Cyclamen Understanding

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D., F.F. Hom. (Lon) et al.

The most striking feature, after reading Cyclamen´s pathogenesis, is one´s general clinical condition: This patient is exhausted, mainly due to the loss of capacity to feed oneself. The patient is nauseated, has vomits every morning and he can´t eat his common food, it disgusts him. And everything that means “loss” like menses, mental effort, movement has become difficult and painful to this patient. We believe that this group of symptoms, which represents his loss of capacity to nourish himself, must be present on every single ailment when Cyclamen is the indicated remedy. But we must keep it in mind: Cyclamen gets better from movement. The open air is difficult, walking is difficult, but this patient will mention that although these conditions are a threat for him, he feels better walking in the open air. It´s not difficult understand this condition: due to the lack of nourishment, he is weak, but moving, breathing the outside air might becoming a way to contact the sun, air, life – and these are also part of human nourishment. We feel alive, we love to breath to outside air, we might feel revigorated by walking and feeling the outside air. The Cyclamen patient, although unable to eat, might tell to his doctor that walking in the open air makes him feel better.

Bur our patient is tired, weak, unable to feed oneself. And then we might ask: What have happened to him? 

Great sadness, as if he had committed a bad action or not done his duty. 

Ailments from inward grief and terrors of conscience. 
Sadness, as if she had wronged somebody (Aur.).

Cyclamen carries inside this feeling: she is feeling guilty, she believes that she had done some harm to his closest friends or to his family. O woman still suffering for an abortion done during her teenage years, a mother who gave birth to a sick child and blames herself for it – what have been noticed by the homeopathic authors is that this feeling of harm, of guilty, is related to the people nearby, like her family and near friends.

Following this feeling of guilty, it might trigger all those clinical conditions:

Feeling of satiety after a few mouthfuls of food, the rest becomes repugnant and nauseates him ; nausea felt in throat and palate. 
Painful restlessness in bed; must get up and walk about for relief; gurgling in intestines combined with malaise ; always > by moving about. θ Enteralgia. 
On awaking, weariness, clammy mouth and irritable mood. 
Anxiety, with nausea, at night. 

Cyclamen is a sad human being, closed inside oneself, buried in one’s thoughts about the mistakes done in the past, unable to overcome her feelings of guilty. She will look for solitude, she wants to stay away from the others, she is unable to be happy and enjoy her life. And every day, upon waking, she will vomit.

Melancholy; inclined to tears, and silent grief. 
Complete loss of appetite, on taking a little beef-tea or a cup of tea, indescribable pain in scrobiculum cordis, which seldom went off until she threw up what she had taken ; melancholy, Constant gnawing pain in bowels; all food caused great discomfort and swelling, with frequent eructation; debility, consequent upon lack of nourishment; stools infrequent and hard, expelled with great effort. θ Enteralgia. 
Painful gurgling in intestines every night, with general malaise, > abstaining from food after noon and from walking about; gnawing pains in the abdomen at 7 P. M., extending thence over whole body, > from walking till tired ; pale, herpetic face and red nose. 
Diarrhœa of chlorotic women subject to sick headaches and menstrual irregularities. could not engage in any occupation. 
To understand the patient Cyclamen we must try to visualize this combination:  That she is someone carrying this burden inside through her life, to the point of this sadness assumes a physical form: she doesn´t want to live anymore, she decided to stop eating due to her strong aversion to food, her nausea and her morning vomits

Menses suppressed or scanty, and painful ; dread of fresh air ; vertigo ; headache ; swollen eyelids ; pale face, lips and gums ; loss of appetite ; no thirst ; constipation ; palpitation ; constant chilliness ; disinclination to move and to work ; constant drowsiness ; wants to be alone, and weeping does her no good. 

Cyclamen europ. groups

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo, M.D., F.F.Hom. (Lon.)

