InSEcurity

InSEcurity is a text written by Betty Wood and taken from a seminar she organised for the NEHA (New England Homeopathic Association), which lasted seven days and was held in Boston. The Italian translation was edited by Rossana Ceriani.
Insecurity, in its many facets, is a problem we face in our daily practice and which our literature reports in a fragmented and rather imprecise manner. In fact, it is not really sufficient to rely on the suggestions of various repertories under the heading “Want of self confidence” without considering the numerous cross-references, which are not exhaustive. If we consider how clearly insecurity is expressed on a somatic level through numerous symptoms: from sweating under the armpits or palms of the hands, frequent urination, diarrhoea, stuttering, insomnia, erectile dysfunction and vaginismus, asthma, dizziness and nausea … to name but a few. Although a week-long seminar on this topic may seem long, and although the many remedies presented are not limited to the usual Lycopodium, Gelsemium and a few others, the subject is so vast that the aim of the seminar, as in the text, is to encourage a more complex reading of insecurity, both in its most obvious manifestations on the soma and in relation to other aspects of the patient’s suffering.
Notes on natural history, materia medica, clinical cases with long follow-up and authorised by the patient, repertory additions, differential diagnosis, pathologies and syndromes successfully treated in my personal case history for the following remedies.
1) Aluminium compounds
2) Barium compounds
3) Gossypium
4) Saccharum album
5) Epiphegus virginiana
6) Tabacum
7) Daphne indica
8) Aconitum napellus
9) Magnetis polus australis
10) Thallium metallicum
11) … and others