Volume 108 Number 2
72 AJHM Summer 2015
Timothy Fior, MD, André Saine, ND
asthmatic attacks occur, and five years later, this child is
doing very well
.
The remedy has only been repeated once,
in 30 CH, when the mother again heard the gurgling sound
while her son was sleeping
.
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18.
Geraldine, 2 months, is hospitalized after a close call
with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
.
Her parents found
her one evening in her crib, inert, pale, not breathing
.
Af-
ter being shaken a bit, the child came back to life
.
At the
hospital, examinations confirm a gastro-esophageal reflux
.
This has not recurred since the child took one dose of
Asa-
foetida.
Finally, a small symptom of note which can help
us discover
Asafoetida
babies at birth: they often have an
inflamed mammary gland with secretion of milk
, as do
Cy-
clamen
and
Tuberculinum
infants
.
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19. An example of an
Asafoetida
woman
:
Her partner commits suicide
.
After the first shock the wife
starts swearing at him
.
She calls the police only hours later
and doesn’t go to the funeral
.
But she visits him every day
at the cemetery and swears at him loudly
.
She is totally
angry at him
.
One year after his death she comes to the
consultation for belching.
Rubrics: Grief with anger. Contradictory symptoms. Eruc-
tations hysterical
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20. Venous Stasis Ulcers of Ankle
.
J G, 75, is a recent
widow who presented with anemia (hemoglobin of 6.5)
and ankle pain due to bilateral venous stasis dermatitis
and eventually ulcers
.
Her husband, a cardiovascular
surgeon, died in August 2013 of lung cancer
.
During the
two years that he was living with cancer, she neglected her
own health
.
Her hemoglobin was 8.5 in July 2012 and
6.5 in February 2014
.
In April of 2012, she had slurred
speech while on vacation in Mexico which was diagnosed
as a TIA, and she was placed on daily baby aspirin by her
husband
.
When she initially presented to me on 3/14/14
she had ankle pain for the last month while going down the
steps
.
This pain was better rubbing and hot bathing and
did not change with the weather
.
She also has a history
of asthma for which she takes an Advair inhaler once or
twice daily
.
She has fall allergies and a history of nasal
polyps
.
She is chilly and worse cold and wears sunglasses
in the sun due to cataracts possibly
.
She is a night person
(2)
.
She prefers to sleep on her right side (1) and has an
aversion to drafts (1)
.
She craves chocolate (2)
.
She is a
calm person, sad at times and cries for no reason occasion-
ally
.
She used to teach etiquette and believes that appear-
ances matter a lot
.
She’s affectionate and sympathetic and
is still grieving her husband’s death on 8/19/13
.
On exam
she cried when she spoke of her husband
.
She had severe
thoraco-lumbar kyphoscoliosis, trace pretibial edema and
a scab on the right medial ankle just anterior to the Achil-
les tendon
.
She took 2 pellets of Lycopodium 200 C on
3/14/14, and was told to stop the aspirin
.
The next day the
leg pain increased particularly on the left, on the inside of
the ankle
.
The ankle pain persisted at a higher level after
the remedy
.
The hemoglobin increased to 9 on 3/19/14,
and then 11 on 4/11/14 and then 12.1 in May 2014
.
On
4/14/14 a
painful venous ulcer
had opened on both medial
ankles which required debridement
.
The pain was
unbear-
able
at first, a 10 out of 10, and the right ulcer was oozing
.
It was
painful around the ulcers
(2)
.
On 4/14/14 she was
given
Asafoetida
30 C to take 2 pellets prn for pain
.
On 5/5/14 she was doing much better with the ankle
pain from the ulcers
.
She took the
Asafoetida
every 3-4
hours for two days, and stopped on the third day as the pain
was gone
.
Before the remedy she had had daily pain for
2-3 months
.
The left medial malleolar ulcer has healed
and the right one is healing and is quarter sized
.
She has
restarted driving.
On 6/5/14 she is doing much better
.
The legs are much
better and both ulcers have healed, the right one finally
closing up 2 weeks ago
.
She has been taking the
Asafoe-
tida
30C about once a week for ankle pain, and doesn’t
complain of pain after the dose
.
The anemia is gone
.
She
will continue the
Asafoetida
as needed for pain
.
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Acknowledgements
Translation assistance of several cases was provided by
Anja Troje.
