Case of severe Vitamin A deficiency with phobias
By
Dr. Dinesh Chauhan
Case has been edited for brevity
Italics are mine
(My explanations are in bracket.)
“Child is the creator of his own imaginations, he is the actor, director, story writer and producer everything”
‘My Mother is a Dragon’
Mst. J., a 12 year old boy; son of very famous counselor in Bombay, consulted me on 29/04/05 for the complaint of severe Vitamin A deficiency with skin eruptions with phobias.
(Case witnessing process in a child’s case can be divided into
1] Passive witnessing
2] Active witnessing
Passive case witnessing process:
(In passive case witnessing process, we are allowing the natural flow of the case without altering it. Whole aim is to passively listen the verbal and non-verbal language of the patient.)
Aim in Passive case witnessing process:
1) Pay attention to verbal and non-verbal expressions which are,
– Out of Place.
– Out of order.
– Out of flow.
– Out of content.
– Out of proportion.
– Out of your Knowledge.
– Out of patient’s knowledge.
2) Find what child is putting (Verbally or non-nonverbally) into the center/what focus in two-three different areas is.)
Case proper:
M: - There are white rashes; they keep going up and down. They increase and they become less, lots of them and lots of unnecessary fears in mind, lots and lots of fears, s/t may be or may happen later on. Lots of fears, to the extent I will tell you the day when he started going to school, he started vomiting in morning everyday, by going to school and slowly it subsided. Just now he was talking to me and told I still have fear that I will break my hand again. [Laughs] Lots of fear I don’t know why .Lots of insecurities .another e.g. is when I was going orphanage, for some work, one day he spontaneously asked me where are you going I told him I am going to orphanage what is an orphanage I told him so I asked would you like to come with me spontaneously he said no, I said why? He said you’ll leave me there so you talk to him and see why he has fears ok? I will wait outside.
D: Tell me what’s happening to you? Tell me everything?
P: One day I was playing with my friend he was on the slide and I was on the edge of the slide and at that time with little bit of speed on the slide I had fallen I broke my hand after that I am getting scared of everything.
D: Tell a bit about it?
P: So when I was up with the hand and fallen I was going to he hospital and whole thing was wrapped up by plaster and after I removed it, I was very careful and got scared, that again I will break my hand. I was doing skating practice, at a very good pace, I was going very fast and I used to get scared and left skating because of that.
D: Tell a bit more about you? About your fears?
P: My fear when I am running fast and all I may trip down whole on the ground and sometimes when she my mother says come with me then I get fear that she will leave me somewhere. I also get scared while I go down to play I get scared that in my in house, that whenever I am near some glass piece and I am very scared that my hand will break and again I will have to put rod in. That’s all.
D: What else?
P: Nothing else
D: Tell a bit more about you? Bit more about your fears? Bit more whatever happens to you?
P: Sometimes I fall down and got hurt on my chest that time I had fear, I also have fallen of when down the rope when I fell down I was very scared that s/t has broken and my backbone is broken And my friends scare me that I am going to push you off the slide and you will fall off. (Obs: Hand goes to chest)
(We observe that lots of fears are coming, fear of falling, breaking bones, injury with glass piece, mother leaving him Etc. in Children cases since they generally have lots of fear, we should avoid asking question about some particular fears. We need to wait till the focus of the patient is clear.)
D: Very nice tell bit more about all your fears?
P: I don’t have any more fears.
(Pause)
D: Tell me a bit more about you?
P: Like what?
D: about yourself, your likings? Your interest and hobbies?
P: My interest and hobby is art and reading books… and collecting stamps with my father… And sometimes when I go down to play cricket, I get so scared when ball is coming towards me I just bend down and after sometime I start playing and get very scared that I will break my hand again.
(Pause)
(In interest and hobbies also we see that same fear is coming up)
D: A bit more about you? Bit more about your interest and hobbies?
P: Once I read books in night when I sleep I get dreams of it and nightmares then I wake up and I see I am on bed.
D: What you see?
P: I see kind of… (Pause), in the olden age I used to see dinosaurs, they used to eat me and all. That time I used to be very scared. Sometimes I used to wake up also and go to the grandmother and ask her to come and tell me stories then only I used to sleep. That’s all.
(Pause)
(See the language he uses; in the olden age I used to see dinosaur. This is completely out of place, so we make note of it)
{Active case witnessing process.
(Here you use your intellect to alter the flow of case in right direction. Based on Passive case witnessing process, you become active on points which patient is focusing knowingly or unknowingly).
