18 Materia Medica and Cases

Clinically Verified Materia Medica: An

Explanation and Remedy Example
Roger Morrison1 Nancy Herrick1

1 Hahnemann Clinic, Richmond, California, United States Address for correspondence Roger Morrison, MD, Hahnemann Clinic,
1220 Brickyard Cove Road, Point Richmond, CA 94801, United States
Homœopathic Links 2018;31(1):18–24. (e-mail: HMCrichmond@gmail.com).

Abstract The ‘Clinically Verified Materia Medica’ is a work in progress. It is based on cured cases
Keywords only rather than the opinions of the author or other trusted authorities. Only remedies
► Clinically Verified of which at least three well-documented cured cases could be found are included. The
Materia Medica basis for this project is a trove of seven to eight thousand cured cases from the practice
► Cured cases of Roger Morrison and colleagues as also from journals and e-journals. In this article, a
► Lac lupinum case of Lac lupinum by Nancy Herrick is presented as an example.

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Introduction by the various prescribers in every case available and pains-
takingly sifted and collated. My one principle was to docu-
About 10 years ago, I began to consider making a new edition ment exactly what was found in these cases and to be
of my book, Desktop Guide.1 There were so many new transparent about how frequently the characteristics
discoveries that my own copy of Desktop Guide was stuffed occurred. On average (or I should say median) I had 10 to
with notes refining information about traditional remedies 12 cases per remedy—though many remedies had 20, 30, 40
and even more information about the many new and highly or more cases (which is a bit of a nightmare).
useful remedies that had been proved and tested. As I began Next, I simply numbered the cases, and then documented
the work, I was amazed by the number of clinical cases I was which cases showed each symptom I came across. If two
able to find from journals, e-journals, from my large circle of cases showed the same symptom, I included it in the write-
colleagues. And my wife and collaborator Nancy Herrick had up. If a third of the cases showed a particular symptom, I
for decades already been amassing cases from our constant made it bold type. In all lists (e.g. food cravings or fears) I list
attendance in seminars and from our own students. Adding the particular (food, etc.) in order of frequency. When none of
these cases together I discovered to my astonishment we had the cases (or exceedingly few) showed a supposedly impor-
a trove of seven or eight thousand cured cases which I began tant symptom for a remedy, I documented this as well. For
to use to inform my remedy descriptions. After working for a example, in some 30 plus modern cases of Gelsemium, only
couple of years this way, I realised I needed to change course one had the symptom, headache ameliorated by urination
and make the cured cases the centre of the book—not an (though many historic cases do confirm the symptom).
ancillary aspect. So I found myself embarked on an entirely Perhaps we simply have more toilets now, but I felt it was
new kind of book—one centred upon cured cases rather than also important to document the ways the cases did not
the opinions of myself or even of other trusted authorities. I confirm ‘common knowledge’.
decided to call this new book, ‘Clinically Verified Materia To my excitement (and a renewal of my faith in our work),
Medica’. this process amply justified itself. Authors (prescribers) from
Eventually I found a system for working on this book. I every point on the globe constantly (though unknowingly)
made the arbitrary decision that if I could not find three cases reconfirmed findings from others—down to minute symp-
of a particular remedy, I would not include it—even if the toms, food cravings, dreams, fears, patient essences. By this
remedy (and its symptomatology) was regularly included in process, thousands of previously undocumented symp-
other Materia Medicas stretching back centuries. I gathered toms were found and many other constantly emphasised
the cases of the remedy I was working on and made a symptoms from other Materia Medicas (including my own
synthesis of every symptom and characteristic mentioned Desktop Guide) were found absent. Supposed keynotes and

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confirmatories need to be re-evaluated—for example, in

