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case two
I saw Tigrou (aged two) for the first time in April 2000.
She had a blackish slightly sticky discharge from both ears, the side of mouth and between her toes. The main complaint was a persistent licking under her abdomen, under her four legs and under her tail causing the skin to become red and weeping from infection: she was severely over-grooming. There were a few skin crusts on her back.
She had chronic ear complaints when she came first in the house at the age of four (?) months. Many different allopathic and homeopathic treatments made no difference until at the age of nine months the symptoms receded following the use of juniper healing oil. She was spayed at the age of 8 months.
The following is the summary of what the owner told me:
‘She is a very mild cat, she is slightly clumsy and doesn't show the normal 'tricky' cat behaviour. I call her my dog- cat. There is no season influence. She never surprises me. She is a little awkward and makes things fall over. She likes company and sleeps against me at night but never wants to stay on my lap for more than a few seconds. She has difficulties in accepting strangers, she avoids them as much as possible. Sometimes she looks as if she saw a monster. She doesn't like to be manipulated. She is very timid. She is very easily scared; she seems permanently frightened since we moved in our new house. I have never seen her drink. She has always been in the background but she is now really paranoid. She always has he ears folded backwards, 'where can I hide?'. If I come up behind her she is frightened.’
following this first and a second consultation I make the following prescriptions:
Ambrea Grisea, a month later Barita Carb followed a month later by Pulsatilla don't make any difference, neither does a long course of antibiotics and the use of Feliway (appeasing pheromone).
fourth consultation in september 2000. she just got worse. The owner speaks again:
‘She is in a hurry to go from one place to another, she always has an expression of fear, sometimes she just lays in a corner or in the middle of the corridor like a bag of dirty linen.’
There is still the blackish discharge – not a common symptom. I check in the repertory and find the following symptom:
perspiration, bloody.
In the rubric I spotted a remedy I had just been told about its fear of society, ‘he wants to flee the society because he does something wrong’ (Jeremy Sherr). The remedy was Canabis Indica.
There was my cat-'junky' lying like a heap of dirty linen, kicking off her last 'trip'.
Cannabis indica 9ch twice over 12 hours was given.
The first ten days nothing really happened and then
gradually the behaviour improved and she stopped licking.
Three months later the skin was completely healed and the fur was growing back. The cat remained very shy but adapted finally to a new kitten that had arrived in the summer.
The remedy
For me the Cannabis indica patient has tried cannabis to ascend to higher knowledge but the experience has not delivered on its promise. As a result they feel they have cheated society and consequently lost their self-respect.
Because the remedy is a drug, their way of responding is going to be a little strange.
Guy Loutan writes about cannabis indica [patients] that they can be all or nothing, they are in a wonderful space and will not tolerate being caught in the structure of society. They find themselves in a situation of non-communication. Being in this wonderful space also brings them close to the devil (fears may arise). Having tried to obtain perfection, they slumber into the ridicule.