Aim of active case witnessing process:
1. To make focus/center of the case more clear.
2. To find focus if the focus is not clear in passive case witnessing process.
3. To explore the subconscious areas to get the center of the case.
4. To find the complete pattern of the case
5. to find the language of the source in the patient}
Cases continue:
D: Ok no problem. Tell me about that when you are alone in the house, what happens to you?
P: when I am alone in the house I am very scared and want my mother immediately. So that she can help me. After that I don’t get scared when alone in the house. My sister goes down, sometimes my maid goes down. My grandmother goes down for a walk, my father goes to office and my mother goes to market and I am alone in the home that time I get scared and I want my mother immediately at that time.
(Pause)
D: So what scares you when you are all alone in the house? What happens to you?
P: I get scared like some kind demon [H.G: Closing his feast] is behind me I get very scared about that.
D: About what?
P: About that thing is coming behind me. [H.G: closing the fist]
D: What I didn’t understand what you said if I am...
P: See ,if I am at home alone ok then, I think that suppose if I am walking into my room and putting on light inside the room its very dark and I get scared of that dark I think some kind of creatures are coming behind me who will kill me. (HG)
D: Describe that a bit to understand.
P: I see some person who is putting cloth around him and taking me to a dangerous place some one is putting cloth around him and taking me somewhere… (Pause) that’s the fear when I go and I see it’s my sister. She I wrappings cloth around and pulling me there.
My fear is like in the darkness like some kind of thing I don’t know what thing but it is coming behind me wherever I am walking ahead … and sometimes when I go on the road to other building to play I think someone is coming behind me each time I go faster someone is coming faster behind me. HG)
D: Describe it bit more?
P: When I see that person coming behind me I go very fast and sometimes I fall on the road and I have fear that I have broken my hand so my fear is only that
D: What?
P: About darkness when I am in school I have fear that I will break my hand or body pieces.
(Some kind of thing/creature coming behind Him and will break his body. Now slowly slowly everything is getting connected and clearer picture is emerging)
D: Very nice tell more about this. What other fears you have when you are alone?
P: When I am alone I just get fear that when my friends and teachers are not there in the class I get fear… that no is there’re and something can capture me and take me away. Than who will get me home? So that is all my fear and I have more fears than that only about darkness or when I am alone with my friends of falling off somewhere. My fear is only the darkness, when I break my hand and when I am alone at home.
(Something can capture me and take me away is coming in three different areas not related to each other.)
D: Take you away means?
P:
(Pause…… almost for 2 minutes)
(I have to change the track of asking question as he is not moving further. I kept asking on same like for almost 20 minutes but case didn’t move further. I ask him what the things you are very very scared are)
D: What are things from that scared the most?
P: Sometimes my sister tells me stories of ghosts. That time I see it and that makes me scared, ghosts are coming in real life in front of me.
D: Tell me a story makes you very sad very very scared?
P: It is a book called Harry potter. That makes me very scared because there are many kinds of… dragons and invisible things.
D: Scared of what?
P: I am scared of only monsters and kind of things even though now I think my mother also a monster. (Moving hand very vigorously, became very anxious.)
D: What?
P: Even now I think my mother is kind of big and she looks like a monster.
D: Tell about it a little bit. Don’t worry. It will be highly secret. Just tell about it.
P: I also sometimes think that my father can also sometimes take away something of mine and I get very scared where it will be. That makes me afraid but he doesn’t do anything. (Moving hands Very restlessly)
(Very strange as he initially told that he needs mother’s company. Mother is a kind of monster, imagines that father will take away something of his, are very common expression in animal remedies)
D: Tell a bit more?
P: When I see movies like The Mummy, that time I think its real life and I get very scared because if that.
(What we see is many peculiar expressions like Olden age, mummy, dragon, and dinosaurs are coming)
D: Very nice you are telling, a bit more?
P: (Pause)… I don’t have anything to say about my fear.
D: Tell a bit more about it.
P: According to me, they can eat me. I have seen a small dragon in my real life. I have never seen a very big my father had taken me to china you know it’s a land of dragons. Once dragon came over there and all Chinese rushed over there and I and my father also went I held it in my hand then afterwards I got very scared of dragons.
D: Tell a bit about it?
P: From the Chinese calendar my mother is a dragon so I get very scared of her and I think so she is going to I don't know do what with me.
D: What that dragon looks like?
P: Dragon looks like a dinosaur with wings, a big tail, who can throw fire.
D: I didn’t understand?
P: A dragon is a big dinosaur with wings and a big tail and which can throw fire. I have burnt my hand because of that to small baby dragon. From that day I am getting fears of things of ghost’s vampires and everything, the things are invisible. I don’t have more to say… (Pause)… They have big legs and they can throw me into the big volcano where he lives.
