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By Joy Lucas RSHom.
Presenting complaint - polycystic ovaries.
Female, 34, teacher, no children.
Very communicative, friendly, funny, open.
Was diagnosed 10 years ago and prescribed 'the pill' never told which or
if both ovaries are involved but 'feels' it is the right side says she
feels a great lack of harmony in myself feels there is lots of
contradiction a possible hormonal imbalance wants to care more.
Used to get dreadful hangovers and blamed the medication.
Periods always irregular - one every 3 months was 'normal' never very
heavy, lasted 4 days, quite a lot of "debris" with blood.
Had acne when younger gained some facial hair and weight thought she
might want to have children and needed to get this sorted.
When describing herself she says:- not at one with myself want to make
decisions but find this really hard never sure about present
relationship job not stretching me enough I'm a city girl but do love
the countryside (moved from the city to rural area recently) indecision
rules every aspect of my life but I love my life and friends I never
instigate but I am always up for it.
She is sociable, funny, laughs a lot, confident, loyal, self deprecating
doesn't like commitment or feeling trapped wanted to be a teacher since
she was 16.
When she was 21 her mother committed suicide life had been great and now
she felt she couldn't rely on anything cannot invest in anything because
of this.
She was able to talk about this event quite openly said she knew she
should be able to talk about this felt softer about her mother now got a
lot of support from dad at that time.
She likes privacy and when its given genuinely she will extend herself.
Generally feels distracted, her mind is elsewhere, procrastinates all
the time, fears real commitment.
She smokes and likes to drink and get drunk even though she is fearful
of 'trashing body' smokes hash for relaxation - to get away from the
mundane, takes the edge off.
She fears illness especially cancer thinks a lot about mortality she is
intelligent though and easily accepts the inevitable claustrophobic
because sister used to shut her in a wardrobe.
Describes herself as lazy - all or nothing, a real sloth or over the top
with cleaning.
Fears complacency, always wants change, always looking for something,
looking for stimulus.
She under-achieved at school but got a first class honours at uni.
She is loquacious and intelligent - but very private.
Would like to be a strategist, this would provide an intellectual
stimulus.
Could be more pro-active - feels guilty about doing nothing.
Sees red if someone is rude - she is forthright and assertive likes to
be pampered when ill (laughs at this).
Cannot eat breakfast -- fatty meat and eggs likes alcohol smokes about
10 a day.
Has a bladder of steel, can go all day without urinating never finishes
a cup of tea.
Always hot but loves the sun, even cold sunny days hates grey wet days
likes heat but must have air .
Sleeps easy, feels groggy in morning.
Gets eruptions on fingers - like blisters, very itchy and red had warts
as a kid on thumb, finger and elbow.
She had a period just before she even took the remedy!!! had another a
month later feels fabulous, been on holiday, feeling positive another
period followed exactly on time feels so much more grounded and positive.
The remedy given was one of our most common remedies but has scant
representation in the repertories and Materia Medicas regarding the
ovarian cysts - but it IS there.
This is why I thought it would be an interesting case for you to read.
The remedy was SULPHUR.
Depending on what rep you are using you are most likely to find it under
Tumours, encysted, ovarian.
This is why it is so important to do as much cross referencing with
rubrics, even with a symptom that appears to be as straightforward as
ovarian cysts.
It is always worth studying remedies that appear in relevant but
satelite rubrics because obviously the simillimum is so much better than
nearly the simillimum.
To me this was unmistakeably Sulphur and I was guided by the emotional
and mental aspects of the case initially.....
so to reiterate .
This woman is very sociable (and private), funny, open, confident, self
deprecating (from an intelligent point of view), loyal, intelligent.
Irresolute, doesn't like commitment, procrastinates, lazy, full of
indecision, her mind is elsewhere and easily distracted, loves her job
very much but wants to do something completely different, always wants
change, can't be trapped - fear of closed spaces, all or nothing, sees
'red' if someone is rude, can't eat breakfast.
And the there was the ultimate suppression - the grief surrounding the
death of her mother, even though she had spent some time
intellectualising this - Sulphur, always the intellectual, it is all
going on in the brain.
Easily distracted.
The private side of Sulphur becomes evident when you know that it is in
big type in the Haughty rubric (Kent) and although they appear genuinely
open there is always this closed side as well - when the volcano is
capped so to speak.
So well known for being irresolute, lazy, dreamy, procrastination, full
of indecision - this is the idle volcano, the dormant one, waiting to
erupt.
One of the worst conditions for a volcano is being suppressed, trapped,
fear of closed spaces, the huge need to erupt, either physically or
mentally.
No need to mention the skin eruptions of Sulphur - always red, every
orifice is red and burning like the lava - she sees red with her temper!
Always wanting change - when the lava runs going off in all directions,
all over the place (untidy, messy, smelly even).
This continues with the desire to travel, escape all the time, escape
the entrapment of suppression even if it takes the form of using certain
substances to aid this.
Again, she intellectualised this 'we all need to escape the mundanities
of life'.
Also not caring too much about what she was doing to her body is much
the same as the famous state of sulphur - they don't care what they look
like, have no real shame or concern about their bodily appearance.
Another big keynote - can't and won't eat breakfast but they get really
really hungry about 11 am and then often stuff themselves.
The menstrual cycles of Sulphur are nearly always suppressed in some way
or another - either total amenorrhea or too late, short, scanty,
irregular - not flowing correctly! Sulphur also has cancer of the uterus
and a tendency for the reproductive organs to develop imperfectly - who
knows the cysts might have become malignant in time.
This isn't the only case of Polycystic ovaries I have had which has been
cured with Sulphur and I personally think you can upgrade the
repertories.
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