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Proving method:
7 female and 3 male provers , blinded, the provers did not know the remedy. An extensive casetaking of each prover
and two weeks of preobservation were done to compare the symptoms belonging to the prover with the proving
document.
C 30 daily 5 globuli until clear symptoms occurred. No placebo- group. The symptoms of each prover you find listed
in a chronologic manner.
--- attacks of- and strong craving for eating BEER, BREAD and
drinking BLACK TEA,
--- aversion to do her duties
--- faultfinding with everything (stronger than usual)
4.day: --- no remedy intake
--- slight dragging pain in right and left ear and teeth
--- pain abdomen (Pat 2)
--- very irritable but as well strong despair (Pat 1),
--- sensation to fail
--- suicidal thoughts, wants to jump down from somewhere
(suicidal disposition, throwing himself from a window: 21A,
Crot-c, Lach)
--- craving for BEER, aversion sex
--- dryness of mouth
5.day: --- no more pain in teeth or ears
--- sensation as if she would be pursued in the dark, a lot of fear with
it, and with this, she feels very irritable, wants to command
6.day: --- pain in abdomen
7.day: --- starting to take the remedy again
--- slight frontal headache, dragging pain like the very first day
--- craving for black tea,bread, beer, wine
--- dryness in mouth (but does not drink more than usual)
8.day: --- light headache, pain abdomen
--- quickly tempered
--- eats a lot of snacks inbetween, does not want regular meals
(rules while eating: Pat.1 and 2)
9.day: --- headache, dragging pain abdomen
--- at 10:30 p.m. strong pain right ear
--- dry mouth, grumbling and moaning
--- only eating snacks inbetween: BEER, BREAD, MUSTARD,
BLACK TEA
10.day: --- dryness in mouth, light diarrhea
--- forenoon: strong stitching, drawing pain right ear, also at
right eye and right upper jaw
--- right cheek as if numb, as if the right half of face is absent (even
when pressing strongly, this sensation stays) does not belong to
me ( theme of split)
--- numbness reduces in the evening, pain in eyes dissappear towards
the evening, pain in ears becomes stronger in the evening
--- vertigo and empty feeling in the head (cannot drive a car)
--- sad, (not aggressive), sensation of being pusued ( agg. in the
evening) by a man with a knife
--- feeling of failure
11.day: --- no remedy
--- pain right ear agg. about 10 p.m.
--- irritable, easily aroused
--- fear of being pursued, as if she always would be observed
--- desire for alcohol (wine, beer) (general theme of snakes)
12.day: --- no remedy
--- pain rignt ear, agg. in the evening
--- desperate, sees shadows
--- suicidal thoughts, to jump, to throw herself in front of a train
--- hopelessness
--- fit of weeping in the afternoon gives relief, calm afterwards
13.day: --- no remedy
--- pain in right ear, slight pain abdomen
--- feels relieved and calm
strong sensation of coldness during the whole proving (Pat.2, a common symptom in anorexia, coldness is a
general theme in snakes except in Lach) and tiredness.
A symptom of nausea lasting all day long was present during three weeks before the proving, this dissappeared
during the proving and came back afterwards.
Mood has been dimmed during these 2 weeks, had not as much desire to talk as usual, did not like company that
much during this time.
The prover drunk coffee during the entire proving.
3 days after finishing the clinical trial, a bloody discharge from nose returned, which was absent during the proving.
Proving summary:
What was striking in this medical trial was how conscientious the volunteer testers were when they recorded their
symptoms. Particualarly noticeable was the field within which the trial of the medication took place, or one could say
the strange side effects, which the medication created around itself. Of all the trials Ive participated in, none have ever
dragged on for such a long time. For different reasons, volunteers wished to put off taking the medication, so that the
last protocol was handed in on.Nov. 30th 1996.
Our final meeting with the test volunteers was planned for December 20th 1996. One test volungteer had, in the
meantime, moved to England; therefore neither her symptoms nor her dreams could be discussed.
