Europium oxydatum: ulcerative colitis

A. is a 30-year-old woman, married and mother of one child - she works as a physiotherapist. She presents with ulcerative colitis, from which she has suffered since 2000, her 20th year of life.

“It began with blood in the stool; I had sporadic severe rectal bleeding. For years I did not have further investigations because my doctor thought it was severe haemorrhoids, although I had bowel movements 4 to 6 times daily. In 2005 the stool frequency increased to up to 10 times daily; I was bleeding. I went to another doctor who sent me for a colonoscopy. The diagnosis ‘Rectocolitis haemorrhagica-ulcerosa’ was then made.”

She received Pentasa and betamethasone, which brought no improvement. She also took turmeric capsules.

Despite treatment with Pentasa and betamethasone she continued to have a haemorrhagic episode once a month. She remained anaemic with a marked worsening during her periods, which were very heavy. “I took the contraceptive pill between the ages of 17 and 27. I had my first period at 13. I became pregnant for the first time through treatment with Clomid and Duphaston, but the pregnancy ended in miscarriage.”

Medical history:
- Severe rectal pain; must sit or lie down
- Tired, irritable, weak
- Feels exhausted
- Hyperthyroid crisis; weight loss despite eating a lot
- No significant past illnesses
- Hepatitis B vaccination
 
Family history:
- Mother: b.1955, treated with antidepressants and Lexomyl. She has always had digestive problems, gastritis and haemorrhoids.
- Father: b.1953, suffers from osteoarthritis, coxarthrosis with hip surgery (artificial hip joint).
- Several cases of stomach cancer: maternal grandfather and paternal uncle.

General:
Her personality is cheerful and energetic, but she also complains and is irritable, alternating activity and fatigue: “When I was younger I had fits of rage.” She is a perfectionist.
Her parents divorced when she was 24. She has worked as a physiotherapist for one year.

Ramon Frendo (RF): What affects you most?

A: “My parents' separation. It came so unexpectedly, so incomprehensibly, there was a lack of communication.”

RF: How did you react?

A: "I was sad ... I felt betrayed by my mother, who had left my father. I would have preferred that they had fought in front of us. I am angry inside.”

RF: What do you mean by “perfectionist”?

A: “I wanted to be perfect compared with my older sister, who was academically gifted. I was obsessed; I was always the best in my class and in my year. By now I had low self-esteem, I believed I was worthless. With my sister, who was considered smarter than me, everything went wrong. She failed her pharmacy degree, and now she is only a pharmacy assistant.”

RF: What can you tell me about your childhood?

A: “I was constantly on the move. I wanted to learn to play the piano, but I was told that my sister would learn it. In the end I learned piano, although my parents said my sister could play it better.”

RF: How is your relationship with your sister?

A: “Now the relationship is good, but for a long time there was a lot of jealousy. We fought until I was 20. She sought contact with me, but I had no idea. Because I have more energy and am stronger, I dominated her. I tried to ignore the fact that my parents favoured my sister. I am still angry at my mother. Until she failed her studies, my parents thought my sister was infallible.”

RF: Do you sleep well? Any dreams?

A: “I sleep well. I have a dream where I am pursued by people who want to kill me (with firearms, or I am beaten). It is as if I could change the scenario. In the dream I am still the boss, and they cannot catch me. I manage to hide, but the pursuit never stops. In another dream I receive a task that I cannot carry out. Either it is smuggling or I am to try to get something out of someone, and I am threatened.”

RF: What is your relationship to money?

A: “My mother often frightened me with money: ‘If we do this, we'll end up on the street; if we don't work enough, we'll have to sell the house ...’ I was always afraid of losing money. In my life, however, I experience people as beautiful and kind. I give everything, and sometimes I am taken advantage of. I should be much stricter with people.”

RF: How did your studies go?

A: “I always worked a lot. I forced my husband to eat at my desk while I continued my work. After every exam I felt I had not been good enough, I wanted to control everything.”

RF: Can you tell me more about that?

A: “I was able to study physiotherapy because my sister failed her pharmacy degree. My parents thought that studying was too expensive. I wanted to know everything, anatomy, etc. ... I must not make mistakes. Every mistake costs us money. Working independently is much better for me. I don't want to be bossed around.”

Analysis
1: Autoimmune disease; precancerous; ulcerative colitis.

2: She wants to dominate; gold series or lanthanides, desire for control and rule point to the lanthanides.

3: The first dream could fit stage 12, dysprosium. Dysprosium can either feel attacked with a knife or with bare hands, but defends itself to the end to preserve its autonomy. Here she does not fight but hides and the pursuit never ends. One might think of a partial withdrawal corresponding to stage 13, holmium.

4: The second dream shows an assignment, which could fit stage 9, europium. However, it is a special mission: smuggling or extracting something from someone.

5: She has money problems, fear of losing it or of being short of money, of having to sell the house. She contradicts herself: she gives everything, but fears that money will be scarce. Contradictions point to autoimmune diseases and therefore to the lanthanides; dominance, control, desire to rule.

6: She has a craving for perfection and subsequently fears making mistakes, which drives her to study incessantly. Study, intelligence, knowledge and science point to europium.

If we add: stool, blood, fear of lack of money, smuggling and corruption, we arrive at oxygenium (oxygen).

Prescription: Europium oxydatum 100 K, once every two weeks for one month.
With Europium oxydatum we find an analogy between the fear of losing money and the loss of stool, blood, life - the fear of losing everything.

Follow-ups:
Three months later: A radical change has occurred. Within 4 days the rectal bleeding stopped. She discontinued the allopathic treatment. From the seventh day she felt much better, calmer and more peaceful. She looks more reconciliatory about her family history, her parents and her sister.

Prescription: continue with Europium oxydatum 1000 K

Eight months later: No more symptoms: normal stools, everything is going well at home and at work.

She comes to me because she wishes for a second child, and she wants the pregnancy to go well.

Prescription: Europium oxydatum 1000 K, every two months.

Photos: Wikimedia Commons
Igraet / (she) plays; Sergei Vinogradov (1869-1938)
Categories: Cases
Keywords: : ulcerative colitis, domination, control, money issues, perfection, having a mission
Remedy: Europium oxydatum