CASE OF TANTALUM FOLLOWED BY STRONTIUM MURIATICUM

This case presents a fascinating insight into Jan Scholten’s materia medica (Homoeopathy and the Elements), which I regard to be a landmark in the recent renaissance of homeopathy. My own contribution to this ongoing process has been to try and understand a profound technological innovation which I acquired under the understanding that I might find a way of using it to make further investigations into the field of subtle medicine.
Comments and protocols have been discussed elsewhere, and there is a website (http://www.biolumanetics.com) dedicated to an explanation of this technology, though Patrick Richards, the creator of this technology, readily admits that the entire technology remains within the boundaries of an anomaly.
With regard to its application vis-à-vis the homeopathic model, after some two years of wrestling with the gargantuan task of applying and exploring a working model that produced excellent results, I adopted the single remedy approach to be the most effective approach for my colleague and myself. For the purposes of research it remains an effective and very clear method of building up remedy pictures that can be validated by the results obtained. It is not a technology that finds the correct remedy, but forces the practitioner to call on all his resources, skill and knowledge of materia medica, the technology functioning as a guide to the practitioner in his selection of the optimum remedy. At first, I regarded this as a daunting task, since many questions arose in trying to match the states of patients to the optimum remedies, and though my own materia medica was certainly inadequate to the task, there is no doubt that I would not have been able to even contemplate this task without the publication of Jan Scholten’s work. We have found that by applying Scholten’s very subtle model, we are able to obtain far more precision in our prescriptions than has hitherto been possible with polychrests. Each remedy has, I suspect, its own frequency domain and can be equated with a particular state of consciousness that acts to limit freedom and therefore health. These are clinical observations derived from using the technology and we offer the case below as an insight into a particular state of health that had limited the entire lifestyle of an individual over many years.
This case also demonstrates the controversial observation that when a remedy acts at its optimum potential it should elicit a change so rapidly that the next remedy may well be uncovered at the next appointment. Homeopaths tend to stay with a remedy that has worked well but, in our experience, another state of consciousness always comes up at some point to be prescribed for and the original remedy will often be inappropriate for this new state. A feature of this case is that after the optimum remedy (the simillimum) was prescribed, another state emerged very rapidly and, though we were helped by the use of the bioliminal technology, what remains fascinating is that both remedies were prescribed purely on the speculative symptoms of Jan Scholten’s materia medica. The case is presented verbatim as it was originally videoed.

CASE
Female. Age 52. Single with one son.
Occupation: Practice Manager at an alternative medicine clinic