On December 19th, 1996, my colleague, wha had taken over the individual discussions with a part of the volunteer
group prior to the final meeting, rang me. She was very confused and with a guilty conscience, told me she had
completely forgotten to arrange these individual meetings and had also failed to inform anybody about the date of the
final meeting. Ive known my colleague for 14 years and she has always been a completely reliable and responsible
person.
I also forgot to inform one of the volunteers.
We met finally on December 20th, 1996 and eahc tried to capture for hi or herself the mood that we had expe rienced
throughout the trial. We were united over three qualities:
Confusion, bewilderment, forgetfulness.
PROVING DREAMS
The provers elaborated on their dreams and discussed their associations and feelings
Dream 1:
I am with a man in a coffee-bar, it is a strange place, smoky, a bit dirty, some game machines are standing around. I
cannot remember that there were other guests. My mother is coming together with my sister after a while, we all leave
this bar, it was too nasty for my mother (CP),
Comment:
My mother represents cleanliness, the dreamer and her sister are nasty, smoky. The mother part, her clean part,
asserts itself, but C.P. is not happy about it, is cross and does not want to be good.
Dream 2:
I dreamt about a colored woman in a bar, she was dancing and was exposing her beautiful body (CP attractive,
seductivr- theme of snakes
Comment:
Again the location in the dream is a bar, a public place. The dancing of the colored woman is associated with s trengtjh,
beauty and self confidence.
Dream 3:
I am in a big room, I have to leave it, someone is following me, (persecution: theme of snakes). I am rushing along the
corridors and rooms, J. and M. (her kids) turn up, I have to save them, as everyone with African trace will be
eliminated. Why J. and M.? I can save them (C.P.)
Comment:
That which is still young, forceful, beautiful, proud and self- confident (this is the association to the colored woman) is
endangered, The pursuers are strange men, an undefined part of the Animus which wants to eliminate the above
qualities.
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H.M.
Dream 1:
I am meeting my relatives, many people around. They are telling that my father is already dead, although this message
has not yet been confirmed. He had cancer and other diseases. I have not seen him for years, I imaginge how wasted
away he must be. Then I am in a crowded underground train, on my way to his funeral. I am glad to see some relatives
there, as I dont know where and when the funeral will take place. I think that it is important to conastantly repeat this
sentence to myself: he was a good father. But I am not absolutely sure if this makes really sense (H.;M.)
Dream 2:
I am in the hay- loft on the farm of my grandparents. I think that I dont want to work there as M.D. because these
rooms belong to my father and the walls would cave in, as they are not firm enough. I am asked to move my working
place to the living room of the farm, into the corner where my grandfather used to take his afternoon nap on the sofa
and where he died. (H.M.)
Dream 3:
I am lying in bed with my father and my sister. It bothers me that my father is lying there, it bothers me that he does not
want to sleep with his wife. I search around the house and look up the plants of the house, to see if I can find a room
just for me somewhere, but I cannot find such a place. My mother is lying in the bedroom, but she looks away from
me. Suddenly U. arrives; she vrawls into my mothers nightdress and laughs impartially. I have a great aversion to my
mother and dont want to come one step closer. I think that U. is completely different to her, and she has a compeltely
different past history or else she would not be able to treat my mother so impartially.
Dream 4:
I am in the new university building somewhere in the upper floors, I cant orient myself and blunder through the rooms,
even though my parents and my sister and other relatives also seem to live here. The car, which I inherited from my
father is parked down below in the street. I know, that a being has been stabbed to death and is in the boot of the car,
but it is unclear whether or not it is human. I dread going down and having a look. I know that I should do it. My mother
should go with me, but she has vansished. I look for a staircase that goes down. Somewhere gthe sentence comes
up: Does the murderer come from the family?
Comment:
H.M. was stuck by the fact that she dreamt about her father. She could not remember if she had dreamt about him
before. He was very important to her, the only one who showed any interest in her. She always tried hard to please
him. H.M. felt herself responsible for him and took over her mothers role. She described her father as being inwardly
torn, passionate, socially engaged, sadistic and depressed. He had difficulty making friends. She had felt not much
more than distance when he died 10 years ago.
