Treated cases
Select a body system or area to read the corresponding treated cases.
Cardiovascular and circulatory
Cardiology
Woman, 53
This woman comes into my office in a state of great agitation and anxiety. She speaks constantly and very quickly. She complains of extremely forceful heartbeats, as though her heart were about to come out of her chest or explode, and she fears dying suddenly of a heart attack. She also feels intense heat in her head and wakes repeatedly during the night.
I give her a high dilution of the remedy corresponding to the whole picture of her symptoms and to the fact that she is going through menopause. Within ten minutes, the symptoms have disappeared. She only needs to take the remedy again two days later, when the same symptoms begin to return.
Woman, 57
She complains of persistent irregular heartbeats diagnosed as arrhythmia and moderate tachycardia. Her palpitations trouble her greatly because they are accompanied by breathing difficulties and sharp pains around the heart, radiating toward her left shoulder blade.
The remedy makes the symptoms disappear within a few days. She takes it twice more afterward, for just a few days each time, when the arrhythmia begins to return.
Woman, 63
Following chemotherapy for breast cancer, this woman develops severe breathing difficulties, which are diagnosed as asthma and for which corticosteroid inhalers are prescribed. However, the inhalers prove ineffective. When she comes to see me, she can no longer take her usual walks on the mountain without becoming so short of breath that she has to stop, and she then feels intense tightness across her chest. The cancer medication is known to cause symptoms of heart failure. Given the ineffectiveness of the inhalers, I conclude that the problem is more cardiorespiratory in nature, and I prescribe the remedy characteristic of her condition, to be taken every morning and evening. The episodes of breathlessness gradually become less frequent, and the tightness around the heart and chest stops completely and quickly. The improvement continues despite the ongoing chemotherapy treatment, which is scheduled to last five years.
Hair and nails
Digestive
Back
Endocrinology and glands
Gastrointestinal
Female reproductive system
Male reproductive system
Immune and lymphatic systems
Menopause
Nervous system
Ears, nose and throat
Blocked ear
A musician came to see me about a blocked ear. She had a concert coming up very soon, at which she had to play her instrument, and this symptom was causing her considerable difficulty. During the consultation, I noted her physical symptoms, but together we were also able to identify what had happened just before her ear became blocked. She had experienced a very unfair situation but had not dared express her anger. That same day, her ear became blocked. Despite visits to specialists, no physiological cause could be found. Looking at her case as a whole revealed that she was very sensitive to injustices of this kind, even when they did not affect her personally. That very evening, after taking the homeopathic remedy, her ear finally cleared. This case once again illustrates the importance of emotional causes preceding the appearance of symptoms.
Obstetrics
Bones, joints and limbs
Jaw and facial pain
Girl, 15
She suffers from considerable pain in her face, neck and shoulders. She has undergone many medical examinations, which have revealed nothing visible. For years, she has received chiropractic treatments that relieve her temporarily but have to be repeated every two weeks.
She is a high-achieving girl who excels at school and in sports, but her pain limits her. The most unusual feature of her case is that she always feels compelled to be faster than everyone else, particularly in examinations, which she wants to finish before the others. This pressure to perform is the key to her case.
From the first dose, the remedy brings a substantial reduction in pain, but it takes a year of treatment and increasing dilutions to resolve all her symptoms. Although her remedy is clear and is likely to prevent serious problems, relapses may occur until she loses her compulsion to be “ahead.”
Young woman, 19
She suffers from such severe temporomandibular joint pain that major surgery is being considered to prevent her from completely destroying her teeth and the ligaments of the joint. Her jaws exert incredible pressure through terrible grinding. She completely destroys the mouth guards made for her.
She shows the same psychological tendency as the previous adolescent: she cannot bear to be outdone in anything. Over a few months, the same remedy completely eliminates all her symptoms and much of her psychological tension.
Fibromyalgia
About six years ago, a woman consulted me about pain that was severely affecting her. She had received a medical diagnosis of fibromyalgia five years earlier. She could no longer unscrew a jar, and exertion caused pain; even walking or climbing stairs was painful. If she did too much in one day, she often ended up spending the weekend in bed, utterly exhausted. Together, we looked for difficult events that had occurred just before her pain began. A particularly difficult situation had arisen at work, where a colleague had caused her considerable worry. Combining this emotional cause with her particular symptoms, fears and a recurring dream, and discussing the things to which she was especially sensitive, I selected a homeopathic remedy that covered her case. Not only did the fibromyalgia disappear, but her troubled sleep improved, the recurring dream stopped, she was no longer afraid of snakes—even on television—and she could easily digest foods that had previously caused real problems. With a well-chosen homeopathic remedy that treats the whole person and the cause of the illness, a person can regain balance and health.