1st Appointment: 15/7/99

Presenting Complaint:
Claustrophobia
“Well it started in about 1976 when I was in analytic psychotherapy and I was on the tube and all of a sudden it stopped. The lights didn’t go off but it went very quiet and all of a sudden I just felt beside myself, didn’t know what to do. I just felt so stressed – I remember talking to this poor man next to me. It was such a horrendous experience that after that I started to feel fearful about going on tubes even though I had been travelling on the tube perfectly normally until then and I wouldn’t have said I was claustrophobic. I mean I didn’t much like being in a confined space but I would have said it was within the bounds of normal. Most people don’t like being shut in a cupboard. So I didn’t stop going on the tube – I had to go on the central line to work – and every time the train got to Marble Arch where it tended to slow down I used to get so stressed because I thought it was going to stop. And it just got worse and worse and worse. So I stopped going on the Central line and just went on the Circle Line on the ones which go above the ground but occasionally the Circle Line went underground and in the end I couldn’t do that. And it gradually progressed. So then I couldn’t bear to go in lifts. People have had various goes at it. My homoeopath tried to treat me for this condition and I was given Stramonium but it didn’t have any effect. Sometimes I do go on trains now but only if I am in a certain state. I am frightened of having those terrible feelings so I carry Aconite and Argentum Nitricum around with me.
I really love trains but I cannot bear the tunnels and it came to a sort of head again in Easter when I was meant to visit my friend. It’s like I am going to go into a living death – I feel that I am going to die and it is going to go on for ever and ever.”
“So it is just so restricting and I do know enough about psychotherapy to know that phobias are your anxieties just neatly packaged up with something that can be avoided. Been through all that. I have had years and years of therapy – not just because of this but because I was doing a therapy training – I have had 4 years of 3 times a week – analytic psychotherapy and it did not shift.”
“Now I am back in therapy because of the claustrophobia. It is very restricting because if I am in a car with someone they might have to go under a tunnel. I think I am an idiot for it.”
She is now back in therapy training as a psychotherapist.
“Well, I am now going to go back and do another bit of the course hopefully but I went and found myself another therapist, not because of the course, but because I felt so dreadful. I thought I just couldn’t handle this anymore. Other aspects of my life get better and better so I am more and more aware of this limitation which spoils holidays…”
The claustrophobia started in 1976, there was no trauma or shock surrounding this event.
“No. Well my therapist at the time said well perhaps you had a difficult birth…we’ve been through everything.”
Question: Did you have a terrible birth?
“Well, I can imagine I did, thinking about my mother coping with anything quite so immodest without closing her legs, quite frankly, so my theory is that I probably did have a bad birth. Anyone trying to be born from my mother would have a difficult time I reckon.”
“My mother was sort of very un-motherly. She didn’t seem grown up to me, she seemed like a young girl. She was very well meaning but emotionally not really there. She was wonderful with my son when he was little but there is something missing there. Her mother had nervous breakdown after nervous breakdown and I don’t think she was mothered very well so she didn’t make you feel that she knew what she was doing. I realised my mother didn’t know what she was doing. She didn’t tell me things. These practical things were a sign of something. I think it is really important to feel that your parents know what they are doing, even if we don’t half the time. Children need to have the feeling that you know what you are doing and that you are there in a very practical way. She would just worry about everything. If I took something to her she would just say ‘oh dear’. So I didn’t feel that I could take anything to her.”
“My father was Welsh. He had to be the centre of attention. Mother was his little servant. He wasn’t an unpleasant man, he was in some ways very emotional but he thought you should keep everything under control.”

Our patient does not suffer from claustrophobia in crowds but she does observe where the exits are and now never goes in lifts.

Sleep
Sleep is not good at the moment. Sleep lightly. Get woken up easily. Usually wake up at 4.30 or 5am.
Dreams
Not these days.
“When I was a child there was a dream which I felt I used to have all the time but I haven’t had it since a child. It was all in colour. This was this big grey thing, a bit like a tomb stone and a bit like a sarcophagus. I was on the top of it and there were loads of writhing snakes coloured purple and green (which were my school colours) and I was at the top and some force was trying to push me over and I was trying for ages to avoid getting pushed over. In the end I couldn’t stand it anymore and I would jump off but I would wake up before I hit the bottom. I have never forgotten that one. I have never had any interpretation on that. I haven’t had it since a teenager.”
General
Normal temperature. Dislike being cold in winter. Like being wrapped up. Like the sun and like water, both rivers or sea. Water attracts me, particularly running water.
Didn’t used to drink much, was never thirsty. Then after receiving shiatsu treatment I wanted to drink and I drink 1 litre of water a day and feel much better from it.

