A 6 months old baby girl, suffering from atopic eczema on
the whole body since 2 months of age. She also has a hemangioma on her left arm
that is growing. The growth of hemangioma is directly proportional to the
growth of the child as usual, so as he growing, hemangioma grows also with her.
She had a quite severe icterus neonatorum that lasted for about one month and
they had to go several times to emergency but it was treated with photo-therapy
and also was given Lycopodium and then China from the mother. Concerning her
psychological state, she has hysterical states when somebody try to touch her
but after a while she is OK with no problem with touch. The delivery was
complicated as the child had asphyxia during delivery process and the oxygen
had to be given to mother to keep the children oxygenated thru umbilical cord.
That is the information coming from the patient. What are
your suggestions and specific questions to confirm remedy on your choice?
Follow-up: After the remedy was given (it was 5 months ago
from now) she is eczema free, hemangioma is becoming lighter and lighter from
the center to the edges and hysterical states diminished almost completely. Now
it is 6 months after the first dose and child is happy and healthy with no sign
of relapse.
Homeopathic treatment for hemangioma!
I prepare for you the summary of the whole case. As every
case is different and unique there is a lesson we can take from each case if we
are open enough and really want to learn more. All of you know that to learn
homeopathy is never-ending process so hope this small piece of work from me to
you can inspire you on your homeopathic journey.
The most important moment in this case for me was the
realization how the child is scared of being touched which mother confirmed
spontaneously without any questions and I could see it very prominently when I
tried to approach closer to the child. There are two relevant rubrics in
Synthesis repertory:
1) MIND - SHRIEKING, touched, when (Arnica is only remedy in
3rd degree)
2) MIND - FEAR - approaching, of, others (Arnica is only
remedy in 3rd degree)
So that was for me the guiding symptom of the case and I
knew that the remedy must have this symptoms AS A KEYNOTE (not just cover it)
and Arnica is the most important remedy regarding this symptoms as the whole
essence (basic idea) of Arnica is according to Prof. Vithoulkas: DONT TOUCH ME,
DONT COME CLOSE TO ME.
Then mother told me about hemangioma and I also knew that
Arnica covers it but I need to confirm it further or rule it out.
So very first question of mine was about DELIVERY and I
wanted to know if there was any head injury during the delivery that is keynote
and etiology for Arnica but this was not confirmed but instead of that mother
said story about asphyxia that is also covered by Arnica. The relevant rubric
for this symptom is:
RESPIRATION - asphyxia, children, newborns (Arnica is one of
remedies in 2nd degree and this rubric contains 16 remedies only. Two of them
in 3rd degree, five of them in 2nd degree and the rest in the first degree)
This information gets me closer to Arnica but there were not
KEYNOTES that I needed to be sure of it. Knowing that main problem was atopic
eczema I wanted to know if the eczema is symmetrical which is KEYNOTE for
Arnica and the mother confirm me spontaneously without direct question as I did
not ask if the eruption is symmetrical but Is there anything specific for the
eczema? And mother said: yes, it is as there would be the mirror on both sides
of body. The relevant rubric is:
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - symmetrical (there are 8 remedies IN
FIRST DEGREE but in original Kent repertory Arnica is only remedy in this
rubric and when we take all 8 remedies in synthesis, Arnica is only remedy in
which we can confirm this symptom as a keynote also in Materia medica.
Lesson gained from this case:
1) Dont focuses on the pathologically oriented remedies only
(skin remedies in this case) but focus always on patient and be open to any
remedy! be unprejudiced observer, don’t think of remedies, think of patient
first and try to understand the pathology as a whole. Look for strange, rare
and peculiar, not for the name of the disease.
2) Put a big emphasis on the intensity of symptoms and try
to find the remedy for which the typical symptoms of patient are also typical
(keynotes)
3) If you have a rubric with remedies, don’t rely on
repertory only and use the reliable Materia medica to confirm whether the
remedy listed in the rubric has this symptom as a keynote.
Case by: Dr Petra Zach
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