Joint pain
Woman, 47
She consults me about attacks of joint pain. She describes the pain as though her bones were about to break. On entering my office, the first thing she asks for is a large glass of ice-cold water. She also spends her life looking after others, unable to bear seeing people around her unwell, ill or unhappy. She is exceptionally generous. She is restless and sometimes anxious.
At times she sinks into a kind of depression, feeling that she has failed in life and has done nothing important. She would like to do something prestigious and meaningful in the eyes of others, but cannot find the persistence within herself.
A specific remedy enables her to stop suffering from joint pain and to live much more calmly.
Joint cyst
Man, 48
He consults me about a Baker’s cyst behind his right knee, large enough to bother him constantly. The cyst appeared after he took on new responsibilities at work. He doubts his ability to do the job well and fears the humiliation that failure would bring. He is very competitive and always wants to demonstrate excellence, but this creates considerable stress, triggering episodes of anxiety, aggression and depression.
He has an intense craving for sweets and experiences episodes of low blood sugar in the late afternoon. A single dose of the remedy in a high dilution causes the cyst to disappear within two months and improves his mood. Treatment continues for several months to resolve the hypoglycemia and more fully stabilize his temperament.
Ankylosing spondylitis
Woman, 40
She has ankylosing spondylitis. Her back pain is becoming increasingly pervasive, and she sleeps poorly at night.
Her case suggests that the illness began when she was rejected by a partner on whom she had relied for her well-being. She finds herself alone and experiences isolation as abandonment, similar to a longing for her childhood with her family in Europe. Despite herself, she has a plaintive manner and feels she no longer knows what to do with her life; she feels somewhat lost.
She also has an unusual sensitivity to temperature: she feels cold and needs to cover herself, yet cannot tolerate a warm room or a hot day. She loves pastries and ice cream, but restricts herself and remains slim.
Here again, the situation that causes the illness is decisive in choosing the remedy, but it is its correlation with the other characteristic signs that makes the choice possible. She recovers completely within a year and also gains a new ability to take charge of her life and make choices that bring her happiness.
Rheumatoid arthritis
Woman, 35
She has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, which began when she was twelve. At the time of consultation, she was taking substantial amounts of anti-inflammatory medication and painkillers and had already undergone surgery on several joints, either to remove synovial sacs or to replace severely damaged joints with prostheses.
This case required very lengthy treatment, but within the first six months she stopped all medication, with a considerable reduction in pain and inflammation. The initial remedy was continued for several years and stabilized her physical condition. It did not, however, enable her to overcome a kind of personal confusion and difficulty initiating actions that could bring happiness and satisfaction. We then began exploring more deeply what had held her back since childhood. This proved difficult because everything was rather confused and hard to distinguish. But through persistent work and exploration, this patient succeeded in moving beyond her condition and pursuing a career in psychotherapy and writing.
Woman, 56
She has had rheumatoid arthritis for twenty years. She is a painter, and the condition makes life difficult because her hands are badly affected.
The consultation is fairly difficult: she has come through a referral but doubts homeopathy. She therefore struggles to see the relevance of my questions about matters other than her arthritis. Nevertheless, I eventually understand that she lives in constant distress over one of her children, who has a profound disability and lives in an institution. Every visit has upset her for so many years because she perceives his suffering and cannot do anything to relieve it. Her food cravings and particular characteristics also help me select the remedy.
She does not recover completely, probably because the distressing situation with her son persists, but her arthritis improves by more than fifty percent on a sustained basis, making her life much easier.
Skin
Eczema
Baby, eight months old
The eczema began in the third month of life, starting as patches of dry skin that gradually worsened into itchy red patches. The baby became irritable and woke frequently for no apparent reason other than visible discomfort. On questioning, it emerged that the eczema had appeared following a significant event experienced by the mother while breastfeeding. Cortisone creams were only moderately effective but necessary during severe flare-ups; otherwise, the mother managed the condition with oatmeal creams after bathing. In this case, the remedy made the eczema disappear within a few weeks. A constitutional remedy was then given to strengthen the child’s general health.
