thinks more positive.

Table of Content
Preface

Cases
The words of Ferrum nitricum, A simple analysis-strategy, by Rob Peters
Natrium iodatum or “the right to exist”, by Ed Brink
Transformation of inner forces with Thuja and Colocyntis, by Nel Struik
Nuphar Luteum, Opposite elements in a waterplant, by Anne Wirtz
Kreosotum Creation, Preservation and Destructio,n by Marguerite Pelt
New ideas on the periodic table, by Frans Maan
Salts & Life events, by MariTrini Ramos
Sorbus domestica, ‘Closed about love affairs’, by Jan Scholten
Lacs for animals Mother’s milk the best there is, by Liesbeth Ellinger
Vipera, A case of breast cancer, by Maria Davits
Cotyledon, The healing of an old loss, by Vera Kopsky
Aconitum lycoctonum, Lost ideals in nurturing and caring, by Enna Stallinga
Using dreams in the analysis of a case, by Pieter Kuiper
Berlin Wal,l A complete review of a ‘great controversy’, by Kees Dam

Proving
Proving of Diomedea exulans (the Albatross), An important ‘Bird-remedy’

Recipes