Does anybody remember last month’s quiz?  Here it is again with the answer to follow:

 

We are once again about to benefit from another tragic event in Kelly’s life! This time it’s a friend, right Kelly? Would you care to tell us about it?

Thank you once again for the dubious honor of being asked to present yet another case for the hpathy quiz. Around 2pm last weekend…

Pardon me if I interrupt, but, 2 PM last weekend? Kelly, we homeopaths pride ourselves on being very precise!

I’m so sorry. Around 2:03 last weekend…

The DAY, Kelly!

How do I know what day it was! 

Please continue….

….a friend of mine stopped by to visit. It was obvious she was uncomfortable so I asked, “What’s up ‘Mary’? It looks like your leg is bothering you.”

“Mary”?  That’s what you came up with, “Mary”?

What’s wrong with that?

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly…. I know you’re new to homeopathy, but, part of presenting a good case has to do with choosing an appropriate fictitious name for the patient because you don’t want the listener to be distracted by any associations he or she might have with the name you choose.

Makes sense, I guess.

Now, you see, the name “Mary” can very easily be confused with Mary from the Bible, or Mary Wilson from The Supremes!

Ohhhh. I didn’t realize that!

That’s why it’s so important to work with a professional.

OK, so, let me start again. Around 2:03 last weekend, a friend of mine stopped by to visit. It was obvious she was uncomfortable so I said, “What’s up, ‘Diana’?”   How’s that?

Hmm……Diana…..Diana…..who does that remind me of…..Diana…..Diana…..nope, nothing!  OK, do continue!

“What’s up, ‘Diana’?” I said.  Rubbing her left outer thigh, she said, “Oh, I have sciatica and it’s really acting up the last couple days. I was up pacing the floor around 2:00 this morning!” (Meanwhile she’s up and down in the chair as we speak.) “It really hurt first thing this morning, but feels a little better right now.” (Elaine, could you stop humming, it’s really annoying!)

Was I humming?

Yes, you were humming!  So, later on I phoned to set up a time to exchange our children back to their respective homes and I asked how she felt. “Better, I’ve been sitting on the heating pad and stretching it out, it helps to rub it too.”

A little while later she showed up to pick up/drop off kids and said, “I feel so out of it and kinda foggy. I have this really bad headache.”

When I went to her house to retrieve yet another child, she was in the bathroom but didn’t know I had come in. She yelled down to her husband, “I’m in here again!”

I asked how she was doing and she said, “The headache is still pretty bad and it extends down my neck, in the back.” She still had the leg pain and was acting a bit “spacey.”

She took 3 doses of _______30c before bed and one the next morning. She said she slept really well and much of the pain was gone by morning. The next day she was almost completely pain free–another happy customer!

Elaine? Elaine are you even listening?????

…how can Mary tell me what to do when she’s lost her love so true?

and Flo, she don’t know, that the boy she loves is a Romeo…

Elaine!!!!!!!

….I listened once to my friends’ advice but it’s not gonna happen twice

Cuz all advice ever got me was many long and sleepless nights

000000000

I got him back in my arms again, right by my side….

Elaine!!!!!!!!!  Stop singing!!!!!  

I got him back in my arms again, so satisfied

oooooooooooo

Aaaah!  Dr. B….!!!!!

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It saddens me, the state of homeopathy in the world today, where so few homeopaths can recognize a line from “Back In My Arms Again” by Diana Ross and the Supremes!

Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard

But three cheers for Way-Cool Homeopath, Ute Seebauer, who wrote the following:

That is rhus-tox. Sciatica,

>warm application, rubbing, continued motion

< at night

Headache and neck trouble

She took 3 doses of ___RHUS-T____30c before bed and one the next morning.

The song Elaine was humming however isn’t Rhus, it’s “Ross” [ha-ha! Cool and funny!]

