A case of severe fibromyalgia and gastroparesis

Abstract

A case of fibromyalgia and gastroparesis is reported; the patient also had a history of having suffered physical and sexual abuse as a child leaving her emotionally flat and distant. She had a frozen staring expression that Dr. Saltzman has come to realize after extensive clinical experience as consistent with the remedy papaver somniferum especially when the past history contains a frightful experience, be it an abusive past or as in the case of many children she's seen, surgical trauma. Other papaver somniferum characteristics are a dissociated or numb state, mental fogginess, high tolerance to pain inordinate sleepiness.