THE NJH EXPERIENCE - The Struggle for Success
Prabhakar Murthy.
Cases.
` Ars / Spig / Sep.
A 50 year old female had chronic headache since 3 years and was brought by her husband. The patient was always anxious and worried if any of her children came late. The headache was left sided, starting from left eye, eyebrow then all over on the left side of head upto nape of neck. It was worse after 5 pm. There was a numb feeling of the head.
Menopause since two years. Appetite diminished and sleep disturbed. The patient had received Psychiatric treatment for a year.
Keeping the fear and the element of anxiety in mind, she was given Ars-alb 200. However there was no response even after a reasonable period.
Spigelia 200 was given with which she responded well. The numb feeling disappeared.
Spigelia 1M in half a glass water, and 1 spoon to be taken morning and evening. The patient showed steady progress even in the mental sphere. The pain in the left eye remained the same and her anxiety did not reduce to a marked extent.
At this juncture, I happened to read in the journal an article on "Ptosis during headache". Inquired with the husband who verified that with pain the eyes would droop and close.
A cross check in Kents repertory gave the following rubrics -
- Eye, heaviness, lids, as if could not be held open
- Eye, heaviness lids with frontal headache.
Sepia appears in 2nd grade in 1st rubric and it is the only remedy in the 2nd one in 3rd grade.
The irritability and anxiety were added reasons to give her Sepia; which was given in 200 potency one dose. The patient came with a beaming smile of relief in her next visit. Till date there has been no recurrence of the symptoms.
This case taught me to search for peculiar symptoms and use the repertory.