Causticum cases the most common (and often most intense)
food reaction is craving for sweets—numerically far out-
stripping the more famous symptom: aversion to sweets.
Or unexpected characteristics were found—for example, in
over 40 published cases of Carcinosin, only one was male. Or
entirely new symptoms discovered—for example, the stron-
gest fear of Kreosotum was of airplanes (four of nine cases).
None of us can possibly see every aspect of an individual
remedy, and even when we have multiple successful cases of
a particular remedy, the cases may be years apart. And, when
a particular characteristic in a case did not lead to our
successful prescription, that characteristic may be shrugged
off. It is only when many cases, from multiple sources, are
Fig. 1 Eurasian wolf.
laid side by side that these unexpected patterns emerge. We
always remember why we successfully prescribed a parti-
cular remedy but we forget the one that did not fit our
understanding of that remedy. Many authors have tried to
study their own cases to find more about a particular

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remedy. But here I specifically wanted to see what as large
a variety of prescribers had documented. Hering did much
the same work in his ‘Guiding Symptoms’—using cured cases
to amplify the proving data.2
In the remedy articles, the introductory paragraphs are
intended to give a general description of the remedy empha-
sising the core of the cases—especially the general presenta-
tion, the ‘essence’ or genius of the remedy. In most of the
remedies, more than one presentation occurred—for exam-
ple, a failed state and a success side, an early stage or late
stage or a highly compensated stage. I try whenever possible
to show all of the most typical presentations that were
expressed in the cases. Then I go through the various Fig. 2 Great planes wolf.
sections: mind, generals, and so on. Within these sections,
I include symptoms that have been historically emphasised Lac Lupinum
by older authorities but try to place these symptoms in the
context of the cases I evaluated. While no symptom is While making little attempt to attract attention, the Lac
emphasised simply due to weight of previous authority, I lupinum patient is hard to ignore and the prescriber will
also did not wish to eliminate valuable symptoms simply often find a special place of respect for this rugged individual.
because I had not found them—especially if the case sam- In almost every case, the patient mentions a feeling of being
pling was small. It is a balancing act. an outsider—from society or from his family. Despite this
Later this year I will publish the first half of the ‘Clinically perception, the patient is among the most loyal and protec-
Verified Materia Medica’.3 I have proceeded alphabetically tive of all remedies. A strong intuitive, spiritual and shama-
because as my poor wife can attest that’s just the way I was nistic approach to life rounds out the most striking
made. I decided to publish the first half of the Materia Medica characteristics of the remedy.
(without waiting to finish the book) because the first half is
already over 800 pages, because I feel it will be clinically The Outsider
useful and should be made available sooner than later, and The patient tends to be a ‘lone wolf—feels different and
because it forestalls my temptation to keep tinkering with indeed has different concerns from those around him. Lack-
the write-ups as inevitably more cases become available. ing a strong materialistic drive (which he sees as pointless
Naturally, I maintained a high level of respect for the and odd) the patient often loses (or even gives away) his
observations of many authorities and tried to confirm (or possessions—almost a disdain for the material world. Con-
comment on) their observations in the book. My admiration cerned instead with issues of humane treatment of nature
and trust in Professor George Vithoulkas, Dr. Rajan Sankaran and and those in need, he feels a confused scorn for social and
many others runs through every remedy. What is presented financial climbing—it makes him feel that his nature is
today is a typical remedy write-up—a sneak preview, if you will, simply different from other people.
of Lac lupinum (►Figs. 1 and 2). Note: The case of Lac lupinum by A slightly smaller group of patients were less judgmental.
Nancy Herrick is not part of the new book but rather one of the These patients felt no need to push forward their alternative
17 cases used to derive the information in the chapter. perspective but keep these fierce perceptions inside. This

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type of patient felt perhaps even more estranged from often piercingly accurate—he is not easily misled by phonies
normal culture—as if the energy required to make his of any sort. His nativistic sympathies may lead him into
perspective understood by normal culture simply wasn’t shamanistic journeys or a profound respect for such tradi-
worth it. In both groups, the most common self-perception tions. Do not be surprised if the image of a wolf arises as a
is of being an ‘outsider’. power animal guide. Indeed, more than half of the cases
mentioned dreams or visions of wolves or even carried
Rebellion fetishes of wolves—this is a higher percentage than in any
The patient does not like being restricted in any way. other animal remedy. Furthermore, the patient is very likely
Injustice is often a huge issue for him. He may rebelliously to have an intense dream life—as if a large part of his
and emphatically speak his mind on most topics and can land consciousness exists in the dream world.
himself in trouble—and even wind up estranged from his
family who sees him as needlessly opinionated and stubborn. Children
Often, he identifies with oppressed peoples—native Amer- Of the six children’s cases reviewed, four were brought in for
icans, indigenous peoples, gypsies—who are outsiders like the treatment of behaviour problems and aggression. Several
himself. There may be a type of haughtiness in some of these of the adult cases revealed similar issues during their own
patients—‘I’m above you humans, anyway’. childhood. The children were argumentative, restless, could
scarcely sit in their chairs and were frequently in trouble for
Endangerment poorly controlled temper or even tantrums. Though intelli-
About a third of the cases (generally those who could be gent and creative, these children had trouble convincing

