Classical Homeopathy for Anxiety & Jealousy

George Vithoulkas

Classical

Homeopathy for

Anxiety & Jealousy

Materia medica

Differential diagnosis

Anthracinum-Case

Classical Homeopathy for Anxiety & Jealousy

George Vithoulkas

Groma Verlag

eBook-edition 2018

based on the 1st edition of the printed version

ISBN 978-3-907188-00-2

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George Vithoulkas

George Vithoulkas is regarded as the most important homeopath of the 20th century. His entire life and creative powers are dedicated to serving homeopathy. In decades of teaching internationally he contributed to the worldwide revival, recognition and dissemination of classical homeopathy.

Born in Athens in 1932, he is married and lives on the island of Alonissos. He started studying homeopathy in South Africa in 1960 and was a student of several homeopathic colleges in India.

In 1967 George Vithoulkas returned to Greece from India and founded the Centre for Homeopathic Medicine in Athens in 1970. Many well known homeopaths received their theoretical and practical training in this large centre.

Since 1976 George Vithoulkas has been teaching homeopaths internationally. He soon became a globally known teacher, whose students are in charge of numerous homeopathic schools and clinics in several countries around the world.

In collaboration with the University of Namur, Belgium, George Vithoulkas started developing the V.E.S (Vithoulkas Expert System), a sophisticated computer-system making intelligent suggestions to the homeopath for homeopathic treatment. Thus he is also seen as reviver of homeopathy and as a pioneer of electronic data processing in homeopathic practice and research.

He is the founder and head of the International Academy for Classical Homeopathy in Alonissos, Greece. Since 1995, homeopaths from all over the world travel there for homeopathic education and postgraduate studies.

His numerous books and articles, among them Medicine for the New Millennium, Materia Medica Viva, The Science of Homeopathy and A New Model for Health and Disease are well-known by every homeopath.

In recognition of his contributions to homeopathy he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for health, the alternative Nobel Prize in Stockholm in December 1996.

Since 1999 he is honorary professor at the Medical Academy in Kiev and since 2000 he is collaborating professor of the Medical Faculty at the Basque University in Spain.

Foreword

It was a great honour for us to invite George Vithoulkas to Switzerland for a two day seminar. The theme of the seminar Anxiety and Jealousy met with great approval and inspired participants. The amount of positive feedback and the many inquiries led us to the decision to publish the contents of this seminar as a book.

During these two days, George Vithoulkas shared with us his extensive experience and his profound knowledge of Materia Medica. With great commitment he presented the keynotes of the most significant remedies for these issues in a vivid and practical way. While extracting their most important aspects, his comparative description of Materia Medica enabled each participant to clearly comprehend the reasoning leading to the prescription.

This volume contains lots of information and valuable suggestions for homeopathic practice. The extensive index, the clear lay-out plus the keynotes of the 25 remedies, discussed during the seminar make this book a very practical reference work.

We sincerely thank George Vithoulkas for permitting us to publish this seminar, and for checking through and amplifying the manuscript. We further thank Uta Schildwaechter and Hans G. Schrauder for editing the material.

Groma Publishers Baar, Switzerland

Heidi Grollmann, Urs Maurer

PART I: ANXIETY

Anthracinum-Case

In these times of violence we need homeopathy very much. Because, as you know, homeopathy takes out the aggression from the human soul. It makes people more balanced and more sane, with more common sense. In these times we need people who are balanced and have common sense. As everybody knows, violence brings on violence. And if we keep on doing this, using violence against violence, we will reach a point where we will destroy ourselves.

I have brought a very interesting case, and I would like to present it to you. This case was taken in America, in California, back in 1984 I think. This is a case of Anthrax – Anthracinum. I felt, maybe it would be of interest for you to see such a case. What is interesting in this case is the fact, that in this particular case Anthracinum did not only act on the skin-problem, but it went deeper and freed the person from the deeper effect of Anthrax. There are, as you know, different levels, different stages in which a human being can be affected through different agents. Anthrax is one of them. In this case you will see what in homeopathy we call a case of constitutional Anthrax.

In the beginning, when I prescribed Anthracinum for this woman, I didn’t think that it would act so deeply and create such deep changes. This case is a very good teaching-case for another reason. Many times we give a remedy, and we see some effect. The patient says: It had a good effect, I felt better. We give another remedy – I felt better. Another remedy – I felt better etc."

Three, four, five, six remedies – always: I felt better. But the underlying problems actually remain the same! There was no deep effect. The remedies didn’t not go deep enough to touch the most inner, chronic problems of the case.

