When clients come to me for the common cold or flu, I typically don’t ask the question, “Have you ever had a head injury?” But after this case, I’m certainly going to start!
A client I have been blessed to work with for a few years came down with what she referred to as a ‘detox’. She said it was lighter than the flu and symptoms weren’t that bad, but they were unusual. Everything centered around this catarrhal pain in her forehead which extended into her teeth and eyes. Her nose was obstructed. She was irritable and her lips were all of a sudden chapped.
She said what was really odd was the dreadful pain in her head that went straight into her eyes and jaw. She never experienced that symptom in the past. I just considered it a typical inflammation of the sinuses that extended into the eyes and teeth, not uncommon.
We gave Bryonia a shot and that did the trick. She slept and when she awoke, she was ready to face the day, and her mood improved drastically. She was her usual mouthy, witty, fun self. She did chores inside her home and even some decorating outside.
Then, that night, her symptoms started to return. Not enough to wreck her sleep, but in the morning all hell seemingly broke lose and she was in so much pain! All of her head inflammation had violently returned directly to the right side of her head, going into her eye and teeth. The pain was excruciating and deep. She said it was so odd because she’s had influenza before and just didn’t recall this catarrhal head pain.
Oddly (maybe miraculously), while we were discussing her case, her daughter came in and placed her ice cold hands on her Mom’s head. The client who was ready to cower at the cold hands instead cried, “wait a minute! This is like ice on my head, my eye, and my jaw and it is bringing me so much relief!”
Hmm. So, easy enough. I thought, cold applications ameliorate.
But then it hit me:
As I said, I have worked with this client for many years and months earlier, during the summer, she had had a nasty head injury where she slammed the left side of her face into her back door. She immediately had black, blue, and purple bruising around her left eye and she was in very bad pain. We used Arnica throughout the day causing her pain to subside and the hideous bruising was gone in less than a week. We also used Nat-Sulph throughout the case, but she healed up so quickly and had no issues what-so-ever. In fact, up until now neither of us had given it a thought.
But, this ‘ice’ that was helping her was so interesting to me! It was as if there was an injury there and so my mind raced back to that head injury several months before.
Could this catarrhal pain be so wretched because of the head injury? I had remembered when the accident happened, despite all the bruising on the left as this is where she struck the door, she said back then that it was more painful on the right and it felt like her entire skull and jaw shifted that direction. Her pain wasn’t just extending into the eyes and teeth, this was inflammation pressing on cranial bones that had been jarred during that summer accident.
We used Arnica 200c and within a half hour she was markedly much better. She was able to get up, move around, was able to do some light chores. By the evening she had totally recovered. There was zero pain in her head, eye, teeth, or jaw. She slept easily and woke up the next day with zero issues.
Who knew Arnica would be used in a case of the flu? Well, you just never know with homeopathy! The key is to ask questions, take excellent notes in the client’s own words, and don’t give up. The best situation is with long term clients where you know their history because this woman had completely forgotten about her head injury as it had seemingly healed up so well.
I did suggest she see her massage therapist who also does cranial sacral work to check those cranial bones. They can be manipulated back into place, but it needs to be done by a cranial sacral therapist.
Score another one for the homeopath!
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