Scandium [Scan]:
- Jan Scholten
Scandium metallicum is an unknown remedy.
Signature
The name is derived from Scandinavia because the substance was discovered by someone from Scandinavia in 1879. The word scan may or may not be related to Scandium, but at least it gives a very accurate description of the main theme of this stage: looking and comparing.
It stimulates the germination of seeds. It would also be useful in different alloys, as it is lighter than aluminium and has a much higher melting point.
Concepts
Stage 3 Ferrum series
Investigating Task Work Duty
Comparing Scanning Craft Use
Trying Ability Perfectionism
Hesitating Doubting Routine Order Rules
Changeable Unstable Control Exams
Underestimating Observed Criticised
Discouraged Failure Guilt Crime
Unofficial Non-committal Persecuted Tried
Confusion Adult
Village
Group analysis
Doubt about which task would be suitable.
Trials are experienced as failures.
Indecisive because of being too perfectionistic.
Small set backs are experienced as persecution.
Exploring work: going from one job to another.
Picture of Scandium metallicum Essence: not knowing which task to choose.
Wondering which task would suit them They do want to carry out a task, but they feel they are not ready yet. They havent got enough experience and they don't even know what they would like to do, which task would suit them best. This makes them indecisive, especially because they feel they have to be perfect right from the start.
Trials are experienced as failure
They wonder how on earth to go about things. When they finally have a go at something they get very nervous, and then it goes wrong sometimes. This makes them more hesitant to try again. They don't really trust compliments either, because they feel that what they are doing amounts to nothing, that they aren't really doing anything useful yet.
Small setbacks are experienced as persecution These are the people that try many things but persevere at nothing. Their fear of failure makes them give up before they have given things a chance, which in itself leads to failure. So they end up in a vicious circle. The slightest mishap or opposition makes them feel insecure, as if they will never succeed anyway.
Expressions Fears: failure, falling, criticism, opposition, observed, anticipation.
Dreams: failure, falling, futile efforts, paralysis.
Delusions: being empty.
Generals
Weather: cold.
Complaints
Cancer. Infections.
Paralysis.
Headache.
Eye problems.
Mouth problems, aphthae, blisters on tongue.
Throat.
Anaemia (3).
Stomach pains, bad digestion, inflammation of stomach. Diabetes.
Bowels.
DD Ferrum series, Stage 3, Barytas.
DD Calcarea: is more passive, tries to be normal. Scandium likes to experiment, wants to have a taste of everything, but crawls back inside his shell as soon as things threaten to go wrong. If Calcarea represents the oyster, then Scandium represents the little crab.
DD Barytas: are equally inclined to belittle themselves and feel belittled. They can't make decisions, like Scandium, but they are more passive, they feel ridiculed from the start. Scandium still has a go to see if he can do it.
Case
A 24 year old woman comes with various complaints. She has a pain in her lower back, (<) lifting things, (<) digging, (<) in the morning; she often sits bent forward, (>) bending her lower back forward.
One leg (the left one) is shorter than the other.
She gets a migraine type of headaches with nausea and pulsations.
It starts in the back and spreads to the front, (<) worries, tension, being busy, (<) heat, (<) 1st day of menses, (<) light, (<) behind eyes and worse when she wonders: will I be able to cope?; (>) hard pressure on base of skull and eye sockets, (>) putting her head under the pillow, (>) holding her head.
She also has eczema with peeling on fingertips and palm of right hand. Accumulation of mucus and feeling of a lump in her throat, as if something is stuck and she has to keep swallowing, (<)(<) talking about it, (<) thinking of sad things. Sneezing.
She has had Glandular fever and received some treatment for her liver from an iridologist. She had some luxury treatment from a psychotherapist in the past because she felt so unsure of herself.
She feels depressed since she had a few setbacks. She has been dismissed from a course in creative gardening with the message that she was negative in her approach. Things hadn't gone well because she felt like a peasant between the snobs, whilst before she had been the snob between the peasants at agricultural college. She feels that everyone got the wrong impression of her. She felt like a beautiful flower buried under a heap of rubbish. Her teachers didnt see it that way and said that she was disturbed. On the last day before the holidays they told her that she shouldnt come back next year.
