tion away from the place of his trauma, he came in hopeless of any help for his depression. In the interview I came to understand that his depression originated from the feeling that the best of his life ended with the loss of his children and partner, that his currency and life energy had been used up, resulting in serious depression with suicidal disposition. This state was matched with the homeopathic remedy Aurum metallicum (gold). In Au- rum it is stated that all the years of study of the homeopath are rewarded in the cure of deep intractable depression that originates from grief. This was the case with John; his decade long depression lifted like a veil, allowing him to begin a new life. Within a year of taking the rem- edy he began to write a journal, started


therapy, and subsequently remarried and had two children, for whom he is primary caretaker and an inspired father. A second case of Aurum was an elderly male cook who had lost his wife of 50 years to cancer four years earlier. After her death he lost all joy in life, preferring solitary existence, shunning his family and friends; his only desire was to end his life. A high potency of Aurum was prescribed; four weeks later the depres- sion had lifted, at twelve weeks he had returned to line dancing, and at sixteen weeks he came to his follow up consulta- tion with his new dancing partner/fiancée in tow.


A third case of depression involved a


fifty-year-old woman who had lost seven members of her extended family in a


few years time to protracted illnesses, for which she was primary caregiver. Her vital energy was gone; she suffered from a feeling of floating lost underwater in a sea removed from the main current of life. The remedy Ambra gris was given, and in four weeks time this sensation had lifted and her joie de vivre returned. In many years since that time, she has not needed another remedy. Find a homeopath near you at http:// www.homeopathyinmaine.com/


Dr. Wendy Pollock DC, CCH has been practicing constitutional homeopathy since 1994 in Portland, and is an integra- tive practice at Wildwood Medicine at 83 India St in Portland. Visit her at inner- shores.com. See ad on page 9.


18 Essential Living Maine ~ December 2014


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