Diana Ross & The Supremes – “Back in My Arms Again” (see lyric below)

Have a great day,

Ute Seebauer

Back In My Arms Again
by The Supremes

All day long I hear my telephone ring
Friends calling giving their advice
From the boy I love
I should break away
‘Cause heartaches he’ll bring one day

I lost him once through friends’ advice
But it’s not gonna happen twice
‘Cause all advice ever’s gotten me
Was many long and sleepless nights

(Ooh!) But now
He’s back in my arms again
Right by my side
I got him back in my arms again
So satisfied

It’s easy for friends to say
Let him go
When I’m the one
Who needs him so
It’s his love that makes me strong
Without him I can’t go on
This time I’ll live my life at ease
Being happy lovin’ whom I please
And each time we make romance
I’ll be thankful for a second chance

(Ooh!) ‘Cause
He’s back in my arms again
Right by my side
I got him back in my arms again
So satisfied

How can Mary tell me what to do
When she lost her love so true?
And Flo, she don’t know
That the boy she loves is a Romeo
I listened once to my friends advice
But it’s not gonna happen twice
‘Cause all advice ever’s gotten me
Was many long and sleepless nights

(Ooh!) I got him
Back in my arms again
Right by my side
I got him back in my arms again
So satisfied

Ooh! I’m satisfied
So satisfied (fade out)

All right! You go, Ute! Oh, and Sherill got the song right too!   Congratulations, Sherill!

Now, the rest of you…. Get with it!

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OK, now for the quiz results! Out of seventeen votes cast, an overwhelming 12 of you got the remedy right, which, of course, was Rhus tox!

Here’s what some of you had to say (note: < means worse, > means better):

No I don’t know the name of the song, but I think the remedy that covers it best —

sciatica > walking/motion (eliminative)

sciatica > pressure

sciatica > warmth

brain fag

copious urine

headache -> back

< morning

< night

……is Rhus-tox.

Love & peace,

Karen Wehrstein

I feel the Diana Ross Rx is Rhus-t. because of:
the restlessness ; aggravation at night; Better for heat; Sensorium becomes
cloudy(spacey); Stiffness of nape of neck; headache in occiput; better for
strechting out limbs; better for motion.

Thanks for these exercises !!
lj

Dear Elaine,

This case is a good opportunity to use Boenninghausen Therapeutishes Taschenbuch for repertorisation. I have worked hard to be capable of using it in German (its original langage) as no good translation does exist in English.

After taking into account the following information (corresponding to 6 rubrics)

Localisation: outer thigh, left lower limb

Sensation: what kind of pain ?

Modality: amel. becoming warm, amel. extending the limb

Concommitant: corporeal restlessness agg. at night after midnight

I would suggest RHUS TOX as the best medicine. NUX VOM comes second from the repertorisation but affects more the right lower limb and would not tolerate such moving about. ARS which would come to the mind spontaneously (restlessness agg 2 a.m.) is clearly farther in the list with only 4 rubrics covered. Moreover would we not expect an ARS patient to be anxious with the restlessness ?

Michel

Hi Elaine
I would have given Rhus Tox
The woman was restless, continuously moving, better for heat, rubbing,
stretching and changing position
Mati H Fuller

Since I don’t recognize the song, I’ll submit my entry of Rhus Tox:

Restlessness, dazed mind, left-sided sciatica

Better for heat, continued motion, rubbing, stretching out limbs

Worse after midnight, aggravated by rest

Thanks! I have been learning a lot from the ezine articles!

Brooks

Back in My Arms Again by the Supremes…

Arsenicum
Album

Sherill

[it was a good guess, Sherill! You probably saw the restlessness, the amelioration from heat and worse around midnight and thought of Arsenicum...it's not that it's a bad guess, it's that Rhus tox has more symptoms, such as better from stretching, which is a big indicator for Rhus tox, as is better massage. Also, let me just say that although Arsenicum and Rhus tox have restlessness in common, Rhus tox is actually better from moving whereas Arsenicum has a psychological restlessness and isn't necessarily better for all the moving around.]

Hi dearesst Elaine!

Hi Nooshin!

How I missed You!

 You were gone?

We were moving house and that is the reason why I couldn’t write sooner and why I’m in a hurry now!!!!

 You’re moving the house? Is it in the wrong place? Don’t they get The Supremes in Iran?

The remedy is: RHUS TOXICODENDRON (rhus-tox.)

because we have :

restlessness

left sided symptoms,

>motion,

<beginning to move, night, morning on waking (all indicate < rest)

> warm application,

>stretching,

>massage [ Rubbing her left outer thigh]

and we have a concomitant:

headache : it is surely because of cervical stiffness [extends down my neck, in the back]

Thank you again Elaine for being there and helping us to think better. Say hello to all dear Hpathies!! Lots of love and a big hug,

Nooshin Azadi

OK, so congratulations to Dr. Manuel Monasterio, Jayashree, Nooshin Azadi, Brooks, Mati Fuller, Michel, LJ, Karen Wehrstein, Ravi Narayan, our friend Anonymous, and Totally Cool Ute Seebauer!

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