Sadness and Somatisation A Homeopathic remedy Case treatment Report

Sadness (Bereavement) and Somatisation A Homeopathic remedy Case treatment Report Article by Dr. Ashish Kumar Dixit MD (Organon of Medicine, NIH, Kolkata) Abstract: - A case of 60 years old female present with several physical symptoms developed after the death of her husband and some misfortune in her family is well responded through the use of Ignatia Amara. Keywords: - Bereavement, Life Change Units (LCUs), Somatisation, Ignatia Introduction: - Bereavement may be defined as, “the state of being sad because a family member or friend has recently died” (Merriam Webster Dictionary) and Somatisation is a tendency to experience and communicate psychological distress in the form of somatic symptoms and to seek medical help for them. More commonly expressed, it is the generation of physical symptoms of a psychiatric condition such as anxiety. The term somatisation was introduced by Wilhelm Stekel in 1924. It has no doubt that mental conditions affect ph...