THE BERLIN WALL: A REMEDY OF POWER
By Charles Wansbrough

This is a remedy with a definite narrative which revolves around the themes of oppression and power. These two states are intimate mirrors of each other and run concurrently as a thread throughout the proving of this remedy. I have learnt to prescribe Berlin Wall successfully in over fifteen cases and each prescription has resulted in a dramatic shift in the health of the individual. The major theme that is profoundly archetypical of this remedy centres on an essential question of survival with integrity and the coping strategy evolved to meet this profound problem of survival.
Essentially one could argue that remedies represent narratives of survival but each remedy has a distinctive modality that allows us to highlight certain unique features and therefore allow us to prescribe and match with certainty the decoded dialogues of our patients.
I wish to give a short summary of a despotic culture that essentially invented the ideology of oppression and use it as a potent metaphor to underline some of the essential themes or biographical details that might give rise to the ‘Berlin Wall narrative’.

Sparta – A Metaphor
Imagine the situation of an individual, sensitive yet integral, who was educated in Sparta in the sixth century B. C. Imagine a particular civilisation, dedicated to the accumulation of power as an end unto itself. Jacob Burckhardt, a famous historian of the Renaissance, comments that the power of Sparta seems to have come into being almost entirely for its own self-assertion, and its constant theme was the enslavement of subject peoples and the extension of its own dominion as an end unto itself. It was the first power to pursue power for its own sake, and the term ‘laconic’ is derived and synonymous with Sparta. It was the grim reticence of a power that devoured all that it saw, nothing else was necessary. A power that was so self sufficient that it was indifferent towards everything else that was not part of its own mechanism, a divine machine designed by a craftsman who had a name but no face: Lycurgus. Its philosophy turns out to be the most effective weapon of war and self-preservation.
Part of the Spartan's training was the exercise known as the ‘Kreyptea’ which was organised as follows. From time to time the commanders of the young men would send the smartest of the group off into the country, some in one direction, some in another. They would be armed with daggers and supplied with basic rations, but nothing else. During the day they would fan out into uncharted territory, find a place to hide and rest there; then at night they would come down on to the roads and, if they found a helot, they would cut his throat. Often they would organise themselves into forays and go into the fields and kill the biggest and strongest helots.
At times they would announce that if any helot considered that they had given the best possible service to Sparta, they should come forward with the evidence. Once this had been examined it could lead to their being set free. But really this was a test, for those who came forward demonstrated enormous pride and showed that they considered themselves the most deserving and therefore would be the most likely to rebel against the Spartans. 2000 were selected. They were allowed to go free, and then killed.
The Spartans were above equals in so far as they had all been initiated into the same group. They were the first to train naked and grease their bodies. Men and women alike. They were the grim forbearers of every form of utilitarianism. They kept their helots in a state of terror, yet were compelled to live in terror of their helots. They carried their spears with them everywhere, for death might be lurking at the every turn. Lysurgus's two ominous rules that forestalled and frustrated any possible law merely dictated that no laws be written down and no luxury be permitted.
It was to the Spartans’ credit that they were the first to appreciate the extent to which the social order is based on hatred, and can survive only so long as that basis is maintained. They accepted the consequences of this discovery and formed a rock solid front against the outside world. They were perfectly aware of the atrocious suffering they inflicted and never imagined their victims could forget it. The solution was to establish terror as a normal condition of life and that was Sparta's greatest invention. The Athenian, Isocrates, was outraged: ‘But what would be the point describing all the suffering inflicted on the masses? Among other atrocities the worst fact is that of the ephors (governers) are free to choose whosoever they wanted and have then put to death without trial.’
The irony was that Sparta created the image of a virtuous, law abiding society as a powerful propaganda weapon for external consumption, while the reality inside Sparta was that they cared less for such things than anyone else. They refused to allow strangers to enter their cities and were so secretive that it verged on the pathological.
Newly borne, the boys were washed in wine to see how tough they were. The weaker ones were thrown into the so called “Dump”, a ravine on the slopes of a river. They used no swaddling clothes and left the babies crying in the dark. The boys were the common property of the city and must be made useful to the city as soon as possible. All their lives they would eat with the males, black broth more often than not. They learned to read and write but nothing more. The notion of anything more was abhorred in everything. Sex was quick, then the couples never slept together.
They knew right from the start that all of their whole lives they must wage perpetual war against every city. They watched the slaves, working in the fields, and knew that one day they would have to kill them. They also knew that they must carry a weapon. They knew they must close their doors with special keys. They could sense the hatred of the slave all around them.
Sodomized before marriage (prior to weddings the rule was that girls should couple in the manner of boys visited hurriedly by their husband that night) so they could conceive and retain some spark of ire, and relieved of the task bringing up their children, women tended to exercise and fight next to the men.
Sparta underwent a transformation that condensed into just a few years the whole of political history from sacred kinship right through to the regimes of present day. The long transition from sacred King to politburo was achieved in one foul swoop. This incredible transformation of the political arena which would go on through the centuries to the present day, reaching its apogee in the politics of Stalin, was achieved in Sparta with very little effort. The only difficult thing was making sure that nobody outside realised what was happening. Everybody had to go on believing in those anecdotes about the discipline, courage and frugality of the Spartans.
Such a despotic state of terror and oppression was bound to create a particular state of moral recklessness and turpitude that necessitated a certain indifference towards your own fate. Life revolved around the pursuit of inflated power and oppression was its natural ally, the two ideologies woven intimately into each other, neither able to survive without the other.