Man, 27
His eczema mainly affects his feet. It first appeared in adolescence after he slept outdoors while hiking. The soles of his feet began to burn, and small, fine blisters multiplied within a few days. Since then, the eczema has spread to his ankles and varies considerably from one period to another, often worsening in summer.
In general, this man easily feels too hot. He uncovers himself a great deal at night, particularly his feet, which become burning hot. He has loose, foul-smelling stools. He tires easily during the morning, with episodes of low blood sugar that he compensates for by eating chocolate bars around eleven o’clock. He also craves meat and spicy food. His sleep is restless and very light; he sleeps on his stomach and snores loudly for his age. This is a clear case in which a patient’s sensitivity has been awakened by a particular event. By combining his general characteristics with the signs of his illness, a classical remedy was found that completely freed him of his problem in less than a year.
Man, 75
His eczema developed on his legs, then his thighs and buttocks, without any obvious cause. Over the years, it worsened into attacks of itching when he undressed in the evening, continuing through the night until his skin was covered in scratch wounds and his life had become a nightmare. Creams proved unfortunate: although they helped temporarily, cortisone creams weakened the skin so much that lesions developed, requiring antibiotic creams. Following these treatments, the patient seemed to lose weight and become very vulnerable to respiratory problems. He was then skeletal, extremely sensitive to cold, exhausted from lack of sleep, and intensely irritable and intolerant because of the itching. His history was not encouraging: he had been treated for tuberculosis three times between adolescence and the age of forty-five.
This is a more complex case, summarized very briefly here. More subtle elements must be sought so as not to become overwhelmed by the many episodes of illness and all the signs arising from them. The remedy may be harder to find and may require several unsuccessful attempts. In this case, the first remedies enabled the patient to stop using his creams without too much itching, regain a little weight—although thinness is often hard to change at that age—and consequently feel less cold. But when the right remedy was found, the lesions began to disappear gradually, first on the buttocks, then the thighs and finally the legs. This gentleman, now eighty-five, still occasionally has itchy ankles, but the episodes are rare and there are no lesions. His sleep recovered long ago. His respiratory vulnerability remains, however, and he needs occasional follow-up when he becomes ill.
Psoriasis
A man presented with psoriasis on the glans of the penis, forming a sometimes painful crust. Curiously, this was the only place it had developed. Corticosteroid creams were not very effective, and the patient feared their long-term effects. In general, he was very nervous, restless and intensely stressed about time. He always arrived very early for appointments, but once there he was calm, even if I was running late. He told me that he did not start work until about five in the afternoon, yet was anxious from the moment he woke and could accomplish little during the day because he thought only about not being late for work. If he had a morning appointment, he would have trouble sleeping the night before. He had intense sugar cravings and could easily develop diarrhea under stress.
This case illustrates a sensitivity well known in homeopathy. The combination of physical and psychological signs pointed to a remedy similar to this patient, which brought about an impressive recovery. Within twenty-four hours of taking it, he had the mental impression that everything around him was slowing down, as though he himself had begun moving very quickly. Life then returned to normal, except that his anxiety about being late was greatly reduced and he arrived less early for appointments. Within a few days, a hard, leathery crust formed on the glans and quickly fell off, leaving pink, smooth but very sensitive skin.
Another case involved scalp psoriasis appearing as scattered, small, raised, itchy crusts. Its origin was impossible to identify: the patient could not remember when it had started because it had developed very gradually and she had treated it as dandruff. Only much later had a dermatologist diagnosed it and prescribed tar shampoos, which helped for a while before becoming less and less useful. She had also suffered from migraines since primary school, especially under stress. She was afraid of her teachers and could not tolerate arguments. Strong smells, such as perfume, could also trigger migraines. She had pronounced cravings for ice cream and spicy and salty foods, and could not tolerate eggs or fish. She was often thirsty for cold drinks. Most striking was her extraordinary emotional sensitivity. A violent television program showing people suffering could make her ill with a fever. She could not bear discussions of operations or injuries and was always ready to help anyone unfortunate, including animals.
Here we see a very different type of sensitivity that defines a very specific homeopathic remedy. There was nothing unusual about the psoriasis itself, but the migraines were revealing to a trained homeopath. Add the typical food preferences and characteristic emotional sensitivity, and there was no doubt about the remedy. It acted very effectively, first on the migraines, which disappeared after the first dose and only rarely returned as headaches when she slept too little. Over the course of consultations, she stopped complaining of itching, to the point that she had forgotten she ever had psoriasis. She remained sensitive but was less easily devastated by the outside world. She said, “It is as though there is now a little more distance between me and reality, so I no longer feel so strongly that I am experiencing what others feel when they are in pain.”
