-Jan Scholten

Anorexia, bulimia.

In my experience, and this may sound like a bold statement, vanadium is the first and foremost remedy in cases of anorexia or bulimia.

Vanadium is a little-known remedy; all we know is some physical symptoms, like degeneration of the liver. However, Boericke (1927, page 666) also mentions anorexia. In mineral therapies vanadium and zincum are sometimes advised in the treatment of anorexia nervosa. Homeopathically speaking this symptom is not very obvious in zincum, but it seems to be a valuable recommendation for vanadium.

Success

They have a great need to succeed in their undertakings. This usually has to do with social acceptance: they have to prove themselves in society. This is a pattern which shows up in the whole Ferrum group.

Failure

A typical feeling of Vanadium people is that they keep thinking that they won’t succeed. They try and achieve something, but they fail yet again. When they succeed, their mood goes up, when they fail, the mood sinks. The opposite may also happen: when they are in a good mood they are able to succeed in their tasks, when their mood is low everything goes wrong. This looks like manic depression in a certain sense. A typical state of Vanadium is anorexia alternating with bulimia.

The alternating states can also apply to their general functioning in society. There may be certain work patterns or addictions which stand in the way of playing a normal and balanced part in society.

Case

A 30 year old woman is suffering from bulimia. When she has one of her eating moods, she eats anything she can lay her hands on. Afterwards she will cry and feel very guilty. Sometimes she feels sick and has stomach aches afterwards. When she eats very little for a long time she starts to feel very nice and clean, but restless at the same time. She has to walk a lot and she wakes up very early. When she has had a binge she becomes quiet, but sad. She will cry at anything. Sometimes she is afraid that her internal organs will burst because of all this excessive food, or that her heart will give up.

Her body retains too much fluid and her face feels bloated after she has taken sugar.

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