Using a Dream to make prescription

I get a cold every time one comes around
Mucous thing, it is disgusting
Lots of it
I can feel it running down the back of my throat
I do a lot of walking
Sometimes I can’t breathe from all the mucous
As a kid, my mother used to have to bend me over the bed
I feel like the mucous comes from the back of my throat

But the main thing I get is the colds, always catch them
I think I catch them from commuting on the train
I don’t kiss people

Are the symptoms always the same?

Usually they are
Starts with a sore throat
Becomes a runny nose, really runny
Constant having a tissue there
Then I get headaches, fever
Aches – in the muscles
Almost always ends up with a cough
Makes it hard to walk or exercise
Makes it hard to sleep
Feels like there is something tickling in the throat
That may go for weeks

Just had a cold, this time I didn’t get a cough so badly

What is the worst of it?

The cough
That tickle
The mucous vibrates when I breathe, that provokes the coughing
< when lying down the vibration is worse
I have to sit up because of the coughing
I may cough so much that my stomach muscles hurt
May wake the house with the coughing
< at the end of the day, when I lay down
Describe the cough

I don’t know
I can’t stop
It is almost like I am trying to clear whatever is there
Rarely does anything come up
When it does something comes up, that is grey-greenish , thick custard
(patient keeps saying yuk! Quite often and apologizing for it)

Taste or smell?

There is a taste
Revolting
No smell that I have noticed

Anything else that aggravates it?

Seems worse on the train
< going to work
Maybe it is the most inappropriate time
Maybe it is because other people notice it, they give you death stares if you cough

Sensation in the throat?

At the moment, every now and again I have to swallow
I can feel like there is coating over the throat
The tickle, feels like there is something in there, that shouldn’t be in there
Like when the doctor puts a swab in there

Like what in there?

Like something is stuck there

I don’t know, I feel that whole running stuff (hands slide down over throat)
Then sometimes I feel like there is something in there

Next most annoying thing is really just catching colds all the time
I am not a good sick person, feel sorry for myself
I think I catch a cold every 2 months
Maybe more than that
Seems last few months it has been more constant
Feel like I am susceptible when I am getting over a cold, to catching another
I have trouble sitting doing nothing

My main problem is the sleeping, I have a lot of problems

Tell me about those?

Two problems

One is that my legs ache a lot, I can’t sleep, I toss and turn constantly
The other is a amazing amount of dreams, pretty full on
Dreams that go around and round in circles, and I can’t sleep
They are never pleasant, then I half wake up
They are always about me getting lost, trying to find my way back to something
Going down a tunnel, and I would get stuck – haven’t had that for a few years
Always trying to find someone or something

Before I take my chickens to a show, I have these dreams about frantically running and trying to find my chickens
I am attempting to find them
I have lost mine
I feel panic
I can’t find what I have lost
Panicking, wake up, can’t sleep

Last week I dreamed of big pools of blood that was new
I was standing looking at them
That is bizarre
I am quite repulsed by blood, but I wasn’t in the dream
I felt fascinated

If I bleed, I feel faint
If I see someone bleeding, I feel like vomiting
I cannot look at it

Funnily enough I have become quite good at chopping chickens heads off
I don’t look though
I had a friend come over who could pull the heads off with his hands
I felt repulsed by seeing that
He takes the head and bends them back, breaks the neck, sometimes the heads come off

I have fingernails that are ridged, that is weird

Go back to the lost dreams again

I am trying to get home to my house, often not the house I live in
I cannot find my way
Lot of them I don’t remember

Dreams again, tell me about lost

It is a real panic, the longer it goes the more I panic
I used to dream of flying so nice but they don’t happen anymore
I get to the morning and I feel like I haven’t slept
I feel like I have been awake the whole time

Lost panicking, hyperventilating, deep breathing
When I panic I tend to get hot
It is really tiring
Always running
I don’t give up, I keep looking
They are always pretty physical, constant running

I have chasing dreams too, being chased but I don’t know by what
Don’t know what it is
Doesn’t happen that often

When I travel, I set out to get lost
I don’t like to have a plan
In London I set out without maps, or a plan, I would just walk
Discover things that I didn’t know were there
I would always end up somewhere I know
I don’t mind the feeling, I enjoy it

I think that is a reaction to my father, massive plans all about getting A to B
I like having an A but not a B

Sensation of being lost?

Frustration
All about emotion
I just get so emotional
I don’t know why
It is like a movie, it builds, the panic and the intensity
The further along it goes the more intense it gets
Running along, not being able to breathe, panic
Like a movie
Running trying to find something
I think of people running from something, like when plants make people commit suicide
Like Day after Tomorrow
They always seem quite controlled
Always running from something
They are running to salvation, safety, away from the monster, issue, disease
They usually get there in the movie, happy, love story, fulfilled

In my dreams I never get there
Lots of exercise, but I never get there, I feel exhausted

History?

Pneumonia at the end of a cold, about 11 years ago
Generally nothing
I am quite fit

Cravings?

Everything bad
Roast pork, chips and gravy
Chips are my downfall though, I do like them
I often don’t drink enough
Unless I force myself to regularly do it, I may not drink for a day
Occasionally I may feel very dry, moments of great thirst, and I cannot drink enough to quench it

How do you manage a cold?