This was a little bit of a blow for he: she felt a complete failure. She went back home to live with her father and took on various jobs. She got sacked from a shoe shop after 5 weeks because she was unsuitable. She herself thought she was doing quite well, even though she had already decided that this wasn't her kind of job because she didnt agree with the hard- selling strategy. She had already thought of handing in her notice but they beat her to it. So I was really having a sort of little dip, kind of. She used this kind of expressions frequently during the consultation: little this, little that, sort of, kind of etc.
She became more and more unsure of herself: Perhaps I wasn't such a nice person when I was young and I am not like that, am I? She can't decide what to wear, she can't decide what to put in her sandwich, she can't decide which colour jumper to buy so she comes home empty handed. Suddenly everything seems a major obstacle.
She always feels caught between different people: in the past it was between her parents, who were divorced. Later on between friends when they were quarrelling. Whose side should she be on? Also between her mother and her grandparents. She was the one who had to tell the grandparents when it was discovered that her mother had cancer. She was always hanging somewhere in between.
Whenever she was ill it was never a really severe illness: she only had seven little spots when she had chickenpox. This is quite awful really, best not to think about it otherwise I could get quite depressed.
She feels she has failed. Her parents were very happy when she was born, as they had been longing for a child. But she didnt get top marks at school and her father was rather disappointed. In the beginning she did well and then she had good hopes for the future. But now look at me, useless what is the point of being me at all?
She doesnt have any real ambition, like a job where she is appreciated or a nice house to live in or animals to care for.
She is very disappointed with herself. She used to think Later, when I am grown up I will.... But now I am grown up and what do I have to show for it? Nobody wants to be like me! She feels things just happen to her. In her relationship with boys she can never find a happy medium. One minute she is engaged in an innocent conversation and the next minute she is kissing, and then she thinks: Shit, its happened again, I can't go back now, I should have said no before. She is very open and people like to share their problems with her, but I don't think you can see what I am like deep inside.
She can be very enthusiastic, which can be wrongly interpreted by male beings.
So she has decided to be very plain and blunt towards them.
She likes to get compliments, but when someone says something nice she doesnt trust it and tends to say something nasty in reply. She is indecisive and has broken up with her boyfriend twice. What should she do? Go out into the big wide world or stay at home with parents, boyfriend and job? She feels people have a wrong impression of her, that they think she is empty headed and without compassion for her fellow beings. They probably think this because she doesnt make clear what she means and she often acts bluntly. She doesnt feel well in herself. She used to do a lot of sports which she enjoyed very much, also for the company.
Now she has lost interest. She has put on weight, so I look like a sort of fat pig. She hates herself, for her looks and for the fact that she just lolls in front of the telly eating crisps. I never used to be like this.
Generals
Weather: cold, cold hands.
Perspiration: under arms (2) and on hands (<) tension.
Time: (<) 3 pm.
Desires: Italian (3), spices (3), cheese (3), salt, milk (2).
Aversion: ginger (3), olives (2), fish, fried liver (2).
Menses: great loss of blood with back- and stomach pains.
Sleep: lovely.
Analysis
She tries all sorts of studies, has a taste and then gives up.
Tries many things, succeeds in nothing, which is the theme of Scandium. It is definitely the Ferrum series because it concerns work and study. The creative gardening could point to the Silver series, but in this case it is just one in a long list of other studies. The indecision is another prominent aspect in this case.
She simply can't choose, not even what clothes to wear in the morning. This is further confirmation for Scandium being the right remedy.
Reaction
After Scandium 1M she becomes more cheerful and less susceptible to minor upsets. The headache has gone; the backache is there from time to time, but not so severe. Decisions are easier to make: she has chosen to stay with her boyfriend. No point in putting off a decision forever, for the moment I have chosen to be with him. Now I can walk through town with my head high, I look around and feel good. I feel I am alive again. She started to sort out her belongings, throwing away what is old, sorting out what she wants to keep, getting things in order. She painted her shed bright yellow. She has plans for a new course and a new job. In the past everything happened by itself. Things sorted themselves out without me having to do anything. Now that I am grown up I realise that this can't go on, it simply doesnt happen like that, I will have to put in some effort myself. But now I really feel I want to do that.
Three months later she suddenly got the offer of two jobs. She hesitated slightly which one to take, but eventually chose the one she liked best.
