By Frans Kusse
A patient, born in 1980.
Diagnosis: cannabis abuse, bulimia and obesity.
First impression: very open, wants to please.
When I asked why she was here, she answered: "My relationship, I love too much." "My mother has the same problem, she is afraid of losing someone." The mother is anorexic. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old; afterwards she lived with her mother and her mother's new boyfriend. She felt very lonely, abandoned and sad. Then the bulimia began. She shouted a lot, but what she really missed was love. Materially she was well provided for by her mother, but received no love. At fifteen she found out that the man she called her father was not her biological father.
Currently she lives with a man who has alcohol problems. "I tried to change him so he would stop drinking and show me more love…" "I don't like my appearance."
Inside she feels a lot of anger but does not let it out. She is afraid of not being loved anymore.
Prescription:
Magnesium sulphuricum C30, one pellet per week.
Follow-up:
Six weeks later:
"I can accept my appearance and my boyfriend more now. I don't have such big problems with eating anymore and my craving for cannabis is gone. Only the relationship with my mother is very strained."
Two months later she reports that the relationship with her mother has improved. She can be open with her and the mother accepts her as she is. But the bulimia is still present. I continue to look for the cause and the patient tells me that she needs love but cannot accept it. She tends to reject others.
Second prescription:
Chocolate C30, one pellet every two weeks.
Follow-up 2:
Twelve weeks later:
When she enters the consultation room she is radiant with happiness.
"I feel much better, also regarding my appearance; I can accept love much better. This morning I hugged my mother for the first time in my life!" Effortlessly she lost six kilograms within four weeks.
Discussion:
The reasons for the first prescription were:
The theme of love, appearance and relationship: Sulphur
Fear of losing the other: Magnesium.jpg)
Here in Holland magnesium remedies have proved useful to heal the wounds of a divorce. Many children of divorced parents have relationship problems. They are afraid of losing the other and therefore cannot express their anger.
Magnesium sulphuricum fitted the patient's emotional state during the initial consultation. After that she improved in many respects, only the bulimia and her rejection of love and affection had not improved.
The theme of longing for love and yet rejecting it is the characteristic of the remedy Chocolate. Rajan Sankaran mentions the following symptoms:
Panic when separated
Delusion – separated – world; of the – be; he
Fleeing, tries to flee – from children; from theirs
Affectionate, warm-hearted
In these symptoms the alternation between longing for and rejecting love is reflected. Dr Tom Oosthuizen (Holland) describes the problem between mother and child as follows: The mother cannot give her child unconditional love and the child cannot love itself unconditionally either.
Chocolate is one of the main remedies for bulimia.
After taking Chocolate the patient was better able to accept herself and no longer had the need to stuff herself with a substitute (food; especially chocolate).
The third level: constitutional treatment.
There is no distinction between the treatment of cause and trauma or constitutional therapy, because both are connected. The susceptibility to a particular form of trauma is 'innate' to the constitutions. A 'Staphysagria' person reacts more sensitively to insults than most other people. Above all, the reaction pattern to traumas is anchored in the respective constitution. A 'Staphysagria' person tends, for example, to swallow anger and resentment, whereas the 'Nux vomica' person expresses their anger.
In the first case study of this series cannabis suited not only the current situation caused by cannabis abuse, but also the constitutionally determined reaction pattern to stress: the patient avoids problems by fleeing into a fantasy world.
In the present case study we have seen that Magnesium sulphuricum helped to heal the trauma, the consequences of her parents' divorce and the lack of love. After administering this remedy the fear of losing the other and "loving too much" disappeared. Chocolate worked on a deeper level, namely on the patient's reaction regarding love and the mother's rejection.
In the next case study of an addiction the actual problem is to be found in the constitutional disposition. The trauma is not clearly recognisable and the addiction has much more to do with the patient's personality.
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Category: Remedy
Keywords: cannabis, bulimia, Chocolate, Magnesium sulphuricum
