Synthesis
DD.: Bell, Calc, Carc, Cham, Cupr, Lach, Lyc, Op, Stram, Tub
Following often Carc.
Followed by Lac maternum*, sometimes by Carcinosin
(*Lac maternum is made in cooperation with Dolisos Holland; as substance was used the milk of nine mothers in different stages of breast feeding from three days after birth to eight months)
Cl = J.H. Clarke; HA = H.C. Allen
- ESSENCE: lack of self-love with fear to be abandoned by the mother from fear not to deserve her love; the profound problem of the Saccharum patient is therefore a desperate search for love, affection and attention
- CAUSATION/ACTIVATION: lack of (self)love; ABANDONMENT, emotional neglect; lack of affection, lack of physical contact in early childhood, especially babies who didn't get breast feeding, combined with a lack of contact with the mother; lack of attention; when children get sweets in stead of love or when behavior is rewarded by sweets
- TYPE: pale, deathlike face (Cl); dry skin; obesity with compulsive eating, especially sweets, cakes and pastries, potato crisps, etc., anything; very aggressive children, often emaciated
- ANTECEDENTS: FAMILY history of DIABETES, cancer
- Great need to CUDDLE, to be caressed and touched or difficulty to admit this need and refusing every contact
- SUCKING FINGERS almost the whole day and during the night or having never sucked his fingers at all; putting everything in his mouth or never putting anything in his mouth; sucking fingers until an advanced age
- BITING NAILS, up to the quick ; biting toe nails
- HOMESICKNESS (HA,TS); difficulty to take leave of people or objects; difficult acceptation of losses
- JEALOUSY, from fear to lose his beloved; VERY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE LOVE OF PARTNER OR PARENTS
- LOQUACITY, MOSTLY TO HAVE ATTENTION; incessant and hasty talking
- IRRESOLUTION
- IRRITABLE (Cl), morning, until breakfast; when one or two hours without taking any food; irritability when hungry, amel. by eating
- Slow waking up and revival after rising in the morning
- ALTERNATING MOOD: gentleness alternating with aggressiveness
- SENSITIVE TO PAIN or NOT SENSITIVE TO PAIN AT ALL; FAINTING FROM PAIN; fear of fainting; fear of seeing blood, fainting on seeing blood, fainting from blood puncture
- RESTLESS; restless hands and restless legs
- AGG.: sweets, chocolate, warm weather, in early morning (Cl) with difficulty to start the day
- AMEL.: evening, sweets (Cl), eating (Cl), after breakfast
- AVERSION: (cooked) vegetables, warm food; anything except sweets (Cl); sweets; warm milk; fat; butter
- DESIRES: chocolate, licorice, sweets, pastries and cakes; farinaceous food; sweets after dinner, before menses, in the evening; raw vegetables; tea, cold drinks, especially water; warm or cold milk, fat; salt; butter, bread and butter, sour, lemons, mustard
- THIRST for large quantities; desires water and/or tea; or absence of thirst
- Ravenous appetite soon after eating with feeling of emptiness in stomach and general weakness; tendency to eat frequently between meals; has to eat at the normal hour, otherwise weak, dizzy, trembling, headache, etc.; ravenous appetite, morning, after waking, has to eat first; insatiable appetite not amel. by eating
- Little or no appetite in the morning, but insatiable appetite in the evening; no feeling of hunger at all at any time; no desire to eat; ANOREXIA
- COMPULSIVE EATING; BOULIMIA
- WEAKNESS, lack of energy; sudden weakness, amel. by eating; weakness after sweets
- Extremely AGGRESSIVE, quarrelsome (Cl), violent (HA), malicious and defiant, especially after taking chocolate or sweets; kicks and hits
- FITS OF ANGER, unapproachable
- SADNESS, agg. after sweets; lack of joy in life, feeling that life is not worth living; no real feeling of relationship with other people and with life in general; feeling that everybody / the world is against him; hypochondriacal mood (Cl)
- Sensation of LONELINESS; FORSAKEN FEELING
- DISCONTENTED with himself and with everything; hard to please
- FEAR OF DARK; FEAR OF LOSING BELOVED PERSONS / PARENTS
- WAKING VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING
- Warmth; hot feet, sticks them out of bed, sometimes only one foot; sticks one or two arms out of bed or sleeps with the upper half of body uncovered
- Extreme DRYNESS: dryness of skin, hair, nails, hands, feet, inner side of nose, eyes, mouth, throat, vagina, stool
- Painful ovulation and menses; complaints before menses: sadness, irritability, swelling and painful breasts; brown bloody discharge preceding menses
- Tingling in arms, fingers and legs, agg. at night
- Panaritium
- Type: very pale, white as sugar; profuse perspiration, especially at night, sometimes only the head as Calcarea CARBONICA
- Great need to CUDDLE, to be caressed and touched or difficulty to admit this need and refusing every contact
- TOUCHING EVERYTHING
- SUCKING FINGERS almost the whole day and during the night or having never sucked his fingers at all; putting everything in his mouth or never putting anything in his mouth; sucking fingers until an advanced age
- BITING NAILS, up to the quick; biting toe nails
- FORSAKEN FEELING; desire to be held in the arms of his mother; desire to be carried; desire to sleep with the parents; fear to be expelled from the group
- HOMESICKNESS (HA)
- PAIN IN THE ABDOMEN AROUND THE NAVEL from difficulty to release his mother
- EXTREMELY RESTLESS, agg. after sweets; running, moving all the time; restless while sitting
- DIFFICULT CONCENTRATION, going from one toy to another, changing constantly his activity, not able to fix his attention
- IMPATIENCE, everything he wants has to be satisfied immediately otherwise he becomes angry, not able to be distracted or reasoned
- LOQUACITY, to have attention; questioning all the time; incessant and hasty talking; loud voice, shrieking
- PLAYS ANTICS to have attention; loves to be on stage, to be in the limelight
- ANTISOCIAL, thinks he is neglected and placed at a disadvantage; feels despised; envious; JEALOUSY; VERY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE LOVE OF PARENTS; possessive love
- Delusion, his parents don't love him or that he is less loved than his siblings
- Extremely AGGRESSIVE, quarrelsome (Cl), violent (HA), malicious and defiant, especially after taking chocolate or sweets; kicks and hits
- ALTERNATING MOOD: gentleness alternating with aggressiveness
- FITS OF ANGER, unapproachable
- Insolence in children (HA); disobedience
- Sensitive to reprimand or not sensitive to reprimand at all, impossible to correct
- Collects everything, not able to throw things away; attachment to objects
- IRRESOLUTION
- SENSITIVE TO PAIN or NOT SENSITIVE TO PAIN AT ALL; FAINTING FROM PAIN
- Fear of unknown situations, very uncertain
- TIMIDITY; FEAR OF FAILURE; sensitive to criticism, great need of approbation
- WAKING EARLY IN THE MORNING
- Aphthae in children; profuse salivation
- Oxyuris