| Mrs. M of 51 yrs came to me for her problems with
breathing and allergies.
She was a tall, lean, beautiful woman with a fine complexion and
blue circles around the eyes. On arrival, she said that all her
complaints started after getting her daughter married and sending
her to the USA two and a half years ago. She has been in a lot of
grief since then. She has been suffering from Asthma since she was
a child and she has the most problems during allergy seasons. She
has been under allopathic treatment for the past two years with
no relief.
She complained that she has been losing weight for the past year
even while eating well. She eats every 2 hours and still has lost
33lbs. Her starting weight was 143lbs. This worried her more than
her Asthma. She felt that she was not attractive anymore and everybody
said she looked like an old lady.
She was having coughs and asthmatic attacks every day and some
days more than 3 episodes. She was coughing up a lot of sputum which
was yellow or green in color. She was up coughing all night long
and couldn't sleep at all.
She was unable to tolerate heat and needed constant fanning and
the air conditioner in spite of getting asthmatic attacks when exposed
to cold air. During summer, she sweats profusely all over with no
odor or staining and this bring about an attack. She has difficulty
breathing during inspiration while in open air, while lying down
on the back, after eating, after strong emotions, while walking,
after foods like lentils, grapes, oranges etc., and on perspiration.
She felt better on sitting up and after expectoration,
She is very conscientious for the smallest things, can't tolerate
talking ill of others, wants to help others and expects to be appreciated
in return. She feels she wasn't well cared for by her husband and
is disappointed with him. She’s very argumentative, fastidious,
pities herself, oversensitive to cruelties and feels as though she
was forsaken. She likes to talk a lot and talks fast. She fears
her disease, being alone, darkness and has a fear of defeat. She
experiences grief about her relationship with her husband and feels
unappreciated. She dreams of being left alone on an island.
She had primary complex (tuberculosis of lungs) when she was a
child; her mother died of Tuberculosis when she was 19yrs old. In
the past, for her asthmatic attacks, she used nebulizers and steroids.
Gets hungry every two hours. Thirst, stool and urine are normal.
She is allergic to foods like lentils, oranges, grapes, apples and
bananas, and watermelon brings on an asthmatic attack. Desires ice
cream and cold foods.
The symptoms taken into account:
- Mind- Grief, ailments from
- Feels uncared for, but reacts with affection
- Wants reciprocation of love
- Fear of being alone
- Fear of impending disease
- Ailment from disappointed love
- Sympathetic, sensitive to suffering of others
- Mind- delusion of being alone on a distant island
- Lung symptoms < by cold, but in general feels better in cold
weather
- Difficulty breathing < lying down on the back.
- Difficulty breathing < after eating
- Difficulty breathing - inspiration
- Emaciation and weakness
- Appetite increased during complaint
- Desires ice cream and cold foods.
Taking her totality of symptoms, I arrived at the top remedies,
Nux vomica, Ars. Album, Ignatia and Phosphorus.
According to her mental picture, I prescribed Phosphorus
0/1, (1 pill dissolved in 120ml of water and then 1 tsp taken from
the stock and mixed with another 120ml of water in another glass.
1 tsp taken from the 2nd glass) once and then report back after
3 days. She had an immediate aggravation the day she took the remedy,
during which she had difficulty breathing. However she didn’t
need the nebulizer and the attack subsided by itself. She said she
felt more energetic and stronger.
She was asked to take the medicine twice a week and report back
after a month.
She said “I was attack free for more than 20 days. It has
never happened in the past 2 yrs without my nebulizer”. She
continued Phosphorus for three months during which time
I moved from Phosphorus LM1 to phosphorus LM3 whenever
I saw some stagnation in the improvement.
I then I told her to take Tuberculinum once, after which she has
been feeling great, no cough or expectoration, sleeps well.
Difficulty in breathing comes if she takes very cold food, but
taking Antimonium tart relieves the acute attack. For the past 6
months, she hasn’t had any attack, has no food allergies,
and is able to eat everything without an asthmatic attack, even
during the allergy season.
Phosphorus, a common polychrest, helped this patient marvelously
and she even gained 25lbs of her lost weight. She said that everybody
tells her she is her old beautiful self now. I guess our polychrests,
never fail to surprise us when prescribed correctly.
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Dr.Sowmya Sridharan, B.H.M.S., A.P.H (State of
Nevada)
7595, W.Washington ave,
Suite A170
Las Vegas, NV - 89128
702-504-7092
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