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Laughter.-Uncontrollable.-
Croc. S. 30, 10m.
Phos. 6, 1h. Weeping interrupted by fits of laughter.
Masturbation.-See Self-abuse.
Melancholia.-
Ign. 3, Thrice a day ; 200 once a weak. Recent, traceable to worry, grief, fright or disappointment, especially at
the menopause.
Ars. 3, 4h. Restlessness, anguished deprasion.
Act. R. 3, 3h. Melancholy with nervousness, restlessness and sleeplessness, unconquerable gloom, tendency and suicidal.
Vert. Alb. 3, 3h. Anguish, vital depression, great coldness of the skin, cold sweet on forehead.
OP. 3, 3h. Melancholy, nervousness, drowsiness, with constipation.
Plumb. Acet. 6, 3h. Religious or other melancholy with very obstinate constipation.
Calc. Carb. 200, 8h. Fears losing his senses.
Aur. Mur. 3x, 4h. Suicidal melancholy, especially in men.
Plat. 6, 200. Suicidal melancholy, especially in women; puerperal melancholia; haughtiness, objects and people seem small.
Sen. Aur. - x, 8h. Suicidal melancholy, with arrested menses.
Sul. 30, 4h. Worried about philosophic or religious subject; aversion to washing ; at night and form warmth.
See also Hysteria, Mania.
Memory.-Loss of, or weak-
Anacard. 3x. 4h.
Sul. 6, 4h. For words and names.
Baryt. C. 6, 4h. With inattention, heavy listless mood, absent-mindedness.
Zinc. M. 6, 4h. With soporous condition of mind; mental operations difficult.
Cocc. I. 3, 4h. Mind distracted; easily worried.
Dig. 3, 4h. Thinking difficult, forgetting everything.
Aethus. 6, 4h. Inability to fix attention.
Rhod. 3, 4h. Forgetfulness whilst talking; sudden disappearance of thoughts.
Camph. 3, 4h. Loss of memory after catalepsy.
Meningitis.-
Cerebral.-
Arn. 1, 1h. When caused by a blow, at the beginning.
Aco. 3, 1h. When fever comes on, with restlessness, anxiety, tearfulness, dry skin, thirst.
Bell. 3, 1h. When there is delirium, patient tries to escape, flushed face, dilated pupils.
Bry. 3, 1h. If there is little delirium, but much pain, white tongue, nausea; when effusion appears to have taken place, depression and stupor coming on.
Hell. N. 3, ½ h. Great depression, much pain in the back of the head and neck.
Apis 3x, 1h. Shrill cries in sleep, nervous fidgetiness.
Sul. 6, 1h. After Apis and other medicines, hot head, cold feet in those subject to eruptions.
Bacil. 30-200, a single dose of four globules dry on the tongue or dissolved in a little water. Tubercular.
When the fever has subsided, if the original cause has been concussion, and after Apis or Bry. has been given,
Arn. 1, 2h. After the fever, when Bell. or Helleb. has been given, Zinc. Met. 6, 2h.
Deafness-
(1) Silic. 6,4h.; (2) Sulph. 6, 4h. tubercular. See
Mind.-Affections Of.-
Diosc. 30, 8h. Calls things by wrong names.
Lach. 6, 8h. Proud and suspicious to friends.
Sep. 6, 8h. In-different to friends.
Hyo. 3, 4h. Ill-treats friends.
See also Melancholia, Mental Weakness, Mania, Memory, Loss of.
Symptoms Of.-
[When mental symptoms occur (especially if unusual to the patient) as concomitants with bodily ailments it is of
the first importance to select a remedy which has a corresponding mental state. For this a repertory is necessary;
but I will name a few of the more characteristic mental states, indicating some leading remedies.]
Aco. 3-30, 4h. Agitation, anguish, sadness, fear of death.
Act. R. 3-30, 4h. Gloom as of a black pall over everything.
Apis. 3-30, 3h. Jealousy.
Ars. 3-30, 3h. Anguish, driving one out of bed at night; fear of being alone; despair, inclined to suicide; or excessive fear of death.
Aur. 30, 4h. Melancholy with inquietude and desire to die.
Cham. 3-30, 3h. Over-sensitiveness; spiteful, sudden, or uncivil irritability.
Lach. 30, 4h. Insane jealousy ; irritability; ill-humour; malice.
Lyc. 30, 4h. Sensitive; cries when thanked; sad, desponding; weeps all day.
Ign. 30, 5h. Silent melancholy; sighs and sobs; desires to be alone; changeable disposition.
