| What does a psychologist do when she has chronic allergies, asthma and stress from life? |
She called a homeopath of course. Roz was an established psychologist who was referred to me by a mutual friend who also
happens to be a psychologist. For many years, Roz suffered from watery eyes, allergies, asthma, and constipation. She
tried everything from allergy shots and other conventional medicines to herbs and vitamin supplements to relieve her of the
discomforts from all these conditions. Nothing seemed to work.
In July 2007, we met for the first time. Roz began her session by telling me about her dream to live on a horse ranch in
Arizona and practice a specialized psychology known as Equine Therapy. She began riding horses shortly after her brother
died when she was just a teenager. It gave her a sense of being in control, having a certain freedom and power. As a
psychologist, she attended an Equine Therapy workshop a few years ago and discovered a connection with her love for
horses and her passion for psychology.
"This workshop made so much sense how horses can be agents to help people learn about themselves. Horses being prey
animals are very in touch with themselves. They need that ability to survive in the wilderness. Being brought up in a family
where feelings didn't flow, I began to understand that horses see feelings as information - not good or bad, right or wrong -
just information to help us in the world. For example if you're angry, it means that someone is impinging on your boundaries
and you need to set boundaries. I also saw how horses are so adept at experiencing congruence... so if you're in a round
pin with a horse and you're angry but you have a smile on your face, the horse will understand that there is something
incongruent. This was something I experienced in my life... my senses didn't jive with what was going on."
Roz went on to describe the day her brother died. It was Thanksgiving but not like other years. This year the family went to
dinner at a restaurant when they got the call that her brother was in the hospital - dead. When everyone returned home,
she and her siblings were sent to bed and then "everything broke loose".
I asked her to describe what she meant by broke loose. "More like confusion. Things going on in every which way and you
can't make sense of it. It's out of control. I feel like I'm expressing an inner sense of out of control."
So I then asked her to describe something that's out of control. "Right now physically, my bowels, my reactions, my eyes
tearing, allergies, not having my house sold on my conditions, and not finding a property in Arizona."
I asked her to describe something in nature that's out of control. "Well I live 2 blocks from the ocean and sometimes I get the
fear of a tsunami and the ocean engulfing me."
"What's the sensation," I asked. "Not being able to breath and being underwater and helpless; not being able to do anything
about it and being suffocated; being in a state of fear until I die, not peaceful - it wouldn't be a peaceful death. There is
something that's gotten uncomfortable about being near water and I want to be near nature - Arizona and the desert. We
moved to Long Beach to be near the ocean but now it doesn't feel right and I need to get back to the land and the animals.
Maybe because I feel more in control of the land and nature. "
"Tell me about the desert." I interjected. "Dry, peaceful, feels like it holds in it that which is sacred, very sacred and very
spiritual. History. It has dangers and you have to be aware. I often take silent walks. Once, I got too close to a cactus with
pricklies that jumped out at me. There are things that you have to really be aware of. Take nothing for granted. Those are
real dangers and not like crossing the street and getting hit by a car. The desert is the epitome of earthiness, where as the
city is the epitome of unrealness.
"What do you mean by earthiness?" She replied "in this area, it's earthy. A water loop river and land, open and green and
dry areas. People are earthy. They care about you and each other; they are friendly and are about what's real. This area
where we want to live is close enough to town for my husband who's a city boy, close enough to (the city of) Austin and yet
it's like in a little oasis. Three thousand acres of cattle ranch that's been subdivided and there is water runny through it and
wild deer, antelopes and wild turkeys and cattle walking around. People are concerned about growth and plant life and
nature. I love to take care of my plants - I have a lot of plants; I want to be able to find out about birds that are flying and
flowers and plants."
It was clear to me that Roz needed a remedy from the plant kingdom. She was totally affected by her environment and was
driven to live somewhere more conducive to her inner, spiritual desire of being in the desert. Now I had to determine which
desert plant was most similar to Roz's character and had proven to cure allergies, watery eyes, constipation, and had mental
and emotional symptoms similar to what she described.
At this point it was important for me to understand her physical symptoms to ensure that the remedy I select had been
proven to cover her chief complaints. She described her breathing difficulties as having a "tightness in her chest, as if
something is blocking it so that enough air can't get into the lungs." She said, "I feel it in my throat and my chest, like a
narrowing of everything..." and I observed her make a motion with her hands which she described as "squeezing... making
things smaller... if you have a big space you can hold more air, and if you have little space you can hold just so much air. My
throat and lungs squeeze to allow for less air to come in."
Roz was allergic to many fruits; in fact, she "could not be near an orange without her throat closing", or strawberries or
apples as her lips would swell up; however, melons like cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon or bananas or grapefruits were
okay. As a child, Roz had an allergic reaction to penicillin - her feet "blew up". She prefers hot climates and had a dreaded
dislike for cold weather.
