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62 year old male patient consulted us with the following complaints:

¬ ë er-increasing le els of serum creatinine and serum cholesterol

¬ ñypertension
¬ cncreased frequency of urination at night
¬ ëdema feet
¬ 0iddiness
¬ xifficulty and stiffness in walking with cracking of the knee joints
¬ ^ain in multiple joints

All these complaints were making him worried and it was a cause of mental torture, he said.

Besides the abo e problem, he had se ere Cer ical Spondylitis. The pain was continuous and
radiating to the right hand. There was decreased sensation on the right side of the body. ñe
felt ner ous and didn't feel like talking when the pain was there.

The patient came from a big joint family. There were 8 brothers and 1 sister in all. xue to
poor financial condition of the house, he had to stay with his elder brother (22 years elder to
him) for educational purpose. ñe stayed with him till 23 years of age and didn't get motherly
or fatherly lo e in childhood. There were differences with his sister-in-law but he used to do
things the way she liked; it was not a pleasant situation but he didn't want to hurt anybody.
Loneliness was constantly there and he ne er enjoyed his childhood and wept whene er he
was alone.

This went on for 12 years; he completed his graduation and took up studying law but was
unable to complete it. Then he took up a job and was liked ery much by his colleagues. ñis
friends who used to work for the workers' union asked him to join them as he would be able
to help the workers to sol e their problems. ñe was ery honest and disciplined- he used to do
his office work and then the union work. Thus, he was under constant tension for 15 years.
But he ga e it a tough fight. ñe said he ne er ga e wrong ad ice to the staff so that he might
gain financially. The company also ga e him a promotion but he refused to take it because
people would ha e thought that he was influenced by the authorities and so he got promoted.
xue to this, he had to suffer major financial losses.

A ery emotional person, he would get hurt easily if someone said something wrong. Yet, he
would not react; would keep all things in mind and think of them. ñis whole body would
tremble when he would be angry.

Being ery sympathetic, he could not see others suffer; he would go and help those people
who genuinely needed help. ñe liked music and felt better in general after listening to it. Fear
of going out alone was a prominent symptom noted during the case. ñis sleep was disturbed
and he had lot of anxious dreams.
The patient was prescribed Mag-Sulph based on the abo e history. ñis first follow up was
after 4 weeks; he was remarkably better.

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The complaints of Ms. MxT had started about six years back with hypertension and swelling
of feet. The patient would get breathlessness on walking, talking or ascending stairs. She had
also de eloped dark pigmentation on the face. Since a year and half she used to get lightening
like pains in the back and cramps of the legs. On in estigation it was found her creatinine
le els were high and Ultrasound (US0) showed renal cyst. She habitual user of tobacco since
1983.
^ ñ: ^neumonia, ^ulmonary tuberculosis, ñysterectomy, Rhinoplasty and O arian cyst.

She grew up in a big family with many siblings. ñer father was rich and she had four
brothers. Unfortunately all her brothers died when she was small. ñer parents wished she
should ha e died instead and this shocked her. As a child the patient was ery good at
studies, but when she was only 13 yrs old she got married. ñer husband was 10 yrs older to
her and she had her first child when she was 14 yrs.
Currently she is staying with he husband and working in a Bank. She has 2 sons and both are
married and settled.

As a person MxT was ery sensiti e and wept often. She also got angry ery easily but does
not express her anger and keeps quite. ñer husband was ery dominating and an angry person
by nature. Now she is married for 37 yrs but still fears her husband. All this stress and
emotions brought on suicidal thoughts in her, she had e en attempted suicide once. The
patient could not tolerate noise and contradiction.
She had a generous nature and could gi e away things easily.
She could not tolerate tight clothes since the beginning and did not like necklace as she felt
suffocated by them.
The patient had car ing for salt, groundnuts, grams, and sweets.

^atient did not gi e many details; there was a constant block in communication this block in
the communication was compensated by dreams. She had lots of dreams; fathers house,
farms, frightful dreams as if somebody is coming to kill her, dreams of dead people, etc. She
would wake up startled from sleep at night with fear.

After e aluating her case she was prescribed Nat-mur 200. She was next seen after 6 weeks
the swelling on her feet had impro ed. She was much calmer and her sleep and appetite was
better. O er the period of next few months she showed further impro ement and her renal
functions impro ed her edema feet has almost recessed. Mentally she was much better and
her sleep was sound and her frightful dreams were a rarity now.