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by

Dr. K.D. KAN0DIA

INDIAN BOOKS & PERI0DICA~S . .

PUBLI~

A Concise

l'lateria

Mental

l'ledica

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Homoeopathy Dr. K.D. KANODIA Author: Wonders of a Single Dose, Life-Saving Drugs in Homoeopathy, Danger-Zones in Homoeopathy, Quick Prescriber, Advanced Homoeopathy, Pariwarik Chikitsa Me Homoeopathy ke Achook Prayog, Homoeopatby Mein Turant Chikitsa, Two HunderedYears of Homoeopathy, Secrets of Sure & Quick Results in'lHomoeopathy, A Table Talk on Homoeopathy etc.

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Indian Books & Periodicals Publishers B-5/62, Dev Nagar, Pyare Lal Road, Karol Bagh, New D~lh_i:110.09.~--

First Edition : 1993

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CONTENTS: Preface Publisher's note Materia Medica 1.

Abrot.anum

9

2.

Aconite

9

3.

Aethusa

9

4.

Agaricus

9

5. Alumina

10

6.

Ammon. Carb.

10

7.

Anacardium. 0.

10

8.

Antim. Crud

11

9.

Antim.Tart

11

10. Apis Mel

12

11. Argent Met

12

12. Argent Nit

12

13. Amica

13

14. Arsenicum alb.

14

15. Asafoetida

14

16. Aurum Met

14

17. Baptisia 18. Belladonna

15 15

19. Bellis Perennis

15

. 20. Borax

16 .

21. Bromium

16

22. Bryonia

16

23. Calcarea Carb

17

24. Cale. Phos 25. Camphora

17 18

26. Cannabis Indica

18

27. Capsicum

18

28. Carbo Veg

18

29. Caulophylum

18

30. Causticum

19

31. Chamomilla

19

32. Cicuta V.

19

33. Cimicifuga. R

19

34. Cina

20

35. Cistus

20

36. Cocculus

20

37. Coffea

20

38. Colchicum

20

39. Colocynth

20 •

40. Conium

21

41. Cyclamen

21

42. Drosera 43. Ferrum Met

21

44. Gelsemium

21

45. Glonoine

21

46. Graphites.

22

'47. Hepar Sulph

22

48. Hyoscyamus Niger

22

49. Ignatia

22

21

50. lodum

22

51. Kali Brom

23

52. Lachesis

23

53. Lilium Tig

23

54. Lycopodium

23

55. Medorrhinum

23

56. Mercurius

23

57. Mezereum

23

58. Muriatic Acid

24

59. Nat. Mur

24

60. Nat Sulph •

24

61. Nitric Acid

25

62. Nux Mosch

25

63. Nux Yorn

25

64. Opium

25

65. Palladium

26

66. Petroleum

26

67. Phosphoric acid 68. Phosphorus

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.-26

69. Picric acid

26 26

70. Platinum

27

71. Plumbum

27

72. Psorinum

27.

73. Pulsatilla

27

74. Pyrogen

28

75.. Rhus Tex

28

76. Sanicula

28

77. Sepia 78. Silica

28 29

79. Staphisagaria

29

· 80. Stramonium

29.

81. Sulphur

30

82. Tarentula

30

83. Theridion

30

84. Thuja

31

85. Tuberculin um

31

86. · Veratrum alb

· 31

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Fart II Some allied topics 1. Mental Symptoms how importantl

32

2. Our Pioneers about Mental Symptoms.

35

3. Fear - a Mental Sickness

41

4. Charak Sanhita {Some translated extracts)

46

5. Rejoice in the Lord

50

6. Dr. J.T.Kent - Observation~

57

7. Some glaring Mental Symptoms (at a glance)

65

8. Rare Symptoms

67

9. Our Pioneers Said:

68;

• 10.We Learn 11. Ignatia - The Paradox

70 72

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

There has been a great need to concise and consolidate in Homoeopathy. The literature has assumed a vast but scattered shape and the students as well as the busy physicians find it difficult to reach the knowledge with the minimum of efforts. Our aim is to publish such small books that highlight the subject as per requirement of the new era. Anil Jain.

