Read carefully and observe a case of diabetes handled and cured by homoepath.
A thirteen year old girl, Ms. G.A. was brought to me in November 1995 with Diabetes (Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young). Her blood sugar measured 270. She had not been started on insulin as yet. I had prescribed for her Calcarea carbonica, but could see soon in her follow ups that the sugar levels did not come down. In a follow up two months later she spoke of her classmates thus: “I have a difficulty in adjusting to my classmates. I got the award for being the best behaved girl in my class. I am ambitious. They all want to pounce on me, cut me up, tear to pieces. I want to answer frequently in class, the others are jealous of me.” These expressions, I could not understand in the context of her case, as I had taken it earlier. So I retook her case, and it went as follows.
P: I told you about the debate that I won. I desperately wanted to go. They finally gave me a chance. I won it. Then the full class started behaving funnily towards me, like they could not accept that I had won the debate. And since then they do not let me answer properly and cut me down. They always comment on what I am saying. The teachers have started liking me now. I am coming first in my class and my classmates had not expected this. I am more confident now, am participating more. I think they are jealous of me. I feel they are very artificial with me. Now I have very few friends, only three. Before I used to be very friendly with the whole class. They do not let me answer properly in class. They are fault finding. I tend to get irritated. Most are jealous, their faces become red! 1
If the prefects change their places, it is okay but if the rest of us do it we get in trouble. There is a lot of favouritism. These girls irritate me. They want to boss over you. I
cannot even back answer them or they will give me a bad remark. They misuse their rights. They let their friends do what they want. If you have a badge, do not misuse it. They actually try to boss you and put you under some pressure, like a huge thing fallen on a small thing. 2 If you have a position in the eyes of the teacher, they try to get you down from that position. They try to get you down from it and themselves up. 3
They are trying to spoil your image in front of the teacher, trying to help the teacher and they are trying to put me down and themselves up in the eyes of the teacher.
If I take a stone and put it on a small weak plant, the plant will nearly die out that way. I feel they have put something on me and are trying to make me as small as they can in front of the teacher. 4
They are trying to force me not to do something even if what I am doing is right. A prefect asked me to do something. She said: “You have to do this thing. Do it neatly, okay!” And in the “okay” I felt this force and pressure. She could have said it nicely but this was too strong. I felt like back answering: “Please tell me politely or I will not do it. You are not any great person because you are a prefect.” 5I would like to say: “I have done my duty, you do it now.” They are trying to find a mistake, even if there is no mistake. 6
D: Do you want to change your school?
P: No. I like my three friends. I do not think I could go to another school and cooperate with them. These teachers know me well. I would have to see to it that I cooperate with the class, make friends and do my work. 7 I want to see the reaction of the class when I am in the tenth class and I have really worked hard and have broken the school’s record, when I do really well. I really want to beat them and do better, get much more than them. I want to score ninety-four percent when the others would have scored eighty-five. I want to see a change in their manner of talking. If I come first in school,
I want to see the reaction on their faces, the change in their moods. 8
I want to see them come to me and say how sorry they are for how they treated me. When I won, they said they should have selected me for debates before. All those who put me down before I want to see their reaction when they say how sorry they are for what they did. Then I will have won my battle. I have fought out all these things and done something to get to this position. 9
D: Why do you want this?
P: I think the teachers are very partial with regard to the exam papers. At the board exam, there can be no partiality. That will show the real capability of each student. It will be a real result.
My ambition used to be to become a prefect. So now my ambition to be a prefect is gone. I wanted to have the feeling that I am someone and hold responsibilities. I am the youngest in the family. I have always been treated just as a child. They say: “She is a kid, she won’t be able to do anything.” That is why I wanted to be a prefect, to be given real responsibility. 10 I have only one aim: I have to do well in my boards. 11 My second ambition is that I want to remove this thing (Diabetes) by exercise, diet, anyway I can. 12
D: Suppose you do not do well in the boards, what will you feel? 13
P: I will feel a useless person. You are a failure if you have one ambition and you do not complete it. 14
D: What do you want to do in life?
P: I want to be an animation artist. I was influenced from watching the film, “The Lion
King”. I am good at drawing cartoons.