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categorised as in the ‘failed state’) presented with anxiety as themselves that schoolwork had any bearing on their lives
a main complaint. Half of the cases revealed some significant —rather seeing it as a ‘waste of time’. The child is bored in
traumatic event from the past—a near drowning, a physical class, often mentions problems with daydreaming (of excit-
assault or most commonly a car accident. These traumas ing adventures), head-strong, rebellious and thin-skinned
appear to be the source of ongoing anxiety disorders. For when called to account for missing homework or quick, slap-
some reason, especially in children, there develops a strong dashed assignments. All of this behaviour makes him an
fearfulness at night accompanied by visions of ghostly fig- uncomfortable family member and in two cases the children
ures, shadows, hands. Many patients mentioned specific were brought to treatment as a last resort before being sent
fears of being trapped, cornered, restricted and choked or to boarding school. Naturally intuitive the patient feels he
suffocated. The anxiety is also frequently reflected in the could be ejected from his group. Another aspect of these
dream life. One-third of the cases complained of frequent cases was a strong sense of threat and anxiety—a feeling of
nightmares and for two cases this was the presenting com- endangerment. Three of these fiercely determined and inde-
plaint—not what we expect for a powerful predator! And pendent children uncharacteristically and routinely made
indeed patients in the success stage were relatively fearless their way into the parent’s bedroom at night. An uncoopera-
or even thrilled by activities that were dangerous—motor- tive wolf is pushed out of the pack—a death sentence in
cycles, hang-gliding, skiing. In these cases, the patient felt nature.
most alive when in the presence of danger or when the
securities of civilised life are stripped away. Physical
Three main areas of concern emerged from the cases:
Family migraine headaches, respiratory problems (allergy, sinu-
The majority of the cases had strong bonds with the family sitis, asthma) and, less commonly, severe back and joint
(as a unit) and felt very protective. To be clear, the patient problems. The patients were usually warm and preferred
feels bonded to his family but often does not feel he enjoys cool weather, though a few were quite chilly. Even in the
the same from them. Especially frequent were spontaneous chilly patients, there is a strong desire to be outside and in
statements of the need to protect his children—almost like nature. Athleticism and strong endurance were frequently
the prime directive of his life. In two of the cases, the patient, mentioned—especially soccer which combines speed, agility,
while highly connected to his children, made a strong point ruggedness and endurance. Vertigo was mentioned in several
of fostering independence, athleticism and was quite direct of the cases as a minor but persistent issue. Like Lac leoni-
and no-nonsense about the child’s weaknesses and short- num, over half of the cases were males—rare in any remedy
comings—tough love. Interestingly, three of the female cases and even rarer among the Lac group.
were childless and felt strongly they did not want to be
limited by motherhood at all—unusual in mammal remedies. Mental
Furthermore, family relations were often strained in the
cases, especially by the patient’s complete refusal to bend • Feeling as an outsider—by choice or by abandonment.
and compromise. • Rebellious and aggravated by injustice or unjust
accusations.
Shamanism • Loyal, protective, honest.
Unimpressed by traditional authorities, the patient is open to • Quarrels with his family.
other sources of knowledge. He lives by intuition which is • Restlessness; hard to sit in a chair.

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• Bored in the classroom. – Location: Sides. Alternating sides. Centre of forehead.