This is one of the cases where you can observe this. The case is presented by a good homeopath, her husband, and you will hear him tell about the remedies he gave her and how she got better from them. But what he was talking about was actually on a superficial level. There was indeed some effect to be seen from the remedies, but they didn’t go deep enough to bring about real changes.

So this is a teaching case, and as we go along I will draw your attention to certain points in the case, to show you and to enable you to get an idea of the chronic effects of Anthrax. You see, at this moment violence in America is being spread through Anthrax, right? And of course the government says: Don’t be afraid. We have antibiotics, and we are going to face this situation. But we know that the after-effects of Anthrax plus the antibiotics are going to be seen for years afterwards. [For more information regarding Anthrax follow this link ...].

These people, who will be affected in the form of a chronic condition, should need our help to bring back their lost health. So homeopathy is needed at this moment; very, very much. I don’t know – because I don’t have the experience of course – what effect homeopathy could have on a primary Anthrax-infection of the lungs. And I’m fairly doubtful about it, before I have seen the effect. But I know about the after-effects of Anthrax.

Like in this woman. She was a farmer, dealing with animals. Most probably she had been infected, but not as a primary infection. The manifestations on her skin were very close to the symptoms of Anthrax. And Anthracinum brought about a cure. So before giving you more information I would like to start with the case:

(The video begins. The patient and her homeopath are sitting in front of a class. George Vithoulkas was teaching in California at that time. A close-up of the boil is shown)

(George Vithoulkas explains to the auditorium in Zurich:) This is a boil, a huge boil, on the upper part of the body. You can see it bulging out.

GV on video: This seems to be quite deep. Is it very hard? (examines the area) When did it develop?

Homeopath: She’s had this sebaceous cyst in that place for about eight years. About nine days ago it began to drain a little bit, just a little bit of drainage, just drops, a little opening.

GV: It was there all these years?

Homeopath: It has never been opened for drainage. I squeezed out quite a bit of offensive smelling, white, sebaceous matter afterwards.

GV: What smell?

Homeopath: It smelled like very strong cheese. Offensive. But from what I have seen from other sebaceous cysts, it was exactly the same smell. It continued to ooze. So the next day I squeezed it again, until it became about 30% of its ordinary size. This now is roughly the size that it ordinarily is.

GV: Bulging out like that? All the time, all the years?

Patient: Yes, like that.

GV: The redness was always there?

Homeopath: No, never discoloration, never pain.

GV: So now there is an inflammation?

Homeopath: Yes. It was painful the second day after I expressed it, so we decided to leave it alone. But it was markedly smaller. I could feel all the patterns of the cyst. Then we didn’t touch it, and slowly over the next three days she wasn’t feeling as well. Not in regard to the cyst...

Patient: It was still oozing, though, all this time it would ooze by itself.

Homeopath: Finally, a reddish coloured discharge came out. Then, by Wednesday morning, she was having a headache, she couldn’t make any decisions, she was dying for open air and had a feeling that she wanted to go outside, without her clothes on, into the cold.

Patient: That was at seven in the morning, when it was really cold, and the cold would feel great. And stomach ache, wanting to cry...

Homeopath: Yes, she was very emotional. I gave her a dose of Pulsatilla M. In the past Pulsatilla has helped her repeatedly very well. And within half an hour...

Patient: ... I felt much better. No headaches anymore, no stomach-aches, I didn’t feel hot anymore, and emotionally I was better.

Homeopath: But then the discharge ceased.

Patient: The boil got hot, red and painful.

(Vithoulkas interrupts the video)

What does he say? He gave her a dose of Pulsatilla, due to the amelioration from fresh air. And: the headache subsided, but the sebaceous cyst stopped discharging. What does that mean in Homeopathy?

It means that Pulsatilla acted on a superficial level. It brought about some changes, but left the underlying causes untouched. And this, unfortunately, is what happens with most of our cases.

We don’t understand that there are underlying causes that have to be treated at a certain time, before a case opens up and we can progress. For eight years she has been treated by her partner, who is a good homeopath.

She has been given several remedies, Natrium muriaticum, Pulsatilla etc. Because this is a closed woman, as we can see... – maybe you cannot see, because it is an old video, and you cannot see all details, of course. Her face was dried up. The emotions were dried up. No emotions.

In its mental-emotional state, Anthracinum produces an analogous picture. We see a person who has a deeply imbedded emotional abscess. It is an abscess that has often been formed out of a very painful emotional experience.

