Highly competitive – he has to be in first place, it is very important to him, to be number one – with his siblings in particu- A Case Study Based lar, even though he is younger than they are. When his siblings fight he tells them – he is friends with both of them. On the one on the Wondrous hand he competes with them and on the other, it is highly important that everyone likes him. Should one brother tell him, “I Order Plants Table am not your friend”–he wants to die. This really threatens him. It is highly important Michal Yakir, Israel that they will not be angry with him. If I am angry with him – he is worried about it, from a young age”. Case of a Child Suffering cool and gets along with everything. He He is short for his age. has no anxieties during day-to-day life. He MATERIA MEDICA AND CASES from Ear Infections was always a calm child, and this is why I Cravings: Sweets (3) especially lollipops, decided to have yet another baby… but purple, pink and red ones. He likes to eat This is a case study of a four-year-old child, perhaps, something which is suppressed chocolate and cheese. Otherwise he is not arriving with his mother for a first consul- during the day surfaces at night? During much of an eater. tation on 28.4.10. the day he is calm, but a medium we con- sulted suggested his anxieties are related He is not fond of tomatoes (recently) and Observation: a delicate looking child, with with a past life. …He is occupied with what potatoes. an adorable smile. Plays with the fairies happens when one dies, what will happen and butterflies on my desk. when he dies? When his mother dies? Pregnancy was desired and healthy but the labor was induced (Pitocin) since he was The problem for which they approached He is a sensitive child, and highly sociable. not yet born by his due date. “The hospital me: repetitive ear infections. He is friends with everyone in his play- pressured us to induce the labor, but it was school; when he sees someone from afar unnecessary. The birth was horrific, and I The child suffers from a common cold most he will call him even if he is on the other went through immense pain. I felt horrible of the time. The mother tells me that since side of the street. He is also quick to be- contractions – the worst pain I ever felt.” he was a baby he suffered from recurring friend new children. ear infections, a condition accompanied Speech late: it took a while until he spoke. with secretion from the ears. He has a highly developed imagination and To this day he mispronounces words. a high ability to concentrate; he can occupy He constantly suffers from the common himself on his own. Pimples? The mom suffered from them as a cold, which became a chronic condition teenager, the father did too. with a constantly stuffed nose. He likes cuddling, falls asleep at night while stroking me. He is good with girls. He is not The last ear infection occurred a month ago, a fighting, physical boy. (Strokes himself Case Analysis when he was found to have enlarged ade- with a feather at my office.) Knows how to noids, a third tonsil and an air blockage. express love, to cuddle and hold, can even In approaching this case I used the Table of hug and kiss his friends from time to time. Plants structure (see further details later The teacher in his playschool thought his on), as the case demonstrates clear indica- hearing was decreasing. Medical findings Communicates, like my husband, some- tions of the fifth column in the Table: the showed a slight decrease. thing optimistic, happy and safe. However, competitiveness, bossiness, his need to like him, he is addicted to control: he is control others, to be the first, to be “taller”. This document was downloaded for personal use only. Unauthorized distribution is strictly prohibited. He grinds his teeth at night, especially bossy, tries to dictate the course of events All that points to the fifth column. His need when it is noisy – for instance, when his so that things will go the way he intends to establish relationships, his needs to baby brother cries. them to. He dislikes changes. Rigid, even please others, to be likeable in a charming though from the outside he appears soft way along with excessive emotional sensi- Still wets his bed at night. and sweet. tivity, occupation with the world beyond, The mother narrates SUMMARY “He has two older brothers (8, 11) and a younger one-year-old brother (received him relatively well, pretty much ignores This case demonstrates the use of my systemʼs table of plants in arriving at him…) and deciding the remedy – and understanding the reasoning in this case. He is an amazing child, he becomes accli- KEYWORDS Table of Plants, Rosales, Rosa damascena, Wondrous Order matized quickly everywhere. He is very 6 Michal Yakir, A Case Study – Homœopathic Links Spring 2013, Vol. 26: 6–11 © Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd. He does not eat well. He only eats candies and cakes. The teeth grinding decreased, but it still ex- ists. He does not wet his bed that much. The competitiveness is still there: he must be first to receive the food; he fights over his place with his elder brother, even though he loves him. Apparently, the issue is his young brother; it seems now that he would have been happy to give him away. The jealousy is out. He is more insolent and rebellious than be- fore. He used to be a conformist child. He MATERIA MEDICA AND CASES used to do anything to make you like him. Now he threatens to leave the house when things are not done his way. Prescription: Switch to fluid Rosa damas- Fig. 1 Rosa damascena (Damask rose). cena C12, 1 drop daily Again two months later Table 1 Repertorization using RADAR program. Bed-wetting ceased entirely: one day he Repertorization ros-d. nux-v. sil. staph. lac-leo. aur. simply asked to sleep without a nappy and 3/3 2/3 2/3 2/2 2/2 1/3 has been dry since. 1 MIND – ANGER – contradiction; 7512211 3 from Teeth grinding has almost stopped. His 2 MIND – COMPETITIVE – brother or 21–––1 – sleep is calmer. sister with* He no longer suffers from the cold. (A symptom I added to the reper- tory, based on my clinical experi- – ence and Chetna Shuklaʼs proving) Mentally he is calmer, less agitated, has less tantrums, is still competitive with his 3 EAR – EUSTACHIAN TUBE; com- 151111–– plaints of brother and sister but the most clear change is individualism, which was absent beforehand. This can be seen with his friends: if they do not want to play his thoughts about death and ghosts – all point Prescription: Rosa damascena C12 once games – he goes on to play by himself, and to the first row, particularly with the his- daily does not try to please them. He began tak- tory of an early-induced labor, which is a ing his remedy by himself (with a shy and clear indication of a “pre” process, or the Follow-up engaging smile he tells me that his mother first row. After two months helps him. So this quality of the remedy is A day after taking the remedy for the first still there). There is an excessive need to please, the time he developed a high fever which, This document was downloaded for personal use only. Unauthorized distribution is strictly prohibited. gentleness, the desire to hug, kiss and cud- within one day, was gone, on its own. Since Prescription: Raise potency to Rosa damas- dle, and the desire for sweets; the “pink” then he has been healthy, apart from one cena C15– 1dropaday. aura that surrounds the entire case. All occasion on which the parents went abroad these point to the Rose family (which is and he was in playschool. He got sick but Later on, we further increased the potency situated in the beginning of the fifth col- recovered two days after his parents re- to C18. umn). turned. He was healthy until a flu epidemic erupted at school a few days ago. His par- Again two months later Out of the Rosales, Rosa damascena has a ents travelled and left him with his grand- Physically he is fine. Hearing is normal. Si- known affinity to ear pathology, and issues parents: he woke up saying that his body nuses clean. No cold. The jealousy for his with height and competitiveness. Thus it hurts and he cannot go to playschool. Has a brother also passed and he is very nice to was chosen as the remedy for the case (see cough, which is rather deep, but no sinusi- him. Also, the anxiety level decreased sig- Fig. 1 and Table 1). tis even though he suffers from a slight nificantly. In playschool he is highly popu- common cold. lar, a leader. Wants things to be done his way – rather spoiled… Michal Yakir, A Case Study – Homœopathic Links Spring 2013, Vol. 26: 6–11 © Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd. 7 In the following winter they came for an ad- Plants were the first to fashion the idea of becomes quite easy to decipher the homeo- ditional session as he had a slight cold and separation in nature: Unlike minerals, pathic sense of it by assembling the Materia some teeth grinding.