Dr Sunil Anand

Working summary of caseImportant Themes

• Its easier to talk about the physicals, the emotions are more difficult

• My shoulder blades tighten(HG)• Talk about tighten• Feel it in my neck and it restricts my

mobility(HG)• It just freezes up as I am stuck in this range of

motion

• Elaborate on ‘stuck’• Stiff and tight• More on ‘stiff’ and ‘tight’• Its locked• My muscles like to tense up

Doodle 1• Do a doodle with

‘stiff’, ‘tight’ and ‘locked’

• A re-bar• What is the

sensation?• Train track of

steel-no give• Difficult to

penetrate

• My father is alive but no emotional connection

• Wear my heart in my sleeves• It’s a defense mechanism• Severed relationship with elder sister• Talk about ‘severed’• Like cutting off a limb

Doodle 2&3-Conection and Disconnection

• Connection- Heart and the connection inside and two circles connected

• That becomes a part of my sleeves and a part of my armor

• You need the armor for a rainy day• Disconnection- fight with sister• Little piece of black cancer• Left a part of my heart

Connected

Disconnected

• More on experience and sensation of backache?

• Stuck forward• Could lead to paralysis after an extreme

movement• Say more• One wrong move and you will be stuck

Back to doodles

• Re-bar-steel, difficult to penetrate• What would be the opposite?• Sponge- pores, can be squeezed, air

flows through it and its lightTalk more on freeze upLocked and stuckPhenomena in nature that is locked

and stuck?An icicle

Icicle

• Say more on icicle• Its like my knots- like an icicle being created• Say more• Its going to snap• It comes back to ‘ if I move the wrong way, I

am going to be paralyzed’• I am stuck with it being iced

• Say more on ‘snap’• My neck is going to be snapped off and stuck

in one position if I just move too far one way• So it snaps first and then gets stuck?• Yes• More on ‘snap’• Like a tree limb which is coming apart from

the tree trunk

Arbutus tree• Why does it appeal to

you?• It has a thin bark that

you can peel off• It is huge, beautiful,

evergreen but delicate• Say more on ‘delicate’• Not fragile but not

strong and sturdy• The wind may blow off

the bark

Fragile and Delicate

• Say more on fragile?• Fragility of a child or emotions• Say more on fragility• Its like porcelain• Like my grandmother who died• She was so delicate and fragile

Image hunting- Birds and Sponge

• A sponge is delicate, absorbent.• With Spongia there would be multiple

sensations- issues of Calcarea and Silica and Carbo veg

• Victim aggressor- She didn’t have intense hatred and that someone is trying to get her.

• No drained out issues • There are no issues of birds too

• The feeling is for 25 years I tolerated that abuse because I wanted that connection. Puppet or a slave, the puppet has the control or connections, it’s through the connections the puppet moves. I’m not going to have that anymore.

But in this case….

• You see the sensitivity• You see the ability to feel hurt• The ability to adapt• The ease with which she gives opposites• So this is a plant kingdom case

But which family?

• You see certain sensations like caught, stiff,stuck etc

• looks like the Anacardaciae family. Probably - Rhus Tox.

• But when we confirm further in her case it is that something will snap and then she will get stuck.

Significance of Doodles

• The doodles are encouraged at appropriate parts of the case

• It is like a by-pass• It helps the patient to explore her inner

sensations when she faces a block• One cannot prescribe on the doodle alone• One had to ask the experience and sensation

while looking at the doodle

When probed in this way we understand that…

• The fear is that one wrong move & that it will snap and will get stuck.

• She also talks about fragile emotions.• Source word: Porcelain, fragility of a child,

hard interior but soft exterior, bark peels off .• She gives us the opposite polarities easily.

Conifer family

The opposite polarities -• Steel/sponge, Heart connected/heart broken.• Polarities confirm the deeper sensation. • In this case it is the sensation of the Conifer

family.

Which miasm?

• She says ….• I have high pain tolerance• I cannot control my pain without help• I was always older than my age• Does things in extremes• Dreams- running but no where specific, without

sign posts• Falling off a cliff.• There is a cancer within me.

Recap

• Kingdom- Plant kingdom: sensitivity, I wear my heart on my sleeve, emotional, she’s trying to adapt to the situation.

• Conifer: Connection/disconnection, fragile, delicate, scar tissue that can snap, tree limb that can snap anytime, the need to stay in one place and freeze, one wrong move and paralyzed for life.

• Sensation-stuck, freezes up, stiff, tight, locked,snapped, stuck, like a tree limb, with one wrong move (that’s very cancer miasm like)

• Carcinosin words: I grew up too early. Not as desperate as Carcinosin.

• I was a good girl. Control. Perfection. Beyond one’s capacity.

• A strong family history of Cancer

All this suggests

Potency

• Sensation confirmed at all levels.• Strong person with strong vitality. • Sabina 1M single dose.