D: Do you have any other ambition?
P: I want to start a play-school. I used to talk to the younger kids and teach them and they used to give me the correct answers. The teacher wrote of me that I had shown great capability in handling children. 15
(Her mother, who was accompanying her, described her nature thus.)
Mo: She is a very loving and warm child. Her teacher has to say that she is a darling in class, is the best behaved girl. She bridges the gap during arguments. She is very contented. When they open their lunch boxes she never makes a bad face at whatever I send for her. She accepts things very fast. I have never seen her fighting with any child.
She wants to shine like her sister. She had long desire to be prefect. She is being considered but the recommendation is that she has to manage her time better. My older child has been given the best student award. To be just toppers in school is not sufficient, you need to address behaviour. My husband was topper, scored ninety-five percent and that was not sufficient, you need to be best at all areas. How do we control our emotions? This is very important.
Now my younger child… you cannot speak everything you want in school.
D: What dreams do you get?
P: Of dogs.
Mo: I made them ambitious and yet you also have to be happy. 16
D: Dreams?
P: After 6:00 am I get some dreams, but I do not recall them.
D: What dreams do you remember?
P: Before the names of the girls who had been appointed as prefects had been announced, I dreamt that we were all in the school auditorium and they announced my name as one of those appointed. I could see myself getting up and running to the stage and I shook hands with the principal of the school and felt as if I really became a prefect. 17
After the prefect body was announced, I had this dream: I was painting and the Art teacher said: “This is wrong.” Then my English teacher came up to me and said: “Everything you do is wrong!” And she tore up my painting and threw it in the garbage and abused me verbally saying that I did not do anything right and do everything wrong. “You are useless, nothing, an idiot, useless bumpkin.” Then I changed my school, gave my exams and I became the topmost painter. The art gallery was full only of my paintings. The English teacher walked in and apologized, she said: “I do not believe it. You are so good while earlier you were so bad.” I became the most famous painter of that time. 18
I also have this dream that two top Indian film actors take me on a motorcycle to Los Angeles where I see a lot of characters out of the TV serial “Baywatch” and I party with them, enjoy myself and become a lifeguard. 19
I love dogs very much. I carry a picture of a dog in my wallet. The dashboard of our car is full of pictures of dogs.
I had a dream that my cousin gets married to a woman who stays in a small hut and they have a small cuddly dog and I had a huge dog, almost my height which is very fierce. Their dog tells my dog that he is not happy with his masters and that it wants to have me as its master. So I have both dogs and they are really happy with me. I give them the love they want and they give me the love I want. 20
I tell my sister every third day to get married so that I can get a dog. My mother has promised that when my sister gets married I can get a dog. Mummy does not like dogs and my father is particular about neatness. 21
D: Why do you like dogs?
P: It is the only animal… I find animals better than humans. Humans have all these dumb emotions: jealousy and hatred. If you give a dog happiness, it will respond with love. A person jealous of you can harm you anytime. Human beings listen to others and do not follow their own decisions, they do not use their own brains. If an animal is not receiving proper attention from its master it will leave. If another person tells the dog that his master is not good, the dog will not leave or be influenced by that person. A person can instigate two people against each other.
D: Do you have any physical problems at all, any aches and pains?
P: No. Only once when Mummy was away and I had eaten in a restaurant, I felt giddy and vomited, so I ate very little.
(Her sister interjects.)
Sis: I went through the same kind of torture. I turned into a totally different person when I got out of that school. People say I am not the same girl. They suppress a person. I used to be irritated easily because of the pressure. I have become what I am now.
Mo: It is supposed to be the best school and I meet with the principal every weekend. The teachers turn the girls into these types of children.
D: (To the patient) What is your feeling?
P: Even if you have written the same answer as someone else you do not get the same score. The teachers are horrible. I feel I should have taken revenge. If the teacher had been in my position I would have given zero points out of ten instead of seven points out of ten. 22 Even after I have done so much and worked so hard, why have I not got the marks I deserve to get? My feeling is that either you should be at the top or you will be at the bottom and will be nothing. The teachers have set opinions about the children, which do not change no matter how hard you try.