Emotions
“Well I would say that these days I am more able to express anger at the time. I am not that wonderful at it but I am better. I never used to be able to express it to people I liked. I just kept it in and things would build up. Then I would explode once and that would wreck the relationship for the next three months. That doesn’t happen anymore - I feel more normal about it.”
“I wouldn’t think I am generally an envious person all the time. But I have a very close friend who is able to do the course I wanted to do and is able to make decisions where I can’t and she just gets on with it and I am having to just watch this. I feel unable to make proper decisions and I realised that I felt envious of her ability to do this.”
Question: Why are you unable to make decisions?
“I don’t know. That is why I am in therapy! I don’t know why I can’t decide.”
“I am not indecisive in day to day business. But I have been trying to sort out my life, having had a break to have Harry (her son) and I never have the confidence. I start something and then it comes to a point when I ask myself do I want to do this or not? And I go into a complete not knowing what to do mode. I mean I started this therapy training course 15 years ago and then stopped but went on with the therapy bit of it. And then when I had the money to start it again I did a year and then couldn’t decide whether or not to continue it. Meanwhile my friend just gets on with it. I am having to watch her. Yet I can’t really decide whether I want to or not. My confidence to make a good decision has been eroded over the years by the fact of over and over again making decisions and then going back on them.
So now I find it difficult to have confidence in my decisions. Now there is a back- log of decisions which have been gone back on. I can’t trust myself that I am making the right decision, so I get stuck.”
“My mother didn’t really have any decisions to make. My father was indecisive. He got a headship quite early and at one point a headship for a bigger school came up. He couldn’t decide whether to go for this headship and decided not to go for it. He never forgave my mother for not making him do it. My brother is indecisive as well. But I have to say that my brother and I have both given ourselves more decisions than either of my parents – they just had jobs that they liked and they just went on and did it.”
Question: Has your indecisiveness come from the fact that you fear you might not succeed?
“I don’t know really. I mean the guy I am seeing now is absolutely fantastic and I think I will get it sorted with him. I mean he is not heavily psycho-analytical, he is more like a normal person! I don’t know. I think it is probably a very deep lack of confidence. But if you met me you would not think me totally not confident, would you but underneath it – I have a difficulty in seeing myself as I actually am. I feel I am under-used in my life.”
“At 28 I had a crisis. I worked for the BBC. I used to compose music. But I had a crisis of confidence. I was on a trajectory and that was the end of it. I always say the chickens come to roost at 28. I dropped out and gave up this very good job because I just had to. In a sense it did me a lot of good because I hadn’t dropped out when I was 18.”
“I was commissioned to do electronic music programmes and I was just dropped into it and everyone thought I was wonderful and then I kept on having commissions but it never got any easier, in fact it got harder. The more seriously I took it the harder it became. It became a 24 hour thing. I then started to live with someone and I remember thinking I was fed up with striving. I just wanted to be at home. So I clammed up and couldn’t work, so they sent me off to a therapist.”
“Well it was a sort of panic. Well I couldn’t act. I was frozen and stuck. What I did was that I took on a commission which was too complicated for me and instead of going to the guy who organized our workshops and saying look I shouldn’t be doing this, I just freaked. He would have said that is all right, someone else can do it. But I couldn’t.”
“Sometimes I would get frozen and panicked. Before that I did studio management and sound balancing and we had an exam after our training course – I just thought I can’t do this and I just got on a train and went to Scotland and nobody knew where I was.”
Question: Is there a tremendous fear of failure?
“There must be. It is my father. My father liked clever children. He was only interested really in the clever children at school. My brother and I were quite clever but we never felt quite clever enough.
I got excited about everything as a child. I was always told I was either too upset or too excited. I was always too something. I was a very emotional child. I was very shy, excruciatingly shy, and was always regarded as shy so when I went to university I decided I was definitely not going to be shy and was going to be more bold, so I was less shy. But I later found out that I had a reputation at college for being shy. But I feel things very strongly and passionately and that is quite handy for music but in relationships it used to get me into trouble.”
“I am a perfectionist to a certain extent but I do have a sense of proportion. What suited me at the BBC was that you were given commissions and deadlines so you wouldn’t have to go on and on composing the perfect thing so in a sense I have high standards but I know people who could not do that job because they are so perfectionist they would want it to be perfect. I quite liked it that I could stop because then I couldn’t go on and on.”
“I work part- time and I hardly get any money and the people say but you’ve done such a good job with Harry. But I do feel that when I mix with other parents with proper careers and jobs, it is not that I am ambitious for the status of it, but I would like to have something more satisfying to do. Music was satisfying but I only earned a living from it when I was at the BBC.”
Question: So this lack of fulfilment is a central theme? And it is also tied to your feeling of being frozen at times?
“Yes. I am held back by the enormity of the task, of getting something together. I am held back by the guilty feelings of having screwed up so much in the past. That makes it difficult for me to function in a constructive manner because I have this weight of 30 years of messing up behind me. In a sense I find it almost impossible to imagine that I would be successful. I am not thinking that all the time but when I really look at it that is what I think. It is like when I was a teenager I knew that I would never get married. I don’t know why I thought that. But I knew that I never would and I don’t understand why I had that feeling.”
Further comments:
“Father liked clever children. We always felt we weren’t clever enough. Brother is the same. He dropped out of Oxford. We were never good enough. There was an atmosphere in the house. I have a degree in music and was a musician since 6. Would have loved to have been an accompanist. Would love to do that now but I am 52 and it is too late.”
“I find parties stressful. I am not shy but I am not the kind of person who walks into a room of people with ease. I find it difficult to hide feelings. If I fancy someone I have to avoid him.”
“Quite like being by myself. Used to feel insecure in relationships.”