Symptoms from Hering, Allen and Kent´s MM

One´s relationship with the environment

Consciousness almost extinct. 
Sensation as if a large animal were running over her whole body (third day), [23]. 

With oneself

     Humor                                        

Taciturn, depressed, out of humor. 

Serene humor changes suddenly into seriousness or peevishness. 

Great sadness and peevishness; menses suppressed, or scanty and painful. 

Joyful feeling with trembling; exuberant spirits.

Joyous feeling, alternating with irritability. 

Melancholy; inclined to tears, and silent grief. 
On awaking, weariness, clammy mouth and irritable mood. 
Anxiety, with nausea, at night. 
Ill humor, after vomiting. 
Ill humored, morose mood; could easily take offense at every trifle. 
Obstinate, irritable, fault-finding disposition. 
Feeling of satiety after a few mouthfuls of food, the rest becomes repugnant and nauseates him ; nausea felt in throat and palate. 
Painful restlessness in bed; must get up and walk about for relief; gurgling in intestines combined with malaise ; always > by moving about. θ Enteralgia. 

Responsibility

Great sadness, as if he had committed a bad action or not done his duty. 

Ailments from inward grief and terrors of conscience. 
Sadness, as if she had wronged somebody (Aur.).

Mental weakness

Disinclined to work, with weakness. 

Very active memory, which alternates with weak memory. 
Mental labor impossible on account of dullness or stupefaction. 

Vertigo, with pain in head and nausea ; vomits nearly every day, and often all the food taken, with slime and bile ; greatly reduced, can scarcely walk across floor ; pains in head continuous, but very much worse at times ; < in right temple ; but extend all over head ; mind so affected as to make her indifferent to what transpired about her, and rendered her incompetent to describe her own case ; finally consciousness almost extinct ; questions answered incoherently ; feces and urine pass involuntarily and unconsciously. θ Mental derangement at climacteric period. 
Insensibility; rush of blood with anxiety ; impaired sight and diminished intellectual powers. 
Attacks of faintness, cloudiness or obscuration of sight. 
Sensation as if brain were moving within cranium, or as it does when riding in a wagon with closed eyes. 
Feels as if brain was in motion when leaning against something. 
Vertigo with dyspepsia when lying down, > by motion, in nervous subjects. 
Oppression stupefaction of whole head, with obscuration of vision ; it seems as though a fog were before sight, and as though eyes were about to close. 
Headache with obscuration of vision; pale complexion, rings around eyes, depraved appetite, enfeebled digestion and menstrual irregularities. θ Anemia. 
Eyes sunken and dim, have a weary look, and are surrounded by blue rings. 
Sight: as if looking through dark blue glass ; like mist before eyes ; figures cannot be clearly distinguished. 
Dimness of sight, with fiery sparks before eyes. 
Flickering before eyes, as of various colors, glittering needles, visions of smoke or fog. 
Burning in eyes and flickering of light on attempting to read in evening in bed. 
Vision of colors before eyes, now yellow and again green, or fiery specks and sparks; halo around light. 
Amblyopia after suppression of an eruption; has never menstruated, though has much headache and vertigo at time menses ought to appear. 
Hemiopia, only left half of object is visible. 
Strabismus ; after convulsions, or measles. 
Convergent strabismus. 
Left eye drawn toward inner canthus. 
Dryness and pressure in lids, as if swollen, with violent formicating stitches therein, and in eyeball. 
Dullness of hearing, as if cotton was in ear or something lying before (right) ear. 
Sense of smell diminished. θ Chronic coryza. 
Pale face, eyes sunken, with blue rings ; great weakness ; anemic women. 
Gums and lips pale. θ Dysmenorrhœa. 
Entire loss of appetite. 
After eating but little, aversion to food, with nausea in throat. 
No thirst all day, but it occurs in evening as face and hands become warm. 
Thirst during night. θ Intermittent. 
Thirstlessness. 
Desire for lemonade. 
Aversion: to bread and butter ; to beer ; to fatty things ; to ordinary food, and desire for inedible things. 
Constant disgust for meat; craving for sardines ; frequent vomiting in morning. θ Dysmenorrhœa. 

