Sue Young Homeopathy

Starts with the throat, then voice goes funny. Maybe a day and a bit?
Then the thing really gets hold!

Headaches, chilliness, freezing. I slept for 36 hours, waking only to groan! When I did wake up, I was freezing to death, my head in a painful vice, my sinus’s, my skull - this was the first time in years I have had to use painkillers. I couldn’t sleep because of the pain. And then the throat. Coughing is sooo painful and not very productive. Little bits of mucous hard to cough up. And the glands! My neck at the front - like swollen stones so painful. I can feel my lymph glands all the way down to the mesenterics, they pulse on occasion and every now and then a sharp pain goes through them. Wonderful!

Day 4
Still on painkillers for the head pain, and groaning a lot. Not hungry, not thirsty, every drink goes through me causing frequent scalding urine so I think I will go without. I can’t read because of the pain in my head, TV is boring but all I can manage. I think I will go and take some more painkillers because my upper teeth may fall out and my nasal bones may explode.

Everything takes far too long to do and I am making so many typos, this is taking me four times as long to post. I wish I could go to work, but I would not be very productive. I am hoping that my boredom is a good sign!

Remedies? Well I took mercury 200c on the first day and it knocked me out for about 36 hours. It was the freezing and the shivering that woke me up (the head pain was doing its best to do so but lost out to the freezing), so I took some arsenicum 200c. Amazingly, the weather warmed up afterwards! Must just be a coincidence, huh? It was so hot in the house, I turned the central heating off and it is now 9 degrees celcius outside instead of 1 degree! However, I am still freezing, so I am going to take some more arsenicum 200c!
I am not really up to more analysis, but I will post more when I see more of this bug and when I feel better. This post has taken me over 45 minutes to type. I would normally do it in under 3 minutes!

Post script: 7.2.06 day 5
I do feel better! I’m going to go to work, but I’m not sure how I’ll go. I have not slept, really, except in snatches, for 36 hours, just not tired ’cause I slept for 36 hours days 2-3. But I feel better apart from the pain in my nose!! I have taken more pain killers. The air going through the passages as I breathe is excruciating, and if it hadn’t warmed up outside, I wouldn’t dare this ‘going outside’ lark. The pain is concentrated in my nose now, deep inside, above my palate, and does feel more like swollen cartilage today, and less like something is boring into my skull or applying a vice to my bones. The cough is the same but not as painful. Prescription? Cardiovascular walk to work and lots of hot fluids. I’m fed up with being ill, that’s how I know I’m better!
Later: Well no! I didn’t enjoy day 5! I did manage to stay at work all day and I was pretty productive. Everyone I met was either recovering from this cold, going down with this cold or remembering it with horror. I took my first ever (!) dose of Day Nurse because I was at work and my nose was a firework display, exploding and sneezing and I think I was groaning softly most of the time. Well I’m only human! And I was desperate! Interestingly, the pharmacist just smiled when she saw me coming and reached out behind her for the bottle before I had chance to ask for it. She knew I was going to ask for it! Just like everyone else in the shop was going to do or just had. I think we can say we have a little local mino epidemic here! The afternoon was the most interesting, oily drenching sweats! Fun! Later on in the evening I cried a lot and and coughed up quite a lot of phlegm and argued with my son over ?nothing? Well, we were having a good banter back and forth about everything and the floodgates opened! I just cried for over an hour. We laughed about it afterwards, of course, and then the chills returned. Actually, I am freezing (rush to the loo). Oh! Did I mention constipation? Not any more!! Now I’m boiling! My nose is still a firework display and my chest is rattling like a….? Can’t think of any good descriptions, sorry! ?Remedies? Oh no, I don’t need another remedy at the moment. There is too much energy about for that, thank you very much! Who needs expensive detox when you can catch this wonderful cold? Sleep is what I need right now. Goodnight all.
1.19am - had to get up to fix left leg, jumping around bed all on it’s own! Hypericum 10m (out of 200c) - ahhhh bliss and back to bed!
5.46am - wide awake. Slept well, but obviously not all night. Mind racing and very hot, but definitely better.

Post script 9.2.06 Day 7
The last two days were difficult and I felt awful, coughing as if my lymph nodes around my lungs were a hard chain mail constricting my breathing, but no asthma at all, of which I have quite a history. It is years since I used an inhaler and I was in no need of one here. The cough got looser and came up when I was talking or laughing, of which I have done quite a lot. I am deliberately doing cardiovascular works ups, walking till I have to stop and catch my breath, today I am going to clean the house within an inch of its life, but I have to stop after every job until my heart rate settles down. It is the only way to do it, as I have learnt over a lifetime of bronchitis and asthma. Today, I have woken up with a cold sore under my left nostril, a sure sign I am on the mend. Healing is very like an SAS training course at times! More remedies? No, not yet. If I stick to my usual course, I will take a tuberculinum 200c or a sulphur 200c in a few days to ‘brighten myself up’. but for now I still have loads of energy puring through me and lots is still happening, so no remedies today!

