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SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
CHRISTINA ARI ¦
ACUTE REMEDIES LEDUM AND BORRELIA / CONSTITUTION REMEDIES
BORRELIOSIS
28
Prescription:
repeat
Tuberculinum
200C and
Calcium
phosphoricum
30C, twice a week
Follow-up:
after another four weeks, the previous nightly
croup returned once, and this could be soothed with
Aconitum
.
The joint pains disappeared. She became more assertive with
her sister, and was better able to stand up for herself. She
began, however, to cry more for her father. This prompted me
to give her
Silicea
rather than
Calcium phosphoricum
. As a
result, the eczema returned but then gradually healed.
Silicea
,
in increasing potencies, has been helping Lara greatly for four
years to become stronger and more stable. She has since
remained free of all signs of borreliosis.
ANALYSIS
As with Tamara (the first case), we can see in Lara’s life issues
of long-lasting, deep-seated uncertainty, which tended to
repeatedly destabilize her, predisposing her to a tough and
protracted borreliosis infection. The pregnancy was charac-
terized by the uncertainty and fear of Lara’s mother and the
parental relationship was unstable, resulting in the loss of
her father. Lara also found it hard to assert herself in relation
to her sister.
The prescription of the
Borreliosis
nosode and
Ledum
in
combination had the effect that the primarily inflexible
symptoms became more reactive – they were effectively set
in motion. Not until this stage began was I able to differentiate
which symptoms were purely pathognomonic and which
were constitutionally determined, hence the importance of
selecting individual remedies attuned to the reaction pattern
of the patient.
CASE 3: twenty-six-year-old woman and her two-year-old
son, erythema migrans, borreliosis
Desiree and Seraphin came to my practice with the same prob-
lem. Both had developed erythema migrans at exactly the same
time: the mother had an erythema of 7 cm diameter on the left
thigh, and her son had it on the left upper arm with a diameter
of 4.3 cm.
Acute treatment:
since the mother refused antibiotic treat-
ment, I prescribed
Ledum
12D, accompanied by
Borrelia
200D,
three doses at weekly intervals. At the check-up after three
weeks, the erythema had disappeared in both patients. It had
gradually faded during treatment, after initially expanding.
Then, the sharp, ring-shaped edge began to break up.
Previous history of the patients:
both were already known
to me; mother and son had been in treatment for six months
for a bonding problem. Desiree had had bonding and relation-
ship problems for a long time due to her traumatic experiences
in childhood. Since the birth of her son, she became much
more sensitized to these issues. She began with psychotherapy
and, a few months later, also opted to start homeopathic
treatment.
At the start of treatment, it was impossible for her to let the
child leave her sight even for a moment, for fear that some-
thing would happen to him. Seraphin was also very attached to
his mother. This symbiosis became more burdensome as he
grew older, both for mother and son, and the father also needed
a lot of patience to cope with it. Soon both mother and son
were making progress with treatment. I will not go into the
details of the remedies or the sequence, since it is not relevant
for the treatment of the borreliosis. Accompanied by his father,
Seraphin could soon visit the nursery, which he enjoyed a lot,
and the dependency between him and his mother diminished.
Desiree herself became more independent, which had became
a major goal for her after she finally decided to leave her partner
in order to live her own life. The little boy was, however,
frequently taken to visit his father.
Situation of mother and child:
just as the parents decided to
separate, the erythema migrans – the visible sign of infection
with Lyme borreliosis – developed in mother and child at the
same time. The background to this infectious disease was
therefore uncertainty in the patients’ family relationships. The
mother was generally unsettled and overextended by her
motherhood and the relationship with her partner. Both
seemed restless, and Seraphin was vigorously biting his finger-
nails. Since mother and son fell ill at the same time, I prescribed
them both the same remedy to further support their constitu-
tional defenses.
Prescription:
Zincum muriaticum
30C, twice a week
Progress and follow-up:
four months later, she came again,
after both had stopped taking the remedy a few weeks earlier
because they felt generally better – even the nail-biting had
stopped. Seraphin suddenly developed several livid spots on
various parts of his body, which soon disappeared again, or
simply appeared somewhere else. I immediately viewed this
unique skin reaction as related to the previous redness, which
had now disappeared. Borreliosis is a true chameleon and can
manifest again in quite a different form.
The mother was exceptionally well. She had obviously made
the right decision to go her own way. Since the separation, she
lived with Seraphin in a caravan at a campsite. The change of
place and the fact that the mother was now doing a training
course meant that the boy could not continue going to nursery.
His daily schedule was rather stressful; he was in several places
throughout the day and things became irregular for him.
Everything had changed for him and he had to cope with a
high degree of uncertainty.
I prescribed continuation of
Zincum muriaticum
, and the spots
soon began to consistently recede.