D: What do you mean by that?
P: They live in hot places where no one can stay it comes out already. Lava comes out of its red hot water and only after fire it will still be hot. So when we enter that place immediately we get burnt a lot and we die.
(Spontaneously he connects the dragon to dinosaur and giving complete descriptions to it and even imaginary fears appears real to him.)
D: Tell me about your nightmares?
P: Nightmares I get of dragons as I told you in china. That’s all.
D: What you see in your nightmare?
P: I see dragon is coming in this world and he killed …….. [Yawns] Break our flats and kill all of us. And that’s my nightmare… His face looks like A big dinosaur with lot of sharp teeth, having 2 big… rods covered with skin he can throw out fire he has green eyes inside black white outside he is fully covered with orange its very dangerous. (HG)
D: Can you draw for me?
P: I don’t know drawing.
D: Just a rough sketch of it that dragon. Just a rough sketch of it.
P: I will try. It’s having large legs and whenever he gets angry, flame on tail becomes very big. First the tail is fat then thin when it’s angry from that fire and flame turns very big and large.
(Every area we get the same picture of dragon. Dragon is like big dinosaur, with big legs, big tail, destroying the big buildings, putting fires.)
(Now it’s the time to explore the sub-conscious areas to find what the center in those areas is.)
D: What other dreams you see?
P: I don’t see any other dream. Every day I continue the dream.
D: What
P: Every day I continue the dream.
D: Which dream?
P: Dream of dragon.
D: What is dragon doing in your dream?
P: Kind of destroying the whole world, places one he goes. One fine day the whole world is destroyed and he is also destroyed.
D: He is destroying the world I didn’t understand
P: Dragon is destroying the world places where he is entering, destroying it whole world all the cities and that’s the fear.
(Same thing comes up. Since she couldn’t go further then this, so I decided to change the line of questions)
D: So what you like to see on the TV
P: In National Geography I like to see Mega Structures in and they build buildings on that.
D: What you see, Mega?
P: Mega structures and on discovery like discovery of India in the older ages, ancient civilization etc. How they used to make 1st wheel into our wheels of today in cars. They used to tell us how cricket bats used to make.
D: Tell about it. How they used to make previous days tyre and now a days tyres?
P: 1st they used to make tyre of wood. Then they used to make rubber and they used to work only on some cars. Then they made little bit more, steel, inside and around it. Then they got how to make these stamp tyres.
(Strange that child of 8 year like to watch programme on mega structures and olden age.)
D: You told like to watch mega structures tell a bit about it?
P: Mega structure is a big building, biggest building. Even if a stone goes on a glass, it will bounce back. And there is a big ball inside. I think if I was there I would have felt big dragon inside it. If we open, he keeps on throwing out balls of fire. (HG Hand is moving with whole explanation)
(Strangely he is connecting Mega structure with Dragon, now I now that dragon is the main thing in the case, now what I want to do is who he experience the fear of dragon bodily, in a way what is his sensation with this)
D: So now I will ask you few questions. Whatever fears you have and all these fears what happens inside your body?
P: I get a kind of jerk in my body and I then calm down back. (Body shows the jerk)
D: What happens to you?
P: I just feel like crying and going to my mother and telling her about this. That I have got some kind of thing inside my body and that I cannot explain it to her.
D: When your heart gets scared, what kind of things inside your body?
P: My mother. A dragon is there inside my body.
(My mo and dragon is there, very strange)
D: What is happening inside your body at that time?
P: I think a dragon is there just stamping at my body and giving me jerks.
D: Tell about it?
P: When it bounces, I get jerks and I think that’s an earthquake inside me.
D: That’s an earthquake inside you? I didn’t understand anything out of it?
P: It’s actually a dragon inside me which I think is stamping on me and I think it as a boy throwing a stone inside and is actually not, that I think in my mind, a boy is throwing stone inside and that keeps on bouncing inside. That’s how I get jerks.
D: I still didn’t understand. Tell me again?
P: It’s a boy throwing stone inside me and is passing through all my places and reaches here (Showing the chest) and bouncing then it stops.
D: But actually a dragon you said?
P: But for me, the dragon.
D: I didn’t understand come again?
P: See, sometimes I think a dragon or a stone inside me. But once when I think of dragon’s story it’s a dragon. Sometimes I also think about fracture that is actually a boy throwing stone.
D: I didn’t understand. What do you mean by that?
P: When I am getting a jerk no, I think a dragon is stamping the place. But when I think of a fracture I think a boy is throwing stone inside me.
(Connecting the dragon and a fracture fear)
D: A boy is throwing a?
