Prover E

11/7/96
6 doses

MIND
7 Been "jumping" on people, cuddling people, normal for me but perhaps doing it more.
7 More sensitive, shortness of temper.

Overview
The proving has brought up a lot of symptoms for me that have helped clarify my constitutional remedy (which subsequently >).

DREAMS
1 Dreamed about a friend of mine, male, a pharmacologist in white, glass, beads shiny like a gown on, hair light- in colour as well. As if he was floating. A big grin, smiling.

7 Dreams of people trying to kill me and my children. I strong and fighting them in my home.

23 Dream of son being electrocuted on a fence and need to treat him, with phosphorus (because it’s the main remedy) and arguments with doctors.
23 Dream of mother-in-law falling out of bed. I helped her, she was very grateful.

HEAD
2 Strange headache, as if about to start then stopped. Above ears, right through Pain < movement.

20 Pain, tension type. Wanting to sleep.

NOSE
1 Catarrh thick and clear on waking, normally more tough.

2,4, 5 Sneezing.

FACE
7 Pain like toothache in R lower jaw.

8 Pain R upper and lower jaws. Sensitive to brushing teeth.

TEETH
7 Pain in teeth in R lower jaw.

8 Pain in teeth in R upper and lower jaws, extending to jaws. Sensitive to brushing teeth.

STOMACH
1 Heat sensation inside stomach and abdomen.

23, 24 Nausea in morning on waking, eating >.

ABDOMEN
0 Warm sensation below sternum, more to the right, 2-3 minutes after taking the remedy.

1 Heat sensation inside stomach and abdomen.

2 Pain, dragging dull ache turning to sharp under R rib, sneezing.

RECTUM
(2 Diarrhoea)

STOOL
2 Mucus, small amount.

URINARY ORGANS - URETHRA
6 Pain, sharp, burning, stinging at tip of penis for a few seconds after urinating. Like a needle had been pushed right down inside.

CHEST
19 Pain, tight and pulling, radiating from axilla into body.

BACK
1 Injured back lifting wrongly at work. (Took Arnica 200).

2 Pain, sharp needle like in R upper thoracic, rib area.

11-12 Very stiff in lower lumber on rising in morning.
11 Pain lower back, < jarring, < curving the back backwards, forwards and sideways.

12 Pain as if my back would break in lower thoracic region on lifting children. Stiff.

23 Lower back pain as if it could break or snap. Stiffness.

-- Pain felt better when holding/supporting my back with my hands.

EXTREMITIES
6 Pain R nate, bruised stiffness on getting out of bed, > stretching and movement.

12 Pain L knee. Stiff, > continual movement.
12 Pain like sensation as if skin was cracked, side of L big toe, near last joint.

2nd month Pain Achilles tendon. Very stiff. Initially, < movement. Then, after a week, > movement. Strained it walking down a steep mountain after overdoing it at work.
2nd month Pain, dull ache as if broken in L foot, tarsal region.

-- Joints in general, tender, as if snapping in half.

SLEEP
0 Fell asleep after taking remedy.
0 At night sleep was difficult at first - it was warm

2 Sleepy, yawning.

20 Want to sleep. Generally fall asleep around 5 o’clock.

GENERALITIES
-- R sided symptoms.
-- Lots of stiffness in morning, if sat down for a long time lots of stiffness with pain. Began in back and then seemed to spread out slowly in other joints, arms and legs.
-- Throughout the proving my joints and bones felt stiff.

Venus Intro.

Themes and Repertory

Why "Venus Stella Errans"