This remedy retains so much deeply hidden grief that one might consider it to be the major remedy for silent suffering, its darkest emotional wound buried deeply within its psyche. It is as though all the emotional and mental suffering of the Anthracinum-patient has been enclosed in one big boil. The patient is unable to feel, to express or to share deep emotions.

She said: I had the inclination to weep.

But Pulsatilla does not have the inclination to weep. It weeps! In order to give Pulsatilla, you need an amelioration from open air and weeping without almost any cause or with the least cause.

But if someone says: I need to cry and I cannot cry, this has to make you think twice before giving Pulsatilla. In such a case, where the person wants to cry but does not cry, closed remedies like Natrium muriaticum, Ignatia, Phosphor acidum, maybe Staphisagria should be thought of. But not Pulsatilla! But still, it took away the headache.

Do you see how you can be mislead to believe that the remedy has acted? Here it has not really acted. What has it done? It has suppressed. That is why I had the problem at that time. I could see a woman with dried up emotions and skin. I remember her very well. The skin had fine, very fine wrinkles. She was not an old woman! But she looked much older than her age.

It is interesting to observe in these patients that they look and act as if they were old and tired. They will give you the impression, without admitting to it however, that they shoulder their misery and suffering silently, without complaining, without making a lot of fuss, while at the same time being emotionally quite dead inside.

So I was struggling with this case to see what could be the correct remedy at this moment. Also, her headaches were gone, but her sleep was disturbed. She could not sleep. Another point that shows us that the remedy had acted on a very superficial level.

(The video continues)

Homeopath: Burning hot.

Patient: It reminded me of the branding of animals.

Homeopath: And it’s getting worse day by day. She is getting weaker. She doesn’t sleep well. If someone touches it...

GV: Are you cold now?

Patient: No.

GV: You still feel warm?

Patient: Yes.

Homeopath: She feels quite well otherwise.

Patient: Emotionally I feel much better than before, when it was still discharging. But now it is very painful. And in the evenings the pain extends upwards to my head and downwards all the way to here...

GV: Especially in the evening?

Patient: Yes. And when I go to lie down for the night, then is the best time. Not immediately, but after lying for some hours, it feels best.

Homeopath: Even though her sleep isn’t good.

Patient: Yes, I wake up often.

(Vithoulkas stops the video)

You will see that Pulsatilla took away the headaches, but her sleep is disturbed. She cannot sleep. This is another point telling us that the remedy has acted on a superficial level.

Homeopathy has very serious therapeutic modalities, which have to be studied very well before we start dealing with patients, because Homeopathy is so powerful. It can give you the impression that it is acting, while actually it is either just changing, shifting symptoms from one side to the other, or even suppressing them – and many times of course it is doing nothing.

When your remedy is far away from the picture, the patient will come back and tell you: I have no change.

When the patient comes and says: I am better in this and that, but I am worse concerning this and that, this answer needs to be closely evaluated by the homeopath, to understand well if the remedy has acted correctly or not.

And how do you evaluate a situation like that? By thoroughly understanding the theory of Homeopathy. The theoretical understanding of Homeopathy is absolutely necessary for making a correct evaluation of a case.

(The video continues)

GV: Any other symptoms?

Patient: None, besides that it’s always hot and burning. It comes in waves, and sometimes it feels really hot, and sometimes it calms down and just aches.

GV: Any anaemia?

Patient: Yes.

Homeopath: Yes, she is pregnant.

GV: Are you always anaemic?

Patient: No, not anaemic, but with lower values than most other people.

GV: I see, not enough Ferrum...

Homeopath: Actually, this is her third pregnancy, and it is her best pregnancy so far. Thanks to good homeopathic treatment.

Patient: I went to India recently, came back with Hepatitis. Not yellow eyes, but itching all over and elevated liver enzymes.

GV: Itching everywhere?

Homeopath: Terrible, especially during the night.

GV: You gave Dolichos?

Patient: Yes, and the next day I was 80% better.

GV: Good... (smiles). He cured his wife.

Homeopath: She has had no remedy between Dolichos (which was a little bit more than two months ago) and the Pulsatilla. And concerning the anaemia: she was more anaemic in the last pregnancies. Her haematocrit is 34 right now; she would be around 29 to 30 even in prior pregnancies. So, for her, it’s probably reasonably good.

GV: Okay, thank you.

Patient: Thank you.

(Vithoulkas stops the video)

There was not much useful information. Usually I like to take more information, ask more questions. But the situation is difficult when you have a patient in front of the class. Especially investigating the emotional side, the sexual life is very difficult. It puts a patient like her under big stress.

Now I want to comment on what the Homeopath says about her