Barium fluoratum: a case of recurrent keratocystic tumours

A 40-year-old woman presents with keratocysts in her left lower jaw, which she has had for four years. She has undergone surgery to remove the cysts, but she feels the cysts are growing again in her jawbone. It is a pressing pain, and sometimes the whole jaw aches.
She feels weak in the sun; she also has a sun allergy and gets headaches from the sun.

She wakes at 3 a.m.

She appears quite insecure and does not want to say much. She mentions that this stems from her childhood, when she was not allowed to speak. She is the youngest of six children; her brother, who is one year older than her, was the "king".

Her mother was a difficult, domineering person; nobody could protect themselves from her, one was not even allowed to defend oneself. The father was gentler. The parents ran a restaurant together, and the whole family had to work there. She always wanted to free herself and escape, but she was not allowed to pursue the education she wanted. She knew she would be ostracised from the family if she went her own way — it was especially her father who made her feel this. She did not dare to rebel or stand up for herself.

When she has pain in the jawbone, she feels depressed, lies down and only wants to sleep.

Analysis:

In this case there are several themes:

• Insecurity
• Does not want to say much
• Does not dare to stand up for herself. She feels she will be ostracised from the family if she does, especially by her father.

One could say she is rejected by the father, which indicates the element Fluor according to Jan Scholten's Element Theory.

Prescription: Calcium fluoratum C 200 followed by MK. This remedy covers the entire pathology well.

After six months and regular repetition of Calcium fluoratum, however, the pain returned and the cysts began to grow again.

Calcium carbonicum, Calcium silicatum, Hecla Lava, Syphilinum and Barium phosphoricum were given without much success. After nine months she had to undergo another operation because the cysts kept getting bigger: the neighbouring bone around the cysts was removed.

Seven months after the operation the pain returned, the typical sign that the cysts were growing again.

She then told me that she had too many duties working in her parents' restaurant and that it was simply too much for her. As mentioned, I had already given her Barium phosphoricum, because her brother had mocked and beaten her in childhood, which was very distressing for her.

On another occasion she told me that the people in the restaurant, which was a kind of pub, often made crude sexual jokes, which she could not cope with emotionally; mocked (Barium) sexual (Fluor).

Therefore she finally received Barium fluoratum MK.
After a short time the pain and the feeling that the cysts were coming back disappeared. She felt that this remedy worked for the first time on all levels, both on the psyche and on the jawbone.

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Bald eagle, William H. Majoros
Categories: Cases
Keywords: Bridging both worlds, Wisdom, Serenity, Maturity, Trust
Remedies: Arsenicum album, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Tuberculinum avis