Clinical Cases

A Case of Scarlet Macaw

Written by David Kempson

A case taken using Sankaran’s Sensation method leads to an exotic remedy.

“A beautiful bird that wants to talk and fly and be free, but instead is made to sit quietly in a prison where it can be admired for its beauty”.

This patient (HG) had been seeing me on and off for a number of years. She complained of chronically relapsing into exhaustion.

She had received, with partial improvement, remedies such as:

Phos, Carc, Sepia, Valer, Pic-ac, Venus

But ultimately her main life story, her issue with relationships, never changed. When she returned this time, I was better armed with the new Sensation method and materia medica.

What is the problem today?

The anger.  My partner has learned certain words, he might say “I hate you doing that”.  I see hate as such a strong word (HG makes a claw).  So, I get really….my anger goes to the point where I do nothing, I go totally opposite …I throw it back in his face…I go, the total opposite.

I am one to write lists, and he will mention it, I take it personally, and I will do the opposite.  I can’t look at him. Why are you having a go at me?

How did you feel after that last remedy?(Venus)

I felt calm, clearer, my emotions felt very calm

Describe it, this anger

I get this (HG hand cutting down from forehead).  I want to punch him, but never carry through.  Right at that moment, the words in my breath are, “You don’t appreciate anything I do”.I don’t know why you hang around. Just go home and leave.  I just sit patiently, it comes out. He just says what he wants, it comes out (HG going outwards)

I hold on to it (HG hands coming back to body), harbor it.  It is like this real control thing.  He says I always like to have control, I like to organize things. I try and put myself in his shoes a lot of times. I would use words in a nicer way. It puts me on the back foot when he says he hates things. He says he hates it when I take photos, then I won’t take any photos at all. I go to the opposite (HG hand going from one side to the other).

What is the feeling when you do the opposite of what you want?

I have nothing to do. A list would keep me occupied.  Making sure I finish things. I feel I have become lazy. Nothing to do, bored.

Bored?

Open space of nothing, absolute nothing. I don’t want to speak to anyone.

If my phone rings I will ignore it. I don’t want to tell people I don’t feel good.

I would rather wait until I feel good, until I talk.  I want to look back and laugh

I don’t feel good about myself.  I don’t want to do anything. I don’t want to think about doing anything.

Opposite of bored

I will tell you what happened the other day, I got to the point where I got in the car and drove off, to a shopping centre, did nothing. I don’t want to sit around being bored, so I took a sleeping tablet to fall asleep. Then there is nothing. I didn’t want to lay there thinking about things.

Just the opposite of bored

I am alive.  Doing things. Going for a run. Going for a coffee. Doing things by myself. I have something to live for. Feeling good about myself

Keep describing this experience

Like what I have got to give someone. I feel excited. Something to live for.

I can think more, do more things. Little things mean a lot.

First image that comes to mind, alive and exciting

Fireworks
Exploding Colors

Smiling

I feel like I have lost a lot of that. I am frowning   Unhappy

It has taken me to a deeper place. Over the years I haven’t expressed much emotion. Been very even keeled (hands balancing) I don’t like going that deep.I never want to go down there.

Describe that dark place, deep

Very dark, unhappy, lonely.  Dark lonely place. I can clear my head if I go for a run, for an hour, I come back much happier.  It just goes through my head, not getting so angry. I feel like I have cleared a lot of things without having to burden anyone. I go off on my own

Describe on your own?

I don’t have to talk, listen, get advice from anyone.  I don’t have to explain myself. I don’t feel like I am complaining.

Freedom
In my thoughts, in the outcome of the situation.
Freedom in my choice, not have anyone sway me. Taking my own responsibility, for my actions. Freedom to choose whatever I want.

What would get in the way of this freedom?

I can be swayed by others, by their opinions. I feel obliged that I should follow that path. I just want to do my own thing.

Describe Free, completely free

Running along the beach.  There is no end to it Running, no rocks in the way

The ocean and sand .The freedom  There is no end Forever  Happiness

I feel really light, able to achieve anything I want to. Although I don’t know what I want.  I can focus on the small things.  I want to do things that I want to.  I want to have the journey, fun things along the way

Light?