• Depression and even suicidal thoughts. Worse: during From neck.
winter (two cases of seasonal affective disorder); before – Worse: Menses or mid-cycle. Noise. Smoke. Alcohol.
menses. Light.
• Behaviour disorders of children: tantrums, anger, atten- – Better: During menstrual flow.
tion-deficit hyperactivity disorder. – Extending: To head from neck. Down to back.
• Anger and even rages, though none of the cases had • Dark circles about eyes.
violence. • Acne.
– Worse: If restricted. If criticised. During headache.
• Rash/eczema about mouth, eyes, throat.
• Loses material goods.
• Issues with addition. Nose
• Courageous or at times reckless. • Hay fever and sinusitis.
• Quick in thought and action. • Epistaxis.
• Sensitive to noise, especially city noises. • Wart.
• Ailments: Car accidents. Trauma—accidents, near drown-
ing, abuse. Mouth
• Delusions: He is abandoned by his family. Endangered. • Teething pain.
Injury to leg (or injuring another’s leg). Trampled. • Aphthae.
• Dreams: Animals, especially wolves but also bears,

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whales, etc. Fire and explosions. Being pursued by some- Gastrointestinal
one with intention to kill him. Water, floods. Danger from • Huge appetite and rapid eating—two patients said they
water; falling into water from a bridge. Car accidents. ‘wolf’ their food and two others used the word ‘bulimia’ to
Pursued by someone with a knife. Falling. Walls closing in describe their eating pattern. Yet no particular food crav-
on him. Saving people from a fire or other dangers. ing stood out in this remedy.
Poisonous liquids. • Irritable bowel syndrome—bloating, loose stool and
• Fascinations: Love for nature. Wolves, huskies and other mucus, colic.
animals. Gypsies and Native Americans. Danger—to be Worse: After eating. Before menses.
unprotected. Athletics especially soccer. Music and per- • Hepatitis, chronic.
forming. Dancing. • Pancreatitis (Mangialavori’s observation observed in one
• Fears: Choking. To be alone in the world. Being trapped case here).
or restricted. Claustrophobia. Breast cancer. Being • Haemorrhoids and burning rectum.
crushed or trampled. Ghosts, spirits or shadows in the
night. Spiders. Cars. Drowning. He may unintentionally Urogenital
harm someone. Dark. • Dysmenorrhea.
General Chest

• Almost equally divided between warm and chilly patients, • Tight, constricted sensation in heart.
but almost all felt more energetic in cooler weather. • Asthma.
• Desire open air. • Recurring bronchitis or croup.
• Complaints alternate sides. Worse: Cold wind.
• Foods: • Pneumonia.
– Desires: Sweets. Spicy. Ice cream. Fish. Meat. Milk. – Worse: After romantic disappointment (two cases).
– Aversion: Salads. Milk. Meat. • Breast swelling before menses.
• Appearance: Several cases had a prominent grey streak in
the hair. Hair not exactly unkempt but rather untamed. Back
Three cases wore images of wolves. • Severe lumbago and sciatica with cramping or shooting
pain and numbness or twitching.
Vertigo
– Worse: Standing. Lifting. Exertion.
• Though never a chief complaint, five cases suffered with • Back pain extending: Up to neck. To hip. Legs.
vertigo. • Neck pain extending to headache.
Worse: During headache. Upon rising.
• Vertigo with faintness.
Extremities
Head
• Sore joints especially limbs.
• Migraine headaches were present in half of the cases. • Cramping or numbness with pain.
– Sensation: Nail-like. Crushing. • Foot pains.

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• Eczema on feet or in antecubital region. Boy: I forgot to clear the dishes from the table. My mom gets
angry. Sometimes I’ll just put them in dishwasher. Some-
Sleep times I’ll get really angry and think, why do I have to do that!

