Homeopathy – Hope for the Hopeless

A case of Ankylosing Spondylitis

Some facts about Ankylosing Spondylitis

1.      There are 1.30-1.56 million cases in Europe and 4.63-4.98 million cases in Asia.
2.      It affects more men than women.
3.      The illness causes swelling in the joints between the vertebrae, the joints between the base of the spine and the pelvis, the cartilage between the breast bone and ribs, hips and shoulder joints
4.      It can also affect the eye and the aorta
5.      CRP and ESR are the tests done to gauge the intensity of swelling. They rise when the swelling increases and fall back to normal when the swelling reduces.

       Here is case of Ankylosing Spondylitis which will help us understand the illness from an indivdualistic point of view.

       The patient visited Dr. Rajan Sankaran with complaints of swollen, tender and painful joints over the past two years. He was an entrepreneur running a successful business until he started suffering from this illness. Conventional medicine could not help much with the complaints. Having lost as much as 15 kgs of body weight, he described the experience as “a shock”. He wondered as to why it would happen to him. His work has come to a standstill. Eventually he had to shut down his advertising business as his work involved a lot of commitment and significant stress which was no longer able to keep up to.

       As the owner and the manager of the firm, his work demanded constant generation and a flow of better ideas, meeting deadlines, handling finances and managing clients. The firm was his baby and advertising was his passion, as it helped put across the ideas creatively in order to market them. It required new ideas, creativity and a zeal to perform and deliver to the clients what they sought for, all the qualities which he was adept at, but now lacked, being disabled by the disease.

       He described the feeling as being “let down by nature”, “not useful to anyone”, “let down by people”, “was not needed anymore”. In his dreams, he “couldn’t find a way out of the building, stuck”, “the next building is in ruins”. He described himself as “having all skills previously”. For him, skilled meant, “being a catalyst”   in the process of skillfully delivering a product.

       Considering the sensations, feelings and dreams this patient was given a suitable homoeopathic remedy following which he felt much better overall and his joint stiffness and pains reduced to a marked extent. The joints became more flexible and were not painful even in winters now. Earlier he would find difficulty in walking, but now he jogged daily. Stiffness in the neck was much better too. His sleep along with his stamina and mood improved. Steady improvement was noticed in his tests wherein ESR dropped from 130 to 30 and CRP from 80 to 8. All the allopathic medicines were tapered off and then stopped once he started feeling better. He soon resumed his work and was very happy as he was again able to perform and deliver with the high standards that he was used to.

       What was wrong with this patient? What was his illness? His physical state or his mental distress due to the state?

       The homoeopath, here, looks far beyond only the physical state to incorporate the physical symptoms with his experience in the suffering at all planes – physical, emotional and subconscious in his understanding of the ‘disease’ and then prescribes the medicine for the whole individual.

1.      He was losing his capability to do things and was too weak to preserve it.
2.      By nature, he was a very creative person, full of innovative ideas, with a zeal for performing, greatly distressed that he could not any longer perform.
3.      He was not able to work in the present.
4.      He was remembering the past events. He wanted things to be the same as they were before. This man was stuck in the past.

       He is one of many patients who benefited from homoeopathic treatment. The benefits were not just limited to the reduction of pain due to his illness but also to his general well being, restoring him back to his former state.

References :
1.      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24324212
2.      http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ankylosing-spondylitis/basics/definition/con-20019766
3.      STRUCTURE: Experiences with the Mineral Kingdom, Row Five, Page 861

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