I always feel very heavy around my hips and legs . As if a weight is dragging me down. The lightness, is the weight has been lifted.  Weight is always pulling me down.  Bouncing, lightness.  Feels like
I have five legs (rolls hands).

Like a wheel turning  Moving forward  Heaviness

Horses legs, so heavy and big, that is how heavy I feel.

What image would describe the lightness?

Water and sand, the foam that rolls up, that seems to … into nothing

The froth-    That to me, is that lightness, it can dissipate. Someone asked me what am I running from.  I run from situations.

Five legs?

More fluent, can go faster (rolls fingers)   Spokes in the wheel   I just keep running, running, running.

Dreams?

I had a dream the other night.  I had a blanket over me, my partner was
pulling the blanket and saying come to bed, I could not wake up, the blanket
was being pulled from me.  I went (gasp) woke up, like my breath was being held (HG hands come together)

Dream where you are being held down.  Coming out of anesthetic . You are in this altered state (hands together laying down) (lots of gestures now)

Describe the experience that comes with that gesture

Closed in – Trapped  – Darkness  –  Bad place –Can’t get out

Can’t be free  – Me going down – No escape

Dark room with no light – That is my being scared of the dark.

Trapped – Scared of the dark  –  No door – No light to turn on

How do you feel about going into a shell?(expression used in previous interview)

That is just me going off on my own.

What do you want to be free from?

People controlling me

I have always been around strong people

I like it, makes me stronger.  Putting their ideas of how I should be doing things, of who I should be.  It comes down to the men in my life, put their point across.They try and change me, to not become so independent. That male, I can take care of you, but I can take care of myself.  They are afraid I will up and leave.

I feel like I am always being tested

Tested to see where my loyalties lie, if I am an honest person

Try to prove me wrong, dishonest, will I be loyal to them

Lots of tests, I feel I get tested quite a lot

They will give me a little  (freedom) to do what I want

I am being as honest as I can, and then there is this jealousy

CASE  ANALYSIS:

What I pull out of this interview are the following: 

Repeated Claw-like gesture

Open space of nothing, space that goes on forever

Colours, Fireworks, Explosions

Freedom

Lightness/ Heaviness

Trapped

Being controlled and dominated by others

Most of these are clear Animal/Bird family expressions. I chose the bird I was most familiar with for issues of being dominated and controlled by others (this was however a mistake).

First prescription = Peregrine Falcon

Follow-up:

I get so exhausted from the thinking that I do…. From outside elements

Things happening around me..I don’t express them so they exhaust me.

My life is so simple, so easy.  My life with my husband is so challenging.

Culture, language, being brought up in two different countries..

Expressing yourself  – I can express myself in English pretty well…  In a situation recently with people who didn’t speak English,  I couldn’t express myself properly, so sometimes I didn’t say anything.  Many times my patience was tested.  I would sit around a table will they spoke in another language, and not a word would come out of me.

I couldn’t express myself

Husband found it difficult to translate

He only told me selective things

Everyone said I was so quiet

I felt really helpless

I was nearly crying

Husband would ask if I was ok, I would say yes

I couldn’t say anything

No one got to know me

No one wanted to use English

Experience of not saying anything?

Helpless

Couldn’t share

So painful

I would look out the window

I would just listen to the noise of them talking

I could pick up a couple of words

It just didn’t matter, whether I was at the table or not

I said to my husband, I can’t understand what is being said

Husband said I should have studied harder

What really stumped me, is that my husband who spoke the language fluently, he never helped me. He didn’t practice with me, didn’t speak to me in the language

Take, take, take.

What did that feel like?

I didn’t want to learn …It blocked me..He didn’t have the patience to teach me

I asked him to help me on many occasions….I couldn’t express that

He had no patience..I found it difficult

What did it feel like?

I felt very let down.. Not supported… Can I read out some letters I wrote?

