spectrum of homeopathy
Anne Koller-Wilmking ¦
various remedies
Problem Children ¦
Cases of our time
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I forget everything again. Like buried treasure, I can’t get hold
of my intelligence. I’ve got a huge brain but nothing gets out.
It’s like a capsule that won’t open and I can’t open it myself. My
intelligence is inside this capsule. You can compare it to an
external disk drive that I can’t access. Most of all, I want to
break open the capsule so I can show everyone what’s inside
me, and then I won’t always been seen as lazy. And I’d like to
finally get some recognition from my teacher.”
AW:
Tell me more about this capsule.
S:
“I’d like to break the capsule apart. I need a key to this in-
telligence door but I can’t find it. My intelligence, it’s a large
number of small points or balls, which I’d like to show. I need
something that helps me to break the capsule. I just need to
softly break open the capsule without hitting or shooting it,
but it doesn’t work and that makes me despair. You see,
there’s an awful lot of stuff in there, as well as loads of books.
My intelligence is like lots of little blue balls and I can only get
hold of them when they disperse themselves in my brain. In-
side the capsule that doesn’t work. The little blue points whirl
around, settle in the brain, then spread so I can access them.
Then, it’s a huge storage capacity. I try to break open the capsules
(HG), but I have to do that very cautiously, not too firmly, other-
wise the little blue points would fall out of my ears and I would
have to collect them all, so they’re all together again and I can
access them.”
Analysis and progress:
I was thoroughly flabbergasted by
Simon’s other song and the clarity with which he had presented
me with this treasure. He had gone straight to the source,
describing a Leguminosae (capsule, breaking apart, little points
dispersing, collecting). The rubric “delusion, the body is dispersed”
is known to contain Baptisia. Since I was unclear about this miasm
and other Leguminosae were possible, I did an internet search
and then the scales fell from my eyes. He had said “little blue
points” and Baptisia is the wild indigo and is blue. I gave him
Baptisia
XM. If this had not worked, I would have thought of
Indigo tinctoria (manufactured from various plant juices, main
ingredient from the plant Indigofera tinctoria).
Simon had to repeat the school year (the casetaking took
place at the end of the school year) but was quickly able to
improve his concentration and was far less distracted.
Prescription:
Baptisia
XM
Follow-up after six months:
Simon has now had two doses.
“Latin top marks. I’ve noticed that the little blue balls have
settled on the disk drive.”
Two months later: “My disk drive is full and uncluttered. I have
lots more storage capacity.” His concentration is good and he
is getting top marks in Maths and Latin.
In the next two years, he needs only a few doses, whenever his
concentration declines. The next time I hear from him is four
years later. Things have been going well. He is now about to
take his final exams, has increasing exam nerves, concentration
problems and feels distracted, “like in a fog”. This time, too, he
is helped by
Baptisia
within a few weeks.
CASE 8: fifteen-year-old Susanne, Asperger autism,
exam nerves, obsessive-compulsive disorder
I had treated Susanne several times as a small child due to a
susceptibility to infections. She reacted well to Silicea. I did not
see her again for many years, until she came to me for severe
exam nerves, recurring obsessions, hand-washing, fear of losing
control, a tendency to social withdrawal, and an almost complete
lack of social contact. She is fifteen years old, is doing very well
at school, and complains of tiredness and listlessness.
She says: “I put off studying. Thinking is too much work. I have
great difficulty concentrating: I get everything muddled up,
can’t put my notes in the right order. I am afraid of not getting
things done, so my mom has to come and help. As a child, I
always got really scared when mom wasn’t there, afraid that
The successfully prescribed remedy in this case was
Baptisia tinctora, also known as false indigo or wild
indigo, from the Fabaceae family, commonly known
as the pea or bean family. The leaves of this yellow or
white flowering traditional medicinal herb, which
originally comes from North America, were used in the
past for dyeing fabric indigo blue. As an alternative to
this prescription, the author would have considered
the tropical indigo plant Indigofera tinctoria, native to
India, Africa, and China. Indigofera was also used to
extract the valuable dye that gives indigo its name.
Today, indigo dyes are made synthetically. The photo
shows indigo balls on the souq of Dubai.
copyright ¦ Chipgalerie / press photo / 8Leo8