Berlin Wall – The Remedy
In those cases of individuals who experienced dramatic change after receiving the remedy, there were always a number of characteristics which seemed to underlie their survival state.
There was a tremendous intensity of focus which came from an unusual and forceful use (or misuse) of their ‘will’; these individuals had decided that their surrounding environment was hostile and suppressive and chose to create a ‘wall’ of fury that encircled their way of being. In creating such a metaphorical wall, an intense amount of willpower was used which was directed in positive directions in demonstrating a capacity for perfectionism that surpassed all normal tolerance levels. The background that can give rise to this state tends to be oppressive in any number of ways, but the special circumstances that give rise to this remedy always centre around ‘the need to excel’ in whatever the individual chooses to do. But this is not sustained by a need for approval nor a need for inflation or aggrandizement but more to do with how an individual can endure and drive the limits of their own wilfulness.
Most individuals who benefited dramatically from this remedy, seemed to have taken on a subtle delusion that life was a ‘war zone’ and that the best policy was to engage in pursuits and ideals with a monomaniacal quality. Nevertheless, I discovered that in each of these cases the individual had developed his ‘will’ to an extraordinary degree to pursue his aims, yet at the same time suppressed the emotional aspects of his personality. In each case, too much emotion in a ‘war zone’ showed a weakness that one could ill afford to have, so his use of will was directed with intensity towards an aim at the expense of a normal evolution of the emotional side of his personality.
Unlike Androctonus, Tarantula or Anacardium, where the intensity of the situation causes individuals to attack or show signs of malice, the remedy, Berlin Wall, was more a defence posture and not a survival strategy of attack. This difference marks out the distinct qualities of Berlin Wall, since I suspect this defence strategy arises from an innate sensitivity in the Berlin Wall patient, who finds his emotional self too difficult to confront or express and so the energy becomes channelled into the aggressive pursuit of excellence for its own sake. This is a dramatic overcompensation for the anger felt probably at the incomprehensible nature of ‘his childhood war zone’.
There is a huge amount of obstinacy arising from this posture of walling off their emotions, but we do not find indignation, just an indifference and an ability to ‘tunnel their perspectives’ and ignore anything detrimental to their outlook.