I also asked Roz to select whatever card or cards from a deck of picture cards and match the cards to words that would
describe the pictures she selected. The purpose of this exercise is to assist the client in revealing his or her inner essence
by paying close attention to the descriptions of each card. Roz selected nearly 30 cards and used the following words to
describe the pictures she selected... pure, sacred, peaceful, danger, water, dryness, tightness, heavy, spiritual, desert,
cactus, horses and fruit.
Coincidentally, though I hardly believe it was coincidence, I had just purchased the book entitled "The Desert World, A
Homeopathic Exploration" by Todd Rowe, M.D. Dr. Rowe explains that desert remedies have an affinity to the following:
What made this case very unique was Roz's connection to horses. A search of the materia medica for desert plants with an
affection for horses lead me to select Anhalonium as the remedy in this case. Anhalonium is prepared from a cactus found
in Texas and Northern Mexico. Now isn't that funny... that's about where Roz wanted to live.
Roz took one dose of Anhalonium 200C. Three weeks later, she phone me to let me know that she was doing much better.
Her allergies, asthma and constipation had all improved and she was noticeably less stressful. I instructed her to do nothing
and follow up with me in a few more weeks. Later that night, our mutual friend called to tell me that Roz was admitted to the
hospital for a high fever. The doctors conducted several tests on her and only found that she had a mild bladder infection
which cleared up in a day or so and without any normal discomfort associated with bladder infections. In fact, at our one and
only follow up session, Roz commented that if she hadn't been to the hospital, she would have never known that she had the
bladder infection which I then discovered was a reoccurring old symptom. The fever and the reoccurring bladder infection
were excellent signs that the homeopathic treatment was very effective.
It is now nearly a year since I last met with Roz and she is doing great. All her physical symptoms are gone, she sold her
house by the ocean, moved to Texas (not Arizona) and rented a horse ranch where she practices Equine Therapy. It's very
unusual to have such amazing and quick results but hey I'm not complaining and neither is Roz.
All the names and non-pertinent details of all the cases presented in this website have been slightly modified to protect the privacy of those
treated.
happens to be a psychologist. For many years, Roz suffered from watery eyes, allergies, asthma, and constipation. She
tried everything from allergy shots and other conventional medicines to herbs and vitamin supplements to relieve her of the
discomforts from all these conditions. Nothing seemed to work.
In July 2007, we met for the first time. Roz began her session by telling me about her dream to live on a horse ranch in
Arizona and practice a specialized psychology known as Equine Therapy. She began riding horses shortly after her brother
died when she was just a teenager. It gave her a sense of being in control, having a certain freedom and power. As a
psychologist, she attended an Equine Therapy workshop a few years ago and discovered a connection with her love for
horses and her passion for psychology.
"This workshop made so much sense how horses can be agents to help people learn about themselves. Horses being prey
animals are very in touch with themselves. They need that ability to survive in the wilderness. Being brought up in a family
where feelings didn't flow, I began to understand that horses see feelings as information - not good or bad, right or wrong -
just information to help us in the world. For example if you're angry, it means that someone is impinging on your boundaries
and you need to set boundaries. I also saw how horses are so adept at experiencing congruence... so if you're in a round
pin with a horse and you're angry but you have a smile on your face, the horse will understand that there is something
incongruent. This was something I experienced in my life... my senses didn't jive with what was going on."
Roz went on to describe the day her brother died. It was Thanksgiving but not like other years. This year the family went to
dinner at a restaurant when they got the call that her brother was in the hospital - dead. When everyone returned home,
she and her siblings were sent to bed and then "everything broke loose".
I asked her to describe what she meant by broke loose. "More like confusion. Things going on in every which way and you
can't make sense of it. It's out of control. I feel like I'm expressing an inner sense of out of control."
So I then asked her to describe something that's out of control. "Right now physically, my bowels, my reactions, my eyes
tearing, allergies, not having my house sold on my conditions, and not finding a property in Arizona."
I asked her to describe something in nature that's out of control. "Well I live 2 blocks from the ocean and sometimes I get the
fear of a tsunami and the ocean engulfing me."
"What's the sensation," I asked. "Not being able to breath and being underwater and helpless; not being able to do anything
about it and being suffocated; being in a state of fear until I die, not peaceful - it wouldn't be a peaceful death. There is
something that's gotten uncomfortable about being near water and I want to be near nature - Arizona and the desert. We
moved to Long Beach to be near the ocean but now it doesn't feel right and I need to get back to the land and the animals.
Maybe because I feel more in control of the land and nature. "
"Tell me about the desert." I interjected. "Dry, peaceful, feels like it holds in it that which is sacred, very sacred and very
spiritual. History. It has dangers and you have to be aware. I often take silent walks. Once, I got too close to a cactus with
pricklies that jumped out at me. There are things that you have to really be aware of. Take nothing for granted. Those are
real dangers and not like crossing the street and getting hit by a car. The desert is the epitome of earthiness, where as the
city is the epitome of unrealness.