I had to express myself to someone, and I didn’t have anyone to talk to

Husband turns it around..He was angry all the time…When someone starts yelling I (she pulls to one side).What have I done wrong?

My words were:  Angry  Putting me down  Controlling  I am an idiot

I don’t listen to him .. I don’t feel like he explains himself

Read out  more of this letter you wrote?

“You make me feel guilty

Not capable of doing tasks

You speak to me like a teenager

You speak slowly to patronize me

That makes me feel like an idiot, like a little child

I am in the principal’s office, telling them what to do

Making them feel awful

Making them feel guilty”

What would the child feel in that situation?

Helpless   Nothing to say   Nowhere to turn   You just have to sit there and take it  Husband is always right  Who would do this, to whom would it be done?

A prisoner  A warden

Describe this

The warden can…the prisoner can do something, the warden comes to discipline them.   The warden can do whatever they want to them, belittle them, treat them like sh*t.   Then they can lock the door on
them.
That person can do nothing to retaliate, nothing they can do.

How does the prisoner feel?

Destroyed   Upset  Trapped  They are locked in  Left in one place

Can’t go anywhere  Can’t talk to anyone   Can’t explain

What is that feeling?

Helpless

Give me more on helpless?

I like to be free

Openness

Their freedom is taken away from you

Trapped

Self esteem has been knocked out of you..  Your confidence .. Someone has come along and stripped you of it/  The life that you learned along the way,
has been taken away.

For me then I want to go to sleep.   Go into a hole, a dark place  Sometimes
I have taken sleeping tablets to knock myself out.

Talk about trapped?

No freedom   No independence  No expressing yourself freely,
to other people

Around my husband I am another person, I am unhappy, I am very quite

I don’t express myself to him at all.   Keep talking about trapped..

A bird trapped in a cage, in a beautiful street, everything is going by you

Like you are trying to say something and no-one hears you

Describe that bird

Strong

Loud

It would make a lot of noise, like talking

Very capable of going anywhere in the world

Cold, water, sun, mountains

What would be the experience of being out of the cage?

Freedom

Stopping and starting

Doing what you want

Meeting other birds, connection, talking

Excitement, fun, living

It would be like a party

Happy, thrilling

What would make it happy being with those other birds?

It could express itself

What would it be like, all those birds together?

Colorful

The atmosphere makes you want to be there

It is happy

No negativity

Optimism

Not deep in your thought process

No high maintenance

What is happy for birds?

Seeing everyone get on

Seeing the birds talking

Seeing them talking amongst themselves

It is expression

That is why I feel like I am trapped, I haven’t expressed myself

I am a different person around my husband

He is not a happy person

Talk
about expressing yourself?

Body language  Words  Being able to be happy or sad, and no-one judge you

Judged?

Being open and honest, and saying what you want to share.

Later on they might use that against you.  Down the track they will use that instance against you, for doing the wrong thing

What have they used, what have they judged?

My maturity

At my age, I should know better

He uses my age a lot for something

This is because I answer honestly, I am open, I don’t lie

I don’t live a life of deception

I don’t have anything to hide

I clam up

They use that against me

I don’t know if it is jealousy, of me being confident in myself.   I have no regrets, or unhappiness, some people want to live my life but don’t know how to do it honestly.   They don’t know how to be honest with me.  I might talk to my husband with these gestures, like I am a little girl

Husband was happy when I was sitting there, not saying a word.  He only translated enough…He couldmanipulate his other girlfriend, control her,
tell her what to do. A young pretty girl that didn’t say much.  He didn’t want me to talk to his family about his life.  His father puts everyone down, put me
down, constantly.
Because I couldn’t speak fluently, he would always make my husband translate, didn’t want to speak to me.  Husband got picked on a lot when he was a young boy.

What are you not expressing?

Happiness   Emotions    Find it extremely difficult to communicate.  Me – Who I am… I feel like I am hiding Me being this excited person, with this energy, what I have got to give.   I feel like I am holding it back

CASE ANAYSIS:

So now it is clear. Before, I could see the issue was Freedom, but all I had
pulled out of the case was Domination and Control. These are really just the
Animal themes in the case, more of which appear this time to confirm the Kingdom.
Now there is much more, and by pursuing her repeated phrases it became more obvious what kind of experience she was describing.

