Pearl 1 |
The patient is a 45‑year‑old woman who has two teenage children. She talks about the situation surrounding her father‑in‑law's death, her husband's reaction to this death and his concerns about his mother. "I am losing myself, I feel I am no longer centred. I know I have come a long way and I don't want to lose my centre. I feel I am losing my soul; I am in the process of losing my self |
! It feels as if my heart and my throat are closing. I don't want to be around my husband, I can't cope. Do I even want that? I'm afraid, I run away. I dream of being completely alone and of being homesick for my true home, where there are no earthly boundaries. This homesickness can be triggered by very specific experiences, e.g. when I see someone who is sad or in pain, I completely immerse myself in that feeling." "That reminds me of when I was 14; I was looking forward to a school dance, but my ballet teacher wouldn't let me go because I had ballet class. Fun and carefree behaviour were forbidden to me. I switched off, closed myself up inside; what I wanted was not important." Physical: She complains of a lump‑like sensation in the throat. She has gained weight in recent weeks. Over the past six months she has developed an aversion to vegetables and greens and now prefers curry and rice + + + as well as ginger and lemon tea, which help her digestive complaints. Prescription: Pearl immersion C 200 over three days. |
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Pearl 2 |
Follow-up: After eight weeks she reports that the feeling of shutting down and the loss of her centre had disappeared. The homesickness for the "real home" and her physical symptoms are also gone. "I am more in contact with my real self; I act from my own truth instead of merely reacting." Over the following two years she took the remedy as needed when she felt tired or insecure. During that time her relationship with her husband and her expectations of him changed. "I stopped one morning and thought: 'what do I really want from this relationship?' I realised that I was not annoyed about the time he spends with his mother. I admire him for the way he cares for her. I recognised that my resentment had arisen from the fear that he might leave me — a deep‑seated insecurity. It came because he could not meet all my needs for reassurance, and it gave me the feeling that I mattered to him and he mattered to me. |
I began to stop one morning and thought: 'what do I really want from this relationship?' I realised that I was not angry about the time he spent with his mother. I admire him for the way he cares for her. I recognised that my resentment had arisen from the fear that he might leave me — a deep‑seated insecurity. It came because he could not meet all my needs for reassurance, and it made me feel that I mattered to him and he to me." She is increasingly able to express her feelings and to say what is really going on inside her, even if that means she is sometimes angry or irritable. She has learned to set boundaries and to put a family member who was exploiting her and her husband in their place, something she would never have done in the past. This recalls the "irritation" of the Pearl, which arises from a grain of sand that irritates the oyster. Eventually she began to help other people in distress, especially those with depression. |
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Photos: Category: Cases Keywords: Insecurity, anxiety, homesickness, loneliness, loss of centre Remedy: Pearl |
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