Analysis:
After taking the case, my colleague and I felt that we frankly had very little insight into the case, though we were fairly certain that she presented a pattern that we could not match with any remedy we knew. Furthermore, to compound our difficulties, on taking a base photograph of the patient, she had come out virtually clear, which we have observed clinically to indicate a rather rigid and bound energy system. At this point we decided to give a nosode which might act to ‘unblock’ her and to bring her back for a second visit when we could reassess her case.
We ended up giving her the Aids Nosode on a hunch.
Rx: Aids Nosode 200 BD for 3 days

2nd Appointment – 12/8/99
“Felt that the remedy may have loosened me up somehow – like a muscle de-contracting. But didn’t notice anything else particularly. Emotionally I have been less all over the shop, but nothing dramatic. Wasn’t so stressed going on holiday. The journeying away from home can be stressful but have felt more secure as I am now in therapy and having homoeopathy – more hopeful that something can change.”
Assessment: remedy did very little. At this point we asked her more questions regarding her inability to make decisions.
“Well one of the reasons why I went back into therapy is because I couldn’t decide whether or not to continue my course. But I feel hopeful. I have a really good therapist. I am quite happy with whatever comes out at the end.”
“I am not dithering around all the time – there is just this huge level of indecision underneath everything which is why I went for therapy because I thought it was ridiculous. I need to find someone to help me find out why I have got so stuck. I think my main emotion is fear. I don’t walk around feeling frightened but deep down there is a really deep fear which gets tapped into.”
“I think I always lacked confidence but my mother was quite timid. I don’t think of myself as timid. She found a lot of things in life very threatening. So when I was a teenager and came to her about something she would say oh dear…She would take it on and be even more worried. So that is why my therapist is so good. He is able to be a kind of rock and I have never found anyone with whom I can relate like that. He has made a difference.”
“My brother went to Oxford, he was academically ok. But he didn’t like academic work. So now he is a carpenter. He is much happier like that. But he wonders whether he did the right thing.
I have done lots of things which I have chucked away – not able to sustain things in order to have a proper career. I feel inadequate. Other people, other parents, what is it about them, which is they have got their degrees, and they …I have never been able to sustain anything long enough, at some point some terrible lack of confidence that it would ever come off and I would change direction. And now I found it impossible to do anything in case I do that again. I can’t make the wrong decision at 52 or else I will be in my dotage.”
Question: Do you get to a certain point and then you side-step the whole issue.Is that a fear of failure?
“Well I wouldn’t have said so, but then perhaps it is at a sub-conscious level. There is a grain of truth in that. I find it difficult to envisage that I will be successful – that the thing I want will happen. I never believe that deep down. That I find peculiar. I don’t believe that what I want will ever happen. This has been going on for 50 years.”
“It was the same with my singing. I thought at 28 it was all too late and my singing teacher was tearing out her hair.”
“In 1974 I started to have singing lessons with a woman I just found amazing. I was never much good at singing. So I had lessons and it turned out I had a very high voice which is very saleable. So I had 2 lessons a week for 4 or 5 years. I was just getting to the stage of having auditions when I got pregnant which scuppered that one. But I was always saying at that point oh it’s too late, it’s too late. I know now that at that age is not too late. I had this sense that it was always too late.”