If I have lost some weight and someone notices, my mother says she has to grow even thinner. Whenever we put in an effort my mother comes in and takes away credit; she says: “I did it.” I like to be appreciated, but my mother takes all the credit away.
Case analysis
Her perception of her reality is as if a huge pressure is being put on small thing, and try as hard as you want they still push you down. There is a desperation, and this indicates the syphilitic miasm. She is struggling against impossible standards. Her feeling is that unless you are right at the top they will push you down and humiliate you, and so you must reach the top. The need is for great performance and achievement and the feeling is that if I do not make it to the top, I am nothing.
This great need for performance is usually a feature of the metals. There is also the feeling of being attacked and the need to fight and battle it out. Attack and defence are also features of the metallic group of remedies. In her the aspect of performance is more prominent than the features of attack and defence. Also the remedy is syphilitic. These indicate that the remedy that she needs must be from the third line of metals in the Periodic Table.
How does she react to this huge weight pressing down?
Where there is a sensation there should be a corresponding reaction. The remedy should be found in both, but sometimes is only found in one of them.
She perceives a force crushing her down. This is her sensation. She is being isolated with this pressure. She is being isolated because she did well and because she is better than them. Because she is trying to go on top, they push her down, crush her, put her down. Her reaction is to rise to such dizzying heights that no one can push her down and crush her. It is a desperate situation. Her feeling is: “Okay. You want to crush me, but just wait for two years when I will beat you so badly. I will break the record and will beway above all of you. I want to see the reaction on all your faces then. I want to win.” She feels that when she wins people will recognize her real worth.
She feels that others make her appear very small, like rubbish, like she is useless. She has been treated with contempt and she acts contemptuously. The rubric for her feeling is: “Ailments from scorn”. And the rubrics for her reaction are: “Ambitious”‚ “Contemptuous”, and “Malicious”.
She has dreams of dogs, but again in the dream the themes are of big and small and of her being the best master. So it is these themes to which attention must be paid, rather than simply taking the symptom: “Dreams of dogs”.
Another observation is that during the case interview the patient’s mother is dominating. She is putting a lot of pressure on the child by saying that everyone in their family is the best, she goes to the best school, etc. This must definitely aggravate the girl’s state. Further this can be irritating for the physician. If the physician gets angry in the case he has to see what provokes that anger in him. Here the reason may be because the mother is putting so much pressure on the child. One also learns about oneself by examining the feeling it provokes.
Rubrics:
- Ailments, from scorn;
- Ambitious;
- Ailments, from ambition deceived;
- Contemptuous;
- Egotism, self esteem;
- Hatred and malice;
- Forsaken feeling, isolation, sensation of;
- Delusion, enemy, everyone is.
The remedy I prescribed for her was Platinum. I gave it to her in the 1M potency on January 20, 1996.
Follow up
03.02.96
Fasting Blood Sugar has come down to 174 mg/dl.
P: If I have an image of someone I now can see that I can be wrong and am happy.
I gave her placebo.
04.05.96
P: I dreamt that I am the only girl on the cricket team and win the man of the match award.
Platinum 1M repeated.
04.06.96
Fasting Blood Sugar rose to 233 mg/dl. She had been tense about projects at school, whether she would be able to complete them.
P: I dreamt that a group of girls ignored me and acted as if my work was rubbish, but they were in the wrong.
Repeated Platinum 1M.
06.07.96
Fasting Blood Sugar 127 mg/dl.
P: I take things more easily. My attitude has improved, I am taking life in a much better form. I have even forgotten about my diabetes, whereas earlier I used to be very tense. I am concentrating on my studies and really enjoying myself in school.
I feel my friends have started liking me: they have got it into their heads that I am going to become something in the school. 23
Her mother reports that she is able to sleep better, whereas earlier she used to murmur. She also adds that the situation in the family is also better: they are more settled.
Remedy not repeated.
02.10.96
Fasting Blood Sugar 137 mg/dl.