PREFACE Dr. M.L. Tyler says. "Pain, fever. and all other symptoms are the voice of the disease. telling where is the trouble, and guiding to the remedy". Homoeopathyis the only science of medicine which studies symptoms in the context they appear and the ailments they represent. While going through our Materia Medica, we are sometimes confused when we find that hundreds and thousands of symptoms repeat themselves in each or in many of the remedies. The study of mental symptoms requires a still greater skilJ and a number of materia medicas have been campiled looking to this requirement. The present concise book is aimed to be a handy work for all those who are accustomed to study only in detail. If the precision helps in anyway to those engaged in the study of this science specially suited to mankind, I shall feel that my efforts have been rewarded.

Dr. K.D.Kanodla April 21. 1993 A - 213, Kewal Park Azadpur, Delhi 33

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Materia Medicaof Mental Symptoms 1. Abrotanum: Thinking difficult; loss of comprehension; extremelyirritable, cross, ill- natured; violentand inhuman;cruel. 2. Aconite: Face expresses fear. It has fear of death, fear of darkness,fear of bed, fear of ghosts.It predictsthe hour of death, in course of any illness. Also ''mental uneasiness, worry or fear,accoJnpanying most trifling ailments, such as Inflammation of1.he eyelids." (H N Guermey) Painsof Aconite are intolerable

and accompaniedby anguish and fear. Aconiteis mostindispensablein householdsand in the nursery, for sudden,severeeffects. followingchillsand frights,with restlessness, anxiety, fear, and exalted sensibility.(M. L. Tyler) Great fear of being alone. Very restless nights. Anxietyabout heart. 3. Aethusa: ''Idiotic children''. ExaminationFunlc.Unableto read anything, after over- taxation of the mental faculties; incapacity to think, q:>Dfused, cannot retain any idea, great anxiety, headconftised,brainfeelsboundup. Epilepsy. convulsions- eyesare turned down. Inability to fix attention. Imagineshe sees dogs and cats, also rats running across the room. Slow.spe~ch. 4. Agaricus:It affects the brain and the sen&es.DI humour, indifference,does not want to work, or to answer questions.Then, knowsno body, throws things at people-singsand talks but won't answer.

It is one of the medicines of delirium-evenraving delirium. (M.L. Tyler)

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Mat. Med. of Mental Symptoms Not only chorea but intoxication.

Agaricus has irregular, uncertain and exaggerated motions: be reaches too far-steps too high - drops things .... with indistinct and jirky speech. (CM Boger) Twitchings - Cold sensations. S. Alumina: Craves indigestible things. On seeing blood • idea of killing herself. Great dread of death, with thoughts of suicide. Uneasy in the evening. Weeps constantly, without wishing it. Grumbles. No disposition for any kind of work. Objects appear yellow. Sen&a,tionof crawling at the pit of stomach or in rectum as from worms. Soles feel too soft and swollen. A feeling in face as covered with cobweb. (Boeninghausen) Confused- unable to make a decision. (Dr. Kent) He is dazed; makes mistakes in writing and speaking; uses words not intended. (M.L.Tyler) When be says anything, he feels as i( another person has said it. (Hahnemann) The consciousness of person~l identity is confused.

6. Ammonium Carb : Weak, tired, played out - mind and body: •Sometimes without a single apparent ailment or disease to account for the condition: or it may come in at the end of serious illnesses. Hahnemann found it useful where the mental condition was one off earfulness, disobedience, want of docility, loathing of life: uneasiness, anxiety, weakness. Patients of nervous co~titutlons, melancholy temperament, Persons easily impressed but react slightly and for a short time. Feels better in dry weather. Suffers Intolerably in a hot room. Drowsy, delirious, muttering. Wo~e after sleep. 7. Anacardium O : Anacardium is best known for its peculiar and extreme mental symptoms; its loss of memory, its senses of duality and unreality; its perversions; blasphemous and cruel: its illusions, delusions, and fears: its peculiar sensatlom- bursting,

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binding. plugging. (M.L.Tyler) Irresistible desire to curse ancf swear. Hypochondriasis. Suspicious. Thinks he is double. Thinks that a stranger is at his side. Thinks that her husband is not her husband: her child is not her child. Screams loudly. Contradiction between reason and will. Cowardice, "There are few remedies in the entire Materia Medica having impaired memory as so marked a characteristic. In restoring the memory, it often cures the patient of all other troubles" (H.N. Guernsey) • "Full of strange notions and ideas. Disturbed by everything: cursing.'' (J.T.Kenl) Can do injury without feeling. Cruel, mali. cious, wicked. Epilepsy. Sensation of plug. 8. Antimonium Crud: Greedy, sentimental. Irresistible desire •. to talk in rhymes; to repe_atverses. Useful for the bad effects of disappointed affections. Feeling as if limbs were enlarged. Irritatecl state of mind: feeling of grief. Longing for ideal love which fills ~is fancy. •

Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at. (E B Nash) Loathing of life. Sentimental mood in ·the moon light.

