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CHRISTINA ARI ¦
ACUTE REMEDIES LEDUM AND BORRELIA / CONSTITUTION REMEDIES
SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
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itching at the spot. Her sisters had fallen ill in the meantime
with summer flu, which did not affect her. She seemed more
stable and more open than before. She had brief nausea
before falling asleep after taking the remedy on a number of
evenings, otherwise there had been no signs of feeling unwell
in the last few weeks. She was no longer afraid of the dark,
generally expressed very few fears, no longer went to her parents
at night, and had more stamina when hiking. The home-
sickness for her old house and her grandmother had diminished
a little but was still present, and her appetite could have
been better.
The water warts on the neck had clearly become enlarged,
and the itchy eczema between her fingers had returned.
The rate of healing was acceptable. I repeated
Calcium silicata
once more.
Follow-up:
a blood test at the Hygiene Institute in Vienna
about two months after the treatment confirmed that she had
overcome a borreliosis infection – she still had IgG antibodies.
The successful homeopathic treatment was also confirmed.
It was comparable to what might have been expected with
antibiotic treatment.
RENEWED CASETAKING
A year and a half later, I saw Tamara again. Her mother
complained about the girl’s lack of strength. She was indeed
quite pale and unmotivated. Although not definitely ill, she had
various aches and pains. Her neck was often stiff and after
school, she often had headaches in the forehead or neck pains.
The balls of her feet were painful and she was also troubled by
chronically inflamed pierced holes in her ears, in which she had
had no studs for many years, and she also had “geographic
tongue”. The suspicion that the borreliosis infection might be
reawakening, this time involving the joints, greatly concerned
Tamara’s mother, prompting her to consult me again. She said
that the water warts and the eczema between the fingers
had completely disappeared after the treatment with
Calcarea
silicata
. In the evening before going to sleep, she often had
nausea, also complaining and nagging, and often saying how
much she missed her grandmother.
The results of a blood test conducted straightaway confirmed
once again that she had had a borreliosis infection but gave no
clue as to whether the illness was active. There was also a
slightly elevated ASL titer, otherwise everything was unremark-
able. I decided not to do a joint puncture since the clinical picture
LYME BORRELIOSIS
Lyme borreliosis has been recognized as a discrete
illness since 1975. Despite intensive research, the
scientific basis of the diagnosis and treatment is to
this day inadequate. A negative serological finding
does not exclude illness; on the other hand, a posi-
tive test only indicates that the patient had a bor-
reliosis infection at some point in the past, not
whether this is currently active or latent. In the
early stage of infection, the appearance of erythema
migrans indicates infection. However, since this is
not mandatory, specific diagnosis – especially at an
advanced stage – is laborious and unsatisfactory.
The limited effect of antibiotic treatment of bor-
reliosis infections is documented in many studies.
Even following supposedly very effective antibiotic
treatment, the pathogen can be observed to be
further “cultivated” in the host organism. Borreliosis
has the characteristic of evading the immune system
when specific antibiotics are used. The pathogen
uses an “escape mechanism” proved to exist as well
in other bacteria. As borreliosis spreads in the or-
ganism, multi-organ and systemic disease can occur
with an exceptionally wide array of pathological
symptoms. The differential diagnosis to other forms
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of illness is extremely difficult. The diagnosis is
therefore frequently made when all other diagnostic
avenues have been exhausted. (Extract from the
guidelines of the German Borreliosis Society: Diag-
nosis and Treatment of Lyme Borreliosis)