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Sandy the Cow – A quiz case By Edward De Beukelaer, UK
Follow up
18/08 Remedy in 200C once per day 5 days 4/09, she is scanned and found to have a nor- mal uterus which is still producing a small amount of mucus discharge. She is more con- fident and her coat has much improved. One dose of the remedy in 200C (diluted in 1⁄2 liter of water)
11/09. More confident again, on examination the uterus is still a little too large. She is given a few doses of the remedy in 30C and con- ceives successfully two weeks later.
Please send in your thoughts on this case and say what remedy you would use. The main rea- son for this quiz is so we can all learn from each other. Please provide answers with an explana- tion of the remedy selection process used and a few words about the remedy proposed.
The solution and the various answers will be published in the next issue of the mag. Replies to malene@laforcevitale.eu
I would also like to use this space to call on people who have cases they can present on the congress in June 2012. I will be specially looking out for cases that can be presented in a similar way as this one on the Saturday fol- lowed by a short workshop for all to think about the cases with the solutions presented on the Sunday.
Quiz
Sandy is a young Guernsey heifer. She belongs to a family size organic milking herd. She abort- ed a month before I saw her, producing a 6-7 month old foetus. Sandy was part of a group of heifers that were bought in at the end of the winter. The group had taken some time to settle and had suffered with a cough for quite a while. Many had rather bristling standing up hair which was very pronounced with Sandy. The cough in the group was worse from exercise.
She had been unwell for a few days around the time she aborted. There is now a yellow creamy discharge from a uterus which is far too
large and cannot be palpated from hanging over the pelvic rim down into the abdomen. The vulva is rather large and soft and has an aspect of hanging off.
‘She doesn’t approach you at all; she holds back, she is almost lost even after 3 week s of training to come in the parlour although she was easy to ‘parlour-train’. She is always with one other cow; another one that is always last in the group, a big, quite cow. She stands by herself at the gate because she is scared of people (not of the cows). She often stands with her head down in the yard.’
A Dog’s Life By Jacques Millemann, France
Jessie, a female Pyrenees shepherd, fawn with a black face and white socks, born on June 5th, 1994 belonging to Mrs Catherine M, Lemberg.
First problems
I see her for the first time on 3/12/1994 for occasional limping on the left hind leg. The clin- ical examination shows a dislocation of the patella. When stretching the leg, the patella jumps back into place. In Kent’s repertory for patella dislocation you find only a single remedy at the lowest degree: Gelsemium.
Therefore Gelsemium 5 CH three granules mornings and evenings for 8 days was given. 30 January 1995: I see Jessie again. She doesn’t limp any more, Jessie and the patella stays in the right place. To “strengthen” the tendons I prescribe Calcarea fluorica 5 CH twice a day for a week.
Some vertebral troubles
15/6/1995: Jessie comes back again because she is limping. This time she has vertebral trou- bles situated between L6 and L7 corrected by a cranio-sacral osteopathic intervention.
3/8/95: on holidays in Brittany she begins scratching herself. She had vesicles on her sides. She wasn’t in heat till now. She used to lay in the shade and bathing. She ate less with decreased appetite. Sometimes she cried out in pain and limped somewhat.
20/11/1995: I see Jessie again for her vac-
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cination (rabies booster) and prescribe an organo-therapeutic Pel talpae 6 DH (mole fur) to promote a thicker undercoat for her.
18/10/1996: yearly booster vaccination with an osteopathic intervention, this time on L5-L6 vertebrae.
10/12/1997: again yearly booster vaccina- tion against rabies. This time I have to cut nails and dew claws, which have become a little too long. Once more I prescribe Pel talpae 6 DH.
Spontaneous anamnesis
12/9/1998: this time, Mrs M tells me that Jessie has a serious problem; she is really lethargic, very lethargic (much too quiet for a Pyrenees shepherd, a breed whose standard says: «Dog showing a maximum of nervous impulse with a minimal height and weight »). She scratches a lot and looses a lot of fur. She is always worse after her holidays. She doesn't bathe any more nor play with other dogs. She becomes tired. She eats commercial dog food “Royal Canin” and sometimes she doesn’t fin- ish the meal. She used to retire in a corner. When on a walk she gets better after a short time: she then becomes more interested and livelier. It is the same thing with the family. She cocks her leg to pee like a male. Her stools are sometimes olive-green. She had more self- confidence when she was younger.
Repertorisation (Kent’s repertory)
Chosen rubrics:
Mind; RESERVED
Mind; COMPANY; aversion to; amel when alone Generalities; AIR; seashore
Skin; ERUPTIONS; pimples; itching
Nat-m MK one single dose
5/10/1998: I see Jessie again and learn that she was really tired for 8 -10 days and was again very fit after having vomited. Today she is limping once more: she slipped during a walk, cried out loudly and couldn’t get up the stairs any more: osteopathic intervention for a block- ing in L3-L4 and D11-D12. Prescription of an organo-therapeutic: “intervertebral discs” 5 CH.
12/10/98: another osteopathic intervention: still L3-L4 but this time she is given Bryonia 5 CH because she doesn’t want to move.
30/11/98: booster vaccination for rabies: no problem at all.
Owner then moves house and I loose con- tact with Jessie.