• Nightmares.
What do you feel?
• Disturbed sleep and hard to fall asleep.
Boy: I don’t know. The nearest target for my anger is my family.
• Child goes into sleep with parents; can sleep only with
I don’t want to do what they say and I’ll go into my room.
parents.
• Somnambulism (two cases).
How do you express your anger with them?
• Unrefreshed sleep.
Boy: Get into a kind of yelling. I yell, ‘Leave me alone’.
Clinical
Acne. Addiction. Allergy and hay fever. Anxiety disorder. Mother: He’ll say, ‘I don’t see why I should do it. It’s your job’.
Asthma. Attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder. No matter how ridiculous the statement is, he defends
Eczema. Gynaecomastia. Hepatitis. Insomnia. Irritable himself. He’ll say, ‘I already removed one plate’.
bowel disease. Lumbago. Migraine headache. Oppositional It’s so illogical.
behaviour disorder. Pancreatitis. Reflux esophagitis. Reiter’s He’ll lie on the floor playing with the dog. We’ll say, ‘Why
syndrome. Sciatica. Seasonal affective disorder. are you playing when you’re supposed to be doing your job
Somnambulism. clearing the table’? He’ll say he’s too tired. He gets distracted.
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Sensation Words like a victim. The family is pushed to the wall. Sometimes he
Tightness, restriction. Outsider. Spirals (as in ‘things spiraled feels really bad after he yells and complains.
out of control’).
Describe that.
Miasm I feel bad that I made my mom feel bad. I get hot in my
Tubercular. chest like a burning heat in my chest.
Mother: His logic is intact. He gets extremely angry and has a
Comparisons very nasty tone. He’s cutting, very sarcastic, mean-spirited.
Tuberculinum—Romantic, love for danger/excitement, rebel- Not cursing. The tone is that ‘you’re an idiot. I can’t believe I
lious and aversion to authority, dreams fire, fear choking, have to live with this’. He is sardonic.
attention-deficit disorder or behaviour disorders, recurring
bronchitis or pneumonia, desire open air, disturbed sleep, Boy: Yeah—especially I use sarcasm.
huge appetite, desire ice cream.
Lac caninum—Loyalty, feeling unloved by family, love for Mother: From an early age, he knows his own mind and he
animals, dogs and children, athleticism, headaches, alternate wants to do it. He doesn’t brook parental objection. Anyone
sides, desire milk, spicy. There is something more indepen- who stands in his way can go to hell. Is that correct?
dent and perhaps more ‘noble’ (and less human and dopey)
in wolf cases. Boy: I don’t know.
Other mammals. Tarentula. Ignatia. Iodum. Causticum.
Mother: If the rules of school or family are according to his
Evidence Examined plan, it’s all good. If there’s a difference, he doesn’t necessa-
Seventeen cases and a few case fragments. Lecture rily bow to authority just because it’s authority.
and article by Herrick. I was myself a prover of this remedy.
How are you feeling?
Boy: Why should I have to do that? I do have perfect logic.
Case of Oppositional-Defiant Syndrome by
Everything fits together. If I have a play date I don’t see why she
Nancy Herrick
can’t drop me off and then go do her other chores. Why do I
Eleven-year-old boy dressed in black. have to go with her? Sometimes she doesn’t see it.
(Questions to boy or mother in italics.)
Boy to his mother: Mother: He can sum up a situation very, very quickly, and
Do we have to do this please? I’d like to just give up and not sometimes with quite a bit of humour. He can sum up the
do it. He says, ‘If I was at school I would complain out loud to emotions also very clearly. Other times his arguments are
the teacher’. not so compelling. He’ll come to the car when I pick him
I have an anger problem. Sometimes, it will suddenly up from school and say, ‘Here’s the plan for the afternoon’.
come on and then just go away. It is sudden and doesn’t last
very long. Like an hour or 30 minutes. It never goes past the Mother: I say ‘No that’s not going to work today. We have to
day. It suddenly comes on which I don’t really like. I wouldn’t go Christmas shopping. I want you with me’.
even know and I’d be really angry.
Describe that anger. Boy: I’m going to change.