Analysis:
We felt that the essence of the case rested on this tremendous fear of failure and inability to carry out her plans or desires. We were aware that the case presented a state of frozen ambitions, and though she had been in and out of analytical therapy for many years, this process was unable to give the patient any insights into her own behaviour. The claustrophobia in some way reflected the state of panic and frozenness she found herself in at times. She now felt unable and unwilling to do anything productive because she could no longer trust herself to persist without arriving at a place of enormous doubt and indecision about her own talents.
I have transcribed the case as accurately as possible, because it was interesting how the remedy seemed to ‘kick into’ this frozen state and enabled the patient to move forwards.
We decided to look at Scholten’s material medica at this point as we thought we might possibly find a remedy there which matched our patient’s state.
We tested three remedies using the bioliminal technology before arriving at a clear picture. The remedies were Zirconium, Niobium and Yttrium. Then we tried the remedy Tantalum which produced a crystal clear photograph.
The essence of Tantalum is: Doubt and hesitation about their fantastic plans.
Scholten says: They have a desire to manifest themselves but they don’t really know if they can. They may have all sorts of grandiose schemes but they don’t know how to carry them out. Their life is one of many starts and stops. As soon as they have started a project they begin to wonder whether they can really manage it properly. So they are always hesitating whether to take on the responsibility or not. Many times they feel that it would be better to stop, but that means they have failed. Things do go wrong of course, because they haven’t got much experience yet. But they have an intense desire to reach for the top. This alternation of moods often causes them to wonder what on earth they have let themselves in for. It is a tantalising problem. They feel that their plans of the organisation are a bit far fetched, that they don’t have the capacity to lead their business on the road to success. (Homoeopathy and the Elements, page 696)

With the guide of the bioliminal technology together with a description that seemed to meet some of the criteria of this case we prescribed:
Rx: Tantalum 200 BD for 3 days

3rd Appointment – 18/9/99
Question: How are you after the remedy?
“I wrote down that on Monday I felt completely off the planet. That was at the end of three days of the tablets. I felt really weird, off the planet. I woke up around 4am. The next day I had a sense of relaxation and relief and also the most terrible furry flabby tongue I have ever seen. The next day I felt better and then felt relaxed, much more relaxed and had the feeling that I could just get on with things. I didn’t write anything after that. But that is how I did feel generally speaking. And with my therapy I felt that went better because up to taking the remedy, I have had this new therapist since May and I thought that he was so wonderful that I would arrive at his door and feel sick. I didn’t really enjoy this experience very much. After the remedy I felt I could just go along more like a normal person. I don’t know whether this is significant or not.”
Question:so generally you are feeling more relaxed?
“Yes, generally. I haven’t been in any claustrophobic situations however because I just haven’t thought of going into them. I find it so terrifying. But I feel better although I am a bit hyped up because I have been very active.”
“I would say I have been more decisive. I now find myself as a full-time student on a floristry design course because I thought it would be a good idea. And I have been thinking about it on and off for years but I didn’t realise that it would be 2 ½ days contact. I thought it was a part time course but they regard it as full time so I went rushing off down there and I signed on so I am a bit over excited about it all because there is so much to do.”
Question: The last time we saw you, you were very reticent about starting anything because you feared that you would not finish it, so there was a block.
“Yes, a block has been removed. Every once in a while I think oh my god…I am trying to do my volunteer counselling work and also I have packed all my other work into three days and I am on my way out there. I am trying to get something connected with my floristry design course. It is a bit too extremes but I have a laugh about it because one minute I am reading Freud and then the next moment I am reading about how to put wires up the back of roses, which I think is great. But I am slightly apprehensive about fitting it all in but I am pretty determined to do so and it seems fine at the moment. I don’t feel I have to go searching for anything else.”
“Last night I had a dream which I tend to have – I am about to go on stage as a musician and not knowing the piece at all. Last night I seemed to have the choice of playing the violin or some piano piece and I couldn’t do either and the orchestra was sitting there and the concert hall was full and I just decided that I had to go and tell the conductor that I just couldn’t do it because I hadn’t played the pieces for about 8 days and in my mind it was debatable whether I really knew them anyway and so I had to go and tell him and I had to go down this really steep tunnel-like chute, I thought to myself but I am claustrophobic, I can’t go down there. But I got down the chute and went and told him. He was actually someone who is a conductor in real life and he was really disgusted.”
“I found the chute part of the dream interesting. This was a particularly closed in chute but I felt I just had to go down it”
“I no longer have the feeling that I am going to totally screw up.”
“Also a couple of men chatted me up recently which was unusual.”
“I wonder whether I will be able to sustain this now. Used to wonder why I couldn’t sustain things. I want to be relaxed enough in order to be creative. In my 20s I became too invested in my music and my creativity dried up. Doubts with my performance level. Fear of having to produce something. Like being stuck on a potty. It changes into a real pressure. Like someone standing over me. I have to produce something – it’s a habit of thought. I can only do what I can do. Feel more is expected of me than I can produce. It destroys my ability to create.”

