VALERIANA (Valer.)
HYSTERIA, ARTHRITIC PAINS, WANDERING SYMPTOMS
MENTAL
Animated, anxious, irritable, restless patients with changeable
mood.
ACTS HYSTERICALLY. Weeping alternating with laughter.
Over sensitiveness of all senses.
Mental symptoms alternating with physical.
Cheerful in evening, mirth, hilarity.
Various delusions she
is someone other person, he’s poor, people are beside him, is away from home,
floating in air.
Fear on entering a room. Fear ameliorated in open air.
Restlessness at night, open air amel.
Mental symptoms are worse in darkness.
PHYSICAL
RHEUMATIC AND NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS.
Sensation as if a thread were hanging in the throat.
Stitching pain in heels when sitting >walking.
Sciatica < standing,
stretching the leg, sitting, hanging down the limb.
Slimy taste in the morning on waking.
Pressing pain in forehead alternates with stitching pain.
Child vomits curdled milk, in large lumps after nursing.
Diarrhœa, with lumps of coagulated milk, with violent screaming in
children.
Jerking pains in
the upper and lower limbs >walking. Jerking internal and external.
MODALITIES
AGG.: after
motion, sitting, standing, evening.
AMEL.: walking,
motion, ascending.
VERATRUM ALBUM (Verat.)
The prominent characteristic of this remedy is the overactivity,
mental and physical. There’s an exaggeration in all levels. On the mental level
we see a restless, overactive and overstimulated mind. The mental abilities are
over developed. We see too clever children, with skills beyond their age.
These people can impress you with their knowledge and acuteness of
mind.
On the physical level, there is restlessness in chronic as well as
in acute states.
RESTLESSNESS - MENTAL & PHYSICAL
MENTAL
MENTAL OVER-STIMULATION. Unhealthy acuteness of mind, precocity.
CONFUSION AS TO HIS IDENTITY. Religious delusion he is Christ or a person that has to save
the world. Delusions he’s a great person. Feel
they must protect the weak.
RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS. Religious delirium. Praying.
Preaching.
Religious despair. Anxiety about salvation. Doubtful of the soul’s welfare.
Despair of social position. Never happy with social position, feel they deserve better.
Brooding < evening.
Violent. Mania with desire to tear things. Erotic, puerperal insanity.
Delirium with loquacity, with open eyes, raging.
PHYSICAL
RESTLESSNESS - go
up and down. The moment the mind is working, the restlessness becomes more and
more. Restlessness in chronic as well as in acute states.
CHILLY (esp.
during the acute state). Internal chill, coldness in blood-vessels. Chill as if coldness in
the bones.
Cold perspiration (forehead,
feet, face, hand). <during menses, during stool, fainting.
Great thirst for COLD DRINKS with ice.
Vomiting / diarrhœa- violent vomiting and profuse diarrhœa with
coldness and cold perspiration. Vomiting during diarrhoea.
Rocket vomiting. Collapse from vomiting.
Rapid sinking of vital forces- complete prostration and collapse.
Faints easily.
MODALITIES
AGG.: fruit, cold, pears, raw food, potatoes, warm (becoming, wraps, room, sensation of heat), during menses.
AMEL.: continued
motion, after perspiration, walking.
DES.: sour, salt, salt and lemon, unripe fruit, ice,
cold drinks, cucumber,
herring, sardines.
ZINCUM METALLICUM (Zinc)
Hyperactivity is the word for Zincum and we observe this mostly in
feet and mind. We see constant motion of the feet, twitching, spasms,
jerking. Usually the moment they go to sleep there is an electrical
stimulation that comes out in the lower extremities and they jerk. On the
mental level there’s restlessness too. The brain is overstimulated but not in
the way that Verat. and Coffea is. In Zincum the over activity causes a
kind of dissatisfaction. It’s one of the main remedies for dissatisfaction and
complaining.
HYPERACTIVITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
MENTAL
RESTLESSNESS. HYPERACTIVE. Active concentration. - ‘Brain fag’ from over study.
Mental dullness. Repeats question first before answering.
Understands question only after repetition.
Moaning, complaining, esp. of not being treated well by others. Torments everyone with
his complaints.
Delusions devil is after her < during menses. Delusions is
about to be arrested.
Sees devils, phantoms.
Sensitive to noise, to voices. Indisposed to talk.
PHYSICAL
OVERACTIVITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM (esp. nerve
endings are affected).
RESTLESSNESS of extremities esp. FEET- in bed or while sitting.
Jerking of extremities during sleep.
Twitching, facial spasms, convulsions, epilepsy esp.
after suppression of eruptions <after
exposure to sun. Convulsions when eruptions fail to break out.
Convulsions during dentition with pale face.
Ailments from suppressed eruptions: mania, comatose sleep, neurological complaints, convulsions,
unconsciousness, chorea, scabies.
Strong sexual desire < before menses, > by the flow.
Defective vitality- lack
of reaction. Too weak to develop menstrual function, to expectorate, to
urinate, to comprehend.
Burning whole length of spine < sitting > walking.
Expectoration bloody with dry cough in the morning before menses.
Intolerance to wine, however craves stimulants.
MODALITIES
AGG.: sitting,
sleep during, after eating, after breakfast, drinking wine, after vaccination.
AMEL.: rubbing,
eating while, motion, wet weather, walking, open air, during menses.
AVERS.: veal,
fish, sweets.