BERLIN WALL PROVING
This remedy has never been proved classically but information was gained about it through a particular form of proving called a ‘meditative proving’, carried out by a group of homeopaths who had meditated together over a period of years. Each member of the group would take a particular remedy and then proceed to meditate on its effects over a period of some 3-5 hours. The remedy picture would then be written up and published in a homeopathic journal created for the express purpose of publishing some of these provings. The meditative proving of Berlin Wall can be found in the journal Prometheus Unbound Spring 95, No2. The remedy was made from a chunk of the original wall after it was reduced to rubble. It was a composite piece of concrete and stone with pieces of painted blue cement. It was sent to Helios for potentization and the remedy taken in this short proving was the 30c potency.

The following is a brief summary of this proving.
General & Mind symptoms
Those who suffer from family strife and oppression, often from childhood.
For those brought up in the shadow of an oppressor (i.e. the victims of paternal, physical &/or sexual abuse).
Unspoken or inaccessible grief. Dumb suffering.
Sense of being unable to escape; especially when personal & creative expression is suppressed.
Creativity is stifled, ridiculed or pressed into the service of something else.
Wasted opportunities and talents through the ruthless ambition of parents.
Depression of unspoken origin. Often accompanied by severe headaches. Older patients can be out of touch with the causes for their long held grief and depression. For those who can't tell fact from fiction within their lives due to brainwashing effect of the oppressor's influence.
Sense of guilt where it is inappropriately assumed by the patient. Alcoholism ( where liquor is used as an escape).
Enormously aggressive energy; hurried with apparent purpose but signifying little.
Impulsive: children who have a desire to inflict physical hurt on others (like Anacardium). The impulse is part of a fascination with cruelty (while Anacardium is basically insecure, Berlin Wall is not here concerned about the ego).
Self destructive tendencies for those who have an impulse to ram their car into a lorry or a wall; or who would like to experience jumping from a height without a parachute.
For those who use drugs to increase their enjoyment in the power of their aggressive creative energy.
Far sighted entrepreneurial types (often workaholics) who can see the obvious dangers of their life style but enjoy it in spite of the inevitable destructive quality.
Righteous anger spiritual pride chronic of Staphysagria.
Suspicious; expects the worst; constant state of fear.
For those who live a life of perpetual mortification as well as those who perpetrate the situation. For the victims of bullies and bureaucracy.
Inability to escape so they try and lose themselves in mundane work
Both Syphilitic and Tubercular
For overbearing, tyrannical types who constantly complain about the pathetic and feeble nature of those in their charge and do nothing to alleviate the situation.
These were some of the feelings and symptoms that were collated after the meditative proving of this remedy.

I now present three cases, two which were treated with Berlin Wall some years ago, and one recent case which was clearly confirmed as the correct prescription by the bioliminal technology.
My purpose in writing this article, and my renewed enthusiasm for this remedy, recently came about through a prescription of this remedy using the bioliminal technology which gave rise to a tremendous transformation.

CASE ONE OF BERLIN WALL

Patient: DJ. DOB: 18/5/51
Present Complaint: Asthma - severe debilitating asthma which he developed badly after taking off to India; could not breathe - would have tremendous panic attacks and pins and needles in his arms and legs.
On Pulmavent/Seravent/ Salbutamol which he has been taking for over three years.
Asthma much better in absence of stress and much better from exercise.
Appetite: Very keen on vegetables and tuna and fish but picky eater when young. Aversion to milk.
Stomach: Developed ulcer at 18 which would flare up when he felt indignant about some family matters.
Sleep: Good and sleeps on stomach -suffers from hot feet which he sticks out of bed at night.
Dreams: of fighting and falling continuously.

Family History
Mother: Severe arthritis
Father: Alcoholic since patient was a child and died of heart attack recently
All 4 grandparents died of heart attacks.