Nat. m. 3-30, 6h. Sad, weeping mood without cause; < by consolation.
Nux V. 30, 4h. Irritable; morose, sullen; quarrelsome if disturbed; malicious.
Plat. 200, Once a weak. Proud, disdainful.
Puls. 30, 4h. Mild, bashful, tearful; easily bursts into tears; can hardly tell her symptoms for weeping; seeks consolation.
Hyo. 3-30, 4h. Suspicious.
Sul. 30, 4h. Melancholy mood, weeps without cause; foolish, happiness, thinks himself possessed of beautiful things; even rags seem beautiful; religious insanity.
Paralysis.-Acute Ascending (Landry's Paralysis).-
(1) Gelse. 3x, 1h.
(2) Con. 3-30, 1h. Hydrophob. 3-30, 2h.
Agitans.-
Mere. Viv. 3x-30, 4h.
Hyos. 3, 4h. When the paralysis is of mercurial origin, or should the action of Merc. need supplementing.
Ant. T. 30, 4h. Chronic tremor of head and hands; with tired feeling, cold sensation; 1. side most affected, Helod. 30, 8h.
Ant. C. 3, 8h. Thickly loaded white tongue.
Facial.-
Aco. 3, 1h. When from cold, at first.
Caust. 6, 2h. If Aco. dose not yield soon.
Kali. C. 3, 2h. After Aco. and Caust. , or from the beginning when there is tenderness of
the part affected.
Graph. 6, 5h. With swelling; sensation as of a cobweb on the face.
General Paralysis Of The Insane.-
Bell. 3, 2h. In the early stages, restlessness, excitement.
Agar. 30, 8h. Exalted notions, hilarity followed by depression, confusion, imbecility.
Mer. C. 3, 2h. Much tremor of the limbs.
Phos. 3, 4h. Fibrillary twitching.
Can. Ind. 3, 2h. When the exaltation of ideas is very marked.
Hemiplegia.-
Baryt. C. 6, 4h. Especially in old men ; mental and bodily weakness.
Nux V. 3, 1h. With digestive disorder; when it has come on after over-eating or drinking.
Strych. 30, 4h. With rigidity.
Gels. 30, 4h. Aching in occiput, numbness, tremor, speech difficult.
Hyoc. 30, 4h. Speech unintelligible.
Lach. 30, 4h. Speech slow.
Aur. Met. 12, 2h. With great despondency and inclination to weep.
Secale. 1, 4h. If rigidity threatens, the limbs must be kept very warm, active and passive movements practiced,
high-frequency electricity used two or three times a day for fifteen minutes; the current should not be strong.
Hereditary.-(Friedreich's) Ataxia.-
Gels. 3-30, 4h. Tremor, diplopia, ptosis.
Curar. 3-200, 4h. More developed paralysis.
Hysterical.-
Ign. 3, 2h.
Cocc. Ind. 3, 2h. More developed paralysis.
Infantile.-
Secale 3, 4h. At the beginning, coldness of the limbs; the child cannot bear to be covered.
Plumb. 6, 4h. After Secale especially when there is obstinate constipation.{In all cases the limbs must be kept warm, allowed to remain in a hot bath (110 F.) for fifteen minutes night and morning; rubbed, massaged and exercised regularly. High frequency electricity is very valuable in these cases.}
Labio-Glosso-Pharyngeal.-
Bell. 3, 2h.
Plumb. 6, 4h.
Caust. 6, 4h.
Local.-
Plumb. 6, 4h. Drop-hand or drop-foot (when not due to lead-poisoning).
Con. 3, 4h. Paralysis of the eye muscles.
Cocc. Ind. 3, 4h. Of the muscle of the neck, head cannot be supported.
Physostig. 3, 4h. Of the sphincters.
Gels. 1, 2h. Writers' Cramp.
Cuper. 6, 4h. Writers' Cramp.
Self-Abuse.-
[Moral treatment is required for this. In children, where the moral element of the disease is small, kind watch fullness is needed on the part of the nurse; in saver cases mechanical restraint must be adopted.] The following medicines will assist in allaying the irritability:-
Origan. 4, 4h. Lascivious ideas with sexual irritation; unconquerable impulse to abuse.
Grat. 3-30, 8h. In females especially.
Bufo 6, 4h. Masturbation; desire for solitude.
Picr. Ac. 3, 4h. With priapism.
Durum 1 M, (One of Burnett's cancer nosodes.) once a week. In young children.
Cina 3, 4h. Excitement of desire with lascivious dreams; debility consequent on the habit.
