An older woman's husband had recently died, and since then she had been experiencing a recurrence of old menopausal symptoms, including terrible hot flashes and other complaints. She had been offered hormone replacement therapy, but she knew intuitively that this was not the answer.
A discussion revealed that she had not really cried enough over her loss. The grief was still bottled up, and she was sighing frequently in front of me. What was needed was Ignatia, to get her back to good health. Her trauma was recent grief, with the double bind that she had no one she could talk to, as it was her only close confidant, her husband, who had died. This was compounded by her belief that the "stiff upper lip" approach was the correct one; she felt that she could not share her sorrow with anyone else. Her doctor, too, had failed to recognize the real problem. This case is similar to many others. Ignatia was the homeopathic remedy of choice here, as it would facilitate her crying more openly, rather than bottling up the tears at every opportunity, and would allow the immune system to get back up to strength and her menopausal symptoms to fade away.
Case from "Emotional Healing with Homeopathy" by Peter Chappell
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