MENTALS
He has had asthma since the age of five. He is Scottish and comes from the Highlands. He has always bottled up his anger when dealing with his father, and felt his home life was a terrible burden which was punctuated with periods of rest when his father was drying out before he was plummeted into yet another roller coaster of alcoholic binges and violence. Since his father had a heart attack early on, it also tended to create a blackmail situation where the patient felt he could not be as violent or angry as he would have liked to have been. He found himself in a terrible no-win situation, where enormous amounts of anger would have to suppressed, the energy finding vent in severe asthmatic attacks.
He will tend to avoid situations and confrontations since he is aware that he is unable to control his anger and so it is obvious there is a polarity between a seemingly relaxed posture and in his own words ' rage that could kill someone.'
He also seems to demonstrate an enormous, overwhelming willpower when it comes to doing things. He said that he 'furiously determined ' when he set his mind on doing something. At times he would try and control his asthma with his will power and could reduce his drugs and slow down his breathing.
He realized that his background made him very determined and he was regarded as a perfectionist and star pupil at school though in the end he left school early since he had to get away from home and became a highly sought after ship and underwater welder.
His interests have always been travel and he has travelled widely and taught himself to become self-reliant (a term that came out quite often in the case-taking).
He is passionate about things but will not expose himself to emotional situations; he is a private individual and becomes overwhelmed about certain passions but is consistently wanting to be free and break away from his roots.
Very anxious about his health and often has thoughts of death from cancer.
His sister died five years ago, which again made him face his own mortality.

Prescription: Berlin Wall 200c three doses

Return Visit – One month later
Dramatic improvement in his asthma, with an amelioration in his moods; feels much calmer generally and feels as if he has let go of his rather traumatic past. He experienced a couple of dreams of his dead father in which there was a sense of the patient saying farewell and after this felt more at peace with himself.

Three months later asthma is still very mild and patient has gone off travelling.

CASE TWO OF BERLIN WALL

This patient came to me when her marriage was in trouble and she was exhausted. She had been given Natrum Muriaticum by another homeopath which had helped a little; at the time she came to see me she had awful catarrh and was having intermittent earaches and sinus headaches. She was in a typical Sepia state, having to cope with four children and a very entrenched and rather disagreeable husband, who himself had an addiction problem having taken Valium for the past five years on a daily basis.
Many symptoms and details clearly indicated Sepia, though there were a lot of minor details which did not fit well. I gave her Sepia IM.
Result: she experienced an aggravation after the remedy for a whole week and had some violent dreams about knocking her estranged husband on the head with a hammer.
She then felt very well and I did not see her again for a number of years till she turned up in 1995, with the same trouble in the marriage, and though she had been trying to divorce her husband for the past five years, her husband had refused to go and so her problems had escalated. He was a rather dominating individual who seemed to lack any sensitivity whatsoever, and was determined to keep his wife as if she were an object which he had purchased for a very high price.
She had now been coping with this extraordinary situation for over five years, and lived in separate quarters in the house as her husband just refused to move out.
This time she arrived with a lump on her right breast, probably a cyst, but the doctors were still investigating, and a lump in her throat which had been coming and going for over 8 months, though the doctors had never found anything wrong with her in this respect.
She was experiencing severe mood swings, ranging from despair to elation on those occasions where she managed to get out of the house.
She had nearly gone out of control because of this intolerable situation and had started to drink heavily, but although ‘the situation was oppressive and intolerable I was determined to survive for the sake of the children’. She tries to maintain a detached indifference towards her surroundings.
She has panic attacks and sweats profusely in bed, has an enormous anxiety about going into a restaurant, and therefore hates going out to eat.
She sleeps very badly and has extremely violent dreams.
Dreams as if in a cage and cannot not escape, dreams about fire and being burnt, dreams of being walled in and sinking into despair.
Because I had given her Sepia before and it had worked well I repeated the prescription – Sepia 1M.
One month later she returned feeling less irritable and calmer.
The remedy had worked but not as profoundly as I would have wished in view of such an oppressive situation.
She had a number of bad dreams after the remedy but now felt more relaxed.
At this point I decided that though Sepia had acted well it was still not shifting the situation or was quite the exact simillimum I wanted.
So I decided to prescribe another remedy, whose main characteristic was to remain walled in and inured to overwhelming circumstances.
Berlin Wall 200c

One month later the patient returned and said that after the remedy she had had the most violent nightmare she had ever experienced about fire and brimstone and being consumed by a fury which leapt around her and consumed her in a vast furnace.
Then came a peace, an overwhelming peace, as though she had suddenly let go of five years of her life. A few months later she managed to divorce her husband and clearly begin a revision of her life.