"What do you mean by earthiness?" She replied "in this area, it's earthy. A water loop river and land, open and green and
dry areas. People are earthy. They care about you and each other; they are friendly and are about what's real. This area
where we want to live is close enough to town for my husband who's a city boy, close enough to (the city of) Austin and yet
it's like in a little oasis. Three thousand acres of cattle ranch that's been subdivided and there is water runny through it and
wild deer, antelopes and wild turkeys and cattle walking around. People are concerned about growth and plant life and
nature. I love to take care of my plants - I have a lot of plants; I want to be able to find out about birds that are flying and
flowers and plants."
It was clear to me that Roz needed a remedy from the plant kingdom. She was totally affected by her environment and was
driven to live somewhere more conducive to her inner, spiritual desire of being in the desert. Now I had to determine which
desert plant was most similar to Roz's character and had proven to cure allergies, watery eyes, constipation, and had mental
and emotional symptoms similar to what she described.
At this point it was important for me to understand her physical symptoms to ensure that the remedy I select had been
proven to cover her chief complaints. She described her breathing difficulties as having a "tightness in her chest, as if
something is blocking it so that enough air can't get into the lungs." She said, "I feel it in my throat and my chest, like a
narrowing of everything..." and I observed her make a motion with her hands which she described as "squeezing... making
things smaller... if you have a big space you can hold more air, and if you have little space you can hold just so much air. My
throat and lungs squeeze to allow for less air to come in."
Roz was allergic to many fruits; in fact, she "could not be near an orange without her throat closing", or strawberries or
apples as her lips would swell up; however, melons like cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon or bananas or grapefruits were
okay. As a child, Roz had an allergic reaction to penicillin - her feet "blew up". She prefers hot climates and had a dreaded
dislike for cold weather.
I also asked Roz to select whatever card or cards from a deck of picture cards and match the cards to words that would
describe the pictures she selected. The purpose of this exercise is to assist the client in revealing his or her inner essence
by paying close attention to the descriptions of each card. Roz selected nearly 30 cards and used the following words to
describe the pictures she selected... pure, sacred, peaceful, danger, water, dryness, tightness, heavy, spiritual, desert,
cactus, horses and fruit.
Coincidentally, though I hardly believe it was coincidence, I had just purchased the book entitled "The Desert World, A
Homeopathic Exploration" by Todd Rowe, M.D. Dr. Rowe explains that desert remedies have an affinity to the following:
- Water: the desert either has too little or too much water and Roz was struggling with issues of water throughout the
case taking. Tearing or watery eyes (non-absorption of water) was one of her chief complaints, and she also had the
feeling of being unsafe living near the ocean. - Expansion and contraction: Roz essentially described something that expands and contracts when she explained
her hand motions as squeezing (see above) - Plants in the desert struggle for survival: the issue of survival was present but her mannerism and descriptions
were not consistent with typical animal remedies, so this confirmed for me that the remedy was a desert plant. - Spirituality: the desert is a place of mystery and spirituality and Roz was certainly connect to this experience.
What made this case very unique was Roz's connection to horses. A search of the materia medica for desert plants with an
affection for horses lead me to select Anhalonium as the remedy in this case. Anhalonium is prepared from a cactus found
in Texas and Northern Mexico. Now isn't that funny... that's about where Roz wanted to live.
Roz took one dose of Anhalonium 200C. Three weeks later, she phone me to let me know that she was doing much better.
Her allergies, asthma and constipation had all improved and she was noticeably less stressful. I instructed her to do nothing
and follow up with me in a few more weeks. Later that night, our mutual friend called to tell me that Roz was admitted to the
hospital for a high fever. The doctors conducted several tests on her and only found that she had a mild bladder infection
which cleared up in a day or so and without any normal discomfort associated with bladder infections. In fact, at our one and
only follow up session, Roz commented that if she hadn't been to the hospital, she would have never known that she had the
bladder infection which I then discovered was a reoccurring old symptom. The fever and the reoccurring bladder infection
were excellent signs that the homeopathic treatment was very effective.
It is now nearly a year since I last met with Roz and she is doing great. All her physical symptoms are gone, she sold her
house by the ocean, moved to Texas (not Arizona) and rented a horse ranch where she practices Equine Therapy. It's very
unusual to have such amazing and quick results but hey I'm not complaining and neither is Roz.
All the names and non-pertinent details of all the cases presented in this website have been slightly modified to protect the privacy of those
treated.
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| Francine Bork Nadav, Classical Homeopath tel. 516-510-7880 email. francine22@optonline.net Long Island Office: 421 Oakland Avenue * Cedarhurst, New York 11516 Queens: 144-37 68th Drive, Suite 1, Kew Garden Hills, New York Manhattan: 8 Gramercy Park South, New York City, New York |