Analysis
The Tantalum had clearly worked – the patient no longer felt stuck. She has started a new course. Furthermore, after the remedy, her relationship to her therapist has changed radically, the degree of transference and her mode of relating to this aspect of herself has changed to a greater degree of freedom. She comments poignantly that previous to the remedy, her relationship to her therapist was one of awe and tremendous excitement but now this form of psychic transference has shifted to one of greater freedom where she feels in more control of the situation. It is also significant that in the dream a situation of claustrophobia arose which she had to conquer to enable her to progress to the next stage in her life. Equally significant was the fact that she had resigned from her previous employment and had engaged in a number of new activities.
At this point, with such a sudden and dramatic shift towards a greater degree of freedom, one could either repeat the remedy or just wait for the patient to explore her newfound freedom, and expect to repeat the Tantalum maybe some two or four months further on.
But from my own clinical point of view, the remedy had now worked and that previous state of ‘frozen indecision’ that is a significant aspect of this remedy has now vanished, and the patient through the action of this remedy is now in a different state of exploring her full potential. This observation was borne out very clearly when we photographed the patient holding Tantalum 200c, and the picture demonstrated a high degree of incoherence, thereby giving credence to the original clinical observation. The question now was whether we let the patient be or try to find another remedy that matched her state. Our decision was to find another remedy that matched her new state of excitement and exploration. We assumed that since Tantalum had dissolved her state of ‘inactivity’ she would return to a more creative sense of her own abilities.
At this point, aware that she had changed, we felt that she had returned to a more creative state prior to the frozen state of indecision, and so we looked at the Silver series in Scholten’s scheme. Remedies in the silver series are all to do with creativity and complaints usually start when they cannot express their creativity. We also felt that as she had returned to a feeling of creative ‘start up’ from years of ‘inactive indecision’ and so we looked at remedies at the beginning of the Silver series. We felt Strontium metallicum showed promise since its essence is: Uncertain about showing your talents or art.

Feeling observed as an artist, scientist, doctor:
They feel that everybody is looking to see what they think, what ideas they come out with and how they develop their talents. They feel very unsure about their creative abilities.
Appraising everyone on their creative talents:
But at the same time this is also how they look at other people. They notice every new trend and thought and compare them to their own ideas. They constantly ask themselves whether these ideas are better or worse, more or less beautiful, more or less clever than their own. (Homeopathy and the Elements page 537)

Using the bioliminal technology we tested out Strontium metallicum which produced an almost clear image, validating our insights into the present impasse of our patient. We also tested Mercurius, Argentum Nitricum and Tungsten, all of which produced incoherent images.
We realised that the patient’s mothering had been very poor to non-existent, and hence it had been an important aspect of her life to nurture and properly mother her own son. There also seemed to be a dilemma between her ability to mother properly and her ability to create or carve out her own space, which I thought might point to a muriaticum element in this case.
Having speculated on the essential muriaticum element in the case, according to Scholten’s schema, we tried the patient with the remedy Strontium Muriaticum. According to Scholten the essence of Strontium Muriaticum is: Feeling closely watched as an artist and mother

