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jumps on her. Once she sees that she is not leaving, she goes to bed calmly.
During this period, the patient was in the care of Laura’s mother, with whom she had a different behaviour, only presenting her behaviour when she woke up, due to the noises of the trucks.
As a side note, they tell me the following: “When the dog was little, we lived for a year in my mother’s house, the three of us together. During this period, my mother suffered from panic attacks. In this period of time, where she was taking care of her, she sees the symptoms that she has had before.” This can be related to what Carolina González postulated, who argues that on many occasions pets become “the vehicle of somatization” of people.
Repertorisation
Fright disorder
Noise startle
Startle by fright
Fear of noise + sensitive to noise (being a pointer, they have been genetically selected to be next to the hunter when he makes the shots.
Screams
Sweetness
Scared
Deep sleep (in the case of a fearful patient, with so much sensitivity to noise, I was struck by the fact that she sleeps so well).
Eating too much aggravates Cold aggravates
Repertorisation Result: The ten symptoms are covered by acon, lyc, nat-c and sulph. If you had taken into account the keynote symptom slowness eating, only aconitum hubiera covered the symptomatic totality.
I did not take into account the particular symptoms for the following reason that explains them and does not make them homeopathic. The pointer is a hunting dog, is a “pointer” (pointer comes from the English “to point”) of the prey and is a retriever, once the shot is made. This consists of going to where the prey, taking it in its mouth without damaging it and taking it to the hunter and delivering it (it is taken out of the mouth or the most exquisite, they deposit it at their feet). I had a fleeting but very interesting experience as a hunting dog trainer. Already at 2 months of age the puppies mark on anything with feathers, they stay pointing at it and then you have to teach them to take an object, bring it and leave it. This breed is genetically selected so as not to damage the downed prey; Dogs that eat what the hunter hunts are discarded, as are those who are afraid of the noise of the shotgun, which are the few. So those animals that serve the purposes and that go against the instincts are reproduced, because the prey is smeared in blood by the wounds of the pellets, and I suppose that this would trigger the instinctive desire to eat or chew the prey. That’s why I believe raw meat and raw chicken can result from an acquired aversion to breed selection.
Prescription: Aconitum 30 C, one dose in the morning fasting, another at night before going to sleep away from food, and another the next morning.
Clinical follow-up
22/07/08: (phone call) “Within 10 days of taking remedy, or even earlier, I had a different bitch. She doesn’t scream, she doesn’t get agitated, she eats better.”
The change that has occurred is so great that Laura comments “She is completely relaxed, but there is more: yesterday some boys were playing with firecrackers, and she did not flinch”. With regard to trucks, if there is any
noise that bothers her, she retires to a place in the house such as the hallway or the patio, sits down and stays still, quiet.
Weight gain by 1 kg. During this period, she stopped Rivotril®. She has no more allergies or otitis.
25/07/08: (phone call) “She’s crazy as a goat!” “Until yesterday, she went out into the yard and listened to the trucks, as if nothing had happened. Today she went out and when she heard them, she came in terrified, as before”.
I repeat Aconitum 30 C the same way as the first time.
07/08/08: (phone call) “She is better, she does not bark or cry. “She remembers the trucks” but has a residual tremor left. This time, it took 3 days for the medication to “stabilise” her.
When she “remembers” the trucks, she sits in a place, lowers her head, dilates her pupils and trembles; Restless, she goes from the room to the corridor.
“The medication works, at least she doesn’t wake me up screaming.”
She is without Rivotril®
14/10/08: (phone call) “Go barbarian! She handles it alone. She goes out into the yard, and 2 times she goes to the bottom and back, as if releasing the tension. And if she can’t get out, she stays in place and for a minute or less her pupils dilate.” Her human companion keeps ignoring her in this situation, otherwise she reacts with screams.
During this time the patient is living again with a Beagle dog, which is mentioned in the story that dominated her and she accepted it in a submissive way. Currently “she achieved the respect of the other dog. A couple of times the other dog assaulted her, she had stitches and from that moment they did not fight anymore; Now they are playing
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