The Tricky Python.
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1995 Mar / Apr Vol IV No 2.
Chetna Shukla.
Cases.
` Python.

I had been treating her for one year for her chronic backache and urticaria for four year duration. (March 93 to 94). Though patient seemed quite happy with the treatment, I was sure something was amiss somewhere. My first prescription for her was Pulsatilla. On retaking the case-taking, I explained to her the purpose of the second meeting and started with the questions left unanswered during the first interview. Can you explain me in detail your statement that "I love nature?" She went on to explain.

"I love full blown trees with flowers on it. In fact as a child I was a good tree climber. It would be difficult for my cousins to climb a tree, but it was very easy for me. I would spend most of my noons on a tree top reading mystery books at Hamirpur. I would enjoy reading Egyptian stories; the mysticism revolving around the stories of the Pharaohs, the queens and their ceremonies - how the statues came to life after certain mantras were chanted and worked as slaves. I still enjoy reading such books. I feel what fun it would be to be a part of those days. I would love to have been an Egyptian or Roman Queen with all the riches, slaves working for me.

In childhood I would gather all my cousins and go searching for some buried treasure in old forts and ruins.

After growing up I dreamt of being a queen of a Roman King or a Pharaoh with drum beatings and incense sticks burning around and rituals being performed in our court. Sometimes I dream of an Ichchadhari snake who can change its form whenever desired, or huge big snake like Pythons; of water; travelling, of landscapes, rivers. I often dream of a snake coming to sting my daughter but I save her in time".

On inquiring about her fears she said,

"I fear big oceans and water but at the same time I enjoy watching the waves of the sea. I also fear all snakes especially the huge Pythons".

She revealed an emotional attachment to a married man and justified it saying that her husband had estranged her and she needed some support from the superior sex.

At the end of the retake, I could only laugh at myself, being conveniently tricked by my own prejudices. I called her after a week and meanwhile went through books to confirm my prescription of Python for her. Books of Mythology "Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology" and the World Book Encyclopedia confirmed that she was mystically involved in the stories of Roman and Egyptian mythologies as the serpent python and Typhon the son of Gea and Tartarus and Typhon.

The remedy was prepared from the excreta of the python, the only available produce and given in 30 potency. I was skeptical about the efficacy of the excreta as a remedy but i reasoned out saying that "any secretory or excretory product of an animal is particular to and of that animal". After prescribing, a short proving was conducted, the similarity of the dream pattern and an exactly similar dream observed in one of the provers as that of our patient, removed all doubts.

The patient often dreamt of seeing her grandfather on death-bed. She goes to visit him and on seeing her, he lights up and regains his vitality. One of the provers had similar dream of seeing his old school friend on death bed whose face suddenly lights up with life on seeing the prover.

After exactly three months of the 30c dose, she was totally cured. She now enjoys a sense of well being. Her backache and urticaria both are better. She realized the social and moral non-acceptability of her emotional attachment with a married man!

The prescription proved for me that - "the part of the whole is the whole itself. The excreta gave me the courage to use the curative powers of rabbits urine in one case when its milk was not available.