A farmer came to see me at least ten years ago with psoriasis so severe that he could hardly kneel to work in his field. He had eruptions from head to foot, but his knees were particularly affected, as though thick mushrooms had grown on them: the psoriasis was that thick. Kneeling had become so painful that a friend, a former patient, persuaded him to try homeopathy and urged him to consult me. It was difficult: he was a man of few words. He disliked discussing his emotions and maintained that the psoriasis must have followed an ankle injury after a stay at the beach, because that was where the eruption had first appeared. That had been a very long time ago. He had so few distinctive signs—what could be done?
At that moment, the friend who had accompanied him knocked on the door. Knowing him well, she asked whether it might help if she joined the consultation. What a relief! “Yes, of course,” he said. She asked whether he had mentioned a very unusual symptom. It was so distinctive that only one remedy could fit. After the first dose, he returned a month later as planned. His psoriasis had improved so much that hardly any eruption remained on his body. His knees were at least eighty percent better, and he could finally kneel in his field to work. It took about four doses in all, increasing the dilution once, for the psoriasis to disappear completely without returning.
Pediatrics
First aid and emergency care
Mental health and psychiatry
Learning
School-age girl, seven
She is painfully shy, does not look at people she does not know, and has learning difficulties serious enough that she tells her parents she does not understand well at school and everything moves too quickly. Her teacher notes that she cannot keep up and is rapidly falling behind the rest of the class.
These difficulties had not previously been noticed because she had been cared for in a family setting, where she adapted well but did not have to undertake particularly demanding learning. She is also extremely meticulous: her drawings must be perfect, and she quickly becomes discouraged if she makes a mistake.
She also has an extreme difficulty making choices, even simple ones such as an item of clothing or a gift in a shop. She then becomes very agitated, irritable and insecure.
These characteristic elements enabled me to find a remedy that transformed this child over the following months. She now keeps up normally at school, although her pace is still a little slow. She can approach strangers in public places such as shops and restaurants, and her indecision has decreased so much that she now chooses her own clothes in the morning. Small mistakes no longer paralyze her to the same extent.
Behaviour
Boy, fourteen
He is very tall and athletic but has no interest in studying. He refuses or tries to avoid every obligation. At school, he is seen as a threat because his behaviour is contagious: he encourages others to have fun and leave classes, while also being pleasant company.
He is daring and takes considerable risks with his four-wheel-drive vehicle and in various sports and activities, apparently without fully recognizing the danger. He also draws others in and puts them at risk. He easily feels hot. He is very laid-back in his dealings with the world but energetic when it comes to having fun.
Beyond the “teenage” aspect, it is necessary to recognize this young man’s particular traits. The homeopathic remedy helps him become aware of danger, less indifferent, and more understanding of what is at stake in life and his responsibility for his future. He does better at school and manages to advance from one year to the next. His mother also finds him more considerate of others and more willing to help with chores.
Boy, fifteen
He is very tall and has stopped going to school because he hides at home. He can no longer leave the house. If his parents force him, he hides under the dashboard or lies on the car seat with a hood over his head. Yet he is a sensitive, gentle and intelligent boy.
The problem troubling him is that his parents moved away from his country of origin. He has lost his familiar support network, everything is new, and he must learn the language. His parents speak it poorly and with strong accents, which bothers him enormously; he feels ashamed to have them near him. Everywhere, he feels watched and has the impression that people are laughing at him.
Fortunately, this picture corresponds to a homeopathic remedy I know well. The change is profound. Within three months, he has returned to school, can leave home without hiding, and feels much less ashamed of his own and his family’s circumstances.
Boy, thirteen
He consults me about severe aggressive behaviour and lack of concentration. This boy is very destructive. As soon as he is upset, he explodes: shouting, hitting and breaking whatever is in his path, without control. This causes many problems at school. He is regularly sent out of class and often fights with classmates, even his friends, when their behaviour angers him or simply when he is jostled.
More particularly, his condition is always worse when he is hungry, and eating quickly calms him. Music also calms him. A classical remedy corresponds to this condition and greatly improves it.
“You have given me back the pleasure of being with my son,” his mother exclaims. He no longer fights at school or breaks things at home. He remains a somewhat temperamental child, but nothing like he was before the homeopathic doses.