CASE THREE OF BERLIN WALL

Male. DOB: 7.11.52
Occupation: Computer programmer and classical guitar teacher

1st Appointment: 10.7.99

Presenting Complaint
History of manic-depressive. ‘At the age of 15 I became withdrawn and from the age of 15 to 19 was very introspective and enquiring. I would sit on window sills and consider life. Felt that people couldn’t understand me and I felt very isolated. My girlfriends couldn’t understand what was going on in me. I started to feel that nothing in life was important or mattered. Romantic love disappointed me. I couldn’t at that stage distinguish between true love and romantic love. I felt undermined. I attempted suicide at various times during this period.’
‘At the age of 27 I got heavily into golf. Thought that I could get really good at golf and then I would qualify for the Open Championship. I had a fantasy of winning the jug and then that I would throw it away, make some kind of gesture to demonstrate the meaningless of this achievement.’
‘I became interested in Buddhism and Zen and applied Zen to my golf.’
‘At the age of 29 I had my first manic episode. Just prior to this I decided to live as if nothing were important in life and to live it full on. There was a gradual process of doing just that. I released fears and a kind of process started in me - it felt like a kind of enlightenment - a sense of loss of self. My psychic centres opened up and began to live totally by intuition. However, my behaviour became bizarre and exaggerated and I ended up in a psychiatric hospital and was given tranquillisers, which collapsed my state. But I continued to live as if nothing mattered and again was given tranquillisers. I had a great desire to see this through to the end. I felt free, there was no social face anymore, people would respond to me. I was very relational in this time. Then after months in hospital I became reconditioned again and back to my normal self. I became depressed. For the next 10 years I lived a normal life. Then I took LSD, quite a lot of it, and I went high and couldn’t come down and went into mania again. 3 or 4 years ago I did the EST training and again I went high and was put on medication. However, I have since come off medication. Since stopping the medication last October I had had one episode of mania and odd days of it.
In between the episodes of mania there have been periods of deep depression where I could sleep 20 hours a day and felt the total meaningless of everything. When I am manic I am very positive, restless, give all my money away, push myself to exhaustion. When depressed I become very conservative, introspective, won’t spend money.’
‘I have dealt with the meaningless of life by becoming obsessed with things, with achievements. I became very good at golf, the guitar, cycling. I would do things to the maximum and become very proficient in them. I would always find something and become very good at it.
About 15 years ago I encountered the man who has since become my guru. I was struck by the freedom and happiness he displayed. I felt really attracted to that. For the past six months I have lived in this spiritual community, attempting to practice what my guru teaches.’

Childhood
‘At school I was the primary joker in the class. Ever since I was born I was mischievous. I would escape from my cot. I realised when I was 6 or 7 that my parents didn’t understand me. I wondered why they were always so anxious. ‘I didn’t give a shit’. My father would slipper me and I wouldn’t cry. I wouldn’t give him the pleasure of that. My father could be brutal and insensitive. He was a magician and one time I made a matchbox for him for one of his tricks. I gave it to him as a present and he crushed it and said that I shouldn’t use sellotape. My father treated all his children as intrusions. I was an unplanned child. It wasn’t a loving household. I recall seeing a friend of mine laughing with his father and that totally blew me away. My family was a war zone. I would use divide and conquer strategies with my parents. To this day I tend to live strategically, I side with people who have power. I can be manipulative sometimes. At 13 or 14 before I became withdrawn the whole social game looked pointless to me. I decided that I didn’t want anything more to do with fighting and when I was kicked or punched by class mates I wouldn’t respond or react.’

