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Inga edulis
Year 2025, Issue 8, Article 6CaseAuthor: Olga Fatoula
CaseA woman, 58.
She is a housekeeper, and she assists her boss with all the household matters. Her original profession is a dressmaker.
Chief complaint: strong painful cramps in the legs, worse right side. Aggravated by cooling of feet and unwary motions.
“It is a drawing pain, strong. I cannot stretch my body, in the morning I want to stretch my legs, but I can’t, the leg bends and I cannot pull it. It is very painful, down to tears.”
“I cannot walk barefoot. Cramps come after a slightest cooling of feet. If my legs are cold, the toes immediately get cramped. Any uneasy movement, and any awkward turn in bed cause spasms.”
“A month ago, a strong painful cramp in the leg, I could hardly walk, could not make a step, the pain was pulling up to the buttock. If I stretch my leg, my toes fan out in all directions. The cramp lasted 4 days, after physiotherapy the acute pain was a bit less, but the cramp remained, and a dull pain lasted 10 days in total, despite warming compresses and rubbing.”
In the past 6 months she had cramps in the leg every day, and previously there were small spasms every day, and strong cramps once a month. She has to wear woolen socks and warm slippers even in hot summers. Heel complex remedies no longer help, since a long time ago.
“I could not sleep today because of the cramps. I had to massage the leg, rub it, and stick needles into it, nothing helped. The only thing that reduces the pain is to put the leg into hot water.”AnalysisSome of the most vivid symptoms of the proving included painful cramps in the extremities and a “claw hand”. Therefore, the next prescription for a patient with spasms was based on it, apart from the general logic of the Plant Theory.
Inga edulis 30CH, one dose.Follow-up one month later.“During the first week I forgot about the cramps, and then I realized that I did not have any cramps at all.”
“There were no sharp cramps over a month. There were no night cramps at all. I even forgot about them, though before I always had a permanent fear of overcooling or an awkward turn, I controlled it. Now I simply forgot about it. I even walked barefoot.”
4 days ago the little toe started to remind a claw foot, but it was much better than what it had been before.
She resumed eating sweets; she even has them in her handbag.
One year later.
There were hardly any cramps over the past year. A few times when slight spasms came she repeated the remedy (three or four times a year). But strong and painful cramps never appeared.
March 2018, 2 years and 3 months later.
After a strong physical exertion in an uncomfortable pose there was another attack of painful cramps. Inga edulis 200 relieved the acute pain within 15 minutes, but some strain in the leg remained there. Inga edulis 6CH, daily over a week, then all the symptoms disappeared.
She is a housekeeper, and she assists her boss with all the household matters. Her original profession is a dressmaker.
Chief complaint: strong painful cramps in the legs, worse right side. Aggravated by cooling of feet and unwary motions.
“It is a drawing pain, strong. I cannot stretch my body, in the morning I want to stretch my legs, but I can’t, the leg bends and I cannot pull it. It is very painful, down to tears.”
“I cannot walk barefoot. Cramps come after a slightest cooling of feet. If my legs are cold, the toes immediately get cramped. Any uneasy movement, and any awkward turn in bed cause spasms.”
“A month ago, a strong painful cramp in the leg, I could hardly walk, could not make a step, the pain was pulling up to the buttock. If I stretch my leg, my toes fan out in all directions. The cramp lasted 4 days, after physiotherapy the acute pain was a bit less, but the cramp remained, and a dull pain lasted 10 days in total, despite warming compresses and rubbing.”
In the past 6 months she had cramps in the leg every day, and previously there were small spasms every day, and strong cramps once a month. She has to wear woolen socks and warm slippers even in hot summers. Heel complex remedies no longer help, since a long time ago.
“I could not sleep today because of the cramps. I had to massage the leg, rub it, and stick needles into it, nothing helped. The only thing that reduces the pain is to put the leg into hot water.”AnalysisSome of the most vivid symptoms of the proving included painful cramps in the extremities and a “claw hand”. Therefore, the next prescription for a patient with spasms was based on it, apart from the general logic of the Plant Theory.
Inga edulis 30CH, one dose.Follow-up one month later.“During the first week I forgot about the cramps, and then I realized that I did not have any cramps at all.”
“There were no sharp cramps over a month. There were no night cramps at all. I even forgot about them, though before I always had a permanent fear of overcooling or an awkward turn, I controlled it. Now I simply forgot about it. I even walked barefoot.”
4 days ago the little toe started to remind a claw foot, but it was much better than what it had been before.
She resumed eating sweets; she even has them in her handbag.
One year later.
There were hardly any cramps over the past year. A few times when slight spasms came she repeated the remedy (three or four times a year). But strong and painful cramps never appeared.
March 2018, 2 years and 3 months later.
After a strong physical exertion in an uncomfortable pose there was another attack of painful cramps. Inga edulis 200 relieved the acute pain within 15 minutes, but some strain in the leg remained there. Inga edulis 6CH, daily over a week, then all the symptoms disappeared.