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| Hpathy Ezine - April, 2009 | ||||
Homeopathic Opium a Remedy for Diabetes and Narcolepsy- Deborah Olenev CCH RSHom (NA) |
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| Case of a 46 Year Old Diabetic Woman Helped with Homeopathy There are 671 remedies listed in my homeopathic software for diabetes. (I use Kent Homeopathic Associates software.) My job as a homeopath is to select which one of the 671 remedies will fit my client's symptoms best. In order to determine this I have to look at all aspects of the person for clues as to the remedy he or she needs. I ask them to complete a comprehensive questionnaire ahead of time to help me gather information about the client, so that I can focus on trying to understand the root causes of the client's problems when we meet. I would like to present a case story of a diabetic woman to show you how the selection process works, and to demonstrate the wonderful life altering changes that can occur when a match is made between the patient and the remedy. I took a thorough case history of this woman on 11/9/07 using the Rajan Sankaran Sensation Method, which you can read about in his web site at: www.thespiritofhomoeopathy.com. I last heard from her on 8/21/08 when she e-mailed me the results of her recent blood tests, which were all normal. Here are some of the questions I asked her during the consultation along with her answers.
What are your physical complaints? When did each of them begin, and what makes them feel better or worse? I have an appetite that is out of control. It is killing me but
I still overeat. My chief complaint is Type II diabetes. I measured
my diabetes this morning and it is 177. Normal is 120. Apparently
I have every reason to be worried. I should be calling my doctor,
but I want to take a chance now. This is my major concern.I was
feeling very sleepy until last week. I am reducing my Lipitor by
a third. As soon as I started reducing the Lipitor I did not need
to sleep as much, but I started to feel faint in the afternoon.
I don’t have any pain in my body. I am taking the acupuncture,
but the blood glucose is still out of control. Describe the symptoms and how you discovered you had it? I had gestational diabetes. Then they told me I had a higher chance
of getting diabetes than the rest of the population because of that.
I was told to keep the same diet I had during the pregnancy, which
was monitored by a nutritionist. I started sleeping too much. The kids were in elementary school.
I was coming home and feeling sleepy. I was sleeping all day. The
doctors would do the fasting blood glucose test and it was low and
then it finally came up positive for diabetes. I started the diet
and exercise routine for the diabetes and it improved. It was like
that for two years. What do you feel? I never felt anything with the diabetes. It is all the numbers. I had 177 today, but I was feeling so good, so happy. I don’t know if the sleepiness is due to the diabetes. I never had extreme thirst, loss of weight, extreme urination, loss of sensation in my feet. I never had any of them. Please tell me about your anxiety? It was totally crazy. On some occasions it was like an atomic
bomb exploded someplace. That fear was so intense, that agony. It
was total panic, the fear of the world being destroyed by an atomic
bomb, and everything I loved disappearing. Every day I woke up with
the feeling that in a couple of hours I am going to feel like this
place is going to be attacked. It is like when 911 happened. That’s the feeling, that my world is crumbling around me now. Shock and survival. The survival instinct kicks in, but there is no hope. Everything is hopeless. Then I look around me. Here is my husband so nice a ©nd sweet, my kids are healthy, but why am I feeling like this. It is a sense of immediate danger. It isn’t just the adrenaline,
it is helplessness, it is something that already happened. I was
dealing with the consequences of something awful that had happened
and I didn’t know which way to turn. (Interestingly this woman’s father grew up in war torn Japan, and had experienced the massive destruction that had taken place there during W.W.II. Like his daughter, he is also a diabetic.) My behavior toward my schoolmates and at home was critical, demanding and abrasive. I became the monster. I was afraid of something happening. I felt so guilty when this happened with my kids. I was telling the doctors to test my thyroid, my blood glucose, because I was so sleepy. This is what moved me to keep seeking for an answer. I felt it was not normal. They said you have three kids and you are allowed to be tired, but I had never been like that before. The Metformen is not controlling the numbers. I have been on Metformen for two years and my numbers are getting higher. I am on three medications already. I reduced the Paxil to 20 mg., because the doctor said it may be contributing to the excessive tiredness. Why do you feel your body is creating this diabetes situation? Part of it may be my genes. The second part may be my diet. Once I arrived in the US, I basically stopped having vegetables and had a very bad diet for many years until I got pregnant. I was eating like I thought the Americans ate. How do you feel about the diabetes? I know it is there. I don’t feel good about it. I wish it
weren’t, but it is. I feel fear because of all the things
that might happen in the future. I wish I could control it, but
I can’t. I resent it. I feel angry toward it, because of all
the delicious things I wish I could eat, but I can’t. I also
feel guilty, because it could have been some bad karma. I think
about the word gluttony. I think I am supposed to overcome it by
having control over my material body. I am thinking a lot about
the gluttonous side of my diabetes. I feel it is a long-term threat, not immediate. I had my blood reading today and it was 177. I should be screaming at my practitioner at this moment and telling her to give me something else. I am still hoping that my body will be able to react somehow. I woke up today it was so high, but I wasn’t fainting, wasn’t dizzy. Yes, a lot of damage is happening in my organs and my body. I have no physical indicator. I feel like I don’t have control there. Apparently if I never knew about the diabetes I could just die one day of a heart attack. I could have died young. Since I know I may die older, but lose my legs or my eyesight. Please tell me more about the onset of your symptoms. At age twenty-five when I had a nervous breakdown a lot was happening
in my life. I started hearing this metallic noise like a shopping
cart going on the asphalt. Instead of the normal thought pattern,
it seemed that I could see patterns of images that would go on forever
and ever, like geometric patterns that would undulate. At a certain
point I couldn’t hold it together anymore. I was living in
a new city, my parents were far away, and my husband and baby depended
on me for everything. I was also in a masters' program and carrying
my work load. I talked with a psychologist who told me it was too
much and to try to scale down. At the same time I was excited to
be out in the world with my husband and kid. My memory seemed to
have vanished. I sleep ten hours at night and another six hours during the day.
