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EVIDENCE OF HOMEOPATHY
SPECTRUM OF HOMEOPATHY
RAJAN SANKARAN
¦ CASE REPORTS
What happens when someone holds you? What is the
feeling?
Someone is holding me and I cannot move. I try to pull myself,
but I cannot come out. I feel stuck. I cannot move.
What is the feeling?
It is a heavy thing and I cannot move. Fear of stuckness and
you cannot move.
(Interestingly now we can see a pattern emerging. In her
dream, where she is being stiffened like a statue; her ex-
perience is that she is being held, she is trying to come out
but cannot, as though being pulled; she is fighting to come
out and she cannot move. This sensation of being “stuck
and cannot move” had come previously while she spoke of
her ailment (being handicapped and dependent) as well as
in her situation with her mother-in-law (cannot come out)
in the house. The feeling of stuck and cannot move is pe-
culiar and has come repeatedly, moreover it’s a non-human
specific word.
We know the patient is at the sensation level: when words
come spontaneously and repeatedly, they are out of context
or non-human specific; it is an experience of a delusion or
fear or dream.
In order to confirm and reconfirm, we need to explore the
other areas and see whether the same ‘sensation’ comes
up there as well. Though the situations and delusions will
change, the sensation of the patient remains constant.)
Where else in your life have you experienced this same
feeling?
At the biopsy I had the same feeling that I had dreamt of.
(I used to ask this question more in the past, but I realised it’s
probably not the best route since it was often too direct and
leading. Now I generally avoid using this question. We see that
the patient comes back to level 3. This gives us an understanding
of the patient’s level of experience in the case.)
Tell me about the biopsy.
It was very horrible. They put a needle into the neck. I was scared
of the needle. Then they put another needle. They pressed me.
It was the same thing: I cannot move. I could not reply. I was
scared of dying.
(The sensation in this case is not to do with victim-aggressor,
nor is it lacking or losing structure like in the minerals but it is
a specific plant sensation – feeling stuck and not being able to
move and come out.)
Did you ever have any trouble with the joints?
I used to have pain in the knee joints.
Tell me about this.
I would tie up the knees.
What would make the pain better or worse?
The pain was more when lying down and when squatting. Better
when walking and from warm applications. Also stiffness in the
neck which was better from heat and motion, and worse from
lying down. Also pain and stiffness in the wrist and fingers,
better from motion. I have a history of miscarriages.
Any history of fever with chills?
I had fever with chills during this illness with the liver. The fever
was high; I was delirious and felt that someone is holding me
and something is coming to me or that something is coming
inside me. Something is holding me and it is coming!
What time would you get the chill?
At 6:30-7:00 P.M. There would also be pain in the nape and
occiput.
Which weather do you prefer?
I do not like the rainy season.
Tell me about your childhood.
I was healthy. I had a very nice childhood. I was the youngest
child and everything was very fine.
Was there any incident that you remember?
When I was in class VIII a male teacher called me alone to the
classroom. He did not do anything but I did not go again.
What was the fear?
What he will do to me? He could touch me or he could do
something.
What would the feeling be?
No one should touch me. Even now I do not like it if I am at the
market and someone touches me or looks at me.
What is the feeling?
Fear.
What scenes or situations create that fear?
Extra-marital affair or pre-marital affair. In a movie I saw a man
who had two wives. Then I think “What if my husband is with
someone else, or if I have an affair with someone else… what
can happen?”
What are you afraid can happen?
Fear of society, people, yourself; that what you did was wrong.
It is not right basically. Our society will not accept it. Then you
are completely alone.
Tell me about the movie you mentioned.
It has basically to do with a woman. The man kills his wife for
money and then has an affair with someone, or then the wife
is doing that.
So what is the feeling?
Life is ruined: the husband or the wife is behind bars for killing.
How is it to be behind bars?
Unpleasant. It is the end. What is the future?
What is the future?
He is stuck. His life is finished, stopped. He cannot do anything.
He did the worst that he could have done: like killing his wife,
taking the money and what he wanted.
Which is worse, dying or being behind bars?
Dying, because from behind bars he can still come out after
some years. And dying is not a solution.
(We have another incidence, where she describes movies she is
sensitive to. She is afraid of her husband having an extra-marital
affair. Her delusion is that she or her husband may land up
imprisoned on a charge of murder. Being imprisoned comes to
the same as being stuck or held up in a situation.)