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| Hpathy Ezine - January, 2006 | ||||
Natrum carbonicum- Elaine Lewis, DHom |
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| These are the nicest people in the materia medica. (Hey, this must be my remedy!) Sweet, selfless, concerned about others, sympathetic...it all fits! Worse from heat and the sun, ailments from sun exposure--I hate the sun! Easily chilled and over-heated, like Mercurius--that's me! Nat-carb.'s big issue is assimilation! They can't assimilate certain people, they can't assimilate certain foods...certain foods just don't digest, they sit there. Gas and bloating is the result. Milk is the worst (I've never liked milk!). They may have gas and bloating or diarrhea from milk. They may crave starchy foods but develop gas and bloating from them. You may be thinking, "This case must be Lycopodium!" But you don't see the 4-8 PM aggravation time, and Nat-carb. could never be the braggart and bully that Lycopodium can be! They can't "stomach" certain people either. Certain people--obnoxious people, offensive people, aggressive people--offend them. They do their best to avoid stressful people and stressful situations. Nat-carbs monitor the environment for things that might distress them so they can avoid them. They are very refined, delicate, polite, soft, philosophical, composed, intellectual, stoic, dignified, unobtrusive, quiet, all the things that I am, basically. There's a narrow range of things they can tolerate, whether it's temperature, food, friends or music. They're easily put-off. They can't tolerate certain stimuli, like noise or a certain kind of music.... "Turn it off!" they might say, or, "Hey! You call that music? What's the matter with you? Those aren't even real instruments! The record label was too cheap to hire musicians, and where's the arrangement? They were too cheap to hire arrangers! Why do you put up with this? Why do you allow yourselves to be duped by big business interests, perpetuating an 'anything-for-money' fraud in popular music?" [Elaine! Elaine, quick, breathe into this paper bag and gaze at your poster of Dionne Warwick!]
OK, OK. Good idea. Dionne Warwick...Dionne Warwick.... [Repeat after me: OK, I'm fine, Dr. B, thanks! [Are you sure?] Yes, not a problem! As I was saying.... [No, no, forget what you were saying! They don't like noise, OK? Now try to move on from there and by the way, you might want to try Sulphur!] Right, so anyway....they're easily offended. [I think we've assimilated that.] It's their narrow range of tolerance that's thematic here. You might look at Nat-carb. as a combination of Calc-carb., Nat-mur., Lycopodium and Mercurius. They are mild, down-to-earth, sensible and practical and loving and giving with their family like Calc-carb. They have the sensitivity, introversion and perfectionism of Nat-mur., the gas and bloating of Lycopodium and the narrow range of temperature tolerance of Mercurius. They're cheerful. If anything is troubling them, they won't let you know. They don't want to be a burden. The digestion is weak and the ankles are weak too with easy dislocation and spraining. Always eating, always nibbling. Eating ameliorates. (News flash: The Brownie Diet doesn't work!) |
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Elaine Lewis, DHom, CHom takes online cases. Visit her website at: www.hpathy.com/office/ElaineLewis.asp |
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