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What do you love to do? He’s totally addicted to computers. It had a terrible effect
Boy: Play soccer, hang out with my family. on him. It made him meaner. He got inured to the violence.
Dislike the most? He was attracted to ‘the zone out’—a disconnect. We pulled
Boy: Clearing the table. Chores. the plug. We have no TV or no computers now. We go Waldorf
School now.
Mother alone in the room now: During my labour with him and a doula there was no
progress. After 20 hours of labour the obstetrician gave me
He is psychic, intuitive, empathic. He has something of the fentanyl. I went in 5 minutes to totally dilated.
healer in him. He’ll go straight to the wound and walk Difficult to wake him from sleep. He’s not there. He has no
directly to it. He’s called several medicine men to him in idea where he is. It’s almost like sleep walking. He doesn’t
his early life, including one from Peru. remember anything and I can’t reach him.
At an early age, he saw and heard many things. At a lodge, His life was traumatic from the beginning—many deaths
he’d see spirits in headdresses, etc. At 3 to 4 years old he in his first 2 years. The emotional climate was very stormy
asked, ‘who are those people talking in the living room’. I and chaotic at our home. His great grandmother died in
couldn’t see them. One had a low spirit and one had a high mysterious circumstances in the first month of his life. His
spirit he said. A Hawaiian worker’s wife came and he recog- grandmother developed multiple myeloma right away. Five
nised her. She had done an exorcism of three spirits pro- friends died: one suicide, one accident. Shocking news and
foundly attached to him years earlier. (The mother is involved shocking separation from loved ones.
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mother’s-milk environment—shock, trauma, sadness.
Other characteristics: He tends to be frail in some environments. He is amazing
with soccer. He can’t sustain himself at his work. If you try to
• Profound claustrophobia.
correct him in those unbalanced state, he gets rigid thinking
• Profound fear of choking.
and his body gets frail looking.
• Great fear of deep and open water. Fear of being left on a
Hard to get him to eat anything. He likes fasting.
raft in the ocean.
It’s hard to give him anything in the material world. At
He’s empathic to an extreme point …. His connections to Christmas we’ve gotten him Tarot cards and Runes and a
people are profound. He mentors others, he is charismatic. crystal (which we thought he would like). He gives them
He is often paired with the troubled kid in the class because away. Toys and clothes—he has no interest. He is not focused
he can soothe the troubled waters. He has friends in all walks there at all.
of life. He penetrates to exactly where people are. No fear at He cannot stand being confined. He always wants to go
all in social connections. He is good at reading people. He outside.
takes his stuff out on his family. He was so terrible last night that I told him I was considering
He cannot receive any feedback. He will cut off his nose to putting distance between him and the family. (This means they
spite his face. are considering sending him to a boarding school for difficult
Animals come to our house. We recently found a tiny kitten. children.) As a little kid he was violent. He’d tear up his
He said, ‘No matter what you say, that animal needs to come brother’s homework. I’d try to physically hold him. He’d try
home with us’. So we brought it home. The kitten was mostly to bite and whack me when, at his worst, I tried to confine him
spirit with a little fur. Five days later he was dying but not dead. and tell him I wouldn’t let him hurt himself. I’d collect all the
Now he’ll have no part of it. He won’t touch it. Pushes it away. I broken things. He was in Jungian therapy for years with sand
say, ‘You called this animal. You can journey with this animal’! trays. He still loves it.
I told him last night that we all loved him but we couldn’t Many friends. He’s also a leader. He won congeniality
tolerate his anger. award in soccer.
His most intimate relations take the hit.
Describe his worst anger. He screams over trifles.
Mother: It feels like he’s spewing toxic venom. Not vulgar. It’s His head is hot and he is very hot.
serpent-like, like a hissing. He says with distain, ‘I can’t
believe you’d think that was anything worth my time’. Boy alone in room now.
He doesn’t have a good regulator. He’ll go to three sleepovers Nightmares: A giant praying mantis was chasing me—
in a row and then be almost passed out. If I say, ‘One sleepover 30′  30′ size. I went to my grandmother’s and hid under
per weekend’. He’ll hammer at me and have more logic and the table. In the end, we had tea all together. Good ending.
arguments than I can stand. He’ll follow me around the house. I have an intense fear of spiders but prefer not to kill any
He has put his fist through the glass. This is what an abuser does. living thing. I had one journey where I asked for spirit helper to
In his heart, he’s empathic, connecting, graceful, visionary come to me. A wolf came and walked with me then.
on all levels.
When he was smaller he clung to me at night. Very What are you afraid of now?
attached to me. Lie next to me every night to go to sleep. Boy: I panic if I am in a huge crowd and if I’m alone in the
Now he still comes into my room in the night. dark. I’ve watched too many scary movies. I’d rather be in the