Hyperactivity
Young man, twenty
He has concentration problems and aggression. He is taking a vocational program at CEGEP and finds that everything moves too slowly. He loses interest in what the teacher is saying, then feels restless and nervous. If someone speaks to him or accidentally bumps into him, he becomes angry and struggles to control the urge to hit someone. The consultation also shows that this worsens when he faces a situation he cannot solve. He may then become aggressive toward anyone who asks him questions, or depressed and withdrawn from those close to him.
He is otherwise considerate, affectionate and very intelligent, but once he enters a phase of distraction, aggression or depression, he is very difficult to live with.
Fortunately, his condition is characteristic of a classical homeopathic remedy, of which I give him a single dose. After six weeks, the results are impressive. Since the dose, he has had no lapses in concentration at CEGEP, even though he still finds the pace too slow. He follows the work well, and both his results and his teachers’ assessments improve greatly. His aggressive phases decrease by about sixty percent without stopping entirely, and he remains sensitive to situations without solutions.
I repeat the initial prescription, and the results become more complete, to the point that he no longer needs the remedy.
Fears in a young child
About three years ago, I saw an eight-year-old child who frequently complained of stomachaches. His parents no longer knew what to do. The pains occurred mainly in the evening, and they thought he might have trouble digesting dinner. Bedtime seemed endless because he kept getting up to join them, saying his stomach hurt so much. They also said he used this excuse when he refused to fetch something from the basement to help them, or when it was time to go upstairs and put on his pyjamas. They no longer knew whether the symptom was real or invented.
I stayed alone with the child so that he could speak freely without embarrassment. It is remarkable what children can reveal that nobody at home has suspected. He said his stomach did not hurt at all. He was afraid of the nasty, evil monster waiting for him whenever he was alone upstairs, alone in the basement, or alone in his bedroom at bedtime.
“It is a really nasty, evil monster! I know it is: it talks to me and tells me to do nasty things. I try not to listen, but it is always there waiting for me. I am really scared!” He had tried to tell his parents, but they played down his fear, saying that monsters did not exist. That was how the “stomachache” began, as a way to avoid being alone with the monster. I gave him the appropriate remedy, and the “stomachache”—the monster—disappeared. His parents were delighted: he no longer complained of stomachaches, went to bed easily, and began enjoying helping them, including going to the basement when asked.
Respiratory
Head
Ocular migraines
Woman, thirty-two
Several years ago, she consulted me about recurrent ocular migraines that caused considerable difficulty. During the migraines she saw flashes of light on the right side. She regularly had to miss work because she could not function and sometimes had to stay in bed for two days. Her symptoms began when she separated from her husband and felt very alone.
The consultation revealed intense chocolate cravings, yet every time she ate chocolate, it triggered a migraine. Few characteristic symptoms emerged. She was very sensitive to film scenes showing lonely, abandoned children, to the point of tears. Nevertheless, there were enough elements to prescribe a remedy: symptoms following loneliness; sensitivity to abandoned children, confirming the importance of loneliness and abandonment at the time of separation; and chocolate cravings despite chocolate causing migraines. After the first dose, the ocular migraines improved by about seventy-five percent. After the second, she was eighty percent better. After the third, they stopped completely. She has had no migraines since, even when she eats chocolate.
Tumours, cysts and nodules
Urinary
Recurrent urinary tract infections
Woman, thirty-five
She has a large build and consults me about considerable back pain and problems tending toward depression. I treat her for a long time without finding the central remedy that would relieve the whole condition. Different remedies successively relieve one problem or another, but relapses keep occurring because I have not found the key to the overall picture.
That key is her strong wish to be important to others while constantly feeling she takes up too much space. There is a curious contradiction between wanting to be seen and recognized for her qualities and always trying to apologize, hide and avoid the gaze of others. The subtlety of the case prevents me from identifying the exact remedy needed.
When I finally understand, the remedy corresponding to this contradiction brings substantial, lasting relief to all her symptoms and allows her to envisage no longer needing to be large in order to exist through other people’s recognition.
Kidney disease
Man, thirty-five
He suffers from progressive kidney damage, a degenerative eye disease and a profound lack of confidence. He is caught between a strong desire to assert and fulfil himself and a lack of confidence that he can overcome only through tremendous effort, which has eventually harmed his health.
I come to understand this because his various symptoms have emerged whenever, in trying to establish himself as a leader, he was challenged by an authority figure whom he believed should have supported him and given him the moral authority over others that he needed.