P: I am feeling fine. Now tense for my exams. I watch a little TV to relieve the tension. No health problems apart from a slight cough and cold. I am feeling very nice, feeling good overall and mentally also. I am very happy that I have worked over this problem, I have been able to wipe out this heredity. 24 I have more courage and feel competent now that I have overcome it. I will see to it that it is under control throughout my life.
I dream of my school, of exams.
Since all my friends choose a friend according to who is good with their studies, I want to do well because I feel that they will boycott me otherwise. I know they do like me, but if I do not do well they might not like to stay on with me. 25 They are materialistic, but what can I do? I could tell they are telling me things from their heart now.
If someone goes on and on talking about himself, I get very irritated. I feel like hitting that person. I do not like a person talking too much. 26
I feel many of the girls in my school are dumb: they are crazy about boys and behave stupidly. Those guys will not respect me. 27
I want to become an animator. I did my exam really well. I did my best.
When I do some work I will never look to someone else’s work; whatever I am doing is right. I try to make my work the best. My other friends were looking at other people’s work.
You have to be unique, there is no one else like you. You cannot reach that top position by copying someone. The way to success is to have a lot of confidence in yourself and your work, to know your own value. After I had won the debate I had become very bossy and dominating. Now my sister has taught me to become less bossy. 28
I score as many marks as my friend does. I am a hundred and ten percent sure that I will score more than her at the final exam.
I believe in God and know that if I do the right thing God will be with me. Those who try to hurt me get it back instead; it bounces back.
If some girls look at me and laugh I feel they are insulting me. Even now I sometimes feel that but it is much better, I can take it lightly.
I had wanted to become a prefect, but now I am glad I did not because I would have had to do a lot of work. This way I am able to concentrate on my studies.
I used to feel that I must be the best, on the top the best amongst everyone.
D: Why?
P: I feel like I am something different. I want to be on the top in the final exam. The other students think too much of themselves: they think that others are nothing. Those who get the first rank are asked questions.
D: You had wanted to be an artist; is it the same even now?
P: Yes, when I watch cartoon films and they show the credits I want my name there. Under the credits for animation director there are twenty names listed. I want to be the only animation director. My name must be the only one; there should be no one behind and no
one in front. 29
The principal of my school really likes me and is a close friend of my mother. After I had helped her out she recognized that maybe I will listen to her and do a lot of work. Once she called me into her office and said to me that I should write “My friends and I”, rather than “I and my friends”. I felt that those friends I believed in dumped me, so why should I give them preference over myself? I will always put myself first in my own mind, but maybe not in writing.
Some of my friends used to walk away, boycott me. I used to feel insulted, not wanted. If they ask me to join them I feel important, I feel good. My relations with my friends are better, I have started getting better marks.
D: Has there been any change in your attitude in the last one year?
P: In this one year that I have been taking homoeopathic treatment there has been a change in my attitude. I am less dominating and I take things more easily. I have stopped dominating but if the others talk rubbish, I give it back to them. 30
Mo: She is more confident. She loves coming here because she is given a lot of importance. I am now letting her be who she is.
Sis: I was not so close to her earlier as I have been in the last year. I find that she is very balanced. I keep putting this thing into her head that she is different and that she must become something big, because she is always of one extreme.
Platinum 1M repeated.
Comments: The biggest change is that she has become successful. Before, she felt herself a failure. She felt pushed down and then she would show them. Now she has overcome it and is afraid of failure, but feels herself a success. Her state is toned down and she
feels able to cope up and become successful so that her goals are within her reach. So now the dose of Platinum 1M was repeated. She has gone from failure to success and her pathology improves. She needs continued treatment to take her to health. This is similar to the Bacillinum case. As the pressure eased, his goals became more realistic and obtainable. He had to have more doses to slow his pace to a healthier state.
Her mother had received Platinum as her remedy as well, and that her attitude is toned down as well can be seen in the girl’s follow up. But her sister still represents a pressure she has to deal with at home. Later, she, too, received Platinum.
She is continuing with the treatment. She scored very well in her board exam, scored eighty-seven percent and was very happy though it was not the top score. Her blood sugar levels are not yet within normal limits but are in control. She will require treatment for still more time for her state to be toned down further and her blood sugar levels to stay within the normal range.