Calc. Phos. 3, gr. v. 8h. Nymphomania and satyriasis.
Nat. Mur. 6, 8h. Where there is coldness, constipation, loss of power.
Sul. 30, 8h. Sinking at the epigastrium, flushing, pain in occiput.
Calc. C. 30, 4h. Cold, clammy hands and feet.
Staph. 3, 4h. Brain exhaustion and irritability with genital weakness.
Anacard. 3, 4h. Loss of confidence.
Should these not suffice, give in addition one grain of Kali. Brom. at bed-time.
Phos. Ac. 1x., gtt. V. For consequent debility, a carefully regulated, unstimulating diet; and Phos. Ac. Ix
may be given in a tumbler of water for a drink at meals.
Shock.-
Ver. A. 3, ½ h. Cold sweat on forehead and body.
Camph. 3, ½ h. Icy cold but will not be covered.
Aco. 3, ½ h. From fear or fright with collapse or fever.
Coff. 3, ½ h. Especially from sudden joy.
Sleep and Dreams.-
[Remedies for disorders of sleep should be given at intervals during the day, one dose being given at bed-time;
this may be followed by another in an hour's time if necessary.]-
Aco. 3, 4h. Sleeplessness, anxious dreams, hot, restless, tossing about; sleeplessness in the aged.
Op. 3, 4h. Sleep too heavy; sleepiness during the day. Op. 3, 1h. Nervous, restlessness, sleepless;
drowsy at first sleepless after.
Nux Mosch. 3, 4h. Irresistible sleepiness, dreamy condition, closed eyes, pale face.
Lyc. 6, 4h. Sleepiness after dinner.
Cinnabar. 3, gr. ii. 4h. Sleepiness during the day, sleeplessness at night.
Phos. 3, 4h. Sleepy during the day and after eating; sleeplessness at night, sleep dreamful, restless; erotic dreams; confused dreams.
Camph. in pilules, 1, ½ h. Simple sleeplessness from nervous excitement.
Act. R. 3, 4h. Sleeplessness and restlessness in nervous persons: with depression, accompanying uterine affections.
Coff. 3, 4h. Sleeplessness from thoughts crowding into the mind; agitation.
Bell. 3, 4h. Starts in affright just when falling asleep; anxious and frightful dreams; sleepy but cannot sleep.
Rhus T. 3, 4h. Restless, tosses off the clothes, cannot remain in bed, anxious dreams of business; frightful dreams with palpitation.
Nux V. 3, 4h. Sleepiness in the evening, wakeful after midnight, heaviness in the morning; sleepiness only in the morning; sleeplessness from abuse of coffee.
Scutel. , gtt. v. 4h. Sleeplessness with nervousness, twitching, restlessness.
Bellis 3, 8h. Wakes 3 a.m. and cannot get to sleep again.
Ign. 3, 4h. Excessively frequent yawning; light sleep, hearing everything; restless dreamful sleep.
Hyo. 3, 4h. Sleeplessness with restlessness of eyeballs; sleep too dreamful, from the least excitement.
Gels. 3, 4h. Sleeplessness from emotional disturbance following the slightest excitement of the brain in the evening.
Avena Sat. , gtt. v. 4h. Sleeplessness with nervous exhaustion and restlessness.
Verat. V. 3, 4h. Dreams of water. Sleeplessness with bounding pulse.
Sul. 3, 4h. Cannot fall asleep for a long time from the blood mounting to the head; violent starting on falling asleep; sleep restless, tossing, disagreeable dreams.
Bry. 3, 4h. Anxious dreams of business transacted during the day.
Cocc. Ind. 3, 4h. Sufferings from loss of sleep.
Verat. A. 3, 4h. Whining in sleep.
Curb. V. 3, 4h. Weeps on being wakened; weeps in sleep; starting in sleep; biting tongue; anxious starting out
of sleep; moaning in sleep.
See also Nightmare, Screaming of Children, Somnambulism, Starting, Yawning.
Sleeping Sickness.-(Trypanosomiasis).
Antim. Tart. 3x-30, 2h. Antim. Tart. in the form of Atoxyl, and Arsenic injected intravenously have cured cases in the early stages. These two remedies should be tried in the homoeopathic preparations, low and high. Antim. Tart. corresponds to the lethargy. Opium 1-30, 2h. Lethargy, waking up with fear and ninety.
Ars. 3x-30, 2h. Depression, weariness of life, wants to die.
Chloral 3, 2h. Lethargic somnolency.
Modern orthodox methods of treatment should be sought wherever possible.
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