Their achievements have to be two fold, i.e. both as an artist and as a mother. They feel as if they are being watched and that others will say they are not doing well enough.
Uncertain about the combination of creativity and motherhood:
They can be very uncertain whether the combination of motherhood and artistic performance will go well together. They tend to feel that motherhood doesn’t leave them enough time for their creative pursuits. This makes them feel inferior, as if they will never be good enough. They want to be a perfect mother and a perfect artist at the same time, an ideal they find difficult to realise. Hence their feeling that others are commenting on them, finding them inadequate both as a mother and as an artist. (page 543)

This remedy produced coherence and therefore we prescribed:
Rx: Strontium Muriaticum 200c BD for 3 days

3rd Appointment- 22/10/99
After the remedy I felt very tired physically for a few days, then suddenly my energy shot up to the point that I virtually felt as if I was speeding. It all seemed rather precarious to be functioning at such high levels of energy, nevertheless I have just finished a stint of 20 days working very long hours with little problem. The remedy also made me feel more optimistic and now feel ready to leave my present job. The remedy has not only increased my energy, but made me more direct in my dealings with people. Friends of mine think I will go to another job and allow myself to be exploited but I feel that the remedy ‘has shifted me into another gear’ and I will not allow myself to be exploited by anyone. I must have been pathetic before. There is another job now available and though everything is ‘up in the air’ I feel the confidence and optimism to deal with it and feel decisive and energetic enough to be able to get with life.

Analysis
The remedy had worked well, and the patient was now definitely in the throes of a huge change, clearly evidenced by her large increase in energy which was necessary to increase her degree of freedom and abandon her old patterns of behaviour. Interestingly enough her base photograph showed incoherence so we prescribed again:
Rx: Strontium Muriaticum 1M three doses.

4th Appointment- 15/12/99
She returned two months later, because she had been so busy. She did not feel much from the second prescription but nevertheless felt really well in herself. She has now left her previous employment and is working all hours of the day. She still feels claustrophobic though less so but has not tested this out fully yet. Her energy still remains astonishing despite the hard hours she puts in, and what she finds intriguing is the feeling of lightness all the time, feels tired from a hard day’s work but does not feel in any way drained but feels centred and relaxed. She does not seem to work herself up about decisions, which would have previously ‘floored her’, and she is more fluid about what the future can offer her. Her therapy seems to be moving forward and she does not feel stuck anymore.
She said poignantly that I seem to have been stuck so long in my life, that now I want to have a go at everything, I want to forge ahead and explore life in all its infinite possibilities.
My therapist insists that I am ignoring relationships, and he could be right, and so I have begun to notice men a little more and am beginning to feel more vulnerable emotionally.
Analysis
At this point we decided to wait since Strontium Muriaticum now caused incoherence with the bioliminal technology, and we suspected that the state of Strontium Muriaticum, which originally matched that of our patient, had dissolved and we needed to wait for the next state to show itself before we could prescribe another remedy. We asked the patient to return in two months, since her energy remains outstanding and her outlook has changed so radically from when we saw her in July. We presume that we will be prescribing another remedy when she returns and hopefully we can make moe inroads into the symptoms of claustrophobia, which still remain to be treated fully. Nevertheless I have shown this case both to illustrate the unique contribution that bioliminal technology can make to homeopathy as a research tool into new and untested remedies and to demonstrate that, though Jan Scholten’s work remains highly speculative, it can still be used to prescribe with dramatic results. In the case of the above patient, she had had many remedies before and many years of psychotherapy, yet only the correct prescription unlocked that state of unconscious activity that seemed to sabotage her ability to maximise her abilities and enable her to take back a freedom which was marred with a history of ‘frozen inactivity’ and a profound lack of self confidence.