case of aluminium metalicum

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CASE
A 40 year old woman has been coming for treatment for the last 4 years,
with a gradual improvement of her overall condition. Now she has come complaining of stomach
pains. They are nearly always there and her stomach feels empty, as if it being squeezed and
there isn't enough room. She once had a bout of vomiting whereby it felt as if her intestines were
coming out. This revolted her so much that she could hardly swallow anything for the next few
days. She still has difficulty swallowing her food and it is quite painful. The pain is worse from
wine and the smell of tobacco makes her stomach contract. She can tolerate warm food better
than cold. She likes pasta and fish and has an aversion to dry food.
She has had problems with a neighbour lately. He was angry with her because of a letter he
had received which he thought had been sent by her. She has assured him it wasn't her, but he
remained angry and threatened her: 'If it turns out to have been written by you I'll come and rape
you'. At a birthday party with her other neighbour’s they advised her not to speak to this
neighbour anymore, but this is difficult for her because their children often play together and she
often looks after his little daughter. She feels she has adapted too much to other peoples' wishes
and isn't allowed to be who she really is.
‘Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.’

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2In her relationship with friends the same sort of problem occurs. She feels she has
to adapt to their wishes too much. These friends think that she is still depressed, which she
used to be in the past, but this was a long time ago. The other day an old friend told her it was better if
she didn't come to his birthday when lots of other people would be there; it would be better if she came
separately on another day. He told her a complicated story but the gist of it was that he didn't want her
there with the others. She hated being approached in such a indirect way.
Her childhood situation was very similar too. It was always a matter of adapting to parents, sisters
and other family members. There was never a clear indication or code about the space you were allowed
to take within the family. She always complied out of fear that she would not be accepted, or that she
would be thought strange or mad. She had to adapt to the image which was expected of her, otherwise
they wouldn't love her. But now the anger and the resistance is brewing up inside her and she wants to
take her own space.
During past life therapy she experienced the same feelings of there not being enough room for
herself. She was only a woman and their was really no room for her in society.
She also gets feelings of pressure in her forehead. When questioned about her stools she says
that they are usually quite thin. When questioned about hurry she answers that she is always feels hurried
around 9 am.
‘ The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. ’

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ANALYSIS
The theme of not being allowed to take up her own space runs
through her whole life. It happens with her neighbours, her friends and her
family, even in past lives. It is the relationship theme of the Silica series. She has always
done what others wanted of her (stage 3), which could be viewed as a confusion about
her identity within relationships. She feels that she is not allowed to be herself. She had
to live up to the expectations of other people (stage 3), otherwise she wouldn't be loved
(Silicium series).
This theme of having to adapt and comply may look like stage 2, but in this case
there is the added factor that she feels it is wrong: she wants to be herself but she
doesn't dare.
Symptoms confirming Are: hurried, vague and indirect stories, agg. 9 am., -amel.
pasta, agg. dry food, cramping stomach pains, swallowing difficult or impossible. The thin
stools are the opposite of what we would expect . Hence the prescription is…..
‘Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.’

4. “ALUMINIUM METALICUM”
DR. ARUN R.NAIR & DR. DHANYA G.NAIR
FOR DEPT. OF PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
“ The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

5. ALUMINIUM METALICUM
Alumina / Argilla
Source - Pure clay.
Chemical formulae – Al (OH)3
PROVED BY-HAHNEMANN
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"Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves!!"

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Signature
The name is derived from alumen or alum. It was discovered in 1872 and it is the most
common metal and the third most common element on earth (7.5%). Aluminium is found in earth
and clay.
The metal is very light and is used in aluminium foil and in aircraft. It is often used as a
component in steel to bind the oxygen and to make it light in weight. Bearings usually contain
magnesium, silicium, cuprum, zincum and zirconium (the latter is particularly used in spacecraft).
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -- think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of
your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

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Group analysis
 Confusion in relationships; confusion about roles.
 Indecisive about who he is in relation to others.
 Confusion about who he is and who the other person is: confusion identity.
 Doubt in relationships.
 Doubt whether they belong to the family.
 Doubt whether they are exercising their own will or that of the group: mis-guided.
 Confusion in groups.
 Doubt about the relationship they want to have: triangular relationships.
 Searching for contact and relationships.
 Confusion in relation to others.
 Doubt from the other person in relationships.
‘Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.’