The Boa- induced dream of her father seemed to warn her to land in the paternal area. The room or the area to
which the internal father belongs, is not very strong, the walls could cave in. Also, the father aspect is too close, not
where it belongs, at the side of his wife. So near, that there is no room for her own personal space, no room for me
alone. (the unsolved part which is still connected with the parents cannot unfold, through this the danger arises that
the murderer could even be one in the own family??)
In the boot of the car, which she has inherited from her father is lying a corpse. Also here, going towards the paternal
is loaded. I dread going down and having a look, I know that I should do it. It was discovered a few months later that
the test volunteer had (breast)cancer (like her father). During the clinical trial, the unconsciousness of the volunteer
was trying to warn her and make her aware that there was somethingdespite her dread--- that she should look at.
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U.S.
Dream 1:
A young woman comes to a consultationlots of red spots on her face. She is suspicious, has already had an
expensive treatment for cellulite that has not helped. She shows me her thigh, and I see theat her whole body is
coverred with a rash. She is one of two daughters; their parents spoil them; she is very imperious. There is a box full
of little chocolates for children. My colleague gives an old lady a little chocolate and the young patient immediately
demands more.
Comment:
By cellulite the main quality of the medication, the FAT of the BOA is represented. Suspicion, greed, egocentricity,
the imperious behaviour of a spoilt daughter (the dream emphasizes the daughterly lack of independence)
Dream 4 ( 3.day):
A big, empty room with a wooden floor, which should be clean, but a thick, feathery, bright white layer of dust covers it.
The window is open, the wind blows white curtains and also whirls the dust around, which looks like flower pollen ( I am
annoyed about the dirt, but nevertheless I feel good, because the whirling dust looks so beautiful).
Comment:
The pure white becomes dirty white; the opposites are mixing with each other, a dynamic from ooutside is forcing its
way in, the dust is whirling around which feels good to the dreamer.
Dream 5 ( day 3)
A big house, partly, I want to get in through the terrace door with something wide ( a wheelchair), but it is not possible.
On my way home it is dark and the wide road is full of mud. I keep sinking in with my thin shoes; cars with dazzling
white headlights drive past and splash me, I turn round and desperately seek a bus stop, but I dont find one, I stop by
a school building and wait.
Comment:
The other polethe dark onesinking in mud; the dazzling white does not make me lighter, but makes me darker,
splashes me even more. In the previous dream there was the metaphor of dust, which in itself contained the
aesthetically beautiful, the white, and here as well the dazzling white is connected to soiling.
Comment:
Here white represents correct or normal in the defining context of the doctors standing around because for
them it is normal to be dressed in greend in the operating theatre. Ther relativity of correct and wrong, clean
enough, not white enough, I wont be acknowledged. The color white worn on the outside is treated by the
doctors as the same as the white of the knowledge; someone who is white is someone who knows ( in German,
white and knowledge are represented by the same word ich weiss und weiss) -- but the actual event, the
operation, seems already to have taken place, independent of the discussion over form and content.
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E:
Dream ( day 13)
I must have slept too late, because it is 9:30 a.m. and the kids are still at home, I want to write them a note for school
but dont manage it, I keep making mistakes and have to start again. At last, I finish the note for my son, but the note
for my daughter is horribly smudged. Then I have to take the dogs somewhere, on the other side of the city. I go on
the bus and know that I am in any case going to arrive too late. It does not particualrly upset me, although I normally
have a tendency to be over- punctual.
Comment:
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F:
Dream 1 ( day 2):
I am in the protestant church in Melk. Contrary to all reality this church is built like a lecture hall, the altar is below and
steps lead down to the benches. For an unknown reason I go down to the altar. There I discover that between the
level of the altar and the first step, there is a gap the width of a hand. I am amazed that the protestant priest has not
noticed this and has not done something about it. I put it down to his transcendental transfiguration.