P: Stone inside me and that is bouncing a lot.
D: Describe that stone and a boy?
P: It’s like a dragon and dragon is like boy.
D: I didn’t understand?
P: If I want to describe boy, boy like dragon and if I have to describe the dragon, dragon is like a boy.
(This proves that the fear of dragon/dinosaur is the center part of this case along. Once I get the pattern of the case clear, my aim in the case is to see whether patient has become aware of all his fears, delusions and his problems.)
D: So right now when talking about your fears, what is happening inside your body?
P: I am getting jerks still.
D: What is happening right now?
P: Now I am still thinking that dragon is stamping in. I am getting scared that dragon is there. [H.G]
D: Draw something which you hate and like the most?
D: Describe these drawings.
P: This is the face of the dragon which is there in my abdomen. This dragon jumps in my abdomen. And this one is the picture of the bone which is very old may be thousand year old.
D: How does it feel to see this dragon?
P: Same feeling, as if something is jumping in my abdomen and hitting me.
MOTHER’S HISTORY DURING PREGNANCY:
The energy of the child which expressed in all the higher and lower forms of mother (Since the foetus in the womb has no form of its own it expresses its energy through the host that is the mother through her emotions, dreams, delusions etc.), can understood by understanding
– Change in mother’s state locally, generally and vitally.
– Change in way she think, feel, perceive, sense, react and depth and pace of all this.
– Change in dreams.
– Change in physical generals and physical particulars
Case Continue
D: During that nine month what changes did you observed in you physically mentally and emotionally?
M: Physically nothing, everything was fine except nausea in the beginning. Mentally there was no change in me, everything was smoothly moving.
D: Any unusual dream which was not part of you and you saw during those nine months.
M: Yes, there was one dream which came couple of time and I never saw before or after pregnancy. I used to see this very tall buildings, tall animals; much larger then their size.
D: What was the feeling associated with the dream?
M: feeling as if I have gone in to ancient age where all animal used to be in larger size, everything used to be big. Now I remember, once I also saw the dinosaur but I don’t remember anything about it now.
D: Any change in your food habits?
M: I used to like cold things.
UNDERSTANDING OF THE CASE:
Main words in the case.
1. Scared of everything like falling, fracture, being alone, darkness, injury
2. Olden age I used to see dinosaurs.
3. Some kind of behind me… I think some creatures come and kill me.
4. Someone can capture me and take me away.
5. My mother is a kind of monster… dragon.
6. My father can take away something of mine.
7. Dragon looks like a dinosaur that has wings, a big tail… They live in hot places where nobody can stay… It’s having large legs.
8. Dream of dragon… One fine day the whole world is destroyed and he is also destroyed.
9. Mega-structures… there is a big dragon inside.
10. Older ages... How fire, paper invented.
11. Dragon is there just stamping at my body and giving me jerks.
12.
13. School bag he carries,
Kingdom in the case: Animal Kingdom:
1. Some kind of behind me… I think some creatures come and kill me.
2. Someone can capture me and take me away.
3. My mother is a kind of monster… dragon.
4. My father can take away something of mine.
Sub-kingdom and remedy:
Olden age I used to see dinosaurs.
Dragon looks like a dinosaur that has wings, a big tail… They live in hot places where nobody can stay… It’s having large legs.
Dream of dragon… One fine day the whole world is destroyed and he is also destroyed.
Mega-structures… there is a big dragon inside.
Older ages... How fire, paper invented.
Dragon is there just stamping at my body and giving me jerks.
Remedy given: Maiasaura lapidea 200/one dose
Rubric of Maiasaura Lapidea (Proving done by Nancy Herrick):
Mind; DREAMS; animals, of; being bitten by
Mind; DREAMS; animals, of; pursued by, of being
Mind; DREAMS; animals, of; puppies; chasing cat
Mind; DREAMS; attacked from above
Mind; DREAMS; monsters
Mind; DREAMS; mother
Mind; DREAMS; mother; beatific look on her face
Mind; FEAR; accidents, of; car, to
Mind; FEAR; accidents, of; car, to; almost having
Mind; FEAR; accidents, of; car, to; smashing
Mind; FEAR; accidents, of; threatened by fatal, as if
Follow Up on 19/5/2005:
(Obs: Wearing Dragon T-shirt)
D: How are you over all?
P: Good.
D: In what way?
P: My rashes have gone now and I am fine now.
D: How are you overall?
P: Like… I didn’t have any problems there and I was its and I didn’t get any type of the disturbance and I was there only and my mother was…happy that I was fine over there.
D: How are your fears?
P: Became all right.
D: What do you mean by became all right?