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9. Antimonium Tart: Head confused: Warmth of forehead and confused feeling. as if the patient ought to sleep, (in passive .congestion of brain). If the patient is a child, we notice an unwillingness to.be looked at or touched. If you persist in your unwelcome attention, it will.have a convulsion ..

•On awaiting from sleep the child seems stupid, and is so excessively irritable that he houls if one simply looks a~him. (E.A Farrington) '-'Child clings to those around; wants to be carried; cries and whines if anyone touches it; will not let yo,u feel the pulse. (E.B.Nash). Great drowsiness. ''The Child when sick does not want to be touched, or talked to. or looked at. Wants to be let alone. The infant is alway~keeping

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up a pitiful whining and moaning. Always in bad humour. that is, extremely irritable when disturbed .., (J.T.Kent) Tosses ~ith anxiety.· Great desire for apples. 10. Apis Mel: ''Shri_ll,sudden piercing screams while sleeping or waking.•• (H N Guernsey) In brain trou~les, if you put an Apis patient with congestion of the brain into a hot bath. he will go into convulsions: and consequently you see that warm bathing is not always good for fits." (J.T.Kent) Apis affects the mind also. The Apis patiet is sad, fearful. Dep~essed with constant weeping. No sleep from worrying. Very .irritable and suspicious and jealous. Wholly joyless and indiffer• ent. Fear of death. Fear of apoplexy. (M.L.Tyler) Sensation in toes and foot as if too large, swollen and stiff. Most extreme sleepiness. 11. Arg.Met: It scarcely disturbs affections. But the memory, the intelligence part of man is disturbed increasingly to imbecility. In great sufferings-and it is full of sufferings- it affects his ability to reason. In nearly all the h~adaches and pains in the back, it disturbs ' his memory and reasoIJing·faculties. It comes on in persons like !Jusinessmen, students, readers, and thinkers. All symptoms _are worse after sleep. Any mental work brings headache. In society, indisposition to talk, because he is incompetent. He is tired mentally and he forgets what he is talking about. . Anxious about his health. Thinks he is breaking down. He cannot walk even when restless. 12. Argentum Nit: ''Disturbances in memory. disturbances in reason. ~g. Nit. is irrational: does strange things, comes to strange copclusions: does foolish things. He is tormented by the inflowing of troublesome thoughts, which torment him till he is in a hurry and fidge~ and he goes out and walks and walks, and faster

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he walks, the faster he thinks he must walk, and he walks till fatigued. He has an impulse that he is going to have a fit or a feeling that he is going to have a sickness. ''There is an inflowing of strange thoughts into his mind. In cro§sing a bridge, or high place .. the thought that he might kill - hi-IJ1self- or jump off. or what if he should jump off: and sometimes the actual impuls_ecomes to jump off that bridge into the water. •'There is a fear of death - the over-anxious state that death is near. •~when looking forward··to something he has to do, or has promised to do. or in expectations of things, be is anxious. Breaks into sweats in anxiety .... when going to a wedding- to the opera- to .church. the anxiety is attended ~ith fear- even to diarrhoea." (J.T.Kent) Dreads a crowd, dreads certain places.

Arg. Nit. is one of the great remedies for terrors of anticipation. It has examination Funk. Arg. Nit. has also claustrophobia. Even in the street. the sight of high houses always make him giddy, and ~auses him to stagger. • • • Arg. Nit cannot look down- cannot look up. Fears to be alone. Distressing idea that all his undertakings must ~d would fail.

''With Arg. Nit., the condition is apprehension.;- ill with anxiety in regard to what is before him-fear offailure.'' (M.L.Tyler) 13.Ar~ica: Afterrailway(orroad)accident, horror of instant death, with cardiac symptoms at night. He goes off into a ~leep of terror, jumps up again with this sudden fear of death, and says, "send • for a doctor at once.' And this may happen night after night.•' Or ' on the other hand, in desperate sickness~he may say, "I am not ill. I do not need a doctor." (J.T.Kent)

In cases of gout, it has terror of touch 9r approach.

