Ten year old male child with Pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and debilitating anxiety. Family has used homeopathy for many of his other PANS symptoms with success but his anxiety remained. Mother and child experienced a traumatic birth. Mother was in labor for 24 hours due to child’s position. Mother experienced high anxiety and not being able to relax in the hospital setting.
Mother and child both spiked a fever of 101 and the doctor decided it was time for a cesarean section. The mother felt completely defeated and immediately depressed. She became very disappointed in herself and felt everyone else would think she was a failure. This feeling most likely had an impact on the child at an energetic level and imprinted on him.
As a baby, the child was easily startled and overwhelmed. As a toddler, he was easily frustrated to the point it was exhausting for the parents to enjoy any game or playtime with him because he would become so frustrated with anything that didn’t go his way. As a young child, he wanted to play sports with the other children but would cry from being overwhelmed with the game or cry and get angry when he lost. He also struggled with anticipation anxiety and would become inconsolable at the thought of not knowing what to do specifically while playing a game or with anything that was just supposed to be fun. He’d always had a very distinctive cry when upset. It was a long, drawn out cry ever since a baby. It was so distinctive that the parents could be across a football field and would know when he was upset.
The connection was made between the mother’s birth experience and the remedy needed for the child’s anxiety. Ignatia remedy had the same keynotes for disappointment that was experienced during child birth, being that Ignatia is a grief remedy and the mother experienced grief and shock during labor that impacted the child. Interesting enough, the child’s “long drawn out cry” was also a keynote for Ignatia. Ignatia was never thought of as a remedy match for him since he had not experienced a grief, shock or disappointment himself to indicate it as a remedy. Also, Ignatia is not an anxiety remedy but after the first dose the child’s anxiety disappeared. It has now been 11 weeks since the child’s first dose of ignatia 6c and he is able to play team sports without any anxiety or fears. His “long drawn out cry” has not been heard since starting the remedy. In my observation, Ignatia has cleared the old layer of the mother’s disappointing birth trauma that imprinted on the child. Thus, the child is able to function as he was designed to.
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