George Loukas

Pyrus is not a very well proven remedy. The following symptoms help us to approach its psycological sphere.

Delusions, able to go out of body and walk around, looking down upon.

Clairvoyance.

Confusion of mind, as to his identity.

Delusions, errors of personal identity.

The main symptom that predominates in Pyrus psychopathology is the sensation that the patient can go out of his body and travell around in space, looking at his body from above. The above experience is very often described by people who practice meditation. Some people occasionaly feel something like that under certain circumstances. Some times though this sensation comes very often, the person cannot control it and then the problem begins. This happens to people who have abused meditation technics or pharmaceutical substances in order to reach states of ecstasy. Of course there is also the case of constitutional predisposition. When this feeling exists without the person being able to control it, problems appear. “He goes out of his body” continously against his will. Then communication problems begin. The person cannot concentrate in his work or other people usually catch him absent-minded. He starts having identity problems, he often feels conjused. All this can create depressive symptomatology. In addition, Pyrus could be recommended in cases with schizotypical personality. These people are peculiar, eccentric with odd apearance and strange begaviour, way of talking, thinking and perceiving with the result of functional failure restriction of personal relations. When someone describes the typical feeling of going out of the body and travelling, we must think of Pyrus.

A young woman 22 years old, came to the clinic complaining about:

1. Disturbances in menstruation. She always has delays, sometimes up to three months. Before menstruation she has pains in the belly and in the waist and she is very irritable.

2. Gastritis, which is manifested by burning which is made worst by fried potatoes, soft drinks, sauces, coffee, anxiety, and when she does not show her anger.

3. Intense insomnia. She cannot sleep easily. She sleeps at 3.00 in the morning and wakes up at 5.00 and she cannot sleep again. She wakes up very easily. She cannot rest during her sleep.

4. She has pains in the hands and the legs, in the nap of neck, in the backbone close to the waist. She gets worst when she is standing, when she has anxiety to finish a job, and she gets better when she moves.

• An operation for appendicitis in the childhood.
• Tonsillitis crises every Spring and Autumn, until she was 18 years old.

• Grandfather from her father: insufficient heart, blood-vessel incidents.
• Grandmother from her father: a bloom-vessel brain incident.
• Father: eczema.
• Mother: Enlargement of thyroid, gastritis.

• Desires: Pastries, milk, fishes, salt, bread, sour, fried food, eggs, meat, vegetables.
• Detests: Bitter, butter, spicy food, onions.
• She has problems in her stomach when she eats: spicy food, onions, coffee, fried food .
• She sweats intensively. She feels chills when she has problems with her stomach.
• Also many times with the gastric pain she has low fever.
• She gets hot at the night in her sleep from her intensive tries to get asleep. Also all off a sudden she has excitements and feels her face hot.
• Sometimes, due to her anxieties or her depressed anger, she has difficulties in breathing.
• Also, when she is very angry she speaks a lot and confuses her words.

• Dizziness when she has pains in the stomach.
• Headache between eyebrows, when she has pains in the belly.
• She has often sore places in the gum.
• Her hair is falling.
• In the morning, when she wakes up, she feels weakness in her hands and her legs. Both of these are cold.
• She feels weakness.

• Warm weather pleases her, while cool weather has the opposite result.
• She likes cloudy weather, rain and storms. She is worse when the weather is changing.
• She easily feels tired when she works out her body.
• She feels worse when she is sleeping with her face downwards, she feels depression and she has the feeling that she cannot breath. She feels better when she lies down on her back.
• When she lies down with her head low, she feels dizziness and headache.
• She is annoyed by standing.
• When there is noise, she feels better, but she frightens by sudden noise.
• She feels better when there is light.
• She is annoyed by heavy odours.
• She is annoyed very much by smoking.
• She does not tolerate tight clothes.
• Before sleep she has anxiety if she is going to be asleep, during her sleep she has much tension and she is very sensitive, after the sleep she feels dizziness. Afternoon’s sleep makes her feel depressed.
• When she laughs she feels relief.
• When she seats down and leans upon her legs she rests and feels pleasure.
• She is better when she is having a cool bath.
• She does not like to dress her hair. When she does this she gets angry.

She has the following psychic symptoms:

• She gets anxious about everything.
• She is afraid to be alone in the dark.
• She frightens with sudden noise.
• She is impatient, she cannot wait or when she is hungry she wants to eat immediately.
• She does not express her feelings.
• She does not tell her problems to other people.
• When she tries to sleep she has thoughts about spirits. She also thinks that there maybe someting in the room.
• She has weak memory. She cannot remember names and telephone numbers.
• She gets angry easily mostly when someone persists in his or her opinion and tries to impose it. She gets really angry the fact that the two sexes are not equal. When she gets angry, her heart beats rapidly, she gets angry easily and becomes confused.
• She does not tolerate disorder.

Concerning the sleep she has the following:

• She sweats very much from her anxiety to get asleep.
• She gets angry because she cannot rest in a place.
• When she lies down, she lies down on her back. She relaxes for an hour and then she turns towards the door so as to see.
• She does not sleep deeply and she is very restive. She wakes up by the slightest noise. Often she jumps up and wakes.
• Many times due to much tension she feels that a hand touches her and then she jumps up frightened.
• She covers all her body with the covering so aas to feel safety. She leaves only her face to see. She is afraid of someting undefined.
• She sees many dreams. Subjects in her dreams: dogs, journeys, houses, trees, flying, swimming, fire, arms' shootings, that something undefined hunts her, that there is a danger, murder, poisoning.
• Her dreams are usually colored. She often sees in her dreams that she goes up and down with an elevator or from the stairs. Other times she sees that she gets in an elevator that is out of order.

In the beginning I gave Stramonium, which gave little help to her phobias, but it didn't help her to the rest clinic symptoms. Since I repeat this sometimes and I waited for some months, I understood that Stramonium could not help very much in this case.

I was despaired because I couldn’t think of a known medicine. She believed that she would become better and she was still coming to my clinic. One day she told me that she was having strange experiences. She told me that her soul often gets out of her body and goes around the space and watches her body from above. But it feels afraid and comes back. That is happening mostly when she has difficult situations in her everyday life and when she has anxiety. Then I thought of Pyrus Americanus, which has as characteristic symptom: "Delusions, body able to go out of b. and walk around, looking down upon".