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‘Fortune sides with him who dares.’
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 CONFUSION WITHIN THE RELATIONSHIP; CONFUSION ABOUT ROLES
They feel they have managed to find their own place and they deserve to have this place, but
there are still several points that aren't clear to them. They wonder whether they really want this
relationship. They also wonder how to proceed. How much of themselves should they give to this
relationship? What is left of them since they have given themselves to this relationship?
 CONFUSION ABOUT IDENTITY WITHIN THE RELATIONSHIP
They are confused about their own position in relation to the other person. They know they are in
a relationship but they don't know where their own identity and responsibility end and the other person's
begins. They ask themselves questions like: 'Was it really me who did this?' or 'Am I being myself at the
moment?' This is the well known rubric ‘Confusion about identity'. Another typical symptom is that they
don't recognise themselves when they look in the mirror. They look at themselves in surprise and think: 'Is
that really me?' The confusion about where they end and the other person begins is sometimes so strong
that it stops them from taking responsibility for their own actions.

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 DOUBT WHETHER IT IS THEIR OWN WILL OR THE WILL OF THE GROUP
Out of a desire to belong to the group they often do whatever the other person wants, thereby ignoring
their own wishes. They carry out a task as requested by a family member or a peer group and later on they
discover that it was probably not such a good idea. They feel uncomfortable about it and start to ask
themselves whether it was really them who carried out this request: 'After all it was the group who asked
them to do this, so isn't it the groups responsibility?' We find this in the repertory under the rubrics
'Delusion other speaks', 'Delusion other hears', 'Delusion consciousness belongs to another', 'Delusion
head belongs to another' and 'Errors about identity'.
It is a very important remedy for people who did wrong during the war, who did things that did not
agree with their own morals ; also for people who spend their life thinking they have committed a crime.
These people might talk about themselves in an impersonal way, as if they are talking about someone
else, using the words 'you' or 'one' instead of 'I'.
“It is your decisions not your conditions that truly shape the quality of your life.”

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 DOUBT ABOUT WHICH RELATIONSHIP TO CHOOSE: TRIANGLES.
They doubt whether they have chosen the right partner or the right relationship. They keep on
searching to try and find out whether another relationship wouldn't be more suitable. This creates
complicated triangular relationships with all the confusion and doubt that goes with these. Who should
they choose? Whose ideas should they follow? Should they listen to their boss or to their colleague?
Should they choose for their wife or for their sister. They can never make up their minds, always afraid
to make the wrong choice and regret it later.
 DOUBT FROM THE OTHER PERSON IN THE RELATIONSHIP
All this wavering and hesitation eventually makes their partner unsure about the whole relationship too.
The partner thought that a commitment had been made but now it all looks very unstable and he
doesn't know what to think of it anymore.
“Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.”

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 DOUBT WHETHER THEY BELONG TO THE FAMILY
A similar doubt may exist with regard to the family. They know they are part of the family but
they don't really feel at ease, as if they can't really be themselves, as if they have to give part of
themselves away for the sake of the whole group.
This theme may emerge within a very strict or religious family, where everybody has to obey
the rules. Or we may see it in religious sects where there is a strong regime of discipline and
obedience to authority. Nobody can be themselves, they have to do as they are told. A similar situation
exists in the army, where they are forced to do things they would never dream of doing themselves.
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world:
those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

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EXPRESSIONS
 Fears: knives, blood, insanity, own impulses.
 Mood: timid, adapting, complaining, moaning, hurried, slow to act and speak, depressed,
suicidal.
 Delusions: time going too fast, parts of body belong to someone else, being a criminal,
insanity, having no friends, ghosts, killing, marriage, mistake about own identity agg. looking in
the mirror.
 Aggression: impulsively aggressive- agg. seeing knives or blood.
 Mental: absent minded, confused, doubting, overwhelmed, as if in a fog, wandering, being
lost, mistakes and faults, dementia.
 Causes: executing other peoples' commands, loss of relations, agg. being hurried or pushed.
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

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COMPLAINTS
 Feeling of numbness and cobwebs. Constriction.
 Discharges little, watery, acrid.
 Dryness.
 PARALYSIS , ascending.
 Vertigo agg. closing eyes, tendency to fall forwards.
 Liver. Pancreas.
 CONSTIPATION , hard, dry stools, no urging or frequent urging.
 Stools have to be removed by artificial means.
 Testes, ovaries. Leucorrhoea.
 Kidneys.
 Muscles.
 Skin eruptions, itching -agg. heat; dry and rough skin with cracks, itches until it bleeds.
“Never, never, never give in!”

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GENERALS
 Weather: agg- dry, amel- damp.
 Perspiration: little or none.
 Time: agg- 9 am; agg- winter.
 Desire: dry food, rice, starch, coffee.
 Aversion: meat, beer.
 Food: agg- potatoes, milk, artificial food, warm drinks. agg- tobacco.
 Menses: too early, short, little, pale; tiredness afterwards.
 Sleep: agg. waking.
 Physical: - amel.- lying down,
agg. -coitus.
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”

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CONCLUSION-
ALUMINIUM METALLICUM ESSENCE:
 CONFUSION(about who he is and who the other person is),
 SLOWNESS,
 DELAYED ACTIONS .
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

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Good bye till we meet again with good news..
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“In life, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”