Similia Vol 23 No 1 – June 2011
Author: Jill Turland
Abstract
In 1999 I began to suffer what appeared to be a relapse of a spondylolisthesis of the fifth lumbar vertebrae that I had fixed seven or eight years earlier with Hydrastis MM and 10MM. The symptoms were similar but palpation did not suggest that the vertebra had slipped forward again. So I went for an X-ray, which revealed that although the bone was still in alignment with its neighbours, the L5-S1 disc was severely compressed, cramping the nerves exiting the spine at that level. There was, as yet, no bulging to indicate a disc tear.
Keywords: Spondylolisthesis, Hydrastis, Calcarea fluoratum, dehydration of disc, anxiety about money matters, fear of want.