Scandium metallicum is an unknown remedy.
Signature
The name is derived from Scandinavia because the substance was discovered by someone from Scandinavia in 1879. The word scan may or may not be related to Scandium, but at least it gives a very accurate description of the main theme of this stage: looking and comparing.
It stimulates the germination of seeds. It would also be useful in different alloys, as it is lighter than aluminium and has a much higher melting point.
Concepts
Stage 3 Ferrum series
Investigating Task Work Duty
Comparing Scanning Craft Use
Trying Ability Perfectionism
Hesitating Doubting Routine Order Rules
Changeable Unstable Control Exams
Underestimating Observed Criticised
Discouraged Failure Guilt Crime
Unofficial Non-committal Persecuted Tried
Confusion Adult
Village
Group analysis
Doubt about which task would be suitable.
Trials are experienced as failures.
Indecisive because of being too perfectionistic.
Small set backs are experienced as persecution.
Exploring work: going from one job to another.
Picture of Scandium metallicum Essence: not knowing which task to choose.
Wondering which task would suit them They do want to carry out a task, but they feel they are not ready yet. They havent got enough experience and they don't even know what they would like to do, which task would suit them best. This makes them indecisive, especially because they feel they have to be perfect right from the start.
Trials are experienced as failure
They wonder how on earth to go about things. When they finally have a go at something they get very nervous, and then it goes wrong sometimes. This makes them more hesitant to try again. They don't really trust compliments either, because they feel that what they are doing amounts to nothing, that they aren't really doing anything useful yet.
Small setbacks are experienced as persecution These are the people that try many things but persevere at nothing. Their fear of failure makes them give up before they have given things a chance, which in itself leads to failure. So they end up in a vicious circle. The slightest mishap or opposition makes them feel insecure, as if they will never succeed anyway.
Expressions Fears: failure, falling, criticism, opposition, observed, anticipation.
Dreams: failure, falling, futile efforts, paralysis.
Delusions: being empty.
Generals
Weather: cold.
Complaints
Cancer. Infections.
Paralysis.
Headache.
Eye problems.
Mouth problems, aphthae, blisters on tongue.
Throat.
Anaemia (3).
Stomach pains, bad digestion, inflammation of stomach. Diabetes.
Bowels.
DD Ferrum series, Stage 3, Barytas.
DD Calcarea: is more passive, tries to be normal. Scandium likes to experiment, wants to have a taste of everything, but crawls back inside his shell as soon as things threaten to go wrong. If Calcarea represents the oyster, then Scandium represents the little crab.
DD Barytas: are equally inclined to belittle themselves and feel belittled. They can't make decisions, like Scandium, but they are more passive, they feel ridiculed from the start. Scandium still has a go to see if he can do it.
Case
A 24 year old woman comes with various complaints. She has a pain in her lower back, (<) lifting things, (<) digging, (<) in the morning; she often sits bent forward, (>) bending her lower back forward.
One leg (the left one) is shorter than the other.
She gets a migraine type of headaches with nausea and pulsations.
It starts in the back and spreads to the front, (<) worries, tension, being busy, (<) heat, (<) 1st day of menses, (<) light, (<) behind eyes and worse when she wonders: will I be able to cope?; (>) hard pressure on base of skull and eye sockets, (>) putting her head under the pillow, (>) holding her head.
She also has eczema with peeling on fingertips and palm of right hand. Accumulation of mucus and feeling of a lump in her throat, as if something is stuck and she has to keep swallowing, (<)(<) talking about it, (<) thinking of sad things. Sneezing.
She has had Glandular fever and received some treatment for her liver from an iridologist. She had some luxury treatment from a psychotherapist in the past because she felt so unsure of herself.
She feels depressed since she had a few setbacks. She has been dismissed from a course in creative gardening with the message that she was negative in her approach. Things hadn't gone well because she felt like a peasant between the snobs, whilst before she had been the snob between the peasants at agricultural college. She feels that everyone got the wrong impression of her. She felt like a beautiful flower buried under a heap of rubbish. Her teachers didnt see it that way and said that she was disturbed. On the last day before the holidays they told her that she shouldnt come back next year.
