The Dancing Doll
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1998 Sep / Oct VOL VII NO 5.
Dr Nina Doshi
'Zinc-met

A short, stout, smiling, well-dressed lady aged 41 entered the clinic and I just could not hold back a comparison between her and a doll! Her head kept nodding to and fro! The only difference was that her body too moved in response to the movement of her head.

Complaints:

1. Intense dysmenorrhoea with scanty menses since last 6 months.
2. Anal fissure with itching and pain for which she used pain killers left, right and centre, ending up with severe hyperacidity.
3. Heavy weight problem, which had already given her a slip disc and [R] sided sciatica. The pain made lying down and long standing very difficult. Often has to sit up even at night. Backache is AGG by climbing with weight in hand.
4. [R] Sided heel pain with tingling, which gets AGG when stepping on cold ground with bare feet. Better by hot fomentation.
5. Headache AGG by heat and in summer.
6. Allergic conjunctivitis due to climatic changes.

Past History:
Ingrown toe nail.
Chicken pox
Acute tonsillitis without fever but with chronic hoarseness. Treated by Inj Streptomycin

Personal History:
Appetite: normal
Thirst: dry mouth with increased thirst.
Desires: sweets, spicy, sour, cold food3, salt, fruits.
Stools: tendency to loose stools with slightest indiscretion in diet. Flatulence with eructation > passing flatus. 
Micturition: increased frequency at night with recurrent UTI.
Perspiration: scanty
Sleep: normal.
Dreams: of dead bodies.

Family History: Father: heart problem.
Patient has three brothers and five sisters, one daughter of 14 years of age.

Physical Examination: Multiple small pedenculated warts on nape of the neck.

Mind and Life Situation: 
A moody person with an expressive faces but does not speak out. Easily hurt and offended. Used to feel disappointed and inferior on delivering a girl child, but gradually developed attachment to the daughter and could not tolerate anyone talking against her daughter or reprimanding her. If daughter reprimanded by some one, she would get excited and speak up for her, but later wept alone on the side When the child was born, she used to stay in a joint family and initially could not cope with the extra burden of bringing up the child along with the housework. She had decided against a second child. Fear of being alone with marked nervousness. Very mild with her daughter. She keeps herself busy with a sedentary lifestyle. She drives the car and goes out shopping etc.

Repertorisation:
Zinc-met covers the following rubrics pertaining to the case:

Treatment and Follow-Up :