During the summer I would fall asleep by 9 p.m. Sleep till 8 a.m.
Kiss the kids good-bye and go back to bed or the couch and sleep
there another six hours. Then I would do some shopping, prepare
a snack and go to sleep. It happened when the kids were newborns.
How do you feel about being so sleepy? I feel awful, my life is going away. I could be cleaning the house for God’s sake. There is something in the Paxil and the Lipitor; as soon as I start to get off it is better. The Prescription The remedy I prescribed for this woman was Opium LM1. It is not sold in the U.S. under this name, nonetheless this is the remedy I gave her. Opium is a plant remedy from the Papavaraceae family. I came to the remedy using the Sankaran method, hereby I had to determine whether the patient needed a plant, mineral, or animal remedy. I felt she needed a plant remedy. I then studied the sensations in Sankaran’s little booklet called Sankaran’s Schema and I saw that the feeling of fright, shock, agony, and a hell like state (apocalypse) were covered by this remedy. The remedy also has narcolepsy as a passive reaction. The lack of any of the ordinary symptoms associated with diabetes and the anesthesia also, is a characteristic of remedies from this plant family. Visual and auditory hallucinations helped to confirm the remedy. Once I determined the plant family I looked for the miasm that her attitude toward her diabetes pointed to. In Sankaran’s system the miasm is the pace, intensity and attitude toward the chief complaint. In her case I thought about both the acute miasm and the cancer miasm, but finally settled on the cancer miasm. Opium is a remedy of the cancer miasm, and in this miasm the feeling that one has no control over the situation is prominent. This is what she expressed when she said, “I have no physical indicator. I feel like I don’t have control there.” I chose the LM potencies, which is a form of the remedy that can
be taken daily, every other day or as needed in water. She took
the remedy daily for six months and then discontinued it when she
felt she no longer needed it. I met with this woman for a follow up appointment three months after she started on Opium LM1. Her cholesterol had gone way down at that point, but she still had high blood sugar. This needed a little more time to resolve with the help of the remedy, a low glycemic diet, as well as monitoring the pH of her body, all things I recommended to her. She said, “I am feeling much better. The catatonic state has been alleviated. The past three months have been really nice. I got a job and am really glad about this. I work three mornings a week babysitting and it is perfect. It is really good to have the energy. The blood sugar went down a little bit, but it is still high.” Here is the chart of symptoms I made for her at the three month
point in her treatment. Her cholesterol went down very much. Same The sugar is still high. (It took a few more months for this to
normalize). Most recent progress report: The last contact I had with this client was on August 21st 2008. This is what she said in her e-mail: As of now all my blood readings are normal, so I would assume I am on my way to healing. I have weaned off of all medications and it has been five months since I took my last pill. I also have not taken the homeopathic remedy for the past two months. What I am doing now is being very active on the alkaline diet, as per your recommendation I found the site www.phmiracleliving.org and I am following all the dietary recommendations prescribed there. She also attached a note from her doctor, which said, “Your HgAlc looks better down to 6.4 form 6.8. Keep up the good work.” Conclusion I selected Opium for this lady because it covered all her symptoms well. If you are a diabetic and searching for a remedy, please consult a classical homeopath to guide you to the best remedy for you. No two people are identical and the remedy chosen must match the person who needs it to produce the miracle cures that homeopathy is famous for. ----------------------------------------------- Deborah Olenev, CCH RSHom (NA) is a certified
classical homeopath in private practice in Mountain View, California.
Her clientele includes men, women and children of all ages, from
all over the United States and overseas. Please visit her web site
at www.homeopathyforhealth.net to see articles about homeopathy,
biographical information and to download a questionnaire. Deborah
can be contacted via www.homeopathyforhealth.net
or by phone at 650-569-6219. Z
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