8 / 14
SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
CHRISTINA ARI ¦
ACUTE REMEDIES LEDUM AND BORRELIA / CONSTITUTION REMEDIES
BORRELIOSIS
24
organism’s individual immune reaction, and these are difficult to
classify from a conventional viewpoint. Homeopathy proves to be
a tried-and-tested treatment method since it recognizes the indi-
vidual, special symptom as the central expression of a generalized
disturbance that is basically just reinforced by the pathogenic
agent borrelia burgdorferi, which simply raises its pathogenicity.
There is much to learn about borreliosis. It eludes a conven-
tional description of events, demanding a new, more modern
perspective that is attuned to its specific nature.
CASE 1: eight-year-old girl, erythema migrans, borreliosis
Tamara came without an appointment to my surgery, accom-
panied by her mother, when the circular mark on her right
buttock became visible. According to her mother, the little girl
has generally been rather unwell in that she has been more
tired and listless than normal.
Acute treatment:
the mother vehemently opposed antibiotic
treatment. I asked her to repeat this in the presence of my
assistant and write it down. I had never treated the girl. There
was no time for comprehensive casetaking since she needed
rapid acute treatment.
Prescription:
1 x 5
Borrelia
200C, then
Ledum
30C dissolved
in ¼ liter of water, to be taken in sips for three days, dissolved
afresh each day
After three days, there was no visible change in the local
symptoms. Yet, the little girl was evidently doing well and
made a more lively general impression. I repeated a dose of
Borrelia
200C and continued
Ledum
dissolved in water. Some
days later, Tamara’s mother phoned to say that the circle had
started to steadily enlarge. I asked her to repeat
Borrelia
200C, one dose if the circle stopped enlarging. Tamara was to
continue taking dissolved
Ledum
in the meantime.
Progress and comprehensive casetaking:
one month after
the start of the erythema, Tamara returned for full casetaking.
In the meantime, the circle had enlarged to almost the entire
buttocks and seemed more pale than at the beginning. Al-
though the initial treatment with the nosode and Ledum had
stimulated the illness into a positive dynamic, so that the girl’s
general condition was completely unaffected, there were good
reasons for more precise investigation. The propensity to fall ill
from a pathogen always has a cause.
CASETAKING
Tamara’s situation:
Since moving from Lower Austria to
Burgenland a year ago, Tamara had been displaying more
noticeable problems than before. Above all she missed their old
house, which was much nicer than the current one, and also
her grandmother, who remained behind. She withdrew more
and more, and her appetite deteriorated noticeably. Later, she
had a water wart (molluscum contagiosum) on the neck as well
as eczema between the fingers of the left hand, although this
spontaneously disappeared shortly afterwards.
Family history:
Tamara has two older sisters, and together
they are a good team. Although she was not a planned child,
the pregnancy was without complication. Shortly before birth,
her mother fell ill with flu and high fever. During the birth, she
was thoroughly exhausted and weakened. There was placental
retention and subsequent curettage. Completely unexpectedly,
the mother’s father died as a result of flu five weeks after the
birth. Tamara’s mother recovered only slowly from this phase
of weakness.
Tamara was breastfed for a year and a half, and developed
quickly and well. She scarcely crawled and learned to walk at
the early age of ten months. She was able to talk early and
she found it easy to learn. She made a rather serious impres-
sion and, indeed, she was very sensible and calm in all she
did, not at all prepared to take risks. She could be stubborn, a
know-all, occasionally refuse to do things but in general she
was sociable. She tended to be sad, was easily moved, quick
to cry, and suffered from homesickness. Fearful and easily
started, she did not like being held high as a young child and
did not like rollercoasters. She was afraid of the dark, being
alone, and nightmares.
Tamara was not vaccinated. She suffered from a severe
varicella infection.
Tamara’s mother was caring and attentive. Her grandmother on
the mother’s side had an alcohol problem. Her father was a
so-called “blue baby”, as a result of which he was infection-
prone and sickly. After myocarditis and an EBV infection, he
suffered from chronic rheumatism, allergies, and asthma. The
grandfather on the father’s side died of cancer.
The patient’s condition:
she is a tender, pale, dark-haired
girl with large eyes. Sweat on the neck can lead to skin irrita-
tion. The holes of her ear-rings frequently become inflamed.
She is sensitive to cold and is prone to frequent infections.
Despite wearing a covering on her head, her ears easily be-
come inflamed and she gets throat pains and mucous ob-
structions, worse in the morning. Aphthae in the mouth are
not uncommon, worse after eating cheese. She eats little and
is very picky. She loves sweet things, including strawberries
and tomatoes. She dislikes beans and cabbage. She has a
stool daily, often hard and painful. At night, she frequently
awakes from a sleep filled with dreams, and has to get up to
urinate. She also complains of growth pains.
Prescription:
Calcium silicata
M, one dose per day for two days
Progress:
when she returned four weeks later, the erythema
migrans had completely disappeared. There was merely a little