Understand gesture in patients

Understand gesture in patients

When a computer faces an issue, a problem pop-up appears with a message explaining the issue. Now, someone knowledgeable can read and understand the pop-up, but someone without that knowledge will just keep closing the pop-up without resolving the issue. The pop-up keeps reappearing because simply closing it doesn’t solve the problem—it just hides it temporarily.

Gesture: Representing Action/Observation – What the Patient is Doing

**Gesture 1:**
When I asked a little girl, “Beta, what is troubling you?” she didn’t say anything to me and just looked at her mother.

**(Observational Rubrics)**:
– **Answering, doesn’t know what to answer, children in, look at their mother, say nothing**
  – *Bar carb.*
  – Complete Repertory.

**Murphy, Synthesis, Complete, Phatak**: (these can be used as references for repertories)

**Case of Leucoderma (White Patches):**
This was the gesture the child showed me.
*Bar carb.* was prescribed, and within 35 days, there was improvement.

**Gesture 2:**
When I asked the child, “Bolo beta, what’s troubling you?”
The child, either for attention or fun, started covering their eyes with their hand or doing similar playful actions.

**Interpretation**:
– **Antic play**: The child might cover their eyes with their hands and slowly peek through, checking if you’re watching, then quickly covering again, while smiling.
  – **Antics play in** or **Delirium antic play**.

However, if the child is covering their eyes out of fear:
– **Hide oneself, desire to, from fear**.

Or:
– **Mind, hide oneself, desire to, covering face with hands and looking through the fingers**.
  – *Bar carb.*

When I asked another little girl, “Beta, what’s your name?” she didn’t answer me directly but whispered the answer to her mother.

**Rubric (Synthesis)**:
– **Speech, whispering, answers to the mother instead of the prescriber directly**.
  – *Silicea*.

**Another Gesture:**
Dr: “Bata tumko fever hai?”
Patient: The girl nodded her head in response, instead of speaking. She answered all questions by nodding her head ‘yes’ or ‘no.’

– **Answering, nodding by**: *Pulsatilla*.

The child was smiling:
– **Smiling**.

The child desires to touch everything in the clinic:
– **Touch, desire to touch**: *Bell sulph*.

In a **Stramonium child** case, the child clings to their mother or frequently grabs their mother’s hand, pulling her, and keeps asking, “Let’s go outside.” There is usually fear driving this request.
– **Clinging, mother, children in**.
– **Escape, desire for**.

Affectation:
**Child**: “I’m not afraid of anything, not even injections!”
**Doctor**: “Should I give you an injection?”
The child immediately starts crying as soon as they realize the injection is going to happen. Earlier, they were pretending, but the fear kicked in when they realized it was real.

– **Bell**:
When you pick up a child, they want to climb over their father, as if trying to sit on his head.
– **Climbing, desire to**.

In another observation, the child hits the father’s face in the clinic, either slapping or punching him.

– **Striking on father’s face**.

Other actions include:
– **Playing with fingers**.
– **Playing with buttons**.
– **Keeping clothes in the mouth**.
– **Putting fingers inside the mouth**.

Conclusion:
Each remedy is unique and corresponds to the specific gestures or behaviors observed in the child.