Brittle and its synonyms

• The sensation ‘brittle’ is prominent in the remedies from the Conifer family

• Some synonyms of brittle are-• Fragile• Broken• Pieces• These make the picture of the family

complete

Cut off and Disconnected

• At a deeper level, this sensation can be understood as isolation and emptiness

• The sensations emptiness, brittleness and lack of connection are linked to each other

• The feeling of brittleness and fragility is due to the inner sensation of emptiness

• Things which are brittle crumble into pieces• Once it breaks and crumbles the connection is

lost

Connected

Disconnected

Main Sensation-like an egg shell

• Emptiness• Brittleness• Separation• Cut-off• The picture that comes in mind is of an egg shell• When the egg is empty the shell is fragile and

brittle• Once it is broken the continuity is lost and it

crumbles to pieces-a break in the whole

Differentiation

Scrophuliaraceae

Scrophuliaraceae-

• The sensation of dissociation has a subtle difference-

• When two separate things are associated and then they come apart and the bond is broken

• The bond is made and then torn loose• The bond is between two separate entities

joining or adhering together• So the rubrics would have the sensation of

adhesion and tearing loose

Malvales

Malvales

• Main sensation is of attachment and detachment

• Attachment is two entities coming together• One becoming part of the other• Like a mother and her new born

Leguminoseae

Leguminoseae-Pea family

• The pods have different components together• They need to separate in order to spread• The pods split open along the sutures and the

seeds scatter• At a human level, the self is made up of various

parts bound together• Feeling that the parts could separate and fall to

pieces• There is an external factor splitting them up

Arbutus tree-Ericaceae

• Also known as the strawberry tree or the evergreens

• A tough tree needing little nourishment-Wikepedia(source)

• Its bark peels off very easily• While talking of this tree what comes up is

delicate again taking us to the Conifer family

Sabina and Cancer Miasm

• Female: Cancer: uterus (Complete)• Chest: Cancer: scirrhus, mammae (Complete)• Dreams:falling: high places, from: men are

killed by falling from a height(Complete)• Dreams: excelling in mental work(Complete)• The above rubrics indicate its use in cancer• The depth of action is reflected in the dreams

Sabina-proposed feeling and miasm

• In control even when broken, disconnected or cut off

E mail FU 1 after 2 months

• I was sleeping really well after the remedy• My weekly workouts have been more geared

towards stretching and opening since the remedy, I think that’s been a bonus.

• My daughter broke her collarbone, a bit of a stress. 4-5 marriage breakdowns in families that we know, daughter’s friend. Internalizing some stress.

• I haven’t felt anything bad or extreme, it’s been positive.

• Range of movement with your neck?• It’s been fine. I carry my stress there. There is so much

scar tissue. I measure it on range of motion and riding my bike. Going on bike it’s awkward if you have a tight neck, and it was great, I went on and didn’t come off….It’s a solid 8/10.

• What were you before?• The lousy time was 3 or 4 out of 10. Then it would get

up to maybe a 7 or 8 if I’ve had a lot of treatments but probably was surviving on 5 or 6. I have improved. Also no low back. The core and being able to sleep on my stomach, that part is doing well.

• You said before you felt paralyzed?• Yeah when it was acute, 3/10.• That is gone?• Yeah. Even when I’ve pushed or compromised

myself. No disc injuries. I play more conservatively now. I’m not diving and rolling and doing dumb things.

• How are your knees?• 8/10. Good. Maybe never a 10 again.

• Is there anything you’d like to see improve still?

• I feel pretty good from the health perspective. I don’t wish for a 10/10 on my neck, an 8/10 is great.

• It’s been a really positive experience. • Plan - wait

FU after 6 months

• I’ve been well. • I didn’t take notes, was in summer mode.• My husband would like to pass on some

things. He thinks there’s been a calming of my personality. He would say I’ve had lesser lows on the emotional roller coaster. Taken away that edge.

• That and posture wise, once I went to chiro, the back and neck tension is in good position. That’s significant and positive.

• Before you said the neck was 8/10 better.• It’s probably stayed the same. Certainly no

worse. A good 8 out of 10. I played ultimate Frisbee all summer long. There’s not a lot of cushioning by the end of summer. I sailed through that though. My vertebrae feels loose, I have movement. When it’s tight I feel like it’s blocked. I don’t have the blocked feeling anywhere.

• We will give you some of the remedy to have on hand in case of injury (Sabina 30c) , as recommended by Sunil.

FU after 1 year

• How have you been?• Pretty good. • What about your knees?• Great. Physically no problems. • Not playing Frisbee?• No. I run home from work one day a week. Get

one training day in and one other workout. Three things a week for myself. Wish it was more.

• How are you coping with your emotions?• I’m more mature about it. It passes faster than

getting in a rut and staying there longer. Found the solution, drive on. I feel rested, kids let me sleep in. I’ve been getting 5-6 hours sleep.

Plan- Wait