How, Why, and When Causations – the ‘Never-well-since-event’.

Abstract: “Never been well since” is a very important statement in homeopathy. Prolonged stress or trauma trapped in body contributes to a disease. Your body remembered what your mind has forgotten. Sometimes mentally processing is enough, sometimes a specific homeopathic remedy is needed to remove that layer and release it from the mind and body. It is so significant that it can safely rule out many other symptoms if the ‘Never been well since’ is clearly perceived and verified.

 Keywords: Never well since, Synthesis, Ailments, Allen’s keynote

Introduction: In our day to day practice some patients come to our clinic and complaint that they are not been well after they have had some kind of trauma emotional or physical. The person may have dealt with that trauma but that was no longer an issue but they may have developed some health condition with physical and mental symptoms after this.

 An emotional trauma could be a loss of loved one, a financial loss, a loss of job, sexual abuse, rape, a failure of marriage, a major disappointment, shifting to another locality, neglected child, relationship difficulty. Physical traumas are something that happened to the physical level of body, such as: a typhoid, a pregnancy, delivery, hormonal changes, burn, a disease, an operation, an abortion, an immunization, a therapy, an accident. There can be other type of traumas also.

Some of the health condition after trauma could be: insomnia, nightmares, headache, anxiety, loss of hair, increase or decrease appetite, hormonal imbalance, high or low blood pressure, weakness lethargy, chronic fatigue, depression, constipation, phobia, fear, menstrual irregularity, weight gain or weight loss etc.

 In homoeopathy, past history plays a major role in case taking. During case taking, what happened in your life when disease started is important factor for selection of homoeopathic medicine.

‘Never been well since’ is a part of past trauma or past history, and that kind of incidence has a lasting negative influence on the patient’s health, and begins the progression of disease. It is the most deciding aspect of the case and helps to manage the case well and find most suitable homoeopathic medicine.

Some of The Useful Medicines Which are given in H C Allen’s “Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons Of Some Of The leading Remedies of The Materia Medica With Bowel nosodes” in which it is mentioned “Never Felt Well Since”.¹

Person who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effect of some previous illness; asthma dates from measles or pertussis of childhood; indigestion from a drunken debauch; bad effect of long ago injury; has never recovered from effects of typhoid. – Carbo Vegetabilis.

Patient’s say “They never been well since that burn.” – Causticum.

Women who have not recovered from the change of life “Have never felt well since that time” – Lachesis Mutus.

Constipation, “Since puberty; since last confinement;” when away from home – Lycopodium Clavatum.

The first serious impairment of health is referred to puberic age, have “never been well since”-anaemia, chlorosis, bronchitis, phthisis. – Pulsatilla Nigricans

“Never well since septic fever, following abortion or confinement.” – Pyrogenium.

Rubric mentioned in synthesis repertory 2.0²:

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – puberty; after – never well since:

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – abortion; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – burns; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE: ailments during – chest complaints; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – diphtheria; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – gonorrhea; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – influenza; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – injuries; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – lungs; after inflammation of the – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – malaria; after – never well since or recurrent malaria

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – oxygen in blood; after decreased – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – puerperal fever; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – septic fever; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – strain; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – sunstroke; after – never well since

GENERALS – CONVALESCENCE; ailments during – typhoid fever; after – never well since

GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – abortion; of – never well since

GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – chest complaints; of – never well since

 GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – gonorrhea; of – never well since

GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – influenza; of – never well since

GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – lungs- inflammation of the – never well since

GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – measles; of – never well since

GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – puerperal fever; of – never well since GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – septic fever; of – never well since

GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – strain or injury; of – never well since GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – typhoid fever; of – never well since

GENERALS – HISTORY; personal – vaccination or repeated vaccination; of- never well since

GENERALS – MEASLES – ailments after- never well since

GENERALS – VACCINATION; ailments after – never well since

GENERALS – WELL – never well since

Conclusion:

In Homeopathic case taking past history is very important through which we can get such symptoms. It will play pivotal role in selection of homoeopathic medicine.

Reference:

1. Software used – Synthesis Homoeopathic Repertory Mobile Software, Zeus Soft sprl
2. Allen H C, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons Of Some Of The leading Remedies of The Materia Medica With Bowel Nosodes, B. Jain Publishers; 2002

Author: Dr Kajal Arya (Postgraduate trainee, Govt. Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Bhopal (M.P.))