Repertory: Cases with Karen Allen
by Karen Allen, CCH
Just repertory for cases, from client words to rubrics to rep set, and from repertorization to differential to outcome. All in about 25 minutes! Grab your repertory, pen and paper, and buckle up! Karen Allen presents new case episodes weekly.
Episodes
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57yo Female: Post Covid Chilly, Chillier, Chilliest (unless she gets up to walk around... hint... hint...)
Her first round with COVID laid her out for 3 weeks, followed by a full recovery. The second round was quicker, but NBWS! Now 3 months later, she gets freezing cold after eating a big meal - unless she can get up and pace around! This case offers clear symptoms that are easy for the client to...
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23yo Male: COVID Cough with Vomiting (A little insect remedy to the rescue!)
He returned from a long overseas trip with dryness in his air passages and a cough that was so intense it would trigger vomiting of any recently consumed meal. Just a few clear symptoms... and he has already taken Bryonia, Gelsemium, Arsenicum, and Causticum. The match for this case was a tiny...
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42yo Male: COVID Injection Abscess (Many Good Remedies Given Already!)
A few days after his COVID vaccination, his upper arm began to hurt around the site of the injection. Redness and local swelling was followed by pustules. Now he is feverish, sweaty and restless. His physician has diagnosed an abscess at the injection site. The symptoms are clear, and he has...
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29yo Male: Long COVID and Off the Rails Mean Drunk (with a cough)
Where COVID meets Tubercular miasm, there seems to be double trouble. He had COVID, with full array of achey, fever, crummy and coughing. Now 18 months later, he says the cough is ruining his life. Well, actually, the cough isn't trashing his life, but the effects of it are! He can't sleep (cough...
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32yo Female: Long COVID, Wetting the Bed and So Embarrassed
She got COVID, positive test and typical symptoms, then recovered after about 10 days. She felt well in most ways, but her urinary track was seriously altered! This is a documented Long COVID scenario which now, 8 months after the initial COVID illness, is disrupting her life. The frequent...
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34yo Female: COVID Exposure, Uvula Pain and Menstrual Cramps
She reports an exposure to two people who have postive COVID tests; she now has symptoms though home test is negative. She describes having a sore throat "in the hangy-down thing" at the back of her mouth, along with swollen glands. In this case example, Karen discusses methods of inquiry…
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41yo Female: COVID Cough, Confusion and ”Oversensitive like Chamomilla”
After her weekend at a wedding with attendees from all around the world, this woman came home feeling ill. Her at home COVID test was positive. She began to feel the strong heat of a fever. As a study group member familiar with acute therapeutics, she chose Belladonna, which relieved the fever.…
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38yo Female: COVID exposure - Is That Why Her Eye Is So Red and Goopy?
After a COVID exposure, she noticed her left eye began to itch. The next morning she was disoriented on waking, and her inner eye and inside of eyelids were very red, itchy, and discharging white and yellow pus - eeeew! In this case example, Karen discusses the individuation of each COVID case…
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68yo Male: COVID Vertigo and When Did YOU Last Use Oleander?
After a COVID Super Spreader event, he had a positive test, but no symptoms... for 4 weeks, more positive tests and no symptoms... until he got up out of bed and immediately fell to the floor. In this case example, Karen discusses proportionate balance between rubrics, and how to include similar…
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58yo Female: She Says Having Mumps was Immunoprotective for Ovarian Cancer - Is that a thing?
At 38yo, she was diagnosed with cysts in both ovaries. Citing cancer risk, her doctor advised removal. She postponed having them removed, asserting that her risk of ovarian cancer was low due to her cancer-free family history, and her personal history of a strong case of mumps as a child.…
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64yo Male: Just Two Weird Symptoms with No Clear Etiology
He's been a healthy guy, and his chronic remedy, Dulcamara has helped him with everything for the past 15 years. Now he has vertigo and something funny happening with food. Two quite specific symptoms have come on in the past 4-6 weeks, with no apparent cause. Careful questioning has brought...
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27 yo Female: Could Windsurfing Injury to Spleen Be the Etiology?
For 3 years, she has had abnormal pap smears. The first few years showed a low level of cervical dysplasia. But in the past 6 months, the pap smear report showed a more progressed pathology (LSIL) and defined visual lesions. What changed that might have contributed to this progression? No new...
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32yo Female: Pregnancy, Hernia, Surgery, Ouch + Constipation
During her pregnancy, she developed an umbilical hernia. After the delivery, she had a surgical repair. A few months later when she schedules the consult, she reports continual discomfort in the umbilical region and very stubborn constipation. She reports one really interesting sensation that…
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Postpartum Female: My thinking was crazy... and hiccups were BAAAAD
The client comes for a consult with her two month old baby. During and since her pregnancy, she's unreasonably jealous. She is certain that her husband is having affairs. And she has some post-epidural symptoms - a band sensation around the head, and hiccups that stay with her through every...
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39yo Male: After He Cycled from Cairo to Capetown...
The first two months on the cycling tour when well. By the time he reached Namibia, he was queasy and barfy. The medic offered thorazine... which halted the nausea and vomiting... but impacted his liver. Fast forward to 8 months later and he still has symptoms... This is the first in a series of...
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Adult Male: After a jar of Pickled Okra - A Lactofermented Diarrhea Bomb
At a New Orleans family wedding, he ate a LOT of food... including an entire jar of delicious lactofermented pickled okra. 12 hours later... sour... slime... gurgle.... you know what is coming next, don't you? This is the last of 4 cases in this series on the repertory Taste rubrics. Interested…
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38 yo Female: Burning mouth syndrome, “Food tastes like blood”
An unfortunate kitchen accident happened during this journalist's interview with a chef! Many months later, she reports losing weight: she avoids eating because food tastes like blood (eeewwww!) Helpfully, she has some individualizing modalities.... This is the third of 4 cases demonstrating use…
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27yo male: Triathlete post-concussion. Why is his tongue cold??
One slip in the rock climbing gym, a bonk on the head, and now 7 weeks later, he can't taste anything and his mouth is dry, dry, dry. Oddly, his tongue is cold. Really cold. This is the second of 4 cases demonstrating use of rubrics about Taste! Interested in joining in the fun with us as we work...
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29yo Female: Culinary Student with Pine Mouth Syndrome
The client has had 8 weeks of altered taste after eating pine nuts, and it is ruining her training and internship as a chef! One small but crucial symptom helped to sway the final choice... This is the first of 4 cases in this series, demonstrating use of rubrics about Taste! Interested in…
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About this show
Just repertory for cases, from client words to rubrics to rep set, and from repertorization to differential to outcome. All in about 25 minutes! Grab your repertory, pen and paper, and buckle up! Karen Allen presents new case episodes weekly.
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