This was a little bit of a blow for he: she felt a complete failure. She went back home to live with her father and took on various jobs. She got sacked from a shoe shop after 5 weeks because she was unsuitable. She herself thought she was doing quite well, even though she had already decided that this wasn't her kind of job because she didnt agree with the hard- selling strategy. She had already thought of handing in her notice but they beat her to it. So I was really having a sort of little dip, kind of. She used this kind of expressions frequently during the consultation: little this, little that, sort of, kind of etc.
She became more and more unsure of herself: Perhaps I wasn't such a nice person when I was young and I am not like that, am I? She can't decide what to wear, she can't decide what to put in her sandwich, she can't decide which colour jumper to buy so she comes home empty handed. Suddenly everything seems a major obstacle.
She always feels caught between different people: in the past it was between her parents, who were divorced. Later on between friends when they were quarrelling. Whose side should she be on? Also between her mother and her grandparents. She was the one who had to tell the grandparents when it was discovered that her mother had cancer. She was always hanging somewhere in between.
Whenever she was ill it was never a really severe illness: she only had seven little spots when she had chickenpox. This is quite awful really, best not to think about it otherwise I could get quite depressed.
She feels she has failed. Her parents were very happy when she was born, as they had been longing for a child. But she didnt get top marks at school and her father was rather disappointed. In the beginning she did well and then she had good hopes for the future. But now look at me, useless what is the point of being me at all?
She doesnt have any real ambition, like a job where she is appreciated or a nice house to live in or animals to care for.
She is very disappointed with herself. She used to think Later, when I am grown up I will.... But now I am grown up and what do I have to show for it? Nobody wants to be like me! She feels things just happen to her. In her relationship with boys she can never find a happy medium. One minute she is engaged in an innocent conversation and the next minute she is kissing, and then she thinks: Shit, its happened again, I can't go back now, I should have said no before. She is very open and people like to share their problems with her, but I don't think you can see what I am like deep inside.
She can be very enthusiastic, which can be wrongly interpreted by male beings.
So she has decided to be very plain and blunt towards them.
She likes to get compliments, but when someone says something nice she doesnt trust it and tends to say something nasty in reply. She is indecisive and has broken up with her boyfriend twice. What should she do? Go out into the big wide world or stay at home with parents, boyfriend and job? She feels people have a wrong impression of her, that they think she is empty headed and without compassion for her fellow beings. They probably think this because she doesnt make clear what she means and she often acts bluntly. She doesnt feel well in herself. She used to do a lot of sports which she enjoyed very much, also for the company.
Now she has lost interest. She has put on weight, so I look like a sort of fat pig. She hates herself, for her looks and for the fact that she just lolls in front of the telly eating crisps. I never used to be like this.
Generals
Weather: cold, cold hands.
Perspiration: under arms (2) and on hands (<) tension.
Time: (<) 3 pm.
Desires: Italian (3), spices (3), cheese (3), salt, milk (2).
Aversion: ginger (3), olives (2), fish, fried liver (2).
Menses: great loss of blood with back- and stomach pains.
Sleep: lovely.
Analysis
She tries all sorts of studies, has a taste and then gives up.
Tries many things, succeeds in nothing, which is the theme of Scandium. It is definitely the Ferrum series because it concerns work and study. The creative gardening could point to the Silver series, but in this case it is just one in a long list of other studies. The indecision is another prominent aspect in this case.
She simply can't choose, not even what clothes to wear in the morning. This is further confirmation for Scandium being the right remedy.
Reaction
After Scandium 1M she becomes more cheerful and less susceptible to minor upsets. The headache has gone; the backache is there from time to time, but not so severe. Decisions are easier to make: she has chosen to stay with her boyfriend. No point in putting off a decision forever, for the moment I have chosen to be with him. Now I can walk through town with my head high, I look around and feel good. I feel I am alive again. She started to sort out her belongings, throwing away what is old, sorting out what she wants to keep, getting things in order. She painted her shed bright yellow. She has plans for a new course and a new job. In the past everything happened by itself. Things sorted themselves out without me having to do anything. Now that I am grown up I realise that this can't go on, it simply doesnt happen like that, I will have to put in some effort myself. But now I really feel I want to do that.
Three months later she suddenly got the offer of two jobs. She hesitated slightly which one to take, but eventually chose the one she liked best.
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