Post script 10.2.06 Day 8
Lots of pale green stuff coughing up off chest this morning, plus lots of scabs in tissue when I blow my nose. Nasty cold sore bubbling up under my left nostril as before. Last night I cracked and took several doses of medorrhinum 10m because there was just far too much mucous in my chest and I couldn’t talk without coughing copiously. This morning, it is less and I may repeat this remedy later to dry up my chest.

Post script 12.2.06 day 10
The last two days were nasty, the medorrhinum cleared up the mucous on my chest, but tightened it to the point where breathing was difficult. Tiredness and irritability, as well as feeling as if I were made totally from salt! Everything tasted of salt and everything was sore. I felt, as always, that this bloody thing was never going to let go of me. A few doses of nat mur 10m eased it off and a couple of good nights sleep, and lots of oranges eaten fresh and delicious did the trick. I think I might be human again by tomorrow. Nasty little bugger, this one!

Homeopathic treatment of acute illness
This stonking cold is a classic illustration of an acute illness. It is self limiting and ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’. We define an acute illness as self limiting. It will resolve all by itself if we do not treat it, but we like to treat acutes for many reasons:

• They are windows into the constitutional core of a case.
• They illustrate the origins of dis-ease and give us a clear shot at prescribing on such origins.
• They offer us a too good to miss opportunity to ‘clear the case’ or ‘detox’.
• We can use them to reveal blocks to cure. Often the acute state will line up with the aetiology of the dis-ease and reveal an exposed miasm.

In this case the miasm is obviously the syphyllitic miasm. Mercury and arsenicum are the primary remedies in this miasm, and the focus in the nasal bones was confirmatory. This does not mean that the stonking cold was syphyllitic, it means the cold was a spotlight to illustrate that miasm in this case. We are all different, like snowflakes. My son was exposed to this cold, developed a headache which responded to a remedy and that was that! No stonking cold, no development beyond the first symptom, as if his system took a look and decided, no thanks! My system is already wrestling with these issues, as you can all clearly tell from my blogs. I am trying to heal this miasm, not just in myself, but in the violent world all around me and that I see so clearly reflected in my practice.
We all contain all the miasms, which is why Ancestral Healing is of such importance. It is no use saying ‘Oh! Not me!’ The ancestors are our SOIL. This is what we grew out of and what comprises us. Think about it. The virus’ they caught alter our DNA, and there is not one of us who doesn’t have an ancestor with any disease you care to name. These ‘influences’ or ‘miasms’ will emerge during the homeopathic treatment of your case, like serpents rising from an alchemical crucible. Acute illness is the window through which we can look into the crucible as it comes up to the boil. If we can successfully treat the acute illness, we can alter the influence of the miasm in the constitution. We can close an open miasm, we can reverse its influence in much the same way that a tarot card’s meaning is reversed if it is upside down.

It is important to remember that the influence of the miasms is not always bad. We cannot eradicate the influence of our ancestors, but we can learn from them and go beyond them. In this way, we understand the lessons of the past and we ARE NOT CONSTRAINED BY THEM, nor DOOMED TO REPEAT THEM. This is the secret of detoxification. It is also why is it vitally important to HONOUR OUR ANCESTORS! And I mean all of them, the good and the bad, to Romans and the Celts, if you like. In truth, they have their good parts and their bad parts and we are a recombination of their heritage. If we keep repeating their mistakes, we keep recreating their disease. We replicate the virus, if you like.
Nature does not do this ad infinitum. It allows mutation. A wise virus does not kill its host. We remain rigid and unchanging because we do not understand, because we are disordered in our wills. Our belief structures do not allow change, for example in religion, so the world is bathed in blood AGAIN AND AGAIN! Nature allows change. We often do not. Acute illness is such an opportunity to change the nature of a case.

Used intelligently by a healer, the treatment of acute illness can ‘remove the stain of the dis-ease’ and lead to cure. In the Organon Hahnemann exhorts us to do this simply, with no fancy intelligible language to bamboozle the sick or to gain status by sounding ‘clever’. Just get on and do it, he says. Well, I am trying, but as you can see the concepts are not easy or particularly accessible. They are however, ’simple’ to understand after a while. It is not that they are particularly difficult, but rather that we are too disordered in our wills to grasp such simple substance. We believe that we are better than Nature for a start. Rubbish, we are just a part of it! We believe we have a better god that our neighbour does. Rubbish, of course. This is the aetiology of dis-ease. This is the disturbance in the will seen at source, the origin. Acute illness shines a light on the original dyscrasia, it is as simple as that!

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