Magnesium carbonicum [Mag-c]:

- Jan Scholten

Magnesium carbonicum is a relatively well known remedy. Particularly the difficult, aggressive child is a familiar Magnesium carbonicum picture. They are the sour-faced and perpetually awkward children. But where does this pattern come from? And why does this not happen in adults, or why don't we recognise it in them?

Concepts

Magnesium Carbonicum

Pacifism Giving meaning

Aggression Stating values

Fear of loss Self worth

Pain Dignity

Shyness

Workers

Father

Group analysis

If we look at the group analysis, we get as the theme for Mag-c the idea that aggression is either necessary for a feeling of self worth, or on the other hand that it is very detrimental to self worth. This makes it easy to understand why Mag-c. children are so aggressive. They have a need to be recognised and accepted, and if this does not happen spontaneously, then they will show their presence in another way: they will force you to respect them.

Kent (1983a, page 656) describes Mag-c as his first choice of remedy for orphans. He meant orphans in an orphanage. One can easily imagine that there was no room for respect for the child in the orphanages of the last century. If necessary, stubbornness would be beaten out of them. So the children would either become rebellious, or they would swallow their aggression.

A differential with Mag-m is important here. Both are first choice remedies for children of quarrelling or divorced parents. But in Mag-m we have a much stronger fear of losing the support. They are very afraid that the quarrels will lead to it, that they will not be nurtured and cared for anymore. In Mag-c it is much more a matter of respect. Mag-c has the feeling that he is not appreciated. He might think that his parents are quarrelling about him, because he is so troublesome and aggressive. Or he might feel that his parents don't think he is worth anything, so they could easily leave him.

In Mag-c we also have the theme of the father. The father could be too aggressive, or the opposite, too weak. In one case the theme of the father was as follows: the patient felt very angry when she was sent away from home for a few weeks when her father was dying. She had not been allowed to say good-bye to him.

Case

I will put either (Mag) or (Carb) in brackets behind some symptoms in this case and in the next short case. This is to show the method of thinking. This boy was born in 1984. His mother brought him in August 1989 because of diarrhoea (Mag) which he has had virtually all his life. It began when he started to eat solid food. His stool was always very smelly, rather sour (Mag). He also often used to have a nappy rash. Diets didn't help. In an allergy test they discovered a great sensitivity to histamine (Mag). The second reason why she brought him, is that he is always so terribly difficult. As a baby and toddler he already cried and whined (Mag) most of the time. Since August '88 it has become really bad: he sits or hangs around, and is always looking for trouble (Mag). He is so agitated his mother cannot stand it any more. Sometimes he has temper tantrums. He likes being with girls, but it often ends in teasing or being teased (Mag). He is always tired, complaining and demanding. He doesn't do anything and he doesn't want anything. He is also jealous if his sisters gets the attention. His parents quarrel a lot (Mag). His mother sometimes has great outbursts of anger (Mag.). She blames her husband (Carb) that he still doesn't have a job (Carb), and she feels at the same time that she is faced with taking care of the children all on her own. The father is more gentle and passive and does not know how to handle the situation. They are talking of separating (Mag). Other complaints are: hyper sensitive skin (Mag) with slight eczema in the face, minor cold all the time, and a hoarse voice.

General characteristics:

Temperature: warm, likes to be outdoors.

Perspiration: profuse, also at night, often sour (Carb).

Desires: sweet (Carb), meat (Mag), fruit (Mag), cheese.

Aversion: vegetables (Mag).

Sleep: good, but in the morning tired again after half an hour (Mag); he sleeps on his back, talks and snores; he has bad dreams about witches (Carb).

Analysis

The symptoms clearly indicate Mag-c: desire for sweet, meat and fruit, aversion to vegetables, sour diarrhoea, sour sweat, (<) morning, and aggressive. Aggression is obvious in that he is looking for trouble with his siblings. It is as if he wants to prove himself. Another theme of Mag-c is the quarrelling parents. The group analysis also gives the theme of the aggressive, or the not assertive enough, father. We can see here a father who is not assertive enough.

Reaction

The reaction on Mag-c. was very good, with improvements on all levels.

Short case

The need for respect shows up clearly in another case.

This is a woman who is easily hurt: a tone of authority is especially terrible for her (Mag). When she feels hurt (Carb) she withdraws with a sour (Mag) face. When she was young she had lots of arguments (Mag) with her mother, who called her a whore. She was and is very stubborn (Carb) and wants to arrange everything herself. She has been married, but got divorced, because her husband did not want her to go to work (Carb). She felt a need to work, to be appreciated (Carb). In her second marriage she meets the same problem of an authoritarian husband (Mag), and she has to fight for her space and her work (Carb). In this case we see the various characteristics of the theme of Mag-c come up. The fight for approval as the central theme, with the fear of and aversion to violence. She is continually fighting for her space, for the right to have her own opinion and her own work, a real need to be acknowledged.

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