To determine what bird I need, it is important to find out what the patient’s
issue of freedom is in relation to. For this patient, it was ‘Expressing herself’,
expressing her individuality. She felt suppressed by those stronger than her,
more dominating than her, in terms of what she was allowed to say. It was
all about words.

She relates her case to a Bird, a Bird that is colourful, talkative, noisy, gathers
in large groups like a party, talking to each other. This was a very evocative
image. And she also relates to that bird put in a cage, wanting to talk but
not allowed to, or not listened to. A beautiful bird that wants to talk and
fly and be free, but instead is made to sit quietly in a prison where it can
be admired for its beauty.

This is the story of the Parrot family. It is interesting to see how often patients
express the dynamic between humans and the animal remedy they need. I see this very frequently. It is as if the human energy and the animal energy become embroiled in the same conflict inside the patient, as they do in the outside world. Man has a long history of trapping and keeping parrots as pets for their beauty and their ability to mimic or talk. Many species have been brought to the brink of extinction because of this fascination. The Scarlet McCaw is greatly desired by humans. Parrots generally are talkative and social and need a lot of out-of-cage time to thrive, interacting with their human owners.

In the proving of Aram-m (Scarlet Macaw) one of the very prominent themes was Freedom to express oneself, one’s individuality, and suppressing that need in order to fit in with the group, so as to not make waves, to not rock the
boat.

Patient reported a marked aggravation from this remedy, after which she improved dramatically and was able to approach her problems from a very different angle. She stood up for herself and made some hard but very positive decisions. She felt better about her life, more in control, and her energy all came back. She felt alive again. Her marriage became happier, the issues of domination and control vanished.
The conflicts were resolved and she felt able to express herself with complete
freedom. She did not relapse into exhaustion, which had been the main physical complaint, even when under the same stresses that had caused those relapses previously. Despite what appeared to be insurmountable differences in her marriage, she found a way to overcome them and no longer feels any of these sensations.

About the author

David Kempson

David Kempson practices homoeopathy at West End Wellness, West End, Brisbane. He studied at Sydney College of Homoeopathic Medicine 1992-1995 and lectured in the Australian College of Natural Medicine for 7 years. David adopted Scholten's Periodic Table prescribing in 2002, Sankaran's Plant Family prescribing in 2006, and Sankaran's Sensation method across all kingdoms in 2007. David has successfully incorporated the new methods with his classical/traditional homoeopathic approach. His other interests include mythology and folklore, science fiction and astronomy.

5 Comments

  • hi sir!
    i am practicing homeopathy by the sensation method for the last 5 years in pune, maharashtra, (india). i have been trained by dr.dinesh chauhan for the last 5 years and i still continue learning from him.
    just did a case yestarday where i felt the patient needed the remedy made from macaw. as the level of experience of my pateint was feeling,did not get a complete picture at the level of sensation. trying to sharpen my skills in such cases. as i was searching for a case of macaw, came across ur case. was thrilled to read your case and get the central theme of remedies from the parrot family.
    your case was amazing. n thank u for sharing it with everybody as v can learn from it.
    i am going to go back to my case with the patient and try to get more from the case, before i actually prescribe the remedy.
    thank u once again.
    your truly
    mira

  • Sensation method ROCKS! It is absolutely awesome to see video cases (and to read of others’ cases) of this method and then the follow-ups, confirming the remedy’s success. Those that debate this method just have to look at the success rate. AND it is based on solid Materia Medica and Repertory knowledge, yes and the Organon.

  • Thank you for beautiful case,

    If you want to learn about more bird cases please register the hpathy and join “The sensation in homeopathy” group.
    Please hurry up more then 100 case waiting your presence to read them!!!!!

    Have a beautiful experience…

  • i myself need this remedy and also am in school for homeopathy and this amazed me- this is so beautiful this sensation method is SO CLEAR i LOVE It

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