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| Hpathy Ezine - July, 2006 | ||||
Revisiting "Who's That Lady?"- Elaine Lewis, D.Hom. |
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| Time again for the answer to last month's quiz! Here it is in case you missed last month's exciting issue: OK, here it goes! My 13 year old daughter, "Baby Maria Anita Sofia Jesusa Montalvo"... Junior... has been completely out of control! I hate it when that happens! Here's the scenario: Baby Maria is becoming increasingly nervous before games. She complains that her stomach "hurts", is very snappish and irritable prior to the game, wrings her hands and is visibly nervous. Her nervousness has started to effect the quality of her play. She's slower to respond, hesitates and seems sluggish- even after warming up prior to the start of the game. Most of these physical symptoms improve after she becomes involved in the game and she usually plays well after a short while. The worst symptom is that she has begun to be somewhat disrespectful to her coach. She's headstrong to begin with but will now sometimes ignore the coach when given instruction from the sideline. She will engage in conversation to defend a "move" she made when criticized- which by the way, she cannot tolerate! The more he yells "run" the slower she walks! Also, she's had several emotional "outbursts" on the field... That would be, the "hockey" field, right? Yes, Hockey, that's the ticket! You were saying? She has emotional outbursts, screeching
at other players to "help" her. Luckily, my homeopath... ...moi... ...yes, vous, recommended ____________30C. I gave two doses before the next game and noticed that she was less nervous prior to the start of the game, played well and was a little less irritable with her coach. I felt very hopeful! Several days later she had another game. Elaine suggested we go to a 200c, which I gave and saw some definite improvement in the pre game nervousness, disobedience and quality of play. I thought, "We are really on to something here!" After this game a few strange things happened: my daughter became very concerned for her younger brother as we watched his game. It was a very physical game and she was worried he would get hurt. She burst into tears in the car on the way home saying, "I don't know why I'm crying, mom!" and then several minutes later began playing "car games" with her brother for the remainder of the drive home! This was the first peaceful car trip in a long time! All of these things are very unusual for her. She has had a love/hate relationship with her brother and for the most part "tolerates" him. Hearing them play together (as they did when they were young) was amazing! The next day I gave my daughter nothing before the game as she didn't need it! She played hard, listened to her coach and had no outbursts on the field. She even commented that she felt "better and more calm."
OK, if you know what the remedy is... Elaine, I'm not finished! You mean there's a Part-2? Yes! "Maria" came home from school recently really crabby, whiny, etc.... flippant and bratty too. I thought about giving the remedy again but there was no nervousness involved. At practice she wasn't very cooperative and said the coach was really "irritating" her. Later the entire team ran to an ice cream store (maybe 2 miles) and "Maria" was quietly very argumentative, as in, "No, i don't wannnnnt that, i want this! Why can't I have that?" Lots of eye rolling, etc. I was at my limit with this behavior and told her to go to her room when we got home and stay there. I told her she was acting like a 3 year old. "You're grounded with no TV," I said. She had a little more homework but I said she'd have to finish it in the morning. Well this made her hysterical! Screaming, crying - the works! She said she wanted "to die!" (this is new). I gave her the same remedy, 200c. She'd been so quiet in her room that I went in to check on her. She was asleep! I gave her a kiss; she woke up and said, "Mom, whatever you gave me worked! It calmed me down right away. I'm sorry." She rolled over and went back to sleep. ****** One week later: Here's a storybook ending if there ever was one: Maria tried out for a better team; she competed against 44 girls for 16 open spots and she got one of them! This is the "A" team at another club! Hooray!
You've lifted the ban on TV, haven't you? _________________________________________________ Well, alright! Wasn't this an exciting case? I wish I could say the same for our answers! Twenty two of you wrote in. I got numerous votes for the stage-fright remedies: Argent-nit., Lycopodium, Silica, Gelsemium and Aconite; I got the irritable remedies--Nux vomica and Chamomilla; I got Cuprum for combativeness, I got Elaps because of perceived Animal Kingdom qualities (desire to be #1 and sympathy for the younger brother) and I got a bunch of remedies that puzzled me, like Nat-mur, Belladonna and Aurum (perhaps because she did say she wanted to die!); but I got only one vote for the right remedy which was IGNATIA! What are some of the Ignatia "buzz-words" in this case?
It all just Screams ignatia! (Pardon the pun.) Let's look at Ignatia, the remedy we've always thought of primarily, and perhaps only, as an acute grief remedy. Why is that? Why do we associate Ignatia with grief the way we associate Arnica with injury? Because just as injury (blunt trauma) tends to have a universal effect on everyone which tends to match Arnica, so acute grief tends to bring out the same response in everyone, that response being the Ignatia: "No!" Am I right? "No! It didn't happen! I won't accept it! You take that back! Stop saying that!" What is this an example of? Contrariness, opposition, conflict, "You can't make me!" Isn't that what we see in this case? You can't make me run, I'll walk! This is a remedy of opposites, opposition and paradoxes. You say yes, I say no. Nothing makes sense about this remedy, just like your teenager, nothing she does makes any sense! Even the modalities: the throat pain is better by swallowing, the stomach pain is better for food, the headache is better by bending forward; everything with this remedy is the opposite of what you'd expect, a paradox. Why else is Ignatia a grief remedy? Because of its most famous keynote of all: hysteria! These people are either in total control, attempting to suppress their emotions and deny that they need any help (like Arnica) or they are totally out of control and "screeching for help", and can go back and forth between the two such that family members feel like they're walking on eggshells! "What did I say? All I did was mention Joe's name, was I not supposed to do that?" There is even a rubric, Mind: screaming for help. There are only five remedies in it:
What are the other keynotes of Ignatia that fit into this case:
Remember? defending moves she made to other players, not being able to tolerate the least criticism? How about this rubric: Mind: Irritability, contradiction, at slightest--Ignatia-3 (the only remedy!) Here's another rubric. Mind: whining. Ignatia is a 2 and of course, Mind: crying, Ignatia is a 3. Other rubrics:
To make a long story short, the case was nearly wrapped up with the first sentence: "Baby Maria has been completely out of control!" And now is the time to announce our lovely winner! Congratulations Ágnes Heiczman (Ági) from Hungary! You go, girl! Dr. B, tell Ági what she's won! ---------------------------------------------------- This month's winners will get a special 30% discount on one order of books from Hpathy Mall. Click Here for Prize Guidelines I also request our previous prize winners, Alyona and Sujatha to please write to Dr. B at webmaster@hpathy.com and give him your addresses so he can mail your prizes to you.
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