Complete loss of appetite, on taking a little beef-tea or a cup of tea, indescribable pain in scrobiculum cordis, which seldom went off until she threw up what she had taken ; melancholy, could not engage in any occupation. 
After eating : nausea ; sleepiness ; hiccough, rumbling in bowels. 
Constant gnawing pain in bowels; all food caused great discomfort and swelling, with frequent eructation; debility, consequent upon lack of nourishment; stools infrequent and hard, expelled with great effort. θ Enteralgia. 
Painful gurgling in intestines every night, with general malaise, > abstaining from food after noon and from walking about; gnawing pains in the abdomen at 7 P. M., extending thence over whole body, > from walking till tired ; pale, herpetic face and red nose. 
Diarrhœa of chlorotic women subject to sick headaches and menstrual irregularities. 

After stool: ineffectual straining ; pinching in abdomen, dullness and forgetfulness. 
Menses suppressed or scanty, and painful ; dread of fresh air ; vertigo ; headache ; swollen eyelids ; pale face, lips and gums ; loss of appetite ; no thirst ; constipation ; palpitation ; constant chilliness ; disinclination to move and to work ; constant drowsiness ; wants to be alone, and weeping does her no good. 
Suppression of menses after excessive dancing or being overheated. 
Before menses : melancholy ; straining and warmth in abdomen with sleeplessness. 
During menses : improvement in temper and of the heaviness of the feet ; labor-like pains in back and abdomen ; headache ; vertigo ; darkness before eyes. 
Extremely restless and uneasy at night. 
Great restlessness, sleep unrefreshing and disturbed by frightful dreams. θ Dysmenorrhea. 
Night restless, interrupted by dreams. 
Falls asleep late and awakens early, with feeling of great lassitude and weakness. 

Fever:  Chilliness all over body, not relieved by any amount of clothing. 

Money

Restless sleep, dreams of money. 

Kent:

Dullness of mind prevents mental labor.

Absorbed in thought seeks solitude; thinks about the future. Answers incoherently, confusion of mind.

Aversion to work, and dread of open air.

Alternations of moods is a striking feature of the mental state. Great flow of ideas alternates with weak memory.

Joyous feeling alternating with irritability.

Serene humor changes suddenly into seriousness or peevishness. Grief and fear keep her in continuous mental agitation.

Wants to remain in a warm room, and. in solitude.

Remains a long time silent. Excitement with trembling.

Tearful and meditates upon her grief, which is only imaginary.

Thinks she is alone in the world and persecuted by every one (China).

Sleep not restful, disturbed by anxious dreams; frightful, vivid dreams, 

Restless sleep. Late falling asleep. Wakens early but wants to sleep late. 

Nightmare.

Wakens early, but too tired and sleepy, cannot rise. 

Pollutions in dreams.

 

With the others

Obstinate and censorious. She grows steadily weaker; fainting spells come on; she becomes pale and anemic.

Deserted
Ill humor; disposition to weep; fear of death, or an illusion of being deserted or persecuted by everyone. 

Seeks solitude
Loss of former cheerfulness; love of solitude; aversion to work and to open air ; sensation as if room was too small, with reluctance to going into open air ; solitude and weeping give relief. θ Suppression of menses. 

Absorbed in deep thought, seeks solitude, thinks about his future. 
Solitude and weeping give relief. 
No appearance of menses for 2 1/2 months, loss of former cheerfulness ; love of solitude ; offended at every trifle ; aversion to work ; sleeps late in morning ; face, lips and gums pale ; lids swollen ; tumultuous action of heart ; great lassitude ; great anxiety ; sensation as if room was too small, with reluctance to going into open air ; solitude and weeping relieve ; in morning frequent pressing pain in forehead, with vertigo ; appetite poor ; stool tardy.