In this case study the subject is a 54-year-old Catholic priest.
His main complaint is high blood pressure, which rises to 200/120. The patient is very embittered, disgusted and morose, not at all friendly. He is a Catholic priest in a predominantly Protestant area. He was transferred there as a punishment. He rebels against any authority: against the Communists, against the post-Communists and against the Catholic hierarchy. He is very intelligent. He has a subscription to the "Observatore Romano", the Vatican's papal magazine. He reads the magazine in the original Latin. According to instructions from the Catholic Church in Slovakia, all priests should read the magazine in the Slovak translation, six months after the appearance of the original. He refused and was transferred to a less attractive parish. He cannot stand manipulation, control and dominance. He speaks his mind directly and therefore is not very popular.
"I have problems with my fingernail."
"That must be treated by a surgeon."
"No, it doesn't. You must treat me!"
"I cannot do that."
"I don't care! I won't go anywhere else."
"All right, I will open the abscess for you."
"See. It didn't kill me."
"Yes. But now we must treat your high blood pressure."
"Why? That's impossible, I'm already old. I forgot to take my tablets. The authorities say you have to work like a dog until you are 65. You carry your own coffin on your back. My grandfather died at 55, my grandmother at 45. Why? Some people would be glad if I were dead."
"Your blood pressure is 200/120. We must do something about it."
"That's a good blood pressure. Not everything is possible and I don't care."
"Tell me something about yourself."
"I had a difficult childhood. From the age of one to seven I was in a monastery. My mother gave me to her sister, who was a nun. My parents had difficulties, not marital problems, but it was not easy for my mother to look after a little boy. In the 1950s, under the communist dictatorship, it was hard for her. She had to go to prison for 20 years because she cared for Monsignor Andrej Hlinka in the fascist Slovak Republic. He was the leader of the 'Slovak Hlinka Guard'. So cleaning the bottom of a bedridden old man was considered high treason." Collaboration with so‑called 'fascist Catholics' was severely punished by the Communists.
"I was a priest in a pilgrimage parish. The Communists had my parish firmly in their grip. One morning I found a member of the security forces in my dining room, calmly smoking a cigarette. They bullied me at that time. Because of the terror I had a heart attack at 35. I was angry. Why me? Later I learned to deal with it, because otherwise you might as well say goodbye."
"As a young man I could still hold a more progressive view of the archbishop and we could carry this attitude into all parishes. He was very progressive; the Pope had nothing to do with it. He was very open, but the pupils made fun of it. Germany could not accept that."
"Are you angry?"
"Not often. It doesn't matter. As a young man I was angry very often. If you have 40 years ahead of you, you want to prove something, but they constantly attacked me. By now it doesn't matter. I am resigned. I have surrendered."
"A 54-year-old clergyman must think about where he will end up. God help me if I had to wear a bishop's mitre. (At 40 he had ambitions to become a bishop.) Here and there you already feel pain, you are occupied with yourself and have no energy to care about anything else. I cannot change. I go my own way. Nothing bothers me anymore. I teach history and work with teachers. Under the old regime they were staunch Communists, now they sit in the front row in church. They pass on a minimum of knowledge to their pupils. But I don't care. I wear blinkers."
Prescription: Ytterbium oxydatum C200
Follow-up in June 2005:
Blood pressure is now 140/85. He feels less tense, he smiles warmly and can now communicate with other people. The remedy was only repeated once in June 2005. His blood pressure remains stable; he continues to take his allopathic medications which he was already taking before the homeopathic treatment. Many members of his parish find that he has changed a great deal.
Pavol Tibensky, Slovakia
Contact: E-mail: tibus@stonline.sk
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Category: Cases
Keywords: Ytterbium oxydatum
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Original article: Interhomeopathy.org
