26/05/2025
🧠 CASE QUIZ #1 - AUTISM
This is a case for you to solve.
Your main goal is to suggest a remedy after first consultation and to evaluate all follow-ups.
I look forward to seeing your comments below.
On Friday, May 30, 2025, I will publish the complete step-by-step analysis of this case.
📅 FIRST CONSULTATION: December 7th, 2024
Male, 32 years old, diagnosed with atypical autism
Until the age of 3, he had been doing well with no signs of difficulties – he was a cheerful and lively child, but from the beginning, he grew slowly (2).
At the age of 3, his parents started noticing that he didn’t need other children—he played alone and spent most of his time paging through books.
At primary school, he handled the academic material well but avoided his classmates and wanted to be alone.
He is very serious (2), and his father emphasizes that he takes things very personally (3), especially when someone makes fun of him. He hates people who he thinks have offended him.
Therefore, he started isolating himself from friends and now has only two.
His father says: “He keeps going back in his thoughts to what his friends did to him; he gets offended even if someone just looks at him the wrong way.”
Over the last six months, he’s had sudden states when he goes into his room, shuts himself in, holds his head in his hands, trembles and cries. These episodes, which his parents describe as “psychogenic attacks,” happen twice a week.
These states began in March 2024, preceded by an outbreak of eczema on the scalp near the hairline. Shortly after starting corticosteroids (about 3–4 weeks later), these states began to emerge and have continued twice a week ever since.
Currently, the eczema is only mild, but whenever it worsens, which happens several times a month, the parents apply a corticosteroid cream.
He has long-standing compulsive checking – whether he turned off the lights or locked the door, recounting medicines, etc.
My observation:
• atheroma on the scalp
• weak voice
• very slow speech
• incomprehensible (poor articulation)
• sleepy expression (half-closed eyes)
• dry skin
• scabs under the hair (eczema along the hairline)
FIRST PRESCRIPTION: ____________________
📅 FOLLOW-UP: February 8th, 2025 – 2 months after remedy administration
Since the remedy, he has had not a single “psychogenic attack,” which he previously experienced twice a week.
His father says he is more active and more interested in doing things, whereas before, he spent most of the day lying in bed without interest.
The compulsive checking of things remains unchanged.
The eczema has worsened (corticosteroids were weaned off).
SECOND PRESCRIPTION: ____________________
📅 FOLLOW-UP: April 12th, 2025 – 2 months after previous consultation
He remains completely free of psychological attacks, and the eczema continues to worsen (larger patches in the scalp).
Observation:
• He constantly makes facial grimaces and frequently adjusts the cuff of his shirt.
• Since the last follow-up, communication with his parents has deteriorated and the facial grimaces have reappeared. He had occasional grimaces even before starting homeopathic treatment, but there has been a significant worsening in the past month.
• In the last month, his passivity has also returned – he is almost as passive as at the beginning.
• The compulsive checking remains unchanged.
THIRD PRESCRIPTION: ____________________
📨 FOLLOW-UP: May 11th – email from father one month after previous consultation
Hello, Mr. Zacharias,
I’m sending you a brief update on our son after about a month:
• we were in Prague on April 12th, 2025
• on April 18th, 2024, the remedy you recommended was administered
• for the past two weeks we’ve noticed a significant reduction in blinking and grimacing; it hasn’t disappeared completely, but it’s much improved
• since last week, there’s been a very slight improvement in his interaction with us (a walk together, going to a restaurant together, eating together, etc.); however, he still communicates with us very shyly even regarding completely ordinary things like “I’m going to eat,” “I’ll put the plate in the dishwasher,” “I’ll take a yogurt,” etc.
• no change in his compulsive checking of everything – recounting medicines, excessive control of order
• the previously described “attacks” still have not returned
• the eczema is now less visible
FOURTH PRESCRIPTION: ____________________