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light. I swear I can see things whip by. It’s like a white spirit. Mother: I see a lot of fears coming up. He’s very afraid of the
I’ve seen them since I was 6. dark. He had this when he was 3 years old. He has to sleep
with the light.
Analysis He is open, honest, connecting, more able to talk about his
When we analysed this case during a seminar, the first point feelings.
made by the participants was about the miasm: Almost every- Dreams: Wild boars. Another—chased by a psycho-killer
one noted Tubercular miasm because of the child’s opposi- but not killed.
tional nature, his feeling of being restricted, anti-authoritarian, He has been very even.
his sense of suffocation, he cannot sustain his energy or limit He started Aikido.
his activity. That was the core of the case.
The next point is that this child is clearly in a different Anger?
world (like his mother). Yet he is so charismatic and people Mother: Much less. It is as if something has relaxed. There’s
oriented. He has sudden outbursts and even violence. He was more spaciousness inside him for alternative reaction. Fine
destructive of the things you wanted the most. The Typhoid with school work now.
miasm patient destroys whatever is in front of him. With
Tubercular miasm patients, there is more malice involved. In Claustrophobia?
this case, ruthlessness comingles with great compassion and Same. Great fear of open water. Scuba diving and snorkel-
sensitivity. (See ‘Miasms of the New Millenium’ by Nancy ling are totally out of the question.
Herrick and Roger Morrison.4) What about his tendency for slamming doors, the rigid

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He has a tremendous need for connection to his mother—will logical quarrels, the fixed ideas?
break glass to make her engage with him. He nearly stalks her. He Mother: Lots more spaciousness.
has intense fears of choking, suffocation and deep water.
Additionally he has a deep clairvoyance and interest in Happy?
shamanistic and spiritual forces. Mother: In a way, I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I
Rx: Lac lupinum (milk of the she wolf) 1M. trust it because I’ve seen this experience with myself.

On the first page of the Lac lupinum proving in ‘Animal Minds, Boy: I want to take a nap. [He sits on the same chair with his
Human Voices’ by Nancy,5 ‘the wolf is the voice of the spirit mom, arms around her.)
world. Shamanic connection, crying to the moon. In the proving,
there were hardly any physical symptoms. It was all dreams. One Are you better?
of the big dreams involved fear of water. That was this patient’s Boy: I didn’t notice till I started thinking about. I’m control-
big fear. It is believed that the wolf was a precursor to the whale ling it better. When it happens, I don’t have to get rid of it.
and dolphin. There is some deep connection to water in this
remedy: drowning, flooding, of being in the water, held under Crave now to eat?
water, having bridges fall from under you. He definitely had a big Boy: Same stuff. Not macaroni so much—I still like it.
connection with wolves. He loves them.
Mainly, he needed to be the authority. He is the α wolf, Mother: His taste has broadened a lot.
though he has this tremendous tenderness toward the young.
It is not unusual that a child would say that he wanted that Boy: We ate squash with sugar. I would never have tried it before.
kitten to come home to be with his family. And yet once the
kitten was so sick he rejected it. Wolf packs will often leave Follow-up Many Years Later
the sick. If a member leaves the pack, they may not be Mother: He is doing great. He has done great for years. Now
welcomed back. Maybe that is why he no longer had interest he is 15. Besides Lac lupinum MK he used a 12C as needed.
in the kitten once he was dying’.
One strong characteristic in this case was his spiritual
fascination. Most violent, destructive children are not so References
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Mother: He’s doing great. This morning he said, ‘I’m doing
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quite a bit better’.
4 Herrick N, Morrison R. Miasms of the New Millennium – New
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Boy: I wouldn’t have noticed it except in retrospect. I don’t Clinic Publishing; 2014
get angry as much. Like yesterday doing my report. Now I say, 5 Herrick N. Animal Mind—Human Voices. Berkeley, CA: Hahne-
‘Just stay calm and let it pass through you’. mann Clinic Publishers; 1988

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