Comment:
The gap is reminding me of the deep precipice towards the seats, a crack, a cleft between esotheric performance
(D, 2.day) and the altar on the one hand and the lecture room and the fist step in the church on the other hand.
Dream 2 (day 2)
A lovely dream of a tree- lined road, which is partly still in deep snow, but it was about to become autmn. I was lying
with my face in leaves of wonderful rust and orange colors and was amazed that the leaves were pressed so flat on
the ground. It was beautiful and everything smelt so intensely of earth and autumn. I noticed, that it had never occurred
to me how beautiful autumn actually is (especially as I often dream of snow).
Comment:
As if the dreamer were gliding along the ground llike a snake, equipped with the highly developed sense of smell of
BOA, at the time of the year when autumn changes into winter.
I dream that it is autumn again, the fields are in orange and brown tones and I gallop over lang meadows. With many
friends a lot of changes took place, e.g. structural changes inside the house I wondered, because partly there were
people I know, who had become very lazy.
Comment:
Something is starting to stir internally and is making an active change to prevent laziness.
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G:
Dream 1 (day 1):
A dream about a horrible looking man, who pulls faces and treatens me with a wooden club.
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H.
Dream 1 (day 1):
Carnival: I am dressed in three layers: two shirts (one is orange, the other is white)), two skirts (one is beige, the other
orange) and thick socks. I go into a bar everybody has something with grey and blue stripes on -- lots of black haired
men with gel in their hair.
Comment:
Again the opposite colors; multiple clothing, ritualized deception Carnival. My things are bright those of the others
are dark. ( Pat.2: I am unusual).
Dream 6 ( day 3)
I dreamt a lot about food. In the classroom, chocolate is thrown here and there, scrapping over it.
--- Either/ or, black/ whie, antithetic categories with little space in between, strict
black and white boundaries with no gray areas
--- food
MIND:
--- Averison to duties
--- Aversion to sex
--- Bossy and dictartorial
--- Delusion of being constantly observed
--- Delusion of being pursued in the dark
--- Fear of being pursued in the dark
--- Feeling of being watched
--- Feeling of failure
--- Hopelessness
--- Impatience with excessive irritability
--- Subdued mood with no desire to speak
--- Suicidal thoughts to jump and throw herself in front of a train
--- Unable to pronounce worlds correctly, says things incorreclty, loses the thread
while talking, with a feeling of a need to my thoughts constantly
confused
GENERALS:
--- Desires Beer, black tea, bread, butter, mustard, wine
--- Excessive prostration and tirendess
HEAD
--- Pain forehead, worse cold wind
--- Drawing pain in the occiput, especially like a hangover
EAR
--- Pain worse evening, 10 p.m., right- sided pain
--- Stitching pain in left ear, worse chewing
--- Drawing pain in right ear, extending to throat
--- Pain in right ear with numbness, extending across right side of face to eye
NOSE
--- Easy blockage of nose with a viscid, offensive postnasal drip that tastes of
blood
THROAT
--- Postnasal discharge, viscid yellow mucus tasting like blood
--- Yeallow- green mucus
--- Sore throat especially on left side,
FACE
--- Sensation as if the right half of face does not belong to him
MOUTH
--- Dryness of mouth, worse at night
--- Right- sided toothache that extends up to the right eye and right ear
STOMACH
--- Nausea before meals with an urge for stools, which are offensive
ABDOMEN
--- Colicky pains, flatus amel
--- Cramps in abdomen, leading to diarrhea
RECTUM
--- Incomplete sensation even after passing stool
--- Sudden urge for stool; watery diarrhea, grayish- yellow with brown pieces,
associated with mild burning around anus, as if the stools were hot coals
MALE
--- Violent erections during sleep
FEMALE
--- Itching of vaginal region
CHEST
--- Pain in right pectoralis major
EXTREMITIES
--- Pain in right buttocks, extending to right thigh and centers in the right tibia
--- cold hands with fever