P: Became all right means that I got over those fears and not getting fears any more.
D: And what about fear of dragon?
P: Dragon fears is not gone (Slip of tongue) it’s gone.
(Slip of tongue tells us that fear of dragon is still there in his sub-conscious)
D: And you used to think that people used to appear to you as if they are dragon. How is that?
P: That also gone.
D: Your mother used to…
P: May be…
D: What.
P: And my mother used to be like a dragon…
D: Hmm…
P: That’s also gone.
D: Sure.
P: Sure.
(First the way he said, ‘May be…’ indicates mother still appears to him like dragon)
D: You are doing scatting or no?
P: No I don’t. Now I stopped.
D: Why?
P: My skate has been broken.
D: Recently you had started your scatting again?
P: No. I…I before that I taken my scatting. I was doing it that time.
D: You want to do it know or no?
P: No, its okay…I left…
(Fear of skating has not gone)
D: Gone. Tell me what one dream you saw last time?
P: Last time I saw I was happy and friends playing downstairs with my friends about that
D: What you saw exactly?
P: Exactly I saw…when I was playing felling happy and playing a lot and than after friends also plays some other games…
D: What’s there on your T-shirt?
P: dragon. This I brought from Singapore.
D: Dragon?
P: So I don’t get any more fears.
D: So you don’t get any more fear, what so you mean by that?
P: So when one you have dragon… other dragon can’t make you scare.
(This is a very good sign; I already have a dragon so no fear)
Follow-Up taken on 18/9/2005:
(Wearing Cartoon T-shirt showing strength)
P: This drawing for you. I have made this in my free time for you. This is what I used to feel in my abdomen.
D: Okay so tell me how are you over all?
P: Good.
D: Rashes had gone?
P: Yes. Completely.
D: How was your fear?
P: Fears…is gone.
D: Sure you’re lying.
P: Sure.
D: So why don’t you do scatting now days?
P: I don’t know. I go for swimming.
D: You go for swimming. Where you go for?
P: Andheri Sports Complex.
D: You go there very nice.
P: I am now good at swimming and now I am going to join long tennis.
D: Tennis.
P: So overall I have learned four tennis, swimming, scatting and cricket.
D: Night time you get sometimes scared?
P: No.
D: How is that fear of dragon?
P: Dragon it’s gone.
D: Sure and mother…it to appear to you like a dragon now is it now?
P: That’s also gone.
Follow-up on 19/11/2005:
D: How are you?
P: I am fine.
D: Tell me how are you over all?
P: Good.
D: Hmm…
P: Good.
D: Can I see your T-shirt? Hmm…so tell me how are you overall?
P: Good.
(Wearing t-shirt with colorful flowers on it. What we observed in this particular case is that whenever he wears T-shirt with Dragon on it, invariably his state shows aggravation of the stage with fears coming back and skin shows the eruptions but when he comes with such light T-shirts, his state is much better.)
D: In what way.
P: Not having bad dreams. Not getting scared in the night, all fears have gone completely. My
Mother is no more a dragon for me.
D: How you otherwise in your activities?
P: Now I am playing with a ball I don’t get scared. I play. Football, extra circular activities I go
to school so early then football I play go down and play cricket then I cycle I go…
D: Did you start your Scatting.
P: Yes.
D: You’re doing it?
P: Yes I am doing it and not scared at all.
D: What about that dragon?
P: That’s also gone.
D: It’s not coming now and your mother was a dragon to you right. How is she now?
P: She’s like a mother.
(Now it is two years since we have started his treatment and he is almost out with every fears and physical complaints. He is taking part in many of extra curricular activities without getting affected by it. Last month he has shifted to hostel and he is staying all by himself without any fears or physical discomfort.)
End of the case.
“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago”.
• ~J. Robert Oppenheimer
DR. DINESH CHAUHAN
Director and Chief: SWASTHYA HOMOEOPATHIC HEALING
B-1, New putlibai Kapol Niwas, S.V Road, Near Venilal Saree show room, Vile-parle (West) , Mumbai-54
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Dr. Dinesh is actively involved in teaching Homoeopathy. He is a panelist in the School of Classical Homoeopathy for the international students and lecturer in the courses organized by HRC (Homoeopathic Research and Charities). He has been an instrumental in putting together Dr. Rajan Sankaran’s book – ‘An Insight into Plants – Volume I and II. He also conducts lecture series for the international as well as the Indian students and medical consultants of modern medicine. He has authored a book ‘The Journey into the Human Core’ (the presented case is a part of this book besides other cases) . At present he is working on his book ‘Cat in Human’ and ‘The Journey after the Simillimum’.
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