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"One day, a patient's mother called me, Mariana, that i give assistance since one year and four months of age. Today, she's 15 years old and this fact happened six months ago. She, desperated, was telling me that for 24 hours her daughter were with 40º degrees of temperature, very prostrated, with a lot of pain in the body and with pain in the throat. I asked her to come to my house. Its good to inform that this girl always had a tendency for amygdalitis, sometimes of viral origin with only inflamatory character, sometimes of bacterial origin with purulent exsudation. Beyond that she had in her HPP: face and thorax alergic echizema, itch when she was a baby, contagious molusk, aphthas tendency, acute catarrhal with coughing and fever, but with no complication. From her homeophatical symptoms, it was clear her anger and irritated character, her critic and perfectionist attitude, with a fear to commit mistakes very characteristic because it was very present since her 2 years and 6 months of old; some fears, for example: thunder, lightning, dark. During a specific time, she had nightmares with spiders and a constant craving to put salt in everything. When arrived at my house, she said: i'm sick to my stomack, dizzy, when i stand up it seems like i'm dreaming, that i'm a little flying, that i'm bit dizzy. (flying» a little ou of this world, a little strange). It seems i'm much more fragile than i am, everything hurts a lot, every little thing hurt me, everything looks like its going to hurt me a lot; if my mother holds my finger, it seems it's going to break, the pain i feel is much more than what its for me to feel. . . I dont eat anything and when i do, it's just a little, i get dizzy very fast; i feel a lot of cold, i get covered all the time, i cant speak too much because it hurts, it seems its scratching; little thirsty, drinks only if its offered and just a little. During the clinical exam the patient was shrinked, covered with blankets, prostrated, very hot along all body and the only finding out of the normality was her oral pharynx very much hyperemiated, with the amygdalas bigger than normal size and showing a white grayish plaque adherent surfacing each amygdala as it were a huge blanket. The most probable hypothetical diagnosis were Angina de Vincent or a estreptococus infection. A swab of oral pharynge was asked and the result was Pyogenes Estreptococus, group A, confirming the diagnosis of Estreptococus Infection. Now, begin the dilemma and the challenge of the homeopath: what to do? Her condition was serious and worrying, the family's pressure was big, because it was already the second day of sickness and the general estate fo the patient was horrible. The time was against me. I analized the case and saw the possibilities: 1. Repertoiring the symptoms from the present estate and its modalities, i defined as good options Laccaninum and Phytolacca - give one or the other, give them both alternately ? 2. Surprisingly for me, when in her sharp estate, she tells me about psoric sensations so clear and objective that never before manifestated themselves so clearly, i felt myself in front of an experimentator and light happened! This sensibility to pain, fragility, more the fear to go wrong, her demanding to herself and to others. . . Gosh! Arnica Montana! It was this and i never seen it! But, and the nightmares with spiders and the salt desire? 3. Prescribe a antibiotic or associate with the homeopathic medication? I thought for seconds that was worthy for me the 26 years i dedicate to this magnificent science. I decided probably for what is stronger in me. Prescribing: Arnica Montana 1M. It was 6pm, she went out straight to the homeopathical pharmacy and then straight to the laaboratory. Evolution: at 12: 00am, on the phone, the mother told me she was with 37, 7 C, that she ate properly and did not take the antithermic. On the following day, by noon: with no fever, eating properly, more capable. Thirty six hours after taking the medicine, i saw the patient at my house, felling nice; in the oral pharynge exam, there was no clue of the plaque. The exam was ready after 5 days and the diagnosis was sealed, but Mariana was already nice. . . This Homeopathy has such things that makes us think. . . " Dr. Elizabeth Pinto Valente de Souza
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