Present state
‘Had a dream last week that it was night and I was walking down a dark street. Then I turn a corner and see a man with a Stan Laurel mask on his face and it totally freaks me out. (His girlfriend reports that he was crying out during his sleep whilst having this dream, like a small boy.)
‘There is a deadness in me, an inability to relate beyond the superficial. The only emotion I have really been able to access is anger. I have been able to create a pastiche of emotions. But if I got into a relationship the woman would soon realize what the truth was. I have contempt for others sometimes, an insensitivity to relating with others. Feel cut off from feeling.’
‘Sometimes I am very serious, always thinking about things and trying to work things out, but there is an incapacity in the heart area. I have the sense that it is dangerous to show feelings because something might happen, that it is dangerous to be vulnerable.’
‘My father was Scottish and from the Mitchell clan - rather like the Mitchell brothers in Eastenders - very pugnacious, a fighting clan. He had a father who was worse than him. When I become angry I can be incredibly nasty and destructive to others. There is a sense of power in my manic episodes which can be quite intimidating.’
‘Don’t feel relaxed. Feel tense a lot of the time. Dislike being on my own. Like to have someone else in the house or in the next room. I tend to get into relationships and want to live my girlfriends’ lives, not my own.’
‘Sometimes I have given guitar performances and I always feel incredibly anxious before the performance. Feel incredibly nervous performing in public.’

General/Physical
Desire for sweet foods and carbohydrates.
Moderate temperature. Warmish.

Physically healthy but can have quite a lot of flatulence.

Analysis
We were struck by the sense of power in this case. The patient is obsessive, goal orientated, a high achiever. At the same time there is a profound sense of emotional suppression, of having to suppress all feelings of vulnerability and sensitivity (as a reaction to the brutality of his father), to such an extent that he no longer knows who he really is. The dream of the man with the Stan Laurel mask is significant. This is the patient - a man who has overlaid his real self with a comedic mask. He is the joker. At the same time there is the other polarity of over-seriousness and excessive introspection. We were struck by a certain mask-like quality to the patient’s face. The other theme running through is the meaningless of life he has experienced since an early age. This sense of isolation and meaningless would occur in an individual if they had suppressed themselves so severely that in effect they became cut off from their true nature and spontaneous self. The suppression has been so severe and becomes so constricting and limiting that the patient at times almost pushes himself beyond this barrier and enters into manic episodes; these are the only times in which he feels truly alive, free and spontaneous. But it is excessive and he has no control over himself during these times. He goes from suppression to complete abandon and lack of inhibition ending up in psychiatric wards on tranquillisers. One could posit that the states of depression and mania are both ways of avoiding true feeling. His attraction to his guru lies in the patient perceiving someone in a natural state of true happiness and spontaneity, both of which he longs for at a profound level.
We felt that the patient required a remedy to match this awesome state of suppression which constricted and constrained his normal expressive self. A remedy to loosen the tight control he exerted upon himself and which would allow him to return to a state of flow.
The remedy which came to our minds at first was Anacardium. This would fit with the patient’s history of being dominated and suppressed by his father, causing him to go into insensitivity and lack of feeling. But on hearing the patient describe his childhood as a “war zone” our minds turned to Berlin Wall and this seemed to fit the severe state of suppression, the sense of a wall in the patient’s heart which protected him against the violence and brutality of his father but which also separated him from his own sensitivity, joy and love. There is the sense of a person who is divided from both himself and also from the world which matches the image of separation that is a central feature of the remedy Berlin Wall.
Using the technology as a guide to diagnostic clarity, we photographed the patient holding the remedy Anacardium which produced partial clarity. Then we photographed the patient holding the remedy Berlin Wall; the resultant image was totally clear indicating the optimum remedy for that individual at that moment in time.
Complete clarity with the photograph always indicates the optimum outcome potential for that remedy. It is also of significance that Anacardium may also have affected this patient but was only of partial significance.
We felt that his present state clearly represented a Berlin Wall narrative so we prescribed:

Rx: Berlin Wall 30 BD for 3 days

2nd Appointment - 12/8/99
‘I initially started to feel vulnerable and even a little depressed after the remedy - this state lasted about three days. Then I noticed that I felt more comfortable expressing emotions such as anger, that it was safe and ok to do that. It became more obvious to me where I felt uncomfortable in expressing my feelings. I felt it was easier to do what I felt like rather than what I felt I was supposed or obliged to do. I suppose I felt more connected to the world and more emotionally open. I experienced aching in my right jaw and I recall that years ago I broke my jaw. Also I had tightness in my chest. As a boy I used to have asthma - around the age of 8 or 9 until my early teens. I also had asthma when I was about 25. My legs became very restless in bed at night - kept wanting to move them - I had this when I was in my 30s. Also I am getting heat blisters on the soles of my feet and have to put them out of the bed at night. Generally I feel more relaxed. I don’t feel the same need to have to prove myself socially anymore. I am happier just being myself and being less competitive. A barrier has come down and I am more sensitive, connected, relaxed and more empathetic.’

‘However, I am feeling rather lethargic. I think it is a way of withdrawing from life, avoiding relationships. The constant characteristic of my adult life is this feeling of tiredness. My legs feel achy and tired and I have to lie down at times. Maybe it is my reluctance to be embodied. The other day at work around 4pm I felt so tired I had to lie down in my car. Maybe it’s because I am doing work I don’t really want to be doing. And maybe if I expressed more anger I would feel more energy. I feel I am still doing things out of obligation. There is a fear of not having enough money which is unreasonable because I have quite a lot of savings. Maybe I am frightened of doing what I really want to do. I keep myself safe and controlled. I am frightened of really telling the truth, have a fear of what might happen, of change, don’t fully trust in the Divine. I have a fear of moving away from the known. The fears keep me restrained.’

‘I have a craving for chocolate and sweets.’

Analysis
The Berlin Wall has obviously initiated a process in this patient. He feels more vulnerable, more connected to himself and others and more relaxed. He is obviously feeling more sensitive and more emotionally vulnerable. The return of old symptoms and his increased vulnerability point to the effectiveness of the first prescription but now another narrative is obviously coming forward to be treated and it was felt that Berlin Wall had had a profound effect on his psyche allowing other remedies to possibly work more effectively.
In my experience Berlin Wall is a very effective remedy in unlocking a profoundly blocked case, but if it was effective I have never had to repeat this remedy again in the same patient, which was borne out by use of the bioliminal technology. When we photographed the patient holding the Berlin Wall at the second visit, it failed to produce any more clarity indicating that it had acted and was now spent.
Despite the obvious amelioration from the remedy, his Base photograph using the technology was showing very little clarity and so we re-examined the case and decided that an underlying constitutional Lycopodium was possibly present.
There are many indications for this remedy, craving for sweets, restless legs at night, aggravation at 4pm, lack of confidence, timidity, fear of poverty which was again borne out by the photographs which indicated this remedy to be the best from a number of possible remedies tried. We also decided to precede the remedy with Syphilinum since we felt that it might lift the patients energy and work effectively since his entire energetic system was now more vulnerable to the action of remedies.
The case is still ongoing but for the past two months we have not found it necessary to prescribe another remedy. What remains of interest in this case, is the realisation that prescribing Berlin Wall was a necessary opening prescription which I suspect allowed other remedies to act effectively.
As we weave between the value of the technology and our skills as classical homeopaths, it can be seen that the bioliminal technology is of inestimable value in assessing and researching the actual reality of possible options. The patient had been photographed with Lycopodium and Syphilinum on his first visit and both had showed a total lack of coherence, demonstrating my own clinical observation that at his first visit most other remedies, especially those that relate to his constitutional demeanour, would perhaps have been ineffective or only partial in their efficacy.
The treatment is still ongoing and he may need Lycopodium to be repeated again, yet the patient feels inestimably better in himself and in a far more coherent state of well-being.
The technology represents an important contribution to the efficacy of classical homeopathy, through demonstrating both a qualitative and quantitative mode of measurement that has up until now never been possible; yet I have found that my skills have been sorely tested against the technology since to produce total clarity is at times impossible. Nevertheless it remains a valuable contribution in the research field of subtle medicine, and especially in the field of homeopathy.

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