I go on as if nothing is changed
Then I sit on the couch for a day
I force myself to rest, I am really bad at resting
I am grumpy and lethargic
I am thinking through a haze
I don’t think quickly, I don’t react quickly
I am a bit of a control freak, can’t control being sick
Trying not to do anything, particularly physical stuff


More words for that state:

Drowsy, slow, heavy
Sleepy
But a lot of the time I can’t sleep
Feel really tired and sleepy

Weather?

< humid

When sick?

All that heaviness and fogginess is < when it is hot and humid

Describe the legs to me at night

Pain through the bone, the muscle, everything
< if I don’t exercise, if I don’t walk > if I walk a lot
> if I walk 2 hours in a day

not throbbing, not like having all your wisdom teeth torn out
if they were injured they would throb
In this case the dream was very helpful in determining what was important. The Sensation or Feeling in the dream was one of being Lost, trying to Find something, Find the way to somewhere. Interestingly, in his waking life he COMPENSATES for this feeling by setting out to become Lost, going out in a strange city with no map or plan. So he reacts in an opposite way to the internal feeling. This is a known sensation for the Magnoliaceae group of plants (Lost, Confused, Hazy, Sleepy, Groggy, Unable to find their way)

In a dream, very often you will not only see the main issue or problem, displayed in its raw form, but you will see the miasm as well – as a Response or Reaction to this basic issue. In this case, he feels panic, and urgency, and great hurry to get to a place of rest, to the end of it. It is a critical situation (like the end of the world!) that has to be handled properly and quickly, in order to come to a point of safety. This is the TYPHOID miasm

Another interesting dream he has is the pools of blood one. He can look at the blood and not be repulsed by it. But in real life he Faints at the sight of blood, it makes him sick. And yet, he Compensates again for this feeling by being able to chop off the heads of chickens without feeling anything.

This is a nice example of the new method and repertory method intersecting :-

Fainting from sight of blood
Dry mouth without thirst
Restless legs at night
Sleepiness during coryza

The Typhoid member of the Magnoliaceae famliy is Nux-moshcata


Prescription = Nux-m 200, 1 drop ½ cup 1 teaspoon




Next interview:-

I felt I was getting a cold, just after taking the remedy
Strangely it only lasted a few days
And the mucous reduced during that time, that is also strange
Hot and cold for those days
But, I started having more dreams than ever, massive amounts of dreams!
And quite full on
Work mates stealing people I am interested in, and me catching them
Or people having orgies
Someone I am seeing being stolen, lots of those
So many dreams that I would wake up tired
The frequency and intensity have reduced in the last few days

The mucous much better
I feel pretty good
That is pretty much it
Leg aching hasn’t been too bad, so that is good

How much better is the mucous?

Currently it is about 9/10 (it was 2/10)
After that first couple of days, I remember thinking it was much better (8-9/10)

Coughing didn’t happen at the end of that cold last time I was here, I would have expected that to happen, so that is good
That always happens at the end of a cold

I still don’t have a cold, don’t feel like I am coming down with one

How much better are the aching legs?

I don’t notice them at all now

So that is not happening at all?

No, so gone
Even though I am not exercising, it is not happening

The other thing is that I have had to urinate at night more frequently over this last 2 weeks too, that went up to 3-4 times a night, then it went down to 2 times now

Nothing new?

No
Sort of the opposite
The relationship I am having, seems to be going well, better than before

Nothing old has reoccurred?

No

Nothing is worse?

Only the dreams
All other things are better

The dreams of theft, of having someone stolen from me, they are new
But I am actually feeling less jealous in my relationship

Prescription = wait and see

*Next Interview*

I haven’t taken the remedy again
I haven’t had any mucous
I haven’t had any colds
The mucous at the back of the throat started to occur again
I think it could be related to working in the chicken pen, to the dust
The dreams have been good, fine
I have been sleeping quite well

The only thing I have is some pains in the lower abdomen – both sides
Feels muscular
I think I may have always had that
It starts upon first standing up from sitting for along while
After walking around for awhile it goes away
Only after sitting for awhile

Pain is share enough to make me go…uugh – to alter my movement
Walking around will make it go away

I have been fine
It is strange, I am selling my house and I am under a lot of stress
That is usually when I get sick, and I have not
That is odd
Usually I just shutdown, but not now
No major shutdown
I would have expected to have shut down by now

The legs are beginning to ache and get restless again
That is happening mostly in the car when I am driving

I still urinate twice maybe three times a night
Full amount when I go
A few times I have noticed the smell, I think that was when I forgot to drink water, it smelled really concentrated

Work is stressful, but I am not sick like I am normally am
Relationship is good

(Patient reveals to me, when advising him of dosage, that he actually took 14 doses of the remedy. I advise him to repeat this dose but just once, then let me know what has happened after a week)

Prescription = repeat Nux-m 200, as before, but just one dose

*Next Interview*

Mucous isn’t bothering me at all
My partner had swine flu, I didn’t get it
Sleeping is ok
Just in the last couple of weeks, the leg pain has been bad
It seems to be getting worse
Last night I couldn’t sit in a movie because of the restlessness

What has happened recently?

I thought it was because I wasn’t exercising
Even walking hasn’t helped

Actually it happened just after I took Tamiflu, in fact almost exactly the same time
(relapse from use of orthodox medication)

Otherwise I feel ok
Haven’t moved house yet
I am too impatient

Prescription = repeat Nux-m 200 (Phone contact showed patient improved and has no symptoms to speak of anymore)