She has tendency to cold and cough since childhood. Ailments from fan, weather change and cold things. Feels better with Ginger tea and hot things.

Patient likes singing since childhood and have participated in school and college. Feels singing takes away all her tensions and anxieties. Passionate about singing, feels good when appreciated. She is a pampered child, short tempered, reserved and never mixes up with friends. She goes in other room when strangers come. Not confident now. Feels she is not good and others are better than her. Prays to God to give her courage to be able to face people, to be confident. Feels secluded and inferior. Fear that she will not be given importance and didn’t want to be laughed at.

In anger bangs the door. Screams loud in the fit of anger. When the Taanpura broke (musical instrument), she said that she cried and was shattered . She is Stubborn, determined and focused. Sensitive to criticism and her confidence goes down and affects her performances due to criticism. She is close to her granny who was staying alone in the village. When her granny died, she was shattered, angry on god why did he take away the person whom she loved the most. She did not talk and eat for 3 days. Kept on crying.

She is possessive of her things (especially instruments). Does not allow anybody to dominate over her and defends herself.

Fear of Ghost, heights (feel giddy), crowds and public places.

When she cannot sing, she feels frustrated and irritated, shouts at her students. She is sensitive and cannot bear insults, feels low and depressed and feeling of inferiority. Feels if she respects somebody, then she should also get respect back.

She has much ambition for fame

She has aversion for vegetables, desires fish and egg and is a hot patient.

Analysis: She is very talented person, passionate for singing. Sensitive to criticism. Sensitive being laughed at. Feels low, depressed and loses confidence. Wants appreciation. Reserved person, does not mix easily. Short tempered person can scream and shout, break things. Very Haughty person. Fear of mistake, not able to perform. Particular about cleanliness. Ambition to get fame. Feels embarrassed what others think of her and that they should not get a wrong impression about her.

Repertorial rubrics :
  1. Anger trifles at
  2. Obstinate  3. Haughty
  4. Inferiority complex
  5. Fear of mistake
  6. want of confidence
  7. discontented
  8. wants appreciation
  9. Timidity
  10. Fear of ghost / crowd / heights
  11. Feel embarrassed
  12. passionate
  13. Desires fish, egg
  14. Desires spicy
  15. Heat aggravation – sunstrokes
  16. Egoistic

The remedy selected on the above rubrics was Platina 30 1 dose given.
Follow up after a week : patient felt that her voice was coming back. Sleep was good, Cough better. She felt better throughout the week.

Follow up after a week : patient felt that her voice was coming back. Sleep was good, Cough better. She felt better throughout the week.

She was put on SL for next two weeks with good overall improvement. She felt 60% better only with little cough in the morning. She felt that the medicine is effective. Her sleep and appetite improved.

This was improvement in the direction of cure. The level of disease was falling from higher to lower level. Thereafter she was kept on SL.

Conclusion :
From this case, we can learn that since she was having a hoarseness for almost for 5 yrs and when no medicine was effective, the homoeopathic constitutional similinum helped regained her voice in just a month (RAPIDLY AND GENTLY).

Dr. John D Rodrigues, Classical Homoeopath is on the Professional Committee of the Health Promotion Trust and can be contacted on 9821173894 /55228505.