The case does not resolve easily, because he is frequently exposed to such situations at work, causing relapses. Moreover, only a fairly high dilution works for him, repeated more frequently than usual. Nevertheless, with persistence, most of his pathology is reversed and his lack of confidence substantially improves.
Man, thirty-one
He has advanced kidney failure. He is very thin, extremely sensitive to cold, and has a very high level of protein in his urine. His doctors expect that he will need dialysis within a few months.
What is particularly striking is his anxious expression, his restless manner despite great weakness, his marked chilliness and his constant thirst for cold water despite feeling cold. The remedy is clear, but can it work at such an advanced stage of disease? At the time, I have only a few years of experience. His anguish affects me so deeply that I ask him to come every week so I can check his condition and reassure myself. There is no internet in those days.
The remedy, repeated daily in dilutions that are not too high, first brings a substantial drop in urinary protein, although the fatigue and general condition persist. Over the weeks, however, his face becomes more smiling and less tense. Gradually he gains weight and feels less cold. After a few months, he has regained his state of health from before the illness. I am so happy to have played a part in this wonderful recovery.
Eyes and vision
Other cases
Bruxism (teeth grinding)
A mother consulted me about her four-year-old child’s severe bruxism. He ground his teeth not only at night but regularly during the day. It was clearly audible even during the consultation. As soon as he played on the floor or drew at the small table in the corner, he began grinding very loudly. His mother said, “His dentist is really worried. He says we must find a solution before he loses his baby teeth, because they are so worn down there is almost nothing left. We need a solution before his adult teeth come in, otherwise he will wear them all down in the same way and have no teeth left.”
When taking a homeopathic case history, one never knows where the distinctive signs needed to choose the right remedy will be found. I took the child’s history in detail. I learned that he had a difficult temperament and was often dissatisfied. He liked sleeping on his stomach with his knees tucked under him, as many young children do; beyond eighteen months, however, this becomes a particular symptom for us homeopaths. He had intense night sweats that soaked his pyjamas.
I got up to look at his teeth. Indeed, little remained of them. Remarkably, all their upper surfaces were concave. Interesting for the homeopath—a useful symptom. I asked whether either parent also ground their teeth. “Not me,” said his mother, “but my husband certainly does!” Did she know whether either paternal grandparent had done so? She did not. I asked her to telephone her mother-in-law. We learned that the child’s deceased paternal grandfather had also ground his teeth extensively. His grandmother explained that in photographs her husband had very small teeth because he had ground them throughout his life.
For me, the hereditary pattern and the distinctive shape of the teeth confirmed a history of syphilis in the family. I gave the child the appropriate remedy. When I saw mother and child a month later, she explained that from the second day after the dose, he had never ground his teeth again, either by day or by night. His night sweats had stopped, and he no longer slept in the same position. Given the hereditary aspect, I suggested that his father also take the remedy. He did, and he too stopped grinding his teeth. Years later, I saw the mother about a skin symptom: her child had never resumed grinding his teeth.
Gerontology
Man, eighty-six
He lives alone in a residence for older adults and has episodes of senile dementia. These involve paranoia toward staff and his children: he believes some wish to harm or poison him and possess special powers. He can also be very contemptuous toward care aides. At the same time, he is very proud of his professional achievements and believes he is going to receive major honorary medals, although it is actually his daughter who has been honoured. He even thinks her medal was awarded to him. He also believes he is a saint because a visiting priest was impressed by his piety and spiritual search.
These are typical features of paranoia, combined with a particular tendency toward egotism. He also has a deep, hollow cough suggesting a well-known plant remedy. The effect on the cough is remarkable, and his paranoia subsides considerably. Only his need to talk about himself remains quite pronounced, but his relations with his family and staff improve greatly.
Man, eighty-two
Following a bad fall, he feels he has suddenly aged, that his mind is no longer entirely clear, and that he is very weak. He walks with difficulty and is markedly stooped. He also has occasional headache attacks that began well before the fall and make him fear brain cancer, despite negative tests.
A first remedy typical of falls and bruising quickly resolves the after-effects of the fall, but the headaches persist—which is unsurprising, since their onset had nothing to do with the fall. We must look into his life to understand what brought them on.
The main cause appears to lie in his desire to be appreciated and to have his worth recognized, something he deeply needs in order to be happy. For several years he has felt sidelined and has suffered from it. The chosen remedy stops his headaches within the first month. They return after nine months, and then only two years later, disappearing each time with another dose of the remedy.