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The patient finds restless as bed feels hard and lumpy to him, and he ·is forced to try for a new position. 14. Arsenicum: Feels weakness out of proportion to the apparent condition. Finds rest in no place, continually changes his position in bed, will getout of one bed into another, and lie now here now there. It scarcely occurs so markedly in any other medicine. (Hahnemann) Anxiety with a feeling that it is useless to take any medicine, as he is surely going to ~i!; Fear of death. •

· A gold-cane-headed patient. (Hering) Very fastidious. Fears wh_enalone. Fear of thieves. 15. Asafoetida : ''The symptoms of Asafoetida present an almost perfect pi~ture of hysteria of the-flatulent order.'' (Clarke) Dissatisfied about one:self. Complains other troubles. 16. Aurum Met:·Dejected' and full of grief: seeks s~litude . . Imagines he has lost the affections of friends. Dissatisfied with everything: imagines he sees obstacles every where; partly because of his own fault, partly occasioned by a contrary fate. Melancholy; imagines he is not fit for this world: longs for death: The thought of death gives him intense joy ..Cannot stand the least contradiction. Dreams of death, of, the dead - of corpses. Several cases of melancholy cured, who went about with the serious intention of committing suicide.

Low-spirited, lifeless, memories bad; lacking in boyish go. , ''In Aurum, all affections, natural to healthy man, are perverted. So great in extent is this that one of the fundamental of loves, which is th~ love of living, of self-protection, is perverted, and he loathes life, is weary of life, longs to die 'and seeks methods to ... commit suicide. Absolute loss of enjoyment in every thing.

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(J.T.Kent) Hopelessness.Brood's. Thinks he is wholly unfit for this world. Frightful dreams at night.

17. Baptisia: '' A strange thing that runs through the remedy is a particular kind of mental confusion,in which he is in a constant argument with his parts. He seems to feel that there are tw.oof him. It. is said clinically that 'his great toe is in controversy with his thumb'. Or 'one leg is talking to the other leg' or he is scattered around over the bed; fµmbles and you ask him what he is trying to • do; 'why, he is trying to get those piecestogether.•(Kent) Even her head ''feels as though scattered about, and she tosses about the bed to get the pieces together." (Hale) Drowsiness.Stupor ;falls asleep while ~eing spoken to, or answering; heavy sleep until arous.ed. Confusion as if drunk. 18. Belladonna:Hypersensitiveto light, to noise, to motion.to pressure, to jar, to cold and washing of head. Belladonna represents turmoil_inbrain.

Dull and sleepy, half awake and half asleep. C~nvulsionsof infants,with hot skin and cerebral congestion: Attacks which are brought on by light, by a draught, or if the infant gets cold. Belladonna has the furiousdeliriumthat leaps at the barewall: that tries to escape: that bites-spits-t~ars. Fears also~ofan imaginary black dog- of the gallows, etc. Belladonna has many of the symptoms of'hydrophobia:tJ1e fear of water, the attempts to bite; the spasm, of the throat tJ1at prevents swallowing, the mania, the delirium, in which he is "in terror of dogs'' - surrounded by dogs,'' - and so on. Screamsduring sleep. Epilepsy; convulsions. •

19. Bellis Perennis : Feeling very tired, giddiness of elderly people; old workmen,labourers. commercial travellers-overworked

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- fatigued; feeling of incovenienfe of Pregnancy.

20. Borax : Intense dread of downward motion of any kind. (Hahnemann) Afraid· to go down stairs; can't swing, ride horse back, or use a rocking chair. Children spring up suddenly on being laid down in bed: or may be sleeping quietly, when they suddenly wake up, screaming and holding on to the sides of the cradle, without any apparent cause. (H N Guernsey) It cries a great deal when it nurses, screams out during sleep and awakens clinging to its mother as if frightened by a dream. (E A Farrington) Easily startled by unusualsounds. Fretful, ill hwnoured,indolent I before stool; cheerful, contented mood after stool.

21. Bromium: The intellect is dulled, the patient is depressed; • easily fatigued and unfit for work. The higher functions of the brain , are depressed. Vivid dreams. of climbing. journeying, quarrel, fighting. Mood cheerful, with desire for mental labour. (Primary action) (H.N.Guemsey.) A version to work, to reading. No interest in householcl duties. Indifferent; tired. Sad and discouraged. (J.T.Kent)

22. Bryonia : The patient cannot bear a disturbance of anykind, either mental or physical. (Guernsey) •on slight mental emotion (On laughing) there suddenly occurs a shooting (itching) burning all over the body as if he had been whipped with nettles or had ncttlcrash, U1oughnothing is to be seen on the skin; this burning came on afterwards by merely U1inking of it, or when t.cgot heated. (I lahncmann)

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Its.chiefnote is anxiety;anxietyaboutthe future:aboul the everydayconcernsof life. Dreams,and in deliriumtalks about the businessof the day. Irrational talking about his business: Prattling about the businesstlmt must be attended to.Wants to get out of the bed and go home. Irritableand morose. • 23. Calcarea Carb: The fat, fair,pallidchildis broughtin, and dumpeddownonto a chair, and sits there. No wriggltngdownto wanderabout,and touch every thing in the room. She sits there lethargic and dull. Perhaps plays with her fingersand picks them.

Night - terrors, starts out of sleep screaming with terror; knows no one; can hardly be passified. Is tremblingwith fear. Vague fear. Broods over little things that have no importance. Obstinate.Confused.Dread of disease and suffering. Epilepsy with mouse sensation-mouse running on anns or legs. Longs eggs. Anxietyand dread in the evening. Aggravationfull moon. It is almost impossiblefor him to come to a conclusion.for-he never figures it twice alike. (Kent) Sees dogs crowding around him. If you lookat him, you come to the conclusiontl1athe is lazy. . It is a strange thing to see a bright little girl of 8 or 9 years old taking on sadness. melancholy,and ~ommencingto talk ahP=.llthe future world,and the angles and that she wantsto die and go there and she is sad. and wants to read the Bible all da~·.That asa strange thing and yet Calcarea has cured that. (Kent) 24. Cale. Phos: She wishes to be at home. and when at home to gu out; gnes from place to place. Likes to be alone. Children scream and grasp with hands.

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25. Camphora: Great anxiety and restlessness. By day quict:n1ght and sol_itudcare terrors. Attacks of terrors by night'. Afraid-to go to sleep at night. • 26. Cannabis lndica: The limbs and parts feel enlarged. Exaltation of spirits with mirthfulness. Wonderful imaginations . and halluci.nations. Wonderful exaggerations of time and space. Delusions. Laughs at serious remarks. Laughs and .weeps. Fears death, darkness. Forgets words and ideas. Unable. to finish his sentences. Loquac!ty. Reasoning interrupted by wild imagination. Epilepsy. Forgetfulnts~. Uncontrollable laughter. Laughing and singing before a looking glass. Unlocks a_ndrelocks doors~ Name ofGodterrible to him. Feels that the room expands, tne ceiling is raised: he is in a vast hall. Imagines that he is the Christ come lo restore the world to perfect Qeace. Believes there is creative power in his·own word; that he s~owers riches on all the needy around him. Feels isolated.

27. Capsicum : Home-sickness. Contented disposition. Gets angry on slight cause . . Children-wake in fright, scream,remain full of fear. Sleeplessness. Sensation as if falling from a height during sreep. (Guernsey) Ovcrscnsiti vc: suspicious: always looking out for an insult: devilish suicidal thoughts.

28. Carbo Veg: Sluggishness. slow to think. stupid, lazy. Longing for coffee, acids, sweet and salt things. Aversion to the best kinds of food_

' Indif(erence. Anxiety as if oppressed. with heat in face; air ~unger. 29. Caulophyllum : Hysterical like lgnatia. Fretful and apprehensive. Sleepless, restless, excitable. ·'

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30. Caustic um : Timid, nervous and anxious, full off earful fancies especially in the evening at twilight. The child is afraid t~ go to bed in the dark. Worse full moon. Convulsions or epilepsy from fright. Timorous anxiety.

Intense sympathy for sufferings of others. "Spoonerisms", confounds letters and syllables, for instance says ,·,cluent foryza, instead of fluent coryza' ' - for several days after proving Caust. (Hahnemann) Hystericat, weeps after spasms. The least ~ing makes the child cry. Sadness. Ailments from long lasting grief. '31. Chamomilla: 'Cannot bear it'. Chamomilla is turmoil in in temper. Bad effects of bad temper. Feels pain.outof proporation.

Very irritable and fretful; child must be carried. Snapish. Nothing pleases. Weeping and howlh:ig in sleep. Moaning in sleep: Senstive, irritable (Wm. Boerii:ke) ''Whe~ the husband complains of the wife's being cross and irritable, and he can't get along with her, gi\'e him a dose of chamomilla.'' and it has worked. (Dr. Tyrrell) • 32. Ciuta V. : Memory blank for hours or days with or without convulsions. Mind and head symptoms after injuries.

Feels as ifhe were in a strange place. Contempt of mankind. Suspicious. Keeps staring. Epilepsy, spasm renewed from slightest touch Qrjar. Feels sad. Anxiety. Affected by sad stories. Absence of thought. 33. Cimicifuga Racemosa: Startled by the illusion of a mouse running from under her chair. Fears those in the house will kill her. Suspicious of everything .. Mind disturbed by disappointed love, business failures. Cannot speak a word, though she tries.

Mat. Med. of Mental Symptoms . Must walk about when restless.

Mental craziness,.and fear of going crazy. l\'lental states follow the disappearance of rheumatism. Some flow must be established. otherwise the mind talces on trouble. Sleeplessness. Epileptic spasms. 34. Cina : The wonny child will be very restless at night, screams .out sharply in sleep. Child-cross and ugly. Kicks and strikes. Wants to be carried or rocked. Does not want to be touched or ~ooked at. Desires things and then refuses. Constant desire to rub nose. 111-hu~ourand naughtiness. Pitiful weeping when awake.

35. Cistus : Sensation of coldness of tongue.larynx.trachea. saliva. breath. and in stomach. and abdomen: Crans cheese Sensation as if ants were running through the whole body \after lying down), then anxious difficult' breatl1ing. . 36. Cocculus : Slowness of comprehension. Cannot find the right word. Speech difficuk Irritable. Sad. sensitive to insult. , Cannot finish _anytlling.No concern for own health.

Very anxious about other's sickness. Least jar is unbearat?le. Behind time in all its actions: Even a pinch is felt· after sometime. Answers slowly, after apparent meditation. Results from vexation, anxiety and prolonged loss of sleep. Easily startled. 37. Coff ea : Sleeplessness - of a brain too alert and wakeful from pleasure, or excitement, or mental stress and activity. . Mental excitability .

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38. ,Colchicum : Memory weakened, forgetfulness. Strong odours make him quite beside himself. Aversion to food; loathing tl1esight. and still more the smell of it. 39. Colocynth: Pains due to anger and indignation. Anxiety

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from severity of the suffering. Face is distorted. 40. Conium : Mind gives out: tired like the muscles of the body. Passive forms of insp.nity. Thinks slowly for weeks and months if he recovers at all. Complete indifference. Great unhappiness of mind. recurring every fourteen days. s~owing a two weeks periodicity. Cannot watch moving objects. Likes to wear his best clothes, makes useless purchases. Prefers to play. Superstitious and full of fear. 41. Cyclamen: Head feels bound. Feels some movement in abdomen of something alive. Illusions of being persecuted. by everyone; ailments from inward grief; or terrors of conscience. Feels as if he had committed a bad act. or not done his duty. Joy alternating with irritability. 42. Drosera: Full of mistrust Feels being deceived. Silent and reserved. with anxiety. Illusions of being persecuted by enryone. Anxiety in solitude. Very peevish. 43. Ferrum: Anxiety as after committing a crime. Irritable. Staggering: reeling sensation on seeing flowing water. Fear of apoplexy. Feels better by moving about gently. Blushes. 44. Gelsemium : Sensation of falling - in children.

Diarrhoea from anticipation. All exciting news causes diarrhoea. Threatening abortion from fear. Examination Funk. Dullness of mind; better by profuse urine. 45. Glonoine : In familiar street everything se,emsstrange. Has to look a~ut every few minutes to convince himself he is in the right street. Confusion of ideas. Lower lip feels swollen.

Feels as ifice cold sweat was on fore head, which is not there. Bad effcts from mental excitement, fright. fear. mechanical con- • tusions and their lat~r conseon face: tries hard to brush it off. 47. Hepar Sulph: Sensitive to murderous impulses; worse draughts. lightest touch (in ulcers). It is hypersensitiv~ to touch, pain and cold air. Craves pickles. Slightest thing puts him into vi~lent passion. Cross, weak memory, frightful anxiety in the evening. Imagines a house in flames, and gets terrified, also imagines of a deceased person, and gets fearful. 48. Hyoscyamus Niger : Suspicious and jealous. Suspicious of being