Abstract

After giving an overview about violence against women and the effects of sexual violence I continue talking about the homeopathic treatment of effects of acute trauma and describe Aconit and Opium as important remedies for an acute trauma. Afterwards I introduce two cases which were treated homeopathically. The first case is about a 24-years-old student who developed a posttraumatic stress disorder after being sexually abused by her father in her childhood. Besides this she suffered from a lot of other symptoms too. By giving the right constitutional remedy together with the support of a psychotherapy she could digest the trauma and becoming stabilised. In the second case I treated a 33-year-old German-Kurdish woman who was sexually abused by her aunt. She was also dealing with a posttraumatic stress disorder and several different other health problems. In this age she was still very dependant to her parents and still lived in her home, which is very unusual in Germany. She was not able to work and just passed her days by doing nothing. So she got more and more depressed and started to take antidepressants. Although this makes the homeopathic treatment much more difficult, her constitutional remedy worked well and helped her a lot in reaching a good stabilisation. She even could move out from home